Senate Votes To ALLOW Debanking Over “Misinformation” & “Hate”!
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Jimmy D, it's Alfonso P. How are we doing in this, Izzy? Ah, legendary actor and friend of the show, Al Pacino. Good to hear from you. Why are you calling today? It's that time of year again, my friend. Time for Al Pacino's Oscar roundup. Oh. Jimmy, did you watch the 97th Academy Awards on Sunday night? Absolutely not.

Neither did I. I was watching reruns of Riptide. But I also did not watch any of the nominated pictures. Never the fucking less, here's my inside scoop. Are you ready? Born ready, Al.

All right, here we go. The big winner of the night, Anora. Or should I say, Ahora. I know. Jimmy, the movie's about a fucking prostitute. I'm sorry. A sex worker. A very brave sex worker. Securing her sexuality. A true hero's journey. Of course.

Best picture, best director, best original screenplay, because it's not based on a true horror story. And best actress went to Mikey Madison, showing that Hollywood is still so sexist, you gotta have a man's name to win best actress. Right.

And this was the biggest upset of the night. Everyone had all their money on Demi Moore for Best Actress for her much-lauded performance in The Substance. In this movie, The Substance, Demi Moore eats some fucked up thing and then becomes young and hot. And everybody's fucking naked. Again, very brave. Very brave indeed, Al.

A movie about the horror of being an aging actress in Hollywood and how women become devalued with age. And I can certainly relate. Just kidding. Last year I had a baby with a 22-year-old. Skibbity-bibbity-bye. Ah. Good for you, pal. Okay, back to Anora. Did you see it? No.

Me neither. Fun fact. Anora is the lowest box office making best picture in history. Really? Wait, are you serious? Yep. Nobody saw that fucking thing. Not even actual prostitutes. Back in my day, when the Godfathers won best picture, everybody had seen the fuck out of those movies three or four times. The Oscars. Who is this for? Why? Yeah, I don't get it.

Yeah, nobody does. It's a magic trick. Moving on. Adrian Brody won Best Actor for The Brutalist, a four-hour movie about an architect. Yeah. Oh, get the popcorn. Oh. Shit like that is catnip for the Academy. Yeah. And then this bozo goes up and gives a fucking six-minute speech. No. Which is like a century in Oscar broadcast time. The orchestra tried to play him off. He told them, shut up. Jesus.

You know you fool yourself when you tell a bunch of people literally crouched in a pit beneath you to shut up. You're talking now. Fuck that guy. All right. What else? In memoriam. That's always sad. Always have a few dear friends in there. But this one came right on the heels of the Gene Hackman who passed away. Can I say what the fuck happened there?

I'm serious. I don't even have a joke there. 95-year-old man dies under mysterious circumstances. Well, better get fucking Scooby-Doo on a case, because I need to know. Yeah, very fishy. And of course, we got to see those two weird women from Wicked.

which I've never seen before, but is apparently part of the Wizard of Oz extended universe, something I did not know existed. And now that I do, I'm very mad about it. These two brave girls have anorexia and sing songs. That's how they're brave. But luckily for me, they got it out of the way in the beginning. Gave me more time to work on my snack tray. I thought you said you didn't watch the Oscars.

Well, now that I'm talking about it, I realize I did. I forgot. That ever happen to you? No. Just thought it happened recently. No explanation I can think of. Onora was the big winner on Sunday. Yeah, yeah. You already did that one out. Right, right. Okay. And, of course, the elephant in the room is Carla Sofia Gaston. Who? Who?

The nominee for Best Actress for Emilia Perez, which is the name of yet another movie no one fucking saw. Nope, nobody saw it. She is a trans actress who played a trans woman in that movie. Again, brave. Brave. Why is that controversial, though?

Because old tweets of hers surfaced. Everyone's favorite fucking sentence. Apparently she said racist shit and was praising Hitler or something. Many said she shouldn't attend the Oscars, but she showed up. Telling the world I am a brave trans woman who is a Nazi and I will not be silenced. Inspiring. Jimmy, I was inspired. Amazing.

And that's about it. Conan did a good job, I thought. Didn't even try to work Andy Richter in there in some awkward way. Hats off to that. And most importantly, nobody got slapped. Amen. Except for this meat right here when the prostitute girl won Best Picture. Hoorah! This has been Al Pacino, and I will call you again in a year. Arrivederci. Oh, okay. Arrivederci. Arrivederci.

So you know how they will debank people like they did to the truckers in Canada, eh, when they were protesting against mandatory vaccines? Oh, they'll do it to people just on content creators. Like they did it to the Gray Zone, right? They took away their money from GoFundMe. They do it to Jackson Hinkle. He's been kicked off Venmo and PayPal, everything, right?

And so if you go against the establishment, they will debank you. And now Senate Republicans just legalized it. Great. Yeah. Laura Loomer, who's been debanked over and over, she's a big right-wing influencer, she tweeted this out, happening now. Senate Republicans are voting to legalize debanking by voting to remove the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau...

Now, Elon Musk is against that too. They have a rule that bans payment apps from banning people without cause. So if it wasn't for the consumer finance, that's the one thing that Doge is doing that I can point to and say that is wrong, for sure. We need the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. So whatever you've heard about that, it's propaganda. And it's propaganda from people who want to be able to debank you. Israel again. And so, yeah, here's Laura Loomer saying,

I said, I don't want to hear that the GOP called themselves the Free Speech Party ever again. That's Laura Loomer. That's not AOC. So your uniparty is turning against you again. You don't live in a free country. Just so you know. Who called them the Free Speech Party? What idiot would have called...

So well, I don't remember ever saying anything that moronic ever. Well, because Republicans are the free speech party. Well, because the Democrats got so censorious during covid, Kurt.

And so they they kind of wait. They kind of ceded that ground to the Republicans. So then people like Elon Musk will let you come on Twitter and talk about covid and the vaccines. And people like Donald Trump will stand up and say, you can say so. They've ceded this, even though they're not really for it, as we've seen right here. Laura Loomer is telling you the GOP is not the free speech party because this because of this exact thing they're doing.

So what's the thing where you get money? We get it from our website. What's the other thing? Patreon. Patreon. Okay. So Patreon, we'll debunk you, debank you, and they'll keep your money. So will PayPal. They'll keep your money. So we'll GoFundMe. I think Stripe's a part of that as well. And let's remember, yeah, and Stripe is a part of it. Stripe bidded to that guy, Simon Atiba.

who was the black guy who was confronting Joe Biden's White House. And X uses Stripe, I believe, too, by the way. Yeah, yes. So remember this? Banks have begun freezing accounts linked to trucker protests.

So lots of people have been forced to defend themselves with trucks and Americans just have guns. But a lot of them are also attached to the backseat of a truck. So keep that in mind. Here is Mark Andreessen. And he was on Joe Rogan a little while ago. And he this is what he's about to tell you right now is complete bullshit. So but a lot of people and he tricked me at first.

And then I saw my Russ and Keaton debunk this, but watch what he says. What he's going to tell you this here right now is all garbage. Watch this. So, for example, this thing called the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau, CFPB, which was the sort of Elizabeth Warren's personal agency that she gets to control.

And it's an independent agency that just gets to run and do whatever it wants, right? And if you read the constitution, like there is no such thing as independent agency. And yet there it is. What does her agency do? Whatever she wants. What does it do though? Basically, terrorize financial institutions, prevent new competition, new startups that want to compete with the big banks. Oh, yeah. How so? Just by terrorizing anybody who tries to do anything new in financial services. Can you give me an example? You know, debanking. Okay.

This is where a lot of the debanking comes from is these agencies. So debanking is when you as either a person or your company are literally kicked out of the banking system. Like they did to Kanye. Exactly. Like they did to Kanye. My partner Ben's father has been debanked. Really? We had an employee. For what? For having the wrong politics. For saying unacceptable things. Under current banking regulations. So who they're going to really go after is anybody who challenges the corporation and corporations of guys like this.

So especially if you're going to speak out against Israel. So they're going to debank you if you they're going to say you're a terrorist because you're supporting terrorism and Hamas. And so there's that. Plus the same thing they did to the truckers. So what he's telling you is he's pretending that somehow left the lefties have control over the financial regulations in this country. They do not. That you have to be a jackass to believe that.

that the banks and Wall Street and corporations don't control the banking. So let's keep going. Okay, here's a great thing. Under current banking regulations, after all the reforms of the last 20 years, there's now a category called a politically exposed person. And if you are a PEP, you are required by financial regulators to kick them out of your bank. What? You're not allowed to have them. What if you're politically on the left? That's fine. Okay, so he's lying.

He's lying about that. So people on the left don't get debanked. Yank, yank. Of course they do. I just told you all the people who do. Gray Zone, Jackson Hinkle. Everybody gets debanked on the left. People who they can say, oh, you're pro-Palestinian. You're supporting terrorism. You're going to get debanked. So that's...

he's just making that up, right? He's trying to make you think that woke politics somehow controls the banking in America. But no, we're talking about people like PayPal and people like Patreon and people like Stripe and those people who want to do banking without actual banking regulations and then they can steal your money. So he's trying to pretend that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau are the people doing that. They're doing the exact opposite.

And now you want to know how? So Elon Musk says delete the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. There are too many duplicates. So of course he's against it because he wants to have his own banking done through Twitter. And he doesn't want anybody actually making sure it's done in a fair way. Lee Fong...

He says the CFPB has loudly opposed the banking. So it's the exact opposite. What Mark Andreessen was saying that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is debanking people, they're doing the exact opposite. The exact opposite. So you're being lied to. You're being lied to by Mark Andreessen. You're being lied to by Elon Musk. Where's the evidence?

Left unmentioned in this screen is the fact that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has investigated Andreessen-backed startups for scamming people. So they're scamming people. Oh, you mean he wasn't being terrorized? No, they were scamming people and taking their money. And I'm going to show you how they did it. Not for political speech. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

De-banking comes from the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security, not the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Just so you know. And just so you know, you want to see how much they fight against de-banking? This is from, I got this from due dissonance when they covered this.

This is from Lee Fang's writing. He says, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, in a legal filing to an appeals court last week, cited the debanking of Christians as a form of the across-the-spectrum discriminatory behavior by financial institutions it is seeking to curb. So what they're doing is, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was advocating on behalf of Christians who were being debanked.

The new free speech on financial platform push led by the CFP director Rohit Chopra opens up a significant rift within the Biden administration and offers a glimpse of potential ideological realignment. In recent years, activists from both the right and the left have been banned from bank accounts and digital financial platforms over political speech related allegations with virtually no due process.

So like that guy, Simon Abeyta, who he was the started a newspaper or a news organization. He's from Africa. He had credentials to go to the White House briefing room and he always challenged Jen Psaki. They debunked him so he couldn't no any longer take donations to his Web site, which ran on subscriptions because I think it was Stripe. Stripe debunked him. They said you violated our terms and that's it.

So left and the right. So this should matter to everybody. And don't listen to guys like Marc Andreessen, who's lying to you because he wants to be able to. He's the guy who wants to be able to debank you and take your money. That's what this is about. And of course, the people with the big money own the government, meaning the senators who just voted for this.

As they scream free speech, and then they scream, as he goes on Joe Rogan and lies to you that he's against debanking, he's actually for it. He actually wants to get rid of the one organization in government that fights debanking, which is the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

The issue presents a new cross current of unlikely bedfellows. Christian conservatives and a flank of Republican legislators are fighting alongside populist Biden administration figures such as Chopra, the guy who runs the Consumer Financial Protection Agency Bureau. So Christian conservatives and a flank of Republican legislators fighting alongside this guy who runs the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

For free speech rights and new protections against debanking. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau wants protections from you being debanked. They are up against an alliance of tech giants. Oh, like Andreessen and Elon Musk and Zuckerberg.

They're up against an alliance of tech giants and banking lobbyists, along with some voices at the Department of Homeland Security and liberal nonprofits who favor unlimited corporate rights to remove users over allegations of misinformation or hate. So that's who's really being debunked now, debanked.

While many prominent Democrats have embraced speech restrictions, Chopra, the guy who heads the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has charted his own course and reached out to the right. And here he is right now. This is that guy. This is Rohit Chopra. And he's going to tell you about how he's fighting the head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the guy that this is the bureau that

And Dreesen was pretending was the people debanking you. He's going to tell you how he's fighting against it.

received some communications and there was news about this about the ability of that company to be able to sanction or fine you taking money and confiscating it out of your account for your activities or speech that may have been unrelated to payments. In other words, creating a way in which they're setting laws or conditions outside of the democratic process that deny or foreclose access to what is essentially essential payments infrastructure in the society. So I think we should all really worry about how modern day business practices

that encourage the accumulations of capital for these network-based businesses with difficult switching costs that cannot really be easily replicated, that are sometimes referred to as winner-take-all markets. At what point do those entities start becoming lawmaking bodies, regulators on their own? And I think, you know, I... So what he's saying is that what's happening is people like PayPal, people like Patreon, people like Apple Pay, people... They're becoming...

The people, monopolists, who get to control and do whatever they want with your money and steal it without any oversight or regulation. And the only thing standing between you and that is this. And this is what Elon Musk wants to get rid of. Why? Because he wants to set up his own banking at Twitter.

And he doesn't want people breathing down his leg. And he wants to be able to take your money and intimidate people. That's what this is about. I know that sounds great. Well, that's exactly what's happening. Well, Andreessen and the other guy, it's what, what's his name was saying about the network state, Steve Bannon. Yes. He said, that's what they want is this year, this world of renters and you're under all these different laws. That's right. Yeah. So that's exactly, exactly what Steve Bannon was saying. These are the techno feudal law Lords. Yeah.

So, yes, this guy's... And so let's see if he has anything more to say here. Hang on. A regulatory agency that is subject to all of the ways in which the Congress can simply pass a law to change through the democratic process. That is not necessarily what we have with these enormous agglomerations of power today. So...

I mean, it's the big picture, the mystery of the missing money that hasn't been resolved because of money. This is from Axios, and I got this from Due Dissonance. They covered this in a much more thorough way. The trustees say that Synapse, which is a company associated with Andreessen, doesn't have to pay for an outside firm to reconcile the ledgers, estimating it would cost between $2 and $3 million. So what happened was...

It's not a guarantee that all the funds would be found in a reconciliation process, but it's the best. So this company goes broke, synapse, while it has your money. Well, let me look. Let me see this. When startups collapse, the losers usually are direct shareholders like investors, founders, and employees. But when...

But when fintech synapse went under earlier this year, thousands of users also were left holding the bag. In some cases, that meant their life savings. Catch up quick. Synapse was a middleman connecting fintechs that didn't have banking licenses with actual banks.

It raised just over $50 million in venture capital funding, most recently in a $33 million Series B round in 2019, led by Andreessen Horowitz.

Earlier this year, a dispute over an account balances arose between Synapse and the lender Evolve Bank, resulting in Synapse locking users out of their accounts. Synapse's fintech partners bailed and bankruptcy followed. So the guy, Andreessen, is doing the exact thing. He's confiscating your money and he doesn't want people like the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to be able to stop that. And that's why he lied to

And said that, oh, it's the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that's actually debunking people. No, he's the one. So earlier this year, so...

That dispute remains unresolved with the court appointed trustee estimating that there are between $65 million and $95 million in missing funds. For example, a woman named Kayla Morris so far only has recovered $579 of her $282,000 that she believed was kept in an FDIC insured account. Cash that the mother of three had saved to buy a house in

And this company took it. It took it. And so the trustee says that Synapse doesn't have enough to pay for an outside firm to reconcile the ledgers. So now they're saying, oh, well, they went bankrupt. So that lady loses all her money. And Marc Andreessen wants to make sure there isn't a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau around to stop this garbage. So this is what the Consumer Financial Protection, this is what they actually do.

They saved $19.6 billion. They got $19.6 billion returned to consumers who were screwed over by banks and startup companies like that and by people like Andreessen. Approximately, 195 million people

We're able to get relief because of the kind of, that's almost 200 of the 330 million people in America were able to get some kind of financial relief from illegal banking practices by people like Stripe, PayPal, Apple Pay, Patreon, companies like Synapse, and $5 billion in civil money penalties. So that's what the consumer, they're fighting for you.

That's why it's called the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and not the Banking Financial Protection Bureau. And so what the Senate Republicans just did was they made it okay for people like Andreessen, Stripe, PayPal, Apple Pay, Patreon, people like Synapse to screw you and to bank you.

Senate Republicans on Wednesday moved to allow payment apps like Venmo, PayPal to return to ideological debanking. So now they so the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau had a rule that stopped it. And now the Republicans in the Senate just voted to make that happen again, to let Venmo and PayPal debank you.

Repealing a rule implemented in December, just in December, by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. They just put a rule in to save you from being debunked by Venmo and PayPal, and the Republicans just voted to get rid of that rule, and that's why Elon Musk wants to get rid of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. So you're being lied to by Elon and anybody like Andreessen when they tell you that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is not on your side. They are. They're the only thing standing between you and places like PayPal and Venmo.

repeal of the rule would leave users of the apps in limbo as the laws protecting consumers would still be in place, but the rule enforcing that law and the Bureau with the capacity to enforce it would not be in place. So they're trying to get rid of the CFPB. The vote on Wednesday afternoon won support of every Senate Republican who voted with the exception of Josh Hawley. Josh Hawley, he's got his mind right on this.

who has regularly broken with his party in support of populist economic policies. The resolution to repeal the rule did not require the typical 60 votes, meaning Republicans could repeal the debanking rule with just 51 votes and without needing a Democratic support. In order to repeal the repeal to go into effect, the House also has to pass a companion measure

Resolution 64, sponsored by Representative Mike Flood. With Democrats in opposition to repeal, only a handful of Republicans would need to vote to block the effort. So hopefully someone like Massey and someone like would vote against it. Rand Paul? Rand Paul's in the Senate. Oh, right.

The CFP rule, which took years to implement due to Wall Street opposition, covers any non-bank financial institution like PayPal, Venmo, Patreon, Stripe.

that sees at least 50 million transactions annually and is not a small business. In other words, simply accepting payment for a service would not trigger the rule, but if the app allows money to move from one party to another, as is the case with Google Pay, Apple Pay, Zelle, and others, then the app would be required to follow the relevant laws. The company formerly known as Twitter, which is now Elon Musk's ex, would be covered if it added such a service.

which is they want to do. Elon Musk has signaled he wants to do. He wants to do like his own version of PayPal at Twitter. The same is the case with WhatsApp, which has similarly discussed allowing users to make such transactions. So they want to have, they want to act like a bank, but they don't want to be regulated like a bank. That's what this is all about. This sounds very familiar. Like the, you know, we're not, we want to, we're a publisher, but we're not a publisher. That's right. It sounds like the same game. Meta,

CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk, who doubles as a White House employee, fought hard for the elimination of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. So again, billionaires are not your friend. Billionaires are not your friend.

The move by Senate Republicans to repeal the debanking rule is rich, given that the alleged debanking by the CFPB was a major allegation leveled by the oligarchs to argue on behalf. So they use they say they use that bullshit argument that Andreessen just did on Joe Rogan, that bullshit argument that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau are the ones debanking people. That's a bullshit argument. They actually fight against it.

The CFPB does not debank consumers for ideological reasons, but instead has fought that practice. So just like with the H-1B visa, how Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk fucking lied to you about it, they're lying to you about this seek, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and debanking. What's it's designed to do is to make sure that we aren't foreclosing to people options that are available to them. They don't mean foreclosing like

What they mean is they're going to not give you the information you need. He's bastardizing that word. Senator Deb Fischer, a Nebraska Republican who narrowly avoided being upset in 2024 by an independent populist opponent, Dan Osborne, voted to move forward on the resolution. No kidding. She told Dropsite News she is not concerned that repealing the rule would lead to conservatives being debunked. Oh, really? Really? Even though they did it to the truckers? Even though they're doing it to Christian organizations?

Oh, Rick Scott, that piece. Oh, my God. So Representative Rick Scott, the guy who used to be the governor of Florida. Yeah. He helped ruin Medicare. He oversaw the largest Medicare. He was responsible for the largest Medicare fraud in American history. Do you know what he did? It's so utterly despicable. They just basically doubled the government, like just started ripping off the government because they don't ever dispute the charges. That's right. That was his big, bright idea. Scumbag.

He said he's going to support this. So he's supporting you being screwed over by PayPal, Venmo, Stripe, and whatever Meta does, whatever Zuckerberg does, whatever Elon Musk does. And don't forget that they just take your money. They'll take it. They took Grayzone's money at GoFundMe. They just took it. And they can close your PayPal account, and they don't have to give you your money back. I support it, said Rick Scott, who's a criminal.

I think it makes sense. I've gone through each of these. We've got to continue to look at all these regulations. Senator John Hovind, a Republican from North Dakota, said he supported repeal of the rule because the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau had pushed its authority too far. Asked if he was worried. So he's worried about the techno-feudal lords. That's who he's worried about. He's worried about the PayPals and the Stripes and the Venmos.

Asked if he was worried that conservatives could be debunked as a result. He said he wasn't sure. I guess I'm not familiar enough with that to know the answer, he said. An hour before the vote. Boy, it's good. Wow. Far-right activist Laura Loomer has been banned from many online payment systems due to her politics, including PayPal, Uber, and GoFundMe.

While the CFPB is often partisan, it's not wise to throw the baby out with the bathwater. Laura Loomer wrote on Wednesday, Republicans are now paving the way for more debanking in America. You can oppose the ideological bias of CFPB while also not voting to repeal consumer and free speech protections when we 100% have a monopoly in our country by big tech companies as it relates to payment services. And this is exactly what Steve Bannon is warning us about and warned about on our show.

that these tech lords like elon musk and the people who run paypal and zuckerberg that these people want to rule over you you'll own nothing you'll have to use their service and they can be able to cut you off yeah so they can control you and that's why they want to get rid of cash and that's another reason why they want to get rid of cash

In 2021, PayPal and the Anti-Defamation League announced a joint effort to fight extremism and hate, which the ADL routinely defines as criticism of Israel. So they'll debank you if you criticize Israel. They'll say you're supporting a terrorist organization. Boy, that should really help do away with anti-Semitic conspiracy theories about the banks. Right? I mean, unbelievable.

Debanking a consumer for criticism of Israel violates non-discrimination laws, but with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau rule repealed, PayPal and the ADL would more easily be able to do so. So they're doing this at the... So the ADL can go in and debank you. The ADL is one of the most despicable groups that has ever existed on the planet. So, because they support legit Nazis when it serves them. Talk about an inverted...

So Mel says yesterday afternoon, Senate Republicans voted to repeal a new rule passed in December by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which prohibited payment apps like Venmo and PayPal from debanking users for political and ideological reasons. Yes, you read that right. Republicans voted in favor of more debanking because, you know, the financial system has never been weaponized against conservatives. Right.

And who is behind the biggest push for more debanking? The ADL, of course. These people deserve to lose so badly in 2026, it's not even funny. But the problem is... Lose to who? Another pro-Zionist faction of the government? That's right. There's nowhere to go. There's nowhere to go.

Molly White says, as I wrote recently, debanking is a crypto rallying cry only to the extent that it supports their deregulatory agenda to be dropped the second that addressing it might result in consumer protection requirements forcing companies like Coinbase to treat consumers properly. Right now, I know people who are locked out of their Coinbase. Why? For political reasons.

How's it? Wow. Because they're being pressured by Israel. That's why, Kurt. Right now, I don't think I'm at liberty to say who because these people, this organization told me in confidence, so I'm not going to say who it is. And Coinbase cheers the demise of Consumers. Why? Because they want to be able to do whatever Israel says and debank you. So I know people right now who are locked out of their Coinbase accounts.

And aren't able to get their money out. And the Republicans in Congress just voted to screw you harder. To debank you more. To make you more at the whim of people like Venmo and PayPal and Stripe and Elon Musk and Zuckerberg and the ADL. Really, all kinds of crazy people could just be in charge of if you can live. And so...

He's this. Jared is saying that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau director Chopra warned the audience of Wall Street debanking and conservatives with. So there you go. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which Elon Musk made you think was the enemy. Same thing with Mark Andreessen. They're actually the enemy. So just like Steve Bannon told us, these are the guys who want to control you and they don't want any regulation and they're getting it.

They're getting it because you don't live in a fucking democracy. You live in an oligarchy. And the oligarchs are Elon Musk. The oligarchs are the guys who run PayPal and Venmo. The oligarchs are Zuckerberg. People worth hundreds of billions of dollars. People whose names are on those Epstein lists that ain't going to come out. That's right. I say they change the name of the Gulf of America to the Gulf of where the F is the Epstein files.

So this is when MAGA is supposed to step up. So that's why people have to use Give, Send, Go now instead of GoFundMe. So that's why lefties use Give, Send, Go when they want to do crowdfunding. Because GoFundMe will just take your money if they don't agree with your politics, which they did to the gray zone, Max Blumenthal. I'm sure some intel service commanded it. So this is all happening right now.

And I don't know anybody else. Due Dissonance is telling you about it. I'm telling you about it. Lee Fong's telling you about it. But you're not going to hear the truth about this. I don't think you're going to hear the truth about this anywhere in corporate media. Because corporate media wants you to be debanked. They want to have control over you. APEC controls the legislation. They control legislators.

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I wonder, wow, that's less than half. What happened, do you think? Oh, right, it was the ethnic cleansing in broad daylight. Isn't that... That'll do it, I think. I should have banned TikTok sooner before I saw it. Yeah. Before Israelis bragged what they were doing on it. Not being exposed, bragging about what they were doing. But you know what this also tells me is that...

Is that there's still a big percentage of people in my beloved nation who still are completely okay with blowing up little children. That's what that says. There's still a big... A lot of Piers Morgans? Yeah, a lot of Piers Morgans. Is it wrong? And so here's the chart. America's sympathies in the Middle East situation from 2001 to 2000. So right now, do you support Israel? It's down to 46. Do you support Palestinians? It's up to 33. That's where we are.

That doesn't make any sense, though. Why wouldn't we all collectively embrace having all our money being drained out of us to a group of people who, you know, who spit on us and hate us? Sure.

Who sex traffic kids to blackmail our leaders because that's who did Epstein. Why? It's not a conspiracy. It's the obvious truth. Why wouldn't I embrace having my free speech and my banking taken away because or being viciously attacked for any minor criticism of Israel? Why wouldn't I support that? Just doesn't add up.

I still haven't had a BDS laws explained to me why that's OK. I've never even boycotted Israel or don't even know how to go about doing that. Why would there be a law that says I can if I want? That's because they APAC controls our legislation and our through through controlling the election of our elected representatives. That's why.

that's why you send cops and make me buy brands of hummus that i don't want i can i can i can boycott i can boycott new york i can boycott florida i can boycott alaska but i can't boycott israel isn't that interesting and they'll debank you glenn greenwald says support for israel among americans it's at his lowest level in more than 25 years i wonder why jews themselves too

Less than half of Americans now support Israel, with support for Palestinians increasing largely due to Biden's funding of Israel's war.

well not just that there's a bunch of other stuff such as the uh it was televa you know it was on everybody's phone what they were doing and also in their words what they were doing was insane it was like if you had immigrant parents that didn't know not to use the f slur about gays yeah because another country that's how to line the things the israelis were saying were so it was shocking in our last 10 years of political correctness to hear how outright racist they are

So you remember, so this is why they banned TikTok. Glenn Greenwald reminds us these trends are a major reason TikTok was banned in the United States as multiple Democrats and GOP sponsors of the bill admitted.

It passed because members of Congress, especially Democrats, became convinced that the TikTok was allowing too much criticism of Israel. And you want to hear them say it? They're going to say it. So there's Antony Blinken. That's Joe Biden's secretary of state. And he's going to tell you right out why they banned TikTok. The way this is played out on social media has dominated the narrative. And you have a social media ecosystem environment in which people

Context, history, facts get lost, and the emotion, the impact of images dominates. And we can't discount that. But I think it also has a very, very, very challenging effect on the narrative.

A small parenthetical point, which is some wonder why there was such overwhelming support for us to shut down potentially TikTok or other entities of that nature. If you look at the postings on TikTok and the number of mentions of Palestinians relative to other social media sites, it's overwhelmingly so among TikTok users.

So I know that's of real interest and the president will get the chance to make action in that regard. Now, normally. So there you go. So there they go. Admitting that they banned and shut down. Do you want to shut down TikTok? Because they're telling you too much truth about Palestinians. Too much free speech. Not good. Mitt Romney just told you.

But get this. So you were just mentioning this, Kurt. But I wonder how Jews in America feel about Israel. Well, one third of Jewish American teens say they sympathize with Hamas, Israeli government poll shows. I only know about it because of Jews telling me. That's the only reason I know about how big of a crime it was. You know, I have no incentive to want to know the truth about this as a guy in showbiz.

So there you have it. Survey shows 66% of Jewish teens in the U.S. say they sympathize with the Palestinian people. Oh, no, sympathy. Hey, how come you're not this angry at the Likud party supporting Hamas for 20 years? In fact, getting mad at Qatar for not giving Hamas money fast enough. Remember that? Remember that fun detail? Why wouldn't you take that out on your own leaders who did that? Because that's a lot worse than sympathizing.

So 66% of Jewish teens in the United States say they sympathize with the Palestinian people. 66%. And guess what? That's why they had to ban TikTok. Yep. And because they don't want information like this getting out. What information? That Israel is, when they bomb a building, they mainly are killing children between zero and nine years old. So down here, so these are females, these are males.

These are the older people killed. These are the young. So it's mostly kids between zero and nine years old. Pyramid of age fatalities verified. They killed a residential. So when they bomb a residential building in Gaza, they're killing mostly kids between zero and nine years old. And that's bad for Zionism.

And so that's why they got a banned speech. They got to debank you. And now the Republicans just voted in Senate to help APEC and the Zionists in Israel debank you because they're going to say you're supporting terrorists. Who's the terrorist? Who's slaughtering children? Look, if you're going to outdo what America does, all the vicious crimes we do,

where, like, well, how did we lose those wars we were in for the last 20 years? I didn't know you could just kill all their kids. I know that was perfectly fine. Why did the most moral army in the world tell us about starving the Afghans? To starve them all until they get rid of the Taliban. Why don't we use those amazing tactics? So good for Gallup for doing this poll. So now less than half of Americans are on the side of Israel.

Less than half. Guess what? Nine, uh, 99 out of a hundred of your elected federal representatives are on the side of Israel. Yeah. And your money's going there anyway. I mean, you have whatever sympathies you want, but guess what? You don't get no say in it. They say they're going to send your Trump just sent more money to Israel, billions more. So all the money they're saving with your Medicaid cuts or your social security cuts, they're just sending it to Israel.

Who has socialized medicine. By the way, they have Medicare for all in Israel. You don't. You still go bankrupt when you get sick. You still pay 100% more for your health care than the rest of the Western world. With worse results. People say, look how bad it is in Canada. We have it worse. We have statistically worse results. And we pay 100% more than Canada's paying.

100% more, we pay more. So when you hear someone say Americans pay twice as much for their healthcare as the rest of the Western world with worse results, what does twice as much mean? It means 100% more. And you've been propagandized to say, well, I don't want the government to run my healthcare. I want to keep paying 100% more. And the government doesn't run your healthcare. You go to a private doctor,

You go to a private hospital, you go to a private pharmacy. The government just pays the check instead of Blue Cross, skimming a third off the top, putting it in their pocket, and then skimming another third by denying you the service actually your doctor wants you to have. It wasn't enough just skim off it. They got to make an extra buck screwing you on what you paid for. That's right. So anyway, I don't know how we got off that, but that's Gallup. Let you know.

Less than half the United States now sympathetic towards Israelis and teenagers who are on TikTok. 66% of Jewish teenagers in the United States now support or sympathize with the Palestinians.

They used to bring on, you know, people working for the CIA on TV that were clandestinely working for them, people like Ken Delinian. And now they just skip it and they just bring on the former head of the CIA or they bring on a CIA guy or James Comey or, you know,

struck anybody and they don't even bother to have a middleman to try to make it look like they're not propaganda. And then people just go, oh yeah, now we believe the CIA and now we believe the FBI. I mean, lefty organizations have been infiltrated and dismantled by the FBI since World War II. And

I just, it's amazing to see that happen where people, they just have no sense of history and they just go right along with it. And to the point now where people I respect are like almost poo pooing the idea of Donald Trump trying to clean up the FBI. I mean, is, is that shocking? It's, it's utterly shocking. I mean, it tells you that they're not really teaching kids a whole lot in, um,

in universities about even very recent history. If you knew anything, if the students were taught anything about the church committee hearings, if they, you know, had to learn about Project Mockingbird and, you know, COINTELPRO and all these other programs that, you know, they're not

These aren't fantasies. These aren't conspiracy theories. These are things you can go to government databases and read the documents and see that they had a concrete strategy that they called disruption, which has involved agencies like the FBI.

Going to people like Martin Luther King and Malcolm X and even when they're not suspected of crimes just finding ways to disrupt their lives You know planting news stories about them that are negative wiretapping them spreading rumors We did this constantly we infant we as you say we infiltrated peace groups and

It's like this is all this is forgotten. And people now that they turn on the television, they see former FBI official Frank Figliucci on the air. And they're like, oh, that's that's that's a believable news person. It's wild. And and what do you say to the people? You know, I had Chris Hedges on recently, who I'm a big fan of. And yeah.

And I showed him a clip of Christian Parente saying that, you know, this is a good thing. What Kash Patel and Trump is doing is that they're dismantling. And, you know, they say the people who are against it or aren't enthused about it say that, well, they're just going to replace them with their own goons that are loyal to Trump. And what's coming is worse than what we have now. And Christian Parente says, we don't know that. And

And that's what I say the same thing. We don't wait. Well, let's wait and see what happens. And then if it's bad or worse, we'll oppose it then. But the first time in my lifetime, there's someone's trying to dismantle the FBI in a way that makes them not weaponize the FBI. Maybe they'll just make it the same in their own image. But we don't know that yet. What do you say to those people who say that?

I mean, I know Chris and we get along together. We actually were teachers together in prison. We taught in a prison together. And I love him, right? I disagree with him on this.

I get it. I think there's an instinct with a lot of people, especially on the left, who grew up with lefty audiences. It's very, very difficult to say anything that can be construed as a positive about anything that Donald Trump is doing and maintain your lifestyle or your reputation. With Kash Patel,

I think for some of these people, it's just unfamiliarity or they look at him and he doesn't look like their idea of a reformer.

I was initially skeptical about him, but when he first did his report about Russiagate, remember he was brought in. Of all the people who were investigating Russiagate in 2017 and 2018, he was like the only Justice Department official who said, you know what, this thing kind of stinks and I'm going to investigate it to see what's really going on.

He went to work in the Intelligence Committee. He did this report. He got completely thrashed for it in mainstream media. He was denounced for this Nunes memo. People said that his boss, Devin Nunes, should be kicked out of the House for even writing it. And then a few years later, it comes out. Everything he wrote is true. Just as an investigator, he's

This is what impressed me. As an investigator, everything that he wrote in that report turned out to be 100% accurate. And that's not easy to do because they didn't have full visibility into the entire thing. So, yeah, I think sometimes you just have to trust that people, you know, it may work out better than you think. And certainly...

certainly he's not part of the same old structure with at least that is is a positive the war rhetoric is being ramped up china is ready to fight till this end till the end in response to a tariff war a trade war any other any other type of war

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian spoke after U.S. tariffs on China were increased to 20%. Jian criticized the pretext of the fentanyl crisis for these tariffs and the U.S. Cold War era mentality. Lin Jian emphasized China's readiness to defend its interests and reject unilateralism, calling for equal dialogue and cooperation instead of confrontation. Really? Well, here's Pete Hegseth.

And he's going to say he's ready for war with China. You think I'm kidding? But whatever you want to say about Pete, one thing's absolutely certain. The only thing certain is that uncertainty in this world. But the one certain thing is that Pete Hegseth goes to the same guy Gavin Newsom does for his hair. You think? Yeah.

That's a heavy amount of bro cream in that pompadour. That's not... Let's watch what he says. As the speech wrapped up last night, this was posted by the Chinese embassy. Quote, if war is what the U.S. wants, be it a tariff war, a trade war, or any other type of war, we're ready to fight till the end. As Secretary of Defense, how do you take that? Well, we're prepared. Those who long for peace...

Must prepare for war. We are we are we that's why we're rebuilding our military. That's why we're reestablishing deterrence in the warrior ethos is because we live in a dangerous world with powerful ascendant countries with very different ideologies. You mentioned defense spending. They're rapidly increasing their defense spending, modern technology. They want to supplant the United States.

If we want to deter war with the Chinese or others, we have to be strong. And that president understands peace comes through strength. He also has a great relationship with that gentleman right there, too. Xi Jinping. So where we can partner, where we can can cooperate to recognize that we don't want war with with with China, we don't seek that war. We will. And the president has sought historic peace and historic opportunities. But my job is.

as the Secretary of Defense, is to make sure we're ready. We need the defense spending, the capabilities, the weapons, and the posture in the Indo-Pacific, which is something we're very much focusing on.

And fighting for our right to have plastic rice from China is worth dying for. This is all like an ad for where we're going to start spending the money for our weapon systems and stuff. It's all a pageant because Chinese officials do that all the time, the same crap our officials do, where they go, well, we might have a war and blah, blah, blah.

This is to get the industry going. Hex says threat. His threat came after China declared late Tuesday that they were ready to clap back if the United States was bent on waging a trade or tariff war. Soon after, Trump's initial 10% tariff on Chinese imports doubled to 20%. And here is the... This is that guy, Lin Jian, the Chinese diplomat and spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Um...

He says the United States should stop seeing China through its own hegemonic lens and viewing China-U.S. relations with an outdated Cold War mentality. The foreign minister's spokesman said, dismissing U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegg said's remarks about the U.S. preparedness for war. Any war, be it tariff, be it a tariff war, a trade war, a Cold War, or a hot war, must be fought. Must not be. Must not be fought and cannot be won. So that's good.

So just to let you know what's happening with the tariffs, U.S. President Donald Trump's 20% tariffs on Chinese imports have come into effect alongside levies on Canada and Mexico. Both China and Canada have retaliated, deepening a global trade war. Wait a minute. How are we supposed to get all of our fake organic food at Whole Foods unless we get that from China? Yeah.

Yeah. And where is China supposed to get all the chemicals they use to make fake organic food unless they get them from America? It's like an O. Henry story.

Here we go. Just as President Donald Trump's 20% tariffs on all Chinese imports came into effect on Tuesday, Beijing announced a sweep of retaliatory measures. That includes its own 15% tariffs on some U.S. goods, including chicken and wheat, and a 10% tariff on major agricultural products such as soybeans and sorghum.

China is also adding 10 US firms to its so-called "unreliable entity" list, meaning they could face punitive measures, alleging they participated in arms sales or worked on defense tech cooperation with Taiwan, and added another 15 firms to an export control list on national security grounds. China's Ministry of Finance blasted Trump's levies, saying they undermine the foundation of economic and trade cooperation between the two countries and increase the burden on US companies and consumers.

Trump at the same time slapped tariffs on Canada and Mexico, but China's response was mild in comparison with Canada, which imposed counter tariffs on $107 billion of US goods. Mexico has previously signalled openness to imposing its own duties on Chinese imports to avoid levies from the US, sources previously told Bloomberg. In any case, more tariff hikes and retaliatory moves are likely in this new era of global trade warfare.

So that's what's going on. And I guess we have to wait and see how all this shakes out. Because I'm not smart enough to tell you how it's going to. I don't think anybody is. And this is based on fentanyl? That's what they're saying. Hey, become a premium member. Go to JimmyDoreComedy.com. Sign up. It's the most affordable premium program in the business.

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