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Brother Séamus joins us to review the week’s momentous events in the Middle East - Iranian missile strikes into Israel, Israeli incursion into Lebanon, ongoing massacres, straining relationships with the Gulf States, sclerotic-to-nonexistent US response, and of course, adult circumcision.

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Collin

¡No Pasaran!

Waffle Poet

I never really expected to hear Mr. Malekafzali laugh, but he has a *incredible* cackle. What an entrance. Very infectious! Thank you Séamus and Mr. Chapo.

JD Nonce

This served as a reminder for me to buy Matt’s book, which I have now done. Let’s all support the big man! Let’s push through to Behold a Fail Horse

rocketfodder

Things aren't great and it seems like a lot of people don't mind

Erik Bourre

Slop receptors are ready

Shmohawk

Jim Sussudio

Tyler

Beruit is the Saudi failson playground, they are devasted. prayers up

interzoa

"There is a silent acknowledgement here that norms can no longer be afforded to exist"

12345

The reaction that enrages me the most is all the "look at this amazing strike 'we' did" that you see from some Israelis and Americans. The fucking frothing over demolished city blocks because of how 'cool' they think it is.

gamerunknown

My uncle was circumcised at 14 in Algeria, I can only assume they do it then to discourage jacking off

K H

I only condone one Norm.

Major Powers

Are you guys going to live stream the election night show or nah?

K H

Nonsense statement.

Jake Dickman

No discussion of the crisis facing the residents of Western North Carolina and Eastern Tennessee? I’m getting sick of your politics. You’ve always disdained the south east. Fuck yall im cancelling my subscription

K H

Yea...idk to what extent the new generation is internalizing this. I think a sizeable minority of people realize the Vietcong were completely morally correct, so I wonder at what point that same number of people will reach a similar conclusion about 9/11. Not sure it matters or not either way.

Last Years Man

Not only has the bear hug strategy left Israel with no "out," it's left America with no out too. At this point, there is no way the US can cut support for Israel without looking like total hypocrites. At the same time, if a war does occur and Israel loses, that's the end of American 'soft power' abroad. Even if you evaluate America's position on its own terms, Biden's strategy, or lack there of, is going to have devastating effects.

Last Years Man

"The administration is clearly drawing a line, it's not just clear what that line is." I'd like everybody to pause and really digest that sentence for a second, because it's easy to miss just how absurd it is.

Gertjan

What’s the Allahuakbar song?

Jonathan Nathan

Okay when does “showing resolve” and “proving that they’ll hit harder next time” stop being acceptable as a metric of strategic success? Iran ain’t about shit until they prove otherwise.

Andrew Cross

No mention of fighter jets by Felix, Will mentions the F-35 program

Jake Dickman

Pointing out to political hypocrisy = Tantrum

Regular guy

To be fair I think they're playing catch-up this week bc Israel tried to start WW3 right before the silly Eric Adams episode they had all planned out.

mersham has some bad news

these guys seem to get all their news from democracynow. cluess. and whats worse not funny. israel would have nuked irans nuclear sites if ballistics defeated sling

Smallbusinessman

Hasbara aint sending their best to the Chapo comments section

Last Years Man

Yes, because every time you don't mention something that is happening in the world, it means you don't care. I'll be sure to remember that.

Creamy Goodness

It was easy to rip on the IDF when they got caught pants down a year ago. “This isn’t your grandfathers IDF…” etc. But it seems as though they are very back; using dozens of bunker busters to dig 160 feet underground to get nasrallah, sustained commando raids into lebanon and meeting hezbollahs elite units while sustaining casualties though managing complex casualty evacs, bombing a Russian controlled airbase in Syria, getting Hezbollahs officer class to use pagers then killing tons of them, then doing it again with their radios, this is in fact in the end vintage mossad and idf. I still despise them, but they are cooking. They are telling all their neighbors they can get it. Some IRGC and most Hezbollah leaders are dead. While the IDF could push into Lebanon then get bogged down and torn up, they have momentum.

Creamy Goodness

Its not davids sling or iron dome. The arrow 2 system apparently only fires at objects calculated to land in dense or high value targets. Its entirely reasonable to assume the shahed 2s 50% likelihood to land within 500 meters of their target (the open source accuracy of the system) means the missiles may have hit around the air bases but not priority targets.

Jake Dickman

I have zero doubts that if Chapo was broadcasting when Hurricane Sandy struck NYC they’d be giving ample coverage to the situation whereas when a natural disaster that has had a comparatively larger impact and wiped out the supply of water to 100,000 people and which will not be restored for months, and where the federal response has by some measures been completely inadequate, because the region affected is in an area that they have conspicuously avoided ever doing live shows and which on at least one occasion they have made demeaning comments about the people there, they are silent. Fuck you for making me draw this distinction and fuck you once more for your condescending sanctimonious response and fuck you thrice over for not caring about the people in the region.

William

David’s sling and the Arrow3 systems were ineffective at shooting down the missile attack. There’s video evidence showing this

Creamy Goodness

It seems the “axis of resistance” has no capacity for deterrence. Reports of israels demise are greatly exaggerated.

William

This is all weighed against the likelihood that the totally sane and not rabid, extreme right wingers in charge of the government don’t order nukes placed on planes and flown towards Iran

mersham has some bad news

none of this would be a problem of hostages were returned. thats what these morons refuse to acknowledge. your precious terrorists refuse to end their own peoples suffering.

William

I think discussing the brewing nuclear war trumps discussion about flooding in a place where it still hard to get in contact with people. At any rate don’t remember you making much of a fuss when eastern ky was flooded

Nolan

Very funny for a guy who converted to Judaism at 35 to be like “haha classic Jewish humor” 🤣

William

It sounds like someone is mad that Hamas, Iran, and hezbollah keep whooping the ass of the super smart ultra technologically advanced idf. Did the Isrally special forces getting their asses beat by Hezbollah regulars make you squeeze your peepee in rage?

Jake Dickman

This is the second most deadly storm since Katrina and the extent of devastation is quite simply larger than any recent natural disaster. The inadequate response of local, state and federal agencies absolutely merits consideration and your perspective is frankly dehumanising and juvenile.

William

What exactly would deter isreal? It sounds like the Hezbollah resistance in the 2006 conflict deterred them from making the same mistake for a whole generation

Peri

if you still think that israel gives a single fuck about the hostages or that ANY of this has to do with the hostages you’re honestly just a dumbass sorry

William

Okay, so you didn’t follow the east ky floods at all then. Is this one more important because it hits close to home for you? Because that would actually be what you’re accusing other people of acting like. I’ve been hearing about it from family south of the epicenter and from other sources talking about it. Why is it so important that chapo say something RIGHT NOW

Evan

What's the song at the end

William

I’d love to see the dumbass dems fuck up the bag AGAIN by getting the oil market destroyed, but we may be too close to the election for it to impact in a significant way

Ryan Humphrey

I don't usually venture into the comments but is this normal? Why are you here? Don't you have to pay to be here? What's your deal?

Doug Cartel

It kind of sounds like israel is having its post-9/11 Pre-OIF moment where they're certain of their long goals but stumped for short term ideas, like ok, maybe we could surprise al qaeda by invading Nicaragua

mersham has some bad news

ur head would if spin u saw how fast american support stop once hostages are returned.

mersham has some bad news

i just want felix to talk about metal gear again… is that too much to ask for?! whats have i done to deserve this tasteless slop!? oh yea right… ok carry on

mersham has some bad news

yea, didnt thing nasrallah could be gotten so easily. ill miss saying his name… in russian it roughly translates into “she shits on”

William

Just fuck off already you lil bitch

Chris

Did Tablet send one of their interns to create this annoying gormless scum account after that roasting on Tuesday?

Matthew Krueger

That whole notion of an attack being unsuccessful, or having failed BECAUSE no civilians are harmed... It's giving the real game away. It's dark, but shorn of any connection to, or sense of, a shared humanity it's also coldly logical: kill the people and you kill your enemy. You don't even have to kill all of them, just enough to destabilize the government so the next government will accept a slower suffocation as opposed to immediate destruction, and be more compliant to the needs of empire. It's just a scaled up version of what the US has been doing all over the world since the end of world war 2. Gaza has shown us that people don't matter. So my next question is: how far are the oil fields from Tehran, are they far enough away that they won't be destroyed by a nuke?

Nott Hemon

Theres a big reason why early christianity made a big deal about saying “Hey gentile converts dont have to get circumcised.”

Nico

It's too bad Netanyahu has systematically sabotaged all the ceasefire/hostage negotiations.

Dick Waglin

Love to hear a coach Mcguirk clip. Home movies is in the top five get drunk and rewatch for the 1000th time

Nico

The Fattah-1 missiles that Iran used in this attack are much more accurate, and a great number of them (~30) hit Nevatim airbase. Granted, it's mostly empty space, so the damage was not that severe. But I think you're right that Arrow 2 (or Arrow 3) rather than David's Sling would've been the systems to intercept this barrage.

Nico

Israeli Chapo fan just now learning that the Chapo boys are not pro-Israel.

fugitivedocument

The Iranian missile strike was a massive blow to the Zionist regime. Seventy-six years of ethno supremacism and ethnic cleansing demonstrate the racism and racial hierarchy of the west. Israel is not a state it is a racist colony where the people call themselves the “chosen people.” No one should stand for this nonsense. Jews, Christians, and Muslims are all equal. The Zionist regime constantly carries out slaughter, genocide, and a fucking holocaust in Palestine. The Zionist regime has no right to exist.

Nico

Israel is good at intelligence and at blowing things up, but their ground troops are absolute dogshit.

Nico

Don't let me stop you from jacking off to the IDF's killing spree, though.

dingbat44

Chris Wade is going to be beaten severly for interrupting daddy Will by pointing out Matt's book is about the SPANISH Civil war

krumping4

if there had never been any hostages the situation would be about the same

lin hou

Liked Seamus's thoughts on TNC & his take on complexity & victim/victimization. Very thought provoking & a different way of talking about TNC's comments.

Kamran Husain

yeah i ain’t gay but like aren’t you supposed to to give it a little smooch afterwords or was cumtown wrong?

Matthew Krueger

Jake, I hope things are ok for you. I literally can't imagine what that kind of catastrophe feels like to have happening all around you. The hilariously stupid fact of the world is that there's no shortage of catastrophes happening right now though, and I'd say that most of us are grey wolves for the view of what's happening in the world outside of the one you get from the NYT and CNN and the American mainstream press. The politics is what I'm here for, but I can see how that might be very frustrating if I was surrounded by some other crisis. I'm sure that someday there'll be a show about this hurricane response which is sadly hilarious and depressing. When they do that one, if it ends up being a paid one, I'll request that it be unlocked in your memory. In all seriousness though, take care of yourself and best of luck.

krumping4

these are faster, more accurate and more maneuverable than even Zolfaghars, there's no calculating where they will land. they can probably stay out of the arrow-3 engagement envelope entirely.

TLT

Christ, the Tony Doki Doki Literature Club segment made me have to get up and walk around to calm down. Bless Seamus btw <3

Greg

Big win for the ILA!

Ozzie

Knew that Coach Mcguirk drop was coming as soon as I heard that guys name

brando

hate to be the bearer of bad news on this front, but it's a little insane to claim that half of the IOF's f-35s were taken out in the strike - we have a lot of satellite imagery of nevatim air base, and the hangar that got hit houses transport and tanker aircraft, not fighters, and damage to the runways and taxiways was pretty marginal. it was more of a psychological/messaging/symbolic victory than a significant military action

Matthew Krueger

Gormless, another way of interpreting your post is "If they had just been happy in the open air prison we made for them, none of this would have happened." And as far as "your precious terrorists" goes, we didn't make them they aren't "ours". The folks here are mostly all about wishing the conditions that led to their creation had somehow managed not to exist in the first place. And if you can take that as somehow being anti-semetic or suggesting that it means that Jews don't have a right to exist, well, I mean, lots of people nowadays do I guess.

Jaime Christley

by now everybody knows about Nick Cave's pitch for GLADIATOR 2, in which Maximus is revealed as, thanks to his unquenchable desire to avenge his family, cursed to wage war for eternity, eventually ending up at the Pentagon. (Russell Crowe's response: "Don't like it, mate") what Brett McGurk suggests is, what if Maximus was a complete buffoon

William

There’s no way you are looking at the satellite images of nevatim; so you must be taking someone else’s word for it

oblong pans

Be normal Challenge failed

Dark Belden

Lazy and barely literate. Now that’s Hasbara baby.

Dillon

British guy here, I don’t know how you lot put up with circumcision. Physically shuddered during the reading series

T

The only adult I know who has been circumcised became despondent and suicidal in the months and years after the snip. The loss of sensation ruined sex for him. Word on the street is he can only bust now while having aggressive and degrading sex.

Dark Belden

Hope you’re doing alright man. FWIW trillbillies are on it.

Will

Did felix let some kind of slur slip that seamus didnt like lol

Stephen David Miller

There’s one norm that has held strong through all of this, and that’s Finkelstein

Leonardo DiCaprizoliano

Yeah, he called Biden a “mick.” Séamus is part Irish so he took some seemingly humorous offense to it.

Conner

As an Irish American I’m giving Felix the mick pass

Christian Sarkis Graham

Seamus makes a good point -- “The only true explanation for why you would propose that Jews and Judaism and Israel have a complex and nuanced history and nobody else does, is if you truly and honestly believe that Jews are exceptional and it has to be enforced through supremacy.” Meanwhile the Israeli state openly financed and congratulated Azerbaijan’s ethnic cleansing of the Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh last year, and the settler community has since taken to bulldozers and intimidation tactics to claim 25% of the Armenian Quarter in Jerusalem after a shady and un-finalized transaction. Regarding Israel considering their historic plight as ‘unique,’ the reason we have the legal term of ‘genocide’ in the first place was out of an attempt to name what happened to Armenians by a different Turkic nation in 1915. Israel not only neglects this, but plays an active hand in it all happening to them again – in not one, but two centuries-long Armenian ethnic homelands. It’s so bewildering how none of what’s happening to these people ever gets talked about, for how it’s taking place so concurrently, and is so closely related to the rest of Israel’s actions, which are under such open scrutiny. You just had the Eric Adams episode where you mention how Turkey stipulated he can’t mention the Armenian Genocide, and scratched your collective heads as to why. It’s related to this. No injustices suffered by these people – past, present or future – must ever be acknowledged or validated. But rather, actively neglected and passively permitted.

triplevalaska

For real. guys on here saying half f35 destroyed and everything going to yeman and hezbolah plan cause they wanted the moral victory. Kinda seems like everything is going exactly to israel plan. I'm betting hezbolah is done, and it won't even be the Israeli who do most of it the Lebanonese people will over throw them, read some articles about how hated they are in Lebanon, and they are looking quite weak

Cy Parker

For more circumcision content, be sure to check out Transformers ONE

Jake Dickman

Alright thanks man I might have overreacted you got some good points about other coverage. Just frustrated at the lack of coverage generally and was hopeful it would get some coverage from chapo. But as Mr Belden pointed out below Trillbillies are on it.

Jake

i think felix said “mick” and seamus jokingly referred to it as “the M word”

J. A.

Felix biden isn't Irish hes German. He likes it when you call him a mick.

ray hafez

Hearing the words "Fat White Family" in this comment section gives me incredibly unwanted flashbacks to south London gigs circa 2015

Kinetics Video

I've read Putin's regime is also on the ropes and bound to be overthrown by his own people any minute now

12345

Those tiktoks of white parents of black kids learning to braid hair but it's circumcised parents of uncircumcised children.

Valerie Maybe

Matthew Miller = Count Chocula 🤣😆😂

No

Intact Gang stays winning

Ham Stroker’s Jackula

On the whole do you think this will reach them and change their minds or just be a shout into the void only noticed by me and one other guy?

Clammy_Damp

Sommelier of cartoons Chris Wade with the Home Movies

K H

What do you mean marginal damage to runways? Fighters of any kind aren't worth much without tankers either. Additionally, if they hit runways and tankers they probably hit whatever else was sitting outside. Being a stealth fighter does no good sitting still on the ground. Faking images also isn't remotely new. No way to know what was hit unless you're there in which case I wouldn't believe you.

Jessica S

Dying over Felix’ circumcision conundrum. I think pediatricians can give cleaning guidance. lol

Alex E

the people demand a tulsa king s2 episode

Creamy Goodness

I generally agree. I dont like israel. Im remarking that the israel of a year ago - laughable, with an endless parade of 20 year old colonels - has been replaced with what appears to be a highly capable apparatus. I sincerely believed Hezbollah would wash their a**** in the course of an invasion. They did a remarkable job of degrading them beforehand. I was wrong.

Creamy Goodness

Idk. I thought they were a shadow of their former selves. That was a running joke by felix. That they were resting on the martial laurels of their grandfathers but it appears they are highly lethal against actual military orgs like Hezbollah.

Creamy Goodness

This was true maybe a year ago but the IDF is absolutely shredding their neighbors now and said neighbors seem impotent.

Jessica Rios

Chris, please be honest. Is there any possibility of more signed books? I am holding off on buying the book due to the hope of more signed ones.

ab

The coach McGuirk drop was just *muah*, chefs kiss.

Michael

“It’s not complicated, it’s super simple.” Michael Brooks on Israel/Palestine.

Kyle Erickson

To Felix: I am a circumcised man with an uncircumcised son. The doctors’ instructions seemed pretty straightforward, but he’s only a month old so we’ll see

smooth trill player

i do, in fact, get all my news from democracy now (and AJ)

smooth trill player

they’re really good at absolutely indiscriminate death from above, that tough guy shit

Based and Tylenol Pilled

Im not gay, I just like my gay porn to be gangbangs with huge delicious cocks

Jon

I don’t really get why Israel isn’t bloviating about how they’re the victim of this Iran attack. Isn’t that their whole bit? Why downplay it?

Kyle

Loving this discussion and the Chapo coverage of this topic. Also can’t wait to hear an episode covering the ongoing port strike

brando

again, there's a lot of open-source (that is, independent, private company) satellite imagery that's been independently vetted and confirmed, like the ones I linked to. nothing would be sitting outside by the time the missiles hit unless the IDF is even more incompetent than we thought (which I can't rule out), it takes a while for missiles to actually impact after launch - you could even see a number of their tankers take off on the flight tracking websites immediately before the missiles hit for that exact reason. even ignoring that entirely, it's pretty clear that their air force is still operational since they've been busy bombing residential neighborhoods in lebanon and syria the past few days. but really that wasn't the goal of this strike, iran has a lot more missiles than the ~200 they shot in this attack - this attack was proof that they're accurate enough to hit the right area and overcome IOF missile defenses, when they actually want to ground the IAF and make the bases unusable, the next volley can be triple the size.

Creamy Goodness

Will's audio levels still vary wildly wtf.

CS

“There’s nothing wrong with dirty fighting.”

Phil N

Ahhhh the CBT episode

Robert Aitken

also applies to cleaning an uncircumcised dick

Robert Aitken

should have talked about it when they had Adomian on

Christian Sarkis Graham

Haha, yeah, I thought that too as it was happening. I was sort of waiting for it to come up, even sort of passingly. From how he talks about it, he seems at least decently connected to that part of his background.

Robert Aitken

I had an adult circumcision at birth cos it was so big

Dick Waglin

God damn youre old and god damn you for reminding me

Brian Pierson

My family watches CBS this Morning. That interview was one of the most racist things I have ever seen on TV and nothing will happen to this dude.

lookylou

I love these 8 minute bangers

July17

I wonder if McGurk ever bought swords off an infomercial

Fat Cobra

If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?

brendo

None of this would be a problem if Palestinians were given a state/political rights

Crispined Glover Potato Snacks

As I understand it, Israel's marketing strategy is to inflate the danger of "Terrorist orgs" like Hamas, Hezbollah, and Houthis and deflate the danger of actual internationally recognized nation states like Iran. This creates a permission structure for other countries in North America & Europe to continue to pretend that the genocide is is a simple police action that they can take care of themselves, similar to how the state of Mexico talks about the cartels in northern Mexico, instead of the genocide being called a war that the international community needs to do something about, similar to Russia & Ukraine.

Darius Arian

Felix using an anti-Irish slur while momentarily forgetting that his friend named Seamus is also Irish has me cackling, what a man.

Eric

OK but what about when it gets bigger? How am I supposed to wash my teenage son’s intact dick??

Kyle Barry

Will has an ugly, pagan, nasty Euro cock noted

Podcast subscriber 78

If this is what they talk about, I’m really fucking glad I skipped the last 16minutes of Them going into detail about that guy’s article.

winograddsky

I'm a simple man; I see Séamus Malekafzali on the pod, I click the play button

Noctor

Suggested pronunciations of the double cut dude—Count Dookupill if you’re a fan of Star Wars or Ducosate…pill which is a stretch tbh but it’s a hard one to pass

th

wtf where's mulder rnt u supposed to be catching aliens and such

Kendall Hauerwas

Listening to this while on the hip Adduction machine was a choice.

Isaac

You might want to get tested for COVID because your sense of taste is absolutely fucked

Isaac

What was the goal of this comment? Like what specifically did you want people reading it to take away?

Isaac

Funny how Will mentioned the F-35’s as an example of reports being all over the place and it being hard to know what to believe, then every commenter shilling for Israel is pulling their hair out over it. It was such a throwaway remark, but look at the psychological toll it’s taken on these people.

Isaac

Hi 👋 guess I’m the other guy

Watermane

OK I will now get more into weapon systems damn it

K H

Are those independent satellite imaging companies sitting over Israel anything like the independent walkie talkie and pager companies? Can't even get accurate GPS data in the region, I'm dubious of any imagery being produced. I don't use twitter so I can't see that shit. They don't know exactly where missiles are going to hit because the path can't be known from the origin. They could simply always launch everything into the air everytime there is an alert, which is not a small undertaking, especially if the runways are damaged early enough. If 1/10 that number are launched, will they launch the whole fleet? If 1/10 are launched over 10 hours are they going to stay up that whole time? Maybe they will idk. It doesn't take that many fighters to bomb Gaza. You're bombing Detroit from...Detroit. If they can hit the runways with any accuracy we will see who Israel's real friends are because they will not be able to land back home.

GG Allin Dulles

You take him to the groomer, you just drop him off with a guy who people are saying grooms teenage boys and he comes home with a clean dick and a soft shiny coat, simple as

K H

Based?

K H

Is that a sex thing?

K H

Was CBS the one where that dude was like "Mexicans are coming over the border bringing diseases" or some such? I think he got fired. Different times. Anyways don't worry kids, Santa is White.

K H

For a Jew.

K H

All passes are freely distributed once you become White.

Fat Cobra

Far from it, dude

Robert Aitken

the part about the circumcision was made up for the purpose of the joke

J. A.

You jacked it to that part don't lie

Jake Dickman

Yeah got some traction actually