Elijah Schaffer EXPOSES Zionist Grip on DC w/ AZAPAC Founder | Guest: Michael Rectenwald
In this explosive interview, Elijah Schaffer sits down with Michael Rectenwald, founder of AZAPAC (Anti-Zionist America PAC), to blow the lid off foreign influence in American politics. They dive deep into the movement to remove Zionist lobbyists and dual-loyalty officials from positions of power in Washington.
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Well, Dana Lash, who liked this show, struggles to get 10,000 views on YouTube, isn't censored, but she made a good argument.
Look, why are we attacking APAC?
APAC is a legally registered lobby group in the United States.
The question is, though, if Tenant Media can get shut down because they received money through a third party that got it from a third party from Russia, who, by the way, we're not actually at war with right now, if individuals are being lambasted, including Tucker himself, for taking money from Qatar, who's a strategic ally, who's an individual who we as ourselves individually have air bases and oil trading agreements, labor contracts, and also strategic intelligence contracts.
If it's bad to take money from them, why is it that suddenly AIPAC is an exception?
Well, it looks like a lot of people are realizing that we are indeed occupied.
My name is Elijah Schaefer.
Welcome back to Slightly Offensive here, only on YouTube and on Rumble.
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Not only monetize the channel, but then they went ahead, they also deleted our entire blog.
But we are relaunching and we are fighting.
Joining me today is my guest.
His name is Professor Michael Rectenwald.
Dr. Rectenwald, if you'd like to know, is a incredible activist and scholar.
It's an officially filed FEC-approved PAC that has as its objective to de-Zionize the U.S. government, and that is to get the Zionist influence and control out of the state.
And to do that, we mean to replace the Zionist allied political operatives with our own candidates whom we're putting up for opposition to Zionist candidates.
So the idea is that we want to replace Zionists with non- or anti-Zionist people in Congress so that the United States is no longer being held hostage by Israel as such.
And I say that because we've seen in the last 10 months, 11 months, especially under the Trump administration, we've seen nothing but the obsequiousness and servility to Israel by this administration in many regards.
In fact, there's not a day that goes by that one of the administration officials or senators or congressmen doesn't go on and on about why we owe Israel our allegiance and our allyship.
And ASAPAC believes that, in fact, Israel is not a real ally of the United States.
It is actually a drain on our resources.
And it is an extortion mechanism by which the political class takes money from us, funnels it to Israel, and then gets paid back through APAC and other organizations to fund their campaign.
So they take a very small percentage of what we give them, the billions and billions that we send to Israel every year, plus the 33 billion that we've sent since October 7th, 2023.
They send that money back to some of the campaigns vis-a-vis donations.
And that's what's got to stop.
We've got to stop the Zionist impact and influence and control over our government.
I do want to look at some of the things down the road of what are going to be some of the roadblocks in both institutionally, financially, to do something like this.
And also legalities.
We know the government being occupied by the Zionist regime is totally, totally off Kelter in terms of their using their force to try to oppose anyone who wants to remove this occupation, right?
We've seen that with the removal of individuals using free speech.
Free speech, I don't even like.
Getting their visas revoked.
My own wife, when we were coming back from Australia, she's a white woman.
She's not Muslim.
She's not an extremist.
Our own lawyer at the embassy asked her if she had what her views were on Israel, right?
My own employee coming from Australia, he was coming here on E3 visa, work visa.
They wanted to know what his views were on Israel and Gaza.
What does an Australian on the other hemisphere, other side of the world, their opinions of Israel have to do with coming to work in the United States?
Well, obviously a lot, because when you work in the United States, you're not really working for the U.S. government.
You're working for a foreign lobby.
So obviously you created this PAC in 2025.
You mentioned the main goal here of what it is, but you're pushing back against the Zionist regime, right?
And the sway in politics.
Could you please give some real-world examples of how the Zionist regime has influenced our political environment in ways that they are currently sort of distorting or infecting the way that we operate as a nation?
First of all, on the money front is the first thing.
As I've mentioned, you know, since October 7th, 2023, as Brown University pointed out, we've sent $21 billion directly to Israel.
And if you consider all of the escapades that we undertook, have undertaken for Israel in the last 11 months, it's $33 billion, they estimate, Brown University Watson Institute.
This is not some flaky fringe organization.
So we're being extorted to the tune of billions and billions of dollars.
And we saw all kinds of other examples of how much this government is subservient to Israel.
For example, just in terms of the Iran bombing, you know, we had no reason to bomb Iran other than at Israel's behest.
And yet we did.
We attacked them unprovoked.
Israel had already attacked them unprovoked, and now we were brought into the fold to attack them as well.
Here's another example.
While the hurricane was routing, this is under Biden, while the hurricane was routing North Carolina and you had people basically without homes, and the government was doing very little to intervene and making it very difficult to receive any funds to recover from the disaster.
The United States government sent hundreds of thousands of dollars.
I think it was $500,000 to Lebanon to help them rebuild after Israel struck.
So this is the kind of thing that's been going on.
And then you saw the latest excursion of 250 state senators to Israel to hear speeches by Netanyahu and other propaganda.
And they termed the meeting 50 States One Israel.
I mean, if that isn't emblematic of what this administration and what this government conceives of itself as, as Israel is either part of the United States or the United States is deemed part of Israel.
I mean, this is unbelievable, the identity they're trying to establish between the U.S. and Israel.
And you see this every day with Ted Cruz and Lindsey Graham and all their posts.
And of course, Randy Fine and their constant obsequious servility to Israel.
There's nothing else really going on except the question of what's going on with Israel.
And everything that's been oriented in this administration has been around Israel, not only sending arms, but also we've seen the passage inside of Congress of the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act, AAA, which isn't really law for all citizens yet, but it would deem criticism of Israel anti-Semitic and effectively proscribe such criticism.
Then you saw, as you mentioned, the deportation or attempts to deport even residents of the United States based on their criticisms of Israel's onslaught against Gaza.
And some judges have overturned many of these attempts to effectively deport American residents from the United States and students on student visas for nothing other than writing an op-ed about the attack on Gaza.
So, I mean, this has just been, it's almost impossible to keep a catalog of all of the Israeli-oriented activities of this government because it's as if it's only Israeli-oriented activity for the most part.
And I want to bring something up kind of important.
So, I don't know if you know, but Randy Fine's challenger here in Florida.
He had his blue check mark removed from his verification removed.
He had his monetization demonetized.
He didn't commit any violation of terms of service.
Just one day, he just had all of his reach, his tracking removed.
Now, that is, Randy Fine is one of the, he's a employer, employee of Israel in the thing of, he says he's not getting paid, but that's the key thing.
He's getting paid by the American government to work for Israel.
That's the key thing.
He's not getting paid by the government.
He's getting paid by the United States government.
Now, I don't know if you know this, but Randy Fine had one of my guests arrested, a foreign guest at the airport recently in Miami International and arrested under this new anti-Semitism task force with the DHS.
The DHS arrested him.
He's from Europe, and they basically said, what business do you have going on Elijah Schaefer's show and coming here to spread anti-Semitism?
And it's like, well, it's none of your damn business.
It's kind of like the idea of, you know, back in 2016 of liberals in the mainstream media calling Trump supporters just Nazis.
It's like, well, it's an arbitrary statement.
Like, who defines what is a Nazi?
I mean, are you talking about someone who's part of the National Socialist Party?
Is it talking about a skinhead in a gang?
Are you talking about a brown fat kid that LARPs with frog memes?
Like, what are you talking about as a Nazi, right?
I don't know what you mean by that.
But the fact is we've had a guest arrested.
His challenger was his reach was taken away.
We see that there is, if you come against these people, as Lindsey Graham said, we're going to smash your head.
We're going to make your brains fly out.
That is a threat of violence.
And I want to get your opinion on this important part of how this plays a role.
Look, a lot of people notice the problem is evident.
And you wrote something very, very crucial that I know that was the most important reason why I wanted to have you on here on your X account is a pinned tweet.
If we can bring this up here, you said the elimination of Zionists from the U.S. government is the only way to put America first.
You put a link here, AZA-PAC.com.
But then somebody named Dr. Allison Wilts said, you mean no more AIPAC, right?
That's a good distinction, to which you said that's part of it, but not the whole.
Wish it were that easy.
So since we're keeping this focused on ASIP, I'd like you, Dr. Rectabal, I'd love to have you on regularly.
I have another show called The Riff.
It's a news show.
I'd love to have you on as an expert, have you tune in more often to the shows to comment on a lot of these international issues because I think we're trying to create a coalition here of people who know what needs to get done.
We're not left or right.
We are decentralized.
We need to get rid of the Federal Reserve.
We need to decentralize money.
We need to figure out why we don't have health care and we have wars overseas.
These are not really Democrat-Republican issues.
These are populist issues.
And we're finding a lot that individuals who are pretty strongly left and strongly right are diagnosing the same problems, but coming to slightly different conclusions.
However, until we can start dealing with the problem, we can war about the solutions later.
Well, I mean, APAC is just one of the, first of all, it's just one of the many Zionist-oriented or Zionist-inflected PACs.
There's J Street, there's Koofi, there's a whole number of other PACs.
There's a whole slew of them.
We're up against the monstrosity here.
And furthermore, there's more than just the APAC funding.
That's not the only reason why our elected officials are so beholden to Israel.
I think part of it is fear.
They're afraid of Israel because they're afraid of the enormous power that this Zionist lobby and the Zionist billionaire class in the United States has over our government and what they can do to anybody who resists this occupation.
They can ruin them.
And they know that very well.
And then, of course, there's the question of blackmail and the Epstein list and whether any of these people are on it and whether that's part of it.
In other words, there's bribery, blackmail, fear.
And there's a fourth factor, which is ideology.
You know, there's a Zionist ideology that's very pervasive.
And, you know, it connects with Christian Zionism.
And you have, this is why we don't say anything about Jews or Jewishness.
This is about Zionism because Zionists are not all Jews, by the way.
We look at all of the elected officials.
You're looking at Cruz and Lindsey Graham and Tom Cotton and Trump, you name it.
These people are all Zionists.
And so we need to remove them all because Zionism is a plague.
It's a parasite on our country.
It is sucking our resources dry.
As we're shipping money to them, we're neglecting everything in the United States, our infrastructure, our health care, as you mentioned, the social programs that are being cut like SNAP.
All of this are all being done, I think, because we are so indebted, we believe, to Israel in terms of an obligation which we never really, as American citizens, agreed to at all.
Now, you mentioned Randy Fine.
We are going right after Randy Fine.
We are actually supporting Aaron Brown.
I'm sorry, Aaron Baker, who's going up against Fine in the Republican primary.
We are supporting Aaron, sending him funds, trying to get as much exposure to him as possible.
He is an antidote.
And if we could get rid of Randy Fine, that would not only be a big political victory.
It would also be a massive, symbolic victory.
And when I speak of Randy Fine, I think the word massive is quite apropos.
Listen, everybody, even those on the right, said he's a crazy conspiracy theorist and it doesn't make any sense.
I did a chalkboard and I did it every night.
And I said, Islamic, the Islamists, communists, anarchists, socialist revolutionaries will all work together to destabilize first Israel, then Europe, and then the rest of the world, and it will finally come to America.
And everybody said their argument was that they're never, they don't get along.
What are you talking about?
Socialists and anarchists, socialists, communists, they want giant state.
He's like, you know, they're all working together.
If this society falls, if that society, if Israel falls first, then we will fall.
So there's this message being given into the boomer audience, is what I would call this, the boomer, Zionist Republican establishment from very credible voices like Glenn Beck, very credible Tea Party.
He's big with the base, Fox News host.
You know, he's got one of the largest networks on the right wing.
He just slips it in there, just slips it in that, like, hey, it's because you guys aren't supporting Israel.
That's why America, you got Mom Donnie because we didn't send more money to Israel.
Did you hear that?
I mean, this is what we're being told on our side.
I think I was the third guest on his big podcast in which he had long form interviews.
So I consider myself a friend of his.
We've corresponded over the years.
This is just absurd.
I mean, the reason the United States is falling apart is not because Israel is falling apart.
It's falling apart because Israel, period, and our funding of Israel and our constant contortions that we undertake in order to support Israel, as opposed to our own needs.
That's why I said in that tweet, unless we put, get rid of these Zionists, we will never put America first.
America is last on their list.
They don't care about America.
They care about the health and well-being of Israel, even as it commits genocide against the Palestinians.
I mean, this is unbelievable.
So, and the idea that the whole left in terms of the left plus the social, you know, socialists, communists, and Islamists are all together.
This is the new talking point from the Zionist masters.
I see it coming down from people like Laura Loomer, but Randy Fine and a whole slew of these other Hasburists, as I'll call them, spewers of Zionist Hasbro or propaganda.
They're all saying this.
Islam is now the big threat.
And unless we get rid of Islam, we will not have a country.
Well, the question is really who's running the country right now?
Unless we get rid of them, we don't have a country.
In fact, we don't have it now.
Our sovereignty has been breached.
Our country is being run for a foreign entity.
And that entity is vast in terms of its power.
It's a small country, but Washington, D.C. is also a small geographical area.
That doesn't mean it's not extremely powerful.
And Israel has an enormous power and a grip over our government.
So this is not even like I've had to go search in the past, right?
Here's the Prager U gala.
This is the what's it called? West Coast Gala.
Reminding you that the director of Prager, you was a former uh, Mossad uh spy.
Am I correct on that?
Uh producer right, Marissa Strand yeah allegedly oh basically, she worked in the IDF, but okay, so maybe I don't know the, maybe I don't know the distinction, there's no way to prove she's Mossad okay, so that's actually.
Let me correct myself there uh, but she did work for the IDF in some sort of a alleged like sex uh department that used like extortion and things.
And i'm not saying she was doing that, I just mean like, this is what we're dealing with.
Right, people around her at least did that kind of stuff.
Um, she might be an innocent, she might have been a clerk, who knows, just weird that she's running pregery with like an 18 million dollar endowment, you know uh, in just just to put out educational videos.
And uh, they had uh, this guy, Douglas Murray who um, you know it's weird, just because he's homeless.
Like you wonder why the right embraces homosexuality when it's sort of counterproductive to Christian values, it's counterproductive to conservative values, and a lot of people get confused in that it's like well, why it's?
Because well, homosexuality isn't really condemned in the Judaistic, you know uh, practice in the way that you know, there's not really a big deal if you're gay and Jewish.
In fact, Tel Aviv is the most gay nation in in in the Middle East.
So even when you're talking about like, the fight of like, if you're Christian and you're watching this and you're more traditional and this is an edgier show, and maybe if you're Christian you're not very much into this show uh, you might be wondering like, why are there so many like Non-christian values, sort of mainstreamed?
On the Republican side of things, I would say well, it's because we're following Judaistic values, not really Christian values, and so homosexuality is fine for them and so we don't.
It now has to be fine for Christians.
That's sort of a Judeo-christian nomenclature that we bring in.
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Listen to, this had somebody who is a self-avowed self-declared, completely proud socialist, among other things.
Uh, the president, of course, says he's a communist.
Uh, you might all have your own views about that, but it seemed conceivable until very recently that somebody whose politics are founded in anti-westernism should be in charge of the greatest city in the world, the biggest, most important city in America.
Sorry to those of you who are locals here, but that's just the stats.
It seemed impossible to people that you'd actually have somebody who has declared repeatedly that his politics are founded in this anti-westernism, that is also, of course anti-capitalism, of course, Anti-Israelism.
All right uh professor look, it's like this is the first speech of the gala I can bring him back on here and it's like again every, every time I find these people, it's like man, Mom Donnie, you know it starts its first Anti-Westernism and you know you're gonna get applause from me and the populist right, even the populist left, you know like yeah, you know, we need to redefine, America needs to be strong.
And he goes, anti-capitalism.
Okay, maybe that's where you get a little bit left and right.
Maybe maybe the the left is happy for Mom Danny.
Then you go and Anti-Israelism what does?
I don't even know what Anti-Israelism is, but it's like all he said is he wouldn't go to Israel and that's basically all he said.
He said he planned on staying in New York And that's the fact that you won't use your mayorship.
So the fact that he's not submitting to Israel and he wants to help the Jews, by the way, it's not anti-Jewish because he wants to help the Jews in New York.
And I'm not even a Big Mom Danny fan, but the fact that he won't, that's what it shows you.
Like you said, it's not about Jews because there's a lot of Jews in New York.
He's helping.
He said he wants to support the Jews in New York.
He got the support of Jews in New York.
He's saying he doesn't support Israelism, Israel, which is what Zionism is.
It's Israelism is another good word for Zionism.
What do you make of this, this, this, this obsession and addiction that we have with tying everything to the success of this nation?
Yeah, I mean, I think here's the reason I think Mamdani won.
I think it was a referendum on Zionism.
I don't think it was a referendum on his socialist policies, his crazy ideas about, you know, price fixing, rent control, and all that and, you know, government-owned grocery stores.
I don't think that's why the youth, in particular in New York, came out to support him.
I think they came out to support him because of that interview, that debate and what he said that he wouldn't visit Israel.
That wouldn't be where he would go.
He would stay in New York and do his job.
He also did call for Net.
He said that he would arrest Netanyahu should he come to New York.
He backtracked on that because I don't think he can do that.
That's not really within his legal purview.
But I think that's the whole reason that he won.
And what anti-Israelism means to these people is that you refuse to be extorted from your pocketbook to pay for Israel's crimes against humanity.
That's really what it comes down to in the United States.
And I say here on Azapak's website, I answer the question, what is Zionism?
But I only answer that from the American perspective.
From the American perspective, from our standpoint, Zionism is merely the extortion of taxpayers and the bribery of our political class for Israel's benefit.
That's all we care about in terms of Zionism.
Whether it's, you know, whether it has different meanings for the Israelis or other people, that's not our concern.
Our concern is what Zionism is to us, which is an extortion racket and a bribery ring.
So, yeah, look, I think what's very interesting, Professor, you know, and I kind of want to bring up this movement into the Azipak section.
Number one, I'm no longer pretending to be unbiased in terms of this position.
I think we're post-bipartis, I mean, post-bipartisanship and post-partisanship.
I think we are post trying to unite Republicans and Democrats and post-trying to be Republican and Democrat.
I think we are coming down to whether or not we have a nation, right?
It's coming down to the extinction of a republic.
Do we have a republic?
And I've mentioned this several times, which is where you guys fit in, is we don't have a republic because the primaries are controlled by APAC.
It doesn't matter if it's legal.
It doesn't matter if it's in a position, again, not just APAC, we'll say APAC and its proxies.
It doesn't matter if APAC, you know, is operating under the law.
Look, you and I will disagree on this, but abortion, for the Christian conservative audience that watches this, abortion is legal and we believe it's murder, right?
If you're a Christian, you believe homosexuality is an abomination, but yet gay marriage is legal.
Like there's a lot of things that are legal.
And again, if you're on the left, you might even think capitalism is evil.
And it's the actual framework of our country.
So like people believe a lot of things are evil that are built into the framework that are built.
Slavery was legal.
Damn it.
Like it's like that was legal, right?
Like you could own a human being that didn't make it morally just.
It didn't make it morally good.
And so we don't look about legality for the construct of what we continue to do for the rest of our lives.
So if there's a loophole, that's what we're complaining about, Dana, is that, yeah, it's legal, but it shouldn't be legal.
Yes, it's under the construct of the boundaries of our political tenure, but it shouldn't be within those boundaries.
It should be FARA.
And if it's FARA, we should be against it.
I don't even like FARA.
I don't want nations paying to lobby inside of our government.
I don't want nations coming in and dictating what we do in our country.
And damn well, if we are going to allow some form of it out of necessity, it should be very clear, apparent, and transparent to the American public at the very least.
However, I did want to talk to you about this, this idea.
We're getting accused.
I'll have you, I have you attest to this.
A lot of people like James Lindsay, who's like a pseudo-intellectual, in my opinion.
Well, it is because sometimes I feel like it's the pot calling the kettle black.
He sometimes is like, he's like, you're a grifter and you're this and you're this, buddy.
You're literally speaking at Prague or U events.
Like, no offense, but you know, like, you know, you're an atheist speaking at church events.
Like, you have a problem, sir.
You're, you don't even know, you're literally just playing to a base.
It's the same idea that the right does.
Oh, look, there's a celebrity that likes us.
And they don't like, it's like Sidney Sweeney.
She's like a softcore porn star.
It's like, but she's white.
It's like, well, she's not conservative, guys.
She's not, she's a feminist.
And, you know, like, you just want so badly to be accepted that you just like play to the end.
But I'll just, I want to, I want your opinion on this.
You know, by James Lindsay, you know, Constantine Kiss and from Trigonometry and other shows, they've, you know, come up with a lot of these names, woke right, woke Reich, Seth Dylan, and Joel Berry, we call him Bull Jerry from Babylon B and the conservative establishment.
We got Glenn Beck, all these people, you know, come up with this idea of this new thing, Pagan Right, yada, yada.
But they do use this horseshoe theory, which I think has been debunked.
That when you get to the left, you get to the right, we're sort of all in the same dogma in the fact that we hold a rudimentary core belief that we hate America.
We're Nazis, they're Marxists, we're antithetical to the democratic system, and we want to see it implode.
Now, I think with this anti-Israelism, I meant we're post-partisanship is that I don't care if you are a Marxist-Leninist or you are a Nazi, you both probably aren't going to be owning a home.
That's that's 30% of people under 35 are owning homes.
And most of those homes are passed down through generational wealth, not through original, you know, you know, purchases, first-time homebuyers.
So, then the solution to that is a 50-year mortgage, which if people want to watch last night on the Rift, our show Monday Wednesday, Friday, you can watch that on the Rift Rift TV.
We have our own YouTube channel.
We talked with an individual who's an expert on the economy who played out why the 50-year mortgage is a usury fraud to double the interest and to get you locked into more money to the banks.
I want to get your opinion on this.
Is the solution here right now in the short term as a PAC and defeating and getting our politicians in, or should we be post-democracy?
Is there going to be a democratic way to solve this?
You seem to think that there is.
Explain how you're going to, how this is going to work.
Well, you know, listen, I mean, we're, we are definitely, listen, I would prefer that there wasn't any PACs at all, that there was no money in politics, that you didn't have APAC buying politicians, that you didn't have pharmaceutical PACs and lobbies controlling politicians.
You know, but we're living in this world and this is our system.
And whether democracy is good or bad, and I happen to be a Hoppy and that is a follower of Hans Hermann Hoppe, who wrote a book called Democracy, the God That Failed.
Nevertheless, this is what we're stuck with, and this is what we need to operate within.
And I think we need to give this a chance before any other measures are considered.
And that is the idea that we could politically replace these people using the electoral process.
And that is the first step in reclaiming our sovereignty, without which we will not have any sovereignty.
Right now, we don't have sovereignty, and that's what our object is.
And I said this on our website and elsewhere.
We are not partisan at all.
We think that the left-right divide is actually somewhat flawed in terms of what it means.
And really, the axis that counts is the up-down axis.
And the ruling class is a Zionist ruling class, and they oppose the people.
And it's the people versus them.
That's the real opposition.
And likewise, we say we are trying to breach the political divide in order to bring together and unify anti-Zionists or non-Zionists against this overthrow of our country, this occupation that we're under.
So, yeah, the left and right, we don't care about that.
It is populist in the sense that we want to unite people from across the entire political spectrum, whatever that means, and include people that would otherwise be not our bedfellows, frankly.
And we've done that.
We're reaching out to leftists and so forth.
We're supporting Jose Vega, who you might say is a leftist running against Richie Torres in New York, another AIPAC darling.
And Aaron Brown is a Republican running against Randy Fine.
And then we're not looking at the candidates in terms of their political affiliation at all.
And this one said post-partisanship, because you know what?
You know what?
You know what, Professor?
You have a tenure.
If people don't know this, I mean, your bio is in the video, but you've taught at NYU.
You currently still teach.
You're well respected.
You're not a kook.
Okay.
And this is where the seriousness of what we're doing here at Rift is my background, obviously, I have a long tenure at the Blaze, Blaze TV.
I have a long tenure at the Gateway pundit.
I've done a lot with the Daily Wire, long tenure with the Daily Wire with Candace before she left and she left.
I've also had a long tenure with Fox as a contributor there and with OAN and Newsmax.
And I've been around, you know, and I say this for new people.
You know, I've been involved in both impeachment trials for the president.
I was a key in my evidence was key in exonerating Kyle Rittenhouse in the shooting in Kenosha that the FBI meddled in.
I was the, my evidence was the only evidence that was admitted to implicate Ray Epps for starting January 6th.
I mean, I have been, you might not know me if you're watching this, but you know my work.
And I've always wanted that to be what it's about.
Like you said, it's like, I don't care.
I don't care if you know my name.
I want you to know that we know who Ray Epps is because I identified him.
And that was, my footage was what showed him starting the event.
And now we know why is that important?
The reason why I'm happy about that is because, like you said, it's like, well, maybe I'm not happy a Democrat wins a race from ASIP.
Maybe I'm not happy even if you're a Democrat, the Republican wins a race.
But here's what I'm happy about.
I'm happy that Ray Epps footage got implicated because when the FBI didn't care about him, it showed us that this was definitely something fishy going on with January 6th.
We go, oh, you don't care about the guy that started it?
Well, then what is up with this guy?
And the same thing goes with the partisanship.
It's like, well, now you're letting Israel, Israel, derangement syndrome, they'll say, get in the way of, you know, you carry about America.
No, what I want is this.
If I can get a Democrat and a Republican running that are not controlled by AIPAC, I can get back to partisanship, actually.
I can get back.
I don't even like the two-party system, but I would like to get back to Americans debating about what policies affect America.
And so, look, I don't like Democrats personally.
I'm not a Democrat.
And I understand if you're watching this and you're a Democrat, because this is not a Republican or Democrat show.
This, this one particularly, I do have a Republican-show, but this is not, this is more of a cultural commentary of a show.
I don't, you don't have to want a Republican to win, right?
You might think, well, let's get ready, find unseated by a Democrat.
Okay, fine.
But here's the problem.
You're going to get the same problems of the Democrat or Republican if AIPAC controls it.
If AIPAC stops controlling it, you might, Democrats, you might actually get the policies that you want.
And as a Republican, you might get the policies you want.
So at this point, I'd rather have a Democrat in power that's not a Zionist in many ways, not in all ways, not in all cases.
And I'm going to get clips saying this, but not in all cases, because you know what I want?
I want politicians elected who are listening to their constituency.
And if their constituency is Democrat and their constituency happens to be Democrats in that area and they elect a Democrat, because I believe in the system above party, I'm an American before I am a Republican.
I do believe that our politicians should just do what their people want.
They should be representatives.
And I don't necessarily like what they represent.
I may not like what the people believe, but I do believe in the position and the position should represent the people.
And so I kind of want to end here with your opinion on this.
And that'll get taken out of context.
I was like, oh, you want Democrats to win?
No, I want representatives to win that represent their people.
And then once they represent their people, let us as the American people war with each other peacefully, meaning like, okay, well, I don't like what they believe.
So maybe I don't live in New Hampshire.
If I don't like what Democrats want, maybe I don't live there.
And to prove that it's not about Democrats are bad, New Hampshire is a great state to live in.
Okay.
Massachusetts is a great state to live in.
It's Democrats.
You know, I'm going to be completely honest here.
I was in Mississippi, not a great state to live in.
And it's Republican.
There's a few nice places in Mississippi, generally not a great place to live.
In the cities, sorry, in the cities, even Tennessee, most of the cities, not that great to live in, but great people, great rural areas.
And if you go to any state, even the Democrat or Republican, rural areas are great people.
And you'll get, you'll, as a rural Republican, you'll have more in common with a rural Democrat in a, in, in West Virginia.
You know what I mean?
Like, it's just, it's true, right?
We have more in common.
Um, I want to get your final thought on this.
Again, um, I want to, I want to commit this to you as we end here.
Um, the Rift is a brand new network.
I'm going to tell you something when we get off air that's that'll blow your mind that is going to get released today by uh Max Blumenthal or yesterday this release, uh, which people can go check out our episode.
Damning, damning report.
Uh, uh, the federal government is trying to shut down our network right now.
Um, yeah, they're trying to shut down our network.
They are trying to seize all of our assets and they're trying to do what they did to Alex Jones, what they did to uh uh James O'Keefe during the diary, uh, Biden diary.
We have been on the money and they are asking for us to uh apologize, shut down, and hand over our devices and things uh at threat of potential jail time and uh bankruptcy.
This is not a joke, it's gonna be dropped today.
Um, and this is all over our criticisms of Israel.
This is not a joke, it is in doc is court documents.
It's it's a scandal that's gonna break to uh yesterday uh when you're watching this, like nothing you've ever seen.
And it might be the first case in America where the federal government has blatantly come after a private citizen and a independent media network because we are uh uh have the quality of like not to say anything, but just so you know, it, you know, you having a PhD and your professor matters.
You having pedigree matters because you're not, you're saying, I work in the system, I'm here, I've done what I need to do to get my accolades and to show that I'm credible.
And now you're telling me suddenly I'm not credible.
Um, it does you don't have to have accolades, you don't need to be a PhD, you don't need to have a nice fancy studio, you don't need to have graphics to be a credible media personality, but we play the game, we have credentials, we're registered, we're licensed, we're federally involved, we have a reporter in the White House here at Rift.
We are legitimate in the eyes of the establishment, but we do not agree with Israel's decision to occupy our government through legal and illegal means that I believe.
So they want us shut down.
You're probably aware of pushback.
I want to hear: is there any pushback that you have?
Is there anything that you believe they're going to try to do to shut you down?
And also, no, please see Rift as an asset and use us, whether you want to get things released in articles, whether you want to get your politicians interviewed, whether Democrats too, whether you want to come on yourself and drop stories.
Please see Rift as a co-laborer in the anti-Zionist movement.
We are the first media network not taking any money from any Zionist that is nonpartisan, and we are going to continue to be that way.
And by the way, we have Jews that work here.
I know it pisses off the Nazis.
We have Jews that work here.
That's crazy, but we're not anti-Jewish.
We are anti-Zionist.
And, you know, we know Zionists, oftentimes, the most Zionists in America are actually evangelical Christians.
So, I know we're not anti-Christian, but there it is.
Go ahead and explain that.
And then also throw in there how they can find your website and support you.
If you just type in AZAPAC and Google still, it will come up first, ASAPAC.
And the URL is aza-pack.com, AZ-A-PAC.com, because somebody grabbed azapac.com and now wants $50,000 for it.
So we declined and went with the Dash.
That's how we get there.
And yeah, I mean, I think that it's possible that they'll try to make us illegal.
That will try this administration will try to make ASAPAC illegal under some anti-Semitism law or other and some, you know, I don't know, whatever they rationale they try to use, we will take that to the Supreme Court.
We will go all the way to the Supreme Court to fight that because this is our freedom of speech and association, which is in jeopardy if they do that.
Just as, you know, I think you should do, if in fact they continue this threatening these threats and attempts to shut you down.
I think it's a Supreme Court matter because this is freedom of speech.
And we are not going to back down at all.
And so please get behind us and help us to oust these Zionists from office, people like Randy Fine and Richie Torres and Daniel Webster in Florida and others that were supporting candidates to oppose.
Donate, get involved.
You can volunteer and get with us in order to build this broad coalition across the political spectrum.
After we get rid of the Zionists, you're absolutely right.
We can have all the arguments about economy, about legality, about other matters that pertain to the United States, whether we should be, you know, a completely free capitalist society or have some degree of socialism.
All that can wait.
Right now, we first must recuperate our national sovereignty, and that's what we're about.
And right now, I wanted to go here and I'm going to do something while we're on air before we go so that people can see the reality of what's happening.
As we're talking, I just want people to know that personally, myself, not the company, because I don't know if that's even, I don't know if that's even legal here, but I'm putting in a code right now.
It's really easy to donate.
Don't bring it up on the screen here because I don't want to show this.
Let me see.
I'm going to be donating $1,000 to the PAC because I do believe in this.
And I think people do not realize that a lot of these organizations absolutely do rely on small, independent donations, right?
