Dave Portnoy Has NO Clue What He’s Talking About

Luke Thomas - former US Marine - reacts to Barstool Sports idiot Dave Portnoy's claims anyone questioning Trump's Iran war is a traitor.

Portnoy's defense of Trump's military carpet bombing an elementary school was “Well, he knows things we don’t" - so he has already lost the debate. The right wing media machine doesn’t deal in substance. It runs on vibes, loyalty tests, and zero accountability.

Meanwhile, Larry Ellison is quietly assembling what could be the largest media concentration in any non-autocratic country’s history. If the Warner Bros. Discovery deal goes through, an oligarchical class will control more media assets than we’ve ever seen in America. It’s a direct challenge to antitrust law, and the California Attorney General may be the only thing standing in the way.

We also get into what’s happening with Iranian Americans caught between hating the regime and not wanting to watch their country get bombed, the distinction between concentration camps and death camps that scholars have spent decades studying, and how the current mass detainment of 75,000 people fits a historical pattern that should alarm everyone regardless of political persuasion.

Independent media matters more now than ever. Find sources you trust. Do the work. Nobody else is going to do it for you.

Listen to the full conversation over on Luke’s Substack: https://lthomas.substack.com/

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Chapters

00:00 Portnoy’s Blind Loyalty to Trump

00:40 Right Wing Vibes Over Substance

01:30 Breaking Free From the Echo Chamber

01:54 Ellison’s Illegal Media Mega-Merger

02:46 Why Independent Media Matters Now

03:23 Pro-Israel Censorship Is Coming

03:41 Iranian Americans Caught in Between

04:35 A Baha’i Friend’s Somber Perspective

05:27 Nobody Wants American Troops to Die

05:44 Are These Concentration Camps?

06:30 How Concentration Camps Actually Start

08:28 75,000 Detained and Escalating

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