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CNN Cuts Off RFK Jr. Speech Mid-Sentence!

2024/8/28
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CNN abruptly cut away from RFK Jr.'s speech as he criticized Kamala Harris and the Democratic Party. This censorship silenced his discussion of important issues and prevented viewers from hearing his perspective.
  • CNN cut away from RFK Jr.'s speech when he began criticizing Kamala Harris and the Democratic Party.
  • RFK Jr. was polling between 4.5% and 6% in swing states.
  • The commentator on CNN mocked RFK Jr.'s voice impediment after the network cut away from the speech.

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Medium speeds and jumps to medium and hits them head on. It's the Jimmy Tore Show. So, RFK Jr., when he gave his speech last, was it Friday? Yes. When he announced that he was dropping out of the swing states and he was going to endorse Donald Trump, CNN cut away from that. And you want to watch how it happened? Oh, I saw. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So watch this. I got this from Christy Tallman's Twitter feed. Watch this. My uncle and my father, both relish debate.

They prided themselves on their capacity to go toe-to-toe with any opponent in the battle over ideas. They would be astonished to learn of a Democratic Party presidential nominee who, like Vice President Harris, has not appeared in a single interview or an unscripted encounter with voters for 35 years. So he's telling you the truth about the horribleness of what the Democratic Party is currently doing. They're extolling

A president. They're not they're not using a democratic process. They're installing someone after they could. Joe Biden, who got 14 million votes in the primary. So he's explaining that to you. And she's explaining that Kamala Harris hasn't even taken a question in what how many days since she's been installed as that. She hasn't even is five. I don't know. Is it five weeks? It.

Jimmy, I don't care. I'm so afraid of Trump that he's my bin Laden now. So do whatever you guys have to do to destroy my freedoms to get that bad bin Laden. Yep. He's the new... So watch this. So watch what... As he starts to say this, watch what CNN does. I'll start at the beginning. My uncle and my father both relish debate. They prided themselves on their capacity to go toe-to-toe with any opponent in the battle over ideas.

they would be astonished to learn of a Democratic Party presidential nominee who, like Vice President Harris, has not appeared in a single interview or an unscripted encounter with voters for 35 days. We've been listening to independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. from Phoenix outlining what led him to his quixotic quest for the White House to now dropping out and relinquishing the title of... His quixotic...

Oh, so he was tilting at windmills with all that stuff about the pharmaceuticals and the poisons in the environment. That's all just a windmill. What's the definition of quixotic? Don Quixote.

exceedingly idealistic unrealistic and impractical impractical yeah yeah his quick side so they immediately as soon as he starts to tell the truth about kamala harris and the horribleness of the democratic party's pretend primary and this rigged process they went through that was she is installed by the donor class billionaires hand-picked kamala harris to be president and

And as he starts to explain that, that she's not even taking questions, she hasn't done an unscripted question even from a voter. See another, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. We can't let people know that. And they immediately cut in.

And I'm going to play, here's the part they didn't want you to hear. Here's the part they most didn't want. There was a lot of great stuff. His press conference was about healing the health of America, healing the children's health. Half of kids are obese. Only 3% of kids in Japan are obese. Did you know that? He's talking about the corruption of our regulatory, the USDA, the FDA, the CDC, and Big Agra, and the garbage that they put in our food. Our food is poison.

And so, and this is what they did, but this is the most they didn't want you to hear this part. Instead of showing us her substance and character, the DNC and its media organs engineered a surge of popularity for vice president Harris based upon nothing, no policies, no interviews, no debates, only smoke and mirrors and balloons in a highly reduced Chicago circus. They are in Chicago, a string of democratic speakers, uh,

mentioned Donald Trump 147 times just on the first day. Who needs a policy when you have Trump to hate? In contrast, at the RNC convention, President Biden was mentioned only twice in four days. Yeah, so all the major news networks are obviously owned by Big Pharma, and it's obvious that they don't mind looking like dishonest pieces of garbage, shutting down someone who is pointing out that they are dishonest pieces of garbage. And that's what they did.

Once again, Donald Trump was a gift presented to the Democrats like Venus on the half shell. That's right. I want that image stuck in your head all day. Without Donald Trump, the Democrats would have to come up with something actually relevant to say about who funds them. But they have. Go ahead. He's an astrological sign at this point for them.

uh what uh who writes the copy that these reporters say because it's none of those moron reporters who's the person writing that crap when they go his quixotic yeah run for president that's i'll bet you had somebody out of the government who the hell is writing that they have to be directly connected to like intel or deep state or somebody right and

They cut him off just as he's telling the crowd about how he's being deliberately blocked out of the democratic process. And then they interject that his quest is quixotic. That analogy doesn't even apply because the windmills were not deliberately running defense against every single thing Don Quixote tried to do.

Yeah, right. The windmills were not the establishment powers, were they? Right. Like, Europe wasn't ruled by windmills. I mean, now I guess it is in a way. And just in case there was any doubt in your mind, nothing works as well as just cutting the guy off completely. I mean, look at his numbers.

So here was his numbers. So these are all swing states. He was getting 5 points, almost 6%, 5%, 5%, 6%, almost 5, 4.5, 4.5, 4. Those are big numbers. Anybody who liked him, yeah. You give those numbers to Trump and he's...

He's squashing Harris in all those swing states. And by the way, I'll bet he's already squashing her without RFK. I don't believe none of those numbers. So nothing works better than just cut the guy off. If you want to bring those numbers down.

Just make sure he doesn't get any. Don't let anybody hear his message. It's like if you want to lose weight, you have to stop eating so much. If you want to lose JFK Jr. from the election, you have to cut down on what he gets to say on television. Because the more he says on television, the more popular he becomes to people.

I don't think they've built up enough of an army of childless gender blob cat people to really pull this off. The people that are not going to notice you just cut him off, they were already voting for Kamala. Anybody that liked him and watched you do that, they're going to have the same process that RFK had or his vice president. Watching the chick go on for vice president, how she was almost in tears, realizing that the DNC actually is...

You mean, like, did you not know, sweetie? Is that real? She must have not known. You mean Shanahan? You mean RFK's vice president?

We were watching it, and I was like, this chick didn't even know? Like, you didn't know this was, like, it was funny to me when RFK came on my show the first time, and I was like, dude, it's a fool's errand. You're running as a, like, how do you not know this? How did you not see what happened to Bernie twice? What do you think they're going to do to you? What do you, it just seems silly. Yeah, they don't, these people, the higher up you go, the more stupid they are. They had to experience it themselves. So they cut from RFK Jr.'s speech.

Because they don't want to hear him tell the truth about what happened in the Democratic primary. That the donor class installed Kamala Harris, who hasn't taken a question from a done an unscripted question from a voter or done an interview with a news person, not even a friendly one. Nothing. Right. So they cut from that and they cut over to the there they are. They cut from that.

And who do they cut to? They cut to this guy. Watch this. Watch what he says. Yeah, I was watching that and Donald Trump last week stood and said in front of a bunch of groceries and said, I haven't seen any Cheerios in a long time. I had Cheerios for breakfast. This was cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs. And trying to get any logic out of that is good luck with that because it's... What? He's saying that what RFK was saying was cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs.

First of all, he was giving a speech about how seed oils and the food system in America is poisoning everybody, and we have an explosion of chronic disease and obesity that children in America, half of them are obese. In Japan, it's 3%. You don't have enough circuses, Jimmy, to put these fatsoes in like we used to have. He said they used to go to the circus. He's not making a mean joke. That is literally the fattest man in the world. From back then, you can find the pictures, was like,

400 pounds. Yes. That was the fattest man in the world at the time. You'd have to put him in a carnival. Now, most of the people at the carnival look like that guy. It's unbelievable. So let me... So RFK is giving a very coherent speech.

I'm understanding everything he's saying. Everything he's saying, I'm understanding. He's giving a very coherent speech about the health of America, about how to fight back against the corruption of the USDA, the FDA, the CDC, Big Agra, how to get people eating healthy again. He's got a plan. And he's making a case that you never hear anybody make on television. Why? Because television's bought by all those companies that want to give you those poisons.

So they cut from him and they cut to this guy who's trying to make RFK Jr., the first time I heard somebody make sense on television in a long time, tries to make it sound like he's crazy. So let me show you RFK's speech. Very coherent. Very on point. He went from talking about the health of America and how we're being poisoned by our food, which I've been talking about this year a lot.

And then he starts to go tell you how bad the anti-democratic Democratic Party is in installing a billionaire-selected Kamala Harris, and then CNN cuts. Watch. My uncle and my father both relish debate. They prided themselves on their capacity to go toe-to-toe with any opponent in the battle over ideas. They would be astonished to learn of a Democratic Party presidential nominee who, like Vice President Harris, has not appeared in a single interview before.

or an unscripted encounter with voters for 35 minutes. So that sounds very easy to understand. In fact, I'm enthused about it, and I'm interested in what he has to say.

That's very easy to understand. I know what he's saying. Everybody else does, too. And it's very powerful. CNN doesn't want you to hear this. So they cut in. Right. Encounter with voters. It's 35 minutes. Listening to independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. from Phoenix outlining what led him to his quixotic quest for the White House to now dropping out and relinquishing the title of my.

So they come back, there they are, and they bring on this ham job. And listen to what he says. Yeah, I was watching that and Donald Trump last week stood in front of a bunch of groceries and said, I haven't seen any Cheerios in a long time. I had Cheerios for breakfast. This was cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs. And trying to get any logic out of that is good luck with that.

So that's called an establishment hack who's paid by those companies that RFK Jr. is talking about is poisoning you, and he's paid by the political parties owned by those companies. So he has to come on and make you think that what he was saying was crazy. He said cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs. Watch. Because it's, one, you can't understand what he says. Two, if you can, you can't understand what he says.

So now he's making fun of his vocal quality. He's now making fun of his voice impediment. He's making fun of a handicap that he has, a physical impairment, which I've been told over and over and over, you're not supposed to do that. Who told me that? CNN. CNN.

Because when Donald Trump, they said he made fun of someone's handicap, that made him the worst person in the world. We heard that this guy's doing that right now. He's pretending you can't understand what RFK Jr. is saying. I 100% understand what RFK Jr. is saying. You know what I don't understand? What? Kamala, I've never understood what in the hell Kamala was talking about. Once, I can't think of one time that I took an idea away from listening to her babble.

So he says you can't understand what RFK Jr. is saying, and even if you can, you still can't understand what he's saying because it's all cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs. Watch this. Reminded of a line in Mel Brooks' Blazing Saddles when somebody gets up and gives an indecipherable speech, he says, who can argue with that? That's authentic frontier gibberish, and that's exactly what that is. So he's calling what RFK Jr. was saying as gibberish.

No, that's an ax. He has to say that because it's just like when they call you a conspiracy. They're not afraid of lies. The establishment is afraid of the truth. And that's what RFK Jr. was giving people. And people are hungry for that. They're not hungry for bullshit on CNN, which is why this show is more popular than any show on fucking CNN. And why Joe Rogan is 20 times more popular than the whole network. Because they give you bullshit.

And if it wasn't for Donald Trump, nobody would have watched their show. But anyway, he's trying to make you think that he's, well, here it is again. Yeah, I was watching that and Donald Trump last week stood in front of a bunch of groceries and said, I haven't seen any Cheerios in a long time. I had Cheerios for breakfast. This was cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs. Now that's ironic because RFK Jr. was talking about

Trust-free media says, technically, RFK isn't cuckoo for Cocoa Pops because they're filled with the exact chemicals in our food supply that he's concerned are making our children unhealthy. And they list the ingredients. Here's the ingredients. Corn syrup, sugar, flavor chips. Also down here, canola oil, palm kernel oil, high fructose corn syrup, fructose. That's the garbage.

That's poisoning us and making everyone sick. So it's ironic he said cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs because that's exactly what RFK Jr. was talking about. And everybody understood what he was saying. And CNN has to lower themselves to insulting his physical handicap.

He probably knows about this, and everyone knows lead makes you cuckoo. Cocoa Puffs lawsuit claims breakfast cereal contains dangerous levels of lead. That's from July 23rd of this year. Well, you got to get your lead in.

A bowl of Cocoa Puffs with 24% more than the recommended serving size contains 0.53 micrograms of lead, the lawsuit says. That's what the lawsuit says. That's at 132% more. So that's from classaction.org. Why would they put lead in it? classaction.org. Now, I can't vote for the veracity of those numbers, but I'm saying that's what the lawsuit says.

John Paul Berg says they're probably aware that they're losing their monopoly on the dissemination of information. Their desperation to smear people with unsubstantiated ad hominem will not work anymore. Their mask is slipping, revealing the vile swill merchants that lay beneath. Well said. Arya says that guy sounds like a fixer or a lobbyist.

That's exactly what that guy is. He either doesn't have kids or he sold his opinion to Big Pharma. Or he's a hollow shell that somebody writes what he says, like all those imbeciles on. Not one of them. You saw the guy reading the script, right? Yeah. Off his laptop. You saw him reading it. So he didn't write none of that. He just go, oh, we're exotic, blah, blah. That's your whole skill being on CNN. Can you read the prompter, right? And then after that, the...

You try your best to put a little spin on it like a kid doing a kindergarten report. You want to hear a real doctor who has a number one selling book he wrote with another doctor who's his sister?

who graduated at the top of her medical school class at Stanford. They wrote a book. They wrote a book called Good Energy. It's a woman named Casey Means, MD, who graduated at the top of her class, and Kaylee Means. That's her brother. They wrote this book called Good Energy. It's all about nutrition. And he came on to tell you, to talk about RFK Jr.'s quest to make us healthy again,

And listen to what he said. Now, you hear the hack from CNN. Listen to what an actual doctor says. Co-founder of TrueMed and author of the bestselling book, Good Energy. Callie Means joins us now. Callie, good morning. It was a remarkable night last night. Twitter is blowing up a lot of Democrats, very angry at what's happening, obviously. But talk to me about what you think this. Oh, by the way, there's basically a joke Rob Schneider made.

He said the Democrats haven't, when RFK dropped out and endorsed Trump, Roseanne tweeted out the Democrats haven't been this angry since Lincoln ended slavery. Right? So that's very funny. Turns out that's Rob Schneider's joke. Oh. Did you know that, Kurt? No. I didn't either. Yeah. Here we go. This endorsement will actually mean for this idea of making America healthy again.

Well, Rachel, you've been saying it for over a year. The childhood chronic disease epidemic is the sleeper issue of this campaign. And last night, the forgotten child was thrust squarely into the national conversation. And from my small vantage point, I can tell you that these two men bonded over questions about what's happening to Americans' children.

Why are 50% of American teens overweight or obese when it's only 3% in Japan? Why is the American Academy of Pediatrics pushing Ozympic on six-year-olds instead of healthy food? Why have autism rates gone up orders of magnitude in the past 20 years without changes in screenings? Why have cancer rates been exploding among kids? Why does America have the earliest puberty rate among children among any country in the world because of our interconnecting and disrupting foods that are in our food supply and our environment?

These questions are at the core, I think, of what's been propelling RFK, what's been propelling Trump, what really is the defining political issue in the country, which is this populist frustration with our institutions and the institutions that profit from sick kids are on notice right now.

Wow, that guy sounds like he's cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs. Well, you know what they sound like? They sound like Fox News now because they're obviously back in Trump. They're going to pretend to care about kids being injured by things when it's that stupid prick Scalia that wrote the decision about why you can't sue the vaccine makers, right? Oh, was it? I didn't know that. Yeah, that's an Antonin Scalia. I'm going to give them kudos. They're covering it.

They're telling people. By all means, cover it. Cover it, by all means. I don't want to take away from that. But it's funny to watch the network that fired Tucker for talking about vaccines in Ukraine. It is funny. It must really be coming down to the wire for them to switch over like this. But good. Hey, glad to have you telling the truth. I'm sure it won't be for long.

Yes, just like Cornel West came out and said he wants a vaccine and a COVID commission. Glad to have you. Oh, that's a panic. That's panic instruction because of RFK. Yes. So anyway, so that's a guy who's got the number one selling New York Times book on health and nutrition talking about the exact same things RFK Jr. is talking about. But the guy at CNN will tell you that's cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs.

That's cuckoo for Coco Puffs. Did you see the other? I can't remember what new show it was on. I feel sorry that his wife has to sleep with him. Really? This guy in great shape, RFK Jr.? I know. You don't feel sorry for Tim Waltz and Kamala giving each other a firm... Tim Waltz's wife firm handshake? Who do you think has better tits? J.D. Vance or Tim Waltz? I got to go Tim. I got to go Tim Waltz. More feminine. Anyway, the point is...

I forget what the point is. We're going to jump to Rumble now. We sure are, Jimmy. We're going to jump to Rumble. And guess what? You want me to read something? We're going to bring in Kurt. You can stick around for this. We have another guest coming on. He's pilots for 9-11. Is it 9-11 Truth? Is that what it's called? No.

Oh, 9-11 pilot whistleblower. He's the director. That sounds like a truther, Jimmy. And as you know, I am a 9-11 liar. All right. You don't want to be a truther, do you? You don't want to be a truther. They've made the term truth toxic. Ew, a truther. I'm a good person. I'm a liar. I like the lies. I like the lies.

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The founder and CEO of the messaging service Telegram was detained at a Paris airport on an arrest warrant alleging his platform has been used for money laundering, drug trafficking and other offenses. That's what the French media says.

You believe them? You think that's the real reason? Pavel Durov, a dual citizen of France and Russia, was taken into custody at Paris Le Brou airport on Saturday evening after landing in France from Azerbaijan. Investigators from the National Anti-Fraud Office attached to the French Customs Department notified Durov, 39, that he was being placed in police custody.

French prosecutors declined to comment on Duval's arrest when contacted by the Associated Press in line with regulations during an ongoing investigation. Okay, Jesus Christ. French media reported that the warrant for Duval was issued by France at the request of the special unit at the country's interior ministry in charge of investigating crimes against minors. So do you really think that's why they're going after him?

I'm going to tell you the real reason in a second. Those include online sexual exploitation, such as possession and distribution of child sexual abuse content and grooming for sexual. So they're saying like if you use an app, like if I'm using Signal and I pass something that's

Some exploitation material that they can go arrest the... So if I post something, a nude picture of an underage kid on Facebook, they're going to go arrest Zuckerberg? You think that's what they're going to do? Because that's what they're saying they're doing. That's what they're saying they're doing. So...

Telegram was founded by Durov and his brother in the wake of the Russian government's crackdown after mass pro-democracy protests that rocked Moscow at the end of 2011-2012. The demonstrations prompted Russian authorities to clamp down on the digital space, adopting regulations that forced internet providers to block websites and cell phone operators to store call records and messages that could be shared with security services.

So this is them trying to get out from underneath the thumb. Telegram continued to be widely used, including by government institutions, and the ban was dropped two years later. Telegram also continues to be a popular source of news in Ukraine, where both media outlets and officials use it to share information on the war and deliver missiles and air raid alerts. Wow. So here's what Megatron says. This is the real reason they're doing this to him.

The telegram is the main source of information about the Israeli genocide and massacre in Gaza. Thousands of videos of Jews, I would say thousands of videos of Israelis massacring children have been posted on telegram channels by journalists living in Gaza. Israel is trying to stop that flow of information, and that is why it has...

killed over 100 journalists in Gaza alone. I don't think that's disputable, that that's how many journalists have been killed in Gaza. I don't think that's a disputed number. But of course, that doesn't have anything to do with why they arrested him, because Israel doesn't have any influence over foreign governments on any level. Oh, wait a minute. The most accurate information about the situation on the ground in Ukraine comes out on Telegram, and NATO can't control it.

The biggest Wagner channels are on Telegram. In general, the best way to assess if a disinformation campaign is taking place is to check if multiple channels that are pro-Wagner or so have related.

Many people use Telegram as their source of information because the information comes directly from the field. Many dead NATO soldiers appear on Telegram and the CIA and NATO command can no longer hide their direct involvement in the war broken out in Russia. So you see what's happening? Telegram did a lot of damage to the French army in Africa.

The Africans organized all their protests, resistance, and everything else against the French occupation forces through Telegram. Russian mercenaries obviously used different platforms, but Telegram played for them an important role in accelerating the deterioration of France's military posture, especially in Africa. I think it's important to take it into consideration when wondering why the French would get involved. So,

People think France is just a tourist spot with overpriced food, but we forget they are a major weapons dealer to the world. They're almost as bad as we are. They have caused a lot of death for profit, and they don't want to give that up, even if some upstart comes along with the social media platform. So, I mean...

The founder of Telegram has been detained by French intelligence services at the airport. He is expected to be presented to a judge later this evening facing multiple charges. Potential charges include terrorism, drug-related offenses, complicity, fraud, money laundering, concealment, and possession of child exploitation content. The main concern of the European Union authorities regarding Telegram is its encrypted messaging.

So they want to get to him. Look, there he is flipping off. This is the famous photo of him flipping off Putin, giving him the middle finger, which means he could probably run for president here in the United States. In 2011, he said the government had requested him to cancel the accounts of anti-government figures on a social media platform and he wouldn't do it. And he left the country.

Durov not only did not follow, but also publicly released this photo of him raising the middle finger to Putin in the media, which received cheers from the West. After the 2014 Ukrainian coup, Durov refused to provide the Russian government with information on users involved in the Ukrainian colorful revolution.

So he...

He's not playing along. Now, you remember after 9-11, there was a telecommunications CEO who wouldn't give up his phone company's private info to the Intel community here in the United States, and they put him in jail.

so that's what this is the fbi the cia the massad the mi6 they all want to have this information and he will he's going to keep it private and so you know how it works right first they first they come along and they try to to persuade you and if that doesn't work they try to bribe you and if that doesn't work then they try to put you in jail or kill you and

And that's what's happening to him right now. Here he is talking about when the FBI came to him in an interview with Tucker Carlson. He said the last time he was in the United States, he brought an engineer from Telegram with him who the Secret Services tried to hire behind his back. Watch this. We get too much attention from the FBI, the security agencies, wherever we came to the U.S.,

So to give you an example, last time I was in the US, I brought an engineer that is working for Telegram and there was an attempt to secretly hire my engineer behind my back

What are you going to hire him to do? Climb up a sloped roof? Am I right? Come on. Here we go. Cyber security officers or agents, whatever they are called. The US government should hire your engineer? That's my understanding. That's what he told me. To write code for them or to break into Telegram? They were curious to learn which open source libraries are integrated to the Telegram's app on the client side. And they were

trying to persuade him to use certain open source tools that he would then integrate into the Telegram's code that, in my understanding, would serve as backdoors. Would allow the U.S. government to spy on people who use Telegram. The U.S. government or maybe any other government because a backdoor is a backdoor regardless of who is using it. That's right.

And that's a little surprising to hear. Maybe it's not surprising. It's offensive. You're confident that happened? Yes. There is no reason for my engineer to make up the stories. Also because I personally experienced similar pressure in the US. Whenever I would go to the US, I would have...

two FBI agents greeted me at the airport asking questions. One time I was having my breakfast at 9:00 a.m. and the FBI showed up at my house that I was renting and that was quite surprising and I thought, you know, we're getting too much attention here. It's probably not the best environment to run. Why would they have... had you committed a crime?

No, they were interested to learn more about Telegram. They knew I left Russia. They knew what we were doing, but they wanted details. And my understanding is that they wanted to establish a relationship to, in a way, control Telegram better. I understand they were doing their job. It's just that for us running a privacy-focused company,

social media platform, that probably wasn't the best environment to be in. We want to be focused on what we do, not on government relations of that sort. The government relations. So there it is, the FBI leaning on him, the FBI trying to get his engineer to provide them a backdoor so they could spy on everybody. And he wouldn't play ball, and now he's arrested in France. So...

uh he helped ukrainians stage a coup in deta in 2014 did you know that you want a reason to arrest him then the whole west glorified him then he also trolled the russian fsp and sent them an encryption keys to telegram in 2017 back then the west cheered his fight on then there's an attack on the messenger through apple which pavel managed to fend off thanks to the chats that are needed by the ukrainian military intelligence

Here he is. Nine years ago, I defended the private data of Ukrainians from the Russian government and lost my company and my home. I would do it again without hesitation. Here's this letter. So Medved released a statement about Durov's arrest. Medvedev. Is he currently the president of Russia? Or he was. Can you look up Medvedev's current position?

Some time ago, I asked Durov why he didn't want to cooperate with law enforcement on serious crimes. It's a matter of principle, he said. I told him that will cause serious problems in any country. So this is Medvedev, former president of Russia, saying, hey, if you don't cooperate with the cops or the intelligence community in any country, it's going to cause problems. There isn't freedom. There is no such thing as privacy. We get to do what we want. We're the government.

He believed that his biggest problems were in Russia, so he left, eventually obtaining citizenship or residency in other countries. He wanted to be a brilliant citizen of the world, living well without a homeland. Medvedev is serving as deputy chairman of the Security Council of Russia since 2020. Okay, there you go.

He miscalculated. To all our common enemies now, he is still Russian and therefore unpredictable and dangerous of a different blood. So what he's saying is that the world still sees him as a Russian and so the world now hates Russia and so they don't care. Of a different blood. Definitely not a Musk or a Zuckerberg who, by the way, actively cooperates with the FBI. He's saying Musk and Zuckerberg actively cooperate. Well, we know for a fact that Zuckerberg does. He admitted.

Durov needs to finally understand that, like the times, one does not choose their homeland. Okay. And despite, Megatron says, and despite Durov helped NATO in the 2014 coup in Ukraine, Russia is working to free Telegram founder Pavlov Durov after he was arrested in France. This is from Maria Zakharova.

Russia sent a note demanding access to Durov, but France perceives his French citizenship as the primary one. Durov, the founder of Telegram, is a dual Russian-French citizen. The Russian embassy in Paris seeks an explanation from France, urging it to protect Durov's rights. Despite the request, France remains unresponsive.

Finally, so Baptiste Roberts says, finally the charges against Pavel Durov have been published. Complicity, administration of an online platform to allow an illegal transaction in an organized band.

Refusal to communicate at the request of the authorized authorities to the information or documents necessary for the realization and exploitation of interceptions authorized by law. Complicity, detention of the image of a minor child, pornographic nature. Complicity, dissemination, offering or making available. So what they're saying is that somebody in their own private chat had this idea

Image of a minor child. And so they're charging him with it, which is like if I went on Twitter and gave you a DM and passed you some image, they could then arrest Elon Musk for that. That's the equivalent of what they're doing. Complicity, dissemination, offer, and making available in an organized tape of images of a minor. So that's what they're getting him on. So I don't have to go through organized gang scam or association of criminals with a view to committing a crime.

Money laundering of crime. So whatever someone's doing using his telegram, they're charging him with. So I don't need to go through all this. I think it was wise to wait until the... So anyway. Okay. So it appears that Pavel Durov has been using cryptography without a license. I don't even know what that is. Providing cryptology services aiming to ensure confidentiality without certified declaration. So...

He's making sure that your communications are private and they don't want them to be private. The government wants to be able to have access to him. According to these charges, every social media platform executive in the world should be arrested. That's what I've been saying this whole time. So of course they're not. So, and you don't have to, you don't have to like,

That guy, Deval, a lot of people don't like him for different reasons. I don't like the fact that he helped the overthrow of the democratically elected Ukraine government. I say arrest him for that. But what they're going after him for is that he won't give governments access to private information so they can spy on you. And it's got to do with Israel and Palestine. It's got to do with Ukraine. And they've had it. So first they try coercion.

Then they try to bribe them. Now they're due in the jail. So there you go. And those are the charges. Those are the charges. I'm sure all those things happen that they're charging him with. But just as this person says, according to these charges, every social media platform executive in a world should be arrested because that happens on all the platforms. The difference is the other people running those social media platforms are cooperating with the intelligence community. ♪

So, Cornel West came out with a big announcement yesterday, right after RFK Jr. dropped out. And let's remember what he used to say about Dr. Fauci. What a blessing to just be in conversation with you, though, brother. What a great example of integrity, honesty, decency you have been over your 79 years on the globe. So, that's what he used to say about Dr. Fauci. Now...

I can overlook that because I didn't know anything about Dr. Fauci at the beginning of this either. So, but that's what he said. What a blessing to just be in conversation with you, though, brother. What a great example of integrity, honesty, decency you have been over your 79 years on the globe. I don't know why he got to go over the top like that. His 79 years on the globe, holy cow, why he would say all that. But he did. Yeah.

Here is what he said yesterday. This is what he tweeted out. I want to speak to my brothers and sisters of all colors who are concerned about not just the vaccine, but the role of the pharmaceutical company in shaping public policy, not allowing the various voices to be heard, the role of censorship, the attempt to impose closure on various voices that would help us understand what's really going on when it comes to health care policy vis-a-vis vaccine. I agree.

I want a truth commission to find out what happened in the past. And I want to make sure that each and every one of us have fair access to the truth. Boy, that is you've come a long way. You went all the way from honoring Anthony Fauci to suddenly wanting a commission to figure out where Anthony Fauci lied to us. Wow. That's amazing.

So guess what? RFK Jr., he comes in and says, so grateful to you, Cornell, for commitment to ending the corruption. And what I say is I will join with anyone to do good and no one to do bad. So if Cornell is serious about that,

That's great. I know he doesn't want to ever hear from me again, but... Cornell West says, Thank you, my dear brother. We must fight against all forms of corruption, greed, hatred, and genocide. God bless you and your precious family. It would have been more helpful if Cornell West was on this in real time. The fact that he's way late to this party is a little annoying, but I'm glad to have him, right? Anyway, I just...

So Mary Talley Bowden, who we've had on the show. Hey, she says, would like you to add your name to the list of politicians calling for the COVID shots to be pulled off the market and pledging not to take donations from big pharma. Hey, they didn't. Nobody responded to that. Post Duopolis says a little late for this bro. Talking to Cornell. Uh,

I'll take it, but yeah, it's a little annoying. The people who I thought would stand out and say something when they were firing 70,000 workers for not taking an experimental medical treatment, I thought it would be Cornel West standing up for workers. He didn't. I thought it would be him standing up against this tyranny.

And he didn't. So, but here, but then people are giving him shit. So now he's on the right side of it. Everybody has, nobody's up to date that I know on their 10th, because you're supposed to be on your 10th shot right now. You're supposed to be on, do you know anybody who's on their 10th shot? Even Fauci said he was only on six when he got COVID last time. So at some point,

It's gone down to that overwhelming majority of people are not following the CDC guidelines on taking their boosters, as they call them, boosters. So at some point, people stopped listening to the CDC's guidelines. They stopped listening to Fauci. They stopped listening to Collins. They stopped listening to the mainstream news. At some point, most Americans did.

At some point, except for people like Dr. Lucky Tran. It's sad to see Cornel West go deep into anti-vax, COVID denialism and anti-science. No, he's actually saying we need to look into this scientifically. And all they have is smears.

You don't have any questions about... They lied about masks. They lied about funding the gain of function that gave us the virus. They lied about where the virus came from. They lied about herd immunity. They lied about natural immunity. They lied about transmission, contraction. There wasn't a thing they didn't lie about. But you're still going to call people anti-vax, COVID denialists, and anti-science for looking into it?

Hey, if you're going to go to a doctor named Lucky Tran, you deserve whatever you end up with. Good luck. Dr. Lucky Tran. Here is Social Done Left, SDL. Insane anti-vaxxer RFK drops out. Insane.

Insane. Again, that's why they won't bring him on television because every time RFKs asked about the vaccines, he makes complete sense. It makes perfect sense. Insane. That's why you can never trust somebody who doesn't have a real name on Twitter. The next day you start going for the anti-vax vote. So people who want to look into a health problem are now anti-vax. It's just amazing.

Honestly, as long as it keeps them from voting Trump, I don't care. Good luck and Godspeed winning over the pro-COVID nutters at almost 3,000 likes. Wow. So morons like this are the problem, right? I would like to ask SDL, are you on your 10th shot? Because that's what the CDC recommends. Are you on your 10th? And how's that going for you? How you feel physically? How's your immune system?

These would be my questions for you. But I don't know. I don't want to be anti-science. Fucking morons. Rand Paul, he says, this is an ad that was running. He said, I've launched a bipartisan investigation to examine the origins of COVID, gain-of-function research, and Dr. Fauci's cover-up attempts, all to prevent a future pandemic. Will you stand with me and get to the bottom of what really happened? Add your name. I wonder if Cornell has added his name.

I agree with this position, but kindly, Dr. West, you're late with this message. You dismissed Jimmy Dore when he begged you to change your tune and you mocked him. He did mock me a little. It looks like Jimmy Dore got through to you. To be honest, it's a little late. And when it mattered, you were nowhere to be found. That is true. When it mattered, he was nowhere to be found. But I'll cut him slack. I'm glad he's on board.

I'm willing to let bygones be bygones. I'm willing to let go, forgive and forget. He went around slandering me, even though he's working with Peter Dow, pretending he didn't know what he was doing, saying that Joe Biden's the lesser of two evils. I had big hopes for his campaign. It turns out he's not much of a politician. I mean, he's... So I'll...

Here's the weird thing that I'll show you. Here's the weird thing that Cornel West did when he came on our show. So he he was talking about this last year, about a commission to look into the vaccines. And so he's running for president. So we agreed. So when you get somebody to agree with you, you agree to agree, don't you? But then he went out of his way. He went out of his way to try to find a way to disagree with me and stick a shiv in me.

which is the exact opposite of what you're supposed to be doing if you're trying to be actually running for president or trying to build a coalition. Why not just agree with me? I'll play it for you. Here it is. We know the books are out there, but they have a truth commission so that we can see what voices were marginalized, what voices were pushed aside, and make sure it never happens again. So there I am. I'm in solidarity with you on this point. Let's do that. By the way, the COVID issue,

uh and and and if as many people died as they say have died from the intervention from covid uh it's the biggest story of our lifetime it's the biggest story of ours it's way bigger than the iraq war it's bigger than any story i'm sorry it is if you look into the excess deaths and how many people have died it's the biggest story of our lifetime there's no bigger story than this um

And so we're in agreement, and now he's going to go out of his way to disagree with me. Resonate with the spirit of what my green black brothers and sisters are saying, but the Green Party itself does allow this kind of disagreement and so on. But I'll say this, though, but I know I got to go, but I must say, see, this is where you and I do in some ways live in different worlds because... So now he's going to say he and I live in different worlds. I know. I live in the real world of workers, workers.

Because I'm out, but he's lived, and he's lived in ivory towers for at least the last 40, 45 years, if not longer. So here we go. As crucial as

And as important as the issue of vaccines and the COVID situation was, when you say that's probably the most important issue in your lifetime or in the last 25 or 30 years in light of all the wars, in light of what Palestinians are going through, in light of what workers are going through, 63% of them are living paycheck to paycheck in terms of all the vicious attacks of the police and the murders and so forth. Yet this vaccine issue is the most important thing.

I say, OK, that's my dear brother, Jimmy. He's got a right to raise his voice. I'm not going to in any way push it away, but I just live in a different world. As important as vaccines have been, if I had another chance, I'd be leaning much more with the Black Caucus. But that's what I think of the weightiest issues. Vaccines does not come immediately to mind. Why would you go out of your way to find a way to disagree with me on that?

If you think it's important and crucial, leave it at that. That made no sense, him trying to discredit the argument. Made no sense whatsoever. Zero. I've never seen a politician do that in my life. And so I was upset that where was he when we needed his voice? So, you know, in retrospect, I probably should have just let it go and say, hey, we agree on that. Let's go. But.

It bothered me that when 41% of black owned businesses got shuttered during COVID because of unscientific lockdowns, he didn't say a word. When workers were getting kicked out of their jobs by the hundreds of thousands because they wouldn't take an experiment, he didn't say anything. He didn't stand in solidarity with anybody. So it bugged me that he said that he goes out of his way to try to diminish. And there's millions and millions of people dead.

And look at all the devastation that the interventions over COVID costs, the lockdowns, the unscientific lockdowns, the isolation, the people. Now we know that the intubations were killing people, the denial of early treatments, the lying about early treatments, calling things horse dewormers.

Why aren't you? So that, so here's what I go on to say this. It just doesn't. That's the kind of world we live in, bro. Okay. Well, here it is. The black business owners collapsed by 41% black business because of lockdowns. Do you care yet? Well, almost half of black businesses completely shuttered. You want to talk about something else? Really? Permanently. 41% in us lockdowns, black business owners ranks collapse.

70,000 workers in one state were fired because of vaccine mandates. When are you going to care? Do they all have to be trans? How do you when are you going to care about these workers? What are you going to care about? What are you going to care about this? They have to be trans for me to care. You don't care. You don't care. Why don't you care about this? Why would you accuse me? Of course I care about it. You're saying it's not important.

I didn't say it wasn't important. I said it was not the most fundamental issue in my lifetime the last 30 years. Forced medical experiments? Forced medical experiments? Where is the nuance? Oh, my God. So you missed this story and you're not interested in getting it right. So you missed this story and you're not interested. Dr. West, so I probably shouldn't have been as combative as I was.

If I had to do it over again, I would have just showed him that and said I was disappointed that. And it doesn't have to be the most important thing to you, but you should definitely look into it. And I was disappointed that you weren't there when we needed you. But anyway, yeah, I probably should have been less combative. So I didn't. But, you know, I'm an emotional guy. That whole interview was emotional. And so.

I'm glad to have him on board. I'm glad to see him out there sticking his chin out and he's getting his chin kicked in for saying, for even now, just saying, hey, we should have a vaccine commission look into it. We should have a commission look into COVID and people are beating him up over it. So as at my second, at this part anyway, this part of it, if I had, I don't know, it still bothers me that the people I looked up to were nowhere to be found during COVID.

Didn't have a question. We're giving tongue baths to Anthony Fauci instead of questioning him. I could never get Anthony Fauci on my show. He'd never come anywhere near me. And so anyway, I just thought I'd show you that. But it's good to have Cornel West on. And I'm willing to let bygones be bygones and water under the bridge. But I guarantee you he'll never talk to me again. ♪

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