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Get ready for an outstanding entertainment program.
The Jimmy Dore Show!
It's the Jimmy Dore Show.
the show for gut-minded, lowly-lovered lapdies.
The kind of people that are It's the show that makes Anderson Cooper save.
It's hard to talk to you, T-Daggy.
And now, here's a guy who sounds a lot like me.
It's Jimmy Dore.
Hi, everybody.
Welcome to this week's Jimmy Door show.
I am in Mexico City.
Well, we have a fresh show for you anyway.
That's right here.
Get ready for some audio from Monday's live show, Live Jimmy Dore Show in Burbank, California at Flappers Comedy Club.
Our guests on the show are the miserable liberal Steph Zamarano, Dave Rinitz, hilarious comedian, also Ron Placone, and the political vigilante, Graham Elwood.
Enjoy.
So Jeff Bezos, so he's buying the Whole Foods.
And if there is, is there anything that guy doesn't own now?
He's 80 billion.
He's going to buy, pretty sure he's going to buy the alphabet.
I want to buy the alphabet.
I don't think you can do that.
You can do that.
Skip Q. It'll be faster that way.
We don't need Q. It'd be quicker.
Fuck, we do need Q. So, Jeff Bezos, so I looked up some, there's a place called the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, the ILSR, as I like to call it.
And they did a study and they issued a report last November on report how Amazon's tightening grip on the economy is stifling competition, eroding jobs, and threatening communities.
Well, but hey, at least we can get a Chinese dildo delivered to my house in fucking two hours, right?
Huh?
Yeah.
That's my kind of dim sum.
Anyway.
Anyway.
Thank you.
All right, so this is from the report.
Today, half of all U.S. households are subscribed to the membership program Amazon Prime.
Half.
Do you know that less homes have a landline than have Amazon Prime?
More houses have Amazon Prom.
Isn't that something?
Somebody smarter than me, I knew that.
Half of all online shopping searches start directly on Amazon.
And Amazon captures nearly one in every $2 that Americans spend online.
I know, right?
Amazon increasingly controls the underlying infrastructure of the economy.
Amazon's bet is that as long as consumers are enjoying one-click ordering and same-day delivery, we won't pay much attention to the company's creeping grip.
Even as consumers, Amazon's dominance comes with significant consequences.
The company uses its data on what we browse and buy to shape what we see and adjust prices accordingly.
And its control over suppliers and power and power as a producer itself means that it's increasingly steering our choices, deciding what products make it to market and what products we're exposed to.
Amazon's increasing dominance comes with high costs.
It's eroding opportunity and fueling inequality, and it's concentrating power in ways that endanger competition, community life, and democracy.
Hmm.
I hope he's getting tax breaks to do it.
And yet these consequences have gone largely unnoticed thanks to Amazon's remarkable invisibility and the way its tentacles have quietly extended their reach and the fact that he owns the Washington Post, so they don't ever fucking write about it.
I have a hard time seeing the company as anything less than a new wave of economic dislocation on par with the earlier collapse of manufacturing and small businesses that devastated so many regions of the country, said Stacey Mitchell, co-director at the Institute and one of the report's co-authors.
So that's really happening.
It's happening right now.
Here she says it again.
One of every $2 spent online currently flows through Amazon.
That's had devastating consequences for retailers who simply can't compete both online and out in the real world.
Remember borders?
So get this.
You know, Amazon doesn't really make that much money.
In fact, lots of times they lose money per quarter.
So that's like Uber does the same shit, right?
Dave Anthony was on the show talking about how they're just trying to put people out of business, right?
So then, and then they got you, right?
So now I don't know if you noticed, but they put borders out of business.
And now Amazon's opening bookstores.
Did you know that?
Yes.
So yeah, and now they're buying whole fucking foods.
And they're buying, so it's not, this is not good.
This is a monopoly and it should be broken up and it's not going to be and it's going to get worse.
By the way, it wipes out jobs and it increases income inequality.
The reports authors say that Amazon has so far caused more than a 135 million square feet of retail space to become vacant.
That's the equivalent of 700 empty big box stores plus 22,000 shuttered Main Street businesses.
That's due to Amazon.com.
Okay.
The company's labor model is also impacting traditional package delivery companies.
UPS and the Postal Service must now compete with Amazon, which is developing alternative delivery methods.
The company's low-wage, precarious labor model threatens the jobs of nearly 1 million unionized middle-income workers at UPS and the U.S. Postal Service.
So what happens when Amazon wipes out a million good paying jobs?
We're going to have a million more people working three and four fucking jobs, barely getting by.
And Jeff Bezos is going to have $10 billion more dollars.
He's worth $80 billion billion right now.
And what's the point?
Why do you want to undercut unions?
Why?
So you could have another $10 billion.
What the F is going on, right?
So this is, things are really messed up and no one's stopping it.
In fact, they're giving them tax breaks to do it.
Here's a little bit more.
The grueling work at Amazon's fulfillment centers, the hard-charging atmosphere for even its white-collar workers, the cutthroat tactics that led Amazon to crush competitors like Zappos and diapers.com before eventually buying them.
They did that.
So diapers.com had a great business.
Amazon.com just undercuts them.
They ran at a loss until they drove them out of business.
They did it.
Say the same thing to Zappos.
That's what's going on right now.
So we're getting less choice.
We're getting, you know that.
I don't have to tell you guys.
But the researchers also offer up interesting analysis about how Amazon relies on local tax subsidies to fuel its growth.
So we're subsidizing a company to fuck our own economy right now.
That's What happens when you have a bought government?
That's what's going on right now.
And now we are funding our own demise, literally.
This is bad for everybody.
Everybody knows it, and we're giving them tax breaks to do it.
It's not making our economy better.
It's not putting more money into our economy.
It's not raised.
This is not one of those things where the tide lifts all boats.
It's only lifting one guy, and that is freaking Jeff Bezos.
Okay.
The company has gotten at least $613 million in subsidies since 2005.
What the fuck?
Yet at the same time, its online retail business leads to brick and mortar store closures, which can ultimately deprive a locality of much-needed property tax revenue.
Meanwhile, in some states, the company still doesn't charge shoppers sales tax.
Yeah.
Amazon still gets to sell shit without charging people sales tax.
That's of last at this report last November.
Amazon's net job impact on the U.S. as of 2015, a minus 148,774 jobs.
Minus.
So since Amazon, we've bled jobs because of it.
They're not helping the economy.
Keep this in mind.
They're killing, crushing local economies.
That's what Amazon's doing.
But the reason to take this, so now, let me see if I have any jokes.
Anyone want to say anything?
Yes.
Yes, I do.
I knew we shouldn't have saved that fucking rainforest.
I knew it.
It's going to come back and hold it.
Their fulfillment center is brutal, too.
I have a friend that worked at one of those things.
And I know this because he called me for clean pee and I didn't have it, but someone did.
But like, like they.
I'm sorry, wait a minute.
I'm sorry.
Amazon will deliver clean pea.
Yeah.
That was his plan B. I don't know what he ended up doing.
It ended up being like another friend of ours in hand warmers or some shit like that.
But like the fulfillment, it's a brutal, like you have to hit this like certain quota.
And if you don't, you don't get your hourly.
Like it's a ridiculous process, like for a job that's already typically low paying.
Like they're trying to do the lowest of the low.
Hey, if Amazon keeps getting these tax breaks, maybe they'll only pay their workers 10% below average instead of 15% below average, right?
Maybe that'll be better.
You know, I have found that when you order from Amazon, if you want to send it back and it's less than like 40 bucks, they just say, I fucking keep it.
I'm not saying you should all do that tomorrow morning at the same time, but it's just an option.
But if we start a system, we'll do like an email chain, we'll do five at a time.
Yeah, I'm not saying all of Jimmy's 250,000 subscribers should order $39 worth of shit off of Amazon tomorrow.
Hey, you know what?
But if you do, use our affiliate link.
Hey, you know, maybe you can avoid Amazon if you want.
Do more progressive things like shop at Whole Foods and listen to NPR.
Okay.
Okay, so there's more to this, actually.
And it's all done on credit cards, right?
So the banks get a tiny piece of everything that goes through Amazon.
Yes.
And this, yes, you're correct.
And this is, of course, it's not only bad for you as a consumer and it's bad for our economy, it's bad for even big stores like Kroger and Cost Plus, and it's bad for stuff like the Sam's Club.
What's the good one?
Costco.
Yeah, Costco's the good one.
It's bad for places like that, not Buck Sam Club.
I've had some success actually going into some independently owned stores and saying they're obviously way expensive, but going to the Amazon app and saying, look, this is what they're charging.
Can you come close to this?
Like, I want to support your business.
I want to pay the local sales tax.
Can you at least like, everything's negotiable, I've learned, especially since the recession.
And some businesses will be like, yeah, okay.
You know, really?
Oh, yeah.
Think about it.
If you ran a little shop, you would rather have some type of sale versus lose the sale.
And you know, Amazon's going to crush you.
So I've done that a lot.
And I feel good.
I'm saving a little bit of money and I'm also supporting a local business versus this fucking CIA warehouse.
You know, every time I watch this, and you know, like we've been talking about Amazon and the horrible experience that their employees are having and that they're not earning a livable job.
And all I can say right now, a part of the revolution that we're all a part of, and I think we're all committed to, is unionizing.
And we need to help our brothers and sisters unionize.
And we have to start doing that and helping them do that.
So I'm committed, at least for today, right now, to do that.
Steph, you were a union rep at one point, were you not?
Yes, I was.
And boy, did I get into some shit.
Yeah.
Damn right.
So this goes on.
This is from Vox.
They say introducing a player, meaning Amazon, into the food market, introducing a player into the market that doesn't care about profit margins like a normal freaking company does.
It's going to have a devastating, it's going to be devastating to competitors who have to earn a profit.
It is.
How is anyone supposed to compete and make money in an industry that features a mayor player who doesn't actually try to make money?
So that's what's happening.
That's what's going on.
And this is from Slate.
Slate says the grocery stocks are down today, but they shouldn't be the only companies trembling.
Google, Apple, and even Uber are threatened by Amazon's growing over e-commerce, media, and the same-day home delivery.
They also go on to say, in short, Jeff Bezos wants to take over the world.
And this is a very significant step in that direction.
So that's really what's going on.
And what is supposed to happen now is Teddy Roosevelt is supposed to come along and break up this fucking company.
He's supposed to break up Amazon and he's supposed to break up the media companies and he's supposed to break up Wall Street.
And we're supposed to have a goddamn good company.
A good company again.
The United States is a great company.
It's a fantastic brand.
I died for that flag for that company.
Even though the flag was made in Korea.
So that's really happening.
He's getting tax breaks to do it.
And here's what Dylan Ratten, now, Dylan Radigan, you know Dylan Radigan.
So he told the truth about the banks on MSNBC, and now he has to do his news reports off a fishing pair at a lake.
I trust the guy at a lake.
That was right after his dentist appointment.
Yeah, he looks trustworthy.
I got to treat myself.
He looks very trustworthy.
So here's what he has to say about this.
The big news last week was Amazon's purchase of Whole Foods.
Very good for Amazon, very good for Whole Foods, very bad for all their competitors.
Think names like Kroger's, Costco, Target, these sorts of things.
But my point in bringing this up is not to get into a conversation with you about companies or groceries or stocks or anything like that.
My point in bringing it up with you is this.
The real issue in America is the concentration of resources in an incredibly small number of hands, whether it's Google and Facebook, whether it's the two political parties in our political system or whether it's what's happening with Amazon.
A beautiful vision, an incredible executive, an incredible executive, an incredible company, but a disaster.
I hate that he has to do that.
Why do they have to kiss his ass?
Dangerous effect on our society as we're seeing the complete concentration of power and as a result, the destruction of the ability for a truly competitive capitalist environment.
So while it is impressive to see, and I have incredible respect for Jeff Bezos and what he has done, it is a total abdication of the authority of the antitrust commissions in this country to allow this level of consolidation of power to continue.
And it's reflected not only in our politics, but as we saw with the Amazon deal in our business.
That's exactly what it comes to.
So was that Jeff Bezos' lake?
He was saying that?
You got to have some respect for him, though, because he went from being, you know, a clown in the 70s and he's risen to the top of corporate America.
That's like, you know, Jeff Bezos buying Whole Foods.
That's like Walmart buying McDonald's.
That's gross, right?
That's not how it's supposed to be.
You know, next up, next on Jeff Bezos' list, he's going to try to privatize the country sewage system, put a stop on everybody's sink in the country, and launch Amazon water.
Yeah, that's coming next.
So here's how, by the way, it's just here's well, here's how the guy at CNN covered it.
So that's how Dylan Radigan covered it, which is why he's out of fucking lake because he told the truth about it, that it's horrible.
Here's the guy at CNN.
Here's what he says.
Huge news that could change the way you shop for food.
Amazon is buying organic grocery giant Whole Foods for $13.7 billion.
Now, how is this going to change the Whole Foods experience?
What if you're not an Amazon Prime customer?
Can I still go to Whole Foods stores and buy my weekly dose of quinoa?
We'll talk about a first world problem.
Am I right?
Oh my God.
And you know what, Jimmy?
The music is all happy.
It's all nefarious.
I mean, the way they're doing this is like, boop, boop, boop.
It's all good news, everybody.
Amazon bought something more.
Soon they'll deliver pork belly samples.
Hey!
Hey, poor neighborhoods, another way you can't get cheap produce that's organic.
Fuck you poor people for trying to eat healthy.
Hey, white people get more great stuff because they're rich.
Now that Jeff Bezos owns Whole Foods, as the CIA will be investigating anyone with a crop share.
All right, back to this CNN.
Yes, Amazon is not planning to shut down any of the brick and mortar retailers.
Whole Foods obviously has struggled in the past couple of years making this a deal that made sense for them.
The reputation of it being whole paycheck.
Concerns about them having exorbitantly high prices.
Remember the whole asparagus water thing?
John Oliver had a field day with that one.
Six dollars.
Now Whole Foods doesn't have to worry about how its stock is going to react when late night comedians bash it.
That's Jeff Bezos' problem.
That was the big problem.
Right?
That was the It's Whole Foods.
We need the guy with a beard and no tie.
If late night comedians jokes dicks hated our economy, I'd have crashed that fucking thing a long time ago, okay?
Well, here's one thing we can all get excited about.
We're going to start really watering down and deregulating organic produce laws.
So it won't really be organic, is what you're saying?
Yes.
What's wrong with a little GMO in your organic?
Yeah, that's what that is.
It's clearly experimenting with how it wants to rule retail.
And now the guy just gives a tongue bath to Jeff Bezos.
Here it comes, right?
Physical bookstore, for example.
It has Amazon Fresh, which delivers food to you, but you can also, quote unquote, click and collect.
Go and pick up something that you order online.
Amazon is even experimenting with its own food store in its hometown of Seattle with no cash registers.
So this is going to be interesting to see whether or not Jeff Bezos can transform the grocery business the way he has done other aspects of retail and even media.
Other supermarkets, though, they are in a world of pain on this news.
Kroger, Target, Walmart even, their shares are plunging Costco too.
The key to this deal is it shows the genius of Jeff Bezos.
Of course, it's too soon to say whether or not buying Whole Foods for this amount of money will be a success.
But keep in mind, no one was even speculating that this deal was going to happen.
It was kept under wraps.
This just goes to show that Bezos is thinking about things that no one else on the planet is even considering.
He's so smart.
I just love that guy.
Hey, CNN, what do you think of Jeff Bezos?
He's a genius.
Hey, MSNBC, what do you think of Roger Ailes?
He's a genius.
And the corporate media is different, apparently.
There's a difference between any of the three of them.
What do you guys, what do you, hey, MSNBC and CNN, you think Jeff Bezos is a genius?
Yes.
How about Bernie Sanders?
That guy's a fucking idiot.
That's what they'll tell you.
I mean, maybe there's a little more to this.
Let me check.
No, that was it.
It was over.
Well, this is like the face of America on so many levels is that we celebrate, they can't even see how this is bad for everybody.
It's bad for that fucking Al Madrigal knockoff guy.
It's bad for like everybody.
It's bad for fucking everything.
And what do we do?
We applaud it.
Wow, Jeff Bezos sure is good at fucking everybody over, isn't he?
What?
That's the American way.
Hey, everybody, stand up and salute predatory capitalism.
Isn't that fantastic?
Hey, a predatory capitalist owns our food supply.
Who gives a fuck?
But guess what?
My favorite corporate Democrat has something to say about this.
He's not going to stand for it.
Corey Booker.
Corey Booker says, I have concerns about corporate consolidation in general, but I love my local Newark Whole Food store and believe it will only get better.
Hashtag resist, Corey.
Outstanding.
Yeah.
Hey, I've got my concerns about corporations, but insert my neutralized bullshit right here.
Boy, I'm really concerned about climate change and the effects from the internal combustion engine, but man, my new Cadillac rides like a dream.
Hey, I'm all for a living wage, but I think 15 bucks is too much at my local McDonald's.
It'll have to win.
Other local businesses that Corey Booker likes supporting other, besides his Amazon Whole Foods, he likes to support Applebee's TGA Fridays and his local business called Sparrow.
Those are all chains.
That's why that's funny.
If...
That tweet is so shitty.
If tweets could be measured in nutritional value, that would be the equivalent of ramen noodles.
Every corporate Democrat's Twitter feed, by the way, is just this fucking Mickey Mouse bullshit.
Oh, no kidding, right?
All of them.
I mean, there'll be some resist, resist.
I'm going to fight and resist, and I have concerns, and I'm not sure.
And then, meanwhile, he's just fucking Bezos is just inserting a diamond-studded dildo into his asshole while he's getting sucked off.
Visualize it, enjoy your dinner.
Oh, I missed it.
What did you say?
What I missed.
I said, visualize that while you eat your dinner.
That's what I just said.
I just pictured Jeff Bezos sitting on his dolphin skin lined chair.
Petting a white cat with a gold-studded necklace, and then he pushes a button that burns a barrel of oil just for kicks.
That's what I think.
All right.
Anyway, Corey Booker doing a great fucking job.
He'll fight for you.
He'll fight for you.
So here's Chris Hayes, and the guy in the middle, the guy in the middle.
I should think of a funny thing just for this picture.
Like the way Chris is looking upwards like that.
He looks like he's thinking, please, nobody bring up Dapple.
Please, nobody bring up Dapple.
I'm not allowed to talk about Dapple.
Not allowed.
Not allowed.
Not allowed to talk about Dapple.
I think he's counting.
He's going, wait a minute.
Do I get $6 million, $7 million?
Is it $8 million?
What does this bespoke suit cost?
$7,000?
What is it?
$8,000?
You know, his suit's bespoked.
Do you know what that is, bespoked?
Bespoked is a real expensive suit.
It's when they put a piece of fabric in between the outer layer and the inner layer, right?
And it's not glued.
It's sewed.
So when you, yeah, that's the kind of suits rich people wear.
I can't fucking wait.
I can't fucking wait.
I've been wearing JCPenney's suits my whole fucking year.
At least my dad bought me a suit to go to fucking prom.
That was nice of him, right?
I say a lot of bad things about my dad, but he did buy me a suit.
But didn't you end up wearing a dress to par?
I did wear a dress.
I did wear a dress.
It's a long story, and it was a fucking joke.
And it is funny.
All right, so here.
So here they're going to be talking about the Russia thing, right?
With the email that Donnie Dick had.
What a fucking Chorus Donnie Jr.
He's 39 years old.
They still call him.
He's fucking 39.
He's 39.
He acts like he's 16 Dotty Jr.
You know what I'm talking about?
Anyway.
He's 39.
It's just weird.
Anyway, so here he asks, he's going to, Chris Hayes asked the guy in the middle.
The guy in the middle used to work for the Barack Obama administration.
And I think he was communications.
I don't know what he was.
Anyway, so listen to Chris Hayes' question.
How surprised are you by A, the existence of this email, and B, the argument that the White House and the president of the United States has now adopted that it's not a big deal?
Oh, we're very surprised.
We thought it's all.
We thought he was going to say it was a super huge deal and resign immediately.
You mean he didn't do that?
I thought I was surprised he didn't talk about Dr. John.
That's all.
That's all Trump did through his whole campaign was, hey, I'm sorry, my bad.
And I admit fault.
And I want to change as a person.
And, you know, I can go grab a pussy whenever I want.
You know what I mean?
He just said.
Chris Hayes wants that guy to look him in the eye and tell him how surprised he is on a scale of one to a Russian Red Scare Part two.
All right, here we go.
Well, Chris, I think at every turn we're surprised, and then after reading the news story about it, sort of disappointed in ourselves that we're surprised about what has transpired because in some ways it's utterly predictable.
Is it particularly surprising that there is somebody with Cloy, if you take a shot every time this guy says surprise ties to the Kremlin that was seeking to back channel with the Trump campaign to try to damage Hillary Clinton?
We understand the operations that they've already undertaken to hack the DNC, to hack John Podesta, to release those emails and to work with WikiLeaks to facilitate the release of those emails.
We know that there was a broad.
They just fucking say it.
They just say it, right?
Isn't that weird how they just say it?
We know this.
We just know we know this.
That's weird, isn't that?
Jimmy, how do you know that?
How do I know it?
Because I know it because I said it.
We know this.
And you know how I know it?
I said it right now on your news show and fucking four-eyes didn't say anything back to me.
That's how I fucking know it.
And then we printed it on the screen just to make sure you know.
Yeah, Trump and the Russians.
Russian the fucking rush.
It says it right there.
It says it right there.
If you look at the Chiron, it says Trump and the Russians.
That's how I know it's true.
It says it.
But which Trump are they talking about?
Oh, thank God there's a photo of him next to the name.
So I know which Trump the top of it.
There it is.
Okay, this one.
Oh.
Oh, and a little bit of the flag so he knows he's the president.
Okay, okay, good.
Based attempt on the part of the Russians to influence the election to benefit Donald Trump.
That part of it is open and shut.
He said that's it's open and shut.
Just that easy, right?
It's open at that.
That whole thing that we have no evidence for, that we've been screaming about evidence for, that whole thing, it's open and shut.
If it's open and shut, then I guess Trump's in prison already.
What the fuck are you talking about?
It's not open and shut.
He's still the president.
You're still on a cable show fucking talking about it.
It's not open and shut.
It's open.
It's totally.
And then Chris Hayes just sit there and you know, you know that Chris Hayes isn't dumb.
You know Chris Hayes is 10 times smarter than I am.
And I know this is bullshit.
And he knows what that guy just said is bullshit.
And Chris Hayes lets him say it.
Why?
Fucking $30,000 a day, baby.
And I would let anybody say that for $30,000 a day.
Oh, I thought it was because he wasn't a bullshit scientist.
That's what I thought.
All right, there's more to this.
And at this point, the White House doesn't really have much credibility in trying to explain away.
At this point, the White House doesn't have any credibility.
Really, it took a fucking email from Don Jr.
Finally, in July, you guys figure out they don't have any credibility.
Somebody call Chris Hayes.
I got to let him know.
How could such a liar be named Ernest?
Joshua.
these things as they emerge.
In some ways, Chris, that's why it's so political malpractice that the Trump campaign and...
Talking about this one story for 24-7.
For a year.
A full fucking year.
It's a full year, a full goddamn year of this Russia bullshit.
A full fucking year, 12 months.
What have we done?
Have we cracked anything?
A year, a year of an investigation.
You can't find fucking anything other than this.
And they have every email, every text, and every phone call Trump and everybody he knows has ever made.
And they still have fucking bump kits.
You know why?
They didn't let it.
The fucking FBI expected to do.
You know, I am an optimist, and I firmly believe that 20 years from now, we're all going to know we were on the right side of the history.
And Trump and the Russians is going to be the name of a really cool UK punk band.
That's what I'm hoping for.
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So now here is Dylan Radigan in a park.
I mean, honestly, Jimmy, it's fancier than the studio.
I do political vigilante and I just sit in my apartment.
He's in a lake and a park.
What's next going to be like at the Grand Canyon, Dylan Radigan?
So now I've showed this video before, but it is so instructional.
It's really worth showing again.
It's only a minute long.
So here he is.
Now we're going to talk.
I'm going to talk about the Russian thing.
I know, right?
But I'm going to talk about it in a different way.
I'm gonna talk about how it's bullshit and we should stop talking about it.
So, and here's why it's bullshit, because trying to pretend that our leaders aren't 100%, we live in 100% corrupt country right now.
They steal and cheat right out in the fucking open.
They don't even hide it anymore.
Barack Obama, on his way out the door, gives a giveaway to an equity firm, keeping rents artificially high and making it harder for first-time homebuyers.
He goes and wins sales with that Branson guy.
When he comes back into public life, the first thing he does is he takes a half million dollar paycheck from a fucking bank that he just fucking bailed out.
It's unfucking believable.
And then the goddamn Daily Show fucking tweets out.
They do segments about how it's cool for him to be corrupted.
And even the fucking comedians are corrupted.
Not this motherfucker.
That's right.
APPLAUSE So, but I'm willing to be.
Believe me, I poke fun at them, but I would like a $6,000 suit like Chris Hayes myself.
And I would like a $20 million Manhattan apartment like Rachel Maddow.
That would be fantastic.
I would even be gay for that.
What's that?
Bunny's under the sink?
Thank you very much.
So here's Dylan Radigan.
So again, while the FBI director example gives those with a partisan view against Donald Trump, and it's easy to be against Donald Trump, the obvious fuel to suggest that he's a criminal who's a terrible guy, blah, blah, blah, under investigation.
Probably true.
But if you believe that, then you probably also need to consider that Hillary Clinton was taking money through her foundation to do weapons deals overseas while personally enriching herself.
And that Barack Obama is paid off by the private health insurance companies and the banks to make sure that we don't actually have proper health care or a functioning financial system.
It's hard to believe one and not accept the other two.
Thank you.
I don't know if you noticed, but his bus came right in the middle and he kept going.
That's commitment.
That guy's got a story.
He Wants to get it out.
So you see why he's not going to be ever on television again, right?
Right, that's right.
All right, so now we're going to show you the origins, first of all, of the Russia bullshit McCarthyism smears or whatever propaganda that's been being pushed through the media from the Democrats and every through all the neoliberal elite has been pushing this Russia thing.
And where did it come from?
This is an internal document from the Hillary Clinton campaign.
And it was created Hillary Clinton for president consultant team, guy named Pete Brodnitz.
This is from June 26, 2015.
And this is from an internal poll they did on the horse race.
It's called Top from Top Line Results.
So if you look where that arrow points, that's the conclusion of their internal polling was that Secretary Clinton's top vulnerability as tested in this poll is the attack that claims that as Secretary of State, she signed off on a deal that gave the Russian government control over 20% of Americans' uranium production after investors in the deal donated over $140 million to the Clinton Foundation,
just like Dylan Radigan just said.
And by the way, Bill Clinton also got a half million dollars from a Kremlin-connected bank at the same time as this deal was going through.
And that was among his highest paid speeches of his life.
So that's real.
So that's a real connection.
Her internal polling showed that that was her biggest vulnerability because half of all likely voters are less likely to support Clinton after hearing that statement.
And 17% were much less likely to support.
So they said that was her biggest vulnerability.
And what do you do with your vulnerability?
You throw it on your opponent.
Also, what is your opponent's biggest strength?
You attack it.
When John Kerry ran against George Bush, he was a war hero.
He had purple hearts and a bronze star.
They attacked his purple hearts.
They said they were all fake.
He got them when he was running away.
His guys who worked with him on the Swift boat hated him.
That's where they attacked his strength.
And so Donald Trump's biggest strength was his patriotism.
So they fucking take her biggest vulnerability and they throw it on his biggest strength.
And that was a decision made by John fucking Podesta.
And how do I know that?
Because here it is, 12-21, 2015.
So just a few months after that internal report, Donald Trump starts to surge.
At the end of 2015, he starts to surge and they start to get scared.
So if you read that part in blue at the bottom, what it says is the best approach is to slaughter Donald for his bromance with Putin.
That's from December 2015 after the June thing.
So there you go.
That's where this comes from.
This is made up.
And you know how I know it will never be proven is because the FBI and the DHS, Department of Homeland Security, were not allowed to look at the DNC or Podesta servers.
So we'll never have fucking proof ever.
That's the only way you could prove it.
So there you go.
How is that fucking possible?
You tell me how that's fucking possible.
That's why we're here.
I'll tell you how that's possible because they're all fucking corrupt.
That's how it's possible.
Because at the time, Loretta Lynch was running the Department of Justice.
That's why.
Because Barack Obama was the president.
That's why.
And everybody thought Hillary Clinton was going to be fucking president.
That's why it happened.
I just answered.
Thank you.
Thank you.
You know, I do have one small discrepancy with the article, though.
I still think that Hillary Clinton's biggest vulnerability is whenever she would speak.
I might be wrong.
Yeah, do you think Pierce Broson has no personality, no charisma?
Are you kidding me?
Hillary Clinton is about as inspirational as off-white paint.
She's horrible.
So here's, so.
When Hillary does that robotic turn to the teleprompter and gives some speech about Main Street and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, platitude, blah, blah, blah, blah.
She's part of the business.
Fighting for women.
Yeah.
The world's over.
So I remember when Trump met with Putin, everybody, all they could ask about was, did you talk about the hacking?
Did you talk about the election?
And everybody's giving him shit about it.
And I found this article from, this is November 20th.
So this was 20 minus 8 is 12.
Is that 12 days after the election?
I'm not a math scientist, but...
Math scientist?
The election was...
So you guys know I'm dumb, right?
I come from a dumb family.
You guys know I'm, I'm not kidding when I say that I'm dumb.
I just have a good bullshit detector and a sense of humor.
laughter laughter So guess what?
November 20th of last year, I found this out from the Hill.
Obama met with Putin, did not discuss the election meddling.
Can you imagine if fucking that if Trump did, can you imagine if Bernie Sanders met with Putin?
He didn't even bring up Red Briggs.
They would go crazy, right?
So, and this is from that article.
It says President Obama did not discuss Russia's alleged meddling in the U.S. elections during his short conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday.
Get ready for this, because this is what Barack Obama said.
Are you ready?
Because this is the part you want to see.
He said that's behind us.
He said that in November.
Barack Obama said that Russian meddling in our election, that's behind us.
The president said he and Putin discussed Russia's air campaign in Syria and the Minx Minx negotiations regarding Ukraine.
I actually used to have a guy open from you from Minx, actually.
In October, the Obama administration formally accused Russia of trying to interfere in the American elections by hacking emails belonging to the Democratic National Committee members, although that FBI was not allowed to speak.
Obama said Sunday, get this, that he was more concerned with the general misinformation from both domestic and foreign sources, suddenly referencing recent reports of fake news circulating on Facebook.
Well, there's plenty of reasons why.
He says, this is what I love.
He says, if we have a strong, accurate, and responsible press, guess what we have?
We have a weak, inaccurate, and irresponsible press.
And they're highly paid to be that way.
And I would love to join them.
And we have, I just hate them because I'm jealous.
Anyway.
And we have a strong civic culture and an engaged citizenry, then various attempts to meddle in our elections won't mean much.
Well, it turns out we have a weak, inaccurate, irresponsible press.
We have a fractured civic culture of disengaged citizenry, which is by fucking design, which is why they have the election on Tuesday.
And why they never took, why they don't let Jill Stein or Gary Johnson or anybody else in the debates.
It's why they blocked 26 million independents from voting in the primary.
That's right.
Oh, we want you want to have, so that's Barack Obama.
He knows all the fucking words, and then in practice, he screws you, right?
Oh, you want an engaged citizenry?
Maybe you let the independents vote in your primary.
We can't have that kind of engagement.
What about if the citizens pick a different candidate?
Well, that's why we have the super delegates to fuck you guys over.
So of course they're disengaged.
The system is set up to disengage us, you son of a bitch.
And there's no way to vote against Goldman Sachs.
There's no way to vote against oil companies.
There's no way to vote against more war.
You know that.
So why would they come out to vote?
There's no way to vote against that shit.
There's no way to vote against Walmart.
There's no way to vote against more war.
There's no way to vote against fracking.
Even in California, Jerry Brown's pro-fucking fracking.
So there you go.
So there's the bullshit.
Fuck.
So here's Dylan Radigan.
He's at the waiting room at a dentist's office now.
*laughter*
God fucking bless him.
So he's gonna do a news report.
And it ties in with what we're talking about.
So here's what he says.
The Democrats.
The Democrats want you to believe that their party is, of course, wonderful and fabulous and wants to help save the world and all the rest of this.
And they want you to believe that the only problem with the American political system is the Republicans and more importantly, the corruption of the American political system and the Republicans by the Russians.
This, of course, would be the most horrible thing that could come from the current political situation.
Because if we allow the Democratic Party to convince anybody, ridiculous they've even convinced themselves, that the primary issue with the American political process is Donald Trump and the Republicans, that validates their capacity to sustain themselves in a disgusting and corrupt fashion.
The reality is...
Yes, that is correct.
So he's saying if we buy into this Russian propaganda, McCarthyism, bullshit, and go along with it, that that is what the Democrats want, and then it gives them a pass for being horrible.
Okay, all right.
The reason we have Donald Trump as our president and these horrendous Republicans is because of the unadulterated failure and corruption in the Democratic Party.
Yeah.
Think about how bad, how unappealing, how offensive Barack Obama and ultimately Hillary Clinton had to be to the American population in order for them to even remotely begin to choose someone like Donald Trump as a better alternative.
Think about how bad people have to view the level of corruption in the Democratic Party to think of Donald Trump as a remotely preferable alternative.
Donald Trump is terrible.
The Republicans are offensive beyond comprehension.
But the solution is not the Democrats.
The solution is a final terminal bypass of these two utterly corrupt political parties.
And the demo Yeah!
Nice.
Draft Bernie.
Look out, Bernie.
Thank you.
There you go.
So with the Democrats, they've been talking about Russia non-stop.
It's fucking killing them because they had the lowest fundraising months, two in a row ever, since like 2003.
The Democratic Party, April and May, their two lowest fundraising months ever.
And here's what Robert Costa said.
Quick, I just wanted to say one other takeaway as I leave Atlanta is the Russia issue and President Trump's handling of these investigations as special counsel.
What I'm in Washington, that's a consuming issue for Democrats.
It alarms even some Republicans on the ground in Georgia.
Moderate suburban Republicans were not talking about Russia.
So if Democrats want to win them over, they perhaps have to listen to Congressman Ford, who's talking about this economic message, because I just don't see Russia breaking through yet with Republican voters as an issue that's going to turn them to the left.
Not happening.
But if you go to Huffington Post, it's like they're trying to still scare the shit out of me.
Trump, Trump, Trump, three on the bottom, Trump, and then two out of the Trump, Trump, Trump.
And then the two in the middle.
One is a sponsored post.
That's not Trump.
You know what it is?
It's White House.
What does it say?
See list of docs who are asthma experts.
That's the one, yeah.
That's what it says.
That's the huff.
I don't know.
Do you guys go to, that used to be my homepage when I would come on the internet?
It would be.
Yeah, that used to be.
Yeah, I know.
It's like a, it's like a comic book now.
Isn't that like a comic?
Yeah, I go to Truth Dick.
That's where I go.
I go to JimmyGoorCovey.com a lot.
Hey, we got a new website.
Hey, we just got a new website.
So go there, check it out.
There's premium video now.
Yes.
There's premium video.
There's premium video.
I feel exactly like I felt right before the Iraq war.
Did you feel the same way?
It's like, oh, the whole country's fucking crazy, and I know it.
And I know it.
I know it.
It's like you're getting on a plane and you see the pilot put a bottle of whiskey in his pocket.
You're like, whoa, whoa, whoa, I got to tell everybody.
I got to talk about the fucking guys.
Where guys Buck and Trump.
That's how I feel.
And I feel everybody else is asleep.
Jeremy, I think there is awareness of what's been going on in Syria.
So I tried to tell the truth about Syria.
I got demonetized.
That's okay, by the way, because you guys are supporting me.
So we're able to pay everybody.
Yeah.
So we got a lot of people who work for the show.
And it's all right.
We're able to pay them.
Everybody's earning a living wage.
Everyone makes real money.
And thank you for doing that.
Thanks for supporting the show.
So we're okay to help.
So I just wanted to point you, point out.
I'm not playing the victim that YouTube and Google and the six, one of the six major fucking companies are fucking us over.
I don't care, but I do care.
But that's not the point of that.
So the point of that is that when you tell the truth about what's happening in war, that they won't let that happen.
In fact, here is Jeremy Sca.
What's his name?
Skeleton.
Scahill.
Here's his last appearance on CNN.
But For some reason, maybe people are desensitized.
What is your view of the coverage?
You're talking about the coverage of Syria.
Well, first of all, let's look at this in the big picture.
Donald Trump has given greater latitude to the military to conduct strikes with almost no regard for civilians.
Just in the March, in the month of March, Brian, U.S. and Allied forces have killed more than a thousand civilians in Iraq and Syria, according to the nonpartisan independent group Air Wars.
Trump is funneling weapons and intelligence to the Saudis that are being used to utterly destroy Yemen at this point.
The United States has been engaged militarily in Syria for several years now, both in the form of special operations forces and increasingly conventional boots on the ground, but also just scorched earth bombing, particularly since Trump took office.
And I have to say, Brian, that Arwa Damon is a fantastic reporter.
I have great respect for her.
But I think when we talk about this, CNN needs to immediately withdraw all retired generals and colonels from its airwaves.
You know, Fareed Zakaria, if that guy could have sex with this cruise missile attack, I think he would do it.
Thank you.
He and Ryan Williams seem to just be in true love with the cruise missile strike and in a despicable way invoking Leonard Cohen's name.
I mean, the media coverage has been atrocious, particularly, and this is across the board on every network, particularly when the strike is happening.
It's like they're in awe of the cruise missiles.
And look no further than Hillary Clinton, Bill Crystal, and Donald Trump once again being on the same team.
When it comes to these kinds of wars, the elite of both parties just all get in line, and they absolutely love a cruise missile strike.
Thank you.
And you know, you know Brian Stelter's like, how do I transition to a Russia story?
I'm sorry.
Oh!
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