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Trump And Israel Torch The Streets of Tehran And Attack Children's Hospital

18 min
Mar 9, 2026about 1 month ago
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Summary

This episode presents a highly partisan critique of U.S.-Israel relations, arguing that Israel controls American foreign policy and military decisions. The hosts discuss recent Israeli strikes on Iranian infrastructure, alleging war crimes and civilian casualties while claiming American political leaders are compromised by AIPAC funding and Israeli influence.

Insights
  • The episode reflects a growing segment of political commentary that frames U.S. Middle East policy as driven by foreign influence rather than domestic strategic interests
  • Tension between stated U.S. diplomatic positions and Israeli military actions is being weaponized in domestic political discourse as evidence of loss of American sovereignty
  • AIPAC funding and lobbying activities are presented as the primary mechanism of alleged Israeli control over American political decision-making
  • The episode demonstrates how geopolitical conflicts are being reframed through domestic partisan lenses, with accusations of hypocrisy on humanitarian concerns tied to economic interests
Trends
Increasing polarization of Middle East policy commentary along partisan lines with allegations of foreign control of U.S. policyUse of AIPAC funding disclosures as evidence in broader narratives about political corruption and foreign influenceFraming of humanitarian concerns as secondary to economic interests in geopolitical analysisGrowing criticism of U.S. military commitments in Middle East from progressive and populist segmentsAllegations of media censorship and propaganda regarding coverage of Middle East conflicts
Topics
U.S.-Israel Military Alliance and Policy AlignmentAIPAC Lobbying and Political InfluenceIranian Nuclear Program and SanctionsIsraeli Military Operations in IranGaza Conflict and War Crimes AllegationsAmerican Foreign Policy in Middle EastOil Markets and Economic Impact of Military StrikesMedia Coverage and Press Freedom in Conflict ZonesDemocratic Leadership and Campaign FundingRepublican Party Foreign PolicyPresidential Authority in Military DecisionsApartheid State Allegations Against IsraelHumanitarian Concerns in Military OperationsU.S. Military Spending and Priorities
Companies
CNN
Mentioned as having a reporter on the ground in Iran covering Israeli military operations and their impacts
Axios
Cited as source for reporting on Israeli strikes on Iranian fuel depots exceeding U.S. expectations
Times of Israel
Referenced for reporting Trump's statements about coordinating war decisions with Netanyahu
People
Benjamin Netanyahu
Israeli Prime Minister characterized as controlling U.S. military decisions and committing war crimes in Gaza
Donald Trump
U.S. President described as easily manipulated by Netanyahu and lacking cognitive fitness for office
Lindsey Graham
U.S. Senator criticized for supporting Israeli military operations and alleged AIPAC influence
Pete Hegseth
Department of Defense Secretary mentioned as part of alleged Israeli-controlled U.S. leadership
Jared Kushner
Former Trump advisor alleged to be influenced by Netanyahu in shaping Middle East policy
Steve Whitcoff
Trump advisor alleged to be influenced by Netanyahu regarding Middle East policy decisions
Joe Biden
Former President criticized for providing blank check support to Israel leading to Gaza genocide
Barack Obama
Former President credited with negotiating Iran nuclear deal later withdrawn by Trump
Hakeem Jeffries
Democratic House leader accused of funneling AIPAC money to prevent progressive candidates
Chuck Schumer
Democratic Senate leader compared to Lindsey Graham for supporting Israeli military operations
Miriam Adelson
Billionaire donor whose support for Israel over U.S. is cited as evidence of foreign influence
Ro Khanna
Democratic Representative quoted criticizing selective moral outrage over Iranian oil vs. Gaza deaths
Haley Stevens
Democratic Congresswoman from Michigan criticized for AIPAC-produced video supporting Israel
Ayatollah Khomeini
Iranian religious leader mentioned as being replaced by harder-right successor after Israeli strikes
Quotes
"There's no easy way to say this other than the United States is being controlled by Israel."
HostOpening
"Israel's the boss. They're calling the shots using American taxpayer money."
HostEarly segment
"Benjamin Netanyahu has claimed for 40 years that Iran had a nuke and was going to nuke Israel for 40 years. This nuke never materialized."
HostMid-episode
"America is no longer a superpower. We are a compromised former superpower that is easily dog walked by dictators."
HostAnalysis segment
"It is Israel first. Nothing about this war benefits the United States of America."
HostClosing analysis
Full Transcript
There's no easy way to say this other than the United States is being controlled by Israel. All indicators, all signs, all admissions from our dementia-ridden president, from the Department of Defense secretary, untreated alcoholic Pete Hegseth, Lindsey Graham, all of the players. Israel's the boss. They're calling the shots using American taxpayer money. And Israel is continuing to go rogue in the war. Pop this up, Kylie. This is from Axios. Jim Vander Hei posts, Israel's strikes on 30 Iranian fuel depots went far beyond what the U.S. expected when Israel notified it in advance. The first significant disagreement between the allies since the war began, according to a U.S. official, is really official and a source with knowledge. The U.S. is dismayed by Israel's Iran fuel strikes, sources say. So a couple of things on this. Number one, we know that Benjamin Netanyahu lied to Donald Trump to get him into war. We know that the United States has a history of lying to its public to get them into these long, drawn-out wars in the Middle East. Number two, there's a lot of people in the MAGA ecosystem that are saying, oh, we're liberating Iranians and all of these things. These strikes on these oil refineries are now causing toxic rain to come down. This toxic rain and all of the chemicals that are into the sky and now into the air and clouds are raining down children, women, civilians, any human being. It's going to be breathing the stuff in. It's going to cause cancers and all sorts of problems. By design, Israel is attacking the lifeline, the infrastructure of Iran. And guess what they announced Iran today? Ayatollah Khomeini has been replaced by Ayatollah Khomeini, someone who's his son, who's even further hard right. So this is obviously going to be months on end. Caroline Levitt has said that the president will not rule out boots on the ground, nor a draft. And we're doing all of this for Israel, a country that will never be satiated as it pertains to the Middle East. When I look at that about the U.S. is dismayed that Israel is doing these targets, here's the thing. They don't care what the U.S. is dismayed by because they have the U.S. by the balls. They've gotten them into this war. There's no way to get out. They don't have any plan. I mean, you hear all of these different things like, you know, unconditional surrender from Donald Trump. But we don't know what the goals were with the war in the first place because they weren't the goals of the United States. And now we're in a situation where Israel can do whatever they want. And it doesn't matter if the U.S. is dismayed because they know they have Donald Trump by the balls. Moving along, Israel continues to call all of the shots in this war. and Bibi continues to dog walk our 80-year-old, clearly cognitively declined president, Donald Trump. Pop this up, Kylie. Max Blumenthal posts, Trump tells Israeli media that he will not end the war on Iran without Israeli consent. He also boasts that we've destroyed a country that wanted to destroy Israel. So the U.S. president proudly admits he's authorized destroying a country of 90 million for Israel. The Times of Israel is reporting. U.S. President Donald Trump told the Times of Israel on Sunday that a decision on when to end the war with Iran will be, quote, a mutual one that he'll make together with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Trump also asserted in the brief telephone interview that the Islamic Republic would have destroyed Israel if he and Netanyahu had not been around. Iran was going to destroy Israel and everything else around it We worked together We destroyed a country that wanted to destroy Israel So let me just translate this for you Benjamin Netanyahu has claimed for 40 years that Iran had a nuke and was going to nuke Israel for 40 years. This nuke never materialized. During the Obama administration, we had a nuclear arms agreement. Because that nuclear arms agreement was orchestrated by Obama's State Department and Obama is a black man. The racists in the MAGA movement took that document and ripped it up. Of course, Bibi celebrated this because he can't go to war because he is a bloodthirsty warmonger, a homicidal psychopath of the highest order. So of course he celebrated this. And then Trump gets in term 1.0 and Bibi realizes, oh, we've got a real useful idiot here. Then Biden comes in. Biden gives Bibi a blank check. Huge blunder in American foreign policy. Massive blunder because that blank check resulted in a continuing genocide on Palestine. Now we've got Israel attacking Lebanon. But let me get back to Trump 2.0. During the elections, Israel, AIPAC wanted Donald Trump because he's an idiot, because he's easy to dog walk, because he's easy to manipulate. Biden, for all of his faults, with his support with Israel, Bibi had asked him, can we bomb Iran? No. Biden said no. That was a red line for him. So of course he wanted Trump. And look at how easy it was. He gets Lindsey Graham to play games with Donald Trump. He has Jared Kushner and Steve Whitcoff eating out of the palm of his hand. This was one of the easiest things for Bibi to do. Why? Because America is no longer a superpower. We are a compromised former superpower that is easily dog walked by dictators and make no mistake about it. Benjamin Netanyahu is a fascist dictator, a hard right winger. So of course, Donald Trump has a lot more in common with BB than he does with anybody else. But at the end of the day, all of the national security Republicans that we've heard for decades, nauseam about American strength and American super might, super military lethal forces, those days are over. We are very easily manipulated because our president is compromised and a fucking moron. Well, and the president of the United States does not care about human life. He doesn't care about American lives lost. He doesn't care about the people in these countries that he's bombing. He simply has no empathy or ability to care. And that works out perfect for Netanyahu because he clearly showed us in Gaza. He has none. And when you look at all the things they're doing, it's not unbelievable, but it is stunning. The lack of safety for the people in Iran, it's almost as if they're doing it on purpose. Well, of course they're doing it on purpose. Of course, we know how Israel fights. We know how they fight. They carpet bomb. They lie. They will not let media into Gaza to report on it. CNN has a reporter on the ground in Iran right now. But Benjamin Netanyahu, oh, Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East. No free press in Gaza. What has happened to journalists? In Gaza, they've been killed by Israeli weapons. And then they're just lied to and propagandized. Benjamin Netanyahu does not see Arabs as humans. He is an expansionist. He will never be satiated. He is a maniacal, expansionist, homicidal killer of the highest order. And the most devastating thing about all of this is he also owns Democratic leadership. Hakeem Jeffries secretly funneling money from AIPAC to other candidates because they don want progressives Chuck Schumer is every bit right with Lindsey Graham minus psychotic interviews I mean this is the United States of America has been completely bought and paid for by Israel Miriam Adelson dream is being executed right now. A billionaire who, when Donald Trump asked her, who do you love more, Israel or the United States, she wouldn't answer. This is out of the movement where I have heard a million different MAGA people say, why do you love Trump so much? Why love him so much? Because he loves America. When he hugged that flag on stage, I thought, you know, he really loves America. So inside all of this America First movement, where they have deployed this performative patriotism to the MAGA electorate and sold the only thing a lot of people that don't live in urban centers have as a sense of culture is their country, their patriotism. Donald Trump and all of these people, they don't give a shit. It's not America first. It is Israel first. Nothing about this war benefits the United States of America. And Lindsey Graham is a complete psychotic warmonger. I don't know how else to put it. I mean, I personally believe, this is my personal opinion that Lindsey Graham is a flaming homosexual. I think everybody knows that. I think Benjamin Netanyahu and his Israeli handlers, Lady Grahams, have the goods on him. And he is just obsessed with this Israel first policy. And he comes from South Carolina. Here is Ro Khanna talking about Lindsey Graham. Pop up this tweet. Ro Khanna says, when Israel kills women and children. Silence from many of our elected leaders. When they start a war, still silence. But when they go after the oil economy, now that crosses a red line. And here's a tweet from Lindsay. Our allies in Israel have shown an amazing capability when it comes to collapsing the murderous regime in Iran. And just think about this. Think about this, you guys. Israel is a murderous regime that occupies and controls an apartheid state. So just remember that when you read all of this propaganda from Lady Graham. America is most appreciative. However, there will be a day soon that the Iranian people will be in charge of their own fate, not the murderous Ayatollah's regime. In that regard, please be cautious about what targets you select. Our goal is to liberate the Iranian people in a fashion that does not cripple their chance to start a new and better life when this regime collapses. The oil economy of Iran will be essential to that endeavor. Okay. So Lindsey Graham is basically begging publicly Benjamin Netanyahu not to tank the oil economy because that's where Trump's numbers, he's mid thirties right now, are really going to go under. This morning I woke up, oil, $110 a barrel. So why do we have United States senators trying to publicly call out Benjamin Netanyahu on Twitter? Why? Because Benjamin Netanyahu controls the United States military right now. That's just as simple as it is. We've started this with Donald Trump. We won't end this until BB says we can. BB lied to Trump to get him into war. Now we've got Lady Graham on there. Oh, you can do whatever you want. Kill as many people as you want. Just don't fuck with our oil. What's interesting about the Lindsey Graham thing, I mean, he is off the rails. There's no question about it, but he was on all the Sunday shows talking about, we're going to unleash fury and hell and just going on and on about the marriage between Israel and the United States and how it's doing all these great things in Iran. And then that tweet later in the day, I'm so confused by what his position is, but make no mistake, Lindsey Graham could give two shits about the Iranian people. He could give two shits about North Carolinians or Americans This to me this backlash this whiplash is exactly like you said it about money Well I think Ro Khanna spelled it out very clearly No moral clarity when children and women are getting killed and genocided in Gaza. No moral clarity when the United States strikes an elementary school. So there's no confusion about this. This is a classic neocon MAGA core principle, core ethos. They care more about money than they do about human beings. These people, these alleged super duper Jesus Christians, you think about the ones personally in your life, they can go and vote and sell marginalized groups down the river with joy as long as they get their tax break. So Lindsey Graham is not doing this in a vacuum. He's a larger representative of the Republican Party and Republican voters at large. They're no problem with little girls getting killed in Iran because they're Iranian. Their lives don't matter. That's what rich Republicans think. No problem with a genocide going on in Gaza. They're Muslims. We don't give a shit about that. Oh, wait, hold up a second. Oil is going to be $110 a barrel and global economies are going to start free falling and our 401ks are going to get screwed. Oh, now that we care about. So that's why Ro Khanna's tweet was so important because it shows the moral depravity as the guiding ethos of the Republican power players and the Republican electorate. And finally, I'm going to leave you with this. Representative Haley Stevens is a Democrat from Michigan. All right. Right now we're seeing our taxpayer dollars being used a billion dollars a day in an illegal war wherein we are allowing Israel, who we know is the biggest modern day committer of war crimes, is the Israeli government, is the IDF. will not let press follow them anywhere because this whole lie that they're all about democracy is bullshit. It is a bullshit propaganda lie that has been propagandized and perpetrated on the American people. And what's so insidious about them is they buy up the opposition and they bought Haley Stevens. Yesterday, yesterday, APAC releases this bizarre hostage video of a Democratic Congresswoman, Haley Stevens from Michigan. Pop this up. Everyone, it's Congresswoman Haley Stevens. And I want to communicate a message of standing for democracy and freedom, standing with our allies abroad, standing alongside the only democracy in the Middle East, and making sure that we continue to support an incredible relationship that yields trade, that yields economic growth, and that keeps our freedoms safe. Every single ounce of that was a total lie. This lie that Israel is this beacon of democracy. Hell, Benjamin Netanyahu has had to stay in power so that he won't face trials. This is a joke. It is an apartheid state that has a set of freedoms for Jewish people. But if you're Palestinian, tough titties, no democracy for you. It is a lie. Our partnership with them is going to lead us into more and more debt, just like our partnership has for the last 40 years. Our partnership with them means that their diabolical, homicidal, psychopathic leader, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, can lie to the American public, can buy off all of our politicians. It is a joke. That woman needs to be out of Congress. To me, that is nothing short than being an absolute traitor and a complete gaslighter to the facts that the American public knows. That ship might work in MAGA. It does not work with the American electorate at large. All right, that's all we have. Like, subscribe, comment. We will be back later with more news. Thank you.