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May 26, 2017 - Jimmy Dore Show
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Get ready for an outstanding entertainment program.
The Jimmy Dore show.
Oh, look.
The caller ID says it's angry yet grieving Bill O'Reilly on the phone.
Hello.
You killed Roger Ailes with your brutal hatred.
As I said in my heartfelt obituary broadcast on my new show, now seen on the Dumont Network.
I think it's Channel 13 on your dial.
My brutal hatred.
That's right, you despicable culture hippie.
You hated him for being blunt.
No, I hated him for being a pernicious purveyor of lies.
Wow, that was blunt.
Where the heck did that come from?
More unfair treatment for the liberal elite.
His death was heartbreaking.
I know.
His victims will never get to see him face charges.
Jimmy Dore, you mock the dead one more time, you piece of shit, and I'll cram a loofah up your pooper.
Roger Ailes was a visionary.
If he was a visionary, he should have seen his fat head hitting the floor two days before it happened.
You beast.
Roger was a gentle, loyal soul.
And when Stuff hit the fan, as it will, when you're doing a daily news show and you're a miserable piece of shit like I am, Roger had my back.
And make no mistake, from this day forward, I, along with Roger's 17-year-old son, Spanky or whatever the fuck his name is, won't rest until we find a real harasser.
The real harasser?
That's right.
And according to eyewitness accounts, he or she is really obese with blotchy skin.
And his or her genitals look like, quote, red raw hamburger meat.
Yeah, didn't Roger's son threaten his father's victims at the funeral?
All he did was tell those women that he's going to go after his dad's accusers, and hell is coming with him.
You know he took that line from the film Tombstone, don't you?
Oh, well, that explains why he told everybody to round up the horses.
Just like his dad, Roger loved Westerns.
That's all he watched when he was growing up.
His favorite show was F-Troop.
That's where he formulated his early theories on foreign policy.
Bill, did you know there's a story circulating that you were found dead in your home in Long Island?
The story's totally false.
I looked it up on Snopes myself.
Not only do I not own a .45 caliber handgun, as described in the article, but I would never leave a note.
And my death wouldn't be, quote, sad.
It'd be alarming or untimely.
And it'd be introduced with the phrase, today a world mourns, not vengeful crank shoots face off.
So you doubt the story's accuracy.
So far as I can tell, it's completely inaccurate.
Unless this is all a dream, and when I wake up, my pillow will be gone.
Look, I gotta go.
Rachel Maddows at the door.
We're attending Rogers sin eating today.
Please respect our privacy during this painful time.
It's the Jimmy Dore Show.
The show for...
...the kind of people that are...
Comments maybe on tearing down our nation.
It's the show that makes Anderson Cooper save.
And now, here's a guy who sounds a lot like me.
It's Jimmy Dore.
Rob Lacone here for the Jimmy Dore show.
Got an exciting show for you today.
That's Bill O'Reilly.
You know, he's taken Roger Ailes' death really hard.
He is not having an easy time with it, but we got an exciting show for you today.
We're going to be talking about Diane Feinstein.
We're going to be talking about Trump's Sonny Armsteal.
And Liam Neeson calls in.
Rumor has it Herman Kane calls in as well.
That's all coming up.
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I'm here with Steph Zabarado and Ron Placone.
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So we did a big live show last night.
Oh, my God.
Those shows are amazing.
Those shows are amazing.
I mean, the crowd is amazing is what I mean.
Yeah.
And of course, the show's not so bad.
It was a fun one.
Wow.
That was an over-the-top fun one.
People were on fire.
Anyway, so thanks, everybody, who made it out last night.
Our next show is June 19th and Flappers.
I mean, that we still have tickets for.
All the other shows, I think.
Oh, no, June 5th at the improv.
You can get a ticket for there.
Okay.
I wanted to talk about this because remember, earlier this year, we all voted in California in January, and it was a big deal because we all came out to vote in an intra-Democratic, I hope I'm using the right intra-Democratic party thing, right?
So we were voting for Democratic delegates to the party.
So we all showed up and voted.
And remember, it says Sanders backers take over the California Democratic Party, and we thought we did, right?
Because look what happened.
We all voted.
Supporters of Senator Bernie Sanders turned out en masse at ordinarily sleepy party caucuses earlier this month, electing a state, a slate of delegates who could be poised to take over the largest Democratic Party organization outside of Washington, D.C. That would be the Democratic Party organization in California.
So we all went out and voted because we were like, okay, well, if you can't beat them, take them over, right?
So we'll take over.
There's more progressives in California than there are freaking corporatists.
I know that.
So what happened was final votes trickled in.
Sanders backers claimed to have elected more than 650 delegates out of 1,120 delegates.
So that's way more than 50% of the delegates.
So we thought we won.
Those delegates will choose the next Democratic Party chairman, along with Otter Party, other party officials.
So we thought we had it.
We thought we took over the progressives in California.
I thought we did.
And I thought we were going to get single payer.
And I thought we were going to have a lot of stuff happen in California.
So they had the big vote.
They had it just last weekend in Sacramento.
They had a progressive running for the state chair for the chair of the state party.
And they had a corporate lobbyist.
So you would think since we won all those, we won the majority of delegates in the election.
That's not what happened.
That happened.
Corporate lobbyist becomes chair of the California Democratic Party, confirms the need for a new people's party.
Boy does it.
I've been telling people, you know, I'm all for anything you can do to get the power back to the people and the money Out of politics.
I'm all for anything that does that.
So if you're going to, if you're going to run no matter which party you're in and you're not going to take corporate money, that's great.
That's what we're looking for.
And then we'll work on the other stuff after that.
But we got to start at an authentic conversation about issues.
Not one that is you're gaslighting people and we can't get a straight answer out of you and we can't figure out why and it's because you're being paid.
It's because of big money.
So here's this is what happened.
So corporate lobbyist Eric Bauman just became chair of the California Democratic Party.
This is from the Draft Bernie website.
Eric Bauman just became the chair of the California Democratic Party.
His achievements include taking $100,000 from pharmaceutical companies to block the initiative for lower drug prices in California, an initiative backed by Bernie Sanders.
You remember that?
Remember we did stories on it about how the veterans got paid off to do commercials against this.
Bernie was for it and it failed because they spent all kind of money, the pharmaceutical industry, to confuse people and they did it.
This guy was, he took $100,000 from the pharmaceutical company to help do that, to help block us getting lower prices.
And now he's the chairman of the Democratic Party in California.
He really is the man of the people, right?
With all these achievements.
He's really doing his best to support the people in crisis.
Like this guy is the problem.
He's the problem.
He's not the solution to the problem.
He's the problem.
And now you've got a fucking pharmaceutical lobbyist.
He's going to go talk to the people of California.
He's going to rally people to the Democratic Party.
The exact opposite is going to happen with a corporate lobbyist as the chair.
The exact opposite is going to happen.
You're going to bleed more people.
The Democratic Party is bleeding people right now.
And guess what?
They don't seem to give a shit enough to do anything about it.
They keep doing this.
They ain't changing, baby.
Tom Perez ain't changing, baby.
That guy is mocked openly anywhere he goes where there's fucking progressives.
Half the party mocks that guy openly like he should be.
But then somebody else will tell them to shut the fuck up.
Okay, we're going to get to that.
Oh, sorry.
No, no, no, it's okay.
You can tip it.
The Democratic Party doesn't need any help from the Republicans to lead our country to kleptocracy.
Last year, it was the Democrats who supported billionaire Cole Barron and former Republican Jim Justice for governor in West Virginia.
In January, it was the Democrats who threw out their own rules to make billionaire developer and former Republican Stephen Biddle the state party chair in Florida.
Now, it is the Democrats who are courting billionaires to run for governor in three more states.
For months, Bernie Sanders has pointed to California as the bright spot in a bleak effort to reform the Democratic Party.
Now that state party has just elected a proud corporate lobbyist as its leader.
And let me tell you something how that happened.
Because, well, how did that happen, Jimmy?
You just showed us how we voted and we had a 650 out of 1,100 and something.
So we had a way more major.
No, turns out they have super delegates.
Turns out that was just one-third of the delegates.
So now there's two-thirds more.
So we took over a little bit more than 50% of one-third of the vote.
So now there's two more.
There's all the elected politicians who are Democrats, and then they get to appoint more people.
Another third.
That's like their super delegate-y thing.
So there are structures inside the Democratic Party to stop a popular takeover of the party.
So, hey, if there's a grassroots swell and more people want something, we're going to squelch them.
Just like they did with Bernie Sanders.
So they don't care about the will of the people.
The Democratic freaking party doesn't care about the will of its own members.
They only care about the will of the people in power.
So that's why they have it set up like this.
So you can't take over the party.
That's why they have super delegates in the first place at the national level so nobody can fucking do what Bernie Sanders did.
So here's more from that article.
Democrats have super majorities in both houses of the California state legislature, and they have Governor Jerry Brown.
But instead of passing the single payer bill that has been part of the state party platform four years, they have vowed to block single payer and the legislature.
I don't know what the F the Democratic Party.
So I know what they're doing.
The Democratic Party is controlled opposition for progressives.
That's what it is.
They control.
They like, oh, no, come on.
So Draft Bernie tweeted this out.
Democrats literally told progressives to shut up and get the fuck out today.
This time, we're going to take your advice.
So here, do you want to see?
So this guy tweeted this out, Dave Siders.
He's covering it.
And there it is.
He posted this video.
Here it is from his Twitter feed.
Shut the fuck up or go outside, all right?
So that's the outgoing chairman of the Democratic Party.
And the people who are chanting are the nurses and the progressives.
More than half the party.
Those nurses who have committed their lives to helping sick people and want everybody to have health care.
What a bunch of rude, selfish assholes.
Rude and selfish.
And you know what?
And by the way, what they're doing is they're creating a raucous for single payer.
And so that's what he said to them.
Yeah, such self-serving stuff.
So here, listen again.
Shut the fuck up or go outside, all right?
Will you guys just shut the fuck up?
For God's sake, we need to unite.
Unite with us, but shut the fuck up.
Shut the fuck up or get out and then let's unite.
These are the geniuses that run the Democratic Party.
These are the geniuses who have been wiped out.
They're fucking wiped out, the Democrats.
These are the geniuses.
Now they're not wiped out in California.
Proving that a drunk monkey could run the Democratic Party in California.
That's how progressive and blue this state is.
Because that guy did.
That guy did.
What a genius that guy is.
Completely shitting on half, more than half the party in California.
Shut the fuck out.
Oh, it's so funny.
Oh, he's so clever.
Why don't you go lose some more races?
Why don't you go manipulate the votes so you guys keep power?
Because that's what you did.
That's what happened.
And that's what they're telling us.
By the way, the same day that happened, I saw this.
This guy, Carlton Banks, he tweeted this out.
Jennifer Palmieri, director of communications for Hillary's campaign, was just asked for one name to run in 2020.
She said Tim Kaine.
Wow.
Wow.
What?
Do you think Joe Lieberman not available?
Really?
Joe Lieberman might be FBI director, so you can.
I get it.
See, Tim Kaine.
Couldn't he get someone less inspiring and further to the right?
There isn't one.
You know, that's the time where you want to hear that guy say, get the fuck out of here.
That is when you want to hear that guy say, say it to Tim Kaine or Jennifer Palmieri for saying something that stupid.
By the way, here it says this guy responds to Jennifer Palmieri.
You see his name is Ladies Jacket Club.
Subtle at Subtle Butler.
God damn it.
This guy's good.
This guy is good.
So he does a little scene.
He wrote out a little sketch, and I'll read it to you.
He says, normal person, that's the normal person.
He says, normal person, hey, centrism can't be relied on to win elections anymore.
How do we move forward?
Jennifer Palmieri's response, no.
Oh, wait, hey, I'll be the normal person.
And Steph, you be the Jennifer Palmieri.
Ready?
All right.
So, hey, centrism has been showed to not win elections anymore.
How do we move forward?
know I can We should hire that guy right for the show.
That's good.
Just so I can call him Ladies' Jacket Club.
Ladies' Jacket Club.
And I just want to remind the Democratic Party: you're not fooling anybody with this bullshit.
You're not fooling anybody, right?
Because here's a room full of super regular people.
I've been a Democrat all my life.
I think the Democrats not only are they out of touch, they have no interest in correcting the situation.
They're not doing any post-mortems.
They're writing off, well, we don't own the White House because of Putin or because of Wikileaks.
What did WikiLeaks tell us, by the way?
Regardless of who was behind it, they confirmed that Hillary Clinton and the Democratic establishment are liars and that they had this dumb on the scale for Hillary Clinton.
Well, you know, so what are they basically saying?
if we hadn't been caught lying, we'd be running the country right now.
Thank you.
You're not fooling anybody.
This is not fooling anybody.
Tim Kane 2020.
You're not fooling anybody.
You're not fooling anybody.
Hi, everybody.
So you remember when Diane Feinstein was asked, well, this happened to Diane Feinstein, and she was confronted about single payer.
And now watch her pretend to misunderstand the issue when everyone knows she's lying.
There's going to be a proposal by Senator Sanders.
How are you going to help support single payer?
Because all the proposals and the reworks that have been coming up with health care right now basically are just helping the health insurance industry.
People, the doctors and the medical facilities, the nurses, et cetera, are not getting any breaks.
But the healthcare industry is getting all the breaks.
So my question again, how are you going to help support single-payer health care?
*crowd cheers*
Get ready for some bullshit.
Single-payer healthcare is going to mean complete takeover by the government of all health care.
I am not there.
By the way, great work.
That's Lauren Steiner who got that, did that video.
I'll put a link to her channel underneath.
She does great work.
So there she is pretending to not understand the thing.
That's called gaslighting.
So she's making you think that the issue is this.
Oh, a complete government takeover of our health care?
Everyone knows what Medicare is.
Medicare isn't a government doctor.
Medicare is that they pay the doctor.
You go to a private hospital with a private doctor.
You get private medicine.
You get a private therapist.
There's no government.
As another woman said, they just do the accounting.
But who would you rather have do the accounting, the government or a for-profit middleman that just wants to make as much money as possible?
I mean, think about it, bro.
Think about it.
So there she is pretending to not.
And you know that saying, it's hard to get someone to understand an issue.
It was Upton Sinclair, I think, said it's hard to get a man to understand an issue when his paycheck depends on him not understanding it.
Why do I say that?
Because I don't know, right after she had, after she said that stupid shit, boom, Diane Feinstein takes money from healthcare lobby, rejects single-payer insurance.
That's from May 2nd.
So after she did that, it's an Upton Sinclair quote, by the way.
No, who was it?
It is.
No, I said, okay.
Yeah, I verified.
So that's Andrew Perez wrote this for the International Business Times.
And he said, after we saw that video, he says a week later, Feinstein was even further from there.
She says, I'm not there yet.
A week later, she was even further from there, benefiting from a fundraising event at the Washington, D.C. office of Avenue Solutions, a lobbying firm that represents major health insurers, pharmaceutical companies, and the Primary Trade Association for Doctors.
All of which don't want her to understand single payer.
They're paying her to pretend to not understand it.
And she is fucking pretending.
She'll lie right to a person's face about health care for money and power.
That's a creep.
That's not a good person who has a different view.
That's not, we have a different idea of how government should work.
That's a creep and a liar and a gaslighter of her own constituents over health care.
That's who Dianne Feinstein is.
I mean, is it a shock that a politician Is a completely immoral, unethical piece of garbage.
Is it?
It's not to me.
I mean, that's the whole thing about America.
We get to make fun of our politicians because we know politicians most of the time are complete Cretans.
They're the weakest, the most mediocre of people get involved in politics normally.
That's why you have her say, she's a mediocre person.
She doesn't give a shit that you see right through her.
She thinks she, like all dumb people, they think that you can't see through them lying.
They're so dumb, they think that lie fools you.
Or worse, she doesn't give a shit.
Either way, it's horrible.
She probably heard the one person that was clapping and was like, well, see, some people are with, oh, wait, that was just my staffer I brought along.
Never mind.
So get this back to the article.
It says the industries have historically opposed efforts to create a universal government-run healthcare system, an idea supported by 58% of the U.S. adults.
Feinstein supporters at the event were expected to kick in $1,000 to $5,000 for her re-election bid.
Since Feinstein began her fourth full term in 2013, lobbyists and political action committees have given at least $592,000 to her campaign.
More than one-third of all the money she's raised in total donations.
Wow.
Recent donors to Feinstein include former Democratic Senate Majority Leader Tom Dashell.
He was the Senate majority leader.
He was a Democrat.
And right as Barack Obama came into office, he lost his seat because he's such a shitty leader.
And what did he do?
He went to work for a health insurance lobbying firm.
They gave him $2 million.
And he came back and lobbied the government against single-payer public option.
He came back to town with a $2 million check in his pocket from the health insurance industry.
And he didn't even have to say anything to anybody.
All he had to do is walk around, get out of the limousine, and walk around with a $2 million check sticking out of his pocket.
Hey, you guys want to be part of the upper 110th of 1%?
Say no to single-payer and public option like I did, like a good Democrat, good corporate Democrat.
We're winning, right?
We have a gun now to the knife fight.
We're bringing a gun and we're winning.
And if the Democrats win, when they bring a gun to the gunfight, that means you lose.
Because the Democrats want to keep you away from single-payer and cheaper prescription drugs.
So that's who Tom Daschell is.
That's why that's important.
That's who Tom Daschell is.
Recent donors to Fine Size include him, Tom Daschell.
He lobbies for Blue Cross Blue Shield.
Also, Brian Griffin, who represents the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, and Fred Graffey, is that how you say his name, who lobbies for the Federation of American Hospitals.
She also received donations from political action committees run by Pharma and pharmaceutical companies Merck and Company, Amgen, and Abvi.
I love how it's literally called Pharma.
It's literally called Pharma.
It's literally called Pharma.
And they have three letters capitalized.
Well, four.
Yeah, isn't that crazy?
There's one letter not.
Yeah, right, just the age.
Like, we don't want to be too big, pharma.
There's your Democratic leader in California.
There she is.
So I would say she's out of touch, but she's not out of touch.
She knows what the people want.
Everybody knows.
She knows that 58% of the country is in favor of single payer.
And that's why she looks so stupid when she pretends to not know what it is.
Because most of the country knows what it is.
And you're telling me the fucking sitting senator from California is confused on what single payer means?
No, she's lying.
That's a liar to your own people.
Just like all the other, most of the other politicians.
They're liars.
They're mediocre people with no freaking integrity or spine.
They want power and money, and that's what Dianne Feinstein is.
And that's what the Democratic Party, just by the way, in California, elected the Democratic Party in California, elected a pharmaceutical lobbyist, a health insurance lobbyist, as the Democratic Party's chairperson in California.
I wonder how they're going to cover that on MSNBC.
We should watch.
Oh, yesterday would have been the day to watch, right?
See how they covered it?
So we could go back on their website.
They post their shows, don't they?
They must.
Yeah.
So let's go back and see how they covered the California Democratic Party, which we thought was taken over by progressives, but it wasn't.
They have rigged the system with super delegates inside California, its own Democratic Party, to thwart the will of the people, and they did it again.
And this is your Democratic center.
I mean, what's the point of the Democratic Party?
We need a third party.
There is no doubt.
And if everybody last year, during the election, would have stood on principle and voted their conscience.
Everybody who I know who agreed with the Green New Deal and hated corporatist warmongers, if they would have then voted for a Green New Deal, we would still have Trump as president.
But we would have a totally different Democratic Party because that would have been 15% of the people or 20% of the people voting for a Green Party.
That wipes the Democrats out.
Now they're still trying to do that thing.
Instead of coming to get progressive votes, they're still doing that thing where they're trying to get rid of the progressives.
Like, we don't want, they know they can't win with us, yet they still want to just shut up and get in line.
It's not happening.
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999.
Hello.
999, you son of a bitch.
I told you all, 999.
But you wouldn't listen to me.
999 could have been the answer to everything.
Herbert Kane, is that you?
Of course it's me, you chuckle-headed rube.
Who else keeps saying 999?
Certainly not Donald Trump.
Have you seen the latest CBO report on its Health Care Act?
I haven't, but I heard from others that it is bad.
It is bad.
It still cuts over 23 million people off health care, and it skyrockets premiums.
999.
My 999 plan had it all figured out.
My 999 tax plan would have taken care of all that.
999.
Please explain.
Here's the way it goes.
My 999 tax plan would have replaced the current tax system with 999.
God damn it.
But what does that mean?
A 9% tax on all things, but not tanning salons.
And that would have paid for health care for everybody?
Of course.
All the healthy ones.
Remember, the IRS is a giant robot, and we have to slay that robot.
So it's like a flat-rate consumption tax.
Is that what you're saying?
I reject that name.
We're calling it what it is: $999.
Make no mistake, Jimmy Dore.
I think Donald Trump's tax plan is a bold tax plan.
As a matter of fact, I love it.
But it's not $999.
Nothing could ever be $999, not even $999.
Do you know why?
No, why?
Because it's unobtainable.
It's shadows on a cave wall.
Republicans won't pass Trump's tax plan.
Do you know why?
Why?
Because they're squishy.
Americans have to pressure these squishy Republicans to pass the president's tax reform plan, which isn't my 999 plan.
His plan is bold.
But Republicans are squishy.
Bold versus squishy.
Who will win?
This economy can do better, Frank.
Frank?
But if I may add this, there is a positive tone from the top.
And I believe that it is going to continue.
Jobs are being added.
Bad things are going down.
Good things are going up.
But economists say there's no way Trump can ever reach a 4% GDP growth like he claims.
Well, that's simply wrong.
I believe it will eventually reach 9.
How?
Let me explain something to you.
9.
Hey, I bet you're interested in what I have to say about the attack in Manchester.
No, not at all, actually.
Well, let me tell you something.
You know what?
That attack makes credits of Trump's cavalry man look stupid.
And that's you.
You look stupid and squishy.
Why?
Because, stupid, we can do better vetting.
And we can know who's here.
But we already do that.
But we can do better.
We could reach 4% vetting easily.
And one day, 999.
Bottom line is, people are stupid and squishy.
And they have to stop that.
And we can do better, and we have to stop it.
999.
Help me, I'm melting.
Squishy 999.
Squishy 999.
Am I getting fat?
Hey, did you?
Did you hear Trump when he did this?
You know, and everybody's making a big deal out of he said, you know, he's going to stand up to them and all that.
Of course, whatever Trump says, there's a tweet of him saying the exact opposite, okay?
No matter what it is.
If he says the sky's blue, there's a tweet saying the sky is green.
It's like, don't worry about it.
So whatever Trump says, he has said the opposite.
Okay, just so we're there.
Okay.
Look at that.
U.S.-Saudi Arabia SEAL's weapons deal worth nearly $110 billion immediately, and then $350 more billion dollars over 10 years.
Wow.
Now, we already know that we sell cluster bombs to Saudi Arabia, which most of the world considers a war crime because 90% of the people cluster bombs kill are civilians.
Now, you would think that would be the kind of weapon that ISIS would use.
No, we make it here.
We manufacture it here in a good Christian factory that makes Christian cluster bombs.
Then we send them to Saudi Arabia, the people who behead people in the street.
And then they take the cluster bombs that kill mostly civilians and they drop them on the poorest people in the world in Yemen in fishing villages, and it kills men, women, and children.
People are already starving in that country because of all this, because of what Saudi Arabia is doing.
And we already admit they're the...
Al-Qaeda.
That's Saudi Arabia.
We're selling them.
So the idea that we have a war on terror is a joke.
We do not have a war on terror.
We are using the war on terror to use our military to overthrow governments and open up their natural resources to corporations.
That's what we're doing.
That's what we've always done.
And no one ever says, hey, what is our special love with Saudi Arabia?
Didn't most of the 9-11 hijackers come from Saudi Arabia?
Didn't Osama bin Laden come from?
What the F?
Why are we such aren't they overly repressive theocracy?
Don't they aren't women even allowed to drive?
Aren't we supposed to be against that stuff?
No, we're not.
And it all comes down to the petrol dollar, too, which they'll never talk.
It's amazing how you never hear the petrol.
I'm here with Ron Placon and Steph Zemron.
You never hear the petrol dollar even ever mentioned, right, on the news?
Do you?
No, seldomly.
The petrol dollar is the Saudi Arabia.
When we got off the gold standard, they agreed to monetize oil in U.S. dollars.
And for them doing that, what we offered back was the use of our military, and we've been doing it ever since.
They offered to pay for us to overthrow Assad, to invade Syria and overthrow Assad.
Saudi Arabia offered to pay the United States to do that.
And we were willing to do it.
I mean, the administration was.
How do I know this?
With respect to Arab countries offering to bear cost and to assist, the answer is profoundly yes.
They have.
That offer is on the table.
With respect to boots on the ground, profoundly no.
There will be no boots on the ground.
The president has said that again and again, and there is nothing in this authorization that should contemplate it.
And we reiterate, no boots on the ground.
In terms of what do you do if it doesn't work, I think I'll let General Dempsey speak to the question of targeting us, which he can't go into in detail.
But we have absolute confidence that what our military undertakes to do, if it is ordered to do so, will degrade the capacity of Assad to use these weapons and serve as a very strong deterrence.
And if it doesn't, then there are subsequent possibilities as to how you could reinforce that.
Thank you, Mr. Secretary, Secretary.
And the details on the offer and the proposal on the table.
What are the figures that we're talking about?
Well, we don't know what action we're engaged in right now, but they've been quite significant.
I mean, very significant.
In fact, some of them have said that if the United States is prepared to go do the whole thing the way we've done it previously in other places, they'll carry that cost.
That's how dedicated they are to us.
Obviously, that's not in the car.
I don't know if you heard what he just said.
I'm going to play that last part one more time.
States is prepared to go do the whole thing the way we've done it previously in other places.
If the United States is willing to go do the whole thing like we've done in other places, what?
What will they do if the United States uses their military to go in and overthrow Assad like we've done in other places?
We do the whole thing ourselves.
What were they willing to do?
Carry that cost.
They were willing to carry that cost.
There it is.
What?
So we're loaning out.
So now we're mercenaries for Saudi Arabia.
That's where we are.
And we've been for a long time.
And no one says anything.
Like, if you, there's nothing in this article about that.
There's nothing in this CNBC article about how horribly oppressive, beheading, they're the worst.
They fund fucking terrorists.
How they rent out our own military to go set the Mideast on fire, which they do.
How we sell cluster bombs to Saudi Arabia, which most of the world considers a war crime because it is.
None of it.
They never did this.
So the reason why we have a show is because the mainstream media is so shitty that people come here to get the news.
They don't show you that.
They're not going to show you that on MSNBC.
They're not going to tell you that's why we're really there because Saudi Arabia wants to overthrow Syria.
And Qatar, he says our Arab friends, but he means Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
And they're willing to pay for the whole thing.
In fact, some of them have said that if the United States is prepared to go do the whole thing the way we've done it previously in other places, they'll carry that cost.
I love how he laughs before he says it.
They said, you know, this arrangement, we have petrol dollars for military.
They said they'll do the whole thing.
So, you know, let's just go kill some motherfuckers and throw over another government.
Come on, they're going to pay for it.
What's the big deal?
We're really winning out on this bargain.
We were really winning.
So we go and we kill a couple hundred thousand more people and whatever, but we don't have to pay for it.
And then you have people that are sitting behind him.
You know, the people who are the people with the hands.
Yes.
So go back to the see these hands.
That's Medea Benjamin in the code paper.
Oh, this is her over here?
Yeah.
Holding the white.
And that's, yeah, and that's the code pink, and they put the blood on their hands while he's trying to give people okay more bombings.
This is a guy who made his bones protesting an illegal war, standing up against an illegal, freaking military action, a stupid one, an unethical one, an immoral one, based on a lie, by the way.
They lied so we could have the Vietnam War.
You know that.
The government lied.
The CIA lied.
The government lied.
The media lied.
The media forwarded that.
You know that.
That never happened again, though, Jimmy.
But it never happened.
We never did it again.
We never did it again.
They lied to get us to go into Kuwait.
They had to lie to get us to do that.
They said Iraqi soldiers were going in and taking babies out of incubators and throwing them on the ground, and they had a woman testifying in front of Congress.
It's a total lie.
Turned out that woman was on the pay.
They didn't lie about Iraq, though.
Oh, goddammit.
That was the Iraq war.
Then it was a complete lie.
They lied about that.
What they did was the government gave lies to the New York Times.
The New York Times printed them on the front page above the fold.
Lies.
Direct lies.
That led us into war.
Same thing with the Washington Post.
Washington Post editorial board was writing editorials about how you're crazy if you don't think we should go into Iraq.
That Saddam Hussein is working with Al-Qaeda.
That's the Washington Post.
That's the New York Times.
That's why we have a goddamn, that's why we have a show.
Because how rotten those places are.
And then they're telling you this.
Here's from the CNBC article.
Here's what they say about this, this weapons pack.
So from this article here, here's inside the article.
This is gross.
It goes, this package of defense equipment and services support the long-term security of Saudi Arabia and the Gulf region in the face of Iranian threats.
Why is Iran our enemy?
They never tell you that.
Why is Iran our enemy?
You know why?
Because Iran had a democratically elected government, and he wanted, it was Mossadegh, and he wanted to spread democracy around the Middle East.
You think the United States would be on board for that.
But we have a thing in America called the CIA.
And what the CAA does is fucking murder people, torture people, and overthrow dictators before breakfast.
Oh, I'm sorry.
Overthrow democratically elected governments before breakfast.
If they overthrew dictators, I think maybe we'd be okay.
And you know what?
But what they do is they overthrow democratically elected governments and install dictators, which is what they did in Iran, Ron.
They got rid of Mossadegh.
They installed the Shah, and that's how we got the Ayatollah Khomeini and Iran being anti-American, even though half the country, they're very pro-American, the people.
So that's how they never tell you that stuff.
Why Iran?
Why is Iran our enemy?
You know why?
Because we turned them into our, we overthrew their fucking government and installed a oppressor.
That's what we do.
So that's why we have a job.
So let's get back to this.
I'm sorry, you wanted to say- Just throwing that in there.
Defense equipment equipment.
Defense equipment.
That Saudi Arabia is going to go defend themselves in Yemen.
Saudi Arabia is defending themselves in Yemen.
Gulf region in the face of the Iranian threats while also bolstering the kingdom's ability to contribute to counterterrorism operations.
They are terrorism.
Just like, ah, it's so crazy.
So crazy.
Up is down, in is out, black is white.
War is peace.
War is peace.
Oh, my God.
Oh, this is unbelievable how they uncritically report this at the CNBC.
To counterterrorism operations across the region, reducing the burden on the U.S. military to conduct those operations.
The arms pass.
By the way, that's just a quote from the White House.
And they uncritically just repeat it.
And then he didn't, the next, the next paragraph doesn't say, of course, what I just said.
They don't say anything.
They just printed it.
It's like what Stephen Colbert said at the correspondence dinner in 2006.
Copy, paste, print, go home.
That's what they're doing.
That's what they're doing.
Here's another part of that.
It says the arms package represents an enhancement of Saudi Arabia's military capabilities as tensions flare in the region, with the United States viewing the Saudis as a linchpin in efforts to check the global ambitions of Iran.
The country, the hub of Islam's most revered sites, but it is also a target of radical Islamic extremism.
This is a news report.
And then other people will say there's fake news somewhere else.
There's fake news somewhere else.
That's why the young Turks exist.
That's why this show exists because the mainstream news media are goddamn stenographers.
That's why.
And who's the biggest generator of fake news?
The fucking government always has been, always will be.
So here's what I love.
I love this too.
This deal that Trump did with them exposes the hypocrisy of the Democrats, the Obama administration, and everybody.
Sean Spicer tweeted out: if Saudi Saudi Arabia, president has just completed the largest single arms deal in U.S. history, negotiating a package totally more than $109.7 billion.
And then Samantha Power, who was Barack Obama's U.N. ambassador, Samantha Power tweeted out, for a country whose chief retweeted his tweet and then says, for a country whose attacks on civilians in Yemen, that's what we're talking about.
She's talking about it too.
For a country whose attacks on civilians in Yemen and inability to learn from mistakes have been devastating to human life.
So she's poo-pooing that deal.
And she's poo-pooing Sean Spicer for tweeting that out to say, look who you're doing business with.
These fucking people are oppressors or horrible.
That's what she's saying.
Samantha Power saying that.
Hey, Samantha, what the F are you talking about?
This is you.
Obama administration arms sales offer to Saudi Arabia, top 150.
What?
That's from September 7th, 2016.
But this guy, I love this guy, Ali Ahmad.
He tweeted to Suzanne Power under her stupid tweet.
He says, you voted for the Saudi war on Yemen.
You are personally responsible.
She voted for it.
Without your vote for UNSC Resolution 2216, there would be no Saudi war on Yemen.
You are part of this war.
And then Sarah Leah Witson says, come on now.
This is a bit rich coming from the representative of an administration that linked $100 billion in arms deals to the Saudis despite attacks on Yemen civilians.
So that just crazy.
They're just crazy.
And they think you're stupid.
This is Barack Obama's administration doing that, trying to think you're stupid.
So again, they're doing the exact same thing as Trump did.
They did the exact same thing.
The Obama administration did the exact same thing.
And yet, and here they are talk about, and someone else has to worry about fake news.
This is the fucking UN ambassador blatantly being phony and false and completely inconsistent and hypocritical to the nth degree.
And they fucking make fun of Trump?
What the F?
And they make fun of Trump.
Can you believe that?
These people?
And this is what the shit they're doing?
Wow.
Wow.
So there you go.
Now you're more informed because you watch this show.
And I have by no means, I'm a dumb guy, right?
I'm just a guy with a good bullshit detector.
And I can tell when someone's trying to gaslight me.
And the Washington Post and the New York Times and the government, be it the Barack Obama administration or the Trump, they're also gaslighting and lying constantly.
No change.
They're both in bed with Saudi Arabia.
No change.
Barack Obama expanded the bombing to frickin seven, eight countries.
Seven.
I mean, he came in.
We were bombing two countries when he left for bombing seven.
And probably more.
Probably more.
There you go.
So that's how we covered it here at the Jimmy Doer show.
That's how we covered the Saudi-Arab arms deal here at the Jimmy Doer show.
I bet it's a different, I bet it's a lot different than how they cover it at MSNBC, CNN, New York Times, and the Washington Post.
And I am a Jagoff nightclub comedian.
Hi, everybody.
So I'm here with Steph Zamarano, the miserable liberal, and Ron Placone.
How you doing?
I'm miserable.
Look at that nice t-shirt.
Look at that t-shirt.
Show it off.
Look at you guys.
Yeah.
Oh, no, you got the dog.
Oh, there's Brownie.
There's our little boy.
Hi, buddy.
Ah, okay.
So what do you think the most remarkable thing of the last election is?
What do you think it was?
Was that Donald Tahnahan's one that the Democrats decided to nominate someone under FBI investigation who half the country already hated, including half of her own party, the most unpopular presidential candidate Democrats ever put up?
You think that was the most remarkable thing about it?
It's pretty remarkable that they would nominate someone they knew was under FBI investigation.
It's kind of remarkable.
Also, but here's what Chomsky thinks is the most remarkable.
So Chomsky was interviewed by the BBC, and here's what he said.
Well, here's what he thinks is the most remarkable thing.
The most remarkable thing about the last election was actually Bernie Sanders, not Trump.
Bernie Sanders broke with a century of American political history in American elections for back to the late 19th century.
Elections are basically bought.
Literally.
You can predict with remarkable accuracy electability simply on the basis of campaign funding.
Sanders came along.
No support from the corporate sector, no support from the wealthy.
The media simply dismissed him as ridiculous.
He was basically unknown.
He even used a scare word, socialist.
And he would have won the Democratic nomination if it hadn't been for the shenanigans of the party managers.
If you take a look at popularity...
Wait a minute.
I thought I just read an article in the Washington Post that said the DNC lawsuit was frivolous.
They said that the DNC lawsuit was frivolous.
And here is Bernie Sanders.
I mean, here is Noam Chomsky saying that Bernie Sanders would have won the Democratic Prime.
By the way, New York Times considers him maybe the greatest intellectual in the world.
He says obvious that Bernie would have won if it wasn't for the shenanigans, meaning the cheating by the DNC.
Well, and you wonder, and so it's so funny.
I'm sorry, Ron.
I didn't mean to cut you off, but it's so funny that people don't talk about that when they talk about the DNC lawsuit.
You go, well, certainly everyone is outraged that the DNC was cheating.
They don't even mention it in their coverage if they cover it.
Like the Washington Post didn't even mention that.
The Washington Post tried to dismiss this like it's a nothing burger.
Except here's Noam Chomsky saying that if it wasn't for the DNC cheating, we would have a different goddamn president.
But the Washington Post, who, by the way, has beat the drum for every goddamn war, their worthless shit state of a fucking newspaper, they just wrote an article that said that was a frivolous lawsuit.
Doesn't seem like he thinks the same thing.
But even what you think, why wouldn't you mention that in your coverage?
They never do.
Well, I mean, it's just Noam Chomsky, though.
I mean, it's not like, it's not like he's somebody who has been studying this stuff, scrutinizing it for 50-plus years.
I mean, it's just Noam Chomsky.
And what does that tell you?
What does that tell you, Ron, that Noam Chomsky's never consulted in a wall?
You know what I mean?
Like you can see MSNBC.
You know how many times Noam Chomsky's been on MSNBC?
I'm going to guess maybe zero.
I've never seen him on there.
Have you?
No, he's on Democracy Now a lot.
He's on Democracy Now, sure, because they actually try to do the news.
They try to actually talk about the news from a non-corporate way, you know, in an authentic way.
Right.
So that's why they have him on because he's the guy who knows the most about everything.
The MSNBC, they would have him on, but they don't want to know the most about everything.
They want to know a certain thing and they want to feed it to you.
So that's weird, right?
That he would say that.
That if it wasn't for the cheating, well, he says shenanigans.
Let's play that again because that's awesome.
Work from the wealthy.
The media simply dismissed him as ridiculous.
Media just dismissed him.
They did.
He even used a scare word, socialist.
And he would have won the Democratic nomination if it hadn't been for the shenanigans of the party managers.
If you take a look.
So we would have a radically different country right now if the party managers didn't screw over Bernie Sanders because he would be president.
And the Democrats would rather lose to Trump than let a progressive win.
And that's a fact.
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Why?
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