Emma Vigeland

And a lot of people on the left spoke about how this rollback of our civil liberties, it's going to eventually come around and it's going to come and hit people here at home.

And we're seeing it right now.

And Tucker Carlson laundered that project, supported it, and still supports it to this day.

So it's convenient for him to distance himself from Trump right now and from this war in the Middle East.

But let's not be fooled by about what his vision is, because I think he might run for president.

And it's all connected because, you know, often Israel is referred to as the only democracy in the Middle East, which is laughable.

Such bullshit.

Yeah, because it's a one state reality.

Even Ezra Klein is saying this now.

I was saying we were talking about this on our show, you know, the week after October 7th, we called anti-Semitic and now apparently people have caught up.

But yes,

It's a one-state reality where the people in Gaza are controlled over.

It's an open-air concentration camp, and the people in the West Bank just live under Israeli control, but they have no rights.

And so the whole two-state solution thing has been a way to bide time as they ethnically cleanse and depriving a population of the rights that they would have with the governing structure that actually rules over them.

And why...

You can't refer to Israel as a democracy, and I don't even think really we can refer to ourselves as a democracy right now because of how much corporate money is controlling everything.

But it's like Israel is to Gaza and the Palestinians as the United States is to the global south, to use kind of like a SAT logical framing here.

There's limits when you are in the imperial core, I guess, if you want to refer to it as that, in terms of democracy, because we may make democratic decisions that work for the United States or work for Israel, but we still don't have democracy for the people that we impact.

and i think that people can tend to think about history as so far away and these systems of colonialism as so kind of ironed out at this point but we still via our israel policy our middle east policy too because the petrodollar is so central to our international economic dominance uh the fact that we can control oil and energy

not right now with the Iran war, but the fact that we've been able to secure that militarily is a real reason why there's dollar dominance.