WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.480 Hello. I don't have good words for you, but I've 00:00:03.480 --> 00:00:05.759 got words anyway. I would normally be posting 00:00:05.759 --> 00:00:08.640 a video tomorrow, but I didn't want to wait that 00:00:08.640 --> 00:00:12.359 long. So here we go. Baseline. Israel bombed 00:00:12.359 --> 00:00:16.199 Iran during talks that were supposed to be about 00:00:16.199 --> 00:00:18.579 not bombing each other. Netanyahu, the prime 00:00:18.579 --> 00:00:21.179 minister of Israel, made a claim that he's been 00:00:21.179 --> 00:00:24.620 making for like 30 years that Iran is weeks away 00:00:24.620 --> 00:00:27.679 from having a usable nuclear weapon. There is 00:00:27.679 --> 00:00:30.609 debate. Among the international community as 00:00:30.609 --> 00:00:32.770 to whether or not that was true I say debate 00:00:32.770 --> 00:00:36.149 like that because most places seem to indicate 00:00:36.149 --> 00:00:38.710 that's not the case there's a very big difference 00:00:38.710 --> 00:00:41.869 between weeks away from the bomb and whatever 00:00:41.869 --> 00:00:44.070 the state of their uranium enrichment process 00:00:44.070 --> 00:00:47.829 was and Also, there are countries that have nukes. 00:00:47.829 --> 00:00:50.909 I didn't check in the Bible myself But I don't 00:00:50.909 --> 00:00:53.869 think it says that we are the divine arbiters 00:00:53.869 --> 00:00:56.549 of who's allowed to have what weaponry forever 00:00:56.549 --> 00:00:59.240 Let's not forget that Israel made the first strike 00:00:59.240 --> 00:01:03.579 in this war. Like, they're the ones with the 00:01:03.579 --> 00:01:05.739 nukes. Obviously, this has destroyed any notion 00:01:05.739 --> 00:01:08.280 of diplomacy and Iran is already saying, how 00:01:08.280 --> 00:01:10.459 can we possibly trust that the US is acting in 00:01:10.459 --> 00:01:13.519 good faith with anything? As a refresher, during 00:01:13.519 --> 00:01:16.560 Trump's first term, he pulled out of the Iranian 00:01:16.560 --> 00:01:19.780 nuclear deal and they actually adhered to the 00:01:19.780 --> 00:01:22.659 deal for like at least a year afterwards. Now 00:01:22.659 --> 00:01:26.120 he's back and he's upset about what they're doing. 00:01:26.269 --> 00:01:28.709 and bombed them. He then asserted afterwards 00:01:28.709 --> 00:01:31.590 that as long as Iran does nothing in response, 00:01:32.250 --> 00:01:34.989 everything is hunky dory, which is not how anything 00:01:34.989 --> 00:01:38.670 works. That's just war, my guy. Bombing foreign 00:01:38.670 --> 00:01:41.209 soil and then saying if you do anything else, 00:01:41.370 --> 00:01:45.790 we'll bomb you more is war. So despite headlines 00:01:45.790 --> 00:01:48.769 coming out about various figures in the White 00:01:48.769 --> 00:01:51.310 House and Pentagon officials saying, oh, we don't 00:01:51.310 --> 00:01:54.769 want a war. It was just one targeted strike. 00:01:54.920 --> 00:01:57.359 to support, you know, the war that's going on 00:01:57.359 --> 00:01:59.159 that Israel started. But I want to I want to 00:01:59.159 --> 00:02:01.180 pivot real quick and point out that there's a 00:02:01.180 --> 00:02:03.900 lot of conversation right now around whether 00:02:03.900 --> 00:02:06.260 or not this strike was legal. And let's let's 00:02:06.260 --> 00:02:08.719 first just say bombing another country isn't 00:02:08.719 --> 00:02:13.080 legal. Regardless, we were not at war with Iran 00:02:13.080 --> 00:02:15.979 and then we dropped multiple of some of the largest 00:02:15.979 --> 00:02:20.099 munitions ever dropped. And now we're trying 00:02:20.099 --> 00:02:22.659 to say we're not at war with Iran still. During 00:02:22.659 --> 00:02:25.080 Trump's address about all of this, he said that 00:02:25.080 --> 00:02:27.780 it was an unconditional success. And again, he 00:02:27.780 --> 00:02:30.560 asserted that Iran cannot retaliate or the U 00:02:30.560 --> 00:02:33.159 .S. will make more strikes, which to me sounds 00:02:33.159 --> 00:02:35.360 like aggression. The multiple stealth bombers 00:02:35.360 --> 00:02:38.520 dropping bombs on Iran after Israel did a surprise 00:02:38.520 --> 00:02:42.479 attack on Iran also feels like aggression, for 00:02:42.479 --> 00:02:45.539 the record. But whether or not it's legal, whether 00:02:45.539 --> 00:02:48.659 or not it went through Congress, like, for one, 00:02:49.240 --> 00:02:51.479 when has this administration done anything the 00:02:51.479 --> 00:02:54.879 right way? And for two, that doesn't make it 00:02:54.879 --> 00:02:57.360 better. And also there is precedent for this. 00:02:57.500 --> 00:03:00.080 Not that it makes it okay. It's not okay. It's 00:03:00.080 --> 00:03:02.840 extremely not okay. But basically every president 00:03:02.840 --> 00:03:05.560 has bombed countries without congressional approval. 00:03:05.819 --> 00:03:08.719 At least recent presidents, most presidents. 00:03:09.020 --> 00:03:11.659 And none of that makes it okay. None of it. If 00:03:11.659 --> 00:03:13.939 the issue that the Democrats have isn't with 00:03:13.939 --> 00:03:17.479 the bombing and is with the way that the bombing 00:03:17.479 --> 00:03:19.800 happened, that's a problem. And knowing that 00:03:19.800 --> 00:03:21.280 they're never going to hold him accountable and 00:03:21.280 --> 00:03:22.599 knowing that the Republicans aren't going to 00:03:22.599 --> 00:03:24.580 hold him accountable, I want to take this moment 00:03:24.580 --> 00:03:27.159 to remind you that accountability only matters 00:03:27.159 --> 00:03:29.879 if there's the will to enforce it. And the current 00:03:29.879 --> 00:03:32.360 administration and Congress and Supreme Court 00:03:32.360 --> 00:03:36.080 have shown time. And again, there is not that 00:03:36.080 --> 00:03:38.419 will to enforce it. Like, who's going to get 00:03:38.419 --> 00:03:42.319 who's going to get the order to who and. How 00:03:42.319 --> 00:03:44.900 is not going to stop like we knew. that this 00:03:44.900 --> 00:03:47.020 was going to happen. We knew that a second Trump 00:03:47.020 --> 00:03:50.099 presidency was going to be disastrous. That doesn't 00:03:50.099 --> 00:03:52.360 make it okay, but we need to be prepared for 00:03:52.360 --> 00:03:54.520 this. We're already seeing retaliatory strikes 00:03:54.520 --> 00:03:57.560 from Iran. Israel is still striking Iran. This 00:03:57.560 --> 00:04:00.060 isn't over by a long shot. The rest of the world 00:04:00.060 --> 00:04:02.900 is condemning us, as they well should, as we 00:04:02.900 --> 00:04:05.860 continue to stand behind a pariah state that 00:04:05.860 --> 00:04:08.840 is the one causing the destabilization in the 00:04:08.840 --> 00:04:10.759 region it's complaining about destabilization. 00:04:10.879 --> 00:04:13.199 And don't let this get spun. These are deeply, 00:04:13.479 --> 00:04:16.439 deeply unpopular moves. Even Trump's own base 00:04:16.439 --> 00:04:19.079 don't want to get dragged into a war in the Middle 00:04:19.079 --> 00:04:22.100 East. But propaganda bots are already out in 00:04:22.100 --> 00:04:25.220 force. Our own intelligence said that Iran didn't 00:04:25.220 --> 00:04:28.000 have a path to nuclear weapons in the near future. 00:04:28.189 --> 00:04:31.649 They just made shit up again, just like they 00:04:31.649 --> 00:04:35.009 did with Iraq. And you can scream about 60 % 00:04:35.009 --> 00:04:37.110 enriched uranium as much as you want, but that 00:04:37.110 --> 00:04:40.870 doesn't justify bombing another country. If it 00:04:40.870 --> 00:04:43.290 did, we would be bombed a lot. There was a recent 00:04:43.290 --> 00:04:45.829 job approval rating poll about Trump and there 00:04:45.829 --> 00:04:49.389 was one part of it that it blew my mind. I guess 00:04:49.389 --> 00:04:51.810 I should have expected it, but it turns out that 00:04:51.810 --> 00:04:54.269 the youngest generation, the 18 to 29 year old 00:04:54.269 --> 00:04:57.149 generation, Just three months ago had a plus 00:04:57.149 --> 00:05:00.189 eight net approval rating of Trump. The youngest 00:05:00.189 --> 00:05:04.329 eligible voters had a net positive view of Trump. 00:05:04.529 --> 00:05:07.129 Now, three months later today, It's at negative 00:05:07.129 --> 00:05:10.370 39 among the same cohort. Which, like, yay, welcome, 00:05:10.569 --> 00:05:12.850 you made it eventually, but it just tells me 00:05:12.850 --> 00:05:15.089 that the propaganda worked. Why would they have 00:05:15.089 --> 00:05:17.509 believed that? Why would any young person truly 00:05:17.509 --> 00:05:20.990 believe from any objective reality that Donald 00:05:20.990 --> 00:05:25.509 J. Trump, a barely alive, lifelong con man with 00:05:25.509 --> 00:05:28.970 a disastrous first term, would do anything to 00:05:28.970 --> 00:05:30.649 improve the quality of life for young people 00:05:30.649 --> 00:05:33.610 in a second term? The amount of people who were 00:05:33.610 --> 00:05:37.300 flailing. during the past election arguing that 00:05:37.300 --> 00:05:39.399 this wasn't going to happen. It's mind boggling. 00:05:39.560 --> 00:05:41.560 And why do I think that propaganda happened? 00:05:41.620 --> 00:05:43.779 Because as I mentioned, the propaganda bots are 00:05:43.779 --> 00:05:46.459 out in force. Where is that youngest generation? 00:05:46.879 --> 00:05:49.139 They are online. They are on TikTok. And if you 00:05:49.139 --> 00:05:52.019 recall TikTok during the past election cycle, 00:05:52.360 --> 00:05:55.279 it was hell. It was entirely arguing. It was 00:05:55.279 --> 00:05:58.540 entirely bullshit. And it was entirely astroturfed 00:05:58.540 --> 00:06:00.740 crap in the comments. The amount of people who 00:06:00.740 --> 00:06:04.769 were asserting that RFK Jr. was not an anti -vaxxer. 00:06:05.310 --> 00:06:08.189 Ridiculous. Propaganda bots or farms, whatever 00:06:08.189 --> 00:06:11.110 you want to call them, they don't need to make 00:06:11.110 --> 00:06:14.410 sense. They just need to be so omnipresent that 00:06:14.410 --> 00:06:17.509 sense is no longer a major factor in the equation. 00:06:17.730 --> 00:06:19.629 They just need to create enough scenarios where 00:06:19.629 --> 00:06:23.430 someone saw a thing about a thing that made them 00:06:23.430 --> 00:06:26.829 associate two things together or internalize 00:06:26.829 --> 00:06:28.990 some belief that they never even thought about. 00:06:29.319 --> 00:06:31.459 And they've won. When they can answer something 00:06:31.459 --> 00:06:35.199 easily, for example, why did we bomb Iran? With 00:06:35.199 --> 00:06:37.319 an answer like, well, they were close to nukes. 00:06:37.540 --> 00:06:41.279 Wow, that's very acceptable. That's so internalizable. 00:06:41.600 --> 00:06:45.579 No further nuance necessary. Absolutely no further 00:06:45.579 --> 00:06:48.040 attention required. If you were duped by this, 00:06:48.199 --> 00:06:49.860 I don't know what to tell you. You were duped. 00:06:49.920 --> 00:06:53.579 And it happens. Propaganda is rampant in the 00:06:53.579 --> 00:06:56.550 United States. You're not alone. I fall for and 00:06:56.550 --> 00:06:58.990 have fallen for propaganda plenty, which is why 00:06:58.990 --> 00:07:01.850 I have learned to cross -reference things and 00:07:01.850 --> 00:07:04.889 read sources that I've been told not to trust 00:07:04.889 --> 00:07:07.069 by the ones who are telling me to trust them. 00:07:07.230 --> 00:07:09.230 Does that make me a conspiracy theorist? No. 00:07:09.449 --> 00:07:11.649 It makes me someone who wants to gather more 00:07:11.649 --> 00:07:14.230 information from further perspectives than the 00:07:14.230 --> 00:07:18.589 American empire. Is Iran the good guy? No. I 00:07:18.589 --> 00:07:20.730 mean, not the government of Iran. The people 00:07:20.730 --> 00:07:23.370 of Iran are just people, but the government is 00:07:23.370 --> 00:07:26.699 not good. And also the United States just conducted 00:07:26.699 --> 00:07:29.600 another bombing campaign halfway across the world 00:07:29.600 --> 00:07:31.420 because we said that it's the right thing to 00:07:31.420 --> 00:07:34.199 do and then invoked the name of God repeatedly. 00:07:34.540 --> 00:07:37.220 So tell me who's the big scary religious political 00:07:37.220 --> 00:07:39.800 entity that's going to destroy the world because 00:07:39.800 --> 00:07:43.240 I've not been bombed once by Iran. But we're 00:07:43.240 --> 00:07:46.819 about to see a whole lot more people dead from 00:07:46.819 --> 00:07:49.000 our tax dollars. As I said, I didn't have good 00:07:49.000 --> 00:07:51.759 words for you. I'm very, very sorry. There's 00:07:51.759 --> 00:07:54.120 just not. There's not much of a silver lining 00:07:54.120 --> 00:07:56.220 to find here. I can look for the good news I 00:07:56.220 --> 00:07:59.920 can try to spin it some way, but we are again 00:07:59.920 --> 00:08:03.240 at war in the Middle East Despite what our leadership 00:08:03.240 --> 00:08:05.379 wants you to think despite how much they wish 00:08:05.379 --> 00:08:08.819 that they could just Launch a bomb and not worry 00:08:08.819 --> 00:08:11.699 about what happens next That's warfare and the 00:08:11.699 --> 00:08:14.199 rest of the world is calling it out as such Never 00:08:14.199 --> 00:08:15.920 let them convince you that you hate a random 00:08:15.920 --> 00:08:18.620 human being across the world Because of stories 00:08:18.620 --> 00:08:20.259 that you've only ever heard from the people telling 00:08:20.259 --> 00:08:22.220 you to hate them Are those stories completely 00:08:22.220 --> 00:08:25.459 meritless and should be 100 % thrown aside? No. 00:08:25.860 --> 00:08:28.060 Not necessarily. But if someone tells you that 00:08:28.060 --> 00:08:29.980 literally everything that they've ever done is 00:08:29.980 --> 00:08:32.600 righteous and correct and we should ignore the 00:08:32.600 --> 00:08:35.320 wrongs from the past and this time it'll be different? 00:08:36.120 --> 00:08:39.120 Yeah, that's worth questioning. Because I once 00:08:39.120 --> 00:08:43.860 held a hope for a peaceful future. But stuff 00:08:43.860 --> 00:08:46.759 still happened. Take care.