Roger Waters DROPPED By Music Publisher Over Phony Antisemitism Slurs
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You might have noticed that I am wearing my Roger Waters concert shirt. I went to see him. This is not a drill.

concert last year i think that was last year um so roger waters um has been having quite a hard time with the zionist lobby and their enablers because he has the crazy idea that apartheid and genocide are bad now in the interest of full uh disclosure and journalistic integrity i will tell you

I have been a fan of Roger Waters work specifically, like not Pink Floyd generally. I'm not into the Sid Barrett stuff. I'm not into the post water stuff. I even went to all of Roger Waters solo concerts. So I have been a fan since I was about 12. Hence, yeah.

having been to the concert. So let's see what Roger Waters had to say about how he became educated on the subject of Gaza, which he hadn't known anything about. And he played a concert there. And that was how he found out what the situation in the West Bank is. Like anybody with a heart, I spend my life teetering on the verge of tears. Yes. Because...

You can't possibly put yourself in that position, in their position, those mothers and fathers, those children, those 2.3, well a bit less now, people living in Gaza, being bombarded by F-16s day and night, week after week after week.

You cannot even begin to imagine what it must be like. 2005, I think, the show was sold out, and I cancelled that show, having heard that, you know, Hyken Park is built on a Palestinian's graves and blah, and blah. But I came to some kind of internal compromise because I knew very little about what was going on in Palestine. And I moved the gig to a...

agricultural community where they grow chickpeas. I went back the next year and went on an extended tour and we went all over the West Bank and it was chilling beyond anything that I could ever have imagined to see

back then in 2006 what was going on and the absolute disdain I remember thinking at the time if they're like that to me what must they be like to the Palestinians and of course we know and now to bring it entirely up to date we know exactly what they're like to the Palestinians because they are as we speak committing genocide in Gaza it's quite clear

to anyone with half a brain that they are committing genocide. I'm happy to say that almost the whole of the rest of the world is going, nada mas, stop. Don't cease fire for four days. Stop the killing. It has to stop. Clearly this Zionist experiment in the Holy Land has now officially failed. So...

Of course, the world and the media have applauded him for his humanitarian effort. Oh, no, no. Pink Floyd's Roger Waters dropped by music publisher BMG over Israel comments. Now, I just want to make it clear that this article takes as a given that Roger Waters is anti-Semitic and has made anti-Semitic comments. Nowhere in the article does it quote these so-called anti-Semitic comments. And

And I might have used a different article that was less slanted. I couldn't find one because of the influence that Zionism and Zionists have on the media. So keep that in mind as we read through this. Um,

Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters has reportedly been dropped by music rights company Bertelsmann Music Group over his inflammatory remarks about Israel, Ukraine and the United States. The news was reported by Variety, which notes that Waters anti-Semitic statements. And that's not in quote. That that is just a given in the article infuriated his. This is in quotes infuriated.

infuriated his former bandmates as they have driven off several suitors interested in acquiring the wizening bands recorded music catalog, which was said to be on the market for half a billion dollars. God damn it, Roger. We don't have enough money. Can you shut the fuck up about the genocide for a minute? You were always a fucking asshole. You know that? All right. So, so I'm just going to say, man, I'm sure, uh,

We have some Pink Floyd fans who will get the inside baseball. Personally, I feel vindicated as somebody who was –

Team Roger and I was never team Gilmore because what a bunch of fucking scumbag assholes. These motherfuckers and Pink Floyd who have been talking shit about Roger all these years. They don't have enough money. They don't have enough money. They're upset that he's speaking out against genocide. He's always spoken out about these things because his grandfather and his father died in World War One and World War Two respectively. So he's always been a very strong anti-imperialist anti-war voice.

So moving right along, the Berlin based company signed a deal with Waters 80 back in 2016 and planned to release a newly re-recorded version of Pink Floyd's seminal 1973 album Dark Side of the Moon in 2023. But the new CEO, Thomas Coesfeld, dropped the contract. The album was eventually released by the UK label Cooking Vinyl.

Since the start of the Israel Hamas war, Waters has made multiple remarks that have been deemed anti-Semitic and has been by who? By who? And no, no citation, as you mentioned earlier. I actually say, for example, this does not quote one thing.

Rolling Stone is disgusting. Rolling Stone magazine's reporting on this is disgusting. It's all of this of this character and has been the subject of multiple controversies in recent years.

Waters, a longtime supporter of Palestine and a critic of Israel, has vehemently denied these accusations, but caused uproar last year after wearing a, quote, Nazi-style uniform on stage in Berlin. Now, if this so-called publication...

Had any journalistic integrity whatsoever. They would immediately debunk that claim. This is for morons who aren't going to look into it, who don't know anything about the fact that he has been performing this character since 1980 as an anti-fascist statement. I can tell you, as somebody who was a fan of this band from the age of 12, it was through

That representation of it that I first really began to think about the nature of fascism. And I certainly didn't take away from the horrific images and the very dark lyrics that he attached to fascism that it was in any way attractive. The message was very clear to me, even as, you know, barely out of childhood.

He won a legal battle in April 2023 after magistrates of Frankfurt instructed a venue to cancel his concert, accusing him of being one of the most widely known anti-Semites in the world.

Waters explained that his disdain is towards Israel, not Judaism, accusing Israel of, quote, abusing the term anti-Semitism to intimidate people like me into silence. Here, here. The Biden administration weighed in on the controversy, saying his recent performances in Germany were anti-Semitic.

The State Department suggested that Waters had, quote, a long track record of using anti-Semitic tropes and that his concert in Germany contained imagery that is deeply offensive to Jewish people and minimized the Holocaust. That's insane. Waters branded President Joe Biden a war criminal during a CNN broadcast and claimed that he was directly responsible.

fueling the war in the Ukraine in February last year when speaking to the United Nations Security Council the artist also announced Russia's invasion of Ukraine is illegal but also claimed it was not unprovoked he added quote so I also condemn the provocateurs in the strongest possible terms there that's out of the way in other words Roger Waters as the kids like to say is based

So this is Stop Antisemitism. We just did a story about them yesterday smearing John Cusack.

As the anti-Semite of the week for the same reason, anybody who's has any questions about Israel's ongoing genocide is an anti-Semite. So here they are. Great news. Berlin police have launched a criminal investigation into Roger Waters following his concert in which he dressed like a Nazi SS officer holding a gun and denigrated the murder of Anne Frank. Shockingly, AMC theaters is promoting war is waters currently.

That is complete bullshit. It's completely made up. The outfit he's wearing, the armband, that is not a Nazi armband. It's crossed hammers, which was this commentary, again, on fascism that he's been performing since 1980. It's been in a film directed by Alan Parker with Bob Geldof playing the character without anyone ever missing the point of it as they are intentionally doing here.

So good on the readers. They added some context here. Usually we are on the other side of community notes, but this is a case where they were valid. Roger Waters is a community.

Yeah, the community was a little better. They came through for once. Roger Waters is in character as Pink Floyd, a rock star that overdoses and descends into madness, hallucinating he is a dictator at a fascist rally, and the audience are his supporters. It is a role famously played by Bob Geldof in the movie Pink Floyd, The Wall, 1982. And I will say, as somebody who's seen it in concert, I

The statement is very effective. If you actually see that in concert, if you're familiar with the album, you know, there's an entire segment saying, is anyone in the audience tonight? And he names all these different identities, get them up against the wall and you have a whole chorus striking chimes. I mean, it's a very clear statement also on the weird overlap between rock concert audiences and,

and rallies, right? I mean, that's something that Oliver Stone's The Doors kind of played with that, the weird chemistry in a rock concert audience. So there's a lot going on there, but certainly if you know the lyrics of these songs in which fascists are compared to worms, certainly not anything any fair-minded person could interpret as being supportive of it. Nobody Hates Free Speech, this is from Scott Horton,

Nobody hates free speech more than Israel and their foreign agents. Pink Floyd's Roger Waters dropped by music publisher BMG over Israel comments. This is Randy Credico. No surprise. The nation with the most heinous, ignominious and longest active legacy of embracing fascism is now banning the work of the individual Roger Waters, who has the longest active legacy of fighting against fascism.

Anything, Keaton? I mean, it's the most obvious thing in the world. Like, you know, I'm a generation behind you. So I didn't grow up with Roger Waters or Pink Floyd.

But I don't have to. I mean, it's the most obvious thing in the world when you look at that character, when you look at that presentation, when you look at everything he says. As he said in that first video that you showed before we read through all that, he as a human being with empathy spent his life on the verge of tears since finding out about this issue in ways that most of us are just finding out now.

You know, and this just speaks to the level of ignorance that the Zionist project relies upon in order to maintain any kind of support for it, because, you know, for so long.

People just didn't check under the hood. They threw their hands up. It's complicated. There will always be violence there. It's religion. It's oil. It's this. It's that. But Roger Waters obviously knew what was going on there long before most of us did. And that's why he has felt the way he has about it for much longer than most of us have.

And so once you find that out, on top of the just very obvious – I mean it's just – it's almost like a South Park level of like absurdity that you would think that that character with the faux Nazi armband with the hammers is somehow an endorsement of –

Fascism as if that character is portrayed as a hero character on stage. Of course, of course. And they and they don't think that.

That's for the morons. That's for the morons who are just going to see the picture and go, oh my God, I can't believe that Roger Waters. Really? You think he's been getting away with that for 44 fucking years? Right. Yeah. You don't think he'd have been canceled by now if he were going on stage celebrating Nazism? Yeah. So pretty disgusting. Wearing the shirt in solidarity. Anyone who's not familiar with this, I'm sure you can find clips that movies old enough now. If you

If you go on YouTube, look up Waiting, and that song will give you a pretty good idea of how fascism is represented on the Wall album, which is where that character comes from. 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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in his continuing mission to humiliate every gay man working for the deep state, went out and hooked himself a new one. He apparently thinks he needs to fear for his life for these revelations. I don't think they were quite as damning as he seems to think they were. That was O'Keefe, though, who...

During during Russiagate got a CNN producer saying there was nothing there. Right. Wasn't that OK?

I don't recall, but it very well could have been. Sounds like something he'd do. That's the kind of thing they whack you for. So people familiar with the story coming out tomorrow keep texting me asking me about fear. I've taken the time to write a careful response. At 39, I've lived a good life. Whether it's complete or not is up to me. What happens next? I don't know. If there's more to come here, so be it. I

I've learned the pursuit of truth requires extreme risk while operating without a safety net. I've experienced so much. I've lived 10 lives compressed into a fraction of one.

It has been an indescribable hell on earth for me to witness people go against everything they claim to believe in, everything good and right in service to their love of money and power. I've witnessed envy destroy people whose hearts I thought I knew. I've seen an unhealthy obsession with comfort and safety from countless others. These weaknesses stand between us and what we're up against.

Up against strangely in quotes. It's very Trumpian of him, which leads me to the video I'm about to release. I'm not suicidal, but I'm also not afraid to die. All right. We'll talk about it on the other side, but that's rather dramatic for this particular video. I think he's broken things that were more worthy of that kind of a pronouncement than this. So here I stand. I can do no other.

As has been said, if they're going to kill me, they're going to kill me. Let's do this. Let's get 2024 started. Let's inspire others to be brave. Let's raise the stakes. Let's expose them all. I think that's what he's going for there. All right. So Charlie Crager, a cybersecurity policy analyst and foreign affairs desk officer in the executive office at the White House. That's who he ensnared.

So let's see what he got him on camera saying. So when you say security, like you're protecting...

The mission is to protect information. We are like the president's boys when we go into meetings in terms of discussing and promoting the president's priorities. Is he going to be the nominee? Yes. And she will be the vice president's nominee. There was a debate about removing her from the ticket, but sadly they didn't. She can't keep black staff. They put it on her in mass.

But with him, I mean, he's got dementia. Yeah, well, he's definitely slowing down. But they know that he has those issues. I think so. They're not willing to say it publicly. But why not? Okay, so I just want to point something out here. If you look at the language that he's using, he's not claiming there to be privy to personal conversations with high-ranking people.

He's saying, I think so. The polling shows it doesn't even actually say that anyone has told him this. Anything, Keaton? Well, yeah, I mean, the revelation seems to be that Biden's inner circle doesn't have much faith in him, which I think we've seen before. I mean, I don't think that's the kind of thing.

They have to you know, they would whack you for. But the thing I was a little surprised about is that he seems confident that Biden is going to be the nominee because I am predicting a convention switcheroo of some of some sort. OK, but yeah, he he's not he's not like the White House page, but he's not an inner circle guy either. And this is something else about this conversation.

series of gay men that they've ensnared on camera, which we'll get to your tweet a little bit later. But okay, man, in a date context, people puff themselves up. You know, I mean, it's not that I think there's nothing there in these videos, but it's also a little hard to parse out how much is the person's personal inside knowledge and how much is them trying to get laid.

Yeah, I agree. I mean, this kind of seems like a pretext for James O'Keefe to date guys without having to come out as gay. Maybe. That's what it sounds like to me. It's hard to explain it any other way. It's a great construct, right? Yeah, right. Tune in for part two where I jerk him off in the bathroom.

And supposedly there's in that segment, you know, just, okay, tune in for part three when I tell him I'm James O'Keefe. What? What? While he reams me over an armoire. Uh,

I tell him I'm James O'Keefe while he's washing his hands. I swear I was just like, are we on Rumble? Yeah, we're on Rumble. Okay. Yeah, of course. I wouldn't make that joke on YouTube. It'd be crazy. She's not popular, but you can't remove the first black lady to be vice president from the goddamn presidential ticket. Like, what kind of message are you going to send to, like, an African-American voter? How would you spin that? People would be like, what the fuck? Like, she's a woman and she's multiracial. Yeah.

I think that they're really concerned about this. But they won't say it. I guess if they say it publicly, Biden's is a... They can't say it publicly. No, no, they've got to throw the line. But they won't say it publicly. Biden's is a... They can't say it publicly. No, no, they've got to throw the line. I'm just telling you what I've heard. You did.

You're just telling me the truth. Does it make sense? No, but that's what I've heard. I've had a meeting with Michelle Obama at one point when I was an intern and someone asked her, will you ever run for office? And she said, no, emphatically. Really? I've seen all this shit my husband has had to go through and that does not interest me. Okay. So is that really so earth shattering that you think your life is in danger?

They gossip around the office at the fucking White House. They know Biden is one step away from an all applesauce diet that Kamala sucks. And Michelle doesn't want to run for president because she doesn't want to deal with that shit. I mean, you could read People magazine for these for these revelations.

I mean, there were there were reports of Biden's inner circle saying they didn't have confidence that he could cross the finish line in the 2020 campaign. Right, right, right. Well, they were talking openly about him in cognitive decline until they couldn't say that anymore.

You had – Until they couldn't say that and until COVID kind of made that less relevant because it was a lockdown campaign anyway. But in the run-up to like Super Tuesday and even in that very brief period between Super Tuesday when it was obvious he was going to be the nominee and the time that the lockdowns hit, I think it was about 10 days there. Yeah, you heard a lot of chatter that, oh, wow.

Looks like we're stuck with this guy. Yeah. Andrea Mitchell talked about his cognitive decline. Yes. And then you weren't allowed to. They all stopped. All of a sudden it became ableist. It all became a stutter with a weird racist twist. Right. Okay. So Michael Tracy here.

Said O'Keefe was teasing last night that he could get literally murdered for this video. Murdered apparently for catching a mid-level IT staffer at the White House, making the shocking revelation that Joe Biden is slowing down. Kamala Harris is unpopular and Michelle Obama won't run for anything. Blockbuster stuff.

Maybe if some genuine government secrets were revealed here, it could possibly justify hoaxing this hapless guy who thinks he's on a gay date with O'Keefe and humiliating him publicly. But there are no government secrets revealed, just repetition of gossipy conventional wisdom about U.S. politics.

The guy literally cites the New York times as one of his sources. No improprieties are exposed in the supposedly murder worthy investigation, which is unfortunate for anyone who might've assumed O'Keefe was risking his life for the noble cause of uncovering something journalistically significant. Instead looks like it's just some more standard viral chum to throw down the well of the scammy online right wing media ecosystem. Okay.

Hey, ma'am. When it's true, it's true. So this is the wit of my erstwhile partner here. I didn't write this one. Can't James O'Keefe hire a woman he trusts so he can start exposing straight guys, too? I mean, it's a good question. There are plenty of MAGA women who would love the gig.

Of course. Of course. And, you know, I mean, a lot of those MAGA women are very, very good looking. It's true. And he's really limiting himself, you know, by having to do all these himself. Right. It's true. It's true. And I find the MAGA women. Couldn't he expose some women on the inner circle? This is why I say maybe this whole thing is a setup. Although women, I mean, they're not as eager on a date that way.

Right. Right. Like you'd have to date them for a year and maybe put a ring on it before you get anything like that. Like guys are just, you know, puffing themselves up, whether gay or straight, apparently. That's true. That's true. I didn't think of that. You're right. That's true.

So, yeah, he should get a woman then because that would be actually that would be great because guys love talking themselves up to women, especially guys on the inside, you know, big hot shots with knowledge of the president. You know, yeah. Why not do that?

I would honestly, yeah. I mean, as much as, you know, guys are guys. Like, actually, I've mentioned this book a few times. I highly recommend it. Louise Perry's The Case Against the Sexual Revolution. And one of the points she makes about the differences of sexual behavior between men and women is, well, if you want to see what sex looks like in a world without women putting a check on it, look at the world of gay people.

Now, there are a certain number of gay people who are just monogamous, heterosexual, very conventional. But you do have a certain portion of that community that has sex at a level that it just doesn't even exist in the heterosexual world because women have to agree to it. Right. They're just not going to be that open to random sex in a bathroom. Whereas you got two guys.

Those inhibitions are not there. So I suspect if you actually got a woman to do this, you'd get a lot more. You get a bunch of straight guys trying to impress a woman. Forget about it. Forget about it. These guys will be giving away the nuclear codes on camera.

Yeah, exactly. And you're right. A lot of those MAGA women, they have that like biker babe kind of robust aesthetic, you know? Exactly. Exactly. Yes, absolutely. And that's got to be a rarity in the D.C. metro area. It would be too good to be true for a lot of these guys. They're all vegans. They look like their bones are going to break if they slam a car door. Right. Exactly. Exactly.

That's my point. Like they would be a great honeypot, right? Because these, you know, higher up DC men don't meet too many women like that.

Well, you know what, Keaton? And then you wouldn't have to worry about getting killed either. They'll just kill the woman. It's true. And go through them. All right. So look, I am a big believer in be the change you want to see in the world. So this is us soliciting women to submit to our email. We're going to send you out to ensnare high ranking White House officials.

So I don't want to do that. If you should do that. Well, if you feel you'd be good for the job, let us know why. Send us a resume and we'll see what we can work out. All right. So go get Toya. Oh, Keith in disguise. It's just glasses. It worked. I don't ever want to hear nerds complain about Superman's disguise ever again. I've said that many times. Haven't you ever run into somebody without glasses and been like, hang on, is that is that that person?

So the Superman thing is more plausible than you think. Go ahead, Keaton, take off your glasses. Show them how different it is. Yeah, I was just going to say, we could test it right now. Who is that? Right? Who is that? Right? So, yeah, you shouldn't make fun of the Superman premise because, oh, there's Keaton again. See? I'm back. He's back. We have a lot of action going on down at that ornery border. It can never just sit still.

Texas border city on edge as Governor Abbott dials up battle with Biden. A century and a half ago, Confederate General Joseph Orville Shelby. That's a Confederate general name, isn't it? Joseph Orville Shelby splashed into the wild waters of the Rio Grande off this border city and fled to Mexico, refusing to surrender his battle flag to Union soldiers.

Now the park, named in his honor, has become a front line in a feud between the state and the federal government, a power struggle over who ultimately has the right to control the border and the tide of humanity trying to cross it.

Texas National Guard Humvees carry rifle-toting troops and patrol newly erected gates to the municipal park previously used for family cookouts and Independence Day festivities. Tents, military trucks, heavy equipment, and portable toilets dot the edge of a browning fairway.

Along the riverbank, Governor Greg Abbott has ordered the state National Guard to deploy coils of razor wire, rusting shipping containers and dirt filled barrels to declare his state sovereignty. I mean, let's face it, if you were going to bet on where the Civil War would start, I mean, Texas would be the number one pick, right?

In a Shelby like act of defiance, the governor is invoking the state's right to defend itself against what he sees as an invasion. I'm getting the sense that this author has a grudging respect for Shelby.

Abbott made national headlines when he seized the Park and Eagle Pass this month and shut out U.S. Border Patrol agents who had long used the terrain as a staging point. Action the governor's supporters saw as a take charge move, while his detractors viewed it as a dangerous overreach of state power.

The U.S. Supreme Court has ordered Abbott to allow Border Patrol agents to remove or cut wire to reach the river and aid migrants in distress. Abbott's troops are installing even more wire. Twenty five Republican governors recently signed a letter expressing their support for Abbott's rebellion. I like that. That's what it's going to be known as in the history books. And former President Donald Trump is calling on states to join the standoff.

The feud between Abbott and the Biden administration is heating up just as the presidential election campaign gets underway. The issue is galvanized Republicans, some of whom are now questioning the merits of a bipartisan border package tied to Ukraine aid after Trump called it meaningless. President Biden has been pushed to take a harsher stance, declaring Friday that he would shut down the southern border when illegal crossings surge.

Caught, it's like congestion pricing he's going to institute down there. Yeah. Caught in the fray are the residents of Eagle Pass, originally known as El Paso del Aguia, after the Mexican eagles that flew through nearby woods.

The state's border with Mexico is an international boundary under the jurisdiction of federal authorities. But Abbott and his allies contend they have the right to intervene because the Biden administration hasn't done enough to stanch the record number of migrants trying to enter Texas illegally in recent months. But even as residents criticize Abbott's push, they grumble about the resources that

Migration is drained from public coffers. Local fire and police are sometimes so busy handling calls at the river that ambulances and personnel are not available for residents. Patients have had to wait for a bed at the hospital because injured or sick migrants occupy all 18 of them.

Quote, quote, We cannot afford thousands of people coming through our community, said Mavericks County attorney Jamie Arracheta, who signed 40 invoices recently to reimburse local officials who handled the remains of migrants.

The state has provided more than $8 million to help modernize the county attorney's office, reimburse costs to law enforcement, and pay for new vehicles, equipment, and personnel to prosecute thousands of state trespassing cases filed against migrants arrested by state troopers. We're grateful for the money, said Irichetta, the county attorney, but it's not fixing it. Abbott's initiative also stimulated economic development, residents said.

See, immigration helps the economy. The city was showing steady growth before the migration crisis, data shows, but the short and long-term rental market has exploded with the deployment of hundreds of Texas soldiers as well as troops from other states sent by their governors. A three-bedroom rental home went from $1,200 a month to more than $2,000 according to Texas real estate data.

You can't even get a studio in New York for that. So a room at the Holiday Inn Express is going for 250 a night and top tier hotels are solidly sold out for four month periods. Restaurants like the Wagon Wheel, known for its brisket sandwich, are favorite lunch spots for Florida law enforcement in town for border assignments.

economically speaking our community is benefited migration is good for business said aranda the former county judge humanitarianally speaking is that a word it's another story um so okay look man i i would what i'm taking away from that is our problems are solved

Every town and city in America needs a mass influx of migrants supported by federal money in order to explode the local economy. So you heard it here first on the Jimmy Dore show. We have solved the economic crisis and lower lowering standards of living in America. Keaton, you you co-sign that. Can we go forward with that as our platform for 2024?

I mean, you're the resident economist, so I suppose I should take your word for it. But yeah, but I mean, what you said at the top of that is true. If there is a place that a civil war would start, it would be Texas. And if there were a dispute, it would start over. It would be something like this, this small technical thing that becomes bigger and bigger. And yeah.

I don't see how this ends any other way but Biden just kind of standing down because the Republicans hold all the cards on the issue. It said in that piece, it says this issue has galvanized Republicans. This issue has galvanized everybody. When I went to New Hampshire, I went to a Trump event, but I also went to two Nikki Haley events where there were a lot of Democrats and independents who were drifting towards what we might call the center, even though it's not really the center. I think Haley is quite extreme, but

Their number one and two issues were invariably border jobs, border inflation. Right. One of those two things. But this southern border issue is at the top of so many people's minds in a way that it really hasn't been in the past. Even in 2016, when Trump ran on building the wall, that was a nice sort of metaphor for his entire campaign.

But this is really a top tier issue now. This was always kind of a B tier issue for a lot of people. This is an A tier issue for almost everybody now. And why would the Republicans vote?

cave and say, okay, we'll take border security. You give us, we'll take that in exchange. We'll give you money for Ukraine. What's in it for them to do that when they could just say, well, fuck you. Take your Ukraine money, shove it up your ass. We'll enforce the border ourselves. Oh, we can't? Well, come do something about it. Are they going to do something about it? I don't think they hold the cards to do something about it.

All right. So there's an interesting element of this. All right. So in Hollywood, there's a term called parallel development. And going to Jimmy's interest in Young, it's kind of a synchronicities thing where no one can explain it. But for some reason, everyone at the same time is working on an Alexander the Great script.

Right. It's happened a few years ago. You had a bunch of projects about Alexander the Great. And it's not that these people have talked to each other and said, hey, I'm doing Alexander the Great. And the person steals the idea. It's just parallel development. People have the same idea at the same time. So you have these Civil War movies that are coming out now where they're gaming out a civil war in America. And some people see it as.

A psyop where they're preparing the American public for what they want to happen. I think the alternate view is it's parallel development, right? Where, you know, the government is preparing a civil war at the same exact time that Hollywood is getting interested in it because of that Jungian synchronicity. Civil war is in the air. So what do you think it is? Do you think it's Davos directed civil war or you think it's parallel development or both actually?

I would say parallel development more. I mean, this has just sort of been in the air for a long time. You know, I think at a certain point, systems gain a momentum of their own to the point where everybody is really along for the ride. I mean, yeah, you have a sort of hierarchy within that train, right? But at a certain point, once the train gets moving, everybody's on it. Some people are in the front of the car. Some people are in the rear cars.

And obviously the people on the front try and keep their seat on the front so they don't get pushed to the back. So that's a lot of what we're seeing now. But I think this thing has kind of generated a momentum of its own. This is why you've had politicians on the right call for a national divorce, right? It's not all coming from the Davos set, right? At a certain point it sets in that this is just the way we're headed. Are people steering it or did people –

sort of build a system that's now just has everybody along going one way, the wrong way, if you don't want a civil war. But that just seems to be where all the momentum has been. And so I would say yes, it's more the latter to answer your question.

That's not to say that there aren't people who are making preparations for that. Like that's the other thing. You can look at the sort of Davos set and think that they're engineering this. Maybe they just see what's coming. And because they have the resources to get as out in front of it as they can, they do that. But that doesn't necessarily mean they're driving. I think these systems gain a momentum of their own past a certain point. And I think we are well past that. We long past that point. We were really past that point.

I would say in Bush's second term. And then the chance to redirect that we thought at the time, and I won't speak for the audience, but I'll speak for myself. We thought Obama represented a chance to turn that around. And of course he didn't. And we've been living with the consequences of that failure ever since. Well, and then we thought Bernie was kind of the Hail Mary.

Right. Not speaking for the audience, but if you're coming out of that movement as me and Keaton, a lot of people I think watch this show, even Jimmy really. It's just that Jimmy caught on early. Jimmy caught on as soon as Sanders endorsed Clinton. The rest of us, most of the rest of us, it took a little while longer. Now, we're such sad political junkies. We actually talk politics when we're not in front of a camera.

So you said you don't think Biden has the balls to actually send the troops down. Yeah. So just, yeah, because I think we are on this trajectory towards, you know, social collapse, right, that could manifest in a formal civil war. But in this case, I don't think it will because I think the centralized government is just too weak. I don't think they're up for it.

I can't imagine they're up for it. I could be wrong, obviously. I'll have to book myself a dinner date with James O'Keefe and maybe I'll tell him what's really going to happen. But my sense is, for what it's worth, James, if you want to wine and dine me a bit, I don't think they'll have the balls to actually pull the trigger on it. I'm really not sure. I feel like there are a lot of people who make these decisions

Beyond Joe Biden, I don't know if they're going to feel like they can afford to have a bunch of states and open rebellion for a year. You might be right. I don't know. I'm on the fence. The way to deal with that is just to give in. That's what I'm saying. I'm saying they may just give in. They may just decide not to enforce this.

Well, but that is letting these states be an open rebellion because you're talking about a Supreme Court order that they're in defiance of. Right. But I'm talking about an armed conflict where you actually have a shootout, right, where it actually blows up into something super chaotic and violent. They could just exist and operate in defiance of a court order that the executive branch chooses not to enforce. Right. Right. And my question is happening. And then they and then what they do is they take that they make an issue out of it and they try and run on it.

Good luck. Good luck. This is why I say they don't have the cards on the issue. They don't have the public backing their point of view. And that's ultimately where they look very weak and are very weak, because what I think is there will be a sort of open rebellion that they will just not be able to crack down upon, because the only way to do that will be to cause chaos and violence. And I don't think they're up for it.

I could be wrong. Like I said, I'm no expert here. I'm just giving you what I think. So, but ultimately you're saying to buy gold. That's not to be construed as financial advice. Full disclaimer. I know a lot of people are going to be really excited about this.

Biden to visit East Palestine. They told him it was Palestine. That's the only reason he's going train derailment site. So this is you might remember last year in February 2023, a train derailed right in these poor people's towns spewing toxic fumes. So that is some footage of the accident there.

And this is the controlled release of chemicals, the perfectly safe and effective release of controlled chemicals that they did in East Palestine, because apparently they couldn't think of any other way.

to get these toxic chemicals out of their town, but they assured people that this was perfectly safe and effective. And of course, people have been suffering ill health effects ever since. Uh, now Biden promised he was going to go, um, back then it's taken him a year to get around to it. Uh,

President Joe Biden will travel next month to East Palestine, Ohio, to mark the one year anniversary of the disastrous train derailment and toxic chemical spill in the area. The White House did not provide a specific date for the visit, which would fulfill a long held vow to visit the small eastern Ohio town. I'll say.

But on February 3rd, 2023, a Norfolk Southern train hauling hazardous materials ran off the tracks, igniting a days long fire that released poisonous fumes and forced residents out of their homes. Biden recently received an invitation from the East Palestine mayors and community leaders to visit the area and access the recovery efforts, said White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre.

Quote, he's looking forward to going to East Palestine in February like he even knows about it. We're going to find the day that works best for the folks on the ground, she told reporters at Wednesday's briefing. All right, I'm just this is a pet peeve. Stop using folks, man. Stop it. Stop it. Stop it. Unless you have grown tobacco with your own hands. I don't want to hear you saying folks.

Folks, they're all fucking they all they all grew up raising hogs. He's always said that when the time was right, when it was the most helpful for him to be there, he was going to be there. Biden last year ordered his federal emergency management agency to appoint and they are doing a heck of a job, by the way, to appoint a coordinator to oversee East Palestine's long term recovery efforts.

He's also tasked the EPA with evaluating whether Norfolk Southern has followed through on its commitment to address any lingering threats to the town generated by the derailment. And the Transportation Department has pumped millions into rail safety grants and additional inspections. The White House faced criticism over Biden's decision not to immediately visit East Palestine in the aftermath of the derailment.

The president has traveled to other disaster sites across the country in the intervening months, but none with so much toxic chemicals released into the air. I mean, really, why hasn't he gone? Why hasn't he gone? They know what the fuck's going on over there. They can't let that like 8,065-year-old man breathe that shit.

We've interviewed activists who have gone there. They're sick when they're there and they're sick for days, if not weeks after they get back. Didn't Savage Joy lose a tooth? Yeah, she lost the tooth. Yeah. They know like Biden. Seriously, like I'm joking, but I'm not joking. Like the optics of that are so bad. Why would he not have gone? Because it's dangerous and he's old.

And he's old, right? They sent Mayor Pete there. They sent Mayor Pete. He's young. They're like, ah, he loses it too. Get in there and breathe. It'll grow back like a shark. When pressed on the delay in September, he said he didn't have the occasion to go to East Palestine. Very, very busy there with his brands of chocolate pudding.

He has since been drawn into numerous foreign crises, particularly after the October 7th Hamas attack on Israel. And more recently, the death of the service members in Jordan adds to the rising Middle East tensions. I'm going to say whoever wrote this article has no business writing this.

For any kind of publication, because I have to keep fixing the grammar on this. Former President Donald Trump visited a firehouse about a half mile from the derailment site in late February, 19 days after the incident, calling it a betrayal of the residents.

His visit, though, came one day before Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg's arrival and weeks after the administration dispatched EPA Administrator Michael Reagan to the site. At the time, Trump's visit cast a light on Trump's DOT, which oversaw mothballing two rules that sought to shore up the safety of train breaks and crews.

This is from our friend, Jimmy's friend, everybody's friend, Comrade Misty, who is also Putin's buddy. The fact that Biden has finally decided to.

to schlep his way to East Palestine a whole ass year later is infuriating. He's very clearly just using those people as election year fodder. And I hope it blows up in his face. So gross dude has barely even acknowledged that all year. Damn right. Christian Drake. Do you think he will pretend to drink the water like Obama did? I don't think he has those kinds of skills of prestidigitation. Um,

That Obama does because, you know, Obama worked his way through Columbia doing close up magic. So that's why he was able to he was able to pull that off. I don't think I don't think Biden has that skill set, especially in his advanced years. I don't think they're going to let that motherfucking near that water. That's going to be it's going to be a Poland spring trip all the way. So so what are your thoughts, Keaton?

Well, I mean, this is a nice gesture for the Biden campaign to roll into town. But don't you think those people have seen enough train wrecks for one year? You got to see him now. He's got to come in there.

No, look, I mean, this is just such obvious opportunism and it's not going to go well because, first of all, this was not a Biden friendly town to begin with. Right. He could have won some goodwill if he got his ass there as soon as it happened. But once Trump beat him to the punch, he was fucked because if he went after Trump went, he would have looked like he was chasing Trump.

Right. And so he had to wait for the next occasion. And I guess the occasion is the one year anniversary. And now it's just going to be an obvious campaign move with a photo op. And the people there were not particularly fond of him anyway, even before this accident happened. And so, yeah, I mean, it's just going to be a total shit show. I think I hope it is. You know, it would be it would be a fun thing to go and.

to go and document, you know, to go and ask people, hey, what do you think? But on the other hand, I would feel like a sleazebag doing it because... What's that? You got a kid on the way. You can't risk that. Well, I can't personally, but I'm saying I would feel like a bit of a sleazebag doing it because it would just confirm what all of these poor people in this town have done.

have thought for the last year, which is that we only matter when the cameras are here, when Biden is here, right? That's the only time people are interested in when, when they can get a story out of it. When the truth of the matter is the people in this town have been in such desperate need for an entire year. We have, we have stayed somewhat on it over the course of the past year. Not as much as we should have, but we've done more than many others. Um, like I said, we've interviewed people who have been there. We've followed the major updates. Uh,

You have people there...

With pretty severe health problems now bleeding out of their ears now, peeing blood. You had, you know, as Savage Joy told us when we interviewed her last, you have families running up $10,000 worth of credit card debt for hotels, for lodging, because it would cost a lot of money in testing to move back into their homes to make sure the homes were safe. And so if they can't afford that, they just

put a hotel bill on a card and hope that the next month brings better fortune. And it doesn't. And so it's just a really desperate situation there. It's really horrible. And the fact that the media is going to come back to town when Biden goes there is just going to make these people all the more

pissed off at how this whole thing was handled as they have every right to be. How do you even go and cover that? How do you show up if you're CNN, if you're a camera crew and you've ignored this town for the past year? How do you go and cover it when...

Joe Biden shows up because what are you there to cover? You're there to document how angry these people are. I mean, that's news. Sure. But the whole thing is news. The whole thing should have been front page news all along. The fact that Norfolk Southern is still nickel and diming people rather than giving them the compensation.

That they're owed. And so, yeah, it's just it's it's an awful sleazy story. I don't know why he's bothering at this point because it's not going to go well. I'm telling you right now. I would agree. Well, well, they can't show up anywhere without getting protested now. No, they're going to go to East Palestine. Yeah, but but they're they're they're they're in an impossible situation. They're trying to campaign.

With a president who is probably as hated as any president I in my lifetime. Like, I can't I can't think of a president who people had such a such a bone deep hatred for. You know, I mean, you've had your unpopular presidents, but people I mean, across every demographic group like Jimmy Carter, people thought he couldn't do the job, but they didn't hate him.

They thought he was a boob. They didn't hate him like this. George Bush, I mean, yeah, the libs hated him, but he had his supporters.

I mean, I've said this since he ran in 20. I mean, I'm not a lib, but, you know, the left hated him, too. I mean, there are a lot of people who hated him. But the difference is the times we're living in. I mean, look, George W. Bush. I mean, I always think of the libs because it's so crazy to me that now the majority of Democrats approve of him.

Sure. And he was there, Trump. He was there, Trump. He was the threat to democracy. He was the stupid, unqualified one. All the things they say about Trump, they said about Bush at one time. Sure, sure. But, you know, the country was still a country at that point. Yes, that's the difference. Now you just have a country that is just...

In such irreversible decline. Right. And you have this non-entity at the helm. And like I said, I think the reason... He kind of symbolizes that decline. Right. He symbolizes it. You've got a cognitively declining president heading a declining country. Sure. Sure. And a president with no presence whatsoever. So you don't even see the president. You just see the truly ghoulish functionaries that stand behind every commander-in-chief. Right. But usually the president...

is a compelling enough figurehead that's how they got to be president for the most part they have this big personality uh to the point where you look at them you don't look at the people who are calling the shots in back of them with biden there's none of that you see right through him so it's president p budaj jake sullivan john kirby uh uh who's the other one you know lloyd austin anthony blinken all these guys right um and that's who that's what i think people really hate

Right. I have hatred for those deep state operatives. Biden is a nonentity. I mean, hating Biden is like hating a dog. You know, it's like, what's the point? You know, a junkyard dog is mean to you. It's not its fault. I mean, it is what it is. You know, at this point.

The hate Biden almost seems kind of pointless. Right. At a certain time, it made sense to hate Biden. Like when he was passing the bankruptcy bill, crime bill, all that stuff. Now he's an old man. He's out of the picture. He's not calling the shot. It's the most obvious thing in the world. Well, yeah. Not only that, because the country was in such a state of decline, how much can you even blame him? Right. I mean, I mean, he he's just there. They just stuck him there while the country is collapsing.

He's the company man. He's Bobby Bacala, Sr. Right. They pulled him out of retirement to do one last job. Right. And he'll do it because that's all he knows how to do. He's been in the Senate since, what, 1972? This has been his life. He has served the company his whole life. And that's what he's there to do now. 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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