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	Get ready for an outstanding entertainment program.
	The Jimmy Dore Show.
	Hey, this is Jimmy.
	Who's this?
	Jimmy Baby!
	It's your old buddy, Rip Torn.
	How are you, sweetie?
	Ah, Rip Torn.
	Didn't you die yesterday?
	I know what's up.
	Me in heaven.
	You're calling from heaven?
	Wait, you went to heaven?
	You forget I was active at civil rights by day, as well as a loud pro-labor voice for our industry.
	Oh, wow.
	I didn't know that.
	God loves a union man.
	Plus, if you had a hinky childhood, he turns a blind eye to the sauce.
	I see.
	So why are you calling then?
	Well, I'm not totally checked in and processed yet.
	There's a lot of paperwork and shit.
	Once I'm in, you won't be hearing from me anymore.
	Really?
	Yes, that's one of the rules of impressions.
	There's a strict code.
	Okay.
	So this will be the last time we talk, buddy.
	We've had a good run.
	Yes, we have.
	Yep.
	Also, I don't think we've done a Rip Torn's Hollywood drunk tank in about maybe four years, maybe more.
	It really did seem like it ran its course after a while.
	Those last few were sort of feeding a dead horse, let's be honest.
	You run out of ideas after a while.
	Yeah, I know.
	I mean, in fact, it's quite possible that Ron Placon has never even heard one of those.
	Who the fuck is Ron Placon?
	Ah, don't worry about it.
	Consider a dog boss.
	Well, I'm sure you're anxious to get inside, but I bet you have a lot of old friends in there you're looking forward to seeing, huh?
	Yes.
	Yes, I do.
	Probably a lot of catching up will happen.
	Yes.
	Perhaps shenanigans.
	I think I see what you're angling for.
	Please.
	One more for old time's sake.
	Yes.
	Yes.
	What the fuck?
	Here's the plan.
	Once I get inside the Pearly Gates, my job is to find Albert Finny at Larry Storch.
	They've got a lot of the best booze.
	Technically, Sacramento Wide is the only alcohol allowed, but they've got a source on the outside.
	I know all of this because of a seance I participated in, a choice-to-win studio apartment in Culver City.
	Apparently, up here, there's an exact replica of their Chateau Barbalt in 1973.
	Finny Storch and I all have adjoining rooms.
	It's important that we avoid Steve McQueen because he's been so slosh the entire time he's been up here, he thinks he's in Valhalla and is trying to fight everybody with a broadsword.
	Also, FYI in heaven, you get to control which age you present yourself, unless you're having sex with somebody, then they get to control it.
	So, for example, during my inevitable tryst with Liz Taylor, I'm setting that dial to the sweet spot somewhere between National Velvet and Cleopatra.
	So, what I'm saying to you, buddy, I'll be just fine.
	This is Rip Torn reminding you, dead celebrities.
	They're just like you, except drunk and fucking beautiful and dead.
	Bye, Rip.
	It's the Jimmy Dore Show.
	The show for...
	...the kind of people that are...
	It's the show that makes Anderson Cooper say.
	It's on the top of your TV.
	And now, there's a guy who sounds a lot like me.
	It's Jimmy Dore.
	Everybody, welcome to the Jimmy Dore Show.
	We got live shows coming up.
	We're in Chicago, July 14th, and we're in St. Louis, July 21st, plus lots of other dates, San Francisco, Baltimore.
	Go to JimmyDoorComedy.com for a link for tickets.
	Hey, let's get to the jokes before we get to the jokes, shall we?
	I don't know if you know this, but according to the latest New York Times interview, you can find Nancy Pelosi's single-payer signs buried in her basement next to some dusty Democratic Party pins and what's left of her integrity.
	Did you know that the ancient Greeks defined tyranny as the illegitimately gained rule over a state and its people through the power of wealth?
	I hope everybody had a happy 4th of July.
	And you got to han it to Trump's 4th of July speech at the National Mall, right?
	I mean, no president before him has been able to express so clearly why the world hates our guts.
	Come on.
	Hey, interesting fact about Washington, D.C. You know why it's called the National Mall?
	That's because everyone there is for sale, ladies and gentlemen.
	We had some earthquakes here out in California on the 4th of July.
	Then they had an upside.
	There was an upside to the earthquakes out here.
	Now we know how high the Richter scale has to go for MSNBC to stop talking about Joe Biden.
	Hey, what's coming up on today's show?
	We got phone calls.
	Rip Torn makes his final appearance on the Jimmy Door Show.
	Rick Perry calls in, plus Chucky the Shoe, Master of the Senate.
	And Liam Neeson doesn't have much time left.
	Aaron Matei stops by to let everybody know exactly why the Mueller report debunks Russia Gates.
	That's right.
	The Mueller report actually debunks Russia Gates.
	The Democrats are changing their caucus rules to let you vote by telephone what could go wrong.
	Plus the Dalai Lama.
	Is he the least wise of all the llamas?
	Plus a lot lot more.
	That's today on the Jimmy Dore show.
	You know, I want to talk to Rick Perry because he just delivered some remarks at the White House on Donald Trump's environmental leadership.
	Hello, you have reached the office cuticle of the Secretary of the Place I forgot the name of, Rick Perry.
	The Secretary is in.
	Hello and good welcome, kind sir or madam.
	How might I be of service to you?
	Hi, Rick.
	It's Jimmy Dore, and I'm calling to ask about the remarks you just delivered at the White House.
	Oh, you mean the remarks I just delivered at the White House?
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Yes, Rick.
	On Donald Trump's great environmental leadership?
	Yes, Rick.
	Can you hold on a second?
	I got to make sure my Range Rover is still idling.
	I'm back.
	Okay.
	People sure are spoiled.
	If you can't take breathing exhaust fumes all day, then maybe you shouldn't be a parking garage attendant.
	Just saying.
	So what did you say about Trump's environmental record at the White House, Rick?
	Here is a recreation of my remarkations.
	Hello, and good welcome to where I am being honored to speak here greatly upon forthwith.
	Good opening line, right?
	Yeah, I can't really tell.
	But it didn't end there, for I followed it up with this.
	As you all know, back when the world or our earth was created 3,000 years ago, who knew that it shall come to pass that on this day a speech will be given praising his godly orb.
	What do you think?
	Nice.
	Did it end there?
	No.
	For nevertheless, I persisted with, and in my duty, as is such for my capacitor, I, whom am so humble, do spake with grandiose humility in righteous praise for our dear leader and the benefits of all, and they're related by produce.
	I mean, products.
	Jimmy, hold for a second while I wipe a tear from these foolish eyes.
	This part makes me weak.
	What is the story told by an idiot stuttering the stage?
	For it is a tale told of an president who cares about our ecology for our young and a great story to tell, not to mention jobs that get created and the wealth and the equality of life that comes with that when it happens as a result.
	Then they applauded, and the last thing I remember was passing out on the salad bar.
	So you're praising the president's record after he rolled back 83 environmental rules since taking office.
	That's because rules are for pussies.
	Nobody likes rules, Jimmy, except for pussies.
	Read your Bible.
	The latest EPA data show emissions from coal and oil have increased since Trump took office, Rick.
	Here's what I think.
	The EPA is wrong in their numbers.
	Could you expand on that?
	Certainly.
	Numbers can be wrong, Jimmy.
	Have you ever noticed how when you add two plus two and get four, it's right.
	But when you add two plus two and get four again, that is wrong.
	Why?
	I do not know.
	For God is mysterious, or maybe math is just hard.
	Maybe it's a sign.
	Perhaps the Holy Spirit is telling us to ignore factorials and realities.
	But that's the EPA's job, Rick, to analyze threats to our health.
	Wrong.
	The EPA's job is to getting rid of the regulations that are stopping businesses from getting done what they need to do and putting practices into place that help speed up the burning of clean coals and plastic bags.
	And Donald Trump is leading that way to our journeys for clean aeronauts.
	The Sierra Club says Trump has the worst record on the environment and climate action of any president in the history of the country.
	Oh, contrary.
	He pulled out of the Paris Accords, did he not?
	Yeah, how is pulling out of the Paris Accords going to clean up the air, Rick?
	Because now we no longer have to go to Paris, silly.
	That's one last plane ride.
	Burn on you.
	No!
	The Dalai Lama gave a big interview.
	Here's the headline from the BBC.
	The Dalai Lama on Trump, women, and going home.
	I have, you know how they choose the Dalai Lama.
	So the Dalai Lama is supposed to be a reincarnation of a soul that never dies.
	It's always right?
	I'm not sure, actually.
	So, yeah, so look up how they choose the Dalai Lama.
	So then after the Dalai Lama dies, they go and they find the baby that's been reborn and they take it, right?
	And then they take it and raise it as the Dalai Lama.
	I don't trust that selection system.
	I think they should go to paperback.
	Yeah, they got to do paperback.
	They got to do paperbacks.
	Until they get something better.
	What do you want to say?
	If the previous Dalai Lama was cremated, they watched the direction of the smoke to indicate the direction of the rebirth of the new Dalai Lama, too.
	Oh, well, it sounds, well, at least it's scientific.
	Well, then there's a dude in Vegas counting stuff.
	Yeah, he helps.
	Jesus.
	So I don't understand how you could be, you know, Buddhism, from what I've read, I've read at least one book on it.
	Maybe probably two.
	I've read the Tao.
	I've read.
	Anyway, I don't know how you could be enlightened and then think that that's the way you're supposed to choose your leader.
	It just seems crazy.
	So the Dalai Lama, the one that's alive right now, I've never, I hear him talk often.
	You've seen videotapes of him talking.
	I've never went, wow, that was really something what he's just said.
	I'm always like, that sounds, that's probably like one of those smart things that sounds dumb to a dumb guy like me.
	Because nothing he's ever said was sounded super smart.
	He always like, oh, I don't really know how watches work.
	I don't know.
	You know, he's like one of those guys.
	Like, I don't know.
	The Dalai Lama on watches.
	Yeah.
	That was the thing before Trump women and going home.
	That's right.
	So here he is on here he is on Trump.
	Let's listen.
	His emotion also a little bit too complicated.
	What do you mean by that?
	What do you think of him in office?
	One day he says something, another day he says something.
	But I think lack of moral principle.
	Lack of moral principle.
	That's a prerequisite to become president.
	Right?
	Yeah.
	Again, one day you say something, one day you say something.
	That is also a pre-recorded thing.
	So here he is on Brexit.
	I am one admirer of spiritual European Union.
	I'm outsider, but I feel better remain in the union.
	The campaign to leave the European Union used one of your quotes.
	So he's not a Brexiter.
	He's no Brexit.
	He's for staying in the Union, even though he said he's an outsider.
	Okay?
	In their posters, they said the goal should be that migrants return and help rebuild their countries.
	You have to be practical.
	It's impossible for everyone to come.
	The European country should take this refugee and give them education and training.
	And then Emmy is return to their own land.
	So that's pretty controversial.
	What he just said, I think, is pretty controversial.
	So what he's saying is, yes, right now these refugees are in crisis.
	Why are they in crisis?
	Well, because the United States and the West just bombed the shit out of their country.
	That's why.
	Yemen, Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria.
	So what he's saying is that, yes, European countries should accept these refugees because we're the ones bombing the crap out of them.
	We should educate them, get them, and then send them back to their own countries.
	That's what he's saying.
	That's the ultimate goal.
	That's what the Dalai Lama just said.
	Here we go.
	If these people want to stay in Europe, shouldn't they be allowed to?
	Limited number?
	Okay.
	But the whole Europe eventually becomes a Muslim country, impossible.
	Or African countries, also impossible.
	There's nothing wrong.
	I don't know why he's laughing like that.
	I could help him on his punchlines.
	But so what he so what he's saying sounds like stuff right-wingers would say, right?
	That, yeah, some of them can stay, but you can't have Europe turning into an African or a Muslim country.
	That's what he's saying.
	So you gotta, these people, the goal is to get these people to go back to their country.
	That's what he's saying.
	And then laughing awkwardly after he says it.
	Wait, is that?
	I mean, you're a refugee yourself.
	They themselves, I think, better to their own land.
	So better.
	Keep Europe for Europeans.
	Sounds pretty.
	What does my panel make of that?
	That sounds pretty right-wingy, right?
	Yeah, I mean, I think it's like they're just having him step out of his lane for this entire thing.
	They're asking him these questions where it's like, this isn't his field of work, really.
	I agree.
	So he's just sort of saying these things.
	Like, it does come off his right wing.
	I don't know if that was his intention.
	I'm sure that wasn't his intention.
	It wasn't, but yeah.
	Yeah, again, I'm not sure what he knows about geopolitics.
	I mean, everyone gets their own voice to have a voice, but it's.
	Well, you know, ultimately, you could say that about any country, and it sounds weird, right?
	What?
	Yeah, I think, you know, the Chinese should stay in their country.
	I think the Mexicans should stay in their country.
	Isn't that ultimately what he's saying?
	It sounds like it.
	So it just has to be.
	It doesn't sound, I guess, in a way that you would think would be the world making progress.
	Exactly.
	That, you know, doesn't each country from the idea of diversity, doesn't that enrich your country?
	Right.
	I mean, look at the United States.
	The United States has no culture.
	We are a smashed together culture of all these other cultures.
	I think we're still trying to figure out what generation your family is.
	Did your grandfather come here?
	I was pretty sure my grandpa.
	I have to figure that out.
	Anyway, here's what he says on what he says on Tibet.
	Did we listen?
	Yes.
	But I'm just going to say that's going to be controversial.
	And I can't believe more people aren't talking about it.
	Well, somebody Jared G says, well, the Tibetan monks have been massacred numerous times by outside cultures.
	So it kind of makes sense for him to have these views.
	That's interesting.
	That's interesting.
	Thank you, Jared G. Okay.
	So here's what he says.
	Here's what he has to say on Tibet.
	Ready?
	Have you given up the hope of returning?
	No, no, no.
	Tibetan people very much sort of trusted me.
	So they are very, very eager.
	Many old people with tear.
	They asked me, please come to Tibet.
	So how would that happen, Your Holiness?
	No.
	China is changing.
	So that's that.
	That's him on.
	So here's what he has to say about China.
	You have had contact in the last few years with Chinese officials here.
	Privately.
	A number of Chinese retired officials and some scholars, you see, who have some connection with the Chinese government.
	Has President Xi ever asked you for a meeting?
	Not yet.
	Do you think China's growing influence is having an impact on your own influence and the cause of Tibet?
	I don't care.
	No.
	I think the Chinese seems themselves changing their attitude.
	So I don't, I don't.
	That's tough for me to really decipher what he's trying to say there.
	Can you make that out?
	He's saying the Chinese people are changing their attitude towards Tibetan.
	That's my impression.
	Joe Doe said Dalai Lama is a spiritual leader, not a Europolitician.
	Tibetans wanted to stay in their country.
	He is a non-interventionist pacifist.
	And also, Francisco Raposo said the Dalai Lama is just saying that people's homes should be rebuilt and the Europeans and Americans should help with that.
	I think those are positive spirits.
	So that's appreciate that.
	Yeah, no, that's again, if that's what that's what he's saying, then that's great.
	But it sounds like he's saying his words are certainly going to, they're already being used by right-wing movements, politicians, interests.
	So if that's what he meant, like, but he didn't say that.
	He didn't say, well, what the Europeans and the people who bombed the shit out of their countries should go rebuild their countries for them so they could go back to their countries.
	If that's what, you know, like we had a Marshall plan for Europe, remember, after we, after World War II, did the Marshall Plan, and that was to rebuild Europe.
	If that's what he meant, I wish he would have said it.
	That's what I mean.
	Like when this guy speaks, the Dalai Lama, the current Dalai Lama, it never sounds as wise as you want it to sound.
	Yes.
	That's all I'm saying.
	It might be.
	And it just sounds, doesn't sound wise to a dumb guy.
	That's also a possibility.
	Jimmy Terrible came in and he says he's not saying that people need to never leave their country of birth.
	I don't think we said that.
	No, he didn't say.
	He's speaking about culture.
	Leave Europe for Europeans, you idiots.
	Jimmy, terrible.
	You are terrible.
	Why don't we hear about your point of view?
	What about the Euro?
	So he's thinking about the people who are European.
	What about the people who are Europuan?
	Come on.
	I just, come on.
	I just thought of that joke.
	That was really good on the spot.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	It reminds me of an old Benny Hill joke.
	Anyway, here's what he says about.
	It's just a stupid joke.
	Here's what he says about a female successor.
	Now, this is very controversial.
	Yeah, this is the thing that got him into a lot of trouble.
	Oh, so you heard about this?
	Yeah, I've heard about this, but this is the only part I had heard about prior.
	All right, so that other sound that you mentioned.
	Yeah, yeah, I had to say that.
	I thought was equally.
	So again, what you have to remember is that the Dalai Lama himself doesn't.
	Again, I could be wrong about this, but my understanding is, and correct me if I am wrong, please, that there is no death, and so that he is just a constant cycle of rebirth, right?
	So that his soul is eternal.
	His physical being changes, but he remains the same.
	And so they're asking him, well, the next time he manifests himself, what should he look like?
	But that's not the question people hear.
	So here's what he says.
	You once said that you would be open to a female successor.
	That's also possible.
	You also told one of my colleagues that that female must be attractive, otherwise it's not much use.
	Can you see why that comment upset a lot of women?
	That was one time.
	If female Dalai Lama comes and should be more attractive, if female Dalai Lama, oh, oh, dear, dead people, I think, prefer not see that face.
	There's a lot of...
	Now, if that doesn't sound like Trump, right?
	People shouldn't see that face.
	So that sounds horrible, right?
	Right, Steph?
	That sounds horrible.
	Well, it's kind of shit.
	Sounds horrible, right?
	I mean, because, yeah, it's like, you know what?
	She needs to have a pretty face before, you know, I even give two shits about her spirituality.
	So let's see if he's anything left to say, and then we'll go.
	Men would say that's objectifying women, and it's about who you are in song, isn't it?
	Yes, I think both.
	So he had a chance to deflect all that right there.
	No, no, no, I was making fun of my looks.
	Yes.
	I was saying, hey, I might come back.
	I might be a lady, but hopefully I got the face for radio.
	Am I right?
	Like, he could have both funned it.
	You know what I mean?
	But he's still doubled down.
	He's like, oh, yeah, both.
	It's both.
	Well, both.
	But women have a higher standard for women.
	They have to be pretty on the inside and outside.
	Me, just inside.
	So here, what they say at the BBC, his message seemed at odds for a man who preaches a message of tolerance and inner confidence.
	But the Dalai Lama told me that in Buddhist literature, both inner and outer beauty matter.
	So I'm not that familiar with Buddhist literature.
	He also said that equality was important and was keen to stress that he supported women's rights and equal pay in the workplace.
	The Dalai Lama's message.
	As long as they're pretty.
	It's as long as they're good looking.
	Come on, you don't want to.
	Who wants to fucking talk to you?
	When I hand you your paycheck, I want to see something nice here, ladies.
	Yeah, yes, just what Senator Richard Martin says.
	You know, the problem is too many ladies just been frowning.
	Hey, ladies, why don't you smile a little more?
	So here's some headlines.
	Dalai Lama talks Trump, says European migrants should return to their own land.
	So you see how this is immediately being...
	And that he would have said, what I mean is that the people who blew up their countries should rebuild them.
	He didn't say that.
	He should have.
	That's what he should have said.
	That'd have been powerful.
	But what he did say sounded dumb.
	I don't want to go say sounding dumb, but it sounded incomplete.
	It wasn't carefully selected.
	It was not a good answer.
	So that's what I mean.
	It's like, so you're not even.
	So again, his whole thing is he's wise.
	So you're supposed to be, even if you're supposed to be wise enough to know that your words are A, going to be misconstrued, B, you don't know enough to talk about it.
	And C, you're not even going to say what you mean.
	Like, if he means that we should, again, I'll say it again, that the countries who bomb the shit out of these places should go rebuild them.
	He didn't say that.
	That would have been great had he said that.
	So, and by the way, if he's wise, he would know that that's how he's supposed to say it.
	So I don't think that this selection process reveals itself in a wise leader.
	Like, I don't know how wise this Dalai Lama is.
	I don't know.
	He doesn't seem wise.
	Right?
	Now, just like the Pope isn't necessarily wiser than anyone else because he was elected Pope.
	Well, I think when it comes to religious leaders, I'm glad you brought up the Pope because it's one of those things where it's like, man, people line up to like pat them on the back when they say something nice.
	Like the Pope, especially, he has said some really nice things.
	Yes.
	Actions.
	I haven't seen much.
	Especially when it comes to the church itself.
	I haven't seen anything, really.
	Well, he says nice things.
	Well, at least he got rid of the patriarchy and the sexism.
	And women are.
	Oh, he didn't do that.
	Completely icing women out of the decision process.
	He's a completely over misogynistic organization.
	Would you call the Catholic Church misogynistic?
	I would.
	Yeah.
	I think that's fair.
	Well, no, no, we don't hate women.
	We just don't want any of their opinions bothering us.
	You just can't be a leader.
	Yeah.
	You're inferior.
	Women are inferior.
	That's the whole message of the Catholic Church.
	Women are inferior.
	Yeah, man.
	I got 12 years in.
	I know.
	I know.
	I got that shit drilled in.
	Somebody just mentioned in the chat.
	I'm sorry I lost your name, but it said it sounded like the Dalai Lama was being a smartass.
	Like with his answers.
	Yeah, well, that's really, that's my role.
	That's not his role.
	Nobody goes, oh, you know, I like this Dalai Lama.
	He's such a fucking cut-up.
	Oh, that guy.
	You never know if he's jagging you off or not, right?
	He needs some punch-up.
	He knows how to reach us.
	Remember what he said about Black Lives All Lives Matter?
	Remember when he kept saying that?
	He was being such a.
	I mean, to say that about women's appearance, you would think the next time that I see the Dalai Lama out in public that he'd be wearing a toupee.
	That's just some adult braces.
	Am I right?
	Am I right?
	Jeez.
	And then he laughs at the most awkward time.
	I mean, I get that they're laughing always.
	Well, you know, I think he was taking a note from Bill Maher.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Here's another headline from Fox News.
	Dalai Lama says female successor needs to be more attractive and slams Trump.
	So, again, if the Dalai Lama was that wise, he would know that the Dalai Lama wants a woman to succeed him only if she's hot.
	Here's another one.
	The Dalai Lama just said some more controversial things about women and migrants.
	The Dalai Lama says Europe belongs to the Europeans and suggests refugees return to native countries.
	So again, he's not the wisest of Dalai Lamas.
	This is not one of the wiser ones.
	This is like the Jeb Bush of Dalai Lamas.
	And at the end, he asked everybody to clap, actually.
	At the end of that interview.
	Trad, so this is somebody at this is Nira L. Shah says, tragic that the Dalai Lama's love of boobs or whatever has cast a shadow over an otherwise brilliant system of government of picking a random baby and raising it to be a god king.
	That's a funny way to say, that's what I've been saying.
	I don't know if that's the best system.
	You pick a child baby and raise it to be a God king.
	That's what they do.
	This person is a blue checker.
	Cotton candy candadi.
	Sloan.
	Wow, that's a lot of tough to decipher in that name.
	Today, the Dalai effing Lama said the only way he'd want a woman's successor is if she's objectively bangable.
	I don't want to hear.
	So I don't want to hear.
	Not all men ever make it.
	Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
	Ha ha.
	Ha ha ha ha.
	It's hilarious.
	So again, a lot of people are going to say, here's another one.
	Gonna stay ugly just despite the Dalai Lama.
	Just here's someone else.
	Here's someone named Javi says people canceling the Dalai Lama for wanting a female successor to be more attractive might not realize that he's talking about himself, his own reincarnation.
	If anything, the comment was self-deprecating humor.
	That of all things, Twitter should be well aware of.
	Yeah, I get it.
	See, I said he had a chance to make that clear and he didn't.
	He didn't.
	I feel like he didn't do that.
	It would have been weird if he said, when I come back, you know, I want to come back as a sexy piece of ass, right?
	That'd be funny.
	So, again, it shows that he doesn't understand the predicament that women are in in the world, I guess.
	It kind of shows an aloof out of touchness that women have, that he doesn't understand that women have to face.
	It's like, yeah, you might be making fun of himself, but you understand that that doesn't help the problem of other women being objectified and not being seen for who they are on the inside.
	Like, he shouldn't say, of course, that's a big problem.
	But me, I'm making fun of myself.
	He didn't.
	He didn't.
	Again, I don't think he's the wisest of Dalai Lamas.
	There's going to be some shitty Dalai Lamas, and I think he's one of them.
	Right?
	Everyone agrees there's better popes than other popes.
	Everyone agrees that.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, the one that executed all cats, that was a particular shitty one.
	Yeah, that was not a good one.
	That one was a pretty bad one.
	You know, gave her one the plague.
	Kabir Singh says, I am the most idolized and successful misogynist ever.
	Dalai Lama, hold my shawl, son.
	Oh, if I knew who Kabir Singh was, that would make that joke funnier to me.
	Does anyone know who Kabir Singh?
	No, no one knows, right?
	Somebody's on it.
	I'm going to guess Kabir Singh just is probably a big misogynist.
	Oh, it's a movie.
	Oh, misogynist?
	Yeah, heartbroken because of his girlfriend turns into a misogynist.
	Oh, okay.
	There you go.
	Well, there you go.
	Now it all makes sense.
	All right.
	So there's a Dalai Lama mixing it up.
	Dalai Lama being really.
	I wonder if he's going to do another interview anytime soon.
	He's starting a podcast, I think.
	It's called Those Dot.
	It's called Me and the Broads.
	The Dalai Lama.
	That'd be funny, me and the Broads right here.
	It's just audio, but all the guests are pretty, trust me.
	Mr. Llama, I'm coming over to your podcast.
	Anything I should know?
	Wear something short.
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	Liam Neeson's calling me again.
	Hello.
	Oh, hold on just a moment.
	Sorry.
	Jimmy, this is Liam Neeson.
	I need you to listen very closely.
	You don't have much time.
	Before the next earthquake, I mean.
	Oh, no.
	Well, what should I do, Liam?
	You need to listen very closely to my earthquake preparedness tips.
	Are you ready?
	Yes.
	First and foremost, in order to conserve our batteries, turn off all your devices.
	All right.
	Not your phone, you idiot.
	Hello?
	Hello?
	Why does this always happen?
	Devices could easily refer to a wide selection of electronic machines, like a pinball game or the hip-hop Easter Bunny.
	A hip, a hop, a hippity hop.
	I know.
	I'll try Jimmy on his landline.
	Hello, operator.
	Get me Wakefield 6595.
	Yes, I'll wait.
	But please hurry.
	We don't have much time.
	Hello?
	Jimmy!
	This is Liam Neeson.
	I need you to listen very closely.
	If you hang up on me again, I have a very particular set of skills that could make life very difficult for you.
	Do you understand?
	Wait, are you threatening me?
	Yes.
	Why?
	Because you don't have much time.
	Now really make sure of that.
	I have a thing about that.
	It really annoys me, especially when I'm trying to tell someone they don't have much time.
	What if my daughter had hung up on me, right?
	Before I told her she was about to be kidnapped.
	She'd be kidnapped anyway?
	Yeah, I guess so.
	What's your point?
	Well, what don't I have much time for?
	The next earthquake.
	And so you must get ready.
	Oh, okay.
	For example, to properly prepare for an earthquake occurring on the weekend, stock upon items you usually buy during the week.
	For many people, that involves food items.
	For me, it's bottled water and porn.
	How can you expect an earthquake to happen on a certain day when they're so unpredictable?
	Easy.
	Listen to your pets.
	It's a known fact that pets start acting weird before a quake hits.
	I know this is true, because right before the last quake, my dog came up to me and told me he was a scot.
	That is weird.
	Yes, Jimmy.
	I ran down to the 7-Eleven and cleaned them out of Fiji water and porn.
	And not just the crucifixion kind this time.
	Do you understand?
	Here's another tip.
	Always keep an open fire going next to your bed in case the heating goes off.
	And storm output gasoline in your bathtub in case of shortages.
	None of that makes sense, Liam.
	Nonsense.
	It's a good way to clean all the soot off your body after the explosions.
	And there will be explosions.
	Why?
	Because you put gasoline in your bathtub.
	Bad move.
	Do you have any more earthquake tips?
	Yes.
	Wait 30 minutes after eating before fleeing your house.
	That way, you won't get the cramps.
	Now, if you'll excuse me, I must go now because I don't have much time.
	Expecting another earthquake, are you?
	No, I'm getting old.
	I don't have much time.
	You wrote a great article.
	It's in Real Clear Investigations.
	Now, what is Real Clear Investigations?
	It's a site.
	They do, you know, they're part of this thing called Real Clear Politics, which is a lot of people.
	Oh, I know Real Clear Politics.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	And so that's the investigative side.
	And they've been doing a lot of stuff on Russia Gate, and they invited me to write something for them.
	So this is what I did.
	And the headline is crowd strikeout.
	That's funny.
	CrowdStrike Out.
	Mueller's own report undercuts its core Russia meddling claims.
	So I'll just go through this article real quick because you're showing how Mueller's own report undermines his core statements, right?
	So at a May press conference capping his tenure as special counsel, Robert Mueller emphasized what he called the central allegation of the two-year Russia probe, which is the Russian government, Mueller's sternly declared, engaged in multiple systematic efforts to interfere in our election.
	And that allegation deserves the attention of every American.
	So multiple systemic efforts to interfere in our election.
	The report claims that the interference operation occurred principally on two fronts.
	One, the Russian military intelligent officers hacked and leaked embarrassing Democratic Party documents and a government-linked troll farm, number two.
	So there's two things.
	There was the military that hacked into the DNC and got their emails and released them through WikiLeaks.
	And the second part is these troll farms orchestrated a sophisticated and far-reaching social media campaign that denigrated Hillary Clinton and promoted Trump.
	But the problem is he doesn't prove any of that.
	And here is how it describes the core crimes under the investigation, the alleged GRU theft of DNC emails.
	So it said the GRU were the ones that stole the DNC emails.
	And it says between approximately May 25th, 2016 and June 1st, 2016, GRU officers accessed the DNC mail server from a GRU-controlled computer leased inside the United States.
	During these connections, Unit 26165 officers appear to have stolen thousands of emails.
	And now, why do I have that highlighted in red?
	Because his conclusion is they appear.
	You know what that means?
	That means he doesn't have evidence.
	Because if he had evidence that they did, he would say it because he said it.
	Well, by the way, there it is in the report, appear, but he said it earlier.
	Here it is.
	Between on or about the DNC Microsoft Exchange server and stole thousands of emails.
	There's no wishy-washy language there.
	They said they did it.
	They stole it.
	They didn't say they appear to have stolen it.
	So that's crucial, right, Aaron?
	Yeah, there's a change of language there.
	It goes from certainty and indictment to, you know, about over a year later when they submit their report because the indictment was handed down in July 2018.
	This report is submitted in March 2018, in March 2019.
	So almost a year later, the final report comes in.
	All of a sudden, Mueller is using qualified language.
	And that suggests to me that Mueller does not have ironclad proof that the Russians stole the emails.
	What I've been told in terms of the alternative theories about what they did here in terms of building a case is, you know, there may have been Russian hacking of DNC servers, but they may have basically conflated those instances with this instance here,
	used information they got from that, mixed that all up, added a whole bunch of other stuff, which I talk about in the piece, including this apparent use of Gucci for 2.0, a cutout, to make it look as if the theft of the DNC emails was a Russian hacking operation.
	When, you know, as their language suggests and their own evidence suggests, they aren't convinced of that anymore.
	So he went from the indictment saying this definitely happened to the report that he wrote himself saying, ah, it appears.
	So that's a very big shift in language, which indicates they don't have evidence.
	So let's go back to this, Gilbert.
	So the report also concedes that Mueller's team did not determine another critical component of the crime it alleges how the stolen Democratic material was transferred to Wikileaks.
	So that's crucial.
	So if you know somehow that they, you're able to be able to knock down that they, the Russia got these emails and you say WikiLeaks got them from them.
	Well, can you, how do you know that?
	They don't.
	They don't.
	In fact, he doesn't know that.
	And he doesn't ever tell you that, how that happens.
	The report, right?
	Correct?
	That's right.
	He has never said this before.
	Previously, in that July 2018 indictment of the GRU, Mueller suggested, but didn't outright say it.
	And he couldn't outright say it because it's probably not true.
	Yes.
	That Wikileaks got these emails from a Russian, alleged Russian cutout called Gusafer 2.0.
	So Mueller strongly suggested he wanted everybody to believe that Wikileaks got the emails from Gusafer 2.0.
	He didn't outright say it, though.
	And now finally, when it comes to his report, he explicitly says we cannot rule out the possibility that the emails were physically transferred in the summer of 2016, which means that somebody brought them to Wikileaks through a storage device in person.
	We're not transferred over the internet.
	So if all of a sudden you go from suggesting that Wikileaks got the emails from who you allege should be a Russian cutout, who probably isn't, by the way, to now saying you don't know how the emails were sent, that says you have no idea.
	Mueller has no idea how the emails were transferred, which is interesting in contrast to what he claims to know otherwise.
	He claims to know all these detailed and all this detailed information about how Russia allegedly hacked into the DNC.
	So that's a pretty glaring discrepancy and a huge shift in language going from suggesting something to acknowledging that you actually have no idea.
	Also, you say the report's timeline defies logic.
	According to its account, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange announced the publication of the emails not only before he received the documents, but before he even communicated with the source that provided them.
	I'll explain what this means.
	So on June 12th, 2016, there as it is in The Guardian, WikiLeaks to publish more Hillary Clinton emails, Julian Assange.
	But they say that didn't even fucking talk to Gussifer or the other, what this is called, DC leaks.
	They didn't even talk to them till two days later.
	So why would that, why would Julian Assange make an announcement that he has something he's never even seen yet?
	That doesn't make any sense.
	So why would so if Julian is so that's why the timeline doesn't make sense?
	And it okay, so right, so that's correct.
	I got that part right.
	Exactly right.
	According to Mueller's, the account that Mueller wants you to take away from his narrative, Assange would have had to have spoken, would have had to have announced that he had these DNC emails before he received them from his alleged Russian source and before he even communicated with them.
	And by the way, he doesn't even, according to Mueller's account, if Assange got the emails from Gucifer 2.0, that happens in like mid-July.
	So that's well over a month after Assange first announces he has the DNC emails.
	Yeah.
	So Mueller's timeline is off.
	He's saying that, well, this is where he got the WikiLeaks, got the emails from, Guccifer and this DC leaks.
	And then Mueller himself establishes that they didn't have communication until after Julian Assange had already announced he had the Emails.
	So that's why that timeline is complete bullshit.
	And Mueller undermines his own assertions.
	Now, here's one more.
	This is, to me, hilarious.
	And yet one more significant inconsistency.
	Mueller asserts that the two Russian outfits running the Kremlin-backed operation, Gusifer 2.0 and DC Leaks, they communicated about their covert activities over Twitter.
	That's according to Mueller.
	Oh, really?
	These highly sophisticated...
	Here's what he says.
	The Twitter account, Gusifer, sent DC Leaks a direct message, which is the first known contact between the personas.
	Really?
	So this highly sophisticated Russian operative, sophisticated spy op thing, they're really communicating through DMs on Twitter, which they know the NSA is fucking monitoring.
	Are you shitting me?
	That's what we're supposed to believe, Aaron.
	That's what we're supposed to believe.
	Mueller doesn't tell us what language they were speaking in.
	Were they speaking in Russian or were they speaking in English?
	Ah, when they DM'd each other.
	Yeah, yeah.
	It's too bad that Mueller leaves that out because I think that could give.
	I bet it was English.
	I bet it was English too, but we don't know that for sure.
	Because Gucifer 2.0 is probably invented by the intelligence community.
	Well, that's the theory, right?
	So we don't know.
	The point is, Gusifer 2.0, who Mueller says is a Russian intelligence cutout, who he strongly suggests gave the emails to WikiLeaks.
	Gusifer 2.0 does not appear on the scene until after Assange announces that he already has the emails.
	And Guzpher 2.0 also makes all these claims.
	He takes credit for the hack.
	He releases some files that come from the DNC, but are not of a very high quality.
	And they contain very like metadata that makes it very easy to discover that it's a Russian speaker.
	So whoever it is is very sloppy.
	So all of a sudden, we're supposed to believe that the GRU has gone from doing this sophisticated hacking operation to now being totally sloppy and even having Russian metadata.
	There's a username on one of the files that's the name of the founder of the Soviet secret police.
	So there's all these clues.
	And, you know, I mean, I'm not saying anything definitive, you know, because like my point simply is this.
	Mueller has not proved his case.
	And in fact, his own evidence that he adduces undermines his case, coupled with a lot of other investigative shortcomings in his whole probe.
	I mean, for one thing, he never spoke to Julian Assange.
	Here you have the key figure at the heart of this whole thing.
	And Mueller quotes Assange's statements to the media in his report.
	He shows no interest.
	He showed no interest in ever speaking to him.
	And one of the reasons I think that is, is because Assange has said publicly that the Russian government was not his source and that he could prove that.
	He in fact offered the U.S. government the opportunity to prove that because he was in talks because he was going to release some documents from the CIA, this Vault 7 release.
	And the CIA wanted to mitigate the impact of that leak by at least doing some redactions, which Assange was open to.
	And in the process, he also offered to provide the government with evidence that could rule out certain parties in the theft of Democratic Party emails, which is widely inferred to be meaning he could rule out the role of Russia in that because he had previously denied Russia's rule.
	And those talks were proceeding, but who killed them?
	Jim Comey, the then director of the FBI.
	Jim Comey also was a director of the FBI when the FBI relied on forensics supplied by CrowdStrike.
	So that's a DNC contractor.
	So we're going to get to actually both those things that you just brought up.
	So you also go on to say the U.S. intelligence community, this is what Julian Assange said.
	The U.S. intelligence community is not aware of when WikiLeaks obtained its material or when the sequencing of our material was done or how we obtained our material directly.
	Julian Assange said that in January 2017.
	And let's remember, never, ever, has ever had to retract anything he's ever printed or said.
	Wikileaks sources in relation to the Potesta emails and the DNC leak are not members of any government.
	This is Julian Assange.
	He's saying that the WikiLeaks sources in relation to the Podesta emails and the DNC leak are not members of any government and they are not state parties and they do not come from the Russian government.
	And the Mueller report has zero evidence to debunk what he just said.
	In fact, the Mueller report debunks its own, undermines its own assertions.
	Mueller does not explain.
	This is exactly what you were just talking about.
	Mueller does not explain why he included Assange's comments as reported by media outlets in his report.
	So if you read the report, he has quotes from Julian Assange, but why did he decide not to speak with Assange directly or ask to see his physical proof during a two-year investigation?
	You would think you'd want to talk to that guy.
	You'd think you'd want to have a meeting with Julian Assange, maybe investigate, maybe interview him, see what he knows.
	He didn't.
	He didn't do any of that.
	That's unbelievably suspicious to me.
	And you can't say, and you can't say it was because he only had limited time and limited resources.
	It's unlimited.
	He had unlimited resources.
	They talked to everybody.
	They talked to Hope Hicks, George Papadopoulos, Rob Goldstone, all these weird characters.
	Randy Credico.
	Randy Credico.
	But they didn't talk to Assange.
	Yeah.
	It gives you the double CK.
	They talked to Jimmy.
	They talked to Jerome Coursey, this far-right conspiracy theorist who helped push, who helped push the birther narrative because Corsi said in public that he had some secret knowledge of WikiLeaks plans via Roger Stone.
	And they had all these sessions with Jerome Coursey.
	There's a long Washington Post article about this, trying to get Coursey to talk and trying to get Coursey to tell them what they know because they were so desperate to milk something out of this whole giant dud.
	But yet they couldn't talk to Julian Assange.
	It just raises yet one more red flag.
	So this is one red flag after another red flag.
	And here's another one.
	And we've covered this on the show before.
	The server, the DNC server, was never inspected by the FBI.
	In fact, they relied on an outside group to investigate and inspect the server.
	It's called CrowdStrike.
	Now, tell me why that's a bad idea, Aaron.
	Because CrowdStrike is a private company.
	And even if they have the utmost integrity, I don't think the government should be relying on private firms for sensitive forensics when it's trying to conduct an intelligence investigation that leads to serious allegations against the foreign government.
	All the More so if that private company, CrowdStrike, is working for a political party with a huge partisan interest in the Russian narrative.
	So tell people how that is.
	And that's a crowd circuit.
	And it'd be one thing if that was the Democratic Party's only connection to the Russian investigation.
	But unfortunately, they're not just connected to the Russian hacking allegation via crowd strike.
	They're also at the heart of the collusion allegation, which is the core allegation, because it was none other than Democratic Party contractor Fusion GPS and Christopher Steele that produced that ridiculous dossier alleging a high-level Trump-Russia conspiracy and blackmail scheme.
	So you have the Democratic Party behind that.
	You have the Democratic Party also behind the hacking allegations via CrowdStrike because CrowdStrike was the first to log those allegations.
	And we can get to it too, but there's also a huge Democratic Party role in this whole scare about Russian social media.
	And in fact, that comes, that originates with aides to Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.
	And we've learned now in the case of CrowdStrike that not only did the government rely on CrowdStrike's forensics when it comes to investigating the DNC servers, but they also used redacted reports that CrowdStrike itself submitted.
	And when I say redacted, I don't mean redacted by the government.
	I mean that CrowdStrike wrote some reports, redacted them itself, and then submitted it to the government.
	And the government had to, and the government just took CrowdStrike's word that it was all kosher.
	So basically, let me just break it down for people dumb like me.
	So CrowdStrike is a completely compromised organization working with the Democratic Party.
	The FBI never inspects the DNC server.
	CrowdStrike does it and then submits a report to the FBI that is redacted.
	What does that mean?
	That means that CrowdStrike did their investigation of the DNC server instead of the FBI.
	And then they submitted information that they found out, but they held back some information from the fucking FBI.
	Wait a minute.
	You don't redact information from the government.
	The government redacts information from you.
	But guess what?
	The FBI said that's okay.
	You can redact it.
	And they didn't care.
	And that's what they used to break this report, right?
	Exactly right.
	And listen, Jimmy, it's possible that all this is kosher.
	It's possible.
	It is.
	It's possible.
	But the fact is, there are so many red flags here.
	You have a private company redacting its own reports and giving to the government, a private company resisting efforts because the FBI said they tried to get the servers.
	They tried.
	But the Democratic Party was adamant, and CrowdStrike was adamant that they did not hand it over.
	And there are FBI officials who voice frustration about that.
	That's correct.
	And also, look, CrowdStrike itself, their founder is an openly anti-Putin Russian national.
	They've done very well in, you know, they just passed, I think, the billion-dollar mark or something like that.
	But the founder is openly, you know, very hostile to the words of Vladimir Putin.
	They had to retract a very key claim in March 2017.
	They accused Russia of carrying out a hacking operation in Ukraine using some of the same malware that they said Russia used inside the DNC hacking operation.
	They had to retract that, which was covered not very widely, but covered actually in Voice of America, a U.S. government publication, who really pushed the story.
	So they had to retract that.
	So they have a, and another executive, Sean Henry, worked for Robert Mueller at the FBI, which means now the executive at CrowdStrike worked for Robert Mueller.
	Exactly right.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Which just means that Robert Mueller, you know, coming from the FBI, he inherits an investigation that has been given to him already by the FBI.
	He's not the most unbiased source to conduct an independent investigation that can really look at the facts.
	I think what he basically did was conduct it.
	He knew he had no collusion early on.
	He knew this whole thing was baseless, but he needed to validate all this stuff.
	And that's why we got this prolonged two-year investigation and Robert Mueller overlooking potential biases at such a core source like CrowdStrike.
	So people gave me shit for reporting this originally.
	I know they did Jimmy.
	And let me say, you know, I was relatively agnostic on all this stuff.
	I sort of focused on the collusion angle and the Russian and the social media stuff.
	Part of it was a lack of familiarity with computer jargon.
	You were on this from the beginning.
	I saw how much heat you got for it.
	But again, as more and more information comes out, those who were skeptical, like yourself and Bill Benny and Ray McGovern, who really pushed back forcefully, I think are looking increasingly vindicated.
	Yeah, the people who attacked us for being right and doing actual journalism will never admit it.
	And they're never going to apologize because those are the kind of people those motherfuckers are.
	They're herd mentality, unoriginal thinking motherfuckers.
	And that's and that.
	So and they don't have much integrity.
	And it just, it's, it's a goddamn jagoff nightclub comedian out integrities them.
	They should be embarrassed because I don't have any integrity and yet I'm doing better than them.
	So here you go on to say, if it was really an internet hack, this gets back to the technical part of the Mueller thing.
	If it was really an internet hack, the NSA could easily tell us when the information was taken and the route it took after being removed from the DNC server.
	So Bill Binney explained this on this show, that the NSA has a copy of everything that's happening on the internet.
	And so if it happened the way they said, if Russia hacked the DNC server, they would have a copy of it.
	And then they would have a copy of how it left, too.
	And the fact that they don't tells Bill Binney, and who is Bill Binney?
	He's the number one code breaker in the history of the NSA.
	That's who he was.
	And a whistleblower, which is why you don't never heard of him.
	And he said that the reason why they're not showing you that evidence is because it doesn't exist.
	Because if it existed, they would show it to you.
	But given Mueller's qualified language and his repeated use of the inner around rather than outlining specific down-to-the-second timestamps, which the NSA could provide, Binney is skeptical that the NSA intelligence was included in the GRU indictment and the report.
	So what he's saying is that they didn't even use the NSA intelligence to write this report or the indictment.
	They were probably just going off those bullshit claims from the original intelligent community assessment.
	Am I right about this?
	That is the theory of Binney.
	I mean, he also points out that for NSA information to be released, I mean, by default, it's classified.
	So at a certain point, it would have had to have gone through a declassification to be included in these indictments and in this report.
	And there's no record of any sort of declassification.
	I asked the NSA.
	I asked the National Security Division.
	I asked Robert Mueller's spokesperson.
	Nobody would confirm to me that any information was declassified.
	So we don't know yet.
	I mean, look, it's possible some NSA information is in there.
	But according to former NSA technical director Bill Benny, he's very confident that there wasn't.
	It's also possible that Congress is working in the interests of their voters.
	It's possible.
	Okay, so we'll get to this part, the social media campaign.
	So again, remember how they serve the two parts of how Russia attacked us through their hacking into the DNC and Podesta emails and also by making social media memes that got everybody crazy to vote for Donald Trump instead of Hillary Clinton.
	Mueller's other central allegation regards a Russian active measures social media campaign with the aim of, quote, sowing discord and helping to elect Trump.
	In fact, Mueller does not directly get this.
	He does not directly attribute that campaign to the Russian government and makes only the barest attempt to imply a Kremlin connection.
	According to Mueller, the social media form, the social media form of Russian election influence came principally from the Internet Research Agency, a Russian organization.
	So Mueller doesn't even connect.
	So what you're saying, Aaron, is that in the Mueller's report, he doesn't even connect the social troll, that troll farm on Twitter and Facebook.
	He doesn't even connect that to the government, Russian government.
	Exactly right, Jimmy.
	This is an example of the kind of disingenuous, misleading language that Mueller and his team adopted.
	They make a sweeping conclusion.
	They say the Russian government engaged in systematic interference.
	And they talk about this social media operation being a part of that because that was principally, they say, this was the second element.
	But then when you actually look at their detailed allegations and all their claims about this Russian social media effort, they never once say that it was carried out with the cooperation or knowledge of the Russian government.
	There's one line where Mueller says that Putin has ties to the owner of this troll farm.
	And he cites one article in the New York Times.
	That's the extent of Mueller's attempt to even suggest, not even assert, suggest a connection to the Russian government.
	As he even said, if you read his news, if you read his news conference comments closely, the one he delivered at the end of May, he says that this was carried out by a private Russian entity, which it's basically a clickbait troll farm that put out juvenile social media ads that nobody saw that were barely even about the election.
	They were mostly, you know, there was Buff Bernie memes and Jesus memes and, you know, certain memes targeted at African Americans and gun owners and evangelicals.
	And most of these ads ran after the election.
	So this whole thing is so stupid to begin with.
	This notion this could have had beyond 0% impact on the election.
	But on top of that, Mueller doesn't even try to connect this to the Russian government.
	So we reported this on this show in real time that the internet research agency, this is the troll farm that they're saying did all this mayhem from Russia.
	It has already been reported on it in the New York Times that it's just a troll farm.
	And what do troll farms do?
	They try to get social media followers so they can then spam them with advertising later.
	That's exactly what they were doing.
	In fact, even in Mueller's report, well, here's what it says.
	Mueller says that the IRA, that's the internet research agent, that troll farm.
	So Mueller says that that troll farm spent $100,000 between 2015 and 2017.
	Of that, just $46,000 was spent on Russian-linked Facebook ads before the 2016 election.
	So this is all about $46,000 in Facebook means, and the majority of them had nothing to do with the election, had nothing to do with politics.
	They were stuff like, hey, are you having a problem with masturbation?
	Take my hand and we'll beat it together.
	That was the Jesus one.
	So those were the kind of, they were just trying to get followers so they could then spam that.
	And that's what fucking troll farms do.
	And so even Mueller's own, they admitted in God that's it, 46 grand was spent.
	And compare that to what?
	Compare that to, that amounts to about 0.05% of the $81 million spent on Facebook ads by the Clinton and Trump campaigns combined.
	Go ahead, Adam, Aaron.
	Well, again, it just shows what a complete joke all this was.
	And yes, as you say, Mueller even acknowledges in his original indictment of this troll farm that they sold ads for something like $25.
	Like they sold ad space to vendors for their accounts that had big followings for something like $25 a pop.
	So they were trying to make money off of it.
	It's basically clickbait capitalism.
	And yeah, maybe some of these Russian troll farm workers in their broken English and juvenile memes had a preference for Donald Trump.
	I mean, sure.
	I mean, but the point is the notion that any of this could have impacted a single voter is really an insult.
	And the whole thing, it just shows the contempt that the Democratic Party elites and media elites who push this narrative, that they have for average voters.
	The idea that their voters are so malleable that they could be brainwashed by juvenile Russian clickbait that nobody even saw.
	There was recently an article in the Washington Post last week that pointed out that fewer than 1,000 people in the key swing states, Wisconsin and Michigan, I think Pennsylvania too, even saw these ads.
	So the fact that they were talked about, let alone the fact that they were, you know, and then the fact that they're compared to Pearl Harbor and a cyber 9-11, all this crazy stuff, it shows that this has nothing to do with any real concern about disinformation.
	This was an act of disinformation to sow fear and for Democratic, for failed Democratic Party neoliberals like Hillary Clinton and their campaign to blame Russia for their own failures.
	In fact, this is this strategy, the Senate report from Oxford University's Computational Propaganda Project observes, this strategy, meaning what that troll farm was doing, their strategy, the troll farm strategy, is not an invention for politics and foreign intrigue.
	It is consistent with the techniques used in digital marketing.
	So what we reported at the get-go was that this is just a troll farm doing exactly what troll farms do, try to bait people into joining their page or their Twitter followers so they can spam them.
	And that's exactly what the goddamn Senate report from the Oxford University's Computational Propaganda Project found out also.
	But Aaron, so you're going to obviously get invited on Chris Hayes' show or Rachel Maddow show to explain this to them, right?
	Probably not yet.
	No, no.
	And Jim, you know what?
	For anybody who talks about this stuff as being sophisticated, I would love for them to point to which ad by Russia or this Russian troll farm they think was sophisticated, which ad they think was effective and could have swayed the mind of a single voter.
	They can't because all these ads were in broken English.
	They were dumb and they weren't even about the election.
	But look how much column space this took up, people comparing this to Pearl Harbor.
	I mean, you know, there hasn't been enough time yet to process how moronic and insane our political media culture has been and how just how rare voices of sobriety like you and I have been throughout this thing.
	But the fact is now the Mueller report is done.
	Mueller didn't even want to come testify to Congress.
	They had to drag him kicking and screaming to go by subpoena soon.
	So I think there will be more space now, hopefully, for us to do this because there has to be a reckoning.
	The people who gave us this for two years wasted so much valuable time, wasted so much valuable political energy on a conspiracy theory instead of actually challenging Trump's policies in the process, you know, letting failed neoliberals like the Clintons who lost to Trump off the hook and also ratcheting up tensions with Russia.
	So this thing has been a disaster.
	And that's why it's important for us to continue to call this out now.
	There's more to your article, but I think we covered the great, you know, the whole part about John Brennan, the fact that this was basically his brainchild and that he gets to validate his own work is kind of hilarious.
	But we don't really have time to go into that.
	But this was a great article.
	We'll link to it when we drop this video.
	I'll put a link.
	It's over at RealClear Investigates.
	Okay.
	You know, a new poll is out on Donald Trump's approval ratings.
	So I'm calling up the master of the Senate, Chuck Schumer, for his reaction.
	Hello and welcome to my world, for I am Master of the Senate, Chaz Shoo, Shu Schumer.
	Before we begin, let's lay down the rules.
	Number one, now is not the time.
	Number two, we mustn't push too fast or too far.
	And number three, for God's sake, be civil, or there will be a backlash.
	You may speak now, and please, no curse words.
	Hi, Senator.
	What's your reaction to the latest poll on Donald Trump?
	Because listen to this.
	Donald Trump now has a 47% approval rating from registered voters.
	Impressive, right?
	I think we finally got him on the run.
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