Open mic with comedian RICKY COLE
Sep 24, 2026 · 1 hr · 12 segments
**We see who the terrorist really are and we need to call them out for their sins**
Ricky ColeHostWhether a ceasefire holds after the cameras leave, whether humanitarian suffering remains intolerable or becomes familiar, and whether the world steps up or scrolls and scrolls away, history rarely catches us entirely by surprise.
More often it catches us focused elsewhere.
Economic disparity, food insecurity, climate change disasters, none of these challenged emerged overnight.
The warning signs have been there.
The question is whether our attention lasts long enough to act, and what we neglect has a habit of shaping our future.
Your Excellencies, we see the cost of that neglect every day.
In my region, from Lebanon to Yemen to Sudan, protracted conflict is deepening humanitarian suffering.
And if anyone had any doubt that a crisis in our part of the world stays there, just look at the energy and grocery bills of ordinary families from Mumbai to Madrid to Minnesota.
The Iran war has shown how quickly instability can disrupt trade, investment, and lives beyond the region.
And then there is Gaza.
For decades, I've stood before this assembly and warned of the dangers of leaving the Palestinian-Israeli conflict unresolved.
But the international community chose to manage the conflict, not confront it.
So while Bill Maher sits on TV and deny Palestinian right to exist, or mainstream media pretends that Hamas is the problem, not the Zionist fucking e- settler colonial project, we've been lied to.
And then we look at the Prime Minister of Israel, who is a sick son of a bitch, and the people around him are sick, just like we have the problem here in America with the white supremacists and all of that.
But to destabilize the region, because you remember they had Obama to fucking get rid of Gaddafi.
But you notice the media here in America and, and the politicians ignore what the fuck American policies and, and European policies are doing in Africa for the fucking resources.
But we prop up Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and the rest of the white nat- nationalists.
But see, Bibi can hang out with white nationalists who gives Nazi salutes because that's what we're dealing with, folks.
And every new Israeli violation was treated as temporary, diverting attention from the reality being created on the ground.
Whether a ceasefire holds after the cameras leave, whether humanitarian suffering remains intolerable or becomes familiar, and whether the world steps up or scrolls and scrolls away, history rarely catches us entirely by surprise.
More often it catches us focused elsewhere.
Economic disparity, food insecurity, climate change disasters, none of these challenged emerged overnight.
The warning signs have been there.
The question is whether our attention lasts long enough to act, and what we neglect has a habit of shaping our future.
Your Excellencies, we see the cost of that neglect every day.
In my region, from Lebanon to Yemen to Sudan, protracted conflict is deepening humanitarian suffering.
And if anyone had any doubt that a crisis in our part of the world stays there, just look at the energy and grocery bills of ordinary families from Mumbai to Madrid to Minnesota.
The Iran war has shown how quickly instability can disrupt trade, investment, and lives beyond the region.
And then there is Gaza.
For decades, I've stood before this assembly and warned of the dangers of leaving the Palestinian-Israeli conflict unresolved.
But the international community chose to manage the conflict, not confront it.
So while Bill Maher sits on TV and deny Palestinian right to exist, or mainstream media pretends that Hamas is the problem, not the Zionist fucking e- settler colonial project, we've been lied to.
And then we look at the Prime Minister of Israel, who is a sick son of a bitch, and the people around him are sick, just like we have the problem here in America with the white supremacists and all of that.
But to destabilize the region, because you remember they had Obama to fucking get rid of Gaddafi.
But you notice the media here in America and, and the politicians ignore what the fuck American policies and, and European policies are doing in Africa for the fucking resources.
But we prop up Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and the rest of the white nat- nationalists.
But see, Bibi can hang out with white nationalists who gives Nazi salutes because that's what we're dealing with, folks.
And every new Israeli violation was treated as temporary, diverting attention from the reality being created on the ground.
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