Equating Rhetoric With Violence to Blame Political Opponents for Mass Murder Sprees
VIDEO TRANSCRIPT: Plus, Bernie's pathetic capitulation on Yemen, and more
Note from Glenn Greenwald: Our new live nightly program on Rumble, "SYSTEM UPDATE,” debuted last Monday. We broadcast five shows last week beginning, as always, at 7:00 pm ET, and another last night. We also followed it with a live inter-active after-show on Locals, exclusively for our subscribers here on Substack and on Locals. That after-show is designed for us to take questions, respond to feedback, and address anything else on the mind of our viewers. You can watch every episode live, or on tape after broadcasting, by clicking on this page.
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Good evening. It's Wednesday, December 14, 2022. Welcome to a new episode of System Update, our new live nightly show to air every Monday through Friday at 7 p.m. Eastern, exclusively here on Rumble, the free speech alternative to YouTube.
Tonight, we will begin with an examination of a sleazy, sociopathic but increasingly common tactic trying to blame mass shootings on one's political opponents by claiming, usually without evidence, that the shooter was, quote, “motivated by those opponents’ ideology”. It's a tactic as journalistically reckless as it is morally bankrupt, and, for reasons we'll explain, increasingly dangerous.
And then we'll look at how Bernie Sanders right on the verge of victory in denying the Biden administration authorization to continue to help Saudi Arabia bomb Yemen, backed down as usual and capitulated because Joe Biden told him to. We'll speak to one of the most astute left-wing critics of Democratic Party politics and the Squad about this latest humiliation.