The Holocaust

Something powerful came out of it.

I mean, you think of people like Elie Wiesel or Etty Hillesum or people like that who actually went through the Holocaust and kind of came out with such wisdom and saintliness or, uh, I think in Etty's case, she didn't come out.

You know, she didn't make it out.

But, um, she wrote some really profound stuff about what she was experiencing objectively in that situation.

Uh, Chris brought, brought this up 'cause he was talking about camps in China.

The Holocaust is one of those things.

You know, 6 million, and the number's probably high- higher than that, 6 million freaking Jews butchered, along with the gypsies and everyone else.

6 mil- And now what do you get? Never again.

Look at the Russian soldiers given Russian media that Ukraine is led by Nazis and a threat to the Russian nation.

Similarly, Primo Levi, a Holocaust survivor, said that, "Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous.

More dangerous are the common men ready to believe and act without asking questions." Because we commonly see the Nazis as evil, but how did an entire country of rational human beings become evil, as it were? In a book about World War II by a German, he recounts being unable to understand why Americans were so angry at the Nazis and why the Americans couldn't see that the Nazis were just trying to save Europe and that they were the good guys.

Like, for us, that seems bonkers, but it's a painful reminder that in reality the biggest problems in the world come from lack of understanding, from poor communication and poor empathy rather than intentional acts of evil.

So Aliza Sherman was born on September 6th, 1959 to Doris and Albert Zinn.

Both of her parents were Holocaust survivors, and they met and fell in love at a displaced persons camp after World War II.

In the early 1950s, they immigrated to Cleveland and devoted themselves to building the kind of safe, stable future for their children that had once seemed impossible.

After graduating from high school, Aliza was accepted into the nursing program at Case Western Reserve University.

Even though she wasn't technically a Case Western student, Aliza remained involved in Jewish student life, and attended Hillel events on campus.

It was at one of those events that she met a medical student named Sanford Sherman.

Like Aliza, Sanford came from a family of Holocaust survivors, and the two of them eventually started dating.

Aliza graduated from nursing school and began working as a labor and delivery nurse at Mount Sinai Hospital in Cleveland.

So it's like, "Well, I, I fought in a war, so you need to fight in a war." And now it's a culture war.

Because again, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of our sons and daughters were a world away, dying every single minute so that freedom could exist in this world, so that an atrocity like the Holocaust couldn't happen.

And also, it wasn't just that.

There were, there were German subs off our coast during World War II.

It's not clapter.

It's not, uh, it's why am I laughing at this joke about the Holocaust which could not happen again with these gas prices? Why am I, why am I-

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Why am I laughing? Why am I...

A- and again, part of the, the, the, the core of comedy, I would dare say, is our, um...

And I'm not trying to sell you guys a Dianetics book.

It's our shared humanity, and AI will never have that, okay? Like, when I did that joke about the Holocaust, there's an empathy to it, and it's a dark thing that AI could never comprehend.

So I think you could, you could have a joke where you're like, "Oh, that's funny," but there's something about forming the thing in your head.

Separately, IFCJ gave $1 million to Lou Engel and shipped Israeli flag kits to 1,000 churches.

All of it is funded by 500,000 elderly Christians answering for, you'll love this, $25 FIDA Holocaust survivor ad.

If there's ever a swindle, I don't know what is.

You know what? The Feed a Holocaust Survivor ad is probably one of the biggest grifts outside of Cars for Kids, if you ever listened to that awful jingle for the past two decades.

On and on this goes.

So now you know why radio and conservative broadcasting is completely homogenized into exactly what migo wants now you know why mark levin sounds the way he does now you know why you have people like sean hannity saying what he does or even worse buck and clay the zeros that somehow took over rush limbaugh's time slot two people with zero inflection in any of their broadcasting one of them takes about 10 minutes to ask a single question and then the segment is over like you think a lawyer would understand how to cut a question short to let somebody else speak for two seconds now you know why conservative radio sounds the way it does now you know why you have people like sid rosenberg former drug addict opening up the morning show with slovenly calls to sacrifice America's military for Netanyahu's agenda by invading Iran.

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... use terminology from the Holocaust, and, and, and people, uh, object to that.

But these are detention facilities that are gulag-like-

Yeah

Uh, and then we fall off the floor when I think we've hit bottom, and now whether it's Talarico in Texas or El-Sayed in Michigan, we've got now a North Carolina candidate, Headen, who's now hit absolute rock bottom.

I don't know if you can get lower than Holocaust exploitation to smear-

Hmm

... uh, Donald Trump supporters, but she went there.