This video argues that political figures and media outlets often exhibit selective outrage, criticizing government actions against leftists like Hassan Piker while accepting similar actions against their own political allies, revealing a fundamental inconsistency in how political accountability is applied across different groups.
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First they came for Jimmy Kimmel, but I said nothing because I wasn't a late night host.
>> Yeah, I I don't watch that dumb [ __ ] >> Then they came for Don Lemon, and I said nothing because I wasn't a CNN pundit.
>> Well, me personally, I said free Don Lemon, >> which made me feel really dumb.
>> Then recently, they came for Thomas Massie. And again, I I said nothing because I wasn't a Republican, although I did say things just go along with the poem. And then they came for [ __ ] and there's no one left to defend Hassan [ __ ] I guess I I don't know. It's genuinely been insane what's transpired like I guess over the weekend, right?
when the charges got announced because if you weren't aware the the feds subpoenaed Hassan [ __ ] for the going over to Cuba and doing aid like what like the subpoena was about the idea that he violated US sanctions by delivering just humanitarian aid to Cuba. So now he's got to like what testify in court and >> and I think the the allegation is that like he went to businesses or hotels or something like that that are like on the blacklist. Uh cuz like you can go to Cuba. It's legal for American citizens to go to Cuba, but you can't do business with certain businesses that I think have like associations with the state or some it's some dumb [ __ ] >> Yeah. Whatever it is, it's stupid [ __ ] that the feds literally made up to come after a streamer. Once again, nobody nobody in politics right now is learning that beefing with streamers is not what you should be doing right now.
Mallerie McMorro beefed with a streamer.
Now she's now she's just falling behind in the polls. Everybody who comes out and starts beefing with streamers, Hassan specifically, just ends up losing in the end.
>> Yeah. And I think a lot of people don't understand that like I as a leftist I'm I don't want to talk about Hassan [ __ ] like really ever.
>> No, I don't want to talk about a lot of this stuff. It's just like it's like inter online [ __ ] Like I don't know.
>> The federal government now is just boosting his profile. Like they're they're going after him with federal charges. Previously Congress introduced a a resolution to condemn Assad.
>> Torres like sent a letter on like congressional letterhead I think to Amazon being like you got to fire this guy. I I know he's getting involved in these primaries like with Chris Grab and Abdul El Say and a couple of other people, but it's like damn, these candidates and Hassan himself would not be experiencing this much this much attention had they not hyperfocused on this guy for no goddamn reason.
>> No, literally. And I think it like all kind of started with that Richie Torres letter head. I don't know if he sent it to Amazon or just like wrote an official statement or whatever. I think it was like 2 years ago just condemning us on like again I said it back then. What are we doing? And I say it right now. What are we doing? like this dude is a streamer. And even beyond just like the feds coming after this guy, the discourse, man, that evil, evil, dumb, stupid word discourse has been genuinely remarkable. And I mean, this is all taking place on twitter.com. This isn't a real life thing. You know what I mean?
But I'm on twitter.com quite frequently and so I have to see it. And it is just the worst capital L liberals coming out here and being like, "Oh yeah, actually maybe it's a good thing that the feds are getting us on."
>> No. Yeah. liberals these days or at least online liberals will will genuinely push back harder against Hassan [ __ ] than their elected representatives. I don't get it.
>> It's crazy the amount of shadow boxing that they're engaging in because so many tweets I saw over the weekend were liberals just liberal accounts going out there tweeting with their two fingers on x.com, Twitter.com, whatever you want to call it. Oh, leftists are still attacking Democrats way more even though Trump's DOJ is actively charging us on with it. But leftists, they still want to attack liberals. These people are brain broken. Where are you seeing that?
Where is that happening? Where who is it actually like going on that like, oh, Trump's DOJ gives charges against Assan Biker and leftist just in mass. All of them. Every single one of us are going around and saying, "Oh, liberals, am I right?" I I mean, now I am because you guys are [ __ ] annoying. But that's kind of like what liberals are, you know?
>> Yeah. And and and a lot of people are rotating this clip of Hassan like laughing at Adam Schiff getting indicted for some [ __ ] And it's like, well, yeah, first of all, it's kind of funny, but also like is that bad or not? Like are we are we against political persecutions or not? And if we are, then we should be equally against him targeting Adam Schiff for [ __ ] reasons and also them targeting Hassan [ __ ] for [ __ ] reasons.
>> Exactly. And it's also just like it feels cherrypicked. Like sure, sure, condemn, condemn, condemn, whatever you want to say about the Adam Schiff thing, but it feels incredibly cherrypicked because there have been so many just like regular liberals that have been attacked by the Trump administration.
James Comey, the 8647 thing, Jimmy K, DON LEMON, >> DON LEMON, >> DON LEMON. OH MY, IT'S BEEN RIDICULOUS.
And most of these people, everyone has come out and said, "Hey guys, this is bad. This is bad when something like that happens." But it's only when something happens to a leftist where liberals just seem to come out. Or it's not every liberal, but it's the very specific kind of just annoying online twitter.com liberal that's over here being like, "Oh, leftist, am I right?"
Like they >> liberals, every accusation is a confession. Just like when it comes to Republicans and when it comes to liberals because we they they go out there and say that leftists devote all their time to just [ __ ] on liberals and getting them to step down. And you know what? I'll admit me kind of me me >> well I mean when they deserve it.
>> Me kind of cuz they deserving of it. But truly liberals online do spend so much of their time attacking leftists for stupid dumb [ __ ] And I I can't ignore that. I feel like so much of this has to do with Gaza. Like so much of this has been like the the fall off of the fallout of what's happened with liberals refusing to get with the times and get away from the relationship with Israel because it that has to be what this is.
That's what all of this like has stem from. That's what has blown Hassan up.
That's what That's what blew Hassan up when Valerie McMoru attacked him. That's what a lot of these attacks have been about. It's all like foreign policy [ __ ] >> And that's what all the Third Way like Search Light Institute [ __ ] was about.
Like all the op-eds that they pumped out, all the different like memos that they sent around to different Democrats.
Like they are just trying to exclude Hassan [ __ ] from the quote unquote Big 10 because he's anti- Zionist.
>> It's all about it's all about these like silly silly uh stupid [ __ ] accusations of anti-semitism. And I I can't look at this and see that it's not an extension of that same brain disease.
You know what I mean? Because that's why a lot of these liberals hate him. A lot of these liberals that are going out there and spending so much of their time tweeting about Hassan over the weekend over Memorial Day weekend, the holiday weekend, bro, get off twitter.com. Take a day off. I did.
I did. All you you don't have to do that. Like, but they're they are genuinely brain thinking about this guy.
They're so mad about oh no, a principled stance against genocide. They're so mad about all these things that they just they can't get off the internet. Go touch grass. I got sunburned over the weekend cuz I was out there touching grass.
>> And you know, right now it is sort of contained to online liberals just being annoying and like low-key celebrating the f the fascist government cracking down on someone they don't like, which is like the point of that poem, by the way. Like the actual poem was like, hey, they came for people that I didn't really care about and I should have spoke up for them, but I didn't. Yep.
Like that's that's the premise of it. So whatever. Right now a lot of that is contained to just like online liberals, but like give it time. Chuck Schumer might be like, "Yeah, he deserves it."
You know what I mean? Like, I wouldn't be surprised.
>> I WOULDN'T I WOULDN'T BE SURPRISED IF RICHIE TORRES or Chuck Schumer or one of these like third way Welcome Fest people. Alyssa Slotkin. Oh, my senator Alyssa Slackin got out there, got at a press conference somewhere was asked a question, they're like, "Yeah, you know, I don't know. Maybe it it maybe we do have to seriously look at the things that he did when he went over there to Cuba because if he was if he was communicating with these businesses that are on a blacklist, then he broke the law."
>> Yeah.
>> Then he broke the law and justice is blind. And we have to we have to look at impropriy where it is. How can we How can we say Trump is corrupt when Hassan [ __ ] the the Twitch streamer is doing all these things? We have to look at it.
We have to apply justice equally.
>> I don't [ __ ] get it, dude. Whatever.
>> I don't I don't get it either. It's all stupid and it's just like everything so many of the things that I saw this week, which we'll talk or I guess last week you can say that we'll talk about on the show, I feel like are genuinely radicalizing. One, the stuff that's going on with the Iran war, which we're going to get in after the open, right?
And then to the DNC autopsy report, the Mallerie McMorro interview, just everything that has been happening on the internet. If I wasn't at the place I am right now with my politics, I think would have got me there because it's just wow.
>> Welcome back to Head in the Office, everybody. Today is Tuesday.
>> Tuesday, >> May 26th. Not recording on a Monday cuz nobody wants to work anymore.
>> Oh, come on now, guys. Including me.
>> Yeah. So, we uh we did end up taking the holiday off, but we are back in the studio once again. And it feels it's been like more than a week, which is kind of crazy.
>> It has happened for a while, low key.
But anyways, we are back and we're going to be talking about Iran. We're going to be talking about Cuba a little bit. And then towards the back end of the show, sort of as Gage alluded to already in that cold open. There's just a lot of extra random [ __ ] that happened that is is a testing of fella's patience.
>> Huge on [ __ ] Huge on [ __ ] man.
The DNC report, just like off tops, you're not waiting all the time, was just like bad. It was just genuinely purely bad and there's no other way to do it. And I mean it'll be a nice little book end of the show. We're talking about liberals at the beginning. We're talking about liberals at the end. But a lot of these people love just like seeing things that are just objectively like shitty and saying this confirms my prior.
>> Well, and it's awesome that the the autopsy was written by like a fifth grader in chat GPT or some [ __ ] like Ken Martin's personal friend.
>> Just a dog [ __ ] document. Ken Martin acknowledges like yeah this [ __ ] sucks.
We put a bunch of like annotations in there just to let you know that like we know this [ __ ] sucks. And then third way comes out and they're like this confirms our priors.
>> Insane, dude. Insane.
>> Like you claim this. That's crazy.
>> Again, everything that's happened over the week when it comes to like moderate liberals is just like, how are you not pushed away from that party? It's got to be brain disease. Or like that that portion of the party. It's got to be brain disease. I don't know.
>> It's got to be, man. It's got to be. I don't get it. But before we get into all of that, of course, we'll beg and plead and remind you to just go become a patron. You get early access to all the content. You get enrolled in the postcard program. You get commercial free episodes. And you'd be supporting independent media. And I know you want to do that.
>> And what could be more important in this day and age? What could be more important in this trying time? I mean, establishment figures like Don Lemon and Hassan [ __ ] are being attacked by the federal government right now.
Independent media is where it's at.
>> If Hassan gets locked up, there's going to be a massive release of pressure on the market. That's our opportunity.
There's a small window of opportunity for us to balloon big enough to where like, you know, we're we're popping and we get clouded. The most important thing in modern politics, right? Uh but we're big enough to get clouded, but not big enough to get the federal subpoena.
That's where I'm trying to sit. That's where I'm trying to sit because it only matters when it comes to us. You know what I mean? Like I'll stay silent until it gets to us then everybody should scream.
>> Yeah. But if they if they do get Hassan, if Hassan gets like officially locked up or something like that, then there's going to be eight hours every single day where people are looking for content.
>> And we we got to be there to try to fill the gap. We got to be there to try to fill the gap.
>> If gets locked up maybe a third episode a week, I don't know, guys. I don't know. I No promises, but I'm saying if we want to open this door like a lot of you people do, maybe we >> we've shown you the path. We showed you the path. Uh, you can also support the show on social media. You can join the Discord. All the different links are down there in the description for you.
Also, if you missed it last week, check out the David Hog interview. I thought it was quite interesting.
>> David Hog interview. It was very interesting. I was pleasantly surprised with like how well it turned out. You know what I mean? David Hog's like a real guy in real politics. So, it's always crazy us interacting with people like that.
>> He He hates the Democrats a lot more than I thought he would. For real. Like that guy genuinely has hate in his heart. And I can I can get it.
>> I I thought it was going to be like uh like when we were preparing like I was going to ask him like, "Oh, should we fire Ken Martin?" And I thought that was going to be like pushing it, you know what I mean? Considering where he was, >> it wasn't. He was just out there like, "Yeah, Ken Martin's gone. Oh my goodness. Great interview. Please go check that out." It was well worth the missing the news cycle, I would say.
>> Yeah. Uh, but today we are back and we will be having uh two regular episodes of news coverage this week, uh, a Thursday record and of course today. So, I think we just get into it.
>> I think we should. I think we should.
>> Uh, again, once again, I'll just remind you all that we're doing reviews at the end. Uh, so we're going to get right into the news coverage here. Starting off with Iran. So over the long weekend, we got yet another episode of Whiplash between It's So Over and We're So B.
>> It's every week. It's literally every Monday. Every single Monday.
>> And like I I I for for a while, given that this is the [ __ ] the pattern every single week, for a while, I just started ignoring it. But this time, I was like, "Oh, is he serious?"
>> That's what I thought, too, cuz I I'm sitting there. I'm sitting there goddamn camping this weekend, and I see on my phone, you got to have the phone. Oh, you can't. You know what I'm saying? I I can't separate myself from my work. I'm I'm married to my work, if you will. But I but I see on my phone notifications like, "Oh, Iran agrees to get rid of nuclear material." And I'm like, "What?"
>> Exactly.
>> What?
>> Well, that that's my thought, too. And it didn't help that like a bunch of major American institutions are reporting that like, yeah, they they're basically agreed on this. Turns out that's just not the case.
>> No, they just lied. This entire weekend was just me when I lie. Yeah. What is going on?
>> No, it's not great. At one point, Trump, I believe on Friday, was speeding back to the White House to avoid his son's wedding uh and and plan his bombing of Iran. The next moment, Trump's announcing a peace deal that made all the neoonservatives very angry, and we will get into what they had to say.
Trump essentially was saying here that it was imminent. And then the next day, he said, "Ah, take your time.
>> Take your time."
>> essentially like, "No rush.
>> No rush.
>> No rush on all this things that has been like depressing the global economy. No rush on any of these things that make everything super expensive, that's literally killing people. No rush, guys.
>> Yeah. And and that's the sort of summary of what I had prepared yesterday. And I believe as of today and last night, there were a couple of ceasefire violations uh from the US against Iran.
So it's like nobody knows what's happening. By the time you hear this, we might be back at full scale war. It's essentially just like everyone's just waiting until it happens again cuz it's going to happen again.
>> No, 100%. And it's like we'll get to it in a little bit, but this all this all kind of this whole charade, and it'll make more sense later, reminds me of like that one three-phase ceasefire from Israel >> where it was just [ __ ] Yeah.
>> Like it's like, "Oh, okay. We're we're just in the lull of the war right now."
Um, all that being said, negotiators from Iran and the US were meeting in Qatar yesterday to discuss a deal. Who knows what's happening. Again, nobody knows what's going to happen by the time you're hearing this. Um, again, from our point of view, I don't see any reason why Iran would concede given that they're in like the power position here, but I guess we'll see. Who [ __ ] knows? Um, a quote from the New York Times here. Quote, "The temporary agreement that Trump that the Trump administration announced with Iran this weekend isn't a peace deal. It isn't a nuclear deal. It isn't a missile deal.
Those may yet come perhaps in a few months. Though a senior US official said that there was no agreed time limit time limit for nuclear talks or perhaps far longer if the history of negotiations with Iran holds. But for now, Mr. Trump has emerged with an agreement that could extend a ceasefire and reopen the straight of Hormuse uh Hormuz re relieving the greatest energy disruption in modern times. A lot of water there >> and that's what I was going to say sort of a loadbearing could there. Uh, even that is sort of um whatever the opposite of watering it down is, even that is like painting a more rosy picture absolutely of what's actually going on here. Even though they acknowledge that like yeah, there's no real deal on the table. To be clear, no official deal has been struck.
>> Yeah. And it's important to be clear because no one else is. I I tell you, you read these articles and nobody's being clear at any point in this entire time. It is all just like, oh, negotiations are agreed to in principle as one headline reads that I'll show you later. It's just like, what what is genuinely what is going on? Please, somebody tell me I'm begging you.
>> Yeah. And it seems like a a a likely outcome here for the Iran war is just that the straight of form muzzes reopened. Meaning that the crowning achievement of this war will be opening a waterway that was open before.
>> The crowning achievement will be status quo but like worse.
>> Yeah. But no, explicitly worse like with thousands of people dead with an entire region inflamed with things like considerably worse with prices not really changing because this is going to take time for oil to like actually get moving again even if the straight of four moves open like tomorrow. So like yeah, shit's not going back to normal anytime soon.
>> No, absolutely not. Absolutely not, man.
And it's just like I I can't believe that this like nothing burger of the news week and I I'll admit I didn't think it was a nothing burger at first, but like when you sit there and you actually wait, it was literally nothing.
This nothing burger. The fact that nothing happened over the weekend got oil prices to drop 7%. Yeah.
>> Like I swear to God, fake market allegations have never been more real.
The the fake market has never been faker in the entirety of this entire war, in the entirety of the goddamn S&P's existence. Because what do you mean? You get news that something could happen and we get a 7% drop.
>> Yeah.
>> What are you talking about? What are you talking about?
>> No, it's it's useless [ __ ] dog.
Nothing has changed on the ground. Like the fact of the fact of war has not changed. There's still a US blockade.
The straight of war mood is not open.
There's like thousands of ships waiting to be able to move. Iran is still collecting tolls that I think they just called like environmental protection fees or some [ __ ] Iran is memeing out here. But the point is that like yeah, the market's fake >> and it's like everybody made fun of Trump in the 2020 debates when he goes, "I have a concept of a plan." Yeah, >> for a healthare deal like I got concepts of a plan. This entire month and a half has been we have concepts of a deal reached and then investors just yes yes yes yes. What are we doing?
>> No, it's it's [ __ ] Um so you might ask what's the actual deal being proposed? Like what do we know of the details the content of the deal itself.
This is from the AP and again this is a painting a rosier picture than what actually exists uh in my mind at least.
So from the AP quote, according to regional officials, under the current deal being discussed, Iran would give up its stockpile of highlyenriched uranium and reopen the strategic straight of Hormuz in exchange for ending a US blockade of Iranian ports in the lifting of sanctions against Iran. Key details on Iran's nuclear program would then be negotiated during a 60-day period. It is unclear if the deal will address Iran's missiles or support for regional militant groups. Again, nobody actually knows if this is like a a genuine picture of what the deal is or if they're just exaggerating because I like I I've seen Iran say like, "No, that's [ __ ] We're not giving up the the nuclear material or we're we're only negotiating for the opening of the straightforward moves in the immediate end of the war." Nobody really knows what's going on, but that's what's being officially reported.
>> And it's also again once once again it's important to say that like again from the quote under the current deal being discussed, Iran would give up its stockpile of highly rich nukes. That's not Iran is agreeing to give up its stockpile. It's Iran is discussing it, which is the same thing that's been happening since before the war.
>> Yeah. Before the war when the US started it for no reason.
>> None of this is new. But I think people want to find new ways to pretend that it's new so that oil prices can go down for a little bit and then shoot back up again cuz we still haven't broke $5 a gallon at least here in Michigan like in a lot of places. And I think that that's like the marker like the average that is hovering around right now is I think where people want it to stay or else Medum.
>> Yeah. No, I cuz I think if we reach like 502 or whatever, he will have broken Biden's record >> and I think that that will do like psychic damage to the Trump administration.
>> I feel like that's like a genuine motivating factor for him to go out and announce these fake deals because he knows that investors are going to just react to that.
>> Yeah. No, I I think the Iran war has broken Trump cuz it's the one thing he can't like vice signal to get out of. He can't just like start ignoring it. He can't like with the tariffs at least he could like put them on then take him off and pretend he's actually making deals.
But here with Iran is like you're dealing with an actual adversary. Yeah.
And you're kind of getting your [ __ ] pushed in and he can't do anything about it.
>> He can't be anything other than like ardently pro it because the way that he set up his cabinet is he has to. It's the Pete Drew guy. He's the guy who says, "I'm going to be the tough guy.
I'm going to get deals done." And he's Pete Hegsath is running the military and he's going out here doing slam poetry.
Even though he doesn't do it as much anymore, a tragedy for all of us, I know he is out there saying, "No, we're going to we're going to fight them fast and our war fighters are in there and they're executing on plans and we're [ __ ] killing people. But we're not going to wage a war on warriors anymore.
>> We're gonna we're gonna >> warriors are waging war instead of wars on warriors.
>> We're going to war with the pronouns, people.
>> Dude, did you see there was >> Yes. Yes. He was giving like a commencement speech or some [ __ ] at like a military college. It was awesome, dude. Great.
>> It's so sick. And he says something like, "You can't shoot pronouns at the enemy." And there was like a clap in the crowd.
>> That's sucks.
>> Come on, man. It's so obvious. Once again, everybody in every discussion around Trump goes back to a member of the cabinet wanting applause.
>> Yeah. No. And I think what what happened here is somebody or multiple people in the cabinet told Trump like, "Oh, it'll be just like Venezuela. We'll go in, we'll kill a couple of people, the the operation will be slightly longer and then Iran will be weakened and in a position to make an even better deal and you'll be even better than Barack Obama." And that just didn't happen. And I feel like I feel like he should have known this wouldn't happen, but he's that dumb old guy. Because like everybody knows the way you get Trump to do what you want to do is you flatter him. Zoran Maldani pulled up with the newspaper with his face on it and it worked. I'm sure Pete Haggsath went up to Trump or this isn't really Marco Rubio's thing. I'm sure Pete Hexath or some other just Iran Warhart could have been a Democrat. I don't know. Could have been Chuck Schumer went up to Trump and said something along the lines of Trump everybody's going to greet you like a hero. You'll you'll be great.
You're going to get everything liberators. Maybe maybe they pulled up with a newspaper, but this one in private that was like Trump at the head of a parade and he's like, "Yeah." And that's what did it. Genuinely, it could have been >> it. It was an AI image of like Trump and Tyrron or some [ __ ] >> Trump waving through the streets of Tyrron on a float.
>> It was an AI edited image of uh the the Islamic Revolution from back in the 70s, but instead of the Ayatollah's head, it's Trump's head on all the flags.
>> Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. And it's super HDR like all the AI images are. Oh my goodness. I can see it in my mind's eye.
And in another hilarious uh thing that Trump did, Trump on Sunday also said that all the Middle East countries are going to have to join the Abraham Accords as a part of this deal.
>> Come on, man.
>> Uh the Abraham Accords is essentially a normalization agreement between a bunch of different Arab nations and Israel.
Trump claims has brought peace to the Middle East. This was like what Jared Kushner was doing uh in 2020, like at the end of his first administration. Uh it's [ __ ] It's so funny to like do this war of aggression, tank the global economy, send like countries into Asia into a panic who are rationing gas right now, telling people they can't only drive on certain days and go, "For this to be over, you have to be friends with my friend."
>> Yeah.
>> Yeah.
>> For this to be over, you have to go out with my homeboy.
>> You must accept uh investment from Tel Aviv.
>> Exactly.
>> You've done this [ __ ] man. And it's like it it brings I go back to the 60 Minutes interview and I go back to the interview with the president of the United States, Benjamin Netanyahu. And I feel like I'm affirmed in my conviction that that's the president of the United States right now. That guy's calling the shots when it comes to the Iran war.
>> Yeah.
>> Because how are you not? Everything goes back to, okay, we're doing this. We're doing this. This is going to be great for the United States. But also, you have to be friends with Israel. But also, everything has to go really well for Israel. You have to let Israel do whatever they want. What? Israel's the only person ever that's just allowed to do whatever they want because we let them. We're not even allowed to do whatever we want.
>> Yeah. To be fair though, I don't I don't even think this is Israel saying like, "Yeah, you need to do this. Like, you need to make sure all these countries join the Abraham Accords." I think this is just an ego play from Trump.
>> Oh, for sure.
>> I think I think he just thinks that the Abraham Accords were genuinely like a good thing. Like on the same level as like the JCPOA or something like that and he's like, "You all have to agree to my document."
>> And that could very well be it. That you know, >> it's just a Hail Mary. Or you think Jared Kushner pulled up with the newspaper and was >> maybe >> and was like, "Everyone in the Middle East signs on to Abram Accords. Trump is a hero. Trump brings peace to the region." Oh, see this is analysis right here, guys. We're breaking new ground.
>> Yeah. No, it's it's stupid [ __ ] And then of course, on the other hand, there's been tons of reporting that the deal is just about the straight of Hormuz opening. Has nothing to do with nuclear material. So again, nobody knows. Nobody wants to tell you the truth. No one has any clue what's happening.
>> No. And furthering this idea that nobody knows, nobody wants to tell you the truth. Nobody has any idea what's happening. is this CBS uh headline that I want to read you guys. This this read you guys. This is just [ __ ] sick.
From CBS, quote, "Iran agrees in principle to dispose of highlyenriched uranium. Senior US official says, "What do we do?"
>> We're writing fanfic in the news.
>> What do you mean they agree in principle? That this isn't news. This Oh, I I sure would hope that Iran agrees in principle that they shouldn't have a nuke. But what's going to happen like practically? What's actually going to happen in real life, >> guys? The three theoretically Trump is the peacemaker. Trump is the lightbrer.
Theoretically, everybody agrees that nukes are bad, >> guys. Why don't we just stop fighting?
Put down the weapons, guys.
>> World peace achieved right now.
Everybody on a Zoom call. John Legend Imagine. Play it. Come on.
>> We're good. We're good, guys. We did it.
Iran agreed in principle. Are you I just paid $50 to fill up my goddamn car this morning on my way to the studio. But Iran's agreeing in principle. That's pretty chill. That's pretty sick, guys.
I think everything's working out. And then to expand further on what Jeremy said further from the CBS article is this quote the deal agreed to in principle will be a two-step process with the media opening of the straight of hormuse in exchange for lifting the US blockade followed by negotiations on a mechanism for Iran to give up various parts of its nuclear program. The official said also this is just from one guy. This is just from one senior Trump official away that's saying Iran agrees in princip in principle. We don't even know if that's like true or not because why would I believe Trump guys who just want the market to be manipulated? It's got to be Wickoff, man. It's got to be Wickoff. Like, yeah, Merible, they've agreed.
>> It's Wickoff for Kushner.
>> Yeah, >> guys, they've agreed to a new real estate development. Guys, we're putting a Trump Tower in Tyrron.
>> Guys, tell the news in principle, I'm doing a great job.
>> In in theory, I've gone out and I've done my job. In theory, I'm the greatest negotiator to exist. But I got to say, this whole like ceasefire in phase parts, is this not Israel coded? Yeah.
Is this not just like that fake Gaza ceasefire we got where like the first phase of the ceasefire was oh we're going to stop firing even though like kind of didn't really happen and then the second phase of the ceasefire was further negotiations and then they just didn't do the third one because Israel said we were never doing that [ __ ] You can't have a principled ceasefire. You can't have actual like space for like these things to happen when nobody agrees on the actual >> thing the reason why everything's happening. You know what I mean? Why would I believe that we can enter a period of further negotiations when nothing has fundamentally changed on the the red lines people are drawing?
>> Especially when the American and Israeli side here are not actually interested in like getting to peace like they're interested in like regime change and making your country into a vassal state.
So obviously there's no like goodfaith ceasefire that's going to exist. This isn't just like two countries that happen to be waring over like some section of land and there's these like deep disputes and they're finally trying to find a way to peace. This is a war of aggression and the United States is trying to calculate a way to get rid of Iran.
>> Yes. And it's like it's like negotiations are good. I don't want to say negotiations aren't good and I don't want to say like >> it's set up on false pretense.
>> I I don't want to say like, "Oh, we should continue bombing them while we do negotiations." Obviously, yeah, I want a ceasefire. But what has me jaded about this whole thing is that it's like clearly fake. Like it's so clearly just this thing to get in there to like honestly maybe do market manipulation, try and save face when it comes to polling, try to not go crazy when it comes to what Trump has done and the cognitive dissonance there. Like it it's just I don't believe that any of this is actually going to manifest anything.
[ __ ] love planning a phase ceasefire only to just not do anything.
>> No. No. Yeah. The negotiations are entirely fake and the media pretends that they're real. And and that's what drives me nuts about this is no one in the media can be like, "Yeah, Trump is deliberately lying to manipulate the market. They all have to pretend that like Israel and the United States and Steve Wickoff and Jared Kushner, they're all like serious actors that are actually working towards peace in the region or something like that when they actively started this war of aggression." And Trump tweets once a goddamn week that things are better just so the market will go down or up or whatever.
>> Also, when it comes to the idea that this is a fake ceasefire and that none of these negotiations are actually real, Allah, Israel, Gaza, like 2 years ago or a year ago, whenever that first one happened before the starvation campaign, right? When it when it comes to this, once again, still being reported in the news is the idea that Iran will not end this war until Israel stops attacking Lebanon.
>> Mhm. Yeah.
>> What's Israel doing right now?
>> Actively attacking Lebanon.
>> Actively attacking Lebanon. Like there's negotiations cannot literally cannot happen. We literally cannot get to peace without Israel backing off.
>> Yeah.
>> And at every step of the way, Israel says, "I'm actually going to back back in. I'm actually going to go like way harder. I'm going to press on." Right.
Because when it comes to Israel derailing the ceasefire, they are still bombing Lebanon actively right now.
Here's a BBC headline from Monday night.
Okay.
>> Quote, "Netanyahu says Israel will intensify strikes against Hezbollah. We covered last Monday."
>> Cool. Cool. Cool. Last Monday we covered a new ceasefire that had been extended for like what like 3 weeks again or something like that immediately violated.
>> Either way, ceasefire was extended but fire has not ceased.
>> Yeah. Well, of course >> a fire did not cease when the ceasefire was the original ceasefire. Fire did not cease while it was being extended. And since it has been extended, fire has not ceased.
>> This is not a real ceasefire. And even before that, when they initially agreed to that ceasefire back in like April or whatever it was, that 3we ceasefire, Israel set up what they called a yellow line, and they were still bombing people in buildings past it. Like it's complete [ __ ] dude. It's like nobody in the media can like acknowledge that it's all complete [ __ ] >> And you again, I I have to sit here and I have to like reconcile the cognitive dissonance in my own head. Well, it's not cognitive dissonance in my head.
It's cognitive dissonance when I go and like read publications who are simultaneously publishing headlines that say, "Oh my god, guys, a deal with the US Iran is on the horizon." And also, Israel kills like 30 people in Lebanon.
Those two things cannot coexist. It's not real. You are either like like I I don't want to say they're lying about the coverage, but you can't you can't accurately cover what's happening when it comes to ceasefire negotiations without the massive caveat that Israel is terrorizing Lebanon right now. Israel is bombing the [ __ ] out of Lebanon right now and Iran continues to make that a red line >> and we still have a blockade on Iran.
Like that's an act of war. I know a lot of people have kind of just like moved on or not at all. But like a blockade is an act of war and everybody recognizes that, but still the media has to pretend like we're not at war with Iran or that like what Israel is doing isn't like [ __ ] up everything >> or that what Israel is doing. Yeah, exactly. It's not [ __ ] up everything.
They want to pretend that what Israel is doing is separate from what the US and Iran are doing when it's not. It is. We started the war with Iran with Israel.
It is the USIsrael war against Iran and Israel also took that opportunity to go terrorize Lebanon >> through ceasefires. Yeah.
>> Through ceasefires. And I do mean terrorize. Israel are acting like terrorists. They are bombing civilian buildings. They are they displaced over what? It's over a million people now, isn't it?
>> Yo, it was over a million people like a month ago.
>> That's what I thought. Okay. But it's like they they're doing horrible things over there. So the ceasefire can't happen. And on the Lebanon situation, NPR reported over the weekend that in a call with Trump on Saturday, Netanyahu said the president quote reaffirmed Israel's right to defend itself against threats on every front, including Lebanon. That is Netanyahu telling us that Trump told him, "Yeah, it's okay to do whatever you're doing in Lebanon, knowing that it's a sticking point for Iran. If I'm Iran, why would I take any of these negotiations seriously when Trump in private is going to me and being like, "Yeah, we're negotiating.
It's going to be real good. And literally basically in public is saying I lied.
>> [ __ ] you. I lied.
>> I'm lying to people. I'm telling people whatever. I'm just saying [ __ ] >> I'm lying to you and I want to kill you.
What? What am I supposed to believe? Am I supposed to believe the Trump in private that nobody can verify? Or am I supposed to believe the Trump in public as confirmed by Netanyahu and senior officials and Pete Hexath and everyone around him?
>> Yeah. that and that's why I have such a hard time believing any headline that's like, "Oh, Iran's about to fold. Iran's about to give up on the nuclear issue.
Iran's about to give up their ballistic stockpile and all this other stuff cuz it's like when when the Trump administration is so obviously acting in bad faith, why would they give up?"
Especially when they're in this position where the only people really being like hurt right now. Well, I can't say only the global economy is what I'm trying to say. They have the global economy in a strangle hold. They're in the power position. Why would they give up?
>> And it's like what making the choice of like what to believe right now? Why wouldn't I believe Trump when he just goes, "I lied." Yeah.
>> Why would I believe Trump when he's telling Netanyahu, "No, you can do whatever you want." Because Netanyahu is doing whatever he wants. Why would I believe the headlines that are like, "Oh, we're making a deal." When Trump himself will tweet out like the next day on Truth Social, "Oh, deals in disarray.
Negotiators, take your time. I'm going to [ __ ] bomb them."
>> Yeah.
>> Like we we It would literally be like 12 hours between Trump saying like I mean, and this happened a couple of weeks ago.
Like, I'm going to wipe out all of Iranian civilization and we're close to a ceasefire deal and the war is almost over. Well, this week we shouldn't get another one of those, but next week we're due for another genocide tweet. Ne next Tuesday specifically, we're probably due for another I'm going to blow up the entire country tweet. Like, it's it's fundamentally ridiculous what's going on. And it's it's a failure of like journalism at this point in time that we can't just be out here publishing articles that say that.
>> Every headline should be like it should be like Trump's deliberately lying about X, Y, and Z cuz like it's so >> that's what's happening. That's not partisan. That's the truth. It is the truth that Trump is like being two-faced when it comes to situation. It is the truth that he's going out and saying one thing to Iran, saying another thing to Israel, and then a lot of the times saying another thing to the American public. You have to highlight that all of that is happening. You have to highlight that there is a tension here between every single public statement that this guy makes and all the statements that his officials are making and all the statements just everywhere that comes out of this situation.
>> Yeah. Yeah. No. And and that's why I really think that like this war has just broken his psyche cuz he can't. There's no way out of this. And he can't like mentally he cannot compartmentalize having to surrender here. He cannot do it. And so he has to continue vice signaling and going back and forth and saying like I'm going to wipe out civilization, but we're also super close to a deal and we're putting the pressure on and we can't allow we can't allow Iran to get a nuke. But they're not even negotiating on nukes. Like there's so many different narratives all at the same time. And I think this war has just broken him. Like he should not have allowed himself to be convinced to do this. An old man is not equipped to handle a situation this complex.
>> No. Well, I I don't think anybody could handle this. Like, >> no, absolutely not. Because a reasonable person never would have got us in here.
But when it comes to getting us out of a situation that you have to get out of, somebody who's like, is he 80 yet?
>> Uh, I don't Somebody who's like damn near, somebody who's decrepit, somebody who's old and probably has dementia should not be tasked with handling something like this. I don't know.
What's that amendment that everybody likes to say they need to do invoke on Joe Biden? Do that. But then you get JD Van. So it's like where where do we go?
>> Where do we go? JD Vance just said that he's considering not running for president.
>> So sick. So awesome. Dude, we've people like us have humiliated him to the point >> where he may not do the only reason he accepted this job to do. Go and be the president eventually. So awesome.
>> The only thing to do next.
>> That's a dub for guys like us right there. That is so sick. Um, speaking of Republicans, even though these negotiations are obviously entirely fake, even though we're so clearly gearing up to attack Iran once again, maybe to spring back into this hot war, Republicans in Congress, a couple of them, the neoconservatives are upset that we might be close to peace, even though it's entirely fake.
>> So dope, dude. What What happened to No Wars? What What happened to Trump as a dove? What happened to We're the Party of Peace. Oh my god.
>> Even though like the the US being on like the verge of peace is is is [ __ ] right? Like we're not even close to that. Still, these Republicans have an issue with just the concept of maybe being close to peace.
>> They can't even bite their tongue. They can't even bite. They They are so offended by the concept of peace that they just have to so offended by the concept that they we wouldn't attack this Muslim nation.
>> They they can't even do the Idris Ela of like sometimes the best thing to say is nothing or whatever that quote is. You know what I'm saying?
>> Sometimes it's best to sit back and observe.
>> I I got Yeah, exactly. Not everything needs a reaction. Um I got two quotes here, both from Twitter, both from Republican senators. First one's Ted Cruz. said, quote, "President Trump's decision to strike Iran was the most consequential decision of a second term."
>> Yes. Yes.
>> Um, he was right to do so, and we achieved extraordinary military results, including destroying all of their missiles and drones and sinking their entire navy.
>> I'm going to need a citation on that.
>> Yeah. Well, they keep saying that, and it's like, but they also have like a trillion speeder boats left.
>> No, that's the thing is they they keep going out here and saying we destroyed their entire navy. And then I see a headline the next day, we just blew up a boat. Yeah. What what what is it? Are we destroying the Navy? Are they building a navy? What's going on? Uh if the result of all of that is to be an Iranian regime still run by Islamists who chant death to America now receiving billions of dollars being able to enrich uranium and develop nuclear weapons and having effective control over the straight of hormuz then that outcome would be a disastrous mistake. So this is Ted Cruz coming out against the notion of reaching a peace agreement here essentially arguing for continued war.
>> It's so sick that like Trump has put himself in a position where it is impossible to please anybody because I'm never going to be pleased with what happens. You know what I mean? whether or not he exits this war entirely cleanly, we never should have been here in the first place. That's always going to be an insane like mark on the situation. You should not get credit for getting out of a situation that you never should have put yourself in in the first place. And Republicans are never going to be pleased because they want to kill Muslims. Like that's that's the situation we found ourselves in. That's our country right now.
>> Um to make it even worse though, I think this one's even worse than that one from Lindsey Graham. Senator Lindsey Graham, you might remember Lindsey Graham's role in getting this war started. He essentially claimed victory for being like a liaison between Netanyahu and Trump. Yeah. Pushing the United States into war with Iran. And this is what he said in regards to a peace deal maybe being on the table even though it's entirely fake. Quote, "If a deal is struck to end the Iranian conflict because it is believed that the straight of form moves cannot be protected from Iranian terrorism and Iran still possesses the capability to destroy major Gulf oil infrastructure, then Iran will be perceived as being a dominant force requiring a diplomatic solution.
This combination of Iran being perceived as having the ability to terrorize the straight in perpetuity and the ability to inflict massive damage to the Gulf to Gulf oil infrastructure is a major shift of the balance of power in the region and over time will be a nightmare for Israel.
>> Okay.
>> And then and then he ends it with this.
Also, it makes one wonder why the war started to begin with if these perceptions are accurate. Yeah, I'll say >> we've been wondering Lindsey Graham our Tel Aviv Lindsey Graham US senator for Israel. It's crazy. It's crazy how this guy just made himself Israel's strongest soldier. This is the America First party, by the way. Lindsey Graham goes out there and does America first and then does [ __ ] like this. It's also crazy to go out here and say, "Guys, if we do this, it would it would set the precedent that we have to deal with Iran diplomatically. It set the precedent that we have to treat these humans like humans. What's happening?
>> We have to engage with them in good faith."
>> Guys, I can't imagine doing this, guys.
They they pray wrong.
>> Yeah. Yeah.
>> Come on. It is it is incredible that these Republicans only come out of the woodworks to criticize Trump when it seems like we might not be killing people in mass soon.
>> Yeah.
>> Exactly. When the bombing stops is when their criticism started.
>> The one time that Lindsey Graham and Ted Cruz and these other neocons criticize Trump and when is when war might be off the table.
>> People that pretend to be anti-war. Once again, you know, I like I said in the beginning, I am one of those leftists that does take things to the Democrats because they're so [ __ ] right now. The anti-war lane is wide open.
>> Oh my god.
>> Incredibly open, dude. It's it's it's a it's cavernous really if you look at it.
You can just waltz right through and you'll be fine. But nobody wants to do it. I still don't really see forceful condemnations of the Iran war.
[ __ ] don't even pretend to be against it like they were when it started anymore. Everybody just accepts this as status quo. And I think that's a bigger problem with Democrats broadly is they are too quick to accept Republican abuses as just status quo. And that's exactly what we're seeing. Well, and and that's the thing, man, is like there is no anti-war Republican party. An anti-war Republican party is as real as the [ __ ] Easter Bunny.
>> There's only a pro-death Republican party.
>> We saw it with Thomas Massie just losing his primary because he came out with the bold position of being like anti-Epstein files or anti anti-epsteeen class and anti-war with Iran. He loses his primary because he because he comes out with those two positions even though he voted with Republicans like 90% of the time.
And then we see dudes like Ted Cruz and Lindsey Graham only actually break with Trump when peace might be actually on the table. Like there is no anti-war Republican party. And to the extent to the extent that anybody ever perceived Republicans to maybe be the anti-war coalition, it was a mirage. It never existed. And it it was only possible in people's minds because Democrats were so hawkish. There there is something like genuinely incredible to be said about the fact that you literally cannot be a congressional Republican and have a good opinion because you will either be kicked out of the party like Thomas Massie or never get there in the first place. And last week the War Powers Resolution finally passed the Senate.
Good news, like big news, like okay, cool. The War Powers finally passed and it's partly because a Republican, Bill Cassidy, flipped to a yes vote only after he lost his primary.
>> Interesting.
>> You you I have no love for Republican senators. I do no love for any Republican congress person. I don't want to be defending these people, but isn't it crazy that members of the America First party feel feel the need that they have to go and like be pro this Israel first war? They have to go out there and support the Iran war, support Trump's war of aggression because they cannot like fall out of line with Trump or they'll lose their seat. And even the prospect of that happening will make them lose their seat. And then when they lose their seat, when they will not have power anymore, can they finally come on and be on the right side of history?
There has to be something like they're noticing noticing >> that that's exactly what tells me that it's all [ __ ] that they that the vast majority of them know better and they can only find their morals to the extent that they've actually found them.
They can only land on a couple of right positions once they know they won't have power anymore. It happened with uh it happened with Bill Cassidy. It happened with Tom Tillis after he announced retirement. It happened with Marjorie Taylor Green. She said she's not going to be running for Congress again and then suddenly flipped on all these important positions despite being fairly pro- Israel uh throughout her entire tenure in Congress. Like these people have these people know what they're supporting is fundamentally wrong, but they're only willing to break with Trump after they're giving up all of their power or have lost it. Yes. Like >> these people are demons. Like they are the definition of power- hungry people who want power for power's sake so they can go and have control over people because we know again all of those people you said clearly they have opinions about these things. Clearly they aren't voicing those opinions because they know it will shut them out of power. So they want to go into it's detestable.
These people are awful. Like obviously the neocons suck because they just they want war. They love death and destruction. They want total global domination. They want Muslims to not exist anymore. They want to kill all the immigrants. Like obviously these people are awful. But I also have no respect for the people who know better who are just going along.
>> Well that's why it's like with this Bill Cassidy thing. It's not shout out Bill Cassidy. It's shout out the War Powers Resolution for getting passed. But it's still [ __ ] Bill Cassidy because clearly he's demonstrated that he knew better.
Yeah. The last War Powers vote was like two weeks ago. What changed in those two weeks, dog? What changes is you losing power?
>> Well, and also like your vote might have meant something had it came like before the war started.
>> Hey, maybe you wouldn't have lost your primary if you actually voted the right way on this. I don't know, man. I But who knows? Who genuinely knows? Because once again, the Republican party will kick you out by some force, by some divine intervention if you have a good opinion. It it is incredible that Thomas Massie lost though because like it like he lost by a pretty small number of votes. I think it was like 10,000 or something like that in the primary and it took like several billionaires coming in the president himself intervening in this election to ensure that Thomas Massie lost his seat.
>> Wasn't it like $15 million spent against him? It was tons of money, specifically like pro-Israel money because like of course, right? Like we we understand what's happening here. But like it it took so much and a lot of people are treating Thomas Massiey's loss as like an affirmation of the MAGA coalition being firmly behind Trump. But look at how much effort it took to unseat one guy. Yeah. In a primary. Like one guy in a red district in a primary. It took all that effort >> just to win by a slim margin.
>> He's from Kentucky, right? Like Yeah.
Come on, guys. It's like you shouldn't have to spend $15 million to unseat a Republican in Kentucky with another Republican.
>> Especially when his voting record was like 90% in line with the party and in line with Trump. He just broke on Epstein and war.
>> Like that's And it took that much effort to get him out. I don't know, man. To me, it's a sign of weakness more than anything else.
>> No, absolutely. You can't you can't spend $15 million on a House race.
That's like Senate money. Yeah.
>> Like I don't know, man. It seems like Senate money. It's fundamentally ridiculous what's going on. The Republican party is in an interesting place right now. And I think there is something to be said about this idea that everyone fears that they can't break with Trump. Like they only break with Trump when they're out of the party. And I don't know whether that's like a good thing or a bad thing for when Trump is eventually gone, whether he's out of the presidency or whether he like whatever happens.
>> I I guarantee so many of them are going to pretend that they were never going along with any of >> 100%. Right. But is that good or bad?
Like is the party gonna fracture because they won't have that like charismatic leader at the front of it? Or is everyone who's prot are all the Republicans who are going to vote Democrat November 2026 because what's happening right now is appalling like the moderate Republicans that will just inevitably switch over because they're like, "Ah, my gas is high." Just like with Joe Biden and whatnot, are they going to go right back to the Republican party because it's not going to be as like on its face crazy anymore and they're going to get performatively distanced from it? Because that's what we see when anything bad happens.
Whenever a war happens, everybody [ __ ] with it, right? Then the second it's over, everyone doesn't [ __ ] with it and say they learn the lessons and then the next opportunity for a new war, they go right back into it and everybody [ __ ] with it. Is that just what we're going to see with Republicans? I don't know.
>> Yeah. Famously, Joe Biden, I think, voted for Afghanistan and Iraq, >> and tons of other people did and still had careers in politics afterwards, even though we now recognize those to be total [ __ ] disasters.
>> Yeah. We need to do a better job as just like citizens and voters of holding people accountable for the horrible things that they do. I don't know, man.
The only people that guild held to account are the people who expose pedophiles. I don't know.
>> Yeah, I don't know, >> man. I I don't [ __ ] know. Um, >> you only lose your power if you're anti-war. You never lose it if you're pro-war.
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Lastly, um, in terms of geopolitics here, ending off on Cuba, the the intervention in Cuba seems more and more likely, almost an inevitability, especially with the way Marco Rubio's been talking about it. He's been saying like there's no future for Cuba unless we oust this regime, which is like one more regime change and it'll fix the world, right? Like just one more time.
>> It's true though.
>> Um for context, of course, as we've talked about before, we've been starving the island for essentially months now on top of a decad's long embargo that has not let up. Uh the US just issued an indictment for Raul Castro, the 94year-old former president of Cuba and brother of Fidel Castro for murder apparently that he did in 1996. Once again, we're going to go in and kill a super old guy that's about to die soon anyway and claim that we did something good.
>> Which also like once again just seems incredibly weak. Like every these guys grasping at stars. You got to indict a 94 year old. What is going on?
>> Yeah. I remember after we uh killed the the uh previous Ayatollah. Tons of dudes were like, "Oh, this was a super complex military operation that we were like tracking his location and all this stuff." And then we it comes out that he was like in his office that everybody knows about.
>> Yeah. They launched a missile at like palace or some [ __ ] I don't know. He's like an 85year-old man. Like, yeah, you're going to get him. He's not getting away. Like, >> if you just get the area, he's gone.
>> A strong breeze kills this guy. Like, >> a fall a fall in the shower could kill this guy.
>> Like, yeah, just hire someone to push him down and it's over. Like, >> you could a brisk bump in the hallway.
We don't need to be doing all this. We don't need an international war.
>> Um, and just a reminder that this was the same kind of pretext that Trump and the regime used before Venezuela, uh, essentially indicting Maduro and then using that as a justification to do a sort of invasion. And we know Marco Rubio is geeked for this. This is essentially his reason for being in politics is to terrorize Latin America.
So we know something's coming. We know he's pushing for it. And he's probably Rubio that is is probably trying to get this done before Trump like fully sour on military operations.
>> Yeah, cuz Marco Rubio been real quiet lately. And you know that's bad when one of these guys was quiet cuz you know they're planning something.
>> Rubio's been silent since he blamed Israel for the war.
>> Like he he's been pretty silent for the past few months and then he pops his head back up to talk about how we need to invade Cuba. I was going to say the last the last I heard of Rubio when everyone was making fun of him for saying Israel dragged us into the war.
Awesome move by Margar Rubio. Shouts out. The next thing I heard from him was him wearing the Maduro tracksuit on Air Force One.
>> Oh my dude, that shit's so >> corny as hell.
>> He's corny as hell. Like you're not hard.
>> You're No.
>> No. You're not going to do it like him.
>> Yeah. No, that the picture was hard because you were like taking him away and he was dripped out.
>> Exactly.
>> Like you're you're the Secretary of State and >> this is contrived. You can't do that.
No, you can't you can't take somebody else's swag. This is absurd. So again, this seems uh more and more likely. I don't know if it's going to be like decapitation strikes. I don't know if it's going to be bay pigs, too. Like I I don't know exactly what's going to happen here. Of course, Cuba is in a pretty weak position, but I do think based on what I know of the regime, they're probably going to put up a lot more of a fight than Venezuela.
Venezuela, >> look, I I I don't mean this in a disparaging way, but it's not a real country. You know what I like? It is it is a couple of oil companies in a trench suit, and the people that run the country are just trying to make a bunch of money. It seems more and more obvious. It was a dictatorship to do all that stuff. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It >> it seems more It seems more and more obvious now that like somebody in Maduro's government sold him out because like look at how cleanly things have been operating since. I don't think the same thing will happen in Cuba.
>> And we didn't put the opposition leader in. We just we just let the regime stay.
It was a regime stay operation. Oh my >> goodness. We literally just went in and got Maduro and now he's chilling in like a nice prison cell probably in New York City. Like it's this shit's entirely fake. I think it was entirely fake. But Cuba, I think, probably won't bend in the same way, even though we have been starving them for a while. Again, just like Iran, the predisposition of of Cuba is very anti-United States, specifically because of what we've been doing to them for decades at this point.
>> And I mean, you can see it just direct path of us starving them. I I don't know, guys. I don't know if that makes people like us or hate us.
>> Yeah. That being said, though, that being said, though, I mean, Cuba is in a weak position. I could see the United States being successful here to some degree in terms of a regime change operation. And then what I think happens after that probably is a lot of the richer Cubans in Florida move back to Cuba and everybody that still lives there is made into like a surf of some kind because like I mean that does I mean that seems like what they're trying to do in Gaza, right?
>> Yeah.
>> Like they're they're trying to just turn it into like Dubai. So I I don't know.
[ __ ] sucks and I don't want this.
>> And now they're going after streamers.
>> Yeah. True.
>> They're getting a streamer in relation to this. They're getting Cuba back in the news. They're getting Cuba back in people's heads. Cuba bad place, >> man. It it is crazy that like Hassan gets the federal indictment but or or federal subpoena or whatever but Nick Shirley who probably actually broke US law in Cuba doesn't get anything.
>> Nick Shirley world's biggest dumbass.
>> Well, maybe maybe maybe Nick Shirley if he got the subpoena. Maybe they think about giving it to Nick Shirley. They didn't.
But entertain me for a second. They think about giving it to Nick Shirley and then they say this man's not competent enough to stand trial.
This man could not know he was breaking the law.
>> Well, he he pulled up to Cuba and dropped the literacy rate like crazy.
You know what I'm saying? Cuba famous for having like a 100% literacy rate.
Nick surely [ __ ] up that statistic as soon as he set foot on the island.
>> See, and we can't clip that cuz Tik Tok will get mad at us like they did last time. I say it's ridiculous. They don't They're silencing What? What's that quote that gets mistreated to Voltater?
Exactly. Look who you can't criticize.
That's who got the real power. Nick.
Yum. Yum. Yep.
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>> Anyways, that ends off Geopolitics and that's our major news segment for the week. But there's a couple of random extra [ __ ] things to go through. Uh namely the the DNC autopsy. Of course, we did see this this happened to drop uh I believe right before our David Hog episode went live or like a day before something like that. always happens.
Really annoying, especially cuz we were about to post a clip where we were talking to him about why the DNC autopsy didn't come out.
>> Turns out that he came out. He he was pretty spot on with the reasoning that being that it's a [ __ ] terrible document that that should not have been that should have been redone completely, quite frankly.
>> Um, but you know, there's been some discourse around it. I expect the DNC autopsy discourse to essentially disappear now that it's been actually released. Yeah.
>> Um, but I I think the the major takeaway here isn't just that the document is dog [ __ ] although it is, right? Like there there's no redeeming value to this other than showcasing how deep the rod is in the DNC that Ken Martin received this document in like December of last year and didn't immediately fire the guy who wrote it and issue or and order another report to be made. Yeah.
>> Like what are we doing? Yeah.
>> Like that that just to me showcases extreme incompetence and makes me wonder like there's no mention of Gaza in this thing. There's no mention of Biden's age. The only person he could have been protecting is his dumbass friend who wrote it. Like what are we doing? when I'm a Democrat, like me genuinely when I'm a Democrat, dude, I this is this is the perfect example of how horribly this organization is run, the DNC like specifically here and I mean I would say the party like broadly even though I can't I can't indict the DC or any other organization on this. just the DNC's report, but like come on, man. And when I first saw the report and I first saw the headlines or first saw the CNN sub headline, I guess within the article that says there was zero mention of Gaza, at first I thought somebody's lying here, right? Because we have covered multiple times the Axios reporting from February of this year that said that they spoke to multiple people within the DNC who said that Gaza played a major role in that and that that was going to be in the autopsy >> and Biden's age too. and Biden's age and like all these other things that everybody knows played a role in the election no matter how big of a what how big of a role is what's up for debate.
Not that they did play a role, right?
>> So that was just completely and utterly absent from the report. No mention of Gaza, no mention of age, no real mention of inflation at all.
>> So my first thought is somebody's lying here. It's either the DNC is lying or Axios is lying. I don't think Axios had a reason to lie when it came to that. So what happened when they're writing this DNC report or when this one [ __ ] guy is writing this DNC report is he thought to himself I don't think Gaza played a big role in it. So he just didn't include it. I I I genuinely think based on the report that we got the conclusionless report that we got the report that had inaccurate data all over it. The report that had conflicting data all over it poll numbers that weren't consistent or not poll numbers but like genuine like vote tallies such as were not consistent from a case to case to case to case within the same case. It was just dog [ __ ] and there's not much else to say other than it was dog [ __ ] The broader conversation around the DNC report, at least in my opinion, is the reaction from moderate liberals >> because those people took this report and said, "Guys, this confirms my priors.
>> Guys, the fact that this doesn't mention Gaza means that Gaza wasn't a part. The fact that the report doesn't mention Gaza is that doesn't mean that Gaza didn't play a part in it because no matter what, Gaza was a narrative this election.
>> Yeah. the you would include it. The fact that it omits Gaza does not mean that Gaza wasn't a thing. If Gaza wasn't a thing this election, they would have said Gaza wasn't a thing this election.
Yeah, I I'm not coming out here and putting words in whoever's mouth about whatever this is, but it is undeniable that it either played a positive role or a negative role. I happen to think it played a negative role, but it's like it it played a role and the omission from it is just another just like indictment on the DNC. Well, and you can't simultaneously say that Gaza played no role in the 2024 election and leftists are responsible for Harris losing because they were upset about Gaza >> literally in which way is it exactly like like if Gaza played no role then the leftist shouldn't have mattered that apparently tanked Kla Harris in every single swing state. You know what I mean? Like you you can't have it both ways. And so with the DNC autopsies, either they didn't mention Gaza because they're entirely incompetent and weren't actually looking to understand why we lost the election or they intentionally didn't include it because they wanted to run cover for like donors or whatever, or they didn't want to have the conversation on Gaza to begin with. But like you said, we know for a fact that people were upset about the Biden administration and Harris's policy towards Israel and Palestine. We know. I mean like you can't have an election where in the primary when Biden was still in the race 100,000 people in Michigan said I am uncommitted because of this specific policy and then you say oh yeah that just didn't play a role in the election at all. Come on dog. People were telling you people were telling you >> literally glaring omission. They said hey I care about this.
>> Yeah. And like we we have data and and testimonies from the Harris campaign that essentially they were telling people on the road like knocking doors do not tell us about people being upset about Gaza anymore cuz we're not going to change it. Like we we we know what was happening. We know what they were being told. Yeah, we we knew. We know.
We know. It's it's it's final, dude.
>> So [ __ ] awesome that the report was just like, "Yeah, we should spend more money."
>> Yeah, guys, we should spend more money.
And it's it's the fact it's the fact that like the trans ad was the thing that got airtime in there. And everybody goes and they say, "Oh, it's the trans ad. It's the trans ad." Nobody gave a [ __ ] about the [ __ ] trans ad. I will say when when I saw the ad, I was like, "Oh, that's a good ad."
>> That's it. Like it's a funny ad. Like, oh, they kind of got her on that one.
But I think part of what the DNC report said was like, "Oh, Kamla should have like reacted to this." The Kamla didn't react to the DNC like, not the DNC transad, to Trump's comm them ad because she like changed her position or didn't want to change her position. She had already changed her position. That's why the ad was so effective because she already flip-flopped. What's what's more important about the ad is like the flip-floppy nature and I sure getting her on the woke [ __ ] But it's like >> you look at why people went out to vote in this election. Yep.
>> Nobody went out there and said, "Oh, I voted because comm was for they them and Trump is for me." They say, "I voted because egg prices are too high."
>> If they are saying that, that person's unwinable.
>> Exactly.
>> It's already not captured. Like, it doesn't matter. That's not a person that matters. That's not that moderate Republican that you can go grab. These moderate Democrats love to pretend that the most extreme socially right Republicans are actually the moderate ones that we can persuade by being uh just moderately socially right. And I I don't even think that like the the they them ad would have really even been effective to the extent that it was if Kamla just like doubled down on the position and explained why it was right.
>> Yeah. But Democrats love to run away from these positions. They need to they need to run away harder because Democrats are actively running away harder right now. Like I don't know, man. It's just it's so fundamentally silly and it's such a huge indictment on the DNC on Ken Martin and it's it's honestly it's fire Ken Martin. It's always been fire Ken Martin, but right now especially it is this guy cannot run this organization.
>> Oh yeah. He's entirely incompetent, dude. He ging. I mean, the debt issue alone is like reason enough to get this guy [ __ ] out of the business.
>> You're already burning money. Why not burn a little bit more money and have a real report?
>> Especially cuz the first one was free.
>> Yep. But no, FOR REAL, YOU DIDN'T. AND CLEARLY, you know what it is. I didn't believe that. I thought it was unbelievable that this report would be free, but then I look at it, I'm like, "Oh, >> yeah." Know we we can't allow these these people to continue to have power.
And that's like the broader critique of the the Democrats right now is like it's not even that I'm upset that they're not more like leftist or socialist or whatever. It's just that these people in their liberal ideology are entirely [ __ ] incompetent. They can't do anything.
>> They can't even effectively be moderate.
>> They can't write a report.
>> How can you look how can you look at like the third way welcome fouse people?
And how can you look at moderate liberals like genuine moderate liberals going around and saying that this report is good and it confirms their priors and take them seriously. Yeah.
>> Because this report confirms nothing.
This report >> is so bad it can't do anything.
>> It doesn't even conclude.
>> Yeah. No, it's it's really bad. Um a couple of other things here. first uh I don't know if we've talked about Trump's quote unquote anti-weaponization fund.
>> I don't think we have.
>> He So you guys might remember we talked about how he sued the IRS essentially suing the government on behalf of himself. He's suing his own government and trying to get like $10 billion back for when the IRS I think in 2020 released his like tax information without his consent or some [ __ ] like that. Well, it turns out they settled in court which is like wow surprise.
>> Um DOJ said oh interesting. And the IRS is uh putting like a billion dollars into a quote unquote anti-weaponization fund that Trump can distribute at his leisure to whoever he wants >> to J6 riers. Like that's that's >> getting a massive payout.
>> It is just like it's one of those things that like if this happened under Biden, it'd be two weeks worth of a story.
>> Oh yeah, it's plain corruption.
>> It's just straight up criminal.
>> But right now there's there's so many other things going on, man, that it's how do I how do I sit there and focus on this? How do I have anything other to say other than Jesus [ __ ] Christ, man? He's just giving money to people who were doing an insurrection for him.
Paige is paying millions of dollars to J6 Riders. So cool. They all got blanket pardons. Like they all got whatever.
Being a J6 Rider was honestly an investment.
>> Lucrative.
>> Incredibly lucrative. They always talk about it being a honeypot.
>> As long as you don't get yourself put back in jail by like trying to look up child porn or something. That's like half of them. half of them got their part and then immediately like went outside of >> Wasn't there that like Fox News documentary about like, "Oh, are we sure this wasn't a honeypot? Was this FBI agent in the crowd that were riing them up?" I mean, clearly it was a honeypot.
It was just a long game. Clearly, it was just Trump waiting to get in a position where he could just pay off all these people for going to do it because whether or not Joe Biden paid them to riot, Trump is paying them to riot now.
Like, >> it's literally one of those hypotheticals like, would you want to push the red button and spend two years in jail, but in 5 years you get like $2 million or not do that?
>> Yep. I'm taking the $5 million, guys.
>> I'm taking the [ __ ] payout. Are you kidding me?
>> 100%.
>> Um, so that's some [ __ ] that happened. And then lastly, turn in terms of [ __ ] McMorro, she finally did an interview. She finally did a contentious interview and it might be the last one.
>> And it's just it's so upsetting to me that one we missed that news cycle because we had to we had to we had to show hog on we had to show hog on camera. You know what I'm saying? I couldn't miss that opportunity to do that. But the fact that it dropped like during record Monday, >> oh my god, genuinely upsetting. And I watched it and I watched it again this morning and it's just >> it was good.
>> It was so funny, man. Mallerie McMorro says nothing. Mallerie Murro goes out and she says platitudes. She talks like she's in a [ __ ] ass TEDx talk the entire time. She's out there like the two big clips that popped off. I'm sure you've all seen. It's the let's have a conversation about Palestinians getting the iron.
>> That would piss me off so much.
>> And oh no, I was just joking about RFK healthcare.
>> What do you mean you were just You can't say that.
>> Yeah, I'm just kidding.
>> Oh, I was just kidding. Actually, Emma, that's a mischaracterization. And then when she goes when they're talking about Gaza and she's clearly uncomfortable the entire time because it's like lowkey 40 minutes on Gaza. It's kind of funny. She just goes she gets cornered and she says Matt Bernstein who is Jewish. She goes, "What does your family think about it?"
That felt insane to me. That felt like an like an attack.
>> Yeah.
>> That was ridiculous.
>> Yeah. And like the the thrust of Mcro's argument is like I I can't take a strong position on Israel and Gaza. I can't use the word genocide on the campaign trail.
I can't like do all of this stuff because I'm trying to bring the state together. I'm trying to bring people together. Well, it's like a majority of people in the polling and just like we know this broadly. Majority of people are upset with our relationship with Israel.
>> And it's so funny because my go Emma Viglin brought that up. She brought up that it's a 9010 issue within the Democratic party. And then Mallerie Morrow continues to say, "Oh, I need to build a coalition. I need It's all vague platitudes with her. She is like just mid. She she's middle of the road. She's the middle of the road candidate. She's the moderate candidate. She she she everything she does is just mid. And it's not where we need to be. Mallerie mid mororrow."
>> Yeah. I know. Literally, I'm sick of it.
>> The Iron Dome for Palestine thing is so funny to me, dog, because it's like, >> "No, you get Iron Dome. You get an iron dome. You get an iron dome."
>> Well, and it's like, you're not like what? You're going to commit to introducing legislation to give Palestinians an Iron Dome? Like, be serious, dog. Like, you first of all, you're not going to do that. And I would honestly, if if a politician ever gives an answer like that, the interviewer should just be like, "All right, let's get into the nitty-gritty." Like, let's let's explain what this policy is actually going to be. And it's like it it's so obviously a deflection away from the fact that like the solution here is to take all military funding and honestly weapon sales away from Israel entirely. Y like we we cannot give them even the Iron Dome when they are committing crimes like this because they know it's a fall back that will protect them from any of the negative consequences of their actions. And when when she pivots to like yeah let's give Palestinians an Iron Dome. It's just an attempt to not have to answer for that.
And it's also again like because you don't you're not considering anything.
And Malo doesn't consider anything or at least she pretends to not consider anything because feigning ignorance is better than going out there and saying her real opinion if her opinion is bad.
I I don't know what her real opinion is.
I just know what she presents to the public and what she presents to the public is sympathy towards like genocidal Israel. You know what I mean?
Giving Palestinians Iron Dome. Sure. She refuses to engage with the idea that Israel's defense enables their offense.
You defense to offense. Classic classic move right there. You know what I'm saying? and just says we need to give Palestinians a an Iron Dome, too. Or that we could have we can have a conversation about this. It's just it's the way she phrases it. It's the way she talks about it. She talks like a 2016 liberal. I I can't stand it. You know what I mean? Let's have a let's talk about that. Let's build a coalition.
Let's do all this. It's the dumbest [ __ ] ever. But it's like, okay, should we give Palestine an army then? Should we give Palestine a sitting military so they can defend themselves? Or can they only defend themselves from Israeli missiles?
>> Should we help them spy on their enemies?
>> No, for real. They can only defend themselves with an Iron Dome from Israeli missiles, but they can't defend themselves from Israeli tanks or Israeli soldiers or Israeli like [ __ ] 30 ton bombs that'll get dropped on them that we gave them that maybe the Iron Dome doesn't intercept or sure the Iron Dome doesn't intercept the sheer amount of bombs that Israel is dropping on there.
It is the most vain vague [ __ ] ever.
And I I I cannot stand for it. And I got to say I I guess like shout out Matt Bernstein and Emma's restraint because I would not have been that restraint. So nicer. Well, and that's the thing is like so much of the fallout that I saw online was people saying like, "Oh, liberals should never do interviews with these people because they're never going to be pleased." Matt Bernstein and Emma Viglin gave McMo the nicest contentious interview they possibly could give.
>> Infinite charity.
>> They were so kind to her, dude. Like, they gave her so much space to explain her positions. They gave her so many chances to give a better answer. It like at some point you do just got to like know stuff and like have a position on things. The thing that really got me, and this was, I think, the most damning part that really hasn't gotten much attention, was she was asked about like what the long-term solution is for Israel Palestine. And naturally, McMorro is a two-state solution kind of person.
And Emma naturally asked, "Okay, what are the borders there?" Like, like what does a two-state solution actually look like? Are we going back to 1967 borders because Israel's been taking more and more land since then? Are we going to lock in the borders that currently exist right now? What about Lebanon? All this kind of stuff. And McMor essentially said, "Well, that's not up for me to decide."
>> It literally literally is. No, you you are going to be a person who decides whether or not you're in those negotiations, whether or not you are actually like writing out the the the text of whatever is going to happen, whatever treaty that gets ratified, you will be tasked with approving it. You will be tasked with messaging on it. You will be tasked with answering to this when you go back to your constituents in Michigan, in a state like Michigan with such a large Arab population, with a large Palestinian population, with a large Lebanese population, you will be tasked with dealing with all of this.
You have to have an opinion on it.
And she went multiple times during this interview. She reiterated the idea that like, oh, you know, as a legislator, sometimes I have to check my opinions at the door, >> [ __ ] You got elected to have because of your opinions that I want that represent me. Like, that's that's why we elect people. I I'm going to vote for Abdul in the primaries and hopefully in the general, God willing, because I agree with the opinions that he has on things.
>> You get elected for the positions you hold. And because he has those opinions, I know he has positions that he will go and do this thing. The fact that she says that is very like establishment consultant coded, whatever, because it is going out there and saying like it it's that pretending that she's going to represent people. Oh, it's not about me.
It's about what the people think. It's about the people who elect me. It's about what they think. While she refuses to engage with polling. In fact, when Emma brought up polling, she goes and she then says, "Yeah, you know, this idea that we have to run campaigns based on polling is just it's just not right.
We have to bring people together What?
>> I I'm not a fan of polling. I think a lot of polling just exists to confirm priors for these like Democratic consultants like go and do things, right? But some polling you can't deny when an issue is 9010. You can't deny that. You can't deny that the base is there. When Michigan once again has this huge population, like you can't you can't deny that. Huge Arab population, huge Jewish population, huge section of the Jewish population that is also anti-Zionist and against what's going on right now. She is just saying fake [ __ ] because she wants to pretend to not have an opinion. And that's what I like don't respect about her the most.
That's I don't like Mallerie McMora.
>> Yeah. No. Like at the end of the day, man, the role of the politician should not be to do what gets you elected, but to do what's right. Like and I know I know it sounds naive and I I know it sounds silly cuz like that's obviously not how politics works, but that's the the future we should strive towards. And we don't get anywhere close to that by electing people like her who are like, I have to change all of my positions based on what I think is going to win. Yeah.
cuz like that's explicitly what she's saying. And to be clear, like that kind of mindset would justify being cool with or going along with some of the worst atrocities in human history. And it's also I I do I have to question whether or not they actually think it's going to win or that's what they say to get people like us to fall in line because I I I think I think with a lot of these people and I think it's been pretty firmly revealed over the last like 2 years as the progressive and moderate divide has widened that when centrists go out there and say I need to do what wins and you just have to shut up and agree with me. It's not doing what wins it's doing what they believe and they just want to couch it in something else because these people don't believe anything or they know their beliefs aren't popular so they don't want to be public with them. These people are rats and snakes and liars, man. I And again, when I'm watching that interview, I shout out Matt Bernie and Emma Viglin for having restraint that I would not have had when we were when we were like last week. We were tweeting just crazy anti-Mmorro [ __ ] It was popping off and I was having a great time. But there was this there was this one Twitter account called McMan that replied to one of our tweets and said something along the lines of um Mall, you guys are proving every day why she was right to dodge her interview with you. And you know what? Yeah, she was right because I she I hate her, dude.
>> I I don't know, man. We would have been entirely fair. Like >> No, I was planning on >> It wouldn't have been good for her because she can't answer for her record and things she said in the past.
>> Exactly.
>> But like it was it wasn't it wasn't going to be like a gotcha thing. It was going to be like here are things you've supported me.
>> I wasn't going to get out there and scream at her, but I was going to get out there and say and like make her answer things. Like get out there and say like, "No, I'm not going to tolerate you gish galloping. I'm not going to tolerate you pivoting. You are going to You came to an interview to answer questions. You need to answer the [ __ ] question. And that's what that's what pisses me off about these politicians, man.
>> The whole time I'm watching the Matt Bernstein interview, it's just like tell me what you believe.
>> Exactly. Exactly.
>> Like like with the whole like 1967 borders, what does a two-state solution look like thing? It's like you don't want to answer this question. Just tell me like okay, fine. You you were saying as a senator, it might not be entirely up to you. So you don't want to like get out ahead of it and try to propose a solution right now. Tell me what you as a person believe. Like what should happen here? And that doesn't that doesn't mean that you're like, I don't know, placing yourself above everybody else and trying to dictate a solution from on high. It's being a person and having an opinion. Yes. Like that's that's what people want out of their politicians is for you to have solid opinions that they can hold you to account for. But when MC and like I don't like Haley Stevens. I think Haley Stevens is worse than McMor. At least I know what she believes and at least I know what she's going to do. But with McMo, I have no [ __ ] clue what she actually believes.
>> Haley Stevens goes out and says, "I am going to take Apac money. I love Israel." Yeah. And McMorro says, "Well, actually, it's really complicated what's going on around here. I got to build like a coalition." You know what I mean?
It's just it's about assembling a coalition and bring things. And you know, when I was in the state legislature, all this happened when she was talking about like healthcare. She was bringing up state legislator. She was bringing up public options in other states. We have a My Care bill in the state legislature right now, but she's not pro Medicare for all. She's not pro these principles like she tries to pretend to allude to. That's why she hasn't sponsored that. That's why she didn't bring it up in there. My care is just like Medicare for all for Michigan.
Yeah.
>> She doesn't want to support that. She doesn't want to support anything. She doesn't actually want to take the step.
She said that states, she said, "Oh god, I wish I >> states are the laboratories for democracy." That's what she said. I I hate that line.
>> No, it's so it's so stupid and it's so liberal and I ah I don't like these people.
>> Like these liberals just operate in in platitudes that would authorize literally anything no matter how harmful.
>> Exactly. 100% 100%. And it's like if if if Mallerie McMor unfortunately somehow goes on to like win the nomination and win no no no no no that cannot happen. But she somehow if evil wins and she goes out and does that, right?
>> Senator Platitude is being taken from Cory Booker and being put on her like she she's she's taking that mantle, man.
I can't I can't stand it. I can't stand it. She's she's exactly the kind of politician that we don't need right now.
And and that this is also this is among like the range of acceptable politicians. She's on the on the this shouldn't be acceptable part of those because obviously Haley Stevens we don't need. Obviously Mike Rogers we definitely don't need. We don't need Republicans. We don't need moderate Democrats.
>> But Malie Moore is pretending to be a progressive while being a moderate and I can't. man is dangerous. They're >> liars.
>> As we've talked about before, man, people will vote for her thinking they're getting something more forceful and substantive than they're really getting. And that just causes extreme apathy, especially in Democratic voters who are so sick of the party and moderate sort of establishment politicians not delivering for them.
Like that's the position we're in right now is a lot of Democrats um even like the older Democrats, like the no kings types are like like they want the party to fight. They might not be explicitly like ideologically radical. They might not even consider themselves a a leftist or even be aligned with us politically on many things, but at the very least they want their party to fight. And I just don't see how that would happen with someone like McMorro who so clearly believes in nothing. To be clear, Haley Stevens won't fight. We we've seen her capitulate. We know exactly what she is.
Obviously, Mike Rogers would just be a Trump Republican. But the point is that if we elect somebody that gives people false hope, it will further push people out of engaging with politics entirely.
And that is dangerous and and feeds into the sort of right-wing wave of populism.
>> And that can't happen.
>> And I don't like it. That can't happen.
I don't like it. I don't want it. I'm not I'm not a big fan of Mallerie McMorrowro.
>> Not a big fan of Mallalerie McMurro. 30 on 30. Anyways, that brings us to the end of this episode, which means we need to read our reviews, starting with these Apple reviews. Again, if you want your review, you absolutely know where to go.
Apple Podcast, five star review. Reread them at the end of the shows as long as they're not pre-recorded because then we don't have any to get to, but you get the point. Yeah. Yeah.
>> This first one from Apple from a keyboard smash straight out of Hormuz.
Fellow quirked up white boy from Dallas, Texas here. very thankful for you guys.
I appreciate staying informed on the war in Iran uh in the war with the war in Iran alongside y'all's sense of humor helping me stay sane somehow. I'm also encouraged by the way you engage with Michigan politics. Are there any creators/independent news sources that you know of talking about leftist politics in Texas?
>> I wish there was. I would say us because for a while a plurality of our viewers were in Texas, but I know that's not what you mean. Uh I wish I did though, unfortunately.
>> Yeah. No, I I don't know of any. I'm sure there are some that you could find that are like not psychopaths supporting like >> Paxton. What wasn't there wasn't there just a poll that came out that showed like Terico plus four like right now.
That's so awesome.
>> Yeah, they're going with the Telerico was weird attack. Like that seems to be the main line against him for the general.
>> Interesting. I liked I liked seeing the clip of Trump go and say, um, yeah, this guy was wearing a mask 6 months ago.
Like, okay, buddy. That's Japanese soldiers still fighting World War II.
>> Yeah. Founded forest 30 years later.
This next one, five Mount Rushmore heads out of five. First time reviewer but longtime listener from the best Dakota South. In fact, I've been here so long that I definitely know which one is Gage and which one is Jeremy. This AOTC2 compliant podcast taught me that good things are good, bad things are bad. And to condemn all political violence that's foreign, domestic, and against puppies that this is true. That's huge. There's a lot of that going on in North Dakota.
These Midwest white boys are my favorite companion to all my menial chores and Pokemon grinding sessions. Thanks for keeping me sane during my 19-hour Dratatini shiny hunt. Oh, Pokemon Dratini shiny hunt. I wish I was joking.
And protecting my squishy brain from all the psychic damage that comes from existing in South Dakota. I hope to add a shiny shiny Litlo named Clementine to my box soon. Absolutely white woman approved. That's big, guys. That's a good That's big. Especially right now when I've come out as a big not white woman hater as a class, but as a big hater of one white woman. You know what I mean? I do wish we had a a white guy to hate on in Michigan Senate right now.
>> It would make things easier.
>> It would make things a lot easier. I I would feel like I could be more forceful.
>> This next one, um I can't read the whole subject line, but the left the best leftist podcast repolitics tied with something. Uh the the review is >> Oh, tied with Rachel Cohen.
>> Oh. Oh my god.
>> Shout out to go Rachel. Oh my goodness.
>> If I had to limit myself to just one podcast, it would be a tossup between Hido and Rachel Cohen's content. So much better and more insightful than anything else out there. And I'll just say I appreciate being compared to some of the goats.
>> That's what I'm saying. Cross over a century right there. My goodness. Go watch that video if you haven't. Hit ask Rachel Cohen. This one uh from Joey Taco that says, "Not a doctor. Short-term listener."
>> This is an attack on Abdul.
>> Absolutely. Short-term listener, longtime Instagram clip watcher. Abdul Elsa is a doctor in the same way I'm a cinematographer. Both of us went to school for our chosen field, but one of us chose to not practice his profession to do bigger things for the people of his community. And the other works in and the other works an email marketing job. I'll let you guys piece together who is who. Anyways, Ho is a great podcast that I look forward to listening to. It's funny, informative, and just a good time. Five stars. Keep it up, my boys.
>> Wow. Wow. I I thought this was going to be like a principal takedown of Abdul in the reviews. Five star review, but [ __ ] Abdul Elsa.
>> Exactly. Maybe maybe we maybe somebody should try and like force feed McMorro or like feed information to the MC team McMmorro account about Abdul so that they can attack him on more [ __ ] so he gets boosted again.
>> Oh yeah, >> maybe that's the new strat.
>> Um this last review on Apple from the Big Raz good show five out of five politically relevant references heavy on that nonpartisan quirked up Midwest white boys npm7 compliant condemn political violence. Good things are good bad things are bad. Big on that.
>> Wow.
>> That's the review. Perfect review right there. Over on Spotify, this one from Sand. 10 out of 10. Tulsi Gabbards resigning on HO day drop. I forgot she resigned. Oh my goodness. I kind of forgot.
>> Trump found another woman to fire.
>> Ridiculous. I kind of forgot that she was around. She kind of wasn't doing much. She got she was in like trouble for something, wasn't she?
>> Well, she came out and said like, "Yeah, Ron's not developing a nuke." And then she disappeared for months. She said that in front of Congress. So, it's like, well, there you go.
>> So sick. Resigning on hit drop day. Got to love the way the news cycle works.
Love from Atlanta, Georgia by a fellow quirked up white boy trying to make it through the day. Aren't we all?
>> This next one from Perian Critter. Five out of five incumbents being protected by the establishment. Longtime listener literally since 2021. Goodness. First time commenter, eternal suffering Tennessee leftist. Uh, this was a great episode and very timely for what's going on in my local politics. I recently managed to campaign for a progressive that accepted zero dollars in financial donations against a 78-year-old 20-year incumbent and faced ridiculous scrutiny and harassment from the local and state party. Everything David said is spot on solidarity.
>> You should not be able to be a 78-year-old 20-year incubant. Like that.
>> Stop.
>> Yeah, man. You've been there long enough.
>> Stop. There's also an addendum to this review in the replies that said, "Also, might I add, we only lost by 100 votes.
I was very proud of our candidate and team." Damn, that's crazy. This next one from Michaela 74. Five out of five milktoast DNC autopsies. Great interview. Your content is keeping me sane in these trying times and constantly reminding me that good things are good and bad things are bad. Keep up the great work.
>> It's true. This next one from Ferdinando. 10 out of 10 billion dollars to Israel. Love the podcast and keep up the good work. Can't wait for the HTO 2028 campaign. Since somebody like Brandon Bootlicker Herrera won, Hit will win by a landslide. Oh, now that now that you mentioned billions of dollars to Israel, it made me think of another moment in the Mali Memorial interview.
It's a shame that people who don't watch the reviews aren't going to hear this part, but there was a moment where she mentioned like how she's pro getting like stopping like aid to Israel.
>> Yahoo said that >> that we knew it was coming, dude. We knew it. We knew it.
>> I was fuming in my car when I heard that. That made me so genuinely mad, but also vindicated because we called it we called exactly that that Democrats were going to take Netanyahu's statement on 60 Minutes as permission to go and say like, "Oh yeah, we should cuz Netanyahu thinks so." Oh my god, the president of the United States. You needed permission. You needed absolutely crazy.
This last review from Rusty, 10 out of 10 majorities in Congress lost to old age. Many such cases.
>> That might genuinely happen. And I'll just say, man, that would be funny as hell.
>> You know what? Yeah. You know what?
Yeah. No, that >> cuz like it would had Democrats won the House in the last election, they would have lost the majority by now probably.
>> It's so [ __ ] >> because they've had like what since since 2025 like six people die in office or something.
>> I think I think I think I want to say six people have died. One of them was a Republican and four of them were or five of them were Democrats or four in one and it was five total. But either way, Democrats are dropping like flies in Congress.
>> Can't keep our people alive.
>> Who knows? Who knows, man? It's like the retirement home. It's it's like they got Medicaid beds up in there. Oh my goodness. But without further ado, we got to give a special special special thanks to our patrons that keep the lights on in the studio and keep this media independent. That starts with Kaden Kraut, Chris the Postman, Christy, Christy Beck, Mike Japlinsky, Clayton Lefed, Mark Edger, Caleb Joy, Rich Toro, Tari, Fergalaki, Max Vasquez, Jacob Rogers, Colton Mubberry, Fixer Punk, Jim Edgar, Beter, Bagel Burrito, Cincy Alex, Joe Stentstrum, Adrien Sandaval, Chloe Sam 601, Colleen Cut, Venifree, Jennifer Deville, Crawf Vision, Benjon the third, Alexa Benanti, Big Buddy, Beat Down, Sam Maloney, Ted K's boy, Toy Dictator Jace, Luca, Cucker, Charles, Danielle Jackson, The Word of Microsoft, Jennifer Science, Aaron and his gun, Damn Gundams, Darth Father, Taylor for content, Cory Chambers, Retroando, Veronica Aka V, Rexon, Ash Smith, Murder in the Strange Coat, Casey Lin, Kelly, AK Gone, Iguana, Don, Zack Lantion, Austin Grife, Caleb Roer, Taylor Renot, Cammy, Tylen Freeman, Isis Hodges, Maline C, an Annic Casec, Seas, August, Particular Pikmin, Sir Kavalot, Jeff Signs, Brendon is Egg, Froggy, Gumdrop, Jackie Boy, Shameless, Coherent Babels, MJ Sharp, Michaela Muny, the Wallace 3000, Chris T, Kashan Laala, Amanda R, Tyler J, Particle, Meres, Rhonda, Midwest, Marks, Joe the Mailman, Gary from West Michigan, Charnie Gigi, Juniper Not Jupiter, Stat Krabs, I Crowley, Urban Peach, Lord of Four, Lauren, Holt, Foresight, the Booty Snakes, Dofairy, Cheleratops, Austin, Limo, Lane, Walt, Gorgeous Girl, Mukes, Brooklyn G, Gold, Thorn, Addy, Book, Merlin, Kyle, Bangi, Sergeant Pooky, Hoodie, Rose Grim, Kristen, Jamie the Young, Extremist, Jack the Heathen, Archer W, Evan Mingo, AJ Torres, Elo Nigo, Jall, Seth Schmidt, Noah Sahas, Majawa, Alter the Dragon, Mercy Boku, Dick Cheney in Six in heels. Luke Wctor, Henry Craggles, Tristan Ringsmith, Yaya, Assura the Atheist, Aiden Reese, Deep State Agent, Puddle Pirate, Southern Lefty, Lark 61, Casey, Cannon Man, Troy H, Park Muffalo, Nan San Diego, Nutmode, Nick from New Haven, Connor, Nick, Sound Logic, Sven, I've Never Made a Woman, Orgasm, John from Houston, Jordino, Haley Wyold, Pablo Vasquez, Nurse Jen, Sold DJ, Maple, Big Dog, CIA, Small Creators Fund, Taylor from Bird Down, Minneapolis, Northeast, Nick, AA, Retired AFNSC, Wolfer G, Gaest Worm, Niles Chamberlain, Sugar-free Baja Blast, Chris the Leftist Nurse, Fake Airplane, TJ Loves, Kylen, Moth Man's Gay Lover, Real Jesus Christ, Quira, Carter Gethan, Blulu 92, 10,000 Miniature Horses, Will Grant, Gay for Jeremy Hill, Libertas, Walter Vander, Vogalwide, Rad Da, Captain Butt Pee, Cam Toki, Chef Slam, Mexie Dukard, Call Me Bubba, The Way I Receive Hit, Gina, A Platypus Named Icorus, Koo, Randall, What Popo, Dilly, Quasypox, Jeremy the Killer, Faded Weapon, No Faded Weapon, Quaazar Wrangler, Taj Baldry, Alexander Shamton, Liberal Weather Machine, Nomish Court Jester, a second Walters hit the Patreon, Comic Crow Head, Hyena Gal, Sophia Zeke Young, Sophia Lola Kips, Mom, Possum Queen, Jagger Stsman, Michael Arkrite, Mismatch Socks, Pants, Pisser 27, Who Do You Poo Poo, Tud Master of Audits, Nate the Great, Young GZ, Adlib, Enjoyer, Richmond with a lowercase R, Shop Dude, Jonah, Sweet Feet, Pete, Dead Rous, Certified Labite, uh, Elegant Crayfish, Kenny Ivers, and my mom. Thank you all so much for supporting the show on Patreon. Couldn't do it without you. And you know, I I I will say before we wrap up this show, before we wrap up this fine Monday episode while we're back on a regular reschedule, whenever we do a guest interview and they're like talking to us and they look at us and they say, "Gage or Jeremy, I get a little sad because I realize I realize that some that the people the people that are really paying close attention, you're going to understand who's who and it's like damn, >> it's not as exclusive anymore."
>> Well, I mean, there's always opportunity to get new listeners that don't know.
>> This is true.
>> And and that's why you guys got to proitize and get up on your soap box and spread spread the good word. You got to spread the good word and you say, "Look at my friends Jeremy and Gage." And you do not show them which is which.
>> Have you heard the good news? A new hit episode.
>> Guys, my good friends Jeremy and Gage started a have a podcast. It's really good. Really good news.
>> How do you tell which is which? I don't know.
>> I don't know. Can you tell which one?
Comment below.
>> Anyways, thanks for listening. Have a great week.
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