Campaign finance reform is a critical issue in American politics, as demonstrated by the Michigan Senate debate where candidates discussed how corporate and special interest funding influences political messaging and policy outcomes. The debate highlighted the tension between grassroots funding and corporate donations, with one candidate emphasizing that campaigns should prioritize messages over money, while another acknowledged receiving support from organizations like AIPAC. This illustrates how campaign finance systems shape political discourse and candidate positions on issues like healthcare, foreign policy, and domestic spending.
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Abdul El-Sayed DESTROYS Opponents On Debate Stage | Hasanabi ReactsAdded:
Oh my god, bro. Stevens is so bad. The only solution is to [ __ ] your pants on stage in hopes that it makes no one remember what you said. Yeah, Haley Stevens is um incredible. I mean, this race would be over if it was Haley Stevens versus Abdul Say. It seems to me like Abdul Ali cooked.
>> I'm saying it. Abdul said we have to fight for a revolution on the debate stage.
>> It isn't.
>> People can't afford to wait for a res a revolution that may never come. I'll tell you this, revolution is definitely not coming if we're not fighting for it.
So, let's play a game. If you're on the stage and you have never taken a corporate pack check from Blue Cross Blue Shield, raise your hand.
>> Anyway, all of that is to say, I think we really can fight for a world where everybody can be guaranteed healthcare.
I think we really should fight for that world because too many people in this country are going without the health care that they need and deserve. 225 billion dollars in medical debt.
>> 225. That's bigger than the GDP of half the states in this country.
>> Thank you, sir. We >> No, no, no. I'm not done yet. I just want to say let me just finish. I just want to say one more thing.
>> It is important for us to recognize that all of these issues go back to how we finance campaigns and it just keeps coming back and coming back. Thank you.
>> We've heard Thank you. People can't afford to wait for a res a revolution that may >> damn banger. What the Michael Fusco art? Jesus Christ. 400 bones. I've never seen anything like it, bro. Look at this. Oh my god. All right.
Make it rain if you want. If you like the soundboard, make it rain.
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There's a million gifted subs in the chat. If you still haven't received a gifted sub, then you're out of luck. You got to use your own. You got to make your own luck. If we get the hype train level 14, I'll play it. Holy, I haven't seen this big of a gifted uh sub train since I had like election night coverage and I would run ads at the top of the hour. God damn, I need to farm subscribe subscriptions more honestly. Oh [ __ ] we're at level 14.
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Oh, level 15. You already know what it is.
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>> OH, that's the wrong >> and Lebanese.
>> People want more. People want to get more kirky with it.
>> Okay. Okay. What about What about >> Blammo?
>> What about >> Blammo?
>> I hate white people. I hate white people.
>> Whoa. Austin, chill.
>> Austin, why are you saying stuff like that, bro? That's crazy.
Calm down, Austin.
>> I'M GAY.
AND LEBANESE. ALL RIGHT, IF WE hit level, we're at level 16 on the hype train. If we hit level 20, I'll hit the Charlie Kirk again.
>> I hate white people. I hate white people.
>> All right, let's continue uh with the news. This is crazy.
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20 brothers milking it. Yeah, I'm milking it. I haven't I haven't had a good run.
with subs in a minute. I haven't farmed subs in a long ass time, dude.
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It didn't even show up on the leaderboard cuz it's so busted.
A thousand. What the 1,000?
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>> What the hell?
Oh my god. No way.
This has got to be so hard to comprehend. If you're a Fox News journalist that's pass my stream, you're like, "What the is this guy doing?"
Was it you or Vinnie that would rip shirts for subs? It was definitely not me.
That sound like some goated [ __ ] that my goat Vinnie would do. Level 18 hype train almost over. 3 minutes and 28 seconds left.
We're Oh, you mean Will? Yeah, Will does that.
Have you ever done a Subathon? No. Would you? No, brother. My life is a subathon if you haven't noticed.
I stream every single day. The only thing I don't do on camera is fall asleep on camera. So, why would I do a subathon where I just basically also fall asleep on camera, too? And and then work out on camera as well.
Uh oh, we're about to be level 19.
Kanye Kanye is in Turkey. What the No offense, but Wild's gifties. Now, it's a random ass Thursday mid news coverage. I don't know.
Oh [ __ ] about to be level 19.
Uh anyway, let's listen to what uh Apac Michigan Democratic Senate candidates uh talk about Apac on stage. You know, this is going to be a banger for our boy Abdul El Say >> Haley Stevens.
>> [ __ ] a subathon, bro. Where is MG MGS3 sleepover stream with Will? We're going to do a fuckathon. We're not going to do a subathon. We're going to do aathon and a Toyotaathon.
Level 19.
One more level remaining until level 20.
>> Money from Apac. Walk us through what that money means and what it buys and maybe what it doesn't.
>> Well, look, my campaign for US Senate uh for Michigan is a love letter to our state. And I am deeply proud to have grassroots support coming from grocery clerk workers to uh retired teachers to factory workers and the the like. I'm also deeply and the Israel lobby.
>> Honored to have the support of uh former Governor Jennifer Granhomem, Congresswoman Brenda Lawrence, and Debbie Stabinau standing alongside me.
Individuals who fight for Michigan and win for Michigan, which is absolutely what I want to do as Michigan's next US senator. Look, Michiganers are frustrated because we have not done comprehensive campaign finance reform.
Mike Rogers will not vote for comprehensive campaign finance reform like I have in the House of Representatives. We swarely need to put people at the front of our agenda.
Campaigns are about movements of ideas, Stephen. The campaigns are about movements of ideas. and I articulate positions of freedom and democracy and uh what Michigan needs to succeed at the global stage and women. And you're also just not answering the question. Go ahead.
>> Look, at the end of the day, it also buys $3.5 billion sent to a foreign military that could be used here to give glasses here to provide healthcare here, to build schools here. That's where our money should be used. And look, people know me. I say the same thing everywhere. I come to Meno, tell you all I want to tax billionaires. I go down south tell people I want to tax billionaires. I say the same thing to everybody. If you want to support my campaign, fantastic. If you don't, if it comes down to having more money from a donor or having a message, I'm going to choose a message every time. And I think that's the difference. That's what we need in our politics.
>> We're going to go to tomorrow night.
>> I appreciate that. And messages are great. And you actually >> Oh my god, bro. Stevens is so bad. The only solution is to [ __ ] your pants on stage in hopes that it makes no one remember what you said.
Yeah, Haley Stevens is um incredible. I mean, this race would be over if it was Haley Stevens versus Abdul Sad.
Okay, this is not real chatters. People are getting duped by this.
I hate that it's not real.
And by people, I mean me. I got duped by it for a second. I was dancing my pants off.
Um, Stephen's giving the weakest what Michigan means to me. Answer was a surprise. Thought she nailed in that closing statement. Yeah, this uh, dude, this debate is here. I'm going to tell you exactly what it it was going to be.
Okay. Haley Stevens comes up and says, uh, my campaign is a love letter to Michigan. I love Michiganders.
Michiganers want me to take billions, want me to take tens of millions of dollars from Israel. I love Israel. I close my eyes. I think about Israel all the time, which is what Michiganers care about. And then Mallerie McMurro comes up and says, "Oh, well, you have great ideas, but the reality is I'm actually pragmatic and I I don't think better things are possible. I think uh modestly uh marginally, incrementally better things are possible." Okay? And that's what Malerie McMar is going to say. And then Abdul's like, I will literally physically engage uh fascists if necessary. Uh, I put up three plates.
I've never taken a single dime from a corporate pack. And uh, we have to start punishing ICE agents and also billionaires are the enemy. And then everyone else there looks silly in comparison.
Everyone else looks silly in comparison on that stage cuz he's just like, "This is it." Level 19 AT 10. OH NO, WE'RE NOT GOING TO MAKE IT TO 20. IT'S 9 SECONDS REMAINING. We are not going to make it to 20. Michael Fusco. OH MY GOD, HE PUT IT AT 100.
OH MY GOD. OKAY, THIS IS a special level 20 hype train. Level 19 complete. We're at level 20 hype train. So, of course, we have to do this.
>> Be undeniable to fight for the gospel and to carry his flame. All right, let's continue. Uh, getting back to the Apac conversation at uh the Michigan Policy uh the the Meno Policy Conference. Uh, a quest for common ground.
I thought 911 was the first thing you think of in the morning. No, that's what my haters think. McMurro equals Starmer.
I know.
>> We need to know how to deliver them on this campaign. I have not taken a dime of corporate pack donations. I have not taken a dime of a pack donations. This campaign is entirely funded by 120,000 individual donors, more grassroots support than my opponents combined, the most amount of money from Michigan, and we are building up a campaign that shows that we can run very differently, that we can win very differently. But we want to focus the Democrats last two campaigns though, >> Mr. Mr. said we want to focus on and the issue and get some more specific >> and we were talking about foreign policy but yet we're talking about campaign finance.
>> Excuse me. We want to focus on this question. This is a divisive issue. This this issue of the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian. Bro, never in my life would I have thought there would be a centrism conference in some random part of Michigan where the debate moderators were holding to account Democratic Senate hopefuls in the primaries for taking Apac money. And it's like any kind of association with Apac would be perceived as the negative one. I think you guys need to understand something. Random. It's Meno Island.
Okay, man. It's random to me. Okay, I love you, Michigan. I love the Michiganers, but like I've never heard of Meno Island.
I'm a goddamn by coastal elite. Okay, calm down. Also, that's not the main point. The main point is not Meno Island's uh like historic importance.
Okay. The main point I'm making is that this is a let's establish common ground conference debate and the moderators are literally asking the moderators are asking like well you can you address the fact that you got Apac money like Apac is is a funding vehicle for your campaign and what do you get out of that and what does Apac get out of that? Like that is like Apac associations being considered a significant negative. Do you not understand how insane that is?
For those of us who've been here already for years, and this is what I was talking about with Darisa as well. Like, if you've been an anti-ionist for like the last decade plus, okay, or even longer than that, this is not a moment that you thought you would ever see in your lifetime.
I promise you, a lot of you learned about Israel after October 7. Maybe you knew a little bit about it, but you weren't as vocal. Or maybe you never had the positions that you have now, right?
But for people that have had these positions for a decade plus, this point that we have arrived at is unbelievable.
Unbelievable. Now, there's still so much more room to grow. Okay? As I always say, sometimes jokingly and sometimes not jokingly, there's still a lot more people out there who don't hate Israel sufficiently, who don't hate Zionism enough. Okay.
So, the idea that like uh the the uh the idea that like, oh, we're done, we're good, is wrong. Okay? We're not done. We're not good. There's a lot more room to grow. I need you to understand that. Having said that, however, Having said that, however, given what this conversation used to look like, given what the overarching attitudes used to be, it is unbelievable that we're here.
Uh, it has divided your obviously the three of you, but also your party. And you have many Democrats, Jewish Democrats, raising concerns about anti-semitism. Is there an anti-semitism problem in the Democratic Party, Miss?
>> There is. At the Democratic convention, uh, a an attendee yelled an anti-Semitic slur at my husband who is Jewish who was walking with my 5-year-old daughter.
>> That is terrifying. We need to be able to state very clearly that what the Netanyahu government is doing is wrong.
That the violence needs to end. That we need to bring about long-term peace. And >> okay, don't say cap chatters. Like that probably did happen.
Okay, don't be ridiculous. The point, however, the point, however, is like the correct way to approach this is like, dude, anti-semitism exists in the United States of America. And yes, there are going to be Democrats who are anti-semitic as well. But if you think that like there's a significant amount of anti-semitism on the Democratic party side as opposed to the Republicans, you're a delusional person. Okay? Like anti-semitism is is um anti-semitism is morally repugnant. It's completely unacceptable and unfortunately it happens. So we have to analyze why anti-semitism grows in this country. But the unfortunate reality is many people don't want to ask that question.
Anti-semitism grows in this country historically during unprecedented levels of violence that Israel commits against the Palestinians, against the Lebanese population, against Arabs as a whole.
Because Israel does this unlimited violence with unlimited tax dollars from the United States of America and it also claims that it is doing this kind of violence for Judaism. This false conflation is a very dangerous one and it is one that teaches Americans that Israel is is an institution, a country that is for the Jews by the Jews and is incredibly important for Judaism. It's not true, but that's what we're teaching people anyway.
Of course, this generates anti-semitism.
your appearance on Trevor Noah's show and your take on Joe Rogan maybe Joe Rogan of the left. How how do you how do you feel about that? I I mean I have my opinions but I want to know cuz you're the person they're speaking about. You know what you think about it?
>> I mean I think Joe Rogan is is a goon but >> a goon.
>> Yeah.
>> What a funny word.
>> He's kind of a dumbass. But >> not a word my friend would use.
>> Goon. That's not a goon yet.
Dude, I got messages about where I bought this suit. I love this. This is my favorite suit now.
I love the suit. This is um a Giorgio Armani vintage suit from the 80s and I love it. I I bought it off the stylist uh for the photo shoot that I did for the cover.
You look like Mshimer.
Oh, thank you. It's very kind of you to say. It's not real, but yeah, it's a it's a 80s suit.
Hire the stylist to buy you nice clothes. Yes, I I already did. I was like, if you pull anything that's my size, that's vintage suiting, similar to the Giorgio Armani one that I got off you, I would be eternally grateful. No suit today. We're going cash. We're going cash today.
Sometimes you got to go cash.
Read the comments on the video. What?
This Hassan who was his own main witness due to the recording everything is being fedally investigated thinks Joe Rogan is stupid. What caused the suit movement leaning into the middleage vibes? I mean I am getting older but I think uh one of the major reasons is because I was getting a lot of Fox News clippage and I wanted to look more uh appealing.
One step closer to meeting Duia. Trevor Noah has interviewed now interviewed all the Hassans. There might be a couple left. Commenting from Iran after three months of internet blackout. This was a gift I didn't know I needed until I saw the top of my recommendations. Thank you y'all. Damn, that's sick. Finally, a political legend Hank Pecker on the Noah show. Suits and leisure wear natural fibers are also in right now. So, vintage suits are very stylish at the moment. Yeah, your Wikipedia page has more views than Joe Rogan right now. Assan the Hun's Wikipedia page has now garnered more than a more traffic than Joe Rogan ac all of 2026 and has broken over 1 million plus page views. Assan [ __ ] 2026 page views. 1 million Joe Rogan 2026 page views 819,000.
Nice.
That's because no one needs needs to read Joe Rogan's wiki page. They already know who he is. True. But why you got to make me feel bad? Why why do you got to throw that in my face, dude? Tom [ __ ] responds, "Viewers, how many subs it would take for him to wear a gene thong." Bro, there's no shot. I got too much heat for that. I got too much meat for that. What are we doing? A thousand subs.
Oh my god. This one had me dying.
>> What What brings you to this point? Like we meet you at this moment in your life, but like how how does how does Hassan Paher come to be? Like where were you born? How were you raised?
>> He was born in America.
>> No, no. I'm not saying like a border agent. I'm saying to me I'm saying like a life story. You're so defensive about it.
>> This man is like I'm like, "Where were you born?" I was born here. I'm born in America. I'm still lingers.
>> I I don't know if you heard, but the federal government's coming after me.
>> We actually need to talk about that. But but no, >> so I need to say it. I was born here.
I'm an American citizen.
Um I could run for president. I would never do that though, so don't get scared.
>> Oh man. You know, you know what's funny about this is I I do find it I do find it hilarious that over the years, in a good way, I'm not saying this in a bad way at all, but over the years, >> the border agents at American airports and and ports have become increasingly immigrants.
>> Yeah. Oh, yes.
>> So, it's interesting to be at the border.
>> Yes.
>> Interviewed by an immigrant who's now, I'm assuming, an American citizen.
>> It's an amazing experience for an immigrant.
>> Yeah. But, but it's also interesting.
>> Yeah. But it's also interesting when it feels like they're more likely to kick you out.
>> Yeah.
>> No. No. Never had that feeling.
>> You've never had that feeling?
>> Never.
>> That's crazy.
>> In fact, I feel like it's a >> give them hell.
>> I'm I have a 9 hour shift. But you >> on the other hand, I like I like that.
>> I've never felt that way.
>> You have a unbelievably positive outlook.
>> That I think is borderline naive and and maybe even dangerous.
>> You know how many times I've gotten through with that attitude.
>> That's crazy.
>> Is great at the border. NOBODY TALKS ABOUT CONTROL. WHAT? WHAT? Bring >> Yeah. When I heard him say that, I was like, "What the is this man talking about?" That was one of the first things he told me, too. What's with the Vosch beef? I thought he was chill genuinely asking. I don't Where is the Vosch beef?
What? What do you mean what Vosch beef?
What is happening in this chat, dude?
Is there a Discord that was lit up or something? There's like a couple people that were like, "Yo, what about why do you have beef with Vosch?" What? in the year of our lord 2026. Yeah, exactly.
Nuke Hoscord V2. No, there's no Yeah, Tacoma wept is the is the last and and greatest contribution that we got from Vos.
>> Anyway, let's continue.
>> For Palestinians and for Israelis and that turning that into not an anti-Netanyahu, but an anti-American Jewish message is dangerous. But at that convention, you said >> at that convention, you said you you you did not support US aid to Israel. Is that your position?
>> I would have voted in support of 40 of the 47 Democratic senators who would have supported the Sanders resolution blocking arm sales to Israel.
>> Yeah. Okay.
>> Michiganers are scared. All right. We have rising >> Yeah. Michiganders are scared. They're scared about what might happen to Israel. Michiganders want to give unlimited arms to Israel. Michiganers like myself go to sleep and think about Israel and wake up also thinking about Israel. Michiganers know am Israel high Michiganders love Israel. It's the greatest country. It's much smaller than Michigan.
I'm scared. You put me next to a brown Muslim man.
Michiganders know brown Muslim men are scary.
>> Political violence and extremism. A temple in my congressional district was blown up by a homegrown terrorist. I serve in the Congress on behalf of an incredibly diverse district and I am also, you know, leading on combating anti-semitism in a bi-artisan way. That does not have to be a partisan thing. I am, you know, a proud Democrat who has been clear and consistent in a tough time about a horrible >> Okay.
>> brutal war.
>> Yeah. Jay Mchon, that's what you get for pedalling misinformation.
Take a day off. We need to Mr. Elsa, can you answer?
>> So, look, I I know what it's like to be discriminated against because I would pray and I know that anti-semitism and Islamophobia tend to go hand in hand.
And the real issue when it comes to either of them is the scourge of white supremacy. And I think it's absolutely critical for us to differentiate between love, respect, and admiration for Judaism and the Jewish people and a continued policy that has us sending our money to a foreign government. We can walk and chew gum at the same time. So for me, when it comes to fighting anti-semitism, you are not going to find anybody who is not Jewish, who has the same focus on taking that on as somebody who understands that these two things go hand in hand together. And so we can do that because we love all people. But it should not mean that we allow our money to subsidize a part and genocide against other people because people tell you that that's a >> Yo, let him cook. By the way, I I'm noticing I'm noticing that every time he starts cooking, they're like, "All right, stop.
All right, shut the up. Enough. You're doing too well."
>> Hatred for anybody. That's about love for everybody.
>> Thank you, sir.
>> Yeah.
>> Yeah. Abdul is so good, bro.
>> Bizarre moment at the Michig said debate after Haley Steven says the filibuster must go. She as Democrats should use the filibuster to not allow the big ugly bill to pass this increase their debt.
pressed on whether she opposed or supposed to filibuster. Steven says we should remove the filibuster so Democrats could have voted down the legislation, the tax bill. That's not how the filibuster works. Removing it allows all Senate bills to pass at 51 votes. It would not have allowed Democrats to stop Trump's tax bill, which was already exempt from the filibuster.
>> The filib >> Yeah. The other side of this is that like a lot of people assume a lot of people assume that just because someone is a politician or standing on a podium that they automatically are intelligent or knowledgeable on everything they speak of. Now, of course, Haley Stevens should be knowledgeable on how the filibuster works.
She is, after all, running for the Senate, right?
But you'd be shocked at how not knowledgeable the average politician is.
>> Must go. The filibuster must go so that we can codify health care. And by the way, Nolan, to your other good question about the debt and the deficit, we should use the filibuster to not allow the big ugly bill to pass that increased our debt and at the same time eradicated.
>> So, we're not going to filibuster here.
Um, >> so wait, wait. You said you said you would get rid of the filibuster, but you also want to use it.
>> Which one is it?
>> I said I want to remove the filibuster, >> right? But then you just said you should filibuster uh what's going on with the deficit, right?
>> I I I'm >> I mean, it's pretty simple. While we have it, we should use it. And when we have the power, we should eradicate it is what she should be saying. But I don't know if she understands that the the bill that she's talking about was not something that you could have filibustered anyway. saying that I want to change the rules of which I've been a part of. I voted for rules packages on behalf of the people of Michigan and I believe I Stephen what I said is we should remove the filibuster so Democrats could have voted down the legislation the tax bill. That's what I was saying. Democrats should have been able to vote down the tax bill. Stephen, that's why I said we need to get rid of the filibuster. That tax bill should not have happened.
>> Okay. Uh, let's talk about the rule.
>> They're cooking her. Setting that aside, notable to all three Michigan Democratic Senate hopefuls call for nixing the legislative filibuster of the debate. I believe we have to abolish the filibuster. We have to get rid of the filibuster. The filibuster the filibuster must go. Michiganers gaslighting the debate moderator about what she said. Yeah. Um, who's worse, Fedman or her? I mean, she's I mean, Federman is genuinely the worst. Like I probably think Federman is is worse than Haley Stevens, but that's not really a metric because Federman is not just like any Republican. Federman is one of the worst Republicans in Congress, even though he's a Democrat. So, it's pretty hard to find a politician, especially one that's currently running in the Democratic primaries, to to communicate on issues that is going to be like John Federman.
Buddy, John Fedman's are in the Republican primaries. Okay, there are John like Ken Paxton is the John Federman.
Do you know what I mean? Like he is like John Federman is is almost entirely aligned with all of Thomas Massiey's horrible instincts and horrible policy prescriptions.
And then simultaneously, he's worse, far worse than Thomas Massie on the issue of Israel.
Hi everyone, it's Congresswoman Haley Stevens proudly representing Michigan's 11th district on my primary election night. I wanted to thank Apac and the pro-Israel community.
Our values spoke very loudly.
Not hiding anything from voters. I'm not breaking FEC laws. Um I, you know, by any stretch of the means. In fact, I'm compliant with the FEC laws. And you know what? What's going on?
>> What the [ __ ] Camera's breaking.
Camera's camera can't handle the heat that Haley Stevens is bringing.
Michiganers want me to make want me to take money from Apac. Don't think bro expected this title to be so hard. Queer leftist supported Palestinians in the 70s too. Back then they hijacked planes.
Yeah. What's the problem? Is this pro or anti? I can't tell.
Yeah, there's no issue there. Yeah.
Beast mode.
>> Um, is there anti-semitism? Oh, uh, that did we already watched this? We already watched this.
>> All right. Um, it seems to me like I'll do I'll say cooked. Speaking of Massie, he has started using the word genocide to describe Israel's actions in Gaza. Wait, what do you mean?
I think he's been doing that.
That's not new. Dave Rubin versus 24 Democrats this Sunday. Oh my god, he's gonna get cooked.
>> That >> cuz he's so unbelievably stupid. Why would he agree to this? He is going to get destroyed.
This is one of those 20 v1s where like usually when you do a 20 v one, the guy is like a fairly reliable uh fairly uh reliable debater. Like Matthew Hassan cooks, right? Glenn Greenwald, I want to watch uh that one still. Like this is the exact opposite.
This is where like any random Tom, Dick, or Harry could just destroy Dave Rubin because his worldview is makes no sense.
>> Things economically were better under Joe Biden >> at the end of his administration.
Absolutely.
>> So, can you give me an example of how?
>> Yeah. GDP growth was better off. Real median wage growth is better off.
Inflation was better off the end of his administration. Unemployment was better off the end of his administration. We had the worst year of job growth in the past four years just this last year under Trump's administration.
>> Was the Reuben report? Did that also accept >> Russian money?
>> What show did I do for Russia? I'm not saying did Russia. I'm saying Russia saw you as a stoge who could easily say the talking points that benefited them.
>> What law is stopping you from doing anything that that another person cannot do?
>> Laws are not protecting trans people. If they were, trans people would not be disproportionately unemployed, unhoused.
>> What would you what would you like? What would you like the law to do for you?
Again, the law the law can guarantee equality. It can't guarantee protection, right? So, >> yes, it certainly can. My first surrounded claim is that wokeism did more damage to America than Trump ever did.
>> What?
Oh my god. Japanese Imperial soldier fighting the last battle 20 years after World War II ended. Dude, we're here today to talk about wokeism.
Like, who the is this for, man? You're either just a straightup Nazi at this point. And even Nazis don't even talk about wokeism. It's like Asmin Gold's audience is bored of wokeism conversations. Like you have to make it more entertaining by talking about DEI or some [ __ ] in video games. Uh wokeism destroy the country.
Like this ain't 20 2018 no more. Okay.
>> My next surrounded claim is if you still vote for Democrats in 2026, you're voting for broken cities, broken schools, and broken borders. My next surrounded claim is that progressives push normal moderate Americans to the right. My final surrounded claim is that the modern left cares more about ideology than reality. I'm Dave Rubin of >> Okay, that's terrible. I will probably not be watching that, but I will be looking forward to the dunks that he received. Many of many of the dunks that he received. Okay. Um, so yeah, I uh Jake Leoot says, "I genuinely have no idea what Haley Steven is actually trying to say in any of our answers.
Extreme platitude heavy. Unclear if they are set pieces or off the cuff, which is not a good sign. So far, this is the McMahon Elsiad show. MI, I really don't mean to harp on her, but just to be real, what in the world was her strategy coming into this thing? It's reminding me of Matt Mahan in the California governor debate.
Um, all right, let's get to uh Oh, I was going to do the the silencing Jewish voices hit real quick.
Stevens is saying her debate won because she said Michigan the most. Haley Stevens sure didn't say sure did seem to say Michigan a lot in the debate, so I crunched the numbers. Abdles said Michigan four times. Mallerie McMaro 23 times. Haley Stevens 49 times.
Oh my god. And then Haley is Mallerie McMarus on whether Abdullah should call himself a physician. There are some legal requirements to call herself a physician and I will let the voters decide.
Yeah. Michiganders. Michiganers.
Michiganders. I mean, Haley Stevens' debate performance was dog [ __ ] and it's uh not surprising at all because she is utterly devoid of charisma, which is part of the reason why she's perfect for she's perfect corporate stoogge, perfect stoogge for Apac and is I've told you this already, she's not going to she's not going to make it. Um, the real threat in this race is going to be a McMar versus Abdul Sayed matchup. If this was a straight ticket Abdul alsad versus Haley Stevens, it would be over by now. It would look like Pills Mafia versus Graham Platner. Communist Mujah had Susan Collins says Platner serving for imperialist military should be questioned. Yeah. Um I think she's trying to win the bad empanada constituency. I'm not going to lie. Like this is unironically this is unironically and sincerely the bad empanada position which is that the average military grunt is personally responsible far and and far more responsible for American militarism than uh the the politicians that actually vote for these endless wars.
Okay. So I think she might actually win over the bad empanada vote. I mean he's in Argentina. can't vote obviously and I don't even think he's allowed to vote in Argentina either. But regardless, uh all all 18 of his fans that are in the replies of every single person spamming bad empanada owned you, which is the peak of practice, of course, or bad empanada called you a Zionist, which is again the second peak of practice, uh will be voting for Susan Collins, it seems.
>> Says that you sent him to war, but in fact he enlisted twice. What is your uh comment on that? Well, first of all, he not only enlisted twice after the war was started, but he also went to work for a security company, a controversial one named Blackwater as >> dude, Susan Collins is a Republican saying that an American veteran is personally responsible for war crimes and then literally literally bringing up Blackwater like look that's that's cause for concern for me. Okay, that's cause for concern for our community. That's not cause for concern for a Republican voter or an independent voter in Maine.
What are you saying, lady? I'm I'm so confused about this statement because it is verbatim.
It is verbatim something that you would hear from bad empanada, right? And and it's not even the wrong analysis or at least it's not even completely ridiculous to be like, "Yeah, okay, you did join Blackwater in 2016 or was it 2018?" I was crazy, right? But for the average American that is receiving this information, not us, the average American that's receiving this information is going to hear this and go, "Yeah, of course a Marine Corps guy joined uh security contracting because they had no other option or he just didn't know what to do with himself and he thought he could just like go back to waging war because that's all he knew for a decade." Right? It is very funny that Susan Collins is hitting this attack line as a Republican in this race >> after uh after his term in the service was over.
>> Did Platner not kill in battle? I find it hard to stomach Platiner from that alone. [ __ ] Susan Collins, too. Guys, guys, this calculation is utterly insane. I don't know how to explain this to you, but the politicians are still far more consequential and far more responsible than the average grunt is.
Hello. Like I it's it's very shocking.
It's it's a shocking point of contention like that. I don't understand where people were like, well, Marjgerie Taylor Green is a better leftist than Graham Platner is like because because Marjorie Taylor Green never actually took up arms and like killed someone. Okay, but she voted for wars and continued to vote for wars when she was in office. Like, if the politicians vote is blameless and the trigger man holds all the responsibility, why are we even voting for people?
If we're talking about like condemnable behavior, I still think the politician is is far more consequential uh and and is doing something far more condemnable.
And it's in the constitution. The responsibility for a war rest with the individual soldiers and not Congress.
Yeah.
Like seriously, who's worse? IDF veteran who's like joined breaking the silence or whatever or Itamar Beng now? You know what I mean?
It's a serious question. Itar Bengiver was never allowed to serve in the Israeli occupying forces because he was considered too extreme.
Who do you think is worse? Don't say both of them. You got to pick one. Who do you think is worse?
Neither. Hosanabi is worse. That's the correct answer. I'm glad that you have arrived at the the ultimate uh leftcom position.
The ultimate the ultimate ultra position is trick question. The answer is always Hassan.
But yeah, at the end of the day, I look at I look at the impact. I look at where people are now and I grade politics on the curb.
And in that regard, like although I I have my uh criticisms or or things that I'm skeptical on with uh respect to, you know, uh Graham Platner, I think he's still I feel like my is I can't see if I I I I wonder if my eyesight's getting worse as well.
What if I just lose eyesight in one eye now? Who beat your ass? a a spider or a mosquito. I don't know. I definitely did get Go to the doctor.
It looks terrible. I know it is terrible.
It's huge.
Antihistamine.
Antihistamines pronto. Is it itchy? Not really. Do you have kissing bugs in your region? Kind of looks like that. I don't know what a kissing bug is. That swelling is a bit much. It might be an autoimmune response. Sorry for backseating. I think I need to put a cold spoon on it. And no, I'm not losing vision in it.
500 subs to pop that [ __ ] on stream.
Y'all are crazy.
Anyway, lines and Josh Shapiro party. We saw it play out in this this primary here in Philadelphia in which Apac, which historically was a bipartisan group that supported pro-Israel candidates, came in and helped the candidate who w up coming in third place, I think, and and and lost.
Has Apac now become in a Democratic primary at least an anchor around some of these candidates? Something to be avoided?
>> Yeah, I I don't know. And look, it's never been an issue in any of my races at the state level, but I I do think it has cynically been used by some. I'm going to make this a broad statement, not about the race here in Philly, but I think it's been used cynically by some uh to try and silence certain voices, to try and say that certain people participating in politics shouldn't count or should be viewed in a toxic way. Now, do I agree with every political decision they've made, every endorsement they made? Of course not.
>> Have they hurt themselves, do you think, Apac?
>> But I think I I think what we have seen is a weaponization of that and I think that is a danger for our system when you have people who are advocating for issues that they feel strongly about and they are having their voices silenced. I think that's a problem in our system.
>> There's a blurring between being against Apac and being against Jewish folks giving money. saying >> I think it does get blurred because now what you are seeing is not >> you know quote unquote Apac money or however uh it was termed but you're getting the Jews who give to that candidate who also support Apac I think it's very dangerous in our system if you are trying to silence certain voices based on their race based on their faith based on their particular ideology >> would you want their money and they be to be clear uh Apac Yeah. I mean, look, I I'm running for governor and they don't play in state races. I'm not trying to be cute about that, but it's just not an issue uh here in my race for for governor.
>> But this could be a factor down the road if other opportunities do present themselves, right?
>> Well, I'm not looking down the road. I'm looking at how we can win a re-election.
>> Why do you have that much benadryil? You aren't supposed to take it regularly. It increases dementia risk. Dude, are you insane?
Are you actually insane? Are you all right?
I'm just It's first of all, it's topical and I just got it and I just put it on my eye.
Are you okay, Chatter? Do you think I'm just sucking this down like it's a tube of peanut butter? What are you talking about?
Literally just saw me open up a fresh bottle of Benadryil and assume that I'm just sucking it down, dude.
How many tubes you eating a day?
You're doing the Penelope thing. No, I'm not. You're the one who thinks that I'm like doing something crazy here.
I literally just have topical benadryil and you were like, "Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Why do you have so much benadryil? You better stop.
You better not take all that benadryil at once."
To be clear, what Shapiro is saying is actually way stupider in that he's arguing spending is more spechy than speech criticizing it. But to get there, you have to go past Citizens United.
Yeah, this is essentially the the reasoning of the majority in Citizens United.
Yeah, I think I need Ivormect in, dude.
Oh, I was going to show you this as well. Uh Jonathan Pard, US born Israeli spy Jonathan Pard admits Israel will have to go to war with Turkey and Egypt once they finish off uh Iran, Gaza, and Lebanon.
>> I'm not so sure that um we will have as easy a time with the Turks as we've had with the um Iranians. I I've been following Turkish u military doctrine and >> the strongest army in the Middle East.
The storm is coming.
>> Yes, of course.
>> I'm I >> and they're member of NATO >> and even worse, they're a member of NATO. So, I look at Iran as a problem.
We absolutely have to finish. And I'll explain what I mean by that. Gaza, same thing. And the uh why why am I fixated on this now? Because we have to be prepared.
>> They are part of NATO, strongest army in the Middle East. We must defeat them. We must delete them >> for the next war which will be probably against Turkey and Egypt. I'm not >> Yes, Turkey has a Turkey has the second largest standing military in NATO after the American one. Uh Turkey's military is also trained in counterinsurgencies as well against you know Kurdish uh militias and villages. Um, but uh the Iranian defense systems are far better than the Turkish ones. Let's be real.
And uh yes, uh Egypt is not even a point of contention here. Um yeah, I mean, as I said, it's NZIG, right? This is Enzique [ __ ] It's NZIK mindset.
Straight up. That's what it is. uh people who are there are talking heads in Israel who legitimately are trying to push for this. Um that's where we're at.
Yeah. Berkeley IGS poll shows top two vote getters advanced in November. Karen Bass 26%, Nithia Ramen at 25%, Spencer Pratt at 22%. And Ray Chen Huang at 9%.
Spence Pratt also uh Matt Hamilton reports new last week Niti Ramen's campaign staff pushed activist Ray Huang to drop out and back Ramen with discussions of financial support and possibly a seat at the table as Huang told me you can be the savior of the left. Hang said her staffer was told.
Huang refused. And then Spencer Brad said Ray Huang is a real one. I disagree with her on almost everything but I respect that she actually walks the walk unlike these corrupt champagne socialists like Nithia.
Guys, please don't say based. Oh my god.
Oh, I have no say in this. I'm not going to say anything in this.
I'm not gonna I just Oh god. Oh, we're getting bass again, aren't we? Um, maybe.
I think I think we're It's a point where uh it's looking like it's going to be a Pratt Bass matchup and Bass if we're lucky.
Oh, this conversation was insane. I saw this last night.
>> Chat knows how to bait like professionals. No, Nithia is the spoiler.
I think Ray Huang is a wonderful candidate who did not get for one reason or another the appropriate looks to push herself up the ranks. And unfortunately for many of you, it doesn't matter. And you get lost in the sauce.
Like there is no viability at this point, especially two weeks out. There's no viability even a month out when there were other people who were ahead of her.
I don't know what happened with the matching funds and all this other stuff, but it's just like bump didn't work this time. That's why I mean listen, I've already told you guys this, but like me linking up with a candidate is not going to make it or break it. It's not the end all beall.
And I purposely stayed away from the race when there were two DSA candidates.
I don't even want to touch it with a 10-ft pole. It's unbelievably busted.
Address this. It's time. Okay, calm down. It's not happening.
The real crazy one is if Tommy Styer straight up said Israel is committing a genocide, I would have pushed for him.
And he might still win without he might still get in the top two uh without my aid, but he just could not commit to it. I think if Tommy Styer came out and actually uh you know cut above I mean he did he did communicate on the issue of Israel far better than all the other candidates but like he still would not commit to saying Israel committed a genocide and it was uh I think that would have literally dusted Bera like if he just if he came out and was like Israel did a genocide we got to do like as a as a a governor you know I'm I'm going to commit to making sure that we're not, you know, spending our resources on on a country that is, you know, doing war crimes, all this stuff.
I think that would have genuinely put him far ahead of the pack. Israel would have been an actual point of contention in the in the conversation and it would have made everybody else look ridiculous.
Okay.
He recalculated his position in interview with Walter Masterson. One time I took 12 benadil and forced myself to stay awake and then I saw you in my room standing over the bed staring at me silently. Please apologize. I'm sorry.
Did you see this? I don't get why Nithia entered the race. Ray was polling well before she entered. We didn't need her.
Uh yeah, but she did. So what's the conversation here?
You know what I mean?
I know. I I I'm aware.
Anyway, yeah, I don't know what she's doing.
She's doing some crazy [ __ ] too. This whole like quote retweeting uh quote retwing Spencer Pratt and saying, "It's clear that LA is fed up with the status quo, which is why I'm running for mayor. I trust voters will vote for a change that bends the arc of the moral universe towards justice and good."
Like, I want to make it clear that Spencer Pratt does not deserve any voice or sound bite of my campaign or the city hall that I love. his rhetoric platforming campaign or the antithesis of who I am.
Is Star versus Bisera? Star needs to lock the in the numbers guy might be in hot water.
Has Patrick Bet David apologized yet for promoting a massive Ponzi scheme Goliath Ventures? Is he addressed if the reported $1 million his company was paid for this uh for for this will be paid back to the victims? I reached out to Patrick Bet David directly about this.
No response.
>> Conference this year is brought to you by Goliath.
>> Wait, he's a numbers guy. Coffeezilla.
He's a Coffeezilla. I'm a numbers guy.
What do you mean I'm a numbers guy?
Patrick Bet David was recently subpoenaed by Goliath Ventures in the legal case. So, I wouldn't be surprised if he's forced to hand back the money one way or another. The alleged $1 million paid to Patrick Bet David Consulting comes from a Channel 9 investigation by uh Darylene J into Goliath Ventures.
Coffeezilla, you're not a numbers guy.
Have you connected with DSA Long Beach?
No. Why are you guys asking me this question over and over again? Is DSA Long Beach in the chat? Why are you guys asking me if I've contacted DSA Long Beach? Why am I supposed to contact DSA Long Beach? What's going on at DSA Long Beach?
What happened?
DSA Long Beach is doing great work. What did What's but why did they want me to to con Have you contacted them yet? No, I have not. Why would I have done that? I don't even know what I'm supposed to be. I don't know why I'm supposed to be doing that.
New banger alert. Why don't the Democrats run centrists anymore? Did you appear every time a Democrat runs a centrist?
>> A manchild in a hoodie pushing Marxist policy. Setting violent prisoners free while borders overflow.
Soon the man come to bring us socialism.
Dude, this is a relic now because like this is pre- AI prea premass adoption of AI. I remember this ad. I played it a lot. God, so embarrassing.
Also, Federman wasn't a centrist when he was running.
When the nation is done, we'll wish weism.
>> And then he went on to as a victim of a stroke. He went on to become the most most reactionary. This video is yet another example of AI stealing human jobs. Is true. What if you were DSA Long Beach's Merchimer? I wish. All right, we're going to get to DOJ weaponizing uh or what is this? Ask to keep in mind suffering Palestinian is not just Jews.
Jake Sullivan responded that's smack of what aboutism? They're both equal.
That's unacceptable. Incredible. How many people in organizations still want to associate with this guy?
>> I get invited to a meeting with Jake Sullivan. I get there. And here we were talking about October 7th and the aftermath. And there were Arab-American groups, Palestinian groups completely not included. He spoke first and talked about the trauma being experienced by the Jewish community. And when he finished, I said, uh, I understand that and I grew up with a mother who made me very sensitive to the plight of Jews during World War II and the aftermath.
know from Jewish friends how traumatized they were and it reminded them of the pgrams. It remind >> Dude, I can't like this this conversation is so so unbelievably frustrating. I hate this [ __ ] It's like the Holocaust was a traumatic memory and a traumatic experience for for uh many Jews. There's a lot of intergenerational trauma.
So they get to do a genocide is an insane argument. But that's you don't say the second part usually, but that's what you're saying. That's what you're saying. I hate that.
I hate that.
If you saw the humanity of the victims that are in Israel's crosshairs, you would never entertain a statement like this. You are placing the emphasis on not just Jewish people, but Jewish feelings in that situation.
And even though that's not the case across the board, there is no monolithic jewelry, right?
You are literally saying Jewish feelings are more important than Palestinian lives. It's ridiculous. It's doubly ridiculous when you factor in the the reality that there are plenty of Jews who don't say that, who don't think that. But regardless, even if all Jews did, it would still be an unbelievably racist uh thing to advanceed them of the threat of Eastern European Jews. And I said, and let me tell you, in my experience in the camps and survivors of the Nakba that is happening now with Palestinians, they're feeling that one more time they're going to be victimized and expelled and they're under threat. And I said, we have to keep both in mind. And he didn't say anything. And then toward the end of the meeting, he started going like this with his hands on his head. And I was like, "What's going what is he doing?" And he said, 'I have to say something. I know you're going to get upset, but I have to say something. He said, 'What you said about, you know that we have to remember the Palestinians. He said, "That smacked of what aboutism, like they're both equal." And uh he said, "That's unacceptable." And I was like, he was so angry that it startled me. Um >> wow.
>> And I said I did not say, you know, this justifies that. I just said there are two peoples and we have to consider the the consequences to both. It was a bad experience. Then I went to Blinken and the meeting with Blinken was weird because I remember saying to him um or somebody else said to him about the number of civilian casualties and he said um it's intolerable, absolutely intolerable. And I said we should push for a ceasefire. He said no that would be intolerable. I said, ' So, there are two intolerables and you've chosen the one that will make more of the other intolerable happen. And he just nodded.
He did a lot of nodding. I don't know whether it was ideology, whether it was just out of being out of touch or in denial or or what. I had never dealt with people more detached from the reality of what was taking place than these guys.
Dead air. Dead air. Dead air.
FBI got him. No. Um, that Blade of the Sun Twitter account posted this. Amos Goldberg, professor of genocide studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Yes, it is genocide. It is so difficult and painful to admit it, but we can no longer avoid this conclusion. Jewish history will be h will henceforth be stained. Yeah, you're going to start seeing a lot more of that. By the way, that's why like Omar Barav talking about like, well, Zionism wasn't supposed to be this, but it's turned into this is actually kind of important.
So, Omar Bart is another uh Jewish Issraeli Holocaust scholar, right? and he he got to the genocide conclusion far before many of these other guys did even though it was also still very late. But he's still trying to he's still trying to to like rewrite or whitewash or launder or maybe come to terms with what Zionism has become now when in fact that's what Zionism always was. But I'm not going to constantly yell at people like this because it's gonna take, you know, it's gonna take a while for them to get there. Okay? I know that a lot of people will yell at those people. You can just disagree with them. I know he just Omar Bartov just came out with a new book. Yes. I'm talking about a Jewish Issraeli Holocaust scholar who who recognized that it was a genocide, wrote about it in the New York Times when it was like a year and a half in, right? Or something like that. who just came out with a new book and in the new book he talks about Zionism and how Zionism has turned into fascism. Okay.
The problem is it always was fascism.
But if you have a a you know prominent Holocaust scholar, a prominent Jewish Israeli Holocaust scholar basically even linking Zionism to fascism in this current iteration, you're he's only one step away from openly recognizing that from the start from the start from the Nagba and and what Zionism always has been is fascist.
The point is it takes a long it it you know takes a long time to get there for a lot of people especially a lot of people who are older especially a lot of people who have uh seen this their whole lives and by the way Crystal Ball did a fantastic job here with J Street founder Jeremy Ben Ami who once again as a liberal Zionist wants to maintain support for Israel wants to maintain a relationship with Israel in America that's the job of J Street But but can't square that circle because it makes no sense.
>> Gideon Levy debated Omar on this position recently on Democracy Now.
Wait, he did?
>> No way. God, that's so goated. Democracy Now is so awesome. I would love to talk to either of these people, by the way.
I've tried. I can't get I I don't know why I can't get Gideon Levy on the broadcast. I don't know why he don't with me. Oh my god, dude. I'm gonna link up with Franchesca Hong. Wisconsin, Wisconsin DSA heads, please. I know. I saw. Okay. Wisconsin GOP got 16 likes on this idiotic post. Franchesco Hong wants to abuse her power as governor and send the National Guard to defend criminal illegals against ICE agents. Oh my god.
I know. She's awesome. She's amazing.
Stop being annoying, chatters. I'm already linking up with her. Okay.
You literally I don't know if there's a DSA Wisconsin group chat in this uh community, but we have seen more than 16 times more than 16 different people from Wisconsin have linked me this this tweet. The tweet has less likes than the amount of times it has been spammed in this chat. I've clicked on it like 18 times and I clicked away. Please, especially because Franchesca Hong is amazing and I'm going to do something with her anyway. And I've said this already.
I am the DSA co-chair in Northeast Wisconsin. We are mighty. I know you guys are all mighty in your own way and you're doing a fantastic job. Please stop spamming [ __ ] They just jealous since you came to Minneapolis. Hosanabi, ignore the noise.
If it's 16 people, just drop it, dude.
You don't have to have a rant for a full minute about it. No, it's more than 16 people. It only got 16 likes, but more than 16 people posted it is my point.
They told you they take your good mood away. I know.
Assam reaction is one of the best ones in the react channel.
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