Tesla Cybertruck Is A DISASTER!
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So this is a story we had a lot of fun working on, or I did anyway. All right, so you may have heard that the Tesla Cybertruck is having a few problems. It's been having problems for five years ever since it was announced. Four years, really. And that culminated with a total recall of the Cybertruck this week.

I've seen a couple of them. Well, they got their pedals put back on. So this is Fast Company gave a handy dandy timeline of the history of the Cybertruck from the first presentation of it all the way to the end of the year.

all the way down to the recall this week for a faulty accelerator pedal. So we're going to look at some of the highlights with some footage, some photos. By the way, I am joined here by Kurt Metzger and by Mr. Keaton Weiss. How you doing, Keaton? Good. Hi there, everybody. Wait, should I have not gotten that chip in my head? Is that what you're saying? Well, not if you want to use it on the Cybertruck.

All right, so the Cybertruck has a serious design problem. Industry experts believe that its design is so bad that it affects the company's ability to manufacture it, as Tesla CEO Elon Musk himself later admitted. So bad, in fact, that it may actually require a complete redesign or perhaps even a product cancellation at some point this year.

But the number of reported problems have resulted in a disastrous timeline that culminated today with the physical recall of 3,878 units, which appears to be every one on the road because of a faulty gas pedal. There's only that many? That's it. Well...

They as as we'll get into, it's just the whole design is just ass backwards and insane. It's like a seven year old drew this on construction paper, handed it to a bunch of monkeys and they threw it together. Well, it looks like 70s. It reminds me of like Logan's run like those old kind of 70s B movies. You know what it really reminds me of?

Some people will remember this movie. It's kind of a campy B movie classic damn nation alley with Jan Michael Vincent where

where they drove around in the nuclear wasteland in like a 70s van. That's what this thing reminds me of. It was like a space age 70s van. Yeah, right. I was trying to think of it. There's a J. Michael Vincent's and a couple of things like that. Yes. Yes. That's what the Cybertruck reminds me of. But it is, as we will see, the last vehicle you want to be relying on in an apocalypse. So November 21st, 2019, E.

Elon Musk unveils the Cybertruck for the first time. He claims its windows are made of armor glass, a bulletproof material that won't even dent when you hit it, even at close range with a steel ball.

Seconds later, two windows break in a live demonstration. Musk claims it will reach customers in late 2021, starting at $39,900. So let's take a look at the first demo of the Cybertruck for the public back in 2019. Oh my fucking God. Well, maybe that was a little too hard. Ha ha ha ha ha ha.

Should we try the mirror? It didn't go through. That's a plus side. Let's try the right one. Try the right one? Really? Okay. Sure. Oh, man. It didn't go through. His laugh is hilarious.

Now, I just got to say, I don't know how you could have watched that and everybody saw that and still pre-ordered a Cybertruck. If that was not a sign that they were not putting their best foot forward on this, I don't know what would have been. Oh, so they'd been hitting the door with a sledgehammer before that or something, demonstration, and that ruined the frame of the glass, right?

Oh, is that what they're saying? Is that what they're saying? Because there's other video that I didn't use where they claim that it's bulletproof. It is not bulletproof. Yeah, people shot at it. The bullet went right through.

So you really can't trust what Tesla has to say about these things. July 20th, 2023. The first production prototype of the Cybertruck rolls off the production line of the Giga Texas factory and eagle eyed auto industry experts immediately spot one major quality mishap. The front and back passenger doors don't align.

Misalignment like this is not new to Tesla's, but Elon Musk vowed to eliminate the problem back in 2021. These problems will continue in models throughout the entire production run. August 24th, 2023. It's official. The cyber trucks coming out of Tesla's Texas factory are not good enough, according to Musk.

The CEO writes a leaked internal email to Tesla employees revealing his concerns in categorical terms. Quote, due to the nature of the Cybertruck, which is made of bright metal with mostly straight edges, any dimensional variation shows up like a sore thumb. Okay, so to explain, if you've seen the Cybertruck, it's all these flat panels of stainless steel.

It is almost impossible to fabricate that in such a way that everything is going to line up properly, particularly when you consider heat and cold expansion and contraction. Now, I didn't include this, but I saw in many places that

Auto industry people, as soon as they saw the Cybertruck, burst out laughing because they knew immediately that you could not mass produce something like this. Because it's those engines in one form. They're just not going to line up properly. You just can't. Because standard parts in a normal car that's not designed that way.

They account for a certain amount of variance, like one millimeter. That's not the exact number, but something like that. And Musk actually, in the memo, if you look at this actual memo...

He makes just an impossible demand. He says that their variance has to be a fraction of what the industry standard is, which is just not possible. It's just impossible. If you're going to try to mass manufacture something like that. And Steve said, do it, nerd. Yeah, well, it's not working out that way for the poor bastards who paid $100,000 for this thing. Yeah, I was just looking at Reddits of people talking about it. And I guess the guy's going, should I do it to Elon? Yeah.

because he was not sure he should do it. And Elon was excited because he's in Steve Jobs mode. Yeah, do it. Try the other one. Yeah, but no. I mean, now they've shipped and people have tested it.

And we'll get to it. These things are breaking in hailstorms. The windows on the Cybertruck are breaking in hailstorms. Is the hail being fired from a gun? No, but there's also footage of people firing guns at these, and it goes right through. The whole thing is just a fiasco. December 1st, 2020. The San Francisco hailstorm?

San Francisco is pretty dangerous. They have the hail that breaks the windows in San Francisco. Oh, yeah. That must be what it is. I think this happened in Texas, though. It's the woke hail. It's the woke hail. It was hit by woke hail. It's hail came down.

December 1st, 2023. The woke hail is trying to tank Tesla. Remember the promised $39,900 starting price tag. It was wrong.

The real starting point is officially announced, 60,990. We need to fix the windows. So that's about 40% more. You'd figure they would have fixed the windows with all that extra money. If I was in that ugly truck, I would go, oh, look, it's more now because they probably had to fix the windows and make them good. Which apparently that's not where the money went. February 22nd, 2024.

New Cybertruck owners report rust and corrosion on the allegedly stainless steel body of the truck, especially in vehicles exposed to rain. This was one of the biggest selling points that Musk touted when he announced the truck. Is this stained steel? Well, this is somebody posted a picture. This is what a Cybertruck looks like after sitting outside for five days when it rains.

Stainless steel does in fact stain and rust. Owners are just now discovering the exhausting maintenance they have to do to keep them clean or pay $5,000 to have them wrapped in clear vinyl. Like I did with my... Okay, so this is one I did look into. Uh...

And okay, this is what Tesla says, but it seems reasonable because stainless steel really isn't supposed to rust. So according to them, this is what's actually happening.

Stainless steel, while it doesn't rust, it is prone to attracting iron filings that do rust. So what's happening is it's getting debris on it that is then rusting and staining the stainless steel. Now, this is a good example, I think, of the flaw in this entire thing.

It seems like nobody really thought these things through before they charged people $100,000 for it. That's the kind of thing, if you've got a team of engineers...

Designing a fucking stainless steel truck. You'd figure somebody might have said, oh, well, you know what could happen with that. But did someone say it? Or maybe they were ignored. But this is a running. It's possible. Who made stuff and didn't notice a problem? Yeah, they said something. And now they're working at Cinnabon. February 28th, 2024. No.

Multiple owners report seeing 25 critical system errors within a few days of using the truck, including warnings from the high voltage system, critical steering issue, system malfunctions, and loss of system redundancy that alerted drivers that the vehicle may suddenly lose electrical power, steering, and propulsion, and may be unable to apply the parking brake. Okay.

There were also alerts for degraded adaptive drive control, plus automatically disabled traction, lane departure avoidance, and stability controls. Some users also report door latches that don't work. And okay, this fucking thing doesn't have a fucking door handle. You got to press a button to open it. So theoretically, you could get trapped inside of this thing.

I took delivery today. AWD made it one mile down the road, started getting steering error, flashing red screen, pulled off side of highway. Now the truck is dead and I'm waiting for a tow truck. Dealer couldn't do anything for me. It was great for five minutes. Tried everything. Restarting screen is stuck black and keeps beeping.

Tesla really rushed these trucks out. What a nightmare. This is like a video game, what they do, where they rush the developers and then it sucks and then they have all these add-on charges that aren't part of it. Well, and that's what they did. Not only did they charge 40% more than they originally said the Cybertruck was going to cost, to really get it loaded, you've got to spend $100,000.

And to even get the mid-range one, you got to spend 80. It's all in there. You have to pay to have it unlocked in there. That's how all these companies... That one sucks. The Mercedes one is crazy. Or you have to have them send out an update to your system. Mercedes wants to do a thing where you pay a monthly subscription fee for...

to reach the top speed in your car that you bought from really every single item that you have i mean it's everything dude homes they're trying to become tech companies they're trying to think like tech companies well here's the big goal the thing of you not owning anything

I've been seeing this. Everybody complains, all the video game review people complain about this with these games. They've been trying to make it live services and not a physical thing. They don't want you owning anything. They want you like it's an amusement park you've entered that you can be thrown out. But they're doing that while cars. Right, and you're paying for different services. That's a nerd thing. Well, this also, just to mention, since we're talking about it, I didn't throw this in because there's a lot of other ground to cover.

To go into a car wash, you have to put it in car wash mode. What? And you can't go into a car wash that makes contact with the car. You can't, you know, the kind that has like the brushes. Yeah, you can't use that. And if you do do that and anything happens, your warranty is voided. There are all kinds of ways to void your warranty, including going off road and

with a vehicle that they claimed was going to be like the best off-road camping kind of vehicle ever. They constantly change the recharge connector like my fucking iPhone. It's just a nightmare. Could you imagine being the tow truck driver and getting to that job and seeing that fucking thing on the side of the road and some like metrosexual trying to get his iPad out of the charge report so he can get it. Imagine being the kind of person

who would buy one of these things having to take like a hundred mile tow with like Larry the cable guy who's riding the truck. Like imagine the clash of cultures that that is. That could be a road movie right there. Well, it's funny you say that because we're going to see some of these having to be rescued over the course of this segment. Yeah, I bet there's 4,000 tow truck drivers that have dealt with it.

March 12, 2024. Add another link to Elon Musk's long chain of broken promises.

He previously announced a futuristic optional camping tent that matched the poly polygonal shiny looks of the car. But that sleek render of the future turned out to be a sad hodgepodge of flaccid fabric in real life. Now, wait, now, wait, this is 3000 fucking dollars. They charge. It looks like the professor from Austin space road. You,

Tesla starts shipping $3,000 Cybertruck tent. Looks nothing like what was it, Bill? Look at the left. Look at what this looks like. It looks like Fallout 76 when this guy, Todd Howard, everybody wanted their canvas bag. That was what you get. Nerds ordered early were wanted a helmet and a canvas bag. It was the exact same thing. Well, this looks like the prototype of

of like a vehicle that you would pitch to the director of the sci-fi movie that you're working on. Like you would take this to the director and you could say, okay, this is just a rough idea of what the final thing is going to look like. I know it looks like garbage because there's no decoration. It's very just basic, but it's going to look something like this when it's done. It doesn't even look like a finished product.

Well, the tent that you're getting for $3,000. That's $3,000. $3,000. The one on the left, I mean, I wouldn't pay $3,000 for that either, but okay, at least it's sleek, it's engineered, it's kind of cool. The thing they actually sent people, not at a discount for the fact that it's... It looks like you're carrying a fucking velociraptor in the back, and you're trying to keep it undercover. It looks like you're transporting a reptile that you're not supposed to have in the car. Ha ha ha ha ha!

It looks like military surplus. It looks like something you got out of the Army Navy store. Like $3,000. I am betting you could go to an Army Navy store and get something at least as good for $500. He saw the $3,000 one there, the one that was promised. He goes, I'll just go get one from the Army Navy store for $30,000. So that one's a classic. All right, so this is great. So not long after the Cybertruck started to ship,

A lot of images of these supposedly incredibly sure-footed trucks of the future started getting stuck in all kinds of simple terrain that even your most basic pickup would not get stuck in. This one is a classic. I'll call Elon. He'll get you out. And this is someone who actually did have to be towed by a Ford. Back up.

I bet the guy who bought this did not imagine the girls laughing at. So this is uh...

So this is one of those areas where people come out to see what their trucks can do. It's like a rugged terrain. So here's your conventional truck. And then they try it on the side of the truck. Wait, wait. Let's put rocks underneath this. You got to turn. You got to turn. Let's try throwing a rock through the windshield and see if that works. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.

I'm going to turn the driver back on. Open the door, don't rock. The guy crashed into the tree.

It doesn't look like a truck that could ever do that just looking at it. No, no, just the whole conformation of it. It doesn't look like it could do that. It just looks like a long car with car wheels. I mean, really, what it reminds me of is, you know, there were all these stories about the shark they used for the filming of Jaws and how it would always break down. That's what this is like. It is what Kate was saying. It's like a movie prop.

That they sold for $100,000 to a bunch of dorks who wanted to feel like they're driving around. Yeah, like an unfinished prop car. Yeah, that's what it looks like. Right. April 1st, 2024. Owners all over the internet show the effects of the cyber guillotine. Tesla didn't include anti-pinch sensors for the Cybertruck's trunk, which could cause severe injuries or amputations. Yeah, Frunk, you're right.

Why does it say that? Severe injuries or amputations if fingers get caught. Oh, the Johnny Depp option? The truck will slice the hell out of your fingers or any body appendage that gets too near to its closing front hood. It happens with its doors, too. Okay. So these guys are from a channel called Thrillist.

World I think it is so they drove this 500 miles And just if you want to check out that video. It's on their channel And they just the only good thing they came out saying was the screen is nice So they tested this this this guillotine feature. They're still edging. Yeah, oh my god That's just the edge of the door

Yeah. Cybertruck. Not just for getting you into Yosemite, also for vegetable prep. What if I just do my thing or chop your leg off if you slip on the way out? Oh! Put your dick in it. Well, that's...

If your husband cheats on you, rub his dick on the car door. Why would there be razor-sharp edges on the car door? Why would you want razor-sharp edges on the edge of a fucking car door? What if it's icy in the driveway? You go to get in and you slip and you fall. You slice your chest open. I'm just forgetting you're in Yosemite. Do they actually have the door sharpened? Well, that's the point. That's why they're showing this. Because they say... Actually, I cut that part out. But they're like, yeah, so if you have kids...

This is great. Why are the doors sharp? That's the craziest thing I've ever... Of course. No, this reminds me of Monty Python had a sketch with... They were calling in architects for designs for their office building. And John Cleese comes in and his previous work had been with slaughterhouses. So he designs the office building. He goes...

All right. So they get on the escalator there. They get chopped off at the knees. The blood gets sluiced. That's what happened here. A guy who works at a deli. They're literally advertising anti-safety features, like an anti-safety feature.

Next they're going to be like, there are no airbags. When you get into a crash, a brick flies out of the steering wheel and hits you right in the face and you die. Hear me out. These are very nihilistic times. What? Okay, so... Surely this will stop. Oh! It's like an aluminum bottle of water. Aluminum bottle? Oh! Oh my god!

Okay, if Trump wins and he puts people in camps, if Trump wins and he actually does put people in camps, the first people going into the camps are whoever bought one of these. That's it. You're in the camp. You're the first one. If I were a dictator and I had to imprison a population arbitrarily, it would be whoever bought one of these. Okay, question. Well, that's a Darwin Awards thing. What about somebody like Katy Perry who is given one for free?

Would you go after the influencers who got a free one? Both. I would go over whoever gave them and whoever willingly took one of these things. Because those guys are in paper, right? That's a show that I've heard of. As our friend Nick Cruz is fond of saying, Mal did nothing wrong. When you strand yourself on the middle of a beach because you thought the girls would really...

want your dick if you drove this fucking prop car down a beach and you get stuck and people have to come get you. I'm sorry, that's a drain on resources. There's an opportunity cost. There are real people with real problems who need real help. This is just for such douchebags. And then the irony of... Well, that's what was great about that clip because it was girls literally laughing at the guy. Yeah.

Can you imagine getting stuck, you drip and chop, you dig off in the door? Imagine trying to get laid in that. You move to the back seat. You slip on the sand on the way into the back seat. You end up cash raiding yourself in front of the girl right there. Well, you heard it here first, folks. That's true. You heard it here first. The cyber truck.

The great maker of the modern castrati class. That's how you get girls now. You castrate yourself. There's one way. Bring on the chicks. So April 9th, 2024. Apparently, the Cybertruck's allegedly bulletproof and indestructible so-called armor glass can't stand hail, as this Redditor shows.

The cost for the repair, according to the owner, just got an estimate of $2,326.75 via app service request. What is supposed to defend against God? A Cybertruck windshield did not withstand a freak sudden hailstorm in Austin. Rest of vehicle seems fine.

None of the other cars parked next to it had windshield damage, but they had lots of dings to their body. Pretty disappointing. We'll let you all know how much it costs to fix. And there's the crack in the windshield from this supposedly bulletproof glass. Look, you're going to crack in a hailstorm. You're going to need that rust to dull the blade on the door. So don't don't get me. You got you got a point.

I mean, it's just amazing to me that nobody stopped this. Like, it's just engineering 101. Like, hey, listen, Elon, Elon, I know you want it to look cool, but the doors can't be sharp. And a lot of people have raised this question. There are so few of them. It hasn't happened yet. What's going to happen when a fucking sharp thing with a triangular wedge at the front hits somebody? What?

Maybe they're fighting crime with it. I don't know. It sounds... I can't believe how much this sounds like every angry video game nerd channel talking about... With software, that's a standard practice to issue something that broken. This is what I find just mind-blowing. This is usually for in a video game where it's digital goods. We can just update it. It'll be fine. And now...

That's the tech world's about making that practice the real world right which you can't do with a fucking car What you do with a Boeing? Why can't do with a car? Fucking Boeing what was it in South Africa lost another wheel on takeoff the other this is all the products all the fucking things ship out broken - for some stock inflation reason always

And fuck you is the reason why. I mean, I think what we're seeing at Tesla, I mean, Boeing, that's a different phenomenon, what happened there. It's really a company that was about engineering turning into a company that was about chasing the stock price. This is why we don't have monarchy anymore, because a monarchy is only as good as the monarch.

And if the monarch just decides to go off in a completely batshit crazy direction, there's no one to stop them. Okay. I mean, this has Elon's fingerprints all over it. I just want to point out, we do have monarchy, whether it's public or not, and it has gone in a batshit crazy way. Well, we have oligarchy. We have oligarchy. Same diff to me. But this is a case where having one person in charge, this is the phantom menace of truck designs. Yeah.

April 15th, 2024. Tesla halts all Cybertruck deliveries after owners report a problem with the accelerator pedal, which could become stuck down due to lubricant residue causing the pedal cover to shift and become lodged in place.

April 19th, 2024. Tesla physically recalls all its cyber trucks. The recall notice states, quote, the accelerator pedal can become stuck, sending the truck accelerating beyond control, making it a danger to everyone on the road. I mean, it's not doors wide and try to slow yourself down with the meat that you hit. Yeah.

With your remaining fingers, activate emergency brake. All right. So this is a guy that this actually happened to. That pedal looks different, right? It's missing this. This wedge itself right there. And as you can see, based on the design of the floorboard, this sliding up and the way this was still hooked onto the pedal, it held the accelerator down 100%.

Full throttle, had a clear line, didn't panic. And holding the brake down overrides the pedal. So I was able to stop the car, but anytime I lift the brake, it would start accelerating again. So I stopped the car, put it in park, got out. At first I thought the pedal was broken, but then I realized that nope, this was wedged down here under this

This little section here not allowing this pedal to come back up. So Yeah, looks like there's a recall somebody that panics that could be pretty dangerous Okay, this is like inspector Clouseau's car. Do you remember the it was like the Phantom Hornet or something? This is just it's so crazy

that no one put a stop to this. It's amazing because it's such a violation of anything you would learn as an engineer, particularly an engineer for cars. Make sure that it's safe. I mean, how do you make a door with sharp edges like that? Okay, move fast. That's not even safe for adults. The tech motto. And also, all these companies, they're all based around sucking up to the person you're uplying. So...

People that would do that traditionally are gone from every sector. I mean, every sector of society, the people that are supposed to think like that are run the fuck out because they're not profitable or you would think they would be. I think Keaton said that about Bowie. Like you think you make a good thing and sell it. No, that's for suckers making a product and selling it. No,

No, you're supposed to have a lifestyle brand people are supposed to like be dedicated to Elon beyond whether this truck is good or not Right. This is a business model. That is across. I'm taking Sam Harris uses this to sell his atheist meditations

He's a manager. Explain how to do it. You don't make like a, like making a comedy special and selling it. You're a chump. That's poor people thought you're supposed to be like an influencer and a lifestyle and a, like a false idol really. Right. Right. That's all set up that way. It's unbelievable. No. And when it comes to like selling automobiles, right. I mean, just think of how like incompatible one ethos is with the other, like an automobile, a car. It's,

It's supposed to last you 10 or 12 years, right? Whereas the latest trend goes in and out in a year or two. I'm sure Elon didn't even think, oh, yeah, people are going to keep these for 10 years and maintain them. I'm sure he's not even thinking that. I'm sure he's thinking, oh, yeah, in a year or two, I'll come up with something else to sell. And what will happen to these cars that people bought? Well, are they actually going to drive 200,000 miles like a vehicle? Yeah.

I don't know. Who cares? Boring. I'll be on to the next thing by then. By then we'll be on Mars. By then we'll be on Mars. By then we'll have a colony on Mars. You know, we have a perfectly good planet, but fuck it. Yeah. Why fix that one? Do you see why I just texted you? Rick sent me the picture from the gym. It looks exactly like the Cybertruck. I forgot how much it looks like it. From what? Damnation Alley? From Damnation Alley? It looks like it's so much.

Hang on. I got to see this now. Oh, shit. Yeah, that's a really good guy. Yeah, I don't think I can show this to the people. You can kind of see it there. It does pretty much. It looks so much like it.

I bet Elon is a big fan of this movie. Did Jan Michael Vincent design it in a drunken stupor? Well, I mean, what's so insane about this is last night, I was going to do this Monday. I decided to hold for the Tesla earnings report. So Tesla does its earnings report. There's been a tremendous plummet in profitability. Sales have plummeted. But...

Elon announced a robo-taxi. He had already said before that they're going to do this robo-taxi. And everyone gets excited. And so the stock was up today. I don't know how it closed. It was up around 10%. It was up around 10%. The guy just released...

is what some are calling the deadly car ever made. Right. Why would you trust him when he tells you he's going to make a robo taxi? Did you see what happened when he said he was going to give you bulletproof glass and a nice tent? Because like Keaton said, like,

The people should be put in camps who bought it so you already don't care about them and then that's the that's like Dude, I meant because we make you know Kyle Dunnigan does you aren't really funny and we like always have like jokes about it the meta Remember the metaverse how shitty that looked the tech has really improved to a creepy amount. Yeah Yeah, but that was like oh what a failure marks every one of these guys. Oh, what a loser failure with a thing and

And then all of a sudden, they're still doing fine. So it doesn't, you just said it, you move on to the next thing. That's why you do that. You don't worry about any one thing being quality. Hey, so I tried something. And who got hurt? People that would go to Fyre Fest? Well, it's just like you said, it's such a cult of personality and it's always been like that with Elon in particular and that particular stock.

That's what propped it up through years and years of losses. Mostly retail investors would not give up on that stock. They were just obsessed with that stock and with Elon. And you still get that. Like whenever you point out something like this, that the Cybertruck is a catastrophe, you're going to get Elon cultists who are going to say, no, no, no, it's the best thing that ever got made. Well, I'm for his, I just told Rick this, flamethrowers for civilians. I'm for that.

Uh, I'm for his, uh, Twitter. The name sucks. I'm still calling it Twitter. I'm dead naming it. I don't care. Uh, but I'm against his penis guillotine car because I feel like it supports the cause. Yeah. No, it's a boy's trans agenda with his penis chopping car.

It's a woke car. It's a woke car. It's a woke car. That's what I'm trying to say. Okay, so now just to show you, we recognize some of Elon's more positive qualities. The next segment, I call these two segments together, the Musk giveth segment.

and the musk taketh away. So he tooketh away with the truck, but we're going to talk about the noble fight he's having right now with the goons in Australia who are trying to get him to censor something worldwide, which is something that no rational person would think they have the jurisdiction to do. I'm disappointed in my Aussies. ♪

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Hello, this is Russell Davila sitting in for Jimmy Dore, who is performing in El Paso, Texas on Friday. So if you happen to be in the El Paso area, catch the show. All right, so you might have noticed, really interesting. So after the WCK workers were killed by the IDF in an airstrike in a very obviously...

intentional airstrike. There was all of a sudden the whole media pivoted all together, almost as if they were directed to do so, almost as if phone calls were made. It was incredible. All of a sudden, all of these people who'd been shilling for Israel, not only since October for decades, turned around and

Joe Scarborough screaming at their finance minister about socks full of cash going into Gaza, being brought by the Qataris under Netanyahu's direction. Oh, yes. Screamed at him. Screamed at him. Because Biden was losing. Why was Netanyahu funding Hamas, a terrorist organization? Screaming his head off. And OK, now, you know, a directive came down from the top.

Because what he was screaming at him about was not a story that had broken that day or that week. That was a story that had broken in December. The New York Times printed that back in December. And he was just got to the party two weeks ago. At the same exact time as all of these people start acknowledging that Israel. You got Leon Panetta goes on TV and says the Israelis shoot first and ask questions later. They're not careful about civilians.

And then as things started to escalate with Iran, and as much as we can read between the lines or tell or parse out from different news stories we've seen, Biden or the Biden administration, Biden doesn't do anything. Jake Sullivan worked out a deal with Netanyahu that if the Israelis don't start World War III with Iran, they'll stand down on Rafah. Oh, no.

As soon as that deal, this is my theory based on various news reports, they gave the word to the media, you need to go full bore propaganda against anyone who is speaking out against Israel. Focus it on students because they don't have platforms and institutional power. Focus it on them. And let's be honest, no one really likes them.

Nobody really likes them anyway. Focus it on them because we got to get ready because these images that are going to come out of Roth are going to so clearly be sick and genocidal. We have to soften people up now. Basically, what the media is doing right now is a shock and awe campaign against the public to soften everybody up.

So that they already have defenses in place against any public outcry that is sure to come at the site of even more horrific mass slaughter of women and children. So these people that you get news from, they don't do news. They're actors. They're operatives. They take orders and they follow them. And you could see that in this sudden shift.

So here's Scott Galloway. This two weeks ago, Joe Scarborough screaming his head off about Netanyahu paying Hamas.

All of a sudden, Scott Galloway defends Israel on his show with one of the craziest monologues you're going to hear in a crazy time. It's just Kid Rock's monologue. All right. One of my pet peeves seems to be one of your pet peeves, and that is, you know, two million people have been killed in the Sudan Civil War. I haven't seen a protest in NYU for that. It's

Assad killed 500 Arabs. I didn't see colleges burned down. 500,000 Arabs killed by Assad. Saddam Hussein killed over a million Muslims in wars. I gassed them. I didn't see protests there. Yet your school is shut down right now because Israel is responding to the worst attack.

against Jews worldwide since the Holocaust. Help us sort through that. And we can debate that response. Again, I don't know algebra, but I'm pretty good at the common denominators here. And why there's no common denominators in all of these, it's just that it's Jews defending their homeland. Because if you look at the numbers, even with American wars, they don't add up. Okay, fuckface.

The common denominator here is we were not funding those actions. None of those were our allies. We were not directly responsible, maybe in some deep state ways responsible, maybe in some abstract ways responsible, but not directly responsible. Israel is our client state.

We are paying for this. We are sending them millions of dollars. You are going to sit there and make the formulation that you can't see what the common denominator would be. The common denominator is very clear. We're not we were not paying for that. These were countries that we were hostile against.

had hostile relations with that we did not have any particular influence. We don't remember Iraqi AIPAC Saddam Saddam paying Joe Scarborough to defend Saddam's bullshit. And you know, number two, no colleges are being burned down now. Of

Of course not. And why he was not being burned down, number two. And number three, you see Mika tries to sneak in there. We can debate their response, but their response two weeks ago, you were doing that. You had panelists on your show saying we need to stop weapons sales and then sanction Israel.

You guys didn't say that, but you guys grill that. Forget who he was. It was some Israeli official that they were grilling about why Netanyahu, you know, was sending the suitcases to fund you. Right. So he was, I think, their finance minister.

Oh, okay. Was he that high up? I didn't know. But yeah, that makes sense. But yeah, so you were willing to actually take a side in that debate, it seems, just two weeks ago. So what happened? What happened? Something obviously happened. Yeah, they got a call. They all know what they're doing. None of these people have done. That's it. Well, we're going to see as we go on in this segment, some information has leaked specifically about MSNBC. So let's go on.

Well, first off, good to be with you. And I especially appreciate your leadership on this issue. I'll give you some more numbers. Twenty two hundred American servicemen killed at Pearl Harbor. We go on to kill three and a half million Japanese, including one hundred thousand one nine twenty eight hundred Americans in 9-11. We go on to kill four hundred thousand people in Afghanistan and Iraq. We weren't accused of genocide.

We weren't. Maybe we should have been. We weren't. I mean, this is what a bubble these people live in. Yes, yes, we were. We just got away with it. Yes, we got away with it, but certainly we were accused. Remember the protests in the street? Biggest protests since the Vietnam War? Did you miss that? You slept through that? Asshole. You had, if Mexico had elected a jihadist cartel to run their country and then they incurred into Texas...

and on a per capita basis killed 35,000 people of the population of the University of Texas, and on the way back took the freshman class at SMU hostage and hid them under tunnels, what would we do? It'd be the Great Sonora Radioactive Parking Lot.

But Jews are not allowed and Israel is not allowed to prosecute a war. And they are prosecuting a war more humanely than we have done. The ratio of combatants to civilians is a civilian death. The combatant mortality is lower than it was in Mosul, lower than it was in Japan, lower was in Germany. So there's just a different standard for Jews in Israel when it comes to prosecuting a war. They're allowed to fight back to a truce.

But unlike America or any other Western nation that has attacked this viciously, they're not allowed to win a war. It's a double standard. It's not fair. It's not fair. All these other countries get to do genocide. We don't. I mean, that's just stung. We did that for Israel, by the way. Why do you think we did all those other fucking wars we lost? You ever see Bibi talking about how it was going to get easy to beat Iran? As soon as we win in Iraq, it's going to make it easy to win in Afghanistan. We lost both of those. We lost both of those.

Keaton, anything? Well, I mean, I don't know if it's the most offensive part, but certainly one of the things he gets most wrong is this comparison between Gaza and Mexico. As if those are two equally sovereign, equally politically autonomous places. Do we occupy Mexico? Yes, exactly. Gaza is an occupied territory, you piece of garbage. I mean, these people are just beneath me.

I mean, they really are. It's a concentration camp. It's an occupied territory. You cannot assign the same political autonomy to Mexico as you would to Gaza. That is a politically illiterate thing to say.

It's just it's mind boggling. But this is this is the fact that's hidden in plain sight. And it's been hidden in plain sight all these years. And, you know, unfortunately, tragically, horribly, it took this current war or this current flare up of an ongoing war, I should say.

To really bring into focus for people the fact that when Norm Finkelstein calls Gaza an open air concentration camp, it's not an exaggeration. Because only once you understand that can you understand how absurd and obscene a comparison between Gaza and Mexico. Well, if Mexico elected a terrorist government and they invaded the United States, the people of Mexico have political autonomy because their state is a sovereign state. It's not an occupied open air cage.

Like, it's just it's unbelievable. It's unbelievable that at this point people can go on TV and say a thing like that. Well, and and and and and he's also just giving up the game as the Zionists tend to do.

Okay, so you're listing all of America's greatest war crimes and saying we got away with it. And then you're saying if Mexico did such a thing, we'd commit an even greater genocidal crime than Israel is currently doing.

Right. We would commit genocide in response to a terrorist attack. It's like we did in Iraq and Afghanistan and nobody seemed to have a problem with it. Right. Right. But they are so much in this bubble and anybody who watches this and is not fucking horrified and disgusted is just completely brainwashed with this deep state kind of real politic vision of the world where, where, where it,

The relevant part of what he's saying is not supposed to be, we would nuke Mexico. I know! That's my morning, Joe, hearing that shit.

Oh my god. You know what? You know what? He's got a really good point. We would nuke Mexico. I don't know why everybody's so mad about the 15,000 dead women and children. People said that to me out loud. Okay. Oh, yeah. We should pre... Dude, I mean, what is their bubble, by the way? Satanism? What is the bubble here? This is beyond... This motherfucker's an operator. Joe Scarborough is. The thing you said at the top...

Dude, I think that's exactly what it is. That's exactly what it is. Because we avoided World War III, so Israel got to do a little CIA, so Bibi's not in trouble with his psychopaths, right? And then they're like, all right, turn it back on the students because we're going to calm it all down. Exactly. Because it was such a quick pivot. It didn't organically evolve. All of a sudden, they all went right back to this narrative that they had dropped for a minute, which was weird in and of itself. Zachary Foster here.

Tell me you didn't bother to Google what is the definition of genocide under international law without telling me. For a tech expert, this Galloway fellow should learn how to use Google. Perry Bartle.

Be careful there, Scott. There are lots of people out there who aren't aware of how many people the U.S. has killed in pursuing foreign policy goals that never had the consensus support of Americans. They might even start objecting to U.S. foreign policy in the first place. Okay, so here we don't have to speculate on what's going on at MSNBC. This article just dropped yesterday.

about why Mehdi Hassan was fired among other people who got pulled off the air. Oh, I wonder why. Well...

He was such a great piece of shit, they should have kept him from it. But you know what? These fucking goons are so horrible that they make Mehdi Hassan the hero of the story. The weeks following the Hamas attack on October 7th were a tense and surreal time at MSNBC. On October 9th, the Monday after a weekend of breaking news coverage, Jonathan Greenblatt, the head of the Anti-Defamation League, appeared on Morning Joe.

I love this show, he said, and I love this network, but I've got to ask, who is writing the scripts? Hamas? His vague criticism appeared directed at the three Muslim anchors who had worked that weekend. Ali Veshi, Ayman, how do you say this name? Moyeldin? I don't watch MSNBC anymore.

Moyeldon? I don't know. Moyel, that sounds right. Okay. And Mehdi Hassan, who had all long been targets of various Zionist media watchdog groups like Camera and Honest Reporting, which regularly accused them of spreading lies about Israel.

In 2014, Moyeldon had been working as an NBC news correspondent when he was abruptly pulled out of Gaza after reporting on an Israeli tactic attack that killed four boys playing soccer on a beach only to be reinstated after a social media outcry.

In 2022, semaphore reported executives had expressed, quote, discomfort with Moylan's and Hassan's coverage of violence between Israel and Palestine in the year prior. The weekend of October 7th, MSNBC interrupted its recap show Morning Joe Weekend to go directly into breaking news. Velshi was the first to anchor the desk and he brought on Moylan to talk.

Quote, what is the broader context, Moylan asked Velshi, explaining how Hamas viewed the attack as retaliation for ongoing settler violence in the West Bank. Quote, the important thing to understand in all of this is that this is not a conflict that started today. So it's not like I remember that video. I remember watching that video, not live on TV. I remember I remember the who writes the scripts, Hamas thing, that video. I didn't see that.

Hassan appeared as a comment. That's just that in a thousand years, that's going to be like a Yiddish slang term for anything that pisses you off. Yeah, right. It was Hamas. Yeah, right. It was a real Michigan, Hamas. Hassan appeared as a commentator on Sunday night when his show would normally air while Alex went anchored.

In a six-minute appearance, he spoke about everyday life on the Gaza Strip, describing it as an open-air prison and stressing the population density, poverty, and high number of children.

Meanwhile, Greenblatt was privately meeting with NBC executives to urge them to do something about what he saw as anti-Israel coverage, which the ADL equates with anti-Semitism. A fact revealed on air that Tuesday when he appeared again on Morning Joe alongside Al Sharpton. Quote, and this is what a fucking whore Al Sharpton is.

I know you had very positive conversations with people here at the top of the network, Sharpton said to Greenblatt. And I think that the leadership here understood that in your conversations. You motherfucker, you've been running around, running your fucking grift since the Tawana Brawley days, which I'm a native New Yorker. I remember your fucking bullshit.

from back then. And you're, you talk about social justice and justice for all people. You're going to get in bed with a piece of fucking shit like this. While the Brown people you supposedly care so much about are being cruelly genocided on a daily basis. And you can see the videos everywhere on social media and you're going to fucking suck up to this scumbag on TV. He'll do as he's told. Black people don't like him. This motherfucker.

Just white liberals like him now. I mean, for a while, it was only white liberals who liked him at all. I remember when there were black people that were like, call Reverend Sharpe. I had a friend that went to...

That's a long time ago. He's been exposed quite some time ago. It's only like your Joe Scarborough's. Oh, yeah, bring Al Sharpton on. And he looks like a mummy. Have you seen him? What is that? Lap band surgery? Yeah, I don't know why people have a conspiracy about clones. No, he wasn't cloned. He's clearly degraded into whatever kind of thing Joe Biden is. No cloning. He's not fresh out of the fucking pod. He's the same piece of shit.

There's a conspiracy theory about an Al Sharpton clone? About all these people. Just clones. How these people don't look like themselves. What podcast are you listening to? I gotta check those out. Dude, they made that Netflix movie. They cloned Tyrone or whatever the fuck. Oh yeah, I saw that. That's an

old school but all people because they believe in these figures for a minute and they go but they're like a totally different person do you see the the so the explanation is not it was a lie the whole time somebody must have cloned them right somebody must have cloned them and the real al sharpton is tied to a chair somewhere with a gag in his mouth yeah but there was no real al sharpton that never was a thing that's the point but al sharpton was always this person

That's right. It's not even like this. He was always like that. Right. There is no doubt. Afterward, anchors were told by management not to give their opinion without Sharpton.

His grift used to be to pose as this outsider. Yeah, right. But it's like it's like I think it was Huey Long who said whores, politicians and ugly buildings all get respectable if they last long enough. That's what that's what that's what happened with Al Sharpton. Yeah, he lasted long enough that he could get a job on MSNBC.

Afterward, anchors were told by management not to give their opinions or offer context around the Hamas attack or Israel's subsequent siege of Gaza, a directive that did not seem to apply to hosts like Joe Scarborough, who would regularly affirm his support for Israel on air and online.

Quote, everybody put the screws to NBC and MSNBC to change the tenor of our coverage, says one employee. Around October 7th, context was not welcome, says another. Context was a bad word. Empathy for Palestinians almost felt forbidden inside MSNBC.

Some employees began lodging complaints to HR about staff they felt were expressing views that were too pro-Palestinian, says one employee. What does this remind you of? This reminds me of when the SJW plague first hit all companies and there'd be complaints lodged. I don't feel safe. So you don't need operatives for this. You've got to program your society to turn into these little Chairman Mao children. And that's what they did. And now...

That's why woke is dead, because these ones take precedence over the other ones. They're using those techniques and that language. I mean, there's been a split among these Zionist anti-woke people. You have the Barry Weiss camp that does not want to add Jews to the list of protected identities. She wants to use this as an opportunity to end the whole premise. That's right.

And then you have others who want Jews added to the list of protected categories. Right.

According to someone with knowledge of the newly proposed weekend schedule before October 7th, the Mehdi Hassan show was always part of the lineup. Quote, they needed a sacrificial lamb. There was remarkable pressure on MSNBC to say we've done something, they say, referring to compounding pressure both inside and outside the company.

They needed to show that someone lost something of value because of the Israel-Gaza stuff. You get the most bang for your buck by getting rid of him. I mean, he's probably annoying. I would say he probably is a pretty annoying guy. He wrote a book called How to Win Any, I mean, except one, obviously. But he fucking made the book. What kind of piece of shit would write a book like that?

Not a thing of like, like, that's why I hate these debate kind of things. Cause if we're having a debate and you're right, I go, Oh, thanks. I didn't know that you were right. Like I'm not trying to win for an audience. I want to know things. I think for certain people, people, particularly people of Muslim descent, nonwhite people of Muslim descent, you have seen certain people like Mehdi Hassan who would sell out their mother for a nickel or so you would think, right?

This is, if you've ever read or seen the film adaptation of V is for Vengeance. Vendetta. Vendetta. V is for Vendetta. There's this beautiful story where this lesbian decides she'd rather be executed than sell herself. And she says that there's that one last inch of your soul.

That you won't give away. And it seems like this issue is that for some people. For Mehdi Hassan, this issue seemed to be the one inch of his soul that he simply could not give away. Yeah, and they shit-canned him before it got to the point where they wouldn't have been able to contain him as this has gotten worse and worse and worse and worse. They would have either had to by this point

fired him or let him say what he wants and they're not going to let him say what he wants yeah vel she is canadian first so he'll be a punk because yeah he was doing the report on apac apac is i couldn't believe we're sitting there being jimmy apac has too much influence msnbc right yeah yeah like and i was like if many asan just held out he could have been doing this report but vel she gets to do it because he's a better suck up these people are the worst

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