Adam Schiff Mourns the Genocide He’s Supporting

The senate candidate claims it's possible to grieve Palestinian deaths while causing them

“My heart breaks for all the Palestinians who have lost lives,” says a man who has voted at every opportunity to fund Israel’s genocide against Palestinians. “It’s not, in my view, incompatible with human nature to grieve the loss of both innocent Palestinians as well as innocent Israelis, but Israel has to defend itself.”

Israel’s ‘right to defend itself’ is apparently their right to wipe out Hamas, but as we learned this week from Biden’s deputy national security advisor Jon Finer, Israel is only “starting” to target Hamas.

“Wasn’t that the initial point?” Aaron asks. “Wasn’t that why we had to all sit back and watch Israel slaughter 25,000 people?”

Schiff claims that the magnitude of October 7th still shocks him. Is the magnitude of 25,000 people shocking as well? How can you grieve them while cheering it on?

Meanwhile, Useful Idiot favorites Isaac Herzog and Brett Gelman are each somehow able to top Schiff with the putridity of their genocidal takes. I’ve had to watch Gelman’s clever new song four times now in the making of this episode. It doesn’t get easier.

And on the domestic front, things are getting weird in the race for president, with Dean Phillips calling out Biden, Ro Khana calling out Dean, and (for some reason) MSNBC’s Joy Reid giving campaign advice to Nikki Haley. All of these somehow in the name of stopping Trump.

You may want to watch this one before breakfast, because we’re not sure you’ll be able to keep it down. It’s a brutal week of genocidal cheerleading and political pandering. Katie and Aaron are doing their best to guide us through it.

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