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Lets cover the latest in Iran and some of the nonsensical criticism of President Trump.
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Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show podcast, hour one.
Hello, America.
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My job here, I think this first hour is to bring you up to speed
on everything that is happening because things are happening very quickly.
I need to start with the statement Marco Rubio made
that is getting some traction by anti-Semites,
claiming essentially that Marco Rubio in the United States
acted because Israel forced us to.
This is what Rubio said.
The rest was forced to strike because of an Israeli action.
No, first, well, let me two things I would say.
Number one is, no matter what, ultimately,
this operation needed to happen.
That's the question of why now.
But this operation needed to happen because Iran,
in about a year or a year and a half,
would cross the line of immunity,
meaning they would have so many short-range missiles,
so many drones that no one could do anything about it
because they could hold the whole world hostage.
Look at the damage they're doing now.
And this is a weakened Iran.
Imagine a year from now.
So that had to happen.
Obviously, we were aware of Israeli intentions
and understood what that would mean for us
and we had to be prepared to act as a result of it.
But this had to happen no matter what.
Now, that's being characterized with that very short snippet
at the end is being characterized
as Rubio saying Israel forced our hand.
What the Secretary's statement was that we knew that Israel was preparing
because we gave them the intelligence to do it
to blow up the Ayatollah and his generals
when they met in person.
And so we decided to coordinate our response
with Israel to time it then,
but we were going to do it anyway
since Iran was refusing to negotiate with us.
This is not a matter of us doing it
because Benjamin Netanyahu forced our hand.
And anyone saying so is peddling anti-symmetism.
And you need to understand that even on the right,
this is happening.
I'm very disappointed
in people like Megan Kelly and Matt Walsh and others now
who are questioning whether or not we're,
they'd be holding to Israel or some such.
This may get you clicks and clout
and may get you attention and people talking about you
so it drives your revenue stream.
But it's seeding deep anti-symmetism
on things that are not true in this country
and it's very, very disappointing to see.
Now, while this is happening,
Marco Rubio also said this.
They're suffering a tremendous amount of damage.
Honestly, again, I'm not going to give away the details
of our tactical efforts,
but the hardest tips are yet to come from the U.S. military.
The next phase will be even more punishing on Iran
than it is right now.
Someone was screaming, how long will it take?
I don't know how long it'll take.
We have objectives.
We will do this as long as it takes
to achieve those objectives.
And we will achieve those objectives.
The world will be a safer place
when we're done with this operation.
Now, that second big hit came early this morning
as the Iranian clerics were meeting and cuds
at the former Iranian parliament building
to pick the new Ayatollah Israel dropped bombs on it.
Do we get black smoke when we have no pope?
We get black smoke when we have no Ayatollah.
It's just different causes for the black smoke in Iran.
Black smoke pouring out of the building
as all of the clerics picking the Ayatollah were killed
by Israel.
Additionally, Saudi Arabia is thinking of getting in
on the offense now and no longer maintaining
just defensive positions.
You have to understand the Saudis hate the Iranians.
The Iranians are their chief rival.
They're a different branch of Islam.
The Saudis do not like the Iranians.
Actually acting as if they are the custodians of Islam.
Even the Saudi fighters have for years trained
on fighting the Iranians should have never come to this.
They're itching to get into this.
This is Jennifer Griffin, a short time ago on Fox News.
Separately Harris, well placed military
and diplomatic sources in the region tell me
Saudi Arabia is very close to allowing its Air Force
to strike targets inside Iran after facing unprecedented
missile and drone attacks on its civilians,
including incoming missiles today targeting Dhamman,
its fifth largest city.
Quote, the next 24 hours is going to be intense, I'm told.
A line has been crossed.
A well placed official in the Gulf tells me.
What's truly extraordinary, Harris,
about this development is that it would not have been possible
if Israel had not been brought in under U.S. Central Command
at the end of the first Trump administration.
Carrying out airstrikes takes tremendous deconfliction
and coordination.
Senkham used to be attached, or excuse me,
Israel used to be attached to the European command
due to sensitivities with the Arab states
that did not recognize Israel.
That changed with the Abraham Accords.
Donald Trump will go down in history as one
of the most consequential men in modern history
in large part because he brought unity
between Israel and the Arab nations
who have for years hated Israel
and now find themselves on the same side
and working hand in glove together.
In fact, you're seeing some of the anti-Semites
in the United States media today raise conspiracy theories
that it was Israel that dropped a bomb
on Saudi Arabia's oil refinery.
When both Israel and Saudi Arabia say,
no, no, it was an Iranian missile.
Israel is today, as I am talking to you, flying jets
over Saudi Arabia running defensive operations
to protect the Saudis from the Iranian missiles and drones.
The French have now engaged.
The Iranian military, once the leadership was decapitated,
had orders to fire wherever they wanted to fire essentially.
And some genius Iranian general decided to blow up
a French naval base in Abu Dhabi
in the United Arab Emirates.
And now guess what?
The French who wouldn't even allow us to fly over France
to engage in this operation have now engaged.
And there are French fighter jets in the skies
above Dubai and Abu Dhabi in charge of today
of shooting down drones and missiles from Iran.
What's also notable is the number of drones and missiles
being launched by Iran are going down on a daily basis.
Instead of escalating as the Iranians claimed they would do,
they have actually reduced themselves
and reduced their capacity.
It's actually really remarkable that you've got Iran
is not actually firing up to speed in ways they claim.
They keep trotting out AI videos from Iran claiming
these massive missiles are being trotted out.
And then the Americans bomb the missiles
and blow up the Iranian positions.
It really is just an incredible situation to watch unfold.
Qatar has also apparently engaged in action.
They came out this morning and said,
so they've walked themselves back now.
So actually we haven't done anything yet,
but we might after the Saudis came out and said they might.
They didn't want to jump the Saudis there.
And then just a remarkable operation from Israel bombing
the Iranian Supreme Union Council while they were in the middle
of voting and counting the ballots on the new Ayatollah.
So they blew it up.
We're watching a level of Western coordination
that the Russians and Chinese are no doubt paying attention to.
Now there is a question.
And the question is based on reporting from CBS and other sources,
are we on the verge of running out of weapons?
No, we are not on the verge of running out of weapons.
What I find most notable and follow it follow along with me
on this one.
There are a lot of people who have wanted to send weapons
to Ukraine to fight the Russians.
I am one of them.
I think better to have the Ukrainians kill the Russians than us.
But many of my compatriots and wanting to arm the Ukrainians
are deeply opposed to this mission in Iran.
And they're starting to scream that we're running out of weapons.
We're going to run out of weapons.
We've only got a few weeks of weapons left.
Now these are the same people who want us to give those weapons to Ukraine.
Now saying we only have a few weeks of weapons left.
Why then do they still want to give the weapons to Ukraine?
If we're about to run out of weapons.
There are also people who hate the United States
in the American press corps and in the American pundit class
who are insisting that Iran has way more weapons
and that Iran has done the math.
And they're essentially waiting out our weapons supply
so they can fly their $50,000 drone against our $5,000,
$5 million missile and the math works in their favor
except what they don't seem to realize
is that the second phase of this campaign
is now targeting the drone and missile manufacturing of Iran.
To go back to Marco Rubio's point, Iran was at the point
where they only not only had nuclear fizzle material
that they could use to make dirty bombs
and put them in drones.
They also had the drone and missile manufacturing.
They had inordinately more rockets and missiles
than the United States has.
And our whole arsenal, think about that.
Iran had more rockets and missiles
than the United States and our whole arsenal.
The problem for Iran is that we are a nation
that is the fourth largest nation on the planet
and Iran is a nation that is only the size of Alaska.
While it's very spread out and it's hard to get,
they tend to cluster their weapons together
in ways that we do as well,
but we have more land mass and we're more protected
because of the Atlantic and the Pacific.
With Iran, they are surrounded
and we and the Israelis have been blowing up the positions.
The Iranians sent out a message overnight
of a missile coming out of a mountain.
It was a shaft in a mountain where a very large missile
was coming out on the bed of a truck.
Before the sun rose this morning,
the Israelis and Americans had fired guided cruise missiles
through the door of that silo down the mountain hatch
and blew up all of the missiles that were inside the mountain.
The level of precision munitions
that the United States and Israel
has are second to none on the planet.
And they're coming to bear in Iran
where the Iranians are incapable of matching
what we're throwing at them.
We're blowing up the storehouses of Iranian weapons.
We are blowing up the capacity to make weapons.
We are blowing up the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps.
We are blowing up the Iranians in real time in Iran
and they cannot match what we are doing.
It is a remarkable, remarkable operation
that we're able to pull off with the Israelis inside Iran
in ways Iran cannot match.
We have united with Israel, the Arab world,
the Saudis and the Qataris who don't like each other
on the same side of a fight against Iran
with the United Arab Emirates,
Oman Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan,
even the Syrians and the Lebanese
where the Lebanese are now working with the Israelis
to stamp out his beloved oppositions inside Lebanon,
something that's not happened since the 1980s.
The Lebanese government is finally no longer afraid
of the Iranian surrogates.
In Syria, the government that is led by a man
who used to work for ISIS and Al Qaeda
is now working with the Israelis
to shoot down Iranian missiles flying over Syria
towards Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.
The entire Middle East is united.
You know who's not united, are the Europeans?
You got the Spanish are blasting us
before the European Union for war, Mogreen.
The British have barely offered any support
until now, once their bases were targeted
by the Iranians in Cyprus,
they decided to put themselves in defensive positions.
The French of all people are offering more firepower
and more planes in the sky than the British to help us.
And in Washington, DC,
one thing the Trump administration does need to focus on
is the consistency of their message.
There isn't a great deal of consistency in the message.
There are lots of reasons to go after the Iranians.
We have 49 years of Iranians killing Americans.
We're finally deciding to take action.
And frankly, that's a good thing.
It is a good thing.
It is a necessary thing.
And the president of the United States has mobilized
a grand coalition of Arabs and Jews together.
The dispensationalists out there are trying to figure
out if it's God or Meghar that's been attacked.
The dispensationalists of America are out saying,
it's the end times baby Jesus Christ is coming back.
We got the Arabs in the Jews united.
That's gotta be one of the signs.
All I know is it's a remarkable feat.
And Donald Trump is the president
who put together this coalition.
And the Iranian regime has been to capitate it.
And it's fractured.
And a fractured regime is a less dangerous regime
because a fractured regime cannot maintain
the arsenal of tyranny that Tehran was building
because they don't have the supply chains
or the munitions factories now to put them together
because Americans and Israelis have blown them
to smithereens.
The world is safer today than it was three days ago
because of what Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu have done.
And it's notable that the anti-Semites are screaming foul
and trying to blame the Jews for what?
Destroying a dictator and a treacherous regime
that attempted the assassination
of the president of the United States.
And instead, the president of the United States
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Okay, back to the show.
Donald Trump, president of the United States,
speaking with the German chancellor at the White House,
just said he thinks he actually forced Israel's hand in the matter.
This is the direct quote from the president.
Audio is not yet in.
Based on the way the negotiations were going,
I think Iran was going to attack first
and I didn't want that to happen.
So if anything, I might have forced Israel's hand.
Now, this comes after Tucker Carlson and others
claimed that Israel forced us to do this.
And Tucker Carlson claiming that Qatar has arrested
Masad agents inside Qatar.
The Qatar Foreign Minister denounced that as a lie today,
saying it is not true.
So I mean, for everybody who thought that Tucker Carlson
was just being paid by Qatar, maybe not,
given Qatar distancing themselves from Tucker Carlson.
The level of disinformation out there is amazing.
What is also very notable is the, well, the situation at Twitter,
where there's been so many AI-generated videos
that the head of production, Nikita Bearer,
has just released this.
We are revising our creator's revenue sharing policies
to maintain authenticity of content
and prevent manipulation of the program.
During times of war,
it's critical that people have access
to authentic information on the ground
with today's AI technologies.
It is trivial to create content that can mislead people.
Starting now, users who post AI-generated videos
of an armed conflict without adding a disclosure
that it was made with AI will be suspended
from creator revenue sharing for 90 days.
Subsequent violations will result
in a permanent suspension from the program.
This will be flagged to us by any post with a community note
or if the content contains metadata
from generative AI tools.
We will continue to refine our policies and product
to ensure X can be trusted during these critical moments.
This is a very, very, very important update from Twitter
to demonetize people sharing fake AI-generated content
and interestingly enough,
the people who are sharing the most of it
or on the side of the Iranians
sharing a bunch of fake nonsense from Iran
claiming to be the destruction of American forces,
the sinking of ships, bombing of military bases
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Now I gotta play you some audio that just came about
the president talking about the engagement of the Europeans
and specifically criticizing the Spanish.
Well, some of the European nations have been helpful
and some haven't and I'm very surprised.
Germany's been great, he's been terrific.
Others have been very good terrific.
I think that the head of NATO, Mark, is fantastic.
Okay.
Mark Ruta, I think he's fantastic.
But some of the European like Spain has been terrible.
In fact, I told Scott to cut off all dealings with Spain.
First of all, it started when every European nation
had my request paid 5%, which they should be doing.
And everybody was enthusiastic about it, Germany,
everybody, and Spain didn't do it.
And now Spain actually said that we can't use their bases
and that's a row, we don't know.
We could use their base of what we want,
we could just fly and then use it.
Nobody's gonna tell us not to use it.
But we don't have to, but they were unfriendly.
And so I told him that we don't want to,
Spain has absolutely nothing that we need.
Other than great people, they have great people.
But they don't have great leadership.
And as you know, they were the only country
that a NATO would not agree to go up to 5%.
I don't think they wouldn't agree to go up to anything.
They wanted to keep it a 2%, and they don't pay the 2%.
So we're gonna cut off all trade with Spain.
We don't want anything to do with Spain.
Is there a war in the expectation?
And I'm not, by the way, I'm not happy with the UK either.
That island that you read about, the lease,
okay, he made it for whatever reason.
He made a lease of the island.
Somebody came and took it away from him.
And it's taken three, four days for us to work out
where we can land there.
It would have been much more convenient landing there,
as opposed to flying many extra hours.
So we are very surprised.
This is not Winston Churchill that we're dealing with.
That is the president of the United States
talking about the situation of the Europeans praising
the German chancellor for their willingness
to stand up and help the United States.
The French being more helpful than the British.
It's wild to see the, not just level of discrimination,
but the upending of things.
I coined a term this morning, Trump and the Shadden Fruit
is the, is the German word for taking pleasure
in the miseries of others.
I gotta tell you, I am taking pleasure
in watching a bunch of Iran hawks be miserable
that Donald Trump is the one fulfilling their wildest dreams.
For years, there have been loud voices on the right,
demanding the overthrow of Iran.
Let me read you one of these.
Two years ago, we wrote in these pages
that we were entering with respect to Iran,
what Winston Churchill called in 1936,
a period of consequences,
in which the era of procrastination of half measures
of soothing and baffling expedience of delays
is coming to its close.
And so it finally is.
The Obama administration has remained committed
to procrastination and half measures
to soothing and baffling expedience,
but even friends of the administration
now acknowledge the obvious.
After all, the diplomatic efforts and attempts
and various forms of economic pressure,
Iran is closer than ever to a nuclear weapons capability
with a new enrichment facility,
thousands more centrifuges spinning
and enough enriched uranium to produce five nuclear weapons.
The last year has also witnessed a foiled Iranian plot
to assassinate U.S. diplomats and their families
in Azerbaijan.
Attempts to kill Israeli diplomats
in the Republic of Georgia, Thailand and India,
then a plot to kill the Saudi ambassador
and American bystanders at a Washington DC restaurant.
As we have shamefully dithered for more than a year,
Iran has sent weapons, troops and money
to support its brutal ally,
Basra Al-Assad in Syria.
All of this is, of course,
in addition to years of Iranian complicity
and the killing of U.S. soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The record of Iranian murder and mayhem
is the reality of our failed Iran policy,
a policy to be fair,
that began out of the Bush administration.
President Obama sometimes seems committed
to ending the era of procrastination.
He said in March that U.S. policy
is not going to be one of containment.
My policy is prevention of Iran obtaining nuclear weapons.
Since that tough talk, however,
he and his top advisors has temperized claiming
that Iran is increasingly isolated
and on the ropes,
insisting that there's time for negotiations
and sanctions to work because Iranian leaders
have not yet made the decision to weaponize.
Arguing that loose talk of war only serves
to strengthen Iran's hand
and his administration hints
that covert activities against Iran
can be effective substitutes for real action.
But Iran's nuclear progress marches on.
That fact trumps all the administration's hopes
and wishes and theories,
facts are stubborn things.
And so is the Iranian nuclear program.
No one seriously believes the talk set
to resume shortly in Moscow
will stop Iranian nuclear progress.
Indeed, the talks look increasingly
like the farce-goal diplomatic progress pursued
by the Bush and Obama administrations
with respect to Iran's friend North Korea,
a process that has resulted in a growing nuclear stockpile
in that country and a series of unanswered
North Korean provocations,
but Iran is much more dangerous than North Korea.
We don't expect the Obama administration
to request an authorization for use of military force,
but Congress can act without such a request.
By doing so,
it would serve the nation's interests
and indeed the administrations
if the administration means what it says.
Surely it is time for a concentration
of congressional opinion and force capable
of lifting our efforts to the level of emergency.
The Obama administration may be committed
to leading from behind,
but Congress can choose to lead from the front.
That's Bill Crystal.
Bill Crystal, when he led the weekly standard,
called for regime change in Iran,
called for ending its nuclear weapons program,
called for an attack on Iran
and oversaw the publication of a 5,000-plus
board piece of the weekly standard,
calling for the end of the Iranian regime.
Bill Crystal is now attacking Donald Trump
for attacking Iran.
Bill Crystal is known for two things,
a supporter of the war in Iraq
and an erger of destruction of Israel.
Bill Crystal aligned with John McCain in 2008,
with John McCain in a hot mic
was singing bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran,
bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran.
Bill Crystal cheered him on.
Bill Crystal has long wanted the destruction
of the Iranian regime
and now he's getting it and he's miserable.
So there's the HBO show succession.
It was three seasons.
You know, I know very few people
who actually watched to the end of it.
They saw the patriarch of the family dynasty,
die spoiler alert and that was kind of it.
You knew where it was gonna go after that.
People stopped watching.
There's actually the first two seasons
were remarkably well written
and the common theme from even the producer
and writer of succession said that if you wanna understand
the show, what you've got to understand
is it's very much like the Monkey's Paw.
Everyone gets exactly what they want
and they are miserable because of it.
Bill Crystal is getting exactly what he wants.
The only thing Bill Crystal has been consistent about
for the last 30 years has been the destruction of Iran
and now he's getting it and he's miserable.
Quote, Israel will at some point be forced
to take military action against Iran
unless the Obama administration undergoes
an epiphany in reverse's course.
War is a horrid prospect as is the potential
for massive loss of life.
But not as horrid as that of a nuclear armed Iran.
That's Jennifer Rubin who at the time was writing
in commentary and then moved to be the conservative
supposed voice at the Washington Post
and now has some sub-stack that she does.
She's now arguing that Iran is no imminent threat
and that the Trump administration
should not have engaged Iran.
This is the same woman who for years argued
Republicans needed to actually move the American embassy
until a Veeve to Jerusalem
and blasted the Bush administration
for making the promise and refusing to do so.
She urged Mitt Romney to do it.
She urged John McCain to do it.
When Donald Trump actually did what Jen Rubin wanted
throughout the early 2000s, Jen Rubin attacked him,
claiming it was a provocation to war
and destabilizing in the Middle East.
Jen Rubin also wanted the death of Kaseem Soleimani
and Donald Trump did that
and she attacked him for that as well.
He gave her exactly what she wanted and she's miserable.
And then there's Max Boot.
Max Boot is another quote unquote neo-con voice.
He by the way is married to Sumi Terri
who was indicted and arrested for allegedly acting
as an unregistered foreign agent
for the South Korean government.
Boot, I'm reading now from Wikipedia
co-authored an opinion piece with Sumi Terri
for the Washington Post in 2023.
According to prosecutors, the article is written
at the behest of South Korean officials
and used information they provided
without disclosing the involvement of the Korean government.
Boot has not himself been accused of any wrongdoing.
Boot has long wanted regime change.
He once compared Iran to North Korea.
He opposed Barack Obama's Iran deal.
He urged an aggressive response to Iran's mullahs
and wanted the end of the nuclear weapons program.
And now this is his piece in the Washington Post, the headline.
There is no reason to think this war with Iran is necessary.
Trump criticized the Iraq war.
Now he's making the same mistakes.
My big takeaway from the 2003 US invasion of Iraq,
which I deeply regret having supported,
is that the United States should go to war
only when it has to.
It should not engage in preventative wars
against nebulous threats based on suspect intelligence
and without a clear end game.
Now, this is a conversion of convenience for Max Boot,
who he was blasting Barack Obama
for not taking on the mullahs of Iran.
Well, after he supposedly had his change of heart
on the Iraq war, he was still willing to defend it.
Only now that Donald Trump is president.
Does Max Boot not like what's happening?
Bill Crystal,
Chin Rubin,
Max Boot, they're not alone.
They're not alone.
This is a massive, massive switch of people
all because Donald Trump's the one doing it.
Now, it is true, absolutely,
that there are people who are supporting things
they never supported in the past
because Donald Trump is doing them
and they support Donald Trump.
So they're supporting the things they long oppose.
But it is very equally true
that there are a large number of people in this country
who are in the pundit class in Washington, DC
and among leading policymakers
who long wanted the destruction of Iran
and now that they're getting their hearts desire,
they're miserable because it's Donald Trump doing it.
Let me read you someone else.
Of Donald Trump, he writes, quote,
given Trump's gargantuan exercises
of executive discretion regarding great matters of state,
it might seem quaint to wonder why he cannot be stopped
from treating Washington as his chute toy.
This would be unworthy of our nation
if he had exquisite taste.
The fact that he revels in being a vulgarian
takes a toll on the nation's soul.
He also wrote,
the president probably agrees with the wit
who said that the trouble with facts
is there are so many of them.
And also Donald Trump,
who often makes even defensible actions
great, enacted on the White House
with unapologetic unilateralism.
That's all George Will,
who is a long time critic of Donald Trump,
who probably has been a critic of Donald Trump
longer than even Bill Crystal.
And yet, as I mentioned yesterday,
this is George Will.
Quote, the US action for regime change in Iran
is not sufficient to produce regional tranquility.
It is, however, a necessity for beginning
to reestablish a precondition
for a more peaceable world,
the credibility of US deterrence.
Today Vladimir Putin is watching Venezuela,
Iran, and soon perhaps Cuba joins Syria
as vanquished clients.
The swiftness of their downfall
illustrates the hollowness of Russia's claims
to be a formidable global actor.
On October, in one of history stranger caroms,
October 7 led to a regime change
at Harvard and other universities
and forced to US reckoning
with anti-Semitism's infection
of both extreme extremities of the political spectrum.
George Will is a frequent critic
of Donald Trump and of JD Vance.
And his willing to say they got it right here,
they're doing the right thing.
And then you have people like Max Boot and Jen Rubin
and Bill Crystal and so many more who are miserable
that Donald Trump is overthrowing Iran.
And it's exactly what they want it.
This is Trump and fruit.
It is getting pleasure at watching
these Iran hawks be miserable
at getting their hearts desired
because Donald Trump is the one doing it.
You know, there is Trump derangement syndrome.
There are people who cannot criticize Donald Trump.
They will excuse everything he does.
They will rationalize everything he does.
There are also people who suffer
Trump derangement syndrome
who cannot give in the benefit of the doubt.
We'll not say anything of praise.
We'll not credit him when he's right.
All they can do is attack him.
We are watching people with broken brains
and broken hearts get what they've always wanted
to be miserable because Donald Trump
is the one giving it to him
and we should all laugh at them.
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I got to mention Hassan Piker for a minute.
This is a guy who, if you have the show notes today,
I think you've seen the screenshots.
The New York magazine streaming with Hassan Piker,
the AOC of Twitch.
I'm a political commentator with like stands, he says.
From the New York Times, Hassan Piker
is flirting with the revolution.
From NPR, Hassan Piker, a Himo gateway drug for progressives.
From NBC News, Twitch is transforming
into a political arena.
Hassan Piker is at the forefront again
from the New York Times, a progressive mind
and a body made for the manosphere.
Hassan Piker pumps iron, likes weapons and wears pearls.
His brand of masculinity is one of many fans online
and has been a useful vehicle for his politics.
Just so you understand, they are talking about a far left
America hater who has praised communist China, loves Hamas
and hates Israel and he was the left's solution
to men going towards Joe Reagan and people on the right.
Last night on one of his live streams,
he encouraged his audience to commit terror attacks,
just make effing drones, he says.
You can purchase them from online marketplaces,
China literally sells explosive ordinance delivery mechanisms
that you can put on a DJI drone.
The media coordinated him as the AOC of Twitch
as some sort of leading luminary for the left
to attract young men.
They bragged about him, lifting weights and looking stylish.
He's a friend of Zoran Mandani.
He went to Tiananmen Square and praised the Chinese government.
The media loves him, the left loves him.
He's encouraging his listeners to go by the parts
to make drones to blow up their enemies
who are the United States.
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