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I hope everyone's having a
fantastic evening afternoon
prenoon no matter where you are
in the world the mason piker in
this thousand hour broadcast
coming to you live from sunny
Chicago Illinois ladies and
gentlemen we're live we're alive
and I hope all the boys, girls
and mbs are having a fantastic
one because today is a beautiful
It's a beautiful day. Today is a wonderful day. Today is Sunday, Sunday, fun day. That's
right. It's, uh, well, things are not so fun. Uh, and the news is crazy, but, but it is
11 11 make a wish. It's Sunday. It's a March eighth, 2026. We're live. We're alive shortly
in a little bit. I'm going to go hang out with Chicago mayor Brandon Johnson to the
jam podcast, podcast boys. You know, he's going to be showing me around happy international
women's day. That's what it is today. Say happy women's day or you're sexist. I am
sexist. To it, it's a bit of your speech I made yesterday. Oh, yeah. What the fuck
is this. That's crazy. Hello. Okay. Sorry. This is a I'm running off fumes here. I apologize.
I just got in from Los Angeles earlier in the day. It's so cringe. I hate this. I hate
I was so bad yesterday. Um, not my best beach. I'll admit I'm so tired. I'm still tired. I, um,
here, this is part of the broadcast where I tell you about my personal news. Uh, and okay, here's
what happened. I do the speech. I do the speech, right? First of all, I needed my,
I needed my soundboard. So let's just, let's just start there. I needed my soundboard.
Bro, when seven minutes only good seven minutes be young y'all are timing my shit. Yeah, I was like I can't I had to pull the trigger
I had the there was so much. I wanted to talk about there's so much. I wanted to talk about but I was like I can't I'm just I needed my
soundboard I
Needed my soundboard. That's what I needed. Okay
Autism speech pad what
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Ripped the Red Bull I ripped the Red Bull it fucking
Bro chill I ripped the Red Bull
litter what oh
My god, that was so loud. I'm sorry
That was so much louder than I thought it was going to be
that was so much louder I have a soundboard again
yeah that's right dude y'all thought y'all thought the soundboard was gone is
your back, motherfucker is back. Anyway, what was I saying? Yeah, I'm still kind of EPI
if you haven't noticed or you probably have noticed. I'm still kind of sleepy. And that's
because after the, after the event, after the event, I'm not going to play music.
too much. It's fucking me up. I felt it felt so empty without yesterday. Yeah, after the event,
I went down and I, you know, hung out with the people that stood behind until they kicked this
out. Basically, I spent a spend a good deal of time with the people that waited to take photos,
talk to me and stuff. And then they literally were like, you got to get the fuck out of here.
It's too late. Like you're you guys have been in here. They kicked the entire student population out
So
Was there an afters? No, I didn't know there was no after party. I'm 34 the after party was me
Downloading door dash just so I could order a cheval, which is like a very famous bird place
in Chicago in Chicago
So I ordered Oshavall, but because I was so hungry because I hadn't eaten anything all
day, which probably contributed to my fatigue, um, I, and by, by this point, it's like 9
PM, right?
It's not even like 9 PM.
It's like 8 30 or whatever.
Right.
I order Oshavall.
Oshavall fell off.
Okay.
Well, it's still pretty good.
It was still pretty fucking bomb.
But because I couldn't wait for it, I just like started eating stuff in the mini bar.
And I ate stuff in the mini bar.
And by the time the Oshavall got here, I couldn't even finish it.
Because I was so tired and so full from like the mustard pretzel bites that were in the
mini bar.
like fuck it dude. I just ate a couple bites of that shit and then passed out with the phone in my
hand in bed. Have you ever done that? Have you ever? Like that is that is true, true struggle at
that point. Like you know, you know shit ain't sweet when you're when you're like scrolling
on your phone.
And the phone just like falls on you and you wake up you're like oh
Oh, and then you're like, Oh, I got, I got like five more minutes of me to scroll. Nope.
Phone falls on you again.
Um, basically that's what happened. I passed out at like nine. I woke up at 4am and it's
like daylight savings, I guess already. So technically it was 3am.
So I don't even know I woke up I couldn't go back to sleep
We're like another hour and then I passed out again, and then I woke up again
And then I passed out again just in and out just my sleep has been shit
Or no, sorry it's 5 a.m. Technically I woke up you took an hour
But yeah
It's five a.m. Went back to sleep
Woke up this morning
Had that cold-ass Berg
Had finished the cold-ass Berg and the cold-ass disgusting fries they were disgusting at this point fries don't keep as you guys know
and and I'm here I took a shower I took a shit I took a shower and I'm here and
yeah we're gonna go and hang out with Mayor Brandon Johnson and the jam
podcast boys in a little bit so get excited for that and we're gonna be
after that I'm gonna come back here and I'm gonna continue monitoring the
of fucks situation because obviously there's a lot to monitor about the situation. What are you
going to do with the mayor? I am going to an area that they're developing right now
and yeah that's what we're going to do.
I've also been very angry what colors the shit hang over brown vegetarian green. That's nasty
first I have casualties in combat to I have a soldiers killed in his bull a tag is Southern
of Lebanon early this morning, the military announces,
oh, oh, they were invading Lebanon and they died.
And yeah, they went in, it seems like they went in vertically
and they came in horizontally.
Anyway, what was I gonna say?
There's something else, personal news.
I've just been angry, man.
I'm just so angry at people and not stop.
I'm a little disappointed in myself, but.
Do you have a TV to fix your backpack?
March is aware of the issues that she's been having issues.
Yeah, I know.
We're gonna, hopefully March reached out
to the TVU people to make sure that it doesn't happen.
I suspect that he already has, but it's okay, King, those people suck.
Yeah, I've just, no, I've just been angry at it. Honestly, I've just been,
I've been disappointed in myself for my shit performance, but more so, I've just been angry.
I've been angry at the audacity. I've been angry at the entitlement,
The entitlement that we're seeing from people who want to support the Nazi State of Israel
in America and like how much institutional motion they still continue to have regardless
of the fact that they have no popular sport, no broad base whatsoever for this foreign
country and it's been very frustrating to watch. I'm mad at the hogs, but like the
hogs are stupid. I'm mad at the hogs. This is not a defense of the hogs, but the hogs
are stupid. They do not know what they say, right? Except for the hogs like Asmongold,
who very clearly knows what he's saying and he's just like grifting further and
further to like this neo-nazi base that he's cultivating. But the liberal Zionists that
are like, I'm actually a Democrat and I'm really frustrated with what's going on. And
like the Democrats are leaving Jews behind. It's like, dude, shut the fuck up, man. You
got everything. You got everything. You got everything you want. Like you get unlimited
funds. You get unlimited funds from the American government. The American lives are being expended
so that you can do this like ultra Zionist project. And you still cry victim because
people just say, Hey, I don't like that. Can I not as an American am I not allowed
to say like I don't like that without bitches constantly chirping in my fucking ear like
every single person that has actually said hey this allegiance that we have with Israel
is not exactly productive for American interests like the fuck are we doing every time every
time you're like you love your mouth you need to lose your job.
Oh fuck what is this now someone's at the door hold on I gotta go I gotta go look
what's happening here. I'm gonna blast off real quick and we're gonna get right into the news but
here. It is like a scene from the apocalypse flames pouring into the night sky over Tehran
after Israel struck four separate oil facilities around the city. Benjamin Netanyahu had promised
many surprises to come and these strikes were certainly one of them.
Imagine being here, when a spill from one of the depots explodes along the train's lining
a street.
The fire is burning long into the night.
And in the morning, vast plumes of black smoke billowing into the sky and across the city.
The Iranian Red Crescent warning of toxic compounds in the air, which, mixed with the morning's
rain, they said, were extremely dangerous.
See you got it like you got your wishes across like this is what you wanted and you're getting it
You got Gaza you did a genocide
You haven't apartheid that america unconditionally supports
Uh, you're you're blowing up the entire world's
uh
You're you're you're destroying thousands of years of culture
Right
You're blowing up oil refineries in this fucking region with the hopes of like lighting everything on fire
You know the casualties will be in the millions if you get your entire wishes across and you still
fucking complain
You still complain all the fucking time. It's like
It's
unbelievable
It's on fucking believable dude. I can't stand these motherfuckers
Okay, I
Just don't get it I
I
Don't understand the sheer hubris the entitlement like I mean I get I guess I get it like it's just pure fascism
Right like at this point we have to understand it as pure fascism like Josh Gottheimer is a straight forward fascist, right?
Like this isn't even awesome Zoran shit like Zoran's wife is under attack Zoran's on attack
There's like a lot of fucking idiotic things that people are saying
about him and his wife and I think Twitter is really boosting this stuff and it's giving
me like outrage fatigue.
I just don't understand like I don't understand how I don't understand how you think you can
get away with this. Like this is not even about Zoran, this is about Gavin Newsom saying
Twitter is an apartheid, right? Which, or Twitter, sorry, a fucking Twitter is an apartheid.
Twitter is an apartheid too, but that's separate. Israel's an apartheid. Gavin Newsom
recognizes it, and he's not even like fully into it anyway, like he's not even fully
invested in this cause at all. Like he's not sincere. He's not sincere at all. He's just
saying it because he thinks correctly that this is what people want to hear. Let me fix
this fucking camera real quick. God damn it. Anyway, um, yeah, he's, uh, he wants to
be president. And if he wants to be president, he has to start taking an anti-Israel position.
And like on the one hand, I obviously am still aware that Gavin Newsom is insincere and simply
wants to be, simply wants to be president, and that's why he's saying it. On the other
hand, I recognize, I recognize that the winds have turned so much that even someone like
Gavin Newsom will insincerely push on the apartheid line, which is just reality, right?
Israel committed a genocide in Gaza and Israel maintains an apartheid. These two things are reality.
And recognizing reality is beat, not even bare minimum.
And Gavin Newsom is doing the bare minimum and they're still fucking freaking out.
And that's what I'm really frustrated about. Like, Representative Josh Gottheimer from New Jersey, one of the worst Democrats in Congress.
Like just one of these two the one of these assholes that's like totally Israel first, right?
Like this is all he gives a shit about
He freaks out
He says
These comments are not only wrong, but they're dangerous and will feed more anti-semitism in our country
Is it really worth throwing Jews under the bus to advance your political ambitions?
Fred Gutenberg one of the Parkland school
uh, uh, shooting, uh, victim parents comes out and says, I agree with this.
I've always been supportive of Gavin Newsom, but this crossed the line for me.
I'll remember this one considering my options for 20, 28.
I said, unless the democratic candidate lies to America about Israel's apartheid,
you won't vote for them. Maybe you should change your priorities.
My priorities are not the issue. Your bullshit about Israel is no need to
continue this.
And it's like, what, what do you mean my bullshit? Like your bullshit,
You're fucking bullshit.
Ah, I'm a lifelong Democrat.
And if the Democratic Party doesn't deny abject reality about Israel, it'll hurt my feelings and I'll stop.
I won't vote for them.
And it's like, bro, what the fuck are you talking about?
Like, there's no one. You won the entirety of Congress.
Everyone in Congress is, for the most part, a fucking slave to Israel. Okay?
They will literally do anything in their power to make sure Israel's greater Israel project comes to fruition.
Clearly, they'll bomb every country. They'll bomb every country for Israel.
They'll use all of their munitions, all of their batteries, all of their defense systems.
In the direction of Israel to defend Israel Israel Israel Israel Israel Israel will light billions of dollars on fire
No money for health care only money for Israel and they still fucking chirp
They still chirp
There's no democracy. Okay. There's no democracy in this. There's no democratic process in this
It's over. The overwhelming majority of Americans don't want this to happen. They don't want
this to continue, okay? And yet, these guys are still chirping.
And the problem is, even though like 90% of the base of support in the Democratic
party is like, we got to cut Israel out. We got to cut Israel out. The, the, you know,
1% to 2% that's like Israel firsters, okay, they keep having so much institutional motion
that they can continue whipping the votes from the outside in a way that like we can't
even we can't even do, no matter how hard we organize.
Oh, it's so frustrating to see.
It's like, I just don't, I don't understand it.
Like 90% of the democratic base is saying, this is fucked up.
Like what the fuck are we doing?
There's Democrats that are saying this is fucked up.
What are we doing?
There are independence, majority of independence, almost a super majority of independence are
saying this fuck that what are we doing?
And there are still people who are like no, if you cut Israel out of the equation that
means you want a Holocaust to happen.
Meanwhile a Holocaust has happened, another one, this time Israel has conducted it with
American weapons, with American political cover.
And it's crazy that like wanting to put an end to that death and destruction, and talking
about how that death and destruction is also causing America's collapse, like really accelerating
America's demise, is a non-starter for these people.
It's like, I don't understand it.
I don't know what you want like you want to just like just you want to nuke me you want to nuke America. Is that what you want?
If this will be good for Israel should we just nuke America and if we go hey hold on let's not nuke America
Then that's anti-semitic like where where will this go?
Where will this fucking go you've lost you've lost you don't have a constituency you don't have fucking shit
But you have the entirety of Congress
Congress, the entirety of Congress is on your side, regardless of what the public's wishes
are, and you're still constantly chirping.
It reminds me of the Republicans, like after they won.
You know?
Remember when the Republicans won, and they were like, oh, now it's our time to shine,
like we control the House.
We control the Senate.
control the White House, but you have to like us. And everyone was like, well, I don't like
you. And then they would be like, you have to like us or we'll kill you. You have to like
us or you'll go to jail. It's illegal to not like us.
Like that's literally what this is. They have everything, okay? The Israel lobby is fundamentally
in control of both of the parties. So it doesn't even matter if the Democrats are
It doesn't even matter if the Republicans are winning. We are still doing Israel's bidding and they still are like well
How dare you not like me? It's anti-semitism. How dare
How dare you not like my beautiful nation-state of Israel? That's anti-semitic. You should lose your job
You should lose your friends. You should be humiliated and it's like it's not working
In the public it's not working because when people see that shit they go
What the fuck are you talking about when people people see this and they go shut the fuck up
God, you're so fucking entitled. You're so fucking arrogant. Shut the fuck up
That's the
Normal
That's like the normal takeaway for average Americans right because they're tired
They're frustrated by this
But, it's crazy that they still fucking chirp non-stop, and on the Democrat side they still
have like institutional motion, they can like bully these stupid fucking Democrats that cave
and capitulate every step of the fucking way.
They're still a very sophisticated outrage manufacturing machine that they deploy as they have done
so with Zohran Mamdani in this last iteration.
As they've done so, and that was a retaliation for Dan Goldman.
And they're doing it with fucking Gavin Newsom too.
Like look at this, Gavin Newsom comes out and says Israel's on apartheid state.
Jay Weekly reports, Gavin Newsom's top senior staff met privately over Zoom with Jewish community
leaders Wednesday.
They call for a clear statement from the governor that Israel's not on apartheid state
and to affirm support for U.S.-Israel ties.
Like what are we talking about?
The CEO of the Jewish community relations council, Bay Area, the executive producer
the Jewish California, or Jewish California, and not, but this is JPEG by the way. There's that now
they're called Jewish California, but they used to be called JPEG, which is like the APEG subsidiary
for California. A nonpartisan lobbying group, sure. The CEO of the Jewish Federation of Los Angeles,
we're among the handful of Jewish leaders in the Zoom room. The meeting lasted about half an
hour. Describe the conversation as constructive. David Bacarce of Jewish California said,
he and others asked for a definitive public statement from the governor that he continues
Israel and the US real relationship, including funding Israel's defense brother, what Jewish
group are you running?
Like I just what are we doing?
This is insane.
This is insane.
This is completely insane.
we demand you retract your correct statement that Israel's on apartheid state.
It's crazy how fucking terrified our politicians are of Zionist lobbying money being deployed
against them.
That's what it is.
They're terrified of it.
Because none of these groups, including APEC, actually, none of these groups including APEC
actually fucking hit people on their Israel position, right?
They hit people on all these other things.
They get slimy with it.
They get nasty with it.
I just don't understand.
I don't, I, like if fucking pisses me off so much, the great Ty Gregory,
CEO of JRC, uh, J, uh, CRC Bay area called Newsman's comments, confusing.
I said, our community doesn't know what to think.
A podcast is not a forum to state your policy views are like,
who the fuck are you man?
Who the fuck are you?
Like how dare you?
How dare you?
How dare you do this?
Like you make, you're making demands of the governor of California that they
one, totally deny reality, right?
And two, pledge loyalty to a foreign state
that is deeply unpopular.
This has no motion, it has no motion in the real world,
but it has maximum motion in the world of politics.
So the reason why I'm very frustrated by this
is because amongst politicians,
and they're in an echo chamber, right?
They're in this like hermetically sealed echo chamber
They rarely ever see the public they rarely ever talk to the public
This is all they hear and they get fucking terrified
They're terrified that there's gonna be an unlimited money faucet of attack ads that they will be receiving and they don't want to say anything
So if you're wondering how the shit works, right? If you're wondering how you know
Israel is such a uniparty position. Well, here it is. This is how it happens. It happens in
It happens in the offseason. It happens when you're not paying attention
It's not because of some like Jewish mind-controller or whatever. It's because all of these fucking groups that cynically call themselves like Jewish advocacy groups
Even though they are singularly focused on Israel and Israel's ambitions
The continuation of Israel's a genocidal project in the region all these groups will go in and
And we'll have direct conversations with the electeds and we'll fucking yell at them for hours will bully them into submission
Also this kind of shit unironically does lean into the anti-semitic conspiracies
It's un-fuckin' bearable, dude. It's unbearable. It's so... It's so toxic. It's so fucking heinous.
And yeah, I guess they got their wishes across. Democratic majority for Israel comes out
out with this statement, which again, is a disgusting APEC subsidiary, is a Zionist lobby
that is consistently undermining the Democratic Party's primaries and actively. I mean, this
was created against Bernie Sanders initially, right? Democratic majority for Israel.
He comes out, they come out and they say, we appreciate governing evidence, I'm like,
this has 34 likes, so you don't see it, right?
So you think this has no motion, this has maximum motion internally, because politicians
are completely fucking removed from these conversations.
They see this a million times over, they never hear your cries, okay?
They never encounter people like you.
Okay?
That's insane.
Why do we still support Israel?
Brother, I'm explaining it to you, look.
It's powerful, moneyed interests.
One topical question.
You said that Iran should not have nuclear weapons, no way to allow.
And you said that we should reconsider, look at our relationship with Israel.
How do you reconcile those, or how are you just happy?
It's more on the condition of Israel's money.
I've talked about it in terms of my relationship to Israel.
I was there right after the 7th.
I visited not only the president,
but meeting after the terrorist attack,
knowing those survivors, those victims of that horrific.
And I also came as the only government in the country
with a field hospital.
that we've packed up for the Israelis.
Is it a marathon of statements, but just don't like the state
of play with current administration?
Maybe.
Like, this is him getting whipped, OK?
He can't even say, like, Israel's on apartheid
any longer, because that would require him
to recognize that it's not just the current administration,
But it's all the administration's prior and it will be the next administration of Benjamin
Nenia who is, is no longer in power.
That's the real fear here.
Oh, I just don't like the current administration.
That's what it is.
And then they're like, okay, good, okay, good slave.
You did it.
You did it.
You slave.
You fucking did it.
You, you gave us what we wanted.
You said the right words.
Why does he sound like he's got a fucking gun to his goddamn head?
Stop being a bitch, Gavin. You are literally, you are in charge of the fourth largest economy
on the fucking planet. Jesus Christ.
I'm going to have your back, but I think it has to be made.
Donald Trump is conditioning aid or fire victims in recovery.
I mean, you would think we're going to use our resources or receipts.
We would have policies that may support, I believe, the two-stake solution.
That would necessarily support the kind of promotion and policies that
the Indian artliners are currently promoting.
So, yeah, I'm happy that Supreme Leader's dead. Good riddance.
I understand deeply there's no larger Iranian dust, brother.
The state of California, where people were celebrating in the streets.
The tyrannical reign of 37 years of the particular Supreme Leader, 47 overall.
But this war, in a certain way.
This now is a regional war.
Allies are mistakenly shooting down American jets.
We had the first casualty, one of the six,
backyard and Sacramento County. Anyway blah blah blah blah blah it seemed like backing away to be
like oh I just don't like BB I don't like BB. It's insane. What is this? Example 21,000 of many of
the Jewish community are upset about this call on Israel's illegal policies more than the policies
themselves. Yeah. I mean, it's fucking insane, dude. It's insane. What the hell are we doing?
What the fuck are we doing? What are we doing? You're this much of a bitch, Gavin. God damn.
We appreciate Governor Gavin Newsom's statement that is vital distribution between criticism
of the Netanyahu government and the legitimization of Israeli democracy. While we disagree with
conditioning aid to Israel, you have long supported Israel in the American Jewish
We're grateful to have that long-standing support. I love the state of Israel. I just don't like the state of play with the current administration
Stop calling Israel the Jewish state call it design and state call it Herzl's project
Call it whatever you like, but don't give the name of the religion an entire political entity in Israel is not a Jewish state
Zionism is not Judaism Zionists are not Jewish. Yeah, I mean it's true
It's true and it's very frustrating that it's like it is actually like let's be real it is Jews in most circumstances that actually do this dangerous
Conflation. It's crazy. Obviously the overwhelming majority of support for Israel still understandably comes from Christian Zionists, evangelical Christian Zionists.
Okay, but like every single Jewish advocacy organization, with the exception of like three
are unironically just invested in the state of Israel, let me go fuck about Jews at all.
They don't even fuck about Jews. They only care about Israel.
Why does Finkelstein call it Jewish supremacy? Because, like, there's regular Judaism, okay?
Just like there's regular Christianity, and then there's Christian supremacy, Christian nationalism.
And Zionism is Jewish supremacist. It's a supremacist fascist ideology.
That's what it is. But we hear the word Jewish and we freak out because for most of our lives, we've learned understandably that, you know, Jews are a marginalized community that must be protected, and it's true. Historically speaking, it is true, you know?
Pogroms happened, the Holocaust happened, like Jews have been historically undermined.
Zionism, on the other hand, is entirely separate.
If you can contextualize Christianity, like the broader understanding of Christianity,
and then separate that from the likes of Pete Hegze, or Evangelical Christianity,
or the most rabid monstrous versions of Christianity, you can make that separation amongst Judaism and Zionism.
Is Jihad Muslim supremacy? No dumbass. But ISIS would probably be a version of that, right?
It would be equivalent to running around and saying ISIS is true Islam. ISIS is true Islam. ISIS is the superior version of Islam. Jihad just means struggle.
It doesn't even mean crusade or a holy war, but yeah, this is some of the, this is, this
is some of the outcomes of, of leaning into this supremacy on condition.
You can see the fuel tank trucks in the area that have clearly burned here and been
destroyed. The fire is still ongoing. Despite the enemy's claims that it only strikes military
targets, I deny this and say clearly that it is lying.
Israel says it's hit.
Yeah, wait till they start saying the Iranian Red Crescent is actually also Hamas or I guess
they'll say it's the Ayatollah lives inside of the Iranian Red Crescent. Wait till they
start striking Iranian Red Crescent targets. Because like the Gaza method is the only
meant that these fucking animals know? Okay, Americans and the Israeli military, they're
barbarous, they're monsters, they only know one speed. Just ultraviolence over and over
again. Okay, hitting hospitals, hitting schools, targeting medical professionals. Uh, do the
double strikes, double taps.
100 military targets over the past day, and that the oil depots were used by Iran to fuel
their missile launches.
The Revolutionary Guards say they have plenty of missiles still in reserve.
Our capable armed forces, the powerful forces of the Islamic Republic, are fully prepared
to sustain at least a six months full-scale high-intensity war at the current pace.
Promises not to strike the Gulf were quickly withdrawn. There was a massive fire at a high-rise
building in Kuwait after a wave of drone and missile attacks there. And debris from intersets
causing damage across Israel with two seriously injured.
I'm not going to lie, I swear to God, the fucking clerics are going to cook this
God damn country again. Look, I'm not, it's, it's there, it's their country. I don't know how much,
you know, I don't know what, how many son is going to be like,
but if he's going to be exactly like how many Iran is fucking cooked. Okay.
Okay.
Sources that Iran have told Iran why Iran is the factor of security chief Ali Darjiani
is opposed to Moshtabah Khamenei becoming the leader.
Darjiani supports his brother, Sadeq Darjiani, a high ranking cleric in fight for leadership.
I don't know if this is real or not, but why they lasted this long?
Brother, I think the way I look at it is that while Hamane initially also was a
revolutionary figure, he was both very stubborn. He was stubborn in all the
worst ways. Too stubborn to either give up on the fucking denuclearization
program altogether, which would have been a mistake regardless, and also too
stubborn to allow Iran to actually commit to a nuclear program stubborn in the worst
ways possible when it comes to changes that needed to be made internally at the domestic
level to ease on some of these religious restrictions to ease on what's up these on some of these
restrictions that the people were experiencing. Okay.
And then too passive in terms of setting up military deterrence against regional enemies.
Like literally always in the fucking middle of all of these issues and had supreme power
and complete control over the country.
along with that legacy will be devastating. What is Kasama? Yo, this, this son of a bitch
he got me some, some Pinoy. Bro, that's crazy. Look at this. He brought me a, he brought
me snacks and there's a fucking bite in it. Okay shout out Matthew shout out Matthew that
works at what is it? It's a Filipino is a Michelin star Filipino restaurant. Oh my God.
Oh, damn. He waited in line for an hour in the wind. Oh my God. It's heavenly.
I
Being charged right here. No, it's done here
This guy bought it for me it's so fucking good
Oh my god
You got to let March take a bite he's so thin he'll fly away without a little snacky bro
He eats more than me
Anyway.
It's Kusama.
Kusama.
Yeah, anyway, the fucking the the clerics are gonna cook the country if they try to like
go back to business as usual because business as usual is what led to this situation this
predicament Iran is in right now. And Iran is literally fighting its way out of this
situation you feel like there's a very different energy with the way that Iran has been for
the last seven days as opposed to like pre Ayatollah or sorry as opposed to
pre Ayatollah assassination is because yes the IRGC is in control right now.
Trotsky workers say from class to munitions. We just got an alert on our
phones here in Jerusalem and went to find the nearest shelter and I just want to
show you. What? Here it is in this building and people are still sleeping
at night down here because they're so worried about the sirens and it made
Let me think how in Israel you have shelters in every building and people are used to coming
downstairs and staying in them.
But that won't be the case in Iran.
It won't be the case all across the Gulf.
And now there are missiles going in all directions.
In Lebanon the death toll is rising as Israel continues to pound Hezbollah targets.
More than 390 now dead, 83 of them children.
This war on multiple fronts is reshaping the Middle East, but the cost is heavy and the
destination unknown.
Diana Magne, Sky News, Jerusalem.
Welcome back, and joining me now is the Foreign Minister of Iran, Abbas Arachi, Mr. Foreign
Minister.
Welcome to Meet the Press.
Well, thank you so much.
Thank you for having me.
Thank you very much for being here.
I have to ask you the big question on everyone's mind, who is in charge in Iran right now?
Well, it is already known.
The council of the interim leadership council is now in charge.
And they are doing their act in the absence of the leader, while a new supreme leader
is going to be elected soon by the Assembly of Experts.
the president and the cabinet are also in their are doing their duties.
Parliament actually has been a really interesting figure in all of this.
He's been a pretty solid communicator, a pretty reliable communicator.
constantly going on western news, constantly speaking, constantly explaining the Iranian
position. I think he's doing a very good job.
Everything is in his place. Well, there are reports this morning that
the Iranian. I do think that Americans also have the capacity to understand.
Like when Lavrov does this shit, people are like, all right, all right, buddy. You're the
offender here, right? However, in spite of the fact that the Iranis are supposed to be the enemy,
me. In spite of the fact that like Americans are primed into believing that Iranians are
barbaric or whatever the fuck. When Arakshi goes on western television and keeps talking
and explaining the Iranian position,
I think he's doing a pretty good job
of humanizing the Iranians
and accurately describing the position of the Iranians
in a way that I think a lot of Americans respond
much more positively to than you would think.
There's also obviously a very significant difference
between a guy who has multiple degrees versus someone like fucking Donald Trump.
That's really a thing with all the foreign adversaries, even including Russians, Ukrainians,
European leaders, Chinese leaders.
When you have someone who actually has the pedigree, and they speak convincingly on
the issues that pertain to their country, I think Americans look at that and go, well,
our guy is Donald Trump and our guy is Pete Hegseth and they're so fucking stupid, but
that juxtaposition, that intelligence gap is very clear.
You know, assembly of experts has come to a decision on a new supreme leader for Iran.
have suggested it would be the son of the late Supreme Leader Moshtabah Khamenei.
Will he be the next leader of Iran?
Well, nobody knows.
Actually, there are lots of Iranians around, but we have to wait for the Assembly of Experts
to convene and vote for the new Supreme Leader and the one who is elected by them.
Do you think he should?
because they're a theocracy, but we are an infinitely more barbaric version of the theocratic approach
that they have, right? Like they're a fucking, they're a theocracy. Look at the numbers, right?
The idea is that they're like an Islamic theocracy and therefore they're backwards,
their barbaric. But then you look at their education, the educational goals that they've
hit. You look at women's education in Iran, as opposed to women's education in America.
And it's alarming that they have a higher amount of degree holders per capita
America, then the United States of America does, they have more engineers than we do.
They have more people in medicine than we do. They have more women representation in these
fields than we do. Like, we're like, there are backwards Islamic theocracy.
We are supposed to be the secular country that's supposed to be the secular Western
liberal democracy. And we can't even hit any of those fucking targets that we
We have decided showcase prosperity because these are targets that we consider to be prosperous.
What are you trying to say?
My attainment is shit.
Yes, educational attainment in the United States of America is fucking doo-doo.
Yeah, when you look at the education of women in Iran, it does make a lot more sense
why women demand change in Iran.
I know you can't have both of those things at the same time.
have access to the internet deteriorating material conditions and an incredibly well-educated populace
and assume that this shit's not gonna fucking blow up. Some's gotta give. I'm sorry. It's one of the
most understandable things that people demand. Okay? That's one of my major, that's one of my
major criticisms. Not that it's relevant in this moment, not that it's in any way, shape,
perform worthy to even fucking bring up. In Iran women make up over 60% of the
university students and some years female enrollments peaked 70 to 75%
approximately 70% of science and engineering graduates in Iran are women.
In the United States women account for 69.5% of total university enrollment.
Within STEM fields women make up roughly 27% of workers and 35% of
graduates. In Iran, women make up 70% of science and engineering graduations. Okay? It's so,
it's so incredible, like it is, there is no better, there is no better way to describe
western arrogance
then a bunch of dumbass americans who couldn't even get a fucking gd
thinking all i ran you know where they have pressed the women
and there is a lot of oppression in the social side of things
but like you're a fucking idiot like you think
this is like a backwards country that rides camels and it's like no they
have
They're an engineering nation. Okay.
Is that before or after they cut women in half? Yeah.
In Iran, they're making the women engineers and then they're chopping them in half.
But the next, anyway, we got to move right now.
But anybody, which is elected by the assembly of experts would be the next.
But I'll continue my commentary on the call right there.
The assembly office.
The members of the assembly are already, you know, elected by – directly by the people.
All right.
Well, President Trump says he should pick the new leader of Iran.
Will Iran allow President Trump to have any role in picking its new leader?
We allow nobody to interfere in our domestic affairs.
This is up to the Iranian people to elect their new leader.
They have already elected the Assembly of Experts, and the Assembly of Experts would do the job.
It is only the business of the Iranian people and nobody else's business.
President Trump says there will be no deal with Iran except for, quote, unconditional
surrender.
Will Iran agree to unconditional surrender for the sake of bringing this war to an
end, Mr. Foreign Minister?
Well, this is what he asked previous time, last year in June, that when Israel started
to attack us, you know, President Trump used the same phrase, unconditional surrender.
That was a tweet he made.
And that didn't happen.
We resisted.
And after 12 days, Israel is asked for unconditional ceasefire.
So we never give up, we never surround and we continue to resist as long as it takes.
We continue to defend ourselves and we are defending our territory, our people and
our dignity.
them. Dignity and our dignity is not for sale. Well, let me ask you because what conditions
would Iran accept to bring this war to an end? Well, actually, we are not at that point
yet. Obviously, this time is different from the previous time. Last time we accepted the
ceasefire, but you know this time is quite different, and the reason is obvious. You know
last time they attacked us, they made aggression against us, they killed our people, they destroyed
our places and then asked for a ceasefire and we accepted out of good faith.
What do you say to utilitarians who claim to be I told kill 30,000 civilians and use
that just by American military intervention? That's so funny. First of all, that number
is wrong. And secondly, that's not a utilitarian perspective at all, because look at what we're
doing right now. It's literally, it's like acid rain is, is, is pouring on the Iranian
population currently. Oh, to save, let's say the number is correct. It's not, but let's
say the number is correct. So what the answer is said to ruin the lives of 93 million
people. How was that fucking utilitarian? That's not utilitarian at all. The notion that America
cares about the democratic process or liberating the Iranian people is already such an abject
fucking lie that the, the American government isn't even fucking leaning into that. Right?
Like they're not even, they killed 160 school children, man. Come on.
because we were only exercising the act of self-defense.
And when the aggression was stopped, we stopped too.
But it didn't bring about peace.
And now this year, they, again, started to attack us.
And again, they are killing our people.
They are killing, you know, gay or the students.
They are attacking hospitals, you know, fresh water, desalinations, you know, refineries,
you know, everywhere.
People have been killed.
Places have been destroyed.
And now they want to ask for a ceasefire again.
Well, this doesn't work like this.
So there should be a permanent end of the war.
And unless we get to that, I think we need to, you know, continue fighting for the sake
of our people and our security.
We are going to get to the reports about some of the deaths in just a moment.
But just to stay on this topic, would Iran ever agree to a ceasefire to get back to
the negotiating table to end all of this military conflict?
Well, they have to explain why they started this aggression before we come to the point
to even consider ceasefire.
Of course, nobody wants to continue this war.
This is not our war.
This is not the war of our choice.
This is imposed on us by the United States, by Israelis.
They have, you know, started this war, unprovoked, unwarranted, illegally.
And what you are doing is an illegal act of self-defense, and we have every right to do
that.
So it is not fair that if only it stops the aggression and asks us to stop too.
As I said, this time it's different.
Let me ask you about some of what Iran has been doing.
has launched hundreds of missiles at 13 other nations in the region. On Saturday, the Iranian
president apologized for those strikes on neighboring Gulf states. Was it a mistake for Iran to
attack its neighbors?
Well, it is a mistake if you consider that Iran is attacking its neighbors. No, we
are not attacking our neighbors. We are attacking American bases, American, you know,
installations, American assets, which are unfortunately located in the soles of our neighbors.
So we are not attacking our neighbors. We are attacking Americans. Who are attacking us?
We are retaliating. We have not started this war. It is Americans who started this war
against us, attacking us, and we are defending ourselves. So our – it is obvious that
our missiles cannot reach the U.S. soil. What we can do is to attack American bases
and American installations around us, which are unfortunately in the soles of our, you
know, neighborly countries.
But, Mr. Foreign Minister, if you're not attacking your neighbors, why did the Iranian president
apologize?
Well, first of all, apology in our culture is a sign of dignity and the strength.
Secondly, he apologized from the people of the region for the inconveniences they
they have faced because of this aggression by the United States and retaliation by us.
So as a matter of fact, it is, in fact, the President of the United States, who should apologize
from the people of the region and Iranian people for the killings and destructions they
have done against us.
Let me ask you, because NBC News is reporting that Iran is receiving help from Russia to
help locate U.S. forces.
Are you receiving any help from Russia?
Well, we have a strategy partnership with Russia.
So that's a yes?
And, well, a military cooperation between Iran and Russia is not something new.
It's not a secret.
It has been in the past and is still there and will continue in the future.
Is Russia helping you locate U.S. forces?
I just want to be very clear here.
Well, I don't have exact military information. As far as I know, we have very good partnership
with Russia.
So they are helping you? They are providing intelligence?
Well, they are helping us in many different directions. I don't have any detailed information.
Okay. Let's move to the strike on the elementary school in southern Iran. It killed more
than 170 people, including many children. President Trump said Iran is responsible for
that strike. What is your response to what the president said?
Well, it is, it is, you know, funny. It is our school. These are our students, our
girls, and they are attacked by an American fighter, a jet fighter, and they have been
killed. Why Iran is responsible? Have we started this war? Have we attacked our own people? No,
we've been negotiating with the United States. And in the middle of negotiations, in the middle
of diplomacy, they decided to attack us. And they have attacked so many places, including
schools and hospitals. And there is a – then there are all evidences that this school is
attacked by an American, you know, a jet fighter.
Where is the Iranian evidence that this was a U.S. attack, a jet fighter, as you say?
Will you provide it?
If it was not U.S., then who was that?
Maybe Israelis.
But it is obvious who else is attacking us.
Well, let me move on to this question about potential ground troops.
said earlier this week on U.S. ground troops to my colleague Tom Yamas, quote,
we are waiting for them. But President Trump says the condition for sending troops to Iran
would be that Iran, quote, would be so decimated that they wouldn't be able to fight at the ground
level. Is the president right? Would you not be able to fight at the ground level,
Mr. Foreign Minister? Well, at least this is not the case right now.
for the time being, we are capable enough. We have very brave soldiers who are waiting for any
enemy who enter into our soil to fight with them and to kill them and destroy them. So,
and that would be the case in the coming days and the coming years and always in Iran. We
We are brave people, we have a great civilization, we have defended our land for thousands of
years and we continue to do that as much as it takes.
Good.
What's up everybody?
We're back.
We're on our way right now to link up with Mayor Brandon Johnson and the other guys.
Johnson and the jam podcast boys, but while we're in the uber on our way there
I'm gonna continue with where you left off
I'm gonna scroll back a little bit and and take a look at
The video I'm gonna be library active in the car something no one has ever done before in the history of this
franchise
Okay, no one has ever known has ever come close to doing something so fast
minute waste so devious we're gonna try we're gonna try live-reacting on the
phone
okay
so they are helping you they are providing intelligence
Well, I don't have anything to tell you about Russia.
Okay, let's move.
That's a yes.
Which is also, I mean, I don't know, I don't know the extent.
I don't know the extent of Russian help to the Iranian side.
But it is kind of funny for Americans of all people to be complaining about this
because like it is a direct role reversal in this circumstance where they're like,
oh well Russia invaded Ukraine so we have to help out our ally Ukraine.
Okay, well America is bombing Iran right now. Why shouldn't Russia help Iran, right?
And it's really funny. Oops
This is how I should do my streams, yeah, and it's it's a little it's a little ridiculous that they're fucking
Upset about that same with China, especially
This was this was the most insane part of the interview by the way when
The fucking audacity of a western news anchor,
what she says here is un-fucking-bearable.
More than 170 people including many children.
President Trump said you're wrong.
It's responsible for that strike.
What is your response to what the president said?
By the way, Arakshi in this moment has a very unique opportunity here, like President Trump doesn't know anything. He's stupid.
If he had said that, he'd become a legend, like literally, overnight legend.
It is funny. It is our school, these are our students, our girls, and they are attacked
by an American fighter, a jet fighter, and they have been killed. Why is it not possible?
Have we started this war? Have we attacked our own people?
No, we were negotiating with the United States, and in the middle of negotiations, in the
middle of the policy they decided to attack us and they have attacked so many places including
schools and hospitals and there is a that there are all evidences that this school is attacked
to fight an american you know just fight where is the iranian evidence where is the iranian
evidence bro the americans literally showed a strike map pete hexit went up on stage and said
that we are no longer abiding by gay stuff,
like rules of engagement, international human rights.
These things have set us back for far too long.
Like, we're not doing that no more.
So you got the Department of War,
the head of the Department of War openly admitting it.
And then he came out and had those maps
of where they struck and literally on the maps
they were showing on the maps they were showing you can see the meanest school
right in between the two targets right in between the two areas that they had
bought to go after all of that like basically got confirmation at that point
Oh shit, it's green again, it's glooping.
Okay.
Okay, it's fine for now.
I will fix the ingest if necessary.
We're on it though, we're aware, we're aware of the problems.
We're aware of the problems, Chad.
It glorked up again and then it went back in and it glorked up again no whacker
It was a tunnel, this shouldn't happen in these fucking with this backpack though
I think there's something wrong with the backpack
Yeah, someone's up in the open second to me, so I can use it as evidence.
We're back, I think.
It's gloopin time.
Are we back?
Check the chat
Okay
But as I was saying before I got rudely interrupted by the glory
You have
Almost complete confirmation, right at this point you have complete confirmation from the American authorities that they did that shit and
NBC meet the press is still like well, what's the evidence like what do you what do you mean?
was the evidence. It's like the American government has basically taken ownership over this attack.
All evidence from the American side points to the Americans being responsible for this.
The Israeli side literally came out and said, this was not on us. I know, I understand why you
would think we bombed the school. And we're kind of known for that thing. But it was actually
the Americans this time. So like, basically everyone is aware that this is the American
responsibility right so the fact that they're still trying to you know ask
these sorts of questions is so ridiculous it's not journalism this
propaganda
Oh, let's just move on. I guess you have no evidence. Let's just move on
You fucking kidding me, dude. Are you fucking kidding me? Are you out of your mind? What the fuck is wrong with you?
There is no, there is no real journalistic purpose there, like as someone who, you know,
covers this stuff fairly frequently, this is a big part of my job.
That question is, that question has zero journalistic value.
Okay, why are y'all posting links?
He's obviously not looking, I am looking at the chat, I'm just not going to click on
links for now.
Because I'm a live reaction.
The Israeli technique, by the way, once again, you know, shorn and burn, bomb civilian areas,
destroyed the civil existence of the of the population that you're seeking to
militarily dominate and only after that go in with ground troops now of course
with Iran it's a little different massive country it's not Gaza it's a sovereign
nation which is kind of the whole problem from the American perspective
right and therefore they have set their defenses up for exactly this kind of
predicament this is the reason why the IRGC like the IRGC commander keeps
doing fan cam edits or a farming being like we are welcoming Americans into the
straight please please try to ensure the oil tankers we would love for your
naval assets to come into the straight please just like they keep repeating over
and over again please come and militarily invade the country that would be
wonderful for us we're waiting for it
We are in Cape Olyma. We have very brave soldiers waiting for any enemy entering to our soil to fight with them and to kill them and destroy them.
So that will be the case in the coming days and the coming years.
We are brave, we have a great civilization, we have defended our land for thousands of years and we continue to do that as much as it takes.
let me ask you because you have said that this was a war of choice president
trump said one of the reasons for launching this war was that iran quote
already had missiles capable of hitting europe and our bases oh my god soon
half missiles capable of reaching america was iran planning to directly attack the united states
this this is not true uh this is in fact misinformation
You know, we have...
You mean like as they call it, fake news.
...ability to produce missiles,
but we have intentionally limited ourselves
to below 2,000 kilometers of range
because we don't want to be felt as a threat by anybody else in the world.
We have not started any plan
to increase the range of our missiles
Big mistake.
than what it is right now. So there is no evidence, there is no intelligence, nothing
to indicate that Iran is going.
Same posture with the Democratic Party, which is, if they're going to call you a communist,
then you might as well become a communist. They're going to say, oh, you have munitions
that are capable of targeting US soil. If you're gonna have nuclear weapons down the
line, you're gonna need to develop delivery systems as well. That's just the reality.
Now that's for a future Iran, depending on what takes place. Can you tilt your phone
a bit to the left. The Hassanami doctrine is the only doctrine in real
politics in a nuclear world. If you want to develop sovereignty you have to have
nuclear arms. That's simple. It's clear that these guys can't rely on Russia
either. Russia used to, when the USSR existed, Russia used to be the nuclear
umbrella as a counter force to NATO and the Western capitalist nuclear umbrella that was
created. It created a semblance of security for countries that chose whichever side they
were on. In the absence of such nuclear protection, nations that are especially not aligned
If you want to call it that because you know, we don't have the Soviet block any longer
Someone said three three forty six holy Toledo. Oh, we just passed the gas station
Holy Toledo
Hmm the price of gases up up up
Haven't seen prices like this since
1976
Okay, let's finish this interview.
Long range missiles, little on those missiles who can reach the United States, so sorry.
All right, and of course US officials say that negotiations over this came to a halt
and not as part of why they moved forward with this action.
Minister Orochi, thank you very much.
We will obviously be tracking everything that unfolds very closely.
We appreciate your being here.
I want to show you something because after those fires rained,
There was actually rain here in Tehran this morning that you can see here.
So this is the CNN guy that everyone's really mad at.
I mean all the Zionists are really mad at because he's reporting directly from Iran.
And Americans and Israelis are really upset that Iran seemingly has more press freedoms afforded to.
A national from the country that's bombing it right now
Then Israel does with you know allied regions allied countries
Especially in terms of allowing them entry into Gaza
Of course if you're a reporter you can report from inside of Israel
And there's a military censor in Israel as well and that military censorship applies to every
Everyone that that reports out of Israel for the record for those of you who don't know like before you say well
Iran has like tremendous censorship is true Iran does have censorship
except so does Israel so
You can't show successful strike targets
You can't show the actual impact of damage if the Israeli government decides it's actually not good for propaganda purposes and
Of course with respect to Israel
Israel still has yet to allow any foreign journalists into
Gaza the only
journalists that they've allowed in the Gaza are actually state propagandists
that they send with you know security detail they haven't since they relinquish
control over at least 50% of the Gaza territory and give it back to Hamas and
the Palestinians. So ever since that has taken place they have not allowed
any independent reporters, independent journalists, independent investigators
into Gaza as well so just you know of course one is the barbaric Islamic
country the other one is obviously the most moral nation on the planet the
only nation on the planet that matters as a matter of fact no other nation matters
at all I'm Israel high Israel high Israel high but you know just something to
consider but it is very funny that like people are mad people are mad at at
any coverage whatsoever coming from inside of Iran because it makes it a little bit more
difficult and it also humanizes the Iranians.
After those fires rained there was actually rain here in Tehran this morning and you can
see here this is a white car that the rain is actually apparently saturated with oil.
You can see on my finger that it's completely black and that's something that's been coming
down for the better part of this morning. So of course that's all.
Look at that, that's liberation. Liberation for the Iranian people in the form of
melting their oil refineries in the form of destroying their
their water desalination plants
uh... you know trying to cripple their access crippled 93 million iranian
populations access to fresh water
uh... to drinkable water
how nice of us to do that how nice of us to engage in this kind of uh...
laboratory acts
for folks here in Tehran that there's this rain that came down that seems to be
saturated with oil. On the whole, the blinds here, I wouldn't call them passively long and the
authorities have said they are going to try to mitigate this problem, get fuel from
other places to this area, but certainly for now you can tell that people are
concerned about the situation. Of course I'm a little worried because fuel
depots have been hit. Gas stations are a little more crowded. The line was very long. There's
a very long line from here until the end of the street. It's not a big deal, even if fuel
runs out, I'll park the car and use alternative transport.
So Ron's golf neighbors report a new wave of strikes after the arriving?
Yeah. It has, you know, it has been quite remarkable to see the coverage.
But yeah, the Iranian people are very, they're very resilient, you know?
UCLA hat. Possibly not credible.
What is the, what's the credible reporting from Iran, you think? Like, what would be the
incredible reporting, people being like, uh, we love it, um, we're either A, we're terrified
because America's blowing our shit up and it's disgusting and it's awful and we hate
it, or B, we love it actually, it's awesome, thank you for blowing up our oil refineries,
I didn't even need that shit anyway, I'm a renewable energy advocate, and also think
that it should be the Knesset that decides who our next supreme leader is.
That's a lie. There is free press in Iran. Women don't have to wear the hijab if they
don't want to. Many, many wear the hijab. Of course, women in businesses, many women
in the universe are those engineer scientists. It's a little bit more complex than the
way you're representing it. There are areas where the hijab restrictions have certainly
have been eased, obviously Tehran being one of those places, but there have been times
considering that it's still in the rules where the military or the police force of the government
can decide to use the existing rules in order to engage in the act of repression.
And they do.
The Masa Amini protests were a good example of this, I mean, and thousands of people
were arrested in the process and many were killed as well so to say that like
the situation is black and white oh it's green again
Oh my gosh.
Let me see.
Is it still glooping?
Any gloppers?
I don't think it's back now.
By the time we see it...
Oh, it's fine. Oh, it's for a second. Goddammit, Chad.
Yeah, it literally happened with Bernie, too. That was so sad.
Okay, yeah. We got to...
I'll make it a problem later, bro.
Hmm.
How the West can put a standard in a population that has to liberate itself from Western hegemony is peak entitlement? Oh, for sure.
Well, yeah, I'm just saying, like, from the perspective of, like, regular Iranians that
are, you know, there are still plenty of regular Iranians that are in favor of this process.
Like I said, it's again, 20th or 30th.
For the Ayatollah.
But outside of that, there's also a lot of discontent, and that's an understandable
discontent that exists.
Especially from my perspective, I mean it's hard not to recognize that this is a system of oppression that a lot of people consider to be unacceptable.
I personally would be very frustrated and would absolutely fucking protest living under a system like that.
It's glooping again, what the fuck, it's fine now, it's fine.
Wall, chat flips out over the most minor shit.
It's not the Rustbo Internet Chat, it's our bag, for sure.
It should not ever be happening out here.
Yeah.
Or it might just be like they used to make you a person, which would never replace me.
But once again, that is a totally separate subject and utterly irrelevant in this conversation,
which is why I don't even like bringing it up when we're talking about it.
Because I think many people use that in the most in the purest western shamanistic ways possible
They use that as a as a reason
They want to bring that up
Specifically to be like I don't like what America is doing, but also these guys are pretty bad
They had it coming, you know, it's victim blaming the dynamic has shifted dramatically
Gas check this one is this one doesn't even have a gas price
It's just so high it's so high they chose not to even put it on
He's saving America man
He's winning we're winning
Wait they're now exists a video or where Tomahawk hits the school actually it's probably a right
That's got to be fucking a
Iran has released a video to show you the girl's school.
The US Tomahawk missile is clearly visible debunking the US plane.
They also struck the same school 40 minutes later to murder those in loaned rescue effort.
I don't know if that's, I don't know if there's actual visual confirmation yet.
I'll have to look at it.
Jacob Kornblut. Jewish people policy institute survey of 692 American Jews with relatively
strong ties to the Jewish community, Jewish identity or Israel. 68% support the US decision
to go to war against Iran while 26% oppose it.
I swear to God, I've never experienced such a clear cut, like, difference in, you know,
opinion and a lack of interest in, like, reading the fucking room from a lot of these, like,
a lot of these organizations that conduct surveys like this.
Maybe like you see, Jews are overwhelmingly in support of destroying Iran.
Jews in America are overwhelmingly farthest inside the border.
Brother, it doesn't matter.
Oh, 347, 361, 427.
Winnie.
All right, this real quick.
Yeah.
It's very frustrating to see that.
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Because I now want to go off the door.
So I have to go for a minute.
We'll just do a lap up toward central a bit.
We're going to end over on there.
So wind out.
Because you have guys that are out.
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Yeah, sure, we'll start
Because I have an intro as well isn't we're out here in the windy city ladies and gentlemen the beautiful windy city
It's actually a beautiful sunny day in the city of Chicago
And I will be hanging out with the mayor of this beautiful city Brandon Johnson in a brief moment
I have some I have an introduction prepared and I have some questions prepared ahead of time
Shout out to Eric Hove again for helping me out with this Brandon Johnson dsa
57th mayor of Chicago since 2023. Brandon Johnson is a former organizer for Chicago
Teachers Union, a social studies teacher. Unfortunately Brandon Johnson's approval
ratings have not been so high because he has gotten extreme opposition from
Chicago capitalists, capital owners in the city and also in the state of Illinois
have been very aggressively coming after him since the beginning of his
tenure. But Brandon Johnson's 57th Mayor of Chicago after career as a social studies
teacher labor organizer in Cook County Commissioner. He's backed strongly by the
Chicago Teacher's Union, the Democratic Socialist of America, and
progressive grassroots groups. He ran a platform focused on investing in housing,
education, and community-based public safety rather than austerity or heavy
policing. Since taking office, he's had to govern within one of the most
complex political environments in the country while taking on his ops in city council factions,
which include very similar ops that you probably know from the Zauron situation, the police
unions, let's be real, they are protecting, they're protecting us today, the real estate
lobby, and also Rahm Emanuel, and dealing with tens and billions of inherited pension
debt.
His mayoralty has become a test that whether a popular progressive agenda can overcome the hurdles set forth by the capitalist class in one of America's largest cities.
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Give me two seconds.
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Sorry for the flashbang chat.
Did that work?
Nope, you're right.
I might be getting inside of this.
What's going on?
Yeah, it's good to see you, man.
Thanks for coming to Chicago.
Alright, you can pay that guy, huh?
You know what's going to see a lot of that, right?
Alright, so what are we doing?
We're gonna be hanging out in here?
I'm not in charge of this, I'm just...
Oh, okay.
I'm just trying to sign.
We're gonna do a lap, we're just waiting one minute.
Hey, what's going on here?
Good, brother, how are we doing?
Good, man, come on, man.
Say hello, man.
Feeling alright?
Yes, sir, I've been on a major place, a place.
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See I'm a rapper, I just got a movie, I was 57 when I was 30
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Man, congratulations, thank you for everything you do, man
It was real, and you need to get more good progressives
They give you like, it's too much for your legs
You know I give them grades, but you know we're strong
6-4-4 gets it
Yeah, 6-4-4 gets it
You got it, alright, man
Blessings, brother
There is, give them your card, man
Yeah, man, that's alright, got it
Yeah, man. So, uh, gosh, you put the nice day from a little bit of that West Coast sunshine,
man. Yeah, it was it was raining when we first came in, but it's been really nice. It is
very windy, though. I get why I get why they call the windy city. Yeah, more waves than
one. Yeah, so we're gonna walk around first. Is that what we want to do? Or we can just
wait here. It doesn't matter to me. But if you guys want to walk, we can do that
as well. We can start here and then we can make our way in a couple minutes.
So let's just talk here and then we'll make our way. Okay all right perfect. So
what part of town are we in right now? So we're on the west side of Chicago. It's
the Austin neighborhood. It's the neighborhood that I live in. My wife
and I are racing our three children just a couple of blocks from here. We love
it. It's a beautiful historic community. Once upon a time it used to be the
largest neighborhood in the entire city of Chicago, but unfortunately because of
past administration's hills, school closures, the loss of good public sector
jobs. We are no longer the largest neighborhood, but this is still the
largest concentration of working people and particularly black folks anywhere
in the country at the height of the neighborhood. Probably had a was
definitely a hundred thousand hundred thousand people just in this in this
neighborhood. We're probably sitting around about 80,000 now, but still very
vibrant and strong. And right now we're working our way back. It's beautiful,
man. I mean, the housing, the major corridors, man, we're down the historic
Chicago Avenue. So yeah, this is my hood. You grew up here? I did and grew up
just a little bit outside of the city, but once my wife and I decided to work
a way into the city. There was no doubt that we wanted to live right here on the West side.
So he brought up the fact that they're on your ass, that you're, you know,
and this is something that I briefly alluded to in our last conversation,
but it's something that I've been thinking quite a bit about as well.
I do feel like there is somewhat of a, I want to say like a media attack on you,
but definitely like it's more critical than you would expect of a mayor of a large city.
There are other mayors that have been in the spotlight in times of need, but they haven't
received as much criticism as you have. Why do you think that is? Well, I mean, I don't know if
there's, you know, one specific reason, you know, I know that the city of Chicago is
It's the global capital of the world and you know the interest of corporations have long
had their foot on the neck of working people and poor people.
My election broke outside of that, that structure.
I know that there are corporate interests that want to dominate this city and I believe
that as I continue to put forth the vision that is transformative, of course it's going
he met with resistance. You know, yesterday we said our final farewell to
Reverend Jackson. He was a true example of someone who understood his assignment in
Chicago, right? It's why when Dr. Keene came to the north and they knew they
needed a strategist and an organizer in the north, they put Reverend Jackson in
charge and it wasn't like this. The power structure embraced, you know, all
of his, his ideals. And so we're still faced with many of those corporate
interest that that that that do not see the value of working people. And as long
as we're committed to ensuring that safe and affordable communities can become
a reality, I think we should just anticipate the corporate order to you
know, to respond in the way in which they have. But I try not to allow it
to to deter me. You know, clearly, as you heard the brother, people see it,
It has not stopped the support and the desire for us to build our communities in a way in
which I think our folks expect.
Yeah.
Actually, let's talk about the funeral proceedings that took place for Reverend Jackson.
Very important figure for American politics.
Very important figure for someone like myself as well.
Someone who I've looked up to and helped me develop a better understanding of American
politics in general.
I believe that at the funeral proceedings, there were three presidents that came out of
the spoke.
And it was very interesting seeing it from the outside, like the way that they utilized
the pulpit in that moment.
And I wanted to hear, well, aside from what you think of the performance of Kamala
Harris saying I told you so using that as an opportunity to say I told you so
Which didn't land very well with at least the people that were watching from outside
And then I think I believe Joe Biden had some words as well
Do you feel like do you feel like they could work were?
Like real torchbearers for Jesse Jackson's legacy, especially considering that he himself had
Oftentimes been in odds with some of these people directly
including, but not limited to even Obama at times as well.
How did you feel about those speeches?
Well, I mean, I think to some extent you heard each president admit that they had disagreement with Reverend Jackson.
President Clinton said that explicitly in his speech.
I mean, I think we're all clear that the so-called three strikes in your out, you know, policy
was incredibly harmful and detrimental to to working people and particularly black folks
in particular.
And you know, I think what they all at least share was that they were a beneficiary, you
know, of his work is his legacy, right?
I think that we have, it's clear though,
that we have not realized the full manifestation
of what the rainbow coalition was all about.
That's why I was very intentional
about lifting up the fact that healthcare for all
was a part of the platform of Roman Jackson in 84.
He was calling for a single pair healthcare system
where you did not have a system of winners and losers,
right? Yeah, his stance around public education. I talked about the fact that it
was Dr. King who understood the connection between labor rights and
civil rights, the prophesied of the incredible potential that it had. So I
think that as much as they possibly could, they wanted to take credit. They
at least wanted to acknowledge they benefited. But you know, I think it's
important that we push the fact that we have still not fully accomplished
what that platform was all about back in the 80s.
Yeah, no, absolutely.
Um, all right, well, the Jam Boys are here, so.
What's going on?
What's up, man?
Let's see what happens to Mahoud.
I just said, man, I'm not even gonna have to do so much for the whole thing.
Good, what's good?
What's going on?
He was on a virus.
He said, I'm a doctor.
He didn't say that, man.
I was like, I'm gonna get some shoes, because I know I would not be able to out-blink y'all.
I knew that.
I knew that.
Wait a minute.
That's it.
That's it.
You're up in the red on the shade.
That's good.
But, oh yeah, welcome to Chicago again.
I heard some of the conversation.
It was very interesting.
Yeah, we actually were just talking about it in the car.
We were talking about where everything was just ejected.
Like, you know, everything to think the common sense.
Yeah.
It's massive.
Everybody was in town.
Oh, man.
Wasn't that wild, man?
Yeah.
Gustavo Petro was here.
Yeah, cut the tape, cut the tape, yeah you know it was good so we had, I believe it was
the president of the Congo, we had South Africa, we had Colombia, of course other dignitaries
who were represented from these nations man, but like Reverend Jackson man was just such
such a large political, civil leader, but yet man, what's going on man?
But he was also so connected to the Brown man, and it was really just beautiful to see from
a child care provider to a president of another nation, just like to hear people celebrate
his life and his story, man, was so very humbling.
I think it was built as how many people came out, showing the love and everything across
the city, like the side of the city, too, you know.
The South Side came out, the West Side came out, every side came out, so yeah, I think
it was built to see all the love and support, to laugh, and I think if people forget how
central it was, Chicago, you know, like, I always think about it whenever I'll see,
like how many figures that I know came from here
and whatever stuff like that'll happen.
It's like people, the narrative on the internet
is so much focused about like things that you see on
local news, regardless of who has the influence
to focus on those things.
But it's never necessarily about the broader impact.
So I love like moments like this
get to just kind of showcase what's kind of going on.
That's right, that's right.
That's right.
You had, you know, Isaiah Thomas, man,
You know, another proud West Sider.
He got called out for being pissed in, but.
But my thing is, man, when him playing in Detroit,
Sending the Market Wire, another West Sider,
it's like we send our family to go play with our cousins.
I'm sure Detroit can get in my way, man.
But Isaiah Thomas, Chris Tucker, talked about his influence.
And I mean, man, everybody else in between.
And you had, you know, rabbis, you had, you know, leaders from Palestine, you know what I'm saying?
Yeah.
People were part of it.
So it's a true testament of the global figure that he was.
Yeah.
Jesse Asim was a lion.
Like, I mean, he did that.
He did that shit.
He did it.
Yeah.
I think he played a role.
He played a role in like numerous hostage release conversations like he understood
that solidarity amongst the working class
as an international component to it as well.
And that always was another reason
why I really appreciated it.
How you doing, Anthony?
No, I appreciate it.
I think one of the things that I saw about Jesse Jackson,
you know, a lot of clips started coming out,
especially after his passing here.
And one of the most important things that I've seen
was kind of like,
it kind of gave me inspiration for what,
like a future, either left-wing political party
or a democratic party political party,
that focus on that unity among demographics
with the interconnected struggle that all of them face,
I feel like a lot of the times we get away
from talking about the material things
that actually bring about those changes,
at least on a national level.
And I think it's a lot of stuff that we can learn
from someone like him and the legacy like him,
and even like taking that much further,
because like you said, we do, it's been a long way to go.
I'm curious too, man,
especially because I got a birthday coming up.
Oh yeah.
I'm tripping, man.
So yeah, man, I mean, I guess, yeah, it's your invitation.
Yeah, it's a good way to just throw it out there.
But I'm the oldest person in my administration,
I'm turning 50.
Oh!
So we have, with the exception of me,
we have a relatively young administration,
but I'm real curious, man, like how do a 20-year-old
or 30-year-old see and view a rubber Jackson?
I think, at least the way I-
I was trying to, Jesus.
Yeah.
Yeah, it makes sense, because it's like, yeah,
that's got me.
I think I was gonna say, yeah, same thing,
kind of like, in terms of like, when you get older,
like when I got older, I started learning certain things
about it, but like, younger, like, that was like,
that guy, like, you know what I mean?
Like, my granny was talking about him,
my mom was talking about me,
everybody was talking about me.
Oh, hey, how you doing?
What's up?
How you doing?
Good, good, thanks for your,
I'm glad you could do business out here.
You're welcome.
How long, what do you, oh, you got a whole bill on there.
I'll see you here.
Yeah, it's really nice to see you.
Oh my God, how we going?
How you doing?
I'm sorry, he's there.
I'm not allowed to be there.
I'm just, you know, growing up, you hear about him,
and you don't really know much other than, like,
what to effect with, like, my granny was talking
about him on mountaineers, talking about him
at church, and talking about him all the time.
So it's like, you know, you kind of view him
as like a legend, like a prominent figure
coming from Chicago, you know?
Yeah, yeah.
You really saw like people with his depth with him,
you saw that you and he really happened to happen.
I'm really seeing like the air that I'm blowing up on.
Yeah.
It was crazy.
Yeah, it was crazy.
I don't know, I think...
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
So, he's that one guy.
I don't know.
Yeah, it's like,
mama, we would have been on time.
Yeah.
Yeah, for sure.
I mean, what do you think, do you think,
when it comes to something like Reverend Jesse Jackson,
do you think it's a, and I want to hear from both of y'all,
do you think it's a positive thing
that the younger generation looks at him like that,
or do you think we should kind of pick it apart
and go a little bit more deeper?
No, I think it's good.
Cause he's a, like, people, people credit,
people credit Bernie Sanders in 2016 for like,
in 2016 for like the rise of you know self-identifying socialism in the
country but I think like Jesse Jackson in the 80s was doing that and it's
something that Bernie Sanders also has always acknowledged as well. Jesse Jackson
also endorsed Bernie too. So like there have been I would say that you know
we've had we've had periods in American politics where we had a much more
radical approach and much more militancy, labor militancy, different groups that
were engaging in direct action in ways that were really impactful. But Jesse
Jackson basically continued that legacy and continued carrying the torch of what
the Black Panther Party was doing, the Rainbow Coalition, and I think he was
an exceptionally important figure in American politics and that's part of
the reason why they engaged in a lot of whitewashing of his legacy because it's
frustrating you see that with MLK and and then the worst version of that is
just like a lack of recognition at all for Malcolm X but and it's obvious to me
that with Jesse Jackson I feel like they're hitting the MLK whitewashing
on his legacy as well to just say like oh he's you know he wanted to unite
everybody it turns into just like with MLK it turns into like I had a
dream you know how like racist people love using that to be like oh yeah I'm okay
wanted no anti-white racism that's what that's what that's the only take away you
should get from it okay like they kind of do that with Jesse Jackson a little bit
too yeah I'm gonna pick it apart a little bit more maybe that's the social
studies teacher I hear that I do believe that there is a strong value
for Reverend Jackson. I will say that a prophet is not always well received or
received at all in their own home. I had a chance to hang out with Reverend outside
of the city of Chicago. The response is different, you know, and I think it's not
that we did not appreciate Reverend Jackson. It's just that you might have, we
may have taken him for granted at times because he was just so ever present.
It was a sign of the fact of where we were in American politics at the time and where we are now
and how we should look inside and be like that and we took the branches.
I think at times, I know that there were some real critical moments in recent city history
that many people may not be aware of.
He was still the convener.
Remember when the La Cuan McDonald video was uncovered, the organizing that was put together
was done at Rainbow Push in his office.
And at that time the generation and the young folks were the millennials and had a much different
vernacular than the Reverend Jackson era.
So I was at Gen X who had to sit in the middle between millennials who, quite frankly,
drop more F-bombs than keep hope alive.
But Reverend Jackson stood in that space,
sent out a robocall on the Chicago teachers union's list.
Wow.
Like on Thanksgiving, like real controversial, right?
And, you know, at a time in which
the tension between community and policing
had begun to escalate anyhow.
Right, so you saw labor,
You saw big, you saw other community organizations come together at Rainbow Push and, you know,
Reverend was a central figure in all of that.
But I will say that there were some younger organizers who did not necessarily see the
Jackson generation as a part of modern-day resistance.
So they got an education because they saw his influence and his impact in that moment.
But I will say as a whole though, I think that life after for
Reverend Jackson will be kinder to him than the life that he lived.
Yeah.
That's just, fortunately, the nature of the beast.
We call America a capitalist.
Yeah, I think it was super important to like point out, at least from my perspective,
like growing up hearing about Jesse like I feel like I always is one of those
things where yeah you do take for granted just because of how like president
how much I see them especially like being here but it's it's the constant
work of making sure the legacy that is preserved is the ones that really take
off those principles like when we talk about MLK and the whitewashing of that
it's like you never want to see a situation where we talk about how
much Chicago it's like has revenue segregation and stuff like that and
to see a political force, a political movement that can start on the basis of unifying every
demographic like in this city in particular, that's how, that's very powerful, that like
directly shows an antidote to like fascism, to apartheid policies, stuff like that.
And that's why I feel like it's so important to remember that now, like the stuff that
we call congestive Jackson because it feels like at least that wasn't the focus broadly,
on a national level now it seems like we're kind of getting back to that
everyone's now aware of the moment. And I think that makes it that much more
impactful and figures like that are people who we really do have to highlight
because it kind of gives us a passable. I will say this as far as like my
audience is very white right? Like I'm an international audience as well. The
international perspective is obviously like focused on his advocacy on that
front and there's a lot of respect for him there too because like people love
when a when an American will come out and be like oh no I understand what's
going on here like this messed up we got a he hung out with with Fido Castro like
like those are those are very important moments in American in American
history but then as far as white people goes in my community even like there
was a lot of people were like I am so deeply ashamed that I learned about him
him in a very negative way in my household because like the media coverage in mainstream,
on the mainstream side of things, the media coverage on Jesse Jackson was not good at
all. They attacked him, they would often bracket him in the same way as Al Sharpton
from back when Al Sharpton was more radical, let's say. And yeah, so it's been a wake-up
call for a lot of people I think. Especially now when like broader sub-sex
of society are starting to recognize that there is like an implicit bias in
mainstream news. Yes. It's not always bad right but there are certain blind
spots let's say racial blind spots certainly but then also blind spots in
general for for any kind of advocacy that they consider to be anti-capitalist
the radical and people are now, I think, becoming more aware of that and reconsidering their
prior biases about certain things, about the way that they've learned about certain things.
Yeah. I want to ask Mayor Johnson, do you think in the same vein of that, what do you
see in the position of, I guess, revolutionary slash radical politics I guess considered
in America. What's that role today because we've seen throughout history like you said
in the media frame or how they'll be cracked down on people. We're simply believing like
people should have freedom of expression, freedom to explore whatever ideology suits them. What
do you see like are you looking to have more of an embrace of people who might be more
out there, more high people, more I guess raggle considered because I feel like those
are people who have always been doing more. Those people who have always been in
on the ground throughout history,
and there's a kind of push to try to keep those people out
when they're, when we're talking about.
Yeah, it's a great question.
So I think that they're, you know,
going back a little bit to what you said,
or your analysis about the current political climate
that we're in, that like this is a right moment
for like a Reverend Jesse Jackson, right?
And like this is the moment that like he lived
and fought for, right?
To have multi intergenerational movement
of critical thinkers that are willing to challenge
the status quo, right?
And so I'm struck a little bit by just the timing
of his death.
Like I'm not one to question God.
And I'm like, yo, so what you up to?
Career, right?
Because it really, you could sense
and feel this resurgence of resistance,
but you also can feel the life of like the reconstruction era.
And so I think getting to your question,
there's a level and a degree of,
I think impatience that is either less tolerable
now than what we believe,
you know, our ancestors were willing to tolerate, right?
But what I'm seeing though is that the desire to push the ground and organize
versus let me organize and get my name on the ballot at the same time.
This is where I believe that there's a little bit of a, it's a little disjointed for me, right?
Because as much as, and people don't always agree with me on this,
As much as we recognize and understand the power of the position, our ancestors understood
that, but they understood their power from their position, not from the position that
they were trying to push.
That they believed that their power was capable of pushing the power structure to submit
and bend to the will of the people.
Because now there seems this other element where there's an, I believe, an over-sensationalized
glorification of politicians.
And I'm one of them, right?
And it makes me, frankly, a little concerned just from an organizing perspective that if
the only motivation that this generation has to organize is to be an elected official,
And I believe that we may not have our assignment complete.
Yeah.
And so again, I'm not saying that we should not
run for office, right?
Because I did that.
I went up against powerful machines in this city,
just for the record, I've never lost an election.
I just want people to know that.
You know, I thought, y'all here trying to run games,
brother hadn't lost, right?
But with that being said, the reason
I believe that I was in a stronger position to prevail is because I had
begin to lay the groundwork in this very community, right? You know, standing up to
power for structures that were closing down schools that were laying off
workers, right? I was a part of a hunger strike, taking a rest, right? I mean put a
real skin in the game and had no real desire, I think, to run for office. It
was just one of those things I'll never forget because wherever was the
person who would come up to me, I think you'll appreciate this when I
was out there organizing he would say man Brandon man if you would just get a hair
cut get you a good suit you might just be somebody
I'm like yes I got a haircut I got a suit right oh yeah sure of course so you're
you're seeing a lot more you know as we walk down Chicago Avenue man you know
This is an avenue that some community organizers who are really attached to business see Chicago
Avenue as the main corridor for the city of Chicago, where Chicago happened.
So they're going to name it, what they have named it, Seoul City.
Oh, yeah?
So they've got some housing development.
This is good.
They've got more small businesses that are coming through, and then these pop-up shops like this.
Oh yeah, I love these like green areas.
How does that feel?
I love like green spaces like this.
We will talk about it so much, even when it comes to a community aspect, like a safety thing.
I feel like a lot of the things that are missing right now, we talked recently at the Chicago Teenage Mutant.
And what we basically talk about is like how do we break down these silos?
Like it feels like a lot of the last like maybe decade and a half of kind of like austerity politics
that privatized closed down like public spaces.
We've kind of all been through that and there's a lot of happening.
But I stress the importance of even little areas like this.
It's so nice to come outside and feel like you have a place you can just stand,
chill, maybe play a little basketball.
People don't understand how long away that is.
It's a huge contributor to transformation.
In the summertime, you're gonna see areas like this all over the city,
literally pop in.
We put $1.25 billion bond investment for economic development and
housing in Austin, just, you know, again, it's going to Chicago Avenue,
there's development down Madison, you know, for the first time since the
King rights have seen like real economic development. And just for the
record, you I don't want to take a picture. And I mean, it's with all
sincerity, Reverend would have loved y'all. I'm saying, I'm telling you, man,
he like if he had, you know, the strength when he was going through to
be a part of the jam. He would have loved it. In fact, even though he did not
have all of, you know, the functions that he had, you know, when I got a chance to
learn from him, he probably would have still come through, man. But I know
we're proud of you as a city. I know as you all, you know, platform becomes
bigger than this guy's ear.
We have not a problem.
All of us, for the Piker's followers, have followed the jam.
But he really would have had a great deal of respect to regard for y'all, man,
because he believed in young people being on the ground and speaking truth to power.
Yeah, we appreciate you bringing us out here.
I feel like it's so important to highlight sides like this,
because it destroys the perception of what people think Chicago is.
Like people think it's dangerous, but it's like, bro, it's so beautiful.
There's dangers in every city, bro. Actors though, it's not dangerous in every single city.
Like that's all my mom, I was like, I'm gonna come out here for the streets, she's like, I don't know, be careful.
I'm like, I'm gonna find stuff there.
At the beginning of this hour, talking about the last time you were out here, about how like a part of it is also the plot.
You know, you don't want everyone to come moving to Chicago.
I feel weird about showing how nice it is. I'm like, no guys, this is bad, don't come here.
Well, I mean, I think it's gonna change you, man.
And you know, look, we have to tell the truth as well.
I'm not gonna act like in three years,
almost three years since I've been mayor,
that we had turned everything around.
But we had turned the corner, though.
Yeah, it's part of that needs to be highlighted.
Yeah, exactly.
So we'll do a quick loop follow here,
and then we're gonna walk towards Laramie.
We have about five minutes left.
So let's go.
You have a shot.
Alright, so how long are you in the city?
We just saved the city.
How long are you in the city?
I'm here for just today.
I was here delivering a speech at Northwest University last night.
I was so tired. I feel like I didn't do that good of a job, but people keep to like it.
But I'm leaving tomorrow morning.
So I hope you've enjoyed your stay and your time here.
Just over on the other side here was a more affordable unit that we built.
You can always see more signs of the Seoul City corridor popping up
enough because we want to make sure that just like in any town, you'll have a
Chinatown, a Greek town, a Boys Town, you know, what's the soul city corridor in
Chicago and I gotta give a shout out to Triple A BNA because they see Chicago
Avenue as the premier avenue that highlights, you know, the beauty of our
city. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Well, I have some questions for you, if you don't mind.
So Chicago's been historically been run through a close relationship with the city government
and major corporate interests.
So you came in with a philosophy centered on labor and community investment as we talked
about last time.
How is the business community responding to recent developments by City Hall?
Yeah.
Well, I'm just saying that, you know, look, we, we are definitely the global capital
of the world.
that business interests in my interest is to make sure that we have safe and
affordable communities. What I focus primarily on is, hey good afternoon, what
I focus on primarily is making sure that we are building safe communities
because that's good for business. We have the brand new stadium, Chicago Fire
we're building on the west side of Chicago, the 1901 project outside of the
United Center. That's a multi-billion dollar project on the southeast side of
Chicago where the steel mills once existed, speaking of labor, no development
there over 30 years. We have side quantum coming out that way plus a brand
new hospital, but advocate health, $100 million investment. So a business
recognizes that this is the premier location, the city of Chicago Metro.
Once again, the top destination for corporate relocation and expansion
for 13 years in a row, voted the best big city in America.
So business interest recognizes that this is the place to do it.
My simple philosophy is straightforward,
that we are open for business, we're just not for sale.
And so there are some individuals, of course,
that still don't necessarily job.
What's going on with my philosophy?
But it's not going to change my push
to ensure that we're building a safe, affordable city where everybody gets to participate and
not just a hand few.
So it's a delicate balance to strike, but Chicago's business elite obviously still
has a domineering force on the city's economic power.
How are you navigating the roadblocks put up by folks like Michael Sacks, Ken Griffin,
how can we rally the labor unions to engage in more advocacy and and even
tend to push back in support for focus? Yeah I mean that's what what it's going
to require is going to require working people to make sure that our agenda gets
across the finish line. Even with those forces that have animus towards working
people. Our values are incredibly possible. 80% of the city wanted us to put more of a
responsibility on corporations that they they're fair share. But the corporate
interest of course got into the heads of a couple of alters, you know, that stopped
us from moving one particular aspect, you know, of our agenda. But the vast
majority of that agenda was still able to materialize. You know, I'm pushing
four millionaires tax, you know, we're organizing in Springfield to
push that through. So it's not that our agenda doesn't have merit, like our agenda is very
popular. It's going to require labor, civil rights organizations, labor organizations,
all of those organizations are going to come together to make sure that we're pushing our collective
agenda. All right, I have a little bit more of a tough question. Since we last talked,
the Foundry Park Development was approved by City Council. You mentioned you wanted to bring
affordable housing to all of the neighborhoods, including Lincoln Park, where this is being
developed.
It sounds like it's going to bring a thousand new homes, including a handful of designated
affordable units, but the developer seems inclined to make a payment of $7 million to
the city instead of building 42 affordable units.
How do these kinds of deals where developers pay their way out of actually building the
the housing units changed the dynamic of actually building affordable housing?
And how does that change the way you think about it?
Well, it's not going to change the way I think about it.
We continue to push the developers to make sure that at least 30% of the units are
affordable.
We know that there are loopholes, of course, that they try to draw on.
repurposing downtown office spaces into affordable houses. Right? So of the 1,100
new spaces that are being converted into housing, 30% of them will be
affordable. So that, that, that drive is going to continue. We do know that there
will be some that will try to push their way through that responsibility. But
I'm on pace now to build 10,000 affordable units by then in my first term and we're going
to keep pressing.
How do you feel like the affordable housing development reinvigorates the economy?
If you had a message for like some that would say, oh, this is going to bring poor people,
like mixed income people into this neighborhood, change the dynamic of the neighborhood,
that's like one of the common points of criticism against affordable housing development.
How would you go about identifying those issues
and explain to people that it's not an issue at all?
Well, I think the first thing is to highlight
that many of the new development,
these developers have committed to building,
you know, and to creating affordable units
as a result of these investments.
But also, I just want to just lift up the fact that
whether it's through our missing middle,
where we have owner-occupied housing,
right, where people are living on one level
and renting the other levels to make sure that we're building long term,
sustainable generation of wealth.
The message is that it benefits all of us.
To ensure that our economy remains diverse,
you have to have working class people in here who are going to send their kids
to the public schools, who are going to rely upon the public transportation
system, who are going to shop at the local businesses.
It works for everyone.
Yeah. So last month we signed an executive order calling on police to investigate federal
agents accused of misconduct after Isarique Havoc on Chicago. How has the ICE situation
evolved after the last few weeks and has there been any accountability for the damage ICE
has done so far?
Well, there certainly has to be accountability. That's why I signed the executive order
in the first place because as you know we're living in unprecedented times and we do
not have a clear pathway from the federal government to ensure that there's accountability.
Right now people have the ability to push for accountability.
That's what the executive order was designed to do.
I mean, look, here's the bottom line.
We know that the Trump administration has been incredibly reckless.
The damage and the havoc that they've caused in cities across America, the city of Chicago
has led the way with our executive orders.
In fact, I believe about 30 million people are currently living under our executive orders
right now around the country.
But the evidence that is collected in cases that were brutality took place, we want to
make sure that that gets to the state's authority so that the state's attorney can
decide if they want to pursue as well as prosecute.
Yeah.
Alright, last question.
This one will be about Zoran's double question.
Alright.
together we didn't really get to talk too much about Zoran have you been in
contact and is it feasible to share a note between Chicago and Memdanistan to give them the
differences in the cities and the respective political spheres? Yeah well we
had a text exchange a couple of weeks ago right now we are the process of
forming sort of a mayor's coalition much like district and states
attorneys have formed to fight back against federal overreach. He expressed
a desire and commitment to work with the city of Chicago, Boston. We have
six Seattle on board. We have Oakland, Mayor Lee, Mayor Bass and
Los Angeles as well. So, you know, now that you know, the services for
Reverend Jackson, the past, we're gonna begin to have a little some more
meetings around what type of ideas to your point about sharing notes
that's working in Chicago and other cities like New York
that we could share those ideas and then we can actually move them
simultaneously versus in silo.
Yeah, okay and then the last one was uh there's a there's a concept like
sister cities I don't know how much uh I don't know how
much the mayor gets to have a say in that process the
Chicago have a sister city have you thought about like
expanding Chicago's international research as a global
capital uh and and maybe highlight uh highlight a
community elsewhere whether it be in the past something the governor of
Minnesota Jesse Ventura did was opening up like trade routes with Cuba
against the blockade and has this ever has this come to your attention at all
is some of your interested in we have a long history of sister cities I'm
definitely working to expand them including sister cities on the content
of Africa you know look we have to grow our collective response to one
another. I was sharing, yes, a couple of days ago at Reverend Jackson's service as
we commemorate the bloody Sunday, right? And that bridge was a symbol of the cross
and it connected our our collective suffering. Right now, I believe that
bridge today is can be described as borders where, you know, borders,
essentially, are people are determining whether or not someone's
humanity and dignity should be realized based upon what side the
border they live on. And we want to break that down. And so as we, you know, lean on
Reverend Jackson's example of crossing the bridge in spite of the hatred that was
on the other side of it, we have to be able to cross these borders and challenge
the hatred of, you know, of all forms of hate. So we're looking at definitely
expanding sister cities and, you know, making sure that the city of Chicago
remains as a main footprint as the global capital of the world.
All right, right on. Thank you. Thank you so much.
you as well. We appreciate you all understanding the uniform. Appreciate it. We just got one
more step to make, you know.
Oh yeah, we got you.
Again, man, I want to thank you, man, for making room for all of these.
Of course, I love you.
Thank you guys for having us.
Well, we continue to watch and we were excited to see how this project gets built
out when it's connecting us globally and kind of standing again. It's really weird.
We find ourselves at this point in time where, as veterans go on the rides,
you don't have many people who are able to build coalitions like this.
So taking the platform, taking everything,
something like this happening is the most important thing.
We don't keep that working.
That's what's up.
All right, what's up?
Chicago, baby.
All right.
Hey, you can stop the Chicago Bears.
We want to have it.
Oh, yeah.
That's all you need to hear from us.
So this is what I love, man, about our movement.
It's like we want to make sure there's health care for all
and Bears games on the lake.
Listen, I have not given up on that yet, man.
There's still no better place in the country, in the state of Illinois,
with the Bears in play than the late front.
In fact, that entire footprint, that's the number one tourist destination anywhere
in the state of Illinois, man.
So I have not given up on that.
We're gonna keep fighting, man, because you gotta keep the Bears in Chicago.
If they know what's going on, they'll stay right here.
That's right.
I'm sure I appreciate you, man.
I appreciate you.
Right on, man.
and then one day if they won't give me a love of Jackie
he's a monkey person on March 27th
yeah I'm sure yeah make sure they get it all right okay okay
yeah same job
bro my boy see you
we gotta come out to Cali soon
yeah I know I know
let's make it happen
and they're traveling so it seems like we get up and we go out there and keep your head
too, bro.
We'll be seeing it.
Maybe on your head.
I'm like, dude, you're the best.
Every week, I see it.
It's just, you know what it is though, it's just a lot of people feel the heat.
Yeah, yeah.
It's starting to heat up, man.
It's like, I talk to people all the time, I talk to people when I go to protest and
whatnot and they're all like, they're rudderless but they're angry, you know,
and they're looking for, they're looking for an alternative.
And I think many of them are coming to that conclusion on their own that like the politics
that I represent, politics not that similar to Reverend Jesse Jackson, that is actually
what has been lost in the discourse.
But now that people are, now the contradictions are worsening and people are coming to seek
out alternatives on their own, like they find themselves listening to people like myself
So those that position the power, obviously on the Republican side, they're fucking haters.
They're reactionary, they're awful, they're monsters, they're racist.
But even on the Democratic Party side, I see so many people losing their grip of power
and reacting with this frustration because they don't want to let go.
They don't want to let go of their seat of power.
They don't want to...
They don't want to...
They don't want to make this normal.
Yeah.
They don't want to lose it.
They don't want to lead into it either, because there's some you can do in that situation.
You can just give the people a fucking walk.
Yeah.
That's what that requires.
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Appreciate all of you, thank you so much.
So next time, appreciate all of you.
Appreciate all of you, appreciate all of you.
Appreciate all of you, thank you so much.
Appreciate all of you.
Next time.
Next time.
Thanks so much.
Oh, you want your photo?
Yeah.
I feel it though.
How much do you want?
Yeah.
They said this is a good size for the car.
Hell yeah.
Tiny big fans.
Alright, what's the news?
We're waiting for the Uber.
Just give me 10 minutes.
Yeah, I called it.
What's up, man?
Yeah, I'm sad.
I've been watching you since you had that screwy appointment.
I wanted to give you that.
You like to hit surprises, right?
I do.
Yeah, I just won that today at an arcade, so...
Oh, wow, baby.
I'm gonna do that.
Hey!
What's up, man?
You don't want me to give this to you.
You can keep it.
I don't want that.
Oh, you don't like it?
Oh, that's it.
Salmon.
It's all right.
It's good. It's good.
It's good. It's good.
What's your favorite one?
I can't say it. I'll be a degenerate.
It's the Neon Genesis Evangelion.
But I watched that when I was in high school.
That's not degenerate. That's fine.
He's such a dweeb though, he's got like an asthma inhaler.
That's just like, he has to fix his voice.
You guys did a good work, I really appreciate you watching I think for the next six years.
Really, nice to meet you man.
But yeah, nice to meet you.
That's the reason why they're chirping.
Wait so, is this normally the area that people call Southside?
Southside is more where we came from.
He came from Austin, you know, your West Side.
Even Josh Dawson came out from West Side.
So you're like, yeah, it's nice community over here.
I really like rocking with A, y'all coming in
and just getting to like chill because it's not
what it is.
I mean, the job was always chill, but also like embodying
that spirit of kind of pushing those politics forward.
Like I see it, and it's weird, because as I'm
getting sent to like the election school,
you see just how many candidates, like they all
Democrat.
See how many are bought out, how many are in progress,
how many actualized, it's like this is now
It's class point. You know the generations are here. We're kind of ready to have our say
So whether you get out the way or you join in and get people at the line
But no, that's like
He did, he did.
Do you want to say something to him?
Yeah, I'm going to say something.
Do you want to say something to him?
Yeah.
Do you want to say something to him?
No, I'm going to say something to him.
I'm going to say something to him.
Yeah, yeah.
That's how much.
I hear so many...
Yeah, I hear so many cute stories
like a lot of times about how much
like CPT got to shovel out
I don't want to point the camera at strangers' chat, that's why I'm not.
They almost hit us with their car.
Okay.
We're about to get picked up.
What are you up to after this?
Oh, it's back in the hotel.
Okay, keep covering the news.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
There's a lot of stuff going on.
This is going to be live when you go back?
Yeah.
find a way to start lives and there's so much new.
I really gotta make a clip when I get back because we were talking about Iran and we were
talking about the escalation.
I was really telling them yesterday how the US is escalating like the fight in that regard
and then I refreshed the page like Instagram and then that was when the bomb threat came
through on the the mom that not yet for the it was for the plane.
Oh, the South side of the plane.
I was like, bro, it's like we're going to see a lot more of that.
Yeah.
And Iran is, especially because Trump and them are trying to portray it as like, they giving
up, they surrounding it, bro, Iran is not going to make it back.
But the thing is, this is what used to be on the lookout for.
So like, what will probably happen is now the FBI is not collaborating apparently
according to some sources, but the local law enforcement on like terror threats,
like push of the terror threat.
I do feel like there is not a lot of appetite for this right now.
Yeah.
Because most people are like, well, fuck what we're going to war with.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
All the shit that's happening now.
Yeah.
And it's like, and, and obviously the MAGA base is like 85% on board and fucking cattle.
But, right.
Cold.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Same thing that was like, no new wars.
Yeah.
They very quickly, they broke right before Iran was bombed.
They were pulling them.
And they were at like 30%.
It's no, it's like, they're like, oh, they're fine.
How fast they were switching that.
One day after, immediately 55%.
Two days after, 65%.
Right now, it's an 85% report.
That's why I say no.
That's why I say how we're over.
That's why anybody who's saying that we should be siphoning off
Republican votes as an election strategy is un-seriesing.
Yeah, yeah.
85% support for her.
I mean, you can get those guys, but you're being like, look, man.
Yeah, like, absolutely.
All this stuff is crazy, but like, do you want healthcare or not?
Yeah, that's like it.
You know what I mean?
There is no like, oh I'm gonna bring Lich Cheney on to the fucking main stage
And we're just gonna be like
35% less racist than they are
And I'm like, dang, if you hold back that constituency, that's like, they can hold for a couple of seconds
Yeah, and then, yeah
So all you do is teach your guys, like your central space, your democratic base that like
There is, uh, there's legitimacy in the argument that the opposition is making
Yeah, when there is not
No, we had the teachers union.
Shut up, bro.
But we had that union.
It was like, heckler basically came.
It was our first live show.
Heckler came up and was like, y'all shouldn't mention neoliberalism
because we supposed to be working together with everybody.
See, y'all be using them terms and segregating people.
After the show, he went up to us,
and he was like, I don't even identify as black.
Yeah, he was like, I don't even identify as black.
I wasn't sure where it was.
It was so funny because Josh was about to move on.
I was like nah, we gotta say something about this song, so I was like
I don't know how to identify Black, it's crazy
It's crazy
It's like, it doesn't matter, the person with the gun
If there's a genocide that's there, identify them
You think they're going to, you think they're going to
Oh, he's not Black
But you and the, but the broader point that he was bringing up, and it was priceless to me
The broader point he was bringing up, he was like
Y'all, because he said like the Nazis are at the door
You trying to find common ground where people who are like Nazis
And he's like, and he goes, well you know how the Nazis came about?
It's because they just labeled it
They was labeling it
I said the word neoliberal, that's how the Nazis are.
Are you sure?
You know what the Nazis are doing?
That's what we have later.
Well, don't we have a concentration camp?
I said it was labeling, yeah.
Who would forget?
Who would forget?
You don't feel that when you wrote in my struggle,
he was like, they kept calling me a Nazi,
so I became one.
That's how I have it.
Yeah, that's how I have it.
But what it does do is really how it came about
is when you suppress the conversations you need
to have about the real political matters,
That's how you let people come in and skate and go ground before it.
That's how you get the Nazis.
So I'm like, I hear what you're saying, but I'm not hearing what you're saying.
Yeah, because when you play the middle, you get comfortable.
It takes the blame away from the people that's actually causing damage.
Yeah, when you play middle with the people who was no war one second ago, not a hit.
85% war. That's just the right.
That's not the right.
I'm not saying, like, don't talk to those guys.
Of course!
I think there's people that do a really good job of like communicating with those guys.
Yeah.
But they don't get ground on like, transitions, for example.
They don't give you an un-like social policy at all because there's utterly immaterial in the grand scheme.
You're never going to win that argument anyway.
If a guy has made up their mind that they're going to be racist, homophobic, or transphobic,
you're never going to win them over by being like,
Okay, we're going to be more reasonable than our transphobic.
Just distract them.
What did he say?
He was like, I'm trying to think of the exact word.
we need to be culturally normal. He criticized himself for being far out of head on gay marriage.
He was though, when he was mayor, he put himself out there as the mayor that depended on gay
marriage. Which is crazy because that gave him so much prestige. But he leaned into that for years
and years and now
Now don't want to be president, you know, maybe we should let these fucking gays get down
You're like that's crazy
I genuinely am here just talking about I don't understand the rationale behind understanding that only what in the entire general election was about 130 million people
on both sides right between Republican votes and Democratic votes
130 million people
Why? There's 400 million people in this country, why the hell are we trying to like
Showing you that the plurality doesn't vote
It doesn't make sense. Yeah literally and sure like the electoral college plays a role in that too
But yeah the reason why most people that could go out and vote that could officially swing votes in favor of one party over the other
They just don't see like a significant policy disagreement that
Changes their change of their life or even if they see that the marginal differences. They're like
They're not gonna push for it. Yeah, I like to suck anyway. Yeah, and when you see the unifarty principle
on things like history, on things like endless war, endless military, no free health care,
no money for education, only money for bombs. When people see that, no matter how stupid
you consider the after first to be, they are kind of woke on that shit. They see it.
They're like, okay, what am I supposed to do?
Yeah, I'll go to a theater.
Yeah, literally.
Yeah, I gotta go to work.
Yeah, I'm back every morning. It doesn't matter.
Like this is not gonna change my life. I'm not going out the boat and people get real mad about that. They're like, how dare you?
Yeah, you're you're doing voter apathy. I'm like, no, I'm trying to fucking light a fire under the ass. Yeah
Well people because I understand where that voter apathy comes from. Yeah
Yeah
Yeah
That's that that's that traffic
Hey, hope you enjoyed it though. Yeah
Yeah, this is our first warm week in like a couple months
right back down 42 that's where we have one hot day and then it's not a snow
we appreciate the invite as well
Yeah, it's really unique getting the opportunity to be a part of the conversation, hope trying to inspire some people.
And then they also rock with you enough to even have you hear it.
Let's go with my car over there.
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All right, we're gonna be in here for a minute 20 30 minutes 20 30 minutes
All right chat how'd you guys like that interview was that good did you appreciate it was that
enlightening?
I'm gonna fire up the reacts all right I'm gonna do that in a second I'm gonna fire up
the reacts all right did we like it loved it
I heard they're revived.
That was good. That was good.
I forget that when you're the mayor,
you have a limited amount of time to like,
chop it up, you know?
I was thinking we just like, sit down and...
That was crazy. There was like, police everywhere.
Yeah.
I don't know if you guys saw it.
I purposely was body blocking the mayor.
I put myself in between.
Right.
I did!
I was thinking, like, you know, someone's gonna open up.
I'd rather take the bullet than the mayor, you know?
It's so painful, bro.
Yeah, W Security.
Quite possibly the best interview in the history of mankind.
Oh.
Nice.
Okay.
Maybe a little big glaze right there.
Also, he's in a tough election, so limited in what he can't say, I know.
He's also under fire right now.
The ADL wants to do a freaking mayor, Mum Downey wants style situation for him too.
Unbearable.
This is partially what I'm talking about when I say like, we need to stop.
Like, we as a society need to stop caring about these institutions that are very clearly
working at the best of a foreign nation.
I'm...
It's just, uh, frustrating.
it's just uh frustrating no more superpacks move phone from mic what do you mean?
The phone is not near the microphone or I need to talk to them now.
They're told up to seven or like twelve more very injuries?
Yeah.
Last night, I forgot to mention that last night we saw an NYPD officer that had a medical
incident.
He passed away due to a medical incident in Kuwait, which is crazy.
and it calls into question.
It's something that I was talking about before
where I think they're gonna try to actively,
they're gonna try to actively chop up
and hide the true casualty numbers.
I could have made it.
A medic visited in Kuwait, come on, bro.
How could I have anybody?
We got to send Asmongore to the front lines, man, I think we got to send him to the front
like look at this as we're going to school that's my school game oh a school
got bombed yeah I didn't see that I mean again any time I hear somebody trying to
cry and get upset about like oh my god Israel America bomb the school Iran
killed thousands of their we got to send his ass to the front lines bro that's
it you talk like this about about a school getting bomb with our tax
You're not pissed off about that.
You go listen to you instead of bombs listen to Asmongole.
People and nobody was talking about that at all.
So yeah, I mean if it's school, nobody was talking about the Iranian protest, okay.
Kids get killed.
It's sad.
It's obviously a tragedy, but it's collateral damage and a war and it's inevitable number
one.
And number two, you know, if they didn't want that to happen, maybe they shouldn't
have been funding terror groups and antagonizing the world super power like America.
This is the problem that he runs into when he's like so reddit and so incredibly embedded
in the like Nick Flenton circles that he doesn't know how to like communicate this
kind of stuff. Because this is vulgarity beyond what Donald Trump has even demonstrated. Right?
Like, even Trump wouldn't go this far, right? Like, the energy is there. The energy that
Trump represents is also this exact same thing, where it's like, suck, suck, suck,
Titi's shooting to piss me off. I have the power to fucking nuke your country if
I want to. But, but he doesn't know how to dance around these issues. He doesn't
how to like communicate on these issues well enough so he just says the most
honest thing that comes to his mind and that's why he comes across like a
fucking psychopath an absolute fucking psychopath which he is obviously I mean
it's just so nasty it's so stupid it's so vulgar you're just like a bad person
and you think that being a bad person is getting you clout for the time being
But I don't think people will forget how you spoke about these issues.
No accountability?
I mean, yeah, I don't think Twitch is going to offer any accountability yet.
Just wait for the fucking midterms to come around.
The Democrats actually start winning again.
All these other corporate entities that previously were terrified of like a Trump administration
reaction, if the midterms happen at all, will turn around and start taking action.
I mean his talent agency decided to no longer work with me co-founded this talent agency
And that's you know, it's one step
but
Is it it's valid to kill medics? Yeah, he's he's disgusting. He's a disgusting monster
and I think that there are a lot of people that that want that that want that monstrous
Commentary we talk about people radicalizing and coming to my side
on these issues, coming to our side on these issues, people realizing that, you know,
that anti-imperialism is the correct path forward.
But then there are also plenty of people that see
the vulgar ways in which Donald Trump talks about imperialism and go,
yeah, you know, I kind of like this.
I actually like it. It's the...
It's the dynamic between people being able to say the n-word openly, right?
like some will say oh it's good that they're saying the slur because now we
know their position it's it's very clear right but I always warn you that that
that politeness that veneer also causes people to not feel comfortable enough to
express desire such as that right that that social nicety also plays a role in
And the way that we organize, the social nicety also plays, those social rules also play a major role in the way that we approach subjects like race, or in this circumstance subjects like war and death and destruction.
And the unlimited appetite that America has for murder.
Caroline Levitt said Trump might institute a draft, these freaks won't stop.
I will say, while the draft is devastating and it will be mostly poor Americans that suffer as a
consequence of that, I think the draft would make this stop much faster. The draft would force the
hand of every American to all of a sudden realize that they do have a stake here. It's not just
just when their burgers are more expensive or gas is more expensive, all of a sudden you
have a real, you have a real role that you're playing in this. You have, you're putting
your body on the line. And I think that was part of the reason why people were much, much
more aggressive in Vietnam in their anti-war movement and that politics was far more radical
back then than it is now. I will say like the poverty draft function like military as a profession
has kind of created this really damaging environment for the third world
to the countries that we dominate and that damages over there. We have this total separation
from the death and destruction that we cause and even like the people that go there and
They get fucked up and then they come back and you know 22 veterans a day are killing themselves and whatnot like like
Even all that stuff is kind of brushed under the rug
You can't really do that if you have a draft that becomes very real for every single American under the age of 35
all of a sudden they're like
I'll serve crack before I serve this country. Yeah, I mean you can do conscious you can do a conscious objection
And go to prison potentially
I
Know
Dragging voting records only draft and voters I think if they kickstarted the draft
People would radicalize very quickly when they when when all of a sudden there
where all of a sudden, they have to go and fight, oh my God, we're gonna forcibly conscript
you to fight for Israel.
That's a fucking argument you're gonna make to goddamn Americans in the heartland.
Are you fucking kidding me?
San Baron, you think, dude, white Americans will do 9-11s every weekend, if that's the
case, okay?
They will literally, I just, I can't even comprehend what a future like that would
look like because like we're not even talking about Vietnam era now we're
talking about like literally we are talking about a country that's already
unstable a country that's very polarized a country that's very frustrated the
country where material conditions have diminished you're gonna tell a fucking
rudderless guy living in a living in a town like a dead-end job that that
There's no other options.
Now he's going to die for Israel in Iran.
Fuck, no, he's not going to do that shit at all.
Send Baron.
Yeah, we're doing a draft
and every senator's child has to go to war.
Yeah, that's the only draft I'm for, okay?
Put those who stand to gain the most.
in the front lines. You know? All the kids are the Goldman Sachs executives. All the kids
of...and the gold...fuck it! The Goldman Sachs executives themselves. Black Rock. Put those
motherfuckers on the front line.
It works in Russia. People don't understand. Yes, Russia is a hyper-nationalist country
that has
is still licking their walls of the dissolution and illegal dissolution of the ussr
russia used to be a fucking economic powerhouse there's no comparison between the united states of america and russia
russia's invasion of ukraine is a galvanizing principle for many
right wing russians in general that's ultranationalism that
already existed in russia that's like
it's perfect grounds for
the dissolution masses to focus singularly on a goal, an irredentist goal, an irredentist agenda,
that is entirely different than the United States of America.
Americans are far more comfortable, they've never had that same like foreign wound,
with the one exception of 9-11, I guess, and maybe Pearl Harbor, where it would be,
there's no comparison to like the nationalistic fervor in Russia to the United States of America
when you're telling them you have to go invade Iran, you know, thousands of miles away, because
Israel said so and they're not sending any other fucking troops, you know, it's just
you're sending your troops are you fucking kidding me, no shot.
You know what I mean?
I understand your statement when you say, well, you know, Russians are very right-wing
on the Ukraine stuff, like many of them are going and joining, and they have similar deteriorating
material conditions.
But reactionary sentiment and ultra-nationalist feeling in Russia is a far bigger motivator
for Russians, that in their not so distant past used to be this incredibly powerful nation.
This is like, for them, it's galvanizing because it makes them feel like they're seizing that
power once again.
It's part of the reason why, you know, Putler is adamant about seizing Ukrainian
territory, too.
Like, aside from the national security concerns that they might have, national security concerns
that, you know, Pootler might have, um, Pootler, uh, I love saying that, uh, there is a very
real, like, wound.
So what about the farmers that really aren't farmers anymore, just farming landlars?
Do they still avoid conscription?
Fuckin' send them to you.
Update of the leave it, talk about the draft.
William, what do we have today?
and the president had an interesting exchange
on Air Force One over the weekend.
Carol, are we gonna take about this idea
of troops on the ground?
Mother's out there are worried that we're gonna have a draft
that they're gonna see their sons get in
and daughters get involved in this.
What do you wanna say about the president's plans
for troops on the ground?
As we know, it's been largely an air campaign
up until now.
It has been and it will continue to be
President Trump wisely does not remove options off of the table. I know a lot of politicians like to
do that quickly but the president as commander-in-chief wants to continue to assess the success of this
military operation. It's not part of the current plan right now but the president again wisely keeps
his options on the table but as commander-in-chief there's no greater priority or responsibility
to this president than of course protecting the American people and protecting our troops
in our bases in the Middle East which Iran has been threatening for 47 years they have
killed and maimed thousands of American soldiers with the jump was not going to allow Iran to
to like when they say Iran has killed and maimed thousands of American soldiers this is the new
meta I mean everything is a lie obviously lying is OP there's no way to combat it really and no
one especially no one on the Maria Bartoromo show is going to combat the lies coming from
this administration but like that is a that's been a fascinating development in in american propaganda
where they just have decided that every al-qaeda every taliban every ices death is actually still
iran it's fantastic it reminds me yelangelo it is yelangelo it is it yeah now when she says like
Iran has been responsible for deaths. It's true. It's just they've been responsible for deaths in this
bombing campaign because ever since America is real started bombing Iran Iran started bombing back and
That's when they killed a bunch of American troops. So
It's crazy it reminds me of what they did with the fentanyl deaths where Trump was like all the immigrants are
Responsible for you know tens of millions of Americans dying and they were like what the fuck are you talking about?
He's like well they did fentanyl immigrants did fentanyl. That's what that's what I'm saying
It's like no, that's not how that works at all that you're
It's overwhelmingly American citizens that are trafficking fentanyl from regular points of entry into the
Into the United States of America. So no you're fucking stupid and you're wrong. I mean he knows he's lying
But
Yeah, that's it is crazy that she's only 28 and she looks like that
A million Pablo Escobar's at the border
There's a Beirut bombing this is everything it is yeah, that's not that wasn't Iran that was his block and it was literally once again triggered by
American military action
Yeah, she's 28, yeah, evil, evil age is here.
Her husband is also like 60, so maybe that's why she's just trying to look age-appropriate
for her boo, right?
I don't know what age gap.
Yeah, I mean, it's not one of those instances where I think like I'm not going to sit here
and act like, I'm not going to sit here and act as though her husband groomed her or something,
you know, she knows what she's doing with that decision.
I have no respect for her.
Maybe he just lay pipe.
Yeah, maybe.
Maybe that's what it is.
That really is so beautiful.
Hate Agents you man, don't do it, don't do it, not even once.
Looking?
Looking.
I don't know.
Just showing them a pretty sight star to see.
Jeff Bezos has started to follow Hamas atrocities, weird timing, what the fuck?
Big tech alert, Jeff Bezos has started following Hamas atrocities, oh brother, powered by
Calishev, everything sucks, yeah Hamas atrocities is someone underneath is a
It's like a twitch band incoming. I'm cooked I guess I'm to go to YouTube
Anyway
Karan Diatola Sistani is broken in silence. He is issued a fatwa decreeing that the defensive
Iran in this war and attempts to sow chaos into other countries in the top of the Islamic
Republic is a religious obligation. Sistani has been at odds with the Islamic Republic
for some time. Now he is thrown his full weight behind the resistance and at a time
when a new supreme leader is about to be announced. This is the most influential Shiite cleric,
Grand Ayatollah Sistani, who resides in Iraq, has issued a fatwa on the Iran war. I think
Sistani is the one that the Pope met, right? The former Pope. There's like a really funny
picture.
What are you sure please update podcast a song
I've seen
Starlight
They love they love
I'm the man of the people, okay, I'll say it.
Okay, chat with my husband.
My husband's in my house,
and I'll be screentime.
He's up on International Women's Day.
I have to go.
People buy.
It's International Women's Day.
You can watch as much as you want.
Queen.
Don't listen to him.
Shout out to women, man.
Shout out to women.
Here it is, you found the photo. Pope meets Iraq's chief leader, Al-Sistani, you see?
That'd be one of my favorite genders.
Man, it's a good one.
At all the genders, I'd say this is a pretty good one.
It's a pretty solid one.
Shout out, women.
W, W women.
First warm day here, think I'll go check my, my, cannot and get some sun.
Nice.
Israel's attack on the 30 oil depots was not backed by the USA. Oh my lord.
First of all, I have a hard time believing that.
But Axios, I assume, Barak 82 unit, 8200 Ravid wrote this.
Israel strikes on 30 Iranian fuel depots Saturday went far beyond what the US expected when
Israel notified it in advance, sparking the first significant disagreement between the
Allies since the war began eight days ago, according to a US official, Israeli official,
and a source with US knowledge.
I'm going to flip it to the other, uh, uh, to the, because we're almost there.
So I'm going to flip it to my desktop.
Let's see.
But yes, I hope something is still playing. Yeah. Oh, he put the NFJ
It's interesting because he gives context on the photos that we didn't need. Um, is he gay? No. Oh
Can you zoom in I can't read he said like the dog bio could be better better
He says I'm single live alone in a gorgeous home in Silver Lake
Maybe you'll be lucky enough to see it someday winky face. Oh, no
Yeah. I see that. I'm like, I'm trying to fuck this guy. It says, it says nice bit. Masks
fun. Great view was a photo shoot with Ariel for our dating profiles at a school fundraiser,
but nobody needs to know that, which is really weird. Cause Ariel's is X. Love this one.
I tried kite surfing in Greece this summer. Little goofy shows something extreme. He,
He gives it a six out of 10.
Hulk costume Halloween 2022, when I was in treatment, stress, anxiety, depression had
my weight down to 155, which is way too low when somebody is better, but my abs look defined
and I'm painted green.
Not the four hour, four year old picture.
Yeah.
Uh-huh.
Hot tub, mountain man.
I don't know.
Probably should delete this one, but the sunset was nice.
Not the Austin Powers chest.
Yeah.
Yeah, baby.
Very good.
This one's nuts and way too cost me from the Ares tour, but the beard was strong and whatever.
I'm a single dad on a dating app out here living my life.
24 kids wedding ring.
He's wearing a wedding ring.
Um, but hey, he had kids.
It's spelled co have the people are Paulie.
Tell me that.
Follow me to get more divorce that on here or whatever.
I don't care.
I hope this gave you a laugh.
I want to know who the Ned writers are like right now.
We look at the replies a little bit like is there anyone nice
Going Ned like who are the people that like the post that were like no
Hassan you have to understand Ned is not sufficiently right-wing enough to have that type of audience true. Oh my god
You're so right. Why didn't you pivot? Yeah, if he would if he would be the right-winger and he would have pivoted and drifted to the right
He would have a fucking huge opportunity
They're so stupid. Yeah, they love they love cheating men
So long as it's at the expense of women Republicans, I don't know true. How did this make you feel?
I don't know I he just he posted there's a power and not giving a fuck
Do I wish my kinky dating profile had not been leaked? Yes, of course given it was am I grateful?
I can now just be myself. Yes, absolutely
Wasn't he just being himself anyway before the profile leaked those so it kind of feels like he is giving a full
Well, look, I think at this point, this guy is just, it's too far gone.
He clearly has no idea how to manage a crisis.
He-
What would you do in that situation?
You just, first of all, you don't fucking cheat to begin with.
And if you're gonna be like-
You're doing it in private.
I think you're supposed to do it in public, is what I gather.
First of all, this is what you do.
You go to your wife and you say, wife?
Can I cheat?
No.
You don't ask for permission.
You just say, look, if you're gonna cheat, end the marriage.
If you're not happy, can we spice things up? And if she says no, say, uh-oh, this is not
the answer. Communication is key. All right. Don't cheat at all. And by the way, I just
want to make everybody clear. I am firmly against cheating, right? Firmly. Here at
the Farad podcast, I and my fellow co-host are firmly against cheating. And we do not
take our advice to those who cheat poorly as we don't take our advice to
cheat. We told them not to cheat. Don't cheat. But I'm just saying, don't do it.
But like how fucking stupid to do it. Especially in public. Yeah, right.
Especially in public. Yeah. So I guess, I mean, I guess my, my takeaway is how would you handle
your kinky, sub-dummy mommy looking for a bratty sub dating profile be leaked. Yeah.
Right wing pivot to the right you pivot right wing. Okay. That's how I did it too. Yeah, I pivot to the right good
So now all right. That was a two-minute fun time for you guys
But we're back and I'm
you
Okay, we're going to use the dog shit audio on the dog shit camera for a second while
I literally have to update my fucking road caster wonderful timing for the road caster to like
who wants a chase? not right now
um fantastic timing for the road caster to just like decide not to fucking work
isn't that cool? that is mad no i'm just i just i know that
I know that, you know, shit's always going to break Xbox mic top is it really bad?
Is it that bad? Don't unplug anything bro getting angry too easily this is it's
It's just disappointing.
We have production issues all the time for no reason.
What's going on?
You missed the mayor.
All right, we'll just do this.
Wait, oops.
Is that the assumption?
Yeah.
I'll take it, Joe.
Because I've talked about...
Um, the thing is...
Sure, the app sucks, but.
Investment percent for command has confirmed that a seventh U.S.
service member has been killed in action during operations against Iran.
Let's cross to Washington, D.C.
Heidi J. Castro standing by for us there.
So Heidi, what more do we know about this latest development?
Well, according to U.S.
command, this 7th U.S. service person was injured initially on March 1st. That was the day after
the U.S. launched its airstrikes against Iran, and the service person was wounded in the
strikes in Saudi Arabia targeting U.S. troops. Now, reporting at the time showed that that
was when Iranian missiles and drones targeted the Prince El-Tan airbase, and what appears
to be a communications building was destroyed in that attack.
This is just emphasizing that although the number of U.S. fatalities from military members
is at seven now with this latest update, there are still about a dozen who were seriously
injured in these retaliatory strikes that Iran has waged.
And just yesterday, President Donald Trump received the bodies of the first six who
were killed in Kuwait also on March 1st. And so as this as this conflict ramps up, we are
seeing the increase of U.S. casualties. This is something that the U.S. public has been
very adamant that they do not want to see and potentially quite damaging to Trump as
he continues to wage this war against Iran. By the way, I don't personally give a shit
about policy or process, but him wearing a hat here is insane. Like for the people that
do care about that shit, I can't explain to you how psychotic it is that as a civilian,
He was wearing a USA Trump merchandise hat, bro.
Like if Barack Obama did this, they would kill him.
The amount of shit you can get away with being white and being a Republican is unlimited.
Donald Trump could literally wipe his ass and put dookie stains.
Okay, now it's good.
It's initializing.
Hello, hello, hello.
It's still not picking up, though.
I don't know why.
Look, see, it's not, it's not picking up any audio.
I'm going to turn it off and then turn it on again.
See, yeah.
See if we can get camera pass through.
Oh, yeah, cameras working. Oh, yeah, wait, there's a brief moment where audio work too.
So I'll see if we can pick something that we use.
I'm going to repeat, I'm going to troubleshoot you.
No, it just doesn't, it's not going to work because it needs to pick up here.
Yeah, you hear me, but it's not the mic.
you can try
No, it's not picking up anything see
Well, they should I suppose
Where?
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Hello
Hello? Hello? Yeah, it's, it's this. It's like the, the road caster is not, oh, it's working now. Okay, I fixed it. Sorry.
You need a new guy here.
All right. Write that down. Write that down.
Okay. Oh, sorry. That might have destroyed your ears. I'm so sorry.
It was the cable. Yeah. Um, we'll do. All right. We fixed it. Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Perfect.
Yeah. Hold on. Let me fix my audio real quick. Um, speakers real tech. That's how you Jay
Castro, the seventh U. S. Service member killed in action. So one of the craziest parts about
But this is that Fox News used old footage.
Does anyone have the link?
Fox News used old fucking footage when showing Donald Trump at the, what is it called?
The ceremony like the, because he was wearing a fucking hat, Fox News used different
footage when covering the incident.
Your headlines, President Trump for-
Aw, god damn it, it broke again.
Fuck.
God, I have to go pee.
Dignified transfer, yeah.
God damn it.
Hold on one second, I'm gonna pee, I'm sorry.
bro I need a new computer actually need a new cop
unbelievable how busted this shit is
I it's just like I thought this was actually like I thought this was good, you know, I thought
this was a good fucking PC and it's not good enough at all.
It's fucked up how bad it is sorry.
headlines. President Trump first letting Melania Trump, Vice President JD Vance, and Secretary.
Yeah, please subscribe. I need a new copy. Subscribe to the Piker Brackets. You're just
getting enough to do that. But your voluntary subscriptions do actually help me maintain
my editorial independence. I will be getting a new computer. You don't have to subscribe for
that though. I definitely need a new laptop. This is fucked up. Yes, Ayatollah Khamenei's
son, Ayatollahamnese son is now the new Ayatollahamnese. They're keeping the name, boys. They're
keeping the freaking name. Anyway, let's watch this though, the dignified transfer and what
Donald Trump. So earlier you saw Donald Trump wearing a fucking hat during the dignified
transfer, which is incredibly disrespectful. I don't give a shit personally. Obviously I'm
not like a fan of this kind of military fanfare military process. I don't give a fuck at all.
Right? Like I'm just being super honest with you. I don't necessarily care. You can't make
me. But Trump's base does care about that shit. As a matter of fact, I would say
that they care more than even libtards do, which is precisely the reason why Fox News,
knowing full well how people would react if they saw how Donald Trump fucked up the dignified
transfer.
Notice how Trump sparks outrage on social media after wearing a baseball cap during the dignified
transfer of six US soldiers killed in the Iran war.
What you're supposed to do as a civilian, you have two options.
You're the commander in chief.
So you can either salute or if you are a civilian and you have a hat, you can put
your hand on your heart or you can put the hat on your heart. That's the process. Trump
just kept the fuck a stupid ass hat and hit the salute, not allowed to honor the final
homecoming of the six U.S. service members killed in Kuwait. The solemn ritual returns
the remains of troops killed in action. It is considered one of the most somber duties
of a commander in chief, President Trump promising the nation that they will all be remembered
as heroes. Also, he looks like shit there too, which is kind of funny. Anyway, then
before you say who fucking cares, clearly Fox news does. They care about us so much that
they literally put fake footage because Fox news knows their audience cares. And then
classic Fox news fashion. They come out and they later on, uh, you know, engage in ass
covering to go, Hey, sorry, we accidentally put the wrong footage up.
Adam, thank you very much. Before we move on, we want to acknowledge a mistake made
earlier on our program during our coverage of yesterday's dignified transfer. We inadvertently
aired video from an older dignified transfer instead of the ceremony that took place
yesterday. We deeply regret the air and extend our respected
condolences to the service members families. We honor the
sacrifice of those six American heroes. They are Captain
Cody Cork. Yeah, I don't think you do though.
Sancom out of Tampa, Fort Lauderdale, McDill, AFB, and
now seventh debt. Two hours ago. Yeah, I know another one
died.
Sergeant First Class, Nicola Moore. Sergeant First Class,
Noah T. Chins, Sergeant Declan Cody, Major Jeffrey O'Brien and Chief War Officer Three,
Robert Morzon.
Yeah, they play this in like a random hour where no one gives a shit.
And most people just saw him and were like, Oh my God, my president is honoring the
The war dead is so wonderful.
Fox's new dignified transfer footage completely excludes Trump.
President Trump and the First Lady joined grieving families at Dover Air Force Base yesterday
to honor six fallen U.S. soldiers.
These heroes lost their lives in a drone strike in Kuwait marking a somber moment
in the conflict with Iran. Here with the significance of the moment, warned expect.
Oh, man. Well, it was either. I can't tell. I can't see it. It's like, uh, zoomed in.
It's a zoomed in super close. Was Trump even there?
Pinnacle, a burger like bomb threats man on the verge of explosive shit, causes panic while
someone's trying to give people in the men's bathroom advance warning of the diabolical
do he's about to drop.
He was being neighborly to the other stalls and this is how he's repaid shake in my head.
Police did some investigating and learned the bomb threat came from a man in the bathroom
stall warning others about the severity of his need to use the restroom CBS affiliate
KW no.
now. Y'all need to get out of here because I'm fixing to blow it up. He was heard to
say, what? No shot. That's, that's, that's not, that's fucking fake. I don't believe
that. There's no fucking shot that that is real. Did I say restroom? I know I'm sorry.
I read it stupid because I am stupid. All right. Another bomb threat outside of Gracie,
Police have asked for the blast zone to evacuate.
NYPD evacuates buildings after a new suspicious device
found another bomb threat.
It's real and it's super old actually.
Oh, what the fuck it is real?
God, America's so fucking crazy, man.
All right, here's actually a competent leader.
Here's what a competent country looks like, and by that I don't mean the United States
of America, I'm talking about China.
The Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on the Iran War.
Phoenix TV, the US and Israel have again launched military strikes on Iran, and the conflict
is spreading to the entire Middle East region.
What is China's view on the Iran situation, and what solution does China propose?
This is an issue that everyone is concerned about.
It is also the focal point in the current international situation.
China's attitude is objective and impartial.
We have stated our principled position on multiple occasions, which can be summarized
into one key message, that is, to bring about ceasefire and end hostilities.
Ancient Chinese wisdom warns that weapons are ominous tools and should not be used
without discretion.
the Middle East engulfed in flames, I want to say that this is a war that should not have
happened. It is a war that does no one any good. The history of the Middle East tells
the world time and again that force provides no solution and armed conflict will only
increase hatred and breed new crises.
China can say this all day every day, but let's be real. Okay. When when push
comes to shove,
sometimes you got to take military action. Okay.
And I don't mean like on the American side, I mean like the Iranians are
showing that reality.
Because America is hell bent on death and destruction around the globe.
They're not going to fucking stop.
Like it is what it is.
You have to you have to provide a counterbalance, bro.
You look two years younger today.
Really?
Is it because I just changed my glasses?
Once again, China calls for an immediate stop to military operations to avoid the
spiraling escalation of the situation and prevent the conflict from spilling over and spreading.
China is of the view that to find the right and proper solution to the issues relating
to Iran and the Middle East, the following fundamental principles must be observed.
First, respecting state sovereignty.
Sovereignty is the cornerstone of the current international order.
We believe that the sovereignty, security and territorial integrity of Iran and all countries
in the Gulf region should be respected and must not be violated.
By China saying impartial actor, etc., when they're supposed to be Iran's allies or
pussies.
Second, rejecting the abuse of force might does not make right.
The law of the jungle must not return and rule the world.
for use of force does not prove one's strengths civilians, I said law except Taiwan, the fuck
do you mean they don't do shit to Taiwan either? What are you talking about? They dig is there.
They're always trade maxing. That's it. They have said more than AOC liberal. That's
That's so funny.
Innocent and should not be victimized.
Third, non-interference in internal affairs.
The people in the Middle East are the true master of the region.
Middle Eastern affairs should be determined by regional countries independently.
Plotting color revolution or seeking regime change will find no popular support.
Fourth, promoting political settlement of hotspot issues.
China always believes that peace is the most precious.
All sides should return to the negotiating table as quickly as possible, resolve differences
through equal dialogue, and make efforts for realizing common security.
Fifth, major countries should play a constructive role and use their strength in goodwill.
This is the funniest chatter.
Can you turn this AI, can you turn off this AI slop narration?
No.
First of all, it's not even AI, it's a real human.
Secondly, even if it was AI, I don't speak Chinese.
The fuck and neither does anybody else here.
Like you hit the, you hit the double, you hit the double where you, one, falsely
He claimed something was AI and then two got mad at like the one of the only instances where
like AI is kind of valid.
You know what I mean?
Another ancient Chinese added reads, when benevolence and justice are not practiced, the position
of strength shifts.
countries should act in the spirit of justice and righteousness, and contribute more positive
energy to peace and development of the Middle East.
As a sincere friend and strategic partner, China stands ready to work with Middle Eastern
countries to implement the Global Security Initiative and reach for order to the Middle
The reason why China is saying they're an impartial actor is because they also obviously,
they also obviously fucking play a major trade role with Saudi Arabia and all the Gulf countries
that are getting bombed right now. Even though it's the American bases that are getting bombed,
they can't just be like, we love Iran. We're with you Iran all the way because they're trade
That's why they're not, you know, leaning into it aggressively.
I'm sure they're probably still helping Iran, but they're not like they're, they're obviously
offering political cover to Iran, which is necessary and it's totally valid.
I will say that 100% Iran in this circumstance is the harmed party.
America are the party doing the wrong, doing the illegal act of waging war against the country
for no reason, a decapitation strike on the leadership. All of that stuff is completely illegal.
And it doesn't really matter that the rest of the world disagrees with it. Obviously,
the rest of the world doesn't mean anything when America wants to do something, they do it.
But, and it turns out increasingly other regional powers also have that level of influence,
and also that level of like rule breaking as well.
We saw that with Russia and Ukraine, and no one can really stop it.
But China still plays this role of diplomacy and stability in the global stage because
they think like they will be the true safeguard of the United Nations in the future. I think
that's silly, but I'm sure they know better than I do.
Please restore tranquility to the people and restore peace to the world. Thank you.
The Turkish person in the chat asked me why do we hate Iran? Like in Turkey, they're
They're Shia, they're a dominant power, they're a regional power, Turkey is a regional power,
and that's the reason.
It's literally as simple as that.
It's there is a, there is a very real, dare I say idiotic Sunni fear that exists in
many countries, countries that have like a significant Shia population, especially
but countries that don't even have a significant Shia population where there's this idea that
you know Iran wants to make the entire region Shia run with like Ayatollah like under the guidance of
the Ayatollah um this is uh you know this is the the major difference in how um you know Shia
countries are run versus Sunni countries are on and that is like a big point of contention between
a lot of the Sunni majority in Sunni run countries. I think it's silly overall. I think it's ridiculous.
Like at mouse, you can have like a competition, I guess, for power in places like Iraq, but outside
of that like, and Bahrain outside of that though, like, I don't think that the Shias are going to
to run Saudi Arabia anytime soon. You know what I mean? It's ridiculous on both sides.
But as far as that's one of the reasons, the real reason is because these countries want
to be great powers. Saudi Arabia is the economic engine of the Gulf. It's the most powerful
nation in the Gulf. It's the same with Turkey. Turkey is a major force in the region as well,
and so is Israel, and so is Iran. So these guys are constantly at odds with one another,
even if they are all under the umbrella, with the exception of Iran, even if they're
all under the umbrella of America and Western powers, they have their own regional ambitions
And that's why they're constantly at odds with one another
News agency the light into authorities have been claiming that Taiwan is a sovereign independent country
Saudi Arabia has no defense and borders Israel their delusionals you're leveraging for on falls. No, they know that
They know that that's why I don't believe the the Walsh Journal reporting that like Saudi Arabia was actively petitioning to
destabilize Iran. I don't think they want to destabilize Iran. I think they like that Iran was
defanged and the axis of resistance was destroyed, especially in countries where Saudi Arabia wants
to also maintain some knee control or have some level of influence, right? However,
However, Saudi Arabia did not, I don't believe that Saudi Arabia wanted this. I would go so
far as to say that Saudi Arabia wanted the opposite of this, not only because it would
obviously provoke a response from Iran and Saudi Arabia would get bombed in the process,
but also the reason why they didn't want it is because, yeah, they have no leverage
against Israel. Did you listen to Saudi Prince's interview?
Shit on Iran? No, no, that stuff doesn't matter. That's just posture.
No, Saudi Arabia wants a weak Iran. Saudi Arabia hates Iran. This is true.
But Saudi Arabia doesn't want no Iran, or certainly not like a collapsed Iran, because
Saudi Arabia also benefits from Iran's existence. As long as it exists, Israel can't go too far, okay?
Now, there's also another side of the story. And the other side of the story is the United Arab
Emirates. So the United Arab Emirates, in an effort to gain more leverage in the Gulf,
more influence in the region, totally backs Israel to the hill. Okay? UAE decided in the last decade
that they're just going to be Israel. They're going to be Israel, but Arab. They're going to be
Israel, but Muslim. They're Muslim Israel, if you can even call them that. And basically,
the UAE decided we're just Israel, we're going to very openly defend Israel's interest, we're
going to very openly engage in influence petitioning, influence peddling, sorry, for Israel, and
we're going to be the most spiritually Israeli, we're going to build the most spiritually
Israeli city of all time Dubai Saudi Arabia doesn't like that either okay Saudi Arabia also doesn't like
that that's why there's been a separation between Saudi there's been a split between the Saudis
and the Emirates the United Emirates so that's another fear for Saudi Arabia as well
like the ua e coming to the forefront and just like totally
backing israel
uh... all day every day saudi arabia obviously as the abraham of course like
all these golf countries are still
down to play ball with israel but they also want to keep israel arms distance
for domestic concern
uh... issues that relate to uh... domestic pressures
but also because they are still very much fearful that israel can do to
them what it did to
in doha or what it does to lebanon what it does all around the region
it's like being
uh... in the neighborhood with a fucking mutated pit bull
that has no leash whatsoever any longer
and the people has rabies
the ua is decided that they will also become a pit bull themselves
Everyone else on the other hand is like, I don't want the fucking rabies dude, they're gonna bite me too.
So they're trying to create regional pressure or they're trying to maintain regional pressure.
The Taiwan question is not China's internal affairs.
The Taiwan question and the cross-strait situation have become more heated and the PLA's drills are getting closer to the island.
What do you make of the risk of conflict breaking out in the region?
And does China have a timetable and roadmap for reunification?
Taiwan has been an integral part of China since Asian times.
It never was, is not, and never will be a country.
Its return to China is a victorious outcome
of the Chinese people's wall of resistance
against the Japanese aggression and the Second World War.
Its status has been definitively fixed by a series of international legal instruments
including the Cairo Declaration, the Potsdam Proclamation, Japan's Instrument of Surrender
and the Resolution 2758 of the UN General Assembly.
It's so funny dude.
I'm sorry there's nothing funnier to me than like Iran and China and Russia and all
All of these other like quote unquote foreign adversaries constantly leaning into legalese.
And I'm not saying that as like, oh, these guys don't actually operate within the confines
at all.
I'm not doing that like Western chauvinistic bullshit.
They do actually try to maintain some semblance of like, like, uh, the rule based order.
Yeah.
Obviously they violate it.
I mean, specifically Russia has violated it by invading Ukraine.
But even within that violation, they try to operate within the confines, even though
there are obviously war crimes that take place like butchers and shit.
But that's the reason why there's a difference between the way that Russia has waged war
in Ukraine or even population transfers, things like that, right?
Russia has done a lot of war crimes.
Russia has violated a lot of rules of war.
But there's still a very significant difference between the way that Russia is waging war
in Ukraine.
defiable, still bloody, still unacceptable versus what Israel has done in Gaza.
And that's the point that I'm making, which is these guys literally still think that like
international law matters at all. They are operating as though we are not in a totally
new world that is basically the same as the old world, but they've also dropped any
fucking, like any interest or investment in abiding by the international rule-based
order. Right? Wow. Nice seeing you see their hypocrisy. Wait, what do you mean? Who is the
their hypocrisy? If you're an American, you, you have no leg to stand on to call out any
of these fucking countries. Let's be real. When has America abided by international rules?
Like, what are you talking about? We wrote the rules and we violate those rules over
and over again. It's ridiculous. I'm saying it's so fucking stupid that these guys
will still be like, excuse me, here are the many different reasons why according to international law
and previous analysis that Taiwan actually is a part of China, they don't care.
They don't give a shit at all. No one cares about the paperwork, man.
Like, Americans don't care about the paperwork. The UN is a toothless institution. I'm sorry.
There is no real paperwork. Now, do I prefer this? I do. I prefer the, you know, even if it's just
purely symbolic, I prefer that they're still trying to do this thing where they're like, well,
international law dictates that Taiwan is a part of China. Most of the major powers in the
world, understand that, you know, Taiwan is a part of China, including the United States of America,
all this stuff. But like, I hope they're well aware that no one else on the other side gives a shit,
right? Like, I'll say this sincerely, while there isn't any serious appetite in Taiwan as it stands
for, for a unification, right? They want status quo. They want status quo. That's just what
they want. Overwhelmingly, they are in favor of status quo. But let's say in a hypothetical
scenario where Taiwan decided that they wanted to unify with China democratically. You
You think America would let Taiwan go?
I'm asking sincerely, if every single Taiwanese was like, oh, we're Chinese, I want to be a
part of China.
I already work in fucking China.
My family works in China.
My family lives in mainland China.
I want to be a part of China.
You think the United States of America would allow that to fucking happen?
Fuck no, don't be fucking delusional, man.
It's just not, that would never happen in a million fucking years.
Because America's goals in Taiwan is not the liberation of the Taiwanese people.
This is the same delusional nonsense that people constantly fucking present to me, okay?
Is delusional.
It's completely fucking delusional.
Taiwan is a military base, 100 miles off the coastline in mainland China.
That's all it's worth.
And also they make chips.
But even before the chips, Taiwan was a military base, a thorn in China's side, okay?
I don't know why there are still people who have this like idiotic notion that America
cares about human rights anywhere.
Like what the fuck?
How many countries do we have to fucking bomb for Americans to finally come to
that conclusion?
No, we don't give a fuck about people in Taiwan. We don't give a fuck about the people in Iran.
We don't care. We've never cared. Some of you are delusional enough to believe it.
But with the new vulgar imperialism meta that Donald Trump has demonstrated,
people are basically coming to that conclusion regardless. Yeah, I don't give a fuck who we
kill, who gives a shit, right? That's basically the way that a lot of Americans,
like a lot of hogs are approaching the subject matter. So you got to figure out real quick
which side you're on, you know? Are you on, are you on, I'm going to delude myself into
thinking that there's some sort of like liberation at the end of this, at the end of American
interference in the affairs of other countries? Or are you actually going to wake up to
that reality and say, I oppose American imperialism? I oppose Western imperialism.
The problem with this tag is that there's an implied notion of international law ever
having existed or being normative.
The truth is the norm has been Holocaust after Holocaust after Holocaust in the moment.
The U.S. attained hegemony in 1945.
The U.N. has since been, since a Genesis tool to wash the same Imperial violence of Britain
after colonial power slipped.
I don't disagree with you.
That's why I said America sets the standard after World War II and has been utilizing
the U.N. as a tool, utilizing international law as a tool to do their bidding and
and whitewashing their obvious savagery, while simultaneously really bringing up the cost
is belly to engage in interference overseas by pointing to international law when our
adversaries are doing it or nations in the periphery are doing it.
Yes, that is the truth and it's something that I acknowledge all the time.
However, my assessment is I'd rather have an international governing body that doesn't
just believe in the theory of conflict avoidance, but actually does have some power to stop conflict
from taking place. That's the whole point of fucking multi polarity, right? That's what's
supposed to happen. It hasn't happened. It didn't even happen in the Cold War, but at
least it was like, I would say less chaotic and maybe it gave countries in the global
South, more room to breathe and have successful liberation movements, because there was another
pole that armed them when they were doing anti-colonial, anti-imperialist actions.
Many of these countries would be worse off if the USSR had not existed. Cuba is a great
example of a country that would absolutely look like Haiti right now. Cuba would
be worse off if the USSR didn't exist. Look no further than two different countries that
have different modes of development, and one is much more diverse than the other, but look
at India and China. Okay, look at Indian development versus Chinese development. The major, albeit
This is a reductive analysis, but there's a major difference between Chinese development
and Indian development.
Look where India is at now.
Look where China is at now.
How do you think that happened?
Why do you think that happened?
It was Malcolm X who said something really interesting where he was like, I mean this
is far before this development ever even took place, but Malcolm X was asked about
uh... narrow versus uh... uh... now
okay
here i'm gonna read this to you and i don't want anybody to get offended or get
mad at me for uh... this is malcolm x's own opinion not mine okay but
i think it's uh... it it helps you identify something here
malcolm x i think that narrow probably was a good man although i didn't go for
I don't go for anybody who's passive. I don't go for anybody who is who is who advocates
Passivism or peaceful suffering in any form whatsoever. I don't go for it
What about Jesus Christ Malcolm X does not even respond to that question continues. I go for Mao Zedong
because much more than I go for Mao much more than narrow because I
Think that narrow brought his country up in a beggars role their roles the role of India
and it's reliance upon the West during the years since it got its supposed independence.
Has it today just as helpless and dependent as it was when it first got its independence?
Whereas in China, the Chinese fought for their independence. They became militant right from
the outstart. And today they're, even though they aren't loved, they are respected. Though
the West doesn't love them, the West respects them. Now the West doesn't respect India,
It loves India. I see your distinction. Can you see my distinction? I do indeed. Malcolm X says I admire the stand of China and the stand of Mao Zedong, but I can't admire with respect the stand of Nehru and India. I just can't do it.
Hold up. Y'all are unironically communist.
applies here, bro, that's the same one. Yeah, the US won't give India the same kind of economic
advantage as he gave China, which allowed that country to emerge as a major competitor.
Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau said, this is also bullshit. They make it
seem like America made China like that's also fucking Western chauvinism of a different
order but but do you see I mean India is far more diverse obviously and there's
been other setbacks India starting point is different the cash structure like
there's a lot of cultural forces and reactionary forces of play low key maybe in spite of the
excess of the cultural revolution might have actually played a major role in purging some
of the rightest elements within China. Who knows, right? I can't make that assessment.
I don't know. I can just look at the results, right? I can only look at the results.
But it does feel to me like a communist India would probably fare better than what India
looks like now.
Now the reason why I say that is because there is a communist India, it's called Kerala, right?
And they are literally the best region in India.
They are doing better than everybody else.
That's gotta mean something, right?
Because India, in spite of the fact that it has this Western liberal democracy that keeps
voting for this fucking fascist Modi, India does have robust and very large communist movements.
Not just in Kerala either.
But my point is, especially for developing nations like highly recommend communism, can't
recommend it enough.
That's all I'm going to say.
Like, I can't recommend it for Americans,
because we just don't have that base.
Like we don't have material conditions
that resemble places where successful communist movements
have launched.
Americans are too fat and too comfortable in the Imperial
Corps to ever entertain such things.
But if you're India, I mean, it's right there,
It's right there for the seizing.
Any attempt to create two Chinas or one China, one Taiwan is doomed to fail.
The DPP authorities' obstinate pursuit of their separatist agenda is the root cause.
A communist India wouldn't be worth a great famine in cultural revolution and not having
democracy.
Brother, what do you mean we're talking about India?
This is like, during the time frame where communism was being developed, India was already
going through tremendous famine anyway.
India also still experiences famine from time to time.
What are we fucking talking about?
What?
What the fuck?
That's crazy to say.
India from the beginning has been very socialist.
would compete on who's more socials with a very radical land redistribution reform. No,
I, I know I'm saying that's why I was saying like it should have just been, it should have
went all the way.
There weren't famines before communism, buddy, go to history class. India, China and Russia
never experienced famine historically before communism.
That's funny. I know you're being sarcastic. Reminding peace and stability across the Taiwan
Strait. It has been proven time. The craziest part about it is that like famine under imperialism
unironically was made worse by colonial powers, as opposed to like famine under communism,
you can still attribute to like state mismanagement, okay? Where they fuck it up big time. And you
know, a lot of people die as a consequence of like this, this great collectivization
initiative. And it's, it's, it's horrifying, but it's still different than like direct
famine as a consequence of British rule right in Ireland like that's or or the
the Bengal famine right like there are there are instances where like famine
is directly brought about by a colonial entity that is is just destroying the
population because they want the fucking supply for themselves again that
that the more the international community stands against Taiwan independence and upholds
the one China principle, the more assured peace and stability will be across the Taiwan
Strait.
The Taiwan question is China's internal affair.
It is at the core of China's core interests, a red line that must not be crossed or
trampled on.
Taiwan was recovered by China over 80 years ago, and we will never allow any individual
or force to separate it from China again.
The One China Principle has overwhelming support in the international community.
More and more countries are standing with China, not only reaffirming their commitment
to the One China Principle and recognizing Taiwan as part of China, but also taking
clear stand against all activities for Taiwan independence and supporting the cause of China's
reunification. This is irrefutable proof that opposing Taiwan independence and promoting
China's reunification is the trend of the times and meets the expectation of the international
community. Resolving the Taiwan question and realizing the complete reunification
of our motherland is a historic process that cannot be stopped. Those who support
it on the right side of history and those who defy it shall perish.
Thank you, MBC.
Respected Minister Wang Yi, you have spoken of China-US ties as most consequential relationship
of all time, with strategic choices that will shape world history.
So, even all the happenings with China accept the J2 format cited by Sean, including President
Trump himself, as a framework for China and the US to shoulder-
What?
Bad thing, Hoth, the argument you're making is colonialism is bad because of intentional
famine versus communism, where it's unintentional famine.
You're ignoring the fact that families were due to historical failure to keep up
agricultural measures of feminist communist days went through where the last day ever had as they rapidly
This is my favorite fucking take of a chatter who literally just summarizes literally what I just said
But slaps bad take in front of it
You just
Straight up said what I just said
Yes, I said it's mismanagement, it's not being able to keep up with like agricultural technology
or agricultural technology is not advanced enough for collectivization.
There's a reason why there's no more fucking famine in China, yes.
I don't even understand what the, why did you just repeat the same point?
good responsibility and addressing local challenges. If not, what alternative framework
to propose? What are you eating? Casama. It's a Pinoy
gang Michelin star rated breakfast place. And it's treats that March got me. And it's
so bomb. It's the best pastries I've ever had in my life. I swear to God. To prevent
confrontation with the United States and assure the world that China's rise is not aimed at
overturning the existing international system.
There is no doubt that China and the U.S. have a significant impact on the world, but we
should not forget there are more than 190 countries on our planet.
World history has always been written by many countries together, and the future of humanity
will be forged through the collective efforts of all nations. Diversity is the inherent nature
of human society, and multi-polarity is what the international landscape should look like.
Looking back in history, great power rivalry and block confrontation have invariably inflicted
disaster and pain on humanity.
Therefore, China will never take the beaten path of seeking hegemony as its strength grows,
nor do we subscribe to the logic that the world can be run by major countries.
China has inscribed in its constitution that it follows an independent foreign policy
and is committed to pursuing a path of peaceful development.
These leaders have often declared to the world that no matter how the international situation
evolves and how strong China becomes, it will never seek hegemony or expansion.
for how the internet. I don't know. People don't believe that when they say this, but they just
don't do it. They don't do it when they should. They don't do it when they could. I've said
this over and over again. But even from their own self-preservation, there are so
So many instances where they could just engage in like militancy, engage in actions that
that offer them a much better position in the global stage.
And they just don't do it.
They just sit there and they expect fucking Western nations to come to that conclusion
on their own that like China actually has no, uh, you know, imperialist ambitions.
China doesn't want to destabilize the world.
China wants stability.
China wants trade maxim.
And Westerners never will believe them.
China's proposal is to build an equal and orderly multi-polar...
I mean they still... they're a massive trade partner to Israel still, you know what I mean?
Like, it's crazy.
...world.
Equal means every nation, regardless of size or strength, is an equal member of the international community
immunity and can find its place and play its role in a multipolar world.
Orderly means all countries should uphold the widely recognized international rules, namely
the purposism principles of the UN Charter and the basic norms of international relations.
an equal and orderly multipolar world should be the common responsibility of all countries
with more resources and capabilities.
Major countries should be more generous, show them more responsibilities, and set an example
of observing rules, honoring commitments, and upholding international law.
China will continue to play a constructive role in reforming global governance and
work with all countries toward a multipolar world. Thank you.
Now we've just got some breaking news that's just come into us. Iran has named the new
Supreme Leader. It will be Mustafa Khamenei, the son of the slain Supreme Leader who was
killed last Saturday in a-
That's right. The Assembly of Experts done did it again, boys. They brought in another
Ayatollah Khamenei.
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Great dude
That's great. That's a fantastic. I mean, I mean, what do you say to that?
that. Winning so much winning. We're going to win so much. We're going to win so much.
You're going to say, please, Mr. President, no more winning. And I'll tell you, we're
gonna keep waiting.
Tehran, he was killed in his compound and his son has now been named as the new
supreme leader by the council of clerics in charge of selecting the new
Supreme Leader. This will be the Islamic Republic's third Supreme Leader since it came to power
in 1979. 56 year old Musaba Khamenei is known to be close to the revolutionary guard who were
apparently pushing for him to be the front runner. He is a mid-level cleric who studied.
Now I feel like they want the names to sound so similar to confuse the West, bro.
Because the first guy is Humani, then the second guy is Khamenei.
And then now the third guy also Khamenei, it's like, bro, you couldn't throw a different
name in the pile.
What are we doing?
Now, we just got to stick with the naming convention.
It's too difficult.
We don't want to, we don't want to etch out the names in the directory.
It's going to fuck this, it's going to fuck the whole thing up.
Brother, you think hamburger can't see a difference between Persian names?
I mean, Humani and Khamenei are pretty fucking similar, you know?
in seminaries in Com and for the past at least 20 years his name has been
Wait the third like they killed two already? No, Humeini is the first Ayatollah. At the time
Ali Humeini is the president. Then when Humeini passes Ayatollah, Ali Humeini is selected by
the council just like this selection process took place now amongst clerics and he is selected as
a supreme leader. That's how he becomes Ayatollah Ali Homenay. Moshtaba is his son. The guy that
we just killed on the first day Ali Homenay has a well he has multiple kids I think but this is
This is one of his kids, Moshe Bahamenei. Moshe Bahamenei is his son. He's also a cleric, a mid-level cleric, which, you know, kind of disrespectful.
Are you saying Homeini law? Wait, what? Because the first...
I'm explaining to a chatter...
as the potential replacement to his father, but there was also much discussion and controversy
around that because this Islamic Republic is not a hierarchical system.
So there was some reservation about Mosheba Khamenei taking over from his father, but
he has now been named as a supreme leader.
And in the last few days, when he was believed to be the front runner, the Israeli Defense
Minister...
I'm going to keep it at book 50.
This is nepotism.
The Supreme Leader.
All of those...
That's nepotism.
Straight up.
I'll say it.
I'll say it, bro.
They gave him for the name recognition pick.
That's what they did.
They named as a potential front runner, or anyone who was named as the Supreme Leader
would be fair game and would be targeted, and we will get much more reaction.
This is a real LeBron.
James Brownie situation, you know, Brownie, uh, Lakers trade, uh, I'm calling, I'm calling
flag on the play.
We got to get the commissioner involved.
Okay.
Nobody's going to respect them.
Everyone's going to say he's a NEPO baby to the naming of much of a company as, uh,
the new Supreme leader.
Now in a moment, we'll get reaction from Washington with our James Matthews, but first let's go to our Cordelia Lynch in television Cordelia
I'll I'll get to my interview with the
Qatari prime these two are low-key my favorite anchors in Sky News, which isn't saying much, but they are like at least they like
Have a tendency at times to recognize the humanity of those who were destroying the lives of
We've also now heard that the new Supreme Leader has been named the son of the slain
Supreme Leader.
Of course, Israel has a powerful mid-ranking cleric.
Damn, bro, they keep calling him mid.
Most of our Hamenei, 56, has long opposed reformist groups advocating engagement with
the West.
His close ties to senior clerics and the IRGC, which dominates around security force
in the economy, give him leverage across the state's political and coercive security
institutions.
He amassed influence under his father as a key figure within the security apparatus and the vast business empire controls
Operating for years as a lecomene's gatekeeper and in practice a mini supreme leader analyst say
The earth's treasury sanctioned most most of on 2019 saying he represented the supreme leader in an official capacity
Despite never holding elected or former government office a golf source familiar with the regional government said thinking of most of us appointment
This tells Trump and Washington that Iran will not back down. They will fight on until the finish
Salem of the Middle East Institute like an Iran trajectory to Iraq under Saddam Hussein after 1991
Or Syria under Basha al-Assad after 2012 governments that survived of years
Governments have survived years of war and isolation, but steadily lost control
They're doubling down on the hard line Salem said internally. It's terrible and deeply destabilizing. Okay. Maybe it's not so bad then
because I felt like, like when these guys say that the Ayatollah Ali Hemenet was a hardliner,
I don't think he was. I think there are far, like hardline in terms of what? Cause they wanted to
fucking negotiate with the West. Hemenet wanted to negotiate with the West. I don't think that
that was, I don't think that's a controversial take at all, especially because they did allow
the JCPOA to go through, they followed through on the JCPOA. They were nowhere near as aggressive
as they're presented in the West. Now, his son might be different. His son might be different.
I don't know. But this guy said, being Islam is radical.
being Islam. The IRGC pledge allegiance. Iran's Revolutionary Guard says they are ready to
follow new Supreme Leader Mojda Pa. A middle finger to Israel from the regime, but like
his father, it will take years for him to consolidate power. For now, expect the informal
council to continue running things. The president, parliament or speaker, judiciary chief and
reps from the RGC in regular military. Yeah, most likely.
Well, we just killed his family. So I maybe it might be
different. I don't think these guys give a shit, bro. I think
that the real pressure is going to come from within. Because the
IRGC has been waiting for this moment in some respects. And
they cleaned up all the older ranks like America, like for
For the longest time, I kept repeating over and over again, if you recall, that Ayatollah
was the most restrained figure that we would deal with in the West, okay?
Restraint to a fault.
Strategic restraint was the name of the game.
I think it caused Western forces to feel far more powerful.
It made them think that Iran had no capabilities of withstanding American bombing campaigns.
It created a sense of weakness. To a fault, it is precisely the reason why the multiple decades-long initiative of building a serious axis of resistance fell apart, because one of the major red lines in said axis of resistance, especially in the last decade, was that if Israel actually put boots on the ground in Gaza, that they would pummel Israel.
Israel. Now look at the amount of weapons they have at their disposal right now. If Syria
still existed, as it did post-October 7, and Hezbollah had not been decapitated and diminished,
and the Houthis are just still the Houthis, obviously, that doesn't really change that
much. And the IRGC still had its Quds forces in both Syria and also in Iraq, and they
mobilized against Israel very quickly after October seven for Israel's violation of said
red lines, you'd be looking at a very different calculation in the region, which is what I
think Yahisinoar wanted to do. Right? Like that is the, no, that's not a lot of ifs.
That was literally the, the, the, that's not a lot of ifs at all. That was the whole
ballgame. And what I'm trying to say is Iran's restraint at that time over and over again,
when Israel kept violating more red lines and kept slowly but surely, alongside the United
States of America, took out Iran's access of resistance in the region piece by piece,
and then Syria fell entirely. It was over. From that point on, Iran was much more diminished
in its reaction or its retaliation to Israel.
I don't know if you would have seen a different calculation
or you would have seen a quicker US intervention.
I mean, think about the US intervention
that's taking place right now, though.
Think about the US intervention that's
taking place right now.
Now, imagine a much more powerful axis of resistance
that wasn't destroyed over the course of the last two
and a half years.
Very successfully, mind you.
I don't think the United States of America right now can't withstand and can't successfully
defend its own assets in the region, can't defend its most powerful ally, the only country
that they care about Israel successfully.
Israel's defenses have been deteriorating.
Israel cannot even do early enough warnings for its citizens right now.
I don't think like if they waited a couple months and then they were like, all right,
you've gone too far and they came in and reacted, we'd be looking at a very different calculation,
Which I think was the, I think that was what YAHISONMAR thought would happen.
Wouldn't that make Iran look like the irresistible brother?
It doesn't matter.
Oh guys, please stop.
You placed far too much emphasis on how we feel about Iran or the IRGC or Hamas or Israel
or Palestine or Palestinians.
We are not a part of the calculation.
America doesn't operate in a democratic manner.
How is this confusing for you?
When it comes to foreign policy, there is no fucking democracy.
It doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter at all.
What are you talking about?
Look around.
Do you think there's tremendous appetite to blow up Iran right now?
Fuck no.
Has it stopped America one bit?
No, it hasn't.
If you can recognize that here, and I think you have the capacity to recognize it, I think
those guys know it over there too.
The only part of this calculation that would be maybe different is like maybe the US and
Israel would have invaded, would have invaded if Iran had reacted more strongly to 10-7 probably.
But once again, my point is a much weaker Iran with no significant network of resistance
is still capable of doing this much damage. Now imagine how much damage Iran could do if
if it still had the axis of resistance. My point is Ali Hamanay was far, was incredibly
restrained. And that is the reason why Iran is currently getting bombed because Iran getting
bombed is an inevitability with Israel being in the region. And if it's an inevitability,
you got to strike while you have, well, the iron is hot. You got to strike while
your opportunity is like when you have more leverage, you got to strike when you have more
assets. You didn't do that, and then they destroyed your capabilities of responding and reacting.
You still have tremendous capability, tremendous force projection. But my point simply is like,
I think the calculation would be very different because America is basically operating, not
like full force but I'm pretty close to full force right now. They're slowly but
surely going up the escalation ladder as they would and boots on the ground is
not going to be as successful for the American side as the Americans think it
will be. Actually I suspect that plenty of generals are actually opposed to that
as well as part of the reason why they haven't done so.
Anyway, but the reason why I brought all this up is not so I can get clipped to be like see
Hassan is like so pro-Iran he's saying Iran should have fucking retaliated whatever.
The reason why I brought that up is because there was one guy who was against that.
There were forces within Iranian military that were for it, certainly the IRGC being
the hardliners, the real hardliners.
The ones that were much more pragmatic and understood what was necessary.
But the Ayatollah was not one of those guys.
He was the final setback.
He had the final say.
He was the one who kept repeatedly saying, no, we can negotiate.
We can negotiate.
Obviously, like the civilian governance side, the president, foreign minister, those guys
are all moderates.
They're always moderates.
That's more so to throw a bone to the public to be like, see we're listening to your demands.
We can say this in hindsight by Iran's actions indicated they cared about their people, which
undermines their nonsense regime take we hear from everyone, including progressives in
the West diplomacy meant less of their own people died.
Otherwise the logic of sin war makes sense.
There's no negotiating with Neanderthals.
What are you talking about?
No, that's my argument.
My argument is literally that like this is an inevitability.
So you have to you you my argument is if it's an inevitability that your people
People are going to get slaughtered by American forces as we're seeing it happen right now.
Then you have to strike while you have more leverage.
If you don't actually take the opportunity to strike when you have more leverage, clearly
diplomacy doesn't fucking save lives at the end of the day.
They're not always moderates.
Ahmadinejad and Raisi were moderates, sure.
You call the regime all the time too, yeah, but I call the American government a regime
as well. I don't think regime has the negative connotation that people present it as. It's
just, I think it's, you know, it is what it is. I also say they're running government
all the time. I use it interchangeably. Um, weren't they still building up their military
capability in the proxies? Iran wasn't sitting idle. Wait, building up their military capabilities.
Brother, what are you talking about?
They got like 50,000 drones.
They've already built it.
What you think in the last two and a half years, they really escalated their manufacturing
capabilities?
That's crazy.
You just added two and a half additional years into the stockpile, but you didn't add
like a tremendous amount, I don't think.
They've been building their military capabilities.
No, but their gamble was that this wouldn't happen.
We agree they were too moderate, but had struck it first.
I feel like your adjutant would have been that they're partially responsible for this
and they're on people.
Just keeping it a buck.
What?
I mean, it would have made my life much more difficult in the West to help people understand
like where this other side was coming from.
But I still would have done it regardless.
Even if I was successful or not, it doesn't matter.
Because what matters at the end of the day is results.
Western attitudes on this issue are unfortunately for the time being utterly inconsequential.
Do you understand?
Like that's why whenever post-October 7 people are like, why won't Hamas just release
the fucking hostage?
I was like, you're stupid.
You're a stupid person.
It would make it much easier to defend Hamas. It's like, what are you talking about?
What is this? My sister-in-law is an aeromedical evac flight nurse. They just had 200 nurses get deployment orders.
She said, this is the most AE deployed since before 2010. Indicate boosts on the ground is guaranteed.
Fuh. I don't know.
Doesn't this kind of delegitimize the Islamic Republic looks more like a monarchy now?
How can you say Western attitudes don't matter when we are bombing the country currently?
Okay, do you like that we're bombing the country? No. Does the majority like the we're bombing the country?
No. Now you understand why Western attitudes don't amount to anything because
democracy is a fucking lie when it comes to foreign policy.
Do you understand? At most, no, but I matter. Okay, well, good luck to you, chatter.
We're talking about states. We're talking about like state versus states, the politicking,
and the way that certain states should operate. It's just a totally different ball game.
talking about like how easy how much easier it is to defend a perfect victim and then yeah sure
Western attitudes matter if and only if they result in political change.
Exactly.
Will people be thrown out of office based on their foreign policy takes, don't want
to bring a recent drama, but even leftists are eager to cover over NATO supporting war
mongering if it comes in the right package. Yeah, I know, but again, it's utterly irrelevant regardless
whether people are pronato or anti-nato. It still doesn't fucking matter. Do you see what I'm saying?
I mean, you and I agree on this. It only matters if we can actually make this change. It only
matters if we can create enough pressure, enough domestic pressure that the administration has to back away.
So in some ways when like my haters or our haters are like you're doing the bidding of Iran it's like
It's true. I am I'm doing the bidding of the Iranian people that don't want to be fucking killed
Okay, not the Iranian government
It's the Iranian government's bidding as far as the Iranian government cares about making sure that the Iranian people survive
But yeah, I'm anti-war for that reason. I'm anti-war because I don't want to fucking kill Iranian people
I don't want to destabilize this country with 93 million people. I don't want I want to reduce harm
I want to avoid harm. I want to stop this this senseless bloodshed
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Crude oil surges 20% hits a hundred and eleven dollar barrel stock futures fall
Can you please explain why the nepotism won't delegitimize the Ayatollah brother? What are
you guys talking about? It's literally fucking a bunch of it's a it's a closed door meeting
of like 80 clerics that pick who the Ayatollah is anyway. What are you are you like a Shia
cleric like what? It's kind of it's so funny chatters are like, Erm, excuse me, as a as
is a Shia theologian. I have to tell you this is really rubbing people the wrong way at
the Islamic Institute of Ali in Tehran. No, white Californian law.
that shake? She is supportive. It doesn't look as godly. What? No. The British government
is really undermined by the nipots and the King Charles. Okay. The amount of control
that King Charles has over the British government is negligible in comparison to the amount
of control that the Ayatollah has over the Iranian government. The Ayatollah has final
say on everything and it's not symbolic. Okay. That's a little crazy. That's, that's these
things do matter for sure. Like obviously the Ayatollah is not like, you know, Ali Khamenei
is not sitting in a fucking bunker, hitting all the missiles. I know they used to King
the coup Australia before. I know they have some power, but that's like, it's again,
not as involved in the day-to-day affairs. They're not as involved in the day-to-day
affairs of, you know, British governance as like the Ayatollah is.
Chaminé just got younger, Alhamdulillah. A phrase widely circulating on Persian
channels. Khamenei just got younger. Alhamdulillah.
Oh, that's funny.
Public celebrations around Iran tonight.
I'm so loud, fuck.
Someone needs to inform these guys.
There's a white Californian who has concerns about nepotism.
I
The regime supporters in Iran reacted to the news that how many sons has been chosen as
supreme leader conveniently they don't even have to change their chant.
Akbar Khomeini Rahbar meaning God is great Hemeni is the leader though it's unclear how long that will last
Why would they elect a man on international women's day don't they think about the optics?
Oh damn chatter. Someone needs to ring him up.
You want Persian hogs in LA?
It's also the 150 school girls that were killed.
I mean, ultimately you see this as worth it.
Like, yeah.
Harder person.
Harder person involved.
There was that school in Iran that was bombed, 150 dead.
But you see this all as worth it.
I mean, you think we should go to the end?
Yes, yes.
It's worth it.
And that's why we are here.
We are going to protest even if it's not.
bro, these guys are my neighbors, dude. It's, it's kind of crazy. Like they're also super
pro Israel, by the way, which is probably not shocking, you know, reactionaries of all
different sorts. You know what I'm saying? They're, they're on, they're like, Oh, bad
policy. I fucking love that. I'm about it. I'm about that lifestyle. Just in a Patriot
missile malfunction over Bahrain and hit a residential area right after news, but the
oil price surge reports of Fushaira being targeted. Oh shit.
Bro, I feel bad for Bahrain, bro. That is crazy. They're the ones who are just eating
it from both ends now. Jesus Christ. This is old. No, Patriot missiles have misfired before,
but Bonserberry is pretty on it with this shit. Usually, a leader of Iran can recommend a
successor to the Assembly of Experts and the members taken into consideration when voting,
Imam Khomeini recommended martyr Imam Khomeini, however Imam Khomeini did not have a recommendation
and left the decision completely up to the Assembly of Experts, who independently from
all institutions, parties, and figured chose and voted for Sayyid Mushtaba Khomeini, so
it's not like his son succeeded him in a modern system, he was elected as a complex
and their voting system. I mean, I don't know if this is, you know, that's not true that
how many did not have successors in mind. That's wrong. I mean, that account, take
what that account puts out with the grand assault. Okay, let's just say they're very, very pro.
They're, they're, they're a little bit, you know, they're a little bit biased and have
the, have gotten things wrong quite a bit. As a matter of fact, they kept repeatedly
saying that the Ayatollah was not dead, that Ali Hamanay was not dead for like the
entire day. He was like, oh, my cousin told me, you know. But he's wrong. I know he's
wrong. Hamané put forth three suggestions because he said like, oh, he didn't put any
suggestions before his passing. That's wrong. He did. And he didn't even do it this time
around. He did it in the 12-day war. Before the 12-day war, Ayatollah Ali Hamané got
together with the council and gave them his three suggestions for who could be a successor.
Much to us selection comes against his own father statements and actions in life against
hereditary succession as a concept. Yeah, I don't know if his son was one of the three,
but what I'm saying is wrong is he gave three suggestions that were private. Obviously,
we don't fucking know who suggestions are. Having apparently once intervened the
assembly of experts years ago, the shutdown consideration of at least one of his sons
a future leader on this basis.
America forced the hands of clerics choosing how many son from an A.J. analyst this kind
of act of defiance telling the Americans and Israelis you wanted to get rid of our system
while in your face.
This is a more radical person.
His father who was assassinated said, Rami Hori, a political analyst of the American
University of Beirut. Yeah, I mean, I don't know. I don't have enough opinion on this.
I'll be honest, guys. I don't fucking know. Okay, I don't fucking know about what kind
of what kind of leadership the new Akamene will engage in, okay? What kind of leadership
roles he will be taking on, where the country will go. Sorry, that's a little bit outside
of my fucking pay grade. I'm just a situation monitor. I know some things. This is not
one of those things that I know.
Not an Islamic regime missile, it was worth it, very, very worth it.
Sorry, you are accusing the IRGC of genocide.
Yeah, they killed around 32,500 people.
It has been like two months that we lost over 50,000 people but killed.
In January, in two days, they massacred people, 90,000 people.
90,000 people and some people are still in the prison and some people they take out their eyes and
You would support Donald Trump's for example sending troops or sending more airstrikes to Iran?
Yeah, whatever Trump is doing. It is helping us
There was also a report today that he was considering sending troops to Iran and you would support that yes
I would support that, yes, because I believe he's doing the right thing.
Donald Trump has been looking at more options, airstrikes, but also sending troops to Iran.
Would you guys be supporting that?
Yes, we will.
He's considering sending troops in as well.
Is that something you'd support?
Actually, that's what we want.
And I also see a lot of Israeli flags here.
I mean, this is also to protect Israel from Iran as well, yes?
Exactly, exactly.
Thank you President Trump and Netanyahu for ascending with people.
If you had Donald Trump's ear right now, you weren't in the Oval Office, private room,
what would you tell him to do?
President Trump, please bomb my people more, President Trump.
I love the bombing of my people.
President Trump, Trump.
As standing with Israel.
Please, please finish the job.
Just finish it, whatever it takes.
Honestly, I haven't been back to my country over 20 years.
I'm not planning to go back.
This is my country now.
America is my country.
And I know this is the best for Americans and for Iranians in Iran.
You're not playing on going back?
No. And thank you President Trump. You are my brother. You are my father. You are everything for me.
for my country, for my people, and thank you BB Natan Yahu for supporting Persian people,
and thank you the soldier they killed in this war.
I swear to God I'm about to see my like dentists or some shit in here. It's like I can't
Like I'm when I guys when I tell you like one, this is my neighborhood like literally my neighborhood. I
Think they're in downtown LA but like they all live in my neighborhood. They're all my neighbors. Okay when I tell you like
like
restaurant owners
dentists
You know small business owners all around
People who sell of furniture people sell rugs like
car dealership owners like every single person that I live around is
This person okay?
Six people
American people and thank you and thank you. I want to say thank you to their family.
If you look at CyOp, so many of the Iranian diaspora doesn't want war, but this is the
type of people the diaspora is being mainstreamed. So no, this is gray zone. Gray zone is
just making a point about how fucking silly the diaspora is. But like the thing is, even
before this, even before this, the diaspora is not this bad. Okay. The diaspora is not
as bad. Like the majority of the diaspora still doesn't want bombing to take place.
No matter how much they fucking hate the, I told the problem is American media loves
go into these guys because they're trying to, you know, create an environment of permission.
That's it. That's the reason why that crazy hair lady was like on CBS, CNN, ABC,
also turned around and being like, president Trump, please, I beg of you, president Trump and
BB Netanyahu, a BB Netanyahu, I love you, save me.
Trump says this war isn't about freedom.
Hexit says this war isn't about democracy.
Rubio says this war isn't about liberating Iran, but somehow the Iranian diaspora steadfastly
holds the notion that Iran will come out of this war better and freer.
No, I live with the people.
They are my family. They actually believe this shit. They're all like this. No, no, I'm
saying there's, I mean, there's literally fucking, there's polling on it. It's just people get
pulled on this stuff. The diaspora Iranis get pulled on, whether they think like American
bombing campaigns are good or bad. And they were pulled after the 12 day war and 56
of Iranians and diaspora said no. Also, those guys don't want democracy either. They just
want the Shah. That's the other side of the story. They don't want democracy. They want
the Shah. Some believe the Shah will bring about liberal democracy. They're delusional.
But those guys, they just want the shot. They're extra delusional.
Seen at Tuesday says, as I said, days ago, senior fellow at CI Policy Center for International
Policy, the other good think tank for the record.
Most of all, Hameini, becoming Supreme Leader, once seemed highly unlikely.
His selection now appears largely in response to the assassination of his father and family
to find message to the US and Israel, but it's also a major gamble by Islamic Republic's
deep state.
Until recently, Mosheba was a long shot, practically no public profile, deeply divisive,
were known, and closely associated with the security hardliners.
His selection reinforces that the Islamic Republic system is now willing to cross
previous restraints and taboos, even at cost of further alienating society and
sidelining its own centrist and reformist wings.
For years, most of all was seen as an unlikely successor, precisely, because dynastic secession
risked undermining the system's revolutionary legitimacy, even as father had reportedly
ruled out of his son succeeding him.
For the regime's radicalized base, another Hemen-E may feel like continuity and toughness.
For most of Iranian society, it offers little.
It also raises the stakes of Iran's future trajectory, potentially pushing the system
further towards a North Korea-style model, nuclear weapons that are security role,
and a revolutionary state that increasingly resembles a hereditary monarchy, okay.
California chatter vindicated? No, he's not talking about...
No, California chatter was talking about the, the, like, legitimacy as far as the, the base.
No, the base loves this shit.
And the people who don't like the fucking Ayatollah anyway also don't give a shit because
they hate the Ayatollah. This just makes it even less likely that they will be on board with Ayatollah.
I asked for a talk stealing your jokes
hello guys we are not Muslim we are white we are not brown we are not brown
Yeah, we are not brown. We are Persian. We are I am Persian. I am not Muslim. I hate
Muslim. I am Persian. We are Iranian people. We love Tehran. We love Israel. We like
Israel asked
The Islamic Republic's base appears related to that at the announcement of most of us ascension likely in part because they know
This day outcome Trump is most unhappy about a more moderate successor would almost certainly have been framed as a regime bending under pressure
The younger how many comes to power after not only his father of much of his immediate family including his wife and somewhere killed by the US and Israel
Have we checked on Patrick by David?
He's really sad right now because he thought the Council of Elders would have chosen him.
He did exchange with former French Ambassador to Washington Gerard Arad and an Iranian
opposition activist.
And the woman argued Iranians would accept outside help to escape the regime will give
our oil we want we want our lives.
Arad replied yes but he's coming to take your oil not your hand.
Yeah, it's so funny and then they'll do like standpoint epistemology where they'll
be like, um, sweetie, an Iranian is talking.
Why don't you listen to him?
Okay.
Well, some Iranians can be stupid.
You know, what do you mean?
This is a stupid idea because I'm sorry you're just not paying attention to what
what the fuck's going on. Okay. Like, like I feel for you, but also at the same time,
like, you know, this is a stupid thing to say. Notice that only works in one direction.
Yeah. If someone is like, I'm Iranian and I don't want to be bombed. Everyone's like,
have shut the fuck up. We're not listening to what you have to say. The volume of crude
production that Iraq has already shut in is larger than the peak of feared, but never realized
Russian supply laws in early 2022 that spike crude price above $120 per barrel. And that's
just iraq alone nice breaking israel's now claiming they will try to assassinate the
new leader of iran and murder anyone involved in appointing them it is impossible to overstate
how deranged these people are oh my god bro it's like i'm telling you it's like a fucking
rabbit dog like it's like having to live
having to live with a
mutated
Pippa with fucking rabies, dude
It's insane they're just like
I didn't get my I didn't get my wishes across
It's it is a lunatic state norm is right
It is truly a lunatic state. This is lunacy.
Oh my god. Oh.
So cool that they have nukes, by the way, and not only do they have nukes, but they also basically fucking dominate American politics as well
And get the most powerful hegemonic superpower in the world to do their bidding
Fantastic good group of guys that give you know our our foreign policy over to
This is your most normal Israeli politician president Tom
The Israeli military warned it would continue pursuing every successor of Iran's next supreme leader in a post on XM Farsi
The Israeli military said it would also pursue every person who seeks to appoint a successor for the slain supreme leader
I told Ali Haman a
Referring to the clerical body charge was to like the Iran's next supreme leader
It truly is like an unstoppable force meets an immovable object
Like it runs like okay. Fuck you
And Israel's like, we're gonna keep killing you.
We're gonna kill you extra hard.
We're gonna kill you dead.
Uh-oh.
Trump saw the oil prices new.
Wait, Trump now says $100 barrel oil is a very small price to pay and calls anyone
who disagrees with a fool.
Term oil prices, which will drop rapidly when the destruction of the Iran nuclear threat is over is a very small price to pay for
U.S. Oh, they are dumb. Oh
They're stupid. Oh, they're this stupid. I can't believe it. It's unbelievable. Oh
My god, he truly is JD Pond. He truly is JD Pond on
It's it's not even a joke. He wants the fucking suburbs to scream
He wants to kill every American treatler, right? He said permanent first-world genocide
It's crazy
Now this is the one area where the fucking hogs and hogettes will not play around
Okay, they suck his dick on everything
This is the one area where I don't think they're gonna they're gonna like that
That's why he kept saying over and over again, but the price of gas is so low the price of gas is so low
Don't you love it folks? Well now the price of gas is not so low
He wants the fucking treat lorites to scream in the suburbs
Midterms over if they even happen in November he's a dumbass. I mean, yeah
We'll see how much the cult.
more at the pond since this was the only thing he could point to whenever people brought up
affordability.
It's an incredible thing to say.
It's an incredible thing to say that you're going to war your sons and daughters are going
going to die for Israel. That's one thing. Americans are cattle. That stuff happens over
there. It's not my problem, right? But it's an entirely separate thing to say you're going
to pay extra. You're going to pay fucking $15. You're going to pay European style prices
for oil and you're going to like it. And it's all because of Israel. It's, I don't
think the base will appreciate that. His base defense and being a pedophile. Yes.
because his pedophilia doesn't touch the gas prices.
It's, there's two areas where the base is like a little shaky.
Affordability is a major issue and Epstein files.
This makes the affordability situation completely untenable.
Hasan needs to see this shot is insane. Yes. I saw it. They're not for the record. They're
not sighiling. I know I know you want to say that but like no the Iranians do that. It's
like a thing that Iranians do the it's not it's not actually a sighile. Okay. I mean,
They're Nazis, but they're not sick, Highling.
Like when I watched this, I'm like, no, they're fucking Nazis, but not because they're sick,
Highling.
They're Nazis because they're saying, thank you, Taram, thank you, BB, Netanyahu, she
this is take on this I don't think we deserve rights I'm gonna be real
Holy, what a nuanced clip. I think so too. No, no, they're Nazis for sure, but not because
they're sig-highling. Do you understand? They're Nazis because they're supporting Bibi Nennyahu
and they're supporting Donald Trump. They're not actually sig-highling though. Like Iranis
do that. Don't do that thing where like Westerners think, Westerners always do this
thing where they're like, oh, these guys are sig-highling. They do it with like
the Yemeni too. Like it's like, I don't know what it is, but it's a thing that
people do. It has nothing to do with like a fucking Adolf Hitler. Even the Ayatollah
defenders were doing that in their celebrations, if you notice, like in the crowd.
No, brother said any one named as the Supreme Leader is fair game and could be and maybe
targeted.
That's right. It was an expected choice. It is one of a hereditary choice, which has
come as a... Yeah, people in Mexico raise their hand that way, too.
...prize to some, but it provides them some level of continuity. It also gives them a
clear path, a clear direction of travel signaling the days, the months, the years ahead because
There has chatted is it what do you think about Percival is I'm not taking that fucking bait
Are you kidding me go back to Twitter
There's been a lot of disruption and confusion about some of the messaging
Coming out of Iran. So I think this
Now certainly draws the line under that discussion
But as you say, Israel has made it clear that there will be a mark on any successors back,
stating their intentions clearly as they continue their heavy bombardment of Iran.
Remember, there are a lot of hardline conservative Jewish Iranians, Iranian Canadians, and Iranian
Europeans in these crowds.
They're like Margla Vimba, speak Farsi, yeah.
All the pro-regime Iranian Jews still live in Iran.
I want to bring you some breaking news now.
We have word that the new Supreme Leader has been announced and that will be Moshtabah
HaMinei.
That is the Supreme Leader's son joining us now to talk more about this is Ali Hashim
who has extensively covered Iran and has been following this leadership selection process
very closely.
Ali, what can you tell us about what we can expect now that the Supreme Leader
has been named?
Well, now, first of all, that must have been announced officially as Iran's third supreme
leader. This is the end of a chapter and a beginning of a new chapter at the time of
war. So most of the coming is now supposed to lead the country in the time of war.
Of course, this election would have a lot of controversy, given the fact that he's
They're announcing it like it's the Pope? I mean, it kind of is.
It's not like completely the Pope, but yeah.
Succeeding his father, there is going, there are going to be accusations of
family succession. You know, the Islamic revolution came in 1979 to end the monarchy.
So this is going to be one of the issues that he will face as an accusation.
Yet he will have to leave the country at a very difficult time.
There are security threats to him, the United States, Israel, both are threatening to kill
him just like they did with his father.
So there is going to be a lot of challenges facing him, first of all, to lead the country
in the time of war and at the same time to make sure to bring together the Iranians
and at the time when they are already divided, you know, just few weeks ago there were
protests in the country.
it's going to be a really very heavy challenge for him.
Do we know much about who he is? I mean, we obviously know who his father is.
We know who his family is. But do we know much about him, what he stands for,
and what he could stand for going forward, given that we are in extraordinary circumstances?
Wait, this guy also fought in the Iraq war?
I guess it makes sense. His dad did too. I guess most people
and empowered it. I mean, Arakshi, the guy that you guys all call handsome, the foreign minister,
he also fought in the Iraq war. The other dude, oh, he was 17. Okay, that makes sense. Yeah.
The guy, the, uh, uh, Said, uh, Muhammad Marandi, I think that's his name, right? Like he also fought
in the Iraq where he got gassed. Yeah, they got hella, they had hella child soldiers in the
You know that, yeah.
Well, Moushtabah Khamenei comes from the School of Theology
that is known to be, I mean, it's described
as a hardline school.
He adopts the positions of his father
with respect to the United States,
with respect to Israel.
So we are expecting a confrontational leader.
We're not expecting any moderation.
We're not expecting any negotiations, seeking a leader.
However, if this-
Yeah, Morani moved from the U.S. to Iran in 1970
and fought as a child soldier in the Iran-Iraq war.
Yeah.
He still has his photos from back then
on his Twitter profile as like-
What comes to an end, and he is still alive
and he's able to continue running the country.
There is going to be a big potential
seeing him there at this position
to find the new routes for Iran.
This is one on the second side.
He is, of course, a cleric that's been teaching
the highest levels of religious studies.
And at the same time, he is well connected within the country.
He's been described as a shadow influencer in the country.
and over here I'm talking about political influence.
So he has very good connections with the IRGC,
very good connections with the security body of the country.
So these other branches of the country
will know who they're about to be?
They know him very well, because he used to be his father
as gatekeeper.
And any coordination with other power bases
centers in the country used to be through him. So he knows very well the country, he
knows very well how things are run in the country. And given the fact his well connections
with IRGC and the security body, this could give him a lot of leverage. Also, he has
his own deep, I mean, he's part of the deep state. So he used to influence political
changes in the country, and he is well aware of what's going on around him.
So given the fact he is coming to succeed from the position of someone who knew how
the situation is, he's a continuation of his father's reign for 37 years.
We'll see another Khamenei coming to power, however, we're seeing a younger Khamenei,
probably with also some new ideas.
It's not a copy of his father, but it's we will have the influence maybe there's never
had him talking right.
We've never seen him, except in some very rare pictures.
So we are yet to hear from him.
We are yet to see how he is going to deal with the new status coming.
His country is a middle of war.
How is he going to deal in the situation of war?
How is he going to emerge from this war?
These are all going to kind of define his own leadership.
And given that we haven't seen him speak publicly, that we don't know much about maybe which
track he is going to take, for people who may have been thinking that potentially a
new Supreme Leader could be a rote to diplomacy, a rote to opening those diplomatic channels,
in your estimation, is that likely to be the case?
Well, for now, no.
This is a confrontational leader.
He comes on, I mean, his father's blood was just shed a few days ago, 10 days ago.
So he holds this legacy, carries this legacy, the legacy of his father's blood.
So he's the son of the martyr in the eyes of the revolution.
And this is part of the legacy, or let me say legitimacy that he is, or his team is
just trying to present him with it.
So he's the son of the martyr who came to take the revenge for the martyr.
This is the revolutionary Iran's point, I mean, let me say perspective.
Now how is he going to be received by others?
Because inside Iran, of course, there's going to be a pushback, there's going to be those
who are going to criticize this selection or this election because some of them will
believe, especially within the other parties under the Islamic Republic, they're going to
see this as changing the pillars of the Republic and changing the pillars of the revolution
that came in 1979.
There's many things to watch.
I want to bring Mohamed Vald back in from Tehran for us, because Mohamed, one of the
things that we've been talking about is how Israel has been saying that they will
be looking out for who is named the next supreme leader that that person is in danger
that that person is in their sights and like my attitude is maybe I'm wrong on this but
my attitude is it's just the hard line is anyway they have their support they have their base
of support and it kind of feels like they've given up on on having like a unification
pick like having a unifying pick not like how many was unifying the public regardless
I mean, he was, by the end he was, there were a lot of people who were very frustrated with him, to say the least.
So I think this is just moving in that same direction. So the bass loves it and they only care about the bass.
So, that's it.
But we'll see.
We'll see how he, how he moves.
of the people who elected this new Supreme Leader.
Especially because like that's that's like domestic policy.
That is not something that is is relevant right now, right?
It's not relevant at all because the country is going to be
unified regardless currently because America's blowing it up.
I wonder how do you think they're going to be able to secure him
on what kind of danger he'll be under as of right now that his name has been announced?
That's a very big question here in Iran and also the election of Mustafa Khamenei is clearly
an act of defiance on the part of the Iranian leadership here because he's the man President
Trump mentioned in name saying that he's a lightweight and he's in the position
now that Israel has threatened to kill him anyways. So, I mean, it's really a precarious
situation for the new Supreme Leader and probably the delay in announcing his name has to do
with the preparations to make sure that he's safe. We don't know how that is going to
be done, but we know that Israel is just two nights ago sent 50 aircraft and dropped
100 bombs according to what they said on a location that was
They said they said a bunker that was to be used by the late
Khamenei but he didn't have time to go into it and that they had information that probably some of the leaders were
Hiding there's something very funny about the way that like israeli
Israeli society
Operates like Israeli military operates where they genuinely think that like if you kill
If you do a decapitation strike, it's over.
And I don't know why they have this attitude.
It's just like they already killed Ali Haman-e.
It didn't work.
So it's very funny to think that they are probably going to try to assassinate him as well.
And if they do that, that's just going to piss Iranians out further, right?
right in that bunker the night the night the raid took place so these
Israelis are really it may be projection really projection you think what do you
think what happened if Benjamin and Yahoo got assassinated you think Israeli
society would go oh we're saved no fuck no they would get extra mad to think
that it would be very dead like obviously we're not talking about how
we would feel in that situation we're talking about Israeli society right
Right.
Nothing changes.
You know, serious in their threats, the Americans also are going to be unhappy according to what
we heard from President Trump.
Here the message by the Iranians is that this is an act or decision that is an act of defiance.
The Iranians are not listening to foreign recommendations or foreign control of their
country.
country is independent Iran selects its own leaders according to its own constitution.
And also on the part of the new Supreme Leader himself, it's an act of Bernie couldn't call
it Nitya who's war anymore. Yeah, that'd be sad for Bernie. What would he say then
potential sacrifice? He knows the probable consequences of his election and he has
chosen to go ahead and assume this role. We understand that asked by the Iranian
traditions and constitution, the supreme leader in waiting does not present his own candidacy
for that. He does not suggest himself. So he must have been chosen by others, but he also
has to consent to that. And that is the situation now. The new supreme leader has been announced.
It's an act of defiance. He knows the consequences. And the country is bracing for probable assassination
of so, but the Iranians are defined.
And Ali Mohamed makes a very good point that, number one, there's no evidence that the American
president had any hand in making this election, as he wanted to do.
And two, obviously, Haminei will know now that there is a big target on his back.
But I wonder how you think people in Iran on the streets of Tehran will react when
they hear this news?
Well, they're already hearing now.
So as I told you, there are going to be a lot of, there is going to be a lot
of controversy when it comes to this selection.
There are those who are going to embrace it, given the fact that Khamenei, Mushtaba Khamenei,
is now positioned as the son of the martyr, and also the father of the martyr, because
his daughter was killed in the attack, his wife was killed in the attack, his sister
was killed in the attack, his mother was killed in the attack, and his father also.
So he comes from this family.
This is easier for the system in Iran to push forward Khamenei's name, because he holds
all this baggage with him.
And given the fact this is an Islamic system, and mainly it's the Shi'a side of Islam that
is built upon martyrdom.
So this could help him a lot in proving himself at the time of war, yet, politically, there
is going to be a lot of pushback.
This is going to probably have its own impact, not now, probably after the war, because now
it's time of war.
Everyone is getting more on how the country is going to continue.
So the debate right now is going to be more at the moment of war on the continuity,
on what happened and how this is really hitting the pillars of the of the
revolution. And Mohammed to you, Ali was talking about how the new supreme leader
is going to be a wartime supreme leader and he's coming out of this
immediately in the system of war but there will also be many domestic issues
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Well, so I wonder, what are going to be the main things that he'll be dealing with within
the country, not just from a period of war?
Well, the primary on that list could be national consensus over him.
He's a sort of unknown figure, even though he's very well known, but he's unknown in
in terms of his personality, because he doesn't speak a lot, he doesn't attend a lot of meetings
and gatherings and so on, but he is known to be one of the hardliners and he's known
to be very close to the Revolutionary Guard and to the Basij.
So I mean, for some people, particularly the reformists, they may not be happy with
his election, because they think that we are back to the square one, we have been
trying to change the country to what we like to the better, closer to liberalism and so
on. And this is understandable because at a time of war you need strong leaders, you
need leaders who will stick to the line of resistance, of defiance and so on. And probably
the assembly of experts have put that into consideration at this particular moment,
the appointment of someone, for instance, like Hassan Rouhari, who is seen here as
as a very compromising leader, who some people even describe him as the Gorbat Shev of Iran,
a person who is very likely to strike deals that might compromise the interests of Iran.
Well, I'm just saying what is being circulated here. The selection of that person could
be seen inside Iran and even outside Iran as an act of some kind of surrender to
the will of the Americans and the Israelis at a time of war. So the Iranis don't
like to be seen as showing weakness here. And the hard line approach that has led to the
election of this new Supreme Leader is a result in the minds of many people here of what is
going on, of the aggression against Iran, and Iran needs really to show toughness.
And Ali, your thoughts on that?
Well, there is something really ironical here. When Khamenei the father was elected
at the time when the war was ending, the war between Iraq and Iran in 1989, it was like
the beginning of the end.
And now, Khamenei the son is being elected in the middle of war.
So we're seeing two different paths.
And this is going also to shape, Moushtaba Khamenei's experience in his, I mean, this
all depends on whether the Iranian security and military will be able to preserve his
life, to keep him away from assassinations, to defend him.
These are all challenges that the security and military system are going to face besides
what he is going to face.
Also, from now on, there is going to be one man taking the decisions in this war.
At least he is going to be directing.
I mean, there is an institution that helps in taking the decision, but yet we will see
in his own approach and how this approach is going to be probably within the coming
hours.
We should be hearing from him.
We should be hearing his manifesto.
We should be hearing what he is promising, the Iranian people, the region and the world.
All right.
Ali Hashem here with me and Mohamed Val and Tehran.
Thank you both for your analysis on this breaking news.
Now let's bring in some of our guests to discuss these latest developments.
Mark Kimmet is a retired American general and a former assistant secretary for political
military affairs.
He's in Washington, D.C. and in Boston we have Rami Kuri, a distinguished fellow at
the American University of Beirut.
Thank you both for being with us.
General Kimmet, I will go to you first.
How does the election of the new Supreme Leader change the strategy of the U.S. and
Israel in this, if at all?
Candelay, I don't think it changes anything except for the aggressive talk by Benjamin
Nanyahu that he is going to end the theocracy inside the country and anybody they pick as
a supreme leader will be eliminated.
But in many ways it adds a little stability to the situation and if you are like me
where I believe this war will end at the negotiating table, this is a movement towards
stability. Rami I want to bring you in on this because I'd like to get your
thoughts as well just right off the top on this breaking news of Iran's new
supreme. All right let's hear what the Amal Saud said. Amal Saud is a scholar of
his below on the politics of resistance axis at Cardiff University. Amal Saud says
the election of Mosheh al-Khamenei as supreme leader was not merely an
of the US, but an affirmation of sovereignty whose meaning is inseparable from the conditions
under which it occurred.
Trump had explicitly declared his candidacy unacceptable, demanded full control over the
selection process, and wanted that whoever was chosen would not last long without the
US's approval, cubristically granting himself the right to determine Iran's next supreme
leader and its political destiny.
I think that's so funny that he's, I'm just imagining him sitting with the Council of
Clerics.
Like, he was like, no, I get to pick it.
It's so funny.
It's so stupid.
It's so American.
It's just like, like we are such spoiled children.
I mean, we're monsters at the end of the day.
We're such a monstrous, bloodthirsty country.
But it's kind of funny how stupid we are.
But he literally is just like, Oh, I got one in Venezuela.
Gonna do it again.
Like that's what he's like a giant toddler with nuclear first strike capabilities.
I can't believe it.
Out of all the countries in the world, Iran is probably one of the best position to defend
itself against America and Israel's bombing campaigns.
Not only because of its topography, but also because like, this is kind of how they designed
their entire society.
He thinks, he thinks you can just like go in there and be like, all right, I bombed
you guys a lot.
I'm the captain now. I'm the leader. I'm going to pick who your next supreme leader will be like, that's not how this works, man.
These guys fucking bled for this shit.
He probably envisioned the new leaders wearing a Trump hat and really liked the idea.
I know more about, dude, he does look Iranian though.
He kind of looks Iranian.
He looks like he could be like, he looks like he could be like one of them Armenian Iranians
or maybe like Ozzyty or something.
You know what I mean?
It reminds me of that photo with like the guy who made the AR-15 and the guy who made
Kalashnikov, standing next to one another. And the guy who made the AR-15 is holding
the Kalashnikov and the guy who Kalashnikov is holding the AR-15. And it's really interesting
because like you look at them and you think, like, it's hard to figure out who's the American
and who's the Russian in that situation.
Have you guys ever seen that photo? It's giving me, this is giving the same vibe.
Donald Trump inside of like this kind of garb, yeah, see Eugene Stoner and Kalashnikov.
But if you actually look at, if you like, given their outfits, like as soon as he holds,
this is the American, this is the Russian, okay?
But because the American is the one that's holding the Kalashnikov, you think he's
like, like he could totally go for, he could totally be like a Russian, like a Russian
politician or something. And, um, and Kalashnikov's holding the air 15, he looks, he looks like
he'd be like a Hurrah is an M16. Sorry, not air 15. Um, shut the fuck up. Whatever.
He looks like he's like a Japanese-American guy, man.
Yeah.
It's really interesting that when you see Donald Trump in the garbage, like, wait a minute,
he could be fucking Iranian, you know?
I know more about the assembly of experts than practically anybody.
Many people are saying sir you would be the greatest member of the assembly anyone's ever had my uncle David
Brilliant scholar was on the assembly for years and he'd look at me. I was young very sharp
Sharper than the mullahs and he'd say Donald you know the Quran like nothing. I've ever seen and it's true
I have a natural feel for Sharia
Stop some study the calm for 40 years
readers reading us a lot fake as they call it and they come out and they don't know anything.
It's very sad. Frankly, it's a disgrace. I should be leading the clerics, the council
anyway demanded full control over the selection process. I like that we sidestepped away here.
He basically granting himself the right to determine Iran's next supreme leader in his
political destiny.
Israel went further threatening to kill any successor and any member of the assembly of
experts who participated in the selection.
The Islamic Republic proceeded nonetheless, moving through its constitutional process under
existential military pressure.
The fact that several members of Mosheba's own family were killed in the U.S. strikes
lends further weight to this argument.
The U.S.'s demands for control over Iran's accession was therefore not a simply a
strategic miscalculation but a profound failure to understand what sovereign self-determination
means for a hyper-independent revolutionary Islamic Shia republic whose raison d'être
has always been the pursuit of sovereignty against precisely this kind of imperial power exactly.
Their sole point of existence is this. They fought back against Iraq,
backed by the Americas. They fought back against America. They fought back against the Western
powers, this is literally their whole fucking point.
In this context, every statement Trump has made declaring the outcome unacceptable became
retrospectively the condition of possibility for the acts sovereign meaning.
What the U.S. said in motion is a cycle it cannot break because every Supreme Leader
Iran elects under the threat of assassination will by the very conditions of his election
become the living embodiment of the sovereignty it seeks to eradicate.
Toxic oil filled rain about to fall on Turkmenistan due to the oil bombings in Iran.
Whoa.
An extra topical storm over northern Iran which brought rain filled with toxic petroleum
based substances that had on will move to Turkmenistan.
The system will cause the formation of a new ETS over Afghanistan, bringing widespread rain,
hail, snow to Pakistan.
What did Lajjani say?
Ayatollah Said, Moshtaba Khamenei has been nurtured in the leadership seminary.
InshaAllah, his presence will be sourced for goodness and blessings.
What the teachings he has learned from his esteemed father, he can guide the country.
Our wish is that during the leadership of Ayatollah Said, Moshtaba Khamenei, Iran
will be placed on a path of development.
Ali Largiani strikes me as a development guy.
He would be a CCP guy.
Why did the OG, how many look white?
Brother, why do I look white?
It's literally the same reason.
It's actually pretty ironic that all
the Persians. I am Persian. I am not Arab. I'm Persian. Literally do not look as white
as as you know, Ali Khamenei did. Because how many was Aussie. And this is where Caucasian
people were invented by Dr. Yakub. He's white for an amazing reason. The Talmudic
Turk. What a fucking name, dude.
Loki, if you tan a bit and get a cut, you could be Puerto
Rican. Hell yeah.
Yeah, Lajani is super white.
We should also elevate diaspora Iranians like Via who are against this war, not all of them are Shah's bootlickers. True.
Alright. Shipping CEO, oh, a shipping CEO with tankers near the Strait of Hormuz. Used two words a few hours ago about need for the U.S. to immediately urgently open the Strait.
asked, does the White House understand what is at stake?
The answer is no.
Leader Moshe Mohamed Naye, the son of the former Supreme Leader, being named.
Donald Trump already gave an answer to that question.
Okay, he already gave an answer to that question.
He literally said, short-term oil prices, which will drop rapidly with a destruction
Iran nuclear threat is over, is a very small price to pay for the USA and world safety and
peace. This is literally the worst argument he could present, okay? You want to know who
also presented this argument? Fucking Brandon. And at that point, it wasn't Brandon that had
invaded Russia. It was Russia that had invaded Ukraine. And Brandon came out and
was like, well, we gotta defend Ukraine. There's gonna be a price shock here, okay? But we gotta
do it to defend the global order. We gotta do it to defend NATO. We gotta do it to defend
our allies. We gotta do it to engage in force projection.
Donald Trump is doing the same thing, except worse. Because no one had to invade or
bomb Iran so it's literally worse than even Brandon
fucking spectacular job sir thank you and it's not even because like Iran
goaded us into it or something it's because he's real got America to bomb
around I can't believe it it's on the fucking believable oh yeah of course I
know this guy's Walter White Saddam general Saddam top losing a lieutenant
Is that Ibrahim al-Douri? He looks very Irish for an Iraqi man. Yeah.
Short term pain for long term gain.
This is a short term disruption for the long term gain.
Short term pain for the long term gain.
Short term pain B for long term gain.
we're going to have some short-term pain
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short-term. Hopefully this is a short-term pain. Short-term is highly outweighed of the long-term
benefits of short-term pain for the long-term gain. Short-term sacrifice for a long-term gain.
Incredible
Yeah, you're gonna like it dude, it's gonna be awesome thoughts when you hear that name
Also for the record there is no fucking long-term gain here and it's not even
gonna be short-term pain either. I'm not sure they won't try and push this guy.
Oh dude yeah there you go.
Reza Pahlavi. Reza Pahlavi. He is he is the true leader of Iran.
Iran. I am Iranian.
Well, I think this kind of confirms what General Kimmitsa, and this is a continuation of what
Iran has had since 1979. This is the will I have the ruling system with clerical rule
under a Supreme Leader with the addition of the IGRC, the Republican Guard, the National
National Republican Guard, revolutionary guards.
And these are institutions that are very well-established, and the guards are the most important institution
in the whole country, probably, with the clerks.
But they control business, they control guns, they control management of the system in many
ways, and they're massive, and they control hundreds of thousands of people that they
can bring to the streets.
So I think this is a sign of continuity, whether it ends up pushing for a negotiated resolution
of ending the war, what will happen after that will be seen because it will be totally
different circumstances.
How much does Iranian people suffer?
How much people keep threatening it?
So these are unknown factors.
But for the moment, I think this is kind of an act of defiance as well, telling
with the Americans and the Israelis. You wanted to get rid of our system? Well, you know, in
your face. Here's a more radical Iranians. You choose their leaders naturally. Yeah, I mean,
that would be nice. Wouldn't it person done the guy who was his father who was assassinated. And
so this is a sign of continuity. And we'll see what that brings.
In general, commit this Supreme Leader is coming in at a time when we're seeing
attacks escalating to different civilian targets, things like oil depots, oil storage facilities.
How is this advancing the escalation of the war?
Well, first of all, I wouldn't consider infrastructure targets to be civilian targets.
They're part of the economy. They're not civilians. But again, I think if you look
added from the Israeli side. But sorry just to ask you on that so what is a civilian target then
is it just civilians? Primarily yes. You know civilians, civilians, civilian military facilities,
civilian, just generally human beings as opposed to structures. Now going back to your question
about much about, again, I think there's going to be a dispute inside the Israeli-U.S. discussions
about how do we react to this, again, as somebody who thinks that.
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already here. It's already here. It's literally, it's not, it's not coming. It's here already.
Civilian military facility. When he says civilian military facility, he means like
bossage and he means like the police buildings and shit. He means like IRGC, not IRGC,
but like, uh, that's what he's talking about. I mean, it sounds stupid when he says
it, but that's what he's trying to say.
negotiations. You're talking about like a sausage headquarter? Negotiations. Negotiations that the
Iranians have to come into already providing concessions. This can't happen unless you have a
Supreme Leader make those decisions. And with the stability that a new Supreme Leader likes,
no matter how much you don't like him, at least we might be able to move the process forward.
Do you think that that's likely to happen?
Well, again, Rami knows it's much better than I do,
but the sensing is that he is closer to the hardliners
than the clerics.
The clerics did not want a dynasty
and or against a dynasty dynastic control
of the Supreme Leader's position.
But given his hardliner positions,
this sort of complements, for example, the bringing back
of Bahia to who founded the Iranian Revolutionary Guards
court, dusted them off and put them back in to head the IRGC when its predecessor was deposed,
disposed of.
So I don't think you can make any declarative definitive statements right now.
I think we're going to have to wait a few days.
I don't think it's an appropriate question.
You know, I'm not going to answer it.
Could there be possible for very good reason, have to be very good reason?
I would say if we ever did that, they would be so decimated that they would be able to fight at the ground level.
Welcome back. That's President Trump yesterday on air force.
Look at our asses, dog. What the fuck?
God damn, dude.
God damn, and they're still cooking. It's like, look, look, look, even if you're, even if you've
been told your whole life, you know, Iran is a country led by like barbaric monsters or whatever,
you got to kind of look at them as the underdog here, right? Like it's just impossible not to.
Yeah, they're defending the homeland of Israel. Yeah, watch your tax dollars light on fucking fire.
Is that all of our fleet? No, it's like around, I think it's like 60%.
If we have, for example, right now, in this region, we only have two aircraft carriers.
We're bringing in a third. America has 13 aircraft carriers. Okay? 13.
as far as like, as far as like our naval assets goes, I think it's, yeah, it's, maybe it's not 60%,
it's probably 50%. It is quite literally why you don't have, we're down to 10 active, okay, sorry.
Well, what are we talking about with respect to, like, inactive? Is it just like decommissioned,
or is the poop machine broken? Because that, technically, one of them is not fully functional.
its toilets are busted, but they're still there, you know?
It's just full of poop. Oh, dry dog.
The Nimitz has been scheduled for demolition. It's 50 years old. It's done for. I was on it.
South F-35s and long-range missiles and kamikaze drones, cyber warfare, and intelligence meant
to destroy Iran's military systems from the air rather than occupying territory.
The president met with defense contractors on the White House on Friday, prodding them
to pick up the pace of production.
As the war is estimated to cost up to a billion dollars a day, with the first 100
hours alone costing 3.7 billion dollars because of the intensity of those
missile strikes and air operations. Now sources tell me to expect the Pentagon
to request a defense supplemental package of up to 50 billion dollars in the
coming days and weeks. Good evening and I'm in the Senate when the future is
exclusive as South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham the chairman of the
Senate Budget Committee which shapes the overall spending as well as a member
of the Appropriations Committee which decides how money is actually spent.
Senator thank you so much for being here. Thank you. I think you should all go to
Israel. The end. Listen Maria now you might consider me to be quite controversial
for saying this but if I think all of our tax dollars should go directly to
Israel. I don't want to get your take on all this a billion dollars a day. Oil
prices up 27% in a week. You've got the present wanting a one and a half
trillion dollars defense budget in 27 the the idea that the Pentagon is about to
come to you for 50 billion dollars on these strikes to Iran how are you gonna
answer that's money ever spent was it worth to America to take down a real
okay I was joking but he he literally did do that that's crazy I was just
He's joking. God damn. Yeah. Okay. Go on. King, regime who's trying to build a nuclear
weapon to deliver to America. That's a really good investment. They're going to fall. Let's
not, if the regime falls, it's a matter of when. And you didn't mention today and nobody
has quite frankly, we now know they had enough 60% enriched uranium to make 11 bombs.
It's that worth to America to make sure they don't have 11 bombs.
All of this money is to make sure they never go nuclear.
They can't hit us with ballistic missiles, and they stop terrorizing the region.
When this regime goes down, we're going to have a new mid-east.
We're going to make a ton of money.
Nobody will threaten the Straits of Hormones again.
But Donald J. Trump saved the world from real chaos.
The negotiator was told by the Iranians openly that they have stockpiled enough 60 percent
in rich uranium, 460 kilograms, to make 11 bombs.
Thank God Trump did this.
Can you imagine a year from now?
What would it cost America if Iran had 11 nuclear bombs to threaten us?
They would hold us hostage.
We would be held hostage in perpetuity by this terrorist regime.
So the money we're spending is a good investment to take down a regime that's been the largest
state sponsor of terrorism has got American blood on its hands.
And when this regime falls, it's not if, when we're gonna-
I don't think this is convincing.
If I'm a Trump cultist and I hear this fucking dickhead talk like this, I'm gonna be like,
ah, I'm getting second, I'm getting a- I'm feeling a little bit differently about
the whole process now. I'm getting cold feet. Cause like, they just want to hear a big daddy
say it's good. That's all they, they care about. I don't think Lindsey Graham is making
a good argument here for a dumb ass Americans to get on board with this shit. But what
do I know? I always thought that I understood how hogs move, but they've even, they've
shocked me even with how how much worse they can get a gateway to peace and the
next thing will happen is Saudi Arabia will recognize Israel now that will be
the biggest change in 2,000 years and the mid-east and Donald J. Trump is the
man to make it all happen he's the first president in 47 years to call
The question on the Iranian regime their religious Nazis we negotiated with them
They would not give up there and rich uranium. You're the most popular article on news article on Breitbart. Wait, what what did I do?
That's on Breitbart
What did I do now that they're coming after me for?
Breitbart does even any does anybody even look at Breitbart anymore a
Sompiker articles
just make fucking drones left the shimmer a Sompacher gives audience it
gives advice to suicide bombers in his audience that's awesome
500 and let's see can we see the comments
why isn't he been arrested yet or like drone deport him and then drone him we
are gonna get a great job flushing a terrace of versus pedos satanists out
of the woodwork, but then nothing happens. Paging Dr. Bondi, paging Dr. Bondi.
Same thing for companies that hire Legals. Why haven't they been punished?
Steve Wittkopf said that everyone gets attention on this way and away from
how much they actually bombed the fuck out of Ukraine last night.
Then now that no one's focused on Ukraine, Russia has ramped up
destruction of every part of Ukraine bombing absolutely everywhere over 450 plus drones
long-range missiles launched into major cities. Yeah. I mean, I, I told you that this was like,
uh, uh, going to be very beneficial for Russia. It's not only are they going to escalate their
attacks, but then they also literally will be the single, uh, they now all these fucking
countries that go back to Russia for oil and gas. India listened to Trump's demands and
restricted the amount of oil that they were getting from Russia. I mean, they didn't completely
cut it off, obviously.
And now they're totally on board once again.
The Sompiger was a fat nerd in high school, now he's a gay middle-aged Jew-hater who hangs
out on kids' video game social numbers, trying to convert them to communism.
I'm pretty sure it's been a downhill role.
The Breitbart audience, I'm actually kind of surprised, like, say stuff like Jew-hater,
because I feel like if they genuinely thought I hated Jews, I thought the Breitbart
audience would be like kind of on board with that. It's kind of shocking. Yeah, I used
to, I would get all my money from the young Turks. Now I get all my money from you guys
being anti-war versus in doing Biden versus Trump.
How about your thoughts and opinions on all matters?
So tell us what your priorities are.
We actually care.
Okay, great. Yeah.
Health care, cheaper college, cheaper housing.
Okay, pass it.
Okay, can we stop doing worse?
I feel like that's a broadly popular opinion,
like war is bad.
We can work with that.
Hey, how about this?
We'll pull our troops out of Afghanistan.
Wait, how long were we in Afghanistan?
Boom, just like that?
We're out of there.
Yeah, that's great.
Thanks to war.
Done with that crap.
Okay, but then let's actually stop the wars.
Okay.
Wow.
Wow.
What?
What did I do?
You don't think Israel should be able to defend itself?
I'm saying let's stop letting them do a genocide.
What?
Sorry, I'm in it.
I'm letting this happen.
What?
I'm having trouble hearing you.
Tom, that's a great idea.
Lunch.
Tom, lunch.
I'm against people getting killed.
This sounds to me like Russian talking points, and I don't blame you, but where do you
get your news from?
I'm against people getting killed.
Where are you actually?
Nothing.
Right.
Let's unpack what the term war even means, like historically in a broader context,
even is war. Oh, that's my time. You've been a great crowd. Thanks, everyone.
What's the deal with the old pro-war administration? Huh? We're not into that
shit. Let's go to military engagement with Iran. Military engagement with Iran.
It's like you're just trying to avoid saying war.
We're not avoiding it. That's why we changed the name of the Department of Defense to the
Department of Military Engagement. Sorry, we actually changed it to the Department of War.
I thought you guys were all anti-war. No, we're anti-forever war. We're pro short cool snappy wars. Boom, boom, boom.
You know when a simple war started everyone thought it would take a couple of weeks and as far as I know it did.
Just like our war with Iran. Sorry military engagement. Well, I think that is bad. I am against that.
Top what? You wish we had the old trans estrogen Pentagon military, don't you?
You want local helicopters and so I'm latte rocket launchers. I mean come on.
We're doing more of the old-fashioned way and I don't give a f what your opinion is about it.
Okay. Please give us 40 trillion dollars.
Yeah, but you see, you see, you're a lip-tart, so you don't understand, we're doing war in
an anti-gay way.
All the previous times we deployed like Agent Orange, Napalm, that was gay and woke.
That's why we lost those wars.
When we did Abu Ghraib and we were just like literally raping Iraqi prisoners.
That was actually, that was actually woke.
We were wokely doing that.
Now we're finally doing anti-woke where we're just saying slurs while we drop the same exact
bombs, I guess.
Which is different.
We're also saying slurs in the process.
And this will actually hurt way harder.
memo from last week, White House member, the congressional Republican stress address concerns
about being at war with Iran saying, Oh yeah, Trump dude, it is literally, this is so Russia.
Special military on announced major combat operations against Iran, special military
operation that will last only four days.
Guys, guys, you don't understand. It's just, you know, we're in Tehran and like
four days, it's fine.
And without pledge to stop making weapons that could hit America, they still fund the proxies.
When this regime falls, there'll be no money for Hezbollah, Hamas, and the hoodies.
What is that worth?
So the money we're spending to take this regime down.
Nothing, nothing to me.
I don't care.
I'm pretty sure nothing to most people, cuz you guys didn't even do a good enough
job of like explaining why these guys are bad. And unironically kind of showed the world
why they were fighting because of Israel. Like it's been two and a half fucking years,
about to be three years, dude. At this point, what do you want? You want 99% of Americans
to be against it? I mean, no Republicans can be fully against it, but like, what
we doing? Look, I have obviously always been much more understanding of why militant resistance
groups form in the face of Western imperialism. But I never in my life thought that I would
have a fucking community of like 40,000 people literally watching chaos unfold in Iran.
And there are so few people in here who are questioning what I have to say about the IRGC.
That is because of Gaza, okay?
That's it.
Many of you, if you think back, many of you, three years ago, if I were to explain to you
why Iran should have nukes or Iran has a right to defend itself, many of you would
be like, what the fuck are you talking about, dude?
They're like barbaric monsters.
doing maximum Islam I've heard and you would be liberally defending military
occupation and bombing of Iran now you get it you fucking understand it the
reason why you understand it is not because you're a bunch of selfish
Americans who only care about the oil prices although many Americans only
care about it from that angle but you understand why people would fucking
fight for sovereignty and dignity why people want to avoid turning into
fucking Gaza and and who they're fighting against. That's it.
Got to make it safer. It's going to keep them from having nuclear capability
down the road. And we will have a new mid east where we make money, but it
about money today. It's about six Americans who died in the defense of our country. Now,
to our air friends, you're being-
Why? Why did they die? They were there already. Why? Why'd they die? Because you convinced
you got literally primed by agents of Israel. You got notes from agents of Israel on how
How to better convince Donald Trump.
And then Donald Trump followed along with Israel's agenda.
And now it's actually not six is seven.
It's probably far higher than that.
We don't know the true numbers.
It's not going to stop at seven.
Let's be real.
Now America's soldiers are dead because of Israel's ambitions in the region.
Yeah, too.
Have any as any Arab country struck Iran.
If you want to treaty with the United States, you need to get in this fight.
No, America's not going to the middies just to fight alone.
So I'm urging our allies to fight back.
You're being hit too.
So how does this end?
It ends with victory.
Donald J.
Trump is going to bring this regime down.
It's going to be replaced by something more friendly to the United States.
It's going to open up the biggest deal in 2000.
Google this, how many Israelis died in the Iraq war?
What do you mean zero?
How many Israelis will die in this process?
Also fucking zero, unless they strike one of the,
one of the fighter jets.
Israel is not gonna commit troops, okay?
They only commit troops to dumb fuck bullshit,
like getting a, trying to recover the buried body
of a dude that died like 41 fucking years ago
against the wishes of the widow, okay, literally for no reason and like killing 41 Lebanese
villagers in the process and then losing a fucking helicopter and losing a bunch of troops.
That's the only time Israelis die when they're doing some fuck shit like that, that nobody
asked for and nobody understands why they're doing it.
It's so crazy.
It actually is so in, like, God, Israel is such a fucking stupid ass country, man.
They're so dumb, they're so crazy, they're so insane, they're like, they literally are
a Nazi nation.
And you can see, like, this is exactly the type of shit that you read about the Nazis,
and you're like, oh, okay, that kind of makes sense, like, why do they do this thing,
right?
We're like, oh, they believe in, like, some kind of totally psychotic esoteric bullshit
about the superiority of their genes and it means a lot to them so that they
recover the fucking bones
against the wishes of the wife by the way
like the the the family
of this uh... the israeli soldier
it was buried in lebanon was like don't do that
please don't try to recover the but it's fine
it's okay in israel's like i'm sorry what now you meant
go ahead right
you meant do a special military operation
emits has the law bombing campaigns
okay by using
uh... lebanese military
uh... using the the vehicles of the lebanese military to go in and make it
seem like we're
we're actually the lebanese military extracting or or uh... engaging in like
the digging of graves here
And then get fucking ambushed by Hezbollah.
It's just so weird to do that.
I don't know.
And don't you have, don't you have other shit to worry about?
Like why are you using special forces for this?
I genuinely don't understand it.
Yeah, they got killed too.
Two Israeli soldiers were killed by Hezbollah.
And so the Lebanon Insular Reports indicate they were operating a D9 bulldozer
when it was hit by an anti-tanker mortar fire. This is another two soldiers that got smoked.
That's new. Another two Nazis that got fucking smoked in Lebanon. Also, Al-Mayadeen is siding
a source of Islamic resistance and Israeli helicopter was hit during a confrontation in
eastern border region with Syria, hearing lots of rumors, waiting to confirm further
phone. So, Feanor, Feanor's jewel, thank you for the 20 of the subs. I'm supposed to believe
this is necessary so women can wear their hair out in public. I mean that's also fucking bullshit
anyway.
Um, Almanar TV correspondent, the Islamic resistance man has to shoot down an Israeli
helicopter in the Al-Shakia region in the Naboo Shuaib desert. Cudd sighting cellular
websites, a serious security incident has occurred in the north which is being kept
under censorship. Ain't no fucking way.
Cucktapper defending Israel? Oh hell yeah, let's hear what he has to say. Oh this is awesome,
he's such a fucking piece of shit.
It's reportedly weighing Congress to approve an additional 50 billion dollars in funding for these operations
You have said you're a hell no not just to know on funding the war
We have seen this movie before we know that that vote will be cast as especially if you run for higher office
You voting against the troops
Come on. I mean the American people don't want this war. They don't want this war
They have seen what happens when American troops go into place
terrible. Thanks Jake. This is like Iraq, places like Afghanistan. Ultimately we get a lot of people killed. We waste a lot of dollars. But one thing the American people are clear about is that they do not want the United States dragged into another long term war in the Middle East. If you support the troops then you should be voting against funding this war so that we get our troops out of harm's way.
Virtually nothing good happened from sending thousands of Americans to die inside Iraq in the 2000s.
And if we don't learn that lesson, then shame on every single one of us.
So.
Gravity. Thank you. What's my gift? What the fuck?
Why y'all pepper in me would give the subs?
The administration.
Sanjay Tapper.
Sanjay Tapper.
I think this line is more politically popular with his brace than he wanted it to.
It's extraordinary that people close to Trump admit these things to the media, even on background.
Basically saying that Ninnyahu maneuvered him in the war.
Some of his broke mofos need these gifts yourselves. Hell yeah
In years where Saudi Arabia and Israel not only recognize each other
They will they will do business
Trump's a man of peace and business finally yeah, Venezuela and Iran have 31% of the world's oil reserves
We're going to have a partnership with 31% of the known reserves.
This is China's nice mayor nightmare.
This is a good investment and we should applaud our men and women in military who are doing
something I've never seen done before decimating a brutal enemy in nine days.
Really great points.
Tomorrow decimating a brutal enemy in 10 days a month out decimating a brutal enemy
in 38 days. What is this? Another wow mount? This motherfuckers making videos like crazy
now. What's that? Where to start? Number one, how are you going to better secure the
straight up Hormuz so that we don't see more spikes in the price of oil? Number two, are
you telling us you want the United Arab Emirates and the Saudis to lash out and
strike Iran right now? I want them to get into the fight. We sell them weapons. Iran is striking
their country. Impact in Tel Aviv? Oh no. I don't get it. I thought their capabilities were
deteriorated. I just don't understand.
Did you cover the story of the Kurds that refused to fight compounds being attacked the same night
military helicopter landed? Oh, are they are they punishing the Kurds? I think Trump literally said
he would right this dude sucks what the fuck how you doing got a microphone
do you know you got a microphone no microphone dang nab it Bobby yeah I do
oh fire oh you got one oh well thank you for responding how you doing today
that's awesome have a little fortnight game before school I don't have school
Oh, okay. Yeah, I'm homeschooled. Oh well, that's school. I homeschool my kids, so I know all about it
But you already you're already done with the homeschooling then or you're just taking a break. I did all my work. That's awesome. Good job. What grade you in?
I'm not sure. Oh, okay.
Yeah, I just do my work and get it over with.
Yeah, I feel y'all that one. I feel y'all that one.
This is not burnt peanut. This is Dr. Chud.
who's address was doxed and now everybody fucking like the meta is just constantly saying what his
address is is crazy I've seen so many viral posts yeah this is another peanut dude the funniest one
though is like when his address first gets leaked he just this image lives in my mind permanently
I don't want to like show you the video because like the video just showed up says his address and I don't want to like
Docs him any further but
But like
This right here. Yeah, look
When you say something so peanut phobic, you just got to hit him with the chuds there
If you watch the you should watch the original video because
there's something so funny about
about his fucking stupid ass V
Tuber face and you can see the
fear in his eyes.
In this.
We just looks at the you just
looks at the camera like oh fuck.
And then he just says his wife's
name. He's like, if that's not
where you live, that's where
you are. We're here with the
address edited out. I can
I like how you like. Wait,
does this actually have the
address edited out? Hold on.
Okay, it is. It's not like
super edited out.
I can
It's not very well. It's not very well. I don't want to play it. I don't want to risk
getting fucking ban. Anytime listen anytime fucking twitch gets a lot of requests to ban
Asmengold he fucking turns around at like twitch turns around and bans me instead. Okay
So I don't want to fuck around
This guy should not be allowed to talk to children
That's cool, maybe we could work for ice
immigration customs and enforcement yeah they round up all the illegal aliens and
send them back to the or sorry undocumented workers and send them back
to you know you know that means that when they entered the country illegally they
they find them arrest them deport them so they can come back into the country
illegally yeah yeah I guess it's not proper to say illegal aliens anymore
I don't know the, I don't know the proper lingo, I guess.
That's what they used to be called.
And it's not that they're bad people or nothing.
No, this country's built on immigrants.
It's just they say to come into the country legally the right way.
Of course, we want immigrants in the country.
We're made by them immigrants, right?
Immigrants, immigrants is a good thing.
No, but yeah, it's another form of law enforcement.
Like you said for the SWAT team or the firefighter,
it's another, it's like the cops for, you know,
it's like border patrol, but for the nation, you know?
Yeah. Yeah.
He's such a fucking weirdo, bro. Kids used to watch an orange and now they watch IDF peanut.
Also, I mean, he was like weirdly woke while also trying to tell this like very clearly
a homeschooled child trying to groom a homeschooled child in the joining ice but doing it wokely
but yeah I love this when the panic sets in.
Go watch the OG video. It's really funny.
Have good capability about the straight of her moons.
What if they're trying to avoid the raise amount of issues?
Which is also why he rebranded. He kept saying the N word. Wait, what?
As a peanut, he was just like, he's like fake Texas.
uh... he's fake texan is not actually from texas
they act like he is when we know where he's actually from you know what i mean
we know where he's actually from
where the regime fell
then you never had anybody in iran in the future that wants to close the straight
what if you had iran with people don't want to build a nuclear weapon
to kill us all what if you had iran in the future
that doesn't support hezbollah hamas and the hoodies
that's where we're headed. Donald j trump is going to bring this terrorist regime down
we're going to have partners in iran and we're going to open up a gateway to peace
this won't fix itself every other president has talked about doing it
President Trump is in the process of doing it. They're going to lose and we're going to win.
In the United States, you just wait to see what comes in the next two weeks.
The next two weeks, meaning what?
We're going to blow the hell out of these people. This regime is in a death row now. It is going
to be on its knees. It's going to fall. And when it falls, we're going to have peace like
No other time we're going to have prosperity, unlike it's so funny that these guys like they say death to America.
And then turn around and say this.
Anyone could ever imagine peace brings prosperity. You can't do it by talking to democrats criticize this operation. They didn't do a damn thing. These men and women in the military should make us all proud.
And they have already number three real quick. Are you going to support the president's request for one and a half trillion dollar budget defense?
In 27 and will you?
Respond. Yes to a potential
supplemental defense package of 50 billion from the Pentagon
Yes to both we need it we want the strongest military to the end of wars quicker look what we're doing here
We've lost six soldiers. God bless them. We're devastating
the economists for some reason
What?
Increasingly, over the course of the three decades, Ali Haman-e knew that he personally
knew that he was personally in the Great Satan's sights.
This did not daunt him.
He felt, always, that he had divine rights on his side.
What the fuck?
The economists went crazy.
That's crazy.
It's just so funny because he's so fucking old.
He was so old that that's his like, that's his move.
the paper in one hand and going like this while delivering speeches? Yeah, unlike the
actual aura farmers, the golf leadership flipping their phones in slow motion while walking,
what we need to see more of I bet he would not be able to fucking flip his phone like
that one one Emirati I'm not looking for a fair fight if we get in a fight I want to
win it I want to sound please you promise I did not promise watching a fucking doctor
witness or burnt peanut video quick I'm in Miami you see this hat free Cuba stay to
the liberation of Cuba is upon us it's just a matter of time now you see this
that. Make Iran great. President Trump said the only way to make Iran great is for the
people to take over. We're marching through the world. We're cleaning out the bad guys.
We're going to have relationships with new people that will make us prosperous and safe.
I've never seen anybody like it. This is Ronald Reagan plus. Donald Trump is resetting
the world in a way nobody could have dreamed of a year ago. He is the greatest commander
Chief of all time our military is the best of all time our on is going down and Cuba is next
All right, well, we'll be watching what's next on Cuba for sure
I don't know why you kind of look like in both of big years no upper-living eye bags
Why are you fucking coming after my soul right now?
That's crazy. You just compared me to the great Satan
Jesus Christ want to take a closer look at what the American public is thinking about what's going on holy Toledo in
in iran with us now seen in chief data analyst harry yetton harry what do you see
polly to lead on yes john look we've gotten a bunch of polling backs since the u.s. military
started its most recent action against iran and you know what it's a bit of a confusing picture it
doesn't seem like one at first but it's a bit of a confusing polling picture let's just take a look
right now at the overall average of polls okay view of u.s. military action in iran and you
And you take an average of CNN, Fox, Ipsos, and NBC polls.
What you see here is you see that the clear majority
of Americans disapprove of the action.
We're talking about 51% of Americans disapprove,
just 40% approve.
And I should note, all of these polls,
all these polls came in between February 28,
they started on February 28, and then ended by March 3.
Now, you see this, you see this 11 point split.
But this actually hides some major disagreements
between the different polls.
Why do I say that?
Take a look here, okay,
This is the net approval rating, that's the approval rating minus the disapproval rating.
And this is the net approval rating for U.S. military action in Iran.
Look at this.
CNN, our own CNN poll, shows that the net approval rating is minus 18 points.
Very similar to the episodes polling at minus 16 points, but then all of a sudden you
see the NBC News polling and look at this.
You see it at minus 11 points, getting a little bit more popular.
And then you'll look at the latest Fox News poll and that's a split, a debt even
split at zero points.
So yes, on average, the polling is showing that the move isn't popular, but that actually
hides major disagreements between the polling.
And I should note the polling question is pretty similar and all conducted at about the
same time.
So I'm not exactly sure what's going on, but there's another reason why, John, you
should take these initial numbers with a grain of salt, because I want to go back
to the June airstrikes, right, Net up and running US military action in Iran after
the June airstrikes.
Only in late June, look at this, underwater at minus eight points.
But by July, look at that, after the military option was deemed successful, it became much
more popular.
Now, we're just going to have to wait and see what this current military action in
Iran, how exactly the polling shifts.
But right now, I would really take the numbers with a grain of salt, keeping in mind that
there's big polling disagreement and the numbers may change down the road.
John, back to you.
Harry, thank you very much for that.
Yes.
Polling does often track.
is a successful or not successful operation.
One of the more interesting splits that we're seeing in the polling when it comes to the U.S. military action in Iran
is that between the over...
Bro, it's just carried by Republicans.
It's unpopular.
Bro, they're comparing it to common egg.
Is it this? Fire writing?
What?
What, you've never seen this before?
Overall, public and those who are either currently or have served in the military.
Take a look at this Fox News poll that came out.
Yeah.
How many of you used to talk about how, you know, women is a flower, that kind of thing.
Woman controls the home.
During the past week, net approval rating of the current U.S. military action against
Iran.
Overall, Fox News shows a dead-even split, but look at those who served in the military.
What?
Significantly higher support.
Yeah, I don't give a shit, man. Who gives a fuck? What a dumbass poll this is.
Who fucking cares, dude?
God, also fucking troops are such chuds.
The US military action currently going on in Iran, it plus 20 points.
That should not be so much of a surprise because take a look at how they view Trump's
foreign policy overall.
Again, look at those who served in the US military versus overall.
If you look at Trump's foreign policy—
By the way, the reason why—by the way, I think the reason why they're doing it is because
they're also trying to manufacture consent.
They're like, see, you dumb libtards don't want it, but the troops want it.
Policy, overall, the net approval rating on that per Fox News, those who served in the
military, they like what's going on on average.
Look at that, the net approval rating plus eight points for Trump's foreign policy.
Look at those overall, way, way down there at minus 20 points.
We're talking about a nearly 30 point gap between those who
served in the military and overall.
And this split, when it comes to those who served in the military
and overall, dates back to Trump's elections.
All the way back to 2016, but let's look at the 2024 numbers.
Look at this, 2024 results.
Those who served in the military,
Trump won them by, get this, 31 points.
Kamala Harris actually won all other voters by two points.
And that means, Johnny Berman,
That means that Donald Trump only won in 2024 because of support from those who served in
the military.
Whatever happened to Trump when he ran on the campaign trail so that, you know, the whole
MAGA thing?
Remember that?
Yeah.
Make America great again?
It wasn't really supposed to be going after country, after country, after country.
I don't recall hearing that much of the campaign trail, but just look at the number
of targets.
It's unbelievable to see, and it's trying to do like troop polling here because
they know.
The first four minutes of this eight-minute video, Harry Anton is supposed to give you
analysis, and normally you would bracket it off of Democrats, independents, and Republicans.
Instead, he came in and said, oh, among non-troups, it's unpopular, but among troops is popular.
That is fucking disgusting.
And it's not even troops, it's served in the military, so I assume it just means
like vets, chuds. You want to know why they did that? Because it's actually deeply unpopular
amongst the independents, it's deeply unpopular amongst the democrats. It's only popular amongst
the republicans. So they don't want to show it like that. So they're like, well, troops
like it, okay, if the troops like it, it's fine then. If veterans like it, that must
mean it's good. Like the indication here is that they know better than we do. The
The average defeat liberal doesn't know that war with Iran is good.
So look at our fucking big, beautiful chud veterans.
Which reacts to Trump's second term.
There is of course Venezuela, Nigeria, Somalia, I mean, the list goes on and on and now Cuba.
Yeah, he ran as an isolationist.
He is the opposite of that.
And that's actually why I think he's getting a lot of support from-
This doesn't even make sense to Trump ran with anti-war slogans.
It does make sense.
It's only plus 20 instead of like fucking 85-15 because even amongst chud ass veterans, they're
not that popular.
It's only plus 20 for that reason.
The only group where this is like overwhelmingly popular is Trump's own base.
And yes, there are a lot of chuds who are fucking veterans that are also in Trump's
stupid fucking base.
So yeah, there's a lot of cattle.
a lot of veterans in this community as well. They'll be the first to tell you. There's a
lot of fucking chuds in the, in the, uh, in the veteran class.
On the hill, because this is this traditional neocon conservative belief of, of American
interventionalism. And he's doing exactly that.
And going past beyond just your
I don't know a question about it, but I think a lot of people will be surprised a year ago
thinking to see this what's happening right now.
While the Trump administration is committed to the war with Iran, many Americans are not.
Demonstrators gathered in New York City, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles and San Francisco this weekend,
The women in the White House to end the military action and pursue diplomacy with Iran instead.
Some Iranian-American demonstrators shared their fears of a prolonged war, worried the
conflict would drag on indefinitely.
Many voiced their relief that the Islamic regime and Airtola leadership may finally
be at its end, but others insist that any political change in Iran must come from the
Iranian people themselves to be sustainable.
The largest community of Iranian expatriates in the United States is rallying in Los Angeles.
Seen as Julia Vargas Jones was there earlier.
So Julia, how are people there reacting to the conflict?
Well, John, like any diaspora, there is a fragmentation of it.
Let's find some more Shaw riders, bro.
The money is being molested.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Big time.
This is Trump's favorite thing, though.
He does love molesting the money.
He's like, they won't let me molest the ladies.
Okay, I did it too much.
Now I'm on the Epstein list.
So now the only thing I can molest is money.
I love molesting money.
Yes, but today what we saw here
in the streets of Los Angeles was a celebration.
Truly people are thanking President Trump
and Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel
for these tribes in Iran.
They see this as a pivotal moment,
an opportunity for the regime to fall.
But we have spoken to a variety of people here in what is known as Tehranjolas.
Take a listen to what they say.
Almost the same time I'm fighting against this regime, I was an anti-war activist.
So that's very complicated.
Of course, from the killing of the Khomeini, I am excited.
I cannot hide my feeling.
War with no Khomeini is better for everyone.
But at the same time, I don't like the war.
So you would rather see this be wrapped up and be done now?
Yeah, right now that's already that's we are moving forward.
How many is this? That's a good king.
Enough, enough.
It really, well, kind of feels like your voice didn't matter even from the start.
You were just, you know, they played you big dog.
They fucking played you big dog
They did not give a fuck about what you had to say you just came out and put yourself out there for no reason
I'll never understand it. Oh my god, there were so many chatters remember in the lead-up
Every day in the lead-up to the armada
Surrounding Iran every fucking day. There was like 40 chatters that I had to ban
What are you saying? I am from Tehran. This will be good. Oh my god. Oh
My fucking god brother and I kept telling you no this shit is not gonna be good. I'm glad that people like people are much faster now
People are much faster at coming to the you know the right conclusion I feel like it took a lot longer for
The Iraqis, they realized that this American campaign was horrifying.
I never had so much mixed feeling in my life that I have right now because on one level
I want my country to be free and liberated.
But on another level, I'm very sad when I see so many people
of my country in us here.
And John, we're here in a street where business after business
has signs in English and in Farsi,
not even close to a better visualization of how
split this community is.
Right here, we have pictures that activists
say are of people who were killed by the regime in Iran
with the word stop war, were feeding over it.
That's how fragmented it all is here
in this enormous community in Southern California, John.
Yeah, it really is very possible
to have very complicated emotions all over this.
Really interesting to hear from the people
that you were speaking with there.
Julia's, Marguerite Jones, thank you so much
for sharing your reporting.
I
Oh God Pete
Pete kegs breath got a fucking 60 minutes interview
With us and Israeli strikes on Iran in their second week tonight. You will hear from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth
According to the Pentagon more than
50,000 members of the U.S. military are involved in the execution of what it calls Operation
Epic Fury.
Our CBS News colleague, Major Garrett, spoke with Hegseth about the war with Iran.
The U.S. military said it had already struck 3,000 targets inside Iran, and we met with
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on Friday. The speaker of the House said late this week,
the mission is, and I'm quoting him directly here, nearly accomplished by all estimates.
Is that true? We're very much on track on plan. I was down at SETCOM.
Yes. We might hear that. I think it's almost over. Well, there's no, we're not.
How's that? How's that language going to look a month out?
Oh
We're very much we're very much in control
Dude it's
This is 2003 all over again like they're all we'll just be in and out that'll be a little bit longer
Two weeks three weeks maybe three months
But by six months we're out
Flying the mission accomplished banner like George W. Bush on on the aircraft carrier. We're not doing that and we haven't done that yet because
because, because you haven't even, you haven't even deteriorated the Iranian ballistic missile
launch capabilities, dude. They've pummeled all of the American bases. Like people really
undermine this shit on the internet. Cause I see both sides. I see like the pro IRGC
accounts that are like, Oh, look at this AI video of Tel Aviv getting nuked. It's
That's not real. What the fuck's wrong with you? But then on the pro-american side, which is like most of Osset with the exception of like maybe 8 to 10 accounts
This is basically like the fucking Ukraine Russia monitoring the situation stuff all over again
The American side is like tremendously overestimating the the defenses of Ukraine. Oh
The spring counter offensive is gonna come anytime now
Ukraine is actually winning. Ukraine is actually winning. The Russian side is like, the Russian
OCD and he's like Russians with attitude or whatever are like running around being like,
oh, we're fucking, we actually totally did a tactical retreat from Kiev.
This was by design, you see. We just wanted to see the, you know, we just wanted to
see it. We just wanted to touch, touch the base real quick and then get back
and retreat to Eastern Ukraine. Now, of course, obviously, if you look at what's
going out of the battleground if you look at the battle lines that favors Russia, right?
In this situation, I would say that the Iranians are outperforming the expectations by a very
wide margin.
But it's again, same shit.
It's the same fucking shit.
So strange that like the American side are like, you don't understand our dicks are so hard. Oh
Dude in and out dude. What the fuck it's not that big of a deal. Oh, we've actually destroyed
The Iranian launch capabilities like they're done
We're actually destroying their missile silos. They're done. It's like you have no evidence for this
The only evidence presented by the Israeli side of the American side is quite literally
Whatever we see from the Iranian news, which is like dead children
And the only evidence you have is your your drone footage and your fucking drone footage is
Dogshit like half of them are half of them are blowing up like single-use TELs
That they have you know thousands of
But these motherfuckers are whipping these things up in the back of a K truck
They're putting launchers on the back of a K truck and then taking it out of the cave systems and just launching fucking ballistic munitions
So
It's very strange to you know
To posture like this when the straight of hormones is closed
closed. Trump called Politico said Cuba's gonna fall and Zaleski's the obstacle of peace.
He added something unexpected before the call moved on. Cuba's gonna fall too by the way.
Yeah, he keeps saying it. I fucking hate it dude. I hate it so much. Now obviously we're
going to be in Cuba soon. I hope that this doesn't happen. My real, my big fear is that
he's going to want like a easy W or what he perceives as a easy W and he's going to try
to do a fucking, um, he's going to try to do like a, like a Venezuela style campaign
Cuba and I hate that I really hope they have weapons man I really really hope
they got enough fucking gear to defend themselves
please don't please don't go to Cuba no I'm going to Cuba motherfucker I'm
Definitely go into Cuba unless they start the military campaign. I'm gonna go to Cuba
What terrorism Cuba has ever done nothing nothing at all like there's not even anything you can say that Cuba is done
We've done terrorism the Cuba nonstop
It hurts my fucking soul
They're gonna wait until you're there and then they're gonna fucking kill me
Yeah, Cuba does terrorism by sending doctors everywhere, which the American government literally made illegal.
The American government has gotten Jamaica and numerous other countries in Latin America to send away their doctors.
They closed the fucking Cuban embassy in Ecuador.
This whole like operation, you know, compredor shield in South America is entirely designed
around like making sure that every single Latin American country has a right-wing neo-Nazis
in charge.
What would there excuse be for Cuba?
What would there be you that messaged the U.S.?
Nothing.
He's hoping for a, he's hoping for a decapitation strike, probably, or actually there's reporting
on this. He's hoping for an indictment. He's trying to, he went and told the DOJ, find something,
find something on the Cuban leadership. And the DOJ was like, there's nothing,
like there's literally nothing we can do. So they, they're trying to like craft a case,
like a fake bullshit case against the Cuban leadership, drug trafficking charges or something
like that, but there's no evidence whatsoever for it. Like, nothing that they can lean into,
but that's what they're going to try to do. They're going to try to do a Venezuela by
try to extract the president.
I was just trying to watch the WBC earlier and they had some fucking dickhead behind home playing the anti-combatism for Cuba's time but make sure it was on the Fox broadcast.
It's true, both progressives in true America first can
conservatives to support this deal diplomacy and business deals with Cuba is
the right path restoring America's freedom to travel and allowing Americans
and Cuban entrepreneurs to work hard and profit a smart policy oh 100%
that would be awesome that would be the best I just don't think he's gonna
do that. This would be the best. Japan's stock market is plunging. Yeah, that's not surprising.
Japan's new case stock plunges more than 6%. Yeah, they're dude. Wait, where did I read this? Is
Is it true that Taiwan has 11 days of gas remaining in their reserves?
Like 11 days.
So in 11 days, Taiwan's out of fucking gas completely.
That is so crazy.
at least Japan has like, like 200 days worth of reserves for their oil.
No, it's, it's nutty.
What do you do?
New Zealand has about a month.
What do you do then?
You're just done.
There's just no more gas.
Like, okay, no more production.
What's happening in Japan?
And I want, okay, guys, in order for you guys to understand the significance
of the Hormuz Strait. Taiwan calls in one China privilege. Yeah, Taiwan is 11 days of
natural gas storage. It will shut down by next weekend. All those China is done in two
weeks videos. We're just wrong about which China. There's only one China. Yeah, Taipei
times. Taiwan crude oil and gas reserves above minimum. Taiwan has enough crude oil for more
than 100 days and sufficient natural gas reserves for more than 11 days.
Both above the regulatory safety requirement. Wait, how was that? What?
Am I crazy?
So you're just fucked.
Do UK only has one or two days or weeks left?
Yeah, so without the natural gas, you have no production.
It will cripple the TSMC, yes.
Because natural gas is used as like natural gas is not just used as like heat or something, right?
No, it's not just for heating. It's it's it's used as a as like a what is it called starter?
Like it's used for
Storing LNG and gasoline is a huge pain. That's the real issue not crude oil
UK has two days. British newspaper The Guardian, the UK has gas reserves for only two days.
Over our energy sprites for this month is secure. The government is continuing every
stage to ensure sufficient supply for next month. The ministry has been holding cross-minister
meeting to the executive yonder ensure stable supplies of gas include Taiwan receives about
30 natural gas emissions each month of which 10 come from the Middle East while the remaining
20 are from other regions.
State Ron CBC Corp. Taiwan has implemented a dual stabilization mechanism, including
oil price smoothing measures and lowest price among, lowest price principle among
neighboring Asian economies to keep domestic fuel prices within a controlled range.
surprises will ultimately be decided by the Electricity Rate Review Committee.
They got a few months of reserves man, no way two days. So the reason why I mean
obviously depending on what time of the year you you have more need for guest
depending on which time of the year you're in right for heating. But in Taiwan, I'm pretty
sure you need the gas, not just for like heating or whatever. You need it as like, as a part
of the productive process for, for the chip manufacturing. Okay, guys, stop sending me
the fucking British article. I don't care about that.
Shade of Hormose has been close for eight days.
Everyone thinks about what oil becomes.
90% of the world's sulfur comes from refining oil and gas.
Close to the shade of Hormose,
you don't just lose 20 million barrels of crude per day.
You lose the feedstock for sulfuric acid,
the single most produced chemical on earth.
So, furg acid is how we extract copper. It's how we extract cobalt. Without it, you can't make transformers, EV batteries, or the substrates inside every data center on the planet.
I don't know how, uh, I don't know how legit this is.
Is this legit?
Seems like a random
seems like a random PhD, MD PhD in the chemical industry.
And the whole written history of the straight, it has never been closed ever.
So JP Morgan Chase analyst Natasha Keneva, to me it was just, to me it was not just
the worst case scenario.
It was an unthinkable scenario.
the mad lad did it dude the fucking mad lad did it it's so funny that they were
like we have to kill the Iranian leadership because if we don't kill the
Iranian leadership they will present a real danger to Israel by blowing Israel
up and they present a real danger to our golf allies by blowing our golf
allies up and God forbid they might close the straight of her moves well
Congratulations
Because you made them do it. You literally pushed them into a fucking corner so much so that they did that shit
Spectacular W sir you like for years Iran was like Iran never closed the Strait of Hormuz
For years Iran never pummeled every single fucking Gulf region that had American military bases
You kept pissing them off. They barely barely did a retaliatory strike on cutter on the alo
date air base and they did some, you know, they did some striking on Tel Aviv in the tit
for tat 12 day war, but they just never did this shit.
The last version of this, the light, like you go up the escalation ladder and I guess
like only thing that remains is blowing up the fucking oil refineries.
It's just so weird.
And everyone that has been for the last couple of days talking about how, oh, the Gulf nation
states are very mad at Iran.
They're wrong.
Okay.
No, they're mad at America because they didn't give Iran billions of fucking dollars.
Okay.
they gave America billions of dollars. Why did they give America billions of dollars?
So what is going on right now does not happen. Twofold, one, Israel doesn't dominate them
too hard because now, you know, they are a reliable ally to the United States of America.
Two, they get to have American protection from other regional actors, whether it be
Iran or even Israel. Both of those things are gone now. It was literally for this reason.
And that was a multiple, you know, that was hundreds of billions of dollars in investment
into American businesses with the hopes that expats come and run the show over there, which
they do. That's the other side of the story. These countries cannot run without expats.
I'm not talking about immigrant workers. Okay. The racist equation. X-PAP means white guy
or, or, you know, uh, someone coming from a country that, that is already a developed
country as opposed to like migrant workers. Cause you got the nationals in the Gulf and
you got the residents, residents get bracketed off into engineers and also just like, you
know, people that work in sanitation and construction, the immigrant workers. Okay.
Most of these guys that run all of the fucking things that they need, like, you know, the
oil refineries and shit like that, are expats.
They're like white guys.
They're people that come from developed nations to Saudi Arabia, to the Gulf, to Dubai,
all these places.
They're going to fuck off because they're not going to want to get bombed.
So who's going to control the economy at that point?
Then you're gone. You're like, okay, well, you know, this was fine. I have a fairly decent
life here. But I have kids here. And what is this and woman Hassan? Yeah, men and women.
you Katari cat is true men and women that go to the golf to work there. So they're going
to leave. They're going to fucking leave because yeah, it's happy international women's day.
right, bodies and spaces. All of the Hank Hills will evacuate exactly and their wives.
So then you have no business, no business whatsoever.
So with the exception of like the UAE that basically demanded that this happen, right?
With the exception of the UAE that wanted this was begging for this to happen. Okay, those those sons of bitches over there
No one else in the Gulf wanted this to happen and there's stuck between a rock and a hard place and they're just like well
What the fuck you're we gave you so much money?
You fucked us you fucked us for Israel. We gave you money. So Israel doesn't fuck us. We gave you money
So we don't get bombed by Iran
Israel fucked us and now we're getting bombed by Iran
And you fucked us too, you couldn't even defend your own goddamn bases.
And you can write as many economist articles that you want to fucking write about how they
actually are petitioning the American government to blow up Iran harder or whatever.
That is bullshit.
These guys don't love Iran, but they recognize that they have to live with Iran, especially
all the other Gulf nations that are not the UAE because they're also terrified of Israel.
And they want at least some kind of sovereign Iran to exist in the region so that they can
someone can push back against Israel when Israel is doing all this fuck shit.
Iran just reduced every plant construction in Dubai to a white elephant.
Two blessed to be stressed.
that brunch class are going to be on the first flights out. Oh, 100%.
The sweeping residential skyscrapers are currently under construction in Dubai.
The twin towers of the Bengati flare will rise to 34 stories and 40 stories
respectfully at Jamera Village Triangle.
These projects offer more than 1300 new apartments when it completes in 2027.
Trump is a man who has never seen cosplays where fucking someone over, perhaps they should have seen this coming, yeah.
I mean, he might still pull through because his fucking Trump quoted to the times of Israel that the decision to end the war will be a mutual decision between him and Bibi.
Oh my God. Oh my God, he's so cocked. What the fuck is this?
Oh my God, he literally controls the country. Oh my God, we have given him the country
Trump the times of Israel even mutual decision booth be be regarding when the Iran war ends president clarifies
He'll make the final call to end up at right time
Says he and prime minister working together to show the country would have destroyed Israel
The president asked whether he alone would decide when the war with Iran ends or if Nenya would also ever say
I think it's mutual a little bit. We've been talking. I'll make a decision at the right time
But everything's gonna be taken into account
You have a surprising amount of golf viewers, why is that surprising?
The closer you are in proximity to Israel the more you fucking hate Israel, so it makes sense
Oh yeah, he's so cocked he's been constantly complaining about Isaac Herzog must pardon
Benjamin and Yahoo.
Why is the hormones essential?
Are there not other ports that will can be shipped out of?
No, because that's where all of the supply is.
I guess you could technically build pipelines.
I believe that they have built some pipelines to transport it across to the other side
of the Red Sea, but that's where all the refineries are.
That's where all the oil is, that's where all the gas is in the Persian Gulf.
So that's it. Also, Hormuz is not a port. It's a straight.
So we all need to look at a map every now and then. It's not a port at all. It's just
the straight of Hormuz is a choke point, okay? It's a choke point. It's like 20 to 30 kilometers
wide from one side to the other. It's a kill zone. If Iran decides to close it,
They can close it. They can close it by mining it, if they want to, I don't think they even
need to. But basically, that's where a big chunk of all the oil and gas that transports
to the eastern countries, that's where they come from. That's where they have to go through.
Yeah, this is where all the oil is for the record. This is where all the refineries are.
This is where Iran is, Big Daddy Iran. And on the other side of Saudi Arabia is obviously
the Red Sea. So they could technically create pipelines and transport the barrels of oil,
it's just not as efficient because oil tankers are the most efficient mechanism of transport.
You can put a fuck ton. You can move a lot of oil and gas with a tanker.
New numbers in the oil supply shock so far is now five exercise in 1978.
Yeah, the problem is Americans don't eat that as hard. I mean, they do,
Obviously, it will still reflect in the American prices as well, but it won't be as bad because
in 1978, we didn't have fracking.
We have our own energy independence now.
So pipelines just like tankers are quite exposed against zillions of drones and missiles?
Sure.
The footage no one publishes is military defenses.
This is from the 12-day war.
This is old.
But yes, they have defenses literally in residential areas, yes.
They don't want to show it.
one of the only images you've ever seen that uh of a
everybody.
Lindsey Graham says he was receiving instructions directly from Benjamin and Yassain
they're going to completely collapse and destroy Iran.
Oh my god.
Before Trump said you can't have an equal weapon you can't do this
now we're finally doing something about it.
So we're going to stick with it.
I talked to BB this morning.
They're all in. This regime's going to clap.
It's not yet this weekend.
happens rule be safer you see this from reform in the uk and you a I know they do this all
the time bro this is like the UAE is responsible for so much Islamophobia the UAE literally
funds Tommy Robinson they're disgusting dude I don't even want to fucking I don't
even want to talk about it they're they're psychotic bro I don't understand how the
other Gulf nations don't just like slap them around a little bit to be like the
What the fuck are you doing?
Most expensive gas station in L.A.?
Spotted in downtown L.A.?
That's not the most expensive gas station.
This is not downtown Los Angeles.
This is Beverly Hills, ironically enough.
in Beverly Hills, so that all of the people saying, oh, a President Trump, thank you, thank
you, thank you, Bibi Netanyahu, thank you.
You made my gasoline 821 President Trump, thank you so much.
You kill my relative in Tehran, but it's okay.
make the price of oil so much. But now I can have Kubi Day in Tehran.
Shredded Hormuz also provides a world with fertilizer and will impact food prices as well.
It's crazy how they didn't think this through.
In the past couple of days, the war in Iran has rapidly expanded.
Instead of retaliating directly, Iran reacted to the American and Israeli air campaign by
launching a coup.
What the fuck is this in Kubi?
I'm in a village.
The people in Iran are in a village.
We call them in Kubi, we call them in a village.
You were literally repeating shit that's essentially my family saying it's so fucking
accurate and annoying.
The military and non-military targets across the region, destabilizing not just the Middle
Eastern but now global economy.
With Qatar's energy minister warning on Friday morning that, unless the war winds down very
soon, global oil prices could go as high as $150 a barrel, and quote bring down the
economies of the world.
So in this video, we thought we'd take a look at how the war in Iran is already affecting
the global economy and how much worse it could get.
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What the fuck is this?
It's off last week, and especially since it started to look like it might last a while,
any-
TLDR is shit.
I know this because I watch it.
I mean, they're liberals, but I mean, this is pretty basic explanation.
The prices have surged.
Brent Crude, the global benchmark for oil prices, has gone from about $70 a barrel
last month to over $85 at the time of writing.
This sort of unders...
Tel Aviv and utter chaos?
Is it?
Is this...?
Is this actually real?
I can't do it.
Everything I see from Tel Aviv is fake, usually.
It sucks.
It states the severity of the increase as well, because oil is priced in dollars and
the dollar has also surged, as investors flock to traditional safe assets to hedge against
this new political risk. The so-called dollar index, for instance, which measures the strength
of the dollar against a basket of other currencies, has risen by three points in the past week
Where my fucking israeli is that bro?
Where my israeli is that what's happening bro? What's happening on the home front? Are y'all in the fucking bunkers? What's going on?
How's the mood over there?
The eight anti-zionist Jews that are in the fucking it from Israel that are in the community
It's just there is crazy censorship in Israel by the way you have a
much harder time getting information getting accurate information from Israel
than you do from fucking Iran right now which is why cuz like they they also
obviously don't have internet in Iran either big dog you got 14 in here now
damn the number of anti-zionist Jews in Israel has increased that's almost
Double dude what the fuck I used to say seven now it's 14 y'all doubled. That's crazy
Unless it's Mossad half is Mossad half is the anti-zionist Israelis
Similarly European natural gas prices have nearly doubled rising from 30 euros per megawatt hour to more like
50 euros at the time of writing. Although things are still nowhere near as bad.
Nothing going on here. Sorry, man. No, but like, how is the, the bombing been?
Is it like, is it happening? Is it not happening?
Cause I've heard from some Israelis about how like the response time has gone
down to like two minutes, sometimes not at all. And,
Oh dear, we got 15 now.
Massage.
They were after Putin's invasion of Ukraine.
Jet fuel prices have followed a similar trajectory, reaching a four-year high on Thursday.
This is largely because Iran has effectively shut down the strait of Hormuz, a narrow waterway between the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman
that is the only sea passage from the Persian Gulf to the open ocean, and thus how most Middle Eastern hydrocarbon exports get to the rest of the world.
To give you a sense of quite how important the strait is for global energy markets, last year about 20% of all oil consumed globally went through the strait,
with the majority going to markets in Asia.
Anyway, when the war broke out last week, insurance cost spiked and traffic fell.
But there was still some oil getting through.
However, when Iran started actively targeting tankers a couple of days ago, traffic effectively
fell to zero, with dozens of oil-laden tankers now sitting idle in the Persian Gulf.
Trump has tried to get things moving again by offering insurance backstops and naval
escorts.
But this hasn't worked so far.
To make matters worse, Iran has also started actively targeting energy infrastructure in
nearby countries. Earlier this week, for instance, Iranian drone attacks halted all
natural gas production in Qatar, and forced a suspension of operations at Saudi Arabia's
largest oil refinery, Ras Tanura. This has also caused other countries to preemptively
stop production, because there's less damage to repair if infrastructure is hit when
it's not actively carrying oil or gas. Iraq, for instance, which typically accounts
for about 5% of global oil production, recently suspended exports via a pipeline that runs
to the port of Chehan in Turkey, and would have provided an alternative export route.
To make matters even worse, the disruption to global energy markets has triggered a
wave of so-called energy nationalism, with countries halting exports to guarantee
domestic supply. Thailand suspended oil exports on March 1st, China audits largest
oil refineries to halt diesel and petrol exports on March 5th, and a couple of Indian
and refiners have also halted exports, presumably at the request of the Indian government.
The risk...
Please talk about the farmers, man.
What farmers?
Here is that there's snowballs.
Energy nationalism means more disruption to supply, which leads to more energy nationalism,
etc.
Anyway, that's energy.
On to the second risk the war poses to the global economy, disruption to global
food market.
This is actually not a bad video at all.
As we learned a couple of years ago, when energy prices go up, food prices usually go
up as well, because energy is a significant input in food production.
But the war in Iran is extra bad for global food markets, because quite a lot of the world's
fertilizer comes from the Middle East.
For context, much of the world's fertilizer is produced via a process that involves
natural gas, which is why there were quite a lot of fertilizer plants in and around
the Middle East, nearby big gas producers, and why roughly a third of globally traded
fertilizer passes through the strait of Hormuz. Disruption to global gas supplies and shipping
through the strait thus means higher fertilizer costs and the price of urea, the world's most
common fertilizer, has already risen 25% in the past couple of days. This comes up to a particularly
bad time for the global food cycle. In parts of Europe and the Northern Hemisphere, March
and April are the start of fertilizer application season and less fertilizer now
will thus mean lower crop yields later in the year. Anyway, third and finally, the war presents a
risk to the global economy. Of course, there's the general risk that all this geopolitical turmoil
triggers anxiety-induced sell-offs in the stock market and other assets. We've already seen this
in places, with especially sharp sell-offs in Asian markets. But there's also a more specific
risk at play here, namely that increases in energy and food prices push up headline inflation,
which triggers interest rate hikes, which could trigger a financial crisis.
For context, as you might already know, for the past couple of years, there's been a lot of talk
about how, from certain angles, the US economy looks a bit bubbly and might thus be at risk of
some sort of financial crisis. We're not going to go into whether the US economy is actually
a bubble right now, not least because that would require another video in itself. But the
point we want to make here is that one of the things that's calmed investors' nerves
is that, for the past couple of years, the US and other big economies have been cutting
interest rates in response to falling inflation. This has calmed nerves, because historically
financial crises usually happen when rates are going up, because that effectively makes
it more expensive to borrow and thus increases the risk of debt-related crises. It's often
forgotten today, but this is sort of what happened before 2008. In large part thanks
to a rise in global energy prices, inflation rose steadily throughout the early 2000s, pushing
central banks to hike interest rates which basically peaked in 2007, just before the
crisis.
To be clear, we're not saying this is going to happen at all. But rate hikes would bring
new risks, especially when parts of the so-called private credit market are already
looking very shaky.
As you mentioned earlier, the latest edition of our magazine too is the Suna'i Kingdom.
This is one is real from Tel Aviv.
I mean that's definitely real it doesn't really matter though because the Israeli approvals
for this is like fucking 80% still.
Likely legacy of Operation Epic Fury, Global Energy Crisis possibly a recession depending
on how long it lasts giving how many martyrdom having him replaced by the hardest hard
liner possible completely discrediting Iran's reformist faction driving major fissure
among Iranian diaspora, undermining proclaimed leadership role of Rezapal Ovi, undermining
Dubai, Qatar, etc., as global destinations with ultra-rich should move to, massively enhancing
argument within Iran's military elite to pursue nukes by Islamic Republic more years
after the terrible period since 2022, prestige enhanced.
Just the most appalling political judgment from Trump in his retinue, I just presume
he's seen out at this point? No, he's just, that's Israel, baby.
I mean, that's like, this is best case scenario, by the way, for everyone. This implies that like,
this implies that like America retreated. Worst case scenario is the war's worst is like nukes,
something beneath the worst worst is boots on the ground military warfare.
X-rays being halted is fucking with the farms already. It's time to sow seeds for the new harvest. No fertilizer extremely high price will close low yields and cause bankruptcy.
Farms are already been choosing suicide over this around the world in light of increasing corporate farming. This will cause global food insecurity in September.
If the current planting time is missed because of this war and delay in fertilizer exports.
There should be an intense global diplomatic effort to make sure Trump doesn't use nukes.
He's crazy enough to do it.
We'll get frustrated and desperate as this thing drags on.
And he has a lunatic and timers in his ear who will encourage him.
Yes.
Yesterday, RGC Air Force was observed launching missiles from S. Faham missile base.
The above ground structure of the base were bombed three times during the 12-day
war, and the underground tunnels and tunnel entrances were bombed once by F-35s two
separatized of B2 bombers and bunker buses the past week alone yet somehow this base is still operational and continue to launch missiles
Just two days after was last time. Yeah, this is the thing. I don't understand
We can literally see this fucking base and it's just still keeps
blasting missiles into orbit
This is one of the fixed position ones and I don't even understand how like I
I don't understand, like, what it's built with.
Maybe they do have, like, unobtainium, super-concrete composite.
It can be clear with the American people that this is not a fair fight, and that's on purpose.
Our capabilities are overwhelming compared to what Iran's are.
And frankly, when you combine our air force with the air force of the Israeli Defense
It's the two most powerful air forces in the world.
The ability for us to be up over the top and hunting with more conventional munitions,
gravity bombs, 500 pound, 1,000 pound, 2,000 pound bombs on military targets.
We haven't even really begun to start that effort of the campaign, which is going to
showcase even more how we will execute on those objectives.
President said recently there will be no deal with Iran except unconditional surrender.
What does that look like, unconditional surrender?
How will you know it's real?
means we're fighting to win. It means we set the terms. We'll know when they're
not capable of fighting. There'll be a point where they'll have no choice but
to do that. But whether they know it or not, they will be combat ineffective. They
will surrender. Typically the understanding of a surrender is person
to person. Is that what would be required in a matter like this? There's
a lot of different ways. Whether they want to admit it or not, whether
their pride lets them say it out loud or not, it's President Trump who will set
the terms of that. The president of Iran said yesterday that the U.S.
demand for unconditional surrender is quote a dream that they should take to
their grave. There was a very long war between Iran and Iraq almost eight years
and they never surrendered in that war. I'm just wondering if that factors into
your calculus of the president's calculus. It was a really long fight that I was a part of, but my generation was a part of Iraq and Afghanistan, where a lot of foolish approaches were...
Wait what? That literally is okay. Iran won the Iran-Iraq war.
war, they remained intact. And Iraq and Afghanistan technically also won their subsequent wars
against the United States of America. Neither of these arguments are good for you.
Oh, you mean the eight year long war that Iraq lost and then the 20 year fucking occupation
of Afghanistan that ended up with a ginormous fucking L.
This is war, this is conflict,
this is bringing your enemy to their knees.
Now, whether they will have a ceremony in Tehran Square
and surrender, that's up to them.
There are varying versions of how
and why the war started when it did.
Some normally enthusiastic supporters
of the president have criticized him,
suggesting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
hold the U.S. into a war that, to their minds, did not put American interests first.
Do you want to address that criticism?
All I know is I'm in the room every day and I see how President Trump operates and what
he's putting first, and it's America, Americans, and American interests.
It has been said that the Israelis, through Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli Prime Minister,
provided on February 23rd key information about intelligence they had developed about
the likely whereabouts of Alifamini and many in his inner circle.
That the US then checked it out for the CIA, confirmed that,
and that was an opportunity that presented itself
to the president.
And that was the precipitating factor for this war.
That's the way it's been reported.
Is that accurate, Mr. Secretary?
President Trump's approach has been our interest
in advancing those interests from the beginning.
And so the fact that intelligence was gathered,
whether from Israelis or ours, and always checked
by our intel agencies to make sure it's accurate.
A lot of times the best way to start operations
is a trigger-based or condition-based moment.
And you can work together on whether that makes sense.
But we were always controlling the throttle
about whether or not to go or not go and ultimately.
Yeah, except he's wrong.
The Intel's dog shit.
And last but not least, literally today,
America came out and was like,
oh, shit, you guys struck the oil refineries,
Israel, by the way, we didn't intend to do that.
Why did you do that?
You shouldn't do that.
To advance American interests and protect American lives.
Some might look at that sequence of events
and say, well, then it was an opportunity
more than an imminent threat.
I mean, I think much of that discussion is silly
and academic.
They've been killing us for 48 years, 47 years.
They have unambated nuclear ambitions.
And when we obliterated their nuclear program
at the end of the 12-day war and Operation Midnight Hammer,
they should have come to the table and said,
okay, we get it, you mean business,
we're not gonna have nukes, and they haven't.
And as a result, when the president looks at it,
generationally, he sees a threat
that would continue to gather.
I can't believe this guy was literally
the weekend host of Fox and Friends, dude.
And now he's the fucking secretary of defense,
sorry, secretary of offense, secretary of war.
Despite the administration's claim that it obliterated Iran's nuclear infrastructure in
June, international monitors estimate that Iran still has more than 970 pounds of nearly
bomb-grade uranium.
Is it possible to achieve the objectives President Trump has set before you if we don't locate
and obtain and extract the highly enriched uranium?
There's a lot of different ways we can get after that.
They've used a conventional umbrella of missiles that was growing every single day, their production
capacity, to try to cover over their nuclear blackmail ambitions.
As far as how you get at that nuclear option, we'll make sure that their nuclear ambitions
are never achieved.
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