The Times of Israel is once again targeting New York City Mayor Zoran Mamdani, this time to neutralize any attempt to draw comparison between the capture of Nicolas Maduro versus the refusal of the U.S. To arrest Benjamin Netanyahu, who has an international war crimes [00:00:15] warrant, of course, hanging over his head. You see the headline from the article mom Dani, for his part, simply condemned the U.S. Seizure of Maduro as a violation of international law. He, put up something on X from the official account [00:00:32] saying that he was briefed and basically saying unilaterally attacking a sovereign nation is an act of war, violation of federal and international law. But the times of Israel vehemently, of course, disagreed. They quickly parroted what the Trump administration has been pushing, [00:00:48] that the arrest of Maduro was lawful because it was based on U.S. Court orders. They then immediately pivoted, defending Netanyahu's right to remain free, claiming the ICC has no jurisdiction in the US, [00:01:03] and that federal law prohibits the imprisonment or obstruction of foreign officials unless apparently they are on the US indictment list. Before we get into the rest, I'll ask you for your $0.02. Yeah. First of all, I'm not interested in any other country's opinion on our mayors. [00:01:19] What does Portugal think about the mayor of Cleveland? I don't care, is the correct answer. Oh, Israel is chastising the mayor of New York. Well, they can take a long walk off a short dock. Not interested in their goddamn opinion. Okay, so that's my first sent. My second sent is Mamdani is indisputably correct about the law regarding Maduro, [00:01:39] which is, yeah, we can't just go and kidnap a foreign leader and attack a country that's called war. And it is a violation of the law. And it's also the violation of the Constitution where Congress is supposed to declare war. So, but yeah, tell me more about what the irrelevant. [00:01:57] Not they're not irrelevant because they control almost all of our politicians. And that's why mom drives them crazy. Because they can't control him. But irrelevant in the case of what American citizens should actually be concerned about. Is this irrelevant? Israel country. Tell us what else they are demanding from us. [00:02:16] Well, let's get to the backlash because it was swift on social media. Many folks zeroing in on selective enforcement, as we said, international law applied aggressively to enemies but dismissed when it implicates allies. You can see some of the posts Adam says this picture should be Netanyahu, [00:02:34] and there were a lot of people who used AI to switch Netanyahu out for Maduro in this picture, posting that, Hussein says Netanyahu is a wanted war criminal of a country whose army has committed genocide. He goes on to say Netanyahu gets a red carpet treatment [00:02:50] in the US. Maduro is kidnaped, Venezuela gets bombed by the US. Many are asking, why can't Benjamin Netanyahu be brought to justice as the message is clear. We want to snatch a head of state. We find a court to issue the warrant and we act quickly. [00:03:06] Then there was the former New York mayor, Eric Adams, who posted this on X January 10th, 2025. The Biden-Harris administration put a $25 million bounty on Nicolas Maduro for information leading to his arrest or conviction. [00:03:22] Public safety is not a political game. You do not label someone a narco dictator. One year and then pretend he's no longer a threat the next, simply because a different president is in office. Honduras comes to mind. [00:03:37] That is cynical and irresponsible. Maduro's drugs have killed thousands. He goes on to say, America safer today because he's no longer in power. Welcome to New York, Nicolas. Okay. And then there was Kamala Harris. [00:03:52] She ignored any comparison to Netanyahu. Didn't come up for her. And his escaping justice. Instead, she focused on what she called an unlawful act by the Trump administration. She put it clearly Donald Trump's actions in Venezuela do not make America safer, stronger or more affordable. [00:04:08] That Maduro is brutal, illegitimate dictator does not change the fact that this action was both unlawful and unwise. We've seen this movie before Wars for regime change or oil that are sold as strength but turn into chaos, and American families pay the price. [00:04:24] So, Jake, I would like to know, you know, anything you want to add, but have you heard any lawmaker either side of the aisle address the hypocrisy that people are raising when it comes to Netanyahu or any member of the mainstream media? Because I watched the Sunday shows, I watched Stephanopoulos in particular. [00:04:42] He had some strong pushback for Rubio. But this other thing doesn't seem to come up. Yeah, of course, that's part of why, the Israeli lobby spent $45 million trying to defeat Mamdani. Because they have a mortal lock on almost everyone else in American politics. [00:05:02] But if they can't shut up the mayor of New York, that's a problem for them, because he's pointing out the hypocrisy here. One guy violated international law. Netanyahu. One guy killed 70. Well over 70,000 people, 20,000 children. [00:05:19] And the list goes on and on of all his war crimes. And our Congress gives him a standing ovation after standing ovation because they work for him and they're deeply corrupt. So the only other couple of guys that I've seen that are, you know, saying exactly the right things are, as usual, Bernie Sanders. [00:05:36] Ro Khanna. Right. But outside of like, the rogue populist left that actually cares about the truth and principles and the things that the actual average American cares about. There's a lot of cowardice, as usual. So a lot of hemming and hawing from Democrats, establishment Democrats behind [00:05:53] the scenes are leaking to the press that they're glad that Maduro was captured. And now Debbie Wasserman Schultz is going back in a second time. She's a Democrat, but a neocon. And, And so she loves the wars. And so she's like, oh, I like that we captured Maduro, [00:06:10] but we didn't do it quite the right way. That was her first swing. The second time she comes out and she goes, wait, wait wait wait wait. We need regime change. We're not doing this right. Wait. I thought you were a Democrat. I thought you were opposed to Trump. No, of course, that's Israel first. So they they want regime change, and and they're not going to stop [00:06:29] until they get regime change. Israel first is not the only or even the biggest factor here, but they are a factor. And and they're the ones who are saying not enough. We need regime change along with others. By the way, when the last time we did regime change in Iraq, 4500 Americans died, 32,000 were wounded, [00:06:49] and we lost several trillion dollars. 2026 just started. And like a lot of us, I've got some big personal goals here at TT. We believe in changing the world for the better. But to do that, I'm going to need the right team of people to make it happen. Let's be real. Sometimes it can be hard to find the right people who are that good at what they do. [00:07:07] It's like if you're hiring for your business, how do you find the best people for all the different roles on your team? Well, it turns out it's actually kind of easy because of ZipRecruiter. And right now you can try it for free@ziprecruiter.com. That's a great offer. They're matching technology works fast, so you find top talent [00:07:24] without wasting any time. You can instantly see how many qualified candidates are in your area and reach them directly. 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And does that mean we need to go and invade and take over his country [00:08:36] and steal their oil? So they. Oh, you want to let Maduro go? No, brother. But, yeah, I didn't want to kidnap him in the first place. I didn't want to start a war with Venezuela in the first place. Why? [00:08:51] Because that's illegal. It's unconstitutional. They never ask Congress. It's mental. It's going to lead to a quagmire where we're trying to occupy Venezuela, or we have to Slink away, embarrassed that they didn't do anything we told them to do. And then we just go, oh, never mind. [00:09:08] We'll forget it, I guess. Keep doing whatever you were doing. We cannot get them to comply with just threats. In order to give directions on the ground, you have to be on the ground. Otherwise it's not going to work. [00:09:23] So. And the deeper we get in it all. Look, honestly. We don't have a democracy. The donors are having a conversation about what they want. They get the way the system is set up is good cop, bad cop. [00:09:39] The Republicans are the bad cop that go, we don't care about law. We're invading Iraq and Halliburton and and ExxonMobil and Israel. And everybody's going to be ecstatic. And the voters are going to suffer. The service members and the military are going to suffer. We're going to take trillions from the taxpayers. [00:09:55] Who cares about them? That's what happened in Iraq. That's what happens every time. And that's what they're setting up to do in Venezuela. So. So they can tell me until they're blue in the face. Oh, I don't like Mamdani. And and I don't care about international law. And as we just reported, Matt Walsh says international law is gay, [00:10:13] so we shouldn't follow it. Okay, well, if you want to be dumb, that's not my problem. That's kind of your problem. No, laws are not gay. And remember, the Republican Party pretended my whole life that they were in favor of the rule of law and our Constitution, [00:10:30] and some of their voters actually do. But a lot of their voters, and certainly a lot of their, media hosts and politicians have to make up their mind, and so do the corporate Democrats. But they're always going to just have a festive over which donor to pleasure. We got to do a real rebellion in this country, a peaceful, nonviolent one, [00:10:50] to get rid of all these bums who are all corrupt and who all work for donors and will drag us into every war. And no matter who you vote for, go ahead, go ahead. Vote Democrat or Republican. You know what? You're going to get. War. You know what? You're going to get subsidies for corporations. [00:11:05] You know, we're going to get endless funding of Israel. You're always going to get the same results, because this is a giant, fraudulent theater that they're playing on all of us. And of course, the top actors are the ones on television pretending it's all real. [00:11:22] Yeah, that's what I saw. And, you know, I don't want to be a conspiracy theorist, but I saw an awful lot of, reporting on the gentleman who spoke up during the Maduro, President Maduro hearing today in front of a judge. [00:11:37] And they talked a lot about it. And like you said, no wonder. Okay, he's a bad guy. We got it. But that that's not the pivot that we're looking for right now, whether it was legal or not. And I didn't hear much of that from the mainstream media. He was on every channel. This person, it was it was as if it was all orchestrated to remind people that, [00:11:57] yeah, it might have been illegal. Yeah, but he was a really bad guy. So sometimes you just got to break the rules. I saw Erin Burnett right after this Venezuela attack happened, and she quoted the vice president of Venezuela saying that they're not going to necessarily listen to all of our orders. [00:12:14] And she was seemed outraged. She was like, this is their vice president thumbing their nose at us? Well, what did you think she was going to do? We just bombed Caracas, their capital. We just kidnaped her boss, the president. [00:12:29] And you expect her to just grovel to the people who attacked her country? Is that the expectation of the ludicrous people on cable news? These are the same exact people who lied to you 24 over seven and pretended [00:12:45] that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, and that Iraq was linked to al Qaeda and nine over 11. Both of those things were monstrous lies sold to you by the actors on television who are not in the news business at all. And what did you see right after we attacked Venezuela? [00:13:01] Every television station was showing celebrating Venezuelans. Now, are there real celebrating Venezuelans? Yes. Are there Venezuelans not happy with what we did? Yes. Does television show that? No. They're like, look, they love us. We're being greeted as liberators. [00:13:18] Oh, their leaders are thumbing their nose at us. How dare you not take our invasion politely and do exactly as you're ordered. Oh, I'm an objective news lady. Yeah, sure you are. - So don't. - Listen. They're going to write books. They write books to to rewrite history afterwards. [00:13:34] They they were there the whole time. They had these inside sources. Then they write books as if, you know, it didn't happen that way. But, you know, what do I know? No, no, Sharon, that's you're 100% right. And that's exactly what's going to happen. Later. Jake Tapper will write a book. Nobody could have seen that Venezuela war was going to turn [00:13:50] into a quagmire just like Iraq. Nobody could have seen that coming, Jake. We see it coming right now. Every time you ring the bell below, an angel gets his wings. Totally not true. But it does keep you updated on our live shows.