Name: Bassem Youssef Questions AIPAC and Israel's Influence on U.S. Elections
Uploaded: 2024-08-06T13:52:30.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Bassem Youssef Questions AIPAC and Israel's Influence on U.S. Elections' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-08-06. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Bassem Youssef Questions AIPAC and Israel's Influence on U.S. Elections' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-08-06. Transcript available.

I know a lot of Jewish people don't like
how they control the Congress.
I don't like how a lot of Jewish people
that don't like how AIPAC, which is a foreign lobby,
and yet is allowed to operate under American local law,
that they can openly brag about buying Congress seats.
If you go into AIPAC Twitter account or X account,
they would brag about like how 98% of our candidates-
- Do not accept all cookies if you go over there.
- Yeah, yeah, like go to their, no, not network, AIPAC,
just, yeah, AIPAC.
- It's A-I-P-A-C.
- A-I, A-I-P-A, A-I, A-I, A-I, A-I.
Yes.
- And AIPAC- - No, not tracker,
yeah, AIPAC, yeah, that's one, yes.
- And what is AIPAC?
- American Israel Public Affairs Committee.
- Yeah, Public Affairs, yeah, Public Affairs.
So go down, go down,
and see what they talk about the elections.
When they talk about the elections,
they always talk about like,
they end it with,
yeah, another great,
being pro-Israeli is good policy and good politics.
They end that with every,
100% of A-I-B-A-C and Dutch Democrats
won their primary rate, 100%.
How is like a foreign country,
and a lobby that's worked for a foreign country,
brags about buying elections like that.
- It is.
- You see, being pro-Israeli is good policy and good policy.
They end every single tweet is like that.
They are basically looking to you in the eyes,
and say like, we're buying your elections,
and you can't do anything about it.
So I can accept that from NRA,
because the NRA is a domestic group, right?
At least it presents the interest of American gun owners.
Oh, this is a very-
- Oh, I just saw this guy.
- Mr. Massey, who said like,
each one in Capitol Hill has an APAC handler.
It's like, I need to talk to my guy.
- Everybody but me has an APAC person.
- What does that mean, an APAC person?
- It's like your babysitter, your APAC babysitter,
who is always talking to you for APAC.
- It's just kind of like having an agent or whatever.
- Yeah, but like handle it.
Go ahead, go continue.
And I don't understand why every American politician
have to go there and bend the knees.
- You go have lunch with them,
and they've got your cell number,
and you have conversations with them.
- Well, I think part of this-
- I'll talk to my APAC person.
And it's clearly what we call them, my APAC guy.
I'll talk to my APAC guy and see if I can get him to,
you know, dial those ads back.
Group of Americans who lobby on behalf of Israel.
They're for anything-
- But I think also it's like,
you have to look at it as like,
we live in a country that is a capitalism, right?
- Absolutely.
- And they are like, Israel just does,
they're the best business people, you know?
They're like, it's almost like monopoly and they won.
- Okay.
- You know, that's what I feel like sometimes like-
- Yeah, they won and good for them.
They're very good.
But like, how does an American feels?
- Right, but you can't hold it against them
'cause they are good at this.
Like, you can't hold it against them
'cause they won, right?
- So you cannot hold it against Israel,
but you hold it against Russia if they try
or China if they try.
So why do we accept it from Israel but not from Russia?
- Except what?
- Except them controlling the elections.
You understand?
So you have an AIPAC, which is a lobby,
basic lobbying for another country.
This is in the news and you can look it up.
They paid $100 million in order to buy seats
for Congress people and Senate.
And because of the people they were able to put there,
they were able to approve $26 billion to Israel.
So understand, as an American,
your politicians are being bought for $100 million
and because of that,
your country will send $26 billion to a different country.
$26 billion that could have been spent in my own country,
in my own community.
This is the biggest, the best return of investment ever.
You pay $100 million and I take back $26 billion from you.
That's crazy.
- Yeah.
- And this is why when I talk about what's happening,
is I'm not even, you see, like, oh yeah, you've missed that.
The, what you just had, AIPAC targets progressive
with $100 million in its coffers.
- Yeah.
- So basically anybody who talks against you in Congress,
you pay, basically you pay them out,
and then you take more money.
How, don't we as Americans deserve the $26 billion
to be put in our communities. - Oh, I agree 100%.
Oh, I think it, it's like, this is, this is,
we give them money, but they control us.
- Yeah.
- This is like, this is like, this is like a sugar daddy
who's being slapped around like a bitch from his sugar baby.
This is like, there's like basically picking up a whore
in the strip mall, in the strip in Las Vegas,
and then suddenly she's in charge of your life.
This is like having a dominatrix and stuff like,
I'm gonna kick your balls and you're gonna like it.
And you're gonna pay me $26 billion for it.
It's like, that doesn't work.
Because I come, I come from the Middle East
and I'm used to dictatorship.
I am used for us having no voice.
I'm used to a certain class of people controlling the country.
But even then we knew that these people are not in control
because they had to answer for China or Russia
or America or France, right?
- Yeah.
- Because we're dictatorship.
This is how dictatorship works.
A democracy, a loving country like America or Britain
go control a certain country
and it's easier for them to deal with a dictator.
So we knew that they were not calling the shots.
It was called from Washington.
I'm fine with that because I'm a third worker.
We're from the Middle East.
We have to follow the masters of this planet.
Now I came to America and I became an American.
I thought I was like joining, I'm joining the winning team.
I will have a say in my country.
And then suddenly my country, the most powerful country
in the world, the superpower in the world
has its policies being dictated from Tel Aviv.
How does it work?
You see, and it's fine.
And I ask Americans, guys, are you used to this?
Is this kind of humiliation?
You're supposed to be like from a country for the people,
by the people, and then suddenly your elections
and being dictated by a different country.
How does it work?
And by the way, I understand how lobby works.
Because, but remember when Democrats was giving shit
to Republicans, where they were having so much money
from NRA, right?
Oh, you're taking money from the gun lobby.
How dare you?
And then the Republicans were attacked there.
You're taking money from tech.
Israel is the only country that gives both sides
and nobody questions.
So basically it's not, caring about the education
will not get you elected.
Caring about healthcare will not get you elected.
Caring about the wellbeing of your American constituents
will not get you elected.
It is caring about what's good for Israel.
So yes, guys, our neighborhood is shit.
We have no sewage, no education, but God bless Israel.
It doesn't, you're basically having a lot of people elected
for your Congress to look for a different country.
Look out for a different country.
To me, it's very, it does seem very bizarre.
What is America made of?
Government.
What is the government is made of?
Elected officials.
These people are elected through what?
Through elections.
Who's controlling the elections
and paying for certain people to be there?
AIPAC.
But do we know, but doesn't every country have lobbyists
that try to like influence our elections?
- Not a foreign lobby like this.
Yeah, there is lobbies everywhere.
But when you have a foreign lobby that works for an external
country, that is not normal to you.
- But is that considered just like a,
you know how we have like little base or a little,
what are the places called if you're in London?
Oh, the embassy.
Like we have embassies in different places.
- Yes.
- Isn't that just like them having like a human embassy
or something like a?
- No, no.
- You know what I'm talking about?
Kind of?
I'm making sense.
- I understand, but like that doesn't work with lobbies
with parliaments and like this is, again,
this is like, imagine a lobby that is openly funded
by China and that lobby going there and buying seats
for people who are pro-China.
- It seemed like unfair.
- It should not be accepted in a democratic country.
- Why do we allow that to happen?
It would seem like, well, but then you know what?
That's where it comes down to capitalism
because it's the same shit that we allow where,
just like where that drug company came in
and hired former people from the FDA
to come and work for their drug company.
- No, that's wrong, that's illegal.
- Right.
- And also the government, I mean,
capitalism wants you to believe that there's nothing you can do,
it's only the free market.
Even the free market has some sort of a government control.
If a company goes out and become a monopoly,
you have antitrust laws and that government can curb that company.
- Yeah.
- But the problem is the government that should curb the influence
of a foreign lobby is being paid by the same foreign lobby.
So who would come up and put like a questioning for Israel lobby?
The people they just paid get into Congress?
I paid you.
- Yeah.
- I own your ass.
You are not going to go into Congress and then ask why are we following?
- Israel's a gangster.
- Exactly, this is what really makes me disenfranchised.
I became an American citizen in 2019 and I was right in time for the 2020
elections.
I was so happy.
I'm going to be elected.
It took me now four years.
I'm not going to vote in the coming elections.
What's the point?
Like what about America, man?
What America?
It's like, so now I'm, why would I even care to vote for anybody
while both of them are competing to be Israel's favorite bitch?
- Yeah.
- It's basically like this.
It's like, oh, I'm the best one for Israel.
How about being the best one for America?
How about doing what's good for America?
Is it good for America to pay $26 billion?
If I'm seeing this, how do I feel as an American?
I'm not going to be able to vote for America.
I'm not going to vote for America.
I'm not going to vote for America.
I'm not going to vote for America.
I'm not going to vote for America.
I'm not going to vote for America.
I'm not going to vote for America.
I'm not going to vote for America.
I'm not going to vote for America.
I'm not going to vote for America.
I'm not going to vote for America.
I'm not going to vote for America.