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Trump’s G20 Guest-List Fight, AI-Written Stories and an Anti-Surveillance Shirt | TMI Ep 453 · The TMI Show with Ted Rall and Manila Chan

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Good morning. This is the program with Ted Raul
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Much appreciated. And Jamaral, happy birthday.
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49 plus one day. And so. Anyway, we have a lot
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of stuff to talk about today. Some of it kind
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of disturbing. But anyway, basically, there's
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this attack on an NBC news crew, not the first
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attack by Israeli Jewish settler terrorists in
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the West Bank, where they almost beat an elderly
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Palestinian woman to death right in front of
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the NBC crew. I have thoughts about this. I know
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you do, too. A woman who created a Google map
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that's interactive that shows which companies
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are making money from ICE basically has been
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marked by the US government, by the Trump administration,
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as a possible domestic terrorist. Supreme Court
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rules on the ballroom. That has far bigger implications
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than just a ballroom. And finally, the postal
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service, a whistleblower from the postal service
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says is being used in order to intentionally
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derail the midterm elections coming up in early
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November. So a lot to talk about. If you have
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comments, please put them in the live chat on
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YouTube or Rumble. Producer Robbie will go ahead
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and put those up. And if you have any questions
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that you really want to prioritize, that you
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really want us to pay attention to, we always
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appreciate these YouTube super chats and the
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rumble rounds. OK, housekeeping done. JT, where
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do you want to start? There's one more story
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I want to add to that. Van Jones. Let's do it.
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I don't know if you saw Van Jones giving up.
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I don't know what he was giving. I don't even
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know who Van Jones was talking to. He was talking
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about El Said. and made the point of saying,
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I work with El Saeed at CNN, these people are
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dangerous, basically talking about like DSA and
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these type of groups, and specifically Van Jones.
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And he made the point of saying - Wait, he claimed
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that he worked with them? At CNN. Oh, okay. Basically
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like when Van Jones would come on for doing interviews
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and do spots and those type of things, that he's
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basically saying, I know these people from my
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time at CNN, they are dangerous. Okay. And he
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goes in to make the argument, and I could play
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the clip in fact let me see do I have a thing
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below me okay I don't have it on my end where
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I can do it um if the stream yard we can do it
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if he sent me the link I can do it okay I can
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see the link let me see the link and then just
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keep keep doing it basically it makes the argument
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he says I work with these people they're dangerous
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and then he says it's a defensible position maybe
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um for Democrats to say that Israel and the weapons
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that Israel gets should be tethered to be tethered
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to their behavior. And what's wild about that
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is - It's dangerous to say otherwise. Well, he's
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arguing that he thinks it's a defensible position.
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He's not clear. He doesn't really know. But I
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think it's a defensible position to say that
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Israel should be, their weapons that they should
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get should be tethered to their behavior. And
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even if you stop there, you think to yourself,
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It's like they are committing a genocide. What
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is wrong with you? By the way, the Democratic
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leadership follows suit with this because if
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you saw the people who they are deciding to put
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into positions of authority in regards to issues
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of the Middle East are all rabbit Zionists. Meaning
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we don't care what the overwhelming majority
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of the people who are in the Democratic Party
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think. Van Jones is only articulating what the
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Democratic Party echelon believes. So when he's
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arguing, well, I suppose it's a defensible position
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to tie Israel's behavior to the weapons that
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they get. I suppose so. Really? You suppose so?
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And what's wild about it, and I always argue,
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this is the Democratic leadership's position.
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They don't know whether giving weapons to Israel
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and tethering it. Um, to the money that they
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get is unsure. It's like they're committing a
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genocide, fool. Let me know whenever you're ready
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for me to play this link that you shared. Oh,
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if you want to do it, go ahead. I had it ready
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to go to, but you're going to do a better job
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than me. Go ahead, Robbie. Was it CNN? I know
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Abdul, um, his positions. on Israel and foreign
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policy are insane. They're not reasonable reactions
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to anything. Look, some Democrats are gonna say
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that we should condition military aid, that Israel's
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gone too far in Gaza and the West Bank and in
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Lebanon. We're gonna put some conditions on.
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I think that's a defensible position if you're
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a Democrat. That's not Abdul's position. Um,
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there are people who say, he doesn't know. Like
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meaning some Democrats who I think is like on
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the weaker side of this, who say we should, the
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weapons we give them should be conditional. And
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he's like, I suppose that's a defensible position.
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So that means his position is to the right of
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that definition of what he's saying. And the
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democratic leadership considering who they're
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putting into positions of authority, if they
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win the house and Senate, they're in line with
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him. Can we hear the rest clear right and he's
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basically saying Hakeem El Zayed's position.
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It's just completely untenable Let's hear a little
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more We shouldn't be paying for any of the military
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you know, we shouldn't we shouldn't be in giving
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military a now I think that's understandable,
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but I think indefensible because It's not charity.
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We're building a strong defense sector here and
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Israel is protecting a lot of Western interests
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in that region. But I can get why you would say
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no more aid. They got to pay their own way. That's
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not Abdul's position. Abdul's position is a total
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and complete arms embargo against the state of
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Israel, including dissent of weapons. That's
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an insane position. If Israel wants to pay...
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That's his point. It is indefensible to say you
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shouldn't give them weapons or anything. How
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is that indefensible? I would argue that's the
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mainstay of most of the public when they're watching
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a country murder women and children en masse.
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Like, I would argue his position is indefensible.
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The reason why Kamala Harris lost the race is
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part and parcel to this very specific position
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that the Democratic Party expels and maintain
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as they defend it and support it, a genocide.
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That's outrageous. That is the democratic part,
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from my point of view. I hear this, and I wonder,
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maybe I haven't had enough coffee this morning,
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or maybe my coffee this morning is a little weaker
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than usual. But to me, the difference between
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defensive and offensive weapons is a distinction
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without much of a difference. Basically, when
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we say, well, I mean, implicit in his making
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that distinction is his acknowledgement that
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Israel does use offensive weapons in order to
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start battles, wars against its neighbors. Right.
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Yes. So the base. Oh, well, OK, we won't let
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Israel engage in these offensive attacks against,
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let's say, Iran, Syria, Lebanon, et cetera, and
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the occupied territories. I mean, that's I'm
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forced to imply that because he's not very clear.
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And OK, so why would you then say, OK, we'll
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let you have defensive? I mean, it's like, look.
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when a country is behaving in a totally toxic,
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totally genocidal way, and by the way, not protecting
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any American interests, endangering American
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interests, particularly where American interests
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matter the most in the United States as they
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relate to Americans, but also in the Middle East.
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I mean, you can ask the UAE and Jordan and Qatar
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right now how safe they feel under Israel's umbrella.
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Okay, I bet not very safe, right? I bet right
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now they kind of wish they didn't know is real.
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Okay, so It's like I mean, there's so many presuppositions,
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you know, it's kind of like well like ian esco's
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rhinoceros is currently getting a uh, a um, you
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know a revival in uh in in in massachusetts and
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it's probably go around the country people have
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forgotten about it and one of the great like,
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you know ian esco was an absurdist and he would
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say like well a cat has four paws. A dog has
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four paws. Therefore, a cat is a dog. And this
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is the kind of like, you know, logic that's like,
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well, we're, Israel protects, you know, is keeping
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the Middle East safe. Okay, therefore, but it's
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like, there is no therefore, because that's not
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true. It's like, it's actually the most destabilizing
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force in the Middle East by far. It's not that's
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that destabilizing force is not Iran, not even
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close. You know, Iran, has had some destabilizing
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influences, but it doesn't come it's, I mean,
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it's just so like, it's maddening. It's sort
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of like, well, if we pay you, let's just say
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there's really such a big difference between
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defensive and offensive weapons, which is really
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not true. Such thing. If I pay for your defensive,
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quote unquote, defense, well, that frees you
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that frees your defense budget to spend money
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on offensive weapons, doesn't it? So it's still
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helping you. It's like if You know, Robbie, if
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I'm like, oh, Robbie, my friend Robbie, I love
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him. I don't like the fact that he's a fucking
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junkie and spends money on heroin instead of
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buying food for his family. But Robbie asked
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me for money. But Robbie, don't spend this money
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I'm sending you for crack. Don't buy smack with
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this. Just buy food. And he's like. I will, Ted.
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But that frees him to spend other money that
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he would have, you know, on crack. So, I mean,
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it's money spongable. It just sort of makes no
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sense at all. And I know the American people
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aren't that sharp, but are we really… I think
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we're no longer retarded when it comes to Israel,
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and the numbers show that. Well, the crazy thing
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is… Go ahead, JT. No, no. Go ahead, Robbie. I'm
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sorry. Well, first of all, Ted, you hit the nail
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on the head. There's no such thing as a defensive
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weapon. I own multiple weapons. The purpose of
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them is to protect my home. That said, they're
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perfectly capable of being used in an offensive
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capability. I mean, the mitigating factor are
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these hands right here. This is it. And the mitigating
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factor is what's going on here, right? It's all
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in your mind. Yeah, I have agency. I'm able to
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choose how I'm going to do this thing. The worst
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thing about it is that Van Jones, and I assume
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that the corporate Democrats as a whole, they're
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not talking about anything that actually got
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them elected or that people want. They're not
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talking about homelessness. They're not talking
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about jobs or wages. They're not talking about
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healthcare. They're not talking about education.
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They're talking about Israel. We should consider
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even giving them a leash at all or just throwing
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it in the trash while we pay for the rabid dog.
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Listen, I am a fundamentalist Christian and I
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would vote for Said over what Van Jones just
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said. Said's position is contrary to Van Jones
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in the general space of US dialogue, extremely
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mainstream. Most Americans are where Said is.
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Most Americans are not where Van Jones is. And
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you know what drives me crazy? I imagine you
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feel a little bit like this too, Jamarro. Van
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Jones kind of characterized himself as a progressive
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when he started out and, you know, kind of like
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aligned himself as sort of like a Bernie type
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person. And so to see this sell out, it's like
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it's not quite, you know, a Rachel Maddowian
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proportions, but it's close. He's a corporate
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Democrat. And this is what they think. This is
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what they believe. I mean, the notion of saying,
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and look, I agree with you. I do think there
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are defensive weapons like PAC -3 or like a Patriot
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air defense THAAD, et cetera, et cetera. But
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that's kind of irrelevant, right? The idea that
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we would give Hitler defensive weapons as he
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goes and pursues the murder of Jews, putting
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Jews in ovens and our response and strongest
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responses. Well, we shouldn't give them offensive
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weapons. Only defensive weapons. Only defensive
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weapons as he puts Jews in Evans. That's what
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we should give him. Which, by the way, I'm glad
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you made this analogy because that makes me think,
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well, what needed to happen to Nazi Germany?
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What did happen? They were destroyed by the Soviet
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Union. Thank God, right? And I mean, that's what
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needs to happen to Israel. They need to be destroyed
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by their neighbors as a nation state. I don't
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want to see the people die, but that nation state
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needs to go. And like, so, you know, I mean,
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you know, let's just say, you know, somehow the
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Lebanese army were to become inexplicably militarily
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powerful. If they can march into Tel Aviv, awesome.
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God bless. God's word. God's word. Van Jones
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is also showing his imperialist colors in this,
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right? Well, our colony in that region, that
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is the irritant in that region, by the way. needs
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to be defended because it helps and advances
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American objectives. Okay, well, thank you for
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being honest, right? Thank you for your honesty.
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I appreciate that. You now give me more of a
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reason to hate your party that much more. And
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before we talk about El Said, to add a wrinkle
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into all of this conversation, this is Detroit
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News. They said, in a private event today in
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Detroit, suburb, Abdul El -Sayed pleaded with
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Jews to forgive him, quote, I am asking for forgiveness
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and a moment of grace, unquote. El -Sayed said
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in Birmingham to the Michigan Democratic Jewish
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Caucus, somewhere, I think this is called Simcha,
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quote, I made a mistake, unquote. What mistake?
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I mean, we all make mistakes. I don't know. I
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mean, look, obviously he was told, you know,
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you've got to go and suck up near a tendon went
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and told him you got to do this. And so he's
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doing it. Right. It sucks. And by the way, I
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would say when you're apologizing, you're playing
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defense and when you're playing defense, you
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are losing. So, you know, I mean, These days
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I have controversies about my cartoons almost
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every week. Right now I've got one going on.
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And I had someone say, aren't you going to apologize
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for the fact that some people are taking your
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cartoon in this way that they see it as hurtful?
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And I'm like, I can't apologize for what is true.
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And it's like, I'm not going to apologize for
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what is true. But even bigger than that, even
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if you are wrong, you probably shouldn't apologize.
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You shouldn't apologize for anything. Donald
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Trump has proven that, right? Yeah, and he didn't
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do anything. Right here, quote, I pull up the
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article Detroit News. I'm asking for forgiveness
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in a moment of grace. Elsa Yid said at the Jewish
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caucus gathering in Birmingham, quote, I made
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a mistake. Reporters weren't allowed into the
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Jewish caucus. But lsaid's campaign released
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a recording of the remarks which showed the progressive
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democrat was attempting to reach out the jewish
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members of his party quote I am here because
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I may be your next senator lsaid also said at
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the event and i care a lot more about serving
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well than simply winning Motherfucker Yeah, I
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mean it's like this that's the thing right that's
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why progressives shouldn't play with democrats
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Um, you know, I mean because this is what they
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are. I mean and let's not forget say he's never
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joined the dsa. Um, you know he Which is the
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dsa is basically a hubert humphrey liberal, right?
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I mean, they're not like, you know, it's not
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they're not radicals sadly. No, um, but you know,
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I mean Yeah, you just basically you can look
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you can try to take over the democratic party
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as a hostile takeover if that's your approach
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but Don't forget, 99 % of the time, it's like
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the Manchus invading China. You end up getting
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eaten alive. They end up using you. You are the
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insurgent from the Bronx, the cute bartender,
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and then you end up, you know, licking Nancy
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Pelosi's vag. I mean, that's what happens. And,
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you know, you sell out. That'd be interesting
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to watch. Yeah, that's porn I would buy. I would
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pay for that. The Saeed thing, that's weak. Mamdani
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never apologized for anything he said. No. He's
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a better politician than Saeed. I mean, it's
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a mistake. Mamdani's smooth. And it's pathetic.
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After the debate, you and me had JT where it
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got really, it got bare knuckles between you
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and me about homosexuality. I got a bunch of
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emails saying, Robbie, I demand you apologize.
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What? You didn't say anything else? Sinner! Sinner!
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To which case, I say no. Seriously, why would
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I ever apologize for something that I believe?
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And if I believe that Israel is an apartheid
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state, it is a wart on the right butt cheek of
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the world, and it should be removed. Well, there
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you are hanging out with radicals like Jimmy
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Carter. Well, I don't even know what that means.
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But seriously, I mean, Jimmy Carter just find
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it as an apart. What were you without ever expecting
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want to ever apologize for what they believe?
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Yeah. Why should you apologize for it? It never
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occurred to me ever that you should apologize.
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Damn sure wasn't going to apologize. You didn't
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say anything wrong. And I'm saying else. I said
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nothing wrong. In fact, I would wager part of
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the reason that he won that race was because
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of his positions and true. You're trying to get
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all of Michigan. Fair enough. Look, by all means,
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campaign to Jewish voters. Jewish voters are
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obviously a part of, you know, they're Michigan,
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they're Michiganders too, and you should get
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their votes if you can, but don't sell yourself
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out. in order to get their votes or any other
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votes, right? I mean, it's like, unless you really
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think you did something wrong, which you know
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he doesn't think, you know, and by the way, that's
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the other thing too. This shit won't work. You
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know, if you're like a hardcore Zionist voter
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in Michigan, you think that's gonna buy you,
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you're gonna be like, I know what this Arab thinks,
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like fuck that guy. I mean, Jewish voters aren't
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stupid. So they're gonna allow the Democrats
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to say, see, he did something wrong. Meaning
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when what's his name when you apologize? Yeah,
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that's an admission that you did something wrong
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by definition Which is more important to the
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reason that you shouldn't do it when Van Jones
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comes on his the fit His position is indefensible
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and then you hear this fool. I'll be apologizing.
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Okay Well, it makes it look as if what Van Jones
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is saying is on some level true when what Van
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Jones is articulating is trash You shouldn't
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do it. It's weak You can make your pitch to the
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Jewish voters without apologizing The Jewish
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started out well, I mean say what he said, you
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know, like look I'm going to be You know, I might
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be your US Senate. I might be your next US senator
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I'm gonna you know, I care he has said on other
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occasions. I care deeply about my Jewish brothers
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and sisters I would protect them like my own
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family Leg it on a little thick like my own family,
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but okay fine, but like Fine fine. That's all
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good, you know, like, you know, and I'm deeply
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concerned about anti -semitism, which frankly
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everyone should be And and that's and that's
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good too. Just leave it. Okay, like whenever
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I mean, this is this all rings of inauthenticity
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and weakness. It's the two things you never want
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as a politician. If my brothers or sisters were
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involved with hunting down and killing innocent
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people, I would not protect them. I would condemn
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them and do everything I could possibly do to
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get them arrested and sent to prison for the
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rest of their lives. Well, you're talking about
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that's Israel. Right now, I'm talking about Jewish
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Michigan voters. No, no, I get that. But you
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got to remember how they play this thing. They
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always try to conflate Israel with Jews. Refuse
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to play. That is what they do. And so that's
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how I would do, you know, stop trying to qualify
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yourself. Do you think that is Israel a Jewish
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state? Yes or no? Yes. Okay. Just check that
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box. That's your, that's your definition, not
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mine. Is Israel committing a genocide? Yes. Are
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we paying for it? Yes. Do you, does the Israeli
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lobby control our political class? Uh, let's
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go check that box again. Yes, it does. So don't,
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so don't lawyer me. Well, it's not all Jews.
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Well, if it ain't you. I ain't apologizing. They've
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got nothing to worry about. I'm talking about
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the other people wearing the little tiny hats
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who think that they are God -chosen people who
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are committing a genocide using my dime to do
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it. If that offends you, seriously, go to hell.
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Well, don't forget also, there's all of your
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buddies on the Christian right who are pro -Israel,
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too. They're the biggest… No hats. Those people
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need to lose. They are the biggest… This is not
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about negotiations, right? They need to lose.
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They are committing mass murder. They need to
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lose. And the idea that you find, it's like,
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I need to somehow lower myself to these killers.
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Nonsense. The people who pay attention to him
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and get him, as you point out, Ted, apologizing.
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It's not going to turn to Zionist to say, well,
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he apologized. No, nonsense. You shouldn't apologize.
23:18
And by the way, People who are looking at the
23:21
Democratic Party as weak, as flaccid, as impotent,
23:26
that they can't necessarily hold on to a particular
23:28
theme and a particular narrative, those people
23:31
are right. This is new AOC. This is just AOC.
23:35
I mean, he folded even before he got into office.
23:39
He folded. He opened his ass cheeks wide immediately
23:43
before he even got into office. He is getting
23:46
bad, bad data. Well, in keeping with the theme
23:52
tomorrow, I have to apologize, because as much
23:54
as I'm enjoying our discussion, we have four
23:56
other topics that we need to talk to. Plus, we
24:00
haven't done a single comment, and we have 32
24:02
minutes left in the show. Alright, so, settler
24:06
attacks, ICE website, ballroom, or postal service?
24:12
What's the Supreme Court ruling on the ballroom?
24:15
Okay, so the Supreme Court decided to vote five
24:19
to four. Justice Roberts wrote the dissent. He
24:23
doesn't usually do that. Basically, this is the
24:27
final word. The president may continue to, he
24:30
can continue construction and work on the ballroom
24:33
and finish it without any discussion whatsoever
24:37
about the legality of the of whether because
24:43
basically these were using funds appropriated
24:46
from remember he told us that this was all agreed
24:48
private funds but it's not true these are taxpayer
24:50
funds right so under the constitution The power
24:54
of the purse lies with Congress. Congress never
24:56
approved any of these funds. So billions of dollars
24:59
are being spent on this. The Trump administration
25:02
asked the court to let them continue. The court
25:05
basically, Justice Roberts wrote in his dissent
25:08
that the court would almost certainly find that
25:11
this was unconstitutional because it violated
25:14
the, they didn't get approval from Congress for
25:17
the funding. So. In this kind of Weasley way
25:22
that basically lets the administration have its
25:24
way de facto, while pretending to continue to
25:29
adhere to the separation of powers, the court
25:31
said that the plaintiffs here did not have standing.
25:35
This was the National Historic Preservation Trust,
25:38
and they relied primarily on the expert opinion
25:41
of one of the nation's leading architectural
25:44
experts, who specializes in government architecture.
25:49
Now, here's the kicker. Going back to the 90s
25:52
in a landmark opinion by Justice Scalia, the
25:57
court had already decided that entities like
26:00
that do have standing to sue the government,
26:05
to sue because they say, well, if you have a
26:08
an expert, sort of a gust institution that knows
26:12
a lot about a topic. Let's say, for example,
26:15
the NIH were to sue the government over some
26:19
kind of health -related matter. They'd be like,
26:21
well, it's the NIH. They're smart guys, and we
26:24
have to listen to them. So even if, though, they're
26:26
not personally hurt, they have a huge interest
26:30
in this, and we're going to listen to what they
26:31
have to say. Now, without comment, The court
26:35
has reversed that ruling and just basically said,
26:38
if you're not directly impacted and hurt by this,
26:42
you don't have standing to sue. Now, the thing
26:45
is, they're like, well, someone else who feels
26:47
hurt is actually and can prove it is welcome
26:50
to come and bring their case in front of the
26:53
court. They can still do that. We don't know
26:55
who that would be. And by the time it gets to
26:59
us, the ballroom will be completed. So basically,
27:03
de facto, you know, it's kind of like easier
27:05
to it's easier to beg forgiveness than to get
27:07
permission, is the Trump way. That means that
27:10
the president can do anything. You can always
27:13
make the argument that you don't have standing
27:15
for this. You can say that about anything. The
27:18
president has just done something illegal. Correct.
27:21
I mean, multiple times, right? With the tariffs,
27:23
those were illegal. Right. There was no consequence,
27:25
but those were illegal. tariffs because the president
27:27
didn't have authority to do that. That was the
27:29
issue of Congress. And here again, the president
27:31
does something that the president doesn't have
27:33
standing to do, but the president does it anyway.
27:36
And then it's like, okay, well, if that's illegal
27:37
for the president to do that, then what's the
27:40
consequence? Well, there is none because no one
27:42
is standing according to the Republican Supreme
27:44
Court. This is nonsense. This is just nullification.
27:48
They hated when black people did this, right?
27:50
When they were like, yeah, I mean, this black
27:52
person responded. the court wants to put him
27:55
in a cage for life and the jury says yeah no
27:59
we don't want to do that obviously he did something
28:02
illegal the jury is taking upon itself to not
28:05
prosecute because the jury is looking at this
28:07
as well the system itself is the problem we're
28:09
not gonna necessarily gonna put this guy on trial
28:11
for something that the person should be put on
28:12
trial for oh we hate that that's bad we hate
28:15
that what the hell is this the president is clearly
28:18
doing something that he doesn't have the powers
28:20
to do and the Supreme Court as opposed to following
28:24
its own precedent and saying, well, the president
28:26
is wrong in doing this. This is illegal by our
28:28
own laws. The president effectively gives the
28:30
president immutable powers. That's an amazing
28:35
thing that just took place. Well, I mean, obviously
28:39
this is project 2025 come to life, right? That
28:42
was one of their things. They assumed that if
28:44
they flooded the zone, they would be able to
28:46
pretty much rule through executive orders. and
28:49
ignore basic separation of powers and other issues
28:52
and, you know, fight wars without getting caught.
28:56
I mean, all this stuff. Right. But this is not
28:58
even I'm sorry to interrupt. This is not even
28:59
a flood in its own. This is a very straightforward
29:02
case. It is a straightforward case. Any any any
29:06
Judge Roberts, Republican, by the way. Right.
29:10
It's like this is outrageous. Yeah, he's unhappy.
29:12
The president knew this. This is just ignoring
29:17
the law. Correct. And that's why Justice Roberts,
29:22
who I think my understanding is this is only,
29:25
he's been in for many years. I think this is
29:27
his only third authored dissent. So he obviously
29:30
felt strongly about it. Yeah. That's amazing.
29:33
I'm just saying that's amazing. He joined the
29:35
liberal justices. We just allowed the president
29:39
to do whatever the president wants. And yeah,
29:41
I mean, it's a it's a big fucking problem. I
29:43
mean, it's like, I mean, I don't even know, by
29:45
the way, how it works, like from a technical
29:49
point of view. Like, so if the I mean, so where
29:53
does the money come from? I mean, this money
29:55
is real money. It's in accounts. Right. I mean,
29:58
Congress. Congress approves money then the money
30:02
has to be appropriated to a fund and then it
30:05
goes to the fund and then like all the Contractors
30:08
like Trump's buddies who are building the ballroom
30:10
They need to you know, this isn't working for
30:13
the Trump found the Trump corporation which may
30:15
or may not pay you This is this is working for
30:19
the US government which is going to pay you.
30:21
So Where do these hundreds of millions of dollars
30:24
actually come from? I would love a bureaucratic
30:27
expert to tell me because they weren't appropriated
30:31
by Congress. Let's come from the military budget.
30:33
I mean, think about what we talked about yesterday.
30:36
Pete Hegseth is talking about how Congress needs
30:39
to infuse more cash because the military is running
30:41
out of money to pay its service members. Right.
30:44
Well, if you know how many service members is
30:45
that you have, then you're able to do this thing
30:48
called math. You're able to kind of budget it
30:50
out. If the money's not there, what's somewhere?
30:53
So where did it go? But they can snatch it from
30:55
somewhere. Of course. I mean, like they're stealing
30:57
money from Social Security, for example. They
30:59
snatch money from different places. Yeah. I mean,
31:02
seriously, that's where it came from. Can I prove
31:03
it? Of course not. But I mean, I'm able to use
31:08
the brains God gave me. That's where it came
31:10
from. They're looting other accounts. And then
31:12
they go to Congress. Oh, we have a new emergency.
31:15
We're out of money. We can't pay the troops.
31:18
Right. We can't not pay the troops our sainted
31:21
beloved troops who we always treat with incredible
31:24
respect after they leave Yeah, yeah Up into the
31:27
point of taking on boats Jumping off with his
31:30
asphrone shots big fucking thing. Um, okay So
31:33
this is a good comment from douglas hobden I
31:36
do get bored of the way you americans bleed on
31:39
bleeding is one of my favorite words on about
31:41
congress and its powers If you haven't realized
31:44
by now your magical constitution is toilet paper
31:46
and means fuck all But so does international
31:50
law, and so does European Union laws. Like these,
31:54
it's just, it's there up until the point it becomes
31:57
inconvenient. Yeah, yeah. I mean, the entire
32:01
point of making it a law, right, is a restraint.
32:03
Don't do this. Like it's trying to restrain the
32:07
powers of the government, because obviously it's
32:10
an entity that has the capability of more bananas.
32:13
I guess the point is, they've just ignored it.
32:16
It's not the balance of powers anymore where
32:19
you have these two forces that are Aligned at
32:22
each other with a certain amount of Balance between
32:26
them and the balance goes out of whack depending
32:27
upon who wins a particular election, etc You
32:30
have the Supreme Court does like seven members
32:32
of it are Republicans Hardcore right and they
32:36
are given the president grace to do whatever
32:38
the president once. I mean, yeah, I mean, and
32:41
look, obviously, the Constitution is out of date
32:44
in this respect, right? Because it was when these
32:46
English gentlemen who wrote it came up with the
32:49
separation of powers, they lived in a time where
32:52
the one thing you really cared about when you
32:54
served in government was not lining your pockets
32:56
with crypto, you cared about like power. You
33:00
wanted to do things. You wanted to change things.
33:03
You wanted people to remember like, oh, this
33:05
was the Thomas Rall bill that they passed, right?
33:09
And so that's what you were remembered for. You
33:12
didn't want to just go to Congress and sit around
33:14
and twiddle your thumbs and maybe grift through
33:18
prediction markets. So the thing is, they didn't
33:22
anticipate a time of party politics where, in
33:25
the future, a lickspittle Congress would basically
33:30
abdicate their powers and basically you know
33:33
allow themselves to be scratched behind their
33:34
ears by corporations and and by the president
33:37
and all that and the like and bribed they just
33:40
you know that wasn't part something like you
33:43
if these guys who were who fought the revolution
33:45
you've seen those charts about like how all those
33:48
guys like lost so much of their money and they
33:50
all ended up bankrupt i mean they weren't doing
33:52
it for the money they were doing it for the power
33:55
and like and you know now it's you know people
33:58
You know, it used to be those two things went
34:00
together. Now, really, it's just about the money.
34:04
So, of course, separation of powers followed
34:06
by the wayside. Could take back power. Oh, I
34:10
mean, if Congress woke up on one and it was like,
34:12
hey, we don't like what the president said. And
34:14
if nobody throws their shit out the car window,
34:15
there's no litter on the side of the highway.
34:17
But, you know, it just but that's not going to
34:19
happen like you would say. Yeah. Yeah. OK, so
34:23
we should move on. So should we talk about this?
34:26
What do you want? I'll let you have the pick
34:28
here. What do you want to do next? Which was
34:30
it what there were two other stories? Oh, yeah,
34:32
so we have the ice. Well, we have the NBC attack
34:35
by the Israeli terrorists We have okay. Let's
34:38
do it. So NBC correspondent Matt Bradley led
34:41
a team into the occupied West Bank. Obviously
34:44
there's this whole spate recently of settler
34:47
terrorists basically attacking Palestinian homes,
34:51
driving people out of their houses. They're stepping
34:54
it up because they smell blood in the air, and
34:56
they know they have a very friendly government,
34:58
even friendlier than usual in Tel Aviv, and they
35:00
know the IDF is always there to run interference
35:03
for them. They were interviewing this lady whose
35:05
house, she'd been tossed out of her house by
35:07
these assholes. Her name is Aida Ahmed Abdullah.
35:12
Anyway, these thugs in masks with Israeli license
35:16
plates basically drove down to where the news
35:20
crew was interviewing her outside of her house
35:22
and attacked them with sticks and stones. On
35:26
camera, you can see one of these thugs swinging
35:30
his bat. at the cameraman before the cameraman
35:32
hits the camera hits the ground they eventually
35:35
called the IDF eventually showed up and arrested
35:38
the Palestinians of course because that's how
35:41
these things go um but the NBC guys all survived
35:44
um the the Palestinian woman was in serious condition
35:47
and she was sent there's no word on whether she
35:50
made it or not but she was unconscious at the
35:52
time NBC left her behind I mean having traveled
35:57
in, you know, war zones, Afghanistan, Pakistani
36:02
Kashmir, a couple other places, and the West
36:05
Bank, and Gaza in 2014. I gotta say, this is
36:11
really outlandish fucking behavior. I mean, you
36:14
know, when journalists get killed, it's usually
36:17
one of several scenarios, or when they get attacked.
36:20
It's either they're being robbed, by like random
36:23
assholes because they have tons of money and
36:25
they have expensive equipment. And these are
36:27
desperately poor people and you know, blah, blah,
36:30
blah. Or they're being viewed as basically they're,
36:37
what's the word I'm looking for? They're like
36:39
easy pickings, right? Like you're just like,
36:41
you're a foreigner, you're traveling through
36:43
a strange land. We're just gonna get you. And
36:46
if there is a central authority of any kind,
36:49
which there often is not, but sometimes there
36:51
is, The central authority doesn't want that.
36:54
They don't want the view to the outside world
36:57
to be sent out like, holy shit, our people are
37:01
fucking violent assholes and we can't control
37:03
them. So they will assist usually a journalist
37:08
in trouble. This is now happening on a routine
37:12
basis where Western news crews are getting assaulted
37:16
by these settlers. The IDF doesn't do shit about
37:20
it. It goes out onto international television.
37:24
Obviously, it's only contributing to Israel's
37:26
already deteriorated public standing internationally.
37:31
But it's amazing to me that the Israelis have
37:33
their... Their head their government has their
37:35
heads so far up their ass that they don't think
37:38
this is a big problem I mean you have some Israeli
37:40
officials who said these are terrorists. These
37:42
are Jewish terrorists Okay, that's I guess remarkable
37:45
that they say that and you have the Israeli,
37:47
you know Mike Huckabee the US ambassador to Israel
37:50
He called them Jewish terrorists. Okay, that's
37:53
remarkable too because he's a big Zionist, but
37:55
I Guess I have a bunch of questions here. First
37:58
of all at this point if I'm If I, Ted Raul, am
38:02
going to go report in the occupied West Bank,
38:06
I don't know if I'm just bringing a camera. I
38:09
think maybe I'm bringing an armed guard with
38:12
me. And I don't think I have a big problem if
38:16
my armed guard, or me personally, shoots the
38:19
settler who comes at me with a bat. I think that's
38:23
OK for me. I don't think I have to have that
38:25
cold, upright detachment, the fake neutrality
38:31
of the press. I think you're allowed to hit back.
38:33
And also, why didn't these guys fight to protect
38:37
the old woman that they were interviewing? You
38:42
know what I mean? Matt Bradley, are you a man
38:46
or a mouse? You're a guy you're a dude. You should
38:52
protect an old lady right under any circumstance.
38:55
Yeah I Guess my first thought is it's honest
39:03
Like meaning their behavior on camera, it's just
39:06
honest and so I appreciate that I'm too glad
39:10
that it was on camera as opposed to it just being
39:13
a normal Tuesday where they would have beaten
39:15
a woman to death in general So there's that Three,
39:21
I agree with you about bringing some kind of
39:24
security detail in that case because you're all
39:27
vulnerable and it's good for you to know it.
39:29
And so for the years that the U .S. media has
39:32
printed about, oh, this is an Israeli state and
39:35
blah, blah, blah, and they're fighting for American
39:37
interests and they're the only democracy in the
39:39
Middle East. OK, well, here's your reality, right?
39:44
This is the reality of things to which I like
39:46
being published. where everybody can see for
39:48
themselves. You don't have to take Jamal's word
39:50
for it. They nearly beat an old woman to death.
39:53
They probably would have beat her to death if
39:54
there was no cameras on it. The restraint, any
39:57
of the restraint was that they didn't kill her,
40:01
assuming she's not dead. Not for lack of trying.
40:04
Yeah, not for lack of trying. These media people
40:07
who are going to these areas and are getting
40:09
their heads bashed in or nearly getting their
40:11
heads bashed in, I think it's good. It's honest.
40:15
It's what the country is. Like, I don't want
40:17
them to put on suits. No, I like that part. When
40:21
media comes and then starts singing and crowing
40:24
the moment that media leaves like a singing frog,
40:26
meaning in this case, instead of opposed to singing,
40:28
you have death, murder and rape and theft. I
40:31
don't want them to pretend that that's not happening
40:34
when the media is there. I want people to be
40:36
able to see it for what it is. So, yes, I want
40:39
media to continue to go. I want them to continue
40:41
to get their heads bashed in. I want all of this
40:43
stuff to be aired on air if it is indeed happening.
40:46
in earnest. And by the way, the IDF coming there
40:48
and arresting the Palestinian, that is normal.
40:53
They would stand there and let the settler commit
40:56
their murders in order to protect the settlers
40:58
as they go about death, murder, mayhem, violence.
41:03
So, yeah, I take no issue with the media being
41:06
there watching what is taking place. I only take
41:08
issue when they pretend that it's not what it
41:10
actually is. It's a shocking thing, by the way,
41:12
that media is going and reporting what it is.
41:15
That's not normal. Balls out. Balls for them.
41:18
Seriously, good for them. I kind of don't think
41:20
they should scurry out so quickly though. I mean,
41:22
it's kind of like, fuck you guys. My question,
41:27
Ted, you keep saying this, is just like, how
41:30
is Israel supporting this? Like Israel's paying
41:36
a price? They're paying a price. What price are
41:38
they paying? I agree with Robbie. That was the
41:40
other point. They're not paying a price. They're
41:42
not paying a price at all. This is I was like
41:44
this is not a big problem for them. They don't
41:46
care They're paying the same price that the apartheid
41:51
regime of Republic of South Africa paid you know
41:54
in the 1980s when images like this would come
41:58
out of South Africa and people would watch and
42:01
they'd be disgusted and eventually You know public
42:04
support us was a huge supporter of apartheid
42:07
South Africa and when public support basically
42:10
got to isolated South Africa to the point where
42:13
the regime was no longer tenable. Let's not forget,
42:16
right? RSA, apartheid didn't go away because
42:17
there was a revolution. There was never a revolution.
42:20
It's like basically it just, they were pressured
42:23
by, you know, a deteriorating economy and international
42:26
isolation to pivot away and transition to post
42:31
apartheid. You know, that's what they did. And
42:34
so I think, so did apartheid state pay a price?
42:38
Yeah, they did. And I mean, that's what's happening
42:40
now. It's just that it's in slow motion. I mean,
42:42
like you guys, I'd like to see this happen a
42:44
lot more quickly. But yeah, they're paying a
42:46
price. Every one tenth percent decline in their
42:49
brutal rating is a price. Yeah, but they're not
42:53
being isolated economically. China still trades
42:57
with them. Russia still trades with them. Every
42:59
other country, for the most part, still trades
43:01
with them and have trading relationships with
43:03
them. The European Union is one of their largest
43:05
trading partners. And I will go further. Most
43:07
of those European states agree. I don't care
43:11
what they say. The states and the power struggle,
43:14
those states. 100%. I'm just pointing out that
43:19
they're not paying a price in the sense of a
43:21
price, like meaning they're not being isolated.
43:23
They're not being people made. say, we don't
43:26
like Israel. And the public may say, we don't
43:29
like Israel. The leadership and the power structures
43:31
of all of those European states and the United
43:33
States and Russia and China, for all of their
43:37
strongly worded statements, continue to trade
43:39
and do business with this settler colonial state.
43:42
All they have to do is, they have to say, be
43:47
a good little boy and remember the Holocaust.
43:49
And if you don't, you are the R word, you're
43:53
racist, you're anti -Semitic, and white people
43:55
have been so conditioned, they just beat over
43:59
the head, rightly or wrongly, with the racism
44:01
stick, that that's the worst thing that you can
44:04
call someone with my skin and complexion, especially
44:08
after my accent, and you're going to do whatever
44:10
it is that you can possibly do to prove that
44:12
you're not a racist. That's number one. Number
44:15
two, South Africa, Ted, did not have the lobby
44:18
that Israel has. They didn't own Congress. They
44:20
didn't have a South African version of AIPAC.
44:23
They didn't have the Jewish committee, or I guess
44:25
in this case, the Boer committee going through.
44:27
You must stand with the Boers, because you know
44:29
what the British did to the Boers in the 1890s?
44:32
That never happened. That's what happens here.
44:35
It's a combination of money. It's a combination
44:38
of a punch in that white guilt card as hard as
44:41
you possibly can repeatedly. And also it's business
44:45
interest because China and Russia and every other
44:47
country, they're in a business making money.
44:49
And guess what? If you're going to make sausage,
44:52
you got to slaughter some pigs, brother. And
44:54
if you think they give a single crap about what
44:57
Israel's doing, they just committed a genocide
45:00
like shine bomb. We talked about this on TMI.
45:04
She sent a strongly worded email. Okay, and did
45:09
Mexico impose sanctions? Hey, many of those words
45:10
were multi -syllabic, Robbie. Don't forget. Did
45:13
Mexico impose sanctions or break relations with
45:18
Israel? No. Putin, we really think that you should
45:22
probably stop doing this. Okay, well, fine. What
45:25
are you going to do to stop it? Nothing. Xi Jinping,
45:28
same thing. What are you going to do to stop
45:29
it? You have the power to turn Israel off today.
45:32
Oh, nobody. Nothing. Israel's not paying a price.
45:36
Well, I mean, that's objectively not true. Their
45:38
economy is in the fucking toilet. They have international
45:41
boycotts from all over the place. We've got two
45:43
other important stories to cover. Who cares about
45:46
their economy? Ted, we're financing their economy.
45:48
We are their economy. OK. You do realize this
45:51
is not going to go on forever, right? I mean,
45:54
you do realize it. It's like this is like the
45:56
end is nigh, OK? I mean, you can see it coming.
45:59
Well, there's a God in heaven. He's going to
46:01
judge the hell out of you. We're all going to
46:02
live. I mean, I'm the oldest one here. I'm going
46:04
to live long enough to fucking see it. I am.
46:08
By the way, I don't think this is white guilt.
46:10
I mean, it's anti -Semitism. It's not the same.
46:13
It's white guilt in Germany. It's white guilt
46:15
in Germany because they fucking committed to
46:17
genocide. I'm saying, I don't think it's white
46:19
guilt. But again, you have to define the term
46:23
because if being anti -Zionist is equivalent
46:25
to anti -Semitism, and that's what they're teaching
46:28
in colleges and stuff. If you make those two
46:30
things the same, by definition, that's why they're
46:33
wrapping this up up. That's why they're doing
46:37
it. I know, but all these people are white. You're
46:39
saying it's white guilt for the white people.
46:41
It's okay. You can say that for Germany. You
46:43
can say that for Austria, even though Austria
46:44
tried to pretend as if Hitler is in Austria.
46:47
Ask Ben Shapiro if he's a white man. You know
46:49
what he'll say? That's a complicated question.
46:52
It's so complicated. The dude's whiter than I
46:54
am, but that's the card that they play. You have
46:57
to like it, but that's what they do. I'm just
47:00
saying anti -Semitism is a little bit, okay,
47:02
okay. I'm not gonna fight that. Let's move on,
47:05
let's move on. All right, one more comment here
47:07
before we move on. Kilroy for president, thanks
47:09
for the donation. Tried to send during the Q
47:13
&A, sing tomorrow, happy birthday. Okay. Thanks,
47:17
man. Happy birthday to you. I didn't have to
47:20
sing, but I do appreciate it. We all know how
47:24
this goes. Yeah. I had a cab driver once when
47:27
I was in Egypt, and I was like, so, you know,
47:30
you're supposed to be praying five times a day.
47:31
What do you do when you're in the cab? He says,
47:33
God knows I'm hearts. And I thought to myself,
47:35
then why do you need to pray five times? Right.
47:40
Yeah, I remember always thinking that, too. Like,
47:42
like if you're like, you know, why do you go
47:44
to church? Why do you, you know, like why do
47:46
you go to mosque? God knows my heart. It's like,
47:48
OK, well, God knows your heart. I mean, I would
47:52
think that's true. Right. So yeah. Yeah. All
47:55
right. So OK, we got the postal service. We got
47:58
the ICE thing. Let's do the postal service. So
48:01
we talked a little bit about this postal service
48:04
whistleblower a couple of weeks ago. So without
48:07
getting into that, basically, this person has
48:11
basically been debriefed by a US senator. I forgot
48:17
his name from Connecticut. Anyway, they issued
48:20
a report. And long story short, This report says
48:25
that this is kind of a system that the Trump
48:28
administration has created that is designed to
48:32
fail. So today is the deadline by which all the
48:36
secretaries of state under Trump's executive
48:38
order are supposed to send the designs of their
48:42
mail -in ballots to the U .S. government, which
48:46
is then going to compare those and check them
48:49
against the list of voters that they have somehow
48:53
extracted by threatening to deny highway funds
48:57
and all sorts of other sleazy methods. And they're
49:01
going to compare the voter rolls. Long story
49:04
short, according to the whistleblower, this was
49:08
designed with what they call a zero failure option.
49:12
So if they find a minor mistake in the QR code
49:16
on the form, if they find One voter in a district
49:21
who things are a little off like the wrong middle
49:24
initial or their birth dates off by a day or
49:27
something the entire County the entire state
49:33
whatever the entire city the entire municipality
49:35
all of their mail -in ballots are Automatically
49:39
banned to be shipped by the Postal Service good
49:43
So basically obviously that is an impossible
49:47
standard Okay. And so the argument here is the
49:54
intention here is to effectively make mail -in
49:56
balloting impossible in the United States this
50:00
coming November. I don't see at this late stage
50:05
anything short of an emergency injunction issued
50:08
by either a federal judge and have that not heard
50:11
by the Supreme Court or a Supreme Court emergency
50:15
injunction, I don't see how that can be stopped
50:17
between now and the first Tuesday in November.
50:20
It's just too late. I mean, I think, you know,
50:24
basically the Trumpies are very smart at running
50:27
out the clock, and they know the courts are a
50:30
massive delay mechanism, and they know that,
50:33
like, you know, this is, they have, and the thing
50:36
is, mail -in balloting is not something, like,
50:38
I don't know about you, I'm... old enough to
50:40
think of mail -in balloting as something like,
50:42
oh, that's probably 3 % of the vote. It's people
50:44
who are on vacation or traveling on business
50:47
or whatever, or they're at the hospital. That's
50:49
why they cast a mail -in vote. But that's not
50:52
the case anymore. Post -pandemic, most Americans
50:56
vote, literally over 50 % of Americans, vote
50:59
by mail -in ballot, because it's more convenient.
51:00
Wow. I didn't know the number was that high.
51:02
It's massive. In some areas, it's like 60%, 70%.
51:07
I mean, basically, it's not like a rounding error
51:10
at all. This is the main, this is the main event.
51:13
This may surprise you, but good. I mean, Americans
51:17
voted this fool in and again, they voted in everything
51:21
in his power to steal an election. Let's put
51:25
like, people need to sit with that. Like when
51:27
they went after him for impeachment, Trump should
51:30
have been in a cage for what Donald Trump was
51:32
trying to do. He was trying to gain the political
51:34
system either through getting members of Congress
51:37
to basically throw it in turmoil not to mention
51:39
getting people to put in fake electors and all
51:42
of this other nonsense and of course even though
51:45
this wasn't necessarily connected to Trump the
51:47
Wolverines waiting on the outside of Virginia
51:49
with their guns to bring on the revolution I'm
51:52
trying to say that this could have been a perfect
51:54
storm and We put this fool back in office Like
51:59
the idea that he was even in contention is breathtaking.
52:02
And yet we put this fool back in office. What
52:06
did we expect? Like, look, I mean - Well, the
52:09
Democrats put this fool back in office by what
52:12
the bullshit they did with Biden and Harris.
52:15
All of that stuff. I mean, well, but we also
52:18
voted for him. And the Republican Party put him
52:21
in as their stand -in. Like, meaning the Republican
52:24
Party didn't have to put him in as a stand -in.
52:26
He was chosen despite what he did earlier. And
52:29
you can say, well, the Democrats also screw things
52:31
up and put Donald Trump in office. I accept that
52:33
argument, but I'm just making the point of saying
52:35
the country. There's so much blame to go around,
52:37
I guess is my point. And this is again, after
52:39
he tried to steal the election at first. Right.
52:42
Nobody accepts Donald Trump's claim that he lost
52:44
the election. And yet they still put that fool
52:46
back in office. What did you expect a narcissistic
52:49
liar to do once he got back in office? Oh, I
52:52
know something like this also one who's also
52:55
one who's got a lot of fucking illegal shit to
52:59
be Investigated and hanging over his head, right?
53:02
Yeah. So what happens when? Entire cities and
53:06
all of the votes that they put by mail in go
53:09
up in smoke. I'm very curious I Might as am I
53:13
too. Oh, by the way, uh be one more thing. We
53:16
still have to talk about this This week. There's
53:19
nothing I like it. Oh, I understand No, I know.
53:22
What did you expect? I get it. Secretary of the
53:25
Army quit, right? Dangerous school. Pissed off
53:29
at Hegson. Good for him. Yeah. The resignation
53:33
on based on principle, something that had been
53:36
pretty much extinct since the 70s, is making
53:39
a good comeback. Yep. I mean, because from my
53:42
understanding, it's like the secretary of the
53:43
military, the secretary, like there's several
53:45
high profile positions that just not filled now.
53:48
And of course, you got the leaks that came out,
53:51
effectively saying that major people, three out
53:55
of the five heavy top branches, just like the
53:59
Navy, the Pacific Command, didn't believe that
54:02
they could fight this war, win this war. I was
54:05
basically telling him to stop. We can't keep
54:08
up operations in Iran. And even though we disagree
54:12
with this order, we will follow this order. They're
54:14
leaking this stuff like a sieve. Yeah, they're
54:18
literally like, well, you're assigning us to
54:20
do things that we can't do. I mean, look, everybody
54:22
who's ever had a job and an unreasonable boss
54:24
knows what that's like, right? Yeah. So yeah,
54:29
that'll be no. Anyway, I'm interested to see
54:31
if any details come out on that. So this lady
54:34
named Laura Berlin wrote, she created a Google
54:37
Map interactive website that became viral. and
54:41
it's used by ICE activists, anti -ICE activists,
54:43
it's all over the country, called Who is Profiting
54:46
from ICE? And it looks at the companies that
54:48
are servicing the ICE gulags, the transportation
54:52
companies that are conducting the ICE deportation
54:55
flights and so on. Anyway, she's been flagged
54:58
as a potential domestic terrorist in official
55:01
missives that have gone out from DHS, even to
55:06
local police departments, like the Philadelphia
55:08
Police Department. continuing to disseminate
55:11
it. I mean, this is pretty chilling stuff. I
55:15
mean, look, I had similar things happen to me
55:17
in 2004 in the run up to the RNC in 2004. You
55:22
can look it up in the New York Times. Just Google
55:23
my name and you'll find it. So it's, I mean,
55:28
I guess the thing is she says, well, she's going
55:30
to keep going again. I'm going to channel my
55:33
inner Jamal here and say, where the fuck is the
55:36
accountability for this kind of shit? You shouldn't
55:38
be allowed to weaponize actual serious police
55:43
concerns about national and state security against
55:47
individuals exercising their First Amendment
55:49
rights, but that's what's happening here. Yeah,
55:51
it's outrageous. She is doing nothing wrong.
55:55
Not just nothing. She's doing God's work. She's
55:59
doing God's work. She's just using publicly available
56:02
information. And she has the first member right
56:04
to do so. She didn't steal any classified documents
56:09
or anything. Yeah, she's not setting a police
56:11
station on fire. She's losing information that
56:14
is already in the public sphere in order to put
56:17
more detailed information out where you can make
56:19
a determination if you want to deal with the
56:21
companies that are supporting these goons of
56:25
the state. And so they don't like that. And now
56:29
they're weaponizing laws that were meant for
56:32
other things that she doesn't fit into to go
56:35
after her, to put a chill on what she's doing.
56:37
God bless her if we keep going. Yeah. No, I mean
56:40
totally. This is insane. And there's, as you
56:44
point out, zero accountability for maligning
56:46
and using laws in this fashion that weren't supposed
56:49
to be used in this particular way. She has every
56:50
right to do this. She's doing nothing wrong.
56:52
All of this stuff in the public sphere. She's
56:54
not leaking my top secret statements. She's asking
56:57
you a choice and she can't sue right like like
57:01
like I mean I know this because like you know
57:03
I remember like when I was when I had my LA Times
57:05
thing every lawyer in LA told me the same thing
57:09
like you know an amazing case against the LA
57:12
Times it's like but if you want me to sue the
57:14
LAPD forget it. Like you can't sue the government.
57:19
The government agencies are totally protected.
57:22
The laws, the procedures are all like basically
57:26
you can't subpoena them. You can't, you know,
57:29
you can't depose them. You can't, discovery doesn't
57:33
work against them. They've just, they've, any
57:36
lawyer will tell you the government, it's almost
57:39
impossible to successfully sue a government agency.
57:42
When you hear about the Innocence Project, like
57:45
getting you know someone exonerated after 20
57:48
years and finally released that's like almost
57:51
it's like Herculean what they had to do to accomplish
57:54
that and all they're doing is reversing one criminal
57:56
case if you want to like hold the like if the
57:58
government's been polluting someplace good fucking
58:02
luck you want like Erin Brockovich she sued a
58:06
quasi public right a public utility that was
58:09
hard but like You know if she'd been suing let's
58:12
just say the state of california had been dumping
58:14
those toxins causing cancer in the groundwater
58:17
Impossible to sue Well, then there's never accountability
58:23
there's never accountability That's it Well that
58:29
on that cheery note we head off to the tmi show.
58:32
Thanks tomorrow I'll see you tomorrow at 9 a
58:34
.m eastern time. See the rest of you tomorrow
58:36
at 9 a .m eastern time. Take care and uh See
58:41
you then, bye. Have a good one guys.