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Young right-wing men spent two weeks on X turning the Star Wars prequels into a war on the boomers. In their version, Anakin Skywalker is every young man in America, and the Jedi Council is every older guy who told him to be patient.

Osiris breaks down the Zoomer Anakin meme for anyone over fifty-five: why MAGA treats Nick Fuentes the way the Council treats Anakin, and the loot behind the joke. A house went from about three times a year's income in the nineties to almost five. Men now marry for the first time at almost thirty-one. The share of families with Dad working and Mom at home fell from 42 percent to 23. On jobs, the EEOC took a $500,000 settlement from Planned Parenthood of Illinois and sued the New York Times (that case is still in court). Then there's the December 2024 H-1B fight, when Vivek Ramaswamy blamed American culture and Elon Musk promised to "go to war," and Trump's own words about protecting home values at a January 2026 Cabinet meeting.

It ends on the numbers that should scare the older right: young men backed Trump by fourteen points in 2024, and Harvard's October 2026 poll has young men who say they'll vote favoring Democrats for the House by twenty-six. If you keep telling your grandson to vote harder, you're the Jedi Council.

Correction: Ted Cruz's "groyper problem" remark was made to the Wall Street Journal (reported Oct. 14-15, 2026), not on TV.

Outro music: "What Did It Used To Say" by Sidebar Noir (Index Red Records): https://suno.com/song/ef3c3fe5-b98d-4413-b07a-6e686fcc623a

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Sources: Paul Anleitner, Dixon Uranus and Jbus21_ on X (Oct. 29-31, 2026); Osiris, @IndexRed on X (Nov. 24 and Dec. 28, 2024; Dec. 30, 2025); Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk on X (Dec. 26-27, 2024); ghettoplex, "Why Anakin Skywalker Is a Hero to Gen Z" (YouTube); Akkad Daily, "The Zoomer Anakin Meme" (YouTube); Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies (2026); Urban Institute (2026); U.S. Census Bureau, median age at first marriage; Pew Research Center (2022 survey; 2026); EEOC press releases (March and May 2026); The New York Times (2015) on Disney's H-1B layoffs; New York Post interview with Donald Trump (December 2024); Trump Cabinet meeting, Jan. 29, 2026 (via HousingWire); JD Vance in Belgrade, Montana (Oct. 26, 2026) and Rep. Braxton Mitchell's comment to the local paper; Harvard Youth Poll (spring and October 2026); CIRCLE, 2024 youth vote; 2026 Social Security Trustees Report.

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Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund committed $2 billion to Jared Kushner's brand-new firm, Affinity Partners, after the fund's screening panel flagged its inexperience, called its fee excessive, and rated its operations "unsatisfactory in all aspects." The board chaired by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman approved it anyway, and the fund's staff wrote that the deal aimed to form a "strategic relationship" with Jared Kushner himself.

Osiris walks through all five red flags, the $25 million-a-year management fee, Senator Ron Wyden's 2024 finding that Affinity had collected about $87 million in Saudi fees without distributing a penny of earnings, the $1.5 billion that followed from Qatar and Abu Dhabi, and why it matters now that Kushner negotiates for America as Trump's peace envoy while the White House treats him as a volunteer who skips public financial disclosures.

Kushner says the Saudi investment was made on commercial terms, calls Wyden's fee estimate inaccurate, and says he has never taken a diplomatic action to benefit Affinity, himself, or any investor. His lawyer, Chad Mizelle, calls CREW's lawsuit over his disclosures "without merit."

Next episode: the envoy job, and the 60 Minutes interview where Kushner called his conflicts of interest "experience."

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Sources:

The New York Times, "Before Giving Billions to Jared Kushner, Saudi Investment Fund Had Big Doubts" (April 10, 2022), syndicated: https://bdnews24.com/business/before-giving-billions-to-jared-kushner-saudi-investment-fund-had-big-doubts

Senate Finance Committee, Chairman Ron Wyden's letter to Affinity Partners (Sept. 24, 2024): https://www.finance.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/chairman_wyden_to_affinity_partnerspdf.pdf

CBS News, 60 Minutes interview with Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff (Oct. 19, 2025): https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jared-kushner-and-steve-witkoffs-extended-60-minutes-interview/

Also: Jared Kushner's written response (Oct. 8, 2026); Affinity Partners and Phoenix Financial announcement (July 27, 2026); Bloomberg (Dec. 20, 2024); Invest Like the Best podcast (Dec. 20, 2024); Axios BFD Miami (Feb. 13, 2024); CNN (March 2019); AP (Oct. 14, 2026); CREW v. Kushner, D.D.C. (Oct. 14, 2026); congressional Democrats' fee estimate (March 2026).

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Jared Kushner's WhatsApp use raised questions in Congress back in 2019. Now Matthew Cole's new book, Princes and Thieves, alleges foreign spies got inside Kushner's iPhone while he worked in the White House. Kushner calls the allegations "completely insane" and says they never happened.
Osiris examines the 2019 congressional letter, Abbe Lowell's response, the reporting on Kushner's WhatsApp chats with Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman, and three real holes in Matthew Cole's account. What does the public record prove about Jared Kushner, and what still needs paper?
The episode also covers Cole's reporting track record and the legal threats from Kushner's lawyers. As of October 31, I haven't located a publicly filed lawsuit over these allegations.
Next episode: Saudi Arabia's $2 billion investment in Affinity Partners.
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Sources: Kushner's published response to Matthew Cole: https://jaredkushner.com/posts/response-to-matthew-coles-book/ House Oversight Committee, Chairman Elijah Cummings's letter to White House Counsel Pat Cipollone (March 21, 2019): https://oversightdemocrats.house.gov/news/press-releases/new-information-about-white-house-officials-using-private-email-and-messaging ABC News (March 21, 2019); CNN reporting by Peter Bergen (March 2019); The Washington Post (Feb. 27, 2018); Jerusalem Post editor's note (Oct. 23, 2026); Neria Kraus on X (Oct. 24, 2026); Chad Mizelle on X (Oct. 22 and 24, 2026); New York Post (Oct. 26, 2026); European Court of Human Rights, Abu Zubaydah v. Lithuania (May 31, 2018); The Intercept, statement by Betsy Reed (July 2017).

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A new book by reporter Matthew Cole claims Russian and Dutch spies hacked Jared Kushner's iPhone and watched him log into a Middle East bank account that took in about $750 million. Kushner calls it insane. His lawyer's answer on the hack: go ask the White House. Osiris breaks down what Princes and Thieves claims, what Kushner's side says, where the story gets shaky, and why it's probably true anyway. Part one of the Index Red Kushner series.
Sources: Vanity Fair excerpt of Princes and Thieves (Oct 22, 2026); Jared Kushner's posted response and Alejandro Brito's letter (jaredkushner.com); NOS report on the Dutch newsroom investigation (Oct 23, 2026).

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The algorithm did not accidentally serve her to your feed. Meta, Google, TikTok, and X ran controlled experiments on human attention at a scale no psychology department has ever had access to, and the posterior of a woman with favorable geometry ranked near the top of every demographic cohort they tested.

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Vance told the public the Strait of Hormuz was open Saturday morning while the IRGC was broadcasting the opposite to every tanker captain in the region. One of those two sources has ships listening to it. This is what American authority looks like in this conflict.

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Hasan Piker had the worst week of his career, and he did most of it to himself.

On the same day Fox News reported that the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control had subpoenaed him over his March trip to Cuba, Hasan was on Twitch in a suit, getting handed a "stepdad" hoodie by Ashley St. Clair — the mother of one of Elon Musk's sons.

Then she went home and posted a TikTok about it scored to Britney Spears. Then he told his audience "yeah, free me." In this one I break down the whole thing: the five-star Havana hotel owned by the Cuban military while the island sat in a blackout, the donation page that told donors not to write "Cuba" on the memo line, the forty Americans now under federal scrutiny, the H.Res. 1239 resolution that put his name in a federal document weeks before any of this, and the Nick Fuentes cosplay nobody on the left wants to talk about. This isn't the easy right-wing take.

I'll tell you where I actually land on the subpoena, on the Cuba trip, and on why this particular streamer got picked out of a crowd of six hundred fifty. Index Red. No teleprompter, no script anybody handed me, no apologies.

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The water in the Arabian Sea is crowded tonight, and the US military is staring down the barrel of a 2026 catastrophe. With two aircraft carrier strike groups sitting off the Strait of Hormuz, the public is being sold a narrative of swift victory. But leaked internal assessments—the Osiris documents—tell a terrifyingly different story.In this episode of Index Red, we break down the stark reality of a conflict with Iran, bypassing the nightly news sanitized versions to look at the raw mechanics of modern warfare.We uncover:

• The Munitions Crisis: Why the US is running dangerously low on SM-6 and JASSM missiles, and why the "Munitions Acceleration Council" can't 3D-print a solution in time.
• The UK's Shocking Blockade: How a legal panic in London just locked the US out of Diego Garcia, forcing B-2 bombers to fly 30-hour missions from Missouri.
• The Reluctant General: Why Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Gen. Dan Kane, a former VC, is looking at the "burn rate" of this war and begging the White House to stop.
• Iran’s New Arsenal: The reality of the BAVAR-373 defense system and the FAT-1 hypersonic missiles aimed right at the Gerald R. Ford.

The 10-day window is closing. Will it be a backchannel diplomatic miracle in Oman, or an economic and strategic collapse while China watches from the sidelines?Watching the water, waiting for the order. Welcome to Index Red.

00:00 Carriers at the Strait
01:31 Echoes of 2025 War
02:24 Osiris Files Reality Check
03:06 White House Confidence
04:19 Who Is Dan Kane
06:29 Three Failure Points
07:30 Why 2025 Strikes Failed
09:08 Munitions Shortage Panic
12:07 China and Russia Waiting
13:00 UK Blocks US Bases
16:04 Iran New Defenses
17:44 Why 2026 Breaking Point
20:47 Diplomacy Back Channel
21:47 Binary Choice Finale
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The Supreme Court just struck down the IEPA tariffs, unlocking a massive $133 billion refund pool. But while Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick was on television selling the American public on these tariffs as a flawless economic tool, was his family’s firm, Cantor Fitzgerald, running a backroom casino betting against them?It’s a beautiful, heartwarming Wall Street tale: A father hands the keys of his empire to his twenty-something sons to go serve his country, and they allegedly immediately try to outmaneuver the entire U.S. government for a 400% return. Truly the American Dream.In this episode, we break down the logistics of the litigation finance trade of the decade and whether the Lutnick kids actually pulled it off.The Breakdown:

• The Smoking Gun vs. The Rogue Salesman: We debate the explosive Wired report detailing a $10 million "proof of concept" trade against Cantor Fitzgerald's flat denial that they ever touched the tariffs.
• The Anti-Assignment Act: Why betting against the U.S. government forces billionaire Wall Street firms to wait on the porch for the mailman like street-level loan sharks.
• The CBP "Smoothie Mess": Why the actual logistics of getting a refund check from Customs and Border Protection is like trying to return a half-drunk smoothie to a fast-food chain during a riot.

Will the checks clear before 2028, or is this just a "ghost trade" that ran faster than the due diligence?Watch the Full Video: This is the audio-only cut of the debate. To see the source documents, the Wired email, and the full visual breakdown, head over to YouTube. Search for and subscribe to Osiris at Index Red to watch the full carnage.

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Christopher Rufo isn’t a general; he’s the Hall Monitor for the Donor Class.
The Manhattan Institute just dropped a "Burn Notice" on Nick Fuentes, claiming his opposition to the establishment is nothing more than a "failed business deal." They want you to believe he only attacked J.D. Vance and Peter Thiel after being rejected for funding in 2022.

They are lying.
In this episode of Index Red, we produce the receipts that Conservative Inc. hoped you wouldn’t find: the May 2021 recording where Nick Fuentes was already exposing the J.D. Vance/Peter Thiel connection—eight months before Rufo claims the "begging" happened.
We audit the "wiring" of the Right to reveal why this hit piece dropped now. It’s not about money. It’s about the "Containment Wall" crumbling. It’s about Paul Singer, the Palantir surveillance state, and the "Third Rail" that the donor class pays Rufo to protect.
They tried to fire the only guy who refuses to sign the employee handbook. Watch us burn the handbook.

CHAPTERS: 00:00 JD Vance: First Impressions & the Beard Rebrand 00:54 Digging Into Vance’s Past: CNN, AEI, Yale & Never-Trump Receipts 01:51 “Why Should We Trust You?”—Demanding Answers From Vance & His Defenders 02:36 Thiel Money, Timeline Shielding & the “Purity Spiral” Pushback 03:57 Sincerity Test: Better to Lose Than Elect a Phony “America First” Candidate 04:49 Pivot to Christopher Rufo: The Rule-Follower Archetype 05:18 City Journal Drops a “Burn Notice” on Nick Fuentes 06:15 Follow the Money: Manhattan Institute, Paul Singer & Donor-Class Control 08:02 Ruffo’s “Failed Business Deal” Narrative & the ‘Midwit’ Target Audience 10:12 Containment: Policing the Right While Pretending to Fight the Left 11:22 Smashing the Timeline: The 2021 Recording That Undercuts Ruffo’s Claim 12:22 May 2021 Context: Post–Jan 6 Disarray & Vance’s Populist Pivot 13:02 Nick’s On-Mic Vance Takedown: “Phony,” “Obama Lover,” and the Petty Details 13:35 Nick’s 2021 Thiel/Vance Critique vs. Ruffo’s Timeline Rewrite 15:04 The “Begging for Money” Claim—Why Movements Need Funding 15:57 Who’s the Real Grifter? Ruffo’s Establishment Backing vs. Nick’s Costs 16:41 Debanked, No-Fly, Targeted: The Concrete Price of Being ‘Dangerous’ 18:05 Why the Hit Piece Drops Now: Donors Losing Control of Young Men 19:24 The Real Third Rail: Thiel, Palantir, and the Surveillance-State Wiring 21:21 Vance’s Loyalty Test & the ‘Pressure-Release Valve’ of Conservative Inc 22:53 “Freak World” Smear Tactics: Pathologize the Dissident, Avoid the Debate 25:07 Wrap-Up: Jump the Fence or Stay in the Sandbox

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