FBI Targets Black Uhuru Movement!
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Jimmy, you old so-and-so, how are you doing, you crazy son of a bitch? I'm fine. You goddamn raggedy cocksucker. Governor! Sorry, I went too far on that one. That's okay. How are you, Governor?

Jimmy, I can't tell you how energized I am. I just couldn't be more excited about this campaign. Wow. The prospect of getting our message out there is just electrifying. And what exactly is your campaign message?

Well, you're going to have to be patient. You know, you're like my kids there. They're always like, what's for dinner? What's for dinner, Dad? And I tell them, you know you have to wait and see at dinner time.

And as far as the campaign message goes and what this campaign is even about or what our plans for America are, it's not dinner time yet. All right, back up. You don't tell your children what they're having for dinner? Not until dinner time, no. Why? When you were growing up, did you receive prior intel about supper plans from your mom or dad?

I'm pretty sure if I would have asked my mom what's for dinner, she'd have told me. Huh. Must be an Illinois thing. Everything's screwy over there. Anyway, the point is, it's not dinner time yet. Yeah, that's right. I'm sticking with the analogy. All right. Good for you. When is dinner time then? When do we get a sense of what the Harris-Waltz platform is?

That is also a surprise. Oh, brother. But hold on. There's going to be an appetizer.

Apparently, that's a little thing you eat before dinner. Appetizers are not common in Midwestern households, but we also have to appeal to fancy-pants coastal people who eat appetizers and think Midwesterners are primitive nitwits. And they're right to do so. We are a bunch of dullards. So when do we get an appetizer, or is that also a surprise? No.

Wow. How unreal. What kind of questions do you think you'll be answering?

I don't know, Jimmy. I assume they will be whatever questions the boss lady and the news lady agreed to ahead of time. Yeah, I could only assume so. But speaking for myself, I'm ready to answer the big questions. Ready for anything. Shoot. Go ahead, just ask. I'll answer your questions, CNN. Even the tough ones. What would be a tough question Dana Bash could ask you?

Well, there's the elephant in the room, of course. My dog Scout. So a dog, not an elephant. But he is a big fella. Wow. What about your dog?

Well, as you probably know, I've come under attack from our opponents. And yes, it's about my dog. You can always count on something weird from Trump Vance and company. So they claim I was lying about the identity of my dog Scout. Because in two separate tweets from 2022, I posted pictures from a dog park mentioned Scout, but was pictured with two different dogs. It

It's a simple explanation, Jimmy. The black one was Scout. The other one was simply a different dog we met at the dog park, and I was simply mentioning Scout. So there you go. You think that'll be the toughest question you'll be asked? I certainly hope so. If not, I don't know. They always tell us to work in Russia somehow. I got it. See, yeah.

This came directly from Mrs. C, Mrs. Clinton. Yeah. Just say your enemies work for Russia. Yep. Malsi Gabbard is a Russian asset. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., not senior. Yeah.

Oh, who knows? I don't know. Clinton didn't actually say he wasn't per se. You know, you got to stand with the Palestinians, sort of, but say that these protests are being funded by Russia. You don't have to prove it. Just saying it is enough. We have sort of an informal playbook. I'm sure you do.

To be honest with you, Jimmy, I'm just kind of along for the ride. This whole thing is just wow. All the big stuff, the big questions and issues, I leave that to my better halves, Kamala, Mrs. Clinton, my wife, whoever else. After all, I'm just a boring white guy from the Midwest. I think guys like me have done enough damage over the years, don't you? Time to get some pantsuit energy into the driver's seat.

I'm just there to check for oncoming traffic. Well, that's a pretty pathetic way to see your role, but I'm sure that's why you were chosen. Hey, good luck with your scripted interview tomorrow.

Thanks, Jimmy. Fingers crossed. Hey, you know what? I don't think my kids are listening. Want to know what's for dinner tonight in the Walls household? Let me guess. Meatloaf, right? Wow! How did you know that? That's exactly right, because it's Wednesday. That's amazing. Are you working for Russia? Just kidding.

Oh, it says on this list you are. Well, in that case, I better go. This has been great, Jimmy. Thanks for taking my call. Have a great summer. Oh, God.

Okay, so maybe you don't know about this story, but it's super important, which is why I'm bringing it to you. The FBI conducted coordinated raids against Black Liberation Organization.

And this was another outgrowth of Russiagate garbage, right? On July 29th at 5 a.m., the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation conducted a violent raid on the home of O'Malley Yeshitela, the chairman of the U.S.-based African People's Socialist Party in St. Louis, Missouri. In a video posted the next day, Yeshitela claims the FBI deployed flashbang grenades on

carried automatic weapons, damaged the property of his neighbors, including smashing windows, and handcuffed himself and his wife. Yeshitella also claims that the FBI refused to show him a search warrant and that they took his cell phones and other devices from his home. It was only later that Yeshitella learned that the raid on his home was only a part of several raids across the country against locations affiliated with the APSP.

That same day, the FBI raided the Uhuru Solidarity Center, also in St. Louis, and the Uhuru House in St. Petersburg, Florida, both locations of Uhuru movement led by the African People's Socialist Party. So this was the government trying to squash free speech and squash dissent. That's all this is.

According to Yeshitella, the FBI also raided the APSP's radio station, Black Power 96.3 FM, and reportedly detained a prominent APSP leader. So here's a little bit of that. Here's a little bit of what happened. We have a federal warrant for this address. Keep your hands up and follow orders. This is the FBI. We have a warrant...

They handcuffed me and my wife out here. They wanted me to sit on the curb while they were carrying this out. Something that I refused to do. They wanted my wife to sit on the curb out here that she refused to do. The FBI broke down doors through flashbang grenades, handcuffed you. As I was coming out, this big old drone met me. The only revolutionary organization that's done something here on the ground practically for African people is the one that's come under attack.

Institution that offers a community radio station, a newspaper, a commercial kitchen, an Aquabo Hall rental space, and community office for our organizers. That was the building that has come under attack. Wow. They covered their security cameras with tape. Isn't that... That sounds very fascistic. The FBI is a criminal organization. Following footage from the attack on the Party Solidarity Reparation Center on the south side of St. Louis.

Breach, what are you in? I don't know. I don't know. Let's hold bed, then, mate. Hold on.

APSC and USM leaders were handcuffed, held at gunpoint while their homes were raided. We will build a movement of white people that says, hands off the Peru movement. They see in the African People's Socialist Party a vanguard for the struggle for the liberation of our people. They see that because not just what we do here in the United States, but because we have the temerity to do like Garvey, to do like Malcolm X, and take the struggle of black people around the world.

So this has been reported

on local corporate news, but it's been reported poorly. And so let's bring on Chairman O'Malley Yeshetela. He is a renowned political activist and author, as well as the founder and current chairman of the African People's Socialist Party, which leads the Yuhuru Movement. The Yuhuru Movement is a pan-Africanist organization that aims to unite and liberate Africa and African people worldwide. On September 3rd,

He will be in federal court to face charges that he is a secret pawn in a Russian government conspiracy to sow discord and interfere in elections.

If convicted, he faces up to 15 years in prison. Please welcome to the show Chairman O'Malley. Thank you very much. I want to express appreciation to being able to be here and break out of this sort of information quarantine that has been imposed on us. You mentioned a couple of local news outlets.

entities covered it, but for the most part, it was dead air. We didn't get much coverage at all. So, and especially is significant because the state has characterized this as some kind of working with the Russians, working for the Russians, a threat to national security and all those things. And then they're definitely silent about it.

about everything. So I think that's remarkable. Well, Russiagate turned out to be a complete hoax that was concocted by the FBI, the CIA, and the Clinton campaign, and then it was pushed by this corporate media. It...

Their own investigation, the Mueller report, revealed that there was zero evidence that any of that was true. Zero. And so I was vindicated in debunking it from the start. But I always warned that they would use Russiagate to gin up support for a war. And of course, they're using it for the Ukraine war. And now they're using that to come and suppress you. What is it about you and your organization that you think the FBI and the establishment is afraid of?

I think part of what's happened is that the kind of politic that I represent in this country and much of the world had been suppressed during the 1960s with assassination, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Black Panther Party forces.

That happened throughout this country, tremendous repression and what had been elevated as a kind of politic that we characterize as a certain kind of welfare slavery with liberals and a lot of African people who benefit tremendously by being part of these poverty programs and other kinds of systems, programs that keep a lot of them alive.

And we've broken out of that. And we're saying that African people, like every dignified people on the planet Earth, we want to be free. We want to be able to self-determining people, which is why they killed Malcolm, because he was saying that, and that Panthers and other people. At the moment that we say we want to be self-determining, it becomes a real serious problem. And of course, the fact that we say we want to be self-determining, they see as an attack on humanity.

on the narrative that they've created about the United States being this place that everybody is free and everybody wants to be free and everybody loves it, et cetera, et cetera. And they can get away with that as long as they can keep everybody quiet.

And so America, under the Biden administration in particular, puts itself forward as this great democracy that's protecting the world from the autocrats of the world, et cetera. And how can it be this great democracy if it's suppressing free speech? How can it explain the daily killings of black people by police?

and sometimes even by civilians, how can they explain the incredible poverty that's imposed on the community that's played such a big role in developing the economy of this country, and they can't. And so the only way they can get away with it is that those of us who are most significantly impacted by this are not able to talk.

And so they shut us up and they say, if we say anything, it's not black people who are saying this, it's Russians who are saying this. So we make a criticism of our treatment by the United States government. It's not black people who are doing this, it's Russians who are doing this. And that this is a means of sowing discord

And the fact of the matter is discord is obviously already in this country. And it's not just a matter of what's happening with black people. It's also the whole social fabric of this country at this moment is under severe stress, as you know. So I don't understand exact. So they're they're they're charging you with sowing discord. Is that what they're charging? What are they charging you with? They charge me with being a Russian agent.

I'm a Russian agent, and the evidence of being a Russian agent, I'm a Russian agent who also did not register as a foreign agent, as a representative of a foreign country. So I'm a Russian agent, and I'm a Russian agent because I went to Moscow twice in 2015.

because I participated in organizing campaigns in 2017 and 2019 in St. Petersburg, Florida, the local campaign city with less than a third of a million people, only something like 18% of which is black. And so we ran on a reparations campaign. We ran on the campaign to end gentrification that's happening to

our community. So the Russians paid for that, they said. I'm a Russian agent because I had on our Burning Spear newspaper, our newspaper social media, we had a representative from the

anti-globalization movement, a non-governmental organization in Russia to talk about the war that had broken out with Ukraine. And so that proved also that we were a Russian agent. Before the war broke out, however, something like two days

I had come out in opposition to the United States politics around Russia, going back to the whole history of how this thing had begun. And so they said that this made me like a Russian agent, too. So Russia is paying me to do these things. This is really remarkable because, first of all, I think a lot of people might have missed what you said there in your first response was that.

you reject the welfare state in the United States and you want to be self-sufficient. Like, so I, and the video, it showed that you had set up a local kitchen and you want to very much reminded me of the black Panthers, which they couldn't have. That's why they went and stopped and ended their organization. But could you explain a little bit more what you don't, you don't like the welfare system in the United States and you don't participate in it?

Listen, I think that African people deserve everything that we get from the state. So that's not, the point is that they would have us living off welfare and oppose any self-determination. We have something like 52 independent economic development programs. Our party does. We have built housing. We have created basketball courts for African children in communities where children are playing in the streets trying to play basketball. We have

We have initiated a farmer's market in what they call food deserts. We've done that. We've created other kinds of markets in Philadelphia. We've got one in St. Louis. We do that kind of work. And so the thing is to make African people self-sufficient, self-reliant, and self-determining. We believe that we have a right to be a self-governing people. And we believe that we can use constitutional methods

to pursue this right. That's why we ran somatic for office. That's why we do that often, to get into the political arena so that the people can hear our voices and hear what it is that we can say and make some kind of determination on whether they support us or not. But if you have a situation where the government puts forth its own favorite Black organizations who

toe the line on every question, who work with a narrative that all we want to do is be good chocolate-colored white people. If you've got this kind of thing and the government supporting holding up that narrative,

And then doing so many other horrible things with blackface, you know, that we never would have, as a community, we've always been opposed to these unjust wars. But now the war has the face of not only an Obama and a Harris, but also the face of a Lord Austin and all these other people who are committing these offenses against the peoples of the world and fighting for democracy and democratic rights, they say. So we believe that we can

We can, without the interference of the government, we believe that we can take care of ourselves. And so that sounds like a threat to the establishment, right? That you being self-sufficient is,

And taking care of your own self and your own community. That's the and, you know, you having a voice and being black people speaking out against the establishment, not going along with the with the black people who prop up the establishment, like the as you talked about Barack Obama, that that is what is the real threat. Right. Yes. Yes. Yes.

Yes, that is the real threat. Because if in fact we could build these institutions, and we have built them, and by the way, one institution we've built, we've got a grant from the United States government because nobody else could do it.

in terms of some of the projects we put on the ground among working class black people, ordinary black people, working class people, who live in what they call ghettos and stuff like that. Not the people who you saw at the Democratic Party convention, rich people, multimillionaires and stuff like that complaining about poverty, etc. But the people ourselves. That's the thing. They don't want to see the impoverished working class of this country, black people,

working independent of that kind of control. So yeah, that's a problem because if we could do it, the question is why doesn't the government do it if it really believes in what it says it is around the world? I am really surprised. I mean, I was surprised to see when they raided you. I'm even more surprised to see that they are taking you to court.

So this must really be a threat to the establishment. And there this matters. It should matter to everybody, because if they can do this to you, they can do this to anybody. And so anybody who stands up and does mutual aid in their community, anybody who says we can be self-sufficient, anybody who speaks out and says,

and threatens the narrative of the establishment, they come down and bring the hammer down and then just make up stuff saying you're Russian. I mean, that's what they did to Donald Trump and anybody who they don't like. They did it to Tulsi Gabbard, who still serves in the military. They said she was a Russian agent. So that's the game of the establishment is that anybody who's a threat to them, they immediately call them a Russian.

And I really am surprised that they're taking it. Do they have any evidence? I mean, do your lawyers have any fear that you'll be convicted? Are you afraid that you'll be convicted? Well, I think it's a good possibility. I mean, it's a possibility I'll be convicted. The fact is, look, I'm 83 years old. I'll be 83 in October.

And for 15-year prison sentences, a life sentence for me, that's the assumption. And I think that they intend to put me in prison for life. There's no doubt in my mind about that. They wouldn't have gone through all of this if they did not intend to do it. But our lawyers, we've got an extraordinary array of lawyers. I mean, a battery of lawyers who've taken this on. And if it

is something that is based on law and the Constitution, we'll win. But the fact is, I think the system makes the, I think, incorrect assumption that if you say Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia, black, black, black, black, and black and Russia, that they have created enough prejudices among the people that people will overlook the fact that the government has no evidence that they can use. The government has some facts

I did go to Moscow, but I also went to Spain. I also went to Ireland. I also went to various other places around the world. And I went for the same reason I went to Moscow, that is to break out of this encirclement and to win supporting friends for the struggle of black people for self-determination. So that's a fact that I went to Moscow. And they use this fact to...

And it's a fact that we had a relationship with the anti-globalization movement of Russia, which is a non-governmental organization that the state government is now saying was funded by the Russian government. So it's a fact that we had a relationship with the anti-globalization movement. And we attended conferences that were supportive

the conferences that brought together people who were for self-determination. So that's a fact. It's a fact that we participated in the election that I just mentioned. We had, in 2017 and 2019, we ran for office in St. Petersburg, Florida, and they say that the Russians paid for this.

which is incredible and easily disproved. So, you know, those are the kinds of things that they are using and they took from us. I don't understand what this stuff is about terabytes and all of that, but I understand it took something like the equivalent of 2.5 million books in terms of the stuff they took off our computers, cell phones, videos, and the equivalent of 2.5 million books

And so they know more about me than I know about myself. They, you know, I haven't been studying myself in every word that I've said, you know, throughout this process. But it's a bogus charge. We are innocent of what they said.

We are absolutely innocent. We have never been employed by Russians or anybody else. That goes against the grain of everything we believe in because nobody else can free us. To go to Russia and then work for Russia for our freedom when we are involved historically in a struggle for self-determination doesn't make any sense at all. But they're not relying on something making sense.

They're relying on what they think will be the fact that I'm in court, the fact that they say Russia, the fact that they say black people, that that would suffice to have people overlook the fact that they have no evidence to prove this, one. And two, that this is an assault on the First Amendment.

In fact, the prosecutor at one juncture had filed a motion to the court to prevent us from even using First Amendment free speech as a part of our defense. The court obviously thought that was just too outrageous, and they denied that motion. But this is what we're up against.

So have there been any prominent black leaders in the United States that reached out to you, Reverend Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson or Barack Obama or Michelle Obama, Nina Turner and any of those black leaders reach out to you?

No, no, no, no, no, no. But we've got people like Charles Barron, who has been a state assemblyman and city councilor in New York for a long time, him and his wife. We've got Jesse Todd, who was on the city government in St. Louis, Missouri, come out. And then there's a whole host, I think maybe as many as 250.

what it's some organizations spanning the ideological and political spectrum in this country. I mean, I, you know, you may know that I did an interview with Tucker Carlson on one side of the question, and then I've done interviews with folk who are called progressive and leftists and what have you. So there's a, there are a lot of people who see this correctly as a real threat to free speech, because what they've done is

is create a situation where if you have views that's aligned with the views of another country, they can claim that you are working for that country because your views coincide. For example, they say the Russians say that it was a U.S. attack

through NATO on, through Ukraine, that they're making war against Russia. We say that, but we said it even before the war started. And, but they say it because the Russians say that there's clear evidence that we are working for Russia. So, and they can do that to anybody, anybody. So you cannot have independent thought.

And that's the scary thing. I mean, this whole thing about freedom of speech, it's not just something for me to say something, but it's the right of people to hear what's being said. And people don't have to agree about that. At least they have access to some kind of educated opinion as opposed to the bias that the system has created for people in terms of how they should understand what we believe and, you know, so forth. So...

No, Cori Bush hasn't reached out. Jamal Bowman, none of those people. Okay. I just wanted none of those. That's amazing. She's in St. Louis, isn't she? Yes, she is. I helped her out in her first campaign for office. And then that was the last I heard from her.

Yeah, we've had a problem getting in touch with her also. Yeah. Well, this sounds like the worst thing to happen to Africans in Florida since Will Smith released Miami. Am I right? Come on. Anyway, how can people support you? Are you asking for people to support you? Surely. Surely. We think it's really important. First of all, go to handsoffuhuru.org.

And we think it's really important when you go there to look at the legal documents, look at the indictment that they made against us, look at the motion that was filed by our lawyer to dismiss the charges, look at the thing that was done by the National Lawyers Guild as a Friends of the Court motion.

Look at all of this stuff, the back and forth. These are dispassionate statements about what occurred, what was supposed to have occurred. So go to handsoffwithhudra.org, one, two. On tomorrow, there's going to be a massive mobilization in St. Petersburg, Florida, right across the bridge from Tampa where the trial is going to happen.

And we are calling on people to come who can come. But for the duration of the trial, we're having people come in, participate in organizing on the street, on the ground. Get in touch with your comrades and friends. Put this story out so it's not hidden under the bush. Take the charges. Take the indictment. Take the response to the indictment. Let people have an informed understanding of what this thing is all about.

I think that's part of what you can do. And go to handsoffuhuru.org and you can see other things. Obviously, we need resources. We've had to spend something like $300,000 up to now just dealing with illegal fees. It cost us $40,000 just in damages to our property and materials that they stole from us, like computers and cell phones and things like that. So money is an issue. And the objective in part

is to break our system, to take all of our resources. They had banks put

which have sanctioned us, their banks, that we've been dealing with for more than 20 years, never missed a payment and always most times paid before times. They've called in mortgage loans and given us something like two weeks to pay 80-some-odd thousand dollars. So go to handsoffuhuru.org and you can find out more information. Thank you. And in St. Petersburg on the 31st, which is Saturday, August 31st,

So if people are watching on Friday, it'll be tomorrow. If people are watching this on Saturday, it'll be a Saturday in St. Petersburg. You're going to have a huge rally, right? Yes, yes, yes. And there are all kinds of forces to be there. Okay. HandsOffYuhuru.com? Org. Org. HandsOffYuhuru.org. Okay. Chairman O'Malley, yes to tell. I wish you the best of luck. And thanks for coming on to share your story. And we're with you in solidarity, brother.

Thank you. And thank that wonderful person who is a smart person who stands beside me most of the time when I'm doing this kind of stuff, too. OK. All right. All right. Well, good luck in your trial. We'll talk to you soon. Yes. Thank you. 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.

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We have special guests with us. It's Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, activist, the best-selling author of 12 books, including his latest, The Greatest Evil is War. It's Chris Hedges. He's previously hosted the Emmy-nominated show On Contact for RT America and RT International. His writings and his podcast, The Chris Hedges Report Podcast, can now be found on his sub stack at chrishedges.substack.com. Please welcome back to the show, the one and only Chris Hedges.

Thanks, Jimmy. It's good to see you again. I heard you just got in trouble. Well, we reversed it. Yeah, they took down one of my comments on Kamala Harris. Although everything I said was factually true. This was TikTok. So, yeah. You know what? I think I have that. Let me try to find it. I think I have it. And so we can play it and then we can talk about it. I'm pretty sure I have it. Is it? No. No.

Is that it? Is that it? Yes, here it is. Oh, you can come to me. Okay. Let's watch. So here is Kamala's policy. Record is abysmal. Mainstream media is meant to divert your attention away from her record. A major reason why so many are failing, falling for her vapid campaign. So let's watch this. This is what got taken down. Why are so many progressives and leftists going for Kamala?

you know, a fear of Trump because they're swayed by the bombardment of propaganda. A lot of it's woke politics because she's a woman of color. Although, you know, we should have gotten over that with Obama, who, as Cornel West said, was just a black mascot for Wall Street. She was a cop, basically, and served the interests of law enforcement when she was attorney general in California. When Obama ran, Dennis Kucinich printed out and gave me a copy of Obama's voting record. He said, you got to read this because

because it's every corporate giveaway that's possibly supported. And Dennis said that when he went to go to baseball games in Cleveland, the ushers would go up and down and he would say, get the scorecard, get the scorecard. He said, that's the scorecard. This is the scorecard. It's all that matters. All the hundreds of millions of dollars they invest in propaganda is essentially an effort to divert you from looking at a scorecard. And her scorecard's abysmal. That's, of course, why she's been anointed.

There you go. Is there anything factually untrue in there? Uh...

i can't say anything factually untrue it seems all it seems true but that again chris you know that you don't get in trouble for lying you get in trouble for telling the truth they're not afraid of lies they're afraid of truth they don't they put julian assange in prison because he was lying about the government they put him in prison because he was telling the truth right what do you mean lying is very good for your career i should know i used to work at the new york times

Let me just say that I don't have any idea how to do those Tic Tac things. That's all done by Max Jones, so we should give him credit for that. Oh, okay. Oh, yeah, you don't know the technical side of it, you mean? Oh, my gosh, no. I can barely handle email. Well, as long as we're talking about Kamala Harris and the media running cover for her, because that's what that is.

Right? That's the social media. And that's happened to us. That's happened to us on Facebook. That's happened to us. Facebook and TikTok and Instagram are the worst. They're the most censorious. Twitter, you get a little more freedom. And YouTube, a little less than TikTok.

But Rumble and I would say Twitter are the best, or X they call it now. But I refuse to call it X, as Kurt Metzger says. I'm even referring to Malcolm X as Malcolm Twitter in defiance of the name change. So what do you make of that? So what do you make of Silicon Valley protecting her so much?

Well, Taibbi exposed all of it in the Twitter files and he got the documents. We know that they are an extension of the national security state. They hire from Homeland Security, FBI, NSA. They're all the same people. They're essentially fused or bonded with the national security state. The worst aspects of the censorship is driven by the Democratic Party.

And, you know, they really crucified Matt for reporting that, as you know, and as you reported. But that's just undeniable. And so it's a very tight race. She's completely vapid. There's nothing there. So I think as that becomes exposed—

Her policy positions are completely opaque, she doesn't have any, that's the Obama strategy. And as it becomes closer to closer, the censorship will become more and more draconian for those of us who call her out, without question. We are not allowed to call her a sociopath?

I found that out. We're not allowed to use the C word, even in a comedic way when we refer to her. I found that out. I'm talking, at least on YouTube, it's way worse on. You know, I did a video one time and it showed people confronting...

Justin Trudeau so he was out he went to make a campaign appearance somewhere and everybody there hated him turned out I guess he didn't his team didn't do any good work to figure out who was going to be there but they all hated him and they all were protesting him and it was right after the trucker protest and in Canada a and so we showed that and they took that video down at us and they said it was targeted harassment

That's what we got labeled with, targeted harassment. I'm like, he's the, is he the president? What do they call him? The prime minister of the country, right? Isn't that what he is? Yeah. Well, but everything's inverted. So when they took down that TikTok, little TikTok post that you showed, it said because she was, I forget the exact terminology, a protected person.

minority or something like this. She's the vice president of the United States. Come on. This might as well be Stalinist Russia or something. Stalinism. I mean, it's insane. She's a powerless figure. I mean, I know you called out Oprah, which was great. It's, yeah, you don't even know where to begin. I mean, if you cannot...

Look, there is nothing in there that wasn't factually correct. And we can't even say that about now one of the most powerful political figures in the country. Every time I pick up the newspaper, she's got another $400 million in donations. I mean, yeah, it's – I don't know. But it's this – we're this dissent. I mean we're just this death spiral of the entire country, which –

For those of us who say the most tepid things, and look, I mean, I'm not calling for mobs to burn down Goldman Sachs. Not that I would do much to put out the flames. But I mean, it's not on the bandwidth of incendiary rhetoric or revolutionary rhetoric. It's really moderate. I mean, it's so, and you can't even say this.

Yeah, we live in a strange time. The thing that is the scariest to me is that half the country cheers this kind of censorship on. Did you ever see that coming? How did the left become okay with censorship? I think it's just because of Trump derangement. Am I wrong? Yeah, it's Trump derangement. You know, it's...

There's always this phenomenon, you know I covered as a foreign correspondent disintegrating societies where a certain segment of the society cheerleads their own enslavement in essence.

And that's what we're seeing because by setting up these systems, this has been going on for a long time. But by setting up, for instance, systems of mass surveillance, I mean, just everything that Snowden courageously revealed, they've done nothing, Democrats or Republicans, to

moderate the complete intrusion into our lives. We're the most photographed, monitored, recorded, spied upon population in human history. And I covered the Stasi state in East Germany. So, yeah, you wonder why. Yeah, I think it's a fear of Trump.

I think it's because what defines liberalism is so completely bankrupt. I mean, the war party or the most fervent war party is the Democratic Party. You have, you know, this essentially under Clinton, you have transformed the Democratic Party into the Republican Party.

And the Republican Party has been pushed so far to the right it's become insane. But there is traditional liberalism or what we define as liberalism doesn't exist anymore. So yeah, I mean due process. As you know, I sued Obama over Section 1021 of the National Defense Authorization Act which overturned – this was Obama who overturned the Posse Comitatus Act which in essence allows –

the government to deploy military forces for domestic control and hold people in detention without, for indefinitely. I mean, the language of Section 1021 is until the end of hostilities, whatever that is. And that's law. So all of these mechanisms have been put in place, often by Democrats. Patriot Act, when Biden was one of the authors of the Patriot Act,

So, yeah, it's this steady – and as we march towards this kind of corporate totalitarianism, you've had to redefine liberalism so that it's just become woke politics. It doesn't – content doesn't matter anymore. I mean Harris' content doesn't matter. Content is irrelevant.

Well, I just wish that you had standing when you opposed. Too bad you didn't have standing. Well, I won. You know, I actually won in the Southern District Court of New York.

That created a problem for the appellate and so yeah, the way they do it is they deny you standing which means you don't have a right to bring the case. They waited months and months to do it and I was part of Clapper versus Amnesty International where a bunch of journalists sued the NSA for wholesale surveillance. This was before Snowden. The federal lawyers in Supreme Court said none of these journalists are being surveilled,

which we know is a lie, but now we know it's a lie. And if they were, the government would tell them. And the Supreme Court said, oh, well, okay, as long as you tell them, then they threw the case out. And so then the appellate court in New York said, well, Hedges doesn't have standing in Clapper versus Amnesty International, so he doesn't have standing in, it was called Hedges versus Obama, which I love. I don't frame a lot, but I have that one on my wall. Yeah, but it all turned out to be a lie. It was a complete lie.

Well, the way I talk about it on stage is that they repealed habeas corpus. Barack Obama repealed habeas corpus. And so habeas corpus is in the Magna Carta. So he basically repealed the Magna Carta. And now we're operating on a liberty view from somewhere around the 1100s. And no one seems to notice. Yeah.

Yeah, because it's – because of the – the propaganda is so intense. I mean it's so effective and this is what makes Antonio Gramsci, the great sort of Italian radical theorist, so important is he understands that that cultural hegemony is a very effective form of control.

And you, I, Glenn Greenwald, there are a few of us who try and break through that cultural hegemony. But we've been completely sidelined, pushed to the margins. And it is really effective. Unfortunately, most people speak in the slogans and cliches in which they're fed. And the media industry has just become a giant megaphone.

for the cliches and slogans that buttress the billionaire class and the military industrial complex and the deep state. It's amazing to me how many people who I consider smart, they're college educated, they're adults, they own homes, they have jobs, believe or don't realize what you just said. They don't realize what Chomsky told us 25 years ago or 35 years ago.

Which was that the news media isn't there to give us the news. The news media is there to manufacture consent. And who are they manufacturing consent for? They're manufacturing consent for a handful of billionaires who actually run things.

Yeah, well I used to work in it. I understand it very well and I know how it works. So if for instance I was overseas, so if I was – for instance I covered the war in El Salvador. So if I'm writing off the ground stuff that contradicts official policy, I'm not only at war with – in this case the Reagan administration. I'm at war with my own Washington bureau because the vast majority of journalists at

news organization like the New York Times, their entire journalism is like doing lunch, having access. And the Times hates it when you cut off access. So I could write what was factually correct, but it got buried under a deluge of lies that were fed to reporters in the Washington Bureau or after

9-11, I was based in Paris but I was covering, I covered Al-Qaeda in Europe and the Middle East but I would go back to the New York Times and the French intelligence which gave me everything because they desperately did not want a war with Iraq, I would go back to New York and they would, so I had really good information

But the rest of the New York Times investigative team, including Judith Miller, they all just dismissed it because, if you remember at the time, there was this anti-French kind of French racism. They just threw it out. So –

The problem is that not only do they disseminate the lies, but they're true believers. You don't advance within those organizations unless you are a true believer. The New York Times spent two years giving us Russiagate, which there was no there there. There was nothing there. It was a complete fabrication.

And it was a way for the Democratic Party not to accept the responsibility for the alienation of millions. I mean, I think it's 30 million Americans since 1996 have lost jobs in mass layoffs. They've never accepted responsibility. They don't accept responsibility for it now. They invent responsibility.

You know, it's Julian Assange, the Podesta emails or it's Putin. I mean, look, I mean, we haven't talked about the Israel lobby. Yeah, we have a foreign government that manipulates our political system. And it's not China and it's not Russia. It's Israel. I mean, they own the Congress. You saw the Congress couldn't leap from their seats fast enough to cheerlead Russia.

Bibi Netanyahu, who's arguably a war criminal. So, yeah, it's very sad. I mean, my career has been that trajectory where there was space. I used to be part of the mainstream media. Glenn Greenwald used to be part of Matt Taibbi. We're all gone. We're finished. You either bend to the system and work for the system or they push you out. Yeah.

They used to bring me on late night television. They used to bring me on ABC, NBC, CBS. I had two specials on Comedy Central. That's all over. That's all over. It's over because they're in such trouble. They don't have any credibility anymore. And so they don't have any answer. There's no way they can respond to you or respond to me or respond to Glenn. They can't. And so therefore they have to

They have to shut us up. They have to or at least marginalize us to such an extent that our voices are not heard. And nobody trusts them. I mean one of the things about these algorithms that shut down independent media is that the idea is to route people back to the traditional media that nobody wants. I mean the Washington Post is in free fall. Yeah.

Well, we reported this story where their editor addressed their newsroom saying, nobody's reading us anymore. Well, that's right. Right, so what's the solution? The solution is to silence the critics, not actually do journalism. No, it's appalling, it's heartbreaking, having been a journalist as long as I have.

Yeah, nobody is reading them anymore, nor should they. I mean, the New York Times coverage of the encampments and the coverage of Israel has just been appalling. It's been – I don't even – I –

i thought when jeff bezos bought the washington post it was because he was committed to the truth i didn't think really no of course not when the one of the richest guys in the world buys a newspaper it's not because he cares about the truth it's because he wants to control the news just like bill gates has donated 300 million dollars to news organizations and we know what that's for that's so he could get positive press the same thing for jeff bezos jeff bezos has

through Amazon with the CIA. He's not there to tell you the truth about the CIA or foreign wars. And when I was in Norway, we were on tour in Europe in spring. I found out that people are just as upset about Jeff Bezos buying the media over there. I didn't know he was doing that. Oh, I didn't know that either. Yeah, so it's not just here. So the richest guys in the world aren't just monopolizing the news in the United States. It's happening in Europe also, and people are onto it.

it hey this is jimmy who's this this is kamala supporter oh my god kamala supporter wait what i thought you were hillary supporter oh my god let it go already 2016 was like eight years ago let it go jimmy jesus okay okay

This is Kamala's year and I stan a legend and support her naturally given my character's name. Wow, from Hillary supporter to Kamala supporter. That's quite a seat change. Excuse me? Seat change.

I'm sorry, I don't recall bringing up bottom surgery. No, no, Kamala supporters see change like the ocean. S.E.A. change. Oh, oh, well, anyway, yeah, I don't want to talk about that. I want to talk about Kamala. Who?

Who, I am here to inform you, is a true queen. Yes, queen. A proud woman of color, of some type of color, who is proud and stands tall against all haters. But you cannot bring down a queen. And by queen, I mean a monarch selected by the ruling elite and not voted for by the population.

Is that good that she has gotten to where she is with essentially no input from the voting public? Yes, actually. It's a bad time. You see, Hillary was constantly scrutinized, having her record examined, constantly having to prove herself to the public, running in primaries in stupid little states that no one has ever heard of.

Like what? Iwawa? You could be making that up for all I know. And all of it was simply an attempt to humiliate and degrade a powerful, ambitious woman. Our entire democratic system was designed to humiliate one specific person? Yes. But now, this is Kamala's year and things are different. How so, Kamala's supporter?

Well, I'll tell you, idiot. Kamala was just made the nominee. They just made her that. It was amazing. She didn't have to run in a stupid primary or even face challengers at the convention. They just made her the nominee. It's the most undemocratic thing that's ever happened in our country and it's fucking amazing. Yeah.

I'm going to say that in my act tonight. Well, I guess I own these. I own these sketches. Well, I did my contract. I said, check the contract. Well, I guess you could just sort of say that she was elected in 2020 when she was the VP on the Biden ticket.

How dare you? She was selected for that role, too. As a Kamala supporter, I am proud to say that she had a horrible showing in the 2020 primaries. Her popularity was abysmal, but she was selected for VP anyway because she's a proud woman of color. Wait, you're proud of that?

Yeah. The more it can be demonstrated that Kamala is in no way the people's choice, the more it underscores how queen-like she actually is. An unelected monarch. A literal absolute sovereign beholden to no one.

Okay. So when you say queen, like she's a queen, you literally mean queen. You mean you want the United States to be ruled by an unelected king or queen? No, just queen, idiot. We don't want kings. This is in the middle of the ages or whatever. Just queen. Ah.

Unbroken line of proud Queens of color. Look, Kamala supporter, vice president Kamala Harris is, is I'm sorry. It's just Kamala. What? Don't, uh, don't say the last name. It's just Kamala. Queens only have one name.

But she does have a last name, and it's Harris. If she wins the election, she'll be called Kamala Harris. Okay, let me explain this to you. When you say that name, that H, it's very triggering to me, and you need to not do that. You know, this is nuts. I can't say a presidential candidate's last name? No.

No, because that exacerbates my democracy dysphoria. That means my sense of psychological well-being is dependent on my delusion that Kamala is literally going to be crowned queen of America and that we live in a monarchy instead of some sort of representative government.

And when you say that H name, that feels like an attack. Like you're saying that that's not actually real. Como supporter. And that's an attack. That's what that is. I see. I see. Yeah. Yeah.

It's not really that hard to understand. Having empathy is pretty easy to do, actually. Okay, well, when Queen Kamala is on the throne, what policies do you look forward to her enacting? Spreading justice across the realm, far and wide. The realm. Are you looking forward to her continuing the work she has been doing as vice president?

I don't even know what that is, that work. Yeah, no one seems to. Very strange. We don't know because it's none of our business. That's why, asshole.

Well, fair enough, Kamala supporter. We got to go, but thanks for calling. This is going to be a really exciting summer for you. Oh, my God. So exciting. I can't even believe it. This is going to be the most exciting summer since 2005. What happened in the summer of 2005?

Nothing. Literally nothing happened. I stayed inside. I didn't talk to anyone except my cat. I pretended Hillary was the queen of America. I got offended by YouTube videos, which were brand new back then and very simple. It was very hard to get offended by that content, but I was sort of an internet pioneer and I found ways to get offended and I commented. Yeah.

On those videos. It was exhilarating. But this is going to be even better as I look forward to the lavish coronation ceremony of Queen Kamala. Oh, God. Queen Kamala I in the Anime Cathedral in Coruscant. Talk to you later, weirdo.

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