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Fearless with Jason Whitlock

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Sports News, Politics, News, Sports

4.8 • 8.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2021

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Jason dives into the hottest controversies in athletics and politics. Why is a female wrestler from Texas the hero we need right now? What is the Great Reset of Sports? Why is the vaccine Twitter mob coming for Kirk Cousins but not Lamar Jackson? Are Donald Trump and his followers really like Jim Jones and the Kool-Aid drinkers? Uncle Jimmy guides you through all the week’s Whitlock fire-starters. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey what's up y'all, this Uncle Jimmy for Fairless Feature, Jason Whitlock.
0:10.0	Y'all know who I am, the side-hop, the side-kick, the bodyguard for the big guy, that's me.
0:18.0	Hey, this is the part of the show where Casey missed something more while I passed week.
0:23.0	We just let you get caught up on what happened, it's kinda like the best love.
0:27.0	Let's get to it, okay? On Monday's show, Jason talks about Bryan Stilter and Jackie Spear comparing Donald Trump to Coat Leader Jim Jones.
0:36.0	You remember that guy from the 70s, Mr. Kool-A?
0:39.0	Yeah, Jason doesn't find a way to compare those two, check it out.
0:43.0	Donald Trump is not Jim Jones.
0:48.0	CNN's Bryan Stilter and the rest of corporate media have far more in common with the disgrace cult leader than America's 45th president.
1:00.0	Some of you will reject that assertion of fact because you've been programmed to hear any defensive Trump as an attack on you.
1:09.0	Your Trump obsession blinds you from recognizing the harm of your corporate and social media obsessions.
1:18.0	Yesterday, on Stilter's Struggling Television Show Reliable Sources, California Democratic Congresswoman Jackie Spear
1:27.0	analogized Trump and Trump supporters to Jones and his cult members who died in 1978 at a mass suicide in Jonestown, Guyana.
1:41.0	Let's take a listen to what Spear had to say about Trump and Jones.
1:46.0	You gotta remember, Spear was shot in Guyana.
1:50.0	She was a political aide of Leo Ryan, of Congressman Leo Ryan back then.
1:56.0	And she was in Guyana trying to board a plane to escape and was shot five times and survived.
2:01.0	Listen to her analogy of Trump and Jones.
2:04.0	So you look at Donald Trump, charismatic leader, who was able to continue to talk in terms that appealed to those who were disaffected, disillusioned, and who were looking for something.
2:21.0	Much like those who became part of Jim Jones' congregation, the People's Temple, they were lost souls.
2:28.0	And the only difference between Jim Jones and Donald Trump is the fact that we now have social media.
2:36.0	So all these people can find themselves in ways that they couldn't find themselves before.
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