The Final Solution: Trump's Gaza Aid is Biden's Port 2.0

[00:00:04] [Music] [00:00:18] [Music] [00:00:25] [Music] [00:00:32] That was it. I'm glad I did. If you want [00:00:34] to know the truth, Mr. [00:00:35] >> And by the way, I never went to the [00:00:37] island and Bill Clinton went there [00:00:39] supposedly [00:00:40] uh 28 times. Uh I never went to the [00:00:44] island, but Larry Summers I hear went [00:00:46] there. He was the head of Harvard and [00:00:48] many other people that are very big [00:00:50] people. Nobody ever talks about them. [00:00:52] I've I never had the privilege of going [00:00:54] to his island. Uh, and I did turn it [00:00:56] down, but a lot of people in Palm Beach [00:00:58] were invited to his island. Uh, in one [00:01:01] of my very good moments, I turned it [00:01:03] down. I didn't want to go to his island. [00:01:07] Okay, guys, that was your moment of zen [00:01:12] video before the horrors begin. Not [00:01:15] saying that Epstein's Island isn't that. [00:01:19] I just wanted to point out that saying [00:01:20] go that or characterizing going to [00:01:23] Epstein's Island as a privilege is a [00:01:26] very conspicuous word choice. Um but [00:01:30] anyways, uh we all know that that plays [00:01:34] into foreign policy, but it's not the [00:01:36] summation of US foreign policy. It would [00:01:38] still happen even if Jeffrey Epstein [00:01:41] wasn't what most of us suspect he him to [00:01:44] have been. Um, yeah, just so you guys [00:01:47] know, as everyone's still filtering into [00:01:49] the uh to the lies, I mean, sorry, into [00:01:51] the live. Um, that was from a meeting in [00:01:55] the UK with Prime Minister, British [00:01:58] Prime Minister Kier Starmer. And if you, [00:02:00] that was just the social media cutting I [00:02:02] took from one of my buddies who runs an [00:02:04] account that posts all of like Trump's [00:02:05] antics. Uh, if you zoom out, he is [00:02:08] sitting right next to Kier Starmer while [00:02:11] saying that. and Kira Star is just like, [00:02:15] "Yeah." Anyways, all right, guys. Gaza, [00:02:18] we're going to talk about it. Uh, but I [00:02:20] got a little bit of rant prepared for [00:02:22] you. Um, I wrote it out because, um, I [00:02:26] think we all need to hear it because as [00:02:27] the famine escalates in Gaza, uh, the [00:02:30] the I told you so crowd should have [00:02:33] voted for Harris crowd is out back and [00:02:35] forth. Okay? And I just have a message [00:02:38] for any of your friends or family [00:02:40] members that you want to send this intro [00:02:42] to. [00:02:44] And maybe uh your thoughts echo mine, [00:02:47] but it starts a little something like [00:02:49] this. Did you know that resistance [00:02:52] liberals are big mad at you right now [00:02:54] for voting against genocide or at least [00:02:57] not voting for genocide when they did [00:03:01] vote for genocide? Uh, and they only did [00:03:04] vote for genocide because it would have [00:03:06] been easier to organize against genocide [00:03:10] under Harris who was pro- genocide. [00:03:15] Yeah. Okay. And they know about [00:03:16] organizing. You know, they've organized [00:03:18] so many Sex in the City brunches. We [00:03:21] just wish they had organized themselves [00:03:23] into learning about things like [00:03:25] dialectical materialism, which takes a [00:03:27] lot of work and you can't be pounding [00:03:29] them mimosas while doing it, or the [00:03:32] function of capitalism into imperialism [00:03:35] into colonialism, and how that is always [00:03:39] or this is always going to happen. I [00:03:42] know that Trump is a real estate [00:03:44] developer who wants to develop Gaza and [00:03:47] so is Steve Witco, his Middle East [00:03:50] envoy. But isn't it also crazy how [00:03:53] Kamala's first public speaking event [00:03:55] after her failed election bid was at the [00:03:58] Australian Real Estate Conference? Isn't [00:04:01] that insane? Isn't it also crazy to see [00:04:04] history as a series of dizzyingly [00:04:07] unrelated events? Like what did the [00:04:10] Bengal famine during the Second World [00:04:12] War have to do with the earlier Irish [00:04:14] potato famine? What what does manifest [00:04:18] destiny have to do with Zionism? These [00:04:20] are all separate things that exist in a [00:04:22] vacuum and have nothing to do with [00:04:24] capitalism or economic system or the [00:04:26] American empire and the entire shebang [00:04:29] can absolutely be reformed under the [00:04:32] power structures of the boogeoisi and [00:04:34] ruling elite. the same people who want [00:04:36] to develop Gaza, both Trump and Harris's [00:04:39] landlord friends, through responsible [00:04:42] social democratic reforms. It's totally [00:04:45] going to work, guys. And of course, [00:04:47] they're like, "Oh, so what's like the [00:04:48] plan of you radical leftists? Do you [00:04:50] want to have a plan behind a armed [00:04:53] revolution? Where's your vanguard [00:04:55] party?" Bro, just start by going to an [00:04:57] anti-ISE or pro Palestine action. Hell, [00:05:00] go dump some stuff off from your family [00:05:02] from sorry, yeah, from your pantry at an [00:05:04] anarchist food drive. Like, I mean, god [00:05:07] forbid you actually read a book that [00:05:09] will answer your questions instead of [00:05:11] posting dumbassery in my comment [00:05:13] sections, but you won't because deep [00:05:15] down you know in your twisted blackened [00:05:20] little heart of hearts that AOC [00:05:23] and Bernie Sanders [00:05:26] will save you. Anyways, my name is Greg [00:05:30] Stoker and I'm the host of this little [00:05:31] live stream that you may have [00:05:32] accidentally stumbled onto and I don't [00:05:35] usually rant, but I got pissed off today [00:05:37] because my comment section was flooded [00:05:40] by idiots. Um, and yes, State of Play uh [00:05:44] twice a week on Mint Press News. It's [00:05:46] usually analysis based and not rant [00:05:48] based. This is going to be some rant [00:05:50] based stuff today. Um, but this one is [00:05:53] going to get into some very basic theory [00:05:55] that explains why all this is happening [00:05:58] under Trump, under Harris that might [00:06:01] help your struggling liberal friends [00:06:04] understand what's going on in Gaza [00:06:05] behind the humanitarian catastrophe that [00:06:09] was always going to happen just like [00:06:12] Manifest Destiny was always going to [00:06:14] happen just like the Bengal famine was [00:06:18] always going to happen. These things [00:06:22] exist in a historical context and we [00:06:24] still exist in that same historical [00:06:26] context. You may think that the age of [00:06:27] colonialism and all these horrible [00:06:29] things, Leopold's Belgian Congo uh [00:06:33] exists in the history books, but I think [00:06:35] we've seen over the past almost two [00:06:37] years that that is not true at all. [00:06:42] Google Gaza 2035 for the ultimate plan [00:06:46] here while I do this Patreon plug. 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So if you [00:07:37] can like, share, subscribe, spread the [00:07:39] word. Also, if you don't like YouTube, [00:07:41] we are on all audio streaming platforms [00:07:44] for these episodes. So that's an option [00:07:47] if you're like an audio person. So which [00:07:51] I am. I I never watch anything on [00:07:53] YouTube. I always just listen to it in [00:07:55] the background. So I miss some of the [00:07:56] graphics, but I I don't know. I I have [00:08:00] to multitask, especially as the world [00:08:02] disintegrates. But anyways, glad you're [00:08:04] here. Let's get into it. So, just for [00:08:07] some context for the unfolding [00:08:08] humanitarian catastrophe, President [00:08:10] Donald Trump today, and you know, we [00:08:13] have some B-roll that we're going to [00:08:14] play right now just to really drive this [00:08:16] home told reporters uh today in [00:08:20] Turnberry, Scotland during his meeting [00:08:22] with British Prime Minister. Actually, I [00:08:24] guess I need to find that B-roll [00:08:27] or someone can bring it up maybe. [00:08:30] So, yes. So today in turnberry Scotland [00:08:34] um during his meeting with British Prime [00:08:36] Minister Kier Starmer that quote we're [00:08:38] going to set up food centers and we're [00:08:41] going to do it in conjunction uh with [00:08:43] some very good people. We're going to uh [00:08:46] supply funds. We just took trillions of [00:08:48] dollars. We assume this trillions is [00:08:50] dubiously coming from the EU trade deal [00:08:53] that EU leaders agreed to on this [00:08:56] weekend. More on that later. Yeah, I we [00:08:59] assume that the trillions of dollars [00:09:01] that he's talking about um you know come [00:09:04] from the savings that he thinks he's [00:09:07] going to get from the EU trade deal [00:09:08] where we're hitting them uh or we're [00:09:11] hitting ourselves with a 15% tariffs [00:09:14] against u you know EU products and then [00:09:16] the EU has their own concessions as [00:09:18] well. Uh but yes, anyways, he says we [00:09:21] got a lot of money. We're going to spend [00:09:23] a little money on some food and other [00:09:25] nations are joining us. So, we're going [00:09:27] to set up food centers and where the [00:09:28] people can walk in and no boundaries. [00:09:31] We're not going to have fences. This is [00:09:33] one of the rants he went on. Trump who [00:09:35] large who has largely blamed the Ham [00:09:37] Hamas for the delay in distributing aid [00:09:40] to civilians in Gaza acknowledged Israel [00:09:43] has a lot of responsibility for limiting [00:09:45] aid in the region. But again called for [00:09:47] Hamas to release the hostages still held [00:09:50] in Gaza to ease negotiations. And I just [00:09:53] want to point out [00:09:54] u as I try to bring one of these things [00:09:56] up. Um [00:09:59] I guess they're not working. What a [00:10:01] weird day for technical issues. Oh, [00:10:04] okay. There we go. Yeah. So, the these [00:10:06] are some of the horrendous scenes we're [00:10:07] looking at. Um, where was I? [00:10:11] Sorry, guys. Yeah, you know, the basic [00:10:15] crux of this is [00:10:19] when it comes to the negotiations, it's [00:10:20] bad faith, right? So, it's the [00:10:22] negotiations are between the US and [00:10:26] Israel and then Hamas is approached [00:10:28] through Qatari mediums. So, they're not [00:10:31] actually part of the deal. Uh, so [00:10:35] they they they can't accept it because [00:10:36] they're actually not part of the [00:10:38] negotiations. We should just [00:10:39] contextualize that because I take some [00:10:41] clips from like neoliberal reporting and [00:10:46] um, [00:10:47] basically use that for context. So [00:10:50] Trump broke with Netanyahu's weekend [00:10:52] assertion that there is no starvation in [00:10:54] Gaza, that it's a real starvation. [00:10:57] Sorry, he said real starvation stuff. I [00:11:00] see it and you can't fake that. So, [00:11:01] we're going to be even more involved. [00:11:04] Trump also said aid centers will be [00:11:05] built. And I wanted to bring this up. Be [00:11:08] advised, this is Monday's imperial [00:11:11] propaganda. This is Biden's aid port [00:11:14] 2.0. Okay. Trump, even if he actually [00:11:16] built these aid centers that he just [00:11:18] randomly brought up, [00:11:20] um is only playing for time until the [00:11:24] outrage over this demonstrable famine, [00:11:26] even though they're not technically [00:11:27] calling it a famine yet, has died down. [00:11:30] the aid centers might be built. Some air [00:11:33] drops from Jordan might happen. And they [00:11:36] did happen while I was writing the show [00:11:38] notes. Um, and then of course reporters [00:11:40] weren't allowed to uh actually film out [00:11:43] of the aircraft. They had journalists [00:11:44] inside the aircraft, but they weren't [00:11:46] able to film like uh film once the cargo [00:11:49] door opened uh because the Israeli [00:11:52] military said they don't want anyone [00:11:53] filming the devastation of Gaza. They [00:11:55] didn't say devastation, but we know why [00:11:56] they went through that uh post-flight [00:11:58] briefing. So airdrops might happen, but [00:12:02] no food, no substantive food to support [00:12:05] the population is ever going to get in. [00:12:08] What did the aid port do last spring [00:12:10] under the Biden administration? cost a [00:12:12] lot of money, delivered a negligible [00:12:15] amount of aid via the world's central [00:12:17] kitchen, which hastily halted operations [00:12:19] after the idea deliberately targeted its [00:12:22] convoy, uh, served as a propaganda [00:12:24] anchor for Israel to continue the ethnic [00:12:26] cleansing of Gaza and potentially [00:12:28] served, though there is no direct [00:12:30] evidence for this, as an exfiltration [00:12:32] point for the IDF and Shinbet forces [00:12:35] after the Nusat massacre, which killed [00:12:37] at least 276 Palestinians and and [00:12:41] injured [00:12:42] pretty much 700. Uh so if these aid [00:12:45] centers are built, they will serve a [00:12:47] similar function. Again, this is all [00:12:50] about playing for time and giving a [00:12:52] shred of political cover to Israel. [00:12:54] While it is delusional to think that [00:12:55] public opinion at home and abroad will [00:12:57] improve with regards to Israel's [00:12:59] genocide, that's US foreign policy for [00:13:02] you. So prepare yourself for the next [00:13:04] distraction. Epstein was actually a [00:13:06] foreign intelligence asset for Russia or [00:13:09] China according to former CIA Mike Baker [00:13:13] on last week's Joe Rogan podcast. Yeah, [00:13:15] I don't listen to Joe Rogan. Some of my [00:13:17] friends sent it me the clip from it. [00:13:19] Yeah, he had this ex CIA guy on Mike [00:13:21] Baker is now a political commentator [00:13:24] uh on to talk about how the Epstein [00:13:26] files might actually be connected with [00:13:28] Russia or China. So today, Trump just [00:13:32] told the press actually uh that [00:13:34] President Putin has 10 to 12 days to [00:13:37] institute a ceasefire with Ukraine. The [00:13:39] implication here being that the US will [00:13:41] begin to supply long range offensive [00:13:43] weapons. If they get real desperate, [00:13:46] they might tease aliens and project blue [00:13:49] book because [00:13:51] Gaza [00:13:52] must be developed. As an imperial [00:13:56] president, he has a fiduciary [00:13:57] responsibility to do so. It is called [00:14:00] capitalism. It is not because of the [00:14:02] Epstein files or Zog Zionist occupied [00:14:07] government neo-Nazi conspiracies. It's [00:14:10] because this is how the system works, [00:14:12] how it's always worked. Does Israel [00:14:14] exert more influence as a colonial [00:14:16] entity upon the imperial corps than, you [00:14:20] know, what we saw in the 19th century? [00:14:22] Yeah. But, you know, Apac's not the only [00:14:26] interest at play here. So, uh, and we're [00:14:30] we're going to get into that. So, [00:14:33] which is why the and it's the whole [00:14:36] system. So, it's why the Department of [00:14:38] Homeland Security is posting manifest [00:14:40] destiny propaganda and why the US, a [00:14:43] country founded on the eraser of entire [00:14:45] peoples, is seemingly fine with a [00:14:47] genocide in Palestine, even if it's [00:14:49] starting to make Hakee Jeff, leader of [00:14:52] the House Democratic Caucus, a bit [00:14:54] squeamish. And it's why pseudo [00:14:56] progressive candidates like Bernie [00:14:58] Sanders and AOC are completely silent [00:15:01] right now. Even Hakee Jeff, Cy Booker, [00:15:05] Richie Torres, all of these like massive [00:15:09] APC uh beneficiaries are having to say [00:15:12] at least something. Uh but yeah, where [00:15:15] are the comments from the actual people [00:15:17] who are presidential and political [00:15:19] hopefuls? You know, even because like [00:15:22] look, if they attack the system, they [00:15:24] will assail their own privilege and [00:15:27] access to political power. Even outside [00:15:29] of the erratic and pathologically lying [00:15:32] nature of Donald Trump, this is why aid [00:15:34] will not continue in any significant [00:15:37] way. This is America and it's also [00:15:39] Canada and all the Western colonial [00:15:42] client nations of the US Empire. Check [00:15:44] out this world salad. And to demonstrate [00:15:46] this, we we know uh let's just [00:15:51] oh yeah. So to demonstrate this, let's [00:15:53] check out this world salad about uh [00:15:55] human rights by Canadian foreign min [00:15:58] foreign affairs minister, excuse me, [00:16:00] foreign affairs minister Anita Anad at [00:16:03] the UN meeting on quote the peaceful [00:16:06] settlement of the question of Palestine [00:16:08] and the implementation [00:16:10] of the twostate [00:16:13] solution. We can't listen to the whole [00:16:15] thing because it's it's too [00:16:16] insufferable. But here we go. [00:16:17] >> We are here today because this moment [00:16:20] demands political courage and resolve. [00:16:24] And we must stand together and choose a [00:16:26] different path, one that leads toward a [00:16:30] sustainable and a just solution. And [00:16:33] political agreements alone are not [00:16:36] enough. We must also address the [00:16:38] narratives shaping identity, perception, [00:16:42] and legitimacy as these lie at the heart [00:16:45] of the conflict. As G7 President, Canada [00:16:49] is engaging closely with regional [00:16:51] partners and the message is clear. The [00:16:54] region must be defined by peace, by [00:16:58] stability, and by dignity for all. [00:17:02] >> These are Western values. It seems [00:17:04] increasingly like western values are [00:17:07] things you just say and then completely [00:17:11] ignore. Crazy idea, huh? Guided by this [00:17:14] understanding, Canada alongside [00:17:18] Qatar and Mexico is co-leading this [00:17:21] narrative for peace working group aimed [00:17:25] >> narrative for peace [00:17:28] >> aimed at building an inclusive framework [00:17:31] grounded in dignity and coexistence. [00:17:35] Peace is not only about borders and [00:17:38] agreements. It is also about shared [00:17:40] stories and understanding that humanize [00:17:43] all sides and foster trust. Canada is [00:17:48] committed to initiatives that amplify [00:17:50] voices of peace, promote understanding [00:17:53] and reject division. [00:17:56] We support local mediation and [00:17:59] peaceuilding efforts, empower youth and [00:18:02] women leaders, and champion press [00:18:04] freedom and inclusive do [00:18:07] >> more women fighter bomber pilots. [00:18:12] My lord, [00:18:16] I don't know how else to explain what is [00:18:19] happening without talking about theory [00:18:22] for like 10 minutes. something I've [00:18:25] never done before, but there's a reason [00:18:28] we called the annihilation [00:18:30] of Gaza [00:18:32] back in October 2023, and everyone was [00:18:36] pissed at us for it. Why is this [00:18:38] happening? It's happening from money. [00:18:42] Uh, so the rich can extract everything [00:18:44] they can from the working class at home. [00:18:45] And when that is not enough, they have [00:18:47] to look elsewhere. This is where [00:18:49] imperialism and colonialism come in. [00:18:51] Michael Pari, an important left-wing [00:18:53] political scientist, asserted that [00:18:55] America's biggest addiction is not [00:18:57] alcohol or heroin or gambling. It's [00:19:00] greed. The ruling class throughout [00:19:02] history has always wanted the best land, [00:19:05] the best herds, the finest luxury goods. [00:19:08] This existed under primitive headman [00:19:10] societies, and it existed under the [00:19:12] iniquities of feudalism and the divine [00:19:14] right of kings. the kings and the [00:19:16] aristocracy used this millennia old idea [00:19:19] to take what they wanted up to a point [00:19:22] where the peasants would revolt and then [00:19:24] they'd walk it back a bit. But and then [00:19:27] there have been other theories for [00:19:29] governance like Aristotle's political [00:19:31] cycle which gets a lot of play in [00:19:34] western liberal education but is utterly [00:19:37] utterly useless. Aristotle has [00:19:39] classified uh six forms of states and it [00:19:42] believes that these keep revolving in a [00:19:45] cyclical order. The cycle begins with [00:19:47] monarchy which soon gets perverted into [00:19:49] tyranny which then is replaced by [00:19:52] aristocracy. The rule of the few and the [00:19:54] wise able people and aristocracy soon [00:19:57] gets perverted into oligarchy. The rule [00:20:00] of the rich to be replaced by the rule [00:20:02] of the people. Polity. Polity then gets [00:20:05] perverted in democracy. and then mob [00:20:08] rule and then democracy in the final [00:20:10] term gets replaced by monarchy and the [00:20:12] cycle begins all over again. This is the [00:20:14] this is what I was taught uh during like [00:20:17] my classical education on the like [00:20:19] neoliberal east coast. This has been one [00:20:22] of the most criticized theories of [00:20:24] Aristotles and for good reason. Uh, and [00:20:26] it may have sounded good back during the [00:20:28] Athenian golden age watching the cycles [00:20:30] of revolution of ancient Greek [00:20:32] citystates, but it really doesn't answer [00:20:35] the question why the three noble forms [00:20:38] of government what you call monarchy, [00:20:40] aristocracy, and polity uh [00:20:45] uh devolve always into absolute [ __ ] [00:20:48] And it definitely doesn't answer why [00:20:51] capitalism, the response to feudalism [00:20:54] sucks so bad and why governments under [00:20:56] the capitalist system do such horrible [00:20:58] things. To define terms, capitalism is [00:21:01] an economic system where private [00:21:03] individuals or businesses own and [00:21:07] control the means of production, the [00:21:10] factories, the land, and where goods and [00:21:13] services are produced for profit in a [00:21:16] free market. It is characterized by [00:21:18] competition, private property, and [00:21:20] limited government intervention in free [00:21:22] market economics. A core fundamental is [00:21:25] at the primary goal of business is to [00:21:28] try to generate profit. At the heart of [00:21:30] the entire system, it's profit motive. [00:21:32] When you're looking at Gaza, it's profit [00:21:35] motive. When you're looking at the [00:21:36] annexation of the West Bank, profit [00:21:38] motive. When you are looking at Taiwan, [00:21:41] Ukraine, that's at the heart of it. If [00:21:43] you consider yourself on the political [00:21:46] left, that fundamentally means you [00:21:48] oppose this system. Liberals and [00:21:50] Democrats do not. That is why they are [00:21:52] that's why dem yeah they are centerright [00:21:55] party at best and why all their foreign [00:21:57] policy decisions closely align with [00:21:59] Republicans. Why the Dems love sending [00:22:02] arms to Ukraine which Trump opposed on [00:22:04] the campaign trail but now he's all [00:22:07] about it. Right? So you cannot [00:22:10] understand what's going on with at least [00:22:11] putting out a little effort to [00:22:13] understand a Marxist uh concept which [00:22:16] serves as a basis for socialism to [00:22:18] include a lot of anarchist thinkers as [00:22:21] well dialectic materialism. It takes [00:22:23] effort to internalize this concept. So [00:22:25] it's not going to happen here. But the [00:22:27] basics are dialectics are kind of like [00:22:31] derived from Hegelian Hegel like [00:22:33] Hegelian philosophy. it which views the [00:22:35] world as a process of change driven by [00:22:37] contradictions and conflicts. And this [00:22:40] is often summarized as change, conflict [00:22:43] and development. Right? And materialism [00:22:46] in this context emphasizes the primacy [00:22:49] of the material world over ideas or [00:22:52] consciousness. The noble idea of [00:22:55] liberalism, for example, always just [00:22:58] collapses into rich people wanting more [00:23:02] [ __ ] We want equity and you know [00:23:05] liberty for all men all mankind but [00:23:09] actually in the end we just want more [00:23:12] [ __ ] So it asserts that material [00:23:14] conditions particularly economic [00:23:16] structures are the foundation for social [00:23:18] and cultural development. Dialectical [00:23:20] materialism specifically applies this [00:23:23] materialist view to the dialectical [00:23:25] process of contradictions, change and [00:23:27] conflict, suggesting that material [00:23:30] forces and their interactions are the [00:23:33] primary drivers of change in this world. [00:23:35] Okay, [00:23:37] that's a lot takes a long time to [00:23:39] internalize, but this is going to get [00:23:40] into the easier section about why this [00:23:43] is happening. You know, check it out on [00:23:45] your old time. Also check out the [00:23:47] tendency for the rate of profit to fall. [00:23:49] You know it's a crisis theory of [00:23:51] political economy and according to which [00:23:53] the rate of profit the ratio of the [00:23:56] profit to the amount invested in capital [00:23:58] decreases over time. Essentially when [00:24:00] profits fall or decline in rates of [00:24:02] their expansion within a limited [00:24:04] economic space i.e. a country's domestic [00:24:08] economy. It's time to expand your [00:24:10] horizons. Imperialism and colonialism. [00:24:13] That's what Israel is. Okay. It is our [00:24:16] colony and an extension of the American [00:24:19] Empire to wage adventurous wars and [00:24:22] destabilizations [00:24:23] operations and to do our dirty work for [00:24:26] us in the region and carve up the Middle [00:24:29] East into vassal states that will allow [00:24:32] Western capitalists to exploit their [00:24:34] countries and resources. And the idea [00:24:36] that colonialism is the highest stage of [00:24:39] imperialism is a concept popularized by [00:24:42] thinkers like uh Lenin andqame uh sorry [00:24:48] um [00:24:50] uh Necrumaqame [00:24:52] necruma he was a Ghanian academic who [00:24:56] wrote an extension of uh Lenin's book uh [00:24:59] and the US actually sanctioned Ghana [00:25:01] over the book itself. So anyways, Lenon [00:25:04] in his work imperialism the highest age [00:25:06] of capitalism argued that imperialism [00:25:08] driven by capitalist monopolies [00:25:11] uh and the export of finance capital [00:25:14] necessitates colonialism for its [00:25:16] survival and expansion. Um Necruma in [00:25:20] his book neoc colonialism the last stage [00:25:22] of imperialism extended this idea [00:25:25] arguing that neoc colonialism a more fle [00:25:28] subtle form of domination is the current [00:25:30] manifestation of imperialism in a postc [00:25:33] colonial world. So [00:25:36] guys, imperialism colonialism. [00:25:37] Imperialism [00:25:39] boilerplate is the policy of extending a [00:25:41] nation's power and influence through [00:25:43] diplomacy or military force, often [00:25:45] involving the acquisition of colonies. [00:25:48] Colonialism, the policy or practice of [00:25:50] acquiring full or partial political [00:25:52] control over another country, occupying [00:25:54] it with settlers, and exploiting it [00:25:57] economically. So what it looks like for [00:25:59] most seller settler colonies be it the [00:26:02] United States or Israel or Australia is [00:26:08] one of the worst uh they declare you [00:26:11] know because they don't want to have to [00:26:12] admit that they you know created their [00:26:14] country off genocide and settler [00:26:16] colonialism. They declare Terranolius [00:26:20] uh a land with no people a land of [00:26:22] nothing. This is why one of the big [00:26:24] Zionist talking points was [00:26:28] um you know a land without a people for [00:26:33] a people without a land. And you know [00:26:35] the the main thrust of this argument was [00:26:38] that you know when capitalism reaches a [00:26:41] high stage there's a monopoly [00:26:43] concentration of economic power in the [00:26:45] hands of a few large corporations who [00:26:47] have a fiduciary responsibility and a [00:26:50] mandate to expand expand into other [00:26:52] places. Black Rockck has a lot of [00:26:54] reconstruction rights in Ukraine. [00:26:57] They're also getting involved and so are [00:26:58] a lot of other hedge funds in Gaza 2035 [00:27:02] project and other redevelopment plans [00:27:04] for the strip. And then the finance [00:27:06] capital is the merging of industrial and [00:27:08] banking capital [00:27:10] uh creating financial oligarchies. [00:27:13] And yeah, basically there's an argument [00:27:17] to be made that these factors [00:27:18] necessitate colonialism to secure [00:27:20] resources, markets, and investment [00:27:22] opportunities for capitalist powers that [00:27:25] must grow. [00:27:27] And then, well, we all know what [00:27:29] neocolonialism is. We talk about the IMF [00:27:32] and we talk about the World Bank uh and [00:27:35] NATO all the time which is the indirect [00:27:37] control of a developing country by a [00:27:39] former colonial power [00:27:42] uh or nation you know often through [00:27:44] economic and political influence rather [00:27:46] than direct military rule. So what are [00:27:49] the characteristics of it? Economic [00:27:51] dependence developing countries remain [00:27:53] relying on other forms of colonial power [00:27:55] for trade, investment and aid. A lot of [00:27:58] Sahel countries like Bkina Faso are [00:28:01] rejecting the economic depend uh [00:28:03] dependence. Another characteristic is [00:28:05] political instability. Do uh former [00:28:07] colonial powers can manipulate political [00:28:09] systems to maintain their influence. [00:28:12] This generally looks like um [00:28:17] yeah during the colonial era uh you know [00:28:20] the uh the French in Syria uh propped up [00:28:24] the Aloways uh to be the dominant [00:28:26] political force from which a political [00:28:28] authority um flowed. And then in son the [00:28:33] British colony of Sri Lanka. uh they put [00:28:35] the uh the British put the Tamils in [00:28:38] power over the Buddhists and it ended in [00:28:41] the uh the Tamil Tigers and the genocide [00:28:44] in Sri Lanka which Israel was absolutely [00:28:46] complicit in uh in you know the 90s [00:28:50] 2000s and then of course um you know [00:28:53] we're seeing what's happening with the [00:28:54] allows in Syria now that they've fallen [00:28:56] out of power when they were uh uh [00:28:58] colonially installed and so uh and then [00:29:01] there's cultural influence dominant [00:29:03] cultures can perpetuate colon colonial [00:29:05] mentalities and values. Of course they [00:29:07] do. And so neoc colonialism is even more [00:29:09] insidious than colonialism because it [00:29:11] operates under the guise of independence [00:29:13] making it harder to identify and resist. [00:29:16] But the reason Israel is so horrifying [00:29:19] because it isn't a global south neoc [00:29:22] colony. It is an actual white [00:29:24] supremacist settler colony that should [00:29:27] exist only in a history book and its [00:29:29] entire existence is a horrifying [00:29:31] vindication of a vast amount of [00:29:33] left-wing political and economic theory. [00:29:36] That's it. Like lecture over. A lot of [00:29:39] capitalists want to turn Gaza into a new [00:29:41] Dubai for a lot of reasons. Not just [00:29:44] because of real estate ventures, because [00:29:46] of the IMC corridor uh you know the uh [00:29:50] India, Mumbai across Saudi Arabia going [00:29:54] through the trans Jordan into the ports [00:29:56] in Hifa into Europe. It's a we've talked [00:29:58] about that before. It's basically a [00:30:01] challenge to a certain section of the [00:30:03] bricks a global infrastructure plan. Um [00:30:07] the Middle East has to be dominated [00:30:09] because it's the most strategically [00:30:11] significant location uh one of the most [00:30:13] in the world. It sits at the access of [00:30:15] three different continents. It's rich in [00:30:17] minerals and it possesses now the Suez [00:30:20] Canal. And so there's a lot of interest [00:30:23] going in there. And then of course, you [00:30:24] know, we want to see an investment in [00:30:26] the uh in the Gulf States and a [00:30:31] normalization with Israel to not only [00:30:32] secure the region, but to create a kind [00:30:35] of AI tech hub, a challenge of tech [00:30:39] infrastructure to uh to challenge China [00:30:42] and other BRICS nations uh because we're [00:30:45] losing the race badly. And then Israel [00:30:47] can help out with that. They're one of [00:30:48] our biggest tech sectors. Normalization [00:30:50] would be important for AIdriven [00:30:51] competition against China. that's not [00:30:53] going to work. But that's another [00:30:55] factor. Then of course Turkeykey's kind [00:30:56] of breaking out being its own regional [00:30:58] player. And there is something to be [00:31:00] said for a transnational capitalist [00:31:02] elite or transnational security elite [00:31:05] that exists outside of just straight up [00:31:07] western hegemony. I mean you can make [00:31:09] various arguments on that. One thing to [00:31:11] be aware of is that no matter how this [00:31:14] Israel thing works out, even if a Harris [00:31:16] was president, even if Trump was [00:31:19] president, uh, is that if they lose here [00:31:23] against the resistance in Gaza, it will [00:31:26] be intensely damaging to Western he [00:31:28] hegemony going forward. Same thing in [00:31:31] Ukraine. So one of the things we have to [00:31:34] actually bear in mind is a lot of people [00:31:38] in not only the Israeli government but [00:31:42] in the American government see a [00:31:46] military solution as still the only [00:31:49] viable option to end this thing. And [00:31:53] there's no military solution to end this [00:31:55] thing. As I said since the beginning, if [00:31:57] you want to dis defeat the resistance in [00:32:00] Gaza, you'll have to kill everybody. And [00:32:03] we talked the last episode about how [00:32:06] voluntary or enforced migration isn't [00:32:09] something that's really viable [00:32:11] politically. They may try to just force [00:32:13] it through military intervention, like [00:32:15] literally militarily dumping people off [00:32:18] in random places. That would be insane. [00:32:22] But what we're looking at right now, and [00:32:23] because their military option, even [00:32:26] though it's completely delusional, you [00:32:28] know, will turn Israel into a pariah [00:32:30] state, uh, is that they're having to [00:32:33] play for time. That's what they're [00:32:36] doing. And of course, when we bring in [00:32:38] Harris and the Democrats, [00:32:41] they do things less egregiously than the [00:32:44] Republicans. You know, you can't say [00:32:46] that they're the same party. I mean, [00:32:48] they have the same ultimate goals. They [00:32:50] expand the police national security [00:32:52] state. They serve the uh professional [00:32:55] managerial class and the oligarchs as [00:32:57] well. But um so it would be better [00:33:01] manner because you know Obama made this [00:33:04] bombing of seven seven Muslim countries [00:33:08] because it was so well spoken and [00:33:09] articulate. Seven Muslim countries. Uh [00:33:13] what else did he do? Expanded ICE [00:33:15] solidified the national security state [00:33:17] beyond the Patriot Act. But he made that [00:33:19] go down all go down so damn smooth [00:33:25] and the exact same thing would be [00:33:27] happening. It would be less egregious. [00:33:28] There'd be like more calls from aid from [00:33:30] the president where Harris would be like [00:33:32] this is it just breaks my heart, you [00:33:34] know, where I've been pressuring I've [00:33:36] been pressuring pressuring Benjamin [00:33:38] Netanyahu and then we're just all going [00:33:40] to blame it on Netanyahu. And then they [00:33:43] would have leaks from the White House [00:33:44] like this is what Paris really said [00:33:47] behind closed doors and they and Axios [00:33:49] News would would report it and everyone [00:33:51] would be like, "Oh yeah, real change is [00:33:53] coming." No, it would look a little bit [00:33:55] different under Harris administration, [00:33:57] but this exact situation would still be [00:34:01] happening. Actually, you know what? [00:34:02] Under Harris administration, let's be [00:34:04] honest, the original ceasefire that [00:34:06] happened when Trump was inaugurated [00:34:08] wouldn't even have happened. So, at [00:34:10] least they got some relief that way. [00:34:12] But, um, yeah, man. You guys, I just [00:34:14] haven't been paying attention. If you [00:34:16] think anything would be different, I was [00:34:20] in the military in special operations [00:34:23] under Obama. And Obama's policies [00:34:27] were way more violent than Bushes were. [00:34:32] Who started the whole damn war? Or, you [00:34:34] know, the invasion of Afghanistan and [00:34:37] the unwarranted invasion of Iraq. I'm [00:34:39] not saying that Afghanistan wasn't, but [00:34:41] yeah. Um, it's the same same thing. And [00:34:44] the violence that we do overseas always [00:34:46] comes back home. So, this is a forever [00:34:48] war here in Gaza. Uh, we got one in [00:34:51] Ukraine. And the one in Afghanistan that [00:34:54] we did is actually just come home via [00:34:56] ICE. And of course, would the Democrats [00:35:00] have expanded ICE [00:35:02] like the Republicans have? Absolutely [00:35:04] not. But that budget was still going up. [00:35:07] This is all how it works. [00:35:11] We are in collapse into fascism, the [00:35:14] merging of the corporate and [00:35:15] governmental power. [00:35:18] Subservient mostly to corporate power at [00:35:20] this, you know. So, um, I don't know [00:35:22] what to tell you guys if you're still [00:35:23] hanging on to that, but um, yeah, that [00:35:26] was my little primer. It was probably a [00:35:28] little too wordy. I could have like [00:35:29] refined it a little bit better and made [00:35:31] it more engaging for people who already [00:35:34] aren't too familiar with this stuff. I [00:35:37] don't know. I just kind of threw it [00:35:38] together. But um let's actually look at [00:35:42] some uh reporting going on going back to [00:35:45] Gaza. But just before we continue into [00:35:48] our next segment, there is a great video [00:35:50] on social media about all of this. [00:35:54] Leftist is to be right but too early and [00:35:58] to be continuously punished for being [00:36:00] right too early. As early as October [00:36:03] 8th, leftists were saying Israel has [00:36:06] used starvation as a weapon of war [00:36:08] against Gaza. And it is going to [00:36:10] exponentially increase that use of [00:36:13] starvation as a weapon of war. And now [00:36:15] you have liberals walking around [00:36:18] seemingly dumbfounded that their ally, [00:36:21] Israel, is using starvation as a weapon [00:36:24] of war. Oh my god, how crazy is it that [00:36:26] a US ally and settler colony could [00:36:29] commit war crimes? It's not like we have [00:36:32] any historical parallels that we could [00:36:34] turn to that would make analyzing this [00:36:36] situation even a little bit easier. The [00:36:38] reason liberals do this is because they [00:36:40] genuinely have no way of analyzing [00:36:44] history. To them, history is just a [00:36:47] series of unconnected events. They [00:36:50] cannot analyze patterns and extrapolate [00:36:52] truths. Their ideology prevents them [00:36:54] from having this skill, which is why [00:36:56] they fall for this stuff every single [00:36:59] time. they are doomed to eternally be [00:37:01] Charlie kicking the ball right as Lucy [00:37:04] yanks it away. But this lack of [00:37:06] historical analysis is a feature and not [00:37:08] a bug. Because if liberals could analyze [00:37:10] patterns and predict what can happen [00:37:13] next, then they would have to implement [00:37:15] some sort of preventative measures for [00:37:17] atrocities rather than being purely [00:37:19] reactionary, which is what liberalism [00:37:21] is. All liberals know how to do when bad [00:37:24] things happen is turn around and get [00:37:26] angry at the people who said that those [00:37:28] bad things were going to happen because [00:37:30] they do not have the power of foresight. [00:37:35] >> Yeah, there was a little thing about [00:37:37] that. Um, yeah, I saw in the comments [00:37:41] being like, you know, okay, I hear all [00:37:43] that. I I already knew that kind of [00:37:45] stuff, but [00:37:48] the United States is still Zog and uh [00:37:51] Zog means Zionist occupied government. [00:37:54] And it's a term [00:37:57] begun by um white supremacists within [00:38:01] the United States uh as a response. [00:38:03] Well, I mean, they did catch on first to [00:38:05] uh well, I mean, in the context of a lot [00:38:08] of people who weren't u like involved in [00:38:12] like what Zionism really was, we're kind [00:38:15] of some of the first people to remark on [00:38:18] the fact that Israel has a lot of [00:38:19] influence on the United States. [00:38:23] Um but there's a lot of things that [00:38:26] prove that that the United States has [00:38:28] the same tendencies completely separate [00:38:30] from from Israel. you know, we are [00:38:33] expressing coloniality and imperial uh [00:38:36] wars on our own soil. You know, we are [00:38:40] reinforcing Taiwan for a multi-deade [00:38:44] um [00:38:46] shift towards China, fortifying it in [00:38:49] what Marco Rubio calls the porcupine [00:38:51] strategy. That has no bearing on Israeli [00:38:54] politics, the isolation of in China. Um [00:38:57] and there's countless other things going [00:38:58] on in Africa. Sudan's not a good in uh [00:39:01] and the Congo are not um good instances [00:39:04] of that because of course Israel's [00:39:06] heavily embedded in in Sudan and the [00:39:08] Congo as well. Um yeah, so again, Taiwan [00:39:14] doesn't need its own lobby. Ukraine will [00:39:17] get unconditional support within certain [00:39:20] parameters without its own lobby. Um [00:39:23] yeah, so I don't know. I just [00:39:26] fundamentally disagree uh with the ZOG [00:39:29] argue because it doesn't make sense for [00:39:32] the entirety of the US system. So to [00:39:34] pick and choose kind of seems [00:39:36] disingenuous from my perspective as [00:39:38] well. Um yeah, so I mean it just it just [00:39:42] encompasses a tiny fraction of you know [00:39:47] what we're looking at. And and if you [00:39:49] look at the whole ZOG theory, it's like, [00:39:51] okay, we've used Israel all across the [00:39:54] world to do our dirty work from [00:39:56] Guatemala, from overthrowing communists [00:39:58] or like to fighting the sand Sandinistas [00:40:01] to, you know, helping us organize death [00:40:04] squads in, you know, Guatemala, stuff [00:40:08] like that. And you know they were [00:40:10] intermediary to sell arms to Iran during [00:40:15] the Contra because we didn't want Iran [00:40:17] to like completely cave to Saddam during [00:40:20] the war because they were virantly [00:40:23] especially at the time super [00:40:25] anti-communist because commu uh [00:40:27] communists were like no USSR wanted [00:40:30] Persia. They were like no religion. [00:40:32] Well, that's not entirely true, but um [00:40:35] yeah, so that's why we have always used [00:40:37] them as an intermediary. And again, it [00:40:39] only explains a fraction a fraction of [00:40:43] US um foreign policy. Um [00:40:47] you know, [00:40:49] yeah. So, if someone says Ukraine is not [00:40:52] a good example, okay, Ukraine is [00:40:56] literally the Kazar nomad step. Oh, [00:40:59] we're not doing Kazar theory. Okay, [00:41:01] we're getting back to Gaza because we're [00:41:02] getting into some uh not chill [00:41:05] territory. But um here we go. Basically, [00:41:10] here's the state of play uh going going [00:41:13] continuing on in Gaza. The humanitarian [00:41:15] situation is at its worst point since [00:41:18] ever, right? With 122 Palestinians dying [00:41:21] of starvation in recent weeks, according [00:41:23] to the health ministry, uh the [00:41:25] Palestinian death toll since the war [00:41:27] stands at nearly 60,000. According to [00:41:30] Axios news, we know that to be um way [00:41:34] higher than that. There's a reason why [00:41:36] the office of director of national [00:41:37] intelligence and why Trump says there's [00:41:40] 1.8 million, sometimes 1.9 million uh [00:41:44] people in Gaza. Well, okay, cool. You [00:41:47] guys keep misspeaking. Where do the [00:41:49] other, you know, [00:41:52] four million three million go? So I a [00:41:55] lot of people are out unaccounted uh for [00:41:58] and buried in the rubble. [00:42:01] But even you know these Zionist articles [00:42:04] uh well even in these axious news uh [00:42:07] written by let me see let's pull it up. [00:42:09] Barack Ravid [00:42:13] hang on I got to remove this other [00:42:15] media. Yeah it says you know nearly all [00:42:19] Western leaders have been urging Israel [00:42:20] with increasing desperation. They're not [00:42:22] desperate. They're just trying to cover [00:42:24] their ass to stop the fighting and allow [00:42:26] in more aid by making Trump's finish the [00:42:28] job message all the more jarring. By [00:42:30] contrast, the humanitarian catastrophe [00:42:33] that we are witnessing in Gaza must end [00:42:37] now. France, Germany, and the UK said in [00:42:40] a joint statement Friday, "Withholding [00:42:42] essential humanitarian assistance to [00:42:44] civilian population is unacceptable." [00:42:48] Now, of course, France, Germany, and the [00:42:50] UK have been giving uh running political [00:42:52] cover and giving limited unlimited [00:42:55] support [00:42:56] uh to Israel up until now because it's [00:43:00] completely unavoidable what's happening. [00:43:02] So, the bottom line is Israel and the US [00:43:04] are together in a diplomatic island seen [00:43:06] by many of their allies as jointly [00:43:08] responsible for the dire situation. At [00:43:12] least some in the administration [00:43:13] acknowledged privately that their [00:43:14] strategy hasn't worked, but they hadn't [00:43:16] yet decided how whether or how to change [00:43:18] it. They are not going to change it. [00:43:19] They are currently in a loop playing for [00:43:22] time. And now it's getting worse because [00:43:25] for the first time, Israeli human rights [00:43:27] groups say Israel is committing genocide [00:43:29] in Gaza and calls for international [00:43:31] intervention. Of course, a lot of most [00:43:34] Israelis hate Betelum and positions for [00:43:38] human rights. Um but this is the first [00:43:41] time any uh Israeli human rights group [00:43:44] of any significant clout has dis uh has [00:43:47] described this as a genocide. Now I [00:43:51] would like to point out one thing a lot [00:43:52] of people haven't don't really consider [00:43:56] if Israel if hypothetically and I've [00:44:00] said from the beginning I don't think [00:44:01] it's going to work. [00:44:03] just [00:44:04] I wouldn't I haven't heard a single [00:44:07] explanation how genocide could be [00:44:10] affectuated and Israel still exists [00:44:13] but of course we're living in [00:44:15] unprecedented times. I would just like [00:44:16] to point out that if they delete a [00:44:19] significant portion of their uh [00:44:20] population both in Gaza in the West Bank [00:44:24] and in Israel proper itself because [00:44:26] after Gaza in the West Bank, they're [00:44:27] coming for Palestinian uh or [00:44:30] ArabIsraelis [00:44:32] uh who are not Jewish. Um what exactly [00:44:36] would the state look like? Would people [00:44:38] stay there? Would they still have an [00:44:39] economy? Would people go to vacation in [00:44:44] Israel ever again? [00:44:48] How would the state survive? [00:44:52] I I haven't [00:44:55] I haven't heard an explanation for how [00:44:56] that would happen. And of course, [00:44:58] there's no long-term thinking here. [00:45:01] Netanyahu, who is in control of the [00:45:03] government, wants to take the summer to [00:45:06] solidify his political position in order [00:45:09] to be unassailable for his Supreme Court [00:45:12] charges, then he will actually try along [00:45:16] with his M in an effort to keep [00:45:18] Smootrich and Ben Gavir and the [00:45:21] far-right power base on his side, he [00:45:25] will attempt in some way this voluntary [00:45:28] migration scheme. [00:45:32] What will happen to Israel after that? [00:45:36] Say Gaza is deleted. The tourist [00:45:38] industry is gone. Pariah state. People [00:45:41] will move back. At least a lot of the [00:45:44] liberal Zionists in Tel Aviv, small [00:45:46] businesses and foreign investment. [00:45:48] I don't know. Um [00:45:51] we're we have a president for South [00:45:54] Africa. And now this is something [00:45:56] everybody knows about. So, their economy [00:45:58] is already in shreds. Um, [00:46:02] we've seen Intel pull out of a huge [00:46:05] deal. Of course, you know, Nvidia's [00:46:07] thinking about investing a lot of their [00:46:10] infrastructure in Israel. I think if [00:46:12] Nvidia pulls out of their deal, we know [00:46:15] how this is going. So, [00:46:18] um, yeah. [00:46:22] How how does it how does it continue? I [00:46:25] I think like when we look at this [00:46:27] darkest perspective, this is the darkest [00:46:29] hour of the war so far. [00:46:36] What is the endgame? No one, no policy [00:46:40] maker [00:46:41] has articulated an endgame or a viable [00:46:45] endgame beyond genocide. But how does [00:46:47] the state exist? Israel is a country [00:46:49] with no strategic depth [00:46:52] economy and that's just not militarily. [00:46:54] The strategic depth they have is because [00:46:56] we can give them bombs and do mass [00:46:58] logistical Roman Empire style logistical [00:47:01] miracles [00:47:03] to give them [ __ ] [00:47:05] But beyond that there is small tiny [00:47:07] country, no standoff between the [00:47:10] industrial centers and the front lines. [00:47:14] not a not a huge economy, especially [00:47:16] when you're taking out hundreds of [00:47:17] thousands of reservists out of the [00:47:18] workforce and not uh and then employing [00:47:23] employing them in a multi-year war of [00:47:26] attrition. Um [00:47:30] you know they they do their military [00:47:32] industrial complex is deeply embedded [00:47:35] with ours. [00:47:36] But again, we have to we we have to keep [00:47:40] in mind in some revolutionary optimism [00:47:43] here. [00:47:45] How did it end in Vietnam for the [00:47:47] empire? How did the global war on terror [00:47:50] end? The US is great at causing [00:47:53] destruction, destroying governments, [00:47:55] annihilating militaries, and then what? [00:47:59] fighting forever war counterinsurgencies [00:48:02] that make a lot of rich people a lot of [00:48:06] money until it becomes politically and [00:48:08] economically unviable and then they pull [00:48:11] out. [00:48:13] Um, [00:48:15] yeah. And then Israelis themselves, [00:48:18] there's the also the cultural depth. You [00:48:20] know, their one thing was I'm Israeli. I [00:48:22] have like three different passports and [00:48:23] like I travel the world and I'm rich and [00:48:26] my producers accidentally trying to come [00:48:27] on. Um, so I think yeah, we we don't [00:48:33] know how this is going to end. We just [00:48:35] know that they're playing for time. [00:48:38] This would happen under Harris, probably [00:48:39] a little bit less egregiously. I don't [00:48:41] actually know. She's actually a bigger [00:48:42] Iran hawk than Trump. But [00:48:48] just remember, these bestlaid plans by [00:48:51] these policy makers, these people are so [00:48:53] smart and control all the military. [00:48:56] um [00:48:59] when when has it worked out and what [00:49:02] would Israel look like [00:49:05] without a Palestinian population? [00:49:08] How does it survive? If someone could [00:49:10] give me like a working theory, I'd be [00:49:12] like, "Okay, it's possible." But like [00:49:14] right now, um I don't know. There Israel [00:49:18] is kind of like that. What's the [00:49:19] cartoon? Coyote runs off a cliff, keeps [00:49:22] running and running and running, and he [00:49:25] doesn't fall until he actually looks [00:49:26] down. Second they look down, they um [00:49:31] they're done. So, anyways, sorry. Woo! [00:49:35] Unconventional episode. Let's get into [00:49:37] some questions. All right, [00:49:41] someone's like [00:49:44] Sanders is a fascist. He's a liberal [00:49:45] Zionist. I was at the No Kings protest [00:49:48] in DC. [00:49:50] And someone was like, one of the [00:49:52] organizers was like, you know, [00:49:55] Republicans are fascists. And I was [00:49:56] like, you know, I I believe that the [00:49:58] Dems are, too. It's like, no, Dems are [00:50:01] like a neoliberal party of war. And then [00:50:04] I was like, okay, but they don't like [00:50:07] every time the fascists do something, [00:50:10] they they feain incompetence. The King [00:50:12] Jeffries, they have all the leverage. [00:50:14] There's nothing we can do. Um, okay. [00:50:18] Cool. So, you're going to be like every [00:50:21] other liberal party from the 1930s who [00:50:23] would be like, you know, they they're [00:50:25] super violent and they they control [00:50:27] everything. What can we do? Um, so if [00:50:30] you like don't resist fascists and [00:50:32] you're elected to do that [00:50:35] and you move further to the right [00:50:37] yourself and you cuddle them and you [00:50:40] make excuses for them and you you bungle [00:50:45] the the political gold mine that was [00:50:47] this Epstein case. I don't know. Seems [00:50:50] like liberalism has failed. You're [00:50:52] either a fascist or a socialist now. So, [00:50:55] um, I don't disagree. I think we can be [00:50:57] very disciplined in our characterization [00:51:00] of these people. So, [00:51:06] let's see what we got. [00:51:11] It's almost like the richest and the [00:51:12] most powerful people on the planet all [00:51:14] know each other. I mean, I think the [00:51:16] Epstein [00:51:17] case is kind of like really demonstrates [00:51:19] that, right? um you know the the most [00:51:22] wealthy business families in the world [00:51:25] you know whether they're from the United [00:51:27] States or France or the UK or India or [00:51:30] ch well China's a little bit more [00:51:31] complicated but yeah they all know each [00:51:33] other they all have some sort of [00:51:34] business even if they don't like each [00:51:36] other but um what else we got economy of [00:51:40] genocide [00:51:42] still [00:51:44] to still vote for red or blue is an [00:51:45] imperial example of Einstein's [00:51:47] definition of instanity doth butter no [00:51:50] par snips [00:51:51] Yeah. [00:51:54] Okay. So, you you you can't know what [00:51:57] your protest accomplished because nobody [00:51:59] will ever say they acted differently [00:52:00] because of public pressure. [00:52:05] Uh the Dems did nothing for eight years, [00:52:07] bro. Under Hill, don't go through Don't [00:52:11] go through customs with that profile [00:52:13] with that profile picture. I hear [00:52:15] they're trying to interrogate people for [00:52:16] JD Vance memes right now. Um, [00:52:21] you know, this is this is actually [00:52:24] really stupid of them because even [00:52:25] though Mike Huckabe, the evangelical uh [00:52:29] right now I pulled up Israel Zionism has [00:52:31] just bombed a Christian church in Gaza, [00:52:33] Palestine land [00:52:36] um my partner her uh her oh her her [00:52:40] grandmother actually just brought up [00:52:44] Gaza because of this. like even through [00:52:46] her circles she heard that Israel is [00:52:49] doing this. Um [00:52:52] alienating the the Christian right is [00:52:54] probably not the the move to make but [00:52:57] they are so rapidly unhinged in their [00:52:59] quest for um complete domination and [00:53:01] control of the land even though they're [00:53:03] moving way too fast. Um [00:53:07] I don't know it's it's it's absolutely [00:53:10] insane. But the he the thing you have to [00:53:12] understand is these Christians they can [00:53:14] bomb kill as many Palestinian Christians [00:53:16] as they want. They can destroy literally [00:53:19] every church in the Holy Land except the [00:53:21] ones they need for the apocalypse. [00:53:24] And these a lot of these evangelicals [00:53:26] will tow the line. A lot of MAGA will [00:53:28] tow the line. When Trump said I could [00:53:31] execute like before he was elected for [00:53:32] his first term, I could shoot someone in [00:53:34] the head in Time Square and these people [00:53:36] would still vote for me. Well, [00:53:37] apparently you could be a pedto in Times [00:53:40] Square and these people will still vote [00:53:42] for him. So yeah, if he supports Israel, [00:53:45] they're going to. So yeah, this just [00:53:47] another one of their crimes. [00:53:50] Uh all eyes on the freedom flotilla de [00:53:54] Okay. Um yeah, uh we should hear soon. [00:53:57] I'm not in contract a contact with a [00:53:59] control team um or command team but we [00:54:03] should have answers soon [00:54:06] freedom forilla [00:54:09] corporations represent psychopathy and [00:54:11] structured form capitalism exists to [00:54:13] make profit period both serve the green [00:54:16] patriarchy [00:54:18] yeah I mean I mean there's a lot of [00:54:20] philosoph like um [00:54:23] exterior to economic theory there's a [00:54:27] lot of philosophical theory about how [00:54:29] you know capitalism itself just re just [00:54:34] um rewards sociopathic behavior. I grew [00:54:38] up around finance capitalism. My father [00:54:41] uh was an investment management banker [00:54:43] with a boutique firm that went under in [00:54:46] 2008 during the financial uh collapse. [00:54:49] Uh but yeah, I grew up in that world. [00:54:52] You know, the the mantra was it's not [00:54:55] business. I'm sorry. It's not It's [00:54:57] business. It's not personal or it's not [00:54:59] personal. It's business. Well, when you [00:55:01] destroy someone, you destroy their [00:55:02] livelihood. You know, their you know, [00:55:05] their kids uh like can no longer afford [00:55:09] to go to like the same school or, you [00:55:11] know, anything. It's it's pretty [00:55:13] personal. So, like literally these hedge [00:55:15] fund managers [00:55:18] are looking at Gaza because I I know I [00:55:21] grew up around. They're looking at Gaza [00:55:24] and they're like, "This is terrible. [00:55:26] This is absolutely horrific." [00:55:29] But this is business. It's not personal. [00:55:32] We have a fiduciary responsibility [00:55:35] to turn a profit for our shareholders, [00:55:39] to maximize profit for our shareholders. [00:55:42] And there's nothing beyond that. That is [00:55:45] the ideology [00:55:47] that all these people have because they [00:55:50] were conditioned. Because a lot of them [00:55:52] come from generational wealth. So they [00:55:54] have been conditioned this way [00:55:56] and there's no unsticking them. [00:55:59] You know they'll say the platitudes. [00:56:02] They may even be disturbed by what's [00:56:04] happening but they will not be able to [00:56:06] consist in their life in their [00:56:08] livelihood in their job which is most of [00:56:10] their identity unless they're like okay [00:56:13] Gaza 2023rd uh 20 2035 project. let's [00:56:18] start um uh RFP request for proposal. [00:56:21] Let's get on on this thing before before [00:56:24] other hedge funds do. So yeah, it [00:56:26] rewards inherently the entire system [00:56:29] rewards psychopathy. Absolutely. [00:56:32] Um [00:56:38] hey Greg, what's up with Antifa? They've [00:56:41] been really quiet it seems. Any thoughts [00:56:42] on that? Antifa isn't a they it's just [00:56:46] anti-fascist action and it can't be [00:56:48] really infiltrated. I mean, we haven't [00:56:50] seen any actions really happen right [00:56:52] now. Um there's no leader. There's no [00:56:55] central committee. [00:56:57] It's just decentralized actors [00:57:00] acting along ideological lines against [00:57:02] fascism. So, there's no way to get in [00:57:06] touch with them. Uh there's people I [00:57:08] know who support Antifa who consider [00:57:10] themselves Antifa, but yeah, there [00:57:12] there's no actual organization. So, we [00:57:15] might see some stuff. I don't know. Um [00:57:19] let's see. [00:57:22] Let me see. Uh what else we got? [00:57:28] MRA. Do you agree with the statement [00:57:30] that social [00:57:32] Do you agree with the statement that [00:57:34] social democracy is the moderate wing of [00:57:38] fascism? I'm getting tired of social [00:57:40] democrats [00:57:42] pushing reformism and pretending that [00:57:44] the Dems can be pushed left. [00:57:47] Really? Uh I thought they were supposed [00:57:49] to be pushed left when the fire brand [00:57:51] AOC got elected. No, she's pushed right [00:57:54] now because the system she's now deeply [00:57:57] embedded into the system. She no longer [00:57:58] hears Congresswoman AOC. She hears [00:58:01] Senator Cortez, [00:58:03] Speaker of the House [00:58:06] Cortez. [00:58:08] No, she's become addicted and infatuated [00:58:10] with her position in the machine. And [00:58:14] you know, they all hang out with each [00:58:15] other. They all know each other. you [00:58:17] know, they may, [00:58:19] you know, attack each other on Twitter [00:58:21] or whatever, but like behind closed [00:58:23] doors, [00:58:25] they really know how to express class [00:58:27] consciousness, you know. Um, Kimberly [00:58:31] Gilfoil, Trump's ambassador to Greece, [00:58:34] who he just appointed as his MAGA [00:58:36] ambassador to Greece, is the ex-wife of [00:58:39] Gavin Newsome, who's going to be [00:58:41] probably heading the Democratic ticket [00:58:43] for presidency in 2028. Gavam Newsen, it [00:58:46] was reported by, I believe it was the [00:58:48] Financial Times, is actively getting [00:58:51] campaign advice [00:58:53] from Kimberly Gilfoil. [00:58:56] So, social democracy, [00:59:00] uh, different from democratic socialism. [00:59:02] I still have problems with democratic [00:59:03] socialism. I don't think it's far-left [00:59:05] enough, but that's that's me. Um, social [00:59:08] democracy is yes, we can reform the [00:59:10] Democratic party, reform capitalism into [00:59:12] something more equitable. The problem [00:59:14] with that is you have to do it under the [00:59:16] power structures controlled by the [00:59:18] boogeoisi or the elite. So um pro the [00:59:23] problem is they control the apparatus of [00:59:26] state violence. They get to they get to [00:59:29] determine what kind of protest is [00:59:31] acceptable, what kind is violence is [00:59:34] good or bad, what kind of political [00:59:36] action and discourse can be tolerated. [00:59:39] So I don't know. Good luck performing. [00:59:41] Yeah, they mostly just sheep dog w want [00:59:43] to be progressives. People who actually [00:59:45] want change with false promises that [00:59:47] they can. Their function really isn't. [00:59:50] And whether or not they believe this or [00:59:52] not, but their performative function is [00:59:54] to block actually progressive movements [00:59:57] from access to political power because [00:59:59] they promise, hey, we have this [01:00:01] established hierarchy. We have this [01:00:04] established, you know, structure that we [01:00:06] can use to fight the fascists, [01:00:09] which they don't use. But people see [01:00:11] that and it's like okay it's already in [01:00:13] place maybe we can work to reform it [01:00:15] instead of building an alternative power [01:00:18] structure which is scary which is [01:00:21] complicated [01:00:22] which actually will take a lot more [01:00:24] people being on board with that idea. So [01:00:27] instead people get intimidated and they [01:00:29] go to social democracy instead of more [01:00:31] progressive politics. So, um, [01:00:36] yeah. [01:00:40] Hey, Greg. I'm an hour south of [01:00:42] Palanteer Jewish Boys for Peace recently [01:00:44] protested at their uh at their location [01:00:47] downtown. Awesome. Awesome. Let me let [01:00:50] me just scan through some of these. [01:00:51] We're out out of time, but [01:00:57] okay. Stop arguing about labels. Fascist [01:00:59] going to fascist no matter what they [01:01:01] call themselves. Haven't heard. [01:01:06] Isn't imperialism fascistic? Oh yes. You [01:01:09] know um we I like to say I like to [01:01:12] envision fascism as imperialism turned [01:01:16] in on itself. Um because I I was just [01:01:20] talking about this a couple weeks ago. [01:01:23] The same issues that we had in [01:01:25] Afghanistan [01:01:26] that some military act units were doing [01:01:30] are like the same thing ISIS is doing [01:01:32] right now. You know, they were told, "Go [01:01:34] hit targets. Go find the Taliban." But [01:01:36] they're like, "We don't have any [01:01:38] intelligence on where they might be." So [01:01:40] they'll be like, "All right, we'll come [01:01:41] up with targets." [01:01:44] So this like lit with the same tactics, [01:01:46] the same military equipment in [01:01:48] Afghanistan, we're just doing it over [01:01:50] here. So yeah, fascism basically looks [01:01:52] like imperialism but on our own home [01:01:55] ground. And I just wanted to address [01:01:57] this one um thing. I met corridors why [01:02:01] bricks cannot succeed. India is in the [01:02:03] pocket of the USA. Russia sold a ton of [01:02:06] oil to India in exchange of worthless [01:02:09] rupees. One of the biggest Russian [01:02:10] blunders. I don't know about that deal [01:02:13] uh specifically. But I will say as [01:02:16] someone who loves India, who lived in [01:02:18] India, that government's trash. [01:02:22] And way too many people believe in the [01:02:24] BJP and their Hindu fascist BS. And they [01:02:28] are the weakest link in BRICS. And [01:02:32] they're they're one of the biggest ways [01:02:34] that we know that BRICS is burdened [01:02:37] under the weight of like its [01:02:39] contradictions. Uh so India is the [01:02:42] biggest problematic uh part of bricks in [01:02:45] my opinion as someone who has many [01:02:46] Indian friends. Um yeah [01:02:50] I actually might do an episode on India [01:02:52] because that's actually a really [01:02:53] important point. So anyways guys sorry [01:02:56] this was kind of a schizophrenic episode [01:02:59] but we tried to do something new. Um [01:03:02] hope it was helpful to some people may [01:03:04] have not been. We're back to our [01:03:06] standard format Thursday. I don't know [01:03:09] what we're going to be talking about. [01:03:10] The latest catastrophe probably with [01:03:12] some people from the Mint Press staff. [01:03:16] So, hope to see you there. It's Monday. [01:03:19] Welcome back to the Salt Mines. You got [01:03:22] more work ahead of you this week. So, [01:03:25] cheers y'all. Uh, thanks for stopping [01:03:27] by. And yeah, someone says, [01:03:32] uh, India had a great past and we'll [01:03:34] have a great future past Modi and Duda. [01:03:38] Hopefully we can only pray. All right, [01:03:40] guys. See you. Cheers.