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Jolly Goodginger
Russell "Jolly" Ellis, known as Jolly Good Ginger, is a combat veteran and social media creator with millions of followers known for anti-racism activism and progressive political commentary.
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They Want To Be Jolly Good Ginger
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19:18speaker_1ADVERTISER
Available at participating locations through November 3rd.
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19:21Jolly Good GingerGUEST
[upbeat music] From November, right after they lost the election, to December, they had gotten really worked up.
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19:35Jolly Good GingerGUEST
We're gonna da-da-da." And it was right after that that Trump tweeted, "Come to the Capitol on January 6th." He put it on his Twitter, and they all came to the Capitol on January 6th, and the rest is history.
28 MINS LATER
Lemon LIVE at 5: Trump's Grifters Exposed As ICE Shooting Sparks Nationwide Outrage
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31:46Jolly Good GingerGUEST
We have a process in place, right? So there's so much, like there's so much to say, and let me just say as succinctly and precise as I can, three quick things.
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31:55Jolly Good GingerGUEST
Number one, watching ICE stand around and not render aid to, uh, someone they just shot is as American as apple pie.
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32:04Jolly Good GingerGUEST
We've watched the police brutalize Black, brown, and indigenous communities in this country in that same way.
From Tea Time to Taking a Stand with Jolly Good Ginger
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30:48Jolly Good GingerGUEST
And my brother Travis, who is five years younger than me, would be like, well, you know, not really, and here's why, X, Y, Z.
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30:55Jolly Good GingerGUEST
And I always, always found it fascinating how when it came to issues of race— like maybe 50% of the time, his opinion was so far from mine in terms of, I wouldn't even have thought of that.
9 MINS LATER
Dear White People... with Jolly Good Ginger
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5:28Jolly Good GingerGUEST
And people who've been following me for five years, I started in 2020 on social media.
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BYOB Live with Michael Fanone and Jolly Good Ginger
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Michael FanoneHOST
the elephant in the room you've had a mitch mcconnell uh moment where people were wondering where the fuck is jolly the ginger
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1:21Jolly Good GingerGUEST
yeah i saw the the rumor mill and a couple people that posted uh one guy was like i heard he's like like on icu and other guys he's dead so the rumor mill is i almost died let me clear
Army Interrogator Breaks Down 'Friend's' Interview & Pathologist Analyzes Autopsy!
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43:57Jolly Good GingerGUEST
If you watch my whole video right after where you stopped right there, right after that, he finally gets to the point where what Nolan said to him that day.
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44:07Jolly Good GingerGUEST
So what he says right there at that part of the interview, he says, Nolan was the type of guy who would, you know, if you need anything, I'm here for you.
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MAJOR UPDATE: Sheriff Breaks Silence on Nolan Wells Investigation!
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94:18speaker_13UNKNOWN
Is that good enough?
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94:29Jolly Good GingerGUEST
Yeah, the Nolan Wells story, first of all, I'm glad you're covering it because the news cycle now happens so fast that, you know, it's, it's America.
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94:38Jolly Good GingerGUEST
Who gets murdered next by the white supremacist machine? But what I find most fascinating about the Nolan Wells story is the number of white Americans that are still, after watching what ICE is doing in Minneapolis, when they murdered a white woman in broad daylight, when they murdered a white man in broad daylight, still after we watch ICE just yesterday here in Maine murder a man, and then the number of white Americans that are outraged at what ICE is doing, and seeing the Venn diagram of how many of those white Americans are still waiting for the evidence to come out with Nolan Wells.
Don LemonHOST
Now, Jolly, you know we don't know what happened, but we do know, we do have the evidence of the history of America, and not just the history, the now of America, especially with MAGA in charge.
BYOB with Michael Fanone
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7:48Jolly Good GingerGUEST
See, I'm going to give you some background on me for those who don't know.
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Lemon LIVE Special | Iran War Alert: Donald Trump SPEAKS!
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19:45speaker_6UNKNOWN
Everyone makes a big deal about it, and he gets up there and talks about how much he's winning, gives absolutely no information, and that's it.
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19:53Jolly Good GingerGUEST
But although he said nothing, I think it's important for us to address some of the things that he did say.
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20:00Jolly Good GingerGUEST
Number one, I wanna talk about what he addressed on, on, in, in the Iran war.
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20:05Jolly Good GingerGUEST
And I'm saying this as a veteran of the Iraq War and the Afghanistan War.
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20:10Jolly Good GingerGUEST
Also, just as an Army soldier and understanding how wars are fought and understanding military strategy.
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20:16Jolly Good GingerGUEST
Number one, he opened up this rambling fucking yap- yap- yapathon with, um, by saying that they've had great battlefield victories.
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20:27Jolly Good GingerGUEST
Um, I wanna point out that just having the Air Force bomb key and designated locations are not great battlefield victories.
Lemon LIVE at 5 | Donald Trump's Iran War Escalates: Is the Draft Next?
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18:44Jolly Good GingerGUEST
And I've been following that, hoping to find something credible, and now it would appear that there's some credibility to that statement to the tune of possibly 150 soldiers.
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18:56Jolly Good GingerGUEST
I think what people don't think about, and it's okay if you don't think about it, because unless you've been there and done that, it's difficult to have these thoughts sometimes.
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19:06Jolly Good GingerGUEST
But what I want you to think about is each 150 of those potentially injured soldiers, sailors, airmen or marines, um, are people.
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19:18Jolly Good GingerGUEST
They got a family, they got a life, they had goals, they had aspirations.
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Lemon LIVE at 5 | Booted From State Of The Union! Al Green Speaks Out
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45:19Jolly Good GingerGUEST
Because, by the way, it shouldn't be a super controversial take to say that white people- or, Black people aren't apes.
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45:24Jolly Good GingerGUEST
Like, this should be the non-partisan line and we can all kind of, you know, uh, hang our hats here.
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45:34Jolly Good GingerGUEST
You saw Markwayne Mullin, uh, from Oklahoma, try to rip the sign away from, um, Al Green, because he was that offended that you would dare suggest Black people are not apes.
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BREAKING: Don Lemon Pleads NOT GUILTY!
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177:14Jolly Good GingerGUEST
I think that I, I'm worried about will Democrats step up and hold people accountable? Because, uh, going back to January 1st, 2020, uh, or sorry, January 6th, 2021, Donald Trump wouldn't even be in office right now, and we wouldn't be dealing with any of this, if we held him accountable for what happened then.
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177:30Jolly Good GingerGUEST
If Merrick Garland grew a spine, if the Democrats put their foot down, we wouldn't even be here.
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177:34Jolly Good GingerGUEST
You know, we didn't hold the Confederacy accountable after the Civil War [chuckles] That's why we're here.
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177:39Jolly Good GingerGUEST
We actually wrote Section Three of the 14th Amendment after the Civil War, so that if you ever tried to overthrow the government, you couldn't serve in the government, much less be president, much less, uh, all these other positions that are now in there.
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177:51Jolly Good GingerGUEST
I mean, uh, during the congressional hearing yesterday, it was pointed out that Pam Bondi hired on her staff, one of the January 6th insurrectionists that were... that was pardoned.
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That's okay
HOT TOPICS | Donald Trump's Vile, Racist Truth Social Post
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Don LemonHOST
According to Sam Stein, it has been the White House has taken it down, but your, your thoughts?
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124:35Jolly Good GingerGUEST
I, I saw it last night, and, you know, I saw some people arguing, "Do you think that he really posted this? Do you think..." Yeah, of course, I think he really posted that.
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124:48Jolly Good GingerGUEST
Your default should po- position should be to understand why he definitely did.
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124:58Jolly Good GingerGUEST
And, and I opened my, my speech by saying, "You know, Donald Trump, there's a lot of people that say Donald Trump ushered in this, you know, new age of white supremacy, that Donald Trump ushered in, uh, hate and all this stuff," and that's not true.
Lemon LIVE at 5 | Donald Trump Is Scrambling For Damage Control!
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Don LemonHOST
This is no backing down." You don't think that they're backing down at all, that this may be an, even an escalation? Is that correct?
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24:29Jolly Good GingerGUEST
In fact, since our conversation this morning, Don, not to jump ahead of that part, but I'm talking to people on the ground in Minneapolis who are saying to me they're shocked at how active ICE has been on the ground in Minneapolis today.
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24:46Jolly Good GingerGUEST
They even believed that when Bovino left, there would at least be some type of tactical pause, some type of lull in ICE operations while they change over switch from Bovino to Homan.
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JIM ACOSTA, DON LEMON AND JOY REID LIVE NO KINGS DAY COVERAGE
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108:27Jolly Good GingerGUEST
I've been out here asking this radical left lunatic violent mob, um, what are, what are their radical ideas.
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108:33Jolly Good GingerGUEST
And I've been hearing things like democracy, housing, healthcare, freedom.
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131:29Jolly Good GingerGUEST
I had to, I had to leave the studio because that's the only way they would tell me the secret location of the frog.
HOT TOPICS | Don Live On The Scene in Chicago! - October 10th, 2025
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69:46Jolly Good GingerGUEST
Uh, you know, I- I, anytime I'm with a community of people who are standing up against fascism, who are standing up against ICE, I'm always good.
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69:56Jolly Good GingerGUEST
I wanna be outside screaming, "Fuck ICE." Screaming, "Fuck the kidnappers." Fighting against the system.
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70:02Jolly Good GingerGUEST
And one thing that motivates me about Chicago is Chicago is showing out.
HOT TOPICS | America's Response to Charlie Kirk's Shooting & MAGA's Hypocrisy - September 15th, 2025
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47:41speaker_15UNKNOWN
Columbia, engineered for whatever.
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47:46Jolly Good GingerGUEST
A friend of mine who had put up some not so friendly Charlie Kirk posts and, uh, who is a s- uh, employee of the Department of Defense, civilian employee, has been for a long time, um, he went to his IG where he had initially put that post up, that very negative IG post, and he tagged Pete Hegseth and he said, "Fucking fire me then." Because this is censorship.
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HOT TOPICS | Charlie Kirk Dead: What We Know & What Happens Next - September 11, 2025
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Don LemonHOST
But there is good reason to be conflicted about Charlie Kirk, who he was and his legacy.
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9:18Jolly Good GingerGUEST
Over 3,000 people lost their lives 24 years ago, and Donald Trump hasn't made a single statement about that.
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9:25Jolly Good GingerGUEST
About a month or so ago, two – Congress people, state legislatures in Minnesota lost their life.
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HOT TOPICS | Trump to Bounce Bondi Over MASSIVE Blunder?! - July 8th, 2025
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34:16Jolly Good GingerGUEST
We hear all these people talk about the Second Amendment was the da-da-da.
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34:20Jolly Good GingerGUEST
If you actually ever go research the reason the Second Amendment was written, it was this.
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34:26Jolly Good GingerGUEST
The, the people that wrote the founding documents of this country stated that if a president is in charge of a peacetime army, uh, he may use that army to oppress and suppress the people.
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34:38Jolly Good GingerGUEST
So to prevent a president from using a peacetime army to become a king, they believed we shouldn't have a peacetime army.
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34:44Jolly Good GingerGUEST
We should have a militia, a well-regulated militia, uh, that was necessary to the, uh, security of a free state.
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34:51Jolly Good GingerGUEST
And so that's why the Second Amendment was written, and that's because the people that came here, um, i- uh, the colonists that came here, um, they knew what a monarchy looks like.
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Lemon LIVE at 5 | That Parade Was So EMBARRASSING! - June 16th, 2025
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8:37Jolly Good GingerGUEST
... you had mentioned, you had mentioned, um, that why are people calling it the Trump parade? Why are, you know, making it about Trump? Um, so number one, the United States Army spokesperson came out, uh, in, I think it was about mid-May, early May sometime when the parade was really starting to become a real thing, and said that they've been planning the army parade for two years and there was...
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9:02Jolly Good GingerGUEST
I'm sorry, the army birthday for two years and there was no parade as part of that birthday commemoration.
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9:07Jolly Good GingerGUEST
It was Donald Trump, after he won the election, this is factual, anyone's welcome to go research what I'm saying, the, uh, Department of the Army spokesperson made this statement, um, but said that it was Donald Trump that approached them shortly after winning the election to immediately start the conversation of including a parade in this, uh, birthday commemoration.
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9:27Jolly Good GingerGUEST
And secondly, um, so as a veteran and the other two veterans on the panel here can attest to this, most of my friends are veteran and many of them are still active duty.
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9:39Jolly Good GingerGUEST
Uh, so I have a lot of people I can readily call at any moment, um, who are active duty soldiers.
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9:46Jolly Good GingerGUEST
Prior to this Live, I spoke directly with two high-ranking army officers.
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LEMON DROP | This is WAR: Trump & Musk FEUD!
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20:01Jolly Good GingerGUEST
That's a good point, 'cause you know what? I think, I think that Trump has strongly underestimated the backing that Elon Musk was giving his threats to Republicans.
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20:18Jolly Good GingerGUEST
Matter of fact, right after this interview, I'm jumping on my motorcycle, going straight to DC, and I got a four o'clock, um, Under the Influence episode with, uh, Senator Ruben Gallego of Arizona.
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Gingers Against Trump + A Conversation With Jolly Good Ginger
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Michael CohenHOST
You know, uh, I'm not here to talk about his religion, but I don't, I don't appreciate when somebody wants to impose their religious conviction on someone else.
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33:32Jolly Good GingerGUEST
So no, like, what you just described like, "Hey, I agree with your, you know, religious views, but don't impose on my mind." Dude, we agree wholeheartedly, but this is...
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33:44Jolly Good GingerGUEST
You know, in the church, when I was a kid in church, we are taught there's a spiritual warfare.
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33:50Jolly Good GingerGUEST
This is, this is a very fundamental part of our teaching, that there's a spiritual warfare happening, that we're always in the end times and that we, the people of the church have to fight f- you know, in the Army of God against this pending antichrist.
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34:09Jolly Good GingerGUEST
And that ev- for every inch of ground we give, the devil takes, you know? And if we don't fight that, um, the devil's gonna take over the world and then our children are ruined.
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34:22Jolly Good GingerGUEST
And so we have to fight this spiritual warfare to keep our children safe.
Michael CohenHOST
And she stands there at the podium with a gigantic cross around her neck, you know, looking all, you know, coiffed and so on, and then she lies, lies like she's paid to lie, by the fib, right? How dangerous is it when these blatant falsehoods from the podium in the White House, in the briefing room, go unchecked by half the media and rewarded by the base?
