Bankas Podcast - Syrian Christmas ｜ Bankas Podcast - #074

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00:00:45.220 shortly. So let's get into it. Of course, the topic of the day would have to be Daniel Penny.

00:00:56.040 Getting out on his charges, Daniel Penny and his lawyers interviewed by the New York Post as they

00:01:00.960 celebrate his non-guilty verdict. Glad he is enjoying the win. I mean, that's not my opinion.

00:01:06.740 That's somebody's opinion. I mean, I think it's I don't know the full details, but generally, I think

00:01:14.800 that he was trying to help. I don't think he wanted to kill this guy, but he did. He did.

00:01:23.200 And it is pretty crazy to just like I mean, how I don't know the level of how he had to intervene.

00:01:29.140 Did he break up a fight? What the full situation was? But here's Daniel Penny getting interviewed

00:01:35.740 by New York Post at a random bar where he's drinking after the verdict. And he's a free man.

00:01:41.820 How are you feeling? Yeah, he's feeling good. He's feeling good. He's feeling good.

00:01:47.280 What's up together? How's it going? How's it feel? Feels great. He's finally got the justice.

00:01:55.280 He's deserved. Did you think it was going to happen? Sorry?

00:01:59.440 No, we think that this is should happen probably on day one. But the point thing is, it happened. So

00:02:09.180 we can't control the timing of it. But you can certainly savor the.

00:02:14.880 Now, that's a Jewish lawyer. That's a good Jewish lawyer. People want to say, oh, the Jews, 1.00

00:02:19.000 they're responsible for all the crime and the blacks. And it's like, well, they're also I mean, 1.00

00:02:24.480 he just got this guy out. And why do you think it was not guilty? Well, he's not guilty on a few

00:02:34.920 different reasons. Because his actions were justified. He was trying to help people on that

00:02:39.300 train. And he did. And number two, he's not responsible for the death because the death

00:02:44.160 was caused by a lot of other factors that we tried to present with a lot of clarity, such as the K2

00:02:49.600 abuse and the sickle cell, the sickling crisis and cardiac issues, not to mention the paranoid

00:02:56.560 schizophrenia, which only added to that impact. So I'm just glad that it is pretty awesome to be

00:03:00.580 like, look, this guy was a fucking loser. All right. He died, but he was a loser. So it wasn't 1.00

00:03:05.600 as it was enough. And people are freaking out, of course. BLM is freaking out. Let's just take

00:03:15.400 a look at what's going on with BLM. We need some black vigilantes. That's right. People want to jump 1.00

00:03:23.800 up and choke us and kill us for being loud. How about we do the same when they attempt to oppress

00:03:34.400 us? I'm tired. We need some black. I mean, that's pretty dumb because his plan is to just, you know, 1.00

00:03:44.520 let's cause chaos. And, you know, that's not going to give anybody a better rep or anybody a better 0.98

00:03:51.600 name. You know what I mean? It's like, how do we make blacks look better in the situation where a 0.87

00:03:56.600 white guy killed a black homeless person that was crazy, who was threatening to kill people? 1.00

00:04:01.940 Let's kill people. Like, I mean, it's just fucking idiotic. Here's another lady talking about 1.00

00:04:08.600 what she thinks should happen after this verdict.

00:04:14.740 I'm the co-founder of Black Lives Matter Greater New York, and I'm a devout Christian. And in my Bible,

00:04:24.480 thou shall not kill. In the Torah, thou shall not kill. In Buddhism, not kill a living thing.

00:04:31.420 Uh, what about Islam? Hello, inshallah. 0.93

00:04:35.780 But America has no morals, no soul. Our bloods have paved the streets of this nation since its

00:04:42.520 inception. It was foolish of us to think that a black man would get justice in the system 1.00

00:04:48.680 designed to... My heart bleeds for the Neely family. My heart bleeds for his father, who sat in front of 0.98

00:04:55.220 me every single day and prayed for justice for his...

00:04:59.040 I mean, it's kind of funny because if this, the father of that guy, I mean, I mean, he let his kid

00:05:05.020 be a schizophrenic loser on the streets of New York screaming at people in subway cars, but somehow he's, 0.74

00:05:10.120 you know, what a good father he was. But, uh, let's just for a second think about, you know, the father 0.99

00:05:16.740 right now is being so involved because he's like, maybe I'm going to get some money. I mean, let's be

00:05:22.400 honest. He wants money out of this. There's, there is money to be made out of this from the BLM side. 0.70

00:05:27.920 And it's very likely that the father might make some money from this. And I, I personally think

00:05:33.560 that's the reason that he wants to be involved. I don't, I don't, obviously he's sad about his

00:05:38.000 son's death, but there was many things he probably could have done while the kid was alive to prevent

00:05:42.280 him from being in a situation like that. Like talking to him, maybe being like, Hey, maybe don't

00:05:46.940 threaten random people on a subway because you never know who you're threatening. Is that

00:05:52.400 I mean, crazy thing to say to your kid is son, there is no one coming to save black people 0.98

00:05:58.040 or else we wouldn't live in these ghettos. We wouldn't be in these prisons and we, we will 0.91

00:06:03.920 be further along than we are. We wouldn't be at the absolute bottom. So forgive me for being

00:06:08.960 jaded and cynical. But once we saw those non white jurors, we knew that this case was over. 0.96

00:06:14.560 I'm just going to say this, that, you know, this idea that we're in the ghettos and we're

00:06:18.420 the poor people. And there are tons of poor white people. I'm not trying to defend them,

00:06:23.600 but I'm just saying that, you know, there's also tons of rich black people. Like there's

00:06:28.680 black people who are much richer than me. Um, I mean, Oprah is a fucking billionaire. 1.00

00:06:35.260 Jay-Z is a billionaire. I mean, he's in hot water right now for potentially that he raped a kid or 1.00

00:06:40.560 something like that. But, uh, you know, Dr. Dre, I mean, I'm just saying that it's not like

00:06:44.740 there are no black successful people. And I think that this ideology of saying,

00:06:51.660 we're the ones who are all poor. It's like, there's poor people of every fucking race and 0.99

00:06:58.300 religion and they're all living in the ghetto. Okay. Whether it's a black ghetto, a white ghetto, 1.00

00:07:03.640 some sort of ghetto, you know, the Muslim ghetto, the fucking Syrian refugee ghetto. 1.00

00:07:09.920 So there's all a ghetto. Don't worry. We're going to talk about Syria soon. 1.00

00:07:13.380 I don't know. Non-white jurors. How could there not be an uproar that the same person 1.00

00:07:19.380 who got off Kyle Rittenhouse, who got off OJ Simpson was used here and shame on you.

00:07:26.840 Basically, she's saying you shouldn't be allowed to hire lawyers that helped other people get off of 0.92

00:07:32.500 charges. Like it just, there's just an un-American version of this where it's like,

00:07:38.000 if this lady got in trouble for doing something, she'd sure as hell be wanting to 1.00

00:07:41.600 hire somebody who helped somebody else get off. And also OJ Simpson was black. Am I wrong about this? 0.95

00:07:48.300 Celebrities and politicians who claim not to be racist because the racist spoke loud and crillier.

00:07:54.540 John McCain's daughter, she had something to say. I think she incited a riot for the right.

00:07:59.580 Phil Mickelson, he had something to say. Kid Rock donated $3 million. And if you look on social

00:08:09.320 media and you look at the hatred spewed across against us, against black people, against a man

00:08:15.280 who was sick, because when there's a crisis of drugs in America, I'm sorry, it's only a crisis 0.97

00:08:20.020 when it's a white person, an opioid crisis. Jordan was labeled a drug addict and labeled a crackhead. 0.95

00:08:25.460 The only crime that Jordan nearly was guilty of was the color of his skin. But luckily for Daniel

00:08:32.020 Penny, his skin was not like Jordan's because you honestly wouldn't have seen our face. The NYPD

00:08:38.200 would have arrested him after three hours. The justice system would have found him guilty

00:08:43.460 and shame on this jury because to be real, they didn't even try. Once the lesser charge was-

00:08:49.960 It's kind of funny because it's like, when's the last time you saw a black dude protecting 0.99

00:08:53.860 like black people on a subway car from a crazy white guy who's threatening to kill them? I'm just 0.98

00:09:00.140 saying, like, it's not, I'm just saying, and I see a lot of people being like, he had a hero complex.

00:09:06.080 It's like, so what's wrong with wanting to help people? You know, like, look, it's like apples and

00:09:13.360 oranges. You can't really compare this shit, but that's, that's what these people do. They just go, 0.99

00:09:17.400 well, if he was white and he was black and this guy was, it's, it's like, guys, this is a fucked 1.00

00:09:22.560 up situation. Why does it have to be political? I mean, I don't know. I don't know. Why does 0.99

00:09:36.900 everything have to be like a, you know, this, we need to burn everything down. Cause it's like,

00:09:42.820 well, the guy was not, you know, this idea that, oh, well he was a low life. So, well,

00:09:51.860 yeah, but that means that the other guy wasn't the guy who killed him by accident, wasn't a low life

00:09:58.180 and he was doing it because he felt that he needed to protect the people there. 0.84

00:10:02.080 The other guy was a drug addict and did do this as kind of like a, he was just crazy. So that does

00:10:10.460 affect things. You know what I mean? And the way these people see it is they just want to be like,

00:10:17.180 he was a black man and he was homeless. So that means that you have to put this white guy who had

00:10:22.220 a job in jail. So it's like the same level, but they're accusing the white people on the jury of

00:10:27.900 being racist against the black. It's like, well, but if it was the other way around and it was all

00:10:30.560 black people, they would put the white guy in jail, no questions asked. And then if they said, 0.96

00:10:34.300 why they'd be like, cause he's white. So it's all fucked up. Every side here is kind of wrong in a 1.00

00:10:41.800 way. And this isn't the only story of the day, right? A lot of things happened today. Law enforcement

00:10:50.560 has apprehended a suspect of the murder of United healthcare CEO, Brian Thompson, the suspect Luigi

00:10:55.400 Maggioni was apprehended in Pennsylvania. Looks like a nice kid. Looks like a, looks like a smart

00:11:06.640 kid. Now here's a frigging Tik TOK. Apparently this Maggioni guy is gay. I think this is a Tik 1.00

00:11:13.460 talk of the Maggioni guy with his mom.

00:11:17.200 Hey mom. Say, how are you doing?

00:11:19.240 Go back. Change. Uh-uh. No green jacket, no hood. This is serious. Now, a lot of people

00:11:25.080 have been DMing me, messaging me. You have to go back and change. This is not funny. Do you,

00:11:31.700 are you listening to me? This is not a funny situation. Please listen to me. Jake. Oh my God.

00:11:37.820 What? What don't you understand? Oh my God. Let him live. It's a very good crime. You need

00:11:44.100 to go home and change. The person that it was done to did a lot worse. Okay. To the entire

00:11:50.000 country. I'm not negating that. To the entire country. I agree with you. However, there are

00:11:53.860 two jackets in the back. Put one of them on. Jake, I'm going to not go where you want to

00:12:00.880 go. I'm not driving you. Put the jacket on in the back now. So if you're listening, you

00:12:04.720 don't know what's going on. This is the mom, I believe of this Mangione kid who I guess

00:12:09.580 is gay, or maybe this is just another lookalike dressing up like he's the shooter and the mom's 0.95

00:12:14.420 pissed. And, um, that's what's happening here. You know what? Take the jacket off. What do you 0.99

00:12:19.680 have against hoods? What do you have against hoods? There's only one type of hood I don't

00:12:24.940 like, and it's a white one. Jake. Otherwise I am very into the hood. I love a hooded shaft,

00:12:31.020 if you will. Jake.

00:12:37.660 Isn't it so fun having gay kids? Isn't that so fun? Just hearing about your kid wanting 1.00

00:12:43.880 cock? Isn't that just nice? Um, like what the, what the actual fuck is going on? 1.00

00:12:55.500 Um, speaking of people getting, uh, off of charges, Donald Trump says he will most likely 0.96

00:13:02.700 pardon J six rioters on his first day in office. This is going to make people completely insane.

00:13:11.740 Uh, people do not like this. Fuck Trump and his followers. Somebody said, some people said 1.00

00:13:19.220 as he should, if Biden's Coke head son can get pardoned. I mean, it is.

00:13:24.240 It's it's very, all these issues are so like you could debate, you could spend your whole life.

00:13:31.520 And I'm sure some people will in like university students spend their whole life on one of just

00:13:35.900 one of these topics, just one of these things that have happened recently from the CEO murder

00:13:41.520 to Trump pardoning J six to, uh, Syria. You could really spend your whole life and I'm here.

00:13:49.920 So you don't have to, you can just spend the next 45 minutes listening and go, you know,

00:13:54.260 I heard Ben Bank just talk about it. I think I understand what's going on. I think I get it.

00:14:01.280 This is a Muslim woman complains that in Paris, best seats in restaurants are for whites and worse 1.00

00:14:07.300 for Arabs and blacks. 0.97

00:14:08.240 It kind of makes me want to go to Paris. 0.94

00:14:21.420 If you're just listening, you can't understand. Very sorry. Um, we'll watch only a couple seconds

00:14:27.520 more of this. Cause it's all in French.

00:14:36.520 I mean, my problem with any, I mean, she's talking, I think she's talking faster than your average

00:14:54.000 French person, but anybody who's upset that if you're upset enough about anything that you feel

00:15:01.040 you need to take your phone out in a restaurant, start making a thing, calling everybody racist,

00:15:06.920 you might be the problem. And you know, this isn't a race thing. This is a, you're annoying thing.

00:15:13.400 Like if you're an annoying person and they go, that person's definitely going to be annoying.

00:15:17.820 Let's sit them in the back. It has nothing to do with your race. They just looked at you

00:15:21.820 and they didn't judge you based on your race. They judged you based on your five seconds of

00:15:25.720 behavior. If you, if I came into a restaurant, I was like, hi, can I get a fucking table for 0.99

00:15:29.300 they'd be like, uh, yeah, table in the back. Cause we don't want to deal with you. Like, 0.99

00:15:35.840 has this lady ever who's complaining or the people who complain about restaurants, not serving them 1.00

00:15:41.720 properly. Or have they ever worked in a restaurant? Cause if they did, they might be racist

00:15:46.560 after, uh, you know, maybe a week. I'm just saying. And then there's this whole idea that like,

00:15:54.560 why are people Islamophobic? For instance, they're like, where, where's this coming from? How,

00:16:00.540 where the heck is this coming from? Well, I mean, there's been a couple incidents.

00:16:08.540 Can I say that? Is that okay to say there's been a few incidents? Sorry, but people go, well,

00:16:15.240 ah, Hey, you know, uh, nine 11 plus, uh, go, but seven equals, uh, maybe you sit in the bag.

00:16:27.040 I don't know. And I'm not saying that's right, but I'm saying that that's where people are

00:16:32.440 coming from, whether it's right or not, there has to be an understanding. You're like, Oh yeah,

00:16:38.000 like I get it now because, and then we came to, you know, now we're doing mass immigration,

00:16:42.920 taking away your culture, openly saying that we don't agree with your culture and ours is better.

00:16:47.580 Can they not see how that like, like Muslims get upset when you draw Muhammad, 1.00

00:16:51.540 but they can't understand when millions of refugees come to a country and want to destroy, 1.00

00:16:57.100 uh, Christmas markets or drive through them. Like, does that,

00:17:01.860 is there nobody going, well, okay, I can see how they maybe didn't like that.

00:17:07.620 Syrian Islamist March and Christmas markets, uh, in Stuttgart, Germany.

00:17:31.860 And people will say, what's the problem with this? It's just what they're exercising their freedom

00:17:46.020 to march through a Christmas market, holding his, you know, screaming about, uh, Muhammad.

00:17:51.500 What's the issue with that? Well, with the, uh, I don't know if there's ever a, such a thing as a

00:17:56.560 Ramadan market. Um, they might, I think Israel might've blown a few of those up actually, but 0.99

00:18:03.160 is like, is that a, you know, if there's Christians marching through the Muslim areas,

00:18:09.580 is that, that would be seen as Islamophobic. Am I wrong? So when it's the opposite, people are just

00:18:16.000 supposed to go, ah, it's the right. They're allowed. They're allowed. I mean, come on. Am I

00:18:23.620 fucking wrong here? Here's Trump's statement on Assad. Assad is gone. He fled the country. His 0.98

00:18:31.280 protector, Russia, Russia, Russia led by Vladimir Putin. Putin was not interested in protecting him

00:18:37.880 any longer. There was no reason for Russia to be there in the first place. They lost all interest

00:18:41.460 in Syria because of Ukraine. We're close to 600,000 Russian soldiers were lay wounded or dead

00:18:46.220 in a war that should never have started and could go on forever. Russia and Iran are in a weakened

00:18:52.560 state right now. One because of Ukraine and a bad economy, the other, because Israel and its 1.00

00:18:56.720 fighting success. Likewise, Zelensky in Ukraine would like to make a deal and stop the madness. 0.61

00:19:05.600 Let's do a little deal. They have ridiculously lost 400,000 soldiers. Humble brag that they lost

00:19:11.280 less than Russia. And many more civilians. There should be an immediate ceasefire negotiations 0.90

00:19:17.800 to begin. Too many lives are being needlessly wasted. Too many families destroyed. And if it

00:19:22.560 keeps going, it can turn into something much bigger and far worse. I know Vladimir well.

00:19:26.680 This is his time to act. China can help. The world is waiting. I mean, he's not wrong,

00:19:34.760 but when Biden spoke, because Biden did speak about this. And I have to say, like, you know,

00:19:43.360 you can say what you want about how old he is and stuff like that. But he did make some sense in

00:19:50.000 this speech. I'm not going to play the whole thing. It's like six minutes long. But if you listen to it,

00:19:54.220 yeah, he fumbles a couple words. But generally, he sounds like a president. And I'm just being honest

00:20:01.820 and of my opinion. And, you know, he makes the point that, yeah, we gave Ukraine this much money

00:20:08.500 to help. Because this, you know, Russia had to focus on Ukraine and couldn't focus on Syria, which

00:20:16.200 they had a lot of troops there and they had, you know, they were becoming like a Russian proxy state.

00:20:21.300 So and people want to say, like, why should we be involved in any of these wars? Well,

00:20:25.800 because it's the United States and they kind of want to be a world superpower. And to do that,

00:20:29.400 you kind of need to play geopolitical, you know, geo like it's proxy wars. It's happening.

00:20:37.860 And if you know, I don't know what the if there aren't any of these, is everybody going to be OK

00:20:42.640 as well? And we just move on and everything's fine. I don't know. I'm not that smart. But what I do

00:20:48.720 know is that. Biden doesn't sound that bad here. It's also a moment of risk and uncertainty.

00:20:57.260 As we all turn to the question of what comes next, the United States will work with our partners

00:21:03.240 and the stakeholders in Syria to help them seize an opportunity to manage the risk,

00:21:10.100 you know, for a year. And if you're wondering what that means,

00:21:13.920 it means that America is going to keep bombing the shit out of Syria with Israel until they make 0.98

00:21:18.780 sure that whoever takes over Syria doesn't want to be at war with its neighbors. And people will say, 0.97

00:21:25.380 well, oh, it's Israel and they're expansionists. They're trying to it's like, well, but they just 0.95

00:21:29.340 want to exist. And the only way to exist, unfortunately, is to blow these places up, like

00:21:32.780 flying from to Damascus from, you know, Tel Aviv in a in a F-16 going Mach 1 only takes like

00:21:41.600 what? 30 minutes. It's close. It's scarily close. So

00:21:49.320 how serious diversity friendly jihadists plan on building a state? Can you believe this?

00:21:59.400 Diversity friendly jihadists.

00:22:01.340 Just like the ones in Canada, diversity friendly. They're like, we love Jews, just not any of them. 1.00

00:22:10.800 We love the Jews, just not the ones in Israel, the ones that are here or the ones that are in 1.00

00:22:14.400 Europe or the ones that are like, I don't know. It's it's very scary. I'm scared a little bit.

00:22:20.260 Not going to lie. A little bit scared. Anybody else?

00:22:26.240 Well, we're just showing you some of the pictures here, Matt, because you can see a few hundred people

00:22:32.600 have gathered here for these celebrations. It may be a bitterly cold day here in Manchester, but

00:22:39.120 I tell you what, that's not putting off people turning out here. We're expecting many hundreds

00:22:44.520 to come here. There's also first tweet and the tweet I've been seeing the most. They got what

00:22:49.040 they wanted. Good for them. Now it's time for them to be returned to Syria. Pretty funny. But what is 1.00

00:22:53.460 I'm just curious. So people are saying that anybody. So Syria has fallen. Assad has fallen

00:23:00.180 and the Syrian people have taken back their country, apparently. And Syrians around the world,

00:23:06.560 the many refugees who left that country are now living in places like America, Canada,

00:23:10.580 you know, Europe, you know, all the white countries that allow refugees to come into them and help 0.72

00:23:17.080 them. Unlike, you know, China, India, Iran, or any other country that Russia that's not really doing

00:23:23.300 that. And they're celebrating the Syria thing. And people are saying, well, now can you go, you should

00:23:28.920 go home. And people are saying that's racist. And my question is, is that actually racist? Because

00:23:33.180 it's like you had to leave your country because it was war torn. And now you're celebrating that it's

00:23:38.680 back, giving back to the people. But you don't want to leave. That begs the question, what are

00:23:45.200 you celebrating? If the country's not, you know, back to normal enough for you to go home?

00:23:51.400 What do you celebrate? I'm just I'm like, I'm genuinely asking, what is the celebration?

00:23:55.440 Because I think deep down, the big threat is look, look at this, the rebels taking over yada yada.

00:24:02.180 There's enough people in Europe who hate Europe to take it to try to do that. Am I wrong? I mean,

00:24:12.720 is like people have predicted that there could be civil war in Europe over this shit. And it's 1.00

00:24:19.980 very possible. This is a video. Oh, no, this is a video of Christians in Syria. I don't know what

00:24:27.560 this is like some guy speaking Muslim though, but in this village in Syria, they still speak the same

00:24:32.060 language of Jesus Christ from biblical times. I'm here in Malula, where they speak Aramaic and

00:24:37.220 linguists believe this town is most similar to the original language due to its isolation in the

00:24:41.880 Syrian mountains. This is what it sounds like. Roughly 10% of Syrians are Christian. Sounds 1.00

00:24:53.480 like Muslim. And Syria was actually a Christian majority before being conquered by Muslim Arabs

00:25:00.820 during the civil war. Places like Malula were under attack by jihadist groups. They looted and

00:25:05.620 destroyed most of the artifacts. But with the help of NGOs, they are working to rebuild the churches

00:25:09.640 and recreate the art. The town is built right into a cliff. And it is wild that that fact that it

00:25:15.900 was a majority Christian country taken over by Muslims, but somehow everything's the Jews. It's like 1.00

00:25:23.460 nothing has changed since biblical times in that area. It's very insane, surreal to realize that

00:25:31.680 things are the same there that they fucking been when Jesus was born. Everybody's just fighting over 0.98

00:25:36.540 the land, over the religion, over the, you know, like, can we get some dispensaries in the area?

00:25:43.940 Can we get some dispensaries in Malula? Is there anybody at this dispensary who speaks Aramaic?

00:25:50.080 I'm trying to get a sativa here. Can we do that? Many of the homes and churches are built into the

00:25:55.600 rocks, the same caves that many Christians use to hide in from persecution. While we were here,

00:26:00.480 we met some of the local residents who said prayers for us in Aramaic, including Michael,

00:26:04.580 a shopkeeper who was so incredibly kind and welcoming. Aramaic is now classified as endangered

00:26:09.460 by UNESCO, and many of the younger people couldn't speak it. The civil war put further pressure on the

00:26:14.440 language, forcing many Malula residents to leave, putting the language in danger of dying out if more

00:26:19.020 people are not able to pass it down to future generations. Interesting how nobody cares about

00:26:27.220 anything like that, preserving any of the culture, you know, and people, you know, they're working to 0.98

00:26:33.660 preserve the culture in fucking Syria, but who gives a shit about them do, you know, trampling the 1.00

00:26:39.960 culture in Europe or America or who gives a shit about that, right? I mean, question, is that any 0.99

00:26:46.880 different? This is in Germany, by the way, this is just hundreds and hundreds of people celebrating

00:26:52.760 what's happening in Syria.

00:27:12.620 Is any, like, if I, if, if there was something, you know, if the Western world fell into war, which it already did,

00:27:22.760 right? World war two happened millions and millions and millions of people, if I think hundreds of

00:27:29.440 millions of people died, but nobody immigrated from Europe to like Syria, you know what I mean? Or like

00:27:42.740 went to China on mass to be safe or to India or wherever Israel. Yes, but they had to build their own 0.93

00:27:52.620 country, defend it with their lives because nobody wanted them to have it. It's not like the Jews 1.00

00:27:58.900 were like, Hey, well, the Holocaust happened. Do you mind if we move to Lebanon? Will you guys take us? 0.91

00:28:03.620 Like, do you mind if we move to Morocco? Is that cool? So it's this, this weird thing where it's like

00:28:10.420 shit could go down with whites and white countries or not just whites, but anybody from our countries 0.99

00:28:17.420 are other countries like Syria or Assad or Jordan or Iran, would they welcome us with open arms and 0.99

00:28:28.000 say, come here. And then when we come, just let us practice our culture of freedom of speech openly

00:28:33.720 and march around. No, no, that's like, am I, I feel like I'm taking crazy pills, but it's the answer

00:28:42.480 is no. This is another Christmas market in Germany being taken over by Syrians. 1.00

00:29:01.600 So, and that's, and like I said earlier, it's like, does nobody have the foresight to realize

00:29:08.240 that this is potentially a problem. So in Syria, they have still 10% of the population is Christian.

00:29:15.420 And here's a video. This happened right after the fall of Assad. Syrian Christians celebrate Assad's 0.93

00:29:20.520 downfall under a Christmas tree and in front of their church with its bells ringing, chanting Syrians

00:29:26.720 U.S. United. We are one people.

00:29:42.680 Are they going to be safe? Is anybody wondering about this? I mean, that's what Biden was talking

00:29:46.980 about. Yeah, great. You, you know, you, you, you got your freedom, but we're going to be monitoring

00:29:51.100 this and blowing the shit out of everything to make sure that you don't go around doing 0.99

00:29:56.700 what we sure as hell know you want to do, which is not let these people be Christian. And, you 1.00

00:30:01.720 know, Oh, well, do you, you know, why is Israel? Well, but if there were Jews still in Syria,

00:30:08.000 do you think this would be a good time for them to be hanging around? I mean, I'm, this is

00:30:14.540 Utrecht in the Netherlands, tallest church tower. This is another protest slash celebration of

00:30:23.420 Syrian freedom, which none of these people I believe are going to take advantage of.

00:30:28.440 Don't worry. They're going to peacefully return guys. They're going to peacefully return to Syria. 1.00

00:30:45.320 They want to go. They want to go back. They're excited. They're going to go back. They're going

00:30:51.800 to, uh, you know, they're going to work as hard as they can to rebuild the country with their

00:30:57.620 countrymen. They're going to, you know, they're going to start businesses. They're going to start

00:31:01.800 an Uber Eats app in Syria, and it's all going to be beautiful. They're going to have democracy.

00:31:06.300 They're going to figure it out. Don't you worry. They're going to figure it out. Don't you worry.

00:31:21.980 Or not, or it's going to be really bad. And Netanyahu, I think, you know,

00:31:27.520 I mean, everybody, I don't know my fans fucking half of mine. I have a ton of Jewish fans who 0.96

00:31:33.880 support Israel. I have Jewish fans who don't support Israel. I have fans that aren't Jewish

00:31:38.700 that support Israel. I have fans that don't support Israel. I mean, I personally, I think

00:31:44.820 they have a right to exist. People say, but they're colonialist. Well, yeah, but so is Canada

00:31:49.840 and America and Australia. I think they should exist. So does that make me a fucking, you know,

00:31:55.460 whatever, Zion, Zion? Do I think that they go too far? Do I think that certain 0.99

00:32:02.720 AIPAC and all those things have issues? Yes. You know, but do I understand why they exist?

00:32:10.500 Because, you know, nobody around the world really wants Jews to live in their countries. 1.00

00:32:16.300 And the only time that they do allow Jews, the Jews have to become so successful that they 1.00

00:32:20.680 can't be kicked out and become people go, well, I've seen online, like this super right-wing 1.00

00:32:26.500 shit, like Jews are parasitical and they make their way into society. And that's how it's 1.00

00:32:31.180 like, well, but isn't that like anybody, like any of any race wants to be successful to be

00:32:35.620 a part of a society? I think that's an idiotic way to think. But here's what Netanyahu had to say. 1.00

00:32:45.060 This is a historic day for the Middle East. The collapse of the Assad regime, the tyranny in 0.98

00:32:51.400 Damascus offers great opportunity, but also is fraught with significant dangers. This collapse

00:32:57.600 is a direct result of our forceful action against Hezbollah and Iran, Assad's main supporters.

00:33:04.660 Isn't it funny that all the pro-Palestine people who are now out on the street celebrating 0.96

00:33:12.620 the fall of Assad and a free Syria, they were protesting against Israel's right to exist, 0.78

00:33:20.580 but Israel was the one that bombed Syria enough for this to happen and America, who they also,

00:33:29.840 the pro-Palestinian people say is evil and shouldn't exist, but they're the ones that helped create 1.00

00:33:35.260 this freedom. I'm just saying, and anybody wants to be like, well, yeah, but they were involved in the

00:33:40.880 original collapse of the country. But yeah, but Assad was the leader and he was ruling with an iron 0.60

00:33:46.380 fist then. So is that what they didn't have the right to vote and shit like that? So what are we 0.98

00:33:53.240 talking about here? If anything, they were a free country. I don't know. Maybe tell me if I'm wrong.

00:33:59.020 Maybe I'm wrong. I could. I mean, I'm not always right about things, but this is my intuition.

00:34:03.100 I go with my gut and it seems like the Jews freed Syria. Hello. Hello. Knock, knock. You know, 0.95

00:34:13.960 free Palestine people. How do you feel about this? It set off a chain reaction of all those who want 0.92

00:34:18.560 to free themselves from this tyranny and its oppression. But it also means we have to take

00:34:23.320 action against possible threats. One of them is the collapse of the separation of forces agreement

00:34:28.720 from 1974 between Israel and Syria. This agreement held for 50 years. Last night, it collapsed. The

00:34:36.120 Syrian army abandoned its positions. We gave the Israeli army the order to take over those positions

00:34:42.160 to ensure that no hostile force embeds itself right next to the border of Israel.

00:34:48.620 And people will say they're invading. They're going to. This is what they do. This is the

00:34:53.640 expansionism. It's like, well, what were they supposed to do? Just wait until fucking, you know,

00:34:58.380 the ISIS dudes roll up to the fucking border. Like what the people who are so against this 1.00

00:35:03.840 have no idea what it takes for a country to exist. Look at America. America's amazing. Go

00:35:09.900 to a Taco Bell. You can go here, go to the mall, go to an ice rink and watch a, you know, a Christmas

00:35:15.700 tree lighting ceremony and it's safe and it's fun and it's cute and it's interesting. Why do you

00:35:21.420 think that's possible? Well, you know how much fucking, you know what the edges of the empire 0.99

00:35:26.280 look like, you know, when cool things were good in Rome? What, what, what about over in 0.99

00:35:31.380 same area? Fucking Assyria, Assyria, when it was Assyria, what was going on? They were 0.99

00:35:37.800 fucking waging wars at the edges of the empire so that people downtown Rome were like, yeah, 0.98

00:35:43.840 this is Rome's pretty good. Rome's nice. I like this. This is good. This is a temporary defensive 0.99

00:35:50.100 position until a suitable arrangement is found. Equally, we send a hand of peace to all those

00:35:56.800 beyond our border in Syria, to the Jews, to the Kurds, to the Christians and to the Muslims 0.82

00:36:03.960 who want to live in peace with Israel. We're going to follow events very carefully. If we

00:36:08.540 can establish a neighborly relations and a peaceful relations with the new forces emerging

00:36:14.500 in Syria, that's our desire. But if I just want to compliment Netanyahu on the quality 0.74

00:36:20.080 of this video, want to know what camera this is. This is like one of those things that you

00:36:24.680 Google when you're trying to figure out what camera to buy for your podcast. You're like,

00:36:28.100 what camera does Netanyahu use when he's at the Syrian Israeli border looking very crisp

00:36:34.760 and clear? Do I believe him that it's a temporary thing? No, it probably isn't. It'll probably

00:36:40.540 be forever. But what are you going to do, folks? What are you going to do? The country

00:36:45.300 next to you collapses. You think of Canada's government collapsed and people were burning

00:36:50.440 down Parliament, invading Trudeau's office. You don't think America would be like, we're

00:36:54.840 taking steps to secure the border since now all the Canadian border guards have been disbanded.

00:37:00.840 And, you know, you don't think that they would be taking steps. I mean, this is this is what

00:37:05.020 happens. But they are also bombing the shit out of Syria. That's kind of what's also happening. 0.98

00:37:22.840 Imagine being in Syria and be like, oh, more fireworks. We're celebrating. Oh, no, 1.00

00:37:26.280 it's Israel blowing the shit out of all of our weapons caches so that we can't rise up against 0.98

00:37:30.960 them, which was our plan. God, gosh darn it. Thanks, Israel and America for blowing up all 1.00

00:37:37.040 the friggin chemical weapons and other weapons and that we were going to use to do some crazy 1.00

00:37:43.680 bullshit. Why can't you guys just have a country? Like, I mean, seriously, like, why can't you 1.00

00:37:47.840 just have a country open a fucking couple McDonald's, a couple KFC, get some dispensaries 0.99

00:37:53.080 going and chill the fuck out? Right. Like open the trucking routes, get a Bucky's, get some 1.00

00:38:00.080 some grocery stores, some a nice grocery store chain, Syria. That's what they need. They need

00:38:05.140 like a H-E-B, like a Kroger's, like a Wegmans, a Publix, something. That's what Syria needs to 0.98

00:38:12.380 really succeed here. Can we get a Publix in Syria and a few dispensaries, even if they're just

00:38:19.200 medicinal only and you still need ID? I still think that would make Syria a better place. 1.00

00:38:23.140 A couple dispensaries, a Kroger's or a Wegmans or a H-E-B. And, you know, let them know,

00:38:31.360 hey, this is everything's going to be fine. There's an H-E-B now.

00:38:38.200 Maybe not. Maybe it's not. Maybe that's not possible. I think these guys, these guys would

00:38:52.240 love a, you know, a nice Costco. That's what they need, a Costco. I think Syria, how do 1.00

00:39:02.880 we get a Costco open there? How do we get the Rizzer in Syria doing a video at the first

00:39:09.580 ever Syrian Costco, democracy at its finest? We bring the boom, but it's just an Israeli 1.00

00:39:15.940 air strike. These guys are going to be fine, folks. They're going to figure out how to run

00:39:32.220 the country like nothing ever happened. It's going to be better than ever. They're going

00:39:36.440 to have they're going to have Circle K. They're going to have Subway. They're going to have

00:39:41.780 Chipotle. They're going to have, you know, McDonald's. They're going to have everything

00:39:47.500 one day. Syria is going to be such a successful place. Damascus is going to be such a successful

00:39:52.600 city that some CEO of a Syrian health insurance company might even get assassinated on the streets

00:39:59.200 of Damascus and people might find him at a McDonald's. That's that is how, you know,

00:40:04.900 you live in a successful country. Sounds like downtown Toronto every Saturday night.

00:40:21.900 I don't know what to say, but it looks like it looks like here's some more Israeli bombs going

00:40:32.820 off. This says last night, Israel destroyed all of Syria's remaining chemical weapons,

00:40:36.940 missiles, air defense systems and air force, including Iranian military positions,

00:40:41.560 tens of billions of dollars of Iranian investment down the drain. That's so this is really it's at

00:40:47.320 the end of the day, it's a proxy war against Iran, which is Russia, which is China. These are the

00:40:52.800 enemies and this is what we're fighting. And I think that there is a little legitimate fear that

00:40:57.960 Trump is going to be naive and want to work with these countries. I don't know. I mean,

00:41:04.080 he never wanted to work with Iran. He destroyed Iran's currency. And I think he did the same

00:41:10.320 to Russia. Or was that Biden? But I mean.

00:41:21.800 Oh, that one.

00:41:25.180 More bombs going off. 1.00

00:41:27.960 It is kind of funny that America and Israel just blowing the living shit out of Syria. Well, 0.99

00:41:34.440 and the Syrians are in America and Canada and Europe celebrating that Syria is free while Israel 0.99

00:41:40.620 blows the shit up. And then and then people are like, why don't you want to go back? And it's like, 0.98

00:41:45.940 here's a footage of the place getting blown to shit. It's kind of it's troubling. But if you're 0.99

00:41:51.840 Canadian or you're Mexican, you might not have to cross the border illegally anymore because

00:41:57.580 we might be coming the next be becoming the next 51st, 52nd states, according to Trump, who is slowly

00:42:05.720 but surely not kidding as much as he was at the beginning when he was mentioning Canada becoming

00:42:10.560 a 51st state. You're subsidizing Canada to the tune of over 100 billion dollars a year. We're

00:42:17.060 subsidizing Mexico for almost 300 billion dollars. We shouldn't be subsidized. Why are we subsidizing

00:42:23.460 these countries? If we're going to subsidize them, let them become a state. We're subsidizing Mexico and 0.52

00:42:28.880 we're subsidizing Canada and we're subsidizing many countries all over the world. And all I want to do is

00:42:34.560 I want to have a level, fast, but fair playing field here. So I don't disagree with them. Pretty crazy,

00:42:42.660 though. Imagine just just like, you know. Is that a good idea? Is that what Germany did? What is that?

00:42:54.000 Were they subsidizing Poland or France? Because, you know. I mean, I'm asking. I'm not saying I'm just

00:43:01.420 curious if people think this is a good idea. I mean, on paper, you know, it sounds like great.

00:43:06.420 Like, yeah. Woo. We're going to, you know, Canada is going to become America. But is that a good idea?

00:43:13.000 Tell me in the comments. I don't I don't actually know what my opinion is. Other than I mean, my opinion,

00:43:17.160 because I'm a comedian here on a visa in America and I'm Canadian. Fucking take it over. Who gives a 0.99

00:43:22.500 shit? But certain people might not be happy about it. However, would be pretty awesome if Canada and 0.99

00:43:29.260 Mexico became part of the US and then both countries, including mainland America, all got

00:43:34.480 rid of, you know, taxes, income taxes, and then we all the taxes were paid by other countries.

00:43:42.560 Sounds like a good deal. Everybody keeps more money, gets better health care. I mean, you got to pay for

00:43:48.780 your health care, but at least it's good. Donald Trump asks Slovenia's prime minister if he would

00:43:53.600 consider a wife swap. I don't know if that's actually true, but pretty funny. People are mad 1.00

00:44:00.980 saying that this this account is left wing propaganda.

00:44:23.600 I don't know if that's actually true. Definitely not true. Um, here's another one of the arm

00:44:31.980 wrestle between, uh,

00:44:34.980 Macron and Trump.

00:44:39.980 In a big moment, President Macron is using this, um, that designed to set the power in the

00:44:44.980 19th century, 19th century, 19th century, 19th century, 19th century, 19th century, 19th century,

00:44:48.600 19th century, 19th century, 19th century, 19th century, 19th century, 19th century.

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Bankas Podcast - December 10, 2024

Syrian Christmas ｜ Bankas Podcast - #074

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