Instead of reporting on the US and Israel’s mass assault this week on civilian infrastructure in Iran, Lebanon, and Palestine, CNN’s Dana Bash decided to give a rant about leftist Twitch streamer Hasan Piker, who has been campaigning in Michigan for Democratic Senate candidate Dr. Abdul El-Sayed.

"Hasan Piker is excusing sexual violence by Hamas terrorists,” claims Bash. “In 2024, he said, quote, ‘It doesn’t matter if f***ing rapes happened on October 7th. Like that doesn’t change the dynamic for me… the Palestinian resistance is not perfect.’”

As you can imagine, Katie and Aaron have a lot to say to this.

First, for the millionth time, Dana, there is no documented evidence of any rape by Hamas on October 7th, let alone the mass rape hoax that you’ve regularly used as atrocity propaganda. If there was, surely you’d have pointed out even a single verified case and broadcast it endlessly on CNN.

What there is documented evidence of, and a lot of it, is the rape and torture of Palestinian prisoners by IDF guards. One such instance was even caught on video and the guards were arrested for their crimes. This led to ‘Right to Rape’ protests across Israel, and the rapists were eventually cleared of all charges by an Israeli court. Has Dana reported this on her show?

She has not.

But second, more to Hasan Piker’s point, is that even if there had been sexual violence perpetrated by Hamas on October 7th, it would not justify committing a genocide against the Palestinian people. This is the law of proportionality under international law.

But Dana Bash clearly thinks otherwise.

Katie and Aaron flash back to a clip from 2023 where Rep. Pramila Jayapal tells Bash that “15,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli airstrikes, three quarters of whom are women and children.”

“And it’s horrible,” Dana responds. “But you don’t see Israeli soldiers raping Palestinian women.”

Katie and Aaron go all in on Dana Bash’s psychotic Hasan Piker rant, plus we watch Dems Chris Murphy and Chuck Schumer give the worst possible critiques to Trump’s so-called ceasefire deal, Trump’s top economic advisor accidentally admit that this war has been an economic disaster, and the funniest corporate media reaction to Trump claiming that he is going to “destroy Iranian civilization.”

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio this week: “Imagine an Iran that instead of spending billions of dollars supporting terrorists or weapons, had spent that money helping the people of Iran, you’d have a much different country.”

President Donald Trump (who very clearly needs to arrange some sort of morning meeting with his staff to get their talking points down) this week: “The United States can’t take care of daycare. We’re a big country, we have all these other people, we’re fighting wars! We can’t take care of daycare! You’ve got to let a state take care of daycare and they should pay for it too! They have to raise their taxes. It’s not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these individual things. We have to take care of one thing: military protection.”

Which means, by Marco Rubio’s own logic, that since he runs a regime change operation against any country who he claims to choose war spending over its own people, that his next regime change operation MUST BE against: the United States.

It’s only fair, Marco.

Also in this Friday Free-for-All: Aaron returns to Piers Morgan Live to make an Iran argument in front of an international audience that no one else is making, walrus war hawk John Bolton can’t say what Trump’s plan is but loves it anyway (as long as it includes regime change), and Lindsey Graham actually can’t stop grinning as he talks about murdering Iranians.

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Tulsi Gabbard in 2020: To all who voted for Trump bc of his antiwar rhetoric, it’s time to realize he lied to u. Stand with me against Trump’s Iran War!

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard in March 2025: The Intelligence Community continues to assess that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon and Supreme Leader Khamenei has not authorized the nuclear weapons program he suspended in 2003.

And now in 2026, how does Tulsi Gabbard, who opposed the Iraq War, condemned US regime change wars, and sold “No War With Iran” t-shirts, respond when President Trump starts bombing Iran to prevent the use of nuclear weapons that her own department found to be nonexistent?

Let’s check the tape from her disastrous Senate hearing this week:

Congressman: Last year you testified that Iran was not building a nuclear weapon. Do you stand by statement?

Gabbard: Context matters—

Congressman: You either stand by it or not.

Gabbard: It’s a serious question—

Congressman: Was Iran weeks away from achieving a nuclear weapon?

Gabbard: It would be a disservice to the American people to answer with a mere yes or no.

Congressman: Were you lying or not?

Gabbard: I stand by the IC assessment.

So the once anti-war Tulsi Gabbard, the first guest ever on Useful Idiots back in the Rolling Stone days, refuses to stand up to the administration, officially becoming a key player in the USA WMD Hoax Part Two.

To her credit though, she didn’t outright lie and say Iran was close to having nuclear weapons. That honor goes to the director of the CIA, John Ratcliffe.

Congressman: Was Iran developing a nuclear weapon prior to our military action last June and did Iran remain committed to developing a nuclear weapon in the lead-up to this conflict?

Ratcliffe: Yes.

Congressman: If left unchecked, do you think Iran would have the ability to develop missiles capable of reaching the United States?”

Ratcliffe: Yes.

We’ve got one who lies and another who contradicts those lies in a perfect microcosm of the disastrous discohesion of the Trump administration’s war-of-choice against Iran.

Also in this Friday Free-for-All: antisemitism-whisperer Jake Tapper accuses the recently-resigned Director of Counterterrorism Joe Kent of, you guessed it, antisemitism, for claiming Israel pushed the US into war with Iran, Fox News says Iranians are begging US-Israeli bombs to rain down on their own country, and a weird ADL panel complains that all the “cool kids” are against genocide.

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