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Get ready for an outstanding entertainment program.
The Jimmy Dore Show.
Hey, this is Jimmy.
Who's this?
Hey, Jimbo, Rick Perry here.
Oh, hey, Governor Perry.
How are you?
Doing good.
Doing pretty good, Jimmy.
Consider I just let the Congress put its confirmation pause all over my body.
Yeah.
Looks like you are on your way to being Secretary of Energy.
Man, those questions were hard, Jimmy.
I didn't know all that stuff.
They kept grooving me about this or that.
It was like I was in school.
Really?
Plus, I know you couldn't see, but I was only wearing underwear from the waist down, so it was totally like an anxiety nightmare.
Yeah, I see.
Sometimes I forget to wear pants.
Man, did you know that the Department of Energy is in charge of all of our nukes and all our nuclear waste?
Yes.
Yeah, I didn't.
How did you know that?
Was you ever been nominated?
No, Governor Perry, I just know that.
And quite frankly, so should you.
Hey, man, I said I believed in global warming.
Get off my damn dick, will you?
That was impressive and unexpected.
Yeah, the Texan and me, which is all of me, had a hard time letting that escape my mouth.
But I wanted to say something that would make Al Franken happy.
Because, you know, I'll be on, if I'm going to be honest with you, I just loved Stewart Smalley so much.
You remember that shtick on Saturday Night Live?
Yes.
Yeah, I'm good enough.
I'm smart enough.
And motherfucking people like me.
Oh, that old boy, he got me every time.
Okay, Governor.
But seriously, maybe you shouldn't screw with me now that I'm going to be in charge of all the nuclear waste in America.
Is that a threat?
Hell yeah, dog.
Was that even mildly unclear?
Yes.
I'm threatening you and all of my enemies with literal nuclear waste.
You want to keep clowning me on your show?
Go ahead.
And then I'll stash some barrels under your house so that your little beloved pooch starts turning into a hedgehog, but instead of quills, it's little dog dicks.
Jesus.
Yeah.
Maybe people will finally chill out with the gay rumors about me once they realize I can change their fucking half-life.
This is Trump's executive branch.
Flagrant abuse of power is the name of the game, Coachies.
Maybe I'll do some science stuff so that I'm immune to nuclear waste and then wear an exoskeleton that sprays radioactive green shit in my enemies and then I get to fight the Avengers.
Is that how you envision the role of Secretary of Energy?
Honestly, yes.
The Avengers think basically, yeah, that.
Oh, boy.
But this has been my plan all along to be Secretary of Energy.
It's my destiny.
Oh, really?
Well, sure, Jimmy.
Don't you remember?
Exactly one year ago on your show, I announced my plans to become Secretary of Energy.
Roll that clip, Dog Pound.
I'll wait here and I'll do some curls.
Why can't you endorse who you think is qualified, Rick?
I got to try and pick a winner, man.
I can't be endorsing no off-brand of a brony.
Why?
Cabinet position, baby.
I want to see it at that sweet, sweet table.
Oh, cabinet position.
Yeah, dog.
Homeland Security.
Department of Energy, Secretary Perry of Energy from Texas.
Man, I can taste that on my tongue like a habanero.
Wait, wasn't that one of the departments you suggested eliminating in 2012?
Yeah.
And who better to save the Department of Energy from my own wishes of annihilation than yours truly?
Okay, well, I guess that makes sense somehow.
You bet it does.
Plus, Rick Perry Energy will be different than previous energies.
For example, I think we can expect a renewed emphasis on oil and gas.
Uh-huh.
Anyone promoting solar power will be taken to the middle of the West Texas desert and left for two days without water.
Let's see how much you love your precious son after.
Wow.
You're right.
Right here on the Jimmy Door show.
You know it, Slick.
There's more useful information in the goofy phone calls on your podcast than there are on all of broadcast and cable news.
I agree.
And here I am, Secretary Perry of Energy from Texas.
It's a dark day, my friend.
You better watch your ass.
That's all I'm saying.
Okay?
Okay.
All right, Governor.
Yeah, we'll be talking real soon.
You understand?
real soon.
It's the Jimmy Dore Show.
The show for people that are coming on tearing down our nation.
It's the show that makes Anderson Cooper save.
it's hard to talk in your TV.
And now, here's a guy who sounds a lot like me.
It's Jimmy Dore.
Hey, everybody, welcome to this week's Jimmy Door show.
Lot coming up.
I'll let you know what it is right now.
The resistance.
Oh, we're going to talk about the resistance.
Hey, the Trump nightmare begins.
Steve Bannon, Ben Carson, Mike Pompeo, Steve Mnuchin.
Hey, should we stop funding terrorists?
That's actually a question.
And a bill that Tulsi Habert Gabbard is introducing.
Democrats still cool with torture.
That's coming up.
Shutting up the media.
That's a directive from the White House.
Pipelines are leaking.
And plus, we have our first phone call ever, ever from Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown is going to call in kicking off the second half.
So, all right, so that's it.
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Tickets very affordable.
See you there.
All right, let's get to the show.
So the Trump nightmare is starting.
I'm here with comedian Jim Earl and Ron Placone.
Hello, fellas.
How are you?
Hey, Jimmy.
All right.
So, well, here's the headline from the New York Times.
It says, Trump's chief strategist says news media should, quote, keep its mouth shut.
They certainly have had their brains off since the election and before.
I know that.
So might as well turn their mouth off.
This is not good, actually.
So here's what it says.
I'll read it to you.
This is from the New York Times.
It says Stephen K. Bannon, Trump's chief White House strategist, laced into the American press during an interview on Wednesday evening, arguing the news organizations had been, quote, humiliated by an election outcome few anticipated and repeatedly describing the media as the opposition party of the current administration.
So he's referring to the media as the opposition party.
He goes on and says the media should be embarrassed and humiliated and keep its mouth shut and just listen for a while.
That's what he said.
Well, let's keep in mind, this is Stephen Bannon, the guy who runs a media organization.
Yeah, I was going to say, he knows a lot about media ethics.
He knows how to Breitbart.
You know how they keep their mouths shut over at Breitbart?
And they only open it to say something incorrect about a fact.
This is the guy chiding the media.
It's like a manager at White Castle going over to McDonald's.
Like, your food sucks.
In all fairness, I think, you know, the people he's talking about probably should just fade into the woodwork.
That's the thing.
He's not wrong about, in a sense, that those guys are crappy journalists.
Fourth estate has become a fixer-upper.
Yeah, well put, Jim Murrow.
So there's a little bit more to this that I'll read.
He said, Steve Bannon says, I want you to quote this.
The media here is the opposition party.
They don't understand this country.
They still do not understand why Donald Trump is the president of the United States.
So he's right there.
They do not understand this country, and they do not understand why Donald Trump is president of the United States.
So he's right.
They should not shut their mouths, though, even though they should shut their mouths when they're spewing freaking propaganda launched from the DNC or a corporate think tank, which is what they've been doing since the election, screaming about Russia, Russia, Russia.
He's just saying it right now.
The media should shut their mouth.
And let me tell you, there's going to be a lot of media that shuts their mouth.
I'm reminded, I don't know.
I don't know this person.
I don't know Katie Tour from MSNBC.
I'm told she's a very nice person.
I'm sure she is.
But I remember when Jorge Ramos was thrown out of the press conference by Trump's goon, and she referred to him as a very nice guy.
He's a very nice guy, actually.
He's a very nice guy.
The guy who just threw the journalist out of the news conference for doing journalism, that guy's a very nice guy, actually.
He had the nicest hair while violating the Constitution.
Just the nicest.
What a sweet guy.
So why wouldn't, look at the Democrats.
They're already rolling over for Trump's administration picks.
Oh, the resistance.
I predict that the White House press corps will roll over.
There's already been signs of it.
I saw a reporter tweet out to the new press secretary that his second press conference was much better and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Great.
Good job.
He didn't call us fake news.
What a nice guy.
He said, good job on your.
He said that to the guy who.
These are the same people who spent two years ago spent 24 hours a day reporting on inflated balls.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, that's right.
Remember the, yeah.
Did they puff up?
You're right.
Yeah, the inflated ball thing.
From the New England Patriots.
And did Tom Brady deflate the balls a little so he could get a better grip on him or not?
That was really, they really went into that.
Yes.
As if it matters.
You know what?
The funny thing is, and I've talked about this before, they report the sports better than they report the news.
Yeah, I was just going to say, like, if actually the sports media was the standard that all the media held accountable, then we would have a much better press in this country.
The reason why people aren't starting alternate sports news places, it's because ASPN is not lying to us.
ESPN, if you want to know about sports, they're going to tell you what happened.
Here's the score.
You can see this is how many hits this guy got.
There's how many outs this guy, here's how many strikes.
Here's how many balls.
There's no room for, there's no wiggle.
It's just you report the facts.
Journalists don't do that anymore.
Journalists report, hey, the Cubs said they won 4-3.
Dodgers said they won 4-3.
Who really won?
I guess we'll never know.
That's how they reported.
The only time sportscasters lie to you is when they become political opponents, like Keith Olbermann.
Oh, you know, I haven't watched him.
I've watched his gone insane.
I've heard about it.
Glenn Greenwald was on here talking about it.
You've told me about it.
Everyone's talking about it.
I can't.
I remember Keith had such a fond memory of Keith Oberman.
I really loved him during the 2008 election, during the primary where he kept Hillary Clinton in check.
So I have lots of warm memories of Keith Oberman, so I don't want to watch his news stuff and ruin those memories.
He was on the other night and said Russia invaded America.
People don't understand what's really happened, especially rich people.
If you've been super rich for a long time in this country, you're okay with the corporate Democrats.
You don't see a problem.
Ah, so what if we get half-price drugs from Canada?
Who gives a fuck?
I'm rich.
I never had to worry about getting medicine.
Who gives a shit if we sell, take another great job in America and send it to another desperate person in a more poor country?
Who cares?
I still have my job.
I'm still going to get my car washed and I'm still going to have my meals are cooked.
I don't understand.
I go to the dry cleaner.
What is the problem?
So that's the problem.
People who should be in the Republican Party are now in the Democratic Party.
And the Democrats have turned their back on the workers.
We've talked about this.
Chuck Schumer is the Senate leader of the Democrats.
His strategy was to turn your back on blue-collar workers and try to go after Republican voters in the suburbs.
He's the head of the resistance.
He's the head of the resistance.
So anyway, this is chilling that the White House is not.
So it's going to be an all-out assault on the press.
And it's an all-out assault on our country, in a sense.
Look at the people they're putting in the cabinet.
He drained the swamp, found his cabinet at the bottom.
Fantastic.
All right.
The Trump nightmare is starting.
Hey, I'm here with Jim Earl and Ron Placone, and we're talking about the resistance.
You know, the resistance that doesn't exist.
Well, here's a headline for you.
14 Senate Democrats fall in line behind Trump's CIA pick, Mike Pompeo, who left the door open to torture.
And why does he leave the door open to torture?
Because Barack Obama didn't prosecute any of those motherfuckers who ordered torture and carried out torture before like he's supposed to.
And one of the reasons why you prosecute crimes is to deter them from happening again.
And if you don't prosecute a crime, you are guaranteeing that it will happen again because there's no consequences to it.
That's why Donnie Tanahans was able to run by saying, I'm going to do waterboarding and worse because of the failings of corporatist tool Barack Obama, who didn't prosecute people he was supposed to because the donors didn't want him to.
14 Senate Democrats joined all but one Senate Republican in confirming Representative Mike Pompeo as the new CIA director on Monday evening, failing failing a crucial first test of whether Democrats would present a united front to defend human rights and civil liberties in the Trump era.
No, they aren't.
They didn't provide a united front to protect civil liberties and human rights during the Obama era, and they're not providing a Unified front in the Trump era.
These guys have got to go.
I don't know what to tell you.
Jenk Uger is about primary and corporate Democrats.
I think that's fantastic with the Justice Democrats.
This is just your run-of-the-mill weak need freaking Democrat.
No spine.
There's no opposition party in America.
There's 6 million people out in the streets on Saturday.
Did anybody tell their senators to provide a united front and fight for civil and human rights?
It's easy to be mad at Donald Trump.
It's easy to get outraged at Donald Trump.
You know what it's harder to do is to be just as outraged at the people who go along with them, just as outraged as the people who set the table for this.
To be just as outraged as the people who did the same things behind closed doors.
Well, if Democrats aren't opposing every single thing Donald Trump does, like hand in foot, like kicking and screaming, then they're just straight up not doing their jobs either.
Because I mean, when Obama won in 08, like the Republicans resisted at every point.
And this was a guy that was popular that won by a lot.
Donald Trump lost the popular vote.
It's a show.
I would say what Bernie Sanders does.
Hey, you got a good idea?
I'm all for it.
If you got a bad idea, like making Pompeo the CIA, I'm going to oppose it.
That's what I would do.
You're cool with torture?
No, that's a war crime.
You're not fit to sit in that seat.
And it's okay.
They're going to pass anyway.
So this is how the Democrats make the Republicans pay for not allowing Barack Obama to appoint a Supreme Court.
For a whole year, they blocked Barack Obama's Supreme Court nominee.
Wouldn't even give him a hearing.
Here are the Democrats making him pay the price by confirming all their nominations.
It's just part of a strategy.
This is their pragmatic strategy, right?
Is that what this is, Jim?
Yeah, it's pragmat.
Yeah, giving people the benefit of the doubt.
And, you know, they're going to come, they're going to swoop, come from behind.
They're going to outflank them with a surprise move later on.
So we're going to do more stories about this.
It's not only Pompeo, who's pro-torture.
Well, here's more about him.
He's a far-right Kansas Republican who has in the past defended CIA officials who engaged in torture, calling them patriots.
Last week, he left the door open to torture by acknowledging in his written responses to the Senate Intelligence Committee that he would be open to altering a 2015 law prohibiting the government from using techniques not listed in the Army field manual.
So they passed a law in 2015 that said if you can't do anything that's not in the Army field manual, meaning you can't do torture anymore.
So he's like, no, let's get rid of that.
Let's think outside the box here.
We can do terrible things to people.
Let's think outside the torture box.
In addition to his stances on torture and Islam, Pompeo has come under fire for his views on surveillance.
In a 2016 op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, he attacked a 2015 law that he voted for, which ended the bulk collection on phone records by the NSA.
The op-ed calls on the government to collect all metadata and lifestyle details on Americans.
So his op-ed called for the collection of all metadata and lifestyle details of Americans.
That's a police state.
Uh-oh.
As Chris has it says, when the government knows every telephone, every text, and every email you send, every communication you make, when they know what you're buying, when they know everything, that's not liberty.
That's the opposite of liberty.
That's the relationship a slave has to its master.
That's what we're living in right now.
That's what Barack Obama handed over to Donny Tonahan's Trump, and that's what those goddamn Democrats just voted for.
That's what those Democrats voted for.
They voted for it.
The CIA is prohibited by executive order from conducting electronic surveillance inside the United States.
Believe me, they do it anyway.
That was the church hearings we talked about in the 70s when they all couldn't believe that the CIA was spying on its own people.
They spied on the fucking senators who were charged with overseeing the CIA.
They got caught spying on them.
What do you call them?
A rogue entity?
A rogue agency out of control.
Yeah.
The CIA was a rogue agency out of control.
And that's what they still are.
The specific rules and policies governing CIA surveillance are secret.
What?
And can be reinterpreted without public debate.
That sounds like shit that happens in Russia or East Germany in the 70s.
That doesn't sound like shit that's supposed to happen in the freest country in the world that has a constitution, which we don't follow.
That seems weird.
I'm glad Barack Obama cleared that up when he was president.
Didn't made it worse.
Despite a push for transparency following the revelations and documents from NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, despite a push for transparency following the revelations and documents from NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, the Obama administration did not declassify a secret legal opinion about the CIA's collection of financial records.
So much for transparency, huh?
Did not declassify a secret legal opinion.
Secret legal opinions.
Isn't that funny?
There are secret legal opinions.
That's Kafka-esque.
Secret.
That's not Kafka-esque.
That's Kafka.
Yeah.
There's no ask there.
No.
And Barack Obama A-OK.
And days before President Trump took office, the Obama administration issued new rules that would allow the CAA to sift through the raw data the NSA collects on Americans.
So it's supposed to be illegal for the CIA to spy on us, but Barack Obama went and made it okay for the CIA to go ahead and get the data from the NSA to basically spy on us.
And now Pompeo can spy on us.
And who do they want to spy on?
They want to spy on activists, people who they think might get people out against them.
He's a far-right Republican that wants to know about your lifestyle.
That's scary enough.
Just all that put together.
And the Democrats voted for him.
They're really making the Republicans pay a political price for obstructing Barack Obama's Supreme Court nominee for a year, aren't they?
Typical bullshit Democrats.
Typical.
You know, Jenk Uger's got the Justice Democrats, and they're going to try and find better ones.
Good luck.
I hope so.
These Democrats are pathetic.
I don't know what the answer is, but it seems like the Democrats are bent on being the problem.
It really does, doesn't it?
It doesn't seem like they're getting any better.
You see the DNC meetings.
You see that they're still talking about taking money from Wall Street.
So when they say we can't bring a spoon to a knife fight, what they mean is we have to keep doing what we've always done.
And I don't know if you noticed the Democrats are wiped out.
Coast to coast, every level of government, state houses, governorships, Congress, Senate, presidency.
They're wiped out.
And their big idea is to keep doing the shit they've always been doing.
That's Tom Perez's big idea.
And the other liberals in the media don't understand what the fuck.
They still don't understand why Trump is president.
On the Senate floor Monday, Senator Wyden called Pompeo the wrong man for the job.
On issue after issue, Wyden said the congressman has taken two, three, or four positions, depending on when he says it and who he's talking to.
He has done it with surveillance, with torture, with Russia, and a number of other subjects.
He added, Congressman Pompeo does not seem familiar with the broad consensus that torture, in addition to being illegal, immoral, and contrary to our national values, does not work.
Talk about being out of touch.
Sheesh.
But Virginia Democrat Mark Warner, the ranking Democrat on the intelligence committee, said on the floor that although he does, quote, not agree with some of the views that Congressman Pompeo holds, he quote, convinced me that he will follow the law batting torture.
He said he'd be a nice guy.
You know, Trump has nominated a lot of people with very similar personality characteristics as he.
You know, the hucksterism, lying here and there to people, depending on their questions and their positions, just to make them feel better.
Did the same thing with Carson, with Pompeo.
They all have differing positions depending on who's asking them the question.
They all do.
That's a huckster.
That's a used car salesman.
Margaret Huang, executive director of Amnesty International USA, called the confirmation vote a clear sign that Congress has not done enough extreme vetting of President Trump's nominees' views on human rights.
She continued, while Pompeo sailed through his confirmation hearing, his written answers to the Senate's contradict his earlier testimony and could lay the groundwork for the agency to return to torture and secret detention.
Torture is a war crime and grave human rights violation.
You want to know who all the Democrats were who voted to confirm Pompeo?
Joe Donnelly of Indiana.
Dianne Feinstein of California, who isn't answering her phone and her voicemail is full.
Yeah, I tried to call her last night.
And I saw somebody on Twitter today, some genius on Twitter, said, why isn't she answering the phone?
And I said, well, because she doesn't work for her constituents, Knucklehead.
She works for her donors.
She doesn't care.
And then that guy responded, false.
That's someone who still believes in the person who won't answer their speeches.
She likes me.
You don't know.
You don't know.
Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire.
Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota.
Tim Kaine.
Worst VP pick ever.
Tim Kaine of Virginia.
Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota.
Joe Manchin of West Virginia.
Claire McCaskill of Missouri.
Jack Reed of Rhode Island.
Brian Schatz of Hawaii.
Chuck Schumer.
Mr. The head of the resistance.
Ground game extraordinaire, Chuck Schumer.
Janine Shaheen of New Hampshire.
That's a great name.
Mark Warner of Virginia and Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island.
What is the point of having those people be Democrats in the Senate?
What is the point?
Yeah, we're going to vote for war crimes and more torture, and we're going to abdicate our responsibility.
At least vote against.
He's going to get confirmed anyway.
At least vote against him so you're on record of standing up for human rights.
But if they go along with it, then they have the good strategy of having more skeletons in their closet to lose later.
Yes.
So now Trump, now Trump can hold this over their head saying, well, hey, you confirmed him.
You voted for all these people.
Now you say they're horrible.
You interviewed them.
You got written statements.
You held hearings and you confirmed them.
This is your resistance.
This is your resistance.
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All right.
So now let's get a lot of stuff coming up in the second half.
Let's get to it.
Hello, this is Jimmy.
Hi.
Guess who this is?
Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown.
Whoa.
How the hell did you get sent so quick?
I've never called your show before.
It might have had something to do with your distinctive voice.
Hey, look, I'm glad you called, Senator, but please explain to the American people why you voted to confirm Ben Carson as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
Oh, that.
Yeah, well, I wanted to explain that.
You see, as a ranking member on the Committee on Housing and Urban Affairs, excuse my throat.
Sorry, my voice is so gravelly.
Perhaps a sip of water will help.
May I have a moment?
Sure, go ahead.
There, is that better?
Nope.
Okay, hold on.
How about now?
Nope.
Hold on.
Now?
I'm afraid not.
Well, I don't really know what the problem is.
Maybe it's my diet.
It could be.
What do you eat every day?
Dog biscuits.
Swallow the damn things whole.
Sometimes I like to break them into smaller bits, but I still dump them down without any water.
And I simply refuse to chew them.
You lose important nutrients that way.
Yeah, sure.
Look, personally, Dr. Carson is not the nominee I would have chosen to lead the HUD.
And who do you think could do a better job than Ben Carson?
Well, a squirrel with a balloon could do a better job.
But look, I asked Mr. Carson some very probing and difficult questions.
And after much consideration, I'm willing to give Mr. Carson the benefit of the doubt.
But what about his record?
He said women who get abortions are like slave owners.
I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt.
He said Planned Parenthood exists to kill black babies.
Yeah, you know, I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt.
And evolution is a fairy tale.
And being gay is a choice.
Still going to give him the benefit of the doubt.
And God built the pyramids to store grain.
All right, that's fucking crazy.
I'm going to have to draw the line with that one.
Everybody knows ancient space aliens built the pyramids.
It was the only place they could store their egg pods on the way to colonizing the seventh dimension.
And where is the seventh dimension?
You think you got me with that one?
The real question is, where is it not?
Come on.
What possible justification could you have for approving Ben Carson?
You have to pick your battles.
Pick your battles?
What could be more important than keeping this sexist, homophobic, half-wit psychotic away from the office of housing secretary?
Because Trump may choose another sexist, homophobic, half-wit psychotic who's worse.
You got to choose the lesser of the two sexist homophobic, half-witch psychotics, Jimmy.
It's always worked for us in the past, right?
No.
Look, there's a money angle here.
I don't want to piss the man off once he's confirmed.
My state needs its share of the housing money.
Oh, I see.
You're making a deal with the devil, quid pro quo.
Is that his name?
What makes you think Carson's going to give your state more housing money because you voted for him?
He's just going to do what Trump tells him to do and cut everything.
You ever see pictures of those conjoined twins?
He cut in half at the head.
Not a pretty picture.
He's not too good at cutting, is all I'm saying.
I'm hoping I might get the better half.
What about Elizabeth Warren?
She voted for him, too.
What if she gets more than you?
I'm hoping she gets the fucked up part of the baby.
You know what I mean?
Every man for himself, Jimmy.
But you used to be known as one of the most liberal members of Congress.
Yeah, well, things changed.
Like what?
The fascists took over, you moron.
Damn, fucked him.
Damn throat.
Sorry.
Maybe you should try sucking on a throat lozenge.
You're supposed to suck on him?
I've been hating him.
Fuck.
All right, here he goes.
Is that better?
No.
How about now?
Nope.
Any improvement now?
Uh-uh.
How does it sound now?
Same.
Come on, give me a break.
How about now?
Sorry.
All right.
Well, look, I gotta go.
We're voting on whether to tell Trump about the doomsday machine.
The resistance.
Here's some more resistance.
This is Elizabeth Warren's from her Facebook page.
Donald Trump's nominee for Treasury Secretary, Steve Mnuchin, ran a bank that lied and cheated people out of their homes.
Senate Republicans who control the finance committee didn't want to hear those stories in Mr. Mnuchin's confirmation hearing today.
They didn't want to hear from Colleen, an 84-year-old widow who might lose her home because of a reverse mortgage scam from Steve Mnuchin's bank.
Yesterday, Senate Democrats held a forum to hear from Mnuchin's victims while you're watching Mnuchin Treasury hearing, Remember Colleen.
And then she plays this sad story of this woman who got screwed over by Steve Mnuchin's bank.
Well, let me tell you something.
Steve Mnuchin shouldn't even be nominated.
He should be in jail, but he's not in jail.
Why does Elizabeth Warren have to even do this?
Why does she have to bring in that 84-year-old widow?
Why isn't Steve Mnuchin in jail if he did criminal things?
Oh, that's right.
Because bankers are a special class in America today.
They don't get prosecuted anymore.
And who started that?
Barack Obama.
And who continued it?
The Democrats.
Kamala Harris is the Attorney General of California.
She was supposed to prosecute Steve Mnuchin for exactly the thing that Elizabeth Warren is screaming about for this exact thing.
The Democrats are holding a special hearing so they can highlight all the criminal shit that Steve Mnuchin did when he was head of that bank in California.
Well, why didn't they just prosecute?
Why didn't Kamala Harris just prosecute him when she was supposed to?
Her own investigators said they found a thousand instances of malfeasance in their banking practices.
And they thought if they investigated, they'd find a thousand more.
Kamala Harris said, nope, no prose, not only no prosecution, stop the investigation.
And when asked why, Kamala Harris doesn't have an answer.
She still doesn't have an answer.
Just like Barack Obama doesn't have an answer.
Would it upset the markets?
And now you get to Grandstand.
How corrupt are the Democrats?
I don't really know if they're a party worth saving.
I really don't know.
I don't know.
I've never seen this before.
It used to be there was two parties.
And then Bill Clinton got in power and there's not anymore.
So this is bullshit.
You want to stand up to somebody, Elizabeth?
Have some guts and stand up to your own fucking party.
That's what courage is.
That's what being a leader is.
Stand up to your own party.
Stand up to the corporatist oligarchs in your own party.
But you won't, you won't, you wouldn't even back Bernie when it would have made a difference.
And this is the best that we have to offer.
This is the best of the Democrats.
As you know, Jimmy, power is a function of resistance according to Ohm's law.
Current, the current through a resistor, which dissipates the power.
A resistor dissipates power, according to the voltage squared over resistance.
Yeah, with this, Jim, we're talking about it.
This is a different kind of resistance.
But the function is still the same.
You need a resistor to dissipate power.
Well, whenever I hear the resistance anymore, I feel like I'm on.
What are they resisting?
It seems like they're resisting actually standing for something.
That's what's being resisted here.
We're resisting the fact that we really need to change if we want to win in the future.
We're resisting facing that truth.
Well put.
They want to make it to retirement.
Yeah, basically.
So this is bullshit.
Hey, yes, you're supposed to stand up for the little guy.
When you actually were in power to do something, Kamala Harris, who could have stood up for the little, that woman getting kicked out of her house and screwed over by a powerful bank, you didn't do it.
But you will put on a show for the cameras and put it on your Facebook page.
And then I'm sure most of you are going to fucking vote for Steve Mnuchin.
Just like you voted for...
Carson, yeah.
She voted for Ben Carson, for Christ's sake.
She found a way to do the mental gymnastics to put that guy in charge of something.
And you're just asking for trouble in the future.
Yes.
I mean, that's all you're doing.
You just took a skeleton and then threw it in your closet and we're like, and basically said, here you go, Trump.
Use it when you need it.
This is just terrible.
All the horrific things Carson has said in the past about gays and women and violence against women.
And he goes in there and lies to her face.
And she accepts it.
Oh, well, okay.
I accept what he's saying.
He just looks so tired.
How much harm can he cause?
So this is fake resistance.
Real resistance would have been Kamala Harris prosecuting Steve Mnuchin when she was supposed to.
Didn't happen.
Now Kamala Harris is in the Senate with her.
I wonder what she had to say.
The silence is deafening.
This is your resisting Democrats.
Boy oh boy.
So here's another unforced error for the Democrats.
I don't know if you remember as Hillary Clinton was losing Michigan, Wisconsin, Barack Obama was still full-throated pushing the TPP, which was super unpopular.
It was so unpopular, Hillary Clinton pretended not to be for it.
That's how unpopular it was.
And so here's, look what happened.
Look, U.S. announces withdrawal from TPP.
Feather in the cap for Donald Trump.
He wins the news cycle.
And this is something that Barack Obama could have done on his way out the door.
It was already dead.
The goddamn, because that's the whole, that's what all the Democrats are saying.
Chuck Schumer was like, it was already dead.
Then why didn't fucking Barack Obama do this on the way out the door?
Why didn't he do it?
That's how shitty the fucking Democrats are.
That's how god-awful they are.
They hand a victory to Trump like this, and it was already dead, according to Chuck Schumer.
So then why didn't Barack Obama do this on the way out the door?
Why didn't he try to get rid of their surveillance state that he's handing over to Trump?
Instead, he expanded it.
This is what's wrong with the Democrats.
They handed a victory to Donald Trump.
And here's what the Daily Beast says.
For one day, at least, Team Bernie is okay with Trump.
I'm glad the Trans-Pacific Partnership is dead and gone, Senator Sanders said.
For the last 30 years, we have had a series of trade deals, including the North American Free Trade Agreement, permanent normal trade relations with China and others, which have cost us millions of decent paying jobs and caused a race to the bottom, which has lowered wages for American workers.
The Trump-Sanders agreement on the issue underscores the odd position in which labor activists and progressive Democrats now find themselves.
They like Trump's executive order, even if they consider it a symbolic gesture.
TPP wasn't ratified by Congress, so the order doesn't have an immediate impact on the U.S. economy.
And even if it does nothing to assuage concerns about the many billionaires with whom Trump has stocked his cabinet, I think that symbolic or not, it does lay out at least a priority that we need to think about trade in a different way, Charles Wishman, the secretary-treasurer of the Iowa Federation of Labor, told the Daily Beast.
Throughout the campaign, Trump rallied against TPP, for which the Obama administration advocated despite general disapproval.
Barack Obama, no trouble going against his base, his center, his right, his American people.
He has no trouble.
Fuck you.
My donors want it.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership is another disaster done and pushed by special interests who want to rape our country, just a continuing rape of our country, Trump said during a stop in Ohio last year.
Wow, that's pretty strong, huh?
Yeah.
That sounds like a guy who's against the TPP.
The issue of trade was something that Trump used to try to woo Sanders supporters and union members in the campaign, constantly reminding his crowds that he wanted to dissolve TPP.
It was successful enough that he won over almost as many union households during the election as Ronald Reagan did in 1984.
The goddamn Democrats doing it to themselves again.
It's too bad that the Democrats didn't have like an actual populist that could have.
Oh, shit.
Oh, snap.
Oh, snap.
You mean an unbought politician who was a real populist who actually could speak with authenticity on these issues?
Yeah, it seems like a populist that wasn't just a wolf in sheep's clothing is what really could have worked here.
But I feel like there was nobody that could have been that guy.
I can't think of anybody.
I can't think of anybody.
I'm trying to remember the primary.
I don't know.
And hey, at least this is good news.
I mean, at least Trump did something good, and we can just put a stamp on the day saying, hey, that's great news.
What else happened today?
Oh, wait.
Oh, wait.
Two pipelines.
Two pipelines.
That's right.
That's right.
This faux victory, two pipelines.
Yes.
Well, but that's the thing.
So this steals the news cycle.
Oh, and working people go, oh, look what Trump did.
He said he would do it and he's doing it.
And most union members are for pipelines because it means union jobs.
It's important in their head.
In their head.
They didn't vote to have Carls the Jr.'s guy be the labor secretary, Wishman said.
While a lot of the overall policy points that were emphasized in the campaign is what union members may have voted for, my fear is that they may have bought into something, a package that is a whole lot different than what they thought, you think?
Yeah, so instead of us talking about the Carls Jr. guy being the head of the labor and the pipeline, we're talking about the TPP.
Trump does the TPP thing, which again, Barack Obama could have just did on his way out the door when he didn't.
He handed a news victory and he handed a victory to Donny Tynehans.
And to me, that's an unforced error by the Democrats.
Other champions for the dissolution of TPP, like Representative Keith Ellison, a candidate for DNC chair, and the leadership of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, said Trump wasn't the one who brought an end to the trade agreement.
It was progressive activists who had fought it for years.
Thank you.
I agree.
I agree.
During the campaign, Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton waffled on the TPP.
Totally out of character.
Totally out of character for her.
First calling the deal the gold standard in trade agreements and later changing her tune during a debate with Sanders.
The senator from Vermont and the reality show King from New York were more consistent, both agreeing that the deal was a disastrous proposition.
When Donny Tynehans is more consistent on a big deal, that's a striking sentence.
It's a striking sentence.
And I'm sure that guy wrote it that way because it would be striking.
Good writing.
The senator from Vermont and the reality show King from New York were more consistent.
The moment provides an opportunity, Ron, for Democrats to find common ground with the new president, which could bolster the legitimacy in their arguments when they disagree with him on other issues.
So just being anti-Trump delegitimizes you in the eyes of his supporters, just like when all the Republicans were anti-Obama and anything he proposed, even if it was a Republican idea, they were just against it because they were against Obama.
Remember how that delegitimized them in our eyes?
Well, that same thing delegitimizes, especially when he's doing something right.
So that's what we've said.
We've mapped it out here on the show before.
The way to oppose Trump is to agree with him when he's right and oppose him when he's wrong.
Otherwise, it delegitimizes your own opposition.
I just don't believe.
Here's Pete Delessandro.
It's in the quote from my friend, Pete Friend of the show, Pete Delessandro, who ran Bernie's campaign in Iowa.
I just don't believe in opposing someone to oppose them if they're doing something that you don't disagree with, Delessandro said.
Then it becomes a pretty cynical operation.
So there you go.
Unforced error, handing a victory to Donny Tynehan's Trump.
And that's a great point by Pete Delessandro.
Just opposing him in general delegitimizes you.
Then you become a pretty cynical operation.
You have to support the things you support, even if someone horrible is doing it.
If you support it, support it.
So again, people...
Right.
Why didn't he fucking do it on its last day?
Yeah, it's like, it's great that this is dead, but why did it come?
Why did he get to even say this?
Why did Donald Tynehans say to Donny Tynehanz for no freaking reason whatsoever?
That's just because that's just part of the Democrats being shitty.
The donors picked strong Republicans and weak-ass Democrats.
And as beautiful as Barack Obama is and how elegant he speaks and how good he makes me feel when I feel the same thing as you do.
When Barack Obama talks, I feel good all over.
And then you walk away, you're like, hey, wait a minute.
Wait a minute.
Wait a minute.
He took two wars, made them the seven.
He wanted to cut Social Security and Medicare.
He's prosecuting journalists.
He's torturing private Manning.
Oh, he let her go after he tortured for six years.
All right, let's go forward.
Let's go forward.
Let's another, this is another wake-up call for the Democrats.
If you don't know, if you watch the news every day, you probably don't know that the United States has been funding who we consider to be terrorists.
The CIA in Jordan training Al-Qaeda.
They'll say they're not.
They say they're arming the rebels, the moderate rebels, which is kind of an oxymoron, isn't it, Rotten?
A little bit, yeah.
I'm a moderate rebel.
I mean, I'd like to overthrow stuff, but that's like a punk band that never made it.
The moderate rebels.
Like, really?
Where are you going with that?
I don't even know what that means.
The moderate rebels.
You know, it's like you can't either a rebel or you're not.
You're not a moderate rebel.
It's like being moderately pregnant.
You're either pregnant or you're not.
You're either a rebel or you're not.
Tulsi Gabbard introduced some new legislation.
I don't know if you know, but we're funding our enemies.
Yes.
So where did all the 9-11 hijackers come from?
Anybody?
Saudi Arabia.
They're funding ISIS to overthrow Assad.
We also want to overthrow Assad.
Wait a minute.
So we're fighting with ISIS in Syria?
Biggest weapon sale ever to Saudi Arabia.
So Tulsi Gabbard's kind of sick of that.
And she said this on the House floor.
Mr. Speaker, under U.S. law, it is illegal for you or me or any American to provide any type of assistance to al-Qaeda, ISIS, or other terrorist groups.
If we broke this law, we'd be thrown in jail.
Yet the U.S. government's been violating this law for years, directly and indirectly supporting allies and partners of groups like Al-Qaeda and ISIS with money, weapons, intelligence, and other support in their fight to overthrow the Syrian government.
A recent New York Times article confirmed that rebel groups supported by the U.S., quote, have entered into battlefield alliances with the affiliate of al-Qaeda in Syria, formerly known as al-Nusra.
The Wall Street Journal reports that rebel groups are, quote, doubling down on their alliance with al-Qaeda.
This alliance has rendered the phrase moderate rebels meaningless.
We must stop this madness.
We must stop arming terrorists.
I'm introducing the Stop Arming Terrorists Act today to prohibit taxpayer dollars from being used to support terrorists.
Mr. Speaker, I yield back.
So Tulsi Gabbard is about a month or so ago when she introduced a bill.
Well, here she is.
She's on with Tucker Carlson, and she's going to address this situation.
Like, I'm not kidding.
So, we invented Al-Qaeda, right?
We've shown on this show that they used to refer to Osama bin Laden as an anti-Russian rebel.
And they used to write puff pieces on him in the newspapers.
Osama bin Laden, an anti-Russian rebel that we funded and built.
We did the same thing with ISIS.
I mean, there would be no ISIS if we didn't go into Iraq.
And all this stuff is predictable, by the way.
And, you know, when Jeb Bush would say, a void will be filled.
That's what he means.
So now we're literally funding terrorists because we want to overthrow Assad in Syria.
So Tulsi Gabbard goes on with Tucker Carlson to say this.
You've introduced it.
And your idea, as I understand it, is, look, the average American, you, me, not allowed to send weapons or aid terror groups.
They would be thrown in jail.
But the U.S. government, as a matter of policy, arms and aids these groups for a bunch of different reasons, but that's happening.
Well, and this is the problem, Tucker, is that there's a double standard here.
That for years now, our government, working with countries like Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Qatar have been, through the CIA, quietly been arming and supporting these groups that are directly working with groups like Al-Qaeda and ISIS, all in this effort to overthrow the Syrian government.
They've been funneling support through countries like Saudi Arabia and others who are also, again, directly supporting these groups.
Oh, but what about Russia?
CIAs, they don't like them, right?
Except we're now working with Russia in Syria.
We are.
We're coordinating in real time with the Russian military in Syria.
Just so you know, so the CIA, the people we're supposed to believe about all the PP news stories and all the hacking and stuff, even with no proof or evidence, she's saying, and this is a sitting congresswoman, that they're funding the people we claim to be fighting, ISIS, al-Qaeda, through Saudi Arabia, which is all happening.
It is madness that this has been allowed to occur for so long and madness that we have allowed the devastating consequences to occur as a result without checking it.
And that's exactly what my bill does.
The Stop Arming Terrorist Act very simply prohibits using American taxpayer dollars through any agency, overt or covert, whether it be the CIA, the DOD, or any other agency, from directly or indirectly providing weapons, money, intelligence, or other types of support to these groups that are allied with and working with groups like Al-Qaeda, as this is happening right now today in Syria.
You obviously haven't been listening to some famous members of the Senate who've described those groups as freedom fighters and you just don't understand how great they are.
Clearly, this is the problem.
This policy is so screwed up that Tucker Carlson is able to make me laugh about it.
I like the look on her face because I think she's thinking the same thing that I initially thought when she was like, is Tucker Carlson being serious or not?
No, he's being facetious.
Though, Tucker, is that only recently, this has been happening for years, but only recently has a few people in the media actually started talking about the truth of what we have been doing about how our taxpayer dollars have been spent there.
And this fallacy that there are so-called moderate fighters trying to overthrow the Syrian government just is not the reality today.
Islamic extremists and terrorists, you have to ask how'd that happen?
And I'm glad you're asking that.
You know, I'm urging your viewers, we're trying to urge every member of Congress to sign on to this very sensible bill that is good for our country and good for our security.
I'm going to guess they're not going to sign on to that bill that says stop funding terrorists.
So just like Tucker Carlson said, if we, they can throw you in jail without a trial if they say you're aiding and abetting a terrorist in America.
That's all you have to say.
Barack Obama signed that law, by the way.
So habeas corpus is gone.
But apparently our government Can fund these same people, which do we do?
And we give money to Saudi Arabia.
Saudi Arabia supports ISIS.
It's weird that she has to, like, she gets a warmer reception on stuff like this at a place like Fox News.
Because if she went on MSNBC, they'd have to first talk about Russia for about nine minutes.
And then one minute, they would talk about this thing.
This is really happening.
We really are funding our government.
And hey, we got to keep the war machine going, baby.
We got to keep the war machine going.
We can't have peace.
We had peace, then who's going to pay for the bombs?
How are we going to make money?
Come on, how are we going to get those pipelines through Syria if we stop the wars?
That's just something that, you know, to kind of connect it all.
Like, that's something that's been really disturbing to me.
It's like, you know, it started with drone strikes and now it goes into funding and then it goes into Russia.
And, you know, you get these folks on the left, quote unquote, left, that almost sound like McCarthy.
And we're getting to the point where like aggression is almost becoming a left-wing principle when it comes to all this stuff, connecting all these dots.
And it's like, no, the left-wing principle is supposed to be diplomacy and force only when it is absolutely 100% inevitable.
Defensive.
Defensive force.
Absolutely.
Yeah, you know, remember when Saddam Hussein attacked us?
Remember when Assad attacked us?
Remember when Afghanistan attacked us?
Jesus.
Remember when Yemen attacked us?
Remember when Somalia attacked us?
Remember when Libya attacked us?
I never thought I'd see the day where like talks of aggression are progressive principles.
I still can't get over that.
We're supposed to be anti-war.
We're the anti-war side.
So good for Tulsi Gabbard.
She's one of the good ones out there, certainly on this issue, exposing what's really happening.
And we have to stop funding the people we claim that are terrorists.
Probably won't pass.
Guess what?
There was an oil spill.
Turns out people are worried about the Dapple oil.
Why would you be worried?
Because Trump just said, okay, go ahead with the pipeline.
It's going to cross the lake and the rivers.
And here, this is from today.
Nearly 140,000 gallons of diesel mix spill from a broken pipeline in Iowa.
Work crews are cleaning up a spill of nearly 140,000 gallons of diesel mix from a broken pipeline in north central Iowa.
The Mason City Globe Gazette reports that the leak from a 12-inch Magellan midstream partners pipe.
It's a nice 12-inch Magellan midstream partners pipe was discovered around 8 a.m.
Wednesday north of Hanlon Town.
Officials say the diesel mixture had pooled in a farm field and had not reached nearby Willow Creek or Hanlon Town sloth waterfowl production area.
Yeah, right.
It's soaking into the underground water supply.
Isn't that what happens?
Well, the good thing is it's going to sanitize all that pig urine that's already in the I bet that the farm, the farm will be cleansed with the diesel.
Right.
That doesn't, you can't, so it says here, crews had removed 25,000 gallons by early Wednesday afternoon.
Yeah, but I'm going to guess it's those, I'm going to guess it's the last 120,000 gallons that are really tough to get out.
I'm going to guess the first 25,000 gallons of diesel fuel mix, real easy.
Slaying on the top, you put a hose, it sucks it right out.
Then it's that other 120,000 gallons that kind of seeped all the way in.
Pipelines burst all the time in America.
So this is just a reminder to Dapple.
And, you know, I understand we need energy and that pipelines are actually safer than transporting oil and what have you by rail.
I get it.
And you got to transport it.
But a lot of those pipelines, like the Keystone Pipeline, that's not for us.
That's for a foreign company to build a pipeline which will break and leak in our country so they can take oil, send it to the Gulf so they can put it on ships and send it to China and other places.
It doesn't come to America.
It doesn't enrich America.
There's about 20 permanent jobs that that thing makes, maybe 30.
There's no jobs associated with the Keystone Pipeline.
You know what the jobs are?
Cleaning up the spills.
There's your jobs.
People having to, and then you have to go clean the water out and all the people trucking in bottled water.
There's your jobs.
Yeah, all the most environmentally risky stuff we do.
First of all, even if it was staying domestic, the energy, which it's not, it's not staying domestic in any case, fracking the pipelines, none of it.
Even if it was, it is still at best a band-aid on a broken arm as far as our energy needs.
We should transport it by graph Zeppelin.
So instead, instead of like putting billions of dollars into, I don't know, solar power or I don't know, every time I drive to Vegas, I'm like, I can't believe there aren't solar panels all over this goddamn Mojave Desert.
It's just one big desert.
Because when the sunlight goes through those pipelines, it can burst out and cause a lot of damage, a lot of sunburn.
Yeah, it'll be, yeah, because when you get the energy from solar, then when there's a solar spill, everyone gets sunburned.
Same thing with the windmills.
They're going spilling their oxygen everywhere.
You get too oxygen, you get too much oxygen, you get too high.
It's just like love.
Anyway, just wanted to have a reminder.
Spillers happening all the time all over the place.
And I understand we need energy.
So if it's something we need and you got to have, I understand.
We live in a world.
But it would be nice to see more windmills, more solar.
Move to Holland, you commie.
Yeah.
Yeah.
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