This Is Why Nobody Trusts Corporate News Anymore
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Hey, this is Jimmy. Who's this?

Jimmy, this is next president of the United States, Joe Biden, with some exciting news. Oh, yeah, Mr. President. What's the exciting news?

Okay, all right. Before we get started, Jimmy, I want to make clear, this is a real thing. Okay. So many times we do this sketch, and it's not until after we're done that you find out that I was talking about a real thing that happened. You thought I just made up some dumb shit for a sketch, and I don't do that, so this is actually real. Okay. All right, I understand. Thank you, Mr. President.

Jimmy, I'm running a sweepstakes on my website. A sweepstakes? What are you talking about? A sweepstakes. Jimmy, how would you like to spend an evening with a president? It depends. President of what?

Wow. So...

Three war criminals and two people credibly accused of rape. That's fantastic. You're jumping ahead. You're joking, right?

When have I ever told a joke in my fucking life? Okay. All you have to do is donate money. Just click one of the tabs and you are automatically entered for a chance to win. And you get air and hotel covered, just like it used to be for headliners. I see on the webpage that the denominations you can choose go as low as $10.

Of course, Jimmy, when it comes to campaign donations, every amount helps. So people who donate $10 could conceivably get to spend an evening with Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, and you? On paper, yes. That's the selling point. That'll get people to donate. The idea is that the website will just pick a random person and they win. But between you and me, there ain't no $10 donors going to win this. Yeah.

We're going to vet the shit out of whoever gets to meet us. Right, okay. We can't accidentally pick a 10-buck loser and then the bounty hunter from Raising Arizona shows up. We got to have some control over this shit. What is the purpose of all this, Mr. President?

Well, to make money, of course, to drum up support for the campaign. I mean, who wouldn't want to meet the three of us? This is the chance of a lifetime. Your grandchildren's grandchildren would be telling their grandchildren about this evening. Three presidents, one opportunity, one unforgettable evening.

Yeah, it's not every day that you get three war criminals and two credibly accused rapists under the same roof. No, that does happen pretty much every day. That's pretty common. Hold on, Mr. President. I'm getting another call. Hello, this is Jimmy Dorshow. Who's this calling?

Jimmy Dore! It's your old buddy, Barack Obama. Oh, hello, how are you doing? And how are you, Mr. President? I'm doing great, Mr. President. Thanks for asking. Oh, Jesus. Great. Is Bill Clinton going to call in, too? Nah, that's too much of a headache for me, shit. Barack, how excited are you for this meet and greet with this lucky son of a bitch, whoever it's going to be?

Joe, I can't wait to meet the luckiest son of a bitch who ever lived. How often do you get that chance? To meet the luckiest son of a bitch who ever lived.

Because if this motherfucker gets to meet the three of us by winning a contest, that's who this motherfucker is. The luckiest son of a bitch who ever lived. Agreed. I couldn't have said it better myself, my eloquent friend. Ain't that the

True. Lucky, lucky, lucky. Wow, you guys are really full of yourselves, aren't you?

I wasn't paying attention, but I assume that was a compliment, so thank you. Joe, I'm so excited. We are going to absolutely change the life of this random ass bitch. But I want to make sure of two things. First, Kamala. She's not going to be there. She's not a part of this, right?

Are you crazy? Of course not. First of all, this is going to be happening after 5 p.m., so no way, Jose. And we're trying to win donations here, not hemorrhage support from the base. So don't worry. Okay, good to know. And we will be...

Oh, yeah. Ignore what it says on the website. Take it from me. We don't want another Joe the Plumber. Remember him?

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Yeah, God forbid you have to answer the concerns of the American citizens during your little PR stunt, huh? Shut the fuck up, man. Yeah, shut the fuck up. I dare you. We...

We are presidents. There will be three of us. And we are going to meet someone. Oh, yeah? Well, baby, I'll hold my nose and donate, and I'll be your lucky winner. How about that?

No way, man. No way. You've got to be kidding me. We know you. You're not getting through. Maybe I'll wear a disguise. What is this, Mission Impossible? The Secret Service will be there in droves, dumbass. They'll see through your disguise.

So take your criticism of all that these three Democratic presidents have achieved and stick it where the sun don't shine, because this will be a night for presidents and bootlickers only.

Come on, Brock. Let's blow this popsicle stand. This guy's not even a president. What are we even doing talking to him? Let's go play some golf or do some other suitably presidential activity. Later, Jimmy. See you. Good morning, man. I'm 100% entering that contest.

You want to know why no one trusts the mainstream news media and why less and less and less people are watching it? This story.

So here's NBC News. Trump says there will be a bloodbath if he loses the election. Trump made the comment at a rally in Ohio where he spoke about auto manufacturing. The Biden campaign responded by criticizing the former president's threat of political violence.

Trump's bloodbath warning. - What are you, did you see Steve Marmel's tweet? You remember Marmel, that comic? - Yeah. - He goes, "January 6th is the only context I need for him saying bloodbath." - Well, I know Steve Marmel. I like Steve Marmel. I think he's a-- - Listen, maybe he's another Marmel. - I think he's a sweet, swell guy. I think that there's a lot of people

who think when they turn on NBC News or read the New York Times or the Boston Globe or the Washington Post, and they read the news about January 6th, they believe it. And I think that's probably what happened. It wasn't even a bath. So they don't know that January 6th

was complete guard what you're told in the mainstream news media about january 6th is wrong yeah and they suppressed many in for all the all the information that's why it was a show trial that's why they actually didn't do a real trial of donald trump for insurrection and trying to overthrow the government because they knew they would have that trump would get to put on a defense and it would show that they were lying about it and that this was orchestrated by the fbi

It's weird that he's not in trials. And that's what happened. How many things do you have against him? So, 91 counts, felony counts against Donald Trump. Not one of them over January 6th. Isn't that weird? So, there's a lot of good people. I used to be one of those people who thought that when I turned on MSNBC, I was getting the truth. So, I don't judge those people.

I don't say they're bad people. I say they make the mistake of thinking that what they're seeing on the news is real. And here's a perfect example of what we're talking about, Kurt. I'm sure my old roommate will see this story and believe it.

He's the sweetheart of a guy. I love him. He's very funny. And no matter how many times I point out to him that they're lying to you at MSNBC, just like they're lying to you at Fox News and CNN and The Washington Post and The New York Times, they just can't wrap their mind around it. Just like people can't wrap their mind around the fact that they've been lied to on an enormous scale about COVID. They just can't. Now the new thing, by the way, is COVID's over.

That's the new thing. So he doesn't mind that you were lied to? Tell Taylor Lorenz. Right. So here, let me get to the story. So here's what Trump said.

Donald Trump on the attack this weekend in Ohio, lashing out at some of his favorite targets from the criminal cases against him. It's all politics. It's all coming in from Biden. What he claims are the criminal migrants crossing the southern border and destroying the country. I like how they show pictures of children coming across. They don't show the military age Chinese people coming across or the people of military age from Uzbekistan. They don't show the people that Joe Biden literally flew in on jets.

into the United States. This is a criminal assault on the United States and it's being perpetrated by your own government and the billionaire class and they play on your heartstrings.

like this okay when that girl got killed and then you apologize for saying illegal yeah it's kind of hard to try to pull this off yeah yes my opinion but i'm not allowed to say that because the radical left says that's a terrible thing to say these are animals okay but it was his use of the word bloodbath during the riff about so you see how they even had to cut that you already know they're trying to make it look like something by the way the guy that killed that woman is an animal that's who he's talking about i have no problem with it that's right

These car makers that's creating new headlines and headaches for his campaign. We're going to put a 100 percent tariff on every single car that comes across the line. And you're not going to be able to sell those. If I get elected now, if I don't get elected, it's going to be a bloodbath for the whole. That's going to be the least of it. It's going to be a bloodbath for the country. That'll be the least of it.

The Biden campaign seizing on the remark and rejecting the Trump campaign. So then everybody went nuts saying Trump is threatening political violence. There's going to be a bloodbath if he's not reelected. He meant an economic bloodbath for the car industry. I think it's pretty clear even there. But MSNBC and NBC News still tries to push the lie. Here, listen to what the Biden administration said. Claim that it was about only cars. Yeah, I do.

So here is NBC News. MSNBC says Trump says there will be a bloodbath if he loses the election. That was their tweet. Are they just campaigning now? So now they're just campaigning for Joe Biden. And Mr. Just flat out. The media is doing that. It got community noted. Community notes. MSNBC. And here's a community notes. But by the way, community notes is a lot of times complete bullshit. But this time they weren't.

Donald Trump was talking about the automobile manufacturing industry and potential economic turmoil, not political violence. The full quote appears at 34 minutes in this video, and they link to the C-SPAN. January 6th was my... Here is...

Even take it out of context. Bloodbath doesn't sound so bad. Everybody says it. Here's Joe Scarborough. Donald Trump's America, and he's proud of it. Promise another bloodbath if he loses again.

And of course, he he picks to add to a 13 second video of the FBI inspired riot because that's what it was at the Capitol. He doesn't show you the he doesn't show you video of the guys walking through respectfully in the Capitol being greeted by police officers, taking selfies with police officers. They don't show you that.

Huh, that's interesting. The bloodbath of a woman who got shot by the cops? Yeah, so Joe Scarborough tweets that out, right? And then Elon Musk comes by and says, hey, January 6th was not a bloodbath by any definition, and Trump was referring to job losses in the auto industry when he used that word. Your post is extremely misleading. Oh. So then, so I guess...

So Joe Scarborough was like, oh, I made an honest mistake and I took it down. Oh, I'm just agreeing. Because Elon Musk called me out for it, right? No, he goes back to Scarborough country.

And listen to what he says. He's talking about a bloodbath for America. It's laid out in the terms of it. And these idiots on Twitter, these idiots on cable news, these idiots on Sunday shows, where are your presidents? He was talking only about the auto industry and this is one more. It's just bullshit. First of all, if your tweet was true, why did you delete it, Joe?

Because he knew he couldn't get away with that shit on Twitter, but he could go back to the safe confines of Scarborough country and lie to his audience. And that's what he's doing. So this is, and by the way, how many times do I have to tell you this? The people who are the most triggered by Donald Trump have Donald Trump in their shadow. So this is him acting exactly like you, they would describe Donald Trump would act. He's being petulant. He's swearing. He's being vulgar.

He's lying and he's calling other people idiots and morons. Tell me this isn't exactly what they say Trump acts like. This is exactly what they say Trump acts like. And Joe Scarborough is acting that way because his ego got hurt because he is exactly the egomaniac they say that Donald Trump is. He is a narcissist, thin-skinned egomaniac.

And that's why he's triggered by Donald Trump. Again, I'm not triggered by Donald Trump. I'm triggered by the economic conditions in this country that made half the country willing to take a chance on a billionaire game show host real estate agent. And here he is calling everybody an idiot and being vulgar.

At the same time, let's watch a little bit more. I don't think he is triggered, by the way. I think he's just a liar. I think you say that at 615 a.m. It's just bullshit. He knew what he was doing. We're not stupid. Americans aren't stupid. Your audience is stupid.

Who is watching you? De Niro? After six years of Russiagate, after six years of you lying about Syria, after six years of you lying about Ukraine and COVID and Fauci and lockdowns and mandates and Russiagate, and now you're lying about this. Who is still watching you? The only married news team. Who is still watching you? He was talking about...

A bloodbath. Sometimes a bloodbath means a bloodbath. He didn't even know what to say. He was talking about, well, I didn't think this through. A bloodbath. Sometimes a bloodbath means what? And when he finishes by saying, and that's just going to be the least of it. Seriously, these people may be stupid. We're not.

No, you're a liar. No, you're a liar. But the people who watch you are stupid. Or I think what it is probably they like being lied to. I saw a comedian. That's true. Again, I saw a lesbian comedian who I like and think is very funny. And she went up and she did a bit about, I don't care what it is. Just tell me something bad about Donald Trump. Rachel Maddow, I turn around every night. Just tell me something horrible about Donald Trump. That's all I want. She might have even said, I don't care if it's true.

Isn't that what she said? She said, I don't even care if it's true. I just want to hear something bad about Donald Trump. And that's what MSNBC is. And now you know why, what, 70%, 80% of the country doesn't trust corporate media anymore? And so here's a little bit longer of a- It was a distinction without a- So here's what he's saying about-

So when it was pointed out to him that a bloodbath, this is from Merriam-Webster, bloodbath, a great slaughter, also a notably fierce, violent or destructive contest or struggle or be a major economic disaster. It's in the dictionary. That's a definition, a major economic disaster. So once this was pointed out to him, but you want to see more of it?

Crypto market bloodbaths. Bloodbath new age tech. Meme coin Solana. Merges outliers. Crypto market bloodbath. Market bloodbath continues with investors to lose tens of trillions. When he says it, it means something different. So here is Joe Scarborough going to completely contradict reality. This is like when Kyle Kalinske said that corruption...

Didn't mean what it meant. He said that words mean something. And I showed him the definition of corruption. And Kyle Kalinske at least stopped lying and saying that the squad wasn't corrupt by definition, because by definition, the squad is corrupt.

And so Joe Scarborough is pulling a Kyle Kalinsky here trying to lie to you what the definition of a bloodbath is. So here's what he says. Watch this. He's talking about a bloodbath for America. It's laid out in the terms of it. And these idiots on Twitter, these idiots. So now I showed you that. Here's another clip. What? Listen to this. I hope Trump. It was a distinction. I hope Trump wipes out MSNBC. Without a difference.

It was a distinction without a difference. So he's saying, so when it was pointed out to him that no, he was talking about an economic bloodbath. Joe Scarborough says that's a distinction without a difference. You're fucking nuts.

And how stupid is your audience to believe? He knows just how stupid his audience is. It's it's it. They just want to believe something bad about Donald Trump. And that's why he's allowed to get away with this. And let's remember, all bets are off because it's Donald Trump. Joe Scarborough is allowed to lie like this about a former president of the United States over and over, even though he couldn't get away with it on Twitter. He knows he can get away with it on MSNBC. So let's watch this again.

It was a distinction without a difference. He was talking about the auto industry. Then he pivots, he goes, it's going to be a bloodbath. So, okay, maybe if I don't get elected, it's going to be a bloodbath. Okay, maybe you can connect that to the auto industry. Maybe you can. Okay. But again, I've never really heard people discuss

macroeconomics in terms of bloodbaths. Okay, well, here it is in the goddamn dictionary right there. And then here's all those other examples I just gave you that just all you have to do is Google it. Google bloodbath. Market bloodbath. And look at what comes up. They constantly... He's never heard of it before. This is from a guy who hosts a news show. So now he's just making stuff up to like... He's doing the thing they claim Donald Trump does.

He can't stop lying because his ego is threatened. That's all this is. So Joe Scarborough is a mental case liar who's triggered by Donald Trump, just like Cenk Uygur and Keith Olbermann are triggered by Donald Trump because they are the thing they claim Donald Trump is. Cenk Uygur, Keith Olbermann, Joe Scarborough are huge lying, egomaniac narcissists who

And they project that onto Donald Trump. And so when they see Donald Trump, they get angry. But what they're really angry at is the part of themselves that they have siloed off from themselves.

That's why they're triggered. You can tell a lot about yourself by the things that you love and by the things that you hate. And the things that you hate and get the biggest rise out of you have something to do with you. This is what Carl Jung has proven. And so that's why when you see, you know, everyone has seen how Cenk Uygur has lied about a myriad things, let alone forced to vote over and about me and about supporting bombing Syria and Ukraine and Libya and everything.

And so he throws that onto Donald Trump, like somehow we got to fight Donald Trump because he's a liar. And that's the same thing with Joe Scarborough. That's the same thing with Keith Olbermann. And all bets are off. You're allowed to lie about Donald Trump. The media, nobody in the establishment will hold you, hold your feet to the fire if you lie about Donald Trump because they've convinced themselves that we're fighting Hitler.

And why do they have to do that? Because Donald Trump won't do the wars the way they like to. And he's hated by the donor class. So now they've convinced everybody that he's got to be Hitler. So we get, well, the, um, sounds like a bloodbath. Sounds like a bloodbath. Um, so Keith Olbermann hates him, which I find hilarious. Uh,

Gordon Olbermann, Joe Biden loves the show Morning Joe. That's right. So that's who his audience is. So this is who he's- Yeah, that's- That's right. Here's where a piece of shit's go, bro, is back in 2005, he interviewed Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and he expressed concerns about the possibility that one of his sons may have suffered vaccine damage because he was born with a slight form of autism called Asperger's. He said, when I was practicing law and when I was in Congress, parents would constantly come to me and

And they would bring me videotapes of their children. They were all around the age of my son or younger. So something happened in 1989. Joe Scarborough. That's Joe Scarborough. And that's also Robert De Niro. Yeah. So he's a lion piece of shit. He's not triggered by anything. He's a lizard. I have a videotape of Robert De Niro, which I've showed on this show, where he wanted to show that movie Vaxxed at his film festival. Yeah.

in New York City, and he had to go on the Today Show and say, there's something happening. There's something there. We have to look at the vaccines and if it's damaging children. He was vehement about it. And then, of course, he got the phone call, and he axed that video, that movie, that documentary from his film festival, the Tribeca Film Festival, and he never talked about it again. And now, the guys who hate Donald Trump the most are Donald Trump.

Just like Robert De Niro, just like Joe Scarborough, just like Keith Olbermann, just like Cenk Uygur. They are Donald Trump. And so you want to know how I know? Watch this. He was talking about...

A bloodbath. Sometimes a bloodbath means a bloodbath. On the eve of this bloodbath, it was going to be a bloodbath. It's going to be a bloodbath. Would be an absolute bloodbath. Bloodbath. This bloodbath in South Carolina. This could be a bloodbath. There will be a bloodbath at the convention. An absolute bloodbath. This was going to be a bloodbath. Does this nominee get through without a bloodbath? Hashtag bloodbath. We're going to be having bloodbaths. This would be a...

A bloodbath. It would be a bloodbath. Seriously? Yeah. But when Trump says it, it's wrong. Seriously? So there's, I don't know, 50 examples of Joe Scarborough referring to politics as a bloodbath. But sometimes it's a bloodbath. But somehow when Trump does it, it's horrible. Because he's bad. So do you understand why nobody trusts these people anymore?

You understand why the... I think it's lower than Congress, the trust that people have in corporate media. That's pretty low. And it's because they just... And they don't give a shit because he knows he's going to get a paycheck at the end of the week no matter how many times he lies because he's lying...

At the behest of the establishment. Again, when you lie for the establishment, there's never a price to pay. Rachel Maddow lied about Russiagate at the top of her lungs for five straight years and she got punished for lying? No, she got rewarded with a $35 million a year contract, which is $100,000 a day. That's how much Rachel Maddow makes a day when she goes into work. $100,000 a day.

And so just like Julian Assange isn't in prison for lying, if he was lying, he'd have his own show on MSNBC or CNN or Fox. He told the truth, which is why he's sitting rotting in a Belmarsh prison, hoping they're hoping he dies before they bring him to trial. You don't get in trouble for telling lies. You get in trouble. So and here, watch this.

What I heard was a continuation of the same rhetoric, the same endorsement of political violence that we've seen from Donald Trump for years, as you pointed out. It goes even farther back, right? This is the same guy who, after Nazis marched on Charlottesville and killed a woman, said there were very fine people on both sides. What is Joe Biden saying about the Nazis in Ukraine? He's literally funding them.

What is Joe Biden saying about the genociders in Gaza? He's literally funding them. So do you see how the corporate media establishes a narrative that Donald Trump is the guy for political violence? Meanwhile, his opponent is a genocider.

His opponent's been for every genocidal war. He was part of the administration that did a genocide in Libya, that did a genocide in Yemen. Look what they did to Iraq. He was the biggest supporter of the Iraq war, Joe Biden. Now Ukraine, and now he's funding a genocide in Gaza. But they want you to make it, you got to think, so now do you understand why nobody trusts these people? And I like that they got a black guy to do it, right? So hey, we'll get a black guy to come out and lie.

And who's he lying with? You know, this this this news station has integrity because they hired Joe Biden's former press secretary as a news anchor. Of course, you know, you're getting you're getting the real truth from Joe Biden's former press secretary. You know what a press secretary is? They're the paid liars.

She should be dancing with the stars, but she's talking about current events. Well, here it is. Political bloodbath that RNC Trump team slashes staff at committee. The Guardian RNC bloodbath begins as more than 60 staffers are terminated. Salon absolute bloodbath at the RNC. Mediate absolute bloodbath. Republicans nervous as Trumpers purge RNC following MAGA takeover. Here's more bloodbath. Trump is now fundraising off comments that sparked media frenzy. Wait a minute.

You guys use bloodbath all the time, but when Donald Trump does it, it's bad. January 6th, Jimmy, you're not getting it. Biden campaign releases ad featuring Trump bloodbath comments. You know why? Because he's showing what liars you all are. And that's why this, I have a show. That's why this show is popular because I don't have to lie about my political opponents to make a point.

Or to win. And that's all these people do. That's what people with MSNBC contracts do. They lie to win. That's all it is. But they're not winning. Like, okay, this threat that Trump's going to, like I said, if Trump did anything to MSNBC, I'd fully support it. He's not going to. They're making it sound like he's going to do better things than he's going to do. Which is wipe out MSNBC. He's not going to do that. Let me just say this, Kurt. If Biden does not win,

No one can say that it's because the corporate media didn't lie hard enough for him. Don't blame Joe. You can always feel like you lied your hardest. And that's something. Guy lied his heart out. Played a great game, lied his heart out. Who in, and these people who watch these television shows are in my life.

They watch them and they think, my old roommate, sweetest guy in the world. Hilarious. They think they're getting the truth from these people. And it doesn't matter how many times you show, just like people with COVID, it

It doesn't matter how many times I can show you that Fauci said one thing and said the exact opposite. I can show you that the released email showed that they were lying about Wuhan lab and where the virus that he lied about mass, that he lied about the efficacy of the vaccines, that he lied about transmission and contraction. I can show you a million things that Fauci, he lied about natural immunity. He lied about herd immunity over and over again. I can show you that. And it just,

Because it's not about that. It's not. It's not. Exactly. It's not about the truth. It's not about that at all. It's about religion. It's about a feeling. It's about a feeling. And it's about religion. And it's about hating your political enemies. And so they have to just ignore everything. You know what? You're right about that thing of the people the viewers want to be lied to because that's, you know, people always these TV preachers that preach prosperity gospel and God wants you to be rich. Yeah.

The people going at it, the little old ladies that they're swindling, those little old ladies, that's a drug they're paying for that they want. That is. And you can't talk them out of it. And they'll get sharp. If they're not getting enough drug for the money they're pumping in, they'll get smart and stop putting it on the plate. But they want to hear that stuff. They want to hear wealth and all that bullshit. That's what this is. It really is. They're in on it too, the viewers. ♪

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So this is quite amazing. So this is Ari Velche, and he's an MSNBC propagandist when it comes to things like the Ukraine war. From Canada, should be deported. He lied to you, bald-faced liar, and he's a bald-headed liar about the Ukraine war. And I called him out when he did it. He reported everything that the State Department wanted him to report in the way they wanted him to report it. And so he is a propagandist for war. But for some reason, just like Mehdi Hassan is...

But for some reason, they love to tell the truth about Israel. Well, I don't know what that I can't guess why that would be. But here he is. And I cannot believe that this segment got aired on MSNBC because this guy right now, I guarantee you, is going to be Mehdi Hassan.

He's, uh, well, so let's watch it and you'll know exactly what I'm talking about. He's going to tell you the truth about the, one of the most powerful lobbying groups in America. It's the AIPAC group, which is the lobbying group for Israel, which is why all the politicians are for Israel. And even though 80% of Americans are against Israel and in this war with Gaza, it's not a war in their carpet bombing of Gaza. It's not a war. Uh, uh,

The government officials go along with it. Why? He's going to tell you why. Watch this. This is maybe the most amazing thing I've ever seen on MSNBC.

The American-Israel Public Affairs Committee. It was incorporated in 1963. For 10 years prior to that, it was known as the American Zionist Committee for Public Affairs. It was started in 1963, Kurt. Yeah. Oh, that's got to be the most important thing that happened in 1963, right? No connections to their formation and the removal of a certain political figure in our history. Do you think, Kurt? No. What is this, conspiracy time? Do you think...

No way that JFK was actually referring to this newly. Anyway, here we go. The American Israel Public Affairs Committee. It was incorporated in 1963. For 10 years prior to that, it was known as the American Zionist Committee for Public Affairs.

AIPAC calls itself America's pro-Israel lobby, and according to its website, it has over 3 million members across the country in regional chapters working to, quote, expand and strengthen the U.S.-Israel relationship, end quote. You may know AIPAC as being one of the biggest and most recognizable donors to many of the members of Congress in your state.

But contributing to campaigns is a relatively new function of the organization. So, by the way, they're one of the biggest donors to political campaigns. Guess where they get that money to donate to our political campaigns in America to control our politics? Where? They get it from the United States government. What? The United States government gives billions and billions of dollars to Israel, and then they use that money to buy our politicians. Oh, sorry.

Synergy. It's called Synergy. Yeah, they don't have to register as a foreign, what do you call it, influencer? Don't you have to register as a foreign...

They're still domestic for some reason, aren't they? They're considered domestic. Yeah. Twenty one. AIPAC did not endorse candidates nor give political contributions. Its focus was on lobbying elected officials, not actually electing officials. But in a dramatic shift in policy, AIPAC began directly funding candidates and spending big on races in twenty twenty one.

AIPAC Political Action Committee, AIPAC PAC, filed something called a statement of organization with the FEC just in time for the 2022 election cycle, where it spent $50 million, including both direct contributions to candidates and outside spending like TV advertisements.

According to APEC, it donated money to 365 candidates from both parties, including every single member of both Democratic and Republican leadership in Congress. 109 Republicans who voted against the certification of the 2020 presidential election in America.

received campaign contributions from APAC. All in all, APAC gave money to 342 members of the 118th Congress. The 2022 elections were the most expensive midterms in American history, with a total cost of $8.9 billion spent.

Now, last year, AIPAC ranked 15th in total expenditure by a political action committee, according to data collected by Open Secrets. But take a look at the other funders that AIPAC is competing against for that title. ActBlue and WinRed. They are Democratic and Republican Party machines. Save America is Donald Trump's machine.

money-raising operation, the conservative club for growth, Emily's List focuses on electing Democratic women to office. All of the PACs on this list are massively domestic-focused ideological machines. AIPAC is the only organization in the top 20 whose interests are focused entirely on America's relationship to a foreign government.

Now, let's take a look at who benefits from APEC's largesse. Here are the top 20 recipients in Congress, the House and the Senate of APEC money in the 2022 midterm cycle, according to Open Secrets. They're members of both parties. They come from every corner of the country with varying levels of experience in Congress. The Democrat Glenn Ivey of Maryland tops the list. He beat out fellow Democrat Donna Edwards in Maryland's House primary.

after AIPAC poured millions into pro-Ivy advertisements and mailers. Edwards was running for a second stint in Congress after serving during the Obama administration, where she voted present, not even a no, on a number of pro-Israel resolutions. So the money poured in against her.

I just want to point out, this is Representative Richie Torres. He's on the top list of getting money from APEC. Our friend Jose Vega is running against him in the Bronx. So just so you know. So he's going to need your help coming up in April. But anyway, here we go back to this. Not even an endorsement from Nancy Pelosi could save her. Michigan Democrat Haley Stevens, unseated Democratic Representative Andy Levin. Here's what Levin had to say about that.

I'm really Jewish, but AIPAC can't stand the idea that I am the clearest, strongest Jewish voice in Congress standing for a simple proposition that there's no way to have a secure democratic homeland for the Jewish people unless we achieve the political and human rights of the Palestinian people.

AIPAC spent $4 million against Levin. He lost by 20 points. When Michigan Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib, the only Palestinian American in Congress, was censured by the House in early November over what some lawmakers called her rhetoric around the Israeli-Hamas war, 22 Democrats joined Republicans in that censure vote.

18 of those Democrats receive campaign funds from AIPAC in 2022, totaling more than $1.1 million. So AIPAC brings Democrats and Republicans together to do horrible things. Who says there isn't unity in our politics? Here we go. For these six of them...

AIPAC was their top contributor. Look at that. A growing list of progressive lawmakers who are vocal in their criticism of the government of Israel and its policies and their support for Palestinian self-determination have inspired AIPAC to spend even more. As progressive lawmakers began calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, Slate reported that insiders expect AIPAC's 2024 spending...

to hit $100 million. In fact, United Democracy Project, which is a pro-Israel super PAC affiliated with AIPAC, is already spending money on attack ads against Democratic Representatives Jamal Bowman of New York and Summer Lee of Pennsylvania. Lee has already got a primary challenger, as do Cori Bush and Ilhan Omar. Pro-Israel donors have already signaled that they are eager to primary Rashida Tlaib and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

Congresswoman Lee already overcame AIPAC's financial influence against her once. She tweeted criticisms of Israel's treatment of Palestinians in 2021. But as a candidate, she affirmed Israel's right to exist. But that's not good enough.

APEC spent nearly $3 million in the primary alone to defeat Lee, and they almost did. She beat Stephen Irwin, who is third on the list of money given to candidates by APEC in 2022 by less than 1,000 votes. And if Congresswoman Lee wants to keep her seat in 2024, she's going to have to do it all over again. She joins me in studio after this break.

So I know why. So you know why he did this? Yeah. Why? He's not going to get Hassan. You don't think he's going to get Hassan for this? Why? Manny Hassan should have just held out until the Democrats are losing more. Chuck Schumer already turned on Bibi. He did. Oh, so now it's okay? Yeah.

So I think Bibi, they already want it out because, you know, it is kind of... It did harm Joe Biden quite a bit. It's harming Joe, yes. Hey, Bibi, could you stop slaughtering all the people so obviously it's getting harder to sweep up after you? And Bibi goes, go fuck yourself. We're donating to the Republicans because they'll let us...

So APAC was giving more money to Republicans and they're primarying all these squad losers that didn't say shit, the ones that voted for Iron Dome and all the others. They're getting primaried anyway. So that's why it's officially okay. Obviously what's going to happen is this whole –

genocide thing is going to be scapegoated on bb and his coalition at the end of the day so that's so that's the plan so the plan is to scapegoat net benjamin netanyahu for all the genocide that joe biden is funding yeah in gaza right now and so they can try to get their voters back and so this is so this is yeah so this is to make it look like oh the democrats are actually the enemies of israel and apac that's what this is his theme was it's not bad to have this much influence over all of our politics

It's bad that they're giving more to the Republicans and they're not giving it to the Democrats. And in fact, working against the Democrats now. So that's where that marriage is breaking up.

Okay. Good. That's Kurt. Very well. Nice. I did the Cellar podcast. Nobody watches it, I know, but I like doing it. And they were all making their predictions about what's going to happen. I go, BB's going to be the one that they put. Somebody wants BB out for a long time. Like somebody deep in the shadow government don't like him no more. He's going to be the perfect guy. Well, he's very unpopular in Israel. Yeah. So what does that tell you? They're not going to preserve him.

And what are we going to do once this is all sorted out and it's going to be horrific even to people? So that's why he's allowed to do this. Yeah, Mery didn't wait his turn like Velshi did. Yes, okay. So that's why, because now... You think Velshi would risk that? No, he would not risk that. So he got the okay to do this. Yes!

Democrats are losing horribly. Why else? Like that Michigan thing with the undecided vote. Yeah, that scared the hell out of them. Bill Maher is mystified how it could have happened, but they're not mystified. They know what's going on. Okay.

I don't know if you know who Sean King is, but this guy is a scammer of all scammers. Talcum X. Talcum X. I've seen this guy start so many organizations, fundraise off it, and then close the organization after he's filled his pockets with money. And he always uses black victims to raise money. And that doesn't do anything for them. And so what this guy is, is a unlawful,

Unbelievable scammer. He is, you know, that overused term grifter. That is exactly, this is the guy it was made for. This guy, Talcum X. John King.

And I've watched this guy do this over and over and over again. And now this young lady who outed our favorite, what's that guy's name? The guy, Apartheid. Where's the Apartheid? Oh, yeah, yeah. Michael Rappaport. Michael Rappaport. Well, she's back with a video that outs this guy. And even though I knew this guy was a scammer, this Sean King, I've

of the highest order. And anybody who does an event with him should be shamed.

Should be very much shamed. Anybody, now his new thing is he's really, he's turned into a Muslim and now he's going around the country trying to raise money doing speaking events. Was he Andrew Tate? Trying to do speaking events off of the Gaza massacres. Oh. Yes. He's doing speaking events. Okay, just, I just want to point out, black people knew he was full of shit for, it's gone quite some years now. Not enough of them, I'll tell you that. Some black people. But let me play this first. Let me play this. Here we go. All right.

All right, buckle up because I was not kidding. This guy is such a con artist. I am amazed that he is still able to get away with this crap in the age of the internet. We have Google, we have Twitter, we have TikTok. It is amazing to me that this guy somehow still is able to take the money and run to be scam IM.

and get away with it at this late date. So let's get into it. We'll just start with this one because it's up. He started a pack called the Grassroots Law Pack and took $40,000 of it to buy a dog. Whatever happened to Grassroots Pack, you might ask? You know what? All of his ventures just kind of disappear after a while. It's very strange. King pulled over $268,000 in salary in 2021 from this Grassroots

pack while his media company, the North Star, was paid $60,000 from email lists. But let's go back. Oh, and he got rid of the dog. He thought the dog had too much energy, so he ended up getting rid of it. So Sean King was a pastor, and then he just like left his church. Like he bailed on it. Like a Christian pastor. I know he converted.

I know you're not supposed to make fun of people and changing their religion, but I feel like in his case, it's warranted. Anyway, he started making a name for himself basically by profiting off of black people's deaths. So like after the Ferguson murder of Michael Brown, he started doing act

activism to raise money for the families, which leads me to Tamir Rice. Many of you will recall that Tamir Rice was a 12 year old boy who was killed after like two seconds of police drove up to him in Ohio. It was a horrific story. And Sean King, without his mother's consent, his grieving mother's consent, he had a conversation with her on the phone because that's what he does. He tries to like cozy up to people and like get their trust. And

he took the call with her and made it into a podcast without her consent again. Wow. I never gave you permission to raise nothing raceful to say. Along with the United States, you robbed me for the death of my son. That's who Sean King is. That's who Sean King is. Then he started a

media company called the North Star in which he raised tons of money from people getting subscriptions to it, angel investors, all this kind of shit. And supposedly this was going to be grassroots liberation journalism. But

But it came out later from whistleblower employees that he wasn't actually overseeing anything, wasn't actually doing a lot of the writing, treating the employees really badly. What happened to North Star? His con is so prolific that there have been articles written about this being like,

Sean King keeps raising money and questions about where it goes. He blamed issues at the North Star over ambition. He started another scam called Justice Together, which was supposed to raise awareness and do police accountability and all this stuff. Again, tons of unaccounted for money. He also takes credit for fundraisers he didn't

do. This was a famous fundraiser that happened during the time that Trump was separating children from their families. And these people raised all this money to try to help migrants reunite with their family. And Sean King started going around and telling people in order to build his brand more, he was the one that was responsible for this fundraiser. He started another scam pack called Take Back the

Senate, where it was supposed to focus on primary Republicans and flipping it to blue seats. Again, raised a ton of money and then it disappeared. The website just disappeared.

It disappeared. It disappeared. Red record. He was going to launch a podcast. It appears it was submitting under Justice Together, as well as working on it separately. He recruited a black organizer and then of course took the money and ran. In 2011, because this scam goes back a long time, he did like a let's raise money and climb seven mountains. He raised a ton of money doing that and then quit after four days and the website disappeared.

He started another scam organization called Hope Mob. It was supposed to be like a crowdfunding organization that was supposed to specifically focus on raising money for black families and marginalized communities, 'cause that's who he profits off of. He raised $160,000 from the Crowdsourcing Foundation. He called Hope Mob in 2013. So this whole scam, when he was raising money for families and then paying himself $160,000.

You guys, he had a fake university. He's like Trump. In 2013, Sean charged people $49.99 to teach them how to plan their lives. He did not follow through on those commitments. And the comments page highlighted issues people face. How amazing is that? He starts a scam university being like, I'm going to teach you how to clean up your life and then doesn't follow through with it. He started another bullshit pack. Pack off and

oftentimes is a black hole of money and you have no idea where it's going. You have no idea who is accounting for it. Real Justice PAC was another one. How many PACs has this guy had? And this was supposed to be addressing more issues around criminal and social justice. What happened to that PAC?

- He also attached his name and tried to ride the wave off of the Dakota Access Pipeline. Tell me how all these things just disappear and yet his revenue continues to go up. He was also called out by activists back in 2019 for his alleged mishandling of the fundraising in the case of Jasmine Barnes, who was a child

who was killed in a drive-by shooting and not following through with the promised rewards. Instead of taking the criticism, he threatened legal actions toward the young black and in at least two cases, queer writers and activists. That's what he does. So he raises money off of the trauma of black people and

Then he takes the money and run. And then if anybody confronts him about it, because he's got all these black people in his orbit, because he wants to use them for like clout and be like, oh, look at all these black people I have working for me. And then when they call him out, he just blocks them or threatens to sue them. King also did not respond to my question about the report's omission of $17,500 grant to Justice Together, an anti-police brutality organization he disbanded in 2015.

Yeah, weird how all these organizations just get disbanded. There is nothing that this guy won't do to scam people and make money.

He disputes clothing line is a scam after unfulfilled orders. So he starts this scam fucking clothing line where he's charging upwards of $155 for a hoodie. And then people weren't getting their stuff. Of course, because it's a scam. It's always a scam. Then this woman wrote, hello, it's been eight months since Sean King launched a private clothing line that sold $165 hoodies. There hasn't

It's next level pathological. You guys, he took credit for hostages being released. So to bring this all back around,

Look, he just did an event. Montreal...

- In Montreal. - He's got to go to Canada to run this shit? - Sean King and Khalid Bedoon at the Embassy Suite, Friday, March 15th. He just did it last weekend. So that was last Friday at 5:00 to 10:00 PM. $60 general admission, $120 premium. Holy shit. They'll even charge you to bring a kid in 20 bucks.

plus a $10 booking fee. So that's $30 to bring a kid to it. It's like going on a great adventure. It's all about the people, though, I thought. It's like going to Six Flags. Yeah. Where you're going to see the amazing black guy that's a white guy.

so many other causes that you guys could be giving your money to. I understand people want to give, people have good hearts, they want to help. There are so many GoFundMes through like Operation Olive Branch that are families in Rafa trying to get out that you could put that money toward. Please do not or let anybody you love

buy a $120 ticket or a $60 ticket to watch this next level grifter pretend to raise money for Gaza, because I guarantee you, Gaza will see none of that money. No, none of this money is going to see Gaza at all.

All this is going to do is further enrich Sean King and further help him build his brand as some type of fucking ambassador for human rights. Do not give this guy any of your money. I don't even know. Why are you on tour talking about Gaza? He's on tour. I'm not saying that people shouldn't be spreading awareness about Gaza everywhere they can. Okay?

Okay, so he wanted to just spread awareness about Gaza then okay the more information and the awareness people spread about God's great But that's not what this is. He's going on tour He is making a profit - why?

Why he, who is not an authority on Palestine or the Palestinian people, why is he going on tour? He's centering himself and he is going on a whole ass fucking tour like he's Taylor Swift charging hundreds of dollars a decade. It's really next level and it's amazing how many people still fall for it. He is financially predatory and now he is preying on the Muslim and the Arab and the Palestinian community and that's how he do.

in people's greatest time of need. And just like during Black Lives Matter, when there was uptick in violence against black people, he was right there to try to suck money out of their community. And that's exactly what he's doing right now. Please consider giving to one of the GoFundMes or something that gives directly to families trying to get out of RAFA. Or give to the Red Crescent. Give to UNRWA.

that is actually going to be helping the Palestinians, not helping him enrich himself. Speaking in a fucking tor-- No, the only conference he should be giving is how to be a scam artist, okay? That's legitimately the only thing he is qualified for. Hoodwink people into giving them your money and pretending it's for a good cause. Scam I am.

scam i am please share this with everybody you know that follows sean king please tag your friends so that they can see this and not give him money friends don't let their friends get scammed by talcum x i mean how old is she and so that's i just want to give her a shout out she's great i am blakely

She's a songwriter, white trash, belly ring enthusiast, non-binary. She doesn't look very non-binary. She looks very binary. Looks very binary. Look, that's great that you're calling him out. This has been known for, I mean, this back in 2015, 2016, it was known. All the media was propping him up.

It took me a while to catch on, but I did catch on. It took me a while to catch on to Sean King being a scammer. Well, talcum X, a bunch of black. Is he, is he even black? I don't think so. Am I allowed to question that as a white guy? Why are you even asking that question? I'm going to tell you he's not. So, so number one, I don't believe him. Well,

He's the whitest black guy I've ever seen in my life. This is old ass news. He's whiter than Michael Jackson was. Michael Jackson at least started out as a black guy. That's right. So this scam artist, I remember that Tamir Rice thing very well because the mother, I forgot he made a

Fucking podcast of the phone call. What a scumbag. Oh my god Like word went around about him real quick. It just didn't reach the dumb shit liberal media, right? That's all so anybody any black people around him supporting him still and I doubt there's a lot if he's doing this scam now he had to go on tour because He's used up probably his black cred finally any black people with him now are in on it number one you wouldn't be

anywhere near him unless you're in on it. So now he's doing the Muslim grip. To dumb shit Canadians who are suckers for this kind of shit and they'll believe a guy who's like not really black but gets his hair gets his hair detailed. Like this is old ass news. This is like oh we know who killed Tupac. 30 years everybody knew who killed Tupac except like a whole bunch of except me. Except me and the other white people.

So, I mean, it's great you're announcing this, but everybody knows. BLM was... Oh, also, that drive-by, he tried to blame it on white people first. Remember that? He tried to pin it on some white guy. I don't remember anything. Yeah, like, she's leaving out all that part of it. He gets it... Imagine a guy who's white pretending to be black...

showing up like an ambulance. So he's like a Rachel Dolenzal? You know, she did more work for the black community than this motherfucker. Oh, sure. She at least ran a chapter of the NAACP. Yes. She put in the work a little bit more than Sean King. I can't believe how... I remember when he started that North Star...

And I was like, there's no way he's really going to do this. And of course he didn't. He raised a bunch of money, put it in his pocket, and then he dissolved. Where is the North Star? And then all the people who worked for him there, they all complained and nobody amplified their voice. Yes. Why do you think that is? Because the media is in on it. Some NGOs probably in on it. Some other bullshit pack is in on it. These are useful people to have. These scumbag. Who's the guy that formed Media Matters? That evil fuck.

Oh, yeah, that Brock. Yeah, like that's, he's like, let's have these like David Brock kind of people form these like larva. So he's proven himself time and time again that he's a valuable asset to whatever scam, I'm not saying intelligence asset, I'm saying PAC money, all these crappy like organizations that do dirty tricks. He's perfect for that. No real people believe in him. So I just wanted to show people that that was really fantastic. ♪

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