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July 24, 2024 - Slightly Offensive - Elijah Schaffer
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Civil Unrest ERUPTS in DC as Netanyahu gets THUNDEROUS APPLAUSE | Guest: Liam Cosgrove

Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, addressed a joint session of congress today - nevermind that America is in full-scale turmoil, with the former President escaping assassination by a hair’s width, the sitting president disappearing for a week and dropping out of his re-election campaign, among a million other things - Netanyahu came to America to address the political class about a VERY IMPORTANT issue.. supporting THEIR war. Haven’t they been saying Iran was a week, a month, or days away from getting nukes for 30 years now? Liam Cosgrove of The Grayzone joins us tonight to talk more! __ ⇩SUPPORT THE SHOW⇩ ➤ JOIN CENSORED TV: Watch this FULL EPISODE ad free + EXCLUSIVE content at https://censored.tv/ promo code “OFFENSIVE” for 20% - Keep free speech media alive! ➤ JOIN THE PRIVATE LIVE COMMUNITY: https://elijahschaffer.locals.com/ ➤ NOTICER T-SHIRTS / MERCH: https://slightlyoffensive.com/ __ ⇩ SHOW SPONSORS⇩ ➤ UNDERTAC: Get the best pair of boxers in America that are breathable, don't ride up, and last the test of time. Plus, they are battle forces tested. http://www.undertac.com for 20% off with the offer code OFFENSIVE20. Satisfaction guaranteed or your money back. Disclaimer: NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. Ends 8/31/24. Must be: i) a legal US resident of the 50 US or DC and age of majority or ii) a legal resident of Canada (excl. Quebec) and age of majority at time of entry. Subject to Official Rules available at https://bit.ly/B5FL55E Void where prohibited. ➤ THE WELLNESS COMPANY: Be prepared for what is coming next! Order your MEDICAL EMERGENCY KIT ASAP at https://www.twc.health/offensive and enter code OFFENSIVE for 10% off. The Wellness Company and their licensed doctors are medical professionals you can trust, and their medical emergency kits are the gold standard to keeping you safe! Again, that’s https://www.twc.health/offensive , promo code OFFENSIVE. ___ ⇩ELIJAH’S SOCIAL MEDIA ⇩ ➤ X: https://X.com/ElijahSchaffer ➤ RUMBLE: https://rumble.com..

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liam cosgrove
Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel.
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Benjamin Netanyahu.
elijah schaffer
Okay, I don't need to hear that name again.
It is approximately 7:45 p.m. Eastern Time in the United States.
We're trying some new times out here on the live stream, but the Prime Minister of Israel is speaking in front of Congress or just did to thunderous applause because Americans love nothing more than having the ability in their own background to do what?
Well, all they really want to do is to support another foreign war, another ally, as you might say, and in many ways, at their own expense.
So, we're going to be talking a lot about what's going on outside of Congress, the psyop that the media wants you to see, including the unrest, the destruction, and what we think about those people.
And then we're going to talk about these people, the people inside, the traitors, the treasonous individuals.
And I don't know if my guest agrees with me that continue to just deceive us with their outside AAPAC-controlled lobbying and do nothing for the good will of the people.
I'm Elijah Schaefer, and this is Knightly Offensive.
Thank you so much again for tuning in and being patient with our shitty setup and pretty much horrible production as we just leased a new building and we're going to be building a studio and get it back up to production.
The producer is going to move down and it'll be back to the best worst show on the internet.
Let's go ahead, Brian.
start the show what you were watching right there was the actual president of the united states benjamin netanyahu I just like to call him daddy because that's what I've got to do.
It's a little easier than sucking his dick in order to get money to fund my political campaigns and do whatever they ask instead of whatever you ask, the American people.
But it's not just so cutthroat and cut dry.
This is the same guy who literally brings his dirty laundry physically in suitcases to be washed by our American people.
They shit on us basically every chance they get.
And who's they?
It's not just Netanyahu.
I'm not biased against Israel alone.
Zelensky is one of them.
These are foreign actors, the EU, who mock us, laugh at us, take advantage of us, and continue to use and direct us to do their bidding, their will, at our expense.
And that's why I'm damn angry tonight, because these people continue to abuse the American goodwill.
And the problem is, is when you try to warn Americans about what's actually going on, you get called an anti-Semite or get called some sort of a conspiracy theorist, and you get rejected by your own party.
I saw at the RC myself to talk about what's going on in DC.
We're going to be talking about stuff afterwards as well.
I'm joined in the studio by a journalist from the Gray Zone, Liam Casgrove.
Welcome to Nightly Offensive.
liam cosgrove
Hey, man, thanks for having me on.
It's good to be here.
elijah schaffer
Yes.
Happy to have you here, man.
Why don't you introduce yourself?
Tell us a little bit about who you are, what you do.
I know that you're a pretty accomplished writer.
You work on a lot of projects, some secret, some out in the open.
But we'd love to get to know you as you're someone I respect.
And I think your work is pretty incredible.
And you've also been on Timpool before too.
So we'd love to hear a little bit about you.
liam cosgrove
Yeah, thanks, man.
So I'm a reporter for the Gray Zone.
I don't write too much these days because, yeah, I am busy with other projects.
But what I basically do for the Gray Zone is go to the State Department, the Pentagon, Capitol Hill, and ask questions to members of Congress that most journalists aren't asking.
So, I mean, that's really it.
I mean, greatest, it's pretty easy nowadays because, you know, there's so many wars going on and there's so many kind of either stupid or just journalists who are basically propagandists.
So, yeah, I've been on Timcast just like you said, was told I have Israel derangement syndrome.
I like to go after the America firsters, the ones who claim to be like Byron Donald's, because a lot of people don't realize that even Byron Donalds is just kind of a deep stater on most of the foreign policy issues.
At least he agrees with the deep state on nearly everything.
A lot of these people are likely sexual blackmailed.
That's the kind of stuff I look into in my free time.
You know, whether it's Epstein or Franklin Scandals, a great book by Nick Bryant.
People should read about this guy from Omaha, Nebraska, who was basically doing what Epstein did.
And the book describes it in detail in 2012, way before the whole Epstein thing.
That went really high up in the George H.W. Bush administration, pedophilia and sexual blackmail and things like that.
So that ties into Israel as well.
As I'm sure your audience knows, Epstein was likely a mossad asset and used to just get sexual blackmail on politicians here in the U.S.
So all that stuff is what I'm interested in.
And when I get a chance, when I'm in DC, I like to bother our government about it.
elijah schaffer
Oh, about it.
unidentified
Okay.
elijah schaffer
I didn't know if you had something else to say.
You're like, that end of story.
Dude, I was going to play the clip of you on Timpool getting shut down, but I do know that it is about 10 minutes long.
So I'll link it later for everyone watching.
But yeah, it is really, we are at a precipice right now where a lot of the focus is being on the people outside of the Capitol.
And this is what I see with the right-wing media PSYOP, that they continue to try to like distract people, you know, saying, okay, on one hand, I'm going to bring up a couple of tweets of mine here for a second.
They say, you know, the people outside are crazy.
They're burning flags.
They're literally, you know, demonic.
I'm going to play a video here that was from Tim Cast just to kind of show you how crazy these people are.
This was published directly on their site, and this is them burning an American flag.
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Burn that shit!
elijah schaffer
All right, so let's just start here Okay, this is a good, this is a good starting place.
I have a bunch of screens open, guys.
So I'll be looking all around.
I'm self-producing tonight.
My son's got a high fever.
My wife is, you know, barefoot pregnant in the kitchen, literally.
That's what's happening.
And I'm watching this go on.
And so we ought to be fair here, Liam.
This kind of imagery is legitimately the imagery that we see across the world, Western world.
We've seen in 2020, we've seen it before in 2016 of an amalgamation of intersectional progressives who are anti-colonial, they're anti-imperialist, and they really, they hate Israel and they hate the United States equally.
I mean, and if you don't believe me, if people want to defend these people, that's completely fine.
They're burning an American flag, yelling Alu Akbar, which is to me antithetical to American patriotism.
And I happen to think that just because some player in this is bad doesn't mean the other player is good.
But my personal opinion is, is these are fucking retards.
And I don't know if you, if you agree with me, but not everyone in the protest, but these kind of people who are agitating, you know, vandalizing monuments.
To me, it's just unhelpful, retarded people that you see in every leftist or progressive march.
liam cosgrove
Yeah, I mean, I agree.
They're probably stupid and I agree that they're definitely unhelpful.
But to be honest, I just don't care.
I mean, I think, like, like you said, the conservative media just loves to focus on this shit and go like, oh my God, look, they took a flag down and they burned it.
It's like, to me, that's legitimate protest.
I mean, I know that when they burn that flag, they're talking about like what the U.S. government is doing.
And if they burned an Israeli flag, it's like, yeah, they're upset about a genocide or almost genocide going on in Gaza.
So it's like, that's what I care about.
I look at videos of like children getting their limbs blown off.
And that's what makes me upset.
This annoys me because I'm like, I see like Matt Walsh commented on this and he's like, oh my God, these horrible people.
And then Tim Poole does the same thing.
And these are people that are kind of on our side, like Matt Walsh and Tim Poole.
I bet if it came down to a vote, they would vote to not send money to Israel.
So I don't like that they're giving easy fodder to the conservatives and like the stupid boomer conservatives who see this stuff and get pissed off because they just revere the flag for whatever reason.
But no, I don't, I don't revere the flag.
I don't revere our government.
I do love our founding values, our country's founding values that have just been completely disgraced by our government.
These protesters might be communist or socialists or whatever.
I don't care.
At least they're fighting.
They're protesting against the war machine, which is by far the most destructive aspect of our government.
So I personally don't care, but I get what you're saying.
And like it, it's just easy fodder to that like, you know, Zionist right-wingers can point to this and be like, oh, see, you want to be siding with these guys?
You know.
And so then that the stupider people that works on them where they're like, oh, well, I don't want to be a leftist.
Maybe I should support Israel.
So yeah, I don't think it helps.
I don't think it convinces many people.
I think collectively it does add pressure to Joe Biden, who's not really running anymore.
And now Kamala Harris skipped Netanyahu's speech, which is bad because I do want Trump to win, even though Trump's been like horrible on Zionism in Israel and stuff.
But I think I have some faith in Trump that he'll, you know, he's an anti-war guy at heart.
So I have faith that he'll prevail.
But now we're seeing Kamala play to this crowd, which could divide the vote.
But at first, I liked it because it was undeniably putting pressure on Biden that all his, he was losing all his progressive voters.
But I mean, in general, I agree with you.
They're kind of retarded.
But, you know, what's worse.
elijah schaffer
Okay, so this is where, but you and I will disagree a little bit on this.
I mean, I'm a little more patriotic, maybe.
I don't know your family history, but it's like, it's not the boomer in me.
It's the historical, I guess, romanticization.
Like I'm romanticizing, I should just say, what my founding fathers, what the people before me desired.
You know, my family was here before the revolution.
I still get free college education if I want to from being the sons of the revolution, right?
I mean, I can trace my family lineage.
We have a very strong root here.
We fought in the Civil War, which is not a civil war, but fought on both sides.
There was disagreements in the family.
For the most part, you know, when people talk about what this country was, that's what I still wish it could be.
But after World War II, the chances of that ever happening with the advent of the feminism on the shoulders of the 19th Amendment and this reshaping of the country to be not about egalitarian, I mean, not about a hierarchy and pedigree, but about egalitarianism, which was like sort of the foundation to bring in this new intersectional liberalism, which is more about victimhood and what we can take from the country and writing the wrongs, looking towards the past rather than the present.
I totally understand people burning the flag then in terms of like what this empire now stands for is a shell of what it should be.
And it is disgusting and despicable what our country has forged into.
But I respect the flag largely out of the people who gave their lives, at least in the mission of what they thought, right?
Like, I don't even know if we fought on the right side of World War II, but I can tell you that, you know, ultimately speaking, throughout history, we have been trying or progressing in a general movement towards a country of strength.
At least we were isolationists before World War I, World War II, and we had this sort of internal momentum.
And I wish we could go back to that.
But when I see things like the Liberty Bell being tagged up and stuff, sure, whatever.
I mean, you could desecrate the monuments.
I'm sure most of the stories behind these monuments are a little bit bullshit.
I'm sure we exaggerate a lot of our country's history.
I'm sure that there's a lot of, you know, whatever, just BS involved in what we're told in our history books.
But ultimately speaking, like, it's like, go burn the Israeli flag then, or, you know what I mean, or go burn APAC flags or, you know, burn the pictures and effigies of people taking money from these outside lobbies or, you know, something a little more significant.
Because to me, when you're burning the American flag, when you're going after this stuff, not only does it give easy fodder, the average American, you know, as Kamala Harris says, they're stupid at 19 to 35.
But I'm saying the average American is simple and they see this.
And to them, you don't want to be on the side of people who are burning your flag.
You don't want to be on the side of people that are desecrating your memorials and desecrating your monuments.
To me, I feel like so the whole media psyop, like I said here, is that people want you to think right now that if you're against Zionist infiltration in American politics, if you're against the war in Gaza, that somehow you support these people and that this is like, and even if you support it, but like this is you.
This is everyone who's against Zionism.
They're just a bunch of mongrels that want to go out and tag and commit crime and, you know, rile up the police.
It's, yeah, is it a fair form of protest to burn things?
Yes, but I don't think vandalizing monuments is a fair form of protest.
Personally, I feel like that crosses the line.
liam cosgrove
Yeah, I mean, I totally disagree.
I think it's totally fair.
I think the symbols, what pisses me off more about this disgracing these symbols and what does more of a disgrace to them is if you watch Netanyahu's speech, which is what these kids were protesting.
And also, you know, you can't assume the motive of all these kids.
Some of them are probably upset because they're seeing dead children over in Gaza and their money is paying for it.
Our money is too.
Others might be like, oh, yeah, you know, I'm anti-white.
But like to assume that that's the motivation when directly they're responding to Netanyahu giving a speech in Congress, I think is a bit of a stretch.
Some of them might hold those views, which I agree are stupid.
But what I was going to say is what I think is more of a disgrace to like the flag and our founding fathers.
And is if you watch Netanyahu's speech today, he invokes, I scrolled through it.
And at one point, he's like, he got 58 standing ovations.
And for one of them, he said something like, you know, we are fighting for the values of freedom and liberty that you guys fought for in 1776.
And then the crowd goes nuts and gives a standing ovation.
And it's like, dude, you're committing a genocide and you're stealing our money to do it.
So for you to come here and like invoke our founding fathers for like to our face as you like go home and laugh about how you just got another secured another 20 billion, that to me is just so much more egregious and so much more of a disrespect than these kids who are mad and burning the flag of a government that's, you know, that has just completely tarnished its original messages.
But yeah, I mean, you know, so that's really how I feel about it.
Our history is a little fantasized as well.
I mean, you look at people like Alexander Hamilton, who, you know, made the first central bank in the U.S., which was luckily abolished, and who, you know, they paid revolutionary soldiers in U.S. treasury bonds because they couldn't actually, they didn't have enough cash to pay them for the Revolutionary War.
And Alexander Hamilton, who was the head of the treasury, used U.S., early U.S. tax dollars to go around.
He made this plan to bail out those treasury bonds.
They weren't paying them back.
So they were trading in the open market at like 10% on the dollar.
And Alexander Hamilton used tax dollars to go buy them all up at 10% on the dollar.
Because he controlled the treasury, he then put this plan together where he's like, oh, yeah, we're actually going to fulfill those treasury bonds and pay him for $1 on the dollar.
And so him and his crony buddies went and bought all this shit up.
And it was like the first big insider trading event of the U.S.
And him and all his friends got super rich.
So, I mean, yeah, like Alexander, there are great founding fathers.
There are people like Thomas Jefferson and like, I'm not pro-slavery, but Thomas Jefferson was a great man and who believed in liberty and, you know, the values that we think that we stood for.
But there were plenty of dudes back then, like Alexander Hamilton, who just sucked and like did everything they could to take advantage of a new country the same way politicians do today.
So, you know, the flag, I don't, it might represent something different to you, but to me, it represents the government that, you know, I can't stand.
And I wish I do revere some of our founding fathers, but not all of them and not certainly not the current government who the flag represents.
And they constantly drape themselves in the flag and, you know, the same terms.
I mean, Biden does that same shit where he talks about liberty and our founding fathers.
Meaningless when it comes from someone like that who has just spent his whole life degrading those values.
elijah schaffer
Yeah.
You know, okay, so let me get your opinion on this.
You know, the thing is, is like, look, I think you're being a little more, I would just say a little more meticulous in terms of the way that you're pulling apart the past.
Maybe I'm just giving a broad stroke.
liam cosgrove
You know, I am, but my general point is I was just giving you that Alexander Hamilton thing interesting.
I am in the terms of the past, but in terms of this flag burning, I'm kind of the one being like, who gives a fuck?
So, I mean, I'm not trying to guess.
elijah schaffer
I'm just right.
I think though, for, I think it's, I guess it's sort of maybe even how you're raised.
Like for me, you know, when you burn the flag, it represents a government to you.
To me, it represents the unity and who we were, at least, and at least what I would say is like white Christian America or this.
liam cosgrove
Yeah, I mean, I don't believe in unity either.
I think like if I was governor of Florida, I would secede like as soon as I possibly could and I would eliminate the income tax.
So I don't believe in this idea of unity.
I think the southern states, like, again, I'm not pro-slavery, but I think the southern states should have been allowed to secede.
That was kind of the idea of federalism.
That's what federalism was.
It was different than nationhood.
It was this idea that the states were voluntarily part of this country and they had the right to leave.
And Lincoln kind of overruled that idea.
And then the word federal kind of became synonymous with national.
But yeah, no, so sorry, I interrupted you.
elijah schaffer
No, no, no.
Dude, go ahead.
Well, yes, but what I'm trying to say is I think it's like this more of this hope, right?
This idealism, American idealism of wanting there to be a country that never can be in the current system.
And I think that a lot of us hold on to that, which is sort of how boomers capture a lot of ignorant young Gen Z America first types, because they look at them and they go, okay, I love America.
I don't like leftism.
I don't want communism.
And so then what they do is they set up this sort of dichotomy or this bait and switch, as I always call it, is they present to you this like shitty alternative like this.
I just want to play this right here.
So they show you something like this.
And, you know, these cops are getting, you know, just tossed like rag dolls by these protesters.
And, you know, as we know, they're the mostly peaceful protesters.
And you see them waving foreign countries' flags.
I mean, that's not illegal in itself.
You see, they look smelly.
They look dirty.
They look disgusting.
They're rat faced.
And many of which look vile and like they don't shower.
And particularly clips like this, right?
It's particularly just clips like this.
And they go, look, do you like, do you like this?
Do you want this?
And then, you know, a young 21-year-old white kid with a with a nice comb over cut goes, no, I like hot women.
And they go, well, conservative women are hotter.
Check this out.
Here's a turning point conference and you can fuck these tits too, you know?
And it's like, ooh, it's like, yeah, America.
liam cosgrove
Yeah, so I mean, I totally agree with you on that point.
I conceded that pretty early on that, yeah, like I don't, I don't think it's helpful if you think of like the grand scheme because of everything you just said.
So yeah, you create easy fodder for the Charlie Kirks and for the Tim Pools and Ben Shapiros to bring less principled or less intelligent conservatives over to their side, the pro-Israel side.
So yeah, no, I totally agree.
It's not very helpful.
Part of me, like, can't help but respect that like they go to these lengths.
But yeah, no, I don't think it's, I don't think it's actually helpful.
Like beating up random cops and like burning flags is just pissing people off.
I think if you did absolutely nothing, if this wasn't a story, Fox News and the Tim Casts and Daily Wires would focus more on the Netanyahu speech.
And I think more people would make the connection like, wait, isn't this just like the Zelensky speech that I got pissed about a couple months ago?
So yeah, no, I agree.
If you give the opportunity for the mainstream media to make these protests the story instead of like the mass slaughter that we're that we're being forced to fund, which is the story.
But when you do shit like this, you make it easy for them to focus on it because Fox News and places like that don't don't want to talk about the military industrial complex because they support it.
elijah schaffer
Right.
And I think, you know, one of the interesting things, though, is like we're at a new time tonight.
And yeah, I have like a like rage in migraine tonight for some reason, which is terrible.
And it's hard to think and be clear when your brain's like, I can't even like see right now, but whatever.
The point is, is I'm watching this stuff go on.
And, you know, like, I personally just don't like it.
Like, I've been around a lot of these leftists.
I know there's that, like, it's a, you know, lawful form of protest.
It's true.
But honestly, it's like our nations are not meant to be retarded.
And I think this is sort of this like new youth movement and generational teen movement.
The reason why it sucks is because they're not like, hey, let's get rid of Zionism.
Let's get rid of this, you know, culpability of foreign interest.
They just want to replace it with another totalitarian system.
They want this communist ideal that this utopia that I don't believe exists.
And I've been on the ground.
I spent years integrating with these people.
I have spent years on the ground as a reporter for like, yeah, the better half over, you know, nearly a decade.
And, you know, integrated, you know, in far right, far left groups, you know, nationalist groups and Tifa and the whole shebang.
But what I've noticed is these people ultimately don't know what they want.
They're just angry and mad and disenfranchised.
And so then now they just are mad at Israel because they were told to, but not because they're really intelligent.
And the people that support Israel are almost just as stupid and retarded.
So what you really have is these low information voters, these low information individuals that quite frankly, I just, I just don't feel like with these people even voting, we can really get anywhere, which is how they continue to control us because we're busy fighting each other.
It's like the right is like, oh, look at all these protesters outside.
Yeah, but what about all the people on the inside that are betraying you, that claim to be America first, but are supporting one of your enemies inside of your Congress and using your tax dollars to pay for it?
Why is that not the biggest story tonight?
Well, we know why.
And that's what makes me the most angry.
liam cosgrove
Yeah, no, I totally agree.
That's what should be the story.
And I agree in general.
I mean, like, most people, that's just the reality of like the world.
Most people are stupid and low information and low critical thought.
That's, and I totally agree with you on voting.
I mean, we should, I have long thought we should have a voting test.
And like, I don't necessarily trust the government to implement a voting test.
But I, there are just way too many stupid people voting on all sides.
And that would at least, you know, put that down.
So if you're, if you know, you've given it some thought and you know some information to prove that you can vote.
Or like a tax, like a poll tax.
And then at least you're like, you know, your higher income.
Certainly, like if you're a net receiver of government funds rather than a net payer into the government, you should not be able to vote.
But so, yeah, I mean, in general, I think we agree.
I think, yeah, the leftists, you know, are kind of dumb and like living in a communist society would lead to our all of our destruction.
But I, but I just, there's a lot of like reading into these people's motives of like, oh, they're not here.
They don't care about the kids.
And it's just like, dude, you know, like you said, they are dumb and they probably were on TikTok and they saw a kid get blown up, but they're dumb, but they're not like soulless.
So that's kind of, I think it's kind of like Occam's razor, like the most simple explanation.
Like, yeah, I give most of these people the benefit of the doubt.
They probably were at home.
They probably don't have a job or much of a social life.
And they see a kid get blown up and you're like, yeah, that's fucked up.
I'm going to go like burn a flag because they're mad about it, which like I totally understand.
I think the way they're doing it's not productive.
I think, you know, I mean, there's a million things you could do, but like, you know, that's one that just kind of pisses people off and doesn't really necessarily do anything.
But also, I mean, like, our, to bring back to our founding fathers, one of their things was like, you know, if your government becomes tyrannical to a point that's untolerable, which ours, I mean, we work for 30 to 50% of our year, depending on how much income you make, you are an indentured servant to the government.
And the government uses that money to spy on you, to propagandize you, and to kill children in foreign nations and even assassinate Americans who get, you know, like reporters who get too close to what the CIA is working on.
So that's, that's what our government does with our money that we're forced to work half of our year for.
I think that fits the definition of like what the founding fathers would have called for a revolution.
So when I look at these kids who are like not really doing a real revolution, I'm kind of like, well, I mean, at least they have the balls to do something.
But obviously they're just kind of goofing around and they're like, they're not, you know, ready for a revolution.
I'm just saying like Thomas Jefferson and these guys would all agree today, like, oh, you guys haven't rebelled yet.
Like this is, you get, this is worse than the British.
And it is.
I mean, the British had, we had no income tax and like the stamp tax and things like that were like 20%.
And literally only 10% of people actually paid them because there was no enforcement mechanism.
I mean, like we were had such better lives under British colonization than we do under our current government.
I mean, obviously, our lives are better because technology is better, but our government is just way more tyrannical by like orders of magnitude.
elijah schaffer
Well, and you put this up too here, directly.
You said that as a list of America First members of Congress who gave standing ovations to Israeli prime minister, you have Ted Cruz, Ron Johnson, Josh Howley, Byron Donalds, Marjorie Taylor Green, Anna Paulina, Luna, Eli Crane, Corey Mills, Matt Gates, Tim Burchett or Burchett, I don't know how to pronounce that.
Representative Lauren Boebert, Chip Roy, and Andy Biggs, and an honorable mention of Elon Musk, and of course, Rashida Tlaib, Thomas Massey.
And yeah, I don't know.
There you go.
And it's all right there.
I mean, what was your point of posting this?
I mean, what were you trying to point out here by saying these people were giving a standing ovation?
Wouldn't that just be a decorum?
Or do you think they're just fake to us?
Is that what it is?
liam cosgrove
Yeah, I mean, they're like, you know, it is, it is just decorum.
And sadly, that's why people go along with it because they consider it kind of harmless decorum.
But he got 58, I saw 58 standing ovations.
I think you posted it.
He got 58 standing ovations, which is like a record.
And then the second place was also Netanyahu in 2021, who got like 28 or something, maybe in the 30s.
But the reason I point out the America Firsters is because I'm actually friends with a lot of the staffers on their teams, and they're probably annoyed with me right now.
Because in general, I agree with them on most stuff.
Like Marjorie Taylor Greene is like, you know, one of one of my best DC friends is Marjorie Taylor Green's staffer.
And the reason I point out them is because we expect it from Lindsey Graham and we expect it from Chuck Schumer and Mitch McConnell.
But I would expect someone who is America first to be pissed off about foreign aid, which as Ron Paul said is stealing from poor people in rich countries and giving it to rich people in poor countries.
In Israel's case, it's giving to rich people in rich countries.
But if you're America first, you should be outraged about that.
And a lot of these guys don't actually, like to their credit, they don't vote for it.
Like Matt Gates and Marjorie Taylor Green, they haven't voted to give Israel money as far as I know.
Maybe they voted for the first one, actually.
But yeah, no, it's just like, it's completely hypocritical.
And it's disgusting at a certain point when you give 58 standing ovations to the guy.
It's just like, you know, you're doing it to like appease donors.
And it's just like, how do you, how do those people live with themselves?
So that's why I point out, I mean, the other people have zero integrity, but they don't pretend to have any integrity, like the deep state members of Congress.
But I don't know how like Matt Gates and Tim Burchett, Tim Burchett's a really funny guy and I really like him.
And a lot of these guys are actually like, they are like real people who care about things.
But how they do something like this and like still live with themselves is, I don't know.
I actually don't know how they do it.
And Thomas Massey skipped the entire event because he's like, I don't want to feel like a political prop to support a war.
And he was like spot on in saying that.
And APAC came after him and he was like, I don't really care what you guys say, which I think is, I have a lot of respect for him, Thomas Massey.
And I hope it inspires more.
But yeah, that's why I call them out because it's like, you know, they're like almost, they claim to be on the right side of things and then they demonstrate behavior that doesn't show that.
The other guys are beyond saving.
Chuck Schumer, Lindsey Graham, they're beyond saving.
elijah schaffer
Well, of course.
You know, I think, by the way, because you said you'd mute, I appreciate you sticking around for 30 minutes.
I think we're going to do a little bit of a short show today, guys, just because of the nature of me having to migraine all of a sudden.
But that's to be, to be fair, you know, this entire news cycle has absolutely fucked with my energy.
I don't know if you feel like this too, but it's like, I don't really feel a lot of hope that things are going to get better, right?
Like, it doesn't seem like things are going to really improve because this election with Trump, like, it's not that I'm becoming liberal or anything like that.
It's more or less that I'm detaching myself from the two-party system, detaching myself from the political system and kind of realizing, you know, this Trump campaign has all the big money in it, right?
I mean, like you hear him in 2016 talking about it's my money, I can't be bought, I'm not sold.
I can do what I want.
This time, him, you know, taking anybody who would give him money, right?
Then the Adelsons to, I mean, we thought it was going to be Elon Musk, but you know, you still have Palantir and all these other teal guys.
You have all these, you know, defense contractors.
And then he's thinking about putting like, you know, BlackRock CEO is, you know, one of his secretaries or that or JP Morgan Chase.
You sort of realize, like, I don't know if we're really, you know, have anything to be excited about going forward.
It's a little bit discouraging because, you know, you could play the media game and just get people hyped up and lie to them.
But when you really look at what's happening, it feels a little bit discouraging at the very least to say.
At the very most, it seems somewhat like you might give up hope that there's any way out of this without something very severe happening.
I don't know if you feel the same way.
liam cosgrove
Yeah, I mean, it is.
It's disheartening.
I didn't know all those facts that you mentioned.
I don't know how much donor money he's taken this time around.
I haven't followed it.
But it's certainly, I mean, Trump's about to meet with Netanyahu.
So it doesn't seem like there will be any change on our foreign policy in Israel.
Seems like if Trump wins, we might be good on Ukraine, which, you know, at least we can avoid a nuclear war with Russia.
So I think that's a silver lining.
Again, I do think Trump's, I hope Trump's anti-war instincts kick in.
He demonstrated when he was president, he didn't want a war with Iran.
I mean, he did assassinate that general, but then, you know, he refrained from escalating to the point that a lot of the hawks in DC totally would have.
Yeah, you know, oh, oh, that's what I was going to say.
Is, you know, I honestly don't, I can't imagine a world where Trump wins.
Maybe he is appeasing the deep state to the point that he might win again, but I, you know, so I think they'll either cheat or just kill him.
I think, you know, not to bore everyone with the story, but JFK assassination was pretty obviously the CIA.
Some people think it's Israel.
I haven't actually looked into that, but, you know, they might kill him like they just tried to potentially a couple of weeks ago, or they'll just cheat.
I mean, if you read the audit from voter GA in Fulton County, Georgia, I mean, there was enough fraud in Fulton County, Georgia to flip the entire state for Biden.
That was in 2020.
So I think they'll cheat again.
I hope Trump gets in there, but I agree with you.
I'm pessimistic on it, but I'm still trying to remain hopeful because I think that's our best shot at getting out of wars and keeping some of our taxes.
elijah schaffer
Right.
And it does mean a lot, dude.
I was going to say, I think I'm with you on that.
I think today is just sort of one of those days where you reflect and you kind of don't know the direction the country is going to go.
So you have to sort of hold on to the truth and hold on to whatever is going to keep you believing that there's some sort of light at the end of the tunnel.
And I encourage people not to give up, to stay close to God, to work on their spiritual life, to try to focus on their family and take care of what you can, because you don't want to get so discouraged that you stop doing the things that are necessary to feel good.
Because a lot of people think, well, if my candidate wins, I'll feel better.
And it's like, no, if you just lost 20 pounds, you would feel better.
So I appreciate the concern for the global system.
But at the same time, we also need to take care and worry about our own personal lives.
Liam, as you talk about this, you have really interesting perspectives, interesting background on this.
Love to talk to you again some other time when I'm back in my studio and have a proper production and can maybe fly you out, really have a deep talk on some of this stuff and not pressing buttons and doing this all myself over here.
If people want to find you, if they want to follow you, if they want to support your work, what's the best way they can do so?
liam cosgrove
Mainly just Twitter.
It's at Causegrove underscore IV.
And I'm not too active right now.
I hope to be back in DC soon doing some good work.
But yeah, that's basically it.
No, and I appreciate you having me on, man.
I've followed you for a long time and I'd love to talk again soon.
elijah schaffer
Yeah, dude, I really would too, because I think it's really interesting this topic and kind of keeping fomenting on the changing reality of living as an American and sort of starting out as this real, you know, Zionist, patriotic kid from LA who everybody, you know, thought and maybe still thinks is a flaming homosexual, which is fantastic.
And, you know, it's like, I come from this area.
I don't, I don't think about this stuff.
Like, I don't really like the political world because the world that I come from, you know, I just wanted to see the world not go complete batshit crazy.
And I started finding friends of mine, you know, like started committing suicide.
People started thinking that they were girls.
Like, it started getting weird, right?
Like, I mean, it was the emergence of this stuff.
I'm going, okay, so what?
We like to do drugs together, but now you like, you know, you, what, so now you're a girl?
Like, that doesn't make any sense.
Like, that's, that's insane.
So I was making fun of it.
And then, you know, you jump on the train and it's sort of like, it's sort of like you get into partying to have fun, but you end up with all these problems and a baby mama.
You know, it's like you get into politics just because like you care about some issues and you want to get into it, but you're, you're, you're good-hearted.
And then you get into the issues and then you realize, dude, there's all this shit.
And then it's like, you know, even if you disagree, like on the Israel issue, you get blacklisted almost entirely, right?
You get, you get completely thrown off the wagon.
And it is demoralizing and it is, it is a bit, you know, unsettling because there's a lot of potential to work together.
And that's why I'm convinced fully that people care more about Israel than America.
Because if they won't work with you to help better America, if you disagree with them on Israel, then they care more about Israel than America.
And that's the majority of my old colleagues, the majority of people that I know with money.
And they care more about, you know, you've got to first accept Israel and then you can care about America next.
But that's the fundamental.
And if you don't have the fundamental, then you really don't have anything.
I don't know if you've seen the same way.
I'll let you close out your last thought on that.
And then we'll close out the show.
liam cosgrove
Yeah, I mean, that's interesting.
I didn't know your background, but yeah, on the trans stuff and the woke stuff, I pay almost zero attention to it because I mean, I agree, it is sad that like kids are being confused about their gender.
And I've heard the percentages are just super high now.
So I feel bad for those kids who are caught up in it.
But at the end of the day, I think, you know, if you, you can, at the end of the day, you can raise your kids right.
And I know that good people will raise their kids right.
So people will get caught up in the retardation, which I feel bad about.
But I feel much worse about, you know, when my money's going to kill children in another country or when my money's going to overthrow the government of Ukraine, which winds up causing this war that could go nuclear with Russia and like driving up the price of gas and all this stuff.
It's like, and China, they can't wait to start a war with China over Taiwan.
So, you know, I worry much more about those big things.
I, the gender stuff is, is sad.
Yeah, I forget, I forget what you said at the end there, but I think, you know, people who probably watch your show are probably a little more normal and mentally with it.
So I wouldn't worry too much about them.
You know, it's a shame we have to live through all this stuff.
But, you know, I was trying to think of how you closed it.
Now I can't remember.
elijah schaffer
No, I was just saying like the idea of, you know, you get into this for the sake of trying to, you know, for one reason or another, but then you have to accept all this.
And if you don't accept Israel, then, you know, you can't be a part of the club.
You can't be a part of the crew.
That was my idea.
It's really sad because I care about America and I care about America so much that I want to take out this dual legions.
And then you start getting blacklisted.
You lose basically everything and everyone because of that positioning.
And it's, it's just, it's heartbreaking, you know?
unidentified
Yeah.
liam cosgrove
Well, this is actually how I would leave it for people on Israel.
Everyone should go listen to, um, it's a very long series, but it's a really good series.
Um, Daryl Cooper.
He goes by martyr made on Twitter.
Um, it's called Fear and Loathing in the New Jerusalem.
It's on Spotify and YouTube and stuff.
It's such a good series on just the history of Israel, why the Zionists created Israel, and just like from that point until today, and how they were so successful in kind of like creating Israel.
It's, it's just a wild story.
And like the early Zionists were like, you know, had these terrorist groups that took over British Palestine and stuff like that.
It's, it's a wild story.
And it kind of like just to your point of like how ingrained the pro-Israel lobby is now.
I mean, it's, it's, it's such a like well-integrated mechanism that, yeah, no, I agree with you.
It's really kind of daunting as to how you would ever hope to get rid of it.
And I don't think you would get rid of it, but I would, you would at least hope that like you could at least get Israel to like stop starting new wars that it's going to rope the U.S. into.
Stop killing a bunch of kids.
So maybe we can start there.
But yeah, that series by Daryl Cooper, I highly recommend to everybody.
elijah schaffer
Absolutely.
Anyway, thank you so much, man.
Liam, you've been awesome.
You've been great.
And I'll have to have you on in person.
We'll have to do something.
I, you know, I'm like with you, man.
I've been getting just, I'm like actually at my wit's end with this fucking home production shit.
Like, like it's literally just nauseating, man.
Like, I'm used to like having fun and having guests and doing stuff.
Now I've got all these buttons and they can't move and I've got to be quiet because the kid's sleeping.
And it's just like, it's not fun.
But I will tell you this.
I am excited because we do have a nice new studio opening, guys.
And that means we are going to fly in guests and we are going to have fun.
And we're going to figure out and settle on a time for the streams too.
We're kind of moving in a direction.
We don't know exactly when we're going to do the streams, but stay tuned.
Cause right now I think we're doing them around like, I think we might do them at like 7, 7.30.
So there's going to be a lot of adjustments, a lot of changes, but we really appreciate you guys being around.
Remember, there's some announcements going on from Joe Biden and stuff right now.
And I'll be back on Friday night at 10 p.m. Eastern Time-ish with like a replay on Censor.
That's when we upload it.
But then we're live about 7.
And then tomorrow on Thursday, there's an original episode being uploaded as well.
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Our links are even banned on Instagram and on Facebook, but you know, whatever.
We still fight to see another day.
And we really appreciate your support and your direction.
And even when we're going live tonight with a migraine, I'm still going to produce.
I told you guys I'm not taking any more days off.
I just moved across the world and it's been nuts.
Liam, you have a family?
You're married to your family of life, girlfriend?
liam cosgrove
No, sadly, sadly not right now.
29 still.
I'm working on it.
elijah schaffer
All right.
So get ladies, get in the DMs of Liam if you want to get married and burn an American flag.
He'll won't judge you.
Liam, thank you so much for coming on, man.
I really appreciate it.
liam cosgrove
Yeah, thanks, Elijah.
Talk soon.
elijah schaffer
Talk soon.
And, you know, what a good day it is, guys.
What a fantastic time.
I really hate to end the show early like this or to sort of cut it short to all of you guys who are here and watching.
But like I mentioned, my son, he's got a really high fever and the wife is very pregnant and very much looking after him.
So I've been doing double duty, making the meals, doing everything working, doing all the stuff, and developed a migraine somehow.
And it's not even the, I could do the show with the migraine.
It's more of these lights when you have a migraine that end up causing that pain.
And I don't get migraines often, but it did happen a little while ago.
I think I've just been under a lot of stress building and stuff and everything going on.
It is what it is.
But I haven't lost the SOBs.
You're right.
You guys are my favorite people.
I am.
And I'm here on the moon.
I do miss you guys, though.
I miss doing solo shows.
I was going to just do a solo show tonight as well and just talk with you guys about literally nothing and about what's going on.
But we digress and we will wait and see.
I do appreciate having you around.
Yeah.
So that's where it is.
So I appreciate you guys.
I'm going to go take care of that.
I'm going to go work on some other stuff, get some stuff up on the censored.
I'll see you tomorrow with a new episode on Censored TV only.
I'm having Carolyn Borisenko on to discuss some more intricate topics.
It's a little more of a one-on-one interview show.
And other than that, make sure you check out my old street video.
I have a Kamala Harris street video on Censored as well.
I'll see you guys around.
I got one super chat from Primetime Pimp said, Shalom Goy, if you don't give every dollar of the super chat to the state of Israel, the IDF will bomb your house for the ghastly crime of anti-Semitism.
Never again is now.
Thank you so much again for that love.
I really appreciate it.
To the rest of you guys watching, have a great rest of the week.
As always, I'll see you on Friday live as we figure out the new time for the show.
And then with a pre-recorded episode that's going to be uploaded only on Censored TV.
I'll see you around.
Have a great rest of the week.
And may God bless the United States of America.
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