US Senators Politicize Australia Mass Shooting to Deport Muslims From the US
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté
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🗓️ 15 December 2025
⏱️ 68 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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This weekend, a mass shooting in Australia killed at least 16 people at a Hanukkah celebration. Australian lawmakers responded to the incident rationally: they’re creating new policy to tighten gun restrictions in the country. US politicians, who responded to their own mass shooting at Brown University with the usual “thoughts and prayers,” had a much more ridiculous takeaway:
“My heart goes out to all of the Jewish citizens of America and around the world,” says Senator Jim Banks (R-IN). “In America we have to do more to deport terrorists out of the United States to make sure that something like this doesn’t happen in the homeland.” He then adds for good measure: “And our thoughts and prayers go out to all those affected.”
Instead of dealing with the problem of gun violence, or assessing that the ethno-supremacist state of Israel waging a 2-year ethnic cleansing campaign is the leading cause for the rise in antisemitism, US politicians are using this atrocity to fuel Islamophobia and deport innocent people from the country, creating even more suffering in the name of Israel.
But please, when you talk about the students killed at Brown, don’t politicize it. Just say thoughts and prayers.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Useful Idiis Monday morning where we watch the Sunday morning news show so that you do not have to. I'm Katie Helper. |
| 0:07.5 | I'm Mary Matte. Good morning morning. Thanks so much for being here. Wonderful to start the week with you and some of the most corrupt people on corporate TV. Our website, as always, is Useful Idiot's Podcast.com. go there to support the show and get bonus content |
| 0:21.8 | yes and also i mean aaron uh this is a monday morning uh reveal those uh colorful boxes |
| 0:30.3 | you have behind you to your right yes uh yes this is yes i i'm I'm building a new kind of studio thing. |
| 0:39.4 | So it's in, it's a, I just didn't move out of the way. |
| 0:42.8 | Oh, okay. |
| 0:43.9 | Well, I like it. |
| 0:44.7 | It's looking good. |
| 0:45.7 | All right. |
| 0:47.2 | So, should we get to some of the worst people in the world? |
| 0:51.7 | Yes, let's go to our weekly week recap Recap as always from Meet the Depressed. |
| 0:59.0 | Good Sunday morning, after gun violence terrorizes another American school community, |
| 1:05.0 | a suspect now in custody. |
| 1:08.0 | The gunmen who opened fire on the campus of Brown University in Providence, |
| 1:12.4 | Rhode Island, Saturday, killing two students in a classroom and leaving nine others wounded. |
| 1:18.9 | The shooter sending the campus and much of the surrounding area into lockdown. |
| 1:24.8 | In case no one said it yet, I just want to say thoughts and prayers. |
| 1:28.3 | You know, thoughts and prayers. Case closed, nothing more to do to say thoughts and prayers and |
| 1:32.3 | move on to the next mass shooting in the U.S. |
| 1:34.3 | Yeah, and definitely don't bring up gun policy because that's politicizing it. |
| 1:38.3 | Nope, no, no, no, don't politicize. |
| 1:40.3 | Don't politicize, except in a very specific way, which we're going to get to very shortly. |
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