GOP Uses Horrible Tragedy to Push Bigoted Agenda and Zohran Mamdani Ends Racist's Career

17 Dec 2025 · 18 min

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GOP Uses Horrible Tragedy to Push Bigoted Agenda and Zohran Mamdani Ends Racist's Career

Hosts

  • Jennifer Welch
  • Angie "Pumps" Sullivan

Episode Overview The episode discusses the manipulation of recent tragedies by the GOP to promote Islamophobia, as well as the political implications surrounding such bigotry. The hosts express their solidarity with both Jewish and Muslim communities amidst a rise in hate speech and attacks.

Key Topics and Discussions

  1. Response to Recent Tragedies
  2. Tragedy Mentioned: The hosts reference various tragedies, including attacks in Australia.
  3. Compassion and Empathy: They emphasize the importance of recognizing pain across communities, urging listeners to support both Jewish and Muslim individuals facing discrimination.
  1. Condemnation of Tommy Tuberville
  2. Bigoted Comments: The hosts criticize Senator Tommy Tuberville for his inflammatory tweet claiming "Islam is not a religion; it's a cult."
  3. Racism and Bigotry: They label Tuberville as a racist and a bigot, highlighting his past actions that align with white supremacist ideologies.
  1. Call for Human Rights Unity
  2. Universal Human Rights: The hosts argue that all human rights are interconnected, rejecting the idea that one group's rights can be prioritized over another's.
  3. Noteworthy Example: They highlight the heroism of a Syrian Muslim immigrant who intervened during a massacre, exemplifying the humanity present in diverse communities.
  1. Contrast with Progressive Voices
  2. Bernie Sanders' Response: The episode contrasts Tuberville's views with a tweet from Senator Bernie Sanders that promotes unity against hate.
  3. Zohran Mamdani's Election: The hosts discuss Mamdani's experiences with Islamophobic attacks during his campaign, shedding light on the hypocrisy of those labeling him anti-Semitic.
  1. Critique of Political Extremism
  2. Religious Extremism: The hosts note that extremists exist in all religions, warning against equating all Muslims with jihadist ideologies.
  3. Political Weaponization: They discuss how anti-Semitism and Islamophobia are used politically to target universities and suppress civil liberties.
  1. Criticism of Fascist Regimes
  2. Trump Administration's Tactics: The hosts mention how the Trump administration weaponized claims of anti-Semitism to threaten institutions like UCLA.
  3. Education as a Defense: They argue for the importance of an educated electorate in combating hate and bigotry.

Key Takeaways

  • Unity in Diversity: The episode stresses the need for solidarity among different marginalized groups against bigotry and hate.
  • Critique of Bigotry and Racism: The hosts call out racism and Islamophobia, advocating for equality and universal human rights.
  • Political Critique: They highlight the dangers of political figures using tragedy to promote bigoted agendas and the need for accountability in leadership.

Closing Remarks The hosts end on a note of hope, encouraging listeners to stand against hate and support one another across diverse communities. They call for engagement in politics that promotes inclusivity and dignity for all.

Additional Information

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0:04So much tragedy right this holiday season. I know that all of us have really sore hearts and heartache for the Reiner family, for the massacres in Australia, for the students senseless, and so many of us. should feel compassion and empathy, try to categorize us. And Pumps and I want to just offer an episode to you all right now to tell you, you can both care about anti-Semitism and stand in solidarity with Jewish people who feel very scared and very targeted right now. And you can also stand with Muslim people who are falling prey to Islamophobic attacks and Islamophobic bigotry and racism. You don't have to pick.

0:51All of these human rights are linked. And any group that tries to prioritize the rights of one specific group over another group is in fact not for equality and is not supporting universal human rights. That notion is actually they're supporting supremacy. And so this episode, I want to talk about this and I want to talk about the sitting senator, Tommy Tuberville. And he tweeted something that was so abhorrent. Kylie put this up. After the attacks in Australia, he tweets, Islam is not a religion. It's a cult. Islamists aren't here to assimilate. They're here to conquer. Stop worrying about offending the pearl clutchers.

1:39We've got to send them home now or we'll become the United Caliphate of America. And this is just utter insanity. This is what I'm talking about. Something tragic happens. And then the real bigots try to give you a binary choice. And Tommy Tuberville is an absolute racist bigot. Anybody who tries to get you to pick when all of these human rights are linked. The hero in Australia was a Syrian Muslim immigrant that put himself in the line of fire, took two shots and prevented a much larger massacre. And so you see humanity in all different kinds of people, in Muslims and Jewish people, and you see bigoted attacks towards all different types of people.

2:39And I just think that I want to live in a country where if a senator says something like that, right now is not the time, but in the future, we need to make it where that's immediately disqualifying and they're kicked out of the Senate. I completely agree. This was not stunning because Tommy Tuberville in his Senate, while he's been a sitting senator, has proved that he is a white supremacist, racist, full stop. He has never stood up for human rights. He is running for governor from Alabama. And to insult Muslim people and people that are worshipers of Islam is so horrific. I dare say that the white Christian nationalism is more of a concern than Muslims practicing Islam.

3:27It's stunning to me that he is just patted on the back. He'll run for Alabama because probably they agree with him. It's so easy to pick out people that you hate when you hate everybody that doesn't look like you. It's abhorrent. So I think it's interesting that, you know, you have extremists in all religions, and I think they're all equally dangerous. But the notion that Tommy Tuberville is pushing is this anti-Muslim downright bigotry. And it's important to note for just white viewers of this show, if you're a Jewish person and you see the anti-Semitism and the terror attack that happened in Australia, you feel complete fear.

4:19But also for the Muslim community, these extremists act out and they're like, oh God, we're going to get a lot more bigotry. So that's why you can see through all of the noise and all of the propaganda, you can see people that stand for universal human rights, people that are against anti-Semitism, but equally against anti-Muslim bigotry unite together. Here's a wonderful tweet from Senator Bernie Sanders, a stark juxtaposition to Tuberville. Ahmed Al Ahmed, a Muslim father of two, risked his life to disarm a murderer who was shooting down Jews celebrating Hanukkah in Sydney. Religion must not divide our common humanity.

5:06We must stand together and end anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, and all hate, no exceptions. And this gets worse, this Islamophobia. And you may remember during the election of Zoran Mamdani, he was accused of being anti-Semitic, while at the same time, the people who were accusing him of being anti-Semitic were targeting him with Islamophobic bigotry. And it never occurred to them like, oh, wait, I'm doing the same thing I'm accusing him of. And that's something we really have to have moral clarity on because you have all these propaganda channels, like CBS has now been taken over by a propagandist.

5:45And they very much want to produce only one group of falling prey to bigotry, when so many groups fall prey to bigotry. But here is a councilwoman out of New York, and she tweeted the following, We're in the midst of a global jihad, the likes of which the world has never seen, and we cannot ignore it. We need to take very seriously the need to begin the expulsion of Muslims from Western nations, or at the very least, the severe sanction of them within Western borders. The administration needs to begin developing a formal legal framework for the denaturalization process and get it over with before we end up with another 9-11 or worse.

6:32enough is enough. So this mirrors what Tommy Tuberville says. It also mirrors like Stephen Miller. This is where you have a lot of dark forces colluding together for the same goal of this mass exodus of brown skin people and Muslims typically are brown from the United States. And And Zoran, the mayor-elect of New York City, responds to the councilwoman and he says, a million Muslims live in New York City. We belong here, as does every other New Yorker. This is vile Islamophobia from the councilwoman and it has no place in our city. Good for him. Good for him, because here's the thing. what makes me so mad is that these people who are willing to browbeat uh you know any class of people they pick somebody to hate and they say you can't have nice things because of muslims and so we're going to ruin every muslim's life over that and you can't have nice things because of poor people you can't afford health care because uh poor people are lazy or all this shit When at the end of the day, if we treated everybody equally and we took everybody into our community and said, everybody deserves dignity, everybody deserves happiness.

8:04All of the problems that we're seeing right now, I mean, and I know that's Pollyanna, but they would subside and it's stoking this hate among each other. That's why we got Donald Trump, in my opinion, because he said, I hate everybody you hate. I'm going to stand up for white Christians and I'm going to demean women on a regular basis because poor men, they're being marginalized. You know, so if we just would look and take a look at all of the people that are hate and shut them up and said, you cannot serve in the New York City Council if you have this kind of views that you want to take innocent people and send them out because of the color of their skin and religion.

8:46That's not American. That is far more not American to me than it is for American to practice freedom of religion. It's just gross. You know, it's vile bigotry. And I think this is why MAGA and the Republican Party does such an assault on blue cities, because blue cities are the remedy for this racism. That's right. You have cities that are multicultural, where all different types of people, all different types of immigrants, all different religions, all peacefully coexist and cooperate in a large city. And that's why there has been a decades long propagandic attack on blue cities, because multiculturalism is the remedy for this.

9:33And that's why the billionaires colluded in New York City so strongly against Zoran, because he is the remedy to this. Here's a guy who, if their narrative about Muslims is true, that they are all jihadists, who want to stone and kill gay people, that are primitive, have all of these wives. If that's true, then you've got Zoran who speaks for universal human rights, was at a pride parade with a trans flag, who links all human rights together and promotes multiculturalism in the most welcoming way imaginable. and then gets on, you know, X or Twitter and says, you belong here, just something very simple.

10:19And when you hear marginalized groups, like the black Americans, when their mantra is black lives matter, where you have to reduce it to something so simple. And then Zoran, his tweet kind of broke my heart because it's like, you belong here. Just a very simple sentiment against this bigoted, mounted, horrific hatred. And this narrative that Muslims are, you know, all of them are jihadists and all of this is something that the Benjamin Netanyahu's government needs to succeed so that they can continue doing this. So it's just, it's really sad. Now I do, I would be remiss if I didn't say in every religion, there are extremists.

11:11There are Muslim extremists. I lived in Oklahoma for 51 years and there are Christian Taliban extremists that are absolutely zero different from the Muslim jihadists that Tommy Tuberville and councilwoman Vicky Palladino are so terrified of. I encourage, you know, Vicki Paladino to go live in a red state. Now, Tommy Tuberville, it's perfect for him to live in Alabama because everything's set up for a white, racist, redneck piece of shit to succeed in Alabama. When it comes to holiday gifting, I want to get the person I love, something they will wear forever, and it feels great. And my favorite thing in my closet is my quince cashmere sweater and the reason it's my favorite it's because it feels great and I didn't pay an arm and a leg for it.

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12:55They are using and weaponizing anti-Semitism to shake down universities and other institutions so that they can erode our civil liberties. Pop this up. ProPublica did an article on the Trump regime and the Tennessee Holler tweets the following, ProPublica on the Trump regime insidiously using anti-Semitism claims to crack down on universities. Trump's DOJ threatened UCLA with discrimination lawsuits, demanded$1 billion plus in fines, pressed for changes that had nothing to do with anti-Semitism. And here's the highlights. The playbook. Trump's DOJ threatened UCLA with discrimination lawsuits, demanded a billion dollars.

13:45An internal memo, DOJ career lawyers warned that the case against UCLA was shaky, Many said they were glad to be leaving before they might be asked to sign the complaint. UC's dependence on federal funds limited its ability to push back aggressively. So this accusation of anti-Semitism is being used by a fascist regime to target universities and shake them down. And the one way that we know for sure that we cannot incubate anti-Semitism is through an educated electorate that is educated on history. And so it's interesting to me that you have these far right fascist Jewish groups that are allowing for the weaponization of anti-Semitism to erode critical thinking in institutions that will fundamentally incubate more anti-Semitism.

14:47I mean, look at like if you go to rule America and the anti-Semitism in those places, the Jews will not replace us. all of those marches, the young Republicans, that's where a lot of the real Jew hate is. And if you take that out of academia and studying the historical nature of anti-Semitism, how dangerous it is, the long storied history of it and understanding what Zionism is and understanding what Palestinians are going through, all of that is liberation from all of this binary style thinking. So it's just fascinating to watch a fascist regime, Benjamin Netanyahu, has a fascist lobby group, AIPAC, spend$300 million to get a fascist elected, Donald Trump, and then weaponize this anti-Semitism and then shake down all these universities.

15:41And in the long term, they're actually just going to be incubating more of this bigotry, in my opinion. Well, in terms of what Trump, I don't think Trump gives a flying fuck about anti-Semitism, Islamophobia. He doesn't care. What he wants is the power. And you hear over and over again, because facts have a liberal bias, that we have to go in and make more conservative curriculum in universities. Because you see women with college degrees overwhelmingly vote against Republican candidates. But I will not listen to the Trump administration, even if they're acting like their goal is anti-Semitism, because I know they don't give a shit.

16:23And do you know how I know? Because they have people in their tent that do Sig Hyls on stage at the inauguration, Elon Musk. They have people that wear Confederate flags, Camp Auschwitz t-shirts, boat parades with the Nazi flags on them. You've got right-wing podcasters hosting people that say, I think we should have sided with Hitler. I don't think it was that bad. They're rewriting history. So do not, it's just like the Republicans are so pro-life. No, you're not. You're pro-control. You don't give a shit about life after it's born. And we know that because there are no social safety nets for these people.

17:00So don't tell me that the Trump administration is so raw, raw anti-Semitism because everything they do says they are white supremacists. They don't give a shit about anybody that doesn't look like them. And it enrages me that now we have a government that would go into institutions of higher learning that teach critical thinking. But for higher learning and critical thinking, I would still be indoctrinated to think that the earth was seven or 2000 years old. Okay. So these people that go to college that are, have been indoctrinated their whole lives. It is a lifeline to them to have critical thinking skills taught to them.

17:41And it took me a long time to be able to use them. I'm not saying I learned it in college, but you're never exposed to it. And this is disgusting. It's bigotry. It's hateful. It's cruel. It's wrong. It's like everything else Trump does. If he got a billion dollars from UCLA, you think the American taxpayer would see it? Fuck no. I'm sure it would go right into his bank account. I mean, that's what I would think. I mean, I don't think I could add anything to that wonderful takedown pumps. We'll leave it there. Please subscribe to our channel and we'll be back later with more news.

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