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May 19, 2017 - Jimmy Dore Show
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Get ready for an outstanding entertainment program.
The Jimmy Dore Show.
Hi, this is Jimmy.
Jimmy Dore.
Bill Riley.
Hey, Bill, how you doing?
Jimmy, I am in mourning.
Oh, no.
Did someone in your family pass away, Bill?
You can almost say that, Jimmy Dore.
Today, I have lost my mentor, the great Roger Ailes.
He ails no more.
Oh, yeah, I saw that.
What a great man.
He will be truly missed.
Okay, look, I do not expect any sympathy or even, I should say, a modicum of respect or dignity from the Looney Toons left at this tragic time.
I know that's not your style, but I just wanted to tell you that many of us will miss the indispensable Roger Ailes immensely.
So you saw him as a mentor?
Absolutely.
When I came to the fledgling Fox News Network, I was no ingenue in the cable television world.
I'd been a reporter and a broadcaster for years.
You may remember me from Inside Edition?
Not really, to be honest.
Fuck it.
We'll do it live.
All right.
Yeah, yeah, now I remember.
But my experience paled in comparison to that of Rogers.
He was a television veteran, and he took me under his wing and made sure that my show, the O'Reilly Factor, would be a tadpole of Fox News.
And I'll never forget that.
That's a nice story, Bill.
But not only that, under the tutelage of Roger Ailes, my sexual harassment game soared to new heights.
Is that so?
Oh, Jimmy, Jimmy.
Before I came to Fox, like so many other 6'5 Irish Long Island bullies, my woman bothering skills were roughly hewn, clunky, based on innuendo, double entendre, aggressive compliments overlooks.
But Roger showed me a new world.
A world where you just pull out your junk, even if it looks like raw hamburger meat, like one of his accusers said, and tell her to kiss it.
Oh, God.
Just saying to women, if you want to get ahead, you're going to have to get in bed with me.
Saying it, Jimmy.
Not implying it, saying it.
I thought I was a grown man, but holy hell, I was just a babe in the woods.
Wow.
Sounds like it really changed your life, Bill.
Are you kidding?
I'm over here learning sexual harassment skills from a sensei, and I got Lori Dew two doors down from my office.
I was in a wonderland.
Holy shit, Jimmy.
The stems on that broad.
And the chugs.
Oh, Jimmy, the jugs.
What a broad.
Bill, God, you just can't help yourself with the horrible.
Well, that must have been great for you, huh, Bill?
Oh, it was.
Now, I never actually had sex with anybody.
The advances never worked, per se.
But the freedom, the uninhibited, forbidden pleasures of indulging every desire to sexually harass that a middle-aged man could have far outstripped any joy that could possibly come from mere coitus.
That's what I learned from Roger.
That's why he was such a wise man.
Well, I'm sorry for your loss.
I'm inconsolable, Jimmy.
I drank so much that I've cycled back to completely sober somehow.
The old Irish wheel of fortune.
Me and Geraldo have to get busy planning his wake.
What do you think you're going to do for him?
It's going to be a very somber affair, Jimmy.
Something I think he would have wanted.
We'll have him lying there with his dead gonads hanging out, and we'll tell all the women they have to kiss it if they want to get into heaven.
Oh.
God, Bill.
It's going to be great.
Oh, weird.
I'm drunk again.
Now that happened.
Now that happened.
It's the Jimmy Dore show.
The show for Luxes.
The kind of people that are coming to me on Tearing Down Our Nation.
It's the show that makes Anderson Cooper say...
It's hard to talk when you keep adding.
And now, here's a guy who sounds a lot like me.
It's Jimmy Dore.
you Ron Placone here for the Jimmy Dore Show.
Got an exciting episode today, and that, of course, was Bill O'Reilly paying his tribute to Roger Ailes.
How do you honor Roger Ailes?
You know, a Mark Twain quote comes to mind.
I'm sure a lot of you guys know what I'm referring to.
But you know, it's weird.
I woke up the other morning, and the first sentence out of my mouth was, eh, fuck Roger Ailes.
The second sentence out of my mouth was, Chris Cornell, fuck.
Just goes to show that the English language, you rearrange the words, the punctuation a little bit, entirely different meaning.
But anyway, we got a really exciting show for you today.
We get phone calls from Bibi Netanyahu, Harrison Ford, and Lindsey Graham.
We also got some more stories of the day.
Stay tuned.
I'm Ron Placone.
You're listening to the Jimmy Dore Show.
Hi, everybody.
I'm here with the Miserable Liberal and Ron Placone.
Hello.
Howdy, honey.
So I've told you the silver lining of a Trump presidency would be the collapse of the Republican Party.
And the only way the Democrats are ever going to win an election is if the Republicans have complete control of power and everyone can blame no one else but them.
So right now they're trying to repeal health care.
They did it in the House.
It's going to the Senate now.
It's going to be a much different bill coming out of the Senate.
And if it's not going to be a much different bill coming out of the Senate, the Democrats will wipe out their Republicans no matter how bad their Democrats grew up.
They will wipe them out.
2018.
But it will be possible to snatch defeat from the Johnson victory.
Even the Democrats.
They will try.
They're doing it right now, by the way.
The Democrats are trying right now.
So here's this guy is David From.
Now, David Fromm is a right-wing hack who coined the term axis of evil.
That got us going into the Iraq war.
He coined the term axis of evil.
And then he literally would write articles about how smart George Bush was.
I'm not kidding.
So that's who he is.
Just so you know who he is.
Now, and he's not embarrassed.
None of these guys who beat the drum for war going into Iraq.
They don't leave public life.
They get to hang around.
They don't go, ah, I started a war illegally.
I'm embarrassed.
They're not embarrassed.
He can't stop talking.
And right now, the Democrats are embracing guys like him because he's against Trump.
So he's got a little bit to say about what I've been saying, what I said before the election, that what everybody was saying, we need a revolution.
We can't have incrementalism.
We can't have more what's wrong with the country, more neoliberalism.
We can't do that anymore.
We have to stop at some point.
And so we did.
We stopped.
We got rid of Hillary Clinton and the Democrats.
And now we have the conservatives and the Republicans and Donny Town and Hans Trump.
So here's what he's, and so now they're starting to self-destruct.
They can't govern.
Obvious.
They're showing that they can't govern.
They've been for eight years.
We're going to replace and repeal Obamacare, and they still can't get it done.
Here we are five months into his presidency.
Can't get it done.
They have done some horrible stuff, but nothing that he promised.
There's going to be no wall.
Their healthcare thing's in shambles.
We'll see what happens with their tax thing.
Anyway, so here is David Frum, and he's got something to say about what the Republicans are doing to themselves by repealing the Affordable Care Act.
And I think it's interesting, so let's listen.
Republicans just voted to wreck their own majority and open the way to single-payer healthcare.
Now remember, this is the second biggie conservative that has come out and acknowledged that single-payer health care is going to happen.
The first one was Charles Krotheimer.
So super right-winger.
Couldn't be more right-wing.
He wrote an article, op-ed in Washington Post.
We talked about where he came out and predicted single-payer is going to happen and that it might be Trump who's going to usher it in because now Americans totally accept it.
So back to this guy.
For liberals, the Affordable Care Act was always a flawed compromise based on Republican ideas.
To pass Obamacare, Democrats surrendered the so-called public option and abandons of lowering the Medicare age to 50.
So just think about that.
So he's admitting it.
Now, you'll never hear a Democrat say that.
Yeah, Obamacare is based on Republican ideas anyway.
It's not a Democratic, it's not a lefty health care plan at all.
Not one bit.
It was thought up in the Heritage Foundation as an answer to single payer.
Everybody knows single payer is better, and that's what we should be pushing for.
But anyway, just so you know, Obamacare, it's a totally right-wing bill, okay, that we would have got anyway.
But now, and he's going to tell you this, but now, because Barack Obama, see, here's how politics works.
You're over here, I'm over here.
Now we start negotiating and we meet somewhere here.
But if Euro, if the Republicans are over here and Barack Obama starts over here and then they negotiate, they meet over here.
And that's what happened.
So they're supposed to propose Romney care.
Barack Obama is supposed to propose single payer.
Maybe you meet at the middle with a public option and 50-year-olds are allowed to get into Medicare.
Maybe that would have been a nice compromise.
That's not what we got.
So what's the effect of that?
Because there's a big effect of that.
So when Barack Obama doesn't propose left-wing health care proposals, but he instead starts here with a right-wing proposal and then moves.
They now still have to oppose Barack Obama.
The Republicans could not be seen going along with a black guy with a Muslim name that they were in the process of demonizing.
So now they had to move even further right.
Do you see what happened?
Now they can't even go along with their own idea of Romney care.
They had to move further right because that's how politics works.
Politics doesn't work the way Barack Obama thought it worked was, hey, I'll just start out at their position and they'll realize that I'm offering them what they want and then they'll just say yes.
That's not how it works.
They go, no, you start here.
We're over here now.
Now you come to us and he did.
And that's why we have a right.
That's why we didn't get the public option.
That's why 50-year-olds can't buy into Medicare.
That's why prescription drugs still can't be imported from all that stuff is because Barack Obama didn't understand how politics worked, or he did.
And he didn't want to have, I think he did.
And he did want to give a, so he further radicalized.
So as the Democrats move right, this is what I'm keep this in mind, and he's going to say this in a second, but as the Democrats move right and become more corporate and more conservative, the Republicans don't move left.
They also move right.
So now, what you'll hear this a lot, a regular centrist Republican in 1995 is now considered a crazy lefty.
That's how far right the Republicans have moved.
Do you follow that?
So Bob Dole would now be considered a crazy lefty.
Do you follow me?
Because the Democrats moved to the right, forcing the Republicans to then move further right.
Do you see what I'm saying?
I hope, well, he's going to say the same thing, and let's hear him say it.
They thought they were choosing a middle way that could unite the country.
Instead, they radicalized their Republican opponents.
The Democrats thought they were choosing a middle way that could unite the country around bullshit right-wing corporatist policies.
But what happened?
No, it fucking radicalized them.
Who now reject the very idea that the healthy have an obligation to pay for the sick?
The trouble for Republicans is that the principle of universal coverage has now been accepted by a majority of Americans.
A recent Pew survey found that 60% of Americans, 52% of Republicans earning less than $30,000, now believe that the federal government has a responsibility to ensure health coverage for all Americans.
So the majority of Americans are for single-payer.
The majority of Americans and 53% of Republicans who earn less than $30,000.
And we can't even get the Democrats to agree to it.
We can't get Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi to agree with what the country is for.
Why would they be against it?
That's why there's no other reason why they would be against single payer.
Money.
It's got nothing to do with anything else.
It's got the donor class, money, and putting pride and putting profit into health care.
People making profit out of denying you care, which has got to be the most disgusting thing in the world.
That's why you can't get Nancy Pelosi to say it, or Debbie Wasserman Schultz, or Chuck Schumer, or Tom Perez, or anybody else in the Democratic Party in the leadership.
Hillary Clinton screamed at the top of her lungs, it'll never happen.
Ever.
That's what she said.
It'll never come to pass.
Well, it's coming.
It's coming.
The previous version of Obamacare repeal won support from fewer than 20%.
This month's version will surely do worse as soon as Americans learn what's in it.
So this is what I said, that the Republicans get power.
They have to start legislating.
Do you think they're going to make people's lives better or worse?
Of course, they're going to make things worse.
And then they get tossed out of power.
That's why we got to get the Democrats ready to take back over.
And right now they ain't.
Right now, if the Democrats took over, it'd be the same neoliberal bullshit.
More war, no single payer, no free college.
The income disparity would keep growing.
We would be exporting more jobs.
The environment would be getting worse.
As this bill moves to the Senate, Republicans will discover they have not succeeded in repealing Obama, but only in wrecking their own majority.
Trump wants a win now.
He's not thinking ahead.
Not about the lives of sick and financially hard-pressed Americans.
Not about his own party's prospects in the midterm election of 2018.
And amazingly, not even what will happen to him should Democrats return to power.
Republicans just voted to wreck their own majority.
So that's what I said would happen.
David Frum agrees that's what's happening.
That is what's happening.
Donald Trump is the death of the Republican Party.
He splits their party.
He's the death of it.
They're killing themselves right now.
He's the most unpopular president ever at this point in his presidency.
So just imagine, just for a second, do a thought experiment, as Sam Harris likes to do.
Let's do a thought experiment.
Okay.
Let's do a thought experiment.
Hillary Clinton wins the election.
What do you think happens in 2018?
What would happen if Hillary Clinton won the election is she would immediately start cutting taxes for rich people and instituting compromise bills with the Republicans, meaning right-wing shit.
Number two, what would happen in 2018 is that the Democrats, who are already wiped out in Congress and the Senate and the state, would then even be further wiped out to the point where the Republicans could call a constitutional convention and change the Constitution.
That's how wiped out the Democrats would be.
But right now, right now we dodged a bullet.
Hillary Clinton isn't president.
Donald Trump, one of the most incompetent guys in the world, is president, who cannot govern, cannot legislate, isn't interested in it, and won't be able to hold his party together.
So now the Democrats can take back over in 2018.
And then in four years, we get rid of Donald Trump.
But if that didn't happen, if Hillary Clinton would have won, they would have gotten more wiped out in 2018.
And then Hillary Clinton gets more wiped.
She loses in 2020.
We have this unbelievable Republican takeover, worse than now, and not with an incompetent like Donald Trump, someone who's an evil genius, like, I don't know, Dick Cheney.
So we dodge that bullet.
And he's saying, he's exactly saying the exact same thing.
The Republicans can't help but shoot themselves in the foot.
And that's what they're doing.
And it's even better that Donald Trump's at the top of their party and the Democrats are going to, if they get rid of Donald Trump, again, one of the, they can't help themselves but be dumb, the Democrats.
That will be the dumbest thing they could do is impeach Donald Trump or have him resign.
Because then who goes in power?
Mike Pence.
Harder to demonize.
He's an actual crazy Christian.
The Christians rally around him.
And then who does he appointed as vice president?
Does he bring in Donald?
Who does he bring in?
Dick Cheney's son?
So we dodged the goddamn bullet.
I was right.
This is happening.
And anything, Ron, Steph, what do you guys have to say about it?
Well, like the basic anatomy of a revolution is that like true change never happens until you kind of reach a point of crisis with a status quo.
And Trump is a point of crisis in so many ways.
I mean, first of all, like the White House is a complete circus right now.
Like it's just a circus.
And second of all, like the AHCA is just such terrible legislation that nobody likes it.
So now people are coming around to the idea of a universal system more so than ever before because it got to that breaking point.
Yeah, people, well, because it got talked about enough, I think, single payer.
And Bernie Sanders had a lot to do with that.
And now people are talking, and so people talked about it enough that people understand what it is.
Oh, by the way, our healthcare system got horrible enough and the rates went up high enough that people now have no choice but to get informed about health care.
And guess what?
They are.
So they know they're getting screwed over.
Can I put in another side note?
The gift that Bernie Sanders was to Hillary Clinton if she didn't have such a terrible campaign.
Oh, she's here to do this.
And whatever Bernie's doing, that's what she should have did.
And she didn't do it.
She went to the right.
She picked Tim Kaine.
I'm sorry.
No, but no, I mean, you pretty much echoed what I was saying.
I mean, here's a guy that had a platform that inspired a new movement, that inspired a grassroots movement that would not have been stopped.
The thumb was on the scale for you and you got the nomination anyway.
All you had to do was just grab that platform and just get that guy's ear and just maybe appoint him your VP pick.
You know, whatever.
That's all you had to do.
And it would have been a landslide.
A landslide.
Well, you know, it just.
But they won't do it because they'd rather lose to Donald Trump and the Republicans than win with the progressives, Jennifer.
And you know that's true.
Go ahead, Steph.
I just know the last story we did was on Representative Kevin Kramer.
And you just look at these guys that are just like so committed to not giving Americans health care.
Yes.
They're just doubling down.
You know, that's your opinion or whatever.
And the bottom line is people want health care.
And I think, you know, it goes back to everything you're saying, Jimmy.
It's kind of like this domino effect where these people are going to stay true to the Republican concept of screwing over the American.
And hopefully in two years by 2018, or not that long, 2018, they're kicked out.
And a more progressive representative is elected to those positions.
That's all we can hope for.
Or at least, I don't know.
But on the same time, isn't that also expecting the DNC to get their shit together and run the right candidate?
Well, this is the problem, Steph.
They're going to, the Democrats, their whole vision since 1980 has been, I'll be 5% less shitty than the Republicans.
And guess what?
Didn't work last time.
People were like, hey, we've been doing this since 1980.
We ain't doing it anymore.
By the way, that woman's husband passed NAFTA, gutted welfare while repealing the New Deal banking legislation and exploding the prison population.
So David Frum is right.
The Republicans are screwing themselves.
Their ideas are unpopular.
You know who else is unpopular?
Neoliberal corporate Democrats.
Their ideas also unpopular.
So we're going to have to pull them kicking and screaming for single payer.
And we're being generous by saying they have ideas, by the way.
They don't have ideas.
We're using ideas very broadly when it comes to them.
And I have a problem with neoliberal.
That whole phrase, neoliberal, always strikes me of like, oh, the neoliberal.
Just call them a corporate tool liberal.
The corporate tua liberals.
Yeah.
Corporate tua liberals.
Okay.
Yeah, that's what they are.
So even David Frum knows, I mean, Jesus Christ, David Frum will sit there and tell you that, yeah, Obamacare is right-wing.
We all know that.
It was based on Republican ideas.
Yeah, not based on it is 100% Republican ideas.
So there you go.
Let's watch this play out.
And I fear that what's going to replace the Republicans come 2018 is going to be corporatism bullshit.
And then it will hurt the Democrats in 2020.
And we're going to be back to square one.
So I'm going to be back to begging my friends to vote fucking green in 2020 because they're going to save.
Believe me, the Democratic Party is not changing.
I say I'm all for primarying corporate Democrats.
That's what the Jump Justice Democrats are doing.
I'm all for that.
You know me, I'm a draft Bernie guy.
I think we need to start a third party because I don't think the Democrats are going to get the message.
I don't think they're capable of change at this point.
I don't see it.
Especially because they see they can win in 2018 by talking about Russia instead of talking about the issues.
Ugh.
Ugh.
*musique*
Give me some love, you knucklehead.
You know who this is.
Bibi Naganyahoo.
Thanks for calling, buddy.
It was no problem, James.
It was either call you or just listen in on your private conversations without you knowing it.
Sometimes I just like to break the rules.
Prime Minister.
Okay, BB.
Prime Minister BB.
Prime Minister BB, are you still spying on the United States?
That question is outrageous, immoral, unjust, and just wrong.
So you aren't?
As I've said before, Israel is not above criticism, but it should be held to the same standards that everyone else is being held to.
So yes, of course we're still spying on your dumbass.
Because we're spying on you?
Strangely enough, we're the only country America won't spy on.
It's like you think you already know what's going to happen.
You think your Jesus will come down from the sky and kill everybody and then take all the Baptists and a few Catholics up to some kind of Hep's grotto or something.
Is that how it works?
Are you looking forward to President Trump's trip to your country?
I mean, there's speculation that two of you may both be facing indictments during the visit.
I condemn these scandalous statements made by you.
I have a right to defend myself.
And you look funny when you wake up in the morning.
Ask me how I sleep at night.
How do you sleep at night?
Commando style.
That's right.
They've been freeballing my junk for years.
It gets warm here in the Holy Land.
First time I've ever come clean on it, though.
Wow, I can't believe I just told you that.
Are you sure you aren't Mark Maron?
Because I feel like I'm in his garage.
People are saying you gave President Trump the secret information that he allegedly gave to the Russians.
Is that true?
It could be, but I don't want to compromise the safety of any of our agents who may be out on the field.
The field.
Can you be a little more specific?
Okay.
By field, I mean world and the moon and parts of Mars.
We already marked out a settlement there.
I like to call it West Bank 2 electric booth.
I intend to establish housing settlements on a geologically dead planet and make sure no Palestinians are ever allowed to walk through it to get groceries or anything.
So you don't think it was bad judgment to back candidates like Mitt Romney and Donald Trump?
Certainly not.
I just think the American people wanted a different kind of leadership.
That's all.
Shake up the status quo, right?
Get a white guy in the White House for a change, huh?
Donald Trump and I have known each other for 40 years now.
And Jared Kushner's family.
I knew Kushner's that way before he went to prison.
That's friendship.
Buy Ivanka's brand.
Wait, can I say that?
It's a free country.
Oh, you mean.
Which country you're talking about now?
I'm confused.
It's just an expression.
Buy Ivanka's brand.
That's another expression.
When I first met Donald Trump all those years ago, when I looked the man in the eye, I found him very straightforward and trustworthy.
I was able to get a sense of his soul.
Yeah, that sounds familiar.
Plus, we both want to put immigrants in detention camps.
It's good you have similar interests.
Right.
And that kind of bonding gets us all the way through dessert, after-dinner drinks, and the inevitable key party.
Ooh, you had sex with Donald Trump and members of his cabinet?
I prefer to call it putting down settlements.
Oops, I gotta go.
Just got a call from the Security Council concerning a very grave phenomenon that threatens the social fabric of our society and our national security.
Wow, what's that?
Some refugees are demanding water.
Thank you.
Thank you.
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Hello, kids.
Late, happy Mother's Day.
Let's get this party started.
Who's on board the Lindsey Graham party bus?
Senator Lindsey Graham, is that you?
Does this voice from the past sound familiar?
If I'm president of the United States and you're thinking about joining ISO, I'm not going to call a judge.
I'm going to call a drone and we will kill you.
Oh, it's Lindsey Graham, ladies and gentlemen.
Thank you, Jimmy.
And I just want to remind your audience that I hated Russia long before all you Hillary fans did.
Five years ago, I said the U.S. should drive the Russian economy into the ground.
Remember that?
Yeah, but you probably just said that because Obama wanted to ease tensions between us and Russia.
Before we begin, I just want to make clear that free speech is a great idea.
But, you know, we're in a war, so everybody just keep it to yourself.
All right.
Wait, we're in a war with everybody.
I made it funny.
How's everybody doing today?
Did you just like Charles Nelson Riley?
No, I just said it like Paula Dean.
Oh, Senator Graham, what are you doing?
This country is in a transformational moment.
I'm just trying to fit in by being relevant.
I mean, do I sound gay?
I don't really think gay is supposed to sound like anything.
Are you all right?
People think I'm gay and I'm not.
Right, right, right.
How could you be precisely?
The ACLU gave me a 0% rating on my civil rights voting record.
And the human rights campaign gave me a zero rating for my anti-gay rights stance.
That's as straight as can be, right?
Yeah, we know.
Did I just say gay rights stance?
I don't remember.
Can we read the transcript back?
You have interns to do that, right?
Yeah, you said, quote, the human rights campaign gave me a zero rating for my anti-gay rights stance.
So you have no problem with that because it kind of sounds reminiscent of the framework stance.
And you know what that brings up.
I really didn't even think about it, Senator.
Maybe you're fixating too much on this sort of thing.
Damn right, I am.
I've learned over time that the only way you can really be against something is to fixate on it in some really unhealthy way.
And then you channel that energy into destructive behavior, like becoming a Republican.
Is this all about Mike Huckabee saying on the Laura Ingram show that he wonders what kind of uniform you put on in the morning when you go out to play?
Of course not.
And I have no idea what that means.
And I never heard that interview.
And I haven't been fixating on it in an unhealthy manner.
But if I did have an idea of what he meant regarding what kind of uniform I wear to go out and play in, I'd ask you to compare our records on strong, robust, violent.
Huh?
I supported a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage and flag burning.
And there isn't a single war that I've ever been against.
In fact, I love war so much, I'd like to blow it.
Did I say that?
And you said a few days ago, America can't go forward until we punish Russia.
And no, this isn't a Freudian sublimation or any of those crackpot theories people like Mike Huckabee like to imply.
Although I do believe the act of painting is part of man's secret desire to smear his own feces in public.
Of course.
Jimmy, this is all about making America stronger through worldwide pain and destruction.
And about my confused childhood.
In essence, I defy any attempt to define me.
Just like Grace Jones, our share.
Did I say that?
Can't you come up with any stereotypes that are more recent?
Good question.
I was learning the same thing.
I've never used email, Jimmy.
Charles Nelson Riley is as recent a reference as you get in South Carolina.
It's out of the loop country.
I'm still getting shade letters from Uncle about Vince Foster.
So you're not going to ask me why I never got married?
No, I don't really care, but thanks for calling, though.
It just wasn't in the cards.
Okay, thanks.
I haven't been lucky that way.
Hello?
Don't hang up on me.
Fuck.
Hi, everybody.
I'm here with Ron Placone and Steph Samurano, the miserable liberal.
And I just want to announce to everybody that people don't know what neoliberalism is.
Neoliberalism is corporatism.
So according to WikiLeaks, neoliberalism refers primarily to the 20th century resurgence of 19th century ideas.
So associated with laissez-faire economic liberalism.
So that's from the 1800s.
That's when they had child labor and stuff like that.
That's from the 18 neoliberalism.
We're going back to the old ideas of screwing over people.
These include extensive economic liberalization policies such as privatization, fiscal austerity, deregulation, free trade, and reductions in government spending in order to increase the role of the private sector in the economy and society.
That's neoliberalism.
That's neoliberalism.
So instead of the government providing services, they want to take the government out of it and privatize everything.
That's why they want to privatize public education now and private.
So it's not good.
They also free trade, meaning screw over unions.
They're for deregulation, meaning bigger banks on Wall Street to crash the economy.
They're for fiscal austerity, meaning cut money for your government services so they can give a tax cut to rich people and privatization so that you know so you know it's all the bad stuff that's happened these market-based ideas and the policies they inspired constitute a paradigm shift away from the post-war Keynesian consensus that lasted from 1945 to 1980 and guess what so so we used to do things differently up until Ronald Reagan and
then Ronald Reagan shifted the Keynesian economics That FDR brought in, and the Democrats jumped right on board with the corporatists.
They got in bed with Wall Street, military industrial complex, the fossil fuels, Silicon Valley.
And now look what happened to the country.
We have the biggest income disparity since the Gilded Age.
Bigger than that.
There's more upward mobility less in our economy than there is in Europe.
This is from Fortune.
Even the IMF now agrees that neoliberalism fails.
If you go to the last paragraph here, I'll read it.
IMF Deputy Director Jonathan Austri, division chief, I can't say his name, and economic economist David Fucci proposes that neoliberal economic policies have resulted in increased inequality and stunted economic growth.
I'll read that real quick again.
The paper written by the IMF deputy director and two other people proposes that the neoliberal economic policies have resulted in increased inequality and stunted economic growth.
That's the IMF's own people concluding that neoliberalism stunts economies and exacerbates income inequality.
So it's a failure.
Sorry.
Why do I bring this up?
Because now we have Hillary Clinton saying she's part of the resistance, right?
But we know she has two positions always, public and private.
So this person put this together.
I think it's funny.
It says, my public position is I'm with the resistance.
My private position is that I'm with Wall Street and you all goddamn know it.
Not so private.
Well, can we point out, too, that one of the agendas of her On Word Together group is helping candidates.
Yeah.
Similar to the Justice Democrats.
So you can be damn sure what she is going to do is help out the corporate Democrats.
The corporate Democrat primary that are going to be a very important thing.
She's already hurting the left.
She's already hurting the left.
More.
And so why do I bring all this up?
Because it's important to know that, that what neoliberalism is and how it's failed.
It's what Barack Obama did.
He tried to do even worse austerity.
He proposed cutting Social Security and Medicare.
Barack Obama did.
After he made Bush tax cuts permanent, bailed out Wall Street, made the banks bigger, and then he tried to take it out of Bureau of Social Security and Medicare.
The Republicans stopped him.
Thomas Frank, friend of the show, who also wrote this book, and we've had him on the show, watch that video.
He was being interviewed in another country.
I don't know what language this is, but let's listen to what he has to say.
States is on its way back to the 19th century.
In some ways, we are there already.
We're statistically like in the Victorian era.
Well, isn't that interesting?
We institute economic ideas from the 1800s, and it turns out it brought us right back to the 1800s.
Did you hear what he said?
The statistics tell you we're right back where we were in the 19th century.
Gilded Age, income disparity.
He's telling you, oh, so if you institute the economic policies that they were using in the 1800s, turns out our economy turns, the results are almost exactly the same as theirs.
Huh.
I wonder why we don't fix it.
Oh, maybe because the system favors the rich.
Maybe because the system we have right now, the people in power are benefiting from it.
So they don't want to.
And I mean the people in power.
I mean, the people who run the media, the people who run the banks and the oil companies and Silicon Valley and pharmaceutical companies.
I'm talking about all that's the power people, people with the money.
That's what I'm talking about.
They like it.
And they're the ones that tell you, what do you want?
Something for nothing?
Who's going to pay for that?
That's what they tell you.
Single payer will never come to pass.
That's the stuff they tell you.
So here we go.
Back to his.
So now watch this.
He makes just, these are just awesome points.
And now back to the Democratic Party.
The problem you say is that they're not interested.
Well, think about that.
Think about it this way.
When you have massive inequality like we have in America and the old social contract is coming to pieces, the party of the left should be profiting from this.
They should be winning all across the country.
Instead, they're losing and losing and losing.
The reason is because they no longer believe in that mission.
They no longer believe in the mission of economic social equality.
They believe in the professional class.
And the whole, look, the basic assumption of the professional class is that the people on top are up there because they deserve to be there.
This is meritocracy.
They're there because they got good grades.
They're there because they went to a good school.
They got a good score on their SAT test.
So they deserve what they have.
And this is the fundamental bedrock belief of our party of the left in America.
And maybe Hillary Clinton is the personification of this theory of yours.
Well, Hillary, yes, in some ways, yes.
I voted for Hillary Clinton.
I think she would have been.
I think she would have been a good president.
I mean, look at who she's running against.
Of course I did, you know.
But on the other hand, Hillary Clinton showed no concern for any of the problems that I just described.
So she was.
No concern.
She ran as a resume candidate.
It was all about her credentials.
Like, I am an excellent lawyer.
It's like, okay.
You know, I was a great Secretary of State.
You know, on and on and on about her credentials, not about what she would do for the sort of suffering people of middle America.
What is the meaning of the world?
And so the more the Democrats talk about Russia, the more they prove his point.
The more they talk about James Comey, the more they prove his point.
The more they talk about values and platitudes, the more they prove his point.
The Democratic Party doesn't care about income inequality.
They don't care.
It doesn't care about any of that stuff.
Isn't that amazing?
Thank you.
Thank you.
In 1980, we had 300,000 people in American prisons.
Now we have over 2 million.
Now we have over 2 million.
Maybe some of those people could have voted for Hillary Clinton.
So there he is.
He lays it out for you.
We're back in the 19th century.
We're back in the Gilded Age, and the Democrats aren't talking about it at all.
Hillary Clinton had absolutely no plan to help you.
It's like they're a political party that's not even in this country, that they're out somewhere else.
Well, they're not.
They're in bubbles around rich people.
They're still not behind the fight for 15.
They're still not behind the fight for 15.
They won't even say single payer, Ron.
The Democratic Party is shit.
They are shit.
And I'm all for primarying corporate Democrats, but I think we need a New party.
And just fuck it.
Just fuck it.
Start over.
It's time.
It's time.
And, you know, if Bernie would have ran as a green last time, we still would have Trump as president, but we would have a radically different Democratic Party, wouldn't we?
Radically different.
And that's.
So keep that in mind because the Democrats ain't changing.
The Democrats are not changing.
You know how I know the Democrats aren't changing?
They are not changing.
The Democratic Party is in a moment of questioning about its identity.
You were re-elected to lead the Democrats in the House.
What do you tell Democrats who want a new direction?
And then go to you.
What are you going to do differently?
Well, I don't think that people want a new direction.
values unify us and our values are about so They don't want a new direction.
You lost the state houses.
You lost the governorships.
You lost Congress.
You lost the Senate.
And you just lost a fucking game show host.
I think we're good.
I think everything's good.
you Hi, everybody.
I'm here with the miserable liberal Steph Zamorado and Ron Placone is here also.
Hello.
Howdy, howdy.
So I follow this guy, Mike Flugen.
How do you say his name?
Mike Fluginach.
He does cartoons that are funny.
And here's one of the cartoons that he, I'll give you a bigger picture of it.
So he's been tweeting this out for a while, or he made this a while ago.
And he's making fun of the Democrats and how they're keeping their eyes not on the ball.
And that the reason why Trump got elected was because people are in pain.
And there's lots of problems in America that our political class isn't addressing.
That's why Trump's president.
Both political parties have turned their back on the workers and they aren't addressing the things that people need, like single-payer health care, free college, $15 minimum wage, end the wars, infrastructure, break up the banks, re-regulate Wall Street, Green New Deal, stuff like this.
This is what people want.
So he makes this to make fun of the Democrats.
He made this a while ago.
It says peak liberal.
And then look at the signs.
Trump equals Moscow.
We love the CIA, right?
Because now we love the CIA.
Now they love James Kobe.
Support our spooks.
MSNBC rules.
So that peak liberal.
So he's making fun.
So that was a.
The only way it could be better is if there were like people behind them that they're not seeing, like trying to afford their medicine or like having a bill like with a big student loan debt number there.
That would be that would be, yes.
Not enough room in the panel.
Not enough room in the panel for that.
But I totally understand what you're saying.
So here's from Cher Blue.
Now, if you know Cher Blue is that David Brock thing, all the Democrats hang out there.
More than 70 cities will march for truth to demand independent Russia probe.
It's his joke.
They're do-it-this is his joke.
Putin, corruption, guilty-guilty.
USA, not USSR.
That's what that one says.
This is literally a cartoon come to life.
So this is how the Democrats are going to try and lose.
So they're going to talk about Russia, Russia, Russia.
Instead of talking about single-payer, free college, infrastructure spending, ending the wars, $15 minimum wage.
Instead of talking about that stuff, they're talking about Russia, which doesn't move people to the polls.
You know what's another interesting anecdote here?
Until we can answer that piece of green paper, none of those people should be doing this.
What does the green paper say?
The Greens paper says what did he know?
No, and when did he know?
Yeah, so how about we wait till everybody finishes their investigation and then we'll all decide whether we should impeach him or not.
But until then, maybe we go on and try to get single payer.
Maybe we go on and try to get corporate Democrats out of the goddamn party.
Maybe we go on and try to figure out why people wouldn't vote for Hillary what they would vote for Donatonahans.
Maybe we figure out how the DNC is so corrupted that they squashed actually the people's candidate.
Maybe we try to figure that stuff out.
Figure out what we did wrong.
Or how about we protest the defunding of Planned Parenthood?
How about we protest the AHCA?
How about we protest the fact that unions are going to be gutted completely?
How about we protest the fact that education is going to go further in the shitter?
How about we protest the fact that the environment's going to shit?
Let's have marches and protests for that.
There is an election today in Los Angeles for the school board and the Betsy DeVos, Corey Booker, privatized education are taking all their corporate money and they're running at the current president of the LA Unified School District who is not for charter schools.
So that's happening today.
Maybe you have a rally about that.
Maybe you have a rally that we could push back Betsy DeVos and her charter school.
No, because you're fucking for charter schools.
That's why Corey Booker and the Democrats and Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, the DNC, they're for the corporatization of public education.
That's why they don't talk about that.
And that's why they talk about this.
And they just think, oh, you know, it's going to be the biggest nightmare when they finally do get rid of Trump.
Then what the fuck are they going to do?
Here's a court.
Here's from this shitty article at Cher Blue written by Leah McGrath.
How do you say her name?
Leah McGillrath or whatever.
What a shit article.
March for Truth's national partners include indivisible projects.
March for truth.
How about March for fucking nothing?
March for Truth's national partners include Indivisible Project.
Big progressive group.
We already showed that they invite Debbie Wasserman Schultz to their parties.
That's what they consider progressive.
Someone who's against single payer and uses right-wing talking points to squash you.
In fairness, some people boot her, but they were asked to leave.
They were kicked out.
Also, Town Hall Project, Free Speech for People, Rock the Vote.
Rock the vote.
Progressive Democrats of America and the opposition and our states.
Okay.
A lot of people on board with this stupid march.
The group lists four demands.
This is supposed to happen June 3rd, their stupid march.
June 3rd.
One, appointment.
This is their four demands.
Appointment of an independent nonpartisan special prosecutor.
Two, the public release of as much information as possible as soon as possible.
Three, congressional legislation requiring Donald Trump release his tax returns and clarify his business interests and obligations to any foreign entity.
And four, the prosecution of any crimes or collusion if evidence support doing so.
Hey, how about we have a march to fucking close down a torture facility that we're running in Cuba?
How about we have a march to end the stupid wars where we're killing millions of freaking innocent people?
How about we have that march?
How about we have a march for single payers so sick people can get fucking health care in America?
This is a goddamn stupid fucking thing that you're doing, and you're doing it because you're dumb and you're corrupted, and all you care about is getting power back.
You don't care about making America better.
How about we have a march to make America better?
How about we have a march to do something good for America?
Free college, free education from cradle to the grave.
How about that?
How about a living wage?
How about we break up the banks?
How about a march to end the stupid wars?
How about a march to cut our defense budget in half?
How about a march for that?
How about a march for free?
I'm sorry, Steph.
I cut you off.
No, I was just going to say, no, I don't want to.
I wanted to just talk about Russia and his tax returns.
Hey, how about we?
How about we have a march to prosecute war criminals?
How about we have a march to prosecute war criminals that are in the United States that ordered war crimes?
How about that?
What do we have?
Privilege.
Why are we liberal?
Because we're okay with gays.
I'm trying to fit in.
That'll be at the march, right?
That'll be a chance.
How about we have a march so we prosecute the bankers who did all that kind of criminal shit that nobody ever got prosecuted for?
I would totally have that march.
So we had a march.
It was called Occupy Wall Street, and then Barack Obama let union cops crack the heads of peaceful protesters from coast to coast.
How about we have that kind of march?
A march that actually stands for something and stands up to something.
This is bullshit.
And this is why Democrats are fucking losers.
And this is why most of the people in America don't call themselves Democrats.
There are more people who call themselves dependents than call themselves Democrats right now.
And this is why.
Stick your head farther up your ass and you'll see Russia just like Sarah Palin.
You can see Russia from up your ass.
Russia from up your ass.
Russia from up your ass.
you you *BEEP* Oh, look, it's Harrison Ford on the phone.
Mayday, May Day.
White 420 to Tower.
There's a possum in my garage.
I repeat.
There's a possum in my garage.
Please advise.
Harrison, Jimmy Door.
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How high are you?
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I'm right behind you on that one.
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