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26 Aug 2024
Jimmy Dore's jokes reinforce right-wing biases regarding crime and policing rather than challenging them.

Jimmy is playing into reassuring that bias instead of challenging it, which I feel is antithetical to the image that you want to cultivate as a firebrand truth teller. Sure. And so I just feel like the construction of this is meant in a way to exacerbate the feelings that lead towards right-wing views of policing as opposed to the alternative.

26 Aug 2024
Jimmy Dore panders to his audience by including anti-immigrant rhetoric in his jokes.

So the inclusion of migrant squatter at the end of this list should tell you all you really need to know about how Jimmy is on board with the right-wing anti-immigrant hysteria. Putting that as the tag at the end of this list is a choice that's right at home on Rumble. Now, that list of crimes he mentions are assassination attempt, robbery, carjacking, gang war, and migrant squatter. A migrant squatter isn't necessarily a crime, and robberies and carjackings don't necessarily include guns, but okay, we can work with this list. I'm not sure how many gang wars there have been in the past year, since I don't think that's a statistic that's well kept. But robbery and motor vehicle theft are actually two of the categories where the rates have gone down in 2024. The last assassination attempt happened in rural Pennsylvania. Two of these crime categories have gone down. One is the plot of the Warriors, and the other is not a crime. So, like, he's pandering. This is pandering to the Rumble audience.

26 Aug 2024
Jimmy Dore's joke about Tim Walz shaking his wife's hand relies on transphobic hysteria.

The angle he's taking is that Walls is maybe gay because he shook his wife's hand. And then as the punchline, Jimmy signals to the transphobic hysteria that broke out in the right wing about the Algerian boxer Iman Khalif. This isn't a pretense here. Jimmy's just doing right-wing grievance comedy.