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00:06:28.000When there were these Palestinians, or pro-Palestine, pro-Hamas protesters, they were chanting death to America in Dearborn, and we made the point that people on the right, who are often mischaracterized as anti-Israel, they just believe that America should look out for its own interests first, and shouldn't be entangled in foreign wars.
00:06:46.000Now, that's a position to hold, an entirely legitimate position, I don't think it's anti-Semitic.
00:06:50.000And then I clarified that people on the left, my left, your right, them, Or at least their position on Israel was really because they see Big Devil, Little Devil, America, and Israel, and their hatred of Israel is effectively an extension of their hatred of America.
00:07:05.000Well, we're about to get to a union member here who coaches people to, uh, actually through, in translation, he's actually teaching people to be bilingually hateful, uh, chant death to America, but it's time for A Crowder Called It.
00:07:19.000So, I think this is what I said here last week, and then we'll go to the new clip.
00:07:22.000pitch ball right past the flag. We're gonna win the game. I guarantee.
00:07:27.000So I think this is what I said here last week. And then we'll go to the new clip. You have people on the right who have
00:08:40.000Now, a viral video has shown this union member training people how to chant Death to America and Death to Israel in Persian, which is not a pretty language.
00:08:50.000So I'm going to teach you a chant in Persian that you can use if you ever encounter those Zionist freaks, whether they be Iranian or whatever, alright?
00:08:59.000Now, I don't drink margaritas, but we all know what a margarita is.
00:09:03.000Don't you love the virtue signaling before he chants for death?
00:09:59.000By the way, this was at the Teamsters Union HQ in Chicago, and that's one of the largest unions in the United States, so 1.3 million members.
00:10:06.000They have truck drivers, they have warehouse workers.
00:10:09.000They're one of the most influential unions as far as elections, too.
00:10:12.000So, again, my question is, at what point does it become treason?
00:10:16.000Like, if you're talking about people, you want to charge them with sedition for going on a walking tour January 6th.
00:10:21.000People here chanting, death to Israel, death to America.
00:10:24.000It seems to me, and I'm not saying, if you don't like America, you should get the hell out.
00:10:28.000But in this case, I kind of am, because you're shouting death to us.
00:10:33.000Well, I think it's important that we all acknowledge that everyone in that crowd was thinking about grandma and they were very safe.
00:10:40.000I noticed that everyone in that crowd was wearing their masks.
00:10:45.000I feel like we should give them credit for that.
00:10:47.000Well, yeah, if they want death to America, they should just take off the mask and let the spread fall where it may.
00:12:12.000And he didn't, you know, you'll get people who, um, they go up and they thank, they thank God or they'll thank like, you know, their Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, which is, which is great.
00:12:21.000You'll get sometimes people go up and say, Hey, I love America.
00:12:23.000This guy decided to With his victory speech, go into, on a micro level, economics.
00:14:06.000The six lessons include, I mean, it really just talks about economics, free enterprise, you know, how the government intervention creates red tape.
00:14:13.000It's economic policy, thoughts for today and tomorrow is what you can read there.
00:14:44.000And the Six Lessons, by the way, it actually became a cultural phenomenon in Brazil and that came from the public's frustration with the government's, you know, sort of mismanagement of the economy, of course Lula's first-term policy.
00:14:56.000So it's something you're seeing a groundswell in Brazil.
00:17:55.000So he, actually his name is Poetan, he gets nut-shotted, and he kind of adjusts himself, and the ref walks in, and he slowly nudges him off, and within 10 seconds...
00:18:04.000Knocked out the guy, just kicked him in the nuts.
00:18:06.000He was like, I'm in the zone, don't bother me.
00:18:07.000And the ref just kind of, alright, I got it.
00:18:09.000It was one of the scariest things I've ever seen as a grown man.
00:18:27.000Oh, I also forgot to tell you, George the Greek is going to be on the ground in Nashville tomorrow and Wednesday because there's a trial for the public release of the full Nashville Manifesto.
00:19:26.000We're going to give you the ins and outs of what happened, kind of why it happened, some of the details that I think the media is missing a little bit, and then let's have a discussion with, of course, Ginger Snapp.
00:19:35.000He'll come in because this is an international issue and that's kind of his wheelhouse.
00:20:29.000And then it just gets squatted out of the sky.
00:20:33.000By the way, is that the same developed from the missile technology under Ronald Reagan that everyone mocked at Star Wars Missile Defense and said would never work?
00:21:30.000And something also to keep in mind, I didn't have on my betting card President Trump creating the most stable international relationships that we've seen in our lifetime.
00:21:40.000Like I thought he would be good for the economy.
00:23:49.000Central Command forces supported by the U.S.
00:23:52.000European Command destroyers, I'm reading this direct quote from X, they successfully engaged and destroyed more than 80 one-way attacked uncrewed aerial vehicles and at least six ballistic missiles intended to strike Israel from Iran and Yemen.
00:24:07.000And I think it's important because what's going to happen is if you say that Israel has a right to defend itself, the left or people who are, I guess, supporters of Iran.
00:24:15.000I guess those people still exist, apparently.
00:24:56.000Iran is pledging revenge tonight, accusing Israel of attacking its embassy complex in Syria and reportedly killing at least seven Iranian military officials.
00:26:48.000Maybe, Layne Dinnersnap, you can send it in, where they were talking about how the Biden administration said they will, you know, issue to Israel, we will not be aiding in any retaliatory action.
00:26:58.000Like, what happened to moral, like, just strategic ambiguity?
00:27:02.000That's something—like, you don't come out and say, like, by the way, we're definitely not going to help.
00:27:05.000We're not going to—just, you just say, you know, hey, by the way, we really think that there shouldn't be a retaliatory action.
00:27:51.000Okay, let's compare Donald Trump-Biden, we'll throw in Barack Obama into this mix.
00:27:56.000May 2018, then-President Trump pulled out of the Joint Comprehension Plan of Action, JCPOA for short, or just call it the Iran Deal, there's no good acronym for it, and he reimposed some very heavy sanctions on Iran.
00:28:08.000The Iranian economy suffered $1 trillion in damages.
00:28:13.000So you may not like former president Trump, if you say that.
00:28:16.000Sorry, some people say former president, some people say sitting president.
00:28:42.000But If you are funding terrorism on a global scale more than anybody else, I think that warrants us saying, yeah, we're not going to give you your six billion dollars back on account that you keep funding terrorism.
00:28:52.000That's a lot of faulty missiles they can buy.
00:30:10.000He issued this very specific threat to the Iranian president.
00:30:14.000He said, and this is from his, I guess I have to take a sip here.
00:30:18.000The Iranian President Rouhani, he put this out, he said, Never ever threaten the United States again or you will suffer the consequences the likes of which few throughout history have ever suffered before.
00:30:31.000We are no longer a country that will stand for your demented words of violence and death.
00:30:57.000This was, I don't know if you remember this, the Iran-backed Kataib Hezbollah, right?
00:31:03.000They killed, Hezbollah killed an American contractor, Iran-backed militias who stormed the United States Embassy in Baghdad.
00:31:11.000In response to that, President Trump authorized the killing of the Iranian general Soleimani.
00:31:17.000You may not remember he was an Iranian general because no one really cares about their title, but Soleimani, you remember that name, January 2020.
00:31:22.000Last night of my direction, the United States military successfully executed a flawless precision strike that killed the number one terrorist anywhere in the world, Qasem Soleimani.
00:31:37.000We took action last night to stop God, I miss him.
00:35:03.000Actually, the Israeli minister of diaspora sent this out saying, we must treat every missile attack on Israel as though each projectile had hit its intended target.
00:35:12.000Our response should be guided by the enemy's intentions rather than solely by our defensive capabilities.
00:35:18.000Look, you can't simply blame someone because they're successful in defending themselves.
00:35:22.000And this is something you see a lot, certainly as it relates to Palestine and Israel, from the left, they see the entire world as oppressors and the oppressed.
00:35:30.000It doesn't matter that the only place in that cesspool of the world that has a gay pride parade would be Israel.
00:35:37.000It doesn't matter that it's the only place where people have anything even remotely resembling civil rights.
00:35:40.000Not perfect, the government is certainly far from perfect, but if you compare it to everywhere else in that area of the globe, it doesn't matter to the left because Israel has properly apportioned their funds to defend their own people with something like the Iron Dome.
00:35:58.000It doesn't matter that Black Lives Matter here in the States burned down entire city blocks, causing over $2 billion in damages.
00:36:06.000Because their skin is black, and at some point throughout history, they believe that they have been oppressed to a degree that warrants this kind of behavior.
00:42:03.000There are gross violations of human rights taking place in Iran, emboldening their administration, their government officials, if you want to call it that, doesn't help anybody.
00:42:11.000Biden also added in the call with Netanyahu, he said this, he said, you gotta win.
00:43:30.000I don't know how they vote, but I know that Dearborn is not voting for I think they say that now, it's a protest vote, but I think when it comes down to a general election, you know, like in Minneapolis, they'll hold their nose and vote.
00:44:39.000They kind of supported Iran's attack at the UN.
00:44:44.000What happened in the night of the 14th of April did not happen in a vacuum.
00:44:49.000The steps undertaken by Iraq became a reaction to a disgraceful inaction by the Security Council and a reaction to an egregious attack by Israel against Damascus, and not the first one, because Syria is constantly being bombarded by Israel.
00:47:31.000Why do you think Iran gave this kind of advanced warning before this?
00:47:35.000Well, I think it's what you and I were talking about before, is that they feel the need after Israel bombed the consulate in Damascus and killed all the IRGC members, they have to do something to look tough for their proxies, for Hezbollah, to, you know, the revolutionary kind of Islamic world that they're supporting.
00:47:50.000If they do nothing, well, they all of a sudden lose a lot of credibility.
00:47:54.000But at the same time, I think they wanted to couch it and make sure that nobody actually got killed to elicit sort of that fire and fury response, so to say.
00:48:03.000Well, yeah, because they also sent slow-moving drones.
00:48:05.000Like, these are not their only options.
00:48:07.000No, like, if you're going from Tehran to Jerusalem, it's like six hours.
00:48:12.000It's hours worth of prep time, and they're, you know, very low-tech sort of devices that they were using, too.
00:48:19.000I mean, they sent a couple ballistics and cruise missiles, too, but they had a lot more to offer if they wanted to use that tactic.
00:48:25.000Well, so let me ask you, because you said that you thought that maybe you and I disagree on this a little bit, but what is your position on this?
00:48:31.000We know what the social media position is.
00:48:32.000World War III, absolutely, here we go.
00:48:34.000No, and after hearing you go through it a little bit more in that last segment, I don't think we're really that far apart.
00:48:41.000I think there's all these nodes that could start connecting, especially like you said, with the growing relationship between Iran and Russia, and then China basically propping up both economies by buying oil from them and weapons transfers between them all.
00:48:55.000There is this connecting starting to happen, and so it could happen.
00:49:00.000But I think oftentimes people confuse a big war for a world war.
00:49:04.000We had Vietnam, we had Korea, we had Desert Storm.
00:49:06.000Those are huge wars that doesn't necessarily constitute a world war, but World War III, you know, like Jeremy said, it's good for title.
00:49:21.000Well, it's because he's so white, all you see are his eyes when he's under the spotlight.
00:49:24.000Yeah, well that, it was like two glowing orbs, and I heard World War III and then I heard my name.
00:49:29.000Yeah, I know, it shocked you back and you're like, I gotta create another title!
00:49:31.000Yeah, oh yeah, I gotta change my, yeah, thanks for reminding me.
00:49:34.000So, do you think, do you think it would necessitate Russia, China, Iran joining forward to even be considered a global conflict as opposed to more of a regional one?
00:49:42.000I think either Russia or China would have to do something more extreme in their peripheries to constitute something like a world war.
00:49:48.000And I think if, you know, there's an invasion of Taiwan or Russia were to move past Ukraine into the NATO states, or especially into Western Europe, then we would start seeing major movement and connection that I think would, you know, necessitate us using Right. A lot of pieces would have to fall into place. And I'll
00:50:06.000be honest, I don't think that Russia really wants to do that right now.
00:50:09.000I think they have a problem with you. I don't think they want to move, for example, people who are fear-mongering
00:50:24.000Let me ask you guys this, and I'd love to see people in the comments, what do you think as far as Israel, where they are as far as their response?
00:50:35.000Yeah, I think the Iranians really miscalculated on this.
00:50:38.000And I think the Israelis have found themselves in a very existential position since October 7th, and everything has changed since then.
00:50:46.000And I think they realize they can no longer kind of piecemeal together this defense.
00:50:51.000But Iran launching this attack, I think it is going to give Israel just enough cover that it needed to go in.
00:50:58.000And if I were them, I would go in and knock out every single piece of, you know, installation or brain trust, whatever, linked to Iran's nuclear program.
00:51:29.000But I also think long term, all that does is give Iran more time to pump up its nuclear capabilities for the, for Hezbollah and Hamas to regroup.
00:51:40.000And I think this, you're just kind of kicking the carton down the road.
00:51:43.000Because eventually, these groups do not want Israel to exist.
00:51:49.000So it is within Israel's interest to get rid of that capability, because Iran already can enrich enough uranium to have weapons-grade uranium for a nuclear weapon within a week.
00:52:49.000And then in three years, I don't think we've seen this number, I could be wrong, of new conflicts since the immediate sort of post 9-11 era.
00:52:59.000Yeah, even the people that are not fear mongers in this situation will say this is the most instable time on the globe since World War II.
00:53:07.000Because there's so many major powers with major capabilities starting to feel ambitious because they don't feel any sort of a threat, especially from the United States.
00:53:15.000The problem is Israel is going to have an optics problem, right?
00:53:17.000I mean, if a single innocent person is harmed, people are going to use it as an excuse to say, see, Israel is not commensurate with what happened.
00:53:31.000It hasn't stopped them yet, but I mean, really, if you want to say to be sort of commensurate with Hamas, they'd have to rape and decapitate old men and women and children, right?
00:53:42.000So here, well, the fact that they were able to defend themselves because they've invested in defending their people rather than constantly attacking other people, unlike Iran, unlike Hamas, unlike Hezbollah, can't be counted as a demerit against them, but they'll have an optics problem because I think a big reason is they're able to be so specific,
00:54:03.000They're able to be so detailed, so targeted with their defense.
00:54:59.000If it launches another attack, okay, fine.
00:55:01.000But I think most people see this as, you know, people who aren't emotionally attached to one side or the other, see this as, oh, this is another, hey, clear out this military base, we're going to bomb it, so our people, you know, feel like we're doing something good.
00:55:14.000This kind of thing happens all the time.
00:55:16.000If they do it again, or there's another escalation, okay, fine.
00:55:41.000No, that's pretty much, I mean, they'll come back to that and then, you know, launch the missiles, tell you they're going to launch them, give you adequate time to shoot them down, and then say you're the aggressor.
00:55:52.000You killed their seven people, you took out their consulate, they tried to fire back, they couldn't, now you're the winner, you're the oppressor.
00:56:01.000It's just like domestic politics translated onto the international stage.
00:56:04.000But the one thing I will say is if people are paying a little bit closer attention is that Israel's starting to get a couple propaganda wins behind the scenes that aren't really being reported because the I guess the anti-American left and sort of that anti-Semitic hard right, that horseshoe that's starting to meet up at the top, are very loud and very rewarded by the Twitter algorithm.
00:56:24.000But within the last week, Hamas has had to revise the death count down by 10,000 civilians.
00:56:32.000And also with this war, it would be starting a new war kind of, but really Iran's the one that supported this whole war in the first place.
00:56:39.000Well that just came from a Saudi source, I don't know if they can bring it Mission Control, where it was reported that Iran actually helped orchestrate and fund the October 7th attacks.
00:56:48.000Yeah, it was a member of the Saudi royal family giving an interview to Israeli media that said they blamed them for the state sponsor of terrorism, and they basically insinuated that Saudi Arabia and Israel were very, very close to normalization, and the Iranians don't want that because they want to frame this as an Islamic versus Jewish thing, and it's really not that.
00:57:07.000Most of the Arab world doesn't really care about the revolution ideas that Iran wants to export.
00:57:12.000They want a good economy, and being friendly with Israel is a lot better than being friendly with Iran when it comes to that.
00:57:18.000Yeah, no, and I don't know if we were able, I know it's just sort of being reported on, but it was, you know, it was actually someone who seems authoritative on the source.
00:57:29.000It does make sense, and this is kind of, think about this, if you were to say, I don't know, 10, 15 years ago, oh yeah, Saudi Arabia and Israel, they're going to be saying, yeah, or both joining, I guess I don't want to say joining forces, but both sort of in an alliance against Iran.
00:57:45.000Yeah, I mean, and I think what even supports that claim from the Saudi royal family is that it's now pretty well understood that the Saudis helped shoot down a lot of these projectiles coming from Iran towards Israeli airspace.
00:57:58.000Why would a bunch of Muslims support these Zionist, you know, pigs if it was really about a struggle between ideologies?
00:58:05.000Yeah, no, I think you're absolutely right.
00:58:07.000And then finally, you know what, we're going to discuss this a little bit more on Mug Club, specifically about what it means for the United States election.
00:58:12.000Jeremy had a good point there, talking about how they have to appease the radical left.
00:58:16.000I don't even think they're the radical left, I just think they're a significant portion of the Democratic Party today.
00:58:20.000And you are, of course, 5.30 weekdays.
00:58:27.000Crowder got you covered all up in the morning, and then everything that happened during the day, I'll get you caught up at the end of the day.
00:59:04.000I usually don't like asking you to join Mug Club and let the content speak for itself, but I need help because my health isn't doing so great.
00:59:16.000on account it's why I didn't think about health insurance