Luke Thomas Gets Political (LTGP)

Luke Thomas: Kanye West had apologized for his past insanity but Luke says that shouldn't mean too much, because the racism and antisemitism were never actually atoned for. The bigger question is why he gets to headline a tour anyway, and what that says about an era of moral decline where accountability barely factors into anyone's decisions.Luke connects the Kanye question to a broader shift: celebrities are finally speaking out on Israel and Gaza and distancing themselves from it. He points to precedents like John McEnroe refusing to play apartheid South Africa and the Beastie Boys' Tibet activism, and argues that the more social pressure that can be brought against the Israeli lobby, the better, even if some of these celebrities are only doing it for image.The live chat also gets into why Luke no longer engages with the MMA world on politics, a sincere answer to a 30-year-old asking where to start and who to trust, and the news that Canada's government has modeled a response to a potential US invasion. Luke's take on what the Canadian military concluded is worth hearing.Listen to the full conversation over on Luke's Substack: https://lthomas.substack.com/Luke Thomas Gets Political is a YouTube channel, a Substack, and a podcast. Subscribe here and turn on notifications so you catch every live chat.Chapters00:00 Has Kanye West Earned Any Grace?01:00 Living In An Era Of Moral Decline02:00 Trump Fosters Vandals And Looters02:20 Celebrities Finally Speaking Out On Gaza03:20 McEnroe, Beastie Boys, And Past Precedent04:15 Why Luke Ignores MMA Politics Now05:00 Where To Start If You Trust Nobody06:45 Canada Is Modeling A US Invasion07:45 How To Tell People This Election Matters

Luke Thomas talks about the latest in political news on his weekly live chat.

Luke Thomas joined Audie Cornish on CNN to discuss Trump's new memecoin dinner, trying to rehab Richard Nixon's crimes during Watergate and much more.#cnn #trump #lukethomas

Luke Thomas: Mitch McConnell can barely speak, yet he is still being wheeled through the US Senate to vote, and Luke Thomas argues the real scandal is that both parties treat this gerontocracy as normal. From Dianne Feinstein to Joe Biden to McConnell, Washington keeps propping up leaders in visible cognitive decline while staff quietly run the office.Luke opens with a viewer question: should anyone involved in the McConnell situation face legal consequences? That leads into a bigger conversation about what happens when Congress and the presidency become places where people die in office instead of stepping down. He walks through the Democratic precedent, the questions that were never answered about Biden, and why he is less worried about Trump 2028 than he used to be, even as the former president's own decline becomes harder to ignore.Listen to the full conversation over on Luke's Substack: https://lthomas.substack.com/Luke Thomas Gets Political is available as a YouTube channel, a Substack, and a podcast. Subscribe here on YouTube and turn on notifications so you never miss a live chat.Chapters00:00 Should McConnell's Staff Face Legal Consequences?00:20 Feinstein, Biden, And The Bipartisan Precedent01:25 Trump 2028 And His Cognitive Decline02:10 Weekend At Bernie's Legislating02:55 Not A Serious Country Anymore03:40 Normalizing Decline In Congress04:25 He's Cooked And Everyone Knows It05:10 Why Both Parties Are Guilty

Luke Thomas: How the US and Western media sold a genocide in Gaza. Luke explains how an existing playbook was used by Israel to try and excuse, justify and deny its genocide against Palestine.Luke argues that what shifted public understanding was not traditional media but the New York Times or the Washington Post but social media and non-Western outlets, including Al Jazeera crews who were killed doing the job, in a conflict he says became the deadliest for journalists in modern history. He walks through why he sees the ceasefire as not real, why the policy from Biden to Trump has not moved, and why his own view was shaped early by his Lebanese mother. Then he explains the string that people like Scott Galloway refuse to pull: October 7th leads to Hamas, Hamas leads to the occupation, and the occupation leads to the Nakba and questions about the entire project. Chapters00:35 How To Sell A Genocide02:00 Gaza's Journalist Death Toll02:45 Biden, Trump, And An Unchanged Israeli Policy06:00 Santa Marta Shut Down By A Militia07:00 Uribe's False Positives And Petro's Peace07:45 You Can't Beat Poverty With Guns#gaza #lukethomas #israeliranwar

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Luke Thomas discusses Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov interviewing Abdul El-Sayed about Israel's genocide in Gaza.#scottgalloway #lukethomas #gaza

Luke Thomas explains how centrist Democrats from California like Gavin Newsom, Rob Bonta, Karen Bass and Xavier Becerra folded to allow the Paramount-Warner Brothers Discovery merger to go through and further enrich Larry and David Ellison.#hollywood #paramountplus #lukethomas

Can Joe Rogan redeem himself after endorsing Trump? Luke Thomas says everyone deserves grace, but Rogan laundered the reputation of MAGA's inner circle and helped make ideas palatable that are now wrecking ordinary lives, from mass deportations to the gutting of the university system.A viewer question about Rogan opens into a broader argument about what the right is doing to the institutions that built American prosperity. Luke walks through the damage: the largest mass firing of PhDs in history, research funding torched, alliances discarded, and a food supply so shaky that a restaurant-owner friend called him personally to warn him off eating beef. The people doing this, he argues, disdain the very things responsible for American greatness because they never rose through them. Listen to the full conversation over on Luke's Substack: https://lthomas.substack.com/Subscribe for more political commentary, live chats, and paid question segments. Luke Thomas Gets Political is on YouTube, Substack, and wherever you get your podcasts.Chapters00:00 Can Joe Rogan Be Redeemed?00:50 Rogan Laundering MAGA's Inner Circle01:40 The Cost Of Mass Deportations02:20 UFC Burning Universities, Research, And Beef03:40 Advice For Leftists: Don't Hide Your Views04:30 The Hasan Piker Iran Nukes Freakout05:20 Kim Jong Un Is Vindicated08:00 Reckoning With American Empire's Crimes

Luke Thomas: Elephant Graveyard's final Rogan video nails who Joe Rogan is now and his relationship with Peter Thiel.Luke explains why it hit close to home. Then Dave Portnoy defends billionaires colluding to keep Macklemore off stage, and Luke calls it comical on its face.A viewer asks whether Rogan is simply not a good person. Luke, having interacted with him for years, is hesitant to go that far, but says Rogan is easily duped and gives little thought to the motivations of the people he platforms, which is his own fault. That leads to a candid reflection on Luke's own slow withdrawal from MMA over the past two years. Listen to the full conversation over on Luke's Substack: https://lthomas.substack.com/Subscribe for more political commentary, live chats, and paid question segments. Luke Thomas Gets Political is on YouTube, Substack, and wherever you get your podcasts.Chapters00:00 Elephant Graveyard's Joe Rogan Video00:45 Is Rogan A Bad Person Or Duped?01:30 Why Luke Withdrew From MMA03:30 Why Luke Doesn't Watch Joe Rogan 05:00 Portnoy Defends Robert Kraft05:45 $72 Million In Public Funds07:00 The Israel Lobby And Civil Liberties