>> After the Taliban took control of Kabul and Afghanistan, there were all of these reports
about how the Taliban, they're so different now, they're changed people, they're just like us,
they even enjoy amusement parks. And so there were these videos going around featuring them,
chilling, having a good time over at the Bukti Amusement Park.
And there we go, they're riding the bumper cars, they're having a good time.
Again, just like us, they like to enjoy themselves. Except pretty soon after that,
there were other videos surfacing the Internet and they burned it down.
So here they are, it's the same amusement park and it is on fire.
>> And not in a good way, >> Not in a good way,
in a very bad way because it turns out, no, they're not just like us. No,
they're not enjoying the amusement park. Because remember, they're religious fundamentalists
who think that horses on merry-go-rounds are false prophets that need to be burnt down.
>> Yeah, They were almost gonna win, the horse on the merry-go-rounds,
so close between the prophets. So a couple of things to the story. First of all,
fundamentalists are always hypocrites, always. I wanna ride the bumper cars,
but I don't want you to ride the bumper cars, by the way, they were also on the merry-go-round.
We don't have video of that, but reporters said that they were on those terribly, ungodly idols
and statues of the horses and the dolphins or whatever else they had in there, merry-go-round.
>> Yeah, you can't straddle fun and religious fundamentalism, you just can't do it.
>> Well, fun is in fundamentalism but they're not living up to it.
So anyways, this reminded me of the 9/11 attackers. Some of them had gone to a strip club
right before they did the bombing. Allah, because we're so pure and the rest of you
are not and we're gonna win the purity contest by murdering all of you guys.
But before we do that, we'd really like to see some naked breasts.
And so they went and got liquored up and saw naked ladies. They did, because fundamentalists are
always hypocrites, always, right? Whether they're Christian fundamentalists or Muslim
fundamentalists, or fundamentalists of any religion, right? And look, I'll be honest
with you, I despise fundamentalists, and not just the hypocrisy of it, but-
>> The brutality that it leads to. >> Obviously the brutality.
But another part of it that drives me crazy is just the complete lack of rationality. No,
God said that he's super jealous and he's just got one Mohamed and he doesn't want anybody
else. He doesn't want anybody even drawing pictures of him, let alone anyone else.
And if you have a horse or a doggy or something or a statue of something like that,
I've got to murder the statue of the horse. I mean, what is that? And people believe it,
that's it. Look, guys, we live in a scary world cuz
huge percentage of Afghanistan believes that, huge percentage of America believes in insane things.
Like the Democratic Party is run by child sex traffickers
who drink brain juice and serve Satan. That's like 15% of this country according to polling. So yeah,
the fundamentalists are nuts and they live among us. And what do they do?
They cause nonstop damage cuz they can't think rationally.
They're prone to violence, they're prone to extremes
and I despise the Taliban to my core. And by the way, this is a story about their hypocrisy that's
about an amusement park, so it seems a little silly. But they're also murdering
people on the streets, it's sad. I saw a video, and look, I can't verify it.
And we're gonna have a conversation about how to
deal with it cuz we don't know from when it's from, but it is unquestionably real.
And they see a woman not covering her face, by the way, she's got everything else,
she's covered head to toe, but the face, and they execute her on the street, shoot her in the head.
>> And also, I mean, the other thing that comes to mind about the Taliban is the
whole bacha bazi thing. I don't know if you wanna get into details about that,
but it goes to their hypocrisy. >> Of course, but so Catholic fundamentalists,
same thing. So bacha bazi, okay, they get young boys, they dance for the older
men and then they have sex with the younger boys while telling you that being gay is terrible.
>> They rape the boys, they rape the boys. >> Yeah, of course, how else,
right? So it's not like they ask for their consent, they're the freaking
Taliban and they're fundamentalist and they're sick, right? And what do the Catholic priests
do? They rape little boys. And by the way, that's why ironically, QAnon thinks,
I guess the Democrats must be raping boys cuz that's what our fundamentalists do all the time.
Our religious leaders rape boys all the time, and so do the Taliban.
Well, no, that's not how it's supposed to be. Theoretically, the religious people were
supposed to be more holy, more moral. Not every religious person, please, don't make that mistake.
There's wonderful religious people all across the world, Christians, Muslims, everyone else, okay?
But when it comes to the fundamentalists, and especially fundamentalist leaders,
they're the worst people on this planet, and never believe them. They're giant liars,
and I guarantee you they're doing the absolute worst, most evil things behind
the scenes. That's what they do every time. >> One of the things that I'm also trying
to wrap my head around is, I understand wanting US troops to pull out of Afghanistan.
Because as we know, US military intervention is not actually about helping people
or nation building, it's about enriching
military contractors, defense contractors. But I don't get the need to do positive PR
for a group like the Taliban. And you look at the coverage from Russian state media and
they make it seem like no, no, this is a totally different group now, they're totally different.
In fact, Stas Natanzon, she's an anchor over at Russian State TV. This is the argument.
The situation in Kabul is better than it was under former President of Afghanistan,
Ashraf Ghani. Turns out that it's better under terrorists than Ghani. The Taliban are
very reasonable and well-armed people. >> And that's a positive, apparently.
And yeah, the Taliban look incredibly reasonable as they execute women in the
streets for showing their face. And that's Russian propaganda 101 right
there for you. By the way, there was some Russian propaganda here,
>> Yep. >> Claiming that the dictator,
the brutal dictator Assad in Syria is, he won an election with 95% of the vote.
The Syrian people in the middle of a civil war love him so much that he won more than anyone has
ever won in a democracy. And there are morons pretending to be journalists here in America
who go, yeah, that dictator is awesome, he's wonderful. The people love him, he won with 95%.
They went in to certify or to monitor those elections. And they, conveniently enough,
go on Russian television all the time and won't reveal the source of their funding. So there's
propaganda everywhere, and what does it support? It supports whatever dictator Russia wants to
support. They wanna support the Taliban, all of a sudden they're reasonable people.
They wanna support the murderous tyrant Assad, all of a sudden you got morons,
useful idiots here at best case scenario. >> No, no, we're award winning
journalists, Cenk, don't be a McCarthyite smearer. >> 95%, it could happen. No, it couldn't
have happened. If you think a dictator won an election with 95% of the vote,
you are the dumbest person alive, the single dumbest person.
And of course, deeply dishonest, cuz no one could be that dumb.