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See the full episode: https://usefulidiots.substack.com/p/extended-episode-paypal-steals-from?r=je5va&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web Can't get a legal abortion because the government took down Roe v. Wade? Well we've got good news for you: Joe Biden's got cool new baby names for you like Javelin and Javelina, all named after weapons manufactured by US defense contractors. Thanks Lockheed Martin and Raytheon!

Katie Halper and Aaron Maté go over the worst moments of the Sunday morning news shows that they watch so you don’t have to. Join Katie and Aaron with your questions right after the stream at Callin Just download the free app to ask a question or listen on the web. https://www.callin.com/room/useful-idiots-CHNrlvaoYl If it's Monday Morning, it's #MondayMourning

Click here for the full episode, including the extended episode with Mnar Adley, proof that Nancy Pelosi doesn’t care about Roe v. Wade, and a bonus Biden Stoned Moment: https://usefulidiots.substack.com/p/extended-episode-paypal-steals-from?r=je5va&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web MintPress News’ Mnar Adley has bravely reported on Israel, Ukraine, and national security agents running TikTok. In response, PayPal shut down MintPress’s account and threatened to take their money. PayPal has begun doing this with multiple independent media outlets who don’t fall in lock-step with the Biden administration’s policies. And it’s gone nearly unreported. Google “PayPal” and you’ll mainly see why you should buy their stock today (!). And as the MintPress name gets attacked, notice that the people calling MintPress News “fake news” are the ones tampering with the Wikipedia page to slander their name. Check out the site and read their journalism for yourself. And hurry, because the way censorship has been trending, you may not be able to read them for long. Plus, Rep. Gaetz and Justice Alito lead Republicans in the Roe v. Wade decision, Biden and Pelosi refuse to do anything about it, and in case anyone forgot, Amazon doesn’t care about its workers. It’s all this, and more, on this week’s episode of Useful Idiots. Check it out. Plan C for safe, at-home abortion access: https://www.plancpills.org/

See the full episode with Michael Hudson: https://usefulidiots.substack.com/p/extended-episode-sociopath-neocons?r=je5va&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web In a recent Substack piece, Matt Taibbi and Matt Orfalea exposed how MSM regularly has guest pushing for weapons, weapons, more weapons. What they don't say? That these guests are on the boards of weapons contractors like Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, and BAE Systems. See the full mashup: https://taibbi.substack.com/p/the-gentlemens-agreement-when-tv?r=je5va&s=r&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

See the full episode: https://youtu.be/hVNPpLfEdWI See the Michael Hudson interview: https://usefulidiots.substack.com/p/extended-episode-sociopath-neocons?r=je5va&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web Trevor Noah "bravely" makes fun of the president and gives an impassioned speech how the US is so free because the press have the freedom to speak out against the government. They laugh and cry and pat themselves on the back. All while Julian Assange is tortured in prison for the rest of his life for exercising his freedom of press. But Joe Biden and Trevor Noah will keep laughing.

Katie Halper and Aaron Maté go over the worst moments of the Sunday morning news shows that they watch so you don’t have to. Join Katie and Aaron with your questions right after the stream at Callin Just download the free app to ask a question or listen on the web. https://www.callin.com/room/russia-ukraine-media-fails-5-ZILqBLesxG If it's Monday Morning, it's #MondayMourning

Click here for the full episode, including the extended interview with Michael Hudson: https://usefulidiots.substack.com/p/extended-episode-sociopath-neocons?r=je5va&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web We asked economist and “futurist” Michael Hudson, economic advisor and professor at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, his thoughts on the people who have run our country for the 50 years he’s studied US politics. “They’re sociopaths. They think it’s a game. They don’t care about the things you and I care about.” He shares a dark story of the Carter administration’s strategy to cause a drought that would raise American grain prices so they could pay for higher priced oil. This, plus the constant racist, elitist sacrifice of people in third-world countries, caused him to leave his post as economic advisor. And nearly 50 years later, the US strategy in Ukraine, Yemen, Syria, Africa, and all over hasn’t changed. It’s all about money and power. “I won’t say that Biden and Trump are Chinese agents,” he says in a scathing review of the presidents. “But if they were, they couldn’t have done anything to serve China more.” Hudson is the next in a long line of Useful Idiots guests to take down President Joe. And after last week’s explosive clip of Biden mocking a former marine, we’re pretty sure a lot of people are beginning to agree. Plus, Taibbi exposes defense contractors on MSM, Greg Abbott accidentally helps migrants, and we help you get out of your next boring zoom meeting: https://www.soundtheexcuse.com/

See the full interview with Scott Ritter: https://usefulidiots.substack.com/p/extended-episode-how-to-end-the-war?r=je5va&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web Former US Marine and Chief UN Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter has advice for Biden: If you want to win reelection and a Nobel Prize, end the war now. If you want to ensure irrelevancy, keep doing what you're doing.

See the full video of Biden mocking Ritter: https://youtu.be/GDi6ItNciCk See the full interview with Scott Ritter: https://usefulidiots.substack.com/p/extended-episode-how-to-end-the-war?r=je5va&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web In 1998, Joe Biden mocked US Marine Scott Ritter, calling him "Scotty Boy" and grinning as he repeats "it's above your pay grade." Ritter, who has exposed Biden's countless lies about war, has some choice words when we ask him what he thinks of the current president.

See Ritter's reaction: https://youtu.be/ecH1SI9ufr8 See the full interview with Scott Ritter: https://usefulidiots.substack.com/p/extended-episode-how-to-end-the-war?r=je5va&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web Watch Joe Biden in 1998 as he mocks US Marine Scott Ritter, calling him "Scotty Boy" and grinning as he repeats "it's above your pay grade." Very different than the harmless old Joe everyone knows today.

Read Aaron's new article on Syria: https://mate.substack.com/p/al-qaeda-is-on-our-side-how-obama?s=w Katie Halper and Aaron Maté go over the worst moments of the Sunday morning news shows that they watch so you don’t have to. Join Katie and Aaron with your questions right after the stream at Callin Just download the free app to ask a question or listen on the web. https://www.callin.com/room/russia-ukraine-media-fails-4-frjdobZSPT If it's Monday Morning, it's #MondayMourning

Click here for the full episode, including an explosive extended interview with Scott Ritter: https://usefulidiots.substack.com/p/extended-episode-how-to-end-the-war?r=je5va&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web Former US Marine Corps intelligence officer and Chief UN Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter resigned his post in protest of US war mongering. Immediately, he was mocked by Joe Biden.. And when the FBI came after him, well, you can hear the language he uses for yourself. So when he joined the Useful Idiots to discuss Joe Biden, he (like many of our recent guests), didn’t have much nice to say. “The marine in me says he stinks. He went to war knowing it was a lie and his chief of staff told me he knew it was a lie. And yet he held a hearing that lied to the American people about a threat that put marines, soldiers, sailors, and airmen’s lives at risk. People died. And not just our people, Iraqis. They didn’t deserve this, but they got it. “And the person that gave it to them? Joe Biden. He’s the President of the United States today, and I have zero use for the man. That’s about as honest as I can get.” He details Biden’s terrible approach to the war in Ukraine and the simple steps he’d need to end the whole thing and reach peace. But of course, Biden’s gonna Biden. And hear the extended episode where Ritter shares some explosive takes and seething views of the government whose war crimes have led to countless deaths. Oh, and if you want to win our hearts, take advice from Scott Ritter with quotes like: “You guys probably get far more viewers than CNN does, so you’re far more influential.” He’s right, especially after CNN+ officially shut down this week (thanks to viewers like you). Plus, Biden’s Trumpian approach to Assange, an MSNBC pundit joins the war, and Katie and Wilson debate whether Ted Cruz meant that Mickey would be “going at it” with Pluto or with Goofy. It’s all this, and more, on this week’s episode of Useful Idiots. Check it out.

Katie Halper and Aaron Maté go over the worst moments of the Sunday morning news shows that they watch so you don’t have to. Join Katie and Aaron with your questions right after the stream at Callin Just download the free app to ask a question or listen on the web. https://www.callin.com/room/russia-ukraine-media-fails-3-lvNPlcWwFH If it's Monday Morning, it's #MondayMourning

Click here for the full episode, including an extended interview with Dr. Charisse Burden-Stelly: https://usefulidiots.substack.com/p/extended-episode-how-liberalism-aids?r=je5va&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web Dr. Charisse Burden-Stelly, professor at Carlton College, coordinating committee member of the Black Alliance for Peace, and author of many books including the upcoming Black Scare/Red Scare, has had it with liberals pretending to care about regular people. Biden promises to help people with student loans while prosecuting bankrupt people in courts. Obama pretended to fight for civil rights while shutting down protests in Ferguson. Kamala Harris claims to help migrants while blaming them for underlying causes and telling them not to come. Liberal media calls to aid Nazis in Ukraine while ignoring genocides in other countries. And just this month we got the newest liberal win: “Ketanji Brown Jackson said Bush and Rumsfeld should be tried for war crimes, but that’s easy to say in retrospect. She didn’t say Joe Biden should be tried for war crimes, or Obama, or Kamala Harris.” And to all the people who do criticize Obama, she’s not cheering them on either. “Obama’s an easy target now, but where were your antennas in the moment?” The scholar goes through a history of liberal lies and war crimes and comes to the stark conclusion that “liberalism has always been amenable to fascism.” Plus, Dr. Charisse shares her reading list of books by Black scholars, and when it comes to controversies over CRT and the 1619 Project and other issues of race, she only has one piece of advice: just read Gerald Horne. It’s all this, and more, on this week’s episode of Useful Idiots. Check it out.

See the full episode: https://youtu.be/nvMe0Ju7i5A See our extended interview with David Sirota: https://usefulidiots.substack.com/p/extended-episode-david-sirota-goes?r=je5va&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web When asked about CNN's rampant spread of disinformation and propaganda, Reliable Sources' Brian Stelter will say: "Not my network. I once yelled at a Biden aide and our crew didn't want a Fox reporter to die. See?!" Time after time he refuses to admit his network's false news, but this time the cracks are beginning to show. It's a pretty bad answer. Watch the full Monday Mourning to see our full analysis.

See the full interview with David Sirota: https://usefulidiots.substack.com/p/extended-episode-david-sirota-goes?r=je5va&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web “Student debt and Joe Biden are a 40-year story. You have to understand how motivated he has been, how much he believes in the idea of student debt. He has been a sculptor of the laws in this country that govern debt for 40 years.” To put it lightly, David Sirota doesn’t trust Joe Biden. “If you want to tell people not to believe anything politicians say, if you really want to deeply disillusion people to not believe the government will ever do something concrete and permanent to help, that seems to be the message that Joe Biden is trying to deliver. “This is how you turn a country into the joker.”

Read Aaron's latest article on Ukraine here: https://mate.substack.com/p/siding-with-ukraines-far-right-us?s=r Katie Halper and Aaron Maté go over the worst moments of the Sunday morning news shows that they watch so you don’t have to. Join Katie and Aaron with your questions right after the stream at Callin Just download the free app to ask a question or listen on the web. https://www.callin.com/room/russia-ukraine-media-fails-2-wNQwQktYhP If it's Monday Morning, it's #MondayMourning

Click here for the full episode, including the extended interview with David Sirota and a Biden Stoned Moment: https://usefulidiots.substack.com/p/extended-episode-david-sirota-goes?r=je5va&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web David Sirota, whose site Daily Poster is now The Lever, returns to Useful Idiots as an Academy-Award nominee for his movie Don’t Look Up. And he’s got a message for the Oscars: We’ve got to do something today about climate change. It’s like a giant comet is headed towards earth and no one seems to care. “The movie’s giant audience proves that you don’t have to choose between focusing on important things and not having a big audience, or focusing on stupid, silly things and getting a big audience.” In this interview, David gives us the fun stuff: a tour of his celebrity sitings and stories; and then the dark stuff: Fossil fuels: “Why are we preserving an industry and jobs if in 10 or 20 years, the livable ecosystem that supports all human life is going to be significantly deteriorated or gone?” And student debt: “Student debt and Joe Biden are a 40-year story. You have to understand how motivated he has been, how much he believes in the idea of student debt. He has been a sculptor of the laws in this country that govern debt for 40 years.” To put it lightly, David Sirota doesn’t trust Joe Biden. “If you want to tell people not to believe anything politicians say, if you really want to deeply disillusion people to not believe the government will ever do something concrete and permanent to help, that seems to be the message that Joe Biden is trying to deliver. “This is how you turn a country into the joker.” Plus, dems are confused why drug prices (that they set) are so high, Marjorie Taylor Greene thinks we’re pro-pedophile, and a total jerk-off on a flight. It’s all this, and more, on this week’s episode of Useful Idiots. Check it out.

Hear the full interview: https://usefulidiots.substack.com/p/extended-episode-colin-powells-chief?r=je5va&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web Colin Powell's chief of staff Lawrence Wilkerson has been outspoken in his criticism for the US war machine. Why is he on such a short list of former government officials brave enough to do this?

Hear the full interview: https://usefulidiots.substack.com/p/extended-episode-colin-powells-chief?r=je5va&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web Colin Powell's chief of staff Lawrence Wilkerson has been outspoken in his criticism for the US war machine. Now that Powell is no longer here to protect him, the FBI has started harassing him again. Hear his story.

Katie Halper and Aaron Maté go over the worst moments of the Sunday morning news shows that they watch so you don’t have to. Join Katie and Aaron with your questions right after the stream at Callin Just download the free app to ask a question or listen on the web. https://www.callin.com/room/russia-ukraine-media-fails-idsYQPqxOv If it's Monday Morning, it's #MondayMourning

Click here for the the full episode, including an extended interview with Larry Wilkerson on why the FBI is tailing him and why others don’t stand up to the machine: https://usefulidiots.substack.com/p/extended-episode-colin-powells-chief?r=je5va&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web Larry Wilkerson, former US Army Colonel and high-ranking member of Bush’s White House as Colin Powell’s chief of staff, has spent his post-government career criticizing our war-mongering policies. Wilkerson discusses the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the US response from an inside-the-government perspective: He’s worked with Biden and understands his motives. He knows the US oligarchs whose wallets will be hurt if Russian oligarchs are hit. He’s been through the army and Washington and understands why the current strategy isn’t designed to help anyone but the US. So we think he’s a good person to listen to. We also think that may be why the FBI is suddenly following him around. And, it seems that Wilkerson’s advice on drone strike information doubles as a pretty good characterization of some of the politicians in power today: “Your intelligence is never as good as you think it is.” Plus, Dems are ripping up the shelters of the unhoused while Republicans are having cocaine orgies. Oh yeah, and @usefulidiotpod is now #truthing on Truth Social. It’s all this, and more, on this week’s episode of Useful Idiots. Check it out.

Read Aaron's latest on Ukraine: https://mate.substack.com/p/urging-regime-change-in-russia-biden?r=je5va&s=r&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web Join Katie and Aaron with your questions right after the stream at Callin Just download the free app to ask a question or listen on the web. https://www.callin.com/room/media-round-up-znTxbpANtl Katie and Aaron review the Sunday morning shows that they watch so you don't have to. If it's Monday Morning, it's #MondayMourning

This week, we’re unpaywalling our extended interview with multiple-Oscar-winner Oliver Stone. His new documentary Ukraine on Fire has been censored by Youtube, but you can still see it on Rumble. He wrote and directed multiple classic, culture-defining American movies. He created groundbreaking documentaries, interviewing Putin, debunking Russiagate, and uncovering JFK’s murder. He won three Academy Awards. There was only one thing left for Oliver Stone to do: Become a Useful Idiot. Stone’s new documentary, JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass, uses newly declassified and reexamined footage to present a case that conspiracy theories about the president’s death are actually “conspiracy facts.” And it creates a big debate on Useful Idiots. Watch the pod, watch the doc, then let us know: do you agree with Matt, Katie, or Oliver? Who really killed President John F. Kennedy? The Oscar-winning filmmaker shares stories of censorship, getting yelled at about Russiagate by Bill Maher (kinda like another Useful Idiot we know), and being pushed out of the mainstream for being a controversial filmmaker, cementing his legacy as a Useful Idiot. Plus, watch Matt’s reaction when one of his all-time favorite directors quotes his “vampire squid” piece. It’s pretty cool. It’s Oliver Stone on Useful Idiots. Don’t miss this one.

Join Katie and Aaron with your questions right after the stream at Callin https://www.callin.com/room/media-roundup-QBOJhBjIVV. Just download the free app to ask a question or listen on the web. Katie and Aaron review the Sunday morning shows that they watch so you don't have to. If it's Monday Morning, it's #MondayMourning