00:00:00.000One of my biggest principles, as it is for anything international law in the UN, is that every country has the right to self-determination.
00:00:08.840And this doesn't just go for Taiwan. This doesn't just go for Palestine. It's everywhere.
00:00:12.940I support amending the Taiwan Relations Act to drop our strategic ambiguity towards defending the island militarily, not touching the one China policy outlined in the Shanghai communique.
00:00:24.340Okay. So if Taiwan is invaded, I want to ensure that we've codified passive support to sell Taiwan weapons if Congress wills it, so Trump just can't overrule it or whoever the president is that's in Congress's hands, and that we can militarily step in to defend Taiwan with naval fleets for interception and selling weapons.
00:00:43.100hassan is really concerned sorry it's a small video but you can see his eyes whoa bro whoa
00:00:54.880is he gonna speak or is he speechless0.57
00:00:58.540he's just in his chat who watches this trash anyway let me fast forward a little bit0.90
00:01:07.420whoa bro whoa you like remember what he said you were0.80
00:01:12.960coming out with a further right of she says something about ukraine here as well
00:01:20.580maybe i'll find in the transcript i have to make some phone calls well maybe not phone calls but
00:01:25.000okay i how can anyone possibly watch us on i i i i do not understand it but anyway they were
00:01:38.680really mad about that she also voiced strong support for ukraine and i noticed this so i i've
00:01:45.240known about cat uh abugazale i believe is how is how her name is pronounced i think she goes by
00:01:54.780kat abu and she spent a lot of her she is palestinian uh i guess she's got some bleach
00:02:02.400going on there with the hair but it's fine um i i've noticed her on twitter she would like
00:02:09.180watch tucker carlson and clip him for organizations she was sort of like a woke hipster in in many0.66
00:02:16.180ways and just did that she watched fox news so you don't have to or something like that
00:02:20.480And there were a number of people doing this before 2024, I remember. So she kind of made a name for herself online. And then she tried to do the Mondami thing and run for Congress, and she lost. She lost to a centrist Democrat.
00:02:36.740And I find this fascinating. So I was watching the reaction to this, and this was Ryan Grimm. So this is the way he spun this.
00:02:54.800You cannot consolidate the progressive vote today while saber-rattling war with China. That era is over. Hassan was also very pissed. The notion that we would even passively support Taiwan and so on.
00:03:13.300Now, this is what is very clear. Kate Abu lost to a to a man named Daniel Bliss, who is pro-Ukraine, pro-NATO and pro-Taiwan.
00:03:27.980and was she was they were the same basically in the same lane on foreign policy so she clearly
00:03:37.500did not lose due to pro-ukraine or pro-taiwan or pro-nato support she clearly did not now
00:03:46.000you could say that her comments about supporting taiwan were just so demoralizing to all of the
00:03:53.140democratic socialists in her area that they didn't vote for her they were just so pissed
00:03:58.600well okay I'm not sure I buy that but just for the sake of argument let's assume that that is
00:04:06.060true isn't this a very interesting line of demarcation that they all have that you can't
00:04:13.700really be DSA if you're pro-Taiwan or pro-Ukraine or pro-NATO. And I don't know what to say about
00:04:24.020all these figures, but again, I don't think they're genuine Marxist or communist. I don't
00:04:33.520think Hassan has an ability to read in general, not to mention read Karl Marx, which is quite
00:04:42.200difficult. I don't think any of these people are genuine Marxists, and I don't think they're
00:04:46.760actual revolutionaries. I don't give them that credit. That would make them more interesting
00:04:51.360that they actually are. But I do find them very, very interesting in the sense that people like
00:05:00.180Hassan, Ryan Grimm, Chevalier, Momdami made similar comments about Russia and Ukraine.
00:05:07.400They are all consistently anti-Europe and anti-West, and thus they are Russian assets, wittingly or unwittingly, and I don't think that should be forgotten, and among themselves, they do draw a line of demarcation.
00:05:28.260Glenn Greenwald, who is, if it's possible, more personally despicable than Hassan Piker, was saying all this. Isn't it great that all these socialists won in New York? We'll have some more voices in Congress. I think one of them went to Congress that are anti-Ukraine war and so on.
00:05:48.280So regardless of their economic policies, they are part of the Russian agenda, period, end of statement. And I think it's on that basis that they should be feared and opposed and so on.
00:06:07.820I don't think they're going to turn the New York City into the Soviet Union.0.84
00:06:12.540I mean, I just don't think they have the power or wherewithal to do anything approaching that.0.83
00:06:17.520But they actually do apparently have some wherewithal in turning people against NATO and demoralizing NATO, which is Russia's number one objective.
00:06:37.820Yeah, what I was going to what made me think about Ukraine is, you know, Ukraine and I guess Taiwan in the future is really this parchment paper.
00:06:52.920i forgot how this like test is called it's a turn of phrase uh for an isolation yeah yeah litmus
00:07:01.240test for an isolationist america only uh tard versus a more sensible position regardless of
00:07:10.040right or left because if you think about it if you just if we just select for uh pro-ukrainianess
00:07:16.840then the 28th presidential race is going to be between Newsom and Rubio,
00:07:55.060And so, you know, it seems to me that like specifically in the case of Ukraine, because it is this kind of, you know, the most closest to white and black scenario.0.73
00:08:06.700I wouldn't, you know, I don't want to turn full NAFO and pro-Ukraine propaganda here, but it's still clear like Russia invaded all that stuff.0.72
00:08:16.040That Ukraine's your opinion on Ukraine is really the determining factor on everything like downstream from that.
00:08:25.760And I think and, you know, to your comments about populism, there is this YouTube channel, the name of which I don't remember.
00:08:35.200It was it's gaining popularity. It's this like kind of liberal YouTube channel.
00:08:39.780He's trying to defend liberalism in this year, day and age.
00:08:44.820And he was making a video on how liberals are too afraid of populism, and they're trying to distance themselves against it, even though – and the argument he makes is that, well, populists appeal to popular sentiments and the people.
00:08:58.920And isn't liberalism an expression of the people we want?
00:09:06.120Well, no, no, he didn't use these terms, but he was basically saying that, well, I mean, look, we both work for the people, so we should kind of approach populist terms.
00:09:14.240And I think that Ukraine – the reason that I'm tying this in, it's exactly this issue that is, from a popular perspective, absolutely pointless.
00:09:24.840Why would an average American need to spend money on – well, spend his tax dollars on Ukraine?
00:09:31.340He needs to – unless he has a geopolitical opinion, that doesn't really make any sense.
00:09:36.260But, like, if you do realize America's place in the world and you want to uphold it, then you would support it.
00:09:54.340And so liberals should, in fact, maintain this kind of technocratic distance from populists if they want to uphold the American empire and keep on being the good stewards, as you described them.
00:10:07.760Yes, I think there is a problem. Again, just to reiterate, I don't think any of these people are actual Marxist, but I do think that they threaten the American empire in a serious fashion.
00:10:24.180Now, again, what percentage of the Democratic Party are DSA? It's probably the same as, I mean, they're all card-carrying members, but it's probably very similar to like what percentage of the Republican Party were alt-right in that poll that came out 10 years ago are Nick Fuentes stans or Gripers or whatever.
00:10:46.200It's probably something like 9% of the actual Democratic Party in the sense that they are a distinct minority.
00:10:55.180But it's real and they can shift things.
00:10:59.340And yeah, Newsom versus Rubio is a pro-Europe, pro-Pax Americana ticket.
00:11:06.440And Vance versus AOC or Vance versus Momdami, I mean, who knows?