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JD Vance Said Tucker Is Just A Political Disagreement. Is He Wrong. Sep 11, 2026

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I jumped on for a bonus live stream because this couldn't wait. A clip of JD Vance at the RJC is circulating, he's asked about Tucker Carlson and his answer is that we should be able to remain friends with people we have political disagreements with. I have a problem with that framing. The objections to Tucker are not political disagreements. We're not arguing about tax rates or military policy. We're talking about lying, simping for Putin, calling Hamas a political organization, smearing Ben Shapiro as a dual-loyalty Jew who can't be trusted, Holocaust revisionism, confusing an entire generation about who the good guys are. Those are ethical disagreements. Behavioral disagreements. And framing them as simply political is either deeply confused or a deliberate dodge. I also get into what happens to a movement when it refuses to draw ideological borders, look at what happened to the left and the rise of the DSA. Conservatism means conserving something. You can't do that while giving cover to the people actively working to destroy it. This one had to come out. I'll be back for a full episode soon.

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Tucker Doesn't Believe In Math, Macklemore Defends Hamas & ChatGPT Put My Kids To Bed Sep 10, 2026

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Tucker Carlson doesn't know if algebra is real. I'm not joking, the same guy who constantly talks about the decline of Western civilization and how China is beating us in STEM isn't sure if math was invented by humans. Meanwhile, Macklemore performed at MetLife calling for a free Palestine. This is the Same Love guy, the one who built his career on LGBTQ anthems. Macklemore, the people you're covering for throw gay people off rooftops. We also broke down the settler violence narrative and why the Western media's outrage is perfectly calibrated to miss the point entirely, the UK sanctioning Israel this week while ignoring the jihadis operating inside their own borders, and I gave Foreign Minister Miliband an honesty translator he desperately needed. Keir Starmer apparently thinks the best way to discourage terrorism is to reward it. And we closed out with something I'm genuinely excited about, I figured out how to use ChatGPT for bedtime stories with my kids, and they loved it more than any screen time we've ever done. Jonathan Haidt, if you're watching, I think I cracked it.

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Mark Ruffalo Gave The World A License To Hate Aug 27, 2026

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I'm coming to you remotely today, it's that limbo week between camp and school. Two stories I had to get into.

First, the JD Vance Hamptons fundraiser. A lot of people in the Jewish community reacted as if Vance was raising money at the home of a Tucker Carlson investor. I get the alarm bells, but I want to get it right: it was an RNC fundraiser, Omid Malik's involvement with the Tucker Carlson network ended a while ago, and mischaracterizing it costs us credibility when it actually matters. That said, Tucker Carlson IS the core issue, and the refusal of anyone in his orbit to draw clear lines is a real problem.

Second, Mark Ruffalo used the Hollywood merger story to call the Ellisons genocide supporters because they back Israel. Here's what I think everyone misses: the hate comes second. The lie comes first. Before Hitler convinced anyone to harm Jews, he had to convince them Jews were evil. That's exactly what the genocide accusation against Israel does, it gives otherwise good people permission to hate. Mark Ruffalo may love Jews in his heart. It doesn't matter. He's handing out licenses.

Plus: Jordan Peterson as Candace's therapist, PBD selling esrogim for Sukkot, and Chang.

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The Candace Debate Was Rigged From The Start Aug 27, 2026

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I watched the Andrew Wilson vs. Candace Owens debate on PBD and I have to be honest, the whole thing was set up to fail. Not because Andrew didn't do well, but because the debate accepted a false premise from the start. Candace wanted it to be about the Tyler Robinson case. That's not what anyone tuned in for. The real issue is her conduct: the lies, the conspiracies, the claims she makes on her show and then runs away from the moment someone presses her. Agreeing to litigate Tyler Robinson let her hide all of that.

I break down exactly why the conversation went off the rails, what Candace's verbal trickery looks like in real time, and why "I'm 100% certain that's how I feel" is not an argument. I also do my Tucker impression, he texted Erica Kirk, a lot, she never responded, his number got blocked, possibly by a demon. Plus my Andrew Wilson impression (still not slipping into Brett Weinstein), the Charlie Kirk time traveler conspiracy bit, and some thoughts on why Dave Smith is being way too diplomatic about all of this.

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I Called Out Tucker's Most Dishonest Move Yet And Did A Lot Of Impressions Aug 12, 2026

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Tucker said Erica Kirk and Candace Owens just have "disagreements." I explain exactly why that's a lie and how it works.

Plus: Candace finds Israel's bat signal in a garage, Fauci's vaccine texts, AOC hiding her socialism, and Norman Finkelstein auctioning off my merch.

Fauci's Back & I'm Not Over It: COVID, Tucker's Moral Inversion & Why This All Connects | Ami Kozak Aug 06, 2026

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I talk about why Fauci trending again is bringing everything back and why I don't care he was wrong, I care he lied. I trace the line from COVID's institutional breakdown all the way to the anti-Semitism we're dealing with today, break down Tucker and Candace's moral inversion, and close out as Fauci: "I am the science."

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Lindsey Graham Tribute, Tucker's Demons, JD Vance & Trump Singing Jackson 5 | Ami Kozak Live Jul 29, 2026

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I consolidate everything under one channel, pay tribute to Lindsey Graham and his Hooties, recap my Tucker & Sean Ryan gas impression, break down JD Vance's blind spot on anti-Semitism, and do Trump singing "I Want You Back" about Bibi. Plus Modi, PBD, and Sean Ryan closing out the show.

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Back from Israel And Why I Didn't Shame Clavicular | Ami's House Live Jul 17, 2026

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Ami is back from two sold-out shows in Israel and weighs in on the Clavicular saga with a take nobody wants to hear: stop shaming him, and think about the audience.

Ami Kozak is back from two sold-out shows in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. Israel is alive, thriving, and inspiring and also, while he was there, so was Clavicular. Now Jewish Twitter is having an emotional crisis about it.

Ami's take is pragmatic: he's not endorsing the behavior, the Miami Heil Hitler moment was awful, and the look-maxing lifestyle is not a model for young men. But Clavicular has a massive audience. If a 35-year-old version of him shows up at an anti-Semitism conference in 10 years and credits this trip as the start of his change of heart, the same people shaming him now would give him a standing ovation. So what approach actually moves the needle?

He also breaks down why pro-Israel is becoming the new edgy for Gen Z, the difference between an ideological neo-Nazi and a 20-year-old provocateur, and why Yossi Farrow's tefillin-on-everyone strategy is just the Chabad approach at scale. Plus impressions: Jordan Peterson on Trump and Iran, Tucker interviewing Satan, Alex Jones on Clavicular and the Mediterranean frogs, Jake Shields, Yossi Farrow wrapping tefillin on Norman Finkelstein, and Normal Finkelstein — the man who just has regular beliefs.

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Knicks, Mamdani, the Iran Deal & Tucker Calls Danny Danon | Ami's House Live Jun 16, 2026

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Ami goes live: the Knicks championship, Mamdani celebrating capitalism, the Trump-Bibi Iran deal panic, and impressions of Tucker, Mark Levin, Fuentes as a rabbi, and more.

Ami goes live to cover it all: the New York Knicks championship win as a self-confessed bandwagon fan, Mamdani and the socialist left cheering the most capitalist event in America, and the Trump-Bibi tension over the Iran deal that has the pro-Israel world losing its mind. Ami's take: take a breath, don't be reactive, play the long game.

He also breaks down why Candace and Tucker being popular right now is no threat to people with actual integrity, why the Daily Wire layoffs are not the sinking ship story people want them to be, and the fundamental divide between America's strategic interest and Israel's existential interest in the Iran conflict and why those timelines were always going to diverge.

Impressions include: Stephen A. Smith predicting he would be wrong, Jalen Brunson with incredible humility, Trump playing 7D chess, Mark Levin furious at the Iran deal, Tucker Carlson calling Danny Danon to be removed from Israel's antisemite list, and by popular demand, Nick Fuentes going through the entire process of becoming a rabbi at Yeshiva University.

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The Left Turned On the Jews: Why America's Soil STILL Rejects It | Batya Ungar-Sargon Jun 09, 2026

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Batya Ungar-Sargon joins Ami to expose how anti-Semitism switched sides, why the right cleaned house, and what 300 years of forgotten American Jewish history tells us about where Jews really stand.

Batya Ungar-Sargon is the author of The Jews and the Left. As she was finishing her manuscript about left-wing anti-Semitism, right-wing podcasters started becoming massive anti-Semites. She thought she'd be a laughing stock. Then the right actually cleaned house. Trump, Ben Shapiro, senators, cabinet members all said Tucker Carlson is not MAGA anymore. Tucker's new audience is Muslims. Candace Owens is bragging about it.

But her deeper argument is about America itself. From the first Jew on American soil in 1654 who sued Peter Stuyvesant for anti-Semitism and won, to the founding fathers who saw Jews as the living embodiment of God-given rights, this country has always been different. Three hundred years of American Jewish history have been erased. The soil itself rejects Jew hate.

They also cover the ADL's failure after October 7th, why anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism for the vast majority of Jews, the HIAS immigration conspiracy theory debunked, why Britain and Canada are lost but America is not, and Batya's prescription for the Jewish community: stop whining about anti-Semitism and keep Shabbos.

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