How Did Warren Buffett Know Stocks Would Crash?!? w/ Prof. Richard Wolff
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Hey, come see us on tour. We'll be in Chicago, Grand Rapids, Michigan, Duluth, Georgia, right outside of Atlanta, Jacksonville, Florida, Tempe, Arizona, and Burbank, California. Go to JimmyDore.com for a link for those tickets. Hey, it's Jimmy. Who's this? Hey, it's Jeff Bridges, man. Ah, Jeff. So good to hear you. How you doing?

Good to hear from you, man, and I'm doing pretty well. And, you know, this isn't the only live stream I've called into this week, by the way. Oh, yeah? Who else did you call?

White dudes for Kamala. Oh, my God. Yeah. And I qualify, man. I qualify. Yeah. I'm a member of the K-Hive, as they call it. But yeah, we raised about $4 million, me and a few other guys. Other guys? Yeah.

Other white dudes. And man, I was in good company. Josh Gad, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Mark Hamill, Luke Skywalker, Josh Groban. Wow, that's really a who's who. Who's Josh Groban again?

I don't really know, man. It was a fucking experience. Just getting to talk about how fucking excited we are about Kamala. A woman, and maybe the first woman, man. The first woman ever. That's history we'd be a part of. You had many glowing things to say about Kamala and President Biden as well.

Oh, yeah, man. I made a point to say how graceful the passing of the baton to Kamala was. Just so gracefully done. That whole thing where, you know, he realized that he needed to step down, and then he stepped down. Just some really graceful shit, man, how that all happened. Yeah, uh-huh.

And Kamala's record, it's like, wow! Women's rights, the environment, you know, she's amazing. And her record as Attorney General of California?

Her record as attorney general.

I assume, you know, it's a pretty good thing to have on the old resume there. More so than being a game show host. When Trump was a game show host, I don't think he jailed people for marijuana use.

Well, I didn't watch the show, so you can't tell me. It'd be a pretty fucking weird episode. I'd probably watch that. But Trump's a fascist, man. I wouldn't put it past him, I'll tell you that much. Does it bother you that Kamala did as Attorney General?

What do you mean, man? She's cool. As Attorney General, she jailed people for smoking weed, largely as is usually the case, young black males. And she prosecuted truants and their parents. Oh, no. Oh, yes.

Jeff, she was part of a legal system that overly prosecuted African Americans for minor offenses.

Well, okay, man. Maybe that makes her even more qualified for your information, sir. Did you ever think about that? How do you figure that, Jeff Bridges? Well, yeah, our whole justice system is fucked, man. Fucked!

Wow, you're really spinning plates here. Oh.

Oh, don't say that, man. I'm too high to even think about it. Now I've got that on my mind, I can't stop thinking about it, man. Thinking about Kamala's record? No, dropping these plates and breaking them. I can't have that shit out here. My wife would fucking kill me. Well, I'm a fan and you're a fan of the show, so I'm not going to yell at you. I'm just going to go ahead and assume you're all in with Kamala 2024.

Abso-fucking-lutely, man. She's the not-Trump person, so she has to be as good as he is bad. There's got to be that balance. Life is all about balance, man. The yin and the fucking yang. And I refuse to think about it more than that. That's some real boomer logic there. Yeah. Thank you, man. Hey, can I ask you a question?

Shoot. Anything. Were you a fervent supporter of Kamala back in 2019? Oh, fuck no, man. No way. Are you kidding? What a joke. No way she was going to win back then. Those memes were brutal. I don't know if you remember. All right. Well, thanks for your candor, Jeff. Just keep on being you, Jeff Bridges.

I'll do that, my friend, because I got nobody else to be. Thanks for calling me in, and you keep being you, too. I'll smoke a J for you. Hopefully Big Bad Kamala won't put me in prison for it. Well, I wouldn't worry about that. You're white. Correction. A white dude for Kamala. Ah, okay. Oh. Oh.

So I just want to show you how they covered this at Fox Business. I would call history. Don't say that. I've never been down a thousand points ever, not even intraday on the NASDAQ. Is that true? That is true. OK, I'm down six percent right from the get go. This is heavy, heavy, big tech. Here we go. Look at them go down.

Microsoft is down 20 bucks. That's 5%. Alphabet, 5%. Meta, 6%. Amazon, 6%. Apple, 9%. Let's pull out Apple. This is interesting. A question for you. Apple. You know why? Because Warren Buffett took his money out. So, yeah, if you could put this clip on the front end of that. But did you see all those? See all those companies are down.

And this is, of course, what Professor Richard Wolff says. It happens every four to seven years. The last time it happened was four years ago. And here we are. Here's what Ian Carroll says. We'll probably see big bank collapses this year and they will try to bail them out with our tax dollars again. When do you acknowledge that the Fed is the problem? I just want to remind people that Joe Biden said he fixed this economy. Watch this.

So they ask him, Mr. President, what do you want your legacy to be? And he's going to say, I fixed the economy. I cured it. He cured the economy and the environment. It's all cured. It's all cured. Warren Buffett just...

Just a couple of days ago sold of like 50% of his stock in Apple He now holds around 300 billion dollars in casts and they've he's his company has sold stocks like never before including Apple because so he was so what he's doing is he's big he knows there's a crash coming so he's getting rid of his stock and

And he wants to have a lot of cash on hand so he can buy up a lot of stock at bargain basement prices. That's what that's about, right?

Absolutely. And listen, Warren Buffett's a smart man, and most of you watching are just as smart as he is. He understands that if he releases the information a few days ago, which he is required by law to do, that he has dropped his holdings of Apple by 50%. It's a screaming signal that

Get out of the market. This guy who knows what's going on, he's just gotten out. That's not a signal for people to jump in. That's a signal for people to say, whoa, time for me to pull back. And the irony is his action can control what happens in the market. He's got so much money, such as the $277 billion, that any which way he goes, you

you know, drops the price of Apple because they can't find that many people to buy the shares that he's trying to sell. So he's what's called a market mover. He can move the market. Knowing what he's doing, of course, leads him and his associates, he's never alone,

to understand that if he dumps Apple, down will go Apple, down will go a whole bunch of others, giving them the opportunity to take the money they got from selling Apple here and buy back twice as much of it for half their money three days later, making a profit that will take him into $300 billion. It's becoming obscene.

One person is shaking the entire economy. You and I are sitting here trying to figure out it. Meanwhile, he's sitting there having a 14th mint julep or whatever it is he drinks and making decisions that are overwhelmingly. Look, that's not democracy. Giving some people that kind of power while the rest of us are spectators at our own economic decline. That's not a democratic economic system.

Look, capitalism has been unstable from its birth. Every four to seven years, the National Bureau of Economic Research, a government body, tracks them. Every four to seven years, on average, it crashes. That means you're going to have a bunch of them in your lifetime or my lifetime or Warren Buffett's. What kind of a system is this that we're either in a crash or worried about it?

Every president wonders, is it going to hit and drive me out of office? Is it going to hit a little differently and put me back in office? It's a roller coaster. We're not children. We can work this out. We can manage an economy not to do this to ourselves. That's the horrible irony here. It isn't happening like hurricanes. It's something we can control.

So the thing that seems craziest to me is that now they're saying because of this market crash, well, let me just tell people how much it's crashed, right? So U.S. stocks took a nosedive Monday. Worldwide, this happened also. So the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 1,000 points or 2.7%.

By 3 p.m., the Dow was still down more than 1,000 points or about 2.6%, while the NASDAQ was down 3.8%, and the S&P 500 posted a 3.2% decline. So what they're going to do now, so now they have the Fed chairman, Austin Goosby, in Chicago, the Fed chairman in Chicago. He said that the interest rates are too high.

Right. He says the Fed's job is what he says. The Fed's job is very straightforward. Maximize employment, stabilize prices, maintain financial stability. That's what we're going to do.

So, to me, the crazy part of this is they've raised interest rates. So, the Fed has raised interest rates. And why did they do that? Because there was inflation. And how do you stop inflation? Well, the Fed goes, we raise interest rates so we make it more expensive to do business, which means people get laid off. Right.

So the way that literally the way that they solve the problem of inflation is they get a bunch of workers thrown out of their jobs. That's what that's that's what they're doing on purpose. That's not like, oh, we didn't know that was going to happen. They raise interest rates so that so that people lose their job. Right.

Absolutely. And look at the irony of what you just read. The job of the Federal Reserve, which was started in 1913, it's over a century old. It was to have stable prices. If you have an inflation, it means they failed. They didn't do their job. If you're supposed to have maximum employment, and by the way, the initial wording was full employment. They changed the word full to maximum. They did that in 1946. But

They failed. The joke with the Fed is they failed to have price stability. They failed to have full employment. They're always telling you, well, hard work we're doing to bring down the inflation. Wait a minute, Jack, you failed. That's what you're telling us. If you're working to get it down, it means it went up. And if you're working to get people back to work, it's because you let them be unemployed.

It makes no sense. Unemployment is an irrational act. I'll tell you why. Unemployed people are not going to die. They're going to eat, they're going to work, they're going to wear clothing, they need a shelter, they need to consume, but you're not letting them work.

Normally, if you would give them a job, they would contribute as well as take. Unemployment is a crazy thing for any community to do, and we know how to solve those problems. We can put people to work. We've done it.

They don't want to do it because they don't want anyone to mess with their privileges at the top, their decision about how to solve a problem. And so they don't want any interference, especially not in the government, which might be shaped by the fact

it's one person, one vote politically, and therefore the mass of people who are not employers, they're employees, might use their political power to undo an economic system that isn't working for them anymore.

So when there's inflation like we've had, right, we had the biggest inflation in the last 20 years and that was, no, a lot of, most of that, I'm going to guess, I'm going to ask you, was caused because corporations decided to start being, gouging their customers and inflating their prices and corporate profits are through the roof.

So wouldn't a smarter thing be, instead of throwing people out of work, to maybe take some of that money, some of that profit away from the corporation in some way? Wouldn't that make more sense if the Fed could figure out a way to do that? Yes, it's easy to do. It's called taxation. But here's a bigger irony, Jimmy. In 1971, we had a terrible inflation in this country, even worse than the one we just had. And we had a conservative Republican president, Richard Nixon,

And on August 15th, he went on the radio and TV and he said, we got a terrible inflation. Here's what I'm going to do. He didn't raise interest rates the way we acted in the last three years as if it were the most natural, necessary thing the world had ever seen. Nonsense. He said, as of tomorrow morning, if you raise your price, I'm going to arrest you and throw you in jail. If you're a union and you raise your wage, ditto, same thing.

It was called a wage price freeze because that's what it was. It brought the inflation down overnight.

I'm not arguing that we should do that, although I would favor it. I'm not arguing that. I'm arguing there's something wrong in a society that did that last time in 1971 and now, 40 years later, acts, acts as if there were no question raising interest rates is the only thing and that's what we're going to do. No discussion, no debate, no nothing.

And you might, you know, you might enjoy it. I like to tell people because they find it funny. I got my PhD at one of those Ivy League universities, at Yale University.

And at those days, the PhDs in economics were almost all men, but there were very few women. So we all knew the young women that were in our classes because there weren't very many of them. And when I went through Yale and got my PhD, I sat in the same room, listening to the same teachers, reading the same articles as one of the two women in my class, whose name was Janet Yellen. She knows everything.

And yet I watch her up there giving statements and part of me says, what happened? You know, you get caught up in this. You don't think the way you're capable of. And much of what I say on my interviews and my program is what I've tried to say tonight. There are other and better ways of doing things. Let's be the creative Americans that we have a reputation for being.

If something is outmoded and outdated like capitalism, let's face it. Let's talk about how we can do better and let's get to work doing it. I think the world will once again have the kind of respect it's not going to get otherwise.

They say that the unemployment rate is now 4.3%, but you and I know they don't count their unemployment rate the way they used to in the 80s, right? That's right. They changed it. So right now, this is bad for the economy. They say it's the last month

The Labor Department said that non-farm payrolls increased by 114,000 jobs and the unemployment rate increased to 4.3 percent, worse than expected. And that's what's spurring a lot of this stock stocks crashing. Right. But first of all, just real quickly, guess what stock isn't crashing? The weapons manufacturers. OK, just so you know, because that's the one thing we still make here in the United States. We still make the world's weapons.

But what would you say if you had to guess what is the real unemployment rate? I've had people on this show say it's somewhere around 15 percent and some people say even higher. What would you guess if we counted it the way we did in the 80s? It depends.

There have been some studies and the basic answer is two to three times what that is. So instead of 4.3, I would say somewhere between 9 and 12 percent. If you count all the people who've given up looking, if you count all the people who are temporary workers but want a full-time job but can't get it, if you count all the people that are

under the table, you know, where there's no registration. They're not legally counted, but they're crucial, which in certain industries like fast food or construction is a significant part of the workforce. And then there's all the immigrants

who are afraid to be counted because their status is shaky, and so they make a point of not doing it, which allows the employer to get away with not paying them or paying them. All of that stuff is going on, and you'd have to really be careful

Very much careful not to. These are the minimum numbers. They are not an adequate understanding of how many people there are who want to work, but for whom there is no job. And another funny thing they do every time they come out and say, hey, we added one hundred and fourteen thousand jobs.

about two or three months later, they come back and go, hey, you know what? We got that wrong. It wasn't that many jobs. It was way less jobs, right? They've been doing that now for almost two years straight. Am I wrong about that? No, no, no. That's correct. In fact, now every month when they issue the data for that month, they tell you here are the corrections for the two months before. And those can be very big. So you can get these headlines

We did a great low unemployment, because the headline is what this month is. The headlines don't include the corrections from before, which can be bigger than the increase this month. So look, it's played with. It is played with by Republicans to make them look good, or Democrats, whoever has to defend these numbers, massages them is the polite way of saying it.

Well, so how do you have... I've been predicting this coming. I took my money out of the stock market. I put it in gold. I didn't know where else to put it. And I put it in T-bills, my retirement money, right? I don't want to wake up one day and have my 401k be gone. I don't need to make money on my retirement. I just want it to be there when I retire, right? So...

How bad I feel like a genius right now when this is happening, because I've been saying they've been holding this economy together with duct tape and bubble gum because they wanted to get it to the just to the election. And it's not making it right. So now it's starting to tank. And do you think this is going to be as bad as 2008 or do you make those kind of predictions?

You can't do it. I would urge you. If I start making predictions like that, don't listen to me. And if you hear anybody else do it, nobody know. Every one of these is unique.

The only thing we know is that this is a system prone on average every four to seven years to do this to us. The last big one was in the year 2000 when the pandemic hit. We had a terrible- 2020, 2020. 2020, sorry, yes. So we're now four years, right? We're at the beginning of the average is kicking in. So my advice to anybody who asks me is-

At the very least, be extremely cautious because this is a situation in which you can lose your shirt. You know, you said 3%, 4%. That's all correct. But there were specific stocks and groups of stocks that did much worse. If you happen to be invested in those, you are really in trouble now.

and people who want to change the social security system to make it stocks and bonds, you could lose your entire retirement. Don't do that. That's a safety. You know, be caught up in capitalism is to be caught up in a fantasy that things only go up. They don't. They go up and they go down. And you better be aware of that. Otherwise, you'll make unbelievably dangerous mistakes.

So my advice is go buy Raytheon and put your money in war and death. And Big Pharma too. And Big Pharma. We have a death economy. And anyway, everybody should check out your new book, Understanding Capitalism, and where can they get it?

Best place is to go to our website, democracyatwork.info, and you go there and it'll tell you how to get the book and all the rest. Okay. Professor Richard Wolff, I appreciate your time. It's always great to talk with you, and congratulations on the book. Thank you very much, Jimmy, and best to you as well. Okay. Thank you.

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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. Now, Kurt, you heard about this story. Absolutely crazy. MSNBC posted a clip earlier that has since been taken down.

of it's a clip that it edited dick. They edited together clips of Joe Rogan talking about Tulsi Gabbard last election and how good she was, but they made it sound like he was talking about Kamala Harris. And according to Mr. September, that's illegal. Now, I don't know if that's legal, but here, let me hear. I'll play a little bit of it for you. Here it is. This is MSNBC. Joe Rogan predicts Kamala Harris victory in November. And he's going to be

Ready? Watch this. No, she's not. She can win. She is a strong woman. She is a person who served overseas twice in a medical unit. She was a congresswoman for eight years. She is a person of color. She's everything you want. She's going to win. No, she's not. She can win. They just want no Trump, no matter what. So, first of all, you know that he's not talking about Kamala Harris because...

He mentioned a bunch of achievements and Kamala Harris does. I mean, Kamala, she didn't serve overseas. I mean, I think she took a trip overseas, but that was with a old mayor and give her a medical service. Yeah, that's that. That's the medical service she provided.

Um, but the, but MSNBC liberals, they are the rare species of narcissists that have no idea that they're numbskull snubs. They have been bred and conditioned over the years to roll their eyes like teenagers when given inconvenient information. And it's an IQ test test.

To see who will not bother to look into whether or not he is talking about Kamala Harris or Tulsi Gabbard. Well, he's talking about Tulsi Gabbard. Okay. So, and here, in fact, Tulsi called it out. She says MSNBC, again, exposed as a propaganda machine for the Democrat elite and how they will brazenly try to deceive the American people. Watch this.

True. So what this means is MSNBC is a for-profit corporation. They are helping Kamala Harris's election campaign and what they are doing through their platform would qualify as an in-kind contribution to her campaign. It's worth a lot of money.

The fact that they are doing this should require the Federal Elections Commission that manages campaign spending and campaign finance to require them to report this as an in-kind campaign contribution or to be punished for abusing their position in trying to use their platform that has nothing to do with journalism. It is purely a propaganda platform.

And that they are using this in order to try to help Kamala Harris get elected. These people need to be held accountable for what they're doing, because otherwise they will continue to do this, continue to abuse their platform and their power to try to deceive the American people and help her get elected. So the FEC law violation,

That's never going to see the light of day. You're telling me that a government that doesn't care that it's funding a genocide is going to care about something like this. I don't. Remember, nobody's above the law. Nobody's above the law unless they aren't Donald Trump. Okay. But so that's a pipe dream. I mean, I hear what she's saying. What they are doing is probably illegal, but nothing's going to happen.

And do you want to say, can you believe, by the way, who would ever think that

They really only people who watch MSNBC would think Joe Rogan's talking about Kamala Harris because it's obviously he's not talking about it. She can win. She is a strong woman. She is a person who served overseas twice. She in a medical unit. She was a congresswoman for eight years. Yeah. She is a person of color. She's everything you want. She's going to win. No, she's not. She can win. They just want no Trump no matter what. And

And MSNBC put that up. So who is it at MSNBC that gives a shit enough to lie like that about and to do like, did you not think that Joe Rogan was not going to call it out? Did you think that a lot of people would see it except Joe Rogan wouldn't see it? Like, I don't understand what the thought process was. Was it was, are they going to say it was an intern who did that on his own? What's that? No.

Only got to work so long because wasn't this put out during the initial hype for around when white dudes for Kamala and all that nonsense. So it's, it's like an immediate thing to just get a little bit of hype. And the kind of person that would take that in is probably not going to find out that it's not real. So, so now there's, I, I, it's,

you really i mean if you're dumb enough to watch msnbc you're dumb enough to believe that but so now this according to the is that the sentinel tribune joe rogan is going to sue msnbc over deceptive kamala harris video um by the way how could how could so what what tulsi gabbard is saying is that msnbc

is super dishonest and doing so dishonest that they're doing illegal things to help a political party. And I just don't get it, Kurt. I mean, how could Microsoft NBC be this dishonest? It's named Microsoft after Bill Gates's penis. That's super honest, right? That's super honest. So now they say that he's reportedly...

Joe Rogan is reportedly, so who's reporting that? I just was with Mike Malice just now talking about this, and I don't think Joe's actually, I think they're just talking out their ass. He hadn't said anything to me or anybody I know about it. I wish he would, because Joe Rogan has the resources to actually do that, and Joe usually wins when he does something.

Like for defamation, you have to prove how you were harmed by it. Yeah. It can't be like it harmed the country with a lie. It has to be how you personally were defamed and it affected you. I, again, he didn't say, I, I've just seen him the last three days and not say anything about that.

Mike seems to think it was nonsense. So I don't know if they're also stupid. Yeah, he would have to show injury. And there really is. I mean, I don't think he could show an injury. So here's what this story says. Joe Rogan is reportedly suing MSNBC for 30 million, alleging that. So we know what he alleges. In episode 20, Rogan was actually critical of Harris.

The video posted by MSNBC, however, spliced together different parts of the episode to suggest otherwise. It's like a rumor or something. I mean, that was clearly spliced together, but I mean him suing about it. I don't know how he'd be able to, uh,

It is strange. Let's see, I don't know why they thought that would be helpful. I don't know why did they think... So Rogan, a well-known UFC garbage editor and podcaster, has consistently expressed skepticism about Harris' presidential prospects, stating that nobody wants her as president. As of now, Rogan has not publicly commented on the lawsuit rumors. Wow, him and Obama on the same page, huh?

So here is Joe Rogan says nobody here. Do you want to hear? Here's him saying that. First of all, okay, let's listen. I just can't imagine the United States wants President Kamala Harris. I don't think anybody wants that.

Anybody, everybody in Hollywood wants it. Everybody who was paid to want her wants her. Everybody who's paid to watch her. They want the living shit out of her. Are you kidding? They're coming up with rhymes and artificial intelligence selfies. They're basically screaming teenagers at a concert right now. That's what he ran. Was that what the supposed offer was to go to the DNC for her? What was it about the offers they were getting from her pack?

These actors, like Mark Hamill got paid off. No kidding? Oh, yeah. First of all, you should assume that about all this when you're like, nobody wants, and we all know nobody wants her. Even if you want to pretend reality didn't happen in the last few weeks.

No one thought she was doing a great job. Nobody. Jimmy Kimmel used to say on his show, she's the most unpopular vice president in the history of the country. More unpopular than Dick Cheney. How did she go from that to beating Donald Trump after an assassination attempt? Do you believe these polls, Kurt? How could you? Who could believe that?

I don't believe them at all. I think it's either some kind of cherry-picked who they talk to, or they're just lying. They also just lie. But there's no way reality shifted to that degree in one week. There's just not a possibility of that. - Here, let me play Joe Rogan's whole statement. - I just can't imagine the United States wants President Kamala Harris. I don't think anybody wants that. Nobody wants that. I mean, maybe some people would prefer that over President Trump,

But nobody wants that. Nobody wants President Newsom either. Nobody believes in that guy. The guy's a fucking con man. I mean, everything he did in California from trying to mandate vaccines for kids when it was totally unnecessary to being caught out in public without a mask and lying about the fact that he was outdoors. Yeah. All of it.

It's just nobody believes in that guy. He's just a politician, just a stone cold narrative driven politician.

You know, and it's nobody thinks he's a real human. Whether you like Trump or not, what do you think? He's corrupt or not. That's a human being. You know, you know, is you know what that guy is. Same thing with RFK Jr. Whether you believe that he's correct about vaccines or whether you believe his policies would be effective. And, you know, that's a human being with Newsom. You've got like this construct, this this cardboard cutout of a person.

It's just I don't think people want that, but they might want it more than they want. President Trump. What do you mean, Joe, that Gavin Newsom is inhuman just because he looks like a cross between a newborn seal and a diving back rattler? He does. He does look like that. And his wife is is is a counterfeit trophy. That's what I think. She used to be his friend's wife or something. Yes, I think something.

So just so you know, this isn't new to the corporate media. Remember when CNN intentionally used a blurry and yellow filter to make Joe Rogan appear more sick, as he mentioned using ivermectin and other remedies to quickly recover from COVID-19? And then they referred to ivermectin as "Horster Wormer," even though it was a Nobel Prize-winning human medicine. So this is the CBS -- CNN broadcast version

That's the here's the original show looks great. That's how they made him look on CNN. Now, if you go to if you go to Facebook, Facebook says they have a fact checker who fact check this and they say that this didn't happen. But literally, they hired a fact checker to say that this the thing that you see with your own eyes right here, they say it didn't happen. And they call it they call it horse to wormer.

Again, why aren't they attacking this corrupt doctor that prescribed horse to worm or to a human man? Right. After him and not the medical professional that you have to get that from. Could if you change his skin color, couldn't that be considered almost like misgendering?

It's kind of like what they're doing with Kamala. I'm surprised that you're going to see that different skin tone change in her ads. It turns out I got COVID. So we immediately threw the kitchen sink out of all kinds of meds. Look, they did that.

Also, Rogan was right about every single thing he said about the pandemic. And the experts that you should listen to were right about absolutely nothing he said. So the people Joe Rogan brought on his show, like Dr. McCullough, Dr. Robert Malone, they were correct about COVID. Guess who was incorrect? Peter Hotez, Fauci, all those MFers. Anyway, they lied about everything at every turn.

I must have just fell out of the coconut tree. Did you just fall out of a coconut tree? So Fauci, and here's the weird thing, Fauci admits he lied about masks and he admits he lied about herd immunity. He won't admit he lied about anything else, but we know he lied about the origin. We know he lied about, well, they all lied about lots of things. I don't want to get a strike. So Elon Musk was on a tear.

So Elon Musk has been spreading misinformation and disinformation and propaganda from the CIA about Venezuela like crazy. Right. Because let's remember, he likes to coup. Right. He said he'll coup Bolivia when they could believe he goes, well, but we'll coup anybody we want.

So here he is. He tweets this out, right? And he says, this is messed up. Breaking armed communist Maduro gangs collectivos are now storming polling stations in Punta Cordon in the Falcon State, Venezuela. They are there to steal the boxes with the votes. Well, it turns out he got corrected by his own...

So there it is at the bottom. It says, those are thieves stealing air conditioners and a woman can be heard in the video saying so. Voting in Venezuela is done on small computers. So he got community noted on that one.

Here's the next one. Elon's lie is now deleted. He deleted this one. Elon Musk claimed that armed communist gangs were stealing ballot boxes from polling stations in the Venezuela. False. This video actually depicted thieves stealing air conditioners in Venezuela. So there you go. Hey, by the way, hey, community notes. I know you and I don't see eye to eye on a lot of things, but I got to give you credit where credit's due. Nice work.

You're starting to grow on me. Elon also retweeted a post claiming this selfie by Shavista workers reveals Maduro's election defeat. False. This photo is an unrelated selfie by Merkel grocery store workers flag in the back of this grocery store that has nothing to do with the election. So here this is what Elon tweeted out this.

A Chavista worker allegedly published a selfie from the computing center, inadvertently revealing a multiple screens, the resounding defeat of Nicholas Maduro. He's saying that this screen reveals the defeat. Um, and Mario Nafal originally tweeted that out. Uh, so Elon retweets it. And of course, that's what it was. That's on that screen. Just some grocery worker from this store called McCall. So that was also wrong. Uh, uh,

Here's another one. Elon claimed that a statue of the late Venezuelan president, Hugo Chavez, is being torn down by anti-Maduro protesters. And he shares this video. But sorry, this video that he shared, this is the video. Here is Elon Musk sharing it. Adios, dictator. It was from 2017.

So that's two or three already now. Here, there's more. He says, I'm coming for Maduro. I will carry you to Gitmo on a donkey. He tweets out this Ian Miles Chong tweet where Ian says Maduro gives direct orders to his security forces, instructing them to keep Elon Musk's out at all costs.

The donkey dictator is delusional enough to think that Elon is going to personally show up and give him a thrashing. He's afraid. How are these going to... He and Miles Chong... So he retweets that. But sorry, he got community noted. There's no mention of Elon Musk in this video. The video is about...

detention of two young protesters who allegedly were trying to carry out violent acts. Maduro makes a comment about the protesters being trained in Texas and Columbia. So that's not what it says. What is it about right-wingers who want to go along with the CIA?

And with the economic hitmen in America that want to overthrow South American governments. What is that about being, I mean, I know a lot of right-wingers, but what is it about people like this that just their flex is to repeat CIA talking points, especially like Elon Musk?

You know what it is? I think it's the communism. I think they fall too easily for the, that's a communist move, which has always been the CIA's move, is to paint someone as a communist, and then they must be inherently evil, and we will go in and offer them freedom. And Maduro isn't a communist. He's a socialist, meaning that he nationalized their energy, their oil. So they have more oil than Saudi Arabia, and that's what this is all about.

And so we're pretending that we care about the will of the Venezuelan people when in America nobody cares about the will of the American people. We live in an oligarchy. Anyway, here's one more. He tweets this out. It says,

He says, if this gains momentum, the rightfully elected president will replace. So he's pretending that these soldiers have turned on Maduro, but he got community noted again. These are not active duty military people. Juan Carlos Nieto Quintero was imprisoned and tortured by Venezuelan government security forces. He is now out of Venezuela. They're not. Of course.

So they're probably on the CIA payroll somewhere. And I love that he's breaking. Elon Musk has broken the record for the most views on fake news community noted posts in a span of 24 hours. It's really concerning what Elon's doing around Venezuela. He's like, you know, some things he's great, some things he's not. But this is like,

This is really atrocious. This is right. That's right. And here's one more. Breaking. Elon Musk's posts about Venezuela broke the record for most fake news shared in one day. Look at Jackson Hinkle getting some... He's getting some real traction against Elon Musk. So look at it this way. At least you had to pay a yearly fee for him to bullshit you like this. So yeah, you know...

He's for coups. I should have had that tweet. I forgot to put it in the tweet where he said, which is since deleted when they did a coup in Bolivia. He said, we'll coup whoever we want. And of course, he wants the lithium and the cobalt. And who knows? Maybe he thinks this will make gas. This will make gas more expensive.

So it'll help boon his electric cars. Who knows what he's thinking? What do you think he's thinking, Ian? I mean, maybe he just needs some gas to put into all the generators that are powering all the Tesla supercharger stations. Have you seen the Tesla supercharger stations with the generators out back plugged in? I have not seen that. Because there's a lot of photos of those and it's pretty great. I had a friend send me one like, what is going on in this photo? I don't understand. It's like literally a gigantic generator right next to the whole supercharger station because they just don't have an electric

They don't have a solar and electrical capacity to charge the supercharger station. But real talk, it's super concerning what Elon's specific take on this whole Venezuela thing is because it is CIA coup 101. And regardless of what people think of Maduro and his government, that's not the point here. The point is you're supporting...

the US empire overthrowing governments and trying to fake... It's very clear that the video that you shared just the other day that's done by that reporter about the integrity of the Venezuelan election system and why it is extremely implausible that it was actually a faked election. It's...

It's wild to watch the propaganda all get spit out and everyone just eat it up and garble it down and fake news stories to just run the whole internet where no one knows anything about Venezuela. So this is just like they just take it and believe it. Yeah, it's the they think because they've been brainwashed into thinking that communism equals a combination of Hitler and the worst of woke politics.

They call Kamala Harris a communist. Kamala Harris is a corporatist and a warmonger. She's not a lefty. She's not a woke communist. She's a woke corporatist who uses LGBTQ and ID politics to

to shield her from doing horrible shit for the prison industrial complex, for Big Pharma, Wall Street, and the military industrial complex. That's not lefty shit. That's not communist stuff. Anyway, anything else you'd like to add, Ian?

No, no. Well, I guess the one thing I will add is that I had a bunch of people attacking me for not covering the Venezuela story the first day it broke. And it's like, that's weird. But it's just it's so classic how these days people want this. They think that you're supposed to be infinitely churning on immediate news when reality is complex. And it's like ridiculous to expect that.

everyone to know exactly what's going on on day one. And people should really practice chilling the F out and waiting for a story to cycle for a little bit before you make any judgments because Elon might be sharing a whole bunch of fake CIA propaganda with you. And if you were to just go on the first reporting that got the most likes, you would be shilling CIA propaganda too. So just a reminder to everyone to take your time and chill out and be patient because information is complicated.

Now, Ian, I follow you on Twitter. Tell people where else they can follow. Where do you like people to go to find your work? Right now, I'm trying to build up my YouTube because although we all hate YouTube, it is going to eventually help me be censorship resistant in that I can put out nice, safe videos about corporate America and get paid through that as well. And my YouTube has canceled this conspiracy. I'm also on Rumble, which is where all of my not YouTube-friendly videos go.

But that's really where I'm at is X is the spot for journalism right now. And so Cancel Cloco on X is where I'm most active. And TikTok and Instagram are just, you know, they're trash in the background that help me pay the bills. Now, do you do your own artwork in the back or is that someone else? Yeah, yeah. I painted both of these. These are old paintings. Look at that. What do you think of that? Yeah, I used to be a graffiti artist growing up. No kidding. I'm very into it.

Yeah. I don't find much time to make art these days, but I am kind of scheming on one of these days getting an art studio set up and starting to make cycling paintings. I think that'd be a lot of fun. Where are you located? I'm located in Bellingham, Washington, like the most liberal...

liberal little town you could ever be. It's north of Seattle and it's liberal-er than Seattle. Not for long, though, is the goal. I'm trying to get the hell out of Dodge. When you say liberal, you don't mean like free speech kind of liberal, right? Not one bit. No, I mean, I mean, wear that goddamn mask unless you're going to a BLM protest. Yeah. And you damn well better be vaccinated or I'm not your friend anymore. Yeah, that kind of liberal. And,

I lost a lot of friends through COVID. Very illiberal of them. It's the exact opposite of liberalism. Yeah. Okay. All right. Ian, thank you so much for being our guest. I really appreciate it. It's great to meet you and talk with you and we'll see you next time we're in Seattle. Appreciate you, Jimmy. Okay. Appreciate you. So I had, uh, uh,

What's Whitney's? Whitney Webb. Whitney Webb. I like to call her Whitey. Whitney Webb on the show. The goat. Yeah. And I asked her, I'm like, well, obviously somebody inside the intelligence community wants to kill Donald Trump. There's a faction of the establishment who want to kill him because they can't control him. And I think it also has to do with the Mossad and Israel and Bibi because...

I found a recent couple of recordings where he's blaming Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel for us not having a peace deal in Israel-Palestine. He's blaming Israel, which that's exactly where the blame lies, and they can't have that. And so...

My theory is that's why Trump speaks so over the top pro-Israel, because he knows he's going to force a deal when he's president. And they don't want him to be president because they know he knows. And again, he didn't come up through the regular politics. So he wasn't vetted by the CIA. He wasn't vetted by the intelligence community or the or the donor community. In fact, he ran against all that. And so would you agree that.

As weird as it sounds, he's somehow on the outs with that group somehow, even though he's a billionaire? I've been having to come to grips with the exact same realization lately. And the closer you study Trump, the more you realize that just what you're saying seems to be true, where he talks a big talk on Israel, but he also gives the cold shoulder to Netanyahu a few times. He has weird interactions. He's definitely...

playing his own game on that. And you're right that he had his own money. He didn't have to get their money to get into the presidency the first time. And that's why all this lawfare was so effective is because this time around, the Adelson's are donating to him. There's a lot of pro-Israel money that's coming into his campaign this time around because he had to spend so much money defending himself. And when you look at the setup that seems to have been in place for had the assassination been successful...

they were ready to blame Iran for the shooting. They had some connections lined up with the shooter of like he had communications or like the bank accounts or something. And BB just happened to have a speech scheduled for like the next week. And BB in that speech still went into Congress and blamed Iran for the attempted assassination, even though X had been like light years ahead of it and had already kind of broken that wide open.

And so from where I'm sitting, it kind of looks like the plan, and this is totally speculation, but it looks like the plan was to have Trump get shot in the head on live TV because they were live streaming it. And then for all of that anger to be directed towards Iran with kind of like a planted story all set up. And Iran is the last country on the clean break reports list of Iraq, Syria, and Iran that needs to be destabilized and destroyed in order for Israel to have supremacy in the region.

And they've been trying to start war with Iran for quite some time. So that was just like General Wesley Clark in 2008, I think, on Democracy Now! He talked about when he went into the Pentagon after 9-11 and someone in intelligence gave him a piece of paper that had a list of the seven countries that the Pentagon and the deep state wanted to invade in five years. It was

It was Libya, Somalia, it was Iraq, Iran, Lebanon. I'm missing two of them. But anyway, they've done all of them except for Lebanon and Iran. Okay.

Except that now, who's bombing Lebanon? And assassinating on Iran's soil. And now Israel's doing assassinations in Iran. They tried to blame Trump's assassination on Iran. And now Israel's bombing Lebanon. It's amazing how Israel could be committing a genocide, bombing three or four different countries at once, and somehow they're the victim. Yeah, for real. That is amazing. Yeah.

They're openly wearing patches now that show greater Israel, like the expanded borders of Israel, just on the shoulders of IDF soldiers. Not suspicious at all. And had they succeeded, had Trump got... I mean, allegedly, had someone succeeded, we probably would have wound up with Nikki Haley running against Kamala Harris. Two war hawk establishment candidates that were going to take us straight into World War III. So...

So have you seen anybody else besides you and me making this kind of observation that, hey, wait a minute, that wasn't some lone nut thing.

That was allowed to breach a secured area, be viewed three different times by three different Secret Service snipers an hour ahead of time and then do nothing. I love how they reported it. Yeah, we saw him with a scope and then he disappeared.

Like, what is he, Criss Angel Mind Freak disappeared, you mean? Or he just walked around a corner and then you guys stopped following him. You mean like that kind of disappeared? Or he walked up a ladder and got on the roof. You mean that kind of disappeared? Awfully convenient. Yeah, so...

I do see other people reporting on it, but everyone sort of has their own take or their own goal. There is a whole side of X that's doing some really cool investigative reporting. And I think a few people are getting a little too dogmatic about like, it must be the water tower or that's all lies. You're an idiot. It must be the window or whatever it is. Um,

I just keep my eyes on all theories because it doesn't really matter. It doesn't really matter. People get so attached to ideas emotionally as though they are the ideas. It's like, dude, it's just an idea. Just watch them all happen. Figure it out. It doesn't really matter what the exact mechanism was they used. It's obvious that this came down from the Department of Homeland Security in Mayorkas and that this was a conspiracy theory.

to assassinate the president. And there's a reason she said, oh, we couldn't have, remember they had a secret service? Oh, just watch her testimony and you know she's covering up the whole thing. Oh, well, why didn't you have a sniper on that building? Because there was security concerns. There was a slope. Well, the slope of the building of the roof that the snipers shot that guy from was way more slopey than the, so that doesn't, so now I know you're lying. And so why would you lie?

And she's got a golden parachute promise to her after she goes and does that humiliation ritual. 100 percent. They they needed someone to go take the the bullet, for lack of a better metaphor, in front of Congress. And then as soon as she did, she resigns and she's taking care for the rest of her life. Just like this struck the the FBI agent who was caught on his.

You see that, right? Have you seen that story where then nobody's talking about it, where they just paid the debt. He got caught on government phones saying that we're going to stop Donald Trump from becoming president. The guy who's in charge of investigating Donald Trump said,

and crossfire hurricane they're the ones he's the one saying we're gonna we're not gonna allow him to become president we're gonna stop it and this is our insurance policy those texts get revealed he then sues the justice department for revealing his private text which they weren't private because they're on government phones he's going to lose that case the biden justice department awards him 1.2 million dollars

And no one's not the only example of such a thing, too. There's like countless examples of people just open like people that should be neutral, just openly admitting. Right. To trying to undermine Trump, like left and right. And it just blows my mind that Democrat like you don't have to like Trump to notice that this is openly corrupt. Right. This is this is like dictatorship stuff. 17. 17.

the FBI lied to the FISA court so they could get a tap on Donald Trump's phone and his entire campaign, which they got. And that, and again, that's also just rough. So you don't, it doesn't bother anybody. It doesn't matter if you like or dislike Donald Trump. It matters that the FBI will take it upon themselves to,

to undermine a presidency and just lie and create conspiracy theory. Russiagate, the dumbest conspiracy, most easily debunked conspiracy theory in the world. But people still believe it. So I haven't seen anybody else talk about how, well, obviously the deep state doesn't like Donald Trump. There is a glitch in the matrix of the uniparty, and Donald Trump is that glitch, right? Yeah.

I think it is a rare perspective to bring that you and I do go on where I think a lot of people are pro-Trump in an ideological way, but I don't think a lot of people get there from this sort of follow the money, take apart, just honest look at everything perspective that allows you to sort of unpack the potential conspiracies and whatever's happening in a slightly more just logical and approachable way that I think speaks to just a lot of people on all sides. And it's refreshing. We just need more

non-egotistical logic in the middle, just kind of trying to figure out what's going on, as journalism should be. Because these days, most people are doing it ideologically and they're right aligned and they're trying to expose the left or vice versa. And that is not what we need. We need just facts. Hey, become a premium member. Go to JimmyDoreComedy.com. Sign up. It's the most affordable premium program in the business.

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