Get Off My Lawn - The Mad Ramblings of a Gen X-er

Trump's Deal with the Devil + The 70’s Cartoons that Screwed Us All Up!

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A ceasefire reads clean on paper—until you watch what fills the streets after the soldiers leave. We dig into the uneasy trade at the heart of the latest Gaza deal: hostages brought home, thousands of prisoners released, and a promise that Hamas will police “internal security.” Can any agreement survive when executions surface on video and disarmament is already a sticking point? We unpack the power vacuum created by the IDF withdrawal, the rush of rival factions to stake control, and the real‑world incentives that make or break fragile peace.

From there, we turn toward the political theater around who gets credit and who gets blamed. You’ll hear a sharp take on Biden, Trump, and the choreography of public praise, plus a blunt assessment of how AI‑driven search shapes perceptions of “new wars,” counterterror operations, and accountability. If you’ve ever felt gaslit by headlines that redefine terms mid‑conversation, this segment will resonate. We also wade into NYC politics, anti‑Semitic rhetoric dressed up as activism, and the risky fantasy of policing without credible deterrence.

To end, we connect something personal: the eerie children’s media many Gen Xers grew up with—The Hobbit’s nightmare spiders, Rikki‑Tikki‑Tavi’s cobra duels—and how those stories quietly trained our sense of threat, courage, and consequence. It’s not just nostalgia; it’s a lens on how narratives hardwire our instincts about danger and justice. Come for the geopolitics, stay for the cultural x‑ray, and leave with a clearer view of how power, stories, and security collide.

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👉 Timestamps:
00:00 Intro Rant
02:15 Trump’s “Deal with the Devil”
15:40 70’s Cartoons That F*cked Us Up
30:10 Why Gen X Still Doesn’t Care

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SPEAKER_04:

What you just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I've ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational file. Everyone in this room is now dumb for some.

SPEAKER_03:

I told you what I'm doing. I'm thinking five. If I want to spend my words, five minutes and go on to this point.

SPEAKER_04:

Do you understand the words that are coming out of my mouth?

SPEAKER_03:

You want to find a fruit.

SPEAKER_01:

Supporting God for people themselves, but we don't want to find anything having to do with bloodshed, hate grid, or terror, as has happened in the past.

SPEAKER_00:

For the same reason, we're also agreed that Gaza's reconstruction requires that it be demilitarized and that a new honest civilian police force must be allowed to create a safe condition for the people in Gaza. As I said earlier, I intend to be a partner in securing a better future. We're going to be working, you're going to be working with the United States, and we're going to make sure that the Middle East is going to be a safe and secure place.

SPEAKER_02:

Oh, it's it's big aspirations and it's big dreams. This is Tim. This is Get Off My Lawn. The Mad Ramblings of a Gen Xer. Uh, want to talk about this this peace in the Middle East, this deal with the devil. And can you really really trust Hamas? Can you really trust the people in Gaza? Technically, can you really trust the Palestinians? That's going to be the big question. One of the best things that came out the last couple days was the release or the patriation of the 20 remaining Israeli hostages that were taken over two years ago, that were held in captivity over two years ago, that were held in tunnels, who had not seen the daylight, who were tortured daily for two years by Hamas. And I always think of these sympathizers that you see on the streets. You remember people tearing down posters. You remember people still chanting from the river to the sea, not knowing exactly what the fuck they're even chanting about. You are dealing with people with humanity that in my mind are so inhumane they don't deserve humanity. But to bring peace into the region, Trump and his team secured this deal with Hamas, secured this deal with Israel. Hopefully, Hamas will abide by the rules and the 19 remaining points of this deal. But I've already I already have my concerns. Evidently, the last couple days, Hamas has carried out public executions. I shouldn't even say last couple days. And there is video coming out showing men badly beaten, kneeling in front of the streets, and each shot in the back of the head by Hamas gunmen as the crowd cheered. These were people that uh that the terrorist group, because Hamas is still a terrorist group, were saying and claiming these were criminal collaborators with Israel. Well, that's that's that's not that sounds like a peaceful solution. Among the people that were murdered were basically responsible for recruiting agents to a rival non-Hamas aligned militant group, which the Israelis said, which Israelis have come out and said, and they're like I said, this is all following the withdrawal of the IDF. And they're quick, and there's there's rumors and speculation that Hamas is quickly looking to reassert its control over Gaza, targeting the clans or the family-based groups, armed militant groups that kind of gained strength and popped up during this conflict or war, because that's what it is, it's a war. And this is what's gonna happen. You are you have with this withdrawal, and I don't I do not agree with the withdrawal, and I understand why, why you did it. You wanted to bring home the hostages, you wanted to try to bring peace to the region, but as soon as you withdraw the the the Israeli troops, the IDF, there is gonna be a power struggle. There are there are clans uh within this this this region that are now going to be fighting for power, fighting control, fighting for control over Gaza. There are what they're referring to as massacres in the streets by Hamas. Now, Trump came out and suggested that he had given Hamas approval to manage internal security in Gaza as it sees fit, as part of the peace deal to return the remaining living hostages to Israel. It's one of those things. Can can you truly make a deal with the devil? The answer is no, because the devil's always gonna lie. He's always going to deceive you. He is always going to think that you have control when there is no control. The only way to to end what the this conflict that that that was started by Hamas, by the Palestinians, is total annihilation. Is to maintain complete control. Does anyone really think that Hamas is gonna lay down their arms as part of this peace agreement and go away peacefully? No. It's not gonna happen. And and I'm not sitting there telling you that this is not a good thing. I'm not sitting there and telling you this is not a great thing. If there is any opportunity for peace, that this this should, you know, this should happen. But there's also other rumors and speculation that Hamas has deployed 7,000 troops to cleanse Gaza. And again, like I said, this is all because we're creating uh it's it's like Vietnam. We are creating a power vacuum. This this is a recipe for civil war. And it doesn't matter and unless you have some co total control by some occupying force. It doesn't have to be the IDF, it could be a it could be a multi-coalition you know force, it doesn't have to be NATO, but it could be a multi-coalition force. But you have these groups. Let's have no bones about this. During the the war in Gaza, this recent war in Gaza, even beforehand, you had people go into Gaza and speak to the Palestinians about the Israelis, about everything else. And I believe it was something crazy, like 90% of the people that they spoke with all said that the Israelis deserve to die and they should be wiped off the planet. These are the people that we are claiming humanitarian aid to. These are the people that we are looking to restore order in Gaza. As Hamas is trying to claim and restore its own order in Gaza. You cannot deal with this. Now, phase two of the peace deal calls for the disarmament of Hamas. But so far, the terrorist group, they have rejected the idea, seeking further talks to the next step. Well, that sounds that sounds promising. And I understand why Israel released 2,000 Palestinian prisoners, prisoners, including those charged and convicted of murder and terrorism. That was part of the Hostage Exchange. I and I understand that. I get it. It seems like a large number to give up for 20 people, but you you have people, like I said, that were violently removed from their homes. You have one gentleman who came who just came back after the two years of being held hostage, and the only thing he spoke about that kept him going was seeing his wife and his young daughter. Only to find out when he returned that Hamas murdered his wife and daughter in the bunker as he was taken captive. There is something very wrong with that. I am I am not one of these these these people that that that is a warmonger. I'm not one of these people that that you say you know that think that that you can't achieve peace, but sometimes you have to achieve peace through strength, and sometimes you have to eradicate something. It's it's like termites. You don't leave a termite, you don't decide that you're gonna kill all the termites in your house, but two because you feel bad for the termites. No, you eradicate all the termites, and you hear the stories of the hostages who recruit who basically recount brutal daily beatings, starvations, not being able to shower, not being able to see the sun, digging their own graves, having understanding if the IDF is anywhere near their location that Hamas soldiers are told to murder the hostages instead of allowing them to return. And then, like one gentleman was saying, he did the treatment even grew harsher once IDF resumed ground operations in March. It's it's crazy to think about this. They had times where they were forced to cook food for their captors and not have anything to eat themselves. It's it's it's disgusting beyond belief what these people went through. And to think that we exchanged or the Israelis exchanged 2,000 convicted criminals. Convicted criminals. These are some people that were convicted of terroristic acts within Israel, tried and convicted, and we have to return them so we can make a deal with the devil. I I hope this goes well. I hope this goes as planned. But I I just I just don't see it. And I love Joe Biden. You gotta you gotta you gotta love Sleepy Joe. He gives rare praise to Trump for the peace deal, but then he kind of says, Well, blinking and myself, we laid the groundwork for all this. This is this is kind of hard doing. Oh dear lord. We have our own power vacuum here. You have the Zolhan running for mayor in New York. And I know Mandami isn't is not the Zolhan, but I call him the Zolhan, which makes it even funnier because if you ever saw the movie with the Zolhan with Adam Sandler, he he is a he is a Israeli counterterrorist agent. But the Zolhan finally makes a finally makes a comment as he is losing steam in his Mariola race. I can't even talk today. His race for mayor in New York. He calls for the end of occupation occupation and apartheid as he finally issues a statement in reference to the Gaza Israeli ceasefire deal. This guy's a fucking winner. This guy, this guy in York is so far up his own ass, it's not even funny. Because he he's never worked a day in his life. He he comes from a wealthy family. He had this wedding, this million-dollar wedding in another country, but he is for the little people. He is for socialism. He's been a vocal critic of Israel of Israel forever. He he to me, he's anti-Semitic. He is a guy that that just just doesn't get it. And if the people in in New York elect this moron, you are gonna get what you elected. You are gonna get a socialist, you're gonna get someone that's gonna tax the rich, tax corporations, and basically force companies out of New York. He is going to not disband the police, but he's gonna he's gonna have policing officers that, you know, don't carry guns, but they're gonna go out there and talk to people. That really works well with criminals. This is the guy that you have. This is the guy that denied the Holocaust. This is a guy that is is is like I said, he he he's anti-Semitic. Let's let's just be honest about it. He's made so many anti-Semitic comments, it's not even funny. But that's alright, though. That's okay. Because he just he supports the Palestinians, he supports Palestine. There is no Palestine! For the love of fucking God, can people remember that? There is no Palestine! Oh, the Zolhan. I found it funny the other day. I I was uh I was Googling stuff, and AI always AI always makes me laugh because you you look at it and you're like, yeah, this is the most liberal shit that I've ever seen. Jokingly, because of everything going on, I typed in and went to uh went to the open AI mode on Google and typed in wars under the Biden administration. And then I also typed in war started under the Biden administration. And I love it because they talk about how the when you type it in for Biden, you they talk about how there is um there is a broader term to be used, and the the the term war should should uh should be expanded because while there were multiple conflicts under the Biden administration, none could be directly attributed to Joe Biden himself or the Biden administration himself. Uh and I love it though because you have to type, you have to go a little bit more in depth and detailed. Because when you type it in, it's almost like, well, there wasn't there was nothing that you know started under Joe Biden. And then you finally get it and you finally type it in the right way. And it says, since the beginning of the Biden administration, the United States has withdrawn from Afghanistan. Now, the the question is new wars started under the Biden administration. He successfully navigated wars in Ukraine and Gaza and conducted counterterrorist operations in other countries. That's not the question I had. The question I had is what are the new wars that were started under the Biden administration? And again, I typed it in, you know, new war started, and we're gonna type it in again under the Biden administration. And I'm hoping this is gonna change the metrics or change the thought process because it's silly. It's kind of stupid. Because you type in Trump, you gotta wait and see what happens. Because it it goes for it goes a whole different direction. Because then they start talking about, you know, if you type that in, they says, uh they'll say, uh, here are the top U.S. counterterrorism operations under Joe Biden. No, that's that's not that's not what I typed in. I typed in new wars started under the Biden. We're gonna type it in again. Uh come on, come on, open AI. That's why you gotta love Google under the Biden administration. So you you start waiting, it goes through it's thinking, it's kicking, and it says, No, I love this one. This is the best one. You type it in, you type in new war started under the Biden administration. While no major uh this now again, this is reading directly from Google itself. And I'm gonna rephrase that again. This isn't under Google, this is the AI mode under Google. While no major new wars were initiated by the U.S. under the Biden administration, it has significant it has provided significant military support to nations embroiled in conflicts. The primary conflicts that defined the period are the Russian invasion of Ukraine. I think that's a war. And then I love this one the Israeli Hamas war. But don't worry, there are there were new there were no new wars initiated by Joe Biden or the administration of the United States. The administration also conducted airstrikes against Iran-backed groups and oversaw the final withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan. Now, of course, this is nothing that I asked for. But then they get into it and they talk about the the invasion of Ukraine, which started in 2022. They talk about the Israeli Hamas war, and the only other thing they talk about is the end of the war in Afghanistan, then everything else, and there's like 17 other things that have gone on under the Biden administration, they list those as counter-terrorist operations. Now you type in new wars started. I love open AI under Trump because it's just so fucking stupid. Type in New Wars started under Trump, and again, it distinct goes for like, you know, and I love it because the first thing it starts with, the first thing it starts is although former president and current president Trump often asserts that he's avoided starting new wars, his administration overtook significant military actions and proceeded, uh presided over periods of heightened conflict. These occur in the context of going conflict and the rising particular tensions in the Middle East and East Asia. Where do you think that came from? It came from the previous administration, it came from the Biden administration. It literally and this one and this goes in talking about the deployments in Yemen. This talks about the North Korea tensions. This this talks about Al-Shabaab. This talks about Afghan, the war in Afghanistan. This this goes into ISIS counter camp, excuse me, ISIS counter-campaign terrorism. This goes into the right Iran, Iraq, this literally goes into everything. This is why open AI is full of shit. This is what, and I should say AI mode on Google is full of shit. We've known there's this liberal gap, this liberal bias in it. We we understand that. We get that. We're not stupid. But this is how you teach children. I I go back and I think about it. There were there was a uh there was encyclopedias uh that were put out um years ago that were wrong. That the data that they that that that they just made up. I mean, truly, they they they just made up information. Um and and I can't remember the name of the book, but uh there part of it also was in the there was new multiple areas in the cyclo Encyclopedia Britannica um that they just they just got shit wrong. And they didn't and they didn't even they they didn't even hide it. They they literally tried, you know, they literally just made shit up. Now, the Encyclopedia Britannica and the other encyclopedias is how we learned in the 70s and the 80s. You know, the encyclopedia Britannica has been around for 260 something years, but this is how we learned. This was the information we got, and they just made shit up. So to me, open AI is just doing the same fucking thing, but slightly, not slightly, but really slanted to the left. Halloween's coming up. I love Halloween, Halloween and the house of spooks. And actually, it was the world book encyclopedia set that was one of the ones that was one of the worst ones that was wrong. Um, but I was talking about some friends because you know, we grew up in the late 70s and in the 80s, and it was just different then. There was some scary shit that we were allowed to watch on television, and I'm talking midday television. You know, I'm talking about television like in the middle of the afternoon on a Saturday that you would probably never want your children to watch today. And and one of the things that I that I looked at was the um was the TV movie The Hobbit. Now this this was a uh this was was a um what was it, Bass and Rankins? It was the same, yeah, Bass and Rankins. It's the same guy, and this was from 1977. These are the same guys that produced all the Christmas shows. These are the same guys that brought you Rudolph, these are the guys that brought you, you know, the abominable snowman, which makes a lot of sense. These are the guys that brought you, you know, the winter warlock, all that fun, all that fun shit. And of course, this is the story of Bilbo Baggins living in a hobbit hole, goes off to Gandalf, and they and they they've revewn it ad nauseum with Peter Jackson over the last couple years, or more than the last couple of years, last like someone's like 10, 15 years. And of course, it's about the hobbit that goes on the great adventure, and it's a cartoon, but it's the freakiest fucking cartoon you will ever watch. And I thought about this. This is something that we got to sit through as kids. It was the greatest adventure. That's what we got to sit through. And we literally watch giant spiders cocoon, his fellow, the fellow dwarves, the dwarf king, and and poison them and suck the blood out of them, and then attack and kill the spiders. You you got the damn thing with my bushes. That is one of the scariest things I've ever seen. You got smog the dragon, which the guy kills, and you literally see the arrow go through into the dragon and kill him. You have the multiple war against all the fighting factions. And if you watch it and you take a look at it, you think to yourself, this is some fucked up shit. The dragon kills everyone in Lake Town. And this was something that as a nine-year-old or a 10-year-old or an eight-year-old, you were watching on a Saturday afternoon or a Tuesday afternoon. There was no parental supervision on this as the goblins rode in on the wargs. It was one of the freakiest things you had ever freaking seen in your life. But it was normal. I still I I I tell the story that uh I'm not afraid of a lot of things in this world. One of the things I'm afraid of are spiders, and one of the reasons why I'm afraid of spiders is because of the hobbit, the 1977 Hobbit, because of the big spider and the hobbit, which Bilbo Baggins kills, and you get to watch. Um, so that that spider, I watched it as a kid when I was like seven or eight, used to fucking freak me out. So I I moved to Miami from New York, and you know, I don't I don't know anything about these big ass bugs they have in Florida. So they have something called a banana tree spider, and this banana tree spider is fucking huge, it's like 12 feet long. Well, probably not 12 feet long, maybe like two feet, maybe a foot and a half, I don't know. But we're gonna say it's 12 feet fucking long. And I remember moving in to a townhouse and um opening up the pantry, and I'm filling up the pantry, and it's a very tall pantry, and I look up, and there's this big ass spider staring at me. There is the spider from the hobbit staring at me, ready to jump and cocoon me and poison me. So, what do I do, being from New York? I go grab a gun. Because you know what? I evidently I have to this this is what you do, and this is what you do in Florida, because you know you're not in Florida. Florida, of course, is like Texas. You grab your gun, I'm gonna shoot the spider. Then I thought better of it because I was like, well, I don't really want to put a hole in my new roof. So I so I I called uh I they had a maintenance, they had an on-site maintenance, so I called the on-site maintenance and had them get the spider. But I've been I was so traumatized by the hobbit that I couldn't even kill a spider in my new townhome. That's how fucked up this shit. This is how fucked up this shit is. Then I think a Ricky Tiki Tavvy. Ricky Tiki Tavvy is about a mongoose. And it it started, it was a book, um, of course, and they um they they made it into a it was a short, it was part of a short story collection, I believe, by the author of the jungle book. Um show so they they of course had to make it into a film. Now, this again, something that was done shockingly in 1975. And it's basically about this family that goes and lives, I forget where they live, they go live in Africa or something, and and they befriend a mongoose. They save a mongoose from dry from drowning, and uh the mongoose becomes a friend and protector for the young child, the young boy. And they live in this garden where there's all these snakes and Ricky Tikky Tabby kills kills the uh this one little poisonous snake to save the boy. But there's these two cobras that live in the garden, Nag and Nagaina. Well, Naga Nagaina are they control everything, they're badasses. But so but they don't like the family being where they are, they don't like the family living in this shit. So they want to get rid of the family. And they also don't like the mongoose around because they have they have baby eggs. Of course, mongooses go after baby eggs, cobra eggs, and destroy them. Teddy was the kid's name. I had to think about it. Or no, was it Teddy?

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Teddy.

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Uh was it Teddy? Was the kid's name? Or was it John? I don't I don't remember. I don't I don't remember. Oh no, it is Teddy. Yeah, Teddy, Teddy, Teddy is Teddy is the kid. So what happens is the the the cobras, because they can talk because it's a cartoon, decide that they're gonna get rid of the family. So Nog decides that he is gonna wait in the bathroom at night. He sneaks in, he's gonna wait in the bathroom at night, and he's gonna attack the family as they go into the bathroom. He's gonna he's gonna attack the family on the shitter. So what happens? Ricky Tiki Tabby Man, he hears this plan, he's fucking waiting. He's waiting for Nog. So Nog comes in, he sits there. Now, anything you know anything about mongooses and no mongooses always attack the back of the cobra so they can break the cobra's, I don't know, so they can kill the cobra that way. So what happens is Ricky, Ricky, and we're gonna call him Ricky, jumps up, gets gets on Nog's back. You know, he can't kill him. The the dad comes in and shoots him with the shotgun. Nog Nog. So, of course, kills Nog and they throw it over the fence because that's what you do in Africa. You just throw shit over the fence. That's what you do, that's what you do anyway. So, what happens is Nagaina now is pissed, and she ain't playing around no more. But she's got she's got the baby Cobra eggs to protect, but she's still gonna get rid of this fucking family. So one day the family's outside enjoying a nice lunch, and then Nagaina comes up. And now remember, this is some fucked up shit to watch as a kid in 1976, and they would show this in school, and all of a sudden Nag cut Nagaina comes up and she's about to strike the boy. And of course, they can talk the animals, but the humans don't understand it. And I love it because she sits there looking at Ricky Tab Ricky Tiggy Tabby and telling him, If the boy moves, I'll strike. If the boy doesn't move, I'll strike. I'm like, what kind of fucked up shit is that? You're gonna kill the kid anyway. You're gonna kill the kid either way. But Ricky was smart. Ricky was smart. He went to their nest, the cobra's nest, and smashed. All the cobra eggs, except for one. Except for one egg. So as Nagaina is tormenting the family, Ricky brings over the egg, like, hey, bitch, I got one of your eggs. You want it, you gotta come fucking get it. And there's a race. Nagaina grabs the egg and runs off, and then she runs down the cobra hole. Now, no mongoose has ever survived going inside a cobra hole because there's no room to fight. But somehow Ricky comes out. He killed Nagaina, smashed the eggs, and everyone lives happily ever after. Except the fucking kids that have to watch this. You just killed two mongoose, two cobras, shot one. This kid's being attacked left and right, almost drowned. You're throwing snakes over the fence. There's dead things. There's there's talking cobras that want to kill you. No wonder Gen X is so screwed up. No wonder we don't know anything. No wonder we don't know any fucking bad. Because we had to watch shit like this and it was normal. Oh just an just another day in paradise. Once again, this is Tim This Gun of My Lawn. The Mad Ramblings of a Gen Xer. Like, subscribe, follow, leave a comment, or you of course can leave a five-star review every place you see podcasts, every place that they're found. Enjoy the rest of your day, and I'm out of here.