August 4, 2025 • 44 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
Hello everyone, My name is Sneger Walsh. Welcome to today's
episode of Newslash. We have a good one for you.
As always on the show, today we are taking a
look at new reports from Gaza, including the confirmation by
Israeli media of plans from the idea in the Israeli
government to fully occupy the Gaza strip, and why FEMA
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is saying that BDS supporters or BDS supporting locales cannot
receive any disaster aid. We'll also taking a link the
first pictures and videos of aerial destruction from the Gaza
taken from air drop aid planes that really exposed the
futility of that whole operation. Also, the Trump economy is
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reeling after Trump fires the head of the Bureau of
Labors Statistics after a poor jobs report last week. Texas
Democrats are fleeing to prevent Greg Abbott from essentially stealing
five nor GOP house stats in a mid decade redistricting
planned in Texas and Boston.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Yusef has confronted.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
The Knelt Boys on their own podcast for that really
really awful Benjamin NETANYAHUO interview.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Once again.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
All these clips are going to be on YouTube and
they will be on YouTube by midnight tonight, So go
to the Spencer Welsh YouTube channel. Check it out for
that visual aid, that visual aspect to things, which I
think is pretty darn cool. And without further ado, let's
start the show. Well, we finally have reached the logical
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conclusion of Israel's genocide in Gaza, and that has been
as we see here today with an announcement from the
Israeli government. Senior prime figures in Primet Yiahu's office reportedly
told end twelve, the decision has been made. Israel is
going to conquer the Gaza Strip. So we finally reached
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the point where so many people said that we would reach,
which is complete Israeli occupation of the Gaza Strip, no
sort of sensible solution, no sort of effort or lip
service being paid in regards to a ceasefire. We have
reached the final conclusion of really what Israel set out
to do on October seventh, and what people in Israel's
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right wing government were essentially goading them to do through
various public appearances and doubtless many more private appearances, which
is finally expand and we talked about it on the
last show. You know Inamar Bang Gavir was calling for
it as he had been calling for it for a while,
which is to re establish the settlements in Gaza. They
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were called Gush Katif back in the time they were
you know, you can get into a whole long, you know,
period of history about this. But in the two thousand
and five two thousand and six period, the Prime Minster
of Israel decides we are going to essentially create this
permanent island of evildoers in Gaza strip and they essentially
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have Hamas wins the election, and then this a complete
and utter siege on Gaza. The moment that the Israeli
settlers and any sort of Israeli citizens or Jewish people
are pulled out of Gaza, it's complete siege. They're not
allowed to have any sort of civil society, and Hamas,
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as we know, takes control from there. And this is
really the logical conclusion to all of that. You know,
you saw a real effort that had been put out
in the in the past few months with the Gazi
Minitarian Foundation to try and concentrate everyone towards the south
in the border of Gaza with Egypt and the mediterrane
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And see, we saw we talked about this on the
past past shows as well, which is an effort to
essentially build a camp around that area, the kind of
south border of Gaza between Egypt and the Mediterranean. They
want to build a camp there, or they want to
have full charge of security. They want to have, you know,
give them like a thousand calories a day uh to
live on. These starving people essentially make life so bad,
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so unbearable for them that they will choose to voluntary,
voluntarily migrate. You know, they'll just really really want to
go for you know, a nice break, a nice vacation
in you know, a country like Libya or something like that,
where they will be you know, living somehow even a
worse quality of life with the failed state that is Libya.
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But it really is hard to imagine that anything could
be worse than Gaza at this point. But it comes
after so much Israeli destruction and a complete refusal by
the Israelis to accept anything less than this outcome, and
their support in that pursuit by the United States. That's
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really how we get to where we are today. So
you can see it here in this next post here
also from this actually from ITV News, they were going
out on one of these AID flights, and this is
what they saw over Gaza. If you're watching on YouTube,
you can get better a picture of it, but the
reporter describes it pretty well. It's absolute destruction, and it's
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all part of this plan, which is a rebuilding. This
is the same way, the same thing they did with
the rest of Israel, by the way, which is a
rebuilding of Jewish Israeli settlements in cities and towns on
top of destroyed Arab Palestinian communities that were destroyed with
Israeli and Western firepower. And you know, that is what
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we see right here, and what happens to the people
who are living there previously, They become refugees, they become
scattered out, and they become completely dispossessed from their homewards.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Cities like broken skeletons laid waste by war, graveyards of
life and lives, the streets, homes and coffee houses of
old now cast to the ground. The soul of this place,
along with the souls who lived here, brought to ruin
in the rubble and dust. Israel bands foreign journalists from
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entering Gaza. Fifteen thousand feet above is the closest we
get to seeing for ourselves the consequences of the war
it is waging here. When we joined an air drop
last week, Israel also tried to restrict images from above
being filmed or shown. Aid being dropped from this flight
is to those who are trying to survive in this hell.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Yeah, and I mean, what more can you say there?
It's just like the They don't even let you fly
over and take pictures. That is how bad the destruction is.
And thank god they were able to I don't know
it was there with the UAE or with whoever that
they were able to film from the plane. They're not
even able to go on the ground and talk about destruction.
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And the reason for that is they're able to if
there's nothing coming out from the ground. It's palsing the
and journals only who they immediately smear as ams. But
then of course after they're you know, killed by Azila
or killed by starvation and imposed by a Zil or whatever.
You know, they're of course proven right about the conditions
on the ground. But when you don't have that information,
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when you don't have that ability to tell the truth
and tell what's happening right in front of you to
your people, to the world. It's easier for people like
Yahu and all these online Israeli figures, you know eton Fishburger,
you know, Al Yakobe and all those people that I'm
sure everyone who's been online at all in any social
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media network has scene. You know, they spread these lies
about oh they're not really starving. Oh look at that
fat one over there. You know, there's a picture from
you know, the beginning of the war or whatever. You know,
they are able to completely feel this information avoid this
information vacuum because these journalists, the Western journalists, have been denied.
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And when even the Western journalists, whenever a Palace Indian
reports on the ground, they question it, they say, oh
it's is it Hamas? They these people may have tied
to Amas. They take the Israeli government's word at complete
face value. And we get to a point where, you know,
finally the Israeli or sorry, the Western journalists are starting
to pay attention, finally starting they're starting to give voice
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to the suffering the pals ins on the ground. And
by the time that happens, it's far too late, and
you're you're seeing scenes of devastation like you saw in
that video there from ITV news. We've also heard a
lot about the hostages, and this is one from the
This is from rom uh Barsolowski and Ivtar David. This
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is uh Iftar David in this tunnel under Gaza, and
you know he's saying he's forced to dig his own grave,
which is incredibly dark, dark stuff. And then you see
there's another one, uh Ram Bressolowski, who is in incredibly,
incredibly dire shape. But what the Palestinian captors are saying
of these people, by the way, who are not the
last civilian captives were released a long long time ago.
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These are people who were manning the border fence on
October seventh and imposing what the UN had already called
an open air prison on Gaza on a daily basis,
you know. And these are the people that were taken
into Gaza bay Hamas on October seventh.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
You know.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
They they're saying, they eat what we eat. We are
all being starved. A lot of us look exactly like that.
We are in really dire conditions. And of course people
in my maybe some more well connected people, but really,
you know, I think it's the Israeli gangs. There is
really back gangs, the yasar Abu Shabab, who, by the way,
wrote an article on the Wall Street Journal if you
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want to get a sense of who that guy's working for,
who are really eating well. But it's really amazing to
see that there's just one Jewish person starving, one Israeli
starving in the midst of this chaos, in the midst
of this total and utter hell. And of course the
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media coverage drops.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
To focus on that.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
There's, oh, how awful, he's so amaziated. This is the
real starvation. When it's Pacinian starving, it's oh, they had
a genetic disorder or something.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Oh, they had this other.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Thing going on that completely excuses the situation and they're
not really under any actual threat, like no, no, no, no.
And it completely shows you the racism and dehumanation. That
dehuman is, that humanization that has been so thoroughly entrenched
in Palestinian and about Palestinians in Western civil society and
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just political discourse. And it really, I think it's important
to say it comes from the top down. This is
the headline in Reuter's US links one point nine billion
in state disaster funds to Israeli boycott stance This is
really some instant stuff. US states that in cities that
boycott Israeli companies will be non federal aid for disaster preparedness.
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The Trump administration has announced time routine federal funding to
its political stance. The Federal Emergency Management Agencies stated and
grant notice is posted on product that states must follow
its terms and conditions. Those conditions they certify they will
not sever commercial relations, specifically with Israeli companies to qualify
for funding. So if you want to cut off ties
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to an Israeli drone company or Soabrahammis for example, that's
probably the most common one that has these groups grows
these chickpeas and heads of factories and things like that
on Israeli settled not even normal Israeli territory, but on
settlements in Israel, and i should say, in the West
Bank in Palestine. You know you if you don't want
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to support that in your small town or your state,
because pretty much all states, all major states have BDS
laws on the books, democratic or Republican at this point.
But if even in any time in the future, if
you want to change that, and if you want to
cut off economic ties with Israel, then the American government
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has decided, as we see this genocide it was we
see the starvation, as we see the pictures and the
videos of destruction coming out on a daily basis from Israel,
the American government has decided that you should not be
rescued by it, the government that you paid taxes to,
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and by the way they send that tax and the
taxes is anyway, they will not come rescue you if
you are the victim of a natural disaster. It's really,
it is incredible, the lengths that we are willing to go,
the dignity that we are willing to sacrifice, even among
our own population for the Israeli state. Is even as
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they it becomes so clear the genocide and the pain
and the suffering and the starvation they are unleashing right now,
the face that we are willing to lose, the levels
that we are willing to stoop to to embrace that
really no bounds. And especially with what we talked about
in the beating of the story, which is a now
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full ethnic cleansing and occupation of Gaza by the Israeli army,
especially in the light of that, it's very worth keeping
in mind that there is no level that we won't
stoop to as a government to defend this, but as
a people, there is always time to do better and
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to make change. After an abysmal jobs report last Friday,
Donald Trump over the weekend fired the head of the
Bureau of Labor Statistics, who is in charge of compiling
the unemployment numbers and the job statistics in general. It's
really thrown a lot of things into chaos to show
you really just how much of a completely political decision
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it is. You know, because of this job support which
not only was below expectations for the month of July,
but also for June. In May, a lot of the
job growth that was recorded was significantly revised down and
the numbers for those months were lowered in the wake
of trade and tariffs and immigration and all of the detrimental,
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chaotic things that Donald Trump has been doing to the economy,
and we start to learn more about those effects over
the past two three months, you know, And to make
it completely clear that he was she was fired. The
head to Bureau of Labors Satistics was fired because Trump
did not approve of the numbers. We have this really
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incredible supercut put forward by Meet the Press, where you know,
Kevin Hassett, who is the natural economic director for Donald Trump,
is faced with the cold heart facts. Let's take a look.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
President Trump himself was happy to accept the job's numbers
issued under mcintarfur's leadership when the numbers were good. Take
a listen to what he said in the past.
Speaker 5 (15:27):
The numbers were much better, as you know, than projected
by the media.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
In three months, we have.
Speaker 5 (15:35):
Created three hundred and fifty thousand jobs. Think of that,
A lot of jobs and be created.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
That's what happened this morning. So the jobs.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
So is the President prepared to fire anyone who reports
data that he disagrees with?
Speaker 2 (15:49):
No, absolutely not.
Speaker 6 (15:50):
The President wants his own people there so that when
we see the numbers, they're more transparent and more reliable.
And if there are big changes in big provisions, we
expect more picking visions for the job data in September,
for example, then we want to know why. We want
people to explain it to us.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
So it's just this completely ridiculous there at the end
from White House Economics Director Kevin Hassett. It's just like
there's no lack of explanation, there's no lack of transparency.
They've They've been completely transparent on everything that's been going on.
But the main thing, the main problem. We know what
the main problem is. You know, the the numbers were
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not good, and they could blame whoever they wanted. They
could blame you know, Jerome Powell, they could blame you know,
native born workers being hired. But for all the job
losses are just a foreign born workers. But the end
of the day, people are just not believing it. And
I think it's very very fair to really start to
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question the validity of these economic data, these economic points
of data in the future because you know, oh yeah,
there'll be more explanation and the explanature is going to
be exactly what the hell Trump wants to hear. So
let's take a look at this next slip. And he's
essentially admitting it on the tarmac here outside of his helicopter.
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We need to take off.
Speaker 7 (17:13):
And that insues with deep numbers.
Speaker 5 (17:16):
You with the numbers for a long time.
Speaker 7 (17:18):
But today we're doing so well.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
I believe the numbers were.
Speaker 5 (17:22):
Phony, just like there were before the election.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
And there were other times.
Speaker 5 (17:26):
So you know what I did, I fired her, and
you know what, I did the right thing, and you.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Know, I might, Yeah, So I mean, there you have it.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Here's another one here, essentially going right on to it
in a conversation with you.
Speaker 5 (17:39):
This is not something from Jena, and there have been
a lot of questions, and we fired her because we
didn't believe the numbers. Today even though interest rates are
too high, we have a terrible head of the feedie
keeps interest rates too high. Uh, And I could understand that,
but I don't believe those numbers. I think because we're
doing so well, and we fired her. We had This
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is not something from just now. This was before the
election where she got meaning Kamala. We thought it was
Biden turned out being Kamala where they got very very
strong numbers and.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
It's like, yeah, you got really strong numbers too for
the months where the data was showing that there were
strong numbers, like it is actually important for a whole
host of reasons here that you get these economic numbers right.
And what was trying to do is again with the
Texas situation, with what he's doing in Gaza, with so
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many the theme of this presidency is completely melting down
American institutions and things that so many different people to
make decisions have always relied on in the country and
reshaping them in his own image and completely for his
own benefit. And this is one of the more shameful
examples of this of the firing of you know, you
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talked about firing Joan Powell, we talked about the actually
gone had and fired the head of the buera of
labor statistics here and it is a really big step.
Tr Trump fired America's economic data collector. History shows the perils.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
That is the.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Headline from the New York Times. It was a move
with few presidents in the century's long history of economic
statistics in the United States, and for good reason. When
political leaders medal in government data, it rarely ends well.
This is the case of Greece, where the government they
deficit numbers for years, contributing to a debilitating debt crisis
that required multiple rounds of bailouts. The country then criminally
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prosecuted the head of the statistical agency when he assisted
on reporting true figures, further eroding the country's international standing.
Then there is a case of China, where earlier the century,
the local authorities manipulated data hit growth targets manned by Beijing,
forcing analysts and policy amerkers to turn to alternative measures
to gauge the state of the country's economy. Perhaps most famously,
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there's the case of Argentina, when the twenty and twenty
ten systematically understated inflation figures to such a degree that
the international community eventually stopped flying on government data. That
loss of faith drove up the country's firing costs, worsening
a debt crisis that ultimately led to it led to
it defaulting on its international obligation. So this is further
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going to really harm the level of comfort that people
have with investing in the United States. Economic security that's
been already rocked because of the tariffs is going to
be put under a lot of questions because international banks
that make these huge funding decisions all of the time,
they don't know what kind of US economy that they're
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getting into that all these are these numbers are going
to be under revised. Are you going to be, you know,
boosting up some of the numbers? Are you just going
to be doing whatever Trump wants? You know, once the
once the assumption of truth is taken out of these numbers,
not only do you know that they're wrong, you don't
know which direction they're wrong.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
In.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Are they they're off a little bit? Are they off
a huge amount? You know, it creates so much uncertainty,
and you can see through those three examples, you know
how bad it can be for the economy. And then
you get this whole you know, this clip from Trump
here just really being blatant and just like I didn't
like her numbers. I didn't believe her numbers. But then
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of course there's all these clips and he says, oh,
he did it to Kamala too, or he was she
was boost Kamala too before the election. This lady, this
the who is the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
I felt like we should actually Erica mcent Tarfer, the
Senate confirmed head of the Macintarfur. I guess it's how
you would say, the head of the Bureau of Labor
Statistics saying this was a troubling step in that direction. Uh,
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with the firing, and you see Kevin Hassett here just
giving giving us a whole bunch of bologna, because it
just with this, with this Trump clip, you're saying, you know,
doesn't believe the numbers for the job, supports that we
fired her. We want straight numbers I was thinking, who
makes these numbers? You know, it's just like, you really
don't have any sort of like to stand on this.
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And as we talked about with the with the history
of the numbers and how good they were, they were,
you know, regularly beating expectations for Biden, they beat expectations
for Trump. You know, we had just before this, a
few weeks ago, we were doing segments about how the
haters were wrong when it came to the haters when
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it came to Trump on the economy, were wrong because
the jobs market numbers were so good and Trump was
getting tons of credit for these good jobs marker job markers.
It was a big part of the White House's message
on the economy, saying, oh, people say, oh the jobs
are gonna go crazy. They're they're they're freaking out. The
job market is tanking, well, the job market is not
taking look at the numbers. That's what the White House
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was saying up until last week when these jobs marked,
these jobs numbers come out, they freak out. After this
one bad report, It's like, hey, you could get a
better you could get a better.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Situation next time.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Who even knows, but you still fire her create tons
of uncertainty in the economy and really send the United
States down the path where it becomes less like a
world superpower and more more like an insane country sitting
on a horde of its own resources while it seeks
and sinks further into its demise of its own making.
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So a really kind of important benchmark in the development
of the United States economic policy here today with this
firing of the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics,
and definitely one will continue to keep an eye on.
In newsflash, Texas Democrats have been forced to flee their
own state to stop an insane power grab by Texas
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Republicans and the governor there, Greg Abbott, to seize five
more Republican seats for the upcoming midterm elections next year.
James Talerrico, who is a state representative in Texas who
recently went viral on social media, is explaining why at
the airport.
Speaker 8 (23:54):
This is State Representative James taller Rico from Texas. If
you're seeing this video, my Democratic colleagues and I have
just left our beloved state to break quorum and stop
Trump's redistricting power grab. Trump told our Republican colleagues to
redraw the political maps here in Texas in the middle
of the decade to get him five more seats and
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protect his majority in Congress. They're turning our districts into
crazy shapes to guarantee the outcome they want in the
twenty twenty six elections. If this power grab succeeds, they
will hang on to power without any accountability from the voters.
But Texas Democrats are fighting back. We're leaving the state,
breaking quorum and preventing Republicans from silencing our voices and
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rigging the next election. We are not fighting for the
Democratic party. We are fighting for the democratic process, and
the stakes could not be higher.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
We have to take a stand. This is amen to that.
Here is Greg Caesar.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
I hope I'm saying that name right, but really really
good congressman from Texas.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Also adding to what exactly going.
Speaker 9 (25:00):
On happening down in Texas right now.
Speaker 10 (25:03):
Yeah, this is a five alarm fire for democracy and
what's going on right now. Like you said, there's so
many things happening in the news, but this is actually
the really big one. Because if you ever want there
to be any kind of accountability or check on Donald
Trump's corruption or on people continuously being kicked off their
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healthcare or on immigration or on any of this. The
typical line, and I've been saying it, and I've been
I think naive is around organizing for the midterm elections
to build a majority that can hold him to account.
But Trump does not have a plan for winning those
midterm elections. He has a plan for rigging the rules
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before they even happen.
Speaker 9 (25:47):
Just tell us about what's happening down in Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
So that is a really great way of putting it.
And it is really encouraging to see this movement here
from the Texas Republicans because it shows what it's also
good to see. By the way, you know, Kathy Hochele
and JB. Pritsker in Illinois and New York or New
York and Illinois should say, I'd put that in the
right order there, But they're essentially promising to do the
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same thing, saying, you know, there is there has to
be a limit here because ever since twenty ten, ever
since the first black president was elected, Republicans have done
everything in their power to do not just to you know,
beat the Democrats on a fair playing field, fair political
playing field. So oh, you don't get him next time, whatever.
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But they've done everything they possibly can to destroy them.
You know, they've every nasty name in the book, they
broke it, every norm, They've jerry mannered every state they
could possibly get their hands on. And only now, only
very recently, are Democrats deciding to say, Okay, we got
to wake up. We gotta do the same thing as well.
And they're absolutely right, because the Republicans are not going
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to stop. It doesn't matter how many you know, abortions
they ban, how many gay people's lives that they make
absolutely miserable, how many guns that they give to everyone
they possibly can. You know, they are not going to
stop until there are no more Democrats, that there's no
more challenging for them to get whatever they want. And also,
I think, you know, a big part of this is
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within you know, obviously a lot of it comes top
down from the Trump administration and the push to say,
you know, what you know you need to do is
just give us these these five more seats we need
to win the mid terms. This is something that you
need to do. But also with the Texas Republican leadership,
it's a very corrupt, you know, the attorney general there
Ken Paxton was recently, you know, investigated and cleared by
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his own office for very credible kind of allegations of corruption,
and they would like nothing better to be able to
reward their cronies with an extra five free house seats
to hand out. And it really is a next level
step of jerry mandering and of completely removing the democratic
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process from anything that looks like any sort of democracy,
because it's like, you gotta be able to challenge these people,
and you gotta have at least somewhat of a representative
voice in the in the government of any state, even
if it is a predominantly red state. You have forty
two point five percent of Texans vote for the Democrats
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in the last election, and pretty much every Democrat around
the country is really just sick of the ship that
has been put on them by the Republicans and the
Trump administration, especially in this second Trump term, and they
are desperate, They are dying for anyone who is serious
about fighting back. And this is a really important development.
(28:44):
It's a really important step in the right direction to
say we don't have to be so powerless, we don't
have to meekly accept it, just say, oh, we'll organize better.
Next time, We'll get them more next time. You know,
none of that, none of that we can do better,
stay out of the state. You do not let them
go through with this plan to essentially give the Republicans
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five free house seats, and if they do, if they
can't get it, Kathy Hochel in New York and JB.
Pritzker in Illinois, may be better be just as aggressive
in doing the same thing, because you can't be playing
around anymore. You can't be sticking to the old norms.
You can't be saying, oh, well, look at them, they're
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just all these bad rule breakers. There's no moderators, there's
no judge to say that this has to stop. The
Republicans are just going to be able to keep doing
it with impunity because.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
They know that.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
They seem to figure it out that there's no judge,
there's no moderator, there's no one coming to stop them.
It's only going to be the ability of the Democrats
to stand up for themselves. And that is why you
know they've started this. They've started this fight. They have
really energized a lot of people, and I better not
be seeing them. You know, three or four days from
now getting meekly going back to Texas with their tail
(30:02):
between their legs. As long as the support is there,
the funding is there, because you know, it's a five
hundred dollars a day fine that was imposed by Abbot
and the Republicans for any day of miss work. And
you know, these representatives they only get six hundred a
month from this job. So it's not something that you
can do really afford to miss a lot of time on.
And you know they also have a lot of day
jobs that they're gonna be missing time from as well,
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and there's gonna be tons of some of pressure on
them to come back. You know, as long as they
got the support, as long as they got the funding.
You know, you started this fight, you're in elected office.
You gotta come in and finish it. You got to
stick out there. And you know, what I'd say to
them is great work so far. But the important thing
is keep it up as long as you possibly can,
and if it comes to a point where you can't,
it's on people like Hochel and New York and Pritzker
(30:46):
in Illinois to follow through in this fight because we
just cannot let them get to a point where they
are you know, stealing these house seats like this, it
is a step too far. Democrats have the power to
do something about it. Don't let anyone tell you they don't.
And it's on them to do it because we know
what the Republicans are trying to throw at people. Let's
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go to this here. This is Greg Abbott threatening arrest
for people who are missing time in the state House.
Speaker 9 (31:16):
Said in your statement that you put out today to
all of them in a letter to them, you said,
in addition to abandoning their offices, these legislators may also
have committed felonies. What is the felony? What are the
penalties for this?
Speaker 7 (31:30):
So very simply, it would be bribery if any lawmaker
took money to perform or to refuse to perform and
act in the legislature. And the reports are these legislators
have been both. They sought money and they offered money
to skip the vote, to leave the legislature to take
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a legislative act. That would be bribery. And so the
facts will have to come out. But I think, based
upon comments made by Bloodsheters themselves, they face a possibility
of facing bribery charges, which is a second degree felony
in the state of Texas. There's one way to cure that,
and that is if they get back to the State
of Texas and make korum today in a hearing.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
That we have it. By the way, they did not do.
Speaker 7 (32:17):
Cure themselves of any quid pro quo that would subject
them to potential bribery charges.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
Yeah, so they're threatening with the rest. They're threatening with,
you know, these bribery charges, with all sorts of different things.
And you know they have already come out they said,
the Sergeant at Arms needs to do whatever in this
possible in the in their power. I think it's her
so in her power to essentially chase these people down
and make them come back and vote for this insane
(32:44):
power grab. Here, let's see, I don't know, see if
they can find the video of it. This is essentially out,
this is the speaker.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (32:52):
To be absolutely clear, leaving the state does not stop
this House from doing its work. It only delays, and
every day this Chamber is unable to act, the cost grows.
In response to this dereliction of duty, and pursuing to
the rules of the House, I am prepared to recognize
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a motion to place a call in the House and
any other motions necessary to compel the return of absent members.
Should such a motion prevail, I will immediately sign the
warrants for the civil arrest of the members who have
said they will not be here. As speaker, I will
do everything in my power to establish coorm and move
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this body forward by any and all means available to
this office.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
You know, by any and all means.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
That is what they're saying, And I really think it
is so important, especially not that they've started on this fight.
It is incumbent on Democrats to use any and all
means to fight back on this and to resist what
the Texas Republicans are trying to do, which is really
a pretty serious assault on democracy for these upcoming midterm elections.
(34:07):
Boston Yusef went on the NLK Boys podcast set them
straight in a billion different ways after their really horrific
interview of Benjaminett Yahoo the other week. He's obviously been
so great on issues of pousting activism. Also, how's the
benefit of being a pretty funny guy. Let's take a
(34:28):
look at what he had to say to these guys
on their own podcasts. And you know they said they
talked to the other side, and maybe they got a
little more than they bargained for with this clip.
Speaker 4 (34:41):
Grilled him fifty one hundred thousand times harder.
Speaker 10 (34:44):
But something we can't get back, and we'll probably also
of course.
Speaker 12 (34:47):
But I know you can't get back this selectrip in Israel.
But I'm just telling you this was like part of
a much bigger provaganda effort, right, and a country that
spends one hundred and fifty million dollars on its image,
they are covering something when they spread all of these propaganda.
It's like, we're not starving people in Gaza. You understand
(35:07):
that this conversation has been happening for two years. First
of all, I'm not absolving you from your trip. You
guys are not little kids. You are fucking thirty years old, right.
People in your age have families and they have a career,
and you cannot just you cannot. You need to stop.
And I'm just saying this because you're my little brothers,
but you're not little, right. You need to stop infantilizing yourself.
(35:31):
It's like we're just stupid people doing stupid stuff. You're
thirty years old and you need to be aware of
what's happening in the world and that your reach and
your platforms mean something.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
Yeah, affects people.
Speaker 12 (35:43):
And I think the biggest reason why people are so
upset for you not because you brought someone and you
didn't contest him that it is the talking point that
he used is the same talking points that have been
used for two years to kill thousands of people. Right, So,
I mean, and part of the people part of the
reason why where people were so angry is that, forget,
(36:04):
even if you don't know anything about the conflict, there
was like a total lack of critical thinking.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
Yeah, I mean, there's so many good quotes in there.
So it's like you guys are thirty years old, stop
infantalizing yourselves. Like you if you want to go ahead
and do that kind of thing, do it, you know,
don't go in half measure, you know, don't go in.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
Or we're just we're just some stupid bros. We don't
know what we're doing.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
We're just gonna give it a shot, because it's always
so cool when we get to students chalk down to
the world leaders. It's just like, no one is gonna
take you seriously, no one's gonna give you any sort
of a break on that it's because you know, you
have especially when you know, if you're interviewing, for example,
you know, the president of Slovenia or whatever, it's just like, okay,
(36:52):
then you sit down with the world leader, and that's cool.
But even if you're sitting down with it, even some
slightly more controversial leader that isn't killing you know, thousands
and thousands of people, you know, on on a daily basis,
you know, killing civilians on a daily basis, you know,
you would be probably treated a little bit more gently,
(37:14):
people like, ah, you know, it's not really that big
a deal, but you are really And that's that's the
thing you are playing a role with Boston. Yusuf is
so capably saying there is you are playing a role
to humanize somebody as part of a you know, one
hundred million dollar propaganda campaign through your podcast, who is
(37:37):
doing horrific, horrific crimes. And they know that, you know,
it doesn't even seem like they're contesting it in this
first place, but they're you know, what Yusef is doing
here so well is rejecting all these uh trodded out
excuses about the Nelk Boys brand and Alcluis And it's like,
if you want to do that, if you want to
be these dumb frat boys, be these dumb frat boys.
(38:00):
Don't try and interview somebody who's a war criminal, you know,
and and give them softballs. It really is quite ridiculous,
and it's also quite a case. It's like, if you're
gonna go I don't even have a problem people going
out in their lane, but if you're gonna go out
of your lane, make sure you know how to drive. Essentially,
it's like that is that is a really big thing,
and I think it was a very good, very true point.
Speaker 2 (38:22):
There for you to say, oh, stop and finalizing yourself.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
But the thing is I also want to say is
they really would not have had the ability to do
this if they weren't going to ask those questions, if
they weren't gonna give that performance, because again, it was
a propaganda campaign. It was like you're buying an ad
on TV to humanize yourself, to make you reach a
(38:45):
certain demographic. It was just a complete and total exercise
in marketing. And it for at least for the period
of during the interview. They certainly got to wear after,
but they didn't even seem then out boys and it
seemed like they realized they were being used for marketing purposes,
which made them, of course all the more perfect targets
(39:08):
to the Israeli government and bagment in Yahoo as an
exercise to humanize nen Yahoo and what the Israeli regime
is doing in Gaza. Let's go to another clip.
Speaker 12 (39:21):
You were used, right, and it didn't start with the podcast.
It started two years ago in March twenty twenty three
when you went to Israel. Because I know, like I
told you that the Israel has increased their Husborra budget,
which is their propaganda machine, with one hundred and fifty
million dollars, and part of that money goes to influence
(39:42):
people in college campuses, higher influencers like you, getting them
into fancy trips to Israel, giving them this filtered, layered
picture that is made up at his fake I mean,
I watched it yesterday and I was ringing because not
because like you're showing how cool Israel is or they
(40:05):
have nicrimes. You're saying video yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, So
because when the part when you mentioned Palestine, you remember,
we're going to a place that is so dangerous now, Palestine,
And then you are in a in a bus and
then like special forces come in and kidnap you, and
this is kind of like IDF simulation counter terrorism. And
then they're telling you we have a dog that only
(40:27):
breeded in Israel. It can kill a man. And you
understand that like the kind of psychopathic behavior of a
country that tells you, like part of its like tourist attraction,
that we're killing terrorists and we're breeding dogs to kill
human beings. And by the way, I don't know part
of the anger is like just last year there was
like a kid with autism and down syndrome that was
(40:49):
killed by one of these dogs. And then the next
scene is let's go and see Palestinian family. And the
only Palestinian family in this video are just a bunch
of banduins in a tent. A guy who's married two wives,
and he tells you, my whole life is about camels
and goats and chicken. And then you find like a
sixty years old one. I just live on pita bread
(41:10):
and milk. So even if October seventh didn't happen, you
were used in a propaganda machine to tell people this
is what you need to know about Palestinians. They are
just like a bunch of people with cows and goats
marrying two people living in a tent, happy with the
piza bread and milk. So you were recruited in March
(41:31):
twenty twenty three and you were activated in July twenty
twenty five, right.
Speaker 1 (41:37):
And I love that little look if you can go
back there at the end, like the very last frame
of the guy I think his name is Kyle, who's
in the middle there, just like guess I was.
Speaker 2 (41:46):
It's just like these people really don't know what's going on.
Speaker 1 (41:48):
They don't have two brain cells on their head genuinely
to rub together unless it's something like how do we
make a video go viral? What's cool in the kind
of online world that we're good at and credited that.
But just like when you try and break into that
other lane and you try and you humanized this really blatant,
awful discussing work, it's like people are gonna come for
(42:09):
you on that. Just it really is remarkable to see
the fact that they clearly just did not know what
the situation was, what the what the vibes were essentially
with the Israeli government, and and why they thought, you know, oh,
they just it's just because we're so popular and we're
just so good at what we do that there's really
government wanted to just to show us around. It's like, no,
they again, they spend billions of dollars on this stuff.
(42:32):
They know what they're doing when it comes to making
sure that their their brand can be humanized and it
can be seen with the right people that they want
to be seen with and exactly where they want to
be portrayed to. It's just it's really a high tech,
high precision marketing campaign for a really state that's committing
acts of evil on a daily basis and has been
(42:53):
for decades and decades and decades. And now it's very
very good to see Boston Musif coming in and calling
out these people that hopefully they will learn better. And
I think the big thing is especially you can see
with their reaction and the fact that again they clearly
did not realize that they were being used. Maybe they
(43:13):
would have been sympathetic in the first place, but I
think Israel, as he said, you know, recruited them and
made them sympathetic already so that they could come to
this interview in twenty twenty five with good memories and
good experiences from their time in Israel where they did
all those things that Boss was talking about there, and
when the will become they need to give a committed,
(43:34):
you're humanizing interview in Netahu, they go ahead and do it,
but it really, I think will be a cautionary tale
for a lot of people in the kind of similar
spaces that if they want to go into this, if
they want to have a big interview where they're clearly
being used by a powerful person to essentially humanize them
and make them seem more acceptable to their kind of
(43:55):
young politically disengage audience through kind of a off topic,
fun politics interview, like they're going to think twice because
they know the backlash of the Nulk Boys got and
they don't want to get the same thing. So hopefully,
and I think it's already, it already has started to
a certain extent that it'll lead to a sea change
when it comes to these type of podcasters doing these
(44:15):
type of interviews. That is all we have for you today,
Thank you so much for listening. Once again, all clips
will be out on the Spenswel's YouTube channel by midnight
on Monday night Tuesday morning, so go check that out
as well. Have a great rest of your week. We'll
be back either Thursday or Friday.
Hello everyone, My name is Sneger Walsh. Welcome to today's
episode of Newslash. We have a good one for you.
As always on the show, today we are taking a
look at new reports from Gaza, including the confirmation by
Israeli media of plans from the idea in the Israeli
government to fully occupy the Gaza strip, and why FEMA
(00:33):
is saying that BDS supporters or BDS supporting locales cannot
receive any disaster aid. We'll also taking a link the
first pictures and videos of aerial destruction from the Gaza
taken from air drop aid planes that really exposed the
futility of that whole operation. Also, the Trump economy is
(00:55):
reeling after Trump fires the head of the Bureau of
Labors Statistics after a poor jobs report last week. Texas
Democrats are fleeing to prevent Greg Abbott from essentially stealing
five nor GOP house stats in a mid decade redistricting
planned in Texas and Boston.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Yusef has confronted.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
The Knelt Boys on their own podcast for that really
really awful Benjamin NETANYAHUO interview.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Once again.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
All these clips are going to be on YouTube and
they will be on YouTube by midnight tonight, So go
to the Spencer Welsh YouTube channel. Check it out for
that visual aid, that visual aspect to things, which I
think is pretty darn cool. And without further ado, let's
start the show. Well, we finally have reached the logical
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conclusion of Israel's genocide in Gaza, and that has been
as we see here today with an announcement from the
Israeli government. Senior prime figures in Primet Yiahu's office reportedly
told end twelve, the decision has been made. Israel is
going to conquer the Gaza Strip. So we finally reached
(02:09):
the point where so many people said that we would reach,
which is complete Israeli occupation of the Gaza Strip, no
sort of sensible solution, no sort of effort or lip
service being paid in regards to a ceasefire. We have
reached the final conclusion of really what Israel set out
to do on October seventh, and what people in Israel's
(02:32):
right wing government were essentially goading them to do through
various public appearances and doubtless many more private appearances, which
is finally expand and we talked about it on the
last show. You know Inamar Bang Gavir was calling for
it as he had been calling for it for a while,
which is to re establish the settlements in Gaza. They
(02:52):
were called Gush Katif back in the time they were
you know, you can get into a whole long, you know,
period of history about this. But in the two thousand
and five two thousand and six period, the Prime Minster
of Israel decides we are going to essentially create this
permanent island of evildoers in Gaza strip and they essentially
(03:17):
have Hamas wins the election, and then this a complete
and utter siege on Gaza. The moment that the Israeli
settlers and any sort of Israeli citizens or Jewish people
are pulled out of Gaza, it's complete siege. They're not
allowed to have any sort of civil society, and Hamas,
(03:38):
as we know, takes control from there. And this is
really the logical conclusion to all of that. You know,
you saw a real effort that had been put out
in the in the past few months with the Gazi
Minitarian Foundation to try and concentrate everyone towards the south
in the border of Gaza with Egypt and the mediterrane
(04:00):
And see, we saw we talked about this on the
past past shows as well, which is an effort to
essentially build a camp around that area, the kind of
south border of Gaza between Egypt and the Mediterranean. They
want to build a camp there, or they want to
have full charge of security. They want to have, you know,
give them like a thousand calories a day uh to
live on. These starving people essentially make life so bad,
(04:22):
so unbearable for them that they will choose to voluntary,
voluntarily migrate. You know, they'll just really really want to
go for you know, a nice break, a nice vacation
in you know, a country like Libya or something like that,
where they will be you know, living somehow even a
worse quality of life with the failed state that is Libya.
(04:44):
But it really is hard to imagine that anything could
be worse than Gaza at this point. But it comes
after so much Israeli destruction and a complete refusal by
the Israelis to accept anything less than this outcome, and
their support in that pursuit by the United States. That's
(05:05):
really how we get to where we are today. So
you can see it here in this next post here
also from this actually from ITV News, they were going
out on one of these AID flights, and this is
what they saw over Gaza. If you're watching on YouTube,
you can get better a picture of it, but the
reporter describes it pretty well. It's absolute destruction, and it's
(05:30):
all part of this plan, which is a rebuilding. This
is the same way, the same thing they did with
the rest of Israel, by the way, which is a
rebuilding of Jewish Israeli settlements in cities and towns on
top of destroyed Arab Palestinian communities that were destroyed with
Israeli and Western firepower. And you know, that is what
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we see right here, and what happens to the people
who are living there previously, They become refugees, they become
scattered out, and they become completely dispossessed from their homewards.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Cities like broken skeletons laid waste by war, graveyards of
life and lives, the streets, homes and coffee houses of
old now cast to the ground. The soul of this place,
along with the souls who lived here, brought to ruin
in the rubble and dust. Israel bands foreign journalists from
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entering Gaza. Fifteen thousand feet above is the closest we
get to seeing for ourselves the consequences of the war
it is waging here. When we joined an air drop
last week, Israel also tried to restrict images from above
being filmed or shown. Aid being dropped from this flight
is to those who are trying to survive in this hell.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Yeah, and I mean, what more can you say there?
It's just like the They don't even let you fly
over and take pictures. That is how bad the destruction is.
And thank god they were able to I don't know
it was there with the UAE or with whoever that
they were able to film from the plane. They're not
even able to go on the ground and talk about destruction.
(07:17):
And the reason for that is they're able to if
there's nothing coming out from the ground. It's palsing the
and journals only who they immediately smear as ams. But
then of course after they're you know, killed by Azila
or killed by starvation and imposed by a Zil or whatever.
You know, they're of course proven right about the conditions
on the ground. But when you don't have that information,
(07:41):
when you don't have that ability to tell the truth
and tell what's happening right in front of you to
your people, to the world. It's easier for people like
Yahu and all these online Israeli figures, you know eton Fishburger,
you know, Al Yakobe and all those people that I'm
sure everyone who's been online at all in any social
(08:02):
media network has scene. You know, they spread these lies
about oh they're not really starving. Oh look at that
fat one over there. You know, there's a picture from
you know, the beginning of the war or whatever. You know,
they are able to completely feel this information avoid this
information vacuum because these journalists, the Western journalists, have been denied.
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And when even the Western journalists, whenever a Palace Indian
reports on the ground, they question it, they say, oh
it's is it Hamas? They these people may have tied
to Amas. They take the Israeli government's word at complete
face value. And we get to a point where, you know,
finally the Israeli or sorry, the Western journalists are starting
to pay attention, finally starting they're starting to give voice
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to the suffering the pals ins on the ground. And
by the time that happens, it's far too late, and
you're you're seeing scenes of devastation like you saw in
that video there from ITV news. We've also heard a
lot about the hostages, and this is one from the
This is from rom uh Barsolowski and Ivtar David. This
(09:10):
is uh Iftar David in this tunnel under Gaza, and
you know he's saying he's forced to dig his own grave,
which is incredibly dark, dark stuff. And then you see
there's another one, uh Ram Bressolowski, who is in incredibly,
incredibly dire shape. But what the Palestinian captors are saying
of these people, by the way, who are not the
last civilian captives were released a long long time ago.
(09:33):
These are people who were manning the border fence on
October seventh and imposing what the UN had already called
an open air prison on Gaza on a daily basis,
you know. And these are the people that were taken
into Gaza bay Hamas on October seventh.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
You know.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
They they're saying, they eat what we eat. We are
all being starved. A lot of us look exactly like that.
We are in really dire conditions. And of course people
in my maybe some more well connected people, but really,
you know, I think it's the Israeli gangs. There is
really back gangs, the yasar Abu Shabab, who, by the way,
wrote an article on the Wall Street Journal if you
(10:11):
want to get a sense of who that guy's working for,
who are really eating well. But it's really amazing to
see that there's just one Jewish person starving, one Israeli
starving in the midst of this chaos, in the midst
of this total and utter hell. And of course the
(10:32):
media coverage drops.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
To focus on that.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
There's, oh, how awful, he's so amaziated. This is the
real starvation. When it's Pacinian starving, it's oh, they had
a genetic disorder or something.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Oh, they had this other.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Thing going on that completely excuses the situation and they're
not really under any actual threat, like no, no, no, no.
And it completely shows you the racism and dehumanation. That
dehuman is, that humanization that has been so thoroughly entrenched
in Palestinian and about Palestinians in Western civil society and
(11:09):
just political discourse. And it really, I think it's important
to say it comes from the top down. This is
the headline in Reuter's US links one point nine billion
in state disaster funds to Israeli boycott stance This is
really some instant stuff. US states that in cities that
boycott Israeli companies will be non federal aid for disaster preparedness.
(11:30):
The Trump administration has announced time routine federal funding to
its political stance. The Federal Emergency Management Agencies stated and
grant notice is posted on product that states must follow
its terms and conditions. Those conditions they certify they will
not sever commercial relations, specifically with Israeli companies to qualify
for funding. So if you want to cut off ties
(11:54):
to an Israeli drone company or Soabrahammis for example, that's
probably the most common one that has these groups grows
these chickpeas and heads of factories and things like that
on Israeli settled not even normal Israeli territory, but on
settlements in Israel, and i should say, in the West
Bank in Palestine. You know you if you don't want
(12:15):
to support that in your small town or your state,
because pretty much all states, all major states have BDS
laws on the books, democratic or Republican at this point.
But if even in any time in the future, if
you want to change that, and if you want to
cut off economic ties with Israel, then the American government
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has decided, as we see this genocide it was we
see the starvation, as we see the pictures and the
videos of destruction coming out on a daily basis from Israel,
the American government has decided that you should not be
rescued by it, the government that you paid taxes to,
(12:57):
and by the way they send that tax and the
taxes is anyway, they will not come rescue you if
you are the victim of a natural disaster. It's really,
it is incredible, the lengths that we are willing to go,
the dignity that we are willing to sacrifice, even among
our own population for the Israeli state. Is even as
(13:20):
they it becomes so clear the genocide and the pain
and the suffering and the starvation they are unleashing right now,
the face that we are willing to lose, the levels
that we are willing to stoop to to embrace that
really no bounds. And especially with what we talked about
in the beating of the story, which is a now
(13:40):
full ethnic cleansing and occupation of Gaza by the Israeli army,
especially in the light of that, it's very worth keeping
in mind that there is no level that we won't
stoop to as a government to defend this, but as
a people, there is always time to do better and
(14:00):
to make change. After an abysmal jobs report last Friday,
Donald Trump over the weekend fired the head of the
Bureau of Labor Statistics, who is in charge of compiling
the unemployment numbers and the job statistics in general. It's
really thrown a lot of things into chaos to show
you really just how much of a completely political decision
(14:22):
it is. You know, because of this job support which
not only was below expectations for the month of July,
but also for June. In May, a lot of the
job growth that was recorded was significantly revised down and
the numbers for those months were lowered in the wake
of trade and tariffs and immigration and all of the detrimental,
(14:44):
chaotic things that Donald Trump has been doing to the economy,
and we start to learn more about those effects over
the past two three months, you know, And to make
it completely clear that he was she was fired. The
head to Bureau of Labors Satistics was fired because Trump
did not approve of the numbers. We have this really
(15:06):
incredible supercut put forward by Meet the Press, where you know,
Kevin Hassett, who is the natural economic director for Donald Trump,
is faced with the cold heart facts. Let's take a look.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
President Trump himself was happy to accept the job's numbers
issued under mcintarfur's leadership when the numbers were good. Take
a listen to what he said in the past.
Speaker 5 (15:27):
The numbers were much better, as you know, than projected
by the media.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
In three months, we have.
Speaker 5 (15:35):
Created three hundred and fifty thousand jobs. Think of that,
A lot of jobs and be created.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
That's what happened this morning. So the jobs.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
So is the President prepared to fire anyone who reports
data that he disagrees with?
Speaker 2 (15:49):
No, absolutely not.
Speaker 6 (15:50):
The President wants his own people there so that when
we see the numbers, they're more transparent and more reliable.
And if there are big changes in big provisions, we
expect more picking visions for the job data in September,
for example, then we want to know why. We want
people to explain it to us.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
So it's just this completely ridiculous there at the end
from White House Economics Director Kevin Hassett. It's just like
there's no lack of explanation, there's no lack of transparency.
They've They've been completely transparent on everything that's been going on.
But the main thing, the main problem. We know what
the main problem is. You know, the the numbers were
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not good, and they could blame whoever they wanted. They
could blame you know, Jerome Powell, they could blame you know,
native born workers being hired. But for all the job
losses are just a foreign born workers. But the end
of the day, people are just not believing it. And
I think it's very very fair to really start to
(16:49):
question the validity of these economic data, these economic points
of data in the future because you know, oh yeah,
there'll be more explanation and the explanature is going to
be exactly what the hell Trump wants to hear. So
let's take a look at this next slip. And he's
essentially admitting it on the tarmac here outside of his helicopter.
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We need to take off.
Speaker 7 (17:13):
And that insues with deep numbers.
Speaker 5 (17:16):
You with the numbers for a long time.
Speaker 7 (17:18):
But today we're doing so well.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
I believe the numbers were.
Speaker 5 (17:22):
Phony, just like there were before the election.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
And there were other times.
Speaker 5 (17:26):
So you know what I did, I fired her, and
you know what, I did the right thing, and you.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Know, I might, Yeah, So I mean, there you have it.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Here's another one here, essentially going right on to it
in a conversation with you.
Speaker 5 (17:39):
This is not something from Jena, and there have been
a lot of questions, and we fired her because we
didn't believe the numbers. Today even though interest rates are
too high, we have a terrible head of the feedie
keeps interest rates too high. Uh, And I could understand that,
but I don't believe those numbers. I think because we're
doing so well, and we fired her. We had This
(18:02):
is not something from just now. This was before the
election where she got meaning Kamala. We thought it was
Biden turned out being Kamala where they got very very
strong numbers and.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
It's like, yeah, you got really strong numbers too for
the months where the data was showing that there were
strong numbers, like it is actually important for a whole
host of reasons here that you get these economic numbers right.
And what was trying to do is again with the
Texas situation, with what he's doing in Gaza, with so
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many the theme of this presidency is completely melting down
American institutions and things that so many different people to
make decisions have always relied on in the country and
reshaping them in his own image and completely for his
own benefit. And this is one of the more shameful
examples of this of the firing of you know, you
(18:56):
talked about firing Joan Powell, we talked about the actually
gone had and fired the head of the buera of
labor statistics here and it is a really big step.
Tr Trump fired America's economic data collector. History shows the perils.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
That is the.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Headline from the New York Times. It was a move
with few presidents in the century's long history of economic
statistics in the United States, and for good reason. When
political leaders medal in government data, it rarely ends well.
This is the case of Greece, where the government they
deficit numbers for years, contributing to a debilitating debt crisis
that required multiple rounds of bailouts. The country then criminally
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prosecuted the head of the statistical agency when he assisted
on reporting true figures, further eroding the country's international standing.
Then there is a case of China, where earlier the century,
the local authorities manipulated data hit growth targets manned by Beijing,
forcing analysts and policy amerkers to turn to alternative measures
to gauge the state of the country's economy. Perhaps most famously,
(19:53):
there's the case of Argentina, when the twenty and twenty
ten systematically understated inflation figures to such a degree that
the international community eventually stopped flying on government data. That
loss of faith drove up the country's firing costs, worsening
a debt crisis that ultimately led to it led to
it defaulting on its international obligation. So this is further
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going to really harm the level of comfort that people
have with investing in the United States. Economic security that's
been already rocked because of the tariffs is going to
be put under a lot of questions because international banks
that make these huge funding decisions all of the time,
they don't know what kind of US economy that they're
(20:35):
getting into that all these are these numbers are going
to be under revised. Are you going to be, you know,
boosting up some of the numbers? Are you just going
to be doing whatever Trump wants? You know, once the
once the assumption of truth is taken out of these numbers,
not only do you know that they're wrong, you don't
know which direction they're wrong.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
In.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Are they they're off a little bit? Are they off
a huge amount? You know, it creates so much uncertainty,
and you can see through those three examples, you know
how bad it can be for the economy. And then
you get this whole you know, this clip from Trump
here just really being blatant and just like I didn't
like her numbers. I didn't believe her numbers. But then
(21:13):
of course there's all these clips and he says, oh,
he did it to Kamala too, or he was she
was boost Kamala too before the election. This lady, this
the who is the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
I felt like we should actually Erica mcent Tarfer, the
Senate confirmed head of the Macintarfur. I guess it's how
you would say, the head of the Bureau of Labor
Statistics saying this was a troubling step in that direction. Uh,
(21:36):
with the firing, and you see Kevin Hassett here just
giving giving us a whole bunch of bologna, because it
just with this, with this Trump clip, you're saying, you know,
doesn't believe the numbers for the job, supports that we
fired her. We want straight numbers I was thinking, who
makes these numbers? You know, it's just like, you really
don't have any sort of like to stand on this.
(21:58):
And as we talked about with the with the history
of the numbers and how good they were, they were,
you know, regularly beating expectations for Biden, they beat expectations
for Trump. You know, we had just before this, a
few weeks ago, we were doing segments about how the
haters were wrong when it came to the haters when
(22:19):
it came to Trump on the economy, were wrong because
the jobs market numbers were so good and Trump was
getting tons of credit for these good jobs marker job markers.
It was a big part of the White House's message
on the economy, saying, oh, people say, oh the jobs
are gonna go crazy. They're they're they're freaking out. The
job market is tanking, well, the job market is not
taking look at the numbers. That's what the White House
(22:39):
was saying up until last week when these jobs marked,
these jobs numbers come out, they freak out. After this
one bad report, It's like, hey, you could get a
better you could get a better.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Situation next time.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Who even knows, but you still fire her create tons
of uncertainty in the economy and really send the United
States down the path where it becomes less like a
world superpower and more more like an insane country sitting
on a horde of its own resources while it seeks
and sinks further into its demise of its own making.
(23:13):
So a really kind of important benchmark in the development
of the United States economic policy here today with this
firing of the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics,
and definitely one will continue to keep an eye on.
In newsflash, Texas Democrats have been forced to flee their
own state to stop an insane power grab by Texas
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Republicans and the governor there, Greg Abbott, to seize five
more Republican seats for the upcoming midterm elections next year.
James Talerrico, who is a state representative in Texas who
recently went viral on social media, is explaining why at
the airport.
Speaker 8 (23:54):
This is State Representative James taller Rico from Texas. If
you're seeing this video, my Democratic colleagues and I have
just left our beloved state to break quorum and stop
Trump's redistricting power grab. Trump told our Republican colleagues to
redraw the political maps here in Texas in the middle
of the decade to get him five more seats and
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protect his majority in Congress. They're turning our districts into
crazy shapes to guarantee the outcome they want in the
twenty twenty six elections. If this power grab succeeds, they
will hang on to power without any accountability from the voters.
But Texas Democrats are fighting back. We're leaving the state,
breaking quorum and preventing Republicans from silencing our voices and
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rigging the next election. We are not fighting for the
Democratic party. We are fighting for the democratic process, and
the stakes could not be higher.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
We have to take a stand. This is amen to that.
Here is Greg Caesar.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
I hope I'm saying that name right, but really really
good congressman from Texas.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Also adding to what exactly going.
Speaker 9 (25:00):
On happening down in Texas right now.
Speaker 10 (25:03):
Yeah, this is a five alarm fire for democracy and
what's going on right now. Like you said, there's so
many things happening in the news, but this is actually
the really big one. Because if you ever want there
to be any kind of accountability or check on Donald
Trump's corruption or on people continuously being kicked off their
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healthcare or on immigration or on any of this. The
typical line, and I've been saying it, and I've been
I think naive is around organizing for the midterm elections
to build a majority that can hold him to account.
But Trump does not have a plan for winning those
midterm elections. He has a plan for rigging the rules
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before they even happen.
Speaker 9 (25:47):
Just tell us about what's happening down in Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
So that is a really great way of putting it.
And it is really encouraging to see this movement here
from the Texas Republicans because it shows what it's also
good to see. By the way, you know, Kathy Hochele
and JB. Pritsker in Illinois and New York or New
York and Illinois should say, I'd put that in the
right order there, But they're essentially promising to do the
(26:11):
same thing, saying, you know, there is there has to
be a limit here because ever since twenty ten, ever
since the first black president was elected, Republicans have done
everything in their power to do not just to you know,
beat the Democrats on a fair playing field, fair political
playing field. So oh, you don't get him next time, whatever.
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But they've done everything they possibly can to destroy them.
You know, they've every nasty name in the book, they
broke it, every norm, They've jerry mannered every state they
could possibly get their hands on. And only now, only
very recently, are Democrats deciding to say, Okay, we got
to wake up. We gotta do the same thing as well.
And they're absolutely right, because the Republicans are not going
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to stop. It doesn't matter how many you know, abortions
they ban, how many gay people's lives that they make
absolutely miserable, how many guns that they give to everyone
they possibly can. You know, they are not going to
stop until there are no more Democrats, that there's no
more challenging for them to get whatever they want. And also,
I think, you know, a big part of this is
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within you know, obviously a lot of it comes top
down from the Trump administration and the push to say,
you know, what you know you need to do is
just give us these these five more seats we need
to win the mid terms. This is something that you
need to do. But also with the Texas Republican leadership,
it's a very corrupt, you know, the attorney general there
Ken Paxton was recently, you know, investigated and cleared by
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his own office for very credible kind of allegations of corruption,
and they would like nothing better to be able to
reward their cronies with an extra five free house seats
to hand out. And it really is a next level
step of jerry mandering and of completely removing the democratic
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process from anything that looks like any sort of democracy,
because it's like, you gotta be able to challenge these people,
and you gotta have at least somewhat of a representative
voice in the in the government of any state, even
if it is a predominantly red state. You have forty
two point five percent of Texans vote for the Democrats
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in the last election, and pretty much every Democrat around
the country is really just sick of the ship that
has been put on them by the Republicans and the
Trump administration, especially in this second Trump term, and they
are desperate, They are dying for anyone who is serious
about fighting back. And this is a really important development.
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It's a really important step in the right direction to
say we don't have to be so powerless, we don't
have to meekly accept it, just say, oh, we'll organize better.
Next time, We'll get them more next time. You know,
none of that, none of that we can do better,
stay out of the state. You do not let them
go through with this plan to essentially give the Republicans
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five free house seats, and if they do, if they
can't get it, Kathy Hochel in New York and JB.
Pritzker in Illinois, may be better be just as aggressive
in doing the same thing, because you can't be playing
around anymore. You can't be sticking to the old norms.
You can't be saying, oh, well, look at them, they're
(29:26):
just all these bad rule breakers. There's no moderators, there's
no judge to say that this has to stop. The
Republicans are just going to be able to keep doing
it with impunity because.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
They know that.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
They seem to figure it out that there's no judge,
there's no moderator, there's no one coming to stop them.
It's only going to be the ability of the Democrats
to stand up for themselves. And that is why you
know they've started this. They've started this fight. They have
really energized a lot of people, and I better not
be seeing them. You know, three or four days from
now getting meekly going back to Texas with their tail
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between their legs. As long as the support is there,
the funding is there, because you know, it's a five
hundred dollars a day fine that was imposed by Abbot
and the Republicans for any day of miss work. And
you know, these representatives they only get six hundred a
month from this job. So it's not something that you
can do really afford to miss a lot of time on.
And you know they also have a lot of day
jobs that they're gonna be missing time from as well,
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and there's gonna be tons of some of pressure on
them to come back. You know, as long as they
got the support, as long as they got the funding.
You know, you started this fight, you're in elected office.
You gotta come in and finish it. You got to
stick out there. And you know, what I'd say to
them is great work so far. But the important thing
is keep it up as long as you possibly can,
and if it comes to a point where you can't,
it's on people like Hochel and New York and Pritzker
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in Illinois to follow through in this fight because we
just cannot let them get to a point where they
are you know, stealing these house seats like this, it
is a step too far. Democrats have the power to
do something about it. Don't let anyone tell you they don't.
And it's on them to do it because we know
what the Republicans are trying to throw at people. Let's
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go to this here. This is Greg Abbott threatening arrest
for people who are missing time in the state House.
Speaker 9 (31:16):
Said in your statement that you put out today to
all of them in a letter to them, you said,
in addition to abandoning their offices, these legislators may also
have committed felonies. What is the felony? What are the
penalties for this?
Speaker 7 (31:30):
So very simply, it would be bribery if any lawmaker
took money to perform or to refuse to perform and
act in the legislature. And the reports are these legislators
have been both. They sought money and they offered money
to skip the vote, to leave the legislature to take
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a legislative act. That would be bribery. And so the
facts will have to come out. But I think, based
upon comments made by Bloodsheters themselves, they face a possibility
of facing bribery charges, which is a second degree felony
in the state of Texas. There's one way to cure that,
and that is if they get back to the State
of Texas and make korum today in a hearing.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
That we have it. By the way, they did not do.
Speaker 7 (32:17):
Cure themselves of any quid pro quo that would subject
them to potential bribery charges.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
Yeah, so they're threatening with the rest. They're threatening with,
you know, these bribery charges, with all sorts of different things.
And you know they have already come out they said,
the Sergeant at Arms needs to do whatever in this
possible in the in their power. I think it's her
so in her power to essentially chase these people down
and make them come back and vote for this insane
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power grab. Here, let's see, I don't know, see if
they can find the video of it. This is essentially out,
this is the speaker.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (32:52):
To be absolutely clear, leaving the state does not stop
this House from doing its work. It only delays, and
every day this Chamber is unable to act, the cost grows.
In response to this dereliction of duty, and pursuing to
the rules of the House, I am prepared to recognize
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a motion to place a call in the House and
any other motions necessary to compel the return of absent members.
Should such a motion prevail, I will immediately sign the
warrants for the civil arrest of the members who have
said they will not be here. As speaker, I will
do everything in my power to establish coorm and move
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this body forward by any and all means available to
this office.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
You know, by any and all means.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
That is what they're saying, And I really think it
is so important, especially not that they've started on this fight.
It is incumbent on Democrats to use any and all
means to fight back on this and to resist what
the Texas Republicans are trying to do, which is really
a pretty serious assault on democracy for these upcoming midterm elections.
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Boston Yusef went on the NLK Boys podcast set them
straight in a billion different ways after their really horrific
interview of Benjaminett Yahoo the other week. He's obviously been
so great on issues of pousting activism. Also, how's the
benefit of being a pretty funny guy. Let's take a
(34:28):
look at what he had to say to these guys
on their own podcasts. And you know they said they
talked to the other side, and maybe they got a
little more than they bargained for with this clip.
Speaker 4 (34:41):
Grilled him fifty one hundred thousand times harder.
Speaker 10 (34:44):
But something we can't get back, and we'll probably also
of course.
Speaker 12 (34:47):
But I know you can't get back this selectrip in Israel.
But I'm just telling you this was like part of
a much bigger provaganda effort, right, and a country that
spends one hundred and fifty million dollars on its image,
they are covering something when they spread all of these propaganda.
It's like, we're not starving people in Gaza. You understand
(35:07):
that this conversation has been happening for two years. First
of all, I'm not absolving you from your trip. You
guys are not little kids. You are fucking thirty years old, right.
People in your age have families and they have a career,
and you cannot just you cannot. You need to stop.
And I'm just saying this because you're my little brothers,
but you're not little, right. You need to stop infantilizing yourself.
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It's like we're just stupid people doing stupid stuff. You're
thirty years old and you need to be aware of
what's happening in the world and that your reach and
your platforms mean something.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
Yeah, affects people.
Speaker 12 (35:43):
And I think the biggest reason why people are so
upset for you not because you brought someone and you
didn't contest him that it is the talking point that
he used is the same talking points that have been
used for two years to kill thousands of people. Right, So,
I mean, and part of the people part of the
reason why where people were so angry is that, forget,
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even if you don't know anything about the conflict, there
was like a total lack of critical thinking.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
Yeah, I mean, there's so many good quotes in there.
So it's like you guys are thirty years old, stop
infantalizing yourselves. Like you if you want to go ahead
and do that kind of thing, do it, you know,
don't go in half measure, you know, don't go in.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
Or we're just we're just some stupid bros. We don't
know what we're doing.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
We're just gonna give it a shot, because it's always
so cool when we get to students chalk down to
the world leaders. It's just like, no one is gonna
take you seriously, no one's gonna give you any sort
of a break on that it's because you know, you
have especially when you know, if you're interviewing, for example,
you know, the president of Slovenia or whatever, it's just like, okay,
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then you sit down with the world leader, and that's cool.
But even if you're sitting down with it, even some
slightly more controversial leader that isn't killing you know, thousands
and thousands of people, you know, on on a daily basis,
you know, killing civilians on a daily basis, you know,
you would be probably treated a little bit more gently,
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people like, ah, you know, it's not really that big
a deal, but you are really And that's that's the
thing you are playing a role with Boston. Yusuf is
so capably saying there is you are playing a role
to humanize somebody as part of a you know, one
hundred million dollar propaganda campaign through your podcast, who is
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doing horrific, horrific crimes. And they know that, you know,
it doesn't even seem like they're contesting it in this
first place, but they're you know, what Yusef is doing
here so well is rejecting all these uh trodded out
excuses about the Nelk Boys brand and Alcluis And it's like,
if you want to do that, if you want to
be these dumb frat boys, be these dumb frat boys.
(38:00):
Don't try and interview somebody who's a war criminal, you know,
and and give them softballs. It really is quite ridiculous,
and it's also quite a case. It's like, if you're
gonna go I don't even have a problem people going
out in their lane, but if you're gonna go out
of your lane, make sure you know how to drive. Essentially,
it's like that is that is a really big thing,
and I think it was a very good, very true point.
Speaker 2 (38:22):
There for you to say, oh, stop and finalizing yourself.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
But the thing is I also want to say is
they really would not have had the ability to do
this if they weren't going to ask those questions, if
they weren't gonna give that performance, because again, it was
a propaganda campaign. It was like you're buying an ad
on TV to humanize yourself, to make you reach a
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certain demographic. It was just a complete and total exercise
in marketing. And it for at least for the period
of during the interview. They certainly got to wear after,
but they didn't even seem then out boys and it
seemed like they realized they were being used for marketing purposes,
which made them, of course all the more perfect targets
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to the Israeli government and bagment in Yahoo as an
exercise to humanize nen Yahoo and what the Israeli regime
is doing in Gaza. Let's go to another clip.
Speaker 12 (39:21):
You were used, right, and it didn't start with the podcast.
It started two years ago in March twenty twenty three
when you went to Israel. Because I know, like I
told you that the Israel has increased their Husborra budget,
which is their propaganda machine, with one hundred and fifty
million dollars, and part of that money goes to influence
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people in college campuses, higher influencers like you, getting them
into fancy trips to Israel, giving them this filtered, layered
picture that is made up at his fake I mean,
I watched it yesterday and I was ringing because not
because like you're showing how cool Israel is or they
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have nicrimes. You're saying video yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, So
because when the part when you mentioned Palestine, you remember,
we're going to a place that is so dangerous now, Palestine,
And then you are in a in a bus and
then like special forces come in and kidnap you, and
this is kind of like IDF simulation counter terrorism. And
then they're telling you we have a dog that only
(40:27):
breeded in Israel. It can kill a man. And you
understand that like the kind of psychopathic behavior of a
country that tells you, like part of its like tourist attraction,
that we're killing terrorists and we're breeding dogs to kill
human beings. And by the way, I don't know part
of the anger is like just last year there was
like a kid with autism and down syndrome that was
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killed by one of these dogs. And then the next
scene is let's go and see Palestinian family. And the
only Palestinian family in this video are just a bunch
of banduins in a tent. A guy who's married two wives,
and he tells you, my whole life is about camels
and goats and chicken. And then you find like a
sixty years old one. I just live on pita bread
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and milk. So even if October seventh didn't happen, you
were used in a propaganda machine to tell people this
is what you need to know about Palestinians. They are
just like a bunch of people with cows and goats
marrying two people living in a tent, happy with the
piza bread and milk. So you were recruited in March
(41:31):
twenty twenty three and you were activated in July twenty
twenty five, right.
Speaker 1 (41:37):
And I love that little look if you can go
back there at the end, like the very last frame
of the guy I think his name is Kyle, who's
in the middle there, just like guess I was.
Speaker 2 (41:46):
It's just like these people really don't know what's going on.
Speaker 1 (41:48):
They don't have two brain cells on their head genuinely
to rub together unless it's something like how do we
make a video go viral? What's cool in the kind
of online world that we're good at and credited that.
But just like when you try and break into that
other lane and you try and you humanized this really blatant,
awful discussing work, it's like people are gonna come for
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you on that. Just it really is remarkable to see
the fact that they clearly just did not know what
the situation was, what the what the vibes were essentially
with the Israeli government, and and why they thought, you know, oh,
they just it's just because we're so popular and we're
just so good at what we do that there's really
government wanted to just to show us around. It's like, no,
they again, they spend billions of dollars on this stuff.
(42:32):
They know what they're doing when it comes to making
sure that their their brand can be humanized and it
can be seen with the right people that they want
to be seen with and exactly where they want to
be portrayed to. It's just it's really a high tech,
high precision marketing campaign for a really state that's committing
acts of evil on a daily basis and has been
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for decades and decades and decades. And now it's very
very good to see Boston Musif coming in and calling
out these people that hopefully they will learn better. And
I think the big thing is especially you can see
with their reaction and the fact that again they clearly
did not realize that they were being used. Maybe they
(43:13):
would have been sympathetic in the first place, but I
think Israel, as he said, you know, recruited them and
made them sympathetic already so that they could come to
this interview in twenty twenty five with good memories and
good experiences from their time in Israel where they did
all those things that Boss was talking about there, and
when the will become they need to give a committed,
(43:34):
you're humanizing interview in Netahu, they go ahead and do it,
but it really, I think will be a cautionary tale
for a lot of people in the kind of similar
spaces that if they want to go into this, if
they want to have a big interview where they're clearly
being used by a powerful person to essentially humanize them
and make them seem more acceptable to their kind of
(43:55):
young politically disengage audience through kind of a off topic,
fun politics interview, like they're going to think twice because
they know the backlash of the Nulk Boys got and
they don't want to get the same thing. So hopefully,
and I think it's already, it already has started to
a certain extent that it'll lead to a sea change
when it comes to these type of podcasters doing these
(44:15):
type of interviews. That is all we have for you today,
Thank you so much for listening. Once again, all clips
will be out on the Spenswel's YouTube channel by midnight
on Monday night Tuesday morning, so go check that out
as well. Have a great rest of your week. We'll
be back either Thursday or Friday.
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