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The Jimmy Dore show.
Hi, thank you for calling the officer Sharad Brown.
I may address your call.
Is this Sherrod Brown?
No, this is the Secretary, Mrs. Beardsley.
Well, could you connect me with the senator, please?
This is Jimmy Doerr.
Jimmy, who?
Jimmy Doar.
Sherrod Brown calls my show a lot.
Just saying.
He's busy, might take a message.
Yeah, I want to know if he's changed his opinion on Ben Carson after he called African slaves immigrants.
Sir, I might as well hang up on you if you're going to shout like that.
I wasn't shouting, and you sound a lot like Senator Brown.
My name is Mrs. Beardsley.
The senator really should clear the air on this, you know.
Oh, for sake.
Oh, there he is.
Senator, someone's on the phone for you.
Oh, really?
You know, I don't have time for this, Mrs. Beardsley, but I'll make an exception this time.
Hello, who is this?
Senator Sherrod Brown.
It's me, Jimmy Doerr.
Didn't you hear what Mrs. Beardsley said?
How can you still justify voting to confirm Ben Carson for Secretary of Housing and Urban Development?
I'm not even going to dignify that reasonable question with an answer.
But I will say this.
I think what he really meant was that slaves were illegal immigrants because they weren't brought here legally of their own free will.
Like I said, I'm going to give Ben the benefit of the doubt because it could be worse.
If Carson was Trump's first choice, just think how bad his second choice would have been.
Yeah, you have to admit, this is a pretty rough start for Ben Carson.
You think that was a rough start?
What about those slaves?
Hey, that's just a big distraction from the real issue.
Jeff Sessions' alleged treasonous activity that can never be proved.
You lied under oath, Jimmy.
Isn't that more important than dismissing the impact of 250 years of slavery?
And what about the other four Trump nominees who lied under oath?
Oh, you mean when Scott Pruitt said he never used a private email account as Oklahoma Attorney General?
Yeah.
And when Tom Price lied about buying stock.
Yep.
And when Stephen Mnuchin lied when he said he never profited off the housing crisis.
Yes.
And when Betsy DeVos lied about not being connected with her family's foundation?
Yes.
Well, what about him?
Well, those are lies under oath, Senator.
Where's the outrage over that?
Mr. Sessions lied about meeting with the Russians.
They wear red hats, drink vodka, and dance funny.
Who the hell dances around like they're squatting over a porta potty anyway?
The Russians, that's who.
Don't you have a town in Ohio named Russia?
I am not now.
Nor have I ever been a resident of Rush, Ohio.
But I can name names if Rachel Madow ever asked me to.
Oh, Mrs. Beardsley is instructing me to take the fifth.
I gotta hang up.
Wait, you can't give us any more information?
Yeah, our state fossil is the trilobite.
Hey, everybody, welcome to this week's Jimmy Door show, jam-packed with stuff.
We got interviews with Sam Ronin.
You know Sam Ronan.
He's the young 27-year-old upstart who actually told the truth at the DNC debate.
So we're going to talk with him.
He's got a message for the Democrats.
Also, we have a progressive running for the 34th Congressional District of California.
His name is Kenneth Mejia.
He's a Green Party candidate.
He's got some great ideas.
We're going to talk to him.
Also, we're going to take a look at the Hillary Clinton had a response to the state of the union.
She really did.
She released a video.
It looks fantastic.
We're going to talk about it.
Also, we're going to have what the Democrats think they should have, how they responded to how the Democrats' official response went, how Bernie's response went.
So Bernie kind of schools the Democrats and how they should be talking to the American people about Donald Trump and the economy and the country and everything going forward.
So we take a look at that.
Plus, there's a lot lot more that's coming up.
Oh, did I tell you?
We got Sean Spicer calls in, Putin calls in, a lot lot more.
That's today on the Jimmy Doer show.
Hey, everybody, welcome.
Guess who?
I'm here with our special guest, Sam Ronan.
You know him.
He ran for the DNC chair this year, and he made the big news because he had the audacity to answer a question straight.
It was really awkward for everybody.
And I saw Tom Perez really just looking at you so longing like, oh, God, well, wouldn't it be great to have my back?
Wouldn't it be nice?
But I don't.
So he couldn't answer the question.
And the question was, was the campaign rigged, right?
And you didn't have a problem answering that.
And did the DNC rig the campaign the primary?
Yes, Jimmy.
The DNC did rig the primary, and it wasn't just against Bernie.
It was against everybody.
If you were an outsider, you don't get a seat at the table, period.
Yes.
So they don't want to hear from progressives in the so look, you were a message candidate, right, Sam?
Did they get the message?
Clearly not.
So some of you may have watched it.
Some of you may not have watched it.
But Resolution 33 was the opportunity for the DNC to earn back some of that trust, right?
That respect.
What Resolution 33 was, the opportunity to get rid of establishment, or not establishment, the corporate money and the lobbyist money from the DNC.
And guess what they did?
They voted against it.
No, this was Obama's rule.
Like Obama, this wasn't even as broad as that.
This was even more narrow, and they couldn't even agree to do that.
So what were some of the conversations like after that got voted down?
And they decided to basically keep on doing that thing that lost them elections.
Because the whole idea, and Thomas Frank explained it to everybody on the show, that the idea of why the Democrats take the corporate money is because they can't show up to a knife fight with a spoon.
And so that means we have to have as much money as we can to win, except they've been losing and losing and losing, and they've been outspending the Republicans.
Like Hillary Clinton spent twice as much than Donnie Tanahan's and she lost, right?
And so, and they've been outraising them like crazy, and they're still losing.
So on their, the whole idea of why you're going to turn your back on your working class base and get in bed with Wall Street is because you're going to win.
But they're wiped out and they're still doing it.
So what are they, what is their thinking?
Oh, my God.
I wish I knew because it's not logical.
I mean, you just said it.
They're taking all this corporate money.
They're spending twice as much as the other guy and they're still losing.
I mean, logically, you'd be like, you know, this isn't working for some reason.
Maybe we should, you know, go back to the table, you know, get out our calculator, do some math, and figure out, oh, yeah, people hate us.
People are not happy with what we're doing.
Oh, wait, what are they saying?
Oh, get the money out of.
No, we're not going to do that.
And I told them that.
And here's the worst part.
So the DNC was in the front of the room.
And then in the middle, you had like a few of the VIPs and then the, you know, the journalists and all that, the reporters.
And behind them, you had like the people, the regular folks who managed to get into the building.
When they were talking about Resolution 33, there was booing.
And I'm not talking boo.
I'm talking like pitchforks and torches booing.
And it was, I mean, it was not subtle.
It was really ugly.
And these DNC members, they just, I don't, they don't get it.
So the question is, what are they thinking?
I have no idea.
So how can, so you're still a Democrat?
So now, Jimmy, as much as I want to answer that question the way everybody wants to hear it, The duopoly and the ballot access in Ohio, which is where I'm from, it's not like California.
You cannot just run as whatever you want, and there's a chance that you might win.
In Ohio, you have two choices, Republican and Democrat.
And where I live, and based on the way the Republican Party is leaning, I just, I can't stomach being a Republican.
But as a Democrat, I can put my toe in the door, get on the ballot, and still say the things that I'm saying.
So you're saying kind of like it's for practical matters.
Yes.
You're a Democrat, but you're a progressive.
You would consider yourself a progressive.
Absolutely.
And so like you're for single-payer health care.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Now, are you for free college?
Yeah.
Oh, all right.
Because now you're from the military.
Now, Trump just proposed, I think, $54 billion increase in spending that he's going to take from other departments.
And Bernie's plan for free college was only going to cost like $60 to $70 billion.
So right there, we could have paid for it.
So all those people who ran around saying, how are you going to pay for that?
Apparently, we can just always pay for things we want, right?
Right.
Apparently, if you want, you know, what's important, right?
Let's let's put more bombs in the Middle East because apparently that's what we need to be spending our money on.
And it's not.
So you think, I think most people would be for, even though I saw, I wish I had those statistics in front of me, that most people think we're not spending it.
We are spending enough or need to spend more.
So people are happy with what we're spending or spend more on the military.
Like only 25% of the people think we spend too much on the military.
Is that because, again, of the Communication Act, of Telecommunications Act, where we have six companies bringing you all the news and that's why?
Yeah, it's absolutely the messaging.
And you know, Jimmy, I'm one of the 25%.
I'm in the military.
I'm a reservist still, right?
I was active duty for five and a half years.
And the joke among literally everybody is we're spending way too much money on simple things.
You want to talk about something as silly as buying a stack of paper, 500, you know, you can go to Walmart and get that paper for like five or six bucks, right?
You go to the military, you know, store equivalent.
Can't think right now what it's actually called, but it's like 13 bucks.
And then there's other things.
It's called the PX.
What is it called?
No, no, it's not the PXs.
I think it's A fees.
You have to, that's where our office supplies are.
But like, for instance, our uniforms, they're like $45 for the shirt, you know, $40.
And my boots, those are $140 issued.
Yeah, great.
But if you have to buy a new pair, guess what?
That's $140 out your pocket.
Those boots are not any better than the Sears brand or whatever.
So what we're doing, yeah, the military budget is like $600 billion.
Right.
But we're overspending on literally everything while cutting training, while cutting services, while cutting benefits, and sending our people overseas for no reason.
So I thought that if we, if the Democrats are resisting Trump right now by saying how bad he is, but they don't seem, again, still, what I think why Hillary lost and the Democrats are wiped out is they don't have anything to replace, like how the Republicans don't have a replacement for Obamacare.
Oh, they do.
They're hiding it.
And people know that.
It's just like the Democrats don't have a replacement for Trump's and people know that.
You don't have, you're going to, what are you going to give me?
What's their plan?
Do you want to stop the foreign wars and reinvest the money back here?
People don't, they know, they have no plan.
Is it single payer?
Is it a $15 minute?
What is your plan that you're offering people?
And, you know, we see the response from the Kentucky, the former Kentucky governor, because that's the face of the future of the Democratic Party.
Retired gray-haired guys from deep red states.
That's really the voice of the Democratic Party going forward, correct?
Right.
And I mean, like you were saying, people do not need something to fight against.
There's times and places like World War II, you fight against the Nazis.
Why?
Because they're being evil.
That's something to fight against.
But we're not fighting against the Nazis.
We're fighting against Trump and his idiocy.
Right.
But what we're not focusing on is what can we get behind?
And like you said, the Democrats are not offering it.
Bernie offered it.
He said, if you vote for me, this is what we're going to work towards, a better minimum wage, universal healthcare education, or at least something close to it.
I mean, yeah, he's going to promise it, but is he actually going to get it through through Congress?
Maybe, maybe not.
But the point is he gave us a message to fight for.
And the Democratic Party isn't.
Hey, guys, this is Ron Placone from the Jimmy Door Show.
That was a snippet of our interview with Sam Ronin.
The full interview can be found on our YouTube page.
That's just youtube.com.
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That's just the Joes, and it's just J-O-E-S.
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There you can learn more about Sam and the causes that he's working on.
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Hey, everybody, welcome to the Jimmy Door Show.
I'm here with a special guest running for California Congressional District number 34.
He's a Green Party candidate.
It's Kenneth Mejia.
I pronounced that correct, right?
Correct.
Kenneth Mejia.
Kenneth Mejia.
Now, Kenneth, you look a little too young to know anything about anything.
26 years old, a lot of people are going to be like, what does a 26-year-old guy know about?
Now, you went to college, I'm assuming, and everything tells us about that.
Yeah, so I actually ran for this seat last year when I was 25.
Get out of here.
And the Democratic Party.
I was a write-in and got 1,177 write-in votes in two months of campaigning.
Wow.
No kidding.
Now, what?
Wow.
So, of course, I'm just kidding about you being young.
You know, people don't know that Orson Welles was 25 when he did Citizen Kane.
But one thing, I actually graduated college in two and a half years.
No kidding.
Yep.
I received my Bachelor's in Science and Accounting when I was 20 and received my certified public accounting license when I was 22.
So I've been working six years.
Are you just a driven guy like that?
Or were your parents just like really pushed you hard?
Or why?
Where do you get that drive from?
Well, I got that drive from my mother, a Buena Ray single mother for immigrant from the Philippines, and she took care of me and my three siblings, and she pushed us to use education as a tool to get wherever you need to be.
Yeah.
And that's what you did.
And now you're trying to get to be the, that would be great if you became.
So now, why didn't you run as a Democrat?
Why didn't you, why are you running as a Green Party candidate?
Right.
So I ran last year in the Democratic Party.
You did.
I left after the whole debacle of what happened.
I was a huge fan of Bernie Sanders and campaigned for him as well last year.
And then after I saw what happened to him, what the DNC did to him and how the party sort of neglected him and his supporters as well, I realized they're not the party for me.
And then I also looked at what the criticisms of what the Democratic Party is fighting for.
It's not the same as what the Green Party's fighting for.
How does it differ?
Right.
So, for example, one of the big things that the Democratic Party, like they should be fighting for single-payer.
You know, last year, they didn't even include it as part of their Democratic Party platform or against fracking or they can't, you know, one big thing was in the past how they were against the Employee Free Choice Act.
And so I gave them actually a chance because of Bernie Sanders.
And so they keep saying that he's not a real Democrat.
Right.
You're like, no, because he wants stuff that's actually good for people.
Exactly.
Exactly.
You can tell he's not a Democrat.
Why?
Because he's for single payer.
And the biggest thing, the Democrats are controlled by corporate interests, and the Green Party's not.
So a lot of people actually, it's breathing ground because remember, we saw the numbers, 24% are Democrats, 28 are Republicans, and the rest is independents.
And a lot of people left the Democratic Party.
So it's a great time, especially here in this district.
This is the only district that won for Bernie Sanders in LA.
So what are some of the specific issues that deal with that you're dealing with that you want to highlight in your race for the 34th congressional district in California?
Yeah.
So, I mean, talking to the community in Los Angeles, one of the big things is immigration, for example.
You know, it's a huge, diverse district.
It's 60% Latino, 20% Asian, 10% Caucasian, and the rest, you know, African-American and Indigenous.
So it's a very diverse group, and there's a lot of immigrant community documented and undocumented.
So what we want to do is push for full legal status for all immigrants.
So that's a huge thing we want to do.
And is that your opponent?
What is his, what is his position on that?
Well, our opponents haven't taken a position on full legal status for all immigrants.
Like what we're doing is when people think about it, like full legal status for immigrants.
Wow.
Like that's, that's radical.
So that's pretty radical.
And that's one of the big issues in the next is like healthcare.
One out of every five people in our district don't have health insurance.
One of the big issues we're pushing for is a single pay system, Medicare for All, because one out of every five people in our district don't have health insurance.
And that's one big thing that the Democrats are not pushing for that we are as the Greens are.
And a lot of people are receptive to it in the district.
So that's a huge issue.
So I know that Medicare certainly is more popular than the Affordable Care Act, right?
Or the ACA.
Medicare is recently, I saw 58% approval, and then the ACA is low 40s.
So why do you think that the it is so the Green Party's position is to a single payer, correct?
Correct, single payer.
So why do you think the Democrats refuse single payer?
I believe the Democrats refuse single payer because they have backings by the health insurance industry, big pharma, people who basically wrote the ACA.
So you're saying that money is keeping the Democrats away from giving their constituents a better health care system just because of money?
Right.
That's a big charge you're making there, Kenneth.
It's weird.
Wow.
So, and that's why we don't have single payer.
Kenneth is saying, I've said it on this show before.
He's saying because our government's corrupt.
Exactly.
We're the only industrialized nation on earth to not provide guaranteed health care.
And it's because the way our governments run that we run our campaigns, which is corrupt.
And nobody seems like the Democrats don't seem to even have a platform or a vision to do that.
Like it's not even part of their, is it part of the Greens party to get money out of politics?
Oh, yeah.
Like they won't even stop taking corporate money for the DNC.
Did you see that?
They voted for the DNC to keep taking corporate lobbyist money.
And it's like, well, that's the whole goddamn problem.
That's why Hillary Clint's like, they seem to learn nothing, but you say you've learned from that.
Exactly.
And that's why a left, it's hard to be a progressive in the Democratic Party.
Democrats would rather fight progressives than beat Republicans.
Well, I've said that on this show.
Shama Sawant was the first one to say it to me.
And I didn't, I thought she was kind of being a little exaggerated at the time, but she said that the Democratic Party would rather lose to a Republican than win with a progressive.
And that the first order of business of the DNC wasn't to make sure they could defeat the Republicans, but to make sure they defeated the agenda of the working class, which was to defeat Bernie Sanders, right?
And so that's really what they're all about.
Now, you see through that and you say you're now, how are you for the working man?
Are you for what?
What would you be for?
I mean, if you look at what the Green Party and what we're fighting for is, number one, single payer, like healthcare.
Okay.
The working class needs health insurance.
Right now, they're not getting it.
Yeah, but then we got to pay more taxes, right?
We could actually fund it through the Federal Reserve, through modern monetary theories is another big thing we could do.
And then also taxing the 1% as well.
So in terms of helping the working class, what we want to do is what I'm pushing for in my platform is guaranteed basic income, $12,000 a year.
Oh, you guys are so radicy.
See, that's the problem.
You guys get so crazy.
That scares the hell out of everyone listening when you say stuff like they're like, well, they're crazy.
Another big thing, 30-hour work weeks.
You know, there are like eight countries in Europe who work less than 30 hours.
You know how, on average, how much Germany works?
Germany works less than 25.
25 hours a week?
Yeah, on average.
And they provide health care as a right.
They provide education as a right.
How else can we provide the working class?
Health, education as a right.
Like that's another big thing.
And canceling student debt.
So how could they do that?
How does Germany people work half as much as they do in America, basically?
Is that what you're saying?
Right.
Those other countries, exactly, those industrialized nations, they work lesser hours.
Wow.
So when you say something like a guaranteed basic income, that sounds like a communist society to people.
That's scary.
That's exactly what everyone, they would go, who's going to pay for that?
So who's going to pay for that?
Right.
So the way it works, a lot of people don't know how our economic system works.
Right.
We are.
They know how it feels.
Right.
We're a monetary sovereign country.
Right.
We print our own money.
Exactly.
Which is why we don't have the same problems, Greece, any of the, or any of the European Union.
Right.
Exactly.
And we propped up $16 trillion to help Wall Street.
And no one even knows that.
No one watched this show know that.
Exactly.
And then, so if we could prop that up, then we could prop up $1.3 trillion to help student debt.
We could prop up trillions, like billions of dollars to help provide a guaranteed basic income.
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Gross.
So they brought, they brought out, they brought, so this was the guy they give the response to the Kentucky governor.
And, you know, why wouldn't they?
Instead of having Bernie Sanders give the response to Trump, they brought out a former retired governor from a completely red state because he is the face of the future of the fucking Democratic Party.
He's the face of the future of the cemetery.
I know, that was a little aegis.
Why would they have you were an old Republican?
You'd be dead by now.
What?
When you go past that cemetery, yeah.
Oh, yeah, you'd be if you were dead hair, you'd be home already.
Yeah.
You wouldn't be sitting in traffic.
That's why he likes it.
So this is the dick they got to do the response to Donald Trump.
Why would they pick that guy?
Why would I mean, so here, and listen.
Can I start with his starched shirt?
That says, I give a damn.
It does, and it says I can trust this fellow.
He took the time out to iron his shirt.
Yeah.
Well, listen, here we go.
I'm Steve Bashir.
I was governor of Kentucky from 2007 to 2015.
Well, who the fuck knew?
Yeah.
Not me.
Oh, I'm a private citizen.
Oh, now he's a private citizen.
Who gets to give the response to the presidential fucking threats?
I'm here in Lexington, Kentucky, some 400 miles from Washington at a diner with some neighbors.
Yeah.
I'm waiting for a slave auction.
I thought I was the only one that laughed about slave stuff.
So, I mean, they're here.
See, he's just, he's so regular.
He's 400 miles away from DC, sitting in a diner, you know, just wearing his khaki and blue shirt.
Like his pal over there, too, khakis and blue shirt.
We just like to sit down.
That's Jeff.
That's Jeff.
They're exactly wearing what you're wearing, except they're open.
They're a uniform.
Yeah, they're open neck.
They're going with you because they're casual.
They're just relating, man.
They're at a diner talking to people.
That's how they always do it, sitting around like no one would ever fuck themselves.
They're dropping G's.
Yeah, they're dropping G's.
And by the way, not a lick of food.
That looks like a movie set.
Does it not?
There's not a piece of food anywhere.
Yeah.
Or even a drink.
No one's even drinking.
Okay, here we go.
Democrats and Republicans, where we just watched the president's address.
I'm a proud Democrat.
But first and foremost, I'm a proud Republican.
Okay, I heard that the Democrats were having an identity crisis.
But this is worse than any DNC chair debate I ever fucking saw.
Did you hear that shit?
He really just said that.
I want him to be bisexual too.
All right, let's listen to the whole quote because it is stunning.
This is the guy.
Remember, they could have chose anybody to give the DNC chose this guy to give the rest.
They could have chosen Bernie, which, you know, without Bernie, though, the Democrats are, and they're nothing, right?
So they didn't choose him.
They chose this.
They didn't cheat, teeth that was.
They chose this guy, a fucking governor of Moretz.
Anyway, here we go.
And here's, listen to what he said.
The whole quote is kind of amazing.
Republicans.
Where we just watched the president's address.
Right, okay.
I'm a proud Democrat.
But first and foremost, I'm a proud Republican and Democrat and mostly American.
Oh, sorry.
Did you hear it?
I didn't, what the?
But I'm mostly American.
And the rest is what?
The corn filler?
What the fuck?
I'm a Democrat.
I'm Republican.
I'm Democrat.
I'm Republican.
I'm Democrat.
I'm Republican.
I'm the grand wizard.
but I'm also a member of the NAACP.
LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE Am I on fire?
You are on fire.
And then he ends it with, I'm mostly American.
I'm mostly American.
Don't investigate me.
Okay, so let's listen to it again.
I'm Steve Bashir.
I was governor of Kentucky from 2007 to 2015.
Now I'm a private citizen.
I'm here in Lexington, Kentucky, some 400 miles from Washington at a diner with some neighbors, Democrats and Republicans, where we just watched the president's address.
I'm a proud Democrat, but first and foremost, I'm a proud Republican and Democrat and mostly American.
This is the fucking genius they chose.
Okay, we got a guy.
Trump speaks like a sixth grader and he often contradicts himself in the same sense.
Let's get someone just like that.
I'm wearing ladies underwear.
You know what he said?
No, I was just going to say, you know, have you ever noticed that we always win because you show people that won't offend anybody and we just try to get away with what we can get away with.
I guess.
All right, so let's get back to this guy.
Keep in mind, this is the guy they chose on purpose, the geniuses in the Democratic Party.
This is their first big chance to make a pushback.
The resistance, they're going to lay out their plan.
What's the Democrats' plan for the future?
Oh my God, they've never been given a gift like this in their whole lives.
I bet they have a future and a vision.
I bet they're going to have single-payer health care.
Everybody's going to talk about free college.
Everybody's going to talk about ending the wars and bringing the money back and investing it here.
All right.
I bet he's going to talk about fucking $15 minimum wage and breaking up the banks.
And I bet he's going to talk about taxing walls.
Let's see what he says.
I'm a proud Democrat.
But first and foremost, I'm a proud Republican.
Oh.
And Democrat.
Oh.
And mostly American.
Oh, I wonder why they're fucking wiped out.
I can't understand it.
Why are they wiped out?
Here we go.
He's got more to say.
Look, I grew up in Kentucky in a small town called Dawson Springs.
My dad and granddad were Baptist preachers.
So I come from a long lot of bullshitters.
I mean, we barely had one slave between us.
But we did what we could.
I mean, they're doing this folksy bull.
They're trying to be Republican still.
The Democrats still think the way to win is to go a little farther right.
Don't talk about the New Deal.
Don't talk about being a Democrat.
Don't talk about progressive issues or shit that would actually work or fix people's lives or stuff that actually works in places like Norway or fucking all the way in Canada.
Don't talk about that stuff.
No, just keep pretending that you're a nice guy and you're not a jagoff like Trump is.
And then we're going to win in 2018 and 2020.
That's what Hillary did, and then she won, right?
No, he didn't win.
That's all this is.
This is empty platitudes.
He's got no plan, no vision, not one fucking piece of policy did he talk about.
I'm sorry, go ahead.
Well, I was just thinking that I wanted to consider about when they nominated this guy, what that meeting was like.
Who else did they nominate?
And all of a sudden they go, Stephen Bashir, he's not in office.
Let's go with him.
He's just a citizen.
He's just a citizen.
They're like, fuck, we can't get Joel Lieberman.
Who can we get?
Oh, shit.
El Gore's not available.
All right.
Let's get that gray-haired guy from Kentucky.
So here, he's got more to say.
Let's go.
What does he say?
His family owned a funeral hall.
Oh, really?
Did I call it?
Come on, did I call it?
You guys laughed.
Oh, I was being aegist.
I was being an asshole.
Can I call it?
His family owned a funeral home, so now they can hold the service for the Democratic Party.
I was really worried you weren't going to applaud it that way.
But you came through for me.
You motherfuckers came through for me.
That's why this is so much fun.
That's why we do the small room shows.
So we can have intimacy and you can feel my need for your blog.
I think when a Democrat gets mugged, they try to become friends with the mugger after it's done.
Yeah.
You don't believe in forgiveness.
Is that what you're saying?
That's what he's saying.
Let's get back to this.
And my wife, Jane, and I have been married for almost 50 years.
Oh, who gives a fucking shit?
I only have.
Oh, I'm going to vote for that guy.
He never fucked anybody but one person.
But I did receive a blowjob from a nice gentleman in a bus terminal in Biloxi.
That's not funny.
That's what anyone would do.
That is what anyone would do.
That is what I called it therapy.
There's no need.
There's no need.
I became governor at the start of the global recession.
And after eight years, we left things a lot better than we found them.
By being fit.
Oh, how did you do that?
Did you do it by implementing progressive strategies?
Did you do like New Deal legislation?
Did you tax the people with the money?
Did you make the tax system fair?
Did you reinvest in education?
Did you provide quality jobs by helping unions organize?
Did you pass pro-worker legislation?
Did you stop job killing outsourcing?
What did you do?
How did you do it?
What did you do?
Clearly responsible.
I even cut my own pay.
We balanced our budget and turned deficits into surpluses without raising taxes.
Oh, fucking John McCain can say the same thing.
What is he saying that's unique about Democrats?
Nothing.
He's saying that sounds like Ronald Reagan.
That's what that sounded like.
Hey, we balanced the budget.
We didn't raise taxes.
And who cares about progressive legislation?
What the fuck?
This is their response to Trump.
A milder version of repo.
They're going to rip Reagan.
That's what we're going to beat Trump.
And you know what?
We'll do?
We'll give him Reagan.
That's exactly what they're fucking doing.
They wouldn't pick a proof.
They wouldn't have Tulsi Gabbard give the response or Keith Ellison.
They wouldn't have Bernie Sanders give the response or they wouldn't have a real progressive give the response, right?
They had to give this.
So this is why the Democrats are done for.
They still don't get it.
They lost every level of government.
The state houses, the Congress, the White House, the Senate.
And this is what they gave you.
This is what they think you want.
This is what they think is going to win.
They're fucking crazy.
They couldn't fill this room with that guy's fucking speech.
They couldn't fill that room.
Yeah.
I think maybe there was a raffle at the Kentucky Derby to see who wanted to be on shortstraw had to go see that this guy could speak.
So let's see if he has anything else to say.
Let's see.
Here we go.
The America I Love has always been about looking forward, not backward.
Again, more platitude bullshit.
About working together to find solutions.
This is what the same shit Reagan said.
You know what?
This is almost as bad as Deep Puck Choker.
I want to say a stitch in time saves money.
That's what this is.
That is what this is.
Regardless of party.
Instead of allowing our differences to divide us and hold us back.
And we Democrats are committed to creating the opportunity for every American to succeed.
And how are you going to do that?
What are you going to do?
Are you going to make it easier for them to go to college?
Are you going to give them free health?
What are you going to do?
How are you going to make it easier for them to succeed?
I don't understand.
By growing our economy with good-paying jobs.
Oh, you're going to get good-paying jobs as opposed to the other people who get shitty.
What the fuck are you talking about?
This just turned into being there.
He just turned into Chauncey Gardner saying you have to put seeds in the ground.
Chauncey Gardner, that's right.
That Peter Sellers movie you're talking about.
I thought you were talking about something different.
Yes, he's just repeating.
He's just repeating platitudes that you can hear on TV.
And this is what the Democrats think is going to really grab people and get them back.
This is what's going to carry them to victory.
This fucking warmed over platitude bullshit that pretends that there's no difference between real Republicans and Democrats.
But Trump's the bad thing.
That's what this is.
Instead of tagging Trump to the Republicans, they're letting him go.
They're fucking letting the Republicans off the hook.
And that's what this is.
And he keeps doing it.
Educating and training our people to fill those jobs.
Oh, Getty's Berendigo.
I didn't know who isn't for all this shit.
Trump can make the same goddamn speech.
Any Republican would make the same speech.
It drives me nuts.
Here we go.
Giving our businesses the freedom to innovate.
Oh, keeping our country safe and providing health care that families can afford and rely on.
Oh, my God.
And four tires that are inflated properly.
It's amazing all the stuff he's going to give you.
Why can you not accept his folksy charm?
I'm blanking out like it's a ninth grade health class on this whole fucking thing.
I'm just hoping that he's going to give us air to breathe.
Here we go.
Look, I may be old-fashioned.
Oh, come on, you.
No, you suck.
Didn't I see you at Trunks wearing a feather boa?
You kidding me?
This stuff you're saying sounds as fresh as a spring rain.
I never heard a politician talk like this before.
I still believe that dignity, compassion, honesty, and accountability are basic American values.
Not one goddamn thing about being a Democrat or our vision or what it means, what our resistance is, what our opposition is.
Here's our policies That are going to overtake.
This is why we're not a fuck, nothing, just emptiness.
And you wonder why they lost.
And as a Democrat, I believe that if you work hard, you deserve the opportunity to realize the American dream.
As a Republican, I believe you can take the Democrats from behind.
*laughter*
I don't appreciate all the gay humor.
I want to hear that again.
I believe that if you work hard, you deserve the opportunity to realize the American dream.
And as George Carlin said, they call it the American dream because you have to be asleep to think it exists.
That dream is over.
And this is what...
Again, this is a speech from the...
His speech is from the 80s.
He has no new ideas.
He has no vision.
He has nothing.
Oh, we're gonna not raise taxes and balance a budget.
I can't believe this is what the...
Regardless of whether you're a coal miner in Kentucky, a teacher in Rhode Island, an auto worker in Detroit, or a software engineer in San Antonio.
What if you're a lobbyist up your ass right now?
Kentucky made real progress while I was governor because we were motivated by one thing, helping families.
Okay, camera two, move out.
Camera two, pull out.
Camera two, pull out.
Okay, now zoom in on the person that isn't exactly white.
Zoom in on the person who's not exactly white.
Okay, now zoom back in on the old fuck.
The people in the back do look like they're in a hostage video.
Democrats are trying to bring that same focus back to Washington, D.C. Yeah, as a Democrat, I believe that everyone should have opportunities without the help of any policy ideas to help create them.
We're going to create opportunities.
How?
By creating opportunities.
You're going to bring good paying jobs?
Yes.
How?
By bringing good paying jobs.
Americans are a diverse people.
And we may disagree on a lot of things.
Yeah, like whether the fuck you should even be talking right now.
But we've always come together when we remember that we are one nation.
Remember who?
That is love with guns.
Remember how we came together in 1860?
We always come together.
So I have, I just want to show you what a real response to Donald Trump's speech.
And so I have, I have four video clips of Trump talking.
I mean, not Trump, but Bernie Sanders.
And he gave his own response to Trump's State of the Union.
And I just, I had, I don't have time to get to it all.
I'll just play a little bit of it.
And let's be also clear.
The $84 billion that President Trump wants to pump into the bloated Pentagon budget could, just as one example, provide free tuition at every public college and university in this country and begin to reduce the crushing burden of student debt in America.
Wow.
I'm glad that guy from Kentucky didn't bring that shit up.
I mean, that might excite people and get them interested in politics again and think that somebody can actually make a difference.
I'm glad they didn't have that guy.
I was just going to say, strong America is a dumb America.
We all need human shields.
So let's go to another.
I'm going to try and place myself.
They're not so cocky anymore.
Oh, so here he is talking about the, did you talk about health care?
What do you think about the Republicans repealing health care?
They're not so cocky anymore about simply repealing Obamacare.
And they should be worried because the American people are standing up.
And what they are saying loudly and clearly is, no, you're not going to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
No, you're not going to destroy it.
You are going to improve it.
And in my view, what we must be doing right now is not only defending the Affordable Care Act, not only improving the Affordable Care Act, we have got to move forward to join the rest of the industrialized world and guarantee health care to all people as a right, not a privilege.
We must go forward towards a Medicare for all single-payer program.
God bless Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
God bless her.
God bless her.
We gave her what she wanted on Israel and look what she did for us.
I mean, none of that in the Democrat response.
That's the thing that gets people to their feet.
That's what gets applause.
That's what fills rooms.
That's what fills a stadium.
That's what fills a ballot box.
That's what gets people excited about making their country great.
It's not this shit.
It's not what they were giving us for that guy from Kentucky.
So, well, it's good.
Middle class shrinking, 43 million people living in poverty.
The rich doing phenomenally well.
And Donald Trump wants to provide $3 trillion in tax breaks for the people on top.
That is an outrage.
Furthermore, President Trump claimed tonight that American corporations pay the highest tax rates in the world.
We're going to have to lower substantially tax rates on large corporations.
What he said is untrue, not true.
According to the Government Accountability Office, one out of five, one out of five large profitable corporations pays nothing, zero in federal income tax.
Today, we are losing $100 billion in revenue every year because corporations are stashing their cash in the Cayman Islands and other offshore tax havens.
These corporations don't need a tax cut.
They need to start paying their fair share of taxes.
Oh my God.
It sounds so much like the gray-haired redneck from Kentucky.
Doesn't it sound so much like that guy?
I mean, that was the guy who had his finger on the pulse of what was happening in 83.
I mean, and this is the DNC.
They didn't want this guy.
That says, he's not a Democrat.
Yeah, no shit.
You know why?
I can tell he's not a Democrat?
Because he's actually giving us real policy choices that can help our life.
That's how I know he's not a Democrat because he's not repeating bullshit corporate talking points.
That's how I know he's not a Democrat.
You know how I know he's not a Democrat?
Because I actually want to vote for that motherfucker.
Yeah!
Do you know the joy I feel in seeing how old he is?
Ha!
Hello, this is Jimmy.
Jimmy, I was just calling to see how you like that thing I just did to your country.
What thing?
You know, that thing.
What's happened lately, anyway?
Well, you mean Jeff Sessions is in trouble for lying under oath about meeting your ambassador?
No, that wasn't me.
There was that near disaster near Sacramento where the dam gave way and nearly flooded hundreds of square miles.
Was that you?
Of course not.
Do not be silly, little Jimmy.
Russia has no ability to send a small team of expert terrorist engineers to an unprotected part of a giant dam to undermine its weakest points with small, undetectable plastic explosives.
Only a white power militia can do that.
Oh, okay.
But what if I had done that?
How would you be feeling right now that I had been responsible for that near disaster of gigantic proportion?
So you're saying you did do it?
Who am I to say, Jimmy?
One day a thing is here, the next day it is gone.
Life is so mysterious at times, is it not?
There's so much crap going on right now, I don't even know which thing you're talking about.
Let me give you hints.
Hi, bro.
Welcome to my keger.
Here, have some brew.
You killed the guy who invented the Red Solo Cup?
Yes.
And no.
Yes, if you believe it's possible to give someone heart disease, and no, if you think that's a pretty stupid concept.
You're not clearing anything up, Vladimir.
Okay, well, here's something you can really set clock by.
I expect big upset in your Los Angeles municipal election you are having at this very moment.
What are you talking about?
We were able, allegedly, to sabotage one of your mechanical ballot machines so that little plastic stylist thing won't punch out the hole without you really having to apply pressure.
I mean, you really gotta push that thing down.
It's pretty annoying.
But those machines are all like that.
Look, I'm just saying a certain Ernie Moreno might not end up winning a seat on the Community College Board of Trustees.
Operation Pass No Pass accomplished.
Now you'll see how hard it can really be trying to get your transcripts from Azusa Pacific College.
You're just making crap up to screw with an already gullible American public.
Maybe I am.
Maybe I'm not.
So who wants to know?
I guess we do.
How do we know for sure you didn't interfere in our presidential election?
Well, for one thing, I never got one of those I voted stickers.
You know me, Jimmy.
I would never refuse one of those.
I just can't throw anything away.
I still have that Fabergé egg Boris Yeltsin tried to eat.
Where's it now?
Stuck in his mummified lower intestine right next to my Hitler's left nut paperweight.
You know, everybody in Russia claims to own a piece of Hitler's left nut, but only I have the true left nut.
Did you know Joseph Stalin's left arm was shorter than his right arm?
No.
I have the missing 12 centimeters and the best part of his mustache.
Jimmy, are you familiar with Russian fairy tale about old maid and hunchback fish?
Yeah, I am.
Look, I gotta go now.
It seems there was old woman wife who nagged her old fisherman husband because her bathtub leaked.
So old man got to nearby lake.
Here he catches hunchback fish who says to the man, old man, please let me go and I will grant you any wish.
So old man throws hunchback fish back into the lake and says, please, hunchback fish, my wife would like a new bathtub that doesn't leak.
Go back home, says the hunchback fish, and you will find a happy wife with her new bathtub.
So the old fisherman goes back home to find Angry Rife with same old leaky bathtub.
That night, Angry Wife strangles old man in his sleep.
Hey, it's been great talking to you.
Goodbye.
Hillary Clinton gave her reading beautiful pen.
Hillary Clinton gave her response.
Are you ready?
Hey.
Hey, she's our former first lady.
Now you'll be respectful, or you will sit here and have a good time.
And by the way, do you know how happy I am that she is so young?
Hello.
Oh, hang on.
Oh, by the way, now we heard enough.
Oh, my God, okay.
That's okay.
No, I had to buy it, but I feel like I got it on your khakis.
That's okay.
Stop talking about your spilled drink.
We're out of time.
Here we go.
Hello, Democrats.
Thank you all for coming together to represent our party at its best.
United, energized, and ready to wage and win the battles ahead.
Now, as Democrats, we have diverse views.
I mean, this is just empty pablum platitude bullshit.
They haven't learned a fucking thing.
Listen to this.
And backgrounds.
We are Democrats, after all.
But we're bound together by the values and hopes we share for our country.
I'm grateful for all your support and hard work during the election.
This is music for the eyes.
Being your candidate was the honor of a lifetime.
And it was our electoral disaster of a lifetime.
And I was inspired to see women and men from all walks of life and every corner of our country coming together on behalf of our shared values.
And while we didn't get the outcome we worked so hard for, Dee!
I worked so hard I didn't go to fucking Wisconsin.
Or the women's march, which still bugs me.
Yeah.
Of the campaign we ran.
A campaign that was better and stronger, thanks to each of you.
What?
After the primaries, we came together as a party to write the most progressive platform in history.
Yes, despite my best efforts to prevent her from being progressive, there still was a couple of progressive things that slipped through.
You know, every time I look at this, it looks like it's the end of the world and we have to play it right before.
Ideas we championed are now inspiring leaders and activists across our country.
Nearly 66 million votes are fueling grassroots energy and activism.
And everywhere, people are marching, protesting, tweeting, speaking out.
Stephanie, you're right.
This is a Kubrick film.
For an America that's hopeful, inclusive, and big-hearted.
From the women's march to airports, where you didn't go, goddamn it.
Welcoming immigrants, refugees, and people of every faith to town hall meetings where people are speaking up for health care, the environment, good Jobs and all the other issues that deserve our passionate support.
It's amazing.
can't even see any buttons or levers.
Among those millions making their voices heard are future mayors, city and state officials, governors, members of Congress.
That robot did my brain surgery.
Future presidents.
The challenges we face as a party and a country are real.
So now more than ever, we need to stay engaged in the field and online.
Reaching out to new voters, young people, and everyone.
And let them know that we're not going to do a fucking thing they want us to.
Who wants a better, stronger, fairer America?
We as Democrats must move forward with courage, confidence, and optimism.
And corporate money.
And stay focused on the elections we must win this year and next.
Let resistance plus persistence equal.
Oh, yeah.
Resistance plus assistance with assistance of progress for our party and our country.
Thank you to the leaders who've already done so much.
Oh, you mean like Bernie Sanders or those people who cheated everybody?
Beginning with Barack and Michelle Obama.
Okay.
Thanks as well to Donna and thanks to Donna for the CNN questions.
And the DNC leadership.
And the DNC leadership for stacking the deck against the true progressive of the race.
I fucking appreciate it.
And to the outstanding bench of Democrats stepping up to lead us forward.
You know, like that guy from fucking Kentucky.
Resistance plus persistence equals a ten in Wall Street.
Stand together and work together with respect for our differences, strengthen our convictions, and love for our country.
Our best days are still.
So keep fighting and keep the faith.
And I'll be right there with you every step of the way.
God bless you and God bless America.
Hey, if God blessed us with Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, maybe God can lay off the fucking blessings for a while.
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We'll see you March 20th in Burbank.
Hey, this is Jimmy.
Who's this?
Jimmy Dore, this is Sean Spicer.
Oh, hey there, Sean Spicer.
How you doing?
Yes, Jimmy Dore for the Jimmy Dore show.
What?
Yes, I'll take your questions now.
Oh, okay, I see.
Well, Mr. Spicer, regarding this latest healthcare bill, how does the president think that 10 million Americans will react to inform you of the distinct probability?
That is to say for certain.
Certainly, that this phone line has been wiretapped.
You and I both know there's a lot more to that phone call.
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