Luke Thomas Gets Political (LTGP)

Luke Thomas talks about the latest in political news on his weekly live chat.

Luke Thomas joined Audie Cornish on CNN to discuss Trump's new memecoin dinner, trying to rehab Richard Nixon's crimes during Watergate and much more.

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Luke Thomas: Mitch McConnell can barely speak, yet he is still being wheeled through the US Senate to vote, and Luke Thomas argues the real scandal is that both parties treat this gerontocracy as normal.

From Dianne Feinstein to Joe Biden to McConnell, Washington keeps propping up leaders in visible cognitive decline while staff quietly run the office.

Luke opens with a viewer question: should anyone involved in the McConnell situation face legal consequences? That leads into a bigger conversation about what happens when Congress and the presidency become places where people die in office instead of stepping down. He walks through the Democratic precedent, the questions that were never answered about Biden, and why he is less worried about Trump 2028 than he used to be, even as the former president's own decline becomes harder to ignore.

Listen to the full conversation over on Luke's Substack: https://lthomas.substack.com/

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Chapters

00:00 Should McConnell's Staff Face Legal Consequences?

00:20 Feinstein, Biden, And The Bipartisan Precedent

01:25 Trump 2028 And His Cognitive Decline

02:10 Weekend At Bernie's Legislating

02:55 Not A Serious Country Anymore

03:40 Normalizing Decline In Congress

04:25 He's Cooked And Everyone Knows It

05:10 Why Both Parties Are Guilty

Luke Thomas: How the US and Western media sold a genocide in Gaza.

Luke explains how an existing playbook was used by Israel to try and excuse, justify and deny its genocide against Palestine.

Luke argues that what shifted public understanding was not traditional media but the New York Times or the Washington Post but social media and non-Western outlets, including Al Jazeera crews who were killed doing the job, in a conflict he says became the deadliest for journalists in modern history.

He walks through why he sees the ceasefire as not real, why the policy from Biden to Trump has not moved, and why his own view was shaped early by his Lebanese mother. Then he explains the string that people like Scott Galloway refuse to pull: October 7th leads to Hamas, Hamas leads to the occupation, and the occupation leads to the Nakba and questions about the entire project.

Chapters

00:35 How To Sell A Genocide

02:00 Gaza's Journalist Death Toll

02:45 Biden, Trump, And An Unchanged Israeli Policy

06:00 Santa Marta Shut Down By A Militia

07:00 Uribe's False Positives And Petro's Peace

07:45 You Can't Beat Poverty With Guns

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Luke Thomas discusses the latest news in the world of politics with his viewers.

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Luke Thomas discusses Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov interviewing Abdul El-Sayed about Israel's genocide in Gaza.

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Luke Thomas explains how centrist Democrats from California like Gavin Newsom, Rob Bonta, Karen Bass and Xavier Becerra folded to allow the Paramount-Warner Brothers Discovery merger to go through and further enrich Larry and David Ellison.

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Can Joe Rogan redeem himself after endorsing Trump? Luke Thomas says everyone deserves grace, but Rogan laundered the reputation of MAGA's inner circle and helped make ideas palatable that are now wrecking ordinary lives, from mass deportations to the gutting of the university system.

A viewer question about Rogan opens into a broader argument about what the right is doing to the institutions that built American prosperity. Luke walks through the damage: the largest mass firing of PhDs in history, research funding torched, alliances discarded, and a food supply so shaky that a restaurant-owner friend called him personally to warn him off eating beef. The people doing this, he argues, disdain the very things responsible for American greatness because they never rose through them.

Listen to the full conversation over on Luke's Substack: https://lthomas.substack.com/

Subscribe for more political commentary, live chats, and paid question segments. Luke Thomas Gets Political is on YouTube, Substack, and wherever you get your podcasts.

Chapters

00:00 Can Joe Rogan Be Redeemed?

00:50 Rogan Laundering MAGA's Inner Circle

01:40 The Cost Of Mass Deportations

02:20 UFC Burning Universities, Research, And Beef

03:40 Advice For Leftists: Don't Hide Your Views

04:30 The Hasan Piker Iran Nukes Freakout

05:20 Kim Jong Un Is Vindicated

08:00 Reckoning With American Empire's Crimes

Luke Thomas: Elephant Graveyard's final Rogan video nails who Joe Rogan is now and his relationship with Peter Thiel.

Luke explains why it hit close to home. Then Dave Portnoy defends billionaires colluding to keep Macklemore off stage, and Luke calls it comical on its face.

A viewer asks whether Rogan is simply not a good person. Luke, having interacted with him for years, is hesitant to go that far, but says Rogan is easily duped and gives little thought to the motivations of the people he platforms, which is his own fault. That leads to a candid reflection on Luke's own slow withdrawal from MMA over the past two years.

Listen to the full conversation over on Luke's Substack: https://lthomas.substack.com/

Subscribe for more political commentary, live chats, and paid question segments. Luke Thomas Gets Political is on YouTube, Substack, and wherever you get your podcasts.

Chapters

00:00 Elephant Graveyard's Joe Rogan Video

00:45 Is Rogan A Bad Person Or Duped?

01:30 Why Luke Withdrew From MMA

03:30 Why Luke Doesn't Watch Joe Rogan

05:00 Portnoy Defends Robert Kraft

05:45 $72 Million In Public Funds

07:00 The Israel Lobby And Civil Liberties

Luke Thomas: A Haaretz report says the UAE's leader warned Netanyahu directly before October 7, and that Hamas offered a hostage deal on October 7 and again on October 8 that Israel turned down. Luke Thomas breaks down what this means for everything we were told about the Gaza war.

The reporting, drawn from a book by a veteran Israeli journalist, describes a warning that went leader to leader, not just intel agency to intel agency. Netanyahu's response was to threaten a lawsuit against Israel's largest newspaper. Then the UAE put out its own statement that appeared to confirm the story. Luke walks through the other pieces of the puzzle too: earlier signs that Mossad knew an "earthquake" was coming, the music festival that was reportedly supposed to be held somewhere else, and Yahya Sinwar's calculation that Hamas had no path out of the blockade without forcing a deal.

The part that hits hardest is the hostages. For two years, the argument was simple: release the hostages and the bombing stops. According to this report, Hamas was trying to make that deal before, during, and the day after the attack, and Israel rejected it in favor of maximum damage. Luke asks where the apologies are from everyone who repeated that line, and what it says about a conflict where a child death toll on the scale of Uvalde could have happened every single day since October 7 and still not match the real number.

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Chapters

00:00 The Haaretz Report On UAE Warnings

00:55 Leader To Leader: MBZ To Netanyahu

01:40 Netanyahu Lawsuit Threat, UAE Confirms

02:15 Mossad, Sinwar, And The Blockade

03:10 Hamas Offered Hostage Deal Oct 7 And 8

04:20 Where Are The Apologies from Israel?

05:00 What The Choice Reveals