Kentucky To Legalize “Deadly Force” Against Homeless On Your Property!
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Jimmy, I don't know if you saw me last night on CNN, but last night I was on CNN applying some of my trademark razor-sharp political analysis to the New Hampshire primary. Were you watching, Jimmy? Were you following the New Hampshire primary at all? No, David, I was not doing that.

Oh, I see. Well, Jimmy, last night all eyes were on Nikki Haley and how she was going to come out of the first actual primary season as opposed to the Iowa caucus. Which I understand was a raucous caucus, was it not? It was very much a raucous caucus, Jimmy. So raucous, in fact, that it led to the dropping out of Governor Ron DeSantis, leaving only Nikki Haley to oppose former President Donald Trump.

Analysts figure that New Hampshire was the best bet for Nikki Haley to best Trump. Were that option really ever on the table? This is all very fascinating.

Uh-huh.

And Jimmy, the next primary is in a month from now in South Carolina, Nikki Haley's home state. However, early indications indicate that she lacks requisite support even there. She is a dearth of surrogates there, and it's difficult to see a path forward for Ms. Haley with such a surrogate dearth. A poor showing in South Carolina may well be the death knell of the Haley campaign, Jimmy.

okay david thank you for your report uh but are you basically saying that trump is going to be the nominee at the end of the day and after all the wickets are counted yeah okay well you know what that is something that everybody already inherently knew no one seriously considered the possibility that anyone other than donald trump was going to be the republican nominee in 2024 did you

Well, no. So what's the point of all this jabber-jawing then?

Jimmy, it's my job. I take the obvious political thing that everyone knows is going to happen already and explain it in a really smart way how and why it will happen, thereby creating the illusion that I'm super smart and can predict the future. How clever of you.

Thanks, Jimmy. And in a bigger sense, David, I'm pretty sure everybody knows that Trump's going to win again. And it's just a foregone conclusion at this point, actually. Well, if everyone were so sure of that, what would be the point of having me on your TV show on CNN talking? Um...

That's a very good question, actually. Okay, fine, fine. Trump is going to win. I can be adaptable here. Do you want me to trade my razor-sharp political analysis hat for my fucking obvious hat? Yes. Please put on your fucking obvious hat, David. Okay, just a second. Hold on.

Where is it? His podcast is called Rod Save America. Wait, do you actually have physical hats that you take on and off? Well, of course, Jimmy. Not everything is a stupid expression. Jesus Christ. Oh, here it is. Okay. Yeah.

Yeah, fucking obviously Trump is going to win. No duh. President Biden is clearly too old and decrepit to be an effective leader, and the widespread denial of his fact borders on mass psychosis. And his base has been chiseled away on two sides. Young people who see him as allowing the worst genocide in their lifetime to occur and will never forgive him.

and middle-class moderate moms who've quietly drifted to the right because of an LGBTQ movement that to them no longer seems to be appealing to equal rights and human dignity, but rather the right for a small minority to be publicly hypersexual. But I can't go on CNN and say any of that fucking shit. Wow.

Yeah, this is a pretty great hat, Jimmy. It's all around that stuff so they can still rack up ratings based on creating a sense of suspense around this campaign season. Like,

Like, who knows what will happen? It's all a giant joke, Jimmy. You know what? I have to say I admire your candor here, David. And being creative enough to constantly justify your position when it is no longer needed, it's an impressive feat.

Thank you, Jimmy. I appreciate that. And I am off tonight. No cable news geniusing for me. So I'm taking off my fucking obvious hat and putting on my Miller time hat. It actually says Miller time on it. Oh, yeah. You got yourself a sixer of Miller High Life, do you?

No, beer gives me heartburn. I may go a little crazy and have a white claw, though. Oh. Depends on what the wife lets me do. Anyway, I'll keep you up to date on all the ins and outs of the hidden mysterious world of politics that only I understand. Or you can listen to my podcast on CNN.com where I dish on the politically undishable. Okay, thanks, David. Gotta go, pal.

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Kentucky GOP bill decriminalizes the use of deadly force against the unhoused. So let's look at this story. Come on. It can't be as crazy as it sounds, right? Well, first of all, aren't they allowed to use deadly force against whoever the hell they want if they feel in danger? I thought they were. Republican lawmakers in Kentucky introduced a bill last Tuesday that would criminalize homeless encampments and expand the state's stand-your-ground law to allow property owners to confront unhoused people with a gun.

So even though they're outside, you could pretend that they're inside your house and use a gun. Well, if they're camping out. So is this like the Portland thing where people are camping out on people's lawns? Did you see that? I did see that. I mean, honestly, I wouldn't wait. Again, I don't want to. If somebody came out on my goddamn lawn, I probably wouldn't wait for a law. I'd handle it. Maybe not with a gun, but they'd be gone. Well, I don't want to, again, I don't want to demonize the homeless people because the government can fix this problem.

They could provide housing for these people easily. We could provide, we could support the entire government of Ukraine to the tune of $150 billion or whatever we've sent there so far. Yeah, it's like making you pump your own gas. So they could totally take care of these people.

The government chooses not to. Homelessness is a policy decision. And they want you to be angry at the homeless person instead of the people with power and money to fix it. They want us fighting each other. They want you to be on edge, just like Tucker Carlson talked about when he came on this show. They want you to have to step over a homeless person to get inside a convenience store where all the products are locked up behind glass and

And then when you leave, you have a crackhead screaming in your face till you get to your car. So you feel scared and on edge and you beg for an authoritarian solution to this. Or you just leave San Francisco. But it's everywhere, Kurt. It's everywhere. There's homeless people right down the street from our house. You know how crazy this is? Because Kentucky, I mean, how much could it cost to live in Kentucky, really, that they couldn't house them? Mississippi...

The lowest. So this is their answer. Lowest homelessness in the country. That's right. Because they just build houses. You can't do that in Kentucky? Mississippi. And why did you think Mississippi did that? Why did they think that Mississippi gave the homeless housing? Because their state is so shitty, they couldn't afford one more problem.

But that's what I don't get. Like Kentucky, I haven't heard of mass migration to Kentucky. So the fact, if Mississippi can do it, it shows you that they can do it everywhere. And especially in a rich state like California, who just a few years ago was bragging, the governor was bragging, we had a $40 billion surplus.

You know what? Here's my advice. Wisdom of Solomon, once again, invite the president of China to Kentucky. That's right. That's what they should do. So instead, they're doing this. The bill dubbed as the Safer Kentucky Act already has received more than 45 Republicans. So you guys can't come up with a better solution to this problem?

Like this is their big idea. Hey, we'll just let property owners shoot people. And what's the property? Why wouldn't you put some money behind fixing this problem? Okay, so here's my question. Is the property, is it like you own like a field somewhere that you were going to build on at some point? Or is it like, like I said, that Portland thing where people are going on your lawn? I wouldn't have no meth head on my lawn. That happen to you?

I mean, look, I don't own a gun, but you might get hit with an object. I can tell you that. So I'm just ashamed that this... But, Kurt, you know, I hear you. I understand that when you have a situation like that... What if I got kids or my wife or my girlfriend? You got to do something about it. But this is exactly... They want you to...

They want you to turn to violence against a homeless person. That's what they want. They force me to do it. That means like that's forcing the issue. If you're not going to do anything, then they're forcing you to do it. Well, they're not going to do anything. This is their big idea. They want you to have to take physical violence into your own hands. And so what we should be- What are the taxes for them? Exactly. Don't the cops or somebody handle this? They pay taxes for this? So instead of them, exactly. And so instead of us putting pressure on our lawmakers to fix, I don't understand. There isn't a politician in the country who,

that even on their platform when they're running for office has a solution to the homelessness problem. They don't even see it as an issue to address. What is Joe Biden's answer to homelessness? He doesn't even address it. He doesn't even talk about it. Overton just texted me, that's the new veterans outreach program. Yeah, right. Because who's homeless in Kentucky? It probably is veterans, right? It probably is. Here we go.

I'm just ashamed that this bill even came into fruition, and I'm asking people to call their legislators and say no. How about you call your legislators and say, come up with a real solution to this? Why aren't there...

The proposed legislation grants cities the authority to designate specific areas for unhoused individuals. Okay, well, that's one little baby solution. The legislation grants cities the authority to designate specific areas for unhoused so we can build skid rows now, legally. That's what they're saying. Um...

So if individuals are found outside of the designated area residing in a tent, hut, temporary shelter, or vehicle with the intention to sleep, they may face misdemeanor charges leading to a... So they will put homeless people in jail, which in California costs about $100,000 a year per person.

But they won't just give them an apartment, which would probably cost somewhere around $30,000 a year. I mean, a tiny house don't cost that much money at all. Right, or a tiny house. That's why people get them. Again, we only have a hammer. We have no other solutions except a hammer. They're going to put them in prison for 90 days. How much would that cost? How much would that cost to imprison someone for 90 days? Why don't you take that money and get them housing for 90 days?

Because that's communism. Telling someone that they cannot sleep in their car or in an encampment does not end homelessness. Certainly taking money away from evidence-based successful housing programs does not end homelessness, said Catherine Magini, director of communications for the Louisville-based advocacy group Coalition for the Homeless. I can't believe that the Coalition for the Homeless can't make this an election issue ever. Because it never is.

The bill also gives people the ability to justify use of defensive force upon an unhoused person in instances of criminal trespass, including unlawful camping on an owner's property. I know some people who have had a hard time with people camping in their backyard. That's not smart. Say that again, would you say? I know people who had homeless people camping in their backyards and stuff like that.

Yeah, and on their property in Venice Beach. I've had people tell me that. Oh, yeah, Venice Beach. This would allow property owners to use deadly force against, again, this isn't the solution.

uh without facing so that you could you could use deadly force against people who are camping in your backyard and without facing criminal consequences so i i have had people tell me they call the cops and the cops don't do anything they're in new york uh a friend of mine somebody people set up a a nice little uh fentanyl thing outside his apartment so you gotta walk that's the thing it's like when you live in some area where you got like

Especially if somebody's mentally ill running around. Before I dated my girlfriend, she got chased. Again, there's no politician with, hey, let's build mental health hospitals for people. Let's fund mental health hospitals. No, there isn't, obviously. They want us to start shooting each other.

Go ahead. Here's this piece of info. California, New York, Florida, and Washington had the most homeless people in 2022. According to the annual homeless assessment report, the four states accounted for more than half of the nation's homeless population with 30% of the total living in California. Oh, wow.

Um, wait, wait to go Gavin. Let's make that guy president. This is, there's an element of bullshit this because they didn't say you can use the go. That's a kind of deceptive way. They decriminalized, uh,

or deadly force. What they say is you can use reasonable force to get somebody. Now, that's vague, but that don't automatically mean you could just execute people. I'm sure you'd be like, hey, get off my land. I don't think, first of all, Kentucky was already a get off my land place. Well, that's what they're saying. Yeah, like, it doesn't automatically mean you could kill. It means if someone attacks you. So this is what's even crazier almost. What?

The proposed legislation also includes a range of additional criminal charges, such as the introduction of the three strike law targeting repeat violent felony offenders. Again, so if you're willing to spend money to lock these people up, which costs vastly more money than to provide housing for them, why wouldn't you save that money and just provide housing for these people and give them mental health, which is vastly cheaper than locking someone up in a prison?

It's you're willing to spend the money on prisons. Why? Because there's a prison lobby. That's probably why. And I guess there aren't any real estate developers that want to want to develop a housing for homeless people. I guess that's it. I guess there's no money. Why wouldn't they put any money into it? Is it all in the doctor's incentive program? Because my theory, Kurt, is that they want us to have homeless people. They want us to be on edge. They want us to be begging for authoritarian solutions to these problems. Yeah, right.

Um, it also proposes heightened penalties for fentanyl distribution leading to an overdose classified fling. So again, their, their whole solution is lock peep these people up, which is really expensive. These increased criminal charges will enable. So you don't want money for drug rehabilitation, mental health or housing, but you do want more money for prisons because that's all this sounds like.

heightened penalties for fentanyl distribution. Isn't that a prescription drug from our big pharma that once again, like that cartel never has to pay a price for these things. These increased criminal charges will inevitably result in additional incarcerations in overcrowded prisons. A 2021 analysis by the Prison Policy Initiative found that if Kentucky were a country

it would have the seventh highest incarceration rate in the world as a result of criminal policy decisions. Wow. Moreover, a study by the Vera Institute of Justice found that Kentucky's jail and prison rates more than tripled from 1985 to 2018 because of the state's dependence on criminalization as a means to address issues such as poverty, homelessness, and addiction. Again, you turn addicts into criminals.

criminals and then you throw them in prison which costs way more than to treat them well so you got like whoever the real tippy top of society that wants that how you said yeah then you've got like the medium and like dumbass yeah they're like yeah the bible like have some stupid like yeah you got a tough love yeah i don't even tough love but you know i'm saying like don't coddle them by solving a problem so this is how they're solving the problem by putting every making every every problem into a criminal problem

So you make addicts into criminals, you make mentally ill people into criminals, and you make people who are homeless into criminals. And then when they're in prison, they're legally slaves. Yeah. We only got rid of that to make sure that you could still own slaves as long as they're in prison. So by the end of April, there were 21,000 people in jail and...

and an additional 9,835 people were incarcerated in state prisons. It's easier to campaign on being tough on people. Let's clean up our streets and lock these people up. Whitney, Whitney Westerfield, the Republican chair of the Kentucky Senate Judiciary Committee said in September,

It's far more difficult to do the hard work of recovery and of building people back up. Yes, that's right. - Mississippi could do it. - Mississippi could do it. - Let me guess, did they not say you have to be sober to live in your tiny house and that's why it's not a problem? 'Cause that's kind of a stupid. - So on Tuesday, various advocacy groups

held a press conference condemning the bill. We cannot continue to incarcerate everyone. It is purely remote emotional response. Yes.

We should only incarcerate people for long periods of time when we are terrified of the violent acts they might commit. Not because we are angry that they're making our lives inconvenient and have a mental health problem like addiction. Okay, addiction is not just gonna make your life inconvenient. You're gonna get attacked, you're gonna get robbed, you're gonna get your shit broken into. Right. Addicts, honestly, every bad neighbor, I live in quite a few hood-ass neighborhoods, I'm

I wasn't afraid of the gangs or the dealers on the block. I was afraid of junkies. That's who you got to watch out for because they're desperate. And so they should treat them. They should build mental health facilities. They should treat drug. How about this? And then sentence them to drug rehab, build a shitty house that they got to live in and let them be high in there. Right. And ruin the house. And then they'll die in there. And then another person will take, cause that's what they do with no house. Right. It goes to the same spot where somebody just died. That's right. So that even that, which I'm not saying that's a good solution is better than this.

So this guy says, Kentucky is attempting to legalize the use of deadly force against homeless people for doing things like unlawful camping. This is what Americans have to face once their multiple low-income jobs are not enough to pay for housing. I hate the spin of this. It's like, oh, they're trying to legalize deadly force. That's not, they're trying to shirk their responsibility of handling it. That's right. It's not necessarily deadly force. How do you get somebody off your lawn when the government's not, how are you supposed to do that?

Especially in Kentucky. I thought that's like, I can shoot somebody for coming here. You're whiskey still. But anyway, okay. Again, this is a policy choice to have these problems and to have us turn on each other. These are policy decisions. And where do they make those decisions? They make them in the state capitol and they make them in Congress.

And when Congress gets together for a session, do you think they're doing the bidding of the homeless, the mentally ill, and the addicted, and the workers? Or do you think that the session of Congress is doing a bidding of the military industrial complex and the handful of billionaires who own our media? That's exactly what a session of Congress is not there for you or your interests.

No matter who you fucking vote for in Congress, they're there to screw you. And that's including AOC, Rashid Tlaib, Jamal Bowman, Cori Bush, all of those people. They're there to screw you and they're doing it because none of them give a fuck about this problem as none of them have a solution or even proposing solutions to do anything.

Jimmy, if you...

They're doing this in Ireland. They're doing this. We've seen this all across the world now. This is what they're doing in France. They're doing this everywhere. Hold on. The people coming in illegally, bum-rushing the border, they'll pay a lot of money to put them up in your kid's school or in a nice hotel. That's right. Oh, these junkies here. The ones that are from here? Right on. Put them in jail. Put them in jail. Everybody coming in illegally. Oh, right this way. Hey, could they stay at your house? Yeah.

Imagine, they're asking people to keep illegal immigrants in their house. You could shoot a homeless American for trespassing. That's your legal... This is what happens when you're ruled by criminals.

Who still believes in this shit? This country is over and unless we have a real revolution and we have to follow the lead of the truckers in Canada and we have to follow the lead of Christian Smalls on Staten Island, we have to join together. We have to join together with Bernie Sanders voters and Trumpers and Nikki Haley voters. We have to join together with Joe Biden voters. Everybody has to come together to overthrow this government.

because only a revolution will save us. That's how fucked up it is right now. You think voting for Joe Biden is materially better than voting for anybody else, including Donald Trump? You are wrong. Joe Biden is a criminal of the highest order and the people around him are criminalizing anybody who goes up against their establishment, whether it's Stop Cop City protesters or the January 6th protesters. Entire political movements they are making criminalized and they're throwing people in jail.

And they're doing propaganda on you because Barack Obama got rid of the law that says that the CIA and the FBI can't do propaganda on Americans. They're doing that. And so this is all being manufactured, just like the Black Lives Matters were manufactured by the FBI and the CIA. How did that work out, by the way? And that was to make everyone feel on edge and afraid to vote for Donald Trump.

And that's what that was all about. And just like the January 6th is to make sure that he could never run again, just like they're doing to Bolsonaro in Brazil. The same thing. And then they're doing to stop Cop City. So if you think they're only going to do it to MAGA and they're only going to do it to Joe Biden, Donald Trump, they're doing it to black gurus. They're doing it to how do you say it? Black Uhuru.

is the group that they pin that bullshit. Socialists, black socialists. They said they were working with Putin and Russia. They might be an I hate white people club. I don't give a shit. They weren't puppets of Russia. That's right. They can say whatever the fuck they want. So if you don't think they'll do... That's why I was so upset when Cornel West came on the show and pretended that

fascism wasn't already in America and that somehow it would come to America if we voted for Trump. It's been here for quite a while, but people who live in ivory towers don't feel it and they're part of the shit lib class. So they don't. So that's why he came on the show. Fascism. And he's a shit lib gets fired. That's right. That's right. Security job security. That's right. It's, it's only fascism when someone gets fired for plagiarism. Yeah.

And then they pretend it's about skin color. Or you don't let a dildo book into a third group. That's right. Then it's fascism. So this is a global game being played. Again, there are no countries, there are only companies in the international transfer of dollars in the

Ruling class wants you to feel on edge and afraid, and they want to criminalize anybody who stands up against them. And this all started with Occupy Wall Street. And so when Occupy Wall Street happened, you saw that the establishment shit their pants, and they immediately turned Americans against other Americans.

Because Occupy, yes, Occupy Wall Street was people from the left, right and the center coming together to oppose their oligarchy. And they immediately tried to divide and conquer. And the way they did that was they told half the people that occupy Wall Street that the other half were white supremacists and Nazis.

And that the other and then a bunch of them hated gay people and all that. All this shit was completely involved, was completely manufactured to keep us fighting about things that didn't have to do with Occupy Wall Street's concerns.

And so that's what we've been fighting over ever since. Look at the studies that they've done about the mentions of racism and white supremacy in the New York Times, the Washington Post, immediately after Occupy Wall Street. It's skyrocketed. Even though racism has been going down in America and we elected a black president twice, overwhelmingly, the mentions of white supremacy and racism have skyrocketed. That's because there's a lot more black and brown white supremacists now.

And they'll call anybody a white supremacist. They called Cornel West a fucking white supremacist. They called, who's that guy who ran for governor here? Larry Elder. They call him, it doesn't matter if you're black. Vivek also. They'll call anybody a white supremacist. Because that's the only tool they have. They'll write an Atlantic piece all about how this is a real thing.

So this is the game that's being played and people need to wake up to this game. And as soon as you go down the identity politics road, and that's why I was so hard on Cornel West when he came on this show, because he ought to know better. And if he didn't know better, shame on him. But he did know better. And he just doesn't have the courage to say what's really happening in America. He doesn't have the courage to call out the liberal class the way he ought to.

and he wants to pretend that you're, and people like him, and I don't want to make it about Cornel West, but he wants to make that, just like people like him and his liberal ivory tower class want you to be afraid of your neighbor. They want you to blame your neighbors, the fascists. You've got to be afraid of MAGA and these political movements. No, you've got to be afraid of the handful of billionaires that control the deep state, the FBI, the CIA, and every session of Congress that is working against you.

That's who we need. And we need to overthrow the goddamn government. Literally, we need to do it. I say do it peacefully and it can be done. And we had to vote for Trump. That is the father. They can't have Brexit. They can't have Trump voting. They can't have any of that. And the way they do this is control. This is through narrative control and getting us to hate each other.

and be afraid of each other and don't fall for it. And that's been the message of the Jimmy Dore show for a long time, that the left and the right, we are not each other's enemies. We have more in common than it divides us. And we share a common enemy. And it's the same common enemy we had at Occupy Wall Street. It's the billionaire class that have been screwing us for the last 50 or 60 years. You don't live in a democracy. Democracy

hasn't been on the ballot since, I don't know, 1960. You live in an oligarchy and that was proven over a decade ago by the Princeton study. You don't... Democracy's not on the ballot. Liberty's not on the ballot. There is no ballot. The ballot has been hand chosen by a couple of billionaires who run everything. And that's a fucking fact.

And so it's time for everybody to quit their pettiness and their stupid fights over bathrooms. - Stop culture wars. - Stop your culture. - 'Cause you don't have a culture. - Stop your white supremacy. - You don't got no culture. - You got no culture. Stop your screaming about white supremacy and racism and Nazis. There's real Nazis running things and they're called the WEF and they're called the billionaire class.

And they have complete control. You live in a security state already. Every phone call, text and email you send is already being collected by the government. They're already can call you a terrorist and throw you in jail with a definite intention. We're living on a liberty view from somewhere around the eleven hundreds in this country. So the idea that somehow fascism might come to this country is a fucking joke. Hey, remember when the Islamic terror we all I remember these bastards thought they could tell us.

what we could say and if we could draw a guy. Remember that? Yeah, remember that? They were going to press us. They were going to put a burqa on the women and what –

They have more freedom to express themselves than us now. That's right. There's way more forbidden Salman Rushdie stab me words than any Arab country here. Look at what they're doing to the... I can't express... People are trying to stab Dave Chappelle like you Salman Rushdie. Yeah. Look what they're doing. That's right. With a gun knife. Yeah. I mean, look what they're doing to the Stop Cop City protesters. They're literally criminalizing them because they're opposing the police state.

And they're using the same RICO statute, the same grand jury they're using to go after Trump and MAGA. They're using to go after those people. When are people going to wake up? Now, Cornel West pretended he didn't get that and he was somehow dumber than me, which was a real embarrassment to him and his his reputation. It wasn't an embarrassment to me. And I hope he makes up for it. Oh, Fannie Wilson's also using RICO charges on that stop cop city. Yeah. I wonder if they're happy about this. Her affairs blown up the Trump thing because she sounds like she sucks.

She sounds like a real sack of shit. Okay, well, I made my speech. I hope everybody gets it. That's the message of this. Your enemy is not your neighbor. Your enemy is being crushed by the same oligarchy that you're being crushed for by, and they want you to blame it on your neighbor and be afraid of your neighbor and beg for authoritarianism. They could fix homelessness at the snap of a finger.

They can make sure you have health care at the snap of a finger. They make sure everybody in Israel has health care. They make sure everybody in Ukraine has health care. They just won't give you health care because then they can't control you because then you could have you could actually leave a job. You could actually organize. You could actually oppose them, those people, without fear of losing your health care. That's why they'll never give it to you.

And so that's why we need to get smart like the truckers and we need to have farmers and truckers and everybody take their vehicles, go to D.C., shut that fucking place down and overthrow the government. That's what we need. OK, now can I just tell you a step you could take? Come see me this weekend in Nashville at Zaney's. OK. Hey, you know, here's another great way you can help support the show.

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He is the he's the he's the UK. What is this guy's his labor guy? The guy instead of the other one, instead of Corbyn, instead of Jeremy Corbyn, he's the head of the Labor Party. That's what this guy is. His name is Keir Starmer. What a crazy name that is. Yeah. And here's what he has to say about he pretends. Well, watch what you'll see what he pretends. We must show Iran, but it cannot pursue its ends by destabilizing the entire region. Because like the...

Yes, only we can destabilize the entire region. Iran can't do that. Only the UK and the United States and NATO gets to do that. And if we are destabilizing it, don't try to stabilize it. That's right. Okay, so he's given a warning to Iran because they're saying that the Houthis are acting as a proxy for Iran. They're not called Houthis. They're called Ansar Allah. They're not the same kind of Shia.

as Iran. They're actually kind of closer to Sunni. It's kind of interesting, their thing. It's called Zaydi, Zaydiism. Oh, really? And it's like all based on this guy that stood up to corruption. So their whole thing is anti-corruption. They're not the rebels. They're the actual rulers of the country. So the Houthis, they keep always referring to them as the rebels. the head of the tribe that kind of took over the Zaydi movement. His last name was Al-Houthi. Oh,

So it's like saying the Moonies about the unification church. You know, I say Moonies, I don't say unification church, but Houthis is almost like a slur on them. And if you look it up, even wicked people are like, yeah, they're not called that way. Everybody just calls them that. Okay. All right, here we go. Listen to what he has to say. I totally reject the Houthi claims.

that attacking ships from around the world is somehow linked to the conflict in Gaza. So he says he rejects the idea that attacking ships around the world is somehow linked to the Palestinian cause. Hey, yeah, no shit. That's why they're only attacking ships in that one area to specifically blockade Israel. You know what? I wrote that wrong. He said from around the world. Wait a minute. And I said around the world. And that was a misinformation. I just didn't know.

that attacking ships from around the world from around the context of the conflict in gaza but it is by the way these attacks but it is linked to gaza yeah i mean they how would it not be linked to that they said that's why it is they're specifically doing so he's trying to pretend it's not linked to it oh they're just crazy these attacks do absolutely nothing for the palestinian people

uh no it's you and america and the saudis and the egyptians and pretty much everyone else that does nothing for the palestinian people these attacks actually are putting pressure on israel yeah can you imagine how how much this gets been out of control if they're they're real backers the blowfish enter the the houthis and the blowfish they're gonna blow our fish right out of the water uh

Here we go. What is needed in Gaza is a humanitarian truce now. A sustainable ceasefire to stop the killing of innocent civilians. Wait, so what he's saying is what is needed in Gaza right now is a ceasefire? Is that what he just said? Yeah. That's what everyone else has been calling for. Yeah, that's why Susan Sarandon should never work again.

For saying that. Well, you could get blackballed from Harvard for talking like that. It's basically genocide to say that. Yeah. So he's got a lot of mixed messaging. Face for the return of all the hostages, urgent humanitarian relief, and a decisive step towards a two-state solution. Because, Mr. Speaker, Palestinian statehood is the inalienable right of the Palestinian people. It is not in the gift of a neighbor.

So does he agree with me that a secure Israel alongside a viable Palestinian state is the only path to a just and lasting peace?

Well, they're going to call him anti-Semitic for this. That's what they did. Very anti-Semitic. What the hell does he think he's doing? So he's literally saying the rational thing that rational people have been saying. Paying lip service to a thing and in practice he supports making sure that thing will never happen. So that's what he's doing? Yes. He's the cure stormers, like the pussy ass labor...

You know, whatever. I don't know. He's the establishment favorite? Yes. He's a centrist or whatever. Oh, so he's just saying shit right now. I mean, I don't know if Tony Blair was a bigger pussy, I guess, is all he's good for. Oh, okay. Because, Mr. Speaker, we must stop those who sow division. We must do what we can to disrupt and deter who fits. And we must stay united.

So he's saying now he's saying two different things. So he's saying he has what's going on. He's trying to pretend he's on the same side of the Houthis at the same time. He's saying we have to stop. These are Iran's proxy. Yeah. No, but he's but the Houthis are on the side of the Palestinians and he's pretending he's also on the side of the Palestinians for a two state solution. And by the way, Palestinians are not Shia.

Okay. Iran is backing. And I thought she and Sunni were these crazy people that don't get Palestinian Sunnis. Yes. Oh, I didn't. I don't know. Well, so, so then these, these Shia are like the ones, Hey, cause nobody does anything for them around the, just, just the, the who these, and that's cause their brand of Shia is they're obsessed with this guy who is anti-corruption.

And that's why they don't accept, you know, they're the ones that control the thing, the puppets that we put in. Yeah. If you look at it, it's crazy. They didn't get radicalized against us until we invaded Iraq, by the way. So this guy's double, this guy seems to be talking out of both sides of his mouth. Yeah, labor's garbage in England. I mean, they're the worst. So the Labor Party, which is basically like

The Democratic Party in America, right? There you go. They're just completely sold out. Aaron told me with Corbyn, all that like, because if you thought there was real woke stupid shit here, England really took the piss with that. And that was to sabotage Corbyn. Yeah. Because he was too much of a, you know. A man of the people. Yeah. So they're like, he's an anti-Semite. Because what this guy's saying is anti-Semitic according to all the standards of AIPAC that I know. Yeah. Yeah.

so let's listen to him we must show iran but it cannot pursue its ends by destabilizing the entire region because like the prime minister i totally reject the houthi claims that attacking ships from around the world is somehow linked to the conflict in gaza by the way how could it not be linked that's why they're doing it yeah well it's a lie but but bb

was committed to destabilizing the immediate region yes where the attack happened yes to not have a two-state solution that's why he said he did it right well bb9 who's what he wanted the americans to bomb iraq we did it for him he wanted us to bomb libya we did it for him he wanted us to bob syria we did it for him and now he wants us to bomb iran we haven't done it quite yet i thought our aircraft carriers get a lot of that shit done on their own without us having to come

It's just amazing that he's now saying that the Houthis are the ones destabilizing the region. Well, it's probably to coincide with whatever nonsense is on their state-run news. Oh, my God. Yeah, okay. The people who destabilize that region are the United States and the UK and NATO. Yeah. Especially UK. Certainly isn't the Houthis.

The Houthis. Yeah. So, so anyway, they're not rebels. They run the country again. They're not called Houthis. And, uh, the, the guy that we back is like another Shah type, you know? Yeah. Corrupt Shah.

So we back a guy in Yemen that's like a puppet of the United States and Saudi Arabia. They've been replaced many times, the various puppets. And then they had 2014, they had some talks about it. And then their representative was killed, was assassinated. And also they didn't want to divide the country into a rich and poor section, which is what we were suggesting with our... And so according to this Intercept article,

And apparently they're allowed to tell the truth about this because they're the guy who owns the intercept here. Oh, me. I mean, every dude are is Iranian is Iranian. Well, look at him back in the Houthis. The Houthis may have checkmated Biden in the Red Sea standoff. The hard and Yemeni rebel force can't be deterred without risky and costly U.S. escalations.

So I hope our crack team of asylum seeking immigrants can take them out when we have to put boots on the ground. Over the past three months, the Houthis have attacked merchant ships passing through the Red Sea and unexpected military intervention aimed at forcing Israel to end the U.S. backed offensive in Gaza and allow aid into the besieged. So that guy from the UK, that cure stormer guy is a piece of shit. Yeah, that's well known. Well known.

The Houthi squeeze on the critical trade route is already impacting global economies. Spooked shipping companies have diverted vessels toward more costly routes.

Open a new tab. With insurance premiums and global shipping prices rising. The effects of the attempted blockade could soon be seen in the cost of oil and consumer goods worldwide, Kurt. Houthi-flation? We just got, we saw Putin-flation. Since last week, the United States launched five airstrikes on the Houthis.

The Houthis double down. They don't give a shit. They're like, we already blew up all this shit. That's right. They don't care. They fired at passing ships with several more rounds of missiles and drones. The targets included U.S. commercial vessels and a U.S. Navy warship. Signs that the rebels were only emboldened by the U.S. volley. They come off to the region like fucking Braveheart. That's how much. So it is dangerous because just them doing that.

I mean, that's a bigger black eye than... Yes. That's a... So this is like Vietnam. There's no way the United States is going to stop these Houthis. Because they've been trying to for years now. It's like Afghanistan is what it looks like to me. It looks like... Or like Afghanistan, very much like the Taliban in Afghanistan. That's a better...

During a White House press briefing on Thursday, President Joe Biden acknowledged that the airstrikes were not stopping the Houthis, but said the U.S. would keep targeting the group anyway. We saw that, right? What else are we going to do? Is it going to work? No. Are we going to keep doing it? Yes. That's what Grandpa Joe said. Why not send the IDF at them? I hear they're really good. Send their crack team of mine layers there. Yeah.

With its decision to attack, the Biden administration appears to have opened itself up to a geopolitical checkmate by the Houthis. Escalating the strikes against the rebels will likely bring more shipping disruptions.

potentially counterproductive to mitigating economic. So there are going to be, yeah. You know, and it's effective than, uh, Osama bin Laden, by the way. Yeah. And they're, and they're risking a full blown war negotiating or submitting to the demands of a non-state militia group from one of the poorest countries in the world would be seen by many as a U S surrender and would boost the Hooties newfound popularity.

Oh, boy. Okay, we got to pick. Which one do we keep going? This or Ukraine? Right? They're going to do both. Battle hardened in a brutal civil war with a Saudi-backed Yemeni government in exile. The Houthis. So you're right, Kurt, that their government is in exile.

Even the Houthis are running things in Yemen. Yeah, two-thirds of the population. So if you look at the map, it's southern Yemen, but it looks like western Yemen, but it's southern. And the bigger amount of land, very few people live there. Almost everybody lives in the Houthi section. Okay. And then we have some puppet there that you never even hear about. He doesn't even get the Juan Guaido bump of being the rightful ruler of Yemen.

The Houthis absolutely want this conflict, said Iona Craig, a journalist and political specialist focused on Yemen. It is part of their ideology, whose anti-American element was formed during the period of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. So this is called blowback.

They now very much see themselves as the defenders of the Palestinians and the people of Gaza. The Biden administration seems to be hoping that degrading Houthi capabilities will coerce them to stop. But that doesn't appear to be working.

Everyone is deterrable, and the Houthis are not lunatics. But the problem when dealing with non-state actors is that it requires more force to get them to change their strategic calculus. You can't cancel them. You can't do your cancel sanctions. Wah, wah.

He added that the Saudis also thought that they could beat the Houthis militarily without having to address any of the political demands that they were making. And Trump, that guy's there that was like, why don't you say about Trump? Trump's the guy that vetoed stopping those, what the Saudis were doing to them.

They put a bill out and Trump vetoed it. Oh, really? Yeah, he could have put an end to that. So he's buddied up with Saudi Arabia. He really let that go on. Yeah. That's his big bloody thing. Well, we got to keep the petrodollar, Kurt. Yeah. That's why we're helping Saudi Arabia do this to the Yemeni. Because our money's worthless unless we do this. That's right. Our money's worthless without the petrodollar. The Houthi is officially known as Ansar.

Ansar Allah. I don't know why they made it one word. Ansar Allah emerged decades ago as a movement opposed to the perceived corruption of the Yemeni government. The perceived. No, they were corrupt. They were real corrupt. Okay. For the past several years, the group has been at war with the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen and are currently in peace negotiations to end the conflict. The U.S. played a key role. So the United States and Saudi Arabia tried to demolish these people in Yemen, and they couldn't do it.

They couldn't do it. And now the United States thinks they're going to do it now. They're not going to do it now either. We know we won't, but we're just going to keep doing it is what the president said. Because they don't know what else to do. The U.S. played a key role in the civil war, heavily arming and for a time giving direct assistance to an air campaign by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates that inflicted huge civilian casualties in Yemen. The onslaught failed to defeat the Houthis.

The Houthis have a big force, but they rely on distributing their power broadly across the territory that they control. They rely more on being mobile than on heavy infrastructure. They have survived a long air campaign by two of the stronger militaries in the region, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, and have adapted how to move and operate their forces accordingly. Not only are the Houthis distinguishing themselves as champions of the Palestinian cause, but

They are also rehabilitating their reputation at home. So this is all a win-win for the Houthis. Wow. Anger towards the U.S. seems likely to grow in the region as the Biden administration appears to be. So this is all the stuff they said Trump would do. Yeah. Going to make enemies, make more terrorists, turn our friends against us, all this stuff.

And this is exactly what the Biden and the Neal cuts are doing.

This is, like I said, there's going to be some Robin Hood brave hardship to their citizens. And then what are these other countries going to do if they're teetering on the same brink of collapse that Netanyahu was on just before October 7th? Well, Kurt, the U.S. should consider that these actions in Gaza are enraging people throughout the region. The local perception is that when Palestinian blood

was being shed over the last three months, no one was bothered. But when the economic interests of the West were threatened, they immediately acted. This message fits right into Houthi rhetoric and is resonating very strongly in the region. Houthi rhetoric, I have a hard time believing that the people were like, no, maybe America's all right until just now.

The Biden administration and the United States policymakers have not yet grasped how anti-Americanism is in the region. How high? How would you not grasp that? It's at a level that we have not seen since the war in Iraq. Even if they claim that this is an Israeli operation and we have nothing to do with it, the Arab public doesn't buy it. Oh, is this news? Afghanistan, they're wearing red turbans that say, make Afghanistan great again. Yeah.

With the U.S. military now stuck in an exchange of attacks with the Houthis, experts say the Biden administration has no good options. I don't think that the U.S. is trying to engage in regime change in Yemen. Of course they are. But if this continues to snowball, that may end up being something that the administration may try. That's what they've been trying to do. They can try. How's it been going so far? They've been trying to do that for years.

And it's not going well. Have we won any of the... No. Imagine like... Afghanistan. Yeah. Just like in football. If the game went on for 20 years and then they're like, hey, who won? You just don't talk about it. Imagine a team like that. That's us. Hey, this is Jimmy. Who's this? Jimmy.

This is actor, director, producer, podcaster, husband, father, brother, and now twice indicted felon, Alec Baldwin. Oh, friend of the show, Alec Baldwin, how are you doing? I have seen better days if I'm being completely forthright. Yeah. Forthrightness is part of my Hibernian nature. Same here, pal.

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That's right. Yeah, it looks like there's nowhere to run now, huh, Alec? Oh, yeah? How so? You killed a woman. Yes.

I submit no, Jimmy. There is no dispute that I did indeed fire the gun that killed that poor woman. Nobody claims otherwise. But I ask you, do you genuinely think that I was aware that there was a live round in the chamber? No, I don't think that, but you were responsible.

The responsibility to properly load the gun was the job of the armorer. It is the armorer's one and only job. Jimmy, have you ever hired an armorer for something? Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

No, no, I haven't. Exactly. What the hell else do they do? I don't know. Other than make sure people don't get killed on movie sets. It is wholly unreasonable to think that I would have any idea that the armor would have loaded the gun with a real bullet. Okay. I mean, I see, but aren't you, aren't you responsible for the lax measures on safety measures on that set? You're the executive producer, right?

Jimmy, have you seen the videos that are in the possession of the prosecution showing me ardently rehearsing scenes on the set of Rust where all safety, including gun safety, is clearly my top priority? No, I haven't seen those. Of course not, because they don't want you to see it because that would interfere with their efforts to try this case in the court of public opinion. Oh, okay. I see. Okay.

And are you familiar with an NBC news story about my case dated November 15th of last year? I'm afraid not. Well, allow me to quote a brief section towards the end. Prosecutors haven't said publicly what new evidence they've obtained during their months of investigation, but a source familiar with the case said the special prosecutors have had discussions in which they said they hope the trial will, quote, humble Baldwin.

Boy, is that for real?

Real as a fucking donut. So there we have it, Jimmy. Two women in a position of power in order to humble a male public figure for things they read about in People magazine have decided to use a murder charge as their yardstick with which to swat my Irish Catholic butt. Oh, no, no. Oh, yes. No. I'm afraid we have to do this, Jimmy.

I know it will be painful, but you'll survive. Jimmy, are you on my side now or the special prosecutors? Please don't do this. God answer me, man. Yours. Okay. I'm on your side. Are you happy? Ecstatic. I know this is difficult for people. I am a roundly disliked individual. There is no argument there. Oh,

Only three of my 11 children still speak to me, and all three are younger than four years of age. This is no Algonquin roundtable we're talking about. But none of that means I am literally a murderer. A teachable moment? Really? I can't believe it. Jimmy, I know you. Perhaps even better than you know yourself. Jesus. And you go where the evidence takes you, no matter where that leads. And you know where this leads.

My innocence. Okay, well, maybe, I guess, okay, I mean, what do you want from me? I want to be a good guy on your show. I'm tired of being the villain. Alec, no! I want to be like Al Pacino or Vince Vaughn calling in. All laughy-laughies and love fests. I'm good at that sort of thing, I swear. Unless I get angry and then things get weird. I don't know. I gotta think about it.

I could call in with updates from the trial. Who knows what hijinks we could get into. All right, I'll think about it. We got to go, Alex. Thanks for calling. Thank you, Jimmy. This means the world to me. Yes, I'm coming. I'll be there in a fucking minute. Hey, become a premium member. Go to JimmyDoreComedy.com. Sign up. It's the most affordable premium program in the business. Don't freak out. Don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't.

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