The story is always worse than we know. Especially with Epstein. First, CEO Les Wexner of Limited Brands to the tune of $40 million, then CEO Leon Black of Apollo for nearly $150 million, and now Bill Gates... to what awful sum we hope is disclosed soon. And under the guise of “financial advisement.” What other names…

Thank you for the updates. I’m glad you’re back. You were missed. 

And now for the PIJ to make things even worse: their Saraya al-Quds are launching rockets as we speak.

Israel has been doing exactly this for the last seventy years, and no one has called them on it, yet. 

Heidi: “I didn’t think that was really one of the last times that I would see her.”

A massive pet market for US arms sales, a nuclear-armed power keeping our “enemies” (such as Iran) in check and a staging ground for military operations in which wouldn’t be seen as appropriate for the US to engage directly (Syria, most recently), a laboratory to develop repressive US policing techniques, and an…

It isn't because the land is holy. It's because Israel (a country whose borders were decided by the Allies of WWII) is basically an occupying force to the Palestinians that live there, and their land keeps getting annexed and houses bulldozed so that Israelis can settle it.

Absolutely shocked that this guy kneejerk defends Israel when it murders children and steals the homes of Palestinians

No, that’s not exactly right, although it serves a certain narrative to make it seem so. Religious conflict is an element, yes, but the central tension is one of a settler-colonial ethnostate founded along 1800s/1900s European nationalist lines (Israel) dispossessing the inhabitants of a land (Palestinians), hemming…

Biden’s response doesn’t have to be small. But in any event I wouldn’t hold out any hope that Biden will do *anything* small or more consequential. His response to the attack on the media building was to affirm Israel’s “right to defend itself” while condemning Hamas. In the eyes of the administration, this isn’t even…

I feel like Biden has flown very under the radar since his inauguration, and so the “at least he’s not Trump!” feeling lasted longer than I expected for someone who is fundamentally a centrist in office to appease people who think subsidizing childcare is radical. He is currently loudly affirming that he is indeed a…

Republican attacks? I mean yeah they’ll likely happen, but his own party has a history of attacking other members for anything less than blind support to Israel. And yeah, I doubt Israel will be such a staunch US allie once they feel they don't need our support.

I was thinking the real fake news was them being "so friendly." Just a fancier turkey IMHO.

Netanyahu is about to play himself. This whole mess has real wag the dog vibes. He doesn’t want to go to jail so he decides to poke the bear and raid a mosque during holy month for reasons? But bombing a building that housed media was a bridge too far (as far as government appearances go). Biden’s probably going to do…

Biden tries way to hard to "preempt" Republican attacks, and it's getting stupid. They are going to claim he's in league with Hamas no matter what he does, so why not actually be even-handed, which is the morally correct thing to do? This partiality to Israel will come back to bite the US the second they feel stable…

There is nothing “fun” about the “voice” of a peacock.

Just when you thought things could get no worse:

Meanwhile, for all the tough posturing of Biden towards Netanyahu, it took him almost no time to just roll over and make clear that, yes, America under Biden will still support Israel’s “right” to kill Palestinians with impunity. Don’t worry Bibi, America doesn’t view Palestinian lives as having any value either.

Because in this instance the Russians were right. 

No. Someone from the most entitled, whiny generation in our lifetimes talking about how someone else is entitled and whiny. Someone who didn’t listen to the podcast before commenting.