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I just got a message from Reince Priebus, who just got named the new White House chief of staff.
Hey, Jimmy, it's Reince.
Hey, asshole.
Guess who just got made captain of the friggin' Titanic?
This guy.
Guess what?
Turns out the Titanic is its own iceberg.
Many of you may be asking, hey, Reince, you seem like a pretty reasonable guy.
But you never liked Trump, so what the heck, fire are you doing being his chief of staff?
Well, the answer is simple.
I'm an unconscionable whore.
A huge syphilitic whore for power.
If someone waves even the slightest bit of power in front of me, I will do unspeakable things for that power.
For instance, in grade school, I blew three guys to become home monitor.
Turns out I didn't have to do that.
They would have given me the job just for asking.
But the point is, I'm disgusting.
Hey, Reince, you might be asking yourself at this point, what is it you want with all this power?
To which I would say, hey, Jackwatt, what's with all the questions?
But I might also tell you I want power for the same reason anyone wants power.
Revenge upon my enemies.
Do you hear that, Kyle?
Oh, maybe you don't remember me from middle school.
You used to call me Toilet Bowl.
Well, I tell you what, Kyle, looks like you're about to get a visit from IRS.
And I have a stinking suspicion they might be sending you to a Turkish prison.
Yeah, they can do that now.
Oh, and hey, Janine, remember when you kissed me on a dare in the cafeteria?
Yeah, that was pretty funny.
You know what else is going to be funny?
When the FBI comes to your house and murders you in front of your children.
Seriously, that's going to be a laugh, right, eh, Janine?
I'm so friggin'drunk right now.
I'm so friggin'drunk right now.
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So right now, let's get right into the show.
I'm joined this week by Ron Placone, Hank Thompson, Steph Zamarano in the studio with Jim Murrilla also.
So let's get right to it.
We've got a lot coming up on today's show.
We're going to take a look at, hey, how can you actually, how can you actually influence your congressperson?
How do you actually get their air?
There's a woman who worked for a congressman who gives us the inside info.
It's coming up in the second half.
Reince Priebus is going to call in a couple more times today.
We're also going to take a look at Chuck Schumer.
He got occupied and how the Democrats dealt with that.
Plus a lot, lot more.
Let's get right to it.
That's today on The Jimmy Dore Show.
Thank you.
No.
you you So guess what?
Donny Tynehans is our president-elect.
That's unbelievable.
Thank you.
It is unbelievable.
Thank you, Hillary Clinton.
Do you find it hard not to just go, uh, every time you hear that or say it?
Well, it's not that there's a buffoon that's the president.
That doesn't bother me.
We had George Bush for eight years.
That guy was a fucking buffoon.
And he had an evil, evil person really running the government, which was Dick Cheney.
So we've already had that.
It's that it's that it's Donnie Tynehans, who's been such a colossal jagoff that now he gets to win, right?
I don't care that it's he's such a horrible human being.
We've had horrible human beings be president, George Bush.
And it's just that it's him.
The validation he must feel.
That he must feel.
Yeah, yeah.
And the disappointment of the weakness of the Democrats for losing to that person.
If there's any reason to disband the Democratic Party, do you need another reason?
It should be disbanded, and we need to start over.
But that's not the point of this.
The point of this is to tell you that Donny Tynehans was lying.
He's playing his, but do you think he was playing those people?
Remember, we were saying he's a con man.
Do you think he was playing you?
You think he's going to build a wall?
You think he's going to ban all the Muslims?
You think he's going to drain the swamp?
He's not draining the swamp.
He's filling the swamp with the fucking swamp monsters.
Rudy Giuliati, Chris Christie, Josh Bolt.
Are you kidding me?
Those are the swamp.
So, oh, by the way, his treasury secretary is going to probably be a guy for Goldman Sachs.
Yeah, he's draining the swamp and putting guys from Goldman Sachs back in government.
So Goldman Sachs, they run the Treasury Department of George Bush's president.
So there's a saying.
They go, hey, you know the difference between the Treasury Department and George Bush's administration and Barack Obama's administration?
The difference between that, the Treasury Department, and the Bush administration of Barack Obama is the same difference between the fourth and fifth floor at Goldman Sachs.
No difference.
And Donnie Tynehan, same thing.
He's going to keep it.
He's got a Goldman Sachs guy.
So his base will soon figure out they've been played because he ain't going to be able to do the shit he said.
Just like I said, Paul Ryan ain't going to build a wall, and Ms. McConnell ain't going to ban all Muslims.
They're not going to do the stuff he said to do.
Or they're going to pass a tax cut for wealthy people.
You mean just like Barack Obama did?
So here's Donnie Tinehans.
Oh, God, I saw this the other day.
Oh, God.
Donald Trump admits his Mexico border wall might just be a fence.
Some places a fence is enough.
Other places, it'll be part wall fart fence.
It'll be the best fence wall ever.
I have all the best fence walls.
I'm good.
I'm good at this.
It's what I do.
I do fence wall borders.
I know more than the generals.
I know more than them.
The construction guys, I know more than them.
There's already a fence.
So what he's going to do is say, look, they're going to go out and they're going to build three blocks, maybe 100 yards of wall.
And then he's going to go, see, we built it.
Then we got the fence connecting.
We've got a lot of fences, too.
And he's going to take credit for it.
Here he is on 60 Minutes with Leslie Stahl.
And let's listen here.
This is from his own Donnie Tynehan's lips.
Are you really going to build a wall?
Yes.
They're talking about a fence in the Republican Congress.
Would you accept a fence?
For certain areas, I would, but certain areas of the wall is more appropriate.
So the new phrase needs to be, and Mexico will see right through it.
We're going to build that fence.
And Mexico will see through it.
And wave to their friends.
I mean, it's a part.
Sure, Parser is going to be a sort of parser.
It'll be a fence which parts I don't know anything about this I didn't really look into any of this so one of the ways we can kind of keep score in a way for the next four years among the less horrible ways is is seeing the trickle of of Trump voters and supporters who realize they got conned It's probably happening already.
I'm sure it is.
People are going, wait a minute.
No, that's not right.
But it's going to be slow.
It's a slow process.
These people aren't easily persuaded by logic.
Well, if the Democrats keep doing what they've been doing, which is staying in bed with Wall Street, then they will stay with Trump.
Right.
Because he still will have the rhetoric.
Yeah, yeah.
But it's up to the Democrats now to make, to be an opposition party.
They're not going to be, believe me, they're not going to be the opposition.
I'm not saying it'll move the needle on the Democratic opposition.
I'm saying there'll be some consolation in a horrible, chaotic situation when we see tweets and we see stories about Trump supporters reversing.
Yeah, that'll be when they go, oh, well.
Because a similar process played out with George Bush.
Yeah.
The Iraq war fell apart.
Well, that's the Tea Party was the response that we hate the establishment Republicans because they, because George Bush added Medicare, Medicare Part D, and then he exploded, and he didn't pay for it.
And he exploded the deficit, and everybody knows he did.
And then they had those foreign wars, which nobody wanted.
Right.
So that was the Tea Party was supposed to be their response to that, that, oh, their base was upset, but it wasn't.
It was Astroturfed.
It was all regular Republicans trying to pretend they weren't part of the system.
Guys like Dick Army.
No, you're fucking, you are the thing.
Yeah.
So that was a phony, but like Occupy Wall Street was genuine as opposed to the Tea Party, which was Astroturf.
You mean if the Koch brothers fund a movement, it's not a legitimate movement.
That is correct.
Interesting.
So, yeah.
So what you're saying, Hank, is true, that they're sick of the establishment.
Here we go.
We're very good at this.
It's called construction.
So part one, part nine.
It could be some fencing.
What about the pledge?
He's going to sword fight people at the border.
That's what he's saying.
Could be some fence.
Come on, baby.
Scub some fencing, whatever.
I know Tony Scapoli.
He's a great fence builder.
He's my buddy.
To deport millions and millions of undocumented immigrants.
By the way, I predict Donald Trump will deport less Hispanics than Barack Obama.
Okay, so he's not going to build a wall.
He's not going to ban Muslims.
And he's going to deport less Mexicans than Barack Obama.
Here we go.
What we are going to do is get the people that are criminal and have criminal records, gang members, drug dealers.
We have a lot of these people, probably 2 million.
It could even be 3 million.
We're getting them out of our country or we're going to incarcerate.
But we're getting them out of our country.
They're here illegally.
After the border is secured and after everything gets normalized, we're going to make a determination on the people that you're talking about who are terrific people.
They're terrific people.
But we're going to make a determination at that.
But before we make that determination, Leslie, it's very important.
We want to secure our border.
They're terrific people, and then we're going to throw half of them in jail and the rest of them out of the country.
Terrific.
So that's what he's trying to say.
So he's saying after we secure the border, then we're going to throw the people out of the country who are criminals.
They're not going to secure the border.
They're not going to do a damn thing.
And it's all going to be marginal shit.
I'm telling you.
The guy's an incompetent.
By the way, their apparatus is already in place.
Barack Obama built it.
It's called ICE.
ICE stands for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Well, he's going to add another ICE, and then we're going to have ISIS.
Oh, then we'll have two ISIS.
We'll have ISIS fighting ISIS.
It's a dumb word play.
So this is going to be fun to watch out.
It's going to be fun to watch Donnie Tynehan's no border wall, no Muslim man.
He didn't drain the swamp.
He drained it and put those swamp monsters right back in.
His business is too.
He'll finally become a billionaire.
You know, I'm rooting.
I was rooting for him to self-destruct, but the Democrats are also, they can't help themselves.
They can't get out of their own ways.
I'm so tired of hearing politicians talk about gang members.
Oh, they're so scary, those gang members.
Gang members.
You know, because there's absolutely no jobs program available.
I don't really care about gang members, you know, but for goodness sakes, you know, I don't need a gang member when Wills Fargo is willing to go ahead and cheat me anyways.
A gang member never doubled my credit card interest rate.
A gang member never lowered the value of my house.
A gang member never kicked a veteran out of his house because you guys started a bubble.
Gang members didn't do that.
You know who did that?
Jamie Dimon, Lloyd Blankfein with the help of Barack Obama, who had a system in place to save Wall Street and no system in place to help homeowners.
Zero, none.
His system made it worse for them.
The FBI goes and imprisons people who lied on their loan applications, but the guys who created the fraudulent loan applications and created the bubble and sank our economy, Barack Obama gives them bonuses.
And that's why Trump won.
Well, wait a second.
What about all those gang members that started those fank bank accounts?
Oh, wait, that was Wells Fargo.
Never mind.
Sorry.
I was trying to have a contrary.
I just, I forgot.
Hey, so the Democrats are trying to come together.
They're reconfiguring.
They had a big meeting and they came together.
They decided to do everything exactly the same.
I'm not shitting.
I've said it before.
I'm saying it again.
We need to have activism.
It's sprouting up spontaneously in response to the Trump presidency.
So the people on the left, the corporatist Democrats, are coming together with the real progressives to oppose Donald Trump.
Isn't that nice?
What the Democratic Party needs to do is cleanse itself of those corporatists who became Republicans and are losers.
Guys like Chuck Schumer, if you remember Chuck Schumer's, his whole strategy for the general election.
For every blue-collar Democrat we will lose in Western PA, we will pick up two, three moderate Republicans in the suburbs of Philadelphia.
And you can repeat that in Ohio and Illinois and Wisconsin.
The voters who are most out there figuring out what to do are not the blue-collar Democrats.
And he said, don't worry about blue-collar Democrats in Pennsylvania.
For every blue-collar Democrat we lose in Pennsylvania, we're going to gain two to three Republicans in the suburb.
That's what he said.
So they went after Republicans and they lost to Donnie Tynehans.
They don't even know why they're Democrats anymore.
How are you a Democrat if you don't go after blue-collar voters, but instead you go after Republican voters?
You're a fucking Republican.
Chuck Schumer is a Republican.
Show me how he's a Democrat.
Somebody please, besides being pro-gay rights and pro-abortion, because most Republicans are that now.
Guess what happened?
Some people got together and they went and occupied Chuck Schumer's office.
Isn't that fantastic?
Here it is.
And in places like Cleveland and across Northeast Ohio, there are many families who for a variety of reasons feel invisible to local, state, and national party leadership.
This is because rather than in power and listen to the concerns of working class Americans and the families that the party claims to represent, this party has become the party of Wall Street.
We need leadership that takes its cue from the American people, not the corporate and financial establishment.
All right.
All right.
17 demonstrators were arrested on Monday while staging a sit-in against Senator Chuck Schumer, a Democrat from New York, at the incoming Senate Minority Leader's Office in Washington, D.C. They arrested protest groups, roughly 40 people urging Schumer to step aside and hand the party's leadership to either Senator Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren.
That's what they wanted.
They wanted, you know, hand the leadership of the Senate over to people who aren't bought by corporations, people who didn't just lose the goddamn election to Donald Trump.
And your only idea is to get more money from the people you should be regulating.
That's Chuck Schumer.
Our goal is to show the Democratic Party needs new leadership and they failed to protect us.
They did.
The Democratic Party failed to protect them.
We want Chuck Schumer to withdraw his name.
I'm with them.
Shaid said that all of us 2016 formed about a month before President-elect Donald Trump's stunning White House win.
They just, these are activists starting their own activist group, and they're going out and they're occupying the Senate minority leaders' office.
Fantastic.
Fantastic.
The group now plans on targeting Wall Street Democrats.
Way to go.
He said, which it blames for the Republicans win over Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.
A lot of us are willing to go to jail.
Shaheed said, adding the group would target all Democratic senators who don't do anything they can to filibuster Trump's legislation that promotes his hatred or his greed.
Guess what I said?
The Democrats could filibuster.
They could filibuster as much as they can.
We are here because so many of us are terrified and scared and pissed off, said Yang Jong-cho, a participant from Queens, New York.
Donald Trump is a threat to the American people, she added, warning Monday's protest was the first warning to other Democrats.
We're coming for you.
So if the Democratic Party and Bernie Sanders, even Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, think you can still stay in bed with Wall Street, or some of you can still be in bed, or your leadership can be in bed with Wall Street.
These people are here to let you know, fuck you.
Get ready to lose to Trump again.
Fuck you.
We're not doing this shit anymore.
Half the country's poor, you assholes.
People are crushed by debt.
You got a Democratic president outsourcing jobs still deporting 2 million Hispanics.
Shit Trump's dreaming of doing.
Right now, the fucking Democrats are doing it.
And these people are saying enough.
And what did the Democrats do?
What did the Democrats do?
U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer will be the next minority leader in the Senate.
The New York Senator is replacing Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, who is retiring at the end of his term in January.
Senator Schumer pledged to work to bring the Democratic Party together.
Bam!
With the help of Bernie Sanders.
And you know what they did to Bernie Sanders?
He's the head of their outreach.
So now Bernie Sanders has to go out and spread Chuck Schumer's message to get voters to come on board.
He's the head of outreach.
And Bernie Sanders is okay with it.
You're going to lose again, Bernie.
You lost with Hillary and you did it on purpose and you knew she was going to lose and you backed her anyway.
And what Bernie Sanders should have done, goddammit, and you know it and I know it, is he should have taken Jill Stein's offer and ran with the Green Party.
And then Hillary Clinton would have shit her pants instead of what she did do was be arrogant because she had every motherfucking lefty saying that they were going to support her like morons instead of challenging her to make her a better fucking candidate to come together with the progressives and form a real coalition government.
Instead, she picked Tim Kaine and those fucking idiot lefties.
I'll support you even more now.
I'm pretending this isn't happening.
I'm supporting you more.
This will be great, right?
If he does shitty things and we say we support her, then she'll win, right?
No, she wins if she's a better candidate, you fucking knuckleheads.
You're going to get ready for eight more years of Trump.
The Democratic Party is dead.
They keep doing shit.
I'm not going to work to try to turn the Senate Democrat.
If Chuck Schumer's the leader, I'm not going to lift a goddamn finger to help them.
Do you recall anytime led on anything that happened?
When did Chuck Schumer ever lead for anybody except himself and his donors?
Ever.
He's the one who told people, don't worry about the blue-collar voters.
We're going to pick up Republicans in the suburb.
That was his strategy to go after Republicans.
Chuck Schumer, and they just made him their leader in the Senate with Bernie's support.
Bernie, you just supported Hillary Clinton and she got, she lost to Donald Trump.
Why don't you wake up?
I'm not going to help try to turn the Senate blue if it's Chuck Schumer.
And the people who on the left who helped tried to help Hillary Clinton, if they still try to help you do that, they're losers again.
Do you not see the people know?
They went and occupied his office.
What do you think is going to happen?
I'm here with Ron Placone, Steph Samurano, Hank Thompson.
What do you think is going to happen?
They got their big wake-up call, Ron, and this is what they did.
I think they need to need to do better and really hear the wake-up call because I think a lot of people, you know, yesterday we were talking about how so many folks in the corporate media are still pointing the fingers everywhere except for themselves.
But I think a lot of people that, you know, held their nose and supported Hillary Clinton, that were hesitant about it, now they're seeing, okay, it's not working anymore.
The system's over.
It's done.
Now we need all new blood.
We need all new ideas.
This isn't going to cut it.
This is not going to cut it.
You know, I'd be satisfied with not, I'm not even looking for new ideas.
I'm just looking for the idea that you're...
It's an old idea.
Yeah, you know, it worked really well.
Worked really well.
Worked really well.
Where's Barack Obama talking about the new, hey, we know we need to go back to the New Deal?
No, never even mentioned it.
They never mentioned FDR.
I don't think there's any time to do a New Deal because they have to do more war.
They got to do more war and get more money from John George Soros and Wall Street.
That's why they got Chuck Schumer.
He's a great fundraiser.
That's how you, by the way, that's how you progress in politics.
You raise funds.
So whoever raises the most money gets attention from the party leadership because you're bringing them money.
And they equate money with victory.
Even though Hillary Clinton just raised a billion dollars and got her ass handed to her.
So that's what that's all about.
That's why Chuck, so Chuck Schumer raises money from Wall Street and then he gives money to his other colleagues in the Senate and then they vote for him because he gives them, it's all about fucking money.
It's got nothing to do with service.
What did Chuck Schumer serve the people?
Look at this Party.
This party are dinosaurs.
Bernie Sanders, Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi.
These people are dinosaurs.
Hey, you know what, Jimmy?
I can't trust Elizabeth Warren.
I can't trust Elizabeth Warren.
She was right out there stumping for Hillary Clinton.
And as far as we know, where does she stand on Dapple?
Where does she stand on?
Remember, did you see that big speech Elizabeth Warren gave about Dapple?
Me neither.
Me, I thought I actually missed something.
I was like, oh, I didn't see that.
What did she say?
You didn't see it, did you, Hank?
No, me neither.
Yeah, here's the thing.
I attended Indiana University, a Big Ten school.
Their football team is never one of the better ones.
And whenever they upset a fellow Big Ten school that has a better football team, if you look on the sideline of the opposing seams, you see a coaching staff with a look on their face wondering, where am I going to work next year?
Everybody on the DNC should have that look on their face right now, but none of them do.
They're doubling down.
It wasn't their fault.
They've learned nothing.
Karen Finney, who's the chief strategist for Hillary Clinton, there's an article in Media today about how she's blaming sexism and Bernie Bros on the loss.
People got mad at me for not wanting to bat Keith Ellison.
I think the problem is the DNC.
I think people go, oh, you want to burn it down?
I don't think there's anything left to save.
Why are they saying that?
Like, that's a bad thing.
Burning down and Bernie.
I think you need to start a new, I need a new party.
Yes.
Our party's going to be filled with Chuck Schumer's and Karen Finneys and Nancy Pelosi's and corporatists everywhere you look.
The best we can hope for is somebody like Elizabeth Warren who didn't have the guts to back Bernie Sanders in the primary.
That's what we're left with.
You also got to remember who they're running against in 2020.
Donald Trump.
They're running against Donald Trump.
And he'll be worse then.
Might as well try again.
There's a real chance for progressives to make a real move here and take over the House and Senate in two years, if not four years, plus get rid of Donnie Tinyhands.
They're not going to do it like this.
Way to go, Democrats.
Get ready for eight years of Trump.
This is the Democrats'big idea.
The Democrats'big idea.
Jimmy, it's Reince again.
Reince friggin' Prievis, man.
It's weird.
I'm chief of staff, right?
Like I'm voluntarily working with Adolph Bannon over here.
It's weird because I'm pretty sure I'm a Jew.
I mean, I'm not sure, but Reince Priebus, that sounds like a made-up name to cover Judaism, right?
Yo, my real name is Reinhold Richard Priebus.
I swear to God.
I mean, that sounds like overcompensating to me.
Like my real name was probably Jewey McJewerson.
All I know is Bannon keeps looking at me like we're starving in a life raft and he thinks I'm a hot dog.
Like at any minute, he's going to genocide me.
So the other day, I just look right at him and say, hey, man, I'm not a friggin hot dog.
And he gets all quiet and says, maybe you are, and maybe you aren't.
I guess time will tell.
Jimmy, what the fuck?
I mean, seriously, what the fuck?
See, I'm trying to hold the Republic together with both hands in my tape.
And I got John Birch over here looking at me like I'm a friggin' hot dog and he's Kobe Ashi.
It's something even crazier, man.
Trump's kid and her husband are huge fucking Jews.
They're raising their kids orthodox.
Special forces of Judaism.
And they're like, yeah, Bannon, that's our guy.
The guy who worships a swastika-wearing frog.
That's your guy.
I got an idea.
Why don't you try to have sex with a badger while you're at it?
But I guess you do it through a sheet.
I don't know.
I don't know how they would do it.
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If they consider themselves lefty and you're to the left of them and you're right, they hate that.
And so, you know, Dona Brazil, we've been talking out very strongly against Barack Obama and his legacy.
Barack Obama's legacy will be that his last act in office was to let the one minority lower on the social ladder than him have their heads busted in at the behest of his donors from Wall Street in the fossil fuel industry.
That's going to be his legacy.
40% Of prison population, black males.
Barack Obama did nothing to help that.
And I've been saying stuff like that.
And we called out Donna Brazil.
And I got an email yesterday.
It scared the shit out of me.
I don't know.
If you see this, that's what Donna Brazile says.
Jimmy, the President Obama wants to talk to you.
Oh, geez.
That's still, I still get scared.
How do I want to get called to the principal's office?
And this guy, see, Barack Obama said me when he son, James, join me to talk about what's next.
I'm not answering that.
He used the word James.
I know you know you're in trouble.
President Obama wants to talk to you.
Fuck.
laughing laughing laughing And then the Democrats forwarded this shit from him because I'm not opening it and they know it.
They forwarded it.
Hey, Jimmy fucking Barack Obama said it shit.
So I open up the email.
This is the email from Don in Brazil that Barack Obama wants to talk to me.
And here, I'll read it to you.
Here's what it says.
It says, first of all, I want to make sure you know just how much I appreciate you.
Oh, that's nice.
Really?
You appreciate me, Brock?
Because I don't appreciate you one bit.
Your energy, your passion, your devotion.
Oh, this is from Donna Brazil.
It says, your energy, your passion, your devotion, you poured it all into this election and it showed.
Tuesday night may not have gone the way we wanted it to, but I could, boy, talk about an understatement.
It might not have gone.
It might have.
It might have gone the way we wanted it, but it might not have.
Yeah, it's not like a wedding that had a cloudy day or some rain.
Oh, boy, it would have been nice if it was sunny.
It wasn't like the band from next door's music bled through during dinner.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's not like that.
Boy, we had a fire drill during the kids' recital.
That really made things crazy for 10 years.
It's like our worst nightmare just came true.
It actually happened.
The thing that wakes us up in the middle of the night screaming in terror.
Yeah, that happened.
In two months, white nationalism is going to be represented in the White House.
But whoops.
Whoopsie.
We put a Batman villain in charge.
We put a Batman villain in charge.
Tuesday night, my dad, I've gone.
I wanted to.
But I can promise you the results were ultimately closer because you did your part.
Talk to your friends and neighbors and cast your bells.
That's exactly what people didn't do, Donna.
That's why she lost.
The road ahead of us now is going to be a difficult one.
Because of you.
Because of you, Donna.
That's just a fact.
But I want to make one thing perfectly clear, James, to you, the other side, and to the whole world.
We aren't backing down.
We're going to, that's what you.
You mean you're going to still keep going with your brand of corporatism that sold out the Democratic base and why you guys lost to Donnie Tynehans?
Is that why?
That's what you mean you're not backing down?
Or you mean you're going to totally do everything different now?
No.
You mean you're going to keep doing everything exactly the same?
It actually sounds like a letter of threat.
We aren't backing down.
We aren't going to quit.
We're Democrats, James.
We're just spineless sellouts to the corporation.
We're Democrats, James, and we're going to keep fighting for what we believe in harder now than we ever did before.
You never fought for anything you believed in, Donna.
You bullshitter.
You sellout corporatist hack.
You got fired off the Dukakis campaign for your incompetence.
You lost Al Gore, lost to George Bush, and now you just lost to Donnie Tinehands.
Go away, Donna Brazil.
Go away.
Listen to your employee, Zach.
Listen to your employee, Zach, and go the fuck away.
And now we're coming out of this experience stronger.
I really believe that, James.
I don't believe you believe that, and you're not stronger, you fucking liar.
You don't believe that.
You know that's not true.
You know you're getting fired.
And you should be thrown to the dustbin of politics forever, Donna Brazil.
You pick a loser.
You wreck this country.
Your brand of politics wrecked this country.
Donna Brazil, goodbye.
If you ever think that for a second, people like me or Jenk Uger or anybody else on the left who's a real lefty is going to ever let you have one second of peace.
We're not.
You got to go.
And when I say got to go, I mean go make millions of dollars.
That's how bad it's going to be for you.
You corporatist sellout.
Here she ends.
And we're going to come out of this experience.
Tonight, President Obama is hosting a call with grassroots supporters to talk about what comes next.
I hope you'll join us.
RSVP to reserve your spot on the call.
I'm sure you can't talk on that call.
I'm sure you can only listen.
Right?
You can't talk.
Yeah, I'd imagine it's like one of those line things.
You'll be hearing more from us soon.
But for now, let me just say it again from the bottom of my heart.
Thank you.
Hey, let me say this from the bottom of my heart, Donna Brazil.
Double, double-fisted jerk off.
From the bottom of my heart.
That's from the bottom of my heart.
Because the bottom of your heart is filled with corporate cash and bullshit.
Hey, you want to know another?
Here's the thing that always bothered me.
The people who were right about the Iraq war, meaning we shouldn't have gone into it, people like Phil Donahue, people like that.
You never see those guys on TV anymore.
Ever.
The guys who are wrong about it, you see on TV all the time.
The guys who are wrong about the Iraq war, they never went away.
Bill Crystal is one of those guys.
Bill Crystal is known on this show as Smiley McKillkill.
And by the way, always being wrong means you never have to say you're sorry for being wrong.
And Bill Crystal has never gotten anything right, which is why he's such a sought-out TV pundit.
His entire career of political analysis discredits itself.
And when Bill Crystal's not grinning, he has that look on his face like my dog gives me when he left his shit in the corner.
That's Bill Crystal.
Afghanistan, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Libya, North Korea, Iran.
Name a country and Smiley McKillkill wants to go to war with it.
More establishment guys not getting understanding anything about anything, yet they can't keep him off TV because he's rich.
So Bill Crystal says, I know we have to adjust to Trump and to the populism and the vulgarity.
We have to stop being out of touch.
We can't go back.
For the record, a few things I believe to be as true today as they were yesterday.
Number one, free trade is good for the U.S. and the world.
Just keep ignoring it.
Just keep ignoring it.
Number two, the world order of the past 70 years has been good for U.S. and the world.
Maintaining it will require more leadership, not less.
Meaning he wants to have more wars.
That's what Bill Crystal means by that.
And he doesn't care if the people are for him or against him.
We already have a video about him saying it doesn't matter if the people are against the war.
You have to do what's right.
And then he goes on and he says, number three, the war in Iraq was right and necessary and we won it.
What a closer, man.
He saved that cult for last.
He's like, this is the guys that, These guys gets listened to.
Morning Joe, come on.
Tell everybody your great thoughts.
Like, you could be drunk and be smarter than these people.
You could go on Morning Joe drunk and be smarter than these.
I'm not kidding.
That's not hyperbole because you couldn't be wronger than this.
We won the Iraq war.
Look how we fixed all that stuff.
We won the Iraq war.
We spent trillions of dollars with nothing to show for it.
Nothing except more war.
Trillions of dollars, hundreds of thousands of dead people.
We ordered torture.
We did war crimes.
An illegal war of aggression.
And we won it.
What did we win?
What did we win in Iraq?
We gave control of Iraq to Iran.
By the way, he was right and necessary.
And we won it.
And by the way, the earth is 6,000 years old and climate change is a hoax.
These are the people.
The Iraq war was right and it was, we did win it.
And that's why, remember how we won it?
Remember how right it was?
He must have seen that same WMD proof that Rick Santorum had.
Yeah, he must have had word document.
Yeah.
Yes.
So again, this is just 10 years ago.
This isn't five minutes.
This is right now.
These are the guys saying this stuff right now.
This guy, and by the way, you can't turn on the TV without seeing this guy.
Please, Bill Kristol, come on and be unbelievably wrong again.
Thank you.
I'm here with the miserable liberal Steph Sabarano, Rod Plicote, and Hank Thompson.
And we're talking about the new appointment.
Well, Trump created a position for Steve Bannon from Breitbart News.
Breitbart is very extreme right.
So Trump just appointed him chief strategist.
And people are freaking out because he's a big racist, anti-Semite, and he's, you know, he's like a scum of the earth type guy, right?
MSNBC, of course, is totally outraged by him.
Totally outraged by him.
But they're not outraged at people cracking the heads of peaceful protesters in North Dakota.
Apparently, that's okay.
Apparently, outsourcing jobs, the TPP, that's okay, too.
Apparently, that's okay.
Overthrowing Libya, Honduras with Hillary.
That was okay.
Okay.
But they're upset at this.
This is some of the stuff he said.
There's no hiring bias against women in tech.
They just suck at interviews.
Birth control makes women unattractive and crazy.
The solution to online harassment is simple.
Women should log off.
World Health Organization report training's 49 times higher HIV rape.
Somebody's popular at college parties.
And so everybody's freaking out because Trump just hired him as his chief strategist.
People are like, no, they're putting racists in the White House.
So what I try to tell people is racism is in our culture, meaning 40% of the prison population are black men.
They make up 13% of the population.
We have racism right now, institutional.
Our society is racist.
Bill Clinton passed the crime bill in 96, 100 times worse penalties for crack cocaine than powdered.
That's racist.
Exploded the prison population, filling it up with black people as they gutted welfare and sent their jobs to Mexico with NAFTA, all at the same time.
Racism didn't just start.
Racism is codified into our criminal justice system.
But we're upset.
So everybody's getting upset now because they're not hiding it anymore.
Now there's an ugly face of racism as opposed to the nice face of racism that we normally have in the White House.
What do you mean, Barack Obama was racist?
The government, the criminal justice system is racist.
Yes.
Yes.
Barack Obama repealed habeas corpus.
Barack Obama made it so the government can throw you in jail without a trial.
Barack Obama took away your freedom.
Barack Obama did that.
And now these guys who are racist, although Barack Obama presided over a criminal justice system that's 100% racist, you heard him screaming about it all the time, except never.
And everybody's upset about this guy.
Now, here's why, should this make people uncomfortable that now somebody in the White House is an outward racist?
Sure.
But here's the deal.
You have to quit thinking short term.
This is good in a sense that Trump is doing this because just like Malcolm X said about Goldwater, he can't hide his hatred for blacks.
Whereas the Democrats could, the white Democrats could.
Here, Trump can't help himself.
He has to hire this anti-Semite.
He can't help himself.
And then these guys can't help themselves.
So now we have a wolf in wolf's clothing, not a wolf in sheep's clothing.
You have to think longer term.
In two years, there's another election.
In four years, there is another election.
The more repulsive people that Trump surrounds them, these guys are truly repellent to most of the electorate.
Guys like John Bolton and Rudy Giuliani and Chris Christie.
All those outsiders.
Right.
All those outsiders.
All those outsiders.
They're outsiders, all right.
If we were at a rock and roll concert, big outsiders.
And Trump is hiring the trust treasury secretary.
It's going to come from Goldman Sachs.
There's loose reports today.
So they're not outsiders.
Trump is immediately turning his back on the people who elected him.
But these people are truly repulsive, not reprehensible.
Who cares?
I think it's reprehensible that Barack Obama lets them crack the heads of Native Americans.
And I think that's reprehensible.
But he's not repulsive, Barack Obama.
He's pretty.
He's got a pretty speaking voice.
You go, well, it must be okay if Pretty Boy says it's okay.
But now when ugly motherfuckers who are ugly on the outside are doing the same things, we're going to go, that's horrible.
And we're going to stop it.
We're all going to stand up.
Barack Obama, Democratic presidents put half the left to sleep around horrible corporatist policies and racist criminal justice system.
So here we are.
I'm telling people, stop this.
The more Cretans that Trump puts in his cabinet, the better.
The better.
You want to have a complete wave.
Remember when George Bush was president?
It took four years for them to get rid of the Republican Senate.
Took four years.
They were like, okay, we've had it with this guy.
And then in two more years, they flipped not only the Senate, but the House of Representatives flipped the Democrat under six years of Bush.
Bush, that was, you're eager, war.
So what we want is for that to happen now.
And Trump surrounding himself with people who are genuinely repulsive to most of the electorate is in a sense a good thing.
I know Jenk Uger says you win by winning and you lose by losing.
You don't win by losing.
That's a short game.
That's a short game.
That's pretending there isn't another election ever.
Play the long game.
Play a four-year game with me because that's what I'm playing.
Let's play the four-year game.
Let's play a longer game.
Now we have a chance to get the House and the Senate back into real progressives, not this Chuck Schumer bullshit corporatists who are going to do just what the Republicans do too.
I'm talking real progressives.
I'm talking Tulsi Gabbards.
I'm talking Elizabeth Warrens.
I'm talking Bernie Sanders, Nina Turner's.
People are saying Keith Ellison.
I got some problems with him, but he's definitely one of the better ones.
So is the Democratic Party even worth saving?
I don't know.
That's what the problem is.
You still got guys like Chuck Schumer, who's the leader of the Democrats in the Senate.
You want to prop that guy up?
I don't.
Do you want to take back the Senate so Chuck Schumer could be the fucking leader?
I don't.
We got to get rid of Chuck Schumer.
So that's the problem with trying to repopulate the Democratic Party with better people.
You still got these pieces of shit hanging around like Chuck Schumer.
So I'm telling you that the bigger the Cretan is that Donald Trump populates his cabinet with, the better for the takeover.
That's you understand?
So, and after eight years of George W. After four years of George W. Bush, they flipped the Senate during a war.
They're in two wars.
After six years, they flipped the House and the Senate.
After eight years, they flipped the House, the Senate, and the presidency went to a black guy with a Muslim name in the middle of a war.
That's what George Bush did.
Donny Tynehance Trump is 10 times more repulsive to people than George W. Bush was.
And this is good.
If he was starting to put people in place in his cabinet that were actually agreeable and likable, that would be a problem.
That would be a problem because you're like, oh my God, this guy's going to somehow stay popular enough to get reelected.
Oh, my God.
He's going to, somehow they're going to normalize this guy, and he's going to have all these regular people around him.
It's better that he does this.
It's better he pushed this guy in and Rudy Giuliani and Chris Christie and what other other and that sheriff from Milwaukee, the people who are truly repulsive, that is good.
So people are like, he better get rid of.
I say keep them.
People are thinking way too short term.
Yes, now we can oppose their policies, a lot of which the Democrats were doing.
Barack Obama, I predict that Donnie Tinyhand's going to deport less Hispanics than Barack Obama did.
And now there's an uglier face on that policy of deportation.
Are you with me?
Do you get this?
Am I being clear, Ron?
Ron Placone, Steph Zamorano, Hank is here.
Are you guys, do you understand what I'm saying?
I mean, I understand the arguments against it.
Jank Uger says you win by winning.
I get that argument.
I disagree with it.
Well, we don't have the luxury of having that argument now, do we?
Because, I mean, Donald Trump is going to be the next president.
We don't have that.
You have to think the longer game.
Steve Bannon is completely and utterly repulsive.
That actually helps the progressives take over because their popularity as an administration is going to be so in.
I mean, he's coming in as the most hated guy ever to come in.
So do you understand what I'm saying?
Like, if he got popular, that would be bad.
Right, right.
No, you're absolutely right about that.
But we have to think, we have to think 2018, though.
We can't even be thinking just four years because either way, these repulsive people are going to have some power because they have the House and Senate behind them.
So we have to make sure that 2018.
So hopefully he gets a couple more of these guys in his cabinet, and it's easier to take over in two years and four years.
You're not going to get that.
Democrats and Republicans are both for war.
That's the problem.
And that's why I couldn't vote for Hillary Clinton.
I couldn't give my vote to war.
I couldn't do it.
We've had enough war.
We've had nonstop war.
It's immoral.
It's so immoral.
I can't even tell you.
And it's all for money.
It's all for money.
It has nothing to do with safety.
It has nothing to do with fighting terrorism.
It has nothing to do with fighting terrorism.
It has everything to do with money and fossil fuels.
And that's it.
So don't worry.
Don't freak out.
we're coming So how do you get stuff done?
How do you get the attention of your congressman, your elected representative?
How do you get their attention to the issues you want their attention on?
What do you do?
Well, first of all, there's this article at attention.gov, how to make your congressman listen to you.
And what happened was this woman put out a series of tweets because she was a congressional aide to actually Jason Chafee Chavets.
How do you say it?
You say Chaffee or Chavetz?
I say Chaffiettes.
Here's what she said.
She said, like a lot of people, I've been reeling from the election.
Ellsworth, a registered Republican, who campaigned for Hillary Clinton.
She's supporting the Republicans.
She said, so I thought people might like to know how you mobilize and activate individual communities to reach each member of Congress.
I just thought I have this knowledge, and I did this for six years, and it's probably important for people to know what those specific actions are for.
So she laid it out.
And I'm here with Ron Placone, Steph Samurano, Hank Thompson.
If you hear their voices, hey, Ron, say hi.
Hello.
Hola.
All right.
All right.
That's Hanky.
And so here's her tweets.
She says, I worked for Congress for six years, and here's what I learned about how they listen to constituents.
First, tweeting or writing Facebook is largely ineffective.
I never looked at those comments except to remove harassing ones.
Okay.
She says, second, writing a letter to the district office state is better than sending an email or writing a letter to D.C. Because our government's always looking out for the environment.
So write a letter which has a big carbon footprint and send it to their home office in your state.
Don't send it to their D.C. office.
She also says, but the most effective thing is to actually call them on the phone.
Oh my God.
Boom.
That's green.
Yep.
At their district state, at the state office, not in D.C. They have to talk to you there.
Nice.
They have to talk to you there.
So someone has to pick up the phone at the office.
We reped half a million people.
It was impossible to read and respond personally to all the letters.
Impossible.
This was something in particular that I cared about as a staffer and worked very hard on, but the sheer volume of emails is overwhelming.
So we batched them with computer algorithms and sent out form letters based on topic and position, regardless of the method they were received.
But phone calls, that was a thing that shook up our office from time to time.
One time, a radio host gave out the district office phone number on air.
He was against our immigration policy and told our constituents to call.
And they did all day long.
All I did all day was answer phones.
It was exhausting.
And you can bet my bosses heard about it.
We had discussions because of that call to action.
If we started getting a pattern of calls, I called up our D.C. office and asked if they were getting the same calls, and we talked.
Also, recognize that your letters and your emails get seen by staffers just like your phone calls get answered.
That's the way of it.
If you want to talk to your rep, show up at a town hall meeting, get a huge group, and they can't ignore.
Pack the place and ask questions.
We held town halls consistently that fewer than 50 people showed up for, and it was always the same people.
So shake it up.
And always, please be kind but firm with those staffers.
They will listen and talk to you.
I always, always did.
If you run an advocacy group, invite the local staffers to show up at your events.
Let them talk to people you work with and set up meetings.
I loved getting out of my office and meeting with advocates and immigration, healthcare, education, science, and every type of work.
Invite staffers on field trips and show them what it's like in your community.
Show them the work you are doing.
It works.
Are you noticing a pattern here?
The staff are the ones who run the ground game for Congress.
Work on helping them understand and learn.
Because if the staff knows you, then they have a question about a piece of legislation or amendment.
They will be the one you call.
So she's saying this is great advice.
Don't you guys think that's great advice?
Isn't she kind of explaining to us how to be a public citizen who lobbies for things that are of importance?
Yes, even in even in show business, like if I wanted to get a manager or an agent, I make friends with the person who answers the phone, right?
You get them giggling, you get them laughing.
They are more likely to tell you, hey, this is when the manager, here's how you get a hold of them, here's what you do.
And then they'll help you.
Same thing in Congress, right?
You get their staff.
Their staff runs their schedule, runs their meetings, sets up all the people they're going to talk to.
Well, I'm just going to say, you know, a good way for everybody at home to remember this.
If you don't remember these tweets and you're thinking, well, should I send an email?
Should I write something on Facebook or should I call?
Think of it this way.
Congress is a lot like my Italian mom.
I don't know if I have a son anymore.
You never call.
Well, I sent you an email, but you never call.
I never hear from you.
You never call.
The phone.
Still effective.
So call.
There you go.
Call.
And when you organize a group, invite their staff out to meet with your group.
They'll go back.
So that's a great, this is great ideas.
I mean, now, does it trump money?
The only thing that trumps money is their fear of losing an election.
And so if you get organized and you show up and you do stuff like that, it shows that they might lose at the next election on the local.
So again, this is local level.
On Ron, what Ron said, whenever I call my mom, I always threaten I'm not going to vote for her.
Good casserole.
And I'm going to tell my friends not to vote for her, too.
Throw the moms out.
Hey, Jimmy, if you thought it couldn't get crazier than a game show host becoming president, then you're wrong.
Because he's got these two fucking kids.
First, there's the two boys who I just call Uday and Kuse.
And every time I see them, they look like they just came from a homecoming date raid.
Then you got Ivanka, who, holy Christ, Jimmy, she's not like a Stepford wife.
She's like the leader of the Stepford wives.
Seriously, I'm afraid if she ever gets angry, she'll transmit Special Order 1, and 100 women on Fifth Avenue will murder their husbands.
And her husband, Jared Kushner, well, I'm not going to lie, Jimmy, he's pretty dreamy.
And the old man thinks so, too.
Get this.
I've seen him say to Kushner in front of his own sons, I wish I had a son like you.
I almost called social services to have the boys put in emergency foster care.
And I don't know exactly what the deal is, but that Kushner guy is fucking evil, man.
Like everyone who worked on the campaign is obviously afraid of him.
Like if they displease him, he'll send them into the cornfield.
And Trump is like, hey, let's get these kids top secret clearance so I can bring them to work with me.
You know, like giving a kid a hard hat and a badge so they can play real estate developer, which, by the way, what kind of fucked up abused kid wants to play real estate developer?
Oh, yeah, the Trump kids, I forgot.
And they're probably going to get the fucking clearances.
So now every time I go into the situation room, not only do I have to contend with the possibility of World War III, I got these fucking kids in there doing some kind of awkward patrician Thanksgiving with the Vaughn Bugels.
Hold on a sec.
Eric Donald Jr., you can't be in here.
Because this is my freaking office.
It's why.
I don't care who you're hiding from.
All right, Jimmy, I got to go.
Whose underwear is that?
Give me that.
Bye.
you Yeehaw, you know, we don't have time to get to the rest of our calls.
We got a Chris Christie call.
We got a call from Barack Obama.
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How do I become a premium member, Jimmy?
It's less than $5 a month, you guys.
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I think people are.
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All right.
That's it for this week.
That's it for this week.
We're going to see you at the improv at Saturday night, huh?
And then we'll see you back for Thanksgiving is next week.
We're still doing a show.
You know us.
Okay, we'll see you then.
All right.
This is the Jimmy.
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