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Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté

Marco Rubio SHAMED for Russia-Ukraine War Hypocrisy | Useful Idiots Monday Mourning

Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté

Useful Idiots, LLC

News Commentary, Politics, News

4.64.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2025

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Katie Halper and Aaron Maté go over the worst moments of the Sunday morning news shows that they watch so you don’t have to.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Monday morning. This is useful idiots Monday morning where we watch the

0:05.1

Sunday morning shoot new shows so that you do not have to. I'm Katie Halper. I'm Mary Matte. Good

0:10.4

Monday morning, everybody. Thank you so much for being here. What a wonderful way to start the week.

0:15.2

We got Katie Halper, yours truly, and some of the worst people on corporate television.

0:25.3

Just, just scum person after scum person.

0:28.6

Just like, I'm watching these things sometimes looking.

0:29.7

Can I get some warmth?

0:32.9

Can I get some, like forget the politics, just even some humanity.

0:36.9

But really, you know, I got to say, maybe Kristen Welker is not so unpleasant, actually.

0:38.7

I mean, I don't like her politics, but right.

0:54.2

Her energy is not horrible, but everybody else, geez, it's just, it's tough out there watching these shows, but that's what we do every week. A waspy, a waspy bunch. A waspy bunch. A very, very waspy bunch, yes. A very, very waspy. which you don't have to be a wasp to have a waspy affect, just so people understand, yeah. Yeah, but again, we are offering political analysis, cultural critique,

1:02.4

behavioral analysis, some sociology and anthropology. So again, where else do you get that in one show?

1:08.0

And quite frequently, a lot of musical interpretation insights.

1:12.3

So what a great transition and segue into reminding everyone to like. We'll give it the thumbs up.

1:18.7

And by the way, John Flair prediction, little to no coverage on the Gaza Holocaust as the apartheid regime of Israel continues, its final solution.

1:25.8

Guess what? You are clairvoyant because there

1:29.2

was little to no coverage, basically no coverage. One little thing, which we'll hopefully get to.

1:37.6

And there were also major protests happening in Israel that you think that these people would care to cover, but of course they

1:45.7

didn't. And not a single Gaza thing, I don't think, on all of meet the press. Recap, in the

1:52.2

recap, sorry, as what I got to. Yeah. Also, huge protests in the U.S., including in New York City

1:58.3

where tens of thousands of people rallied on Saturday,

2:01.1

but that got a collective yawn because who cares that our government is fueling a genocide,

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