Bombs 4 Terrorists - September 15, 2026

Thomas Massie (0:00)

I don't care about you, I just want you to vote.

Mahmoud Khalil (0:01)

I'm so upset, my God.

Ana Kasparian (0:14)

Good evening, America and the rest of the world. If you woke up this morning and you were fortunate enough to do so, you are poorer today than you were yesterday, unless of course you're an Israeli. In that case, you are just absolutely reveling in the absolute destruction of various countries across the globe because of Israel's absolute obsession with war. We're going to talk about the economy, nothing's good. There are no good updates for you all, okay? And the next time you pump gas at a gas station, just remember it's not just Trump who did that. It's also Israel who did that. And the media tends to forget about how we came to this awful place we all find ourselves in, but I will walk you through it in case you need a reminder. Welcome to The Young Turks, I'm your host, Ana Kasparian, and today's show is full of bad news. Because we live in America, led by buffoons. Right now, specifically led by the Republican Party, but buffoonery is not a partisan issue, that's for sure. And as we barrel toward the midterms, many Americans have deluded themselves into thinking that voting for the right people make all the difference in the world. It won't, but nonetheless, go ahead and vote with the assumption that someway, somehow, one party is better than the other. Obviously, I'm in a furious mood today. And part of the reason why I'm in a furious mood is because, as we all know, without a shadow of a doubt, our current economic situation is a complete and utter disaster. We are over $40 trillion in debt. Yet, the Trump administration has decided they're going to continue picking your pocket, American taxpayers, in the middle of this inflationary environment, in the middle of this energy shortage, to send more weapons to Israel. We are going to fund the weapons. By the way, how's inflation doing in Israel? Not so bad, huh? Not so bad. Anyway, we'll get to that at the top of the show. We'll also fill you in on the latest updates in regard to oil and gas infrastructure that's been destroyed in the Middle East. And what the oil experts are saying we have in our near future. Later in the show, we'll also talk about how the Supreme Court has shot down Trump's mail-in ballot executive order. At this point, I don't even care. Of course, the Republicans will continue trying to make it harder for people to vote by mail, even as our loathsome, disgusting buffoon up a president insists on voting by mail himself. Anyway, so let's just get started. I'm not in the mood to dilly dally at all today.

Everyone should look out for whoever I'm doing a live read for today cuz I'm really not in the mood. But with that in mind, let's get to our first story.

President Donald Trump is picking Americans' pockets yet again. What for? Well, specifically to provide Israel with another $2.8 billion arms package. An arms package that Israel, a country that dragged us into a disastrous war that's tanking the global economy, doesn't really have to worry about paying for. We are paying for those weapons. We, the American people, who live in a country that currently has a federal debt up to $40 trillion, a past $40 trillion at this point, we are going to go ahead and fund a genocidal terrorist state's weaponry so they can continue carrying out more genocide, more ethnic cleansing, more slaughter of innocents in the name of their empire building project. Congratulations, America. Congratulations. I hope you guys are enjoying that $6 a gallon gas in some states. Sweet, isn't it? Real sweet. So this was a story that broke today. It was reported by the Washington Post. And as you can tell, I'm furious about it. The fact that other Americans don't seem to be furious about it blows my mind. Are you enjoying living in increasingly impoverished situations as we fund a genocidal terrorist state? Do you enjoy it? Let me know if you do.

The weapons that Americans will be bankrolling for these genociders includes 40,000 bombs that weigh 2,000 pounds each, including 20,000 MK-84s and 20,000 BLU-117s. The sale also includes 20,000 I-2,000 penetrator warheads. Now, if you have no experience with these types of bombs or you never served in the military, you're probably asking, okay, well, what does this all mean? L-2000s or I-2000s are used to attack hardened structures. And as we know, Israel really has a knack for wiping out entire villages as they've been doing in southern Lebanon. Dozens of villages wiped off the face of the earth, not just Muslim villages, which is deplorable enough as it is. Muslim and Christian villages, while they lie to your face and tell you they're going after Hezbollah, okay? These people are scorch on humanity, but let me continue. BLU-117s are a variant of the MK-84, and it has a thermal protective coating to make it harder for attacks to destroy them. So it's safer to place them in naval storage. And among the most destructive munitions in western military arsenals, an MK-84 explosion sends metal fragments in every direction for thousands of feet, can rip through metal and thick concrete, and often creates large craters in the earth. Israel has drawn criticism for routinely dropping MK-84s in zones it designated as safe for civilians. You guys remember the beginning of the genocide in Gaza? You guys remember that cute little trick that the Israelis would play? Where they would tell Palestinian civilians in the north to evacuate for safety to the south. And then as these civilians evacuated to the south, you want to know what the Israelis did? They would drop these bombs on them. They would wipe out entire families with these bombs. That's what the Israelis do. In fact, if you know anything about the story of Hind Rajab, the little five or six-year-old girl, it's reported differently depending on where you read the story. But let's go with five-year-old. Five-year-old Hind Rajab, who the Israelis fired literally hundreds of bullets at as she remained trapped in a vehicle full of her dead relatives, that Hind Rajab, that's the little girl I'm talking about, they killed her, of course. So what Israel does, they're killing machines. What had happened was, her family listened to the evacuation orders. They were living in the north. So she and her family evacuated to the south, and then her family realized, the Israelis are telling us to evacuate to the south so they can bomb us in the south. So they decided to go back home. But as they went back home, they realized they're bombing the north now. And as Hind Rajab and her relatives attempted to flee the north to the south, that's when their vehicle came under attack by the Israelis.