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Get ready for an outstanding entertainment program.
The Jimmy Dore Show.
Hey, looks like we have Vince Von on the phone.
Vince, how are you?
Jimmy baby, great.
How are you doing?
I'm fine, Vince.
So, so you're well.
Well, as wellness itself, the very, you know what?
The very concept, the platonic ideal of being well, quite frankly, not to put too fine a point on it.
I'm doing wonderful.
Wonderfully, the adverb, I suppose.
I think it's safe enough to say, dare I say, yes, wonderful.
I dare say, wonderful.
Wow, that's amazing.
What's going on?
Absolutely nothing.
What?
Not a goddamn thing, Jimmy.
I don't understand.
Nothing is happening for me or to me at the moment.
Okay.
Which, by extension, means no one is accusing me of sexual misconduct.
I'm a Hollywood actor, Seamus.
Don't you see?
I'm a prince among men.
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man who can keep his dick in his pants is king shit.
I see.
And I might add, if I may, and you can be honest here, don't I seem like a guy who would be accused by someone of something?
Yeah, um, you can be honest, baby.
I'm a big baby boy bear.
I can handle it.
I mean, it's my own suggestion.
I don't see how I could be offended by you simply acquiescing to my own positive suggestion.
Okay, well, now that you mention it, I guess that besmirch double V. But you said I'm just Joshin, baby.
I'm just Josh.
No, I get it.
I do.
I do.
But here's the truth.
I'm as innocent as chocolate cake.
I've never done anything like that in my entire life.
And you should be able to tell that.
You know why?
Why, Vince?
Because I'm not woke.
Not woke?
Not even close.
I'm a sleepy fuck, Jimbo.
I'm less woke than a hibernating bear in a cave full of empty tequila bottles.
Look at all these chibronis being called out these days.
They're all male feminists.
IVs, Dan Harmon.
All of them.
They're all nerds who never got laid.
And then they got famous and became woke and feminist to try to up their market value with the ladies.
But at the end of the day, they don't know how to treat these broads.
Me, on the other hand, I shit on feminism every chance I get.
I told everyone who would listen that I'm not voting for Hillary Clinton because she looks like a bag filled with other bags.
Vince.
And you know what?
I am the safest kind of man to be around.
I treat the ladies around me like a gentleman.
A gentleman, Jimmy.
Top hat, monocle, owns property.
A gentleman.
And they know it too, baby.
Do you think in a million years I've ever forced a woman's head down to my crotch?
Are you fucking kidding me?
What kind of a pathetic sexual desperado move is that?
That is some broke-ass dog day afternoon last resort shit.
If anything, you know what?
If I'm going to be honest right here, and I think I will be honest with you because I trust you, I got to swaddle away from down there.
You know what I mean, baby?
Hey, I got to get some sleep eventually.
This class is closed for the night.
You can sleep in the parking lot, sweetheart, sugar britches, but you got to wait until morning to get back in.
But why are you so happy?
Because, Jimmy, this whole thing is great for me.
Who are the main people going down?
As far as actors, nerds, all of them.
So I'm just waiting this thing out.
This whole purge that's happening right now.
Nerd culture moved in six or seven years ago, and it took over like the fucking Mongols.
All of a sudden, everyone had to be some fucking trembling petunia to be in a comedy movie.
So I started getting phased out because I seemed too mean or whatever.
Well, no one stopped to think that nerds are and always have been titty-grabbing sad sacks.
And now it's time to play the piper, and I'm loving it.
Once we chase the last of these limp-wristed, gluten-free high-talkers back to whatever Midwestern indie music scene they crawled their flatty torsos out of in the fucking first place, I'm going to be back on top.
Me and Luke Wilson and all the rest of the frat pack, we're going to have a frat renaissance.
It's going to be great.
You want to be in on it?
Can you get on the ground floor?
What do you say, Jimbo?
You can be like the political guy in the team.
Yeah, Vince, I'm married, but I appreciate it.
No, that is nothing.
No, that's nothing.
I'm talking about being talking about show business.
I'm not talking about getting girls.
You know what?
Back on top.
Career-wise, that's what I'm talking about.
We're going to dominate comedy again.
Oh, okay.
Fucking dudes, like you and me.
You guys are funny.
There's no doubt about it.
Although, you know, your politics are very questionable.
You know what?
This call is not about that.
Who cares?
Okay.
That's good.
That could be that could be a dynamic.
I could be the conservative guy.
You could be the liberal guy, you know, we have at it or whatever.
You know, the problem is that you run the risk of making your horrible views likable because you're so likable.
I know.
It's very dangerous.
It's very dangerous, and I have fun with it.
I have a lot of fun.
I'm not going to lie.
One time I was just fucking around, half kidding.
I got Danny Bonaduchi to start drinking again.
That's the mojo I have.
All right.
Well, listen, okay, Vince.
Well, listen, Vince.
I'm glad you're happy.
And good luck.
I look forward to your next movie.
Thank you.
You take care of yourself, Jimmy Door.
Jimmy Baby.
I'm doing great.
How are you doing?
It's the Jimmy Dore Show.
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Hey, let's get to the joke before we give to the jokes.
You know, Chris Christie's no longer New Jersey governor.
Hey, Chris, don't let the door and the picture window next to it and the interior wall covering that next to that and the warehouse entrance next to that hit you in the ass on the way out.
*laughs*
He's a large man.
I would never watch a Betsy DeVos sitcom, so I'm sure not going to watch a Roseanne sitcom.
Hey, did you hear Robert Mueller, FBI special investigator?
He has subpoenaed Steve Bannon.
Did you know that?
Suspena Steve Bannon.
Bannon might take the fifth, but we'd all prefer if he'd take a bath.
By the way, Donald Trump, least racist president to ever spend Martin Luther King Day golfing.
I refuse to get upset about the missile false alarm in Hawaii unless Democrats can find a way to blame it on Bernie Sanders' jacket.
You know, America has bigger wrong nuclear missile buttons to push than any other country.
Bombscare him, Daniel.
You know, I think it's everybody has dreams in America.
I think it's every American's hope to one day get that job that pays just enough for them to lose their health care.
Am I right?
You know, I knew all those years of searching for shithole in Google News would one day pay off.
I don't know if you heard Donald Trump called certain countries shitholes.
Saying that is racist, yes.
Donald Trump is racist, obviously.
Dropping over 26,000 bombs a year on a Muslim country?
No, that's just foreign policy.
You know how I like to commemorate every Martin Luther King Jr.
Day by remembering all the refreshingly radical things that Democrats and Republicans refuse to remember him saying.
Hey, what's coming up on today's show?
We're going to talk about the Democrats' unbelievably horrible strategy of not opposing Trump's border wall.
That's the Democrats.
Hey, resistance.
We're going to talk about that.
Plus, Chelsea Manning announced a Senate run, and guess who's decided to smear her?
The answer just may surprise you, or will it?
And we take a look at when liberals turn their back on Martin Luther King.
When do you think that happened?
When he was marching for civil rights or when he turned on the war machine, the answer will not surprise you.
Plus, phone calls today from Vince Vaughan, Jeb Bush, and Mitt Romney.
And now, here's a word from Rick Perry to tell you about Mike McRae's stand-up show.
Hey, what's going on, Jimmy Dorfans?
This is former governor of Texas, Rick Perry.
If you're like me, you like to support the arts and the art scene in Texas, specifically in Austin.
You can see the Jimmy Doerr shows on Mike McRae, headlining Cap City Comedy Club in Austin, Texas on Wednesday, January 24th at 8 p.m.
Go online to CapCityComedy.com.
More information, but I'll certainly be there.
And you should go.
You know, it's going to be a lot fine.
I'm going to take some muscle relaxers and go to slap my ass off.
So you should be there too.
God bless you.
And God bless the current governor, who I call Hot Wheels.
Okay, so go see Mike in Austin.
And all that's coming up today on the Jimmy Dore Show.
Hi, everybody.
I'm here with Rob LeCode.
Howdy, howdy, Jimmy.
Oh, good to see you.
Guess who's running for Senate, Rod?
That's Chelsea Manning.
And here we go.
Here's the commercial campaign commercial.
We live in trying times.
times of fear.
Of suppression.
Hate.
We don't need more or better leaders.
We need someone willing to fight.
We need to stop asking them to give us our rights.
They won't support us.
They won't compromise.
We need to stop expecting that our systems will somehow fix themselves.
We need to actually take the reins of power from them.
We need to challenge them at every level.
We need to fix this.
We don't need them anymore.
We can do better.
You're damn right.
We got this.
I love that commercial.
Yeah.
Damn right we got this.
Yeah, I like it.
All right.
Someone who's she's shown she's going to fight.
She took on torture.
She knew what was coming when she's outed war crimes of our government.
She knew what was coming.
So, well, what she did was she was convicted in 2013 of stealing 750,000 pages of sets in the government documents and videos and leaking them to WikiLeaks and received a sentence of 35 years in prison on 20 counts, including violating the Espionage Act.
And then President Obama commuted the sentence in January of 2017.
And now she's running against Ben Cardin.
He's 74.
He has not announced if he's going to seek a third term in the Senate.
His campaign committee has nearly $2 million in cash on hand.
Yeah, and they don't get to directly keep that money when they retire, but they kind of pretty close get to keep it.
They get to create another pack, and then they get to have it forever, and they can use it for whatever they want.
So even though they can't directly funnel it right into their pocket, they are pretty close.
So that $2 million, if you don't run, we get to do what we want.
Well, by the way, here's the guy that she's going to run against.
So he looks like a symbol of the establishment, if there ever there was one.
But you could say that about Bernie Sanders, how he looks the same way, right?
Yeah.
I mean, you know, but this guy's totally different than Bernie Sanders.
How do I know that?
Well, over at the Glenn Greenwald tells us that he has remarkably few achievements for being in Congress for so many years.
Ben Cardin.
One of his few distinctions is that he became one of the Senate's most reliable and loyal supporters of APEC's agenda and the Israeli government, if not the single most loyal.
So we know who APEC is.
It's the group that lobbies on behalf of Israel here in the United States that has all the politicians in their pocket, which is why even though most, you know, just like the United States, Trump might be in power.
Most people here don't support him.
Israel is very close to the same thing.
Even though Netanyahu is in power, there's lots of people in Israel that don't support their right-wing agenda.
Okay, so keep that in mind.
And that's who APEC represents, the people who do support Netanyahu in their agenda.
And that's who Cardin's in the pocket of.
In fact, Manning's opponent in the Democratic Party is one of the most standard, banal, typical, privileged, and mediocre politicians in the U.S. Congress.
This is according to Glenn Greenwald.
Benjamin Cardin, a 74-year-old white, straight man who is seeking his third six-year Senate term.
But Cardin's crowning achievement came last year.
He's one of these guys.
Listen to this.
When he authored a bill that would have made it a felony to support a boycott, an economic boycott of Israel.
A bill that was such a profound assault on the basic First Amendment freedoms that the ACLU instantly denounced it.
That's who Ben Cardin is, the guy who chilled.
So he wants to suppress your rights, make actually exercising the First Amendment a crime.
That's what Ben Cardin's trying to do.
Whereas Chelsea Manning put her life in harm's way to expose crimes of the government and give us more freedom and transparency in our government.
Despite all this, this is Glenn Greenwell talking, or perhaps because of it, establishment Democrats wasted no time in mocking and denouncing Manning's bid to become the first ever trans woman in the Senate.
Instead, quickly lining up in support behind the great, the straight white male who has wielded power for decades.
And here's, well, here's Neera Tandon.
Now, she's that fake.
She runs the Center for American Progress, which is Hillary Clinton's campaign manager's organization he founded.
So she's in bed with the Clinton campaign.
And if Clinton would have gotten the White House, she would have some White House position.
She'd be very important right now.
Well, they lost it.
She's not, so she's bitter, and she's blaming everybody except themselves.
And here's her tweet.
Her tweet says, Senator Cardin authored and released a 200-page masterpiece on Russian influence in Western elections.
Suddenly, he has a primary from Kremlin Stooge Assange WikiLeaks primary source, Chelsea Manning.
The Kremlin plays the extreme left to swing elections.
Remember that.
So they're doing, that's McCarthyism.
That's what that is.
If you're to the left of the corporate Democrats, you're a Kremlin puppet.
They're literally doing what McCarthy did.
That's literally what they're doing.
Now, Chelsea Manning, who's a patriot and a hero, is being smeared by one of Hillary Clinton's besties.
And one of the most powerful people, the head of the Center for American Progress, is just literally smearing anybody to the left of her as a Kremlin puppet.
That's the most disgusting thing you could do.
Neeratandon, a disgusting human being.
How she got anybody has to listen to what she has to say in politics is beyond me.
No one's ever voted for Neera Tandon.
When she gives a speech, five people show up.
The only reason she has power is because people with money, she's connected to them.
And here she is smearing to the left.
She's literally doing what the right wing does.
If you're on the left, you're a Kremlin puppet.
Anybody to the left of Wall Street is a Kremlin puppet, according to the Democrats.
And just for clarification's sake, she retweeted this.
So she's endorsing it.
So she's endorsing this.
Yes.
She retweeted this is some guy, Josh Manning, who knows who that is.
This is Neera Tandon retweeting this.
Yes, I'm sorry.
I didn't make that clear.
I'm sorry.
Thanks for that.
Yeah.
So now anybody to the left of Wall Street is a Kremlin puppet.
That's where we're at.
Chelsea Manning is probably has a good chance of becoming a senator.
Yeah, I wish there was pre-Russian smearing her.
Yeah.
I wish there was a way I could somehow become a resident of Maryland just long enough to vote for her and then move back to Los Angeles.
Here's another one: Zach Petkanis.
Is that how you say his name?
I don't even know how to say his last name.
Petkanis.
Petkanis.
Petkanis, but you have to say it eight times, like the amount of times he said.
He said Jill Stein is a Russian.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You have to say it eight times in a mirror.
So he tweeted out, I should show you that, but I don't have it.
That Jill Stein is a Russian puppet, right?
Or an agent, something like that.
He tweeted out eight times.
He just said it.
Well, when you repeat a lie a bunch, that's when people start to believe.
Yeah, like you repeat it.
Chelsea Manning could have leaked the info anywhere, Zach says.
He tried.
He tried to work with the New York Times.
By the way, they were all working together, Wikileaks, New York Times, and Chelsea.
She went to an arm of Russian intelligence bent on supplanting liberal democracy worldwide with right-wing authoritarianism.
That's just like something that's just, they just say that.
You just get to say that.
Yeah, you just say that about WikiLeaks now.
When LikiLeaks was exposing crimes inside the George Bush White House, the Democrats loved them.
They love Julian Sans.
They loved it when they were talking about how bad the war being run by the Bush White House was.
And then, you know, they were trying to suppress that left-wing regime, the Bush administration.
Yes.
So just whatever fits your narrative, just make it up, which is what this guy, Zach, is doing.
She and she and all unapologetic Russian assets, winning and unwitting, don't belong in the Senate.
So this is amazing.
This is the world we're living in.
By the way, Caitlin Johnson tweeted out, this is the same drooling idiot who, A, helped run a presidential campaign that lost to a reality TV star, and B, recently tweeted the phrase, Jill Stein is a Russian agent eight times.
Here's Daniel Ellsberg.
Daniel Ellsberg is universally regarded as a hero and a truth teller at the time when he revealed the Pentagon papers, which revealed decades-long lying by the government about the Vietnam War, which is what the Pentagon papers did, revealed decades-long lying.
And that's why he's like, wow, every administration has been lying to the American public, Kennedy, Johnson, Nick.
We got to tell them the truth.
So he tells the truth about it, which they smeared him then, called him a puppet of the Kremlin and Russian and all that stuff, just like they did.
They do that to anybody who sticks up for the truth or people.
And so now he's considered a hero by everybody.
By the way, there's a movie out right now about this, right?
The Washington Post.
What's the movie called?
The Post?
Yeah.
Yeah.
The Post.
So now he's a hero.
40 years later, 50 years later, he's a super big hero.
And here's what he says about Chelsea Manning.
Chelsea, speaking for myself, there's no one on this earth that I identify with more than with you.
We have different backgrounds, different circumstances, but each of us faced life in prison as you face an exorbitant and enormous sentence right now for doing what we knew was the right thing to do, telling the truth about a wrongful war.
I know that this meant a change in your life, just as it meant a change in my life.
And I have felt from the moment I heard your words in the chat logs, in fact, that you were prepared to give your life if necessary in order to share these truths with the American people in hopes of ending the suffering of people that we have treated horribly.
A crime against humanity, really, which America has never yet faced up to, what we have done to the people of Iraq, and indeed in Afghanistan as well.
You've had an enormous effect, more than I would say the Pentagon Papers were able to have in the short run, at least.
In terms of your inspiration for the Arab Spring, in terms of the awakening people to the crimes of torture and detention that we have continued to commit in Iraq, and inspiring really through the Arab Spring and the change of government in Tunisia and Egypt, you should know that you directly inspired the Occupy movement in this country.
And as I have said very often, I believe that without the cables you revealed of the atrocities that had gone unprosecuted in this country, atrocities that our own troops committed, that we would now have tens of thousands, perhaps more, troops in Iraq right now in harm's way, and many of them will have died, as well as more atrocities have occurred.
So you have actually saved lives, I'm sure, without any doubt.
And I really believe that you will never regret what you have done, despite the hardship that you face.
I say this Because I've known a number of people who spent years in prison, not as long as you were charged with or I was charged with.
But I do not know one who regretted the actions they had taken to resist nonviolently the Vietnam War.
And they were proud of having done it and realized that it was the right thing to do.
So I think of you as a sibling here, as someone that I identify with very much and admire.
And when I say I identify, I would have to say that I identify what you did with my own actions at my best.
And like every human, I'm not always at my best.
But I do respect the truth telling I did 40 years ago.
And I will always respect and admire what you have done for the world.
Wow.
Wow, there you go.
So that's what Daniel Ellsberg thinks of Chelsea Manning.
I guess that he's out of lockstep with the Democrats.
Yeah.
Well, I mean, I just, what greater qualification could there be for public service than a proven history of putting your neck on the line, putting your life on the line to expose injustice?
I can't think of a better one.
Can you?
No.
Let's remember what Malcolm X said.
If you read the newspapers, he'll have you loving your oppressors and hating the people who are oppressed.
So that's what they're trying to do right now.
And Daniel Ellsberg and Chelsea Manning messed with the deep state.
They messed with the intelligence community.
And let's remember what they do.
If you tell the truth about their crimes, remember what they'll do to you.
You take on the intelligence community.
They have six ways from Sunday of getting back at you.
So even for a practical, supposedly hard-nosed business.
You take on the intelligence community.
They have six ways of Sunday to get back at you.
Look at that.
They tortured Chelsea Manning, put her in prison for years for exposing their crimes.
So that's what's happening.
Now they're, and here's an article about that centrist Dems launched smear campaign against young trans women, all to keep an old, straight white man in power.
So that's what's happening right now.
You saw, you saw the tweets, you saw it's going to get worse.
I can't wait to watch Rachel Maddows do a smear piece on Chelsea Manning because that's coming to watch a gay woman smear a trans woman.
That'll be fun, right?
Yeah.
Well, we'll see.
We'll see.
Fingers crossed, Rachel doesn't go down that path.
I have a feeling she will.
Well, I think it would either be that or she would just ignore it entirely.
Yeah, either that or she'll ignore it.
Okay.
I don't watch anymore.
People, you watch those shows.
I can't watch the MSNBC anymore.
It's just too disgusting.
It's too horrible.
It's horrible.
I watch it for five minutes.
I've got a whole week's full of shows just showing all the stupid stuff that's happening over there.
And there's people who want to go on those shows.
Ha ha ha ha ha.
Ah.
Bye.
Music I'm here with Ron Placone.
Howdy, howdy, Jimmy.
And we thought two white guys would talk to you about Martin Luther King on Martin Luther King Day.
So here's what I love.
I love he says such great stuff.
This is going to talk about the parts of Martin Luther King that people don't talk about.
Colin Kaepernick tweeted this out.
I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate.
That's MLK.
The Negro's, the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the Ku Klux Klan or but the white moderate.
Hmm.
Sounds very much like the message we've been saying on this show.
The true enemy of progressives is not the neocon conservative right-wing or Ku Klux Klan or anybody.
It's the corporate Democrat, the moderate.
Who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a more convenient season?
The white moderate.
That's what they do to progressives, right?
With progress, they go, you guys want everything all at once.
There's no magic does.
It's got a little bit, little bit.
That's what he's saying.
That incrementalism is bullshit.
And he says, shallow understanding from people of goodwill is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.
That's a great quote.
It is.
So I want to jump to this.
This was another quote from Martin Luther King.
Again, we have deluded ourselves into believing the myth that capitalism grew and prospered out of the Protestant ethic of hard work and sacrifice.
The fact is that capitalism was built on the exploitation and suffering of black slaves and continues to thrive on the exploitation of the poor, both black and white, both here and abroad.
And that's why they really killed him.
When he really started to go against the Vietnam War and stand up against capitalism is when his days were short.
Civil rights is fine as long as your civil rights fits into the package of capitalism, right?
And war.
So this is from the intercept, Zaid Jalani.
Is that how you say his name?
I think so.
He wrote this.
What is the Santa classification?
What the Santa classification of Martin Luther King Jr. leaves out.
He goes, this Santa classification of King, as scholar Cornell West calls it, the portrayal of King as a celebrated consensus seeker asking for common sense racial reforms rather than as an anti-establishment radical, which is what he was.
It downplays the risks one of America's most revered activists took to live according to conscience.
So, yeah, so our story of Martin Luther King Jr. has always been he just worked for civil rights.
And this, I was obviously wrong, and you could see it.
But the other stuff they gloss over, King was not just a fighter for racial justice.
He also fought for economic justice and against war.
And as a result, he spent the last years of his life before being assassinated in 1968, clashing not just with reactionary Southern segregationists, but with the Democratic Party elite.
Just like anybody who sticks up for anyone left behind by capitalism, that's what they'll do.
They'll smear you.
Anybody who stands up against war, they're smearing Chelsea Manning right now, the Democrats, because Chelsea Manning's running for Senate.
So there it is.
He found he was not just clashing with reactionary Southerners, but also the Democratic Party elite and other civil rights leaders who viewed his turn against the Vietnam War and the American economic system as dangerous and radical.
So we're anti-war and we're pointing out the brutalities of capitalism and how capitalism effed up.
So we'll never be the darlings of establishment press.
We're always going to be a pariah that they're always going to try and spin us as a kook or the radicals who you can't listen to or don't know how things work.
That's what they did to Bernie Sanders.
Jill Starr wrote, we're Russians, We're Russians.
We're communists.
We're Putin puppets.
That's what they do.
That's what they do to the people who are truly left.
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Now let's get on to the second half.
That sounds like the Romney phone.
Hello, Mitt Romney.
Jim, Jimmy.
This is Mitt Mittney Rev Romney to the power of love.
Wishing you and yours a happy Joseph Smith Day.
Today's Joseph Smith Day.
Every day is Joseph Smith Day, Jimmy.
I like to celebrate by feasting upon an oversized bowl of Mrs. Cubison's Caesar salad croutons restaurant style.
They're perfectly toasted.
Governor Romney.
Future Senator Mittens, Jimmy.
It's in the bag.
I'm the next senator from Utah who never lived there.
It's a new era.
Get with it, Squaresville.
Are you going to run as a Trump friend or foe?
Absolutely.
You're darn right.
Next question.
No, because you just denounced President Trump's shithole countries comment in a tweet.
Do you still condemn what he said, Mitt?
Oh, yes.
I stand by my tweet, Jimmy.
His statement is antithetical to American values.
I'm glad to hear you say that.
Especially if you ignore most of our history.
What he should have said was toilet dump or shitbox.
As you know, I am a native of shitbox, Michigan.
And of course, my father hailed from the nearby hamlet of Toilet Dump.
During the 1800s, there was quite the little rivalry between shitbox and toilet dump, as you might expect.
This resulted in the massacre of thousands of Indians.
Not the spicy buffet kind, but the woo-woo type.
So what became of this rivalry?
As the years passed, Toilet Dump was incorporated into shitbox and renamed East Toilet Dump Shitbox.
Meanwhile, West Shitbox became a ghost town, unable to regain its past glory.
And then a miracle happened.
Which was a pigberry.
Today, West Shitbox claims the largest movie's multiplex in Crap Bucket County, the AMC Shitbox 30 Cinemas.
One day, when I have more time, I'll recount the long and sordid history of Crap Bucket County's water wars.
Yes, waiter, one word salad.
Hold the jokes, please.
Hold the jokes.
So we can expect this kind of criticism against Trump during your Senate campaign.
Jimmy, I thoroughly denounce the use of the term shithole to describe any nation, be it a white nation or be it a it's important that we not piss off any shithole countries that might have a lot of gold or oil that we haven't discovered yet.
So you're definitely prepared for the upcoming Senate campaign.
I'm pale, rested, and insulated by wealth.
What more could the people of Utah ask for?
Just say goodbye.
Goodbye.
Okay, thank you.
Um.
So there's a little more to this.
Many in the civil rights community warned King to focus on black civil rights and ignore the war as to not alienate the Democratic Party.
He gave a speech at Riverside Church in New York City.
This is the speech.
That was the speech that really put him on the other side of the Democrats.
He gave a speech at Riverside Church in New York City where he called the U.S. government the greatest purveyor of violence in the world and denounced napalm bombings and propping up of a puppet government in South Vietnam.
He also called for a total reexamination of U.S. foreign policy, questioning capitalist exploitation of the developing world.
And then they killed him.
That's not funny, but that's when they killed him.
That's when it's like, you're going to get people to go against the war and capitalism.
You're going to show the brutality.
No.
Well, here's some of his speech that night.
For those who asked the question, quote, aren't you a civil rights leader and thereby mean to exclude me from the movement for peace?
I have this further answer.
In 1957, when a group of us formed the Southern Christian Leadership Council, we chose as our motto, quote, to save the soul of America, end quote.
We were convinced that we could not limit our vision to certain rights for black people, but instead affirmed the conviction that America would never be free or saved from itself until the descendants of its slaves were loosed completely from the shackles they still wear.
Now, it should be incandescently clear that no one who has any concern for the integrity and life of America today can ignore the present war.
If America's soul becomes totally poisoned, part of the autopsy must read Vietnam.
It can never be saved so long as it destroys the hopes of men the world over.
So it is that those of us who are yet determined that America will be are led down the path of protest and dissent, working for the health of our land.
That's super controversial.
That was super controversial when he said that.
And he told those, I'm not just for black civil rights.
I'm for the rights of everyone.
King had long considered himself a socialist.
In 1966, he told staff at the Southern Christian Leadership Conference that there must be a better distribution of wealth, and maybe America must move toward democratic socialism.
Call it what you may, call it a democracy or call it democratic socialism, But there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all of God's children.
That's what MLK said.
You can see why they killed him, right, Rod?
Yeah, and there's this popular misconception that, you know, like that, again, like a lot of things that are glossed over where we're kind of taught this thing where MLK was the guy that kind of like, yeah, we want civil rights, but we're going to kind of play it the company way, whereas Malcolm X was the more.
Yeah, and that's not actually true.
There were a lot of parallels in both of their messages that also had messages of peace, also had messages of socialism and other injustices in the world that is often glossed over.
So there's a little more to this.
The last years of King's life saw him escalate his campaign against economic inequality.
He campaigned against the Oklahoma right to work referendum and warned that increased economic competition between whites and blacks would undermine civil rights, calling instead for a grand alliance between working class whites and blacks.
Sounds like something Bernie Sanders was saying.
You see what they got to demean that guy from the corporate left?
He sought to use many of the same tactics he deployed in the South, boycotts, sit-ins, blockades against economic injustice in inner cities in the North, where African Americans were trapped in endemic poverty.
An article from the August 15th, 1967 issue of the New York Times writes up King's desire to, quote, dislocate large cities to force them to address these needs.
The editorial board of the liberal New York Times was less than pleased with Dr. King's choice of tactics.
The Times called the proposed campaign a formula for discord.
This is the New York Times going against Martin Luther King.
And they warned against mass civil disobedience.
The New York Times, don't do it.
Don't do this stuff.
Writing that, quote, once the spark of massive law defiance is applied in the present overheated atmosphere, the potentiality for disaster becomes overwhelming.
You can't speak up too loudly for equality.
Don't speak up too loudly for equality because if you do, shit's going to hit the fan.
Meaning, we're going to have the cops come crack your heads.
We're going to have to call in the National Guard to crack your head.
It's going to be a lot of head cracking.
That's what they're saying.
King was assassinated before he was able to set up the encampment called Resurrection City.
His widow, Coretta Scott King, as well as fellow civil rights leader David Abernathy, went ahead with the plan.
The camp lasted six weeks until police moved in to shut it down and evict all of its inhabitants, pointing to sporadic acts of hooliganism as justification, like they did by the industry.
This sounds familiar.
So you can't overstate how out in front he was against the war and how people were against him being against the war.
Only 9% of the country agreed with King's being against, they were against him coming out against the war.
That was a big deal when he did that.
So this can't be overstated.
Andrew Young, the young civil rights leader who later went on to be Jimmy Carter's UN ambassador and mayor of Atlanta, was horrified, saying the crushing of the camp was worse than the police violence he saw in the South.
So just so you know, that's when shit really hit the fan for Martin Luther King Jr. was when he came out against inequality and capitalism and the war.
Everyone turned on him.
It's a great article.
We'll put a link to it underneath here.
It's a great article.
You can read the whole thing.
Were you aware of that, Ron?
That's because you only get this Santa Claus version of Martin Luther King of him being this, you know, jolly guy who only cared about black civil rights.
But no, he really challenged the establishment in many more ways than just that.
Yeah, I mean, I was taught, you know, like I said earlier, I mean, I was taught that, you know, Martin Luther King was kind of just, yeah, civil rights are a good thing, but, you know, of course, nonviolence.
And of course, he was all about nonviolence, but all of these other critiques that he had, all these other, you know, big parts and all the connections that he made, you know, inequality and stuff like that, that all, you know, that's never taught to you in school, or at least it certainly was not taught to me.
I didn't find out about that until much later in adulthood.
When he started talking against the Vietnam War, everybody's like, hey, don't do it.
It's the same stuff they say to Bernie.
The New York Times came out.
So every liberal, and that's why, you know, we're progressives and not liberals, just so you know.
So if you want to know why I'm not a liberal, listen to Phil Oak's song about Love Me, I'm a Liberal.
But this is another reason why, because the liberals turned on him when he wanted to make real change, when he wanted to challenge the system, the one that had rewarded them.
They're like, no, no, no, easy, buddy.
And plus, the war's cool.
We're always pro-war in this country.
Oh, yeah.
So I think that's a great side of Martin Luther King that's super relevant today.
And of course, I haven't watched the coverage of Martin Luther King on MSNBC or CNN, but I'm going to guess they don't talk about this part.
I'm going to guess this is the part about that.
Maybe that should be the title for this video.
The MLK, MSNBC, and CNN won't talk about.
There you go.
Yeah.
His anti-war.
I'm telling you, everybody came out against them.
The New York Times came out against them.
The press came out against them.
The Democrats came out against them.
They had to stop talking against the war and capitalism.
Well, and also like the manner in which the corporate media, you know, squashes anti-war movements.
I mean, that whole template really started with Vietnam, and they use it to present.
It has not changed one iota.
When they came after Occupy, it's because there's all these, there's drugs and stuff happening in New York City.
And it's not an FBI guy pretending to be an Occupy guy doing, creating unrest and fights and drugs.
No, no, it couldn't be that.
Anyway, so there you go.
That's the part.
So people, I'd like to look more into it.
This is a great article.
But just know that as soon as they start talking against the war, there's no one leading an anti-war to end, not one politician.
Remember, when Barack Obama got elected in 2008, Barney Frank, who's in the pocket of Wall Street, even him back then was like, hey, you know, we need to reduce the Pentagon budget by, let's say, 25%.
Remember that?
You don't hear anybody saying that now.
And Barack Obama said, you shut up with that.
I'm in the pocket of the military industrial complex and Wall Street, and we are ramping up the budget.
And they did.
Oh, yeah, they smeared him big time when he did that.
So God bless Barack Obama for ramping up the military budgets, taking two wars to seven.
And of course, they killed him as soon as Martin Luther King started talking about this stuff.
So there you go.
That's the part of Martin Luther King's story you won't hear on MSNBC tonight.
If they do, let me know.
We'll give them a tip of the hat.
So I don't know if you're like me, but maybe you're sick of the Mick resistance.
And what do I mean by the Mick resistance?
People claiming to be outraged by the stuff Donald Trump does, but they're only outraged by the stuff he says.
They're not outraged with what the stuff he does.
I just did a video.
We showed you a video yesterday where Tim Cook, the head of Apples, praising Trump's tax cuts, which we know are horrible.
That's your Mick resistance.
How about all the Democrats going along with Trump's request for extra billions of dollars for war?
Trump is such an existential threat.
The Democrats gave him 80 billion extra dollars to go create havoc around the world with bombs.
That's Mick resistance.
That's Mick resistance.
They just voted to give Trump, who they say is unhinged and unstable and shouldn't be around the nuclear button.
They just voted to give him unlimited spying powers on you.
That means every activist who stands up against him or the war machine or the CIA or Wall Street or anybody else that now Trump can spy on them legally.
The Democrats did that.
They gave this guy who's supposed to be unhinged.
Oh, go ahead.
They gave him, they expanded his spike.
That's Mick resistance.
Now they say they're also against his border wall.
Really?
Are you against his border wall or are you just against that Trump says it?
Because here's Hillary Clinton being asked about that same thing.
Hi, Secretary Clinton.
I was wondering what you think about securing the Mexican border with some of the illegal immigrants that come in.
Judge Wondering.
Well, look, I voted numerous times when I was a senator to spend money to build a barrier to try to prevent illegal immigrants from coming in.
A barrier.
Not a wall.
It's a totally different word.
Either way, we got to keep those Mexicans out.
Either way.
Barrier's a little nicer sounding.
It sounds great, doesn't it?
Barrier.
Well, barriers also keep out vapor.
You know, you don't want to get a vapor barrier.
I have a vapor barrier in the studio in between the walls.
And I do think you have to control your borders.
Mexico is such an important problem.
Mexican government's policies are pushing migration north.
That sounds like Trump.
They're not sending their best.
They're not sending their best.
That's a version of what she said.
The Mexican government is pushing those people up here.
That's what she's saying.
And she's worried about it.
She wasn't worried.
It wouldn't be worried if they were all great people, right?
Why would you be worried?
There isn't any sensible approach except to do what we need to do simultaneously, you know, secure our borders with technology, personnel, physical barriers if necessary in some places.
And we need to have tougher employer sanctions and we need to kind of incentivize Mexico to do more.
Boy, she's really upset about these Mexicans wanting to come to the United States.
She's got a million things she wants to do to stop them.
They've committed transgressions of whatever kind, they should be obviously deported.
Hi, Secretary Clinton.
Here she is being asked by Jorge Harlhouse.
Now, if you believe in building a wall, what's the difference between your idea and Donald Trump's idea on building a wall with Mexico?
Well, I think that everybody that I know of in the Democratic Party, and it used to be Republicans too.
Now, watch all the talking that happens before she gets to answering the question.
Do you notice that?
Watch all the talking.
Well, I remember this and that you remember that and this and that.
Hey, the question.
Yeah, if I was the candidate, we would have been on to the next question now because I would have been like, I don't support a wall.
Yeah, that was it.
And that'd be like, I don't know, no, we're not building a wall.
Next question.
Oh, Jorge.
Who favored immigration reform also favored border security?
And, you know, that's Ted Kennedy.
It's obviously my husband, President Obama, myself, even, you know, somebody like President George W. Bush, who we forget was trying very hard to push immigration reform and gave up, I think, too easily.
So, yet we do need to have secure borders.
And what that will take is a combination of technology and physical barriers.
We're going to have technology and physical barriers, meaning a wall.
And then he catches her and says, you want a wall then?
No, we've already.
You said that.
Well, I voted for border security, and some of it was a fence.
I don't think we ever called it a wall.
Maybe in some places it was a wall.
It's a pseudo-wall, which, by the way, something else Trump said.
Trump said pretty much that exact same thing.
And I think it was 60 minutes where he was just like, well, in some places, the fence might be okay.
It's going to be the wall.
Yeah.
Same thing.
So what she's referring to is the Secure Fence Act of 2006, which was passed by a Republican Congress and signed by President George W. Bush, authorized about 700 miles of fencing along certain stretches of land between the border of the United States and Mexico.
The act also authorizes the use of more vehicle barriers, checkpoints, and lighting to curb illegal immigration and the use of advanced technology such as satellites and unarmed unmanned, sorry, unmanned aerial vehicles.
I'm going to guess drones.
At the time the act was being considered, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Chuck Schumer were all members of the Senate.
Obama, Clinton, and Schumer, and 23 other Democrat senators voted in favor of the act when it passed in the Senate by a vote of 80 to 19.
80 to 19.
Originally, the act called on the Department of Homeland Security to install at least two layers of reinforced fencing along some stretches of the border.
So that's what they voted for.
And that was her saying that man, she was really stern about it too.
Before when she was younger, she was.
And then Trump comes on the scene like, oh, I have to tone down my language because, hmm, it sounds shitty when Trump says what I want to do.
So now I have to change it.
That's back when they were doing NAFTA.
That's back anyway.
And just so you know, here's Chucky the Shume, Chucky the Schume, the leader, the leader, Democratic leader, top Democrat in the Senate.
There is still bipartisan deal from Senator Derbert to Graham to protect Dreamers.
Get this and fund the president's full request for the wall.
There's your resistance.
So remember that time Hillary was for the wall?
I do.
And now I remember when the Democrats are for the wall too, fully funding the wall.
Do you think that people who voted for Hillary Clinton ever Thought that the Democrats would fully fund the wall.
Do you think people who voted for Chuck Schumer ever thought, besides Wall Street people?
You ever think they ever thought that they would fully fund the wall?
We went from having a clean DACA bill to now building the fucking wall for Trump.
That's where they are.
And as we go to air, it's still up in the air whether the Democrats are going to stand up.
But if the this is the deal they're offering.
So we'll look and we'll know more about it later.
It's interesting how Chuck Schumer, they all came up with this bipartisan deal that fully funds the wall, but Chuck Schumer and his elf will go on to tell us how they're not sold on single payer.
They're not sure how we can pay for that.
How do we pay for the single payer?
Unreal.
So I know people are.
I'm sick of it.
I'm sick of having to show you that the neoliberals are only bullshitting when they say they oppose Trump.
I'm sick of having to show you that.
You're sick of having me to show up.
People go, oh, really, Jimmy?
Hillary's not president.
That's what they'll say.
Well, Chucky the Shoom is the leader, and I'm showing you the hypocrisy.
And if Trump wasn't here, he would be saying that same shit.
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Hello.
Jimmy!
Governor Jeb Bush here.
It's been a while since I grazed your audience with my latest commentary on current events, so here I am.
Governor, you're not governor anymore.
Oh, come on, will you?
People can still call me that, can't they?
I mean, what's the harm?
Besides, a lot of people don't remember how good it was way back when I was the brightest hope of the Republican Party.
Those were the days, huh?
Yeah.
What happened?
We don't have to go into that again, Jeb.
What's done is done.
Yeah, you're right, Jimmy.
Tomorrow's another day.
I get you.
But gosh, I'll heck.
Now, Jeb.
I'm sorry for cussing, but I was going to be president, wasn't I?
Say it, will you?
I was going to be president.
You can say I was like the Hillary Clinton of the Republican Party.
Well, don't you think that's why both of you lost?
Sometimes I just feel like I'm going to bust.
Bust?
Well, golly, I'm sorry.
I didn't mean to say a cuss word.
Hey, we don't have time to get the rest of that phone call in today's radio show.
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That's it for this week.
Until next week, this is Jimmy Dore saying you be the best you can be.
And I'll see you February 16th at Burbank, California.
And I'll keep being me.
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