IHIP News: Lindsey Graham Using IRAN to Help NETANYAHU?! America's Reputation RUINED Worldwide!

What this episode is about

The discussion critiques American political figures, particularly Lindsey Graham and Ted Cruz, for their perceived hypocrisy regarding human rights advocacy abroad, especially in relation to the protests in Iran. It questions their motivations and sincerity, highlighting the disconnect between their domestic positions on marginalized communities and their foreign policy rhetoric.

Key takeaways

• Ethnocentrism in American news limits global awareness, creating a blind spot for genuine human rights issues.
• Politicians' selective outrage often reveals more about their agenda than their concern for foreign struggles.
• Lindsey Graham's erratic behavior raises questions: is he advocating for Iran, or just indulging in war fantasies?
• Ted Cruz's performance for Iranian protesters is rich coming from someone who ignores ICE's treatment of immigrants.
• Human rights shouldn't be a bargaining chip; the hypocrisy of leaders like Trump and Netanyahu undermines true advocacy.

Who speaks in this episode?

• Unknown Host (Host) · 16 min speaking
• Lindsey Graham (Host) · 1 min speaking
• Ted Cruz (Guest) · 1 min speaking
• Benjamin Netanyahu (Guest) · 1 min speaking
• Josh Gottenheim (Guest) · 1 min speaking

What is discussed, and when

1. 0:00 – 5:00: Donald Trump
2. 5:00 – 10:00: Donald Trump, Shadi Hamid
3. 10:00 – 15:00: Donald Trump, European Union
4. 15:00 – 20:00: European Union

Notable quotes from "IHIP News: Lindsey Graham Using IRAN to Help NETANYAHU?! America's Reputation RUINED Worldwide!"

• Like this. Play the clip. A lot of headlines out there that are in my view not accurate. President Trump's resolve is not the question.

  about Donald Trump · at 1:44

• Shadi Hamid says, The reason why campus activists aren't protesting about Iran is actually pretty simple. The US isn't allied with Iran. The US isn't facilitating the mass slaughter of.

  about Shadi Hamid · at 7:46

• Node Bertrand tweets, that's an incredible number. Only 16% of European Union citizens now consider the US an ally. Even in the UK, it's down to a meager 25%.

  about European Union · at 13:02

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

• Donald Trump — Person · Referenced political figure (object of critique; i · 9 mentions · first at 1:49
  Presented as the political leader whose administration and rhetoric are framed as destabilizing and hypocritical on human rights; referenced as aligned with Netanyahu and supported by Graham/Cruz.
• Shadi Hamid — Person · 1 mention · first at 7:46

Companies & orgs

• European Union — Company · 4 mentions · first at 13:09

Full transcript with timestamps

0:00 A lot of Americans are very ethnosentric in their news and it's not by choice. It's just that that's the way our culture is. It is American news driven. What affects Americans, what's going on in America. And so when foreign policy arises like what's happening in Iran right now, the brave Iranian people standing up and protesting against a horrible, horrible, brutal regime, I always look for what actors in American politics stand up and what are they saying? Like for example, I know that Lady Graham and Ted Cruz don't give a [ __ ] about human rights in the United States of America. So when I hear them talking about human rights for other nations, I I know it's [ __ ] because I know that they won't stand up. Even Lady Graham won't stand up for his community.

0:54 I know that. I know that uh Raphael will not stand up for marginalized immigrants in the United States of America despite Raphael Cruz coming from a family of immigrants. So when they stand up for Iranians, I just think what are they up to? Let's first hear from Lady Graham. And I just want I I just this is a very bizarre video. I don't know if the idea of bombing [ __ ] is like a drug to him like cocaine or if he does cocaine. I don't know. But in this clip, he seems so defeated that the United States isn't going to bomb Iran. I don't know if he's taking a zany or what's going on, but this is just weird to see Lady Graham like this. Play the clip. A

1:46 lot of headlines out there that are uh in my view not accurate. President Trump's resolve is not the question. Question is, and when we do an operation like this, should it be bigger or smaller? I'm in the camp of bigger. Time will tell. I'm hopeful and optimistic that the regime days are numbered.

2:14 Well, Lady Graham, we know you're a size queen. We know you're in the camp of bigger, but the larger question for me right there is, is Lady Graham hammered? Is he shitfaced? Like, what is that? Lady Graham cannot even stand up for the LGBTQ plus community in the United States of America, and he trots out there drunker than [ __ ] thinking we think he gives a [ __ ] about Iranian people. Are you serious? Well, um, here then he puts out a tweet. So, let's see. He kind of reveals what this is all about. Lady Graham tweets yesterday after that drunken video. I am traveling to Israel to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his team at this crucial time in history of the Middle East. The goal is to build on the historic opportunities created by President Trump's unprecedented leadership to stand up to evil. What are you talking about? Trump is evil. and to support the people who are sacrificing

3:14 for freedom. The Trump Netanyahu alliance has thus far been one of the strongest partnerships in the US history. Blah blah blah blah. So now we know that Lady Graham, this is all an Israel first type situation. Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal. Donald Trump is a convicted felon. Lindsey Graham is a washed up drunken size queen who will just suck up to whoever has the most damaging compromising [ __ ] of Lady Graham doing gay [ __ ] because it's clear that this man and the fact that he's a United States senator blows my mind blows my mind even more is the most unliked unfuckable person on the globe.

4:00 Ted Cruz. Ted Cruz chimes in on this and I always know when I watch these people like what they're standing for foreign policy-wise as an American if sometimes we don't know about foreign policy and it's like what are these people up to? So he here's Machisimo a man of the immigrants Ted Cruz here's his alpha male video he makes about it. Play the clip. I talk directly to the people of Iran who are standing up, who are demonstrating incredible bravery, standing against the Ayatollah and the Mullas, standing for freedom.

4:32 Thank you for your courage. You need to know America stands with you. America stands with your fight and President Trump has your backs. You are in our prayers. We are standing with you and these tyrants will fall due to your incredible bravery. Okay, first of all, the music, uh, all of that, the production of all of that, it is so embarrassing. And I guess that hits hard in the low tea crowd over, um, in the MAGA bro sphere, but is he for real right now? Like you you can't even stand up for Cuban Cuban immigrants that are getting harassed by ICE and you expect us to believe you give a [ __ ] about Iranian people. You don't give a [ __ ] about Iranian people. It's abundantly obvious to me, and this is just my opinion, that BB wants Iran, and you guys are so beholden to Israel that you cosplay that you care about human rights. And you think we think Trump gives a [ __ ] about human rights. The

5:45 same guy who said on Howard Stern that is cut off age for having sex with a woman was 12. The same guy who is covering up for the pedophile ring around Jeffrey Epstein. The same guy who wanted to shoot protesters and now has a Goon squad that is shooting protesters. Are you for real right now? That's not how human rights work. You don't get to cherrypick them when you care about them based on which war criminal you support at the time. People genuinely care about Iranians and their fight against this regime, but people with an IQ of a hundred or more know that you and Lady Graham and Donald Trump and Steven Miller are not the saviors and especially Benjamin Netanyahu, the genocider that they're the saviors of Iranians. Give me a break. Moving along. This is a big thing that's popping off all over right-wing Twitter. Put this up.

6:54 Representative Josh Gottenheimimer tweets, where is all of the outrage from quote progressives? The Iranian regime has killed thousands of protesters, tortured countless others, funded terrorists, and now the people are speaking out. But our college campuses and progressive groups are eerily silent in the face of this oppression. And I just want to note here, I noticed Jake Tapper retweeted this. It's very simple. America doesn't fund the Iranian regime. That's why they are not protesting it right now. We are enemies with Iran.

7:38 That's the layout of this. And let me just Somebody says it much more eloquently than me on Twitter. Pop this up Kylie. Um, Shadi Hamid says, "The reason why campus activists aren't protesting about Iran is actually pretty simple. The US isn't allied with Iran. The US isn't facilitating the mass slaughter of Iranians by funding and arming the Iranian regime to the tune of billions of dollars. To my knowledge, there's basically no one in the mainstream media who is celebrating the killing of Iranian protesters. That's a good thing.

8:17 Unfortunately, that wasn't the case with Gaza, where cheering Israel's war crimes was extremely common. camp campus activists were calling on their universities to divest from companies that were complicit in Israel's actions in Gaza and the West Bank. To my knowledge, there is no American university that has financial holdings in companies that are complicit in the Iranian regime's killing of protesters. It makes sense that campus activists in America would be most concerned with American wrongdoing. That's what they might have some influence over. They have no influence on the Iranian regime which will continue committing murder regardless because it's a murderous regime. And he goes on and on.

9:02 I'm far more concerned about Lady Graham, Raphael, and Kanks playing patty cake with Saudi Arabia. Like these are horrible regimes that we constantly align ourselves with. I stand with the Iranian people. I stand with the immigrants being terrorized by ICE. I stand with trans people. I stand with Jewish people that are targeted by anti-semitism. I stand with Muslim people who are targeted by attacks, Islamophobic attacks. Lady Graham, Donald Trump, and Raphael, these people are not the saviors of humanity. it. They have a game. There's a play in this. There's a total play in this. And you know immediately immediately what's going on when Lady Graham and Raphael start trotting out videos like that. Um, now I want to go to a headline where experts warn that we are in very dangerous times under Trump. Pop this up Kylie.

10:10 Um, the New York Times is reporting expert psychologists and psychiatrists are telling us in no uncertain terms that we're [ __ ] If only any Republican in DC were listening, and I would even argue some corporate Dems were listening. Don't they realize that when American democracy falls to a madman, every single one of us will be in grave danger? But no, they don't realize that. They don't realize that there is a connectedness to all of this. that when you leave one group of people vulnerable, you leave all of us v vulnerable. And if you notice how much MAGA is already moving the goalposts, right? They start with Barack Obama wasn't born in the United States. They start with just good old-fashioned American white-on-black racism. They expand it to immigrants.

11:02 They expand it to trans people. They expand it now to um uh the lesbian couple where the woman was executed. And now Fox News is expanding it to wine moms, which are white liberal women. And they will continue to keep moving the goalpost while pretending that they care about human rights in Iran, while eroding human rights at the at at home. And here's the thing with Iran and with Venezuela. Both of these countries have items that can be very lucrative to the United States. In the case of Venezuela, uh the oil can be very lucrative and so we're going to go and kidnap the dictator and he's a horrible dictator, right? But for these people to think that Donald Trump and Lady Graham are somehow your saviors and they care about human rights is [ __ ] And furthermore, Benjamin Netanyahu, who has been lying for over 30 years about Iranian Iran being a nuclear power, imagine if Israel had all of the

12:13 territory of Iran. They would actually have natural resources. So, I just don't trust any of this [ __ ] because none of these people link human rights. They cherrypick them. And that's always a red flag that you're dealing with a bad actor and a bald-faced liar. But as all of this stuff is going on, you know, Donald Trump's big mantra is has always been um people around the world when Biden was president are laughing at us. Nobody's laughing at us anymore. We're the hottest country ever. We're so hot. Everybody envies us blah blah. You've heard it a million times because he has about four, you know, he's like a four trick pony, right? So, here is the um global support in the um EU for the United States of America. Right now, our node Bertrand tweets, that's an incredible number. Only 16 16% of European Union citizens now consider the US an ally. Even in the UK, it's down to a meager 25%.

13:20 In fact, perceptions of the US as an ally are in complete collapse globally. Only India is a very odd exception. So, in 12 months, we have gone to this. 25% of people in the UK um consider the US an ally. So, those 25% are [ __ ] around. They're going to find out really soon. And 84% of people in the U E European Union have it correct. The United States is no longer an ally of the EU. And um JD Vance is the air apparent to this. And he and Elon Musk and others, these tech oligarchs want to dismantle democracy. And the European Union shows that you can successfully regulate capitalism. And they can't have that because these oligarchs are never going to be happy. And they have their little Trojan horse, you know, who is stealing people's Nobel Peace Prizes and redecorating the Oval Office and has dementia so bad that we have to write in gold letters rose garden in front of the Rose Garden. Oval Office in front of the

14:33 Oval Office. They know he's not a serious person. and he's their useful idiot. And so this is a really dangerous time globally. Really dangerous. And I stand in complete solidarity with the Iranian people. And I'm going to be honest with you, Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu. I don't think they care about your sense of humanity because they don't give a [ __ ] about Palestinians and they don't give a [ __ ] about Americans. Renee Good is about as American as it gets. She was executed. So, it's just [ __ ] that they act like they want to free Iran.

15:14 It's clear to me that they have nefarious intentions for this, especially when you see the royal family guy, the son of the Shaw, uh, on Fox News, kissing Trump's ass and trying to like demean Barack Obama and Joe Biden. That's not a serious person. That's somebody who has the psychological profile on our senior citizen toddler president that knows, oh, you score a lot of points with him if you say Obama bad, Trump good. And all of this stuff is done in front of all of these people, all of these people in Europe, all of these Americans, and they all operate under the same assumption because a third of Americans are completely brainwashed by Fox News and this MAGA propaganda. And they forget that twothirds aren't and that twothirds critically think. And that twothirds of people in the United States of America can see when Lady Graham is drunker than a skunk on television acting like he gives a [ __ ] about human rights when he

16:16 can't even stand up for his own goddamn community by coming out of the closet. We know they're up to no good. And Raphael, I mean, give me a break with his machisimo video. It is such [ __ ] but it hits hard in MAGA world. And then I'm going to leave you with this. This is another like the whole world is laughing at us right now and not in a good way. The Canadian net favorable opinion of France is at plus 50, the UK is at plus 50, Mexico plus 37, Ukraine plus 35, India minus 34, China minus 49, USA minus 50. our strongest ally, our biggest partner, Canada, who we share a border with because we have these arrogant, low tea buffoons that talk about we're going to make Canada the 51st state. No wonder they hate us. American for foreign policy is full of lies and arrogance. That's why I don't trust Lady Graham. I don't trust Kanks. I don't trust Ted Cruz. I don't trust any of it. But I want to be

17:24 crystal clear to the people of Canada, to the people of Iran, to the people of the European Union. A third of Americans are shitty. They are. And I can't defend them. A third of Americans are racist. They think America is the best. They think that we can go rape and pillage other countries with impunity. But there are twothirds of Americans that remain in this country that see exactly what you see. And we're dying on the inside because we love our country. We love what our country means. I personally and twothirds of Americans, I love that somebody can come from another country that speaks a different language that has an idea for a business and can come to the United States of America, start a business, become a citizen, and become an American. And I personally feel a sense of country with them. Even though they might have an accent, even though they might have a different skin color, that is something that a lot of

18:27 us value and really embrace. And so remember when you see the arrogance of this man and the arrogance of our foreign policy and the lies and the collusion with war criminals like Benjamin Netanyahu. 30% of our public are total pieces of [ __ ] They are hypocritical Christians that don't give a [ __ ] about anything. Truly, I don't even know if they care about themselves. But we are going to continue in a grassroots way to turn out in these midterms against all odds. And I believe this administration is going to try to scare the [ __ ] out of us and intimidate us in the polling booth. But we will turn out hand in hand, brother and sister, and vote so that this turnout is too big to rig because this is our moment. So many generations before us have faced similar uphill battles and this is our battle. Stay engaged in all pro-democracy media. Please support the people of Iran and their suffering and

19:35 support the Palestinians and support all of these people in ICE custody that are getting tortured. And in the case of El Paso, somebody got killed and Renee Good's children and her family because this is not who we are. All right, please like and subscribe to our channel and we will be back later with more news.

Questions about this episode

Who speaks in "IHIP News: Lindsey Graham Using IRAN to Help NETANYAHU?! America's Reputation RUINED Worldwide!"?

Unknown Host (Host), Lindsey Graham (Host), Ted Cruz (Guest), Benjamin Netanyahu (Guest), Josh Gottenheim (Guest).

What is "IHIP News: Lindsey Graham Using IRAN to Help NETANYAHU?! America's Reputation RUINED Worldwide!" about?

The discussion critiques American political figures, particularly Lindsey Graham and Ted Cruz, for their perceived hypocrisy regarding human rights advocacy abroad, especially in relation to the protests in Iran. It questions their motivations and sincerity, highlighting the disconnect between their domestic positions on marginalized communities and their foreign policy rhetoric.

What is mentioned in this I've Had It episode?

3 people, works and ideas are mentioned, including Donald Trump, European Union, Shadi Hamid. Each one on this page links to its own page with every episode that mentions it.

How long is "IHIP News: Lindsey Graham Using IRAN to Help NETANYAHU?! America's Reputation RUINED Worldwide!"?

The episode runs 20 min; the transcript is about 2,981 words in 22 timestamped sections.

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