God damn this rules

Adam Friedland Show is great generally (imho)

It needs a fat bald guy cackling in the background

This is Friedland's finest moment.

Ritchie Torres has been one of my least favorite House Dems for a while, but his behavior here makes this Jew want to punch him in the face. Fuck that guy. Also, Friedland is so good at this.

Adam is a real one

watching now in the background waiting till the final third, but I feel like I need to watch the build I like Adam's style, never watched before

ok, I've arrived at 50-min+ mark ... whew wow

Can we get a rough summary?

It's worth the watch.

Woooooah

I watched. It was not worth it. All I took away was what I already knew: Torres is a smooth-talking, malignant nutcase who needs to be voted out at the next opportunity, and not platformed as he is here.

cmon, just one listicle

It's really not. Ritchie Torres is exactly the same kind of slimeball a thousand other Zionists are. Zionists have no more empathy for Jews who dissent than they do for Palestinians. If you've seen one monster act like this, you've seen them all. And most don't take an hour to get to the point.

Summary: Torres is a Stephen-Miller-grade asshole, but you knew that. His bile is not worth your time and energy, unlike any effort to remove him from government.

Friedlander is a mensch sick in his heart that genocide is being done in the name of the Jewish state. Torres mechanically repeats Zionist boilerplate, denounces a 1928 massacre of Jews but calls the current genocide a "tragedy" where no murders were committed by Israel

From all appearances this seems to be Richie Torres' first encounter with a Jewish person who is against the genocide in Gaza, and he is thoroughly flummoxed, and sounds like a madman.

It's not, not by a long shot. He just doesn't get better the more often he does it because he genuinely has no interest in getting better at it. He gets the rewards he wants by acting like this, why would he change?

A man with no soul hears a Jew who had lived in Israel bare his soul and remains unmoved

Two words: FUCK ISRAEL.

I can't help but be disturbed that a man who is a POC & minority is arguing with a Jewish man about his own experience & opinion as a Jew on what's happening in Isreal & Gaza right now. At the end, he literally said, "You're wrong." What if Adam had done the same to him as a POC & his experiences?

oh my god this is incredible. torres is a soulless condescending bot and not even adam's appeals to his humanity overrode his programming. absolute scenes

How does he get these guys to agree to this

Because he’s my generation’s Jon Stewart.

Shows them that beautiful twink body and a shot of his cut penis

It’s like if Between Two Ferns was real

hubris.

He bugs them!

Sexual favors

IMO the "Millennial John Stewart" branding unironically does a lot of heavy lifting. If you're Richie Torres quickly googling some new media guy who requested to interview you, and you see a GQ article calling him that, with a lot of subscribers, and a Ro Khanna interview, it looks like a no-brainer

Because he's immensely talented and good at what he does.

The Chotiner Method

I also recommend this podcast for anyone interested in knowing more about some of the more niche or confrontational areas/people. Host is a researcher in the cross-section between extreme ideologies, internet culture, art, and politics so he has a different approach. bsky.app/profile/tort...

Apparently when Hamas kills civilians… that’s “war murders” But when Israel kills (many more) civilians… that’s “war oopsies that don’t count”

Well Israel hasn't *said* they're targeting innocents, so, y'know...they couldn't possibly be.

And when they do target civilians… they were really the leader of Hamas, especially the babies. Those crafty Hamas baby leaders.

Oh they don't have to be leaders. They aren't *snobs*.

there was a war crime where the local Nazi commander demanded 100 deaths for every soldier killed by a partisan. And he was more restrained that the Israelis.

Thats war and he feels really bad about it (although he wouldnt show that with any emotion) Lets move on from this….

“You’re blaming Israel for Holocaust denial (in condescending tone)?” Turns out that when you erase an entire people’s moral high ground with your selfish and evil actions, as the leaders of that people’s majority nation… the defining moments of that people get easier to wrongly question.

“Which Party is against gun control?” A perfect argument of why you are allowed to get absolutely nothing done while being paid $200,000+/year

Wild stuff… “if only Gaza wasn’t ruled by Hamas (which the Far-Right government of Israel had absolutely no hand in facilitating or encouraging). Then this would have never happened (because all wars definitely result in planned genocide)”

Here’s a commemorative gif of Hamas’ Number One Head Chief Sooper Dooper funder:

its amazing israel can publicly release information they have been planning hezbollah attack 10 years with intelligence, but expect us to believe they have no hand in hamas, or the terror attack, that was required to be a pretense for the 10 year plan to kill senior hezbollah operatives.

Adam is so good

Friedland is a mensch

This is who Ritchie Torres is He's a slimy striver

“a bloated, braindead, blithering idiot who has no business being in Congress”... To quote Torres wildly projecting against one of his opponents.

Wow. He turned into Charlie Kirk all of the sudden.

That last 15-20 is the whole thing. It was good. Alot is real and i think dude was trying to do bits while still invested in the argument happening. I will be subscribing to see more though. Guy needs to temper his steel though

He's disgusting. This fucking puppet, this employee of Bibi, this bootlicker has the guts to explain what antisemitism is to a Jewish guy

Does he announce he’s converted to Orthodox?

TAFS getting the same 'after the first half it gets REALLY good' recommendation as Final Fantasy XIII lol

I got emotional watching Adam. I’m so glad he got a chance to say it to Ritchie’s face and on his own turf. Ritchie is an asshole trying to tell a Jewish man that he doesn’t know what he’s talking about when it comes to his feelings about antisemitism and Israel.

Richie Torres completely discredits himself ... War is a tragedy ... it's just his version of Thoughts & Prayers ... Richie is overmatched in this interview. And then he can't stand to his position without calling the interviewer hostile and going for the gotcha.

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Ritchie Torres makes my skin crawl. He's an amalgamation of everything wrong with the democratic party.

🎯 I second that emotion.

Jeeesus, I’m glad he did it, dam that was intense

Skipped ahead to the 48th minute on my phone while my kids finish their dessert and before getting ready for bed and I hear Adam say “questioning the validity of the holocaust” and I immediately turned it off and realized this needs to be watched on an actual tv and after the kids go down

I'm not familiar with Torres but he seems to have zero confidence in what he's saying.

He seems to believe that if he delivers the aipac talking points in a condescending and harsh tone, no one will catch on that he has zero fucks to give about anyone but himself.

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I do propose letting Israel get dissolved No religion deserves its own state Always been bullshit Just a satellite state used to continue white settler colonialism

A stain on our religion”

Holy shit

God I hate Richie Torres and this makes me hate him more. He just shows that you don’t need a plane to buy a representative.