{"id":115525,"date":"2021-02-02T07:59:58","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T12:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=115525"},"modified":"2021-02-02T08:42:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-02T13:42:00","slug":"watch-jimmy-kimmel-says-wallstreetbets-might-be-russian-disruptors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-jimmy-kimmel-says-wallstreetbets-might-be-russian-disruptors\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Jimmy Kimmel Says WallStreetBets Might Be \u2018Russian Disruptors\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwatch-jimmy-kimmel-says-wallstreetbets-might-be-russian-disruptors%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=115525&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Even though conservatives and liberals alike have sided with WallStreetBets and their push to surge GameStop (GME) stock to squeeze hedge funds on Wall Street, late-night host Jimmy Kimmel dusted up a familiar conspiracy theory: Russia, Russia, Russia.<\/p>\n<p>In the opening monologue for his show last Friday, Kimmel referred to the Reddit army as &#8220;a bunch of amateur investors&#8221; who may or may not be Putin&#8217;s troll minions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHave you been following this story about GameStop and the stock market. GameStop, if you don\u2019t know, is a video game store, and like a lot of businesses, they\u2019ve been struggling because of COVID but also because most people buy games online now,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And yet, despite a sharp decline in sales, over the past six months their stock price has grown by 8000% because a bunch of amateur investors, maybe even some Russian disruptors, who are part of a Reddit community called WallStreetBets decided to buy a bunch of GameStop stock and drive the price up and screw over the hedge fund guys who had shorted the stock,&#8221; he continued.<\/p>\n<p>Kimmel was equally harsh in his mockery of the hedge fund fat cats.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow the hedge fund guys are upset and they\u2019re pushing for an investigation and they\u2019re like \u2018we can\u2019t have a bunch of randos from Reddit manipulating the market. That\u2019s what we do. They are stealing our thing,&#8217;&#8221; he said. &#8220;It&#8217;s very confusing, but I think that I came up with a good analogy. It&#8217;s basically like one of those high school movies, where all the popular football players bet that the weird girl at school will never become prom queen. And then the nerds find out, and they use their computers to make weird girl prom queen. And then the jocks have to pay up. And then the girl uses her psychic powers to kill everyone except Freddie Prinze Jr.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"MAGA Buffoons Take Washington &amp; Reddit Takes Wall Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Pk-cmB847z0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>Also on Friday, Jimmy Kimmel deleted a response to fellow comedian Jon Stewart when he posted in support of WallStreetBets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is bulls**t. The Redditors aren\u2019t cheating, they\u2019re joining a party Wall Street insiders have been enjoying for years. Don\u2019t shut them down\u2026maybe sue them for copyright infringement instead!! We\u2019ve learned nothing from 2008,\u201d tweeted Stewart.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;RealDonaldTrump? Is this you?&#8221; responded Kimmel in his now-deleted tweet.<\/p>\n<p>Since the GameStop stock surged to unprecedented levels last week, causing a short squeeze and costing hedge funds more than $1 billion in losses, the debate has largely centered around market volatility and whether the Redditers were engaged in a &#8220;pump and dump.&#8221; No evidence reportedly\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/is-the-gamestop-surge-a-pump-and-dump-no-evidence-indicates-that-yet\">exists yet<\/a>\u00a0indicating that WallStreetBets and those who spearheaded the squeeze were participating in a \u201cpump-and-dump,\u201d which would be deliberately lying about a stock\u2019s positive value and selling it to unsuspecting investors.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/elizabeth-warren-calls-on-sec-to-investigate-potential-market-manipulation-cautions-against-internet-trading-schemes-a-flash-mob-with-money\">Elizabeth Warren Calls On SEC To Investigate Potential \u2018Market Manipulation,\u2019 Cautions Against \u2018Internet Trading Schemes,\u2019 \u2018A Flash Mob With Money\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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