Cope & Disorder - July 6, 2026

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**SPEAKER_5** (2:17)
I understand sports really well.

**SPEAKER_6** (2:18)
And he gave him a red card. I didn't know what that meant.

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I played baseball, but it was sort of slow.

**SPEAKER_6** (3:08)
All right, welcome to The Young Turks.

**SPEAKER_7** (3:09)
Cenk Uygur, Ana Kasparian with you guys. I'm in a bit of a rage, so let's see how it turns out on today's show. And it's not even over one of the stories in the rundown.

**Cenk Uygur** (3:18)
The stories in the rundown are enraging enough. Iran, Turkey, are they going to reoccupy the Middle East? Are they gonna get into a giant war with Israel?
Whose side are we gonna be on?

**SPEAKER_7** (3:29)
Of course not our actual NATO allies.

**Cenk Uygur** (3:31)
Don't be ridiculous.
Israel above all, I'm told every single day, but then said, no, it's not real. Anyways, Israel and their henchman, the Gestapo, named Mainstream Media in this country just did a great job of character assassination on Graham Plattner.
So no comment on the substance of the story. Here's what I have a comment on. Are they ever going to investigate any insiders like Susan Collins and Chuck Schumer and every other politician that works for Israel? Of course not. Everyone who works for Israel gets a free pass, 100% free pass. Nothing will ever be investigated. You oppose Israel during a campaign, all of a sudden the press, what did you do in 1987 at 1:30 PM?

**SPEAKER_6** (4:16)
That's it, you investigate every girlfriend, every job, every tattoo, right? Right, right?

**Cenk Uygur** (4:21)
Bunch of BS. So the mainstream media doesn't even work for this country. It works for a different country, just like our government does. We are so thoroughly occupied. And every single time people think it's a coincidence.
The anti-Israel candidate, such as they are, only a couple of them exist, will get everything investigated, every single nook and cranny. You're for Israel, sheesh, sheesh, no investigations. Okay, I got it, man, but I can't bear it anymore. I can't bear it. This nonstop propaganda for Israel, a different country, a tiny irrelevant country. No, you all have to care. I don't care. I don't care about Israel, okay?
So no, I'm not constitutionally required to care about Papa New Guinea. But here we are. So the rest of this rundown will be about how Israel is gonna drag us into every goddamn war. And we're gonna fight against it, and everyone in media is gonna call us names. And they're all gonna say, you owe Israel. So let's do the show, all right. So let's start with how the first story, which is about, we might have gotten Iran's public opinion wrong. Really, I wonder if it's because Israeli propaganda machine is pretending to be our news media. Okay, let's get into it.
So what you're looking at there is maybe the largest memorial service in the history of humanity. That is for the Grand Ayatollah in Iran. There are reports that 12 million people showed up, and Trump expressed shock. He didn't know that if he bombed their country, that they might rally around the flag.
So more on the developments of this story, both the substance of what's happening in Iran, but also the moron that is Donald Trump and our media, who apparently thought, no, if we murder all of their leaders, including the equivalent of their pope, I bet the Iranian people will love us. It turns out they didn't, Ana.

**Ana Kasparian** (6:22)
Yes, so the funeral, I should note, also honored the Ayatollah's daughter, daughter-in-law, son-in-law, and 14-year-old granddaughter, who was also slaughtered by US-Israeli strikes in the opening salvo of the war against Iran beginning February 28th. Now, it certainly did have a rallying around the flag effect, and you saw it on the streets of Iran over the weekend. And by the way, the ceremonies are continuing into today, and you will see large crowds in Iran today as well. But there was one person missing, and that was the new Ayatollah, Moshe Bah Kamenei, who did not attend. Now, there is speculation about his injuries sustained in some of these US-Israeli strikes in the beginning of the war. There are also some concerns for his safety if he had shown up to the funeral.