In short
The hosts denounce Israel’s alleged violation of an Iran/Lebanon ceasefire, criticize U.S. military aid and politicians who support it, and argue Trump/Netanyahu and their allies are unqualified, war-mongering, and morally corrupt. They also discuss polling showing worsening U.S. views of Israel, the idea of Trump receiving an “Israel Peace Prize,” and claims of White House pressure/threats toward the Catholic Church.
Guest backgrounds
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Key claims
Israel continued bombing Lebanon after ceasefire claims; U.S. taxpayer money funds attacks; politicians should be unelectable if they support aid to Israel; Trump delegates foreign policy to Jared Kushner/others; Netanyahu disrespects Trump; J.D. Vance is untrustworthy; Gallup shows 60% unfavorable views of Israel; Trump may be awarded an Israel Peace Prize; the administration threatened the Catholic Church.
Notable examples
AP/Al Jazeera casualty figures (e.g., 182/254 killed; thousands wounded); Gallup unfavorable Israel view (60%); mentions John Favreau’s “end USAID to Israel”; Pete Hegseth praising “divine providence” during strikes; Pentagon meeting where Elbridge Colby allegedly lectured Cardinal Christophe Pierre about U.S. military power; alleged White House threat to the Catholic Church.
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Chapters
Tap a time to open that second in VOIsrael's Aggression Post-Ceasefire
0:31 to 1:06
Analyzing the ongoing Israeli bombardment of Lebanon amidst claims of a ceasefire.
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Critique of U.S. Support for Israel
1:06 to 3:08
Discussing the implications of U.S. financial support for Israel amidst civilian casualties.
“Immediately, immediately, Israel continued to bomb residential and civilian targets in Lebanon.”
Trump's Relationship with Netanyahu
3:08 to 4:24
Examining the dynamics between Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu.
“Tell me which Republican, which Democrat, which independent that lives in flyover America wants their tax dollars going to this.”
J.D. Vance and the Ceasefire Discussion
4:24 to 6:28
Critical look at J.D. Vance's statements regarding the Israel-Lebanon ceasefire.
“are, we could be more diplomatic pumps, you know what I mean, than those two people can.”
Shifting American Attitudes Towards Israel
6:28 to 8:52
Analyzing recent polling data reflecting American views on Israel and its actions.
“And I think that if we pull this a month from now, it's going to be even worse.”
Israel Peace Prize for Trump?
8:52 to 11:20
Discussing the implications of an Israel Peace Prize potentially being awarded to Trump.
“be at the end of all this, in my opinion.”
Criticism of Military and Political Leaders
11:20 to 14:01
A critique of U.S. military leaders' rhetoric and their complicity in international violence.
“You know, what's funny about this is since the war started, I saw a clip of Donald Trump talking about how he didn't get the Nobel Peace Prize.”
Critique of Political Figures
14:01 to 15:00
Discussion on the perceived failures and moral corruption of Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth.
“Orangeface running around collecting participation trophies and this guy who's on his knees like, God, make sure the missiles hit their targets.”
Military Power and the Catholic Church
15:00 to 16:56
Examination of the Pentagon's influence over the Catholic Church and the implications of its threats.
“And then here is some juicy tea from the Catholic Church.”
Threats to Religious Authority
16:56 to 18:44
Analysis of the government's threats against the Catholic Church and the implications for citizens.
“And so this is just crazy, the hubris, the maniacal nature of this regime to go bully the Catholic church.”
Transcript
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1:05All right, the ceasefire was all BS. Immediately, immediately, Israel continued to bomb residential and civilian targets in Lebanon. This seems to be a feature and not a bug of Israeli aggression where they attack innocent civilians. pop up the post. The Associated Press is reporting that at least 182 killed as Israel strikes central Beirut after saying Iran truce doesn't apply there. And then we have Al Jazeera, who is reporting 254 killed and 1 ,165 wounded. Lebanon's health minister says Israeli attacks since March 2nd have killed at least 1 ,739 people and wounded 5 ,873. And here is some video of this continued bombing by Israel with a financial assist from the United States of America.
2:09The mainstreaming and the normalizing of war crimes is just horrific. And I'm of the position right now that if any politician supports aid, any aid to Israel, that person should not be electable. It doesn't matter if they're Republican, a Democrat. This is insane. All of the money that we work so hard that we pay for the federal government is being shipped abroad for Israel to expand its borders. Meanwhile, we're told we can't have improved schools. We can't have universal child care, health care, tough titties, get a second job. Don't worry about that. It's utterly insane how much United States politicians have prioritized this senseless and genocidal killing of civilians in the Middle East with American taxpayer money.
3:08Tell me which Republican, which Democrat, which independent that lives in flyover America wants their tax dollars going to this. I don't think it's very many at all pumps. What I would say to that is you have a war that Donald Trump cannot win. It is humiliating all over the place for him globally, domestically. And he says there's a ceasefire. And Benjamin Netanyahu says, fuck you, I'm going to drop bombs. That tells me Benjamin Netanyahu has no respect for Donald Trump or anybody in the U.S. government that gets on there and rah-rahs because he's going to do whatever the fuck he wants to do with reckless abandon.
3:47And incidentally, I believe he has so much compromising information on Trump because of the Epstein files. But I'm not going to discount the fact that Donald Trump is just a bloodthirsty dick. Well, and also you can't discount Jared Kushner and his long relationship with Benjamin Netanyahu and that Trump is intellectually lazy and will just delegate all of this type of policy, whether it be abusing Americans domestically. Domestically, that's deferred to Stephen Miller. Foreign policy is sent to Whitcoff, a real estate guy, and Jared Kushner, who, I mean, are, we could be more diplomatic pumps, you know what I mean, than those two people can.
4:30That's how unqualified these people are. And speaking of unqualified, we have our vice president, America's biggest prostitute, J.D. Vance, our little smoky eye sociopath. And here he is talking about the negotiated, negotiated, I say in quotations, ceasefire. Play the clip. Iran wants to let this negotiation fall apart in a conflict where they were getting hammered over Lebanon, which has nothing to do with them and which the United States never once said was part of the ceasefire. That's ultimately their choice. We think that would be dumb, but that's their choice. Okay. Lebanon was a part of the ceasefire.
5:12J.D. Vance, you guys, as much as we all want Trump removed, we have to keep our focus on how diabolical and what a prostitute J.D. Vance is. J.D. Vance wrote a book, sold out the people that he was raised around. He's changed his name three times, his religion three times. He's owned by Peter Thiel, who is this really weird billionaire that is not even American. He's an immigrant, which is fine. I don't give a shit about immigrants. That's what MAGA cares about. And he purchased JD Vance and gave him to Donald Trump. Donald Trump doesn't even like JD Vance, but JD Vance is trying to position himself as this big anti-war guy.
5:51And I just think we need to keep pressure on this guy at all times because should it happen, and y 'all know what I'm talking about when I say should it happen, we get this guy. And I just, I do not trust him. He's been over palling around with dictator, not even that great of a dictator, Victor Orban. You know, that's who he looks to for inspiration. All right. And then pop up this next one, Kylie. This all comes as new polling from Gallup shows a major shift in Americans' views on Israel. 60 % of Americans have an unfavorable view of Israel. And I think that if we pull this a month from now, it's going to be even worse.
6:33My problem with Israel and its defenders are they try to go after certain people that are critical of it. Maybe us, maybe certain Democrats, maybe certain people in media spaces. So you can do that or you want to, but your unpopularity is so massive now that you can remove any of the critiques of Israel and of Benjamin Netanyahu. And the war crimes still remain. The genocide still remains. The reputational damage that you've done to yourself by killing little kids and innocent people and bombing residential areas, you're not going to be able to cancel your way out of it. The American public is done funding a genocidal, homicidal regime.
7:26It's insane. And then the monitoring of people critiquing it and telling us we can't critique Israel. Yes, we can. We absolutely can critique it and we should. It's the moral thing to do. All right. And then the tide is turning. It's not just us. It's not just people on the right. It's not just independence. Here's a post of John Favreau, our friend over at Pod Save America, he's been a guest on the pod. He says, end USAID to Israel. And this is in response to ABC News reporting the same number as Al Jazeera. 254 people killed yesterday, the day that we announced the ceasefire. 254 people, pumps.
8:09The thing about Israel is we've been preached that it's this democracy and we can't have peace in the Middle East without, um, is support for Israel. My, what I am coming to learn, and I am not an expert, but what I'm coming to learn is that the only way not to have peace in the Middle East is to remove Benjamin Netanyahu and remove this. We're going to take over the whole Middle East because this man will stop at nothing. He's certainly not going to stop because Donald Trump asks him to. And he is a war criminal. And every time he leaves Israel, he should be arrested at whatever country he sits his feet down on, just like Donald Trump should be at the end of all this, in my opinion.
8:53I agree with you, but this is not a one-man problem, just like the United States with Donald Trump is not a one-man problem. You can remove Benjamin Netanyahu and you still have a problem. And I think he's probably going to be replaced with people far more radical, just like if it happens here, if Trump kicks the bucket, we're going to have J.D. Vance and then maybe Tucker Carlson and then maybe Nick Fuentes. This is, I believe when you start normalizing and mainstreaming violence, as we've done in the United States towards over-policing of black communities, towards normalizing school shootings and never atoning for that, never making it more difficult for people to get guns in the face of kindergartners getting shot with an assault weapon.
9:38Over in the Middle East, they just go and take people's land in the West Bank and kill people with impunity. Their IDF soldiers are sexually raping a prisoner and all those charges are dropped. So you just start normalizing this depravity and it becomes cultural. And we have this problem in the United States and Israel has that problem there. There is a moral rot through both of these cultures. It's why they're partners in committing war crimes in the Middle East right now. And then in an attempt to win over Trump, Netanyahu is considering this. And sadly, this will probably fucking work. Put this up.
10:20Israel is considering awarding President Trump an Israel Peace Prize during his next visit. And everybody does this to him. Tim Cook, the winner of the actual Nobel Peace Prize, takes her trophy to him. And then he starts a war in Iran and they kill little schoolgirls. And then Benjamin Netanyahu, do these people, Benjamin Netanyahu and Machado, the lady who won the Peace Prize and Donald Trump and all these people, they just treat us in such a patronizing, condescending way. They think we're all fucking stupid. I mean, Israel presenting a peace prize, Israel saying they're a great democracy. The United States of America saying we're a great democracy.
11:10It's all bullshit. All of it is bullshit propped up by these oligarchs who fund both parties. And it just makes me so mad. You know, what's funny about this is since the war started, I saw a clip of Donald Trump talking about how he didn't get the Nobel Peace Prize. Like this man will not shut the fuck up about it. And here's the thing. He will go over there and he will accept it with pride and think, I am the winner of the Israel Peace Prize. I mean, he will be so excited. He will sit down and tweet and go, you know what, Norway, fuck you. Fuck you. Israel gave me my Peace Prize. And everybody is saying that the Israel Peace Prize is now more prestigious than the Nobel Peace Prize.
11:56Everybody is saying the Nobel Peace Prize has no clout anymore. You can see it now. It's as predictable as remember when we were little, we'd have those dolls and you'd pull the string and it'll say that, hi, I'm little Sally and I like to pee my pants or whatever. That's Donald Trump. You could just pull the string. He's a string doll. He's so predictable. And how pathetic, how pathetic for all these big alpha males in the brosphere. They're like, we love the troops, we love patriotism. We love the military. That is the commander in chief of the military, a man that collects unearned participation trophies.
12:29That is your guy. That's your version of masculinity. Pathetic at best. Okay, moving along. Pumps your favorite person to hate. Of course, I'm talking about teeny weeny Department of War, Department of Defense, Pete Hegseth, and he celebrated the ceasefire right as Israel is ramping up their attacks on Lebanon. So he's saying this at the exact same time that bombs are going over to Lebanon. Play the clip. Our troops, our American warriors deserve the credit for this day. But God deserves all the glory. Tens of thousands of sorties, refuelings, and strikes carried out under the protection of divine providence.
13:20A massive effort with miraculous protection. Miraculous. Dude44Bravo spoke for all of us. God is good. Put a sock in it. I cannot fucking take it. It's so unbelievable that he is anointing. God guided all of these missiles to kill all of these people. Like, what is happening? This is insane. This is the United States of America. This is our military and we are being dog walked by Benjamin Netanyahu because we have dipshits in charge. We've got Mr. Orangeface running around collecting participation trophies and this guy who's on his knees like, God, make sure the missiles hit their targets. We really want to double tap the school girls.
14:10And then we have a dipshit electorate that lapsed this shit up. It just, it's so maddening. Pumps. You know, Pete Hegseth is absolutely the biggest embarrassment on planet Earth. Like Donald Trump is. Pete Hegseth's right behind him. And I would just ask him, Pete, do you believe that the little girls that were killed in Iran, that God didn't love them? Is that why? Because this man thinks that he has all this divine wisdom and he's demoting people and people are firing. And at the end of the day, he is bloodthirsty. He is a criminal. He is committing war crimes and his ass belongs in a cell and he can get down on his knees for other reasons once he gets there.
14:56Oh, pops. Love that. Fantastic. All right. And then here is some juicy tea from the Catholic Church. This is so stunning, this story. OK, pop this up. In January, behind closed doors at the Pentagon, under Secretary of War for Policy, Elbridge Colby summoned Cardinal Christophe Pierre, Pope Leo XIV's then ambassador to the United States, and delivered a lecture. America, Colby and his colleagues, told the Cardinal, has the military power to do whatever it wants in the world. the catholic church had better take its side as tempers rose one u.s official reached for a 14th century weapon and invoked the avignon papacy and the period when the french crown used military force to bend the bishop of rome to its will so we have keep this up for just a second We have J.D.
16:06Vance, who has just written a tell-all about his journey to Catholicism. Meanwhile, the administration that he's in is bullying the Catholic Church because the first American pope is a little bit too Jesus-y for them. And I'm talking about the brown Palestinian Jew version of Jesus, not the white megachurch capitalist Erica Kirk version of Jesus. And then Pedro Gonzalez here says, he says, the Catholic Church has become the greatest moral critic of Donald Trump and J.D. Vance, Mr. Super Catholic. In response, the White House made a thinly veiled threat about using military force against it. The Trump Vance administration is not just anti-Catholic.
16:50It is against any higher power other than its own authority. This is staggering. This is stunning. they are trying to threat they are threatening the fucking catholic church it's unbelievable and here's the thing like several years ago i was like fuck the catholic church because of all the child rape shit i mean i'm just like that should be brand damaging forever and i'm the biggest atheist on the planet and i like this pope i like that this pope is standing up for the radical kindness and the radical love that the central character of the uh new testament jesus christ preaches. And so this is just crazy, the hubris, the maniacal nature of this regime to go bully the Catholic church.
17:37Stunning. Well, and let's just think about it this way. If they don't want someone to disagree, they threaten force. They threaten the military against them because they don't want to hear opposition. So they're threatening force against one of the most powerful religions on the globe. And I look at that and think if they are willing to threaten the Catholic church, what is Joe Blow that goes to the voting booth at the midterms? What can he expect from this government? And that is terrifying. And it also is a huge indictment on all of the megachurch prosperity gospel, how easily they don't stand on principle, how easily they bend the knee to a lying, murderous regime of the United States of America government, full of dirty cops and people who pray that missiles kill innocent civilians.
18:31It shows you just how morally corrupt and what a God damn racket the whole megachurch scheme is in the United States of America, because Donald Trump says jump and they say, oh, how high. All right. That's all we have. Like, subscribe. We'll be back later with more news.
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