Imperialism, Propaganda & War: The Truth Biden Hid and Trump Let Slip — Katie Halper

[Mehran] Welcome, Katie,
the floor is yours.

[Katie] Thank you.

That was great.

[Applause]

Hi, everyone.

Thank you so much
for coming tonight.

So the organizers were
really adamant that tonight

not just be depressing,
but be inspiring and

give people hope.

Oh, I'm glad you're
already laughing, okay.

I know it's funny right,
to think of something on

this topic being inspiring.

In that vein, I want to start off
tonight with a game.

This game is called:
Who said it,

Donald Trump
or Noam Chomsky?

[Audience laughs]

Let's see how everyone does,
ready?

Who said the following,
ready?

In some cases, I'm not
going to quote verbatim

because if I quote verbatim,

it's too obvious from
the style of talking.

It will either be quotes
or a summary of what they said, ok?

So who said:

The U.S. won't sanction Saudi Arabia
over the killing of Jamal Khashoggi

because that would
jeopardize billions

in arms sales to Saudi Arabia?

Raise your hand if
you think it's Trump.

Okay, Chomsky?

All right, it was Trump.

And not only was it
Trump, but he was

saying it about himself.

He was explaining why he
wouldn't sanction Khashoggi.

Okay, let's see what's next.

We left troops behind
in Syria for the oil.

Okay, who says Trump?

Okay, Chomsky?

Trump.

Okay, good, good one.

All right.

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Chomsky would have shared that
same observation about Israel

wanting the war to go on,
but would use that to then

argue why Israel should
not be funded by the

United States, right?

He also, by the way, I should
bring up one other thing

that Trump said that
really resonated during the

debate, which was at the
end Joe Biden said something

and Trump said, I really
don't know what he said.

0 zla2k & 2.0 The silver
lining of Trump's presidency

is that he's laying bare
the brutality of American

imperialism, a brutality the
Democrats tried to conceal,

and so we should take
advantage of that.

Now, as disgusting as it is

for Trump to announce plans
to open a Riviera on the Gaza

Strip, isn't it nice to hear
someone admit that our foreign

policy, when I say our,
I'm talking as an American,

our foreign policy isn't
driven by a commitment

to fairness, justice, and
the rules-based order?

Zolenskiy, like a petulant,
ungrateful, uncooperative,

and self-sabotaging
child, which he did.

But isn't that, in some ways,
preferable to what Biden did?

Biden may have said nice
things about Zolenskiy, but

what did he actually do?

He dangled NATO membership
in front of him, while

knowing full well that
was never a possibility.

He claimed to be
a member of NATO.

The U.S.

has claimed to care about
Ukrainian sovereignty and

self-determination while
sending Boris Johnson to tell

Zelensky not to negotiate with
Putin one month into the war.

Had they done that, the
war would be over by now,

thousands of people would be
alive, and Ukraine would, of

course, have more land than
they will ever have now.

It's also worth noting, by the
way, that 52 % of Ukrainians

want a negotiated settlement.

So when people say, listen
to Ukrainians, you should

find out what Ukrainians
they're talking about.

Trump speaks crudely and
cruelly of natural minerals

in Ukraine, but if the U.S.

is going to exploit Ukraine,
isn't it better that

Americans know what the
war is really about?

And isn't it better
for Ukrainians to

know what the U.S.

is really prioritizing?

And now another thing I want
to thank Trump for is bringing

Elon Musk into the forefront,
because like Trump, he's

exposing things, right?

So first of all, this guy
literally comes out with

a chainsaw to demonstrate
how he wants to cut the

welfare state, which
again, that would be like a

2.0 Adl said that it wasn't
actually that problematic,

people were on edge, people
need to calm down, people

were being too sensitive,
but it was totally kosher.

My word, not theirs at
the end, but basically

I paraphrased.

So that was useful because
it laid bare what despicable

people the Adl are.

Now, I also liked it because
it brought out Steve Bannon

and he did another salute,
but the reason I like Steve

Bannon is because he makes
me feel really special

Rutger Bernhardt The sentenced
Republican Only selected a

few Republicans last year.

The other good thing
about this is that people

are seeing thru Dems.

People are seeing
thru the Dems.

The Democrats do not want
to fight against Trump.

Tom Palestinian Americans
for staying home or

voting third party.

They refer to them as Dearborn
voters They tell us that

people are self-indulgent
practicers of purity politics

who needed to do whatever it
took to stop Trump Well, if

people need to do whatever
was needed to defeat

Trump Shouldn't that have
included Kamala Harris?

Because for a year and a
half a significant and vocal

portion of the Democratic
Party electorate and

their progressive base

The polls showed this would
have helped her numbers.

Was it not self-indulgent
and Trump-enabling of her to

ignore the base and instead
run around with Liz Cheney

and brag about getting
an endorsement from war

criminal Dick Cheney?

And by the way, a YouGov
IMEU poll showed that 29

% of voters nationally
who voted for

Another thing that's
positive is that people are

seeing through the media.

So more than 75 ,000
subscribers have cancelled

their Washington Post
subscription since Jeff

Bezos announced he would
only promote free market

and libertarian ideals.

Another example, thank
you for saying the quiet

part out loud, Jeff.

Again, that's like a critique
that you wouldn't make

of him, Yanis, but he's
saying it about himself.

Also, MSNBC viewership
is really low.

And you know, I do want to
say how disgusting Western

media has been on Gaza.

I actually learned this
Ivana Morozian-Murdoch.

It's kind of firsthand.

I mean my experience was not
that bad and it certainly

pales in comparison to
Melanie's which you'll

hear about shortly.

But I made a video at an
outlet called the Hill.

I wrote a monologue saying
that Israel is an apartheid

state and for that I got fired
and even though there was

really nothing you can say
because the video pointed

out how many people including
the Israeli Human Rights

Organization, Be'tselem, and
including like former prime

Israeli Prime Ministers were

calling apartheid a state.

2.0

2.0

2.0 2.0 No one was saying,
this wasn't an issue of

Believe Women because
no one was saying

it happened to them.

Now, the same media who
covered that story and

never retracted it decided
to ignore the fact that

it was documented that
Palestinians were raped.

I mean, this was covered
by Israeli media and

somehow Western media
never covered it.

This isn't like, you don't
even have to go to Haaretz.

This was centrist
and right-wing media

that covered this.

This was sexual assault
captured on video.

And this is something
that you actually had a

member of the Knesset.

There were protests when they
started to arrest soldiers,

but the protests weren't
about the rapes, the protests

were about arresting them.

And you actually had a member
of the Knesset being asked

rhetorically, so is it
legitimate to insert sticks

into people's rectums?

And a member of the Knesset
said, yes, it's legitimate.

ChatGPT Robb Eggen

Juliana Zaito-Ferrari,
Ph.D., Professor, Bachelor

of Social Sciences,
Columbia University, USA

Jennifer Hale Prof.

Rafat Al-Arir is a poet
and professor in Gaza.

He wrote a beautiful poem
called If I Must Die.

He was murdered by Israel.

He was targeted.

It wasn't just a
random war crime.

It was a targeted one.

Thank you for watching.