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Chris Hedges REACTS To Glenn Greenwald Criticism!

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4.63.8K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Glenn Greenwald recently responded to an article by Chris Hedges titled “The Purge of the Deep State and the Road to Dictatorship” describing Donald Trump’s dismantling of longstanding government institutions as a portent of worse to come. Greenwald disagreed with Hedges’ assessment, crediting Trump with positive steps like defunding USAID and firing thousands of civilian employees at the Pentagon.

Hedges returns to The Jimmy Dore Show to address Greenwald’s response and explain what Glenn got wrong.

Plus segments on whether Trump and Elon Musk’s dramatic efforts to curb government spending will forestall economic collapse and the recent AI-generated “Gaza Riviera” video Trump posted to Truth Social.

Also featuring Kurt Metzger, Ed Dowd and Paul Stone.

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0:00.0

Come see us on tour. We're going to be in Baltimore, Hartford, Connecticut, Syracuse, Atlantic City, Levitown, New York, Coho's, New York, and Providence, Rhode Island. we can't afford when he's fomenting this.

0:23.3

Oh,

0:24.5

watch and see as a jack off the medium speeds and jumps the medium and hits them head on.

0:31.3

It's the Chimmy Tor show.

0:34.5

I try not to have heroes because your heroes will always let you down, right?

0:38.4

And then that hurts.

0:39.7

But I did it with Bernie Sanders.

0:46.7

But so Glenn Greenwald's always been, you know, you and Glenn have always been in that realm for me.

0:53.6

And I saw, I was watching Glenn.

0:55.7

He, uh, he did this segment in response to something that you had written. And I wanted to show it to

1:01.0

you because, you know, here are, you know, my two, uh, people I admire greatly having different

1:07.0

opinions on this. And I want to get your opinion on what he had to say. So it's about

1:11.4

four minutes and we'll be right. We'll listen to it.

1:16.7

Okay.

1:16.8

Okay. Hi, Glenn. It's fascinating to watch the success of Doge, what's being exposed with

1:20.3

US aid, et cetera, and two of Trump's most controversial picks, Tulsi and RFK being confirmed.

1:23.9

It does seem like we're headed for some sort of renaissance or course correction long overdue. I'm curious about your take on Chris Hedges' recent remarks about the empire self-destructing,

1:31.0

which is the alternate way of viewing these events.

1:32.7

Here is his first paragraph, quote, the billionaires, Christian fascist, grifters, psychopaths,

1:35.9

imbeciles, narcissists, and deviance, who have seized control of Congress, the White House

1:38.8

and the Courts, are cannibalizing the machinery of the state. These are self-inflicted wounds characteristic of all eight empires, which will cripple and destroy the tentacles of power. And then like a house of courage,

1:46.9

the empire will collapse. I do, without all of that invective that he put there, and I'm not

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