Hello. I don't have good words for you, but I've
got words anyway. I would normally be posting
a video tomorrow, but I didn't want to wait that
long. So here we go. Baseline. Israel bombed
Iran during talks that were supposed to be about
not bombing each other. Netanyahu, the prime
minister of Israel, made a claim that he's been
making for like 30 years that Iran is weeks away
from having a usable nuclear weapon. There is
debate. Among the international community as
to whether or not that was true I say debate
like that because most places seem to indicate
that's not the case there's a very big difference
between weeks away from the bomb and whatever
the state of their uranium enrichment process
was and Also, there are countries that have nukes.
I didn't check in the Bible myself But I don't
think it says that we are the divine arbiters
of who's allowed to have what weaponry forever
Let's not forget that Israel made the first strike
in this war. Like, they're the ones with the
nukes. Obviously, this has destroyed any notion
of diplomacy and Iran is already saying, how
can we possibly trust that the US is acting in
good faith with anything? As a refresher, during
Trump's first term, he pulled out of the Iranian
nuclear deal and they actually adhered to the
deal for like at least a year afterwards. Now
he's back and he's upset about what they're doing.
and bombed them. He then asserted afterwards
that as long as Iran does nothing in response,
everything is hunky dory, which is not how anything
works. That's just war, my guy. Bombing foreign
soil and then saying if you do anything else,
we'll bomb you more is war. So despite headlines
coming out about various figures in the White
House and Pentagon officials saying, oh, we don't
want a war. It was just one targeted strike.
to support, you know, the war that's going on
that Israel started. But I want to I want to
pivot real quick and point out that there's a
lot of conversation right now around whether
or not this strike was legal. And let's let's
first just say bombing another country isn't
legal. Regardless, we were not at war with Iran
and then we dropped multiple of some of the largest
munitions ever dropped. And now we're trying
to say we're not at war with Iran still. During
Trump's address about all of this, he said that
it was an unconditional success. And again, he
asserted that Iran cannot retaliate or the U
.S. will make more strikes, which to me sounds
like aggression. The multiple stealth bombers
dropping bombs on Iran after Israel did a surprise
attack on Iran also feels like aggression, for
the record. But whether or not it's legal, whether
or not it went through Congress, like, for one,
when has this administration done anything the
right way? And for two, that doesn't make it
better. And also there is precedent for this.
Not that it makes it okay. It's not okay. It's
extremely not okay. But basically every president
has bombed countries without congressional approval.
At least recent presidents, most presidents.
And none of that makes it okay. None of it. If
the issue that the Democrats have isn't with
the bombing and is with the way that the bombing
happened, that's a problem. And knowing that
they're never going to hold him accountable and
knowing that the Republicans aren't going to
hold him accountable, I want to take this moment
to remind you that accountability only matters
if there's the will to enforce it. And the current
administration and Congress and Supreme Court
have shown time. And again, there is not that
will to enforce it. Like, who's going to get
who's going to get the order to who and. How
is not going to stop like we knew. that this
was going to happen. We knew that a second Trump
presidency was going to be disastrous. That doesn't
make it okay, but we need to be prepared for
this. We're already seeing retaliatory strikes
from Iran. Israel is still striking Iran. This
isn't over by a long shot. The rest of the world
is condemning us, as they well should, as we
continue to stand behind a pariah state that
is the one causing the destabilization in the
region it's complaining about destabilization.
And don't let this get spun. These are deeply,
deeply unpopular moves. Even Trump's own base
don't want to get dragged into a war in the Middle
East. But propaganda bots are already out in
force. Our own intelligence said that Iran didn't
have a path to nuclear weapons in the near future.
They just made shit up again, just like they
did with Iraq. And you can scream about 60 %
enriched uranium as much as you want, but that
doesn't justify bombing another country. If it
did, we would be bombed a lot. There was a recent
job approval rating poll about Trump and there
was one part of it that it blew my mind. I guess
I should have expected it, but it turns out that
the youngest generation, the 18 to 29 year old
generation, Just three months ago had a plus
eight net approval rating of Trump. The youngest
eligible voters had a net positive view of Trump.
Now, three months later today, It's at negative
39 among the same cohort. Which, like, yay, welcome,
you made it eventually, but it just tells me
that the propaganda worked. Why would they have
believed that? Why would any young person truly
believe from any objective reality that Donald
J. Trump, a barely alive, lifelong con man with
a disastrous first term, would do anything to
improve the quality of life for young people
in a second term? The amount of people who were
flailing. during the past election arguing that
this wasn't going to happen. It's mind boggling.
And why do I think that propaganda happened?
Because as I mentioned, the propaganda bots are
out in force. Where is that youngest generation?
They are online. They are on TikTok. And if you
recall TikTok during the past election cycle,
it was hell. It was entirely arguing. It was
entirely bullshit. And it was entirely astroturfed
crap in the comments. The amount of people who
were asserting that RFK Jr. was not an anti -vaxxer.
Ridiculous. Propaganda bots or farms, whatever
you want to call them, they don't need to make
sense. They just need to be so omnipresent that
sense is no longer a major factor in the equation.
They just need to create enough scenarios where
someone saw a thing about a thing that made them
associate two things together or internalize
some belief that they never even thought about.
And they've won. When they can answer something
easily, for example, why did we bomb Iran? With
an answer like, well, they were close to nukes.
Wow, that's very acceptable. That's so internalizable.
No further nuance necessary. Absolutely no further
attention required. If you were duped by this,
I don't know what to tell you. You were duped.
And it happens. Propaganda is rampant in the
United States. You're not alone. I fall for and
have fallen for propaganda plenty, which is why
I have learned to cross -reference things and
read sources that I've been told not to trust
by the ones who are telling me to trust them.
Does that make me a conspiracy theorist? No.
It makes me someone who wants to gather more
information from further perspectives than the
American empire. Is Iran the good guy? No. I
mean, not the government of Iran. The people
of Iran are just people, but the government is
not good. And also the United States just conducted
another bombing campaign halfway across the world
because we said that it's the right thing to
do and then invoked the name of God repeatedly.
So tell me who's the big scary religious political
entity that's going to destroy the world because
I've not been bombed once by Iran. But we're
about to see a whole lot more people dead from
our tax dollars. As I said, I didn't have good
words for you. I'm very, very sorry. There's
just not. There's not much of a silver lining
to find here. I can look for the good news I
can try to spin it some way, but we are again
at war in the Middle East Despite what our leadership
wants you to think despite how much they wish
that they could just Launch a bomb and not worry
about what happens next That's warfare and the
rest of the world is calling it out as such Never
let them convince you that you hate a random
human being across the world Because of stories
that you've only ever heard from the people telling
you to hate them Are those stories completely
meritless and should be 100 % thrown aside? No.
Not necessarily. But if someone tells you that
literally everything that they've ever done is
righteous and correct and we should ignore the
wrongs from the past and this time it'll be different?
Yeah, that's worth questioning. Because I once
held a hope for a peaceful future. But stuff
still happened. Take care.