A ceasefire agreement has been reached between the Israeli government and Hamas after untold devastation to Gaza and tens of thousands of deaths. While Palestinians across Gaza have been cheering the deal, Israelis poured into the streets to register their objection to any agreement, insisting that Netanyahu keep the genocidal assault going. Guest hosts Russell Dobular and Keaton Weiss of the Due Dissidence podcast, along with guest Jimmy Dore, discuss whether the Palestinians or Israelis are more brainwashed. Plus segments on the political theater that passed for Pete Hegeth’s confirmation hearing and Governor Gavin Newsom’s weird shoulder shimmy while talking to reporters about the LA fires.
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All right, everybody.
Well, the big news, of course, of the week is the ceasefire.
Israel and Hamas reach deal on Gaza, ceasefire, and hostage release from NBC.
A ceasefire deal has been reached to end 15 months of fighting in the Gaza Strip.
Hamas and Israeli officials, and a source briefed on the negotiations told NBC News on Wednesday.
Of course, that is now everywhere since this morning.
The hard-won agreement will also free dozens of hostages held in Gaza, as well as Palestinians in Israeli jails, bringing the first real break in violence since a week-long truce expired December 1st, 2023.
The news, that was their typo, not ours.
The news follows weeks of talks brokered by the United States, Qatar, and Egypt amid a brutal winter for civilians in Gaza, as well as dramatic developments across the Middle East that have dealt setbacks to Iran, an Israeli foe.
Israel and Hamas have not officially announced the deal, although their senior Hamas official, Basim Naeem, confirmed to NBC News the militant group had agreed to it.
It will be made official, obviously, later this week.
We are very happy to reach a deal today to stop the aggression against our people, but unfortunately, we were able to reach the same deal last May, Naeem said.
Earlier, a diplomatic source in Washington told NBC News that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was preparing to meet with his security cabinet, where approval of the deal was expected quickly.
He would then take the pact to the full cabinet, which is also expected to approve.
Israel Supreme Court would have 24 hours to permit an appeal, so the earliest a ceasefire could go into effect would be Friday, the source says.
So that's technically when this is a done-done deal.
The first group of hostages would come out Sunday, the person added.
The Biden administration had called for a final effort before the president leaves office, and many in the region and in Washington viewed Trump's inauguration Monday as an unofficial deadline because, as it continues, Trump pledged last month that all hell will break out, quote unquote, if Hamas doesn't promise to release hostages by January 20th.
And his Mideast envoy, Steve Witkoff, joined talks in the region to push for a deal.
The status of dozens of hostages still held by Hamas has given, has riven Israeli society, with families of remaining hostages leading a campaign to pressure the government to strike a deal.
But Netanyahu has also faced opposing domestic pressure, with some senior ministers rejecting the deal as a surrender as sections of Israeli society push for a more hardline approach.
See, so they always like to blame Netanyahu.
Netanyahu's the big scapegoat, right?
He's always the warmonger.
Well, he's the barrier to peace.
Well, it's Netanyahu and the Israeli public, many of whom are more hawkish even than Netanyahu.
So here's reporting in the Hill.
This gets to Donald Trump's take on the news.
Trump says my presidential win led to Israel-Hamas ceasefire.
President-elect Trump lauded the Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal struck Wednesday, saying it would not have happened without his victory in November over Vice President Harris.
So Trump posted on Truth Social, this epic ceasefire agreement could have only happened as a result of our historic victory in November, as it signaled to the entire world that my administration would seek peace and negotiate deals to ensure the safety of all Americans and our allies.
I am thrilled American and Israeli hostages will be returning home to be united, to be reunited, pardon me, with their families and loved ones.
With this deal in place, my national security team, through the efforts of special envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, will continue to work closely with Israel and our allies to make sure Gaza never, big capital letters, again, becomes a terrorist safe haven.
Well, that's a little worrying.
We will continue promoting peace through strength throughout the region as we build upon the momentum of this ceasefire to further expand the historic Abraham Accords.
This is only the beginning of great things to come for America and indeed the world.
Sorry, were you going to say something?
Yeah, can I just say when he says that we want to work closely with Israel and our allies to make sure Gaza never becomes a safe haven for terrorists again, maybe he means that he's not going to allow Bibi Netanyahu to fund them.
Yeah, maybe he'll cut off.
Right.
Maybe they'll have some campaign finance reform in Israel.
Maybe that would go a long way.
I have an idea how you could do that.
You could just stop fucking funding them.
Right.
Yeah, exactly.
Exactly.
We have achieved so much without even being in the White House.
Just imagine all of the wonderful things that'll happen when I return to the White House and my administration is fully confirmed so they can secure more victories for the United States.
So here's news in Gaza.
tears, hugs, and calls to the sky on the streets in Gaza as Palestinians wave flags and celebrate a ceasefire that will return their captives from Israel.
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"It's kind of heartbreaking.
You know, there's videos like this all over the internet.
Gazan's celebrating the ceasefire deal.
And it just brings to mind, you know, all the videos that we've seen over the past year from Israelis and Israeli government officials and even just Israeli rank and file civilians talk about how there are no innocent people in Gaza.
None of them are innocent.
Well, if none of them are innocent, why are there all these videos of them celebrating a peace deal?
Right?
If they're such savages, right?
If they are so bloodthirsty, right?
If they have such violence in their hearts, why are they excited over a ceasefire?
Why aren't they protesting their government saying, no, no, how could you sign a ceasefire?
We want more blood.
We want more blood because that, incidentally, is exactly what a lot of Israelis are doing this week as fear struck, as fear set in that Netanyahu was going to make a deal.
So these are Israelis protesting the ceasefire.
Oh, my God.
Do not pressure us to give in to Samas.
Pressure them to give in to us.
Such sick people.
Okay, so who's the warlike population?
Who are the savages?
Who wants war more?
Who's more bloodthirsty?
The rank-and-file Palestinians or the rank-and-file Israelis?
Because the Palestinians seem overjoyed.
We finally have a peace deal.
And it's the Israelis who think that they got shafted in this.
They want more blood, more von.
So who's who?
What do you guys think about that?
It is quite a, you know, I think I saw you guys talking about this the other day when they like to say, oh, well, they teach the Palestinians teach their kid to hate to hate Judah, right?
And it's like, at best, this is both sides at best.
So I mean, we've all, you know better than I do.
I mean, you guys are both.
Well, I'm sure you've seen the videos of Israeli kids being taught to hate Arabs.
You know, those videos they don't like to show you.
You don't have to teach somebody to hate people who are murdering them, who are bombing their homes and killing their relatives.
You have people whose whole families have been wiped out.
You have all these horror stories about people leaving their family at the hospital and coming back and they're all dead.
You don't need to raise them to hate the people who did that to them.
You drove them off their land in the Nakba and you've been unrelentingly stealing their land, murdering, torturing, and imprisoning them since then.
It doesn't require any teaching.
That's one of the most insane things that you hear from these Zionists.
That's what passes for liberal.
You know, we have to teach them not to hate.
You're never going to teach people not to hate people who are killing them and the people they love.
Exactly.
No, I forget what I was going to say.
Oh, the Abby Martin.
I don't know if you've seen those interviews she did on the streets.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, those went everywhere.
Yeah, absolutely.
Yeah, she was just interviewing run-of-the-mill Israelis and asking them in the most vile, disgusting, you know, it was the things that you would picture Nazis saying about Jews, they were saying about Palestinians.
Sure.
It's quite, it is maybe the most stunning, remarkable things of this generation, how we've become aware of how the Israelis became the thing that they have been fighting against their whole life.
And I'm not saying Jews.
I'm saying Zionists, right?
I know lots of Jews who are not pro-Israel.
That's right.
Yeah.
Well, how is Israel taking this generally?
Well, Zionists are losing their minds after Trump forces a ceasefire.
And it's so satisfying, says Adam.
We were better off with Cleon Bethel off with Kamala.
She was so weak we couldn't have done anything with her.
Nio Berg says Israeli sources confirm that Israel plans to release literal murderers and countless terrorists in exchange for Israeli civilians.
Has Bibi gone insane?
Why is he agreeing to this?
Cheryl E. Cheryl's very upset.
To those still saying Trump has nothing to do with this hostage deal, listen for yourselves.
He has everything to do with it.
And it doesn't matter what anybody thinks or says, this will not end well for Israel.
So here is a brief piece of sound of Trump calling into whatever this show is.
We are very close to getting it done.
And they have to get it done.
If they don't get it done, there's going to be a lot of trouble out there.
A lot of trouble like they have never seen before.
And they will get it done.
And I understand there's been a handshake and they're getting it finished.
And maybe by the end of the week.
But it has to.
Yep.
So there's Donald Trump foreshadowing that.
Israel would have been better with Kamala Harris.
This is Bibi and Israelis in general losing their bet on Trump.
And Shael says, of course, she would have been better for everyone.
Everyone.
Awful news.
I'm shocked if this is the deal.
From what I read in this tweet, Israel has given in to all their demands and get nothing in return but dead hostages and no guarantees.
Wow.
Well, like most things Israeli says, that's not really true.
The 33 hostages, I think they released 23 living ones, and then there are 10 who had passed away.
Cheryl says, I can't sleep.
I feel sick to my stomach about this insane deal and what my husband shared with me and just all of it.
And the finer details of the deal being proposed is a slap in the face of the alleged 33.
Of the alleged 33 or 34 hostages to be released in phase one, only three will likely be released on day one.
Then a handful more a week later, then another handful of won't be all at Once and so much can go wrong.
Go ahead, you got more.
I got three more paragraphs.
I'm not doing three paragraphs.
But more importantly, just the very fact we're being threatened to accept this deal by a foreign government.
Oh, oh, so, oh, so you're being threatened to accept this deal by a foreign government.
Interesting.
You seem to like the foreign government when the foreign government gives you billions of dollars to wage.
You took the money.
You took the weapon.
I didn't like being pushed around by a foreign government.
Now, all of a sudden, we're a foreign government who has proven that it doesn't have Israel's best interest at heart.
Yeah, no, we don't have best.
No, no, no.
Our government has not been sufficiently loyal to Israel.
Yeah.
As a world, we've just given terrorists all over the world details of our weakness.
Instead of mass shootings, we're going to start seeing mass kidnappings as happens in Africa.
Wow.
No, these people.
Terrorist groups learn from each attack they commit.
They see what works and what doesn't.
Exactly like the Velociraptors testing the electric fence in Jurassic Park.
Yeah, she must be a Thomas Friedman.
He's just going to say she must have read that article.
Yeah.
They're like Safaka Lemas coming over the feds sideways.
I knew he was right.
BB is the Safaka Limer.
He is a sideways bipedal primate.
And now they found our weakness and it will be exploited time and again.
Your weakness.
What is your weakness?
That the United States at some point is going to stop you from doing a genocide?
Right.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And we at some point said, all right, enough is enough.
You have to wrap this up.
Yep.
That's weakness.
I have so much more I could say, but what's the point?
There is no positive outcome here.
Sure, getting some hostages back will give some people comfort, but it'll be short-lived and short-term, and it will only guarantee the next war and more.
So the rules of the next war by which the terrorists will play.
Yeah, so not taking it very well.
Well, yeah, the difference, Cheryl, is that war will take place against a much weakened Israel that's being sanctioned, diplomatically, isolated, and boycotted around the world, and you lost this one.
So how do you think that one's going to go for you?
Right.
Yeah, exactly.
Exactly.
Well, that's the other thing, man.
You know, Anthony Blinken was just saying at the Atlantic Council that, you know, Hamas has recruited almost as many fighters as it lost in this war.
Right.
Which means the Israeli objective to eradicate Hamas, assuming this ceasefire holds, which knock on wood, it does, then that's a failure.
That's a loss.
Israel has lost this war, ultimately, is what that means, according to its own terms.
Sure.
What would you do if you just lived through this?
Right.
Frickin' anybody would join.
Everybody said that.
Yeah, everybody said that on day one.
I forget who exactly came out and said it, but they said, and this has been said before, this is a widely used phrase at this point.
You can't kill an idea.
Meaning, if you brutalize people, you're going to create violent pushback.
And what do you think was going to happen here?
So, of course, they have regained almost all of their numbers.
And Israel's mission to eradicate them was, in the end, despite all the horror we've witnessed over the past year and change, a failure.
Thankfully, this video was finally subtitled.
So Netanyahu's chief proponent on Israel's Channel 14, Errol Seagal, Siegel, were the first to pay a price for Trump's election.
So let's watch the English subtitled version of this Israeli news segment.
This was kind of in advance of the ceasefire.
This is a few days ago when it looked like this was going to be a done deal.
wasn't official yet at the time, but here's this piece of sound.
I love that.
That's great.
When Trump was elected, what was I doing here?
I was wrong in thinking that the first to pay the price for his election would be Ukrainians.
It might be we who were the first to pay the price for Trump.
That's the ultimate irony.
Who knew Trump would keep the war in Ukraine going for six months, but in the Israel war?
It's the complete opposite.
Everybody thought, well, maybe we'll get into Ukraine, but Godzilla looks terrible.
Turns out, looks like the exact opposite is gonna happen.
I don't think this is what we planned, what we expected.
We thought we would take control of the northern strip and they would allow us to prevent aid.
Yeah.
This fucking guy talks too fast even for the people.
Wow, he talks so fast.
Even for the subtitles to keep up, it's like you still can't follow it with the subtitles.
Without the subtitles, it's totally impossible.
What he's basically saying, the upshot there is we thought we were going to be able to do the cleansing and genocide.
That's what he said.
Yes.
He's saying that.
We thought we'd be able to cut off the humanitarian aid.
Yes.
Yes.
That's what he said.
Yeah.
Exactly.
What kind of a sick society where you can say something like that and it's not the end of your career?
So is it not even censured?
I mean, so you, I mean, again, I defer to you because you're Jews.
So would you, would you say, I mean, what you just said is that what kind of a, so you're saying the Israeli society has some kind of a sick underpinning to it that is based on some kind of mental illness that they all embrace.
Yes.
Well, because remember, Zion, the Zionists, they have convinced people with a lot of help from the media that Zionism was a mainstream view among Jews.
And it was not.
These guys were considered fanatical fringe lunatics by Most Jews.
They were only able to get support because of the Holocaust.
They were able to use that to legitimize themselves.
But the reformed temple, which is one of the largest branches of Judaism, you don't have like a pope with Judaism.
You have the different practices, different levels of orthodoxy, basically.
The reformed temple did not officially recognize Israel until the 90s for that reason.
Really?
Yeah, no, but you would never know that.
You would never know that.
You would be given the impression Jews always supported Zionism.
They were always for Zion.
Look, now, keeping it real, most Jews have been brainwashed into thinking that Israel and Judaism are one and the same.
But no people more so than Israelis themselves.
I just talked to a friend of mine.
I used to be in business with an Israeli, and he, I talked to him about Israel.
Human trafficking.
Gun running.
He doesn't know shit about shit.
He doesn't know anything.
And he's not a dumb guy.
It's just they are so brainwashed.
And how do you justify going and stealing the land of this people that didn't do anything to you?
They projected the Nazi crimes that had been done to them onto these Arabs.
They defined them as anti-Semitic for no reason.
They were the ones in Christian Europe during the Inquisition who were rescuing them into the Ottoman Empire.
They had been living peacefully side by side for centuries.
I highly recommend because this is the only film I've ever successfully deployed to convince a Zionist to change their mind.
Tantora.
Tantora is a great documentary where you have like people who were part of the NAPBA on the record talking about rape and mass killing.
And laughing about it.
At some of them, you know, and some of them like, yeah, it's messed up.
I thought the most, see, that's what everybody shows in the clips.
You know what was most revealing to me in that movie?
They had the old ladies who they were talking about putting up a memorial in the town to the Palestinians.
And, you know, some of them were against it, but one of them said, well, why can't we do that?
Like, we go to Berlin and they have memorials.
So why can't we have a memorial?
That is just admitting that you're Berlin.
You are Berlin for these people, that you would even frame it that way.
And this is someone who's sympathetic to the Palestinians.
And she's saying, yeah, well, they have a memorial for us.
Why can't we have a memorial for them?
I mean, for a government official to just right out in the open, say, you know, we're not going to be able to deny humanitarian aid.
Sure.
I mean, there's words.
Well, because what is not justified when they're Nazis?
That's what they've all convinced themselves.
They've all convinced themselves these people are Nazis.
And what passes for liberal is, well, it's the fault of their leaders.
They're being misled into being Nazis.
That's a liberal Israeli.
But the basic assumption that Arab societies inherently like the people who did the Holocaust, so they have no choice, gold in my ear.
Shit, this celebrated figure in Israeli history, one of our most famous statements was, one day we may be able to forgive them for killing our children, but we'll never be able to forgive them for making us kill their children.
Exactly.
You want to sum up their mentality?
It's very statement.
It's very similar to the liberals in America who went against every liberal value because they had convinced themselves they were fighting Trump by fighting Hitler in Trump.
So they used lawfare.
Everything they accused Trump of doing, they did.
And the biggest one was when they tried to prosecute not only him, but his political movement.
And that's like they did censorship.
I mean, the hallmarks of fascism, they embraced fully, 100%.
And because they convinced themselves they were fighting Hitler.
And here we are.
Same thing with the Zionists, right?
If they can convince the population of Israel that they're fighting Nazis, and anything is okay to fight Hitler and fight Nazis.
In all wars, they dehumanize the enemy.
This is perhaps the most thorough and long-lasting example of it in history.
Yeah, but the entire population just completely brainwashed to see their enemy as inhuman so that anything is justified.
So you're telling me that them chopping the heads off of 40 babies, that doesn't just well, hey, man, it's right behind me for a reason.
Anybody who really wants to understand this history and doesn't have months to get through 10 volumes, it's like 145 pages.
It will really give you insight.
10 Myths About Israel by Elon Pape.
The best, just quick overview of that history that I've ever read.
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The first of the Trump nominees went before the firing squad, Mr. Hegseth.
It was quite a rambunctious hearing.
We're going to show a few clips from it, but just an overview here from the AP.
I want to point out before I even read this, so I looked at three different articles and settled on this one.
Even though there was quite a bit of back and forth about Israel, none of them mentioned that.
None of them talk about it.
Every article I looked at wants to talk about the sexual questions and DEI.
Not a word about that.
Well, same thing.
You know, Pam Bondi had her hearings today.
I've seen countless clips of Democrats barking at her about the 2020 election denial and stuff like that.
Not a single one of her saying she wants to sick the FBI on professional protesters.
Of course, not from either party, I'm sure.
Pete Hegseth, president-elect Donald Trump's pick for defense secretary, publicly faced senators for the first time after weeks of questions from Democrats and praise from Republicans about his unconventional resume.
Hegseth, a combat veteran and former TV news host, says he will be a change agent and a warrior as Republicans demand new and strong leadership at the Pentagon.
Democrats say Hegseth's lack of experience running a huge department, his past comments about women and black troops, and allegations of excessive drinking and sexual misconduct make him unfit to serve.
Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman, Senator Roger Wicker, Republican of Mississippi, called Hegset's nomination unconventional, but compared him to Trump, saying that may be just what makes him an excellent choice.
Rhode Island Senator Jack Reed, the committee's top Democrat, said Hegseth lacks, quote, the character and the competence to lead this.
Really?
He lacks the confidence.
Well, come on.
I mean, say what you will about the Sullivan Lloyd team.
They were on top of it.
If your objective is to bring us to the brink of World War III and cost hundreds of thousands of lives, destroy families, light the world on fire, those guys were a crackerjack team.
I mean, he did a heck of a job, Brownie.
Yeah, heck of a job.
Heck of a job.
Generation of Ukrainian men.
Wiped out.
He lacks the character and the competence to lead the Defense Department.
Reed said he has voted to confirm the nine previous defense secretaries, including in Trump's first term, but will not support Hegseth.
Now, look, I've got critiques of Hegseth.
I think he's a Zionist maniac, but that's not the issue these people have.
That's not their issue.
Their issue, the fact that you approved the previous nine, that's not something I would brag about.
Right.
Like, so what's the issue with him?
You thought Lloyd Austin was a good idea.
So this guy should just sail right through then.
So, but obviously that's their issues are not the real issues.
Reed said he wants Hegseth to explain why DEI efforts make the military weak and, quote, how you propose to undo that without undermining military leadership and harming readiness, recruitment, and retention.
Hegseth said the military was, hey, look, you know, I believe we actually did a piece about the two mommies ad that they did for military recruitment.
Yes.
And it's funny how all these things run in parallel.
It's very much like how they tried to turn all these action franchises into girl brands.
Yes.
You know, girls aren't into that.
I'm sorry.
Yeah.
The guy who's going to go and hump gear in the middle of the desert is generally not the liberal girl with two bombs.
There are exceptions where that person can be used in the military.
They should be welcome.
But to focus your recruiting on that is insane.
That's just not the type of person that joins the military.
It just fucking isn't.
It doesn't matter what you do to try to promote that to that audience.
They're not interested.
if there's anything this election cycle taught us is that women should not be in the secret service.
There's a place.
Hey, look, man.
That's why 95% of bricklayers are men.
You know what I mean?
Super workers are men.
Right.
And they always want to point out outliers.
And sure, there are outliers, man.
When I was in college, when I was learning, I wanted to know how to do set design because I knew I was going to wind up doing my own stuff.
So the woman that taught me technical drawing and drafting, yo, that woman was built like Mean Joe Green.
Like, she was enormous, man.
Like, yeah, I bet she could have been a firefighter.
That's a rare case.
It's a very rare case.
It's not the way to bet.
Yes, if that woman wanted to join the military and could pass all the tests, sure, right.
And there are places in the military that are not as physically demanding.
Doug McGregor, we had him on the other day.
He said women make better pilots.
He said they have better hand-eye coordination.
So, okay.
Really?
That's what he said.
Yeah.
Okay.
Well, he's not talking about Caitlin Jenner.
Yeah.
No.
No, he actually brought up, he geeked out a little bit.
He brought up Starship Troopers and he said they were right because if you looked at where the women were positioned in the military in that movie, they were the pilots.
And that's actually accurate because they make better pilots than men.
They have better hand-eye coordination.
That's what he said.
Hexes said the military was a forerunner in courageous racial integration in ways no other institutions were willing to do, but argued that modern diversity and inclusion policies divide troops and didn't prioritize meritocracy.
I would not disagree with that.
Yeah, I mean, that's all.
No, I mean, the military was very trailblazing in that way for its time, for its time.
But I think they still pushed meritocracy, and you don't have to lower your standards to include people in marginalized communities.
You don't have to do that.
Well, it's an inherent.
Go ahead.
DEI is inherently divisive, and that's its intention.
Yes.
That's its intention.
It's a big grift.
It's not about advancing those groups.
We had a model for that.
When Trump was confronted at the Black Journalists of America thing when he was questioned about, hey, why do you call Kamala Harris a DEI hire?
And what he should have said back was, well, do you have a problem with people being DEI hires?
And if you do, if you don't, why do you see that as an insult?
Right.
Yeah.
Right.
You guys support it, right?
You support DEI and DEI hires.
Are you saying DEI hires are inherently not as good?
So that's what he should have said.
He should have turned it right back on them.
But everybody knows that DEI hires are, you're lowering the standards to do that.
You don't have to lower standards to include minorities in your projects.
Hey, I was being polite.
Willie told me she could suck the chrome off a trailer hits.
I was being nice.
Hegseth made overtures to women and black troops in an attempt to blunt some of the criticism of his previous comments that women should straight up not serve in combat and his suggestions that some black troops may not be qualified.
Now, I don't know the quote in question regarding that.
As far as women serving in combat, and this seems to be what he says.
If you can pass the tests, okay, but there shouldn't be any.
Like, I don't like that.
Go ahead.
Yeah, I mean, that's my opinion.
If you can pass the test, sure, go ahead.
That's it.
That's it.
You don't lower the standards.
You know, I don't have any problem.
The reason why I always thought they didn't have women serve in combat roles was because then they made them extra vulnerable to being prisoners of war and they could be raped and things like that.
There's that.
And there is, I haven't had the time to delve into it.
There have been some articles floating around in response to this hearing citing studies saying that all same-sex units perform better.
I can't comment.
I haven't delved into it.
I could see how it could be distracting to have women and men serving in combat units and intimate situations.
You can't have quarters.
You need a certain kind of warrior, right?
And they're going to be rough around the edges.
You can have a bunch of fucking Phil Donahue's fighting your wars for you.
Exactly.
Exactly.
And that's, you know, you look at a lot of what the liberal vision is that we actually had it in our top 10, like worst propaganda of the year, the Guys for Harris commercial that they did.
Oh, yeah.
I'm a man.
I'm a man.
They tried to sell that.
I mean, Tim Waltz, this is a different kind of masculinity.
This is a different kind of cool guy.
You're not selling that.
You're not selling that.
You're selling that to some very cash-rated, low-T guys.
You're not selling that to most guys.
And frankly, you're not selling that to most women, man.
I used to, when Mad About You was on, I used to say, yeah, in real life, she'd be fucking the mechanic.
I don't know why all these groups are itching to join as combat veterans anyway.
Like, I don't understand it.
Like, to me, it's like if I were gay and they said, well, gay people aren't allowed in the military, I'd be like, all right, well, that's fine.
Gotcha.
It really sucks.
Really sucks that I can't.
I would like to go and get my arms blown off for no reason, but I guess you just won't allow me to.
That's a pity.
All right.
So where are we?
Excess with questions.
New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, a Democrat, told Hegseth that his quotes about women are terrible and harmful to morale.
Quote, you will have to change how you see women to do this job, she said.
A senior defense official who wasn't authorized to talk with the media and spoke on the condition of anonymity said the standards for military service haven't been lowered and are based on each field and ability, not gender.
Like I said, I can't speak to that.
I haven't had time to deep dive into this.
Hegseth was questioned about the issue by Iowa Senator Joni Ernst, an Iraq veteran and survivor of sexual assault.
Hegseth reiterated an earlier promise to Ernst that he will hire a senior official to prioritize those cases in the military.
quote you will have to oh a senior defense official who was Did I?
Yeah, sorry, I duplicated that.
Hegseth did not directly address the allegations of sexual misconduct and aggressively pushed back on Democrats who asked questions about it, calling it a coordinated smear campaign.
I'm not a perfect person, but redemption is real, Hegseth said.
In 2017, a woman told police that Hegseth sexually assaulted her, according to a detailed investigative report recently made public.
Hegseth has denied any wrongdoing and told police at the time that the encounter at a Republican women's event in California was consensual.
He was not charged, but not to woman a confidential settlement to head off a potential lawsuit.
As anybody who wanted a career would have fucking done.
And if you look into that, if you look into that story, I mean, it's easy to just throw a couple headlines around.
But if you look into that story, it's hard to not come down on Hegset's side.
From what I've seen of it, there's certainly not enough there for you to say, oh, yeah, he did that.
You know, sometimes with these stories, you're like, yeah, he did that.
But yeah, no, it doesn't.
It certainly doesn't rise to the level that it should be an issue in his confirmation.
I would agree with that.
Asked by Hawaii Senator Maisie Hirono, a Democrat, if he had entered into a settlement, Hegseth replied that he was falsely accused.
He has said repeatedly that he was completely cleared.
Hirono also asked him about Bill Clinton gave Paula Jones $800,000.
Yeah.
Well, and then we get George Knuffalumpicus saying George Clinton has passed the character test.
Where did he take that test?
On Epstein Island?
Well, on that level, it goes without saying the Democrats still put Bill Clinton on stage.
They still platform him.
They still platform him.
It's unquestioned that he's a serial molester.
Nobody seriously denies that.
And they would deny that he's a rapist.
I don't think any reasonable person would, I believe, would need a Broderick.
Me too.
But even if you don't believe that, the fact that he's a serial assaulter of women is really beyond reasonable doubt at this point.
But you keep putting him on stage at the DNC.
So, you know, they're self-righteous when they want to be.
Hirono also asked him about reports of excessive drinking.
Heg Seth has told Republican senators in meetings over the last month that he will not drink on the job.
Republicans, I love that he didn't say, I've got my chip or anything.
Yeah, not when I'm working.
Republicans dismiss the allegations.
Senator Mark Wayne Mullen, Republican Oklahoma, noted that Democratic senators had asked Hegseth about his drinking, saying, How many senators have showed up drunk to vote at?
Don't tell me you haven't seen it because I know you have.
Mullen said to his colleagues, I'm sure that's true.
I'm sure that's true.
Did you see that story in Australia where the cameras caught the two MPs having sex on the floor when everyone was gone?
No.
No, I didn't.
Yeah, like late at night.
That's a while ago.
It's like a year ago.
Okay, so, hey, yeah, those are the bullshit issues, which not surprisingly is what they got into.
Michael Tracy here rightly says, Pete Hegset is an end times fanatic, a former professional Iraq war lobbyist, called for bombing North Korea and Iran, demanded secret weapons shipments to Ukraine, and the list goes on.
There you go.
But of course, Senate Dems focus on women in combat and frivolous personal peccadellos.
And that's why they're a failed fucking party.
It is.
It is because you want to ask real questions from a left perspective or even just from a good government perspective.
There's plenty there.
I mean, as we're going to see.
It's like I say in my act.
It's like, you know, that's just proof right there that the parties agree on the worst things.
Of course.
Well, that's what.
Yeah, that's why they only want to litigate identity.
The Republicans did it too.
They kept wanting to talk about Jesus.
It's like if your parents were divorced, but they both agreed you should go to military school.
Yeah, right.
All right.
So here's Hegseth.
Now, this, and as I said, this did come up, and we'll see a little clip where Zionists came up.
The articles don't even mention it.
You'd think that's kind of significant, especially now, right?
If you open up your Bible.
Open up your Bible.
God granted Abraham this land.
The 12 tribes of Israel established the constitutional monarchy 1,000 BC.
King David was their second king and established Jerusalem as the capital.
Jews were fighting foreign occupiers for centuries, ultimately maintaining a presence there.
But the key, the key aspect, and right now, Palestinians, Arabs, Muslims are trying to erase the Jewish ties to Jerusalem as we speak.
I've been there multiple times.
They're trying to make it look like Jews were never there.
The most important aspect of this is the international community granted sovereignty to the Jews, to the Jewish state after World War II.
And Israel has had to fight defensive war after defensive war with every country coming to crush it ever since then just to exist.
All right.
So this guy makes me fuck whoever I want.
So I'll do it.
Got a problem with it.
Read the Bible.
Open up your Bible.
Jesus didn't want you drunk.
Why'd he keep turning the water into wine?
yeah so i'd be a little more concerned about that than unproven sexual allegations and uh the idea That's the thing.
They agree on all the horrible shit.
Exactly.
Which is why they ended up, it took them so long to impeach Donald Trump because they had to find a crime that they also weren't complicit in.
Right.
Right.
They would never pause the shipment of fucking arms to Ukraine.
That's why they, that's what, that's what they impeached him on.
The one thing that makes it that you like about Trump, that's an turns out an impeachable offense.
Well, that's it.
That's it.
That's why they're going after Hexeth.
It's the same thing with economics.
It's the same thing across the board.
They can only litigate identity.
But it's the Republicans, too.
The Republicans, their version of that is they kept wanting to talk about Jesus.
Right, right.
They kept wanting to talk about his relationship to Christ.
How does that can you imagine if a Hindu went on the floor in a confirmation hearing and started going on about I really appreciate your Devotion to Krishna and Krishna consciousness.
Can you imagine if a bunch of senators conducted a confirmation hearing that way?
Can you imagine if somebody was standing for confirmation who had screamed about the Islam taking over the world?
He's screaming this insane biblical prophecy stuff.
He should not even be nominated for defense secretary.
He should not even be in that position.
Not because of his views on DEI or he, you know, like likes to tie one on, because of his stated views on one of our most important foreign policy entanglements.
But, you know, just as Greenwald had pointed out when he nominated Marco Rubio, that, you know, these are people who Trump is going to direct to employ his foreign policy.
They're going to have to serve Donald Trump.
And as we've just witnessed in Israel-Palestine, his views trump everybody, including Huckabee, including Heg Seth, including.
So I, yeah, I don't see this why I find it repugnant.
I don't find it disqualifying.
A lot of presidents have been very surprised when they become president at how much the people they appoint actually run the government and how shut out of the day-to-day decision-making they really are.
It's an enormous bureaucracy.
Who you appoint is policy.
That is policy because you can't micromanage an enormous federal bureaucracy.
There's that same person.
Yeah, you can't constantly be pulling leashes and putting out fires and trying to.
If you appoint a bunch of people with these kind of fanatically rabid pro-Israel views, that is going to be reflected in the way the State Department is run on a day-to-day level and the way the FBI does its job.
You're only one person as the president.
You can't micromanage all that.
Now, will Trump maybe make some big moves like he did here that in some way contradict that?
Sure.
But the overall drift of the foreign policy is naturally going to be fanatically Zionist because he put fanatical Zionists in every job, every single job.
That's the thing that I think is even more maddening than hearing Gavin Newsom lie about all the state.
He does this a sleight of hand.
All the state reservoirs were full.
The state.
You see how he says that?
He doesn't say.
I didn't pick up on that.
I guess the reservoir above Pacific Palisades that was 117 million gallons empty.
I guess that's not run by the state.
So I guess that so he and then did you guys ever figure out what this was when he was doing that?
Where was he doing that?
In the TV interviews?
So they were at, yeah.
So you didn't see that?
I didn't pick up on that.
Oh, you're shitting.
I just may not have noticed the shimmying.
So he was set.
He said, he said, first of all, he laughs and smiles, which is a weird thing to do when you're standing in a disaster zone.
And he says, I was just on the phone this morning with the governor of Hawaii, and he was talking about, you know, developers coming in.
And he literally started doing this.
He's laughing and he starts doing this.
And it was all over Twitter.
I wonder what, I wish I could get a body language expert.
What does this mean?
Because he was talking about how there's going to be, you know, people coming in trying to take advantage of these situations and buy up land.
And he starts saying, so my team is working on that.
And he starts doing this.
I'm not kidding.
It was fucking kind of unbelievable.
I wonder if I can play it.
Hang on.
We're dealing with a myriad of issues.
I was just talking to Josh Green, the governor down in Hawaii, who had some ideas around some land use concerns he has around speculators coming in, buying up properties and the like.
So we're already working with our legal teams to move those things forward.
And we'll be presenting those in a matter of days, not just weeks.
What the?
That is weird.
It's a strange behavior.
And it's weird that he says, I was talking to the guy, the governor from he's like thinking, hey, yeah, his presidential dreams are fucked too now.
Exactly.
What would be humorous about talking to someone else who experienced a tragedy that you're currently going through?
It'd be like, yeah, I talked to another cancer survivor and I'm going to camp that.
Why would that be?
Yeah, I think that that's what made him like, that guy thought he was going to be president.
He's fucked.
Yeah.
It's very bizarre.
But Studio City is okay, apparently, right?
I heard there was one fire that was put out, but it didn't hit the rest of it.
No.
You know what's funny also is I saw, I'm seeing video after video of people who saved their houses.
And my sister-in-law's house was in Altadena.
Now, her whole block, the whole, Altadena is basically gone, except for a few houses here and there.
Hers is one of them.
And I saw this video because she had someone that she knew in the fire department or somehow went and checked under her house and put out, they put out spot fires around her house.
And so her house didn't burn.
Right.
So there were fires burning in bushes and things.
So I was watching this video this morning on YouTube about this guy who saved his house in the Pacific Palisades.
And he said his father-in-law had a gas hose that they hooked up into like an inch and a half gas hose that they put in his pool.
And he said, what he goes, it's not like a wall of flames would come.
He said, it would just, you'd have to put out the spot fires.
And if you didn't, they would very quickly catch.
And that's what would happen.
He said, so he would show, he went around showing where all the spot fires were that he put out with this hose hooked up to his pool.
Right.
And I was like, son of a bitch.
So this, this is a very, I'm not saying that the fire itself was preventable, but it was very doable to mitigate the damage from these fires, and they didn't do it.
And then I don't know if you've got, I read a whole thing on Zero Hedge last night about how they stopped doing the pruning, right?
Where they could get, get rid of the shrubs.
They stopped doing that because an environmental group launched a lawsuit saying that there was an endangered shrub that they were in danger.
Yeah, well, guess what?
Where is this?
What happened to that shrub now?
They're all gone.
They're all burnt up.
The whole thing's burned.
So this to me, it's just unbelievable.
And of course, you know, we have the unfortunate people going around saying that anybody who criticizes the way they handle this is just a moron sitting in their underwear.
Hey, aren't you wearing underwear?
Why are you saying that?
We're all wearing underwear.
Well, that's a lifestyle choice.
Yeah, right.
Yeah, exactly.
I was in my waist down.
I was in my underwear when I figured out that the vaccine didn't stop transmission or contraction.
I was in my underwear when I did that.
I was in my underwear when I figured out that the virus was made in a Wuhan lab and not didn't come from a wet market.
I was in my underwear when I figured out that La Fauci was lying about masks.
I do a lot of shit in my underwear.
That doesn't.
You're a lot of underwear.
Yeah.
Anyway, so it's unfortunate.
I don't think that's getting a lot of traction.
I mean, really, if you look at this week, it is almost just a tour of the complete collapse of liberal, of liberalism in the political debate.
I mean, on the most extreme level, we're going to get into the ceasefire.
You have the fires in LA, which they have not, you know, there is no, I don't think there's any state that's as Democrat as California.
No, super majority Democrats.
So they can't, they, so they own that.
And then, you know, the least serious of these things, but I think very telling, towards the end of the show, we're going to get into the vote they did on trans sports, where they're all just ranting and raving and foaming at the mouth about how pedophiles are going to be checking genitals.
And you look at this whole collection of impressions, and it's just, it's a party that, and a politics that has completely collapsed.
Even now, in the face of all this, they thought it was a really good idea to take that kind of stand to keep biological males in women's sports and to scream that you're a pervert if you don't think that's a good idea.
In like very graphic, superheated, just over-the-top insane terms.
That is a party that's just completely done.
They're just completely done.
Well, I can't wait to talk about that story.
But it is actually, it's saddening to me to see people defending the politicians instead of criticizing them.
And again, attacking the critics of politicians and the critics of the establishment.
The comedians are supposed to always poke a hole in the narrative of the status quo.
Sure.
But don't you feel they're on their last legs, though?
Like those people who would attack someone like you, they're really losing power rapidly.
I wouldn't even say they're losing it.
They don't really have it anymore.
This is the dying bee stinging.
Well, do you see the people still trying to pretend that the Israel deal that Trump just completely forced?
I just sent you that meme.
Roland Martin, you know, that hack on the bottom.
I don't know what he is, but is he a journalist?
Does he pretend he's a journalist?
I think he does.
I think he does what he's doing.
He pretends to be.
So he's not.
He's a hack and he carries water for a political party.
And so constantly he has to lie.
And right now he just attacked.
I tweeted out about Trump's Israel deal, and he came out and said, well, what Jimmy is ignoring is that Netanyahu.
So the new theme is that Netanyahu wouldn't do a deal to help Trump get elected.
Even though Batten gave him everything he wanted, somehow he wanted to get Trump, which is bullshit because Emma Viglund came with that, came right out of the gate with that, comparing it to Nixon secret car steel.
Talk about the crazy car and Reagan.
There's no evidence for it at all.
Hey, if there was, I'd be all over it.
No evidence for that whatsoever.
Nothing.
It'd be, yeah.
Anyway, and it doesn't make sense because, well, why wouldn't if he was willing to do a ceasefire peace deal, why wouldn't he do it fucking months ago?
Why would he wait for Trump to get it?
What is Trump going to offer him that Biden was?
They were giving him everything he ever wanted and asked for.
Yeah.
And if they do plan on going back on the deal, then that's something they would do anyway.
Like there's no, I don't see a reason why they would hold out until Trump won, you know, only to sign this after if they were only going to go back on it anyway.
So yeah, no, I mean, that is pretty, that is pretty crazy.
I just don't, like when I saw that video above of Jen Saki blaming Elon Musk and Donald Trump for the wildfires in California, I'm just like, after they lied to you about Russia Gate, after they lied to you about COVID and masking and where the virus came from,
after they and the vaccine, after they lied to you about the lockdowns and after all that, and then after they lied to you about Joe Biden's dementia, up until five seconds, up until he basically shit his pants on stage.
Yeah, right.
That you still go back to those people to get the truth about anything.
You still want to get your news from Jen Saki, who was a paid professional liar in the first place.
That's what this press secretary does for the president.
And then I just, I just, that the mentality of that, of turning to those same people who have been lying to you for eight years straight with a straight face at the top of their lungs, the world, the most unbelievable, insidious lies.
You're still going to go to those people.
And what they're doing now is they've turned into the conspiracy theorists that they've tried to call everybody else.
They are the conspiracy theorists.
The corporate news are now conspiracy theorists.
Yeah, but they're really, I mean, look at their numbers.
That is a vanishingly small pile at this point.
That's why I'm saying it's just, it's watching a dying animal in its death rows.
It definitely doesn't feel like a debate anymore.
It feels like their whole political careers have been built around these tactics.
And it's going to take a complete revamping of the entire political left before you're going to see any kind of change because they don't know what else to do.
Like someone like Jen Sackey got where she is being a liar who has nothing to say other than, look at them, look at them, look at them, look at them.
Until you clear all these people out of the way, and I include the squad in that.
If you look at the things they're saying on the floor of the house, they're part of that.
Like this whole politics has to go and it will go because they're never getting power back this way.
That's what I mean.
It's like a dying animal.
Who's listening to them?
Who's listening to them?
Who's taking them seriously?
I hope you're right.
It'll find another form.
But that liberalism, I think, is done as a political force.
Hashtag MeToo went out the window when Joe Biden got nominated.
And so now I hope the rest of this woke bullshit goes away and people realize where it came from.
It didn't come from the grassroots.
It came from the CIA, the NGOs, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and it was everything to do to separate political action from class consciousness.
From class and economics.
That's right.
And they've so long represented a left, a left, a so-called left, with no economics, with no class perspective.
None.
They don't know what else to do.
It's the way they've been trained as politicians, as journalists.
They've been trained to go to these crazy, outrageous culture war takes on everything to the point that I don't think most of them can pivot.
I don't think most of them can really adjust.
I think they're going to crash and burn, and you're going to see a new wave come in.
That's where me and King keep saying, you know, this moment represents a tremendous opportunity because the libs are out of our way now.
Finally, we can make a direct appeal to people and explain.
No, no, no.
When we had Greg Foreman on the other day, he started saying, well, I know y'all.
And I said, no, no, no, that's not us.
That's the liberals.
They hate us.
They hate us more than they hate you.
That is true.
Right.
Exactly.
That is true.
Well, you know, now finally we can all roll up our sleeves and start working with Jenk Uger.
Yeah, exactly.
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