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Oct 13, 2025

REVOLUTION DAY 4: The (Peaceful) Troops Begin To Rally!

Cenk Uygur discusses exciting updates on The Young Turks' crowdsourced revolution.
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I wanted to update you on our Crowdsourcing the Revolution project, and we have a bunch of great updates that I love. So a number of you guys have suggestions. For example, somebody suggested, hey, why don't you guys reach out to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund? [00:00:16] Jake interviewed that guy Tarek from there. And you guys give the proceeds of Free Palestine to those guys. Maybe they could help with the kids of Gaza, right? You know, we got kids of Gaza. Com show their pictures, bios, etc.. So we reached out to Tarek from PC [00:00:31] and he said, yeah, we'd love to help. So excellent idea guys already on board. They say they have, photos of, many children who have been evacuated and that that's maybe a good start. So now he's going to put us in touch with their communications team, [00:00:50] and we're going to start to build this. Okay. So then a second person, Aaron Gustafson, decided he's already going to take, initiative I love that, so go get him, Aaron. So Aaron started, building. [00:01:07] He says, quote, started working on a gallery concept where he could have all the photos and clicking on any of them would show overlay with the child's photo, bio, etc. And he started building the code for it and open source. Love it. I don't know what any of that means, but that looks good to me. [00:01:22] And it feels like this looks like we're going to probably fill in the red places. It's got the coding up top. And Aaron also created a channel on discord for the Kids of Gaza project. He and others are planning to operate, also attend our operation Hope [00:01:37] working group meetings. So now everything is operation Hope as we do this together. Right. But, the original operation Hope guys still have a working group where they they've already. A lot of them have trained on the research before, done other things, [00:01:54] and they're ready to help. So, Aaron is going to attend along with others, the operation Hope working group on Wednesday. This Wednesday you can register at tt.com/uh and and also take part in it. [00:02:10] So we've seen guys in operation Hope working group before create websites out of nowhere Michael I'm looking at you and done an amazing job of building X, Y and Z. And so I think we could build this one together. The fact that I'm now seeing the the beginnings of [00:02:27] the infrastructure for it is awesome. And then we'll take the pictures and bios that Palestine Children's Relief Fund gives. And then others found lists of all the dead, in different times from different media organizations. And we're going to keep reaching out to other Muslim American groups to see [00:02:45] if they could send in pictures and bios. Because, guys, I wish the war was over and I wish this peace treaty was real. And here's how it could be real, right? If Israel actually withdrew from Gaza and an Arab coalition, not Hamas, actually ran Gaza, and they got on a pathway to two state solution. [00:03:03] Oh, and Israel didn't bomb Gaza again. Oh my God, I would be ecstatic. Okay, but none of that's going to happen. Israel is squatting on 53% of Gaza and they're threatening to take more. We covered it earlier on the show, Smotrich and Netanyahu saying, no, we're going to keep on going. [00:03:19] This campaign is not over. And they're looking to take more land. And when they do, we're going to have to draw people's attention to the plight of the Palestinians and their children again. And unfortunately, the numbers don't do it justice. You hear 20,000 kids are dead. [00:03:35] It's not going to affect you nearly as much as if you see two kids pictures and their stories and how they died. So we came up with the idea of starting with Henry Jobs, since we already have that information. Jack Callahan, who's an operation Hope working group, sent that info in already [00:03:50] on the picture in the bio. And now Aaron's trying to build a website and the working group is going to help him. So guys, if at the end of this process you see this amazing website and you see it affecting people. You're going to feel amazing about making that happen. [00:04:06] Okay, so that's on the Kids of Gaza project. Oh, and Samantha Burma had one more idea. And guys, if you don't mind me using your name, send in your name. If you don't say anonymous or point out you don't want your name used, right? But Samantha just wrote in with an interest just to kind of pop culture idea, [00:04:26] saying, I think it would be cool if we could have a we are the world's song for Palestine. That would be amazing. But you'd have to pull in a lot of artists, etc. Eric Clapton and, Macklemore and many other artists are very much in favor of ending the genocide, protecting Palestinians, etc. [00:04:47] Getting them together would be an enormous task. And by the way, a lot of folks in the music industry would then call them anti-Semites and try to ruin their careers. Right? So that's just baked in. But look, one thing that I love is And I said this on the show. [00:05:04] I'm beginning to say it. I'm going to say it much more going forward. When you're at a public event, every public event should have a free, Free Palestine chant. You're at a basketball game. You're at a football game. You're at a concert. Free, free Palestine, free, free Palestine. [00:05:19] Let them hear you in Gaza. Let them hear you in Tel Aviv. And most importantly, let them hear you in Washington DC. Free, free Palestine everywhere. Everywhere because the Palestinians are not free. Eclectic Miscellanea, who's also part of the operation Hope working Group, [00:05:35] made a great point earlier in the show where he said, so let me get this right. The best case scenario is that we return to Pre-october seventh, which was a brutal 57 year occupation of Gaza and the West Bank, [00:05:50] and all the buildings in Gaza are destroyed, and there's over 200,000 casualties when you include the dead and the injured, and Israel keeps half of Gaza. So where's the win for the Palestinians? And the answer is there's never a win for the Palestinians. [00:06:08] And the job of American media is to come in and smooth it over and go, oh no, no, it's okay, it's okay. We got the peace. The 20 Israelis are back. The only real people, okay, who cares about the rest of them? And so we're going to get those kids both alive and dead, [00:06:24] and we're going to show America. And if America is okay with it and our sick, disgusting politicians and are sick, disgusting media are okay with looking at the kids pictures, reading about them and going, yeah, I don't mind that Israel murdered them. 128 48 104 58 [00:06:44] 2870 18,812 over 20,000. You can look at, look, look, look at 20 of those kids, let alone 20,000. And you still say you're okay with it. All right, well, at least we know we can't reach you because you're [00:06:59] you've lost your moral compass and you've become pro genocide. So let's make them look at the kids so they know what they're doing with our money and see if they can live with it, live with themselves and their conscience. Okay, now the drug bill. Look, guys, we're planning to do an interview on Gaza, so I mainly [00:07:19] stuff prepared on that on the drug bill. I don't know how much to tell you guys, so I will leave it somewhat vague here, but I want to tell you so you're encouraged. There is a Democratic congressman and a Republican congressperson [00:07:35] who previously were not looking at the bill to lower drug prices, and they are now looking at it and considering whether they're going to support the bill. And that is awesome. You did that. Okay. [00:07:50] One was one that was suggested. I reached out to the other one, you guys. Hundreds and hundreds of you already reached out to. And so I don't I can't report yes or no yet. But I do know we've made progress. And imagine if they started to come in more and more and more. [00:08:09] And then the press. The press is useless. The podcasters and the rest of them will start talking about. Yeah, wait a minute. Why are we paying higher drug prices than all other developed nations? Why is that acceptable? If it turns out Trump wrote an executive order and now the Democrats are okay with [00:08:27] it, and they've turned it into a bill, both the Democrats and the Republicans together. Why don't we just pass it and have lower drug prices? So and by the way, let's let's get on with it. Now that I said that out loud. One of the other things we should tell is the podcasters, [00:08:44] because the media is useless. I mean, you can tell Jake Tapper, until you're blue in the face, Jake Tapper is never going to care. In fact, he's going to work against you to try to bury you. Right. So stop. I'm saying to myself, stop telling mainstream media, who cares? They're useless. [00:09:00] And and worse. Okay. So go tell Tim Dylan and Theo Von and Joe Rogan and Andrew Schultz. Not a bad way. In a good way. In a good way. Oh my God, did you know we're trying to not they are you? You're trying to help a coalition build hope in this country left and right [00:09:16] together, asking for lower drug prices. Guys, before I keep going. Now, a lot of you have written in and I want to read your comments, but the guests couldn't make it. Okay. That's okay. We have another guest for you guys in about 15 minutes. They're super interesting. Unfortunately, they were abused. [00:09:32] Not having anything to do with operation Hope and crowdsourcing the revolution, but they were abused by Christian nationalists. It's a really interesting story. That'll be at 8:30 p.m. Eastern. But for now, stay right here on, crowdsourcing the peaceful Revolution. [00:09:49] So I'm going to read some of your comments. Jack Callahan wrote in. We could send pictures of those kids to the Hill. Absolutely. One of the ideas we had last week is, on on Instagram, on TikTok and other social media. You See the kids picture. [00:10:05] You read the kids story and you don't find out if they're dead or alive till the end. And so if people say, oh no, that's too emotional, well, they kill the kids. So that's I mean, what do you want me to do? I need to use everything I can to stop them from killing more kids. [00:10:22] So. And Jack will we should could we take those social media posts? Could we take the site and send it to Capitol Hill? Absolutely. And if they say, oh, no, those dead kids pictures are bothering us. Good. They're supposed to. I hope they haunt you. [00:10:40] Eclectic, wrote in. That's awesome. It's so heartening to see that after less than a week, the tight fam has already had tons of ideas and is making a difference. Absolutely. And guys, remember, the battle is joined. A lot of libertarians out there, a lot of conservatives out there. [00:10:56] Now we're all on the same team. They've been dividing us the entire time. So get into culture wars and we go back on different teams and we yell at each other, no problem. That's also called America. That's also called freedom. Right. But both sides definitely want lower drug prices. [00:11:11] Both sides definitely want us to stop funding genocide and stop funding an out-of-control country that never listens to us. And and today Trump, you saw it on the main show saying, oh yeah, I'm doing this for Miriam Adelson and calls out Miriam Adelson, who the hell [00:11:28] wants to be run by Miriam Adelson? What part of democracy is that? And isn't it funny that the mainstream media has all this problems with Donald Trump and all these problems about, oh, he's destroying democracy, but what he says, oh, yeah, yeah, I'm changing American foreign policy because I got bribed by Miriam Adelson. [00:11:45] Not a goddamn word. Not all of a sudden the cats got their tongue. Jake Tapper can't figure out how to criticize Trump. Anderson Cooper none of them can figure out how to. I don't know how to criticize Trump. How about you say he took $337 million from the Adelsons and works for the Adelsons? [00:12:01] No, that would be criticizing Israel. You can't do that. That's third rail. You'll get fired. George, the most unique of the jungle dragons, wrote in an open source, means no one owns the code, so anyone can jump in and collaborate. Great, I said on day one. No pride of authorship, guys. [00:12:19] So if I tried to build all those websites here at TYT, we'd never make it. So, I'm saying you build it, and if people come to your website, great, you do something amazing and people come to the thing you built. Wonderful. That's that's why it's called crowdsourcing. [00:12:35] Okay. We can't do this on our own. And by the way, you know, I say, as I also said, on the first day, we might fail. And if I do. And then I come back and try again six months from now, they'll say, oh, yeah, there goes Jake again, trying to make a difference. Yeah, yeah, I will come back again and again. [00:12:52] The time that it'll work, guys, is the time when you guys get behind it because me by myself or even tight, as big as it is by itself, isn't going to get the job done. It's too small. We need everybody participating, but not everybody like is in 350 million people. All we need is like 1% or 1% of that working on this. [00:13:11] I swear to you, I can show you step by step how you could totally regain democracy, regain your government, regain your representatives as your representatives to the representatives of the donor class. If you heard the beginning about Israel. Guys, this isn't about Israel. [00:13:27] Israel happens to be one of the issues we're working on because they've taken so much money from us, and we're sick of it, and they've spent it on genocide and war crimes. And so in the old days, at least, they used to build things. Now this is just the current government is a mess. [00:13:43] But that's not the main issue. The main issue is the corruption itself that allows any foreign government and any corporation to buy our politicians. Don Dada says anyone involved in TYT hope. Thank you for what you've done and will do. You guys seriously are my Obi wan. Well thank you for saying that brother. [00:14:02] And you know so many wonderful people out there who are part of operation Hope Rebel Dragon says Michael Jackson already wrote a song about Palestine. People should check it out. Of course, it was never allowed to get air time until recently. Yeah. Did you guys know that Michael Jackson wrote a song about Palestine? [00:14:17] And then, Sony killed the song and wouldn't let it go out, and then he died a little while afterwards. Covid-19. So you could look that up, by the way. Ben COVID-19 wrote in January, crowdsourcing the audience. [00:14:35] I'm sure enough of the members are musically talented and could put together something. I'm a good singer, and maybe there are also good writers, musicians, etc. You don't need to get celebrity musical artists to put something together, guys. God bless. I suck at music. I couldn't tell if it was good, if my life depended on it. So create something. And if people love it, they'll gravitate towards it, right? [00:14:53] And then that could be the anthem. And you know, and you can create a win win, right. So if it's your song that everybody's singing to Free Palestine, that'd be beautiful. So go for it. Collaborate if you can. It'd be great. Benjamin takes a page out of the Israeli lobbyists playbook. [00:15:12] I don't know if you're doing it on purpose, Ben, but writes in make fliers with QR codes to that site and stick them up everywhere. Oh, you're not doing that on purpose. Okay. You're right. You could do that. The QR codes and then you go to it. It brings you to the kids of gaza.com. Right. [00:15:28] But the reason I said that is because the other day, Matt Gaetz explained that when he became a congressman, his staff pulled him over and said, the first thing you have to do is go get money from AIPAC. And he's like, really? And they're like, yeah, of course all the PACs will give you money, [00:15:43] but apex the most important. So you got to go there. Then he goes to the event and they have they give him a lapel, a sticker. And, you know, you get that and you put your name on it and stuff. Now in this case, they put a QR code, and then you would go talk to donors who wanted you to support the Israeli government. [00:16:00] And then if they liked what an ass kisser you were, and you proved to them you were sufficiently loyal to Israel and not America. They scan the QR code. They go, okay, I bought this politician. Who's next? Who's next? This is a literal thing that they do. [00:16:17] So if they're scanning our politicians, purchasing them like they're at a grocery store, we can do QR codes for dead kids that they killed with our money. Don the Dragon wrote in again. He said you guys should get Bill Burr to come on and comment on the fallen [00:16:35] and won a fight. He literally says exactly what you all say. He just has no idea you guys exist. Exposing the comedian core to TYT exposes a bunch of regular folks who aren't major news bingers like normal TYT viewers to the message coalition's need numbers. Well, I would love that. [00:16:51] And so if anyone's got a way of getting Bill Burr to come on the show. Fantastic. So, reach out to him, tell him to come on The Young Turks and we'll follow up. In fact, all of you. And again, always play. Bill Burr is a great guy. We love Bill Burr. We want Bill Burr on. [00:17:06] So, reach out to him. Say, go on, the Young Turks. You'd be shocked at how much they agree with you guys. Okay, so this one is a lot more doable. I'll read one last one, and then I got it. They're telling me I got to take a break. Is she brother Dragon on Twitch says call Sirota. [00:17:23] That one I can do. David Sirota is a great journalist. He's at the lever. I was actually just reading one of his pieces this weekend, and it's a great piece. And it's about money and politics. So you're absolutely right. And I will call Sirota, and we can get him on here, too. Then you remind me that it's on that day. [00:17:40] Remind me that it was you who put me over the top and made sure I have him on. Or actually, last one we were, because we already have more action. Doodle Dragon, Imran wrote in. I love these ideas and proud of TYT for bringing everyone together on causes with [00:17:55] solutions between us over just grievances. I'd like to donate this piece if it'll help for the folks that speak truth to power like yourselves. Love you Jenk and Anna. Go get em TYT. And he's got he. He's the one that built drew. Ceasefire one here. [00:18:11] Do I have it here I don't know. That's also part of the Free Palestine collection. And this one is, press badge from the Palestinian Authority areas. It says for peace, for courage, for the truth, for justice, for freedom, for love, for us. And then it has a a red handprint, a child's handprint [00:18:30] for the blood that's on it. And and that is what happened. And by the way, they murdered one of the top Palestinian journalists the day before the ceasefire, because that's what terrorists do. And this terrorist government is now going to demand more money from us very soon, [00:18:48] and will be told that if we don't give it over, we're hateful bigots. Okay. We're not we're we're the exact opposite. And I love you guys for trying to save Palestinian lives and for lowering drug prices and getting money out of politics and ending this corruption once and for all. [00:19:04] If they tell you that you hate the left, ask him why. Right. And if they tell you, oh, they you, you know, if you're on the right, should hate the left for everything. If you're on the left, you should hate the right for everything. Ask them, but why should I hate him on the things we agree on? We all hate money in politics. Over 90% of the country. [00:19:22] We all want lower drug prices. We all want lower housing prices, we all want higher wages. And Marjorie Taylor Greene just said it on Tim Dylan's show almost verbatim. What I just said, no, we're going to unite. Big portions of us are going to unite, and then they're going [00:19:37] to be in for a world of trouble. So let's get some momentum here, and they'll try to stop us, and then you'll know that it's working. And I love it. And I love you guys for believing and for having hope, and already for coming up with amazing ideas and amazing action and already making a difference. [00:19:54] Wait till we build this palace. But we build this temple one brick at a time. Thank you for contributing all those bricks. Give me more and tomorrow we'll talk more about it. Every time you ring the bell below. An angel gets his wings. 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