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The Jimmy Dore Show!
It's the Jimmy Dore Show.
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It's hard to talk when you keep dying.
And now, here's a guy who sounds a lot like me.
It's Jimmy Dore.
We got a jam-packed one.
We've got a jam-packed show.
Lots of great stuff.
Stuff that may blow your mind.
We're going to have phone calls from Vince Vaughn.
It's going to call in.
Bernie Sanders himself calls in.
Plus, Paul Ryan is going to explain how insurance works.
And it turns out he doesn't like how insurance works.
We're also going to talk about the Supreme Court.
Turns out the Democrats are already laying down plans to cave to Trump's Supreme Court pick.
That's coming up, plus a lot lot more.
We're going to see you at our live show April 3rd at the Improv Lab in Hollywood, April 3rd.
That's our next live show.
And after that, it's April 24th back in Burbank at Flappers Comedy Club.
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All right, let's get on to today's show.
Hi, everybody.
I'm here with the Miserable Liberal and Ron Placone.
And you know that there's a Supreme Court.
Oh, by the way, so Barack Obama nominated a centrist, corporate-friendly judge to the Supreme Court, Merrick Garland, and then the Republicans didn't even give him a hearing.
They're like, we're not even filling that space on the Supreme Court for an entire year.
We're not doing it.
So we have an eight-member Supreme Court.
Now, what's their strategy going forward?
How are they going to deal with Donald?
So now, my theory, well, everybody was saying, you got to vote for Hillary because of the Supreme Court.
You got to vote for Hillary because of the Supreme Court.
You got to vote for Hillary because of the Supreme Court, Jimmy.
And I said, you want me to vote for a party?
The party is supposed to stand up.
And if the party doesn't filibuster horrible nominees until the president nominates someone who's acceptable, then that party doesn't deserve my vote.
If that party's going to roll over for a horrible nominee, what's the point of that?
What's the point of that party?
We already know.
There's no point to the Democrats.
In fact, so they get together.
So you know that they've been giving them a hard time.
The Democrats in the Senate, they've been confirming all of Trump's nominees.
They have no resistance.
They're feckless.
And they're chosen, as Jank Uger says, they are chosen to be weak.
And they are.
So the donors choose strong Republicans, weak Democrats, and they are.
So what was their strategy going forward about the Supreme Court to make sure we don't get a radical?
What was their, first of all, they didn't fight to get Merrick Garland in.
Barack Obama almost never mentioned it.
They had zero political acumen trying to get that guy, their own nominee, that they had a right to have.
You screwed the country over when the Democrats didn't make sure they got that Supreme Court.
They screwed, but that's what they're paid to do.
They're paid to lose.
And they do.
What did Barack Obama scream about passing TPP?
He didn't scream about a Supreme Court nominee.
So what was the strategy?
So what's the strategy for the Senate Democrats?
Well, this is political.
From January, it says Senate Dems will filibuster Trump's Supreme Court nominee.
It will be only the second time in modern history that the Senate has mounted a filibuster against the nominee.
That's from January 30th.
Here's from today.
Oh, Democrats paralyzed as Gorsuch skates.
The fucking worthless Democrats.
Worthless Democrats.
Worthless.
Voting to confirm Ben Carson and Pruitt.
And look at this.
The subheadline is the party is split over how aggressively to oppose Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee.
What the hell does that even mean?
The fucking Republicans will filibuster and vote in unity against water for their own kids.
They have practice at voting against the Democrats.
They have practice in filibustering.
They have practice in standing up.
They have practice.
They know how to get together and unite.
The Democrats have no idea because they're chosen that way.
Democrats can't.
This is from political.
Democrats can't seem to land a punch on Neil Gorsick.
And it's not even clear they want to.
This is the Democratic Party.
This is the party people wag their finger at me for not voting for.
Because of the Supreme Court.
Because of the Supreme Court.
The goddamn Democrats don't even know if they want to oppose them.
But brilliant minds told me I was an idiot because of the Supreme Court.
Fucking goddamn Senate.
Democrats won't even stand up.
And you voted for them.
And the way you feel right now is how a chump feels because you're a chump.
If you voted for Tim Kaine and Hillary Clinton because of the Supreme Court, you're a chump.
How's it feel?
You know how you feel right now?
That's how a chump feels.
President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee has breezed through more than 70 meetings with senators.
Opponents who've scored, scoured his record, have found little to latch on to.
And some Democrats are privately beginning to believe that Gorsuch, barring a blunder at his Senate confirmation hearing next week, will clinch the 60 votes he needs to be approved without a filibuster.
Jimmy, you got to vote.
Jimmy, you know, what's wrong with you?
You know, if you have any sense of morality whatsoever, you would grow up and vote for Hillary Clinton because of the Supreme Court.
And I know a lot about politics, and I'm telling you this.
They fucking chump.
That's what you are.
A dumb, spineless chump.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York has been taking the temperature.
He's been taking the temperature of the Senate Democratic caucus, but hasn't begun whipping hard against Gorsuch.
Sources familiar with the matter said.
Has it become, no, we're going to just, you know, we're going to fucking do nothing.
I wonder if his Wall Street master has told Chuck Schumer, we like Gorsuk, so go, okay.
Yeah, if you can, if you can, let him go.
Let him get on the Supreme Court.
If you can find a way.
This is the resistance, Chuck Schumer, not whipping hard against the Supreme Court.
So the whole reason that chumps who voted for Hillary Clinton told me I had to vote for him, there it is, right in your fucking ass.
Indeed, despite anger from the Democratic base, that would be me.
That would be Ron.
That would be Steph.
That senators have cowered from a fight against Trump's high court pick.
But donors haven't screamed.
That's the thing.
There isn't deep anger from the donors.
So that's why nothing's happening.
The sole strategic decision that Democratic caucus has made about Gorsuk ahead of his confirmation hearings is to make no decision at all.
Unbelievable.
I mean, that's unbelievable.
Like, how are people not realizing how hard the Democrats are failing?
Ah, Susan Sarandon!
Can you look me in the eye?
And can you tell me this is what you thought would happen?
You, Susan Sarandon!
You, Susan Sarandon!
You fucking chumps who voted because of the Supreme Court.
The only thing we've decided as a caucus is to ask members not to make any public commitment until the hearings phase is finished.
Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin said, aptly named, by the way.
What a dickhead.
You're all a bunch of dickheads.
The Democrats are all a bunch of dickheads who are failing your country.
You self-interested bunch of corporate cocksuckers.
Not that Cocksucking's bad.
It's one of the nicest things you can do for another fella.
It's just bad when it's Wall Street's cock.
Yes.
That's what I'm saying.
You're not supposed to fillate the people wrecking unions.
Some embrace the tactics advocated by Senator Jeff Merkley of Oregon to wage a filibuster and bait Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell into trying to change Senate rules.
You mean actually stand up and do something?
Do his job?
Actually do something?
The gamble would be that the Kentucky Republican doesn't have the votes.
Or if he does, the Democrats will win the next presidential election in 2020 and ultimately benefit from the new rules.
Well, they're going to do everything to prevent that in the interim.
Unbelievable.
Or Democrats could wave Gorsuk through, reasoning that confirming him won't change the balance of the court, but the next vacancy would.
And they'd be left without a 60-vote threshold as a weapon.
So do you hear what they're saying?
Do you hear what this idea is?
This idea is they're not going to filibuster this time because if they do, the Republicans will get mad and then pass a rule that gets rid of the filibuster for Supreme Court justices.
So they don't want to piss off the, they want to hurry up and wait.
They want to fight the Republicans by not doing anything that pisses them off.
How are we fighting?
What's our resistance?
If you can find stuff we could do that they don't get upset about, we'll do it.
That's your resistance.
And they want to be timid and wait.
And you know what?
Speaking of the premium, we had a great Martin Luther King quote about how dangerous that is.
And I guarantee that's what they're going to do.
That's exactly option two is exactly what they're going to do.
This week's premium was chock full of that stuff.
That Martin Luther King, yes.
You know, if you, yes.
So what we did a little trick on the premium is we flipped the he Martin Luther King was talking about the white moderate, and I just inserted Democrat.
And they're just as exacerbating the indecision is the fact that a handful of Democrats facing tough re-election bids next year may face political retribution from the right or left.
No matter how they vote on Gorsuch.
So I don't know.
Maybe you do the thing that's right.
Do the thing that's right for the country and forget about your self-interest of getting re-elected.
So I'm going to get effed either way.
Maybe I do what's right.
What a novel idea in politics.
The competing impulses have produced a public posture of apparent ambivalence.
Ron, could you read that for me?
Because I'm going to get it.
Could you read that?
And according to one Democratic senator, a feeling that there is no caucus strategy.
Russia, Russia, Russia.
That's not a strategy for governing.
Now you sound as dumb as the fucking Republican screaming Benghazi.
And then when they got control of government, they have no plans to help people.
They have no health care plan.
Russia, Russia.
That's how dumb the Democrats are now.
Rachel Maddow getting fucking taken to school by Trump over the taxes last night.
Get taken to school.
Used her as a useful idiot.
What a tool Rachel Maddow is.
And if she's not doing the bidding of Donald Trump by showing his best year of tax returns, what is she doing?
She's also doing the bidding by screaming Russia, a nothing story that does nothing to help people get health care or go to college or pave a road or go.
There is no caucus strategy.
Just so you know, there is no caucus strategy.
And honestly, he could have taken the word caucus out of that sentence and it still would have been accurate.
There is no strategy.
Democrats had no strategy.
And this is what we've been pointing out here.
There's a fierce, but I'll get into it.
I guarantee fucking T you, you can watch 24 straight hours of MSNBC and not one goddamn fucking $30,000 a day host will mention that the Democrats have no strategy and that they're lost and that they're failing because they take corporate money and they're in bed with the people that their opponents are in bed with.
So there is no opposition party in America.
I guarantee goddamn to you, you watch it 24 hours.
And if they, and if you do, send me the videotape, I'll give you a million dollars.
There is a fierce urgency at the grassroots that is not being echoed by the Senate Democrats.
You think?
You think what the hell was Bernie Sanders' whole goddamn campaign was?
That was an urgency at the grassroots level.
And not only did they not listen to it, they put a sound cannon at it.
Shut up.
All these meddling kids.
Well, at this point, they're not even listening to the people that are giving them the benefit of the doubt.
the people that are so quick to, well, Hillary won the popular vote by 3 million.
Well, okay, so why aren't they opposing this Supreme Court pick with every ounce of their being?
They're not even listening to the people that are still giving them the benefit of the doubt.
I guess this is the way they would have proceeded anyways if Hillary had been elected.
We would have got Gorsuk anyway, probably.
Right?
I don't know.
It sounds like it.
Sounds like they're okay.
That's fine.
I can't believe they didn't nominate him.
So that was Ben Wickler, the Washington director of Move On, which joined 10 other groups in a letter urging the Senate Democrats to essentially step up.
I thought Trump being president should have been the reason why everybody would step up and find their strategy.
And they're not.
And I've taught, and I, you know, I had debates with people about this before.
And I just, you know, my whole thing was they would say, well, the Democrats are weak, and you know, they're not going to stand up to the Republicans over a Supreme Court nominee.
And I'm like, and you're wagging your finger at me to give my vote to that party?
That's your strategy?
This is your fucking strategy.
Here it is.
Die.
What geniuses?
The notion that Democrats should wait until after the hearings to speak their mind is a strategy to win a race by running hard in the last 30 seconds.
So they're going to wait till after the hearings are all over.
Then we're going to, then we're going to do something.
I was going to say, it's like waiting to put the defense on the field at the fourth quarter.
Yeah.
You're going to win off the first three quarters.
This is Diane Feinstein.
Our job is to put together the hearing, said California Dianne Feinstein, the top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee.
Why have a hearing if everybody's going to take a position?
What?
So to be talking about whether I'm for or against at this stage makes no sense at all to me because it's uninformed.
See, you're a jerk if you think that I should already think I want to oppose Trump's nominee.
That makes no sense at all.
That makes this.
Do you hear your corporate Democrat?
Diane Feinstein.
Diane's about swaggering her finger at Hillary voters now.
Even you, even chumps who supported Hillary because of this very issue.
She's wagging her finger at you, going, We don't know, could be a good that could be a good nominee.
Trump's nominee.
So all those, all those people, I'll be waiting for the apologies.
I know they're not coming because people who supported Hillary over this have no integrity.
I feel like in two minutes, I'm going to wake up in my bed and I'm going to turn to my girlfriend.
I'm going to be like, I had a dream that the Democrats did something so stupid that even they wouldn't do.
And we talked about it on the Jimmy Dore show.
But no, I'm awake.
I just pinched myself.
This is real.
This is all real.
I have conflicting emotions, right?
Because I'm bursting at the seams with how this is blowing up in those stupid people's faces who voted for Hillary because of the Supreme Court.
And now, but I'm also sad because the Democrats are letting our country down.
And I wish we had actual people with actual spines who weren't bought for completely.
Dianne Feinstein wagging her finger at you, at you.
You think I should oppose Trump's nominee without even that?
That's ridiculous.
You be quiet and let us grown-up corporatists do our work.
Look how good we've done so far.
Corrupt to their core, corrupt to their core.
North Dakota Senator Heidi Heidkamp, a red state Democrat up for re-election who's under heavy pressure from conservatives and liberals on the Supreme Court decision, stressed that we should be open to supporting any nominee.
That's a freaking senator.
But you keep wagging your fingers at Jill Stein voters.
Keep wagging your finger at Gary Johnson voters at actresses and activists and YouTube jaguars like me.
There's a freaking senator.
Don't forget millennials.
It's all.
Oh, if it's millennials, too.
It's millennials.
And you're a sympathizer, Jimmy.
I know I am.
You employ me.
As for liberals calling on her to oppose Gorsuch, she said, I get pressure from the left all the time.
I wasn't sent to respond to pressure.
I don't report to the people.
That's what she just said.
That's right.
That's what she just said.
I don't represent the needs of the people either.
I don't need to listen to you people.
I'm perfectly capable to make this decision on my own without your support.
So you can go suck it, America.
No, no, Steffi.
What we're supposed to do is you vote for them, the corporate Democrats, and then after they know they have your vote and they get elected, then you hold their feet to the fire like the dumbest motherfucker in the history of the world.
People, grown-up people were saying that with straight faces through the whole campaign from the primary to the November.
No, no, no, we're going to vote for Hillary, and then we're going to hold her feet to the fire after, which is maybe the dumbest fucking thing I've ever heard.
You vote for someone you don't like who's going to do things you don't want done.
And then we're going to hold.
But I first got to pledge my vote to them.
I'm not going to withhold my vote and hope they'll change before because they might need my vote.
Here you go.
Here you go, geniuses.
I wasn't sent here to respond to pressure.
No, she was sent there to do the bidding of her corporate donors.
And I know that sounds like a break of record, but that's what it is.
Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia, who's in the same political predicament as Heitkamp, added that he is truly and totally concerned that a Democratic filibuster would prompt Republicans to do away with the 60-vote threshold for Supreme Court nominees.
Same thing.
See, we can't do what we're supposed to because then they will make them mad.
What a tough guy that Joe Manchin is, huh?
Can knuckle under the drop of a hat.
What's the point of having a filibuster if you only use it when they approve of it?
Hey, we're going to fuck up that bill you guys want to pass.
We'll be angry about it.
All right, we won't.
Let us know when it's okay.
That's tough guy Joe Manchin, who's the opposite of a tough guy, by the way.
Joe Manchin, opposite.
I know he's 6'4 and he weighs 270, but he's a, you know, he's a he's got that forehead.
He's a Cro-Magnon forehead, dumb guy, and he's a coward.
Just so you know.
Just because you're Rick Perry, you think he's got guts?
No, they're both big guys.
They're both cowards.
They roll over.
Oh, okay.
Heavens to Murgatroyd.
Joe Manchin just voted to screw over the people again.
Tough guy.
So, and that's his big idea.
So there you go.
We'll end it there.
There's your, there's your, we did 20 minutes on this.
I could do 20 hours on this.
So if you voted for Hillary because of the Supreme Court, congratulations, genius.
Hey, out of the phone, we have Hollywood Conservative Vince Vaughan.
Hey, how are you, Vince?
Hey, hey, what's going on, Jimmy Door?
How are you?
Why, you know, as usual, my first question is: Why are you calling?
I'm not even really sure why this keeps happening.
I'm a relatively busy man with the queer, and for some reason, I have to talk to the Jimmy Dore show every other week for some reason.
And he does these videos get they probably get hit.
Yeah, well, you're one of my favorite all-time comedic actors, and so that's why I call you.
And I think, you know, you're on the right, so you're one of the, you know, people like to hear the different sorts of opinions, right?
So that's why I call you, and you always deliver.
So that's why.
Okay, well, fair enough.
I'm glad to be a part of it.
I'm thrilled.
Hey, look, we don't mean to pick on you, but you know, there aren't many Hollywood conservatives, and you're by far the most entertaining.
So that's what we will.
I said it's a compliment, and I appreciate that.
I always appreciate a compliment.
I'm some sort of sociopath over here.
But at the same time, I don't even know why.
I don't know what's so entertaining or funny, per se, about having conservative viewpoints and believing in small government.
I don't even know why that's so funny.
But people apparently like to hear it.
I'll talk about it because it's right.
It's the right American thing to do.
But if that's what you want to talk about, go for it.
Go for it, Slick.
I'm not stopping you.
I'm not stopping anybody.
I'm going to keep eating my mac and cheese and talk to Jimmy Dore.
I don't care.
So listen, what do you think about this tweet from Representative Steve King of Iowa, where he was agreeing with that Dutch right that Dutch far-right politician, Gate Wilders?
Before I stop you there, Gary Wilders, I think he's great.
Do you know Gary Wilders?
Well, Vince, well, isn't Gerd Wilders a white supremacist?
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, who hold on, but don't he's a great guy.
He's fantastic.
And I think he's a great dude.
And, you know, I really appreciate everything he's doing for the Dutch people.
I mean, which, you know, there's only about 400 people, probably.
But he standed up for them.
He's like the Trump of the Netherlands.
And he was on that train before everybody else.
He was a shut-the-border guy before everybody else.
He is a pioneer.
Gary Wilders is where it's at.
Yeah.
But Vince, isn't Gert Welders a white supremacist?
Absolutely not, Jimmy Dore.
No.
He's not a white supremacist.
You know what?
I'll tell you what about Gary Wilders.
He can't be a white supremacist.
You know why?
Well, he's not even completely white.
He was part Asian.
Did you know that?
He's Indo-Dutch.
You know what that is?
Indo-Dutch?
I'm not even.
I know this sounds like something I'm making up.
I'm not even making up.
There's a lot of the people of the Netherlands who, you know, the Netherlands, they owned the Indonesia for a while.
They owned it.
Indonesia.
A lot of them intermarried with the Indonesians.
Then they came back, and then they live in the Netherlands.
And he's one of those people.
You know who else is?
The Van Halen brothers.
They're also Indo-Dutch.
Did you know that?
Alex and Eddie Van Halen, that's why they look kind of Chinese.
Did you know that?
They're Indo-Dutch.
That's true.
So they're part Asian.
Gary Wilders, part Asian.
That's why he's got a dye-handed hair blonde, look like Mozart.
And to the Van Halen brothers, that's why they're kind of Chinese looking.
So with Van Halen, you got the two guys who are like fucking Chinese.
David Lee Roth is Jewish.
Mike Anthony, clearly gay.
Clearly a gay man.
Hey, I'm the most diverse representative.
No.
Listen.
And they never get credit for it.
You know, and they're not even in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
That's racism.
If you want to look for racism, go look yourself.
Go look at the Rock and Road Hall of Fame.
Why is it Van Halen in there?
They're the most diverse group that ever fucking rocked.
You don't want to talk about how Van Halen is kind of Chinese anymore?
I bet you don't.
Ah, ah!
Ha, ha, ha, ha!
Yeah.
Conservative.
Bitch.
Hi, everybody.
Welcome to the Jimmy Dore show.
I'm here with a bunch of people.
Look at him.
It's Ron Placone, Graham, Elmwood, and the miserable liberal is here.
Jim Earl's here, too, but you can't see him or hear him.
Listen, I saw this as a tweet.
Now, you know, politicians are hilarious.
And Keith Ellison tweeted this out.
Look at this, funny.
I'll read it to you.
It says, personally, I don't make bets, but if I did, I'd bet that the GOP is going to replace Obamacare with the Affordable Care Act.
And that's kind of funny because those are the same thing.
So I would say tip of the hat to Keith Ellison for making a funsy.
And then someone got a little carried away and said, hey, I think a Democratic Congress comedy night would raise a crap ton of money for the DNC.
And Keith said, that's a good idea.
I like it.
We all know the DNC's hurting for money, too.
That's a great idea.
I know.
I'd love to see that DNC comedy night.
Can you see the reviews?
Man, Hillary bombed so hard you'd think it was the election of 2016.
Am I right?
Come on.
Everybody's complaining in the green room.
Nobody wants to follow Bernie.
Yeah.
Hey, we could just have a roast at the DNC, but it's important to respect the dead.
That's what I say.
Hey, where are my, hey, knock, knock, where are my progressives?
We get you all out.
I'm killing at this Democratic comedy night.
Killing.
You guys have it.
What would you think?
Hillary bombed so hard she just voted to send herself to Iraq.
Oh, bam.
Every time a joke doesn't land, Peter Dahl just calls the audience sexists.
You don't like that joke, sexists.
Let's see what else.
I have a couple more jokes here.
Hey, if Keith Ellison needs any jokes, he need look no further than Tom Perez.
John Kerry's Nub Chuck bit seemed a little bit dated.
These are the reviews, the pretend reviews of the Democratic comedy night.
That's what this is.
Nobody else could think of anything funny?
Last time Obama killed that heart, he was dropping drones.
Oh, nice.
Wow.
Okay.
Hey, everybody here to see Bernie's headline, but we're going to bump him and have Hillary close the show.
What could go wrong?
Right?
Hey, man, that 20-minute blowjob joke from Bill Clinton was sure awkward.
They brought out a cigar.
Prop comic.
Yeah, I would love to see a Democratic comedy.
We should do a night of just jokes where we just make fun of the Democratic Party, right?
I'm in.
Oh, we got somebody in.
And maybe we'll get Peter Schiff to come out.
And no, what's that guy's name who was who's that Democrat?
Adam Schiff.
Thanks.
Look at our own.
We'll have Adam Schiff come out.
We can make fun of it.
You know, when Tucker Carlson can make you look bad, you know you're not doing it.
All right.
There you go.
Democratic comedy night.
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Okay.
Hey, everybody, welcome here.
I'm here with the miserable liberal Le Ron Placone, and we're talking about the new GOP healthcare plan.
Paul Ryan introduced his new plan, and he did a little, he did a little explaining.
Just to let you know, Paul Ryan's plan is a disaster, and it seems like nobody likes it.
Like the conservatives don't like it.
The independents don't like it.
The Democrats certainly don't like it.
Nobody seems to be liking this.
Doctors, no one seems to be liking this plan.
But here's his plan.
He's going to lay it out.
So here is Paul Ryan, and he's going to tell us how his plan works.
The fatal conceit of Obamacare is that we're just going to make everybody buy our health insurance at the federal government level.
Young and healthy people are going to go into the market and pay for the older, sicker people.
So the young, healthy person's going to be made to buy health care, and they're going to pay for the person who gets breast cancer in her 40s.
What's wrong with those people getting breast cancer in their 40s?
And now a young person has to pay for you.
So selfish.
Oh, it's like the 40-year-olds with the breast cancer, totally just thinking about themselves.
Now someone who's not sick has to pay for you.
A young person, probably.
Heart disease in his 50s.
So take a look at this chart.
The red slice here are what I would call people with preexisting conditions.
People who have real health care problems.
And just so you know, eventually, all the other people that don't have pre-existing conditions are going to be in this group of people.
No one gets out of life free.
Everybody gets ill.
Everybody gets a pre-existing condition.
For most people, it's called turning 40.
Oh, you have a pretty good.
What is it?
I'm 40.
I got their stuff.
I have a condition.
So anyway, so here we just so you know.
So, oh, look, these people here with pretty good.
Uh-huh.
The blue is the rest of the people in the individual market.
That's the market where people don't get health insurance or their jobs, where they buy it themselves.
The whole idea of Obamacare is the people on the blue side pay for the people on the red side.
The people who are healthy pay for the people who are sick.
Ha.
That's how insurance works.
So Paul Ryan is laying out that he knows exactly how insurance works.
He just doesn't like it.
That's how car insurance works.
Most of the people who don't get in car accidents, they're paying for the accidents of the people who do get in accidents.
You see how that works?
Because your premium doesn't cover all the costs.
Okay.
Whew.
You get that, right?
Okay.
It's not working, and that's why it's in a death spiral.
And by it's not working, that means it's helping some people.
That's what he means when he says it's not working.
It's not working.
Why?
Because people are getting helped.
And that's, we can't, that's the government doing it, and we can't have that.
Some people are not losing everything.
Something's up here.
Jimmy, did he also just mention death spiral?
Death spiral, Steph, in Paul Ryan's world.
That means a system that does what it's supposed to.
Spoiler alert, Paul Ryan.
Everybody dies.
The healthcare system's not working because people die.
Hey, that's how this ends.
And he's going to give you freedom.
Freedom to look your neighbor in the eye who has cancer and tell him, go fuck yourself.
That's my freedom.
Thank you, Paul Ryan.
I just can't get over how young people are going to be forced to have to pay for people in their 40s and 50s.
Some person who gets a heart attack in their 50s.
What an asshole.
Paul Ryan's system is a better way to make sure that nobody in society helps anyone else.
It certainly is a better way to get sick, poor people into bankruptcy.
I'll tell you that.
So let me get this straight.
And Paul Ryan, so Paul Ryan's laying out how Obamacare works.
The young people pay for the old people, and then when the young people get old, the young people then pay for them, which sounds a lot like Social Security, which of course hasn't worked at all.
Yeah, that's not popular or anything.
So this is Paul Ryan revealing that they just straight up don't enjoy insurance.
They just don't like how insurance works.
So now what they're going to do is get rid of this individual mandate, which is a thing they invented that they were upset about.
If you don't remember, because you don't, the right-wingers, the conservatives invented the individual mandate.
It was about everybody having to take care of themselves.
Nobody gets a free ride because right now, if a 24-year-old gets in a motorcycle accident with no health care, they go to an emergency room and they get taken care of.
And guess who pays the bill?
We all pay the bill now.
That's why you were supposed to have an individual mandate.
So everybody has skin in the game and no one gets for free.
That was supposed to be the deal.
But now the right-wingers want people to skate for free because we take care of the people who get sick, whether they have health insurance or not.
That's the whole emergency room thing.
So, and now All this genius is doing is admitting he doesn't really understand how insurance works, or he does, and he just doesn't like it.
He just straight up doesn't like insurance.
All the people who aren't sick are paying for the people who are sick.
Did you know that?
Yes!
Yes, we know that.
That's why it's called insurance.
If it was a fee for certain, that's the difference between insurance and fee per service.
That's it.
So, it's anything else, anybody have anything to say about Mr. Genius here trying to make us this is why Obamacare doesn't work.
That's why it works.
And now they're getting rid of the individual mandate, which actually funds a big part of the program, right?
So, if you don't have everybody in with the individual mandate, then you're just defunding the program.
It's such an interesting concept of freedom.
Like, you have the freedom to not go to the doctor and catch something that could probably save your life.
You have the freedom to do that.
The freedom to die on the street.
That's your right.
You have the freedom to forego preventative care and not catch something curable for Paul Ryan has a better way to avoid doing what every other industrialized nation in the world does and provide affordable health care for its citizens.
He's got a better way that costs more and covers less people.
So, that's so you know, they're so you know, when he's just objecting to the idea of the metrics of insurance in general, you know, they're having a problem.
When he has to go against the individual mandate, which is something that it's the right-wingers who came up with it in the first place, the whole goddamn Obamacare is their idea in the first place.
And now they're keeping Obamacare, they're just getting rid of the ways to fund it.
Yeah, I mean, the individual mandate was kind of the backbone of it because you need everybody to participate, which eventually could hopefully lead us to a universal system.
Yes.
And they're discutting that part because, like, well, we don't, we don't like that part.
Right.
Well, and just so you know, the most popular, most efficient healthcare insurance program in the country is Medicare, and it's administered by the government.
It's not run by, it's not run by the, they don't, the doctors don't work for the government, they just send the bill to the government.
That's why it's called single payer.
So, uh, and people kept people know people are on board with Medicare and single payer.
They're in the high 50s.
People approve of it.
So, the more people understand what it is, the more people like it.
If you don't think Medicare for all is a good thing, it's probably most likely that you're uninformed.
And if you are informed and don't think it's a good thing, it's because you probably own a health insurance company.
That's why.
So, way to go, Paul Ryan.
And everybody's joined.
So, now it's eight years, and this is what he's figured out.
Hey, insurance, this is how it works.
And if you want to know the real reason we can't have Medicare for all, the real reason we can't have Medicare for all, bam.
There's why.
Because Mitch McConnell took $5.9 million from the healthcare industry.
Paul Ryan took $4.2 million from the healthcare industry.
So there you go.
Hey, and I'm not going to pretend it's just the Republicans taking money from healthcare blocking single payer.
The Democrats are doing the same goddamn thing.
Corey!
In fact, that's the reason why Barack Obama didn't give us single payer.
And he proposed a right-wing healthcare.
Remember, when the Democrats introduced Obamacare, the Affordable Care Act, they had the Congress, a filibuster-proof Senate, and the White House.
And what did Barack Obama give us?
A fucking right-wing health care plan anyway.
And now the Democrats are screaming and fighting to protect a right-wing health care plan.
you So guess what?
There was a big scoop.
Rachel Maddow had a big scoop.
Look, they're breaking.
We've got Trump's tax returns tonight, 9 p.m.
Eastern.
Seriously, that she tweeted again.
White House reaction tonight's tax return scoop.
It's a scoop.
It's a scoop.
Rachel's got a scoopsy.
So I don't know if you saw the segment.
It was pretty disappointing.
She had two pages of Trump's tax returns.
And it showed that Trump did great.
He's doing well.
All the I's were dotted.
All the T's were crossed.
Everything looked fantastic.
It was such a good report.
It was a tax return thing.
It was almost as if...
Maybe we should.
Maybe I think she's connected to the Kremlin.
Maybe they got it.
I mean, this is a private document, right?
And then they hacked it.
And that's what Russia did to Hillary.
And so why wouldn't they do it to Trump?
And then you're using it.
You're now a tool of the Kremlin, Rachel.
That's how stupid you sound.
I have a theory, too, Jimmy.
Well, what's your theory?
Donna Brazil gave her to her.
Maybe Donna Brazil gave it to her.
So she got it.
Rachel got the scoop.
Why would she...
Why would she get that?
So there's a great article on American NewsX.
If Trump leaked his own taxes, this may be why.
So it was the 2005 taxes that was leaked.
And now the theory is that Trump leaked it himself.
Why?
Because, well, I thought, but it went good.
And Jen Froderman says that Trump's 2005 taxes were leaked and Rachel Maddow published them.
Many were disappointed.
Not only were they from 2005, but they did not have all the supporting pages, just the top two pages.
He paid taxes and nearly a fair share of them, which was shocking.
There are a lot of questions, though, and one of them is how the two different years of Trump's taxes we've seen so far are different.
So there's the one tax return from, was it 95 where he lost a billion dollars?
And then we see one from 2005 where he's paying his fair share.
Why that matters is that as her sponsor, Melania's sponsor and joint filer, their joint returns were required to be made available to the federal government in order for her to remain here on a green card and again to get her citizenship.
Did you guys know that?
In 2005?
I did not know that.
For Melania.
I guess she was here on a green card.
And they had to show the joint tax returns for her to get her citizenship.
This is interesting stuff.
And why this is and why this particular year was leaked?
The answer may be very simple.
Trump married a non-citizen in 2005.
Oh, jeez.
So he made sure to cross his T's and dot his I's.
Man.
Because he knew they were going to be taking a good look at it.
You have to show that you have no problems with the IRS to become naturalized.
She was naturalized and received her citizenship in 2006, Freeing them from that requirement.
The 2005 tax returns are stamped client copy, so they were from his inner circle.
At some point, they were given as part of a loan application or stolen.
Or as some have opined, he leaked them himself.
They passed through his tiny little hands.
Scoop!
Scoop!
Rachel's got a scoop.
If indeed those tax returns were leaked by him or a person close to him, the one year in his past you can guarantee he would have dotted his eyes and crossed his T's, shown a profit and paid taxes, would have been 2005.
Because that was the year they wanted to get Melania's citizenship.
However, the fact stands, due to the federal immigration oversight of his tax returns before Melania was a citizen in 2006 and during their marriage in 2005, that single year was most likely the most meticulous by the book year on record for Donna Tonahanstrum.
Scoop!
Scoop!
Rachel's got a scoop!
Hey, Jimmy.
Do you think Rachel loves breakfast?
I think she does because she has a lot of egg on her face.
He was filing jointly with a woman who would not get naturalized as a citizen if she had blemished tax papers.
That year had to be perfect.
This one year could likely be the most flattering to him of any year.
And since we have seen other years that are the polar opposite of this year, e.g., showing a billion-dollar loss, we can't just assume they are all this well, boy scoutishly perfect.
In fact, Trump could lay those thoughts to rest by releasing all the years since 2005 up to until the one supposedly still under audit.
What are the chances of that, Bupkiss?
This means that the person who leaked them, this means that the person who leaked them had a much higher probability of this coming off making Trump look decent.
Why would someone choose that particular year if they had intended to embarrass him or do his reputation harm?
They didn't.
It was leaked by Trump.
Rachel got a scoop.
Higher ratings ever than that show's ever gotten, by the way.
Turns out red baiting really fucking does well for ratings.
It seems that this year would flatter Trump, and that isn't the choice of someone opposing him.
This is not definitive proof that he leaked them, nor even someone close to him, though it seems that the evidence is mounting for that.
There's Charles M. Blow.
He blocked me, by the way, on Twitter.
I had to get this another way.
He says, also, Trump refused to confirm the negative 1995 taxes published by the New York Times, but they confirmed these favorable taxes in ours.
Hashtag fishy.
Hashtag duped Rachel.
Well, so if you want to know that's why, go ahead, Ron.
That's why.
Great job, by the way.
I was going to say a theory that I have is that, you know, there's a little bit of duping on MSNBC's part here, too, because remember when the MH370 flight happened and CNN went on that 24-hour printing news thing.
Breaking it because fluffed their ratings for the year.
It was like their Super Bowl as far as ratings go.
I sure do remember.
I think MSNBC, this was their attempt at that.
This was their, we got these tax returns.
We're going to sell this.
We're going to sell this.
They thought it was something.
And here's two pages.
Here's two pages.
And they make them look fantastic.
And so that was their MH370/slash Super Bowl attempt.
And the, you know, I've got a video.
Admiral Jimmy Dorsey has a video.
We have an exclusive, a video of Trump helping a puppy.
No, that's not good.
That doesn't help.
All right, I have more.
I have more.
We have Trump as a landlord.
Woman's heat went out.
He had someone fix it.
That's what it says right here.
I got it.
That's tonight coming up on my show.
Trump fixes leaky faucet.
Way to go.
Way to go, MSNBC.
Keep your eye off the ball some more.
Keep your eye off.
Meanwhile, people don't have fucking clean water.
People don't have health care.
We're still spending billions of dollars on wars that we don't need.
We still have people not being able to go to college and under mountains of debt.
Half the country makes $30,000 a year or less.
But this is important, Rachel.
It's really doing great work.
Your ratings are through the roof, and the country's on fucking fire.
Fantastic.
I hope your 30 grand a day is worth it.
I bet it is.
Of course it is.
Chris Hayes, look me in the eye.
Look me in the eye.
Look me in the eye and tell me that you knew this report was going to be this useless.
Look me in the eye.
Look me in the eye, Chris.
Chris Hayes, look me in the eye.
Bye.
*BEEP* *BEEP*
Oh, look, Bernie Sanders is calling in.
Hello.
Yeah, you don't have the guts to hold hearings on the American Health Care Act.
But, Bernie, I don't have the power to hold hearings.
That's because you don't want the American people to know what is going on.
It's as simple as that.
When Obamacare was being debated, we had hearing after hearing, meeting after meeting.
I know that, but I'm not.
Don't interrupt me, you young whippersnapper.
You guys just want to take this bill and shove it through harder than my last colonoscopy because you don't have the guts to hold hearings.
You don't want the people to know what's going on.
You think you could just distract them with your saltwater tappy and big unicycles made out of iron.
Well, it won't work.
Bernie, I'm not a member of Congress.
I know, but they won't listen to me.
Oh, sure.
Hillary's coming out with a big book of essays, and the media's all over that like piss on a mattress.
Maybe they resent you for being right about the issues and the election.
Excuse me, there's no need to interrupt.
May I speak, please?
Yeah, sure.
I'm sorry.
I'm thinking it might have something to do with me being right about the issues and the election.
By the way, I'm waving my arms around just so you know.
You can picture that.
I'm going like that.
But did Nancy Pelosi famously say of Obamacare, we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what's in it?
Yes.
And it's just like the Republicans to throw that back in our face right now.
They have the innate ability to take the stupidest things Democrats have ever said and done.
And remember it for later.
It's almost as if they want to win elections or something.
But Pelosi's part of the resistance.
How can you be part of the resistance if the resistance is about fighting out-of-touch millionaires who own wineries in Northern California?
She's the fourth richest person in California.
If you don't count all Schwarzeneggers X-Made, Pelosi owns more real estate than Coldwell Bank.
And I get reamed up the ass for buying a third house in Vermont.
Do you know what houses go for per square foot in Vermont?
No.
Two sticks of gum and a deer tick.
Fuck you, people.
This country wet its collective bet over me buying a third house last summer.
Meanwhile, Pelosi's buying a $25 million vineyard.
Do you realize how wealthy you gotta be to be the fourth richest person in California?
Charles Foster Cain lives here for God's sake.
Charles Foster Kane wasn't real, Bernie.
Ah, you think Pelosi's real?
She's 77 years old and her hair is still brown.
Figure that one out, professor.
My hair's been gray since I was 12.
I'm waving my arms again for emphasis.
Thank goodness my government healthcare covers wavy arms syndrome.
Hey, do you see any hope for single payer in the future?
One thing at a time, Jimmy.
Before Obamacare, we had the worst health care in the developed world.
Obamacare improved on that.
Now we have 20 million more Americans with access to the worst health care in the developed world.
I think I'm going to have a stroke.
Now get off the phone.
This is a party line I share with the Isinghaw family in the next township.
They're very annoying.
What's a party line?
Google it.
Okay, well, thanks, Bernie Sanders.
Goodbye.
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That's right.
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