Bassem Youssef
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first heard Apr 2024
last heard 5 Jun
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I would always push back when you do the comparison because one of them is not really in the same kind of power. I mean, yeah.
What Israel is doing is that they're victimizing the Jewish experience. And I don't think it is fair for a lot of Jews. I don't think that they should use the Holocaust and the persecution that happened to Jewish people all through history in order to push an equally oppressive agenda. That is not fair and it's not good for the Jewish people living.
And it is basically a disrespect to the memory of the Holocaust. I told you, I want to make a movie about the Holocaust. I do. Because what happened was that kind of engineered torture should never happen again. And it should not be happening now.
And I think, and you know, can I be a conspiracy theorist for a second? Please, the earth is flat.
A part of me thinking... Maybe they are doing that intentionally because if there's a rise of anti-Semitism in Jews, there will always like points like, see, they hate us so we can do whatever we want. Because you see, if we let go of our might and our strength, we're gonna go back to the concentration camps because you see how the world hates you. And again, when you say they are people in power.
Yeah, oh yeah, absolutely. Listen, it's always the people in power. I believe that humans are easily corruptible and easily repairable, but the corrupt part is much easier. But people could change, but power, people and power are very dangerous. Very, very dangerous, especially if you have religion, which is power by itself, military might, political support, and money.
Dude, that's a very, very, very dangerous recipe.
But, okay, here, we are... Just among friends. We are Americans, right? We're Americans. Allegedly. We're Americans.
How funny is that? Like, just giving our two backgrounds. We're Americans. We're Americans.
There's one thing about the power of the little guy that I am very sad about. Because, you see, I love America, by the way. I consider it my new home. And I want my kids to grow up here. I'm very grateful for the opportunity that I have in the United States.
And I criticize the United States politics and I criticize it out of love the same way that I was criticizing what's happening with Egypt out of love. What is worrying for me is how the power of the little man is diminishing. It doesn't matter now who do you vote into power. They will not listen to you. They would listen to the people who paid them to be there.
And it is very concerning because I can see the American democracies turning, not even slowly, very rapidly into an oligarchy. If I'm sure that all of the millions of people who are voting, they don't vote for the NRA. They don't vote for APAC. They don't vote for the pharmaceutical companies. They don't vote for the military industry complex.
And yet, the people in power, they come in, they take your vote. and my vote, and they are loyal to those people, not to us. And it is very, very, very concerning. Very concerning. And this is the danger on American policies, American politics, and American democracies.
It is dangerous because basically the vote becomes just like a ceremony that someone with the more funding will get to power, and then he's not loyal to you.
Yeah, but what are these arms gonna do in front of tanks?
They have drones and they have the lasers and they're sitting comfortably behind the screens. It's kind of like it turns into a big Xbox game.
It's crazy because the defense budget is 68% of American military. It's like almost $850 billion each year. And most of that weapons, we don't even need it. We just do it because of the contracts. There was like an incredible 60 minutes, I'm sure that you saw it, the one about like the gouging of the prices of the Department of Justice.
It was one of the most fascinating things that I've ever seen. They say like a valve, a safety oil valve that used to be sold for $329, now it is sold for $9,000. Why? Because there's only five weapon companies and they can control the prices.
And in 2006, the whole Apache fleet of the American army in Iraq was grounded because there was one valve that they were like gouging the price and didn't want to give them. The Stinger missile, just like the missile, the one that you carry and it's like the anti-aircraft, it used to be sold for $25,000. Now it's sold for $400,000. And nobody is doing that.
Because the DOD has fired 130,000 people, including engineers and negotiators. So now, in order to cut expenses, now we're paying more money. And the thing is, we do not have a say in this. We do not have a say in how my tax money and your tax money is being spent. Because I'm sure you don't want your money to be sent to Israel like that. I'm sure. Even if you're Jews, I'm sure.
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