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Trump's approval rating is at 33%. Kylie, pop this up. President Trump's approval sinks to 33% in new UMass poll. And this is before a lot of these gas prices and TSA are really factored into the polling. The economic impact that his war is going to have is going to hit some of these triple Trumpers in a way that they were always able to justify voting for this man because they value money over human beings, they value individualism. As long as I'm doing okay, I don't care what my neighbors are doing over collectivism. And this is a cancer in the United States. So we're at 33 now. There's no way, there's no world in which this approval rating starts to go higher, the dementia is escalating, the gas prices are up, inflation is up. He's got 50,000 troops over in the Middle East. And historically, Americans do not bode well in immoral and illegal wars in the Middle East.
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C
I was just looking that they're talking about running out of fuel for airlines. And you think about, Trump went in, he did all this no plan, you have gas soaring. He wants to talk about, oh, he's doing all this great things with economics. He's manipulating the stock market, trying to keep it above water. How long before Wall Street's like, he's just full of shit. I mean, I can't believe they continue to fall for it, but these people are going to feel it in their 401ks and in their portfolios. And it's coming.
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Well, we know that the stock market is being propped up by what's called the Magnificent Seven, which are these AI companies, and it's basically a Ponzi scheme where they are trading trillions of dollars back and forth. And there's an AI bubble, much like there was a tech bubble and other bubbles in, in the stock market. It's already, the stock market is already indicating inflation, the impacts of the war. But other leaders of other nations don't live in this American media ecosystem where the news is suppressed and they are saying the impacts of this war are massive. Just this morning, Trump has some nonsensical tweet. If you want the Strait of Hormuze, open Britain, go get it. Go get it, big boy. And it's just nonsensical dementia. He is always going to be the way he's going to be. What's important here is these oligarchs have signed on to fascism. The people who were funding this fascism isn't Donald Trump. It's the richest people in the United States of America that have benefited from all of the loopholes and all of the double dealings that this country allows billionaires to manipulate. And this is something that kind of broke last night, and I'm cautious about reporting on it. The Daily Mail broke it, and I wanted to find a better source. And the Associated Press is reporting the following. Pop this up. Lawyers for man accused of killing Charlie Kirk asked to delay preliminary hearing. And here's my take on this. Number one, they're saying that the ATF can't 100% identify the bullet with the gun that Tyler Robinson used. This is not that strange. These bullets explode. So that in and of itself is not that big of a deal. I think the larger issue with the FBI and the investigations into this, I mean, clearly Tyler Robinson was there on a roof with a gun. I'm not some crazy conspiracy theorist. He clearly was raised in gun culture and MAGA world where people tend to be emotionally stunted and have ensuing psychological problems. As you can see from the President of the United States and his offspring, the ensuing psychological problems of being raised in this type of cult have. But what is of note to me in this is the lack of media intrigue in Tyler Robinson. It kind of reminds me of the kid that, you know, assassination attempt on Trump. And this is not the media that I'm used to in the United States. They're always gangbusters in on everything. And I just. Something about the whole thing with the bullets, somebody engraving in the bullets always didn't pass the sniff test for me. But this is interesting. This could be a leak to the Daily Mail by the defense to start. And that. And this is what the defense should do, they should rigorously defend Tyler Robinson, every single detail. Now, Cash Patel, there are reports that he wouldn't get off his private plane to go conduct the investigation until he had an FBI raid jacket on. And he's so small in stature that they had to go borrow one from a petite woman to give it to Cash Patel for him to go a go out to do his job. So a lot of these things, the defense is going to have a pretty good case because of just the incompetence of Cash Patel and the DOJ and the FBI in general under Trump. I mean this be like pumps and me running the FBI, it's worse. We do a much better job.
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C
So we're much better investigators. The through line between the alleged assassination attempt and Tyler Robinson's arrest is that state officials were completely shut out. There is no information from the independent investigative branches of the places where these events occurred. Utah has been cut out, same with the alleged assassination attempt. So of course that raises questions in my mind just as to what you were saying. Why are there so many inconsistencies? Why would we see Alex Preddy and Renee Goode shot on video? Have those investigations been tick tock? The game is locked with the FBI and Minnesota is not allowed to investigate. It makes you question what are they doing behind the scenes.
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Great points, Pumps. Okay, moving along here. Switching gears entirely. Israel has voted for the death penalty for Palestinians. Pop this up, Kylie. New York Times reports breaking news. Israel passed a law that allows for the hanging of Palestinians convicted of deadly attacks. Critics say it likely won't be applied to Jewish extremists convicted of similar crimes. Our friend Peter Twinklage repost this with comment and says it's a genocidal apartheid state. And I agree with Peter. It is a genocidal apartheid state. And here's some more analysis in the way this was reported in the western media. Kylie, pop this up. DEI Speedwagon says screenshot1, the times of Israel accurately reporting what the law does and doesn't do. And then the second screenshot I'm going to read to you is the New York Times that I just read. So go to the first screenshot. The law effectively enshrines capital punishment for Palestinians alone as it explicitly excludes Israeli citizens or residents. And Palestinians alone are tried in military courts. Israelis are tried in civilian courts. And then we have the New York Times. Israel passed a law that allows for the hanging of Palestinians convicted of deadly attacks. Critics say it won't likely be applied to Jews. So you see that disparity in the, the, the Western media is always some sort of sanit sanitizing or sane washing on this. This gets even worse from there. So to me, I mean wherever you are on the death penalty, I oppose it. I that's my personal I oppose the death penalty entirely. I don't think civilized People kill people for their crimes. I just, I don't think that that works. That's just my personal opinion. I understand that if you've been completely wronged and you want revenge and it feels like I want that dead, I get that I'm being. But I need for our governments to not act on impulse and I need for our governments to be more level headed. And it's just interesting to me that this is our, our rock solid ally. You know, they're a beacon of democracy. Here's how Ben Gavir, this Israeli politician in the Knesset and then leaving the Knesset, this is how he behaves after finding out that this law has passed. Pop this up. So here he is popping champagne in the Knesset. They are so excited that they get to hang Palestinians. I also want to note that the courts have a 96% conviction rate in Palestinians. They are holding tens of thousands of hostages right now. And I think this is just my take on this. The Israeli government sees Trump as a, an ally wherein they can do a lot of the war crimes and things that they have always wanted to do and that the clock is ticking and they have to move quickly and swiftly to get Lebanon to continue the expansion of the west bank, to Balkanize Iran. And it's utterly insane, this message to the world that, oh, Israel's this incredible democracy and the United States is this incredible democracy and we're fighting all of these fanatics. When as an objective person, as an American, it is incredibly important that I criticize my own country. It is incredibly important that I criticize the allies, that my country sends US troops abroad and our taxpayer money abroad. Critique, criticism is one of the healthiest aspects of democracy. But as it pertains to the United States and Israel and that alliance, it's just based on so much hubris and so much arrogance and so much, so many lies. This notion, you see Marco Rubio and J.D. vance and Pete Hexseth all simultaneously running the news cycle saying if Iran would invested, have invested in its people, they would be in a much better position now. And I'm like, please, are you, are you seriously saying that to an American public? And it reminds me that that kind of stuff works with MAGA and the centrist Democrats and the democratic establishment desperately want for that to work with the democratic base. So they speak to us rather condescendingly. Andy Beshear recently. Oh, no, I wouldn't call it a genocide. Andy, are you for real right now, like scholars that know a lot more about this than you, Governor, call it a genocide. And so when the Democratic Party, the establishment, treats us with condescension and lies to us, it tells me you have the same disdain for your base that MAGA has for its base. And I find this incredibly condescending. I find it immoral and I find it breathtakingly dangerous that there aren't real leaders in the Democratic Party. There are some. But the ones who want to throw their hat in The Ring for 2028, Andy Beshear, Gavin Newsom, JB Pritzker and others, they, we need moral clarity on this issue. We cannot be partners and allies with a country that is about to start hanging Palestinians and pop champagne that they get to do it. And let's just remember, like, this is the same country that the BBC reported. Doctors that came back from Gaza, kids were executed, kids, little children in the head and in the heart and in the genitals by the idf. There is a cultural problem with a huge segment of the Israeli population and there is a cultural problem with a huge segment of the American population where the, the through line is their death cults.
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C
I can't add much to what you're saying because I thought, I think you laid it out quite beautifully. I will just point out that in case I missed it, I have not seen anyone in Democratic leadership call out the Israeli government about this policy. But I have seen globally, other countries are talking about how severe, unethical this is. But, and maybe I missed people coming out in the United States, but I have not seen any objection to it here.
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Okay, and then we'll look into that. And then moving along, this is really important to note that the war crimes and the human rights violations are not just concentrated in one place. Again, I go back to this notion that Netanyahu, a war criminal. You see what a psychopathic homicidal freak show Ben Gavir is, right? The guy popping the champagne. The, the shot clock is running. And so they are moving on multiple fronts. And it seems to be a feature and not a bug that the IDF likes to flatten. Infrastructure and highly populated areas, hospitals, schools. And now the United States is also doing the same thing. We see, I think it's two to three schools that we bombed in Iran. There's no, no benefit to do that other than you're just a homicidal war criminal committing country with another, an ally that's fine with this. This is what Israel is doing in Lebanon, you guys. This is so important. And this just barely gets covered in the Western media. Pop this up. Israel fired white phosphorus over homes in Lebanon. Human Rights Watch says. Human Rights Watch verified and geolocated eight images showing Israeli artillery firing white phosphorus munitions over a residential neighborhood in yomor, southern Lebanon, March 3. The munition set fire to at least two homes in a car. White phosphorus burns human flesh to the bone and its use over populated areas violates international humanitarian law. So I want to be crystal clear because, you know, sometimes on these new shows we dive into the Trump and the gossip and just how incompetent they are. But all of us, us at times need to engage in these episodes that are about human rights and human rights must be linked. You cannot quantify that these lives in these countries are more important than this white phosphorus. I didn't know what that was at first. I didn't think it sounded good. But vaporizing people to the bone?
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What the.
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I mean, seriously, this is utterly insane. And now this country that knows they have a United States of America that will not hold them to account on anything, that with a continuation from Biden funding the genocide, that Donald Trump will go, yeah, let's go. Because he doesn't give a shit about what happens in any of these countries. He defers everything to his son in law, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, who have a twofold interest in this. Number one, they don't care about human life. And number two, they're going to make billions of dollars. And guess who's going to do all of the investing and all of the things to tee up these billions of dollars? Your taxpayer money. Meanwhile, over a million people are displaced right now in Lebanon. They are attacking archaeological sites. The white phosphorus situation, I, I cannot speak out enough at how disappointed I am. I expect all of MAGA to be on board with this. I cannot, I cannot emphasize how disappointed I am that Democratic leaders that want to run for president, Andy Beshear, who says about trans kids, I will not throw them under the bus because they are God's children, too. My question is, are these Lebanese kids, are they God's children? The Palestinian kids that are executed in the head, are they God's children? Or do we have a list? And I asked the Democratic Party if there is a list of what human rights are the most important to you. Own it, bathe in it, bask in it, publish it, stand on business. If you are able to run for president and say this group of people matters to me and they are God's children, but these people aren't, then run on it. But don't condescend your electorate because we're a lot more intelligent and critically thinking than the average MAGA voter. Pumps. I know you loved Andy Bershear so I'm wondering how this impacts you that he said that.
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C
Well, I'm extremely disappointed because I do not think that you can look at what's going on in Gaza with those children in Iran, with those children in Lebanon and then and say, well, you know, I'm praying about it, but I'm not going to hold anybody accountable. And it's not a genocide. And it just, it falls flat for me. And I'm extremely disappointed in him as a candidate that he can't see this crystal clear because it's so obvious. Why are you killing children unless you do not want the population to continue? I mean, that's what I think.
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You're exactly right. But if you know you need to kill children, you're spot on. That is spot on.
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C
So I just. Are we going to be able to divest ourselves from all of the, you know, APAC donations and alignment with the Israeli government as the United States? And until we do, we will not have clean hands, full stop. In my opinion.
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Yeah. And I think what we're looking for is this is a 9010 issue in the Democratic Party and what we're looking for is a slate of candidates that has moral clarity on everything. And I just have fundamental problems when people start quantifying human rights. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Tucker Carlson, all of this. We care so much about Palestinians. It falls flat to me because they don't give a a about poor black kids in the United States. Immigrant communities in the United States. We know that Tucker Carlson is the biggest homophobe on the planet. Just, just within the last couple months, calls people the f slur that are gay. F a g G O T Marjorie Taylor Greene. A huge transphobe. So I'm looking for people that have, that don't leave anybody behind. Where, where are the people with the vision of universal human rights? All right, that's all we have. We'll be back later. We'll have a more entertaining epis. Make sure you like and subscribe.