#1373 - Kyle Kulinski

Joe Rogan (0:03)

Boop, here we go. Hello, Kyle.

Kyle Kulinski (0:04)

Hey, man, what's going on?

Joe Rogan (0:05)

What's going on, buddy?

Kyle Kulinski (0:06)

Good to see you again.

Joe Rogan (0:06)

Good to see you in your wonderful pink shirt.

Kyle Kulinski (0:08)

Yeah, it's confident, right?

Joe Rogan (0:10)

Pink and gray, it's like, you're confident, you got a lot of shit going on.

Kyle Kulinski (0:13)

Yeah, the lowdown on this, though, is I was supposed to get this dry cleaned.

When I was in Tennessee for PolitiCon, which was just a few days ago, and then even when I got here, I was like, I gotta get this dry cleaned. Going on Rogan Show, of course I didn't, but it doesn't look too wrinkly.

Joe Rogan (0:27)

It looks good.

Kyle Kulinski (0:27)

Thanks, man.

Joe Rogan (0:28)

It looks very good.

So, tell me what you were saying right when I walked in, I said, hold this thought. You were saying that Chelsea Manning is locked up, and they're charging her $1,000 a day?

Kyle Kulinski (0:37)

Yeah, Chelsea Manning is locked up right now because they wanted her to say more stuff against Julian Assange. She's refusing to do it, and they're fining her, I think it's over $1,000 a day.

So that shows you, you know, because before that we were talking about Snowden, and that shows you that they do not mess around when they feel like you're uncovering their BS.

Joe Rogan (0:57)

Yeah, now what are they trying to get from Julian Assange? What do they have on him?

Kyle Kulinski (1:02)

Well, Julian Assange, there's a couple reasons why they despise him, but he has no political home right now, particularly because it used to be Democrats that defended him, but then he pissed off the Democrats because he leaked on the DNC, and he showed what was going on with Hillary behind the scenes, and how the primary was basically rigged against Bernie Sanders. So Democrats used to like him, now Democrats hate him, and Trump used to like him when he was getting this information on Hillary, but they hate him as well because Trump has basically been convinced by the people around him in the White House that this guy is dangerous because this guy basically exposed US war crimes. That's why they're coming after him, because he released a video which showed that we were killing civilians, and then we circled back around and did what's called a double tap where we killed the first responders, and the idea at the time was, oh, it's okay, we're going after Al Qaeda, but come to find out that wasn't Al Qaeda, they were innocent civilians, and then they were the medics that came afterwards.

And so Julien Assange thought, hey, listen, this is not something we should be doing, and the American people deserve to know about this, this shouldn't be top secret, this is a war crime, and so he released that, and then that's why they're coming after him and throwing the book at him, because, you know, just like with Mike Revelle previously, Daniel Ellsberg actually is who I'm thinking of, just like with Daniel Ellsberg, when he showed the, what we were doing in Vietnam and how we were killing civilians, they do not want you to expose their war crimes. Because they will throw the book at you and act like you're a spy, you're working for a foreign country, you're a traitor, because they want to keep that stuff under wraps because it really embarrasses them and it really shows what US. Empire is doing around the world.

Joe Rogan (2:33)

That was that collateral murder video?

Kyle Kulinski (2:35)

Yes.

Joe Rogan (2:35)

Yeah. What's really bizarre about this is how no one speaks out against it. No one. No one on the right, no one on the left. It's just this thing now.

Kyle Kulinski (2:44)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (2:44)

You know what I mean? It's like, it doesn't have a home.

Kyle Kulinski (2:47)

Yeah. Well, unfortunately, what you see is it becomes very partisan. And so when Obama is doing drone strikes and killing 90% innocent people, unfortunately, partisan Democrats don't talk about it.

Now that Trump has increased drone strikes by 432% over Obama, with still a tremendously high civilian death rate, now, you know, maybe some Democrats will talk about it, but Republicans certainly don't talk about it, but 432% over Obama, that's right.

Joe Rogan (3:13)

And Obama was a radical acceleration of the Bush administration's drone policy.

Kyle Kulinski (3:18)

That's right. And Trump has increased it even more. And see, that's the problem is people get mad now that, you know, Trump is at the helm of this stuff, but all of these things now, it's precedent. He's not doing anything that wasn't established beforehand.