Useful Idiots

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It’s a wild episode of Monday Mourning today: we mock Hakeem Jeffries, Todd Blanche, Haley Stevens, Don Bacon and more, all before a special guest appearance by Florida House candidate Oliver Larkin who takes on Rep. Jared Moskowitz in the primary Tuesday.

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This week, returning guest Sina Toossi joins us to check in on Trump’s regime change war on Iran: Trump is pausing the bombing campaign in an attempt to walk away from the war after realizing the total disaster it is for the US, falsely claiming that he controls the Strait of Hormuz, hoping that will let him save face and hide back home.

Now, he’s reverting to traditional neocon policy of suffocating Iran from afar, crippling Iran’s economy through murderous sanctions and hoping it submits.

Sina Toossi: It’s a strategic catastrophe for America as the global empire. This war has shown America to be weaker than countries around the world thought. And this is very significant in geopolitical calculations and alliance building and countries that depend on the US to provide for their security or to be in the US block.

The US war machine is not necessarily all it was made out to be despite the trillion dollar military budget. Iran was a mid-tier power that held its own and was able to inflict all these costs and destroyed a lot of US bases in the region.

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The topic of Ukraine comes up during an interview in which New Yorker editor-in-chief David Remnick speaks to the co-chair of the Democratic Socialists of America Megan Romer like she’s a little baby – the type of smug downtalk that’s especially mastered by corporate liberals.

What’s strange is that Remnick, who lived in Russia for many years and won a Pulitzer Prize writing about the Soviet Union, seems to know nothing about how the Ukraine War began, asking in a kindergarten voice for Megan to please explain to him why the US shouldn’t be funneling hundreds of billions of dollars of weapons into Ukraine.

“We should be sending huge teams of diplomats,” Megan says, “figuring out how to negotiate, and get Russia off Ukraine’s back.”

He gives a soft smirk, oh little baby, and responds:

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Congresswoman Haley Stevens (D-MI), the cartoonish caricature of a Zionist liberal who once claimed that “Israel comes to me in my dreams,” was thrust into the national spotlight when AIPAC pumped $32 million into her senate campaign, the largest single donation from any PAC or donor for any Democratic in this election cycle.

This week, that proved to be poison when Abdul El-Sayed narrowly beat her for the Democratic nomination.

El-Sayed, who joins the growing train of progressives toppling the Democratic establishment in places like New York City and Colorado, used this Big Money donation (which amounted to about $62 million, creating a 12-1 donation advantage over El-Sayed) against her in debates, speeches, and campaign ads.

AIPAC’s main response to El-Sayed’s attacks was that Stevens would fare better come November against “evil” Republican Mike Rogers. But one day after El-Sayed’s victory, Israel’s hypocrisy shines as always as AIPAC begins donations to Rogers’ campaign.

Our guest, investigative journalist Eli Clifton, whose new book with Ian Lustick Israel’s Lobby: America in the Grip of a Foreign Power is now available for pre-order, explains why he expects AIPAC to well outspend its $32 million primary efforts in November, as well as why the campaign is about to get “much uglier.”

Fox News is getting hot and bothered over Abdul El-Sayed’s $32 million upset in the Michigan Senate race. Laura Ingraham tries to keep her cool while playing video of “the socialist dreamboat” working out, describing his “gym-rat flex and his tight-fitting black tee.”

Will voters really fall for it? she asks, attempting to maintain her trademark smug sarcasm, but bursting from underneath the facade is something else…

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Katie and Aaron react to Trump’s disastrous war on Iran as GOP senators rush to corporate media in a desperate attempt to hide just how much the US is losing.

Plus, this week in Michigan, progressive candidate Abdul El-Sayed takes on Haley “Israel comes to me in my dreams” Stevens. We watch the corporate media meltdown as El-Sayed takes the lead.

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