Tucker DOUBLES DOWN And SHREDS Trump! Hegseth’s DISASTER Press Conference! Shapiro SLAMS Vance

[1:39] has just been not good. [1:41] I'm so upset. [1:44] But Gunturks, Cenk Uygur, [2:18] Anna Kasparin with you guys. [2:20] So lots of fascinating news today. [2:23] Democrats, seven Democratic [2:25] senators have betrayed us. [2:26] Of course, we'll explain why and [2:28] how. [2:30] And then we have a ceasefire in [2:32] Lebanon, kind of, but [2:35] the relevant party's not involved [2:36] in it. [2:37] But it kind of is, so [2:39] I will explain that. [2:41] And then lots of talk of religion [2:42] on today's show. [2:45] The Trump administration is [2:46] literally going after the Catholic [2:48] Church. [2:49] It's not just like a little [2:50] grievance. [2:52] I think it's coordinated and [2:54] I think you guys might guess as to [2:56] who I think is coordinating it. [2:58] But we'll explain why that's a [2:59] little bit later in the program. [3:01] All right, Casper, what do you got? [3:04] Well, before we begin, [3:05] I want to address something that I [3:07] came across on social media today. [3:09] Just to kind of give you a sense [3:11] of the shady, sleazy type of [3:14] propaganda Zionists put out there [3:16] to try to destroy people's lives or [3:18] slander them. [3:19] So Canary Mission put out a video [3:22] where they do a side by side with [3:24] me and Nick Fuentes. [3:25] Now, as much as I hate to admit it, [3:27] every once in a while Nick Fuentes [3:29] spits bars. [3:30] He does. [3:31] When he stays away from attacking [3:32] Jewish people and [3:33] specifically talks about the crimes [3:35] committed by Israel, [3:37] he's spitting bars. [3:38] He's telling the truth. [3:42] And I talk about that issue a lot [3:43] on the show. [3:44] So they did a side by side where [3:46] we're saying similar things. [3:47] In no instance are either one of us [3:50] in that side by side video [3:51] attacking Jewish people. [3:53] But we are being incredibly [3:54] critical of Israel and [3:56] its influence over the United [3:57] States government. [3:59] Interestingly enough, [4:00] they left out the clips of him [4:02] specifically going after Jewish [4:04] people. [4:05] I've never gone after Jewish people. [4:07] So I just wanted to make that [4:08] completely clear canary mission. [4:10] You are a sleazy disgusting [4:11] organization. [4:12] I'm not afraid of you. [4:13] And I will continue speaking my [4:15] mind on this show every single [4:17] time without fear from the weaselly [4:19] little losers like you guys try to [4:21] destroy my life. [4:22] It's not going to happen. [4:23] Yeah. [4:24] I'm a lot stronger than that. [4:25] Okay, you're forcing me to say [4:26] something about that. [4:27] Look, I want to have a conversation [4:29] with somebody like Peter Beinart or [4:31] someone about what Jewish Americans [4:34] don't know. [4:35] Because 98% of Jewish Americans have [4:37] nothing to do with any of this, [4:38] right? [4:39] But what they don't know is that [4:40] there are Gestapo like canary [4:41] mission who go around and in their [4:43] name trying to destroy people and [4:45] lie and lie and smear and bully and [4:47] try to intimidate etc. [4:48] So at some point there has to be [4:50] some sort of responsibility to [4:52] clean up your own house, right? [4:54] So if there was a group of Muslim [4:55] American leaders going around [4:56] trying to destroy people's lives [4:57] for criticizing Islam, I would be [4:59] the first to speak out against [5:00] that. [5:01] I wouldn't be the last. [5:02] I wouldn't be like go get them or [5:04] like I don't know what's going [5:05] on. [5:06] There's a bunch of people posing [5:07] as representing all Jews in the [5:08] country. [5:09] who are like the worst thugs in the [5:10] whole country. [5:11] Clean up your house, man. [5:12] So like every day we'll constantly [5:14] like you don't ever criticize us, [5:15] right? [5:16] And then they go and smear everyone [5:18] that isn't just going to destroy [5:20] people's lives for criticizing [5:21] Islam. [5:22] I would be the first to speak out [5:23] against that. [5:24] I wouldn't be the last. [5:25] I wouldn't be like go get them or [5:26] like I don't know what's going on. [5:28] There's a bunch of people posing [5:29] as representing all Jews in the [5:32] country who are like the worst [5:34] thugs in the whole country. [5:36] Clean up your house, man. [5:37] And then they go and smear everyone [5:40] that isn't Jewish. [5:41] 8,000 weights to Sunday. [5:43] But then when we ask Jewish [5:44] American leaders to do something [5:46] about it, they're like nope, [5:47] nope. [5:48] Okay, well, all right. [5:49] I guess you like what they're [5:50] doing. [5:51] I guess you like the lies. [5:52] And you like trying to ruin [5:53] people's lives if they disagree [5:55] with Israel. [5:56] So at some point, they have some [5:58] degree of responsibility to come [6:00] out and be decent moral people. [6:02] Otherwise, we're going to have [6:04] to believe that they like the [6:06] Israeli Gestapo in this country. [6:08] Anyways, let's do the news. [6:09] Yeah, all right. [6:10] Let's start with this. [6:12] Chuck Schumer was one of only [6:16] seven Democrats to vote to send [6:18] bulldozers to Israel. [6:20] 40 Senate Democrats voted no. [6:23] These bulldozers are used to [6:25] illegally destroy Palestinian [6:27] villages. [6:28] Mr. Schumer, you are out of touch [6:30] with the base of this party and [6:32] with your own caucus. [6:33] Step aside. [6:34] It feels great to hear a Democratic [6:40] lawmaker call out the mealy mouth [6:43] weak and devoted to Israel [6:45] politicians on the Democratic side [6:47] of the aisle. [6:48] And that's exactly what Congressman [6:50] Ro Khanna did as it pertains to [6:52] Senator Chuck Schumer, one of the [6:54] Democratic senators who voted to [6:56] block Bernie Sanders' effort to [6:58] prevent two bills that would [7:00] provide additional offensive [7:02] weaponry to Israel. [7:03] Now, before I get to all of the [7:06] details, Cenk, I'm sure you've got [7:08] a lot to say about this. [7:09] Yeah, so I do. [7:10] So we're going to talk about how [7:12] to vote out these traitors, and [7:14] they are 100% traitors to [7:16] Democratic voters. [7:17] We're going to talk about who the [7:19] heroes are, like Bernie Sanders, [7:21] who introduced legislation in [7:22] the first place. [7:23] By the way, there's 12,000 bombs [7:25] that are also part of that. [7:26] Anna's going to tell you more [7:27] about that in a sec. [7:28] And I want to give a shout out to [7:31] the one and only Democrat calling [7:34] for Chuck Schumer to step aside. [7:36] And as usual, it's Ro Khanna. [7:38] Hey, where are the other Democrats? [7:41] That guy just screwed us, Schumer [7:43] did, big time. [7:44] Do any of you care? [7:46] Or was those 40 votes also [7:48] fraudulent? [7:49] Anyway, Anna, give them the facts, [7:51] and then I'm going to go all in [7:53] on these guys. [7:54] I know, I know you are. [7:56] Okay, so let me give you the [7:57] details because this has to do with [7:59] a vote that was held in the Senate [8:01] yesterday. [8:02] And it was meant to block two [8:03] proposed weapons sales to Israel. [8:06] Now, I do it in scare quotes [8:08] because we don't sell anything to [8:10] Israel. [8:11] We gift Israel these incredibly [8:14] expensive weapons. [8:15] But either way, even if they were [8:17] going to buy them from us, I think [8:19] it would have been a good idea to [8:21] block that anyway since they're [8:23] committing genocide, ethic cleansing, [8:25] not just in Gaza. [8:27] But now they've spread their lovely [8:29] ideology and actions into other [8:30] countries in the Middle East and [8:31] dragged us into a war with Iran. [8:33] So with all of that in mind, the [8:35] first, I guess, cash of weapons [8:38] would be for 12,000 bombs, each [8:42] weighing 1,000 pounds, okay? [8:44] The second was for the sale of [8:46] bulldozers. [8:47] You might be wondering, maybe they [8:49] need bulldozers to help the people [8:51] of Gaza get through the rubble and [8:53] try to find their deceased family [8:55] members who have been trapped under [8:57] the rubble in some cases for as long [8:59] as two and a half years. [9:00] No, no, that's not why they want [9:02] the bulldozers. [9:03] Israel would like the bulldozers to [9:05] do what they've been doing in [9:07] places like Lebanon where they've [9:09] effectively been bulldozing entire [9:11] communities. [9:12] Okay, so Senator Bernie Sanders led [9:14] the mission to block those two [9:15] bills. [9:16] And here's what he said on the [9:17] House floor yesterday. [9:18] Bottom line, the American people, [9:20] whether they are Democrats, [9:22] Republicans, or Independents, [9:24] conservatives, moderates, or [9:27] progressives, want to make certain [9:29] that their tax dollars are spent [9:31] responsibly and in charge of [9:34] tax dollars. [9:35] And in charge of the government, [9:37] the government, the government, [9:39] the government, the government, [9:41] the government, the government, [9:43] and in strong and growing numbers. [9:47] They do not want us to continue [9:50] spending billions of their taxpayer [9:53] dollars in support of the illegal, [9:56] horrific, and expansionist war [10:00] policies of the Netanyahu [10:02] government in Israel. [10:04] A recent Quinnipiac poll also found [10:08] that 60%, including three quarters [10:12] of Democrats, two thirds of [10:15] independents, and 37% of Republicans. [10:19] I say that to my Republican [10:21] colleagues, 37% of Republicans do [10:25] not want the US sending more [10:28] military aid to Israel. [10:30] So there you have Senator Sanders [10:33] making a strong case for blocking [10:35] these weapons bills. [10:36] However, he does more than just [10:38] give speeches. [10:39] Sanders offered similar resolutions [10:42] last summer, which Republicans also [10:44] blocked. [10:45] And in 2024, the same outcome in [10:48] those cases about half of Senate [10:50] Democrats backed his effort, which [10:52] obviously isn't enough Senate [10:54] Democrats when you only have 50% [10:56] backing what Sanders is trying to [10:58] do here. [10:59] Now that was in the past. [11:00] This time around things were a [11:01] little different, but unfortunately, [11:03] we got close, but no cigar. [11:06] So several Democrats who had opposed [11:08] such efforts in the past actually [11:10] changed course. [11:11] So 36 Democrats voted to take up a [11:14] measure that would block the sale of [11:17] the 1000 pound bombs. [11:19] While 40 Democrats voted in favor of [11:22] a measure to bar the sale of the [11:24] bulldozers that Israel has used to [11:27] level entire neighborhoods in [11:29] Gaza and Lebanon. [11:30] So I guess more of the Senate [11:34] Democrats were in favor of the [11:36] bulldozers that are raising [11:38] neighborhoods in Gaza and Lebanon. [11:40] Okay, great. [11:41] Roughly a dozen more Democrats [11:43] voted for those measures than [11:45] have voted for similar ones in [11:47] the past. [11:48] Now I want to be clear about [11:50] something real quick, Cenk. [11:51] And I want to get your thoughts on [11:52] this as well. [11:53] It is also very likely that [11:55] Democrats who maybe wanted to vote [11:58] no on Bernie Sanders' effort here [12:01] to block additional military aid to [12:04] Israel just knew that his effort [12:06] was going to fail. [12:08] Probably knew that with the midterms [12:10] coming up and the fact that most [12:12] Democratic voters have soured on [12:14] Israel, you can vote alongside [12:16] Bernie Sanders, give the [12:18] illusion that you support him [12:20] without any real fear that this [12:21] type of bill is going to pass, [12:23] thus blocking additional military [12:25] aid to Israel. [12:26] What do you think? [12:27] Yeah, I think that's 100% right. [12:29] So I'm going to be nuanced here. [12:31] So let's start to talk about [12:33] heroes and villains. [12:34] So usual villainous mainstream [12:37] media, stop saying we sold [12:39] anything to Israel. [12:40] You're doing that, you're lying on [12:42] purpose to make it seem like [12:44] Israel is buying this stuff. [12:46] No, we gift it to them every time. [12:48] So why are you purposely lying in [12:50] all of your articles and all of [12:51] your news stories about how they [12:53] bought the weapons? [12:54] They didn't buy anything, okay? [12:55] They continue to rob us blind. [12:57] By the way, the bulldozers are [12:59] armed. [13:00] And if you're writing garbage about [13:02] how the Israelis might be using [13:04] bulldozers to help the [13:05] Palestinians. [13:06] Well, I mean, can you imagine a [13:07] more gargantuan lie like the [13:08] Israelis would ever want to help [13:09] the Palestinians, let alone the [13:10] fact that they don't allow that [13:12] in the part of Gaza that the [13:14] Palestinians are in? [13:15] And that you're using these [13:17] bulldozers? [13:18] We see it, we've shown you videos [13:20] destroying schools and hospitals [13:22] all over Southern Lebanon now [13:24] like they did in Gaza. [13:25] So no, they'll be used by a sick [13:28] fascist state to murder more of [13:30] their neighbors, and there's [13:32] absolutely no doubt about that. [13:34] Okay, now heroes, Bernie Sanders. [13:36] Thank God, man, at least he [13:38] exists, and I think that that's [13:40] so great for two reasons. [13:42] One, he's just the moral voice of [13:43] the Senate, always has been, and [13:45] always gets to the right [13:47] conclusion. [13:48] Number two, thank God there are [13:49] Jewish Americans like Bernie [13:51] Sanders so that more people [13:53] don't make the mistake of [13:54] thinking that this is about [13:55] Jewish people and realize it's [13:57] about the government of Israel, [13:59] which is a different country. [14:01] Thank you, Bernie, you're [14:02] awesome. [14:03] Now, look, Bernie's too nice [14:05] overall. [14:06] I like what Ro Khanna is doing [14:08] better because Bernie will say, [14:09] hey, let's vote on this thing, [14:11] and it's a great thing that he [14:13] proposed. [14:14] But when it comes to Schumer and [14:16] Biden and those guys, but [14:18] golly gee, they're my colleagues. [14:20] They're not your colleagues. [14:21] Chuck Schumer doesn't agree with [14:23] us. [14:24] A single thing that you think, [14:25] Bernie, Chuck Schumer would [14:27] betray all of your values in one [14:29] second flat if you paid him a [14:31] dollar, okay? [14:32] Let alone the $6.5 million he's [14:34] already been bribed by Israel, [14:36] let alone the fact that he works [14:37] for Israel. [14:38] Come on, let's be honest about [14:39] these things. [14:40] Chris Van Hollen is another really [14:41] good senator. [14:42] There are others. [14:43] There are good solid Democrats on [14:44] this issue in the Senate, which is [14:46] a rare thing to say. [14:47] So I'll take that. [14:48] Now to Anna's question about the [14:50] middle ground guys. [14:51] So the ones that voted along with [14:53] Bernie on this and had the right [14:55] vote. [14:56] So I'm torn on that, right? [14:57] Because you know me, I take yes [14:59] for an answer. [15:00] And I'm happy to give them credit [15:01] for voting in the right direction. [15:03] On the other hand, Anna's [15:04] indisputably correct that if it was [15:07] a close vote and they needed one [15:09] of those guys to vote with Israel, [15:11] 12 of them would vote with Israel. [15:13] Of course they would. [15:14] I think Cory Booker's gonna vote [15:16] against Israel if they need his [15:18] vote. [15:19] You think Alisa Slotkin is gonna [15:21] vote against Israel or Mark [15:23] Kelly or Adam Schiff? [15:24] No, no, they're all gonna vote [15:26] for Israel if Israel needed the [15:28] vote. [15:29] Now they didn't need the vote, [15:30] they won comfortably. [15:31] So, but it does show you guys that [15:34] even the Adam Schiff's and Cory Booker's [15:36] of the world realize how supernova [15:39] toxic it is to support Israel's war [15:42] machine. [15:43] It's finally gotten through their [15:46] thick, thick heads. [15:47] So now you'll see a lot of [15:49] Democrats pretending that they [15:51] don't want to fund Israel's war [15:53] machine. [15:54] Okay, so get ready for that. [15:56] But again, you come to the right [15:58] place, and if your vote matters [16:00] especially, then I give you all the [16:01] credit in the world. [16:02] Okay, so, so far it doesn't matter, [16:03] but they could. [16:04] Now one other villain before we go [16:06] on, Anna, and that's all of the [16:08] Republicans. [16:09] They all voted, yes, Israel, we [16:11] serve Israel loyally, please [16:13] murder more. [16:14] John and Sally in Kansas, shut up [16:17] and give your paycheck to Israel. [16:19] They need to bomb more Muslims [16:21] and steal their land. [16:22] Republican Party- [16:23] And Christians. [16:24] And Christians. [16:25] And Christians. [16:26] Yeah. [16:27] There's several million [16:28] Christians in Lebanon, but [16:29] the Republicans all of a sudden [16:30] don't care about Christians at all [16:32] when they get that sweet APAC [16:34] money. [16:35] Every Republican in the Senate is a [16:37] whore and works for APAC. [16:39] And every donor that comes by, [16:41] they're giant liars, and they'll [16:43] sell you out in a flat second. [16:45] Thank you, Anna. [16:47] 100%. [16:48] Okay, I want to name names, [16:50] very important to name names. [16:52] So we know on the Republican side [16:55] who voted against Bernie's effort, [16:57] every single one of them. [16:59] But let's look at the Democrats. [17:01] So Democrats who voted against [17:02] blocking the sale of bulldozers. [17:04] You have Senators Richard [17:07] Blumenthal, Chris Coons, [17:09] Catherine Cortez Mastro, Jackie [17:11] Rosen, Kirsten Gillibrand, Chuck [17:13] Schumer, John Fetterman. [17:15] Get them out, get them out. [17:17] Don't forget their names, and I [17:19] don't want to hear a damn [17:20] Democratic voter come to me, [17:22] whether it's four years from now, [17:24] six years from now, whenever, to [17:26] tell me no, that's not true. [17:28] These Democrats never voted in [17:29] favor of sending weapons to [17:30] Israel, please. [17:31] Let's go to the next one. [17:32] If you're curious why they voted [17:34] against it, money spent by pro [17:36] Israel lobby groups and donors. [17:39] So you got Richard Blumenthal, [17:41] he's taken over or nearer, [17:43] he's taken over or nearer, [17:45] he's taken over. [17:46] 1.7 million dollars from the [17:49] Israel lobby. [17:50] Chris Coons, over 1.7 million [17:53] dollars. [17:54] Christine Cortez Mastro, wow, [17:56] she really did rake it in, 3.2 [17:59] million, I'm rounding obviously. [18:01] Jackie Rosen, 7.6 million. [18:03] Man, that's a lot of money. [18:04] Chuck Schumer, 6.4 million. [18:06] And then you have John Fetterman, [18:08] who's already taken nearly $2 [18:10] million from the Israel lobby in [18:12] the short period of time. [18:14] He's been a politician. [18:15] It's just wild, absolutely wild. [18:17] And then you have Kirsten [18:18] Gillibrand, of course, nearly $3.3 [18:20] million. [18:21] So money talks. [18:23] And while this is extremely [18:25] disappointing and more proof that [18:27] these lawmakers need to be voted [18:29] out, Bernie Sanders saw this as [18:31] a glass half full type situation. [18:34] So I wanna read his reaction to [18:35] all of this. [18:36] He says, we are making progress. [18:38] Today, more than 80% of the [18:39] Democratic caucus stood with the [18:41] American people and voted to block [18:43] US military aid to Netanyahu and [18:45] his horrific illegal wars. [18:47] When we started this effort, [18:48] there were just 11 votes. [18:50] Now there are 40. [18:51] That shift reflects where the [18:53] American people are. [18:54] Americans, whether they are [18:55] Democrats, Republicans, or [18:56] independents, want to see our tax [18:58] money invested in improving lives [19:00] here at home, not used to kill [19:02] innocent women and children in [19:04] the Middle East, and put American [19:06] troops in harm's way as part of [19:08] Netanyahu's illegal wars of [19:09] expansion. [19:10] So there you have Senator Sanders [19:12] saying out loud what we've been [19:14] saying out loud here at TYT for [19:16] years now, right? [19:18] Because this isn't new. [19:19] The border expansion, the greater [19:21] Israel project is not some new [19:23] project. [19:24] This is something that Israelis in [19:26] the media, Israeli politicians, [19:27] have been talking about overtly, [19:29] openly, brazenly. [19:31] And it's about time we actually [19:32] believe that they're gonna do what [19:34] they say they're gonna do, rather [19:36] than have them gaslight us when [19:38] they're addressing Americans and [19:40] American media. [19:41] At the same time, over in the [19:42] House, the War Powers Resolution [19:44] failed yet again. [19:46] Total losers, these politicians. [19:48] You're worthless, okay? [19:50] You serve no role. [19:52] You should be disbanded. [19:54] All right, but anyway. [19:55] So the World Wars Powers Act [19:57] basically indicates, hey, guess [19:58] what? [19:59] If the President wants to start a [20:00] war, he needs to get it approved [20:01] by Congress. [20:02] That whole system of checks and [20:03] balances that we're supposed to [20:04] value here in the United States. [20:06] Well, Congress has consistently [20:08] ceded their power, ceded their [20:09] power, ceded their power to the [20:11] executive branch. [20:12] And in this case, the War Powers [20:13] resolution failed yet again, [20:15] 213 to 214. [20:17] Just one Republican, Representative [20:18] Thomas Massey of Kentucky voted for [20:19] it. [20:20] While one Democrat, Representative [20:21] Jared Golden of Maine, who [20:24] should be voted out of office, [20:26] voted against it. [20:27] Representative Warren Davidson, a [20:28] Republican from Ohio who [20:29] previously voted to end the Iran [20:30] War, voted present because he's a [20:32] coward. [20:33] Three Republicans did not vote. [20:34] Yeah. [20:35] They're also cowards. [20:36] Cenk. [20:37] So I want to be clear. [20:38] So the seven Democratic senators [20:39] that Anna read, you guys, or [20:40] I'm calling them traitors. [20:41] Now, why am I saying that? [20:42] Traitors to- Humanity? [20:43] Well, yeah, sure to humanity [20:44] America, etc. [20:45] But really specifically, I mean, [20:46] the Democratic voters. [20:47] So 80 percent of Democratic voters [20:48] have a negative view of Israel and [20:49] do not want to send them any more [20:52] arms. [20:53] It's not a subtle number. [20:54] It's not 52 percent. [20:55] It's not 57. [20:56] It's not even 64. [20:57] It is an overwhelming eight out of [20:59] ten. [21:12] And Richard Blumenthal, Chris Coons, [21:13] because the president of the [21:14] Congress has been elected to [21:16] that. [21:17] Katheryn Cortez, Maso, Jackie Rosen, Kristen Schillbrand, Chuck Schumer, and John Fetterman [21:21] just gave all of you guys the middle finger and said, ha ha, you think I'm gonna represent [21:27] you? [21:28] No, I tricked you, and then I betrayed you, and I stabbed you in the back, and I twisted [21:32] the knife because my donors told me to. [21:35] I don't give a damn about 80% of you, I spit in your face. [21:40] That's what they did with this vote. [21:42] They said, no, Israel is much more important to us than our own voters. [21:47] We don't care if it's eight out of 10, nine out of 10, or 10 out of 10. [21:51] We don't care if every single Democrat in the country wants us to stop funding Israel. [21:56] We loyally serve Israel and not you. [21:59] That's exactly what they said with that vote. [22:02] You would be out of your mind to vote for any of those seven. [22:06] You're basically saying, okay, I'm an idiot, I'm a sucker, take my vote, and don't care [22:12] about my priorities at all, just serve. [22:16] And guys, Israel's tip of the iceberg, okay? [22:19] Those seven and so many others, they serve all their donors. [22:24] You think it's just Israel? [22:25] They betray you with every single vote. [22:28] It's all theater. [22:30] They don't care about you at all. [22:33] And we've been telling you this for 20 years on The Young Turks. [22:36] All Israel is doing is waking up the whole country to money in politics. [22:43] If you give someone $3.5 million, it turns out they'll vote for you every single time. [22:48] Of course they will. [22:50] You would have to be so maniacally stupid as the equivalent of a national media reporter [22:58] to not understand that super simple concept. [23:01] But every report in the country is like, what do you mean? [23:04] Do you think 6.5 million affects someone's vote? [23:07] But there's such an honest, beautiful, honorable politician. [23:11] Get the hell out of here, man. [23:12] The media is disgustingly corrupt. [23:15] These politicians are disgustingly corrupt. [23:18] And their job is to work in unison to make sure that they serve the richest, most powerful [23:23] people in the country, and never you, and never you. [23:27] So at 8 o'clock, we do a show called The Revolution. [23:29] You know Young Turks is 6 to 8 o'clock, Monday through Friday. [23:32] And at 8 o'clock, I'll do The Revolution. [23:34] So tonight, I'm gonna ask for your help. [23:36] We're gonna find primary candidates for these folks, and we're gonna make sure that we spend [23:42] our time and effort to make sure that they never, ever win another election, ever. [23:50] The only reason why anybody votes for them is because the monstrous liars in mainstream [23:55] media. [23:56] They're Democrats, they care about their voters, they're honest. [24:01] It's purposely doing propaganda, cuz the media also knows, Israel, bow down to Israel. [24:07] I'm so sick of it, okay. [24:10] So we'll do more at 8 o'clock, but for now, I want you to know this, and then I'm gonna [24:13] tell you one other thing that's totally relevant to this story. [24:16] Notanotherdollar.com, that's a pledge to say I'm never gonna vote for anyone who ever gives [24:23] money to another dollar to Israel. [24:26] Of course not, you'd have to have your head examined to do that. [24:30] And by the way, support Wolfpack, get money out of politics, and their website is fightcorruption.us. [24:37] And I love their new slogan, fight corruption, not each other. [24:41] Right wing, left wing, doesn't matter, fightcorruption.us. [24:45] Because as long as these sick prostitutes work for their donors, which is currently exactly [24:51] what the situation is, they'll never work for you. [24:54] We already got robbed of our democracy, who are we kidding? [24:57] So that brings me to the last point, you saw what Anna said on the War Powers Resolution. [25:02] Look at that, Israel happened to win by one vote. [25:05] No, they always win by just enough votes. [25:10] You know how many votes Israel has lost in Congress in my lifetime? [25:14] Zero, zero, zero, they win every single vote. [25:22] But I don't know if they're the dumbest people in the country or the most dishonest people [25:27] in the country. [25:28] But every national media reporter can't figure out, AIPAC and the Israeli lobby gave to 94% [25:35] of Congress, and they win every single vote. [25:38] Gee, I wonder if that's connected, duh. [25:43] But apparently the incredibly stupid people who work at the New York Times, CNN, Washington [25:48] Post can't piece that together. [25:51] They're not stupid. [25:53] You need to get that out of your head because it's driving me nuts. [25:56] They're not stupid. [25:57] It's on purpose, Cenk. [25:59] I haven't been on CNN. [26:01] Why haven't I been, how come I didn't get an invite back on CNN? [26:05] Yeah. [26:06] It's on purpose. [26:07] Of course it is. [26:08] You know who they had on CNN? [26:09] They had Emily Austin. [26:11] Of course. [26:12] The Israeli propagandist on Abby Phillips' show the other day. [26:16] It's on purpose. [26:17] It's not an accident. [26:18] We got to take a break. [26:19] We'll be right back. [26:21] First comes strength, then comes peace. [26:23] Let's go to our members on TYT.com. [26:37] Remote Dragon says, yeah, baby, Cenk's back looking good. [26:39] Thank you, brother, appreciate it. [26:41] Rumored Dragon Cat says, Anna, you have your own Iron Dome. [26:44] We TYTers are here for you. [26:46] We appreciate you guys so much. [26:50] Finally, some folks in media and one guy in politics is backing us. [26:57] But everyone in power is the bad guys, so none of them have any interest in protecting [27:06] us. [27:07] In fact, they have an interest in burying us, so we love you guys for defending us. [27:11] Cenk's left tricep of fury writes in, Cenk, glad to see you're much better from your cold. [27:14] Thank you, brother. [27:15] Jared Lomano says, I just watched Bernie video before the show. [27:18] He really gave it true and hard, love Bernie. [27:20] Yes, love Bernie, eclectic miscellaneous is Canary Mission is an actual terrorist group. [27:26] The whole point of the organization is to terrorize and smear people instead of going [27:29] after the imaginary Antifa group, which doesn't even exist. [27:32] How about going after Canary Mission, who are trying to destroy and endanger people's [27:35] lives? [27:36] You know why? [27:37] Because almost everyone in power loves Canary Mission because they love terrorism. [27:40] They love the terrorism of Israel, they love the terrorism of Canary Mission. [27:45] And then the victims, the people who are occupied and oppressed and murdered, they're like, they're [27:50] the terrorists. [27:51] No, no, you're the terrorist. [27:54] Almost everyone in Washington is a terrorist. [27:56] They love Israeli terrorism. [27:59] They love Canary Mission terrorism. [28:01] They're sick, disgusting people who work for other countries for money. [28:06] Winston Smith says they ceded power willingly so they wouldn't be blamed. [28:09] They're in agreement with the policy that Trump is pursuing. [28:12] That is definitely right. [28:13] EMA tip two says, I'm so mad that Chris Coons voted against Bernie's bill. [28:17] No way in hell I would vote for him again. [28:18] I'm telling everyone I know about it too because none of them support the genocidal Israeli government. [28:22] So embarrassing. [28:59] Back on TYT, Jane Canana with you guys. [29:02] Somebody was writing in about Chris Coons during their break. [29:05] Get the members only stream where you don't have to watch the ads at tyt.com slash join. [29:11] Anyways, Chris Coons, it was Joe Biden's best friend in the Senate. [29:14] He's a corporate Democrat goon who also voted against raising the minimum wage when Biden [29:20] was in charge because Biden told him to. [29:22] He's deeply corrupt. [29:24] He's not remotely a Democrat. [29:25] He's one of the worst people in the Senate. [29:26] I just want to make that clear. [29:28] Another thing to make clear is how we can save you guys money. [29:30] Go to Noble Mobile, actually, you could just go to tyt.com slash switch. [29:34] I don't understand why everybody isn't doing this. [29:36] Maybe your bills are way lower than mine were, but so the max you could pay at Noble Mobile [29:40] is 50 bucks. [29:42] But almost everybody pays, I should speak for myself. [29:44] I pay in the 30s because they give you money back if you don't use your data. [29:50] And then they're going to give you $40 if you sign up now for the first month, tyt.com slash [29:54] switch, nothing on your phone changes, tyt.com slash switch. [29:58] Anna, what's next? [29:59] We've got some major updates when it comes to the war in Iran and in Lebanon. [30:05] Let's get started. [30:06] The Secretary of War, the Joint Chiefs Chairman, and also the CENTCOM Commander Admiral Brad [30:11] Cooper giving an update saying the United States should be prepared and will be prepared if [30:17] combat operations resume. [30:18] Our troops are highly motivated, they're focused, they're vigilant, and they're ready. [30:25] And they're using this time to do a couple of things. [30:28] We're rearming, we're retooling, and we're adjusting our tactics, techniques, and procedures. [30:33] There's no military in the world that adjusts like we do. [30:36] US commanders remain in close contact with their Israeli counterparts who are also preparing [30:40] for the possibility that negotiations fail. [30:44] Our American friends are constantly updating us on their contacts with Iran. [30:49] Our goals and those of the United States are identical. [30:52] We want to see the enriched material removed from Iran. [30:54] We want to see the cancellation of enrichment capabilities within Iran. [30:58] And of course, we want to see the opening of the straits. [31:03] Every piece of reporting from Trey Yinks, a reporter for Fox News, indicates that, well, [31:08] looks like we are in for more war. [31:11] There are signs of escalation, and it does indicate that as soon as the two-week ceasefire [31:16] is up, we will be engaging in another round of war against Iran. [31:21] Now I say that as President Donald Trump bluffs in public for the billionth time, making it [31:27] appear as though he is optimistic about the peace negotiations that are happening between [31:33] the United States and Iran. [31:34] I'm personally not buying any of it, and neither are the Iranians. [31:39] But before we hear from them, Cenk, your two cents. [31:42] Yeah, I want to be clear that, of course, Netanyahu is lying. [31:45] No, we don't have the same goals. [31:47] He wants 0% enrichment in Iran, which Iran has said they will literally never agree to. [31:54] So that's just a recipe for permanent war if we go with the Israeli standards. [31:59] Now later, I'm gonna tell you why I think Israel agreed to this ceasefire in Lebanon if it really [32:04] is a ceasefire, but we'll explain why, and then, Anna, I'm not as confident as you are. [32:11] I wanna have an interesting conversation with you at the end about whether we're headed towards [32:15] more war or not. [32:18] Well, let me just begin by saying that it doesn't matter what the objectives of the United States [32:25] government allegedly is. [32:27] We didn't have objectives to begin with. [32:29] Our objectives were given to us on a sheet of paper by the Israelis in a February 11th [32:35] Situation Room meeting, and President Donald Trump, as Netanyahu's dog, will do as he's [32:41] told. [32:42] And that's exactly what's happening right now. [32:43] There is no end to this war. [32:45] If Israel wants to keep fighting, we will continue sacrificing our soldiers and using up [32:50] our resources for their war. [32:53] That is what's happening. [32:54] That's my interpretation. [32:55] So look, this week, the Pentagon sent 10,000 additional soldiers to join the 50,000 military [33:03] personnel already in the Middle East. [33:06] They also sent additional military assets to the Middle East. [33:10] So there is a buildup happening right now during this ceasefire. [33:14] Obviously, the Iranians see it, and they're not very hopeful that this is going to be a [33:18] lasting ceasefire. [33:20] So for me, it's obvious that the United States didn't really negotiate in good faith during [33:26] the ceasefire so far, and now they're continuing to rearm. [33:30] I mean, you heard in that last video that we showed you, they're rearming as we speak, [33:36] building more military assets. [33:37] Now, why the hell would Iran agree to a ceasefire in the first place, knowing that the United [33:44] States was going to use the ceasefire to rearm? [33:47] Well, take a look. [33:48] Right now, the Iranians are rearming, they're preparing, but also like before, but also every [33:59] single day that goes by, the Strait of Hormuz is more or less close. [34:05] And that is putting more pressure on the United States under Trump. [34:10] The belief in Iran is that Trump does not make the decisions. [34:15] It is the Israeli lobby, the Zionist lobby, and Netanyahu. [34:19] And so the only way to force the United States to make a decision that benefits its own people [34:26] is to increase the economic pressure so much that the United States under Trump or the leadership [34:34] ultimately says, well, here we have to prioritize our own interests over that of Netanyahu. [34:42] So his argument is, well, we're also rearming, okay? [34:46] We don't expect that we're suddenly gonna have peaceful negotiations that result in a real [34:52] deal that the US abides by, honors and respects. [34:57] But on top of that, even though the ceasefire is taking place, you still have the situation [35:03] with the Strait of Hormuz. [35:04] Now, it appears that the United States is actually now enforcing the double blockade of the Strait [35:11] of Hormuz that Trump had announced earlier this week. [35:15] And so in this next clip, you're gonna hear some more details about it, and then we'll [35:19] get to what the Iranians are planning to do in response. [35:24] Joint Chiefs Chairman General Cain described the ongoing US naval blockade saying that 13 ships [35:28] have made the wise choice to turn around and not test the blockade. [35:32] At this point, no vessels have been boarded by US forces as these ships adhere to American [35:37] warnings. [35:39] So luckily, the US hasn't attacked any ships. [35:42] Luckily, US military personnel hasn't gotten close enough to Iran where Iran has retaliated [35:48] militarily during the ceasefire. [35:51] However, ships are being turned back, meaning that Trump's blockade of the Strait of Hormuz [35:56] has gone into effect is being enforced, which doesn't really solve many problems. [36:01] It's actually driving the global economy further and further out of touch, basically closer and [36:08] closer to a depression. [36:09] And so what are the Iranians gonna do in response to this, because they partially rely on the [36:15] Strait of Hormuz to transport their own oil? [36:18] Well, they have other options as well in terms of transporting their resources, but also in [36:24] terms of retaliating against the US, take a look. [36:27] Do you expect the Iranian government to respond with an escalation of their own by closing the [36:32] Bab El Monda Strait or other actions? [36:36] Oh, absolutely. [36:37] That will happen as I assume. [36:42] And I think that basically what Trump is doing out of desperation is that he's dragging down [36:50] the entire global economy because he is incapable of pursuing policies that are in the interests [37:00] of the United States. [37:01] Basically, it is Netanyahu who wants this war to continue and the Zionist lobby. [37:07] And since Trump is incapable for whatever reason, or whatever reason, I mean there's speculation [37:13] as to why, but for whatever reason, Trump is incapable of pursuing his interests. [37:18] So what is happening is that Trump is dragging down the entire global economy, including the [37:23] US economy, because he is obedient to the Zionist lobby. [37:31] That's exactly right. [37:32] I think that this whole incident really shows the unbelievable power, the clause the Zionist [37:37] lobby has on our politicians. [37:40] But Cenk, I am so curious to hear what your argument is against anything I just said. [37:46] You think that there's possibility for peace here? [37:48] Yeah, so look, I'm torn on this one. [37:53] So I get everything you're saying, all that is true, except there's one thing that that [37:58] gentleman I think got wrong. [38:01] He said, the streets relatively closed, so that's applying more pressure to America. [38:06] No, it's not. [38:08] Because in order for it to apply more pressure to America, both the oil markets and the stock [38:12] market has to believe that the war is going to continue, and right now they do not believe [38:18] that. [38:19] They believe what Trump is saying 100%, and they believe the war is almost over. [38:24] So since the stock market is up, there's no pressure at all here in America anymore. [38:31] I apologize, I don't mean to interrupt you, but I just want to do my due diligence. [38:35] That was Professor Miranda from the University of Tehran in the interview on breaking points. [38:40] I just wanted to make sure I didn't do my due diligence earlier. [38:43] Go ahead. [38:44] Look, I don't know if Professor Miranda really speaks for the Iranian government or not. [38:47] I've seen him say things that are logical, I've seen him say things that are a little [38:50] over the top. [38:51] But when the oil prices were shooting up and the markets were crashing, all the rich people [38:57] in America were panicking. [38:59] That was pressure, right? [39:01] Right now, the markets are back to flying high thinking, we already won the war, Trump said [39:05] we won it. [39:07] So there actually isn't that much pressure at all. [39:09] So again, all that goes to your point, Anna, of no, it looks like they're gonna keep going. [39:15] But I have some sources that say that the Iranian government is actually, think that they might [39:22] get to an agreement soon, and maybe they're wrong. [39:24] Maybe the source is wrong, and maybe the Iranian government is wrong. [39:28] So it's hard to tell, but that was interesting. [39:31] And then secondly, the US keeps acting like the war is almost over, and Trump knows that [39:40] the markets crashing was not helpful to his cause at all. [39:44] So if he now puts in ground troops or bombs them in the ways that he promised, it would [39:49] be an enormous jolt to the markets. [39:53] They would be shocked by it, and my guess is that the markets would then plummet. [39:59] So, I mean, Trump has gotta know that. [40:02] So it would be maniacal to continue in the war, especially when it looks like a deal is [40:10] relatively close at hand. [40:11] I mean, it's super easy to do. [40:14] All you gotta do is ignore Netanyahu's demands that they not have any enrichment at all, even [40:18] for an energy program. [40:20] So and J.D. Vance, last thing, Anna, hold on, hold on, last thing is J.D. Vance is going [40:27] around talking like the war is almost over. [40:29] Again, it might all be head fakes, but Vance seems to realize how much damage the war has [40:35] done to his political career. [40:37] So if Trump continues the war and is just using this as a ha ha, I tricked you again, [40:46] and then I bombed your putting ground troops, both Trump and Vance will have voluntarily [40:51] walked off a political cliff for Israel. [40:53] Yep, I would bet money on it. [40:58] But for now, we gotta take a break. [41:00] And when we come back, I'll give you the update on Lebanon. [41:03] They're trying to play mind games with you. [41:05] I'm gonna tell you what's really going on. [41:07] We'll be right back. [41:20] Okay, back on TYT, let's go to Super Chat, Mohit B825 says, a real test of new elected [41:26] Dems in Congress, Schumer slash Jeffries establishment, say the new Dems elected in Congress, okay, [41:31] nice outsider campaign. [41:32] Now be a good boy or girl and agree with what I do. [41:35] The only proper response is hell no. [41:38] Look Mohit, if the rebellion pack guys bow their heads to Schumer or Jeffries, A, I'll [41:45] be massively disappointed, but that's not that important. [41:48] See, what I've already told all the candidates that are signing on is, if you listen to those [41:52] guys, we will take your political heads off. [41:56] We will tell everyone that you betrayed them, and they should never get another vote or another [42:01] chance again. [42:03] So there's gonna be real consequences. [42:05] This is not like Justice Democrats, where we were all too naive, definitely including [42:09] me, right? [42:10] I didn't think that AOC was gonna go work with Nancy Pelosi. [42:14] I wouldn't imagine that in a million years. [42:16] My fault, sorry about that guys, but I've learned my lessons. [42:19] So Richard Ojeda is not gonna bow his head to Hakeem Jeffries, and neither is Shoy Katsuk [42:25] or Barty or Randy Bryce or any of those guys. [42:28] But you're right to be concerned, given the past. [42:31] Constantine Kavira says, Schumer is unfortunately one of my representatives. [42:34] I've tried calling his office a few times, but it's hard to get through, other than contributing [42:38] to a primary opponent or voting against him. [42:40] What can I do? [42:41] Can I encourage AOC to run against them? [42:42] Schumer's time is up, let's go. [42:44] And AOC, what are you waiting for? [42:46] Take him out, take him out, take the Senate seat. [42:50] This is not that complicated. [42:51] Brad David902 says, hey, Cenk, just curious what your thoughts are on the Swalwell allegations. [42:56] Also, which remaining candidate is the most progressive? [42:59] So Swalwell's an idiot. [43:02] So no matter what the details of those allegations are, he at least did it consensually, which is [43:07] maniacal. [43:09] So of course, he should have left. [43:10] We'll be back. [43:32] We'll be back on TYT, Cenk, Anna, and Scudge Jockey just joined. [43:36] So they're part of TYT now, right? [43:40] Somebody was asking me who to support in the California Governors. [43:42] I don't know, no one's asked for your vote. [43:45] None of the candidates have showed up on the Young Turks. [43:47] I guess they don't want progressive votes, populist votes, grassroots votes. [43:51] So I don't know why they're not coming on. [43:55] Again, it's never about us guys, but I haven't seen them ask for your vote at all. [44:03] I don't know if they're all going and trying to win Republicans in the suburbs of California. [44:07] Okay, but so no, I don't know who to tell you to vote for. [44:10] All right, Anna, back to you. [44:11] All right, let's get back to the Middle East because there are all these celebrations today [44:18] about a potential ceasefire in Lebanon. [44:21] Let's get to the details. [44:22] All of that has been making Israelis more anxious about their government's ability to stop the [44:30] threats that are coming from Hezbollah. [44:33] And everything that Netanyahu has promised his people, he has not been able to achieve. [44:37] Also, the threat of Hezbollah, he could not diminish that. [44:42] And it seems that Israel wants to dwell on the talks that were had in DC to try and put [44:49] that responsibility on the shoulders of the Lebanese government and the Lebanese army. [44:54] To have them disarm Hezbollah. [44:58] Well, as much as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would like to think that he and his [45:06] army of child killers could defeat Hezbollah hasn't happened yet and it's unlikely to happen. [45:13] Now, perhaps that could explain the reason why Netanyahu has agreed to a 10 day ceasefire with Lebanon. [45:21] Trump announced that Israel and Lebanon have agreed to a 10 day pause in fighting starting on Thursday, [45:29] meeting today at 5 PM Eastern time following excellent conversations he had with each nation's leader. [45:37] The Israeli and Lebanese governments agreed to the ceasefire following more than a month of war between Israel. [45:44] And this is the important part guys, pay close attention and the Iran backed Hezbollah militant group in Lebanon. [45:51] So was Hezbollah part of the ceasefire negotiation? [45:58] I'm gonna tell you in a minute, but Cenk first your two cents. [46:00] Yeah, so a lot of this one is complicated because of the role of Hezbollah. [46:04] But what is not complicated is that the government of Lebanon is not Hezbollah. [46:09] And in fact, does not like Hezbollah. [46:13] So it's two people that are actually technically not fighting each other, Lebanon and Israel. [46:19] That it made a ceasefire deal that doesn't include the person fighting against Israel or [46:25] the group fighting against Israel. [46:27] So all of this is nonsensical and every of course mainstream media news anchor is like, [46:31] we have a ceasefire, Trump and Israel deserve so much credit. [46:37] Anyway, so look, what's really the end game here? [46:42] And after it gives you all the facts, I'm gonna give you the most important fact of all [46:47] about this issue, go ahead. [46:49] Yes, well Hezbollah has released a statement about this. [46:52] They said in a statement that any ceasefire must be comprehensive across all Lebanese territory and [46:58] must not allow the Israeli enemy any freedom of movement. [47:02] Now Lebanon and Israel both agreed to a provision in this 10 day ceasefire that would allow Israel [47:08] to defend itself against any further attacks from Hezbollah. [47:12] So let's just keep it real guys, the war is still on. [47:15] Because another thing that Israel plans to continue doing during this next 10 days is maintaining their [47:23] occupation of Southern Lebanon so they can annex that land. [47:28] They have been overt about that. [47:29] So when IDF soldiers get attacked by Hezbollah, they're getting attacked because Hezbollah is resisting [47:36] their annexation of Southern Lebanon. [47:39] And I would, I gather that they intend to continue doing so. [47:42] So Cenk, you talk about the Lebanese government and how the Lebanese leader is not a fan of Hezbollah. [47:48] If it were up to the leader of Lebanon, the current government of Lebanon, the Israelis would be in charge [47:57] already, not just of Southern Lebanon, the whole of Lebanon. [48:01] The only thing, literally the only thing stopping the Israelis from doing what they truly wanna do, [48:06] which is taking over this land is Hezbollah. [48:09] Which is why Hezbollah is whatever you might think about them, they are an established political party. [48:14] And yeah, they're considered a militia because they actually resist Israeli aggression and land theft. [48:20] Now, if Israel stopped bombing its neighbors, terrorizing and then slaughtering [48:25] Palestinians, that they wouldn't have to worry about resistance to their actions. [48:30] But you have around and you find out and Israeli soldiers have been killed in recent days. [48:36] So maybe that's another reason why Israel was open to a 10 day ceasefire. [48:41] Who knows, we'll see. [48:42] We'll see if they'll stop the fighting in Southern Lebanon. [48:44] But I doubt that they're gonna stop. [48:46] Israel never honors a single ceasefire, they always continue bombing. [48:51] Yeah, so look, the reason why I say it's complicated is because Hezbollah [48:55] today put out a statement saying, okay, we'll abide by the ceasefire. [48:59] But what we mean by that is not Lebanon and Israel ceasefire, but America and Iran ceasefire, [49:05] which included Lebanon. [49:07] And now that Israel is finally, according to this ceasefire that they reach with the Lebanese government [49:12] is going to stop bombing and attacking Lebanon. [49:15] If that's true, we'll abide by it as well. [49:18] Now, having said that, one of their conditions is that Israel leave Southern Lebanon. [49:23] And Israel has absolutely no intention of leaving Southern Lebanon and has not left at all. [49:28] So then Hezbollah put out kind of a useless statement. [49:33] So I can't quite tell if that means that they're gonna abide by the ceasefire or they're not. [49:38] But Israel continues to blow up bridges that connect Southern Lebanon to the rest of Lebanon. [49:45] You're not blowing up schools and hospitals within Southern Lebanon. [49:49] They wanna make Southern Lebanon uninhabitable and they wanna make it so that the Lebanese, [49:55] they driven out 1.1 million Lebanese from that area, that's ethnic cleansing. [50:00] They wanna make sure that they cannot return so that Israel can steal more land for greater Israel. [50:05] So they're not going anywhere. [50:06] They've camped out in Southern Lebanon and that's the most important fact. [50:11] So if I thought Israel was going to leave, then it's a different conversation. [50:17] But Israel's like Bob in the movie, what about Bob? [50:19] You think he's gone? [50:20] He's not gone. [50:21] He's always there, right? [50:23] So yeah, they think, yeah, we'll get everybody to stop fighting now, [50:29] now that we're in Southern Lebanon and the Lebanese aren't. [50:32] Mission accomplished, just like we stole 53% of Gaza. [50:36] We'll steal Southern Lebanon, ethnic cleansing well done. [50:39] So, and of course, you know America, American politicians will be like, my God, they were [50:44] just defending themselves. [50:45] So we sent them several billion dollars more, tens of billions more. [50:49] And the American media will be like, they had to take Southern Lebanon. [50:53] Poor, poor Israel, poor Israel. [50:57] So they're gonna try to brainwash us into believing that Israel's the victim here, [51:01] when they're a fascist aggressive state. [51:04] It's now it's the cats out of the bag. [51:07] Everybody knows Israel's evil, right? [51:09] Sure is. [51:10] You could keep lying about it, but we have eyes there in Southern Lebanon. [51:13] They're blowing everything up in Southern Lebanon. [51:16] And that's because they're trying to get greater Israel. [51:19] I can't stand the liars in our media. [51:21] I can't stand them. [51:23] I think they're the very worst people in the country. [51:25] Go ahead, Anna. [51:25] No, I mean, look, I share your sheer anger when it comes to the way [51:33] they lie to the American people about what's really going on. [51:37] How are you gonna argue that Israel is targeting Hezbollah when they carpet bomb [51:44] Lebanon, dropping over 100 bombs onto Lebanon in a 10 minute timeframe? [51:53] How is that targeting Hezbollah? [51:56] How targeting Hezbollah when there's a funeral taking place? [52:02] For a man, by the way, that was killed by the Israelis and his whole family is there, [52:06] of course, because they wanna honor their loved one who was killed. [52:11] And then Israel does a bombing of the funeral. [52:15] Terrorists. [52:16] Killing his infant, killing his infant. [52:19] Is that Hezbollah? [52:20] Was the infant Hezbollah? [52:21] Do the Israelis see Hezbollah when they close their eyes and go to sleep at night? [52:25] I hope so. [52:26] Pathetic. [52:26] I hope so too. [52:28] I hope so too. [52:29] Yeah, I hope they're as terrorized by the terrorism that they put out in the world. [52:34] So let me talk about the deaths here. [52:36] Nearly 2,200 people in Lebanon have been killed by Israeli airstrikes since March 2nd. [52:43] Terrorists. [52:43] Since March 2nd, they're terrorists. [52:46] 88 doctors have been killed. [52:47] Unifil workers, these are peacekeepers, have been targeted and killed. [52:51] Six hospitals have been shuttered. [52:54] And if you pay attention to Israeli media and their politicians, they openly say they're [52:59] doing this similar to what they did in Gaza. [53:01] This is the Gaza model, the Rafa model. [53:04] Satellite analysis and verified footage show Israel has systematically demolished towns [53:10] across southern Lebanon with more than 1,400 buildings destroyed since March 2nd. [53:15] According to BBC Verify, which typically gets dog walked by Israel as well. [53:20] But here, I guess they had enough tenacity to tell the truth. [53:24] Here's more. [53:25] The demolitions followed Defense Minister Israel Katz's order to accelerate destruction [53:31] near the border using a Gaza model. [53:34] Entire villages, including Tebe and Aita Al Shaab have been leveled in coordinated blasts. [53:44] This is what they do. [53:46] And I want to give you another example. [53:49] Here's a school, a school. [53:50] It's a school in southern Lebanon that the Israelis just bombed. [53:55] So there you go. [53:55] There you have it. [53:58] Yeah. [53:59] Wow. [54:02] Looks like Gaza, doesn't it? [54:03] Where every school, every hospital, every university. [54:07] This is what it means when they want to erase people, okay? [54:13] They erase them by bombing the hospitals, bombing the schools, bombing the universities, [54:18] targeting the doctors. [54:19] These people are sick. [54:21] They're sick and they make you out to be the sick one. [54:25] No, don't ever let them play with your head. [54:27] They're terrorists. [54:29] Go ahead, Jake. [54:30] Yeah, our media is the Goebbels to Israel's fascists. [54:35] Because you think they don't know that the Defense Minister of Israel said we're gonna [54:39] use the Gaza model in southern Lebanon? [54:41] Do you think they don't know that the videos we just showed you? [54:46] Wait, if you're only attacking Hezbollah, why are you destroying empty school buildings? [54:52] Why are you destroying the bridges? [54:53] Why are you destroying the hospitals? [54:55] Why did you bomb their capital Beirut, which is not in southern Lebanon? [54:59] You think the media doesn't know this? [55:01] No, they know it, and their job is to cover up all that news. [55:05] Make sure you don't find out, because they must serve their beloved Israel. [55:10] Their job is to lie to you every night, every day. [55:13] Our national mainstream media works for Israel, and their job is to lie to you, [55:19] to get you to love their genocidal, beloved Israel. [55:23] I can't stand how disgusting they are pretending to be journalists as they lie to you every single day. [55:30] Have you reported the massacres? [55:32] Have you reported all the disgusting terrorism that Israel's done? [55:36] No, you haven't done any of it, right? [55:37] You're still pretending to be that Israel's the victims. [55:40] It is, I can't stand it. [55:41] Now, let's talk about, do the Lebanese have a right to defend themselves? [55:46] According to our media and our politicians, no, your job is to sit there and get murdered [55:52] by the Israelis. [55:53] How dare you defend yourselves, terrorists? [55:56] They say, no, they're not terrorists. [55:58] No, the Israelis are the terrorists invading and occupying Southern Lebanon, [56:04] just as they invaded and occupied the West Bank and Gaza and Golan Heights. [56:09] And by the way, they're also in Syria as well. [56:12] So do the Muslims that are being attacked by Israel have a right to defend themselves? [56:19] And everyone in our media says, no, if you dare defend yourself or your children, you're a terrorist. [56:26] But Israel, as they slaughter your children, as they destroy your hospitals, [56:30] as they murder your doctors, are the victims. [56:33] Can you see why I'm so revolted by every single person in mainstream media? [56:40] Okay, now, let me ask you this. [56:42] There's two million Christians in Lebanon. [56:45] Now, I know our media hates Muslims. [56:48] They're the biggest bigots in the world. [56:50] And they say Muslims have no right to defend themselves. [56:53] That's only for beloved Israel. [56:55] Only Israel has rights, right? [56:57] But now you're gonna tell a majority Christian nation here in America, [57:01] that Christians don't have a right to defend themselves. [57:04] No, only Israel does. [57:07] Do you know that Armenians have now started joining Hezbollah and fighting back against [57:12] Israel? [57:13] Do you know why? [57:14] Because they also live in Lebanon. [57:17] And so they're fighting for their homes. [57:19] They're like, what do you mean Israel has a right to steal my home? [57:22] And there's a right to murder me as a Christian in Lebanon. [57:26] What do you mean they have that right? [57:27] No, we fight back. [57:28] Are you gonna call those Christians terrorists? [57:31] I dare you media. [57:33] I dare you mainstream media. [57:35] You're used to calling Muslims terrorists because you're the disgusting bigots and [57:40] racist, every single one of you. [57:43] But you're really gonna go and tell everybody in a country that's 70% Christian, [57:48] that Christians have no right to defend themselves. [57:51] And if they dare fight back against Israel stealing their homes, [57:55] that they're terrorists and they deserve to be murdered, go ahead. [58:00] I dare you to say it. [58:01] They imply it with every sentence. [58:04] No one has any rights other than Israel. [58:07] Well, that's just not true. [58:08] It's just not true. [58:10] The current Israeli government are definitely terrorists by any definition of the word terrorism. [58:17] And they're obviously a fascist state that is attacking all of their neighbors and [58:22] literally stealing their land right in front of our eyes. [58:25] The only people pretending not to see it is the reporters in this country and the disgusting [58:32] prostitutes that are pretending to be our representatives that serve Israel because they [58:37] got bribed by the Israeli lobby. [58:39] But no, our reporters will say, no, $100 million, politicians are so honorable. [58:44] The 100 million that AIPAC spent just in this last cycle didn't affect them at all. [58:49] You'd be an idiot to believe a single person in mainstream media. [58:52] By the way, I mean, I'm gonna dig into the story as much as I can for next week. [58:59] So I'll be working on this as a research project tomorrow. [59:03] The 11th American scientist has been found dead. [59:07] Like what's going on? [59:09] By the way, Anna, to that point, Netanyahu in a video a couple of days ago bragged about [59:17] we killed 12 Iranian scientists, civilians, doesn't matter. [59:22] Yeah. [59:23] We murdered them. [59:25] And by the way, some of them, they murdered in front of their kids while they were picking [59:29] up their kids from a kindergarten. [59:31] That was from a couple of years ago. [59:32] Yeah. Then they murdered another 12. [59:34] And then at the end of the video said, by the way, and then the next day, [59:36] we murdered another eight scientists. So Israel murder scientists because they're terrorists. [59:43] And so are you right to ask the question of who's murdering our scientists? [59:47] Well, of course you are. These are the same terrorist sons of bitches that stole our nuclear [59:52] secrets, that stole all of our top secrets while pretending to be an ally. [59:57] Yep. Anyway, I'm gonna look into that and we'll probably have a nice lengthy [1:00:03] segment ready for you on Monday. But for now, we're gonna take a quick break. [1:00:07] And when we come back for the second hour of the show, you do not wanna miss it. [1:00:10] Because our Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, decided to read a fake prayer today [1:00:19] from a movie, Pulp Fiction. We'll be right back. [1:00:22] You're still talking about Jeffrey Epstein? Rich and powerful men abusing, [1:00:35] assaulting, and abandoning young women. These rich and powerful men donate to the politicians in [1:00:41] Washington DC, play golf with the elites in Washington DC. They are foreign leaders who [1:00:46] we don't want to offend. They interact with our intelligence agencies that we don't want to disobey. [1:00:52] There is something rotten in Washington. And are people still talking about this guy, [1:00:57] this creep? All those congressmen you just saw there are on the record as protecting the child rapists [1:01:03] who were clients of Epstein. They have not prosecuted a single person outside of Epstein and Maxwell. [1:01:09] Yep. Not one. [1:01:11] Is Trump engaging in this cover up because he's in the Epstein files? [1:01:15] I don't understand why the Jeffrey Epstein case would be of interest to anybody. [1:01:20] It's pretty boring stuff. [1:01:21] So as the government keeps telling us, yeah, there's other people. Yeah, [1:01:25] they rape those girls. So what? We're gonna cover up for them. But why are you guys so mad? [1:01:30] A nation that chooses impunity for the rich and the powerful at the expense of our children is [1:01:36] a nation that has lost its moral purpose. Are you on the side of the people? Are you on the side of [1:01:43] America's children? Or are you on the side of the rich and powerful who've had their thumb on the scales [1:01:50] and shafted Americans for decades? 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Oh, it's not even close. The Young Turks. It's the largest online [1:03:43] news show in the world. I watched you guys before I had a channel at all. And I watched Cenk, [1:03:47] so Cenk's really the start of it all. Big shout out to Cenk from Young Turks. Cenk Uygur, [1:03:53] founder of TYT, a man who probably needs no introduction. Cenk, so great to talk to you. [1:03:58] Great to talk to you, David. Dan, you worked for a long time, man. Anna Kasparian is one of the [1:04:02] most followed and influential progressive women online. I love Anna. Your presence has been [1:04:09] essential for me to really grow. Do all of you know The Young Turks? This is why what Young Turks [1:04:15] are doing is so important. I've watched you for many years. You are insightful. I thank you for that. [1:04:20] I was gonna introduce myself, but it sounds like you guys might know it. [1:04:23] We didn't blow up diplomacy. Yes, you did. [1:04:31] All right, back on TYT, Cenk and Anna, more news. [1:04:58] Well, I gotta make a quick production note to Alyssa because I'm a moron. But anyway, Alyssa, [1:05:05] I'm gonna do C4 before I do C3, okay? When we can do the second half of the story. Anyway, [1:05:10] we gotta talk a little bit about Pete Hegseth's prayer recently. Let's take a look. [1:05:17] The path of the downed aviator is beset on all sides by the iniquities of the selfish and [1:05:24] the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who in the name of camaraderie and duty, [1:05:30] shepherd the lost through the valley of darkness. Christian is quoting a movie, [1:05:38] not the Bible, and it's insanely embarrassing. Let's take a look. [1:05:43] For he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down [1:05:49] upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to capture and destroy my [1:05:55] brother. And you will know my callsign is sandy one when I lay my vengeance upon thee. [1:06:03] So Cenk, it turns out that that wasn't actually a prayer from the Bible. [1:06:09] It is a prayer from someplace else that some would argue isn't really holy, but [1:06:16] we'll get to that in a minute. First, your two cents. [1:06:18] Yeah, so this guy's an idiot and he thinks that if you just act tough and you quote movies [1:06:27] thinking it's the Bible, that that'll make you a good Christian and a tough guy. [1:06:32] There's like, I don't believe Pete Hegseth would do anything but urinate all over himself. [1:06:37] He was if he was in a room. That's how weak men talk. But okay, tell us the facts here. [1:06:44] Okay, so some of you might have already caught on to this. But for those who don't know, for those who [1:06:49] aren't Christians or have really been steeped in reading the Bible, understanding the Bible, [1:06:55] here's how Mediate clarifies what's going on here. While the prayer didn't sound very much like Ezekiel [1:07:02] 2517, which in the King James Bible simply reads, and I will execute great vengeance upon them [1:07:11] with furious rebukes. And they shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall lay my vengeance upon them. [1:07:19] It did bear a strong resemblance to a fake version of Ezekiel quoted by Samuel Jackson [1:07:26] in Tarantino's Pulp Fiction, just before his character shoots a man to death. [1:07:33] And the Pulp Fiction prayer, this is how it reads. The path of the righteous man is beset [1:07:41] on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. [1:07:47] Blessed is he who in the name of charity and goodwill shepherds the weak through the valley [1:07:54] of darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. [1:07:59] And I will strike down upon thee. Okay, now let's take a listen to what Hegseth [1:08:05] said during his praying. The path of the downed aviator [1:08:10] is beset on all sides by the iniquities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. [1:08:16] Blessed is he who in the name of camaraderie and duty, shepherd the lost through the valley of [1:08:21] darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. [1:08:28] And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger, [1:08:32] those who attempt to capture and destroy my brother. And you will know my call sign [1:08:38] is sandy one when I lay my vengeance upon thee. That sounds a lot like the Pulp Fiction [1:08:48] scene and Samuel L Jackson is the person who was reading it or saying it before he killed someone. [1:08:55] So Cenk, back to you. Yeah, he pretended that that's a prayer [1:09:02] that another military guy was giving before they went to go rescue the pilots. [1:09:09] He just made it all up and he made it up from a movie. God, he's so pathetically dumb. [1:09:15] And then Jesus said, there is no spoon. No, bro, that was Neo. God. And then the Lord said, [1:09:22] Luke, I am your father. No, okay, no, no, no. I mean, it's so embarrassing. He's our secretary of defense, [1:09:33] doesn't know anything about military strategy. He doesn't know anything about defense. [1:09:38] He renamed himself the secretary of war when Trump ran an anti war campaign. [1:09:43] And then this moron didn't realize that Iran might close the Strait of Hormuz. Oops, they did. [1:09:49] And now it endangers the entire global economy. This moron didn't know that they would attack our bases [1:09:56] in the Gulf. And they did, killing a lot of Americans. He did not prepare for it. They did [1:10:02] not have adequate defenses. Instead, Pete Hegseth spent all of our defenses protecting Israel, [1:10:08] a different country, while our guys died. I don't know if he was in the middle of watching Braveheart [1:10:13] at that point or Gladiator. But you're supposed to hire people who are qualified for the job [1:10:19] in case we go to war. Instead, we hired a baboon who was a weekend host at Fox News. [1:10:27] Now he couldn't even make the A team of Fox News. And Trump's like, I like the baboon on TV. [1:10:33] Let's go with him. He's on a central casting. I think Trump is trying to imitate Rodney Dangerfield [1:10:40] as Hegseth is trying to imitate Samuel Jackson. Yeah, it's just embarrassing. And it really, [1:10:47] look, for devout Christians, how could it not feel like you're kind of under attack right now? [1:10:55] The government's making a mockery of your faith, and it's just absolutely pathetic. [1:10:59] But there is one man who's a devout Christian who's trying to make sense of it all, right? [1:11:04] Because it turns out that Christianity has been kind of hijacked in America with a new religion [1:11:12] that was just dubbed by Tucker Carlson. Take a look. [1:11:15] So what is the civic religion of the United States? What's the religion [1:11:21] of the US government? What's the religion, honestly, of Donald Trump? It's not Christianity, [1:11:28] clearly, it's Israelism. It's the defense of Israel. Now, how do you know that? Well, [1:11:34] because the United States has set up as its chief foreign policy in the defense of Israel, [1:11:38] that's one clue. There's that. But it's much deeper than that. Who are the main enemies, [1:11:46] as identified by the President of the United States, of his government domestically? [1:11:52] Who are his enemies? Who does he dislike? Who does he attack? Who does he go out of his way [1:11:55] to undermine? Well, it's people who doubt Israel, people who stand in the way of the aims of the [1:12:05] secular government of Israel. And that would include Marjorie Taylor Greene, Thomas Massey, and the Pope. [1:12:14] Yeah, three individuals that President Donald Trump has attacked, even though certainly in the case [1:12:21] of Thomas Massey and Marjorie Taylor Greene initially, they were huge supporters of Trump's. [1:12:26] But there's one area where they disagree. And of course, that has to do with the unwavering [1:12:31] support and devotion to a foreign country, and that's the country of Israel. [1:12:36] So Tucker Carlson, Cenk, believes that we are under a new civic religion known as Israelism. And he [1:12:43] provides examples to bolster the case he's making. But before we get to that, what are your thoughts? [1:12:48] Yeah, the one particular example is really shocking. So I really like that term because [1:12:55] it's not Judaism. Because Judaism has a lot of wonderful qualities to it, like question the rabbi. [1:13:02] Israel's like, never question us, right? Judaism is open, Israelism is closed. So it's a great way of [1:13:10] putting it. And that is our politicians and our media pray to Israel. I mean, they worship, [1:13:18] worship and grovel at the feet of Israel. So it makes perfect sense. But what's interesting, Anna, [1:13:26] is from Trump's point of view, with this new religion of Israelism, the Pope is not holy, but Israel is. [1:13:37] So 55% of Catholics voted for Donald Trump in the last election. I suspect that's not going to be [1:13:43] the case. But as you know, Anna, Israel made Joe Biden and Kamala Harris walk the plank and lose an [1:13:50] election on purpose to serve them. Now, I guess they're doing the same thing to the Republicans. [1:13:55] You'll do exactly as you're ordered by your lord and savior, Benjamin Netanyahu. [1:14:01] So as I mentioned earlier, he did provide some pretty significant examples. And one of those examples [1:14:06] happens to be the behavior of, well, a former colleague of Tucker's. And I just want to note [1:14:14] that this former colleague also happens to be a practicing Catholic, allegedly. And I say allegedly [1:14:20] because President Donald Trump has been pretty viciously going after Pope Leo, upsetting many [1:14:26] Catholics. So let's see how Tucker's former colleague feels. Let's go to C6. [1:14:31] Probably the most mocked and yet clearest evangelist of this new faith is Israelism. [1:14:40] And that would be someone, again, who's often made fun of for being dumb or he doesn't know what [1:14:44] he's talking about. But it's sometimes people like that that give you the clearest picture [1:14:49] of what the people in power really are talking about. And that person would be Sean Hannity. [1:14:56] Watch Sean Hannity, cradle Catholic, describe the Pope. This is his reaction [1:15:02] to the President of the United States attacking the Pope, head of the Catholic Church. [1:15:09] And here's Sean Hannity's response as a Catholic to that. Watch. [1:15:13] He doesn't want any conflict anywhere and he was talking about violence. [1:15:18] And I'm like, have you even read the Bible? Have you read the conflicts, the wars that were, [1:15:24] that the Israeli people that were, they were empowered by God to defeat their enemies? [1:15:29] Sean Hannity, a Catholic decided to join Trump in attacking Pope Leo by questioning whether [1:15:42] the Pope, the literal Pope has ever read the Bible. Cenk, your thoughts? [1:15:48] Yeah, it's the same Sean Hannity that said that John Kerry and Joe Biden should be kicked out of [1:15:52] the Catholic Church because they disagreed with the Pope on abortion. But now when Sean Hannity's in [1:16:01] favor of death and terrorism and wars, and the Pope says, no, we're for peace. Jesus was the Prince of [1:16:08] Peace. And he goes, shut up, Pope. What would you know about the Bible? The Bible I know loves war, [1:16:16] loves a different religion, and loves death and destruction. Okay, yeah, so I mean, giant, [1:16:24] giant hypocrites. But that's because Sean Hannity has never been a Catholic. Sean Hannity has always been [1:16:29] a devout follower of Israelism. I've never, I've seen him disagree with the Pope many, many times, [1:16:37] because the Popes are almost always against war. And every time Hannity wants war for Israel, [1:16:42] he's like, shut up, Pope. I mean, what good Catholic, what good Catholic, okay? But I have seen Sean Hannity [1:16:51] agree with Israel literally 100% of the time. So really- Absolutely. [1:16:55] Who's his lord and savior? Who's his pope? His pope is Netanyahu. His pope is Israel, [1:17:01] his religion is Israel. That's absolutely true. And it's not just Sean Hannity, it's almost everyone [1:17:06] who works in mainstream media, and almost every one of our politicians. I think, Anna, and we're gonna get [1:17:12] to that one case that I think is so revealing. But I think Israel has given the order to Trump and the [1:17:18] other politicians and the people in media, you're to attack the Catholic Church. Because the Catholic [1:17:24] Church is saying that Israel is wrong for attacking its neighbors. [1:17:28] Yeah, so the believers of Israelism, I just wanna be clear. I mean, Tucker called it a civil religion. [1:17:36] It's a cult. It's a cult. This is how people in a cult behave. So just be clear about that. People [1:17:43] who have been bamboozled and sucked in by a cult, turn on everything that they've known and loved [1:17:51] in favor of the cult. So just keep that in mind. Now, later in his show, Tucker Carlson also talked [1:17:58] about how those who refuse to adhere to Israelism end up becoming Trump's enemies, right? [1:18:07] So I wanna go to C5, and this will give you a sense of why Trump's coalition is dwindling. [1:18:15] So the president's problem with Pope Leo probably has nothing to do with Pope Leo's views on crime. [1:18:22] Problem is that Pope Leo criticized this war with Iran, which was waged in partnership with Israel [1:18:30] on behalf of Israel at the instigation of Israel. And he criticized that, that's his problem. [1:18:36] So did Marjorie Taylor Greene and Thomas Massey. Thomas Massey made the mistake of criticizing [1:18:40] Israel's lobby in the United States, AIPAC. That was his sin. Marjorie Taylor Greene didn't say a lot [1:18:45] about AIPAC, but wasn't enthusiastic about waging wars on Israel. She got attacked too. [1:18:51] That's the only thing all three of them have in common. Thomas Massey is a pretty strict [1:18:56] libertarian. Marjorie Taylor Greene is what we used to call a MAGA conservative. [1:19:00] Why did they break over Israel? Over Israel's connection to Jeffrey Epstein and over Israel's [1:19:06] push for the United States to join all kinds of foreign wars, particularly a war with Iran. [1:19:11] That's why they broke. That's the thing that split their relationship and got the president attacking her. [1:19:17] And Thomas Massey and the Pope. So what does that tell you? [1:19:21] It tells you what the religion is. The religion is Israelism. [1:19:25] So there you have yet another example. But Cenk, I'm curious which example you're referring [1:19:33] to because I've got one more, but I don't know if we have the same one. [1:19:36] So Trump administration stripped a Catholic charity of $11 million. And that is a declaration of war. [1:19:45] That's saying, okay, that's it. We're gonna attack the Catholic Church inside America in every way we [1:19:51] can. Because we're gonna serve Israel. And if Israel says the Pope is wrong for being for peace, [1:19:58] Jesus is wrong for being for peace. The Catholic Church is wrong for being for peace. Then it is [1:20:04] wrong because your God Almighty is Israel. And if you don't bow your head to Israel, [1:20:11] we will smite you as they have with Tucker and MTG and Tom Massey. [1:20:17] Look, going after the left wing is easy. You have 1000 excuses to go after the left wing. [1:20:21] But they're going after their most ardent supporters, the people who made Trump president [1:20:27] in the first place. Now, why would you go against Catholics when they voted for you in overwhelming [1:20:35] numbers? Why would you go against your biggest supporters? Because you have been ordered by a [1:20:41] higher power, and that's Israel. So that's a stone cold fact. So Biden was a bitch who worked for Israel. [1:20:50] He's also a believer in Israelism. And Donald Trump is a bitch who works for Israel. But to them, [1:20:56] that's very sacrilegious talk. They're like, you can't say that. And by the way, again and again and [1:21:01] again, our mainstream media agrees with Trump and Biden. It is sacrilegious to say those things [1:21:09] about beloved sacred Israel. Well, Israel's not sacred. They're a foreign government who's been [1:21:15] robbing us blind and destroys every American opposed to it, whether they're on the left or the right. [1:21:21] And we're sick of getting destroyed in our own country. We need to fight back. And if you say to me, [1:21:27] hey, Jake, you're an atheist, which side are you on? Picking the Catholics here is the easiest thing [1:21:32] I've ever done in my life. You know why? Because they're actually Americans. And they actually [1:21:37] believe in their faith. And they're real people with real convictions. And they're not a foreign [1:21:43] government. I will never ever bow my head to a foreign government. And you'd have to be insane to do [1:21:50] that or bought by Israel, like almost every one of our politicians and media. [1:21:56] Well, 40 states in our great nation have unfortunately passed legislation adopting [1:22:03] the so-called IHRA definition of antisemitism. And there's a reason why that happens, [1:22:12] especially when you consider how vague the definition is and the examples that are provided [1:22:18] of what is considered antisemitic. In fact, Tucker delves into that in the next clip. But before we [1:22:23] watch that, I wanna remind you all that previously, progressive lawmaker Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez [1:22:30] voted in favor of adopting this definition of antisemitism. Take a look. [1:22:34] The IHRA definition of antisemitism, do you know what it is? It's on their website, [1:22:39] it's worth looking at. Rhetorical, rhetorical meaning talking, words, speech, formerly protected, [1:22:45] no longer. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of antisemitism are directed toward Jewish or [1:22:52] non-Jewish individuals and or their property toward Jewish community institutions and religious [1:22:57] facilities. Wait a second. So antisemitism is not necessarily hatred of Jews, and it can be [1:23:04] expressed toward non-Jews. So you don't have to hate Jews, and you don't have to express or have [1:23:10] these perceptions, these feelings toward Jews. You can be non-Jews too. What is this? Well, the people [1:23:18] who wrote it at the IHRA probably anticipated this would be confusing to you. So they gave 11 examples [1:23:27] of what antisemitism is, just so you know. How do I know if I'm being antisemitic? Well, here are 11 [1:23:31] examples. Of those 11 examples, and we did the math, two-thirds are criticism of Israel, [1:23:41] the state of Israel. There are a lot of Jews who are critical of Israel. [1:23:47] Does that mean they're anti-Semites, Cenk? Yeah, this is absurd. [1:23:50] So why do you not protect Jews under definition of antisemitism? Well, because you have people [1:23:57] like Bernie Sanders and Glenn Greenwald, Dave Smith, etc., and they're against Israel. So they don't [1:24:05] care that they're Jewish. They don't care about Jews at all. They're like, if you're criticizing Israel, [1:24:11] we're not gonna protect you, we're gonna do the opposite. We're gonna bash you and deride you all [1:24:16] you want. But why include non-Jews in a definition of antisemitism? Because Lindsey Graham, [1:24:21] Cory Booker, Joe Biden, Donald Trump are not Jewish, but they serve Israel. [1:24:26] So you have to protect the Gentiles who also are part of the religion of Israelism. So those 11 things, [1:24:34] I've read them, we've discussed them on the show before, preposterous. Any slight criticism of [1:24:41] Israel is considered antisemitic and means that that's it. American law now says in nearly 40 states [1:24:49] that if you criticize Israel in that way, you will lose government contracts. You will lose your [1:24:54] livelihood and your life will be destroyed for not bowing to the higher power of Israel. [1:25:00] I mean, if this isn't sacrilegious, I don't know what is. There is definitely a concerted effort to [1:25:10] increase the surveillance state and go after Americans for wrong think. And nothing makes [1:25:16] that clearer than the story that we have for you coming up next after the break. Don't miss it, [1:25:20] we'll be right back. All right, let's go to YouTube members. [1:25:36] DD Wood M says, can't wait to vote out Fetterman. Here, here, Sundog writes in, vote out APAC Dems, [1:25:43] every single one of them, not another dollar.com, sign the pledge, do your homework. Actually, [1:25:49] you don't need much homework unless you're representative or senator is named Bernie Sanders, [1:25:56] Ro Khanna, Chris Van Hollen. I mean, to vote out all the incumbents, 94% of them take money from APAC [1:26:04] and or the Israeli lobby and serve them loyally. They're all devout followers of Israelism. [1:26:11] Yax 1777 says, Anna and Jen, keep your heads up, keep fighting and stand up for the truth. [1:26:19] God praises people who speak the truth. Well, thank you, brother, appreciate it. [1:26:23] David Todd says, Pete wears a tiny little shock collar. I think everyone knows what I mean, [1:26:28] and Bibi holds the buzzer. Bibi to you, his lord and saver to Pete Hegseth. On Twitch, [1:26:38] Baxter's Revenge says, cuck gris. That sounds about right, they're all cucks too. [1:26:44] Remember when they kept giving standing ovations to Netanyahu earlier, like Bibi. [1:26:51] They all groveled like pathetic little dogs. Almost all the Democrats and 100% of the Republicans. [1:26:57] Octosquiddies, can someone explain to me how blocking the street ourselves opens up the [1:27:02] straight? Is this one where we destroy the village to save the village kind of thing? [1:27:05] Sorry, I don't get the war games. It punishes Iran, so they have an [1:27:09] incentive to end the war quicker. But yes, it double blocks the straight. [1:27:13] It makes the oil problem worse, but the stock market is the R word, so they don't understand [1:27:18] anything. Anyway, Progressive Entropy says TYT, above all other news. Love you all, [1:27:22] love you back, we'll be back. All right, back on TYT, Cenk and Anna with you guys. Everybody hit the [1:27:45] little red bell underneath the video, just helps you keep track of the show. [1:27:50] Check out our podcasting network if you can. Check out our 24 hour channels on Amazon Prime, [1:27:55] YouTube TV, Roku, Samsung, LG. All right, Anna, what's next? [1:28:00] We gotta talk about the surveillance state, something that many Americans are finally waking up to [1:28:06] because our own government would like to spy on us indiscriminately and I wanna tell you why. [1:28:12] Events we're watching now that are very confusing and those would include the president advocating [1:28:20] for re-upping FISA. Now, FISA, without getting too boring about it, is the law which has to be voted [1:28:29] on periodically by Congress that allows the US government to spy on Americans, to spy on them. [1:28:36] Now, the whole point of it is supposed to be to spy on foreigners who are threatening us, [1:28:39] but the nature of the technology being what it is, there are cases where [1:28:43] we pick up communications from Americans and in order to make that legal, [1:28:47] we need this thing called FISA. Tucker Carlson has become a lot more outspoken [1:28:55] in regard to what President Trump is up to and how his actions hurt the American people. In this case, [1:29:02] it has to do with mass surveillance of American citizens and allowing our government to spy on [1:29:08] us without ever having to obtain a warrant. So before we get into Tucker's comments about Trump [1:29:15] and the little flip flop that he engaged in when previously he spoke out against FISA, [1:29:21] Cenk, I'm curious what your two cents are. Yeah, two points I wanna make here after you give us facts, [1:29:26] which is the difference between Fox News Tucker Carlson and online Tucker Carlson and why that is. [1:29:32] And then I wanna talk about how Barack Obama and Donald Trump have the same exact policy. [1:29:41] And I don't know if you guys heard that in mainstream media, [1:29:45] people clarified that for you, and we'll tell you why they're both dead wrong. Go ahead, Anna. [1:29:51] So Glenn Greenwald did a fantastic write up about FISA, including providing historical context [1:29:58] in his sub stack. So I highly recommend you read the entire piece. However, I'll give you some [1:30:03] excerpts that I think are critical in understanding what FISA is. Now, despite running in 2024 by vowing to [1:30:10] kill FISA, based on his quite valid claim that spying powers had been abused against him, [1:30:17] meaning Trump for political ends in the 2016 presidential campaign, Trump on Monday demanded [1:30:22] that FISA be fully renewed yet again with no reforms, safeguards or limits of any kind. [1:30:31] And just to give you a sense of how nefarious FISA really is, there's a particular section you [1:30:36] should know about. Section 702 of FISA grants the NSA, the National Security Agency, the power to spy [1:30:44] on certain communications of American citizens without a warrant. So let's just briefly gloss [1:30:51] over the history. And this really is glossing over the history, but it's important for you [1:30:55] to know at least the biggest details, most important details here. Because after 9-11, [1:31:01] the Bush administration ordered the NSA to spy on the communications of American citizens without [1:31:07] warrants for the first time ever. This was the first time. And you have to understand the mindset [1:31:11] of the American people at the time. We had just suffered the absolute worst terror attack on US [1:31:17] soil. Thousands of Americans were killed. The World Trade Center was attacked. Towers come tumbling down. [1:31:24] I mean, people are terrified. And usually nefarious governments like to use, like to tap into that fear [1:31:32] in order to increase their own power. And that's what happened here. [1:31:35] So the Bush administration, not only did they go with the Patriot Act, but they also [1:31:41] expanded the surveillance powers that the government has on American citizens. [1:31:46] So how was the Bush administration allowed to get away with this? Because it's unconstitutional. [1:31:52] It flies in the face of unreasonable searches and seizures. Well, they claimed that the NSA would just [1:31:57] stop listening to stop listening to calls or reading messages if they were spying on a foreign national, [1:32:04] but that person was conversing with an American citizen. [1:32:08] So if they're, let's say, having a regular conversation, phone sex, for instance, [1:32:14] which happened in some cases, which the Bush administration was listening to, that's wrong. [1:32:19] You're not supposed to do it. But they did break that one rule of if it's an American citizen involved, [1:32:26] like don't listen anymore, right? So Bush Cheney in secret and in violation of the clear terms of the [1:32:34] law ordered the NSA to keep listening and keep reading even if they knew they were spying on [1:32:40] Americans without warrants. Warrantless eavesdropping on Americans is blatantly illegal and unconstitutional. [1:32:48] A core purpose of the Fourth Amendment is to require warrants before the government can spy on American [1:32:53] citizens. So rather than punish those who spied on Americans with no warrants, [1:32:59] writes Glenn Greenwald, Congress instead acted to retroactively legalize this warrantless domestic [1:33:06] spying in 2008 by enacting Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act. And so with that in mind, consider the [1:33:17] fact that Trump is now demanding that Congress renew it with no reforms whatsoever. And by the way, [1:33:24] you need to renew it every four years, so it's up for renewal as we speak. [1:33:29] Now, I wanna go to one more video from Tucker Carlson to really drive home how nefarious this [1:33:34] really is and how we have suffered as a result of this in the past. The President himself was a victim of [1:33:42] the misuse of these laws in his first term. They were used against him in what became a kind of [1:33:50] bureaucratic attempted coup against him that we call Russiagate. And so the President was [1:33:56] personally very sensitive on this question. He'd been the victim of the misuse of these laws. [1:34:01] And so he said many times, I'm not for that. I don't think Americans should be spied on by their own [1:34:06] government. I don't think you pay your taxes, today's tax day by the way, in order to be spied on by your [1:34:09] government when you've done nothing wrong. All of a sudden, the President is advocating for this new [1:34:17] law. He wants the Congress to allow the US government to spy on Americans. Why could that possibly be? [1:34:24] Well, there are a couple of clues. One comes from the documents unearthed and made public, [1:34:30] God bless him, by Ed Snowden some years ago that showed that NSA, the National Security Agency, [1:34:36] the largest of all of our spy agencies, turned over raw data to, can you guess, of the Israeli [1:34:43] government that included private information about Americans. So they sweep up all this information, [1:34:47] the comms, the communications of American citizens. And they just turn it all over without taking [1:34:53] private information about Americans, our citizens, they turn it all over to a foreign government and [1:34:58] it's intel service. So there you have it, our private information collected through FISA. [1:35:07] That's what allowed for the government to spy on us and collect all this personal data on us. [1:35:11] And then it was weirdly sent to the Israelis. I wonder why that happened, Cenk. So strange, [1:35:16] so strange. Now, right now, there is a pretty significant campaign to destroy the lives of [1:35:22] any American who dare question the US-Israeli alliance, which has been incredibly detrimental to [1:35:28] our country. And so, you have the Ellison's bragging about surveilling Americans to make [1:35:36] sure that everyone's on their best behavior. Larry Ellison literally said that on the record. [1:35:42] And is it because they wanna fight crime and they wanna make sure that we're not victims of terrorism? [1:35:47] Or is it that they wanna punish Americans who aren't signing on to the Zionist program? [1:35:52] Yeah, so it's another story that's very telling of our system, again, in politics and media. [1:35:59] So collecting our private information for the US government to use is already abominable and [1:36:07] obviously unconstitutional. But then they give it over to Israel, so what? Well, what are they gonna [1:36:11] do with it? Let me guess, blackmail, of course, of course. No, you're not allowed to say it. You're not [1:36:16] allowed to, because Israel is sacred to all the people in power in this country. Now, when I say all, [1:36:22] do I mean all? Absolutely. So Barack Obama ran against George Bush's warrantless wiretapping [1:36:29] program, right? And he said, well, I'm not gonna do that. I can't believe he spied in on innocent [1:36:34] Americans. Barack Obama was a giant liar. He got into office and they actually started to vote on it. [1:36:39] And it looked like it was gonna pass. Hey, you can't do this warrantless wiretapping. Obama calls [1:36:45] Pelosi and says, hey, remember, I'm a huge liar and I never meant anything I said in the campaign. [1:36:51] So I want you to make sure that we continue the wiretapping. Vote yes on FISA. And Pelosi worked [1:36:59] the lines and did what she does and made sure there was enough Democratic votes to continue [1:37:05] this hideous unconstitutional program. By the way, mainstream media then lauded Nancy Pelosi. [1:37:12] Pelosi maintains FISA, great job by the master legislator. They all pretended they were against this. [1:37:19] Pelosi did, Obama did, Trump did. No matter who you vote for, you always get Israel. [1:37:24] And then when you say that to the press, they're like, how dare you? Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. Spare [1:37:30] me your BS. Now that brings me back to Fox News version of Tucker Carlson versus online media version [1:37:38] of Tucker Carlson. So when he was on Fox News, do you remember the stories he used to do? He didn't do [1:37:41] any substantive stories like this on FISA or wars. If he did, he was in the beginning in the in favor [1:37:48] of the Iraq war, etc. That was before he was on Fox News. He would do stories about M&Ms. You remember [1:37:55] that? Yes. And how they're gonna make you drink Starbucks coffee every day if the Democrats won. [1:38:01] Embarrassing. No, you know why? Because mainstream media doesn't want you talking about substance. [1:38:08] That would be greatly damaging to their beloved Israel, but also all of their donors. [1:38:13] To the defense industry, the oil industry, etc. So they make you do culture wars. [1:38:19] So everyone on Fox News is doing culture wars. Why? Because that divides us. [1:38:24] Now Tucker's freed of the chains of mainstream media. And now all of a sudden, [1:38:29] he's doing substance. And he's doing really good stories. And anyone who comes to the right side, [1:38:35] on any given issue, I'm very happy to have them there, okay? So on these issues, he's doing wonderful, [1:38:41] correct stories about, yeah, it is abuse of American citizens' rights to invade their privacy like this. [1:38:48] It's deeply unconstitutional and both parties do it. You know who's been saying that for the last 15, [1:38:53] 20 years? We have, all of us on the left have. So it's good to have our brothers and sisters on the [1:39:00] right wing. Join us in that fight, that fight against the establishment that is evil and anti-American [1:39:07] and serves a different country. Ricky Clay in our member section makes a pretty devastating [1:39:13] point that I want to end the segment on. He says, they wanna spy on us, but they're protecting [1:39:20] pedophiles. Pretty devastating and true, pretty devastating and true. [1:39:25] So that's such a great point. I'm glad you read that from our members. I love doing the show with [1:39:29] members. You guys are so smart, and a thousand times better than any so-called reporter. [1:39:33] Okay, guys, think about it. They have the video, very, very, very likely the videos of Epstein, [1:39:41] and that they don't share. That they said, no, no, no, no, no, no, all those guys were for Israel, [1:39:47] shush, shush, shush. Every deal that Epstein did was for Israel, shush, shush, shush. [1:39:52] But you, if you're gonna oppose Israel, you're an average American, spy on him. Get information on him. [1:39:59] We need that information. So how much did they use from the Epstein blackmail? [1:40:04] But, no, beloved Israel would never use blackmail. Come on, man, get the F out of here. [1:40:12] This country has been controlling, this tiny little country. Do you know what the closest country [1:40:16] to Israel is in population? I'm not joking, it's Papua New Guinea. Imagine if we were spying on [1:40:22] Americans for Papua New Guinea. Imagine if we invaded like half of the Pacific for Papua New Guinea, [1:40:28] and we spent $8 trillion on those wars. And Papua New Guinea is like, [1:40:34] unlike Israel, provides something critical and vital, coffee. Okay, so I mean, what do we get from [1:40:42] Israel? Intel that's always inaccurate and meant to go to us into fighting their wars. No, thank you. [1:40:50] No, thank you. Anyway, we gotta take our last break, Cenk. So let's do that. And when we come back, [1:40:55] let's have a little bit of fun, okay? Because out of all the people that are worthy of attack, [1:41:01] verbally, of course, Ben Shapiro has chosen to go after Theo Vaughn. We'll be right back. [1:41:07] They wanna make you drink Starbucks every day from now until forever. [1:41:11] It's true, remember Mondays are coming up on next Monday. You guys are gonna get the call in, [1:41:26] it's gonna be fun. Don Dada Dragon says, the finder of lost children. Pete knows a little [1:41:30] something about that, 168 schoolgirls. No, no, don't even do that. That's ouch, ouch. [1:41:38] Yeah, Pete Hegseth, murderer of children, telling us about how we should listen to [1:41:45] the Prophet Samuel Jackson. What a blithering idiot. Winston Smith says, you don't know what a [1:41:50] candidate's true ethics are until they're elected. See Fetterman in cinema. I hear you, brother, I hear you. [1:41:55] But the next person that betrays us is gonna pay a significant political price. [1:42:02] Eclectic rights, and it would be bad enough if the unitary executive meant that Trump gets to [1:42:06] decide everything. Instead, we have a unitary executive where Israel gets the final say on [1:42:10] everything. Yeah, obviously. Okay, as most prophets says, if the stock market believes Trump is being [1:42:16] honest, the stock market is stupid. Well, of course, the stock market's stupid. Why do you think [1:42:21] there's those giant crashes in 2000, 2008? They're like, bye, bye, bye. No, it was a house of cards. [1:42:29] I want my bonus. Eddie Jamison says, the Iranians are 100 times smarter than us. I'm so embarrassed [1:42:35] to be an American right now. They're running circles around the Trump regime strategically. [1:42:41] Yeah, but it's not that we're stupid. It's that we have to follow orders of Israel, [1:42:46] no matter how much it hurts us. Velvet X here says, New York voter here can't [1:42:50] wait to vote Gillibrand and Schumer out. Trying to spread the word as much as possible. Our local [1:42:54] representative is also useless. He's got three people primary him, can't wait for that one either. [1:42:59] Yeah, they're all useless. Richie Torres is in New York and he serves Israel loyally. [1:43:05] All right, I'm out of time, we'll be back. Back on TYT, Jane Cananda with you guys, [1:43:31] the online news network. One quick super chat, Abdullah Siraj asked, any news on Tom [1:43:36] Artyom Alexandrovich? No, he's an Israeli. He's above the law. Laws do not apply to Israelis in America. [1:43:43] They could just go to Israel. We'll let them go. We won't ask for their return. [1:43:47] You could do almost anything and just run to Israel and our government won't even ask for [1:43:52] you to come back. That's how you know you're ruled among the thousand other facts. Okay, [1:43:58] Anna, what's next? Well, apparently, Ben Shapiro's latest target is Theo Vaughn, [1:44:05] a comedian who seems to have a problem with innocent people getting slaughtered. [1:44:10] So let's hear Shapiro out. Listen, [1:44:14] maybe the vice president thinks he has to kiss Theo Vaughn's half [1:44:16] in order to keep him in the coalition. And that's his political calculation. [1:44:19] I think it's a bad political calculation. Ben Shapiro repeatedly called the comedian [1:44:26] Theo Vaughn the R word on his program yesterday. And you won't be surprised to find out that [1:44:34] just a few weeks ago, Vaughn went viral for being critical of Israel. So [1:44:41] I think it's fair to connect the two incidents. [1:44:44] Now, before I give you the details, Cenk, your two cents. [1:44:47] What I found to be interesting is we all criticize politicians. There's nothing wrong [1:44:50] with that. In fact, you should if you're a part of media. [1:44:52] But the way that he was scolding JD Vance, and almost like warning him, if you know what's good for [1:44:59] you, you won't support Theo Vaughn or Tucker Carlson. You'll only support pro-Israeli shows. [1:45:06] I mean, the arrogance, but to be fair to Ben Shapiro, he might know things we don't know about [1:45:12] how politicians in America do not have a choice. They must bow their heads to Israel. And it's [1:45:17] driving him crazy that other people in media no longer are. Tell us about it, Anna. [1:45:22] So before I get to Ben Shapiro's statements, I think it's important for you to know the context [1:45:27] and what Theo Vaughn had to say about Israel and Israeli terrorists. So let's take a quick look at [1:45:34] that first. What do you think is gonna happen? You think we're gonna be okay? [1:45:39] I hope so. Of course, I don't know. Do you think about it? [1:45:42] I'm confused. I can't believe we went to this war. When we started bombing Iran, [1:45:46] I was like, this can't be true. And what about Lebanon now? [1:45:49] I know, Israel's invaded Lebanon. Yeah, yeah. And it's like, just stop it. What do you need? [1:45:56] Well, they're trying to, supposedly, they're trying to stop the terrorists. [1:46:01] Yeah, that's crazy though, if you're the terrorist. You know what I'm saying? [1:46:08] Like if you want to stop them, stand in front of the mirror and start there. [1:46:12] I agree with that statement wholeheartedly. Where is the lie? And rather than address [1:46:21] what Theo Vaughn had to say there, Ben Shapiro went out of his way to attack anyone who dare [1:46:27] say a favorable word about Theo Vaughn. So apparently Vice President JD Vance recently [1:46:32] stated that he enjoys Theo Vaughn's podcast. And Ben Shapiro was not happy about that. [1:46:38] That's very bad. So let's hear more of Shapiro's thoughts alongside [1:46:43] a piece of the viral clip that we mentioned earlier. Theo Vaughn is a low IQ conspiracist. [1:46:49] He has himself routinely propped up Candace Owens. Now, of course, Theo Vaughn's [1:46:53] half conspiracism doesn't end there. Of course, here he was recently with Joe Rogan spewing out [1:46:59] mind vomit. People are like, we'll look at the Democrats next time. It's like, [1:47:04] but it's all the same has been happening forever. They haven't been helping anybody forever. [1:47:09] They're letting politicians slurp on kids. All of our money goes to Israel and they're using it to [1:47:15] genocide people. It's like, everybody is scared out of their wits right now. It's like, [1:47:19] our religious leaders are afraid to speak out. It's a time where it's like, Satan is amongst us [1:47:25] and our religious leaders are talking about bull bull. It's just like, what is going? I don't know, [1:47:30] man. We gotta get you off of that depressant [1:47:31] son. You're losing your marbles. You think I am? Come hang out with us. [1:47:35] Just chill out. I'm here. [1:47:37] And Theo Vaughn is basically just a Bernie Sanders [1:47:40] leftist who does not like the censorious impulses of the left and engages in all the same conspiracy [1:47:46] theories. And of course, is good friends with Candace Owens and all the rest of it. [1:47:49] And that's the guy that the vice president thinks that everybody should listen to. [1:47:56] Smoking. Theo Vaughn is a Bernie Sanders leftist and is good friends with Candace Owens. [1:48:04] Now, homeboy thinks we're all stupid. It's amazing. It really is amazing. Cenk. [1:48:09] Yeah. And by the way, just to respond to what [1:48:12] Rogan said at the tail end of the Theo clip. No, Theo Vaughn is not crazy. He's not losing his mind. [1:48:19] It's not anything that he's taking. He's actually the most sober minded person on the show. [1:48:24] During that exchange. Just keeping it real. [1:48:26] Yeah. So no, Ben Shapiro doesn't think we're stupid. He thinks his audience is stupid. [1:48:31] True. And yeah, I totally agree with you. [1:48:33] I don't know why Rogan said that. Maybe because the line about Satan. I'm not a religious person, [1:48:39] so I don't get into that Satan stuff. But outside of that Theo Vaughn was spitting bars there. [1:48:44] He was 100% accurate. And so look, Israel, the gig is up, man. Everybody sees you. [1:48:51] I know you think you're hiding behind Jake Tapper and Trump and Obama and all those guys. [1:48:56] No, no, you can't hide behind their skirts. We see you, man. You are the terrorist. It's so obvious. [1:49:02] So you told me terrorism is killing innocent civilians. And Israel has the worst civilian kill [1:49:08] ratio of any terrorist group in the world, 83%. They kill 100 times the number of civilians [1:49:13] that Hamas did. So what's this absurd standard? No, they're obvious. If terrorism means anything at [1:49:19] all, and it's the definition we've been using, then Israel is the biggest terrorist organization [1:49:24] in the world. That's an empirical fact. Okay, so now, notice the two tricks that Shapiro is doing. [1:49:31] Same old tired Israeli tricks, smear by proxy. Theo Vaughn likes Candace Owens. J.D. Vance likes Theo [1:49:37] Vaughn. So J.D. Vance is unacceptable because of the Theo Vaughn and the Candace Owens. And that's [1:49:42] why they do this thing. And that's why they're doing it with Hassan as well. Hassan Piker said something [1:49:47] wrong. So then he's with Abdul Said and El Said in Michigan. And then he's with that and he's with that. [1:49:52] So you have to cancel any critic of Israel on the right or the left because we're playing [1:49:58] Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon with Israel's critics. By the way, Abdul El Said after campaigning with [1:50:03] Hassan Piker has now taken the lead in Michigan. So hashtag suck it, okay? The more people realize [1:50:10] you're against Israel, the higher your vote count goes up. So keep telling everybody, Ben, [1:50:14] you're doing us a tremendous favor. Last thing for now, that's the other thing, conspiracy theories. [1:50:21] So if you don't listen to whatever the US government and Israeli government identical, [1:50:26] say their propaganda, conspiracy theorists. I mean, what are you thinking that Israel [1:50:32] isn't doing self-defense? I mean, they had to take 53% of Gaza because they're our special ally. [1:50:38] And they have a right to exist. That's just they have a right to exist. They had to take Southern [1:50:42] Lebanon. See, only morons that work in national media or corrupt people that are our politicians [1:50:48] would believe anything that stupid. But Ben Shapiro goes, those are the conspiracy theories. [1:50:54] And you shouldn't believe any conspiracy theories. The jig is up, man. The jig, the gig, everything [1:50:59] is up, okay? Like we see all of your stupid tricks. So you could have Jake Tapper repeated on CNN as [1:51:06] well. It's not gonna make any goddamn difference. We see you. Go ahead, Ben. [1:51:11] Now, Shapiro wasn't done. He wanted to chastise JD Vance over a different association that Vance has. [1:51:18] And you're about to hear about it in this next clip. Take a look. [1:51:21] Listen, maybe the Vice President thinks he has to kiss Theo Vaughn's in order to keep him in [1:51:25] the coalition. And that's his political calculation. I think it's a bad political calculation. [1:51:29] There's no politician who is fully capable of just picking up a prior president's coalition and then [1:51:35] just carrying it forward. It didn't work for Hillary Clinton with Barack Obama. It's not gonna work for [1:51:39] JD Vance with Donald Trump. Just because Theo Vaughn and Joe Rogan back Trump doesn't mean [1:51:43] that they're gonna get behind Donald Trump. They're gonna get behind JD Vance. [1:51:47] The reality is that the Vice President's current coalitional strategy I think is deeply flawed. [1:51:52] It is hard for me to see how he doesn't shrink President Trump's coalition across the board. [1:51:57] But that's a political calculation. Maybe this is better than mine. It is certainly not a moral [1:52:01] calculation. And the same is true of the Vice President's consistent defense of Tucker's [1:52:06] disgusting demoralization up, which has been in continuous operation for years. [1:52:10] At this point, you have to feel a little bit bad for Vice President Vance. Tucker helped him become [1:52:14] Vice President. The VP appreciates it as he should. But now because of his connections to Tucker or [1:52:19] his desire to maintain Trump's coalition, a coalition that is broad and complex. He's been relegated to [1:52:25] placating the crazies, assuming he doesn't actually agree with them. Wait, Tucker Carlson is part of the [1:52:32] the crazies. Tucker Carlson is on a generational run right now because he's speaking truth. [1:52:38] He's informing people about what's really going on with our government. And man, does Ben Shapiro hate [1:52:44] it. Can we please get back to talking about the green Eminem and how they made her more sporty and [1:52:50] less sexy? That's the real story we should be focusing on, Cenk. Yeah, so did you hear what he said? [1:52:56] He said that Vance should abandon Trump's coalition that led to the victory because [1:53:04] only going towards Israel first will help you win an election? But wait a minute, [1:53:10] the Israel first shows like Shapiro's and Levin's are down to single digit viewers. [1:53:15] Nobody's watching them anymore. Tucker and Megyn Kelly are piling up millions and millions of views [1:53:21] and they're both now against Israel. So what kind of- Free market. [1:53:26] Yeah, but what kind of political calculation is that? No, he's not asking for the correct [1:53:30] political calculation. He's telling JD Vance, you better watch yourself. Remember, we're in charge. [1:53:37] It doesn't matter how popular Theo Vaughn or Tucker Carlson is. Doesn't matter how unpopular we are. [1:53:43] We're in charge, JD, and you'll do as you're told. He's basically telling him, [1:53:49] commit political Harry Carey on behalf of Israel. And so, yeah. [1:53:55] Sorry, Cenk, and you know what's so crazy? I know that there's this very strong effort to paint [1:54:01] JD Vance as a dove, as someone who would have handled all this foreign policy so, so differently. [1:54:07] But there's literally no indication of that, none, okay? There was the New York Times article that was [1:54:13] published recently showing that the Israelis had hoodwinked Trump into entering this war against Iran. [1:54:20] And someone from the administration leaked the information to Maggie Haberman over at the New [1:54:27] York Times. And the only person who came out looking kind of good in that article was JD Vance, [1:54:33] who purportedly pushed back against invading Iran or starting a war with Iran. [1:54:38] Now, I suspect, this is my speculation, that Vance was the one who leaked it [1:54:44] because he wants to paint himself as a dove. But there is no indication that he is a dove. [1:54:49] He's never pushed back against Trump's foreign policy. In every public appearance, [1:54:53] he's only doubled down or supported Trump's foreign policy. But that doesn't matter. [1:54:58] It's still not good enough for Ben Shapiro, who, if he were smart, would understand that much like [1:55:04] Donald Trump, JD Vance is bought and can be bought further. Nonetheless, this is what you'll hear from [1:55:10] Ben Shapiro. Yeah. So, Maggie Haberman also had to clarify, yes, in an earlier New York Times [1:55:16] story, they did report that actually JD Vance said to not do limited straits, but go in big. Oops. [1:55:25] Now, last thing I was gonna say earlier, Anna, is 57% of Republicans under the age of 50 [1:55:31] have a negative view of Israel. And obviously, by the next election, that'll be a bigger number, [1:55:36] not just because of the trend that's happening, but because those folks are gonna get older. [1:55:40] And some of the older folks that watch Fox News are not gonna be around in the next election. [1:55:45] So, even so, if it just held steady right now, it'd be political suicide to go against 57% of your [1:55:51] voters under the age of 50. And now for men under the age of 50, for the whole country, [1:55:57] not just Republicans, Israel is at a negative 47% approval. Negative 47, but Shapiro says walk the plank. [1:56:07] Okay, and to be fair, Israel did get Joe Biden and Kamala Harris to walk the plank for them. [1:56:12] And now they would like, and now Trump is walking the plank for them, [1:56:15] and they're demanding that JD Vance also walk the plank. [1:56:18] Kill off your own career to serve beloved sacred Israel. [1:56:22] And again, Jake, no matter how much JD Vance goes along with this devastating [1:56:28] foreign policy, and it's not only devastating for the human lives that are lost, [1:56:31] it's devastating for JD Vance's political future. But nonetheless, he goes along with it, [1:56:37] and it's still not enough for Ben Shapiro. Because a little later, [1:56:41] Shapiro accused Vance of being disloyal to Trump's foreign policy. Take a look. [1:56:47] I recognize that a lot of young voters don't love the policy that we have in the Middle East. [1:56:55] Okay, I understand that. I also know that we've secured the border. We've lowered housing prices [1:57:00] now for eight months in a row, and there's gonna be more to come beyond that. [1:57:04] We've made America energy dominant, which has lowered electricity costs and things like that. [1:57:08] We've made it so that we have the lowest murder rate in 127 years. Don't get disengaged because [1:57:14] you disagree with the administration on one topic. Get more involved. Make your voice heard even more. [1:57:20] That's how we ultimately take the country back. Back from home. So you disagree on around the [1:57:28] administration, that's when you have to sound off and take the country back. Back from home. [1:57:31] The current president is Donald Trump. The vice president is the guy talking. [1:57:36] If we're taking the country back from someone else, then what are we talking about? [1:57:39] Israel. We're talking about Israel. I don't know if JD Vance is talking about Israel. [1:57:46] But it appears that everyone is under the impression that JD Vance is talking about Israel. [1:57:50] I don't believe him. I don't believe that he actually means it. But yeah, [1:57:54] we need to take our country back from Israel, Ben. We live in the United States of America, not Israel. [1:58:01] You whine about every dollar our government spends on the American people. We have so much debt, [1:58:09] while you cheerlead endless military aid to the country you actually give a damn about. [1:58:14] And yeah, that's Israel. Yeah. [1:58:17] Back to you, Cenk. Yeah, so they've set up all these talking points and tropes and landmines [1:58:24] to protect Israel all over media, right? So they say, well, if you say that Israel controls [1:58:30] America because they have given money to 94% of our Congress, they're like, that's a trope. [1:58:37] You're saying Jews? Well, I didn't say Jews control Congress. Bernie Sanders just introduced [1:58:43] the legislation to end sending more bombs and money to Israel. You said it, I didn't say it. [1:58:50] And then I'm saying Israel, a foreign country, their lobby gave to Congress and they control them. [1:58:57] That's obvious, it's logical. Same thing with Big Form and all the other lobbies. [1:59:00] And they go, no, no, you're not allowed to say. See, those days of you're not allowed to say it, [1:59:05] that the Jake Tappers, the Gestapo on television used to do in the Dana Bashes. [1:59:11] For example, is our government occupied? Of course it's occupied. But it's again, [1:59:14] not just occupied by Israel. Big Form normally spends even more. It's obviously occupied by the [1:59:19] big truck companies who are robbing us blind. They've stolen probably in the order of trillions [1:59:25] from us now, and so is Israel. $8 trillion on the global war on Israel's neighbors, right? [1:59:31] But if you go to actually free your country from all of the lobbyists, [1:59:36] irrespective of religion or nationhood, most of the lobbyists are corporate lobbyists. [1:59:41] The Dana Bash and Jake Tapper and everybody on cable news will come out, [1:59:45] not just Fox News. CNN, New York Times, Washington Post will come out and go anti-Semite, [1:59:50] Nazi. Because they say that Israel's occupying our government, that's a Nazi talking. [1:59:55] What? You just made that up. You just made it up. [1:59:59] So no, no, we don't give a flying F anymore about all of your stupid Israeli propaganda. [2:00:06] This country is obviously controlled by all the lobbyists, including the Israeli lobby. [2:00:13] And our politicians work for them like dogs. They've robbed us of over $320 billion, [2:00:19] let alone the $8 trillion. We keep borrowing more money from China. [2:00:24] Our kids and our grandkids have to pay interest on that money, and we hand it over to Israel. [2:00:30] And now we're going to murder Iranians and Lebanese people because Israel wants more [2:00:35] land and more territory. And they say we have to support their fascism. No, we don't. [2:00:40] They're a disgusting foreign government that is acting in a terroristic, fascistic way. [2:00:47] And America doesn't do fascism. We fight fascism. So no thank you. Please get the F out of our country. [2:00:56] And if you're offended by that, good. I'm so glad you're offended. I want to deeply offend [2:01:02] everyone who says that America must bow and kneel to Israel. God, I hope you're offended. I hope you're [2:01:10] a thousand times more offended than you have ever been. We are. [2:01:13] I am not going to bow, and America is not going to bow to Israel. We're sick of our disgusting [2:01:18] politicians serving you and not us. I hope they all get wiped out politically. All of them, [2:01:25] all the corrupt sons of bitches. And I hope all of mainstream media goes up in flames. [2:01:30] They're not objective at all. I hope they're all bankrupt. They're not objective at all. [2:01:35] The idea that they're objective is the biggest lie of all. They're deeply corrupt and biased, [2:01:41] and serve a different government, and serve all the lobbies. Young Turks. [2:01:45] Hey guys, welcome to The Revolution. So this is the show where we try to make a difference, [2:05:14] and unite folks to make that difference. So I'm gonna need your help here. We're also, [2:05:19] you're basically asking for you guys to crowdsource the revolution. So earlier in today's programming on [2:05:27] The Young Turks, we told you about the seven betrayers. The seven Democrats who betrayed 80% of their [2:05:33] voters, and voted to give Israel 12,000 bombs and armed bulldozers to murder more Palestinian, [2:05:41] Lebanese, and Persians. And so that's Chris Coons, Richard Blumenthal, Chuck Schumer, John Fetterman, [2:05:47] Catherine Cortez Masto, Jackie Rosen, and Kirsten Gillibrand. Now I could do this on my own, [2:05:51] but I don't want to. I wanna do it with you guys. I want you to look up, so you see when their elections [2:05:57] are up, right? I want you to look up to see if Chris Coons, for example, has a primary opponent, [2:06:05] and when their primary is, and let us know, and maybe we can go help that brother, right? [2:06:10] And I wanna find out who the potential primary opponents are, if any, of the rest. So the 2031, [2:06:17] Rosen and Gillibrand are too far out, right? But Chuck Schumer, obviously, AOC could be a competitor [2:06:23] there. I don't know if anyone else has even discussed it. Blumenthal and Fetterman as well. [2:06:27] So we're gonna do the show here. I'm gonna do other elements for you guys. I got an interview [2:06:32] coming up. But I want you to write in if you've found that information. And then we'll try to [2:06:37] broadcast it out there and try to help anyone trying to defeat these Democrats who have raised their hand [2:06:43] and say, I will never vote for Democratic voters. I'll only vote for beloved Israel. That's what they said. [2:06:50] They betrayed 80% of their voters, 80% in order to serve their donors. And each one of them has [2:06:57] taken millions of dollars from the Israeli lobby. And we're not like the morons in mainstream media. [2:07:02] We know that means they were legally bribed by Israel to serve Israel. And they have loyally [2:07:08] served Israel instead of their voters. So we're looking to politically destroy them. It would be [2:07:14] an absolute outrage if any of them got reelected. [2:07:17] In Delaware, Delaware is a deep blue state. Why on God's green earth would you vote for a conservative [2:07:23] like Chris Coons? Chris Coons is one of the most conservative Democrats in the country. [2:07:27] It's not like he's in a conservative state. He voted to make sure that we didn't get a higher [2:07:33] minimum wage. Made sure your wages are lower so you work for corporations and only for corporations [2:07:39] who coincidentally also give him millions of dollars. It's not a coincidence. Chris Coons is a [2:07:44] prostitute who works for the donor class. He should definitely make sure that he loses in Delaware. [2:07:50] We'll see if we have enough time in terms of being able to help a campaign against them. [2:07:55] But you guys will tell me about that in a minute. Now, there's one person that could make a difference [2:08:00] in these elections and she has chosen to go in a curious route. So let me tell you about that story. [2:08:06] Today, AOC was asked by DropSite News about whether she has endorsed Shoykat Chokrabarty yet. [2:08:14] Shoykat was her former chief of staff and her campaign manager when she pulled off the miraculous [2:08:20] victory against Joe Crowley. Shoykat was also the head of the Justice Democrats. He also just knocked [2:08:26] out Nancy Pelosi. Nancy Pelosi retired when Shoykat was running against him. And then a bunch of other [2:08:32] establishment Democrats jumped in. And in fact, his main opponent, Scott Weiner, is one of the most [2:08:39] pro-Israel legislators in all of California. He has pushed for legislation that would say that you [2:08:48] cannot criticize Israel in our schools. And if you do, there will be consequences. He has pushed for [2:08:54] firing people who lead universities if they don't ban the boycott and divestment and sanction movement [2:09:04] on college campuses. Saying if you don't take America's rights away so that they serve Israel [2:09:10] loyally, that he's gonna get you fired. So it's not like this is a hard question as to who progressives [2:09:16] should support, who populists should support, who any right-minded Democrats should support. [2:09:21] Obviously, Shoykat, but for us, that's relatively easy. For AOC, that has to be the simplest question [2:09:26] in the world. Here's the person who helped get you into Congress and was your chief of staff. [2:09:30] So this one's gonna be super easy for her to answer. Let's watch. [2:09:33] Shoykat, obviously, your chief of staff, former chief of staff is running in San Francisco. [2:09:38] That primary's in June, obviously. Yeah, yeah. [2:09:40] You're not gonna have a reporter tell you to endorse, but is that something you're, [2:09:44] are you at least monitoring the race, looking at it? I mean, what's your stance on Shoykat? [2:09:48] Yeah, I think for me overall, it's more about, I'm trying to think about [2:09:55] the role that I am trying to play more broadly in these things. [2:10:02] We've got 435 seats in Congress, right? And there is this kind of moment where it's like, [2:10:11] and not just with this race, but with any race. Once you go in, then it's like, what about this? [2:10:15] What about this? What about this one? And I'm one person with a pretty amazing crack, [2:10:22] but also lean team. And so we're thinking about kind of like how much of myself I'm pouring into [2:10:28] this and how much of myself we want to make sure that we're pouring into the task at hand, [2:10:34] like what we've got going on here. But I think that what I will say is that I think that [2:10:40] the primary environment that we're seeing is really great. I think that [2:10:47] progressives have already notched some really impressive victories this early into the primary [2:10:54] season. And we've got another, what, six or seven months of it to go. And I'm looking forward to [2:10:59] having a lot of new colleagues here in November that we can, it's been a lonely, really lonely road [2:11:07] for the first eight years. And I'm really hoping that it'll be a little less lonely in November. [2:11:11] My boss has a book about that. [2:11:12] What was that? That was a Kamala Harris-like word salad. [2:11:20] Okay, I'm going to try to decipher it. This is about the role I'm trying to play more broadly. [2:11:26] What does that mean? I have no idea what that means. How much, she said, this is the moment. [2:11:36] Okay, this is the moment to decide. Yeah, I agree. Shortcut, she said, we got like another six months. [2:11:40] No, no, no, no. Shortcut's in a primary, that's on June 2nd. So that's a little over a month away. [2:11:47] We don't have a lot of time. What are you waiting for? She said, okay, I have a crack team. Well, [2:11:53] maybe that's the one. Look, I'm not insulting her team. I'm not even insulting her. I just don't [2:11:56] understand. Does your crack team have to work for six, eight months to endorse your former chief of [2:12:04] staff? Don't you know who your former chief of staff is? You got to do a lot of research about that? [2:12:10] She said, there's 435 seats. Yeah, but we're not asking about 434 other seats. [2:12:16] We're asking about your former chief of staff and the campaign manager that got. Look, [2:12:23] Shortcut didn't unilaterally get her that position. I've said this a million times. [2:12:27] AOC was brilliant in that campaign. She did an amazing job. She deserves a world of credit [2:12:32] for winning that race. But Shortcut also deserves credit. And I mean, if you don't know, [2:12:37] Shortcut was running JD, he went all in and went on AOC's campaign, was absolutely pivotal in getting [2:12:44] her a win. Now, by the way, guys, I want you to understand something. Our pack, rebellion pack, [2:12:49] our meaning the one I'm running with Cara Eastman has endorsed Shortcut. But he's not gonna be happy [2:12:55] about this segment. He doesn't want me talking about this with sad day for him. This is my show and [2:12:59] I'll do whatever I want, okay? So he's running for office. He's a really nice, good guy, way nicer than [2:13:07] me. And he's trying to get along with everyone. And of course, he'd like everybody's endorsement. [2:13:11] He doesn't wanna antagonize anybody. But I don't mind antagonizing people because I don't know what [2:13:16] the hell you're talking about. Why does it take a year for you to figure out if you should endorse [2:13:19] your chief of staff? That's not one of 435. Does loyalty mean anything? Is that like an outdated, [2:13:27] dirty word or something? For me, it does mean something. [2:13:30] So, and then I guess out of all of that, the thing that bothered me the most is when she said, [2:13:37] I have to decide how much of myself I'm pouring into this. I'm sorry, are we inconveniencing you? [2:13:46] I know how much of himself Shortcut poured into your campaign, 100%. And I think it made all the [2:13:52] difference. And a lot of people think it made all the difference. But now when he needs the help, [2:13:58] well, how much of herself is she gonna pour into him? This looks terrible, man. So all right, look, [2:14:08] at the end of the day, policy and getting it passed is the only thing that matters, [2:14:13] eyes on the prize. So I'm not against AOC. AOC is on our side on the policies, way more than the [2:14:20] average person in Congress. She has these character traits that are [2:14:25] bizarre, inexplicable. And she apparently doesn't think loyalty is anything that matters at all. [2:14:34] She doesn't think it's a value. I can't believe she hasn't endorsed him yet. [2:14:40] Sorry, shortcut, sorry. He's a good guy. He doesn't want anybody saying this. But [2:14:46] this is insane. It isn't about shortcut. It's about what are we doing as a movement? [2:14:51] You know what Justice Democrats were supposed to do when they went in? [2:14:53] We had a whole plan. The plan was that once you get in, you open the gates and that you support [2:15:02] other people running against incumbents. Because this wasn't about your career. [2:15:08] It was about getting more progressives into Congress. Because the establishment is never [2:15:15] going to do what we want. So we have to defeat the establishment. They got in and they're like, [2:15:21] 435 races this moment, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And where's the fiery support for the [2:15:28] people behind you? You're supposed to put up a ladder so they could climb up, not take the ladder away. [2:15:36] Or not take six months to decide if you should endorse one of the principal architects of the [2:15:42] progressive movement. That is not a complicated question at all. Okay, last thing, guys. Look, [2:15:49] to the point of me not being against AOC at all. What are you doing? The New York Senate seat is [2:15:55] right there. Just take it. Chuck Schumer voted to give Israel more bombs today. Chuck Schumer is like [2:16:03] 900 years old, always votes for the corporate lobby, always votes for Israel, always votes against [2:16:10] Democrats. AOC would win that New York Senate seat in a cakewalk. Endorse shortcut, then endorse yourself [2:16:17] and run against Schumer. Are you so worried about angering the establishment? Are you still looking [2:16:24] for credit from them that you're not going to do something pivotal for the movement? Because this New [2:16:32] York Senate seat not only would get rid of a so-called leader that has been leading us in the wrong direction [2:16:38] for decades. That would be a huge win in and of itself if anyone did it. But then it puts one of the more [2:16:44] progressive members of Congress into the Senate. It's a double win and it helps her career. [2:16:50] Where's the question? For God's sake, do things that are really simple. [2:16:55] We're not against you. We just want you to do the things that you said you'd do. [2:16:59] It's not too much of an ask. And if you hate me for saying it, good, no problem at all. [2:17:04] Because for me, this isn't about ego. You can hate me and a thousand other people can hate me. [2:17:09] But we've got to get wins. And if you don't have people like shortcut inside Congress, [2:17:14] and if you don't have people like AOC inside the Senate, we're never gonna have enough people [2:17:19] and enough power to get our policies passed. And that's the point is the policies affect Americans, [2:17:28] voters, the average guy out there. And that's who we're all supposed to serve, not ourselves. [2:17:33] Okay, I'll come back to your comments on Coons and others, but let me do the interview that [2:17:40] I promised you guys. All right, joining us now is Tom Joseph, founder of America's Main Street Party. [2:17:48] Tom, welcome to the show. [2:17:49] Okay, thanks for having me on your show. [2:17:51] Yeah, no problem. So Tom, tell us what America's Main Street Party is. [2:17:55] Well, it's not what you would typically think of as a political party. I like to describe it as a tech [2:18:02] company wrapped inside a political party. It's now aiming to disrupt the system. [2:18:07] So tell me, look, that's what this show is about. So tell me how you're aiming to disrupt the system. [2:18:14] Well, one of the things I determined that to create relaunch a third party, [2:18:21] an ideological third party, I think is a losing idea. And the whole aspect of uncompetitive [2:18:29] gerrymandered districts were something that always fascinated me as a business person as to why [2:18:34] nobody could figure out how to penetrate them. And to make a long story short, I found a loophole [2:18:40] that allows us to repurpose the political committee system in a way that produces a free and equal [2:18:46] nominating process, a multi-round competition that's moneyless, that would elevate a candidate [2:18:51] that would win an adjourned election over an incumbent Republican or Democrat in gerrymandered districts. [2:18:59] And this really gets down to math and statistics in the bell curve. And that if money distorts [2:19:05] representation, the absence of money in the nominating process should return a candidate at the center [2:19:11] of that bell curve, the more popular candidate, that candidate should win in general election. [2:19:15] So Tom, you're preaching to the choir here. I can't wait to get money out of politics. [2:19:22] It's the cancer that has destroyed our democracy. So but how do you get it out? [2:19:27] Well, and through an app and a portal. I mean, think about this. We don't do this anywhere else. [2:19:35] And this whole thing kind of started as I made a joke that we did a better job of picking the next [2:19:42] American Idol than the next representative Congress. And it just made me think about, [2:19:46] is there a way to kind of create an insulated contest that would resolve the best singer, [2:19:52] the best athlete, the best politician? And why not? Absolutely. I mean, the systems have been rigged, [2:19:58] the reelect really terrible representatives and people that aren't working for the people. [2:20:04] They're working for big money. And the only way you can change that is to put a system in place where [2:20:11] people's votes actually matter. And so if you have a multi round competition, if you look at way voting [2:20:17] systems can work to elevate the true voice of the district, you can do this. And because I found a way [2:20:23] to do it that requires no news laws, there's really no way to stop it. Okay, but Tom, [2:20:29] help me out. So give me more on it, give me the details. So you say you've got the system, [2:20:33] what is that system? It's an app. I mean, to be fair, [2:20:38] it's hard to envision it until you see it. But we do have a video prototype on the website. [2:20:44] We will soon have a beta release of the app, but it's a competition. It's a place where [2:20:50] anybody can enter the contest for free, a portal where they can put their campaign, [2:20:55] their slogans, their buttons, their policy positions, a public service announcement. [2:21:00] But the idea is that every potential nominee running in this contest would have an equal [2:21:05] number of characters or pixels or time on a video. It would be an equal platform. They all [2:21:10] could have their campaigns there in a way too for the constituents to sort through the nominees and [2:21:15] endorse those in mass that share their values. I'm working with college students to develop this. [2:21:24] One of the ideas they came up with this idea of a issue indicator where the candidates to get into [2:21:28] the contest would have to weigh in on seven positions that would be coming before Congress. And [2:21:33] the constituents get to match up against those and basically approval vote those into a top 20, [2:21:39] then a top 10, and then a top four. And then think about doing like a virtual town hall and [2:21:45] a way to determine the top two and then have a final debate. But something that resembles more [2:21:49] like the Olympics and less like this mess that we have now. [2:21:53] So people at least get to sample and basically shop for politicians there. [2:21:59] They get to see, okay, what are their views on the seven policy issues? I can see a video of them, [2:22:06] I can see their bio. Okay, I get that part. So then do they vote on the app or is it just information? [2:22:11] No, no, no, they vote. This is a contest. This is a way, again, think about American Idol, [2:22:17] but you only get to vote once. We're gonna use secure mobile voting technology. One of the things [2:22:22] that surprised me is that I was expecting to get to spend millions to build technology [2:22:27] to deliver secure mobile voting. But it is there, it's implemented, it's being used in states. So [2:22:32] things have been done for the military years ago to make sure that our service members could vote [2:22:36] overseas on submarines, wherever. So we have the technology to do this. And it's a nominating system, [2:22:44] not election system. So it's a sandbox for us to experiment on a way for the people to elevate [2:22:51] a candidate. And think about it, if the people in the district have taken weeks to choose and [2:22:57] raise a nominee and one person wins that contest, who are you gonna vote for in the general election? [2:23:02] The person the people chose were the person that the party chose that is backed by super donors. [2:23:09] They probably don't even live in the district. And we always complain about these representatives [2:23:14] putting party before the people. And this system would guarantee that the people's voice matters. [2:23:20] There are rules within the party that would not allow any representatives to accumulate war chest. [2:23:26] They have to come back, go through the contest again with no money. So as a result of winning [2:23:33] the contest, getting super PAC backing in the general election, they agree to empty their account [2:23:40] at the end of the general election cycle and start from scratch again. That's how you restore accountability. [2:23:44] So if they're get basically selected by the or nominated by the app, does that mean that they're [2:23:53] running in the general election against the Democrat and the Republican? [2:23:56] Well, we're only targeting gerrymander districts. This is not a complete election. This is a strategic plan [2:24:05] to take out the two party system. To go run this system is favorable in gerrymander district. Quite frankly, [2:24:12] it probably won't work as well in a swing district or a naturally uncompetitive district. You want to [2:24:18] go into a district where there are opposition votes that are buried that you can swing like in a red [2:24:23] district to elect a pink non-affiliated conservative and not affiliated the party and do the opposite. [2:24:30] And a blue district is that you basically give voice to the opposition party that's been buried [2:24:35] through gerrymandering. So the art contest does that and they do it by weighing in on these issues. [2:24:41] They can at least get a few of their issues out of these representatives and push [2:24:45] the representation pink or baby blue. So we want to create two factions, not a third party, [2:24:52] two moneyless factions in Congress that aren't influenced by party wits. [2:24:58] That's how you break the bind of money. So let's say that this Main Street Party [2:25:03] works. And now you've got, let's say, 30 or 90 people in Congress that are part of the Main Street [2:25:12] Party. Are they just free to vote on their own? Is there going to be any kind of party leadership? [2:25:18] What happens then? I mean, we're really talking about restoring [2:25:22] the way Congress worked back in the 50s and 60s when you had liberal Republicans and conservative [2:25:28] Democrats and you had four factions within Congress. We're looking at creating a blue, [2:25:33] there would be a caucus, there would be a moneyless caucus, two of them, one that would be conservative [2:25:37] and one would be liberal. But it's a way to break down the influence of money. [2:25:41] But the first goal is that once you have enough of these representatives in Congress [2:25:47] that the Speaker of the House can't be elected by the party outside of the chamber, [2:25:51] it moderates Congress. It forces the election of the Speaker back into the House. There's no way that [2:25:57] anybody that's a party leader is gonna win that position. It'll be somebody from the center. [2:26:02] So the very first goal is to get enough people on the left and right that win, that basically create [2:26:07] this faction, move the election of Speaker of the House into Congress. This would be historic. [2:26:12] And it's a fair, practical and inexpensive way to do it, and it's legal. [2:26:18] So Tom, I'm curious, so last couple of questions here. How did you come upon this? What do you do for [2:26:25] a living, and how did you get into this? Well, my background, I have an engineering degree, [2:26:33] went to Carnegie Mellon University, I worked in factory automation. I stumbled upon an idea to [2:26:38] pioneer remote working, my three older sisters. And back in the 80s, there just weren't work [2:26:44] opportunities for women. And my dad needed a bookkeeper, and I started coming up bookminders. And [2:26:49] it was really a paradigm shift. People weren't letting people take data outside of the office. [2:26:55] And we revolutionized the way outsource booking was done. We did remote working way before anybody's [2:27:01] thinking about it. But during the COVID, I was convinced that partisanship would kill each other. [2:27:06] And I've always been fascinated by this idea of gerrymandering. And I decided that if I got PPP money, [2:27:13] that I would do something and pay it forward, I wouldn't run for office. And I knew if I tried [2:27:18] to change laws, I'd die trying something rather than live doing. And I wanted to figure out a way [2:27:25] to make a change without changing law. And I stumbled upon this idea when I wrapped my head around, [2:27:30] hey, maybe a super PAC could be used for the common good, that the super PAC awards the prize money. [2:27:36] It's actually doing the will of the people. Where super PACs now are either aligned to [2:27:42] politicians or to causes that are specific. This super PAC would say, hey, [2:27:46] if you guys follow the contest, there's a free and equal. And this is the selection of the people, [2:27:50] we'll back that candidate in the general election. This totally creates a new way to use a super PAC [2:27:56] that is nonpartisan. So that, to me, was the innovation. [2:28:00] Tom, so you were an engineer? Yeah. [2:28:03] Yeah, it's such an engineer idea. Well, we design control systems, [2:28:09] usually based on the laws of nature. This one's based on the laws of election, [2:28:12] I looked at these laws and figure out how can we repurpose this system to work for us. [2:28:16] And I think I've done it. No, I totally get it. If engineers [2:28:21] ran the country, we'd be in 1000 times better shape. Because you can't BS building a bridge. [2:28:28] You either know how to build it or you don't, right? And engineers care more about logic. And if [2:28:33] you look at our political system through the lens of logic, you will be aghast at what you find. [2:28:39] And you'll try to come up with something better as time is. So last thing, Thomas, [2:28:43] where in the process are you guys? Do you have a sense of when this will be available? [2:28:47] Well, our first goal is to get traction. We have a beta release coming out where you will [2:28:53] actually be able to see the contest work in a simulated fashion like avatar candidates. [2:28:58] You can use the quiz to select candidates. We want the public to learn how this works. I think if we [2:29:03] try to launch this an election without people understanding, we would fail for sure. [2:29:07] And so, can we get this for the midterms? I doubt it. I mean, I think to really do this right, [2:29:13] we're on a path to do something for 2028. Figure out which districts we want to get to, [2:29:18] find our super PAC funder. Do this the right way. Do this like a business would launch a product. [2:29:24] That's what we're doing. All right. Tom Joseph and his group is [2:29:29] called America's Main Street Party and you just heard him explain the plan. I like it. [2:29:35] Thank you for joining us, Tom. I appreciate it. I appreciate anyone trying to fix this system [2:29:39] because one of us is going to figure it out. So if it's you, that's wonderful [2:29:43] and beautiful and we appreciate you for trying. Thank you for being an American patriot. [2:29:47] Cenk, thank you so much for having me on my show Mainstreetparty.org. Thank you so much. [2:29:53] All right Mainstreetparty.org and we'll put the link down below. [2:29:56] Thank you, Tom. All right, guys, we have an answer on Coons that I want to share with you [2:30:01] before we wrap. So yes, for Blumenthal, Schumer and Fetterman that's in 28, [2:30:07] that's of course going to take a little while. And as I said, I think AOC should run against Schumer. [2:30:12] And everybody's going to wait to see if AOC runs. They're not going to do this giant campaign if AOC is [2:30:18] going to come in at the end because she's very, very, very likely to win if she does run. [2:30:21] So I get all that. And so we did, we asked you guys to look up Chris Coons and see if he has a [2:30:29] primary. He does. Kelly Kaye found out that he has an opponent. Christopher Beardsley, [2:30:36] he's apparently a Delaware native and former AmeriCo member and a progressive. Okay, so we're in [2:30:44] business. The primary, this is really important because if the primary is coming up, [2:30:49] we won't have enough time. Turns out the primary is in September. [2:30:53] That is really good news because that means that there might be enough time to help Christopher [2:30:59] Beardsley take out Chris Coons. Now, my guess is Coons has so much more money. And of course, [2:31:07] all of the media will be kissing his ass on the left, the right, in the middle. [2:31:10] Beloved Israel lover, Chris Coons. He has so much experience and money. You should all vote for Chris Coons. [2:31:18] So that's what they write between the lines when they go, he's experienced. [2:31:22] And he's the leading person in this race. He's incumbent. And that's all supposed to be wonderful. [2:31:29] No, incumbent, when you see incumbent, assume poison, toxic. Someone who has depth of experience [2:31:38] in selling you out. That's who Chris Coons is. So what we'll do next now, because we do this together, [2:31:45] is we'll go find Christopher Beardsley. We'll ask him to come on the show. [2:31:49] We'll find out if we can help him. Because my God, if we took our Chris Coons at the last second like [2:31:56] this, when absolutely no one on planet Earth expects it, that would be an earthquake and [2:32:01] that would be beautiful. And I would, God, I keep telling you, man, this is not. In the past, [2:32:07] this was for right wing tears, certainly for the MAGA guys who are still in the cult, happy to have [2:32:13] their tears here too. But now, this is mainly for the establishment. And it's where I've always [2:32:18] been against the establishment. I've been collecting their tears for 20 years. But in this case, [2:32:23] not only would I love to see the Democrats in the Senate cry, my God, I'd overflow my cup with their [2:32:31] tears. How could you do this to our beloved colleague? I can't wait for that to happen, [2:32:38] whether it's with Coons or 18 other guys in the 2028 primary. But also the media, [2:32:46] the objective media will cry so hard if we defeat Chris Coons. They'll be the ones that are the most [2:32:54] enraged. I can't wait for those segments on CNN with Jake Tower looking down his nose at everyone. [2:33:02] How dare you, you Democratic primary voters? Chris Coons is an incumbent. He's an unexperienced. [2:33:11] How dare you? I can't wait, I can't wait. So please, let's do everything in our power [2:33:18] to try to defeat Chris Coons. So Christopher Beardsley, whoever you are, [2:33:22] we'd like to send an army in your direction. All right, guys, much love. When we say revolution, [2:33:29] we mean it, it's a political one. Let's go do it together, fight together, learn together, [2:33:34] win together. All right, I'm gonna see you guys tomorrow.