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Get ready for an outstanding entertainment program.
The Jimmy Dore Show.
Hello, this is Jimmy.
Who's this?
Hey, Jimmy, it's Bernie.
Oh, Senator Sanders.
Oh, don't give me that.
Just call me Bernie.
We've been through too much together to stand on ceremony like that.
Okay, Bernie, what's on your mind?
Well, to be perfectly honest with you, I'm here to defend my former adversary, Hillary Clinton.
Oh, boy.
No, I know that's not your favorite thing to hear.
No, even vaguely pro-Hillary Clinton sentiments on the Jimmy Dore show.
I get it.
I'm aware of that.
That's not necessarily our policy, Bernie.
All right, all right.
That's not our policy.
Come on.
I think there's sort of an unspoken thing.
Let's be honest here.
All right, Bernie, what do you have to say?
Well, in the spirit of defending her from unfair attacks, as I did during our primary campaign, very publicly, I might add, in case any of these wackos are listening who think I ran a sleaze job on Secretary Clinton, you can all go jump in a lake of shit for all I care.
All right.
But I just want to say, or at least reiterate what other people are saying, that this Harvey Weinstein business has nothing to do with Hillary Clinton or even the Democratic Party establishment, which I have been critical of in the past.
There's lots of donors.
It's not as if Hillary Clinton has to have some pre-written press release ready to go at a moment's notice in case a boob gets grabbed somewhere.
Right.
I mean, are you kidding me?
The very second a buttock is seized and lifted, slightly separated from the other one, and then let go, causing it to jiggle back into place.
Hillary Clinton has to go on national television and tear up a check.
Give me a break.
Oh, okay, Bernie, calm down.
All right, I'm sorry.
I just get worked up.
But these right-wing nut jobs are seizing upon this as an opportunity to smear the left as a bunch of perverts and rapists, which is obviously very pathetic projection, but it just makes me so mad.
I know.
I know.
These Michael Serdovich, Dana Lash morons, like they give a shit about women or rape or any of that.
They're rolling around like pigs and shit over there on their internet shows.
No offense.
I'm half expecting them to say, look at what this Jew Harvey Weinstein did.
Let's be honest, that's what they're thinking.
You think that's an element of all this?
It's there.
Yeah, I can sense it.
You sure?
Yeah, yeah.
Yup, yeah.
Yep, yep, yep.
Yep, yep, yep, yep.
Okay.
Well, consider this.
There's a lot of these guys in Hollywood.
Everybody knows it.
But these other guys in there getting drank like Harvey Weinstein is.
You think?
Oh, geez, give me a break.
Like the rest of these Hollywood producers are a bunch of respectful Ronalds.
Okay.
And this Brian Singer character is getting away with murder, and everybody knows it.
Bernie, please.
Oh, come on.
Rip Torn can say this shit, but not me.
Get out of here.
Brian Singer's making twig soup at his hot tub up there in the Hollywood Hills.
Okay, okay, Bernie.
We have to go.
All right, look, I'm sorry.
I'm just very angry about these things.
It's okay, I understand.
And I have to call you and Vent.
I gotta call somebody.
And I choose you because you get it.
I appreciate that.
I appreciate you, Jimmy Door.
I'm gonna go have some soup.
Okay, thanks, Bernie.
It's the Jimmy Dore Show.
The show for Lufthies.
The kind of people that are comments maybe on tearing down our nation.
It's the show that makes Anderson Cooper say.
It's hard to talk to you today.
And now, here's a guy who sounds a lot like me.
It's Jimmy Dore.
Hi, everybody.
Welcome to this week's Jimmy Dore show.
We'll see you November 6th in Burbank, California.
November 6th, that's a Monday live Jimmy Door show.
We're also in Portland, but I think that show's sold out for November 12th, is it?
Yes, today.
Check, check, go to JimmyDoorComedy.com and check.
I'm not sure.
Hey, let's get to the jokes before we get to the jokes, shall we?
I don't know if you know, but Muslims in New Jersey took a break from cheering 9-11 to cheer about Obama and past presidents not calling families of fallen soldiers.
Trump held up calling Sergeant LaDavid Johnson's widow because he didn't realize what a great opportunity it would be to hurt a black person.
Hey, I don't know if you knew it was National Boss Day last week.
National Boss Day.
I hope anybody who seriously celebrated National Boss Day last week got fired the next day.
Because let's face it, isn't every day in this idiot country National Boss Day?
Yes.
You know, I'd like to bash Harvey Weinstein, but damn it, 17 years ago, I might have signed a non-disclosure agreement for a show he could have been connected with.
Hey, all you 140,000 NBC Universal employees, your company still has 14 years of Donald Trump tapes.
Hey, the CDC just announced that 40% of Americans are obese.
That seems high.
40% of Americans are obese, while the remaining 60% are in constant fear of being eaten.
True story.
True story.
Hey, you ever notice how every recent photo of Keith Oberman looks like he's trading to pass a 20-year-old Cinnabon?
You know what?
I wanted, I got a new job.
I'm writing warnings for advertisements for pharmaceuticals on TV.
Here's my latest warning I wrote.
This pill may cause death.
Ask your physician if death is right for you.
Caution may cause diet.
Congress is 80% white, 80% male, 92% Christian, and full of millionaires.
Yet Bernie Sanders is whiny and delusional for saying the system is rigged.
FYI, for those of you applauding John McCain's recent Come to Jesus speech moment, you're in an abusive relationship with the fake Maverick Kahn man.
Hey, what's coming up on today's show?
There's an opioid addiction happening in America, and guess who's complicit?
Your government, specifically the Justice Department under Barack Obama.
The corruption just may surprise you, or will it?
Plus, turns out there was a lot of corruption around the uranium deal that sent 20% of the United States uranium production to a Russian company, and that happened through Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton.
And Barack Obama, it's now being exposed in the Hill.
And we talk about the corruption.
Hey, the Democratic Party decided to oust all the progressive longtime members.
It looks like the progressive takeover is just a couple of more decades away.
Plus, hey, be careful.
Everybody is for freedom of the speech until a news agency says something you don't like.
I guess who we're talking about?
Hillary Clinton.
Plus, phone calls today from drunk Ted Cruz.
Rick Perry calls in, plus Bernie Sanders and Jeff Beauregard Sessions, plus a lot lot more.
That's today on the Jimmy Dore Show.
Hi, everybody.
Welcome to Jimmy Door Show.
I'm here with the Miserable Liberal and Ron Placone.
How you doing?
Oh, good, Jimmy.
You see, this guy, that guy is, his name is Representative Tom Marino.
He's from Pennsylvania, and Trump nominated him to be the drug czar, right?
Got a big opioid problem happening in the United States.
And well, it turns out the reason why we have a big opioid war, one of the big reasons is that the pharmaceutical industry has bought our government.
And that guy's bought.
They're all bought, which is why we pay twice as much, probably sometimes 10 times as much of our pharmaceuticals as the rest of the world.
But what was exactly happening?
Well, according to the Hill, DEA Congress, complicit in U.S. opioid epidemic, say whistleblowers.
No kidding.
Kind of like how Congress is complicit in all the gun sales.
Kind of how that is, because they get money from the NRA and gun manufacturers, and then they don't legislate in favor of the people.
They legislate in favor of profits for guns.
So the government, I don't know if you're paying close attention, is out to get you.
They're not working for you.
They're working against you.
Why?
Because we have the craziest system to finance our campaigns, which is taking money from corporations.
And you wonder why we have a corporatocracy.
We live in an oligarchy.
So according to The Hill, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration shut off investigations into large distributions of addictive opioid pills while a new law made it nearly impossible to prosecute them, the agency's former employees said.
During the Obama administration, the drug industry used their money and influence to pressure top lawyers at the DEA to take a softer approach.
The drug industry used their money and influence to pressure top lawyers at the DEA to take a softer approach to investigating large distributors of opioid pills, even when there was ample evidence of suspicious dealings, says Joe Ranazzisi, if that's how you say his name, former head of the DEA's Office of Diversion Control.
He told the 60 Minutes program, this was a joint investigation of the Washington Post in 60 Minutes.
Money and influence.
What do you mean, money and influence?
Did they bribe them or, well, maybe they promised them a bribe.
What do I mean by that?
46 investigators, attorneys, and supervisors from the DEA, including 32 from the division that regulate the drug industry, have been hired by the pharmaceutical industry since scrutiny on distributors began.
Among them, Lyndon Barber, former associate chief counsel at the DEA.
He's now senior vice president of Cardinal Health, one of the nation's top drug distributors.
That's our government.
So these guys at a big corporation, they go to the regulating body that regulates them.
They talk to the guys in town.
They go, hey, if you guys go easy, I'm going to give you millions of dollars when you get out.
They go, okay, they do it.
There it is.
They do it right in your face.
Just like Barack Obama does it.
Hey, if you relax the regulations on our banks and you don't do anything to really get us done, we'll give you half a million dollars at a pop when you retire from being president.
He does it.
They give him half a million dollars at a pop when he gives speeches.
It's corruption.
It's right in your face.
They're doing it right in your face.
And you're supposed to keep voting for this.
So that, what, what, huh?
How do they use their money and influence?
That's how they use it.
They're going to, hey, we can't bribe you right out, but we're going to bribe you when you get out.
That's a bribe.
Former attorney at the DEA Jonathan Novak told CBS that in 2013, he also noticed a sea change in the way prosecutions of big distributors were handled as his supervisors turned down cases they would have once easily approved.
The DEA operates under the Department of Justice.
These were not cases where it was black, where it was gray.
These were cases where evidence was crystal clear that there was wrongdoing going on and the DEA wouldn't investigate or prosecute.
Jim Geldoff, another former DEA investigator, told the program about a West Virginia case he was looking into where 11 million pills wound up in one of its counties with a population of only 25,000.
Wow.
He said he suddenly ran into roadblocks from the DEA supervisor.
Every time I talked to this guy, he wanted something else.
And I'd get it for him.
And then that's still not good enough, Geldof said.
And this goes on and on and on.
And when these roadblocks keep getting thrown in your face at the point, you know they just don't want the case.
Isn't this fantastic?
But they're still throwing people in jail for marijuana.
Meanwhile, all the fat cats at the top of the agency that's supposed to be enforcing drug drugs, they're all being corrupted and bribed.
All of them.
There was a lot of pills, a lot of people dying, and we had tools in our toolbox to try to use and stem that flow.
But it seemed down in headquarters that the toolbox was shut off.
So not only did they do that, they got the Congress, the House, the Senate, and the goddamn president, Barack Obama, to sign a bill.
Well, this bill.
The bill called Ensuring Patient Access and Effective Drug Enforcement Act was signed into law by President Obama last year after it was passed by both chambers of Congress without any fanfare, by the way.
Nobody even talked about it.
And what does this bill do?
Well, critics say it effectively strips the DEA of its authority to investigate suspicious transactions as the government is now required to meet a higher standard before taking enforcement actions.
Your government is out to get you.
They're working against you.
That's the government we have now.
After Ranazzisi accused the bills, get this.
One of these whistleblowers accuses co-sponsors of the bill, Tom Marino, that guy I just showed you who Trump nominated to be drug czar.
He accused that guy, Tom Marino, and Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee.
Those are the co-sponsors of this bill.
He accused them of protecting distributors under his investigation.
So this guy's investigating these people.
They're passing a law to thwart his investigation.
He says that he calls them out.
And what happened?
Blackburn and Marino wrote to the inspector general for the Justice Department demanding that Ranazzisi be investigated for trying to, quote, intimidate the United States Congress.
That's the kind of stuff they do.
Soon after, Ranazzisi was stripped of his responsibilities.
He told the CBS that he went from supervising 600 people to supervising none.
So he resigned.
That's your government working against you.
The government is not there to help you.
Right now, the government, the corrupted bought government, that includes the Democrats, includes Barack Obama, because he signed that goddamn bill.
So did Congress.
So did all the Democrats and Senate.
But it's just Trump.
Trump is the only, he's such a bad guy that Trump.
What?
They're all corrupt.
They steal right in your face.
Barack Obama does it with a nice smile and polite conversation.
Trump does it in a very brutal way.
So we don't like him.
I got to give a quick shout out to my home state, man, Pennsylvania.
They got Tom Marino just recently.
We had Tim Murphy.
We got the ultimate blank suit Democrat, Bob Casey.
You look at the Keystone State and you'll learn real quick why they were the state that somehow let Rick Santorum get close to power.
Yeah.
Another chapter.
And how does this happen?
People talk about the revolving door in politics.
How does this happen?
46 investigators, attorneys, and supervisors from the DEA, including 32 from the division that regulate the drug industry, have been hired by the pharmaceutical industry since scrutiny on distributors began.
Among them, Lyndon Barber, former associate chief counsel at the DEA.
He's now senior vice president of Cardinal Health, one of the nation's top drug distributors.
Your government has already been taken from you.
You know, I was having a conversation with Steve O on aggressive progressives last week, and he said it was really important.
We really need the Washington Post and the New York Times.
We really need them so we can have a functioning democracy.
I had to point out, we don't have a functioning democracy.
And a lot of it is because of the shit job the New York Times and the Washington Post does, even though this is a story broken by the Washington Post.
We have an oligarchy.
And guess who wants it that way?
Jeff Bezos at the Washington Post.
Guess who else?
Comcast.
Guess who else?
Time Warner owns CNN.
Guess who else?
New York Times.
They want it that way.
Here's a tweet by Andrew Jarrell Jones.
He says at least Poppy Harlow at CNN was honest, but a real indictment again of her and centrist media not knowing about a bill tying a DEA hands on opioids.
So you'd think there would be a reporter at CNN at the New York Times at MSNBC that's dedicated to like maybe checking out the bills that get passed in Congress every day.
Maybe they just have one reporter that that's their job.
What got passed today, reporter?
What bills are up, reporter?
We have a little YouTube show.
We don't have the funds to have someone dedicated to doing that and doing all the other stuff.
Everybody here does about five jobs.
But I'm sure CNN has a big enough war chest.
They give Trump's campaign manager half a million dollars to spew propaganda on their show.
I'm sure they could hire a reporter to check out what bills are being passed, right?
Look me in the eye and tell me what bills were passed today.
Bill passer person.
So here's what, here's Poppy Harlow over at CNN.
To be clear, not a single member of the Senate or the House objected to this legislation.
It passed in both chambers by unanimous consent.
President Obama signed it.
You know, no fanfare.
I don't think most Americans didn't even know about it.
I didn't know about it.
Why?
Why didn't it fall through so many cracks if it had this big of an impact?
Because the same people who bought off the DEA and bought the Congress and bought the Senate and bought Barack Obama are the same people who advertise on your network.
The pharmaceutical industry.
They bought you off too.
That's why.
You're not, because Poppy, you didn't get hired because you're an amazing investigative journalist.
I don't know if you look around CNN, there aren't any.
Why do you think there aren't any investigative journalists investigating stuff except bullshit like Russia?
Because your advertisers don't want you investigating stuff.
That's why they're not buying advertising and giving you money so you can do investigations.
They're buying advertising and giving you money so you don't do investigations.
The criminals bought the cops, meaning the news media.
They're bought by the people they're supposed to be investigating.
So this, again, this idea that Trump is this unbelievably corrupt guy and we never saw anything like it.
Your government is 100% corrupted.
100%.
We could have free college right now, but they decided to give $80 billion more a year to bombs with no debate.
Your government has already been taken from you.
These people wagging their finger at people for voting for third parties.
We should be voting for third, fourth, fifth, sixth parties, which is why everything's broken.
Which is why 30 million people in the richest country in the world still don't have health care.
Which is why we have endless war and everyone's going bankrupt at home.
Which is why GoFundMe's number one thing is for medical surgeries.
That's why it's all coming back to this.
And Bernie Sanders' idea that he can reform this, you're going to reform this is a pipe dream.
You're not going to be able to reform these son of a bitches from the inside.
It's worth a try.
Hey, try everything.
I'm not wagging my finger at Bernie Sanders.
He's doing great work.
He's the only guy talking about stuff.
I think you got to cross the Democratic Party.
I just don't see this happening.
We have the Democrats here in California.
We thought we took over the party.
They have superdelegates at the state level.
There's no way they're letting go of you.
They're not letting go of the party.
They're not letting go of the corporate cash.
They're not going to stop screwing you.
Your government, the Democrats.
Not only does this validate everything we've said here on this show since the day one, but it also exposes the media.
It just exposes how they're just complicit.
They didn't know about this.
You know, Jimmy, it wasn't that long ago that, you know, it seemed like these conservative politicians were saying, we have an opioid problem in our country.
We need to solve this problem.
Yeah.
Meanwhile, they're doing this.
Yes.
And it's like, of course, they're screwing us.
Of course they're pretending that they care about this emergency situation.
And for one, in the book Fahrenheit 451, they talk about how all these people have to start, you know, taking sleeping pills because there's this constant war that's happening in the background.
It seems pretty similar.
Why are people trying to get high?
Why do they want to, why?
Because one, they're living in poverty.
Two, there's no jobs unless it's war.
So who wouldn't get on drugs?
I think it's a desperate situation for Americans.
63% of the Americans don't have $1,000 in savings.
63% of Americans.
I wanted to add a side note to something you said earlier, too, that connects all this.
I mean, you mentioned, like, yeah, they're still throwing people in jail for pot.
Part of the reason they're able to do that, it can be traced back to the pharmaceutical industry.
Those are all the tentacles the pharmaceutical industry has.
So, yeah, they bought out law enforcement because back in the day, they wanted to make sure that pot was a class A drugs.
They didn't want anything competing with what they were trying to profit off of pain pills and what have you.
So, you know, they have the cops, they have the media, and they have the politicians.
And in some cases, they have doctors.
Yeah.
Nice work, United States.
We need a revolution.
We need a revolution.
We need people in the streets.
That's the only thing that's going to change the system.
Because this all comes from the same thing.
This all comes from why we have a never-ending war.
This is why we have five banks that screw you over.
This is why we bailed out our economy on the backs of 5.1 million families who be kicked out of their homes.
This is why we spend twice as much for our health care as the rest of the world with worse outcomes.
This is why we have 30 million people uninsured, have no health care in America.
It's because why we have private prisons.
This is why we're the world's biggest penal colony.
It's all the same thing.
Our politicians are all bought.
They're all bribed and they're all corrupted.
That's just a fact.
And everyone walks around like, yeah, that's the way it goes.
You can't bring a spoon to a knife fight.
Your government has already been taken from you.
It's time for a revolution.
Well, we've talked about this before.
I mean, this story was reported by the New York Times.
It says cash flow to the Clinton Foundation amid Russian uranium deal.
Now, when I talked about this before, I tried to remind everybody, remember if this was Trump, if Trump's foundation got $145 million and he gave $150, they'd have him in chains already, which he should be.
If he did, this is corruption.
Bill Clinton took a half a million dollars for one space.
One speech, half a million dollars, highest paid speech he Gave.
So, this is an internal document from the Hillary Clinton campaign, which they did some internal polling, and it was done by a guy named Peter Brodnitz.
And what did they find out?
They did their own internal polling, and they found out that Senator Clinton's top vulnerability as tested in the poll is the attack that claims as Secretary of State, she signed off on a deal that gave the Russian government control of 20% of America's uranium production after investors in the deal donated $140 million to the Clinton Foundation.
Half of all likely voters are less likely to support Clinton after hearing that statement, and 17% are much less likely to support after hearing that statement.
So, that's a document we got through WikiLeaks from her own internal campaign polling.
Hillary Clinton's biggest vulnerability is her signing off on this deal.
Now, it turns out the FBI uncovered Russia bribery plot before the Obama administration approved the controversial nuclear deal with Moscow.
So, it turns out there was this big investigation the FBI was doing of Russian bribery schemes around uranium production in the United States.
And the interesting thing is they kept it secret, meaning the Barack Obama administration.
Well, here, according to The Hill, it says before the Obama administration approved a controversial deal in 2010, giving Moscow a large swath of uranium, the FBI had gathered substantial evidence that Russian nuclear industry officials were engaged in bribery, kickbacks, extortion, and money laundering designed to grow Vladimir Putin's atomic energy business inside the United States, according to the government documents and interviews.
Yet Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama signed off on that deal anyway while suppressing this information.
They also obtained an eyewitness account backed by documents indicating Russian nuclear officials had routed millions of dollars to the U.S. designed to benefit former President Bill Clinton's charitable foundation during the time Secretary of State Hillary Clinton served on a government body that provided a favorable decision to Moscow.
Eyewitness accounts backed by documents indicating Russian nuclear officials routed millions of dollars to the U.S. designed to benefit former President Bill Clinton's charitable foundation.
Can you imagine if that was Trump?
That's corruption right there.
That's bribery.
You're not allowed to bring it up.
Rather than bring immediate charges in 2010, however, the Department of Justice under Barack Obama and Eric Holder, the Department of Justice, continued investigating the matter for nearly four more years, essentially leaving the American public and Congress in the dark about Russian nuclear corruption on U.S. soil during a period when the Obama administration made two major decisions benefiting Putin's commercial nuclear ambitions.
One was to give the sale.
That was the big one.
The Russians were compromising American contractors in the nuclear industry with kickbacks and extortions threat, all of which raised legitimate national security concerns.
And none of that evidence got aired before the Obama administration made those decisions, meaning to give to sell that stuff, the uranium to Russia.
None of that evidence got aired.
Isn't that amazing?
Bringing down a major Russian nuclear corruption scheme that had both compromised a sensitive uranium transportation asset inside the United States and facilitated international money laundering would seem a major feather in any law enforcement agency's cap.
But the Justice Department and FBI took little credit in 2014 when Mekarin, the Russian financier and the trucking firm executives, were arrested and charged.
Don't talk about it.
Why?
Because we're going to give this deal.
We're going to still do this deal.
We've got to give this deal.
We're going to get $142 million to Bill Clinton.
Everybody, shut up.
Nothing to see here.
Just a little nuclear bribing.
The lack of fanfare left many key players in Washington with no inkling that a major Russian nuclear corruption scheme with serious national security implications had been uncovered.
So you know that Hillary Clinton knew about this.
You know Bill Clinton knew about this.
You know Barack Obama knew about this.
And what did they say?
Mum's the word.
Don't say anything.
Give Putin everything he wants.
Why?
Because we're all going to get rich.
And they did it.
They did it.
Former Representative Mike Rogers of Michigan, who chaired the House Intelligence Committee during the time the FBI probe was being conducted, told the Hill that he had never been told anything about the Russian nuclear corruption case, even though many fellow lawmakers had serious concerns about the Obama administration's approval of the Uranium One deal.
Isn't that interesting?
But don't say it.
They never told him.
Not providing information on a corruption scheme before the Russian uranium deal was approved by the U.S. regulators and engage appropriate congressional committees has served to undermine U.S. national security interests by the very people charged with protecting them, Mike Rogers said.
The Russian efforts to manipulate our American political enterprise is breathtaking.
I thought Trump was the one corrupt in Russia.
Turns out the Clintons.
Turns out Barack Obama.
Turns out our FBI.
Look, Jimmy, I understand you find it grossly hypocritical that the same political wing that's ushering in a new era of McCarthyism has the same dealings with this foreign entity.
But quite frankly, I feel like you want the world.
I feel like you got to ride out of here on your pony.
You want instant apps.
Steph, any kind of stunning writes that it is pretty stunning.
I'm shocked.
Again.
Okay.
So I looked up, I just was trying to see who produces uranium, right?
Because we had a conversation earlier.
Yes.
So I start and I look, it's Ukraine, 2%.
China, 3%.
USA, 3%.
Uzbekistan, 4%.
Russia, 5%.
Namibia, 6%.
Niger, 7%.
Oh, Niger.
Okay.
And Australia, 9%.
Canada, 16%.
And Kazakhstan, 41%.
Kazakhstan's.
Whoa.
So it's like, oh, okay, let's see where our military forces are.
And let's see how much uranium is in this.
Is it uranium, oil?
Those are the two things you got to look for.
Oh, and then precious minerals?
Precious metals.
Metals in Afghanistan.
Rare earth or rare earth minerals.
So the Democrats, 100% corrupted.
That's real.
That's just breaking now.
The news media didn't know anything about it.
Nobody in Congress knew anything about it.
Barack Obama came a shush, shush, shush, and his Justice Department kept it shush, shush, shush.
Isn't that something?
Didn't tell anybody about it?
Why?
Because we got to get that uranium deal go through for the Clintons.
You know, there's a theory that we've proven over and over on this show.
Anything Trump has done, the Clintons and Obama have done also.
There's a videotape or there's a paper trail of them doing the same or worse.
Well, and the corruption's always been there.
It's just now you have somebody who has no concept of subtlety.
Right.
You're right.
Just none.
Right.
So, right.
So Trump is not subtle about his corruption, which drives everybody crazy.
Why doesn't he have better manners when he's screwing over America?
Trump didn't start the Iraq war.
Trump didn't crash the economy.
Trump didn't repeal the New Deal banking legislation.
Trump didn't pass NAFTA or the TPP.
Trump didn't do this.
I want my deep state oligarchs polite.
Is that too much to ask?
And of course, there are the people who will purposely misread this report and say, oh, you're supporting Trump.
No, no, you phony liar.
Is Trump corrupted like the Clintons with the Russians?
Probably.
Probably.
I'm sure he has some nefarious dealings with oligarchs, and he's laundered money and what have you.
That's nothing to do with what they said.
I just can't believe people need more proof that we have one party.
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Hello.
Oh, hello, Jimmy.
This is the former state governor of the country of Texas and all its territories, the Tandy Company.
Calling to clear up some important RNA-related matters concerning the island of Puerto Rico.
Yeah, I know you were asked about this at a recent congressional hearing.
That's right.
Now, first and foremost, we must have to remember that Puerto Rico is full of American citizens.
Right.
And that's why we have to evacuate them back to the homeland so the natives who live there can rebuild on their own.
This will no longer stand.
Mark my words.
This ends here.
America is not into nation building.
Our expertise is dismantling things.
But, Rick, Puerto Rico is not a country.
Well, now that's just insulting.
I bet the Puerto Ricanese would disagree with you on that.
You should apologize immediately.
I could wait.
Okay, I apologize to the Puerto Ricanese.
But what about Puerto Rico, Rick?
Good question.
The real challenge will be how to repair the country of Puerto Rico's anarchy grill.
And ultimately, I think Puerto Rico is one of the four countries that we, the America, should get out of.
Really?
What are the others?
Simple.
There's Puerto Rico, her sister city, Dela Risa, the Department of Energy, and a country of the Department of Fort Lawn.
Let's see.
Why do I always get stuck in this rut with your gotcha question?
I'm sorry.
We can move on if you want, Rick.
Thank you.
I will.
You know, I'll make it easy.
I just repeat the questions Representative Kathy Castor asked you last week.
What is your plan to rebuild the energy grid in Puerto Rico using modern technology that is at our fingertips?
That is a good question that you are asking regarding my plan to rebuild the energy grid in Puerto Rico using the modern technology that is at our fingertips.
Yes, but what's your answer?
I personally believe the U.S. Americans have been unable to do so because some people out there in our nation don't have that.
And I believe that our education, such as South Africa and the Iraq and everywhere lack such as, and I believe they should.
Our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S. and should help the Iraq and should help the Asians overcome so we will be able to build up our future and such as.
What the fuck was that, Rick?
What do you mean?
That was a good answer.
That was nothing but gibberish, Rick.
Can you give us an answer?
Sure.
I think we can relate this back to education and how we are continuing to try to strive to continue to help to create jobs and how to, especially the men and women who work there.
Can I have a treat now?
Sure.
I prefer the sweet potato and venice and chewy chunks, please.
Okay, here you go.
No, no, no, no, no.
Thank you, Darney Moore.
Yeah, but I don't think that's a good idea.
Why not?
Give me one of those pumpkin blueberry crunchy treats.
Maybe later.
Do you believe presidents should call or write the families of soldiers after they are killed in action?
That's a really stupid question.
Every president has their own way of pretending to give a shit about that soldiers.
Some write, some call, while others ignore what happened and pretend they wrote a letter when they really didn't.
And then at the last second, have somebody else write it for them.
Kind of like how I passed the state bar.
No, wait a minute.
I never passed the Texas state bar.
That was another state, I think.
Whoops.
*music*
Turns out it actually does matter who's the chairman of the Democratic National Committee.
Tom Perez is the current chair.
He screwed over Keith Ellison.
When I say screwed over, I mean he used Barack Obama to twist arms to overturn the will of the base to have a progressive actually be the chair of the DNC.
Why does it matter?
Well, guess what?
Shake up at Democratic National Committee, longtime officials ousted.
By the way, they're having the Unity Commission meetings this week in Las Vegas.
And on the eve of the Unity Commission, Tom Perez purges the party of a bunch of longtime progressives who were delegates.
This is what's happening.
A shake-up is underway at the Democratic National Committee as several key longtime officials have lost their posts, exposing a still raw rift in the party and igniting anger among those in its progressive wing who see retaliation for their opposition to DNC Chairman Tom Perez.
That's what it looks like.
So people who oppose Tom Perez are no longer delegates, at-large delegates for the Democratic Party.
For instance, the ousters come ahead of the DNC's first meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada, since Perez took over as chairman with a pledge this year to unite the party that had become badly divided during the brutal Bernie Sanders-Hillary Clinton 2016 primary.
Complaints began immediately after party officials saw a list of Perez's appointments to DNC committees and his roster of 75 at-large members who are chosen by the chair.
The removal and demotion of a handful of veteran operatives stood out, as did what critics charge is the overrepresentation of Clinton-backed members on the Rules and Bylaws Committee.
By the way, Donna Brazil is on the Rules and Bylaws Committee.
Does she understand?
Let's remember she had to leave CNN because she is a cheater.
She's on the Rules and Bylaws Committee, which helped set the terms for the party's presidential primary, though other Sanders and Ellison backers remain represented.
Those who have been pushed out include, ready, here we go, Bray Buckley, the New Hampshire Democrat chairman and longtime DNC official who ran against Tom Perez for the chair before backing Keith Ellison.
He lost his spot on the executive committee and the DNC Rules Committee.
Isn't that something?
Maybe he thinks some of those rules need to change.
Huh, maybe he thinks some of those rules need to change.
James Zogby, the president of the Arab American Institute and prominent Sanders backer, is no longer co-chair of the Resolutions Committee and is off the executive committee, a spot he has held since 2001.
Gone.
Alice Jerman, the party's longtime former secretary and vocal Ellison backer, who was removed from her at-large appointment to the DNC.
Barbara Kaspar-Siperstein, who supported Ellison and Buckley, was tossed from the executive committee.
Remember when Keith Ellison said, you got we're going to do this?
They're going to go on a buddy-buddy.
They came out, him and Tom Perez, shoulder to shoulder, buddy-buddy.
Was Keith Ellison really, really that naive to not know that Tom Perez was going to screw him over and every other goddamn progressive in that party as hard as he could?
Did Keith Ellison, was he really that gullible?
Or did he just fold?
What?
Would he tell progressives to buck up today?
Would he say that again now after this?
I mean, I'm curious.
I don't know.
I'm curious.
I would tweet at Keith Ellison and ask him that question, but he's blocked me on Twitter.
All right, I'll do it.
So you do it.
I'll ask him.
Ask him.
Retweet this article, Adam, and say, hey, Keith Ellison, is it time for us to buck up or actually start our own party?
The move exposes a rift in the partnership between Perez and his deputy chair, Ellison, who have publicly broadcast their bromance since Perez tapped Ellison for the post.
A pretend post.
It has no power.
It's just a bullshit post.
And Keith Ellison went along with it.
And Perez tapped Ellison for the post in a show of unity after their hard-fought race this year for the party's chairmanship.
I'm concerned about the optics, and I'm concerned about the impact, Zogby said, of the changes.
I want to heal the wound of 2016.
Buckley said that while he understands Perez as chairman can do as he pleases, it's all just very disappointing.
German has been on the DNC since the 1980s and was a vocal backer of Ellison for DNC chairman.
It is quite unusual for a former party officer who has been serving on the DNC for forever to just be left out in the cold without even a call from the chairman, Jermond said.
So I assumed it had something to do with my self-support for Keith.
Yes, it probably, yes.
So this is retaliation against progressives.
The DNC denied any retaliation, saying that the changes were an effort to diversify and freshen the party's leadership, and that all the party's officers had a chance to offer input.
They touted new additions like Marissa Richmond, a millennial black transgender activist and the first Dreamer member, Ellie Perez, to point to the DNC's effort at diversity.
Again, they're doing identity politics.
I don't know what those people's politics are.
Despite the shake-up, Zogby's still the co-chair of the party's unity and reform commission, which is fucking hilarious that they have that.
This is a family.
We've always operated that way.
That's what Zogby said.
That's what it said in that news piece, except if you go to James Zogby's Twitter feed, he doesn't say that.
On his Twitter feed, he tweets out that article about it, and he says, this doesn't bring the party together.
It deepens the divide at a time when we need hands on deck for all hands on deck for 18 and 20.
That's exactly what this does.
This is the Democrats wanting to lose to a Republican, then win with a progressive.
This is Tom Perez wanting to lose to Republicans, then win with a progressive.
And this is Keith Ellison taking it.
Just taking it.
Propping up that bullshit.
Yeah, I mean, I'm not familiar with the politics of the new appointees either, but I do notice a trend here where it's like, who's in a position where they might be able to influence some change?
Right.
Okay, do they want some change?
Are they maybe discouraged by some of the stuff that's happened?
So could they try to rock the boat?
If so, they're out.
They're out.
That sends a very clear message.
I saw this on the internet.
It says, in a week, the DNC chair Tom Perez has appointed an anti-minimum wage lobbyist, Dan Halperin, to the finance committee.
We reported on that.
I don't know if we put it on this show.
Yes.
I did it at Aggressive Progressives.
Appointed Donna Brazil to the DNC Rules Committee after she had to resign as acting chair for misconduct.
Dismissed several pro-Sanders and longtime DNC members and proposed adding lobbyists from Fox News, Sitco Oil, and Wall Street Citigroup as super delegates.
That's good old Tom Perez.
Tom, that's why they boo you when you show up in public.
That's why you get booed in public.
And this is the Democrats overwhelmingly letting you know that they are wanting to lose again.
They don't give a shit.
This is one big group and you ain't in it.
And the group's Wall Street Cash Group.
It's Big Pharma Cash Group.
It's the Military Industrial Complex Cash Group.
It's Fossil Fuel Oil Cash Group, baby, and you ain't in it.
And that's Tom Perez.
And that's Tom Perez, the death of the Democratic Party.
That's Tom Perez selling out America.
That's Tom Perez working against you.
Tom Perez is working against you.
Tom Perez doesn't give a shit about you, and he's working against you.
You know, it's just one of those things.
How many slaps in the face can you take before you turn and go elsewhere?
I mean, you know, I have a lot of friends and colleagues that still have not abandoned hope in the Democratic Party, and we see eye to eye on a lot of things.
And they're like, Ron, come on, why won't you just lesser two evils, blah, blah, blah.
Why won't you just get in line?
And my honest answer at this point, I was like, they're not letting me.
At this point, it's like the Democrats, they pretty much have said, no, we don't want you around.
And I'm saying, okay, message received.
They've explicitly said it to me.
Yeah.
They've explicitly said it.
We don't need you.
Okay.
You didn't have me last time and you lost.
You're not going to have me next time.
Tom Perez is the enemy of progressives.
He's the enemy of America.
Tom Perez is the friend of corporations who are screwing America.
Tom Perez is not looking out for you.
Tom Perez is your enemy, as is the corporate Democratic Party.
And I don't know what the fuck Bernie Sanders thinks he's going to pull off, but they keep getting shittier, don't they, Bernie?
They keep getting shittier.
The first thing they did was they installed him over Keith Ellison.
The second thing they did was they started taking corporate cash at the DNC.
And now look what they're doing.
And by the way, they're smearing anybody on your fucking University Reform Committee who actually has an idea.
So, Bernie, time to start a third party.
Hello?
Is this nightclub jerking Jed Jimmy Door?
It's Jagoff Nightclub comedian.
Thank you.
Is this Ted Cruz?
sweaty Teddy ain't taking no crap.
Ted, are you drunk again?
No!
I think you are, buddy.
How much did you have to drink, Ted?
Like two wine coolers.
A grown man getting drunk off of two wine coolers.
I didn't even know that was possible.
Your face is possible.
What?
That doesn't even make sense.
Maybe not to a Bernie bro like you, which, by the way, I had a wine cooler because I'm celebrating.
I kicked Bernie's ass in another debate.
Oh, yeah, there was that CNN debate.
Those are really productive.
He was all like, it's an estate tax, blah, blah, blah.
I was like, look, man, it's a death tax.
Like, you die, there's the tax man.
You know, like, hey, give me money.
And you're all like, don't tread on me.
I'm dead.
I'm pretty sure that's not how the estate tax works, Ted.
Yeah, well, you're old and Vermont sucks.
Ted, you're not debating Bernie anymore.
This is Jimmy Doerr.
Oh, well, what do you want?
You called me, Ted.
What do you want?
I don't want to see a tax man when I die, Jimmy.
I just want to go to heaven, which, by the way, is a place where nobody can check your browser history.
And there's at least three hours worth of new SNM videos every day with no monthly fees.
Wow, that wine cooler is making you a little too honest.
I'm a master debate, bitch.
Ha!
Okay, well, I do appreciate that you pointed out that following actual progressives is the only way the Democrats have any chance at survival.
Even you could see that.
Why?
Thank you, Jimmy.
And you pointed out that if Bernie was cheated, he would have been president.
Yeah, man.
He wouldn't have been, though, if he ran against me.
I'd be president.
You think?
Yeah, I'd squash him.
He'd be all like, healthcare is all right, and we need to invest in infrastructure and education.
And I'd be like, hey, hey, hey, you're still a Jew.
Mike dropped the crowd, goes wild.
That's absolutely disgusting, Ted.
And I think you should go to bed.
And then I'd need a face mask.
Why do you need a face mask, Ted?
To protect myself from all the panties hitting me in the face.
That all the ladies would throw them because of that sick burn I put on Bernie.
Who's feeling the burn now, bitch?
Okay, I gotta go.
The Grooves!
The Grooves!
I don't know if you saw this, but Donald Trump, he got upset at NBC, right?
And he's saying stuff like he wants to pull their license.
Remember this?
With all the folks, fake news coming out of NBC and the networks.
At what point is it appropriate to challenge their license?
Bad for the country.
First of all, NBC doesn't have a license.
Individual stations have licenses.
That's how it works.
You don't get a license for the fucking network.
And of course, he doesn't know that because he's a fucking warrant.
All right.
But people are upset.
People go, before Trump threatened NBC's license, McConnell said he'd make it easier to confirm his judges who'd rule on legality of Trump's actions.
Oh, people are upset.
Adult daycare shift alert.
Please report for duty.
Okay.
And then this guy, Judge Luddy, I like this guy.
He says Trump embraces authoritarian instincts, threatens to revoke NBC's license for critical coverage.
So that's what people were saying about Trump when he attacked NBC news, right?
And then they said this too at the Washington Post, why Trump's assault on NBC and fake news threatens freedom of the press and his political future.
But guess what?
As Glenn Greenwald reminds us, everybody in favor of journalistic independence, everybody's in favor of it until a media outlet publishes an article or column containing a view they dislike.
Like, what would be an example of that?
Like, I don't know, maybe Hillary Clinton and WikiLeaks?
I don't know, maybe.
Let's hear what she has to say about WikiLeaks.
Gassange has become a kind of nihilistic opportunist who does the bidding of a dictator.
While I'm a nihilistic.
Yeah, well, I'm a nihilistic opportunist who does the bidding of the corporate state.
Gassange has become a kind of nihilistic opportunist who does the bidding of a dictator.
Lots of people, including in Australia, think that Assange is a martyr for free speech and freedom of information.
How would you describe him?
I mean, he's a tool of Russian intelligence.
He's a tool of Russian intelligence, just like any news media outlet who publishes stuff.
What is that?
The Wikileaks is an award-winning news organization, which, by the way, has never printed a false thing ever.
Okay.
So just their problem.
Yeah, that's their problem.
How would you describe it?
I mean, he's a tool of Russian intelligence.
And if he's such a martyr of free speech, why doesn't WikiLeaks ever publish anything coming out of Russia?
First of all, they said the WikiLeaks podesta emails came from Russia.
So they did publish that shit.
Why would she say that about Russia?
Everybody hates us.
Why would it be that Russians are trying to...
Yeah.
Yeah.
Why would they pretend it's just Russia?
Yeah.
Like that Russia set him up to like a bunch of people.
Why do you call this shit?
Why do I think?
Why do you think she would do that?
Well, I guess because she has maybe some interest in Russia, possibly, or some I would think because she lost to the most beatable candidate in the history of the world.
So she has to pretend that Russia fucking helped beat her.
That's what she has to do.
Really?
She's doing what journals do, just publish information when they get it?
I don't think so.
I think, for number one, it's stolen information.
And if all you did was publish it, that would be one thing.
But there was a concerted operation between Wikileaks and Russia and most likely people in the United States.
And this thing called the internet.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Hey weaponized that information.
And then he said he then she says, as I say, she weaponized that information.
And by weaponizing information, I think she made it available to the public unedited.
That's by weaponized.
You know, you guys found out what we were really thinking.
You know, my public position and my private position.
You know how we were fucking you over.
You know, he wanted to export fracking to the rest of the world.
You know all that shit.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it doesn't matter.
Can I point out something real quick?
Yeah.
If Julian Assange was a nihilist, he wouldn't have his job.
You know what I mean?
Like, he wouldn't be like, hey, Julian, we got this thing.
This is going to change.
And he'd be like, nothing matters.
We're all going to die.
Like, it doesn't make any sense what she said about him.
Like, none.
All right.
I just wanted to point that out.
It bothered me.
And my whole point is, why does everybody freak out when Donald Trump says something about why the Trump's assault on NBC?
so when Trump says something about NBC news, everybody has the right reaction.
Hey, he's being oppressive.
He's being a totalitarian.
Hey, he's threatening the freedom of the press.
But when Hillary Clinton talks about another award-winning news organization who printed shit that she didn't like and says that they're working for Russians and all this stuff, and nobody has a problem.
Oh, yeah, Get, that's right, that Julian Sims, he's in it.
The WikiLeaks, they're assholes.
So you see the double standard.
That's what I'm trying to make.
That's the point I'm trying to make.
Well, this is most unexpected.
A phone call is interrupting the podcast.
Caller ID says Antebellum South.
How do you do, Mr. Doar?
The Honorable Jeff Sessions at your service, sir.
Well, how'd your congressional hearing go today, Jeff?
I appreciate the honor of your inquiry, Mr. Doar, but may I present you an interrogative forthwith to you firstly?
Sure.
Why is that young lady, Sarah Silverman, so nasty?
How do you mean?
I thank you for asking, son.
For one thing, proper ladies simply do not tolerate bright colors.
I notice how Miss Silverman wears unladylike clothing decorated in the most unflattering shades of blue and red and the like.
Plus, let me finish, son.
Do not interrupt, please.
You took a long time to ask your question, and now it's my time to answer.
I'm sorry, go ahead.
I also took note of how often this lady wears men's clothing.
Now, while it may be fine for women to wear men's clothing in the privacy of their homes in public, it is nothing but an affront to men.
That's rather old-fashioned, don't you think?
May I please finish, sir?
I'm sorry, go ahead.
I also noted no evidence of either a corset or a petticoat in any of her live performances.
As we all know, a proper woman's waistline should be raised up to the bottom of the bosom area.
Or as we in the South call it, the neck area.
While I may have seen Miss Silverman Bear on several occasions, not once has she ever curtsied in public.
Wow, that's pretty damning.
That's all they have of it.
The relations between the sexes in the bedroom must be brought up in a social situation.
One should always mention the custom of putting a wooden board in the middle of the bed to separate the man from the woman.
A man should never be allowed to touch a lady except on the elbow.
Do you understand?
Well, then, how do you commit Congress with each other?
To a hole in the board, idiot.
You see, it's all about good breeding and cultural refinement.
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