Name: Joe Rogan Experience #689 - Abby Martin
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #689 - Abby Martin' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2015-08-26. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #689 - Abby Martin

We are doing this show in the honor of Derek the safari guide who was killed by
Cecil's cousin in Africa today
All day my fucking Facebook has been a mess because of people angry at me
thinking that I really cared that this fucking safari guide got killed
But Abby Martin's here to straighten everything out
Did you did you cry when Cecil? No, I didn't shed any tears. No, no. I cried
when Jimmy Kimmel cried
Yeah, see these stories are just I just feel like they're manufactured kind of
outrage and feigned outrage for people to just feel better
I mean, yes, of course you should
You know love animals and love humans and have solidarity with all living
things
But it just seemed really manufactured especially when I read interviews with
people who lived there
And they were like who the fuck is Cecil the lion like the way the hysteria in
this country made it seem like he was like their national
Animal yeah, this was the the lion that was like he loved the lion right this
beloved creature and everyone was like
Why do Americans care so much about this lion?
Well, no one had heard anything about him at all
Until this guy killed them and then once we decided there was a name to Cecil
You know, then it became this big thing. Well, I had a Justin Ren who's a
friend of mine who works in a Congo
He he builds water wells for these people in the Congo that don't have fresh
water
And he said the most sobering statistic yesterday. He said 5,000 children
between the age of up to the age of five die
Every day in the Congo because they drink dirty water
5,000 a day a day I can't even comprehend. It's insane. It's impossible to wrap
your head around and
You know black lives don't matter lions matter
Seriously, I mean when you're that someone else wrote a really poignant
editorial like this African woman and she was just like this
You know, there's so much death and destruction basically because of just so
many things globalization
Especially with the raping of the Congo the Civil War there and she was like
but lions matter more than black lives
And that's the absolute truth and I think when people can you know
Anthropomorphize this like creature and feel some sort of connection to it
You can do that about anything you can do that about we do it for with our dogs
But the truth is we're eating animals every day
You know, it just seemed like picking and choosing just because it's this like
majestic creature
Yeah, it was also it gives people an opportunity to be really angry and not
think about their real problems
Like there was all these people in front of Cecil's or this guy the Dennis what
are Dennis office?
And they were saying they should have his head on their wall people
I would like to see his head on a wall like you really want you want a person
to be killed now, too?
Well, it's not bad enough, you know, it actually hit me a little bit too close
to home because I saw the
This kind of you know, I said a wave of hysteria and like vitriol against this
guy and actual
Lambasing him with death threats over and over again people going and smearing
blood on his office and stuff and I just was
Really really horrified because I was like holy shit this this happened to me
on a really like micro scale with the Chris Kyle stuff
I was just like getting like incessantly peddled with death threats and that's
awful. It's wrong
You can't do that to someone we're all human beings and you can't do that even
if you hate someone or
Think that they you know if you personally want someone to die like you can't
just be like you should die because you hunted a line
You should die because you wore a fuck Chris Kyle shirt
I just think that apply it across the board and this kind of online bullying
and like
Driving people into a hole or doxing them and exposing their personal
information because you disagree with something that they did
It's wrong Mia Farrow docks the dentist
Mia Farrow yeah, she put the dentist's address online
Wow
Mia Farrow that's the last person that I would ever expect to do that
That's so interesting wow
Fuck Woody Allen. What do you want from her?
It's it's not a joke. Yeah, it's not a joke to get doxed and to get like peddled
with death threats
Well, you you had that Chris Kyle t-shirt the fuck Chris Kyle t-shirt was that
what did it?
Was that or was it the being on the show that did it so you did warn me?
Just in case people haven't heard the last episode that I was on I talked about
how
Chris Kyle was a sociopath I talked about how he lied in his book about you
know killing people
Beating dogs or horses so bad that his hand broke
But the thing is he's lied about so many things like Jesse Ventura has proven
that he lied about that fight and stuff
So we can't really trust what he said in his book
But I think it's just odd that someone would lie about killing black people in
her and King Katrina
Like why would you brag about that you think that you would brag about a story
about like saving a child?
But instead he talked about how he was actually bragging about like slaughtering
people who were looters
yeah, executing for people who are stealing things super fucking weird and I
just want to make it very clear that I
Have a lot of respect for veterans and soldiers who?
Choose to defect they there's a lot of heroic people like Ben Griffin
special operations and in
The UK who basically went to Iraq and just refused to go back
So there's a ton of amazing veterans and soldiers who I think that should be
praised especially when we're looking at something like the Iraq war
Which was a complete disaster?
Countless dead countless maimed now Isis is erupted
So when we have these heroes that are mythologized in our society when we have
someone like Chris Kyle
Who's the pinnacle of what the hero should be from that war and rewriting the
history of the Iraq war?
I think it's really dangerous so I just you know
I talked about how what I really felt about Chris Kyle and
People got really upset my friend Leo who runs this like clothing company
printed a shirt a one-off shirt fuck Chris Kyle and he was just like
He what he wanted me to wear it. I was like, yeah, fuck it
Let's let's take a photo and I posted on my Instagram account my Instagram
account like doesn't have that many followers
So I was like I did not know the shit storm that would be ensuing whatsoever
So, you know wore the fuck Chris Kyle shirt
tits out
You know two weeks go by and I was like whatever
Nothing happened. I wake up to
Every like it almost started where I was like oh shit
This is gonna be a really good art project because I was getting peddled with
like the craziest shit you've ever heard like rape
Like genital mutilations so detailed that I was like is this Isis actually
writing these comments because it seems like these people actually
Admire Isis because it's like the most grotesque
Disturbing things about my vagina and what they wanted Isis to do to it that I
was like holy fuck like you guys must have like some sick admiration for Isis
Now when you saw that do you report those people so it started?
I remember I was going to Baltimore and I just was getting it so frequently
that I was like holy fuck
So my Instagram account I had to like make it private immediately because
someone had gone like people had gone through and said we're gonna put our raping
Shoes on and find you all the shit, you know, so I shut that down and then I
went on Facebook and saw that
You know every single art post that I had on my art page every single public
side like I didn't want to shut it down because I was like
I don't want to defer to these threats, but at the same time it was getting so
extreme that I couldn't handle it like the volume of
of death and rape threats because at first I was like
Cataloging them and I was like okay. I'm taking screenshots of all these. I'm
gonna make this giant like
Like art project and I was like no fuck this. This is like not this is actually
getting way way too crazy
And then I got doxed by this guy
This veteran who basically just wrote me and he was like hey
I just posted your address and all the veteran and sniper forums. I was like
there's sniper forums
And he was like telling people, you know how to find you and then I found out
that my mom got doxed
So my mom's personal information got exposed and so luckily I was already
moving in a week
But I was just like this is this is batshit crazy
So I tried to contact the cops for like the I think there was like 10 really
graphic like I'm going to come to your house this Saturday
Cut your clit off like let you bleed to death on the floor like just I mean
things like that
I was like and it was a person's public Facebook page
You can see is like license plate in the photo. He had like a baby
You know, they're just like these people out there who are just totally proud
to be like completely homicidal and and rapey and really sociopathic acting
So I went to the cops and I was just like look there's like five people who I
know who they are
They've said that they're going to come kill me or rape me or cut my clit off
And I was like, is there anything that you can you can do and they basically
just took the report and nothing ever happened
We're supposed to go to the FBI for that dude. It was so funny. I called the
FBI and they're like yeah
They're like oh online threats. Yeah, just go to this website and file it like
there's probably so many online threats going on every day
Yeah, at this point, right? Oh my god, especially with clit killing. Yeah, I
mean
a lot of clit stabbers out there
The thing that was just it just upset me so much because people were yeah
people were comparing me to like Pamela Geller
They're like, okay, Abby can wear a fuck Chris Kyle shirt and like Pamela Geller
can have the draw Muhammad contest
I'm like first of all
Stop deifying Chris Kyle as like a prophet like that's insane
Second of all, we're not talking about a marginalized portion of society which
is like Arabs who are basically like this this generation's like demonized
Population I was like we're talking about Chris Kyle, which is like the peak of
the Empire this you know
Homicidal soldier who's like glorified and in war propaganda and shit. So you
can't really compare the two
But I just think it's really important
To understand the real history of the Iraq war and I think American Sniper
really not only whitewashed it, but just doubled down on the myth
and
You know the establishment chooses these war heroes to perpetuate and Chris
Kyle is not a hero. Mm-hmm. I think that there are countless heroes that we
Would be much more appropriate to hail
What's hard to when you look at a story like the American Sniper story? It's
hard to figure out what really happened
Because there were definitely some fabrications so it's it's hard to figure out
okay
Military people when they retire they do not get much money. It's it's it's
piss poor and it's it's quite an embarrassment
It's an embarrassment as far as the way they're treated
medically
the
The UFC has worked really hard to provide money for the Intrepid Institute for
For traumatic brain injuries, which is a huge issue with soldiers because
The medical community has made so many incredible advances that people live
that didn't live you know 30 40 years ago
so now these these guys are living with some
significant brain injuries and
While we were doing one of these fundraisers, it was it was hitting me
I was like why the amount of billions and billions of dollars that are spent on
this war
How the fuck could they not allocate a similar amount to take care of the
soldiers?
It's because the soldiers don't have a voice like nobody gives a fuck for them
nobody cares so when these guys retire
There's not a lot of options and so I was trying to figure out okay. Why would
a guy like Chris Kyle?
Make up all these stories. He was talking about shooting carjackers in Texas
that turned out to not be true
You said he was shooting people and Katrina that were looting
