Epic Interview: Jimmy Dore & Benny Johnson!
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So knowing what I know about Rob Legoy, what I know about politics now is that...

He was doing regular politics, and they decided to criminalize it. He was trying to get something for, there was a Senate seat that was open, and so he wanted to use that as a leverage to negotiate stuff for himself, which I'm betting every governor does who has... It's just politics, man. It's

And so they decided to, just like they're doing against Donald Trump right now, they're doing lawfare against him. They're making normal real estate deals now into some kind of crime. And normal things that you would do to contest an election, they're turning that into a crime. And so it was great to meet him and see him because...

When I started my show in Los Angeles, it was called Poppin' Politics at the UCB Theater, which is a very... Anyway, so I used to do an impression of him. I don't do impressions, but I would just put on a wig because he has that incredible head of hair. He does. And so I would put on a wig, and I would come out, and I'd be Rob Legoy, a bitch, and I would swear a lot, exactly what he said. He said, you swear a lot? I go, yeah, I would swear a lot. Anyway, but yeah, so now I feel like he got set up.

And just like Trump has been set up and again, I've never voted for Trump. But here's what I tell people, right? There is a faction of the you don't have to like Trump to understand or see what's happening with Trump. Right. So what's happening is as soon as he beat Hillary Clinton and even before the deep state

meaning the CIA and the FBI concocted Russiagate in conjunction with the Clinton campaign. And what did they do? They did that. They got the media to go along with them, 'cause they had the same people who concocted that are the same people who control the media. So Russiagate became ubiquitous. I was one of the first ones, if not the first show, to debunk it because I brought on Bill Binney, who was an NSA codebreaker, the top codebreaker for decades,

who the f_b_i_ also try to throw in jail he was so smart he outsmarted them they couldn't but i brought him on my show and he showed me that technically there's no way russia tapped into the d_n_c_ server

Technically, he worked that out, and he said, so this was done locally, which means Seth Rich did it, right? And so all I did was cover Seth Rich. And I got a hit piece put out on me in The Washington Post by Dave Weigel, who was a pro-Iraq war guy in college. That shows you who Jeff Bezos hires to cover progressive politics.

And so Dave Weigel compared me and put me in an article with white supremacists and literal pedophiles saying this is what YouTube is doing. And Jimmy Dore is one of these conspiracy theorist guys. Well, it turns out I was right, because now we know that the FBI is not going to release Seth Rich's laptop for 65 years.

65 years. I was like, when I heard that, I was like, did Seth Rich kill Kennedy? Like, why don't they want to release his laptop? Oh, it's because there is the exact thing that we thought is happening is happening. So I just wanted to say that about Rob Lagojevich. And it is, I would like to see what has happened if he remained governor. And not that I'm a fan of any politician, right, because I think it takes a certain type of

As Chris Hedges says, the most mediocre of people become politicians. And that includes people like Kamala Harris. That includes people like Barack Obama. I saw your video. That was an amazing video. So you went down to a black neighborhood, Barack Obama's old neighborhood, and you interviewed people. And you couldn't swing a dead cat without finding a black person who supported Donald Trump. There were lots of dead cats there. Yeah.

I kept swinging them. And my team's like, please, you're going to get sick. There's going to be a problem here. We're going to have to get you a rabies shot. And I said, you know, I already got my shot.

So, you know, Joe Biden did the crime bill, which locked up—which is responsible for locking up black and brown people at much higher rates than their population. And the reason why they did that was because private prisons, right? So prison is a big industry, just like the military-industrial complex, which is why the Afghanistan war went on for 20 years. The Ukraine war, Joe Biden just signed an executive order that it's going to go on for 10 more years.

As Julian Assange has taught us, Benny, and you know this, that these wars are not meant to be won. They're meant to be ongoing. Why? Because what Eisenhower said is exactly true. We must resist the influence, the undue influence of the military-industrial complex. Well, we didn't resist it. They now run everything. And Trump's big mistake. So what I tell people, what I started to tell, is that there's some faction of the deep state in the establishment that wants to kill Trump.

They did Russiagate. They impeached him four times. They tapped his phone. They really did do that, right? Not only his phone, but the phone of his whole campaign. And now they're doing lawfare against him. And then they tried to kill him.

So there is a part of Trump that the establishment is allergic to. So that is not made up. That's manifest, right? And so you can't deny that about Trump. So as much as Trump, I think, in his first presidency, he governed like a regular Republican, right, except...

He didn't do war like they did. Trump made the mistake of thinking that the president controls the military and the deep state, and then he was disabused of that idea. He found out quickly he does not control the military. The military did whatever they wanted behind his back.

And they lied to him about pulling troops out of places. And they did whatever they wanted. And Trump and the president is just a puppet. And we know that the president is a puppet of the deep state and the military, because Chuck Schumer, when Donald Trump became president, he was on Rachel Maddow. I know you know this.

But let me just restate it, that Chuck Schumer, who was the head leading Democrat in the country and the head Democrat in the Senate, was on with Rachel Maddow, the biggest military-industrial-complex pig that there is on cable news, is Rachel Maddow.

Chuck Schumer told her to her face in 2016 that Trump, who thinks he's a smart guy, is being really dumb to call out the intelligence community, meaning the FBI, the CIA, the NSA. And Rachel Maddow said, what do you mean? What are you talking about? He said, well, if you mess with the intelligence community, they have six ways this Sunday to mess with you back. And what did that tell you? So what that told us, so that's called a gap. In Washington, the only time you make a gap is when you accidentally tell the truth.

And so Chuck Schumer told the truth there. And the truth was that the president doesn't control the CIA or the FBI or the NSA; they control the president. And the president better watch his P's and Q's, and he better be nice to the intelligence community, or they're going to get him back. Well, he wasn't nice to them, and they did get him back. They did get him back in many ways. They got him impeached twice. They did Russiagate. And right now they're doing lawfare against him.

uh... and and by the way the f_b_i_ planted evidence against them in their investigation that mar-a-lago we all know that now and he didn't do anything that joe biden didn't do joe biden didn't even have so anyway i could go on and on benny out loud me stop and let you ask me a question what is the perfect setup to r_f_k_ junior r_k_t_ your hate the deep state maybe more than donald trump does you know having your dad killed and your uncle killed they'll do that to you that'll radicalize a man

And the ties that bind seem to be assassination attempts between the two men and their deep seething hatred of this ghost in the machine, right? This deep state. RFK Jr. presumably drops out tomorrow. That's what the reporting is. And the reporting also is that he'll endorse Trump. Your thoughts on that? You're a guy who has interesting shades politically, and this would be...

Man, this is a wild look because you have Elon Musk on one side of Trump. You have RFK Jr. on the other side of Trump. You have, obviously, the MAGA middle. And it seems to be the political unity ticket of a lot of our dreams. So I don't think there's a chance in hell that RFK Jr. endorses Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.

In fact, I had gotten a pass into the Democratic Convention. I got an inside patch, an inner pass, and I was waiting because I wanted to ask...

Don Lemon, because he was there. I saw him, but I couldn't get to him. I wanted to ask him, who do you think has a better rack, J.D. Vance or Tim Walz, right? And what a better guy to ask than Don Lemon, who's gay, and he would know. But they both have great racks, let's be honest. And...

I would say Tim Walz because he's a little more feminine and feminine lends itself to it. He's got a jazz hand situation going on. He goes hard on the jazz hand. But I've already forgotten the question because I'm three Negronis in. Okay, well, RFK Jr. Oh, RFK Jr. You guys are friends. He's been on your show, no? So I have inexplicable great affection for RFK Jr. He's appeared in my dreams many times, and I'm a Jungian, so that is important and that's significant.

But I did depart on him on his Israel policy. Now, I'm a radical when it comes to Israel, right? And so I've been ostracized by Hollywood because of it. And, you know, I go so far as to say I don't think Israel has a right to exist.

No country has a right to exist. And that--I always thought before October 7 that Israel was invented as a result of the Holocaust. And that made sense to me, like, well, we should give them a state. Then I found out that's not what Zionism is. Zionism started in the 1800s. And then there was the Balfour Declaration, which I didn't know anything about.

Nakba, and so I learned all those things. And so all my Jewish friends in Hollywood, New York, and Florida feel very safe without having a state of Israel. And so a lot of my viewers, by the way, disagree with me on this. And that's how you know my viewership isn't a cult.

because they disagree with me and they still watch me. There are a lot of people who disagree with RFK on our channel, but they love the idea of Donald Trump bringing more Americans into the poll and unifying on the things that we agree with. And it's okay to talk with people who disagree with you. And political consensus, that's how political consensus is made inside of Crucible. And so your thoughts on RFK Jr. perhaps being in a position of...

a position of a cia director that would never happen maybe i mean you have to be sent and confirmed you'd have to be sent and confirmed that would be a hell of a fight that would be amazing but to be you know he could absolutely serve over uh how about how about a human health and services totally how about something like that i would love so you know donald freaking fda how about that pharmaceuticals how our pharmaceuticals get how about surgeon general right so uh uh what was revealed

was even by Bill Gates revealed this, that Bobby Kennedy got the air of Donald Trump when it came to vaccines. And they were going to have a Senate vaccine committee to look into the efficacy and the safety of vaccines. And why would you be against that? Because all we're going to find out is that vaccines are fantastic, right? I mean, I would love to have RFK in a...

- Position that Trump offered Elon Musk, which is a government accountability, like oversight, right? Like an executive oversight of government accountability. - I would love that too. - And like armies of lawyers, subpoena power, and the executive branch, sort of a commission, and Elon Musk says he will serve on it,

And they did this during their X-Bases. And RFK, I don't know, man, they're in Phoenix together. They're in Arizona together tomorrow. I'm feeling the vibes. I think RFK is going to drop out. I think he's going to endorse Trump. So even though, Benny, like I may, you and I may disagree on many policy positions. Sure. Like Frederick Douglass said, I will join with anyone to do good.

and no one to do bad. So wherever you and I agree, I would like to join with you to help and push things. And where we disagree, I would like to use the power of persuasion to get you to come to my side. But I agree with you with the RFK. So that's why I think RFK, he should try to get a position in any administration, whether it's Donald Trump's, Kamala Harris or Richard Nixon's,

or whoever's right. He should try to get because I was I was saying before he wanted to have a vaccine commission before COVID happened and Bill Gates got the air of Donald Trump and Bill Gates said no don't do that. That's a bad thing, which is a direct quote from Bill Gates and so Trump listened to that guy instead of Bobby Kennedy and that was a mistake. Imagine if we had a vaccine commission before COVID.

Imagine how that would have changed everything, right? It would have changed everything. So I really hope that no matter who the administration is, if it's Kamala Harris, it'll never be Bobby Kennedy. But Trump has a chance to bring Bobby Kennedy in. So there's that sliver of a chance. So I hope it happens. I don't think Bobby Kennedy is going to endorse a Republican. But the Democrats have so screwed over Bobby. They're the most undemocratic primaries.

At least Republicans have Democratic primaries. Whoever wins the vote gets to be the thing. That's how Trump succeeded in the race. In fact, he was probably smart to run as a Republican, because, you know, Trump was—he was never a Republican or a Democrat until he ran, and then he chose the Republican Party. Because when Bobby Kennedy came on my show the first time, I gave him a hard time. I said, I would like to get excited about your candidacy, but I can't, because I know it's a fool's errand.

Yeah. Your candidacy's a fool's errand, because they have superdelegates in the Democratic Party. They don't have that in the Republican Party. They have a superdelegate. And I said, Bobby, why do you think they have superdelegates? So that a guy like you could never become the nominee. And soon enough, and he disagreed with me, he fought back. He goes, I'm a Democrat, my dad was a Democrat, my uncle was a Democrat, I've been a long-life Democrat. Democrats are better than Republicans.

He said that on my show. And then he ran for president, and he realized those—can I swear on here? Those motherfuckers. They're the most anti-democratic Democrats in the history of the world. And so now it's to the point where people believe that he might—

Donald Trump. That's how bad the Democrats are. That's how bad they are. You turned RFK Jr.'s son, who was an environmental champion of the left, for decades—people can now go kayaking in the Hudson because of Bobby Kennedy and his lawfare against corporations and—

And now they've been turned into haters of Bobby Kennedy because of the money of Big Pharma, because Democrats, under Bill Clinton's tutelage, became the tools of military-industrial complex Wall Street, Big Pharma, and insurance companies and big oil.

So if you remember--I don't know if you remember, maybe you're too young to remember this, but when Bill Clinton became president, he did a thing called the Democratic Leadership Council, the DLC, with Al Gore. And that was like they were going to be the new Democrats, right? What did that mean? That meant they got so scared by Ronald Reagan that they decided to become tools of Wall Street. And so they said, hey, we're open for business. And on the Democratic Leadership Council, the DLC, they had co--

brothers executives on their DLC. So there was no difference. Bill Clinton, he did private prisons. He had 100,000 new cops. He bankrupted unions by doing NAFTA. That was the beauty of Trump. The first time he was against the WTO treaty, right, and he did that, which the Democrats were for. And Barack Obama's out there campaigning for the—and

And Trump was against it. That was great, right? So because NAFTA cut the legs out from underneath the unions for a generation, they still haven't recovered. So he did that. He privatized prisons. He wanted, he gutted welfare at the same time he imprisoned all those people with Joe Biden's crime bill. And then he was ready to privatize Social Security.

After he deregulated Wall Street, he took away Glass-Steagall, which led to the crashing of Wall Street within ten years.

And he was going to privatize Social Security, except—because he had a secret deal, according to Thomas Frank. He had a secret deal with Newt Gingrich to privatize Social Security. But what stopped it was the blowjob from Monica Lewinsky. The story broke the night before he was going to announce that. So he couldn't—he didn't have any political capital left anymore to do that.

so we all blow job to having still having social security which i'm a big fan of social security i'm a big fan of the mixed economy right so i think that the government

should take the profits from oil and gas that's underneath the land that we all own and give it back to the people and not give it to Exxon and Shell and Mobil. That's what I believe. But I believe in a mix to come. There should be free market capitalism, and then there should be things that are privatized—I mean, things that are government-run, like that. Not only that government-run per se, but the profits should come back to us.

The point is, Bill Clinton was no friend of the working man, and neither was Joe Biden. That's the biggest joke. They just crushed a union strike, and they're out there pretending. And then this speech was all poppycock. It was all just like Barack Obama's speech was bullshit. You see Michelle Obama say that my parents were always suspicious of people who took more than they needed? Lady, you have three homes on private islands.

Private freaking islands that, like, regular people can't get to. Forty acres on Martha's Vineyard. You know, he went to—Brock Obama had the balls to go to Africa and tell people that, you know, if everybody here has an air conditioner and a private car, the world's going to overheat. And then he goes back to his private house in—

on Martha's Vineyard that has 40 acres. How many do you think air conditioners here? I'm going to guess at least 11 air conditioners. Then he has another house in Chicago. Then he has another place in Maui, and he builds a seawall. Did you know about the seawall? Yeah, he had to get an easement for it. He broke every law in Maui.

So because—yeah, so climate change laws said you can't have a seawall. And why can't you have a seawall in Maui? Because it creates beach erosion down the road. He didn't give a shit. He got a cutout to do that for his property, and it doesn't matter about the—so isn't it amazing that all the billionaires, Benny, that tell you that climate change is real and sea level rising, they're all buying beachfront property?

Isn't that weird? Oprah spoke last night, and she owns a thousand-acre plantation. They still call it a plantation. She calls it a plantation on Maui. She's the biggest landowner in Maui, and she hasn't opened up a single acre to the people of Lahaina who had their entire homes burned down, who were trapped in their city as it burned. The government trapped them in there and burned them alive. That's a matter of fact. The AP reported that. Only the people who disobeyed the government were the ones who survived. That's right.

And Oprah has yet to open up a single acre of her thousand acres on a plantation. Yes, that's what it's called. For any of those people. Let me let people know how many acres that is. So if you're having a hard time picturing, have you ever been to Manhattan or you've been to Central Park? It's enormous. It goes on forever. So...

Central Park in New York City is less than 1,000 acres. She owns more acres in Maui and Island than New York owns in Central Park. She has an open-up. I was thinking you could do, for not a lot of money, you could do container homes. People have little homes, right? You could do container. Yes. Give them a place to stay. Give them a place to stay. These people just had their lives torched.

they don't know where to go. I've been there. I've been there. I see the people living in tents. They're living on the beach. You see people spray painting on building sides saying, this is a land grab. And you know why they do that? Because it's a land grab. They wanted to burn the city down. Isn't it weird? It's so weird that... What are you going to put in

The most sophisticated alarm system just didn't work. They happened to cut off all the water so the fire department couldn't use water to put out. These are just weird coinkydinks. And then all the police and firemen were turning people back into the fire. They're just coinkydinks. They did that. They sent them back into what was an oven. These are coinkydinks. The government did, yeah.

Remember, Oprah wants to raise money. She wants us to donate. She wants us to donate. She could have taken a billion dollars and restored Lahaina herself. She wanted you to do it. She gave $10 million. That's like me giving a quarter. So she didn't give anything. She owns $500 million in property herself.

Anyway, and by the way, buying up all that property in Maui, the natives who live there are upset about it because that raises the price of all the land for everybody else in Maui. Of course. Yeah. And there's a homeless problem, and Hawaii is a big problem.

So Kamala Harris, that's the name of the night. Oh, she's fantastic. Did you watch the speech? I watched about five minutes of it, and it was fantastic. I thought it was great. It was her pretending. It was all platitudes and bullshit, just like Michelle Obama, just like Barack Obama. At least Joe Biden has the balls to come out and just brazenly lie. Yeah, yell and scream about it. But Kamala, what was weird to me, man, and I can't get this out of my head, is

is she's in power right now. You're in charge. She's pretending like she's not in power. You're in power. What's this game you're playing? And you're going to tell us, you're going to sing Poor Honey in Our Ears for 10 minutes about your family and your aunties, and you're not going to tell us anything you're going to do for the damn country? This place is in shambles right now.

And you're in power. So I was inside the convention. I was on the floor for a little while. And the last time I was on the floor for a Democratic convention was the last time they had one, because in 2020, COVID, they didn't have one.

So, in 2016, I was in Philadelphia, and I was on the floor. And it was interesting and exciting, and it gave you hope about democracy. Why? Because half those people there were progressives who supported Bernie Sanders. So there was friction, which is what's supposed to happen at a convention. There's supposed to be friction, and people are supposed to argue about policy. And that's what was happening there.

The establishment eventually did whatever they did to Bernie, and they threatened to prosecute his wife for the bullshit bank deal she did at the college or whatever, but he rolled over for them.

And he didn't do anything with—Bernie Sanders didn't extract anything from the establishment for his support of Hillary Clinton. That's how it's supposed to work. You know politics, Benny. So if somebody wants you to endorse them, you have to give a concession. Bernie didn't get anything, nothing. He got a new island house. They all get island houses. Bernie has like 300.

He got a book deal. He became a millionaire. He's got a book deal, all that shit. He became the banking chairman. The

The progressives were like, well, Bernie's going to become the breaking chairman. And what did that do for you? Fucking nothing. Anyway, so when I was there last time, it was fun to walk the floor. I would walk the floor and I would interview people, and they had interesting ideas about policies. They all were understanding what Bernie was pushing and what Hillary was. This time it was the exact opposite. No one even cared about politics.

No one knew anything. I was interviewing one Democratic delegate, and I said, hey, does it bother you that there wasn't a real process for the primary this time to get the nominee? And the woman who I was talking to was a beautiful black woman, and she said, what do you mean? I don't know what you mean. We had a primary. I go, yeah, but they switched the primary

the usual primary starts in Iowa and then New Hampshire. They switched it to go start in South Carolina because that would benefit Joe Biden. And then they said if anybody else campaigned in Iowa or New Hampshire, they would take away their delegates that they earned there. That's why RFK had to leave the party, because they were putting in all these rules that would screw him. So he's like, I see what's happening. So that's

the opposite of democracy. So anyway, I said this to this woman, and she said, I go, aren't you upset that there wasn't a real primary? And she says, what do you mean they had a primary? And I said, no, no, Joe Biden won, and then they forced him out. Yeah, but there was a process, she said. And Kamala Harris followed the process. I'm like, what?

That's not called democracy. The process is called what a corporation does. That's not--and then I was like, okay, well, wow, she sounded exactly like a DNC delegate, right? And then I said, well, what's your favorite policy of Kamala Harris?

And literally she said to me, criminal justice. A black woman telling me her favorite policy of Kamala Harris is criminal justice. Kamala Harris is known for locking up black people for things that she was guilty of herself, hiding evidence that would exonerate them. And then after the Supreme Court told her to release prisoners from California's prisons, she still didn't. And the reason why she didn't do that, they gave in.

court was because it would upset the prison labor system. Do you know what that's called? It's called slavery. I don't know if you know. So Kamala Harris was literally imposing slavery on black and brown people in California. And this woman who's a delegate to the DNC this year,

This year for Kamala Harris is telling me she likes her because of that. So it was honestly, Benny, I left there super depressed. Hey, you know, here's another great way you can help support the show is you become a premium member. We give you a couple of hours of premium bonus content every week, and it's a great way to help support the show. You can do it by going to JimmyDoreComedy.com, clicking on Join Premium.

It's the most affordable premium program in the business. And it's a great way to help put your thumb back in the eye of the bastards. Thanks for everybody who was already a premium member. And if you haven't, you're missing out. We give you lots of bonus content. Thanks for your support. Yeah, it was NBC World. We were there. I was there with Vivek. And we were streaming, running around, just kind of like, you know, chewing a few people. And it's kind of like kicking the doors in, right? Like a little bit.

Vivek knows that he's gonna be recognized people are gonna yell and hiss and scream and it's gonna cause a little bit of a ruckus and it was it was When Vivek was doing a Fox hit I just wandered around and looked at people and we did people watching bro it was like

Zombies. Glassy-eyed. Zombies. Like, glassy-eyed people. Brainwashed. Who were kind of like walking. Yes. Like, very NPC. Very much like an Android world, right? Yes. Where it's like everyone had a neural link chip. Yes. Yeah. And they were all like on the same wavelength. Yes.

Kamala, it's like a meme. It's like the chip was taken out, the Biden chip was taken out, and before the port even got cold, they shoved a Kamala clip in there, and they were reprogramming, update, done, algorithm activated. So like a convention...

Traditionally, it's supposed to be where you get together and you knock heads and you work out policy and you find compromises. Jimmy, I didn't see a single Biden button. So I went around looking. I'm like, can anybody find me Biden Jack? Nothing. A photo. A pashmina. Whatever, dude. A lady in a wheelchair with like a little Biden sticker on her wheel. That's all I care about. Find me a Biden thing. That bro, that dude was straight up Stalinist level erased.

he's been erased right so that famous photo stalin and that guy this guy's gone wasn't it wasn't it ironic i don't know if you saw this part of the convention i did uh

They were holding up signs that saying, we love you, Joe, when Biden came. They had passed these out, obviously, and they were all, we love you, Joe. Yeah, we love you so much that we cooed you and forced you out of a primary that you won. That's how much we love you. We want you to get the fuck out of here. And we're putting you on in the first night of the convention instead of the last night because we don't give a shit about you. We want people to forget about you. That's how much they love Joe Biden. That was amazing to me.

By the way, I want to just bring this point up, if I can, about communism. So my point of view is that the actual Democratic establishment and the Republican establishment, which also hates Trump, by the way, the Republican—right?

that they're so much alike that they have to invent these fake narratives to hate each other, right? So right now the Democrats are inventing this narrative that Donald Trump is going to become dictator on day one. He's going to become a king. And I would—so I was at a Palestinian protest, and someone said that they hated Donald Trump and they might vote for Kamala Harris.

And I said, "Why?" They go, "Because Trump will make himself king." And I go, "Well, what's the mechanism for him to do that? I mean, if Trump can make himself king, why didn't he do that the first time? Why is he waiting? And that means that anybody could have did that? Why didn't Nixon make himself king? Why didn't...

And they don't have an answer for that, because it's made up. Yes. Because we have a balance of power in America. We have a constitutional republic, and you can't make yourself king. That's why the president always has to negotiate with Senate and the Congress to get legislation passed, because there is no such thing as a king in America. And what was my point of this? God damn it. I forgot my point. Go ahead. What's going to happen? Oh, I do. I remember. Go ahead.

So then they each have to conflate. So then the Democrats say that Donald Trump is a white supremacist and a Nazi who's going to make himself king. And then the Republicans call Kamala Harris a communist. Now, she's not a communist. What she is is a corporatist authoritarian, right? And why do I say she's authoritarian? It's because she's for censorship, which is the—

hallmark of a dictator, right? Censorship. And they always tell you they're censoring people to protect you. And so they're going to censor you from people telling the truth about COVID. They're going to censor you from people telling the truth about Ukraine. They're going to censor you from telling the truth about Russiagate. So censorship is...

As RFK Jr. says, when in history has the censors ever been on the right side of history? Never. So that's what the Democratic Party has become. They were people who were always anti-war. They were always pro-worker. They were always pro-bodily autonomy. And they were always pro-free speech. They flipped on all those things.

Now the Democratic Party is pro-censorship. They're anti-bodily autonomy because they were pro-mandate, which is the exact opposite of bodily autonomy, right? They're pro-war. They've been for every war in my lifetime, including the Ukraine war. And I forget what the first one was, but they're the exact opposite of what they used to be. And so that's why RFK Jr., that's why I say the Democratic Party, I didn't leave them. They left me.

I'm exactly the same. I'm for bodily autonomy. I'm for freedom of speech. I'm anti-war. And they are none of those things.

How's it going to shake out? Last question. Okay. Last question. Because we're going to pack up everything and get back to you. We have five hours of packing. I know. But I want to know. It's been an exhausting week, hasn't it? You've done so much on this issue of figuring out where the parties are right now. And I do worry about that zombie state. I do worry about NPC. You don't want 30% to 40% of the population that can just be programmed like that. Yep, they can be. You do want critical thinkers.

And you don't want, I don't want that on the Republican side. I don't want that on the Democrat side. It's bad for the country. But, I mean, what, what do you, how do you see this shaking out? You've been very right in your predictions. You're one of the, you're one of the Nostradamus's. So what's happened for the next 70 days? Well, it's funny. It's like all I have to do is say communist and it triggers, like even my own audience, I have a lot of right wing audience, right? I,

I have Marxists, I have MAGA, and all you do is say communists and they're triggered. So, like in Venezuela, why do people have an opinion upon the election in Venezuela? The reason why you live in America and you even have an opinion on that is because there's more oil in Venezuela than there is in Saudi Arabia.

So now the media is involved because the deep state's involved because the economic hitmen who run the country want the media to talk about this because they wanted people to be on board when we overthrow their government, right? We've tried to overthrow their government a couple of times in the last 20 years.

And why? Because there's more oil. And Trump even admitted it. In fact, he gave a speech where he said, you know, if I was president, we would have taken all that oil, we would have got all that oil. And that's another reason why the deep state would have killed them, would have wanted to kill them, because he tells the truth. Nobody else will say that. They'll say, well, we want to bring democracy. So as soon as I found out there was more oil in Venezuela than in Saudi Arabia, I knew it was just a matter of time before we had to bring democracy to their people. And that's what they're saying, right? Yeah.

And so, I want to make that point. So don't be triggered by the word communist because communists is that the people in Venezuela, Maduro has a mixed economy. He has an economy where he runs the oil and he gives that money back to the people

and they have a lot of lithium down there and stuff. So he wants to take their natural resources and put that money back into the country, and the economic hitmen who run the Western culture don't want that to happen. So they want you to have an opinion that that's an illegal election. Hey, hey, hey.

Let's say it is. I'll grant you it's not, but I'll grant you, let's say Maduro didn't win the election. It's none of our fucking business. And I don't think the elections in America are correct, right?

So I don't want people from Venezuela coming in here overthrowing my government to clean it up for me. We can figure it out in the United States. So your question is where do we go from here? Where do we go from here is that people need to come together like the truckers did in Canada.

Nice. And they need to shut down shit and put a hurt on the billionaires who actually run the Western world, and to the point where we make the government afraid of us again. And that's what we used to...

You know, that's what is supposed to happen, right? The government's supposed to be afraid of the people. If the people are afraid of the government, that's tyranny. And that's what we're living in right now. We're living in tyranny. So we need to do things like we need to get the truckers and the farmers and workers of all sorts together to revolt against this government and take it back, because we don't have the government right now. We live in a literal oligarchy, which was proven by a Princeton study over 10 years ago. Your vote does not fucking matter.

It doesn't matter because your candidates are chosen. The fact that Trump was not chosen is why they tried to kill him, okay? And I'm not saying that if Trump becomes president, he'll fix everything. I'm saying that there's a reason why they're trying to kill him, okay? And so that's what needs to happen.

People like you and me and people in my audience who have already realized this, that your neighbor is not your enemy. Your neighbor is your neighbor. And they want me to hate...

The oligarchy did a controlled demolition of our economy during COVID, which crushed everybody. And they want me to hate my neighbor for the economic pain I'm feeling because he wouldn't take a vaccine that didn't work the way they said it did in the first place. Well, I'm not going to hate my neighbor. I'm going to join with my neighbor, and I'm going to oppose those oligarchs. I'm going to do it with farmers. I'm going to do it with truckers. I'm going to do it with workers at Amazon. I have all sorts.

because that's the only thing that's going to take back this country. And if that doesn't happen, we're lost. We're lost to tyranny. We're lost to authoritarianism. We're lost to corporatism. And it's not just in America. I just did a European tour. The exact thing that's happening here is happening there.

And they feel it, and they know exactly the same thing. I did a sold-out tour in Europe. I had no idea if I would sell one ticket. I sold out everywhere I went, and people, I did meet and greets, and people came up to me and said, exactly what you're experiencing in America is exact. Jeff Bezos doesn't just own the Washington Post here in America. He also owns media in Norway. Did you know that? I didn't know that until I went there. He's buying up media in Europe. So the same billionaires who run this country are running Western Europe today.

And that's why we have the immigrant crisis not only there but here. And that's why they got rid of Muammar Gaddafi, because Muammar Gaddafi was a line between immigration from Africa to here, and they wanted to get rid of it. He thought he was safe because he provided them that security. The exact opposite, as soon as they wanted to get rid of that security is when they killed him. Anyway, I could talk about this all night, Benny, and I know you're tired. Are you voting Trump?

I mean, after that impassioned plea, like, are you... I'm writing in Dave Chappelle, as I always do. And so, no, I mean, I have a lot of problems with Trump. But I understand that there is definitely a faction inside the establishment and the deep state that wants Trump dead. They don't want Joe Biden dead. They don't want Kamala Harris dead. So what does that tell you, right? And it's because he is a glitch in their warmongering programs.

And so, no, I won't be voting for him, but I will be writing in Dave Chappelle. And I think it's time Americans came. So at the Democratic Convention, they talked about, oh, the Republicans want to divide the country. You motherfuckers are the ones who are dividing the country. You criminalized his whole political operation, which was January 6th was for, which was a PSYOP by the FBI to...

criminalized MAGA and Donald Trump. And they're the ones who constantly are dividing the country. So we need to, your neighbor is not your enemy. Your neighbor is suffering under the same bullshit that you're suffering under. Remember that. You just have different ways to get to the same place.

I will be voting for Donald Trump, but I will join with Jimmy Dore and say I'd love to have Dave Chappelle as part of the administration. I think Dave Chappelle would do some great work. And I hope RFK is a part of the administration. Totally, along with Elon. Dave Chappelle, Elon Musk, RFK, Donald Trump.

What a wild week. We have been live every single day, twice a day, and have been hitting the streets, hitting the bricks. It's been incredible to meet some absolute legends. Great to meet you. And some new friends along the way. And making some friends on the South Side, I guess, too. That's amazing. I'm from the South Side. You know that, right? Those people will not be voting for Colin Harris. They're not voting. They made sure to tell us.

You know what, ladies and gentlemen, we love you. We thank you for following us along. We read the comments and we realize how much it is important to tell a true story out here. And we've set about doing that in the Benny Bunker. We're very proud of our work and it can't be done without you. So we love you. We care about you. We appreciate you. And from the Windy City in deep inside the Benny Bunker in Trump Tower, we say a heartfelt thank you. Now I'm going to go eat some deep dish.

pizza. Yes, I did that today. We're going to hit it tomorrow morning. Big day tomorrow. Thank you all for watching. It's your boy Benny. You are in the arena with Jimmy Dore and Rob Ligoyevich. Final night of the DMC. Thank God it's over. See ya. That was great, buddy. Thank you. I appreciate it. Thanks for letting me say what I had to say. It's not fire, man. Those clips are going to send. I hope so. Those are amazing. You up at the bar upstairs? Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

I'm going to help the boys pack for a little bit. Let me get this unclipped. You're in L.A. You're not in Chicago. I'm in Studio City. So I'm originally from Chicago. Yeah. Yes, please do. But I moved out in 95, actually.

And I've been out there ever since. And I've been disowned by Hollywood and because I wouldn't vote for Hillary. I had a radio show in L.A. at that time and boy did the people come down on me. And I was like, hey, I want Hillary to come get my vote. And that's how this is supposed to work. And they're like, no, you're supposed to shut up.

And that's what I was told. Shut up. You're helping Trump. And I'm like, you motherfuckers. And so that was it. I lost my management. The whole deal. The whole fucking deal happened. So that happened a long time ago. Tell everyone.

And then I endorsed Tulsi, and it got even worse. She's kryptonite. She's proper kryptonite to those people. Yes. Yeah. She's proper kryptonite. It's a rational hatred of her. I believe that she would have made a great vice president. I can't believe Trump didn't pick her. Some people give me hell for that. Like, why didn't he pick her? She would have fucking destroyed them. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I don't know. I mean, I think...

I know Peter Thiel's a big donator to J.D. Vance, and I think that had something to do with Trump picking him. There were definitely, you know, so, I mean, you have Tucker, and you have Don Jr., you have Elon Musk, and a lot of these guys pushing J.D. David Sachs, right? They're pushing J.D. Yeah. You know, that's a really strong... That's a really strong group of people to argue for on your behalf, so... Do you think so? The first...

The mistake that Trump made in his first administration was that he brought in insiders and he thought they would calm his criticism. Of course, it didn't. First analysis policy, right? Yes. So do you think he'll learn anything going forward in his next administration? Do you think he will? We know so many. I'm close with Stephen Miller. And Stephen was like the one guy that actually really got it done. Speech writer and an architect. Every administration and every administrative...

Teardown was Stephen Miller and every good rule was Stephen Miller and they have gotten really, really smart. I think they've run a much better campaign, frankly. Okay. It's a much tighter campaign. What about the guy they just threw in jail? I'm blanking on his name. His original campaign guy, they just put him in jail. He's in jail right now.

Why am I blanking on his name? Anyway, I think that he was actually a brilliant guy. He knew how to... Because they stayed on message. Steve Bannon? That's it. Yeah. He kept them on message. Yes. Hyped them up. And so if Trump runs on the border and the economy and ending wars, he wins. If he runs on Kamala's not black and Kamala... That's... He loses. Yep. Yep. He's got to stay on fucking message. You can't play in the mud with the pig.

the pigs, man. That's right. They love, they want him to talk about that shit. They love it. They're like, please. Please bring up her race. I was born and raised in the briar patch. Like, identity politics? You're going to play the identity politics game with me? No way. You're going to lose that. So that was, you know, I think that Trump's gone back on message. He did a live call-in, so we played that on the program. I'm not sure if you heard that. Oh, no, I didn't. He locked in. And it was really neat to hear him, like, respond

It's good energy because he responds to Kamala right away. So they cut right from Kamala's speech. Oh, really? Live on Fox. Smart move. Really smart move. Never seen a candidate do that before. I never saw that. Yeah, yeah. So he shows up at the black journalist caucus or whatever the fuck. Kamala doesn't. Yeah, of course. And I'm telling people, what does that tell you? Like, she's afraid of questions from her own people. He'll show up at least. Anyway.

When I'm in L.A., we will go. Please let me know, and I'd love to have you on my show. L.A. is one of those cities where they just keep bringing you back, right? When you're in this industry, you have to roll through a line. Yes. Benny, it was good seeing you. It was great seeing you. Great job this week. I know it's a long week. You know what's wild is that we just destroyed Democratic clusters.

Yeah, like I didn't know any of that. The center right and freedom movement influencers, we just use child's play. We've notched 100 million views on our content. But like streaming here is a great idea. There's nobody. Nobody's ever left. Where do you get your views mostly? Is it YouTube or is it YouTube? YouTube and X has been for us. I've got to do more X. YouTube.

Because YouTube is ratcheted up whatever algorithm they have extra against me. Yeah. And because I'm considered borderline content. And so they have different. And so they've been really hitting me hard. But whatever. Entertaining content. Yeah. I appreciate you saying that. These clips are going to help. I hope so. Yeah. And the audience is loving you. The chat was on fire. Oh, that's great. Okay, great. The audience loves you.

- Thanks for saying that. - Safe travels. - Okay, it's a pleasure. - It's hard to keep you on the show again. - I would love to come back. - It's my honor. - Okay, pleasure. I'll see ya. Hopefully I see you. When you come to LA, let me know. - Thanks for accommodating me. - All right. - I thought that was great. I got a clip up. - Oh, great. Okay. - There was a lot of clips. It was really good.

Are we still alive? What did the chat think of the show? They weren't thrilled with my camera framing, but besides that, they thought I was on acid. What was wrong with it? Because of their equipment, I had to be further back, so I had to zoom in and the camera was shaking. Oh, no kidding? Hey, Steph, what did you think? It's good. You can wrap this livestream.

Okay, let's wrap the livestream, according to Steph. Hey, I love you. I have to say goodbye. Nice job. And so thanks to everybody for watching. That's the end of our livestream from Chicago, and we'll see you back possibly Saturday or Sunday, if not Monday, with Richard Medhurst, who just got arrested because he's telling the truth about war in the UK. Okay, thanks.

You can't make this up. Journalist arrested under UK anti-terror law hours after criticizing it. I criticized the Terrorism Act after getting on a plane, then got arrested under the Terrorism Act upon landing. This is real. Oh, he went against the establishment. They said that in those words, right? Speaking against the establishment. Well, we know Richard Meadors. He's been a guest on the show, but not often enough. I've had him on a couple of years ago.

A Syrian British independent journalist who defends Palestinians' right to resist Israeli apartheid occupation and other crimes said this week that he was recently arrested at London's Heathrow Airport and held for nearly 24 hours for allegedly running afoul of the highly controversial anti-terrorism law critics say is used to silence legitimate dissent. Now, Glenn Greenwald's former husband was also arrested under that. We're going to get to that in a second. Metters...

who is known for his work opposing U.S., British, and Israeli war crimes in the Middle East and for his advocacy for former imprisoned WikiLeaks founder Julian Assas.

said, I criticized the Terrorism Act before getting on the plane and then got arrested under the Terrorism Act upon landing. You can't make this up. In a nearly nine-minute video posted Monday night on Twitter, the social network formerly known as Metair said that on Thursday, as I landed in London, he threw up, but I was immediately escorted off the plane by six police officers who were waiting for me at the airport. They arrested me, not detained.

They arrested me under Section 12 of the Terrorism Act of 2000 and accused me of allegedly expressing an opinion or belief that is supportive of a prescribed organization.

but wouldn't explain what this meant. So they're saying... Oh, that's my next question. What does that mean? So what they're saying is that he's supporting Hamas, which are terrorists. That's how I interpret that. The controversial law criminalized... That's how they got Jackson the Hair Hinkle off Twitter. I mean, off YouTube.

They said he was propping up terrorists inside Russia. The controversial law criminalizes anyone who invites support for a proscribed organization or expresses an opinion or belief that is supportive of such a group. So if you even support Hamas...

That's against the law. We don't know it's Hamas because they don't have to tell you what proscribed group you support. And I'll bet you it's not even the level of Hamas because I've seen him before. It could be like he supported Putin because he said Russia. That's right. You know, it could be anything. They won't tell you. So he's he's facing up to 14 years in prison. Here he is talking with Glenn Greenwald, whose husband, let's remember, on Thursday last week, you flew to the UK and you were met.

by six police officers at the plane. So before you could even get off the plane and get to immigration, and they essentially placed you under arrest under physical custody of the UK police under a terrorism law of 2000, though they didn't really explain why. But you did about a nine minute video going into great detail about the treatment to which you were subjected, which we will link to so that people can go watch the full story of that. But in lieu of that, can you tell me what it is during this arrest that lasted 24 hours that you were able to learn about why it is that you were being arrested?

Well, just from the get go, I just want to say that I'm out on bail, effectively. So, you know, I'm not at liberty to divulge exactly what they asked me and go too much into detail. Let me just ask you, are you out on bail with restrictions? Have you had to see surrender your passport? Are you able to leave the country?

Yeah, so here's the thing. I was released on unconditional bail. I was given my passport back. The thing is, I do have to go back in three months and surrender myself to the police station. Although I don't feel that the bail really is unconditional because, you know, essentially everything and anything I say, anything I do, it can be used against me. So, you know, it's like I think what they wanted to achieve is to silence me as a journalist and stop me doing my work. So, you know, they say it's unconditional, but it's not really unconditional, is it?

As people know, and I talked about this a little bit, as you of course know, I'm very familiar with this terrorism law, the terrorism of 2000 law, because my husband was notoriously detained under it when coming back to Rio through London after having spent time with my reporting colleague, Laura Poitras. And they were threatening him the whole time to put him under arrest as well. I think the only reason they didn't is because the Brazilian government was so aggressive in demanding his release. But it was an act of great intimidation. And he ended up suing

and obtained a ruling that the provision under which he was detained, which was Section 5, as I recall, was unconstitutional when applied to journalists. The section under which I understand you were charged is a different section, which is Section 12. And reading that, it seems to me like it's intended to criminalize opinion, specifically opinion or reporting that is deemed to advance the agenda of a group that's designated as a terrorist organization by the UK. Is that a correct understanding of the law under which you were detained? Do you have any details about what they said you did that you can share with us that constitute a violation in their eyes of that law?

Well, to be honest, I thought that they had nicked me under section, sorry, schedule seven. Yeah, it's been a while. Exactly.

Yeah, I thought it was Schedule 7 because that's when they make you answer every question. You have to hand over the passwords for your devices on the spot. And then at least, if I can put in quotation marks, you get to leave afterwards. You're not actually arrested. And that didn't really dawn on me until quite a bit that I wasn't being detained. I was actually being arrested. Unbelievable. And it wasn't Schedule 7. It was Section 12. And so, I mean, I'd never heard of it. And even though I was quite critical of the terrorism act because it had –

in general, and I'm not speaking just about Section 12, I'm speaking in general, the whole point of it is that the threshold for any of the offenses that they put in there are so low that journalists, and that's who the target audience usually, the targets usually are, can just be picked up and detained and arrested. It's just, don't get me wrong, there are some parts of the terrorism act that are actually made for fighting terrorism, which are needed in any country, but the problem is that when you use this against journalists instead of actual terrorists,

It becomes a political tool. I think we can all agree on that. And the threshold with this thing, the way that they explained it to me and from what I gathered, is that it is really so, so, so utterly low that anything, I mean, can be considered a criminal. You know, it can be skewed. It can be twisted into an offense of the highest order because we should remember that, you know, this is – I wasn't nicked for, you know, burglary or something. They took me off a plane for terrorism. I mean, I still can't even believe it. You know, it's insane, really.

So they're coming after people. This is what this is what they do. I they they started with Lula. Then they did it to Bolsonaro. Then they did it to Imran Khan. And then they're doing it to do. Julian Assange was the first one. And and now Edward Snowden. And now they did it to whoever Donald Trump. I know it sounds funny.

But the establishment donor class didn't want him to be president. And so they use lawfare against him. That's what this is. This is using lawfare to shut people up. They're doing it to the guy who's the founder of Telegram for the same reason. Right. And so this is what the establishment in the West does now. This is their M.O. is they lock people up.

and they threaten them and this is chilling right so this this makes me afraid to go to the UK I'll tell you that it makes me afraid to go to Australia certainly would they could charge me with this and

So he says, I categorically and utterly reject. I like when people categorically reject. I can't wait to have to. I like rejecting things, but to categorically reject it. Oh, yeah. I am not a terrorist. I have no criminal record prior to this incident. I'd never been detained in my entire life. I'm a product of the diplomatic community, and I'm raised to be anti-war. Both of my parents won Nobel Peace Prizes for their work in the United Nations Peacekeepers. Didn't know that.

They had a tremendous effect on the... He was born with a Nobel Peace Prize spoon in his mouth.

Well, that's suspicious. That's very suspicious. They had a tremendous effect on my worldview and outlook and instilled in me the importance of diplomacy, international law, and peace. Medhurst said that he was searched, handcuffed, taken in a police van to a station where he was searched again, fingerprinted, photographed, and placed in solitary confinement. His phone and work equipment were seized. When he was questioned why he'd been arrested, the police would say something like, well, we're just the arresting officers. We don't really know.

No one in the world knew what had happened to me or where I was. I had to ask like four or five different guards for several hours until I finally received a call. In total, I spent almost 24 hours in detention. At no point whatsoever was I allowed to speak to a family member or friend. After waiting 15 hours, I was finally interviewed by two detectives.

We cannot call ourselves a democracy as long as reporters are dragged off of planes and detained and treated like murderers. I am disgusted that I am being politically persecuted in my own country."

Chris Hedges had some thoughts. He said to arrest of him, who has been one of the most ardent critics of the genocide in Gaza and Israeli apartheid state at Heathrow Airport, is part of the steady march towards the criminalization of journalism. Something all of us, including Medhurst, understood lay at the heart of the long persecution of Julian Assange.

Where the norm was for the police to detain people for questioning under Schedule 7, Medhurst became the first journalist in Britain to be arrested under Section 12 of the Draconian Terrorism Act. After being taken into custody by six police officers, having his electronic equipment seized and questioned, he was placed in solitary confinement for almost 24 hours. He was released on a pre-charge bail. He will remain under investigation until...

For at least three months and faces the prospect of being charged with 40 years. Not good. The arrest is about paralyzing his work.

and the work of all who call out Israel for its mass slaughter. It is an ominous warning to any who stand up for Palestinian rights. It is designed to have a chilling effect on reporting that elucidates Israel's genocidal campaign in Gaza and increasingly the West Bank, as well as the act of collaboration in this extermination of the Palestinian people by the United States and the UK governments.

Medhurst's arrest has nothing to do with fighting terrorism, at least for those who still believe journalism is not terrorism. If we do not vigorously oppose Medhurst's arrest, if we do not denounce the use of terrorism laws to attempt to silence journalists, including the Scottish journalist Greg Murray, the Grey Zone News correspondent Kit Klarenberg, and the late David Miranda, who was working with Glenn Greenwald on the files leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, Medhurst's arrest will become the norm.

So that's what we're that's the world we're living in. And it just happened to the now a lot of people have bad feelings about the guy who. Well, we're going to cover that in a second. But Jimmy, yeah, you know, in England right now, they're arresting people and they're bragging about how they're releasing their prisons are overcrowded. Yeah. So if you tweet the wrong thing, they're going to make room for you. And by the way, this is a rep of their police saying this.

They're going to release somebody to put you in prison for your tweet. And then they go, yeah, in the East, and this is on their news, the East Asian gangs are going to give them a cold greeting. So basically they're telling you you're going to be attacked in prison in some

mysterious bad way, which we can guess what it is for tweeting wrong. They're releasing people who are in there for real crimes to make room for you. That's just what they're doing. A regular everyday citizens for tweets. So we think they're going to do to a journalist. Like they're openly doing this now.

For retweets. Not even a tweet, but a retweet. No, for retweets. So even if you don't tweet it out, if you retweet it. We covered this at the live show a week ago, Friday. I don't know if I dropped that. I'm looking for it. Do you see it? I didn't see it. I didn't see it either. Whatever happened to that video? We did it. We covered it. I don't see it. I'm looking for it right now, but I don't see it. Okay.

Can you, yeah, that's weird. No, we've definitely covered it. We covered that, did I not, we covered it. Yeah, we covered it. I remember because Mike McRae did that British guy. Yeah, he did the British, that's right. So that didn't make it into a video. So can someone check that out for me? I think during a break when we're bringing on our next guest, let's talk to Andrew.

So, yeah, so it's chilling. We're going to cover another story later today about what they're doing to the guy who runs the telegram. Oh, yeah. And, no, a lot of people have bad feelings for that guy and hatred for him because of other things. Yeah, right. But you have to be able to separate the garbage things that that guy has done from what they're actually, they're not coming after him for the things you hate him for.

They're coming after him for the same thing they're coming after Richard Medhurst, the same thing they're coming after Imran Khan, the same reason they're coming after Julian Assad. Because you're going against the establishment and the deep state and the war machine. That's why they're coming after that guy. Well, if the guy had a principle, it turned out, okay? So people with principles are always on the wrong end of everything, like every single time.

So he left because he was mad about the Russia thing. Then he comes here and it's very, you know, a tree by its fruits. I think that's an apt saying because look at what comes out of whatever at the end of whatever anybody does. Like, that's what's important, not what you hate them for before. Like, what ended up happening because of what they did? Right. I'm like, should I have been on Telegram this whole time? I'm not. Was that the last thing where you're not being spied on? People would always say yes. Yes.

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