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Get ready for an outstanding entertainment program.
The Jimmy Dore Show.
Oh, look, it's Chuck Schumer, leader of the resistance.
Hello, Chuck.
Hello, James.
How are you feeling this morning?
Not so good, Chuck.
I'm feeling kind of hungover.
It's been a rough week with the shutdown and all.
You mean where I strategically brokered an agreement whereby in three weeks, we will be doing exactly the same thing again?
That sounds really stupid, Chuck.
What was the point?
You don't get it, Jimmy.
I agreed early this afternoon to back the GOP spending bill in exchange for a promise that they begin debate on DACA legislation.
Pretty neat, huh?
Wait, isn't that exactly what the shutdown was about in the first place?
Exactly.
Only what we did was give the Republicans another three weeks to wait until they don't do anything.
But wait, there's more.
As a bonus for not acting now, I also agreed to give Trump his wall.
Wow.
That really sounds like a good deal for Trump, Chuck.
You're telling me.
So here's what Trump will get.
He'll get not one, not two, but three weeks to do nothing.
Plus, he'll get this stainless steel wall absolutely free.
No extra negotiating.
That almost sounds too good to be true.
That's right, Jimmy.
We guarantee you won't get this kind of caving from any other party.
As a matter of fact, if you find any other party caving this much, we'll match their caving and collapse an additional five times.
How does that sound?
That sounds amazing, Chuck.
So let me get this straight.
I get the first cave-in at the low-low introductory price of just one pointless three-day shutdown.
That's right, but wait, there's more.
In addition to the first cave coming just three days after a pointless shutdown, you'll get to demoralize our base, give a brain annual president a win, and scare millions of innocent children.
That's three added bonuses on top of the initial cave.
All for just ordering now.
Gosh.
Don't forget, the Democratic establishment is also ideal for dips and party foods.
Order now, and I'll personally come over to your house and chop garlic, onions, and great cheese at just four seconds.
Can you be my personal omelet maker, too?
Hey, the Democratic Party can be whatever you want it to be.
All you got to do is pay us.
While that omelet's cooking, can I interest you in any coffee?
Sure, let me find the coffee grinder first.
Oh, sit down and relax, Jimmy.
We don't eat a coffee grinder because in less than 10 seconds, we're going to have fresh ground coffee.
Wow, that was fast.
Boy, the smell of that fresh coffee sure makes me hungry.
Did somebody say muffins?
Heck yeah.
And I like mine fresh with ripe blueberries.
But Steph likes hers with banana and walnuts.
Relax.
It takes no more time to make two different kinds of muffins than it does to cave to the Republicans just three days into a government shutdown.
Hang on a second.
What the heck do you call this again?
It's the Democratic Party system.
Just think.
In a matter of minutes, we gave lip service to immigrants, completely failed them, caved to the Republicans after three days, made fresh coffee and blueberry muffins, and still had enough dip left over for Henry Kissinger.
And all that without dirtying a single pot or pan.
That's right, you hopeless moron.
It's the ultimate party machine.
The complete Democratic Party system includes 240 millionaires and over 12,000 heavy-duty lobbyists.
All for only three easy payments of what's left of your future made out to the Clinton Foundation.
So let's get this party started.
Act now, and you'll receive the second unbelievable bonus.
Kamala Harris claiming she's for criminal justice reform.
This is my party, and it's freaking me out.
The Democratic Party System.
Cave today.
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Hey, let's get to the jokes.
Before we get to the jokes, you know, this week, Melania Trump visited a museum dedicated to the Holocaust.
Yeah.
While her husband was busy at the Economic Summit making plans for a new one.
That's right.
I'm so bummed.
I just had Chuck Schumer negotiate my cable bill for me.
And turns out I got the highest rate with the least amount of channels and crappy internet.
But the cable company promised we could talk about it later.
Apparently, the flu vaccine isn't so effective this year.
Damn you, Jill Stein and Susan Sarandon.
Hey, atomic scientists say the doomsday clock is now just two minutes before midnight, or three minutes if you follow Daylight Savings.
That's a daylight savings joke.
I refuse to believe that the Democrats caved on the government shutdown until we can somehow blame it on Bernie Sanders' suitcoat.
Hey, John Kerry thinking about running for president in 2020.
It's a lot like John Kerry thinking about running for president in 2004.
People are criticizing Trump for not tweeting more about the Kentucky school shooting.
But did we really want the embarrassment of him thanking Kentucky for voting for him and how he had a crazy night in Louisville?
Hey, what's coming up on today's show?
We got a lot coming up on today's show.
The Democrats double cave.
They do a double D or double C or D double C triple C D. That's the Democrats.
We're going to talk all about their unbelievable cave inside of the cave.
That's what the Democrats did.
Plus, the DCC, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, turns out they're not backing progressives.
Who thought about that?
Should we back progressives or corporate Democrats to oppose Trump?
They're going to back corporate Democrats.
We're going to take a look at a couple of close races and see just how badly the corporate Democrats' campaign plans are.
Plus, we got phone calls today.
That's why we got phone calls from BB Netanyahu, Rick Perry, Chuck Chucky the Shoe, and Bernie Sanders.
Plus, a lot lot more.
That's today on the Jimmy Dore Show.
Jimmy Dore Show.
Everybody, welcome to the Jimmy Door Show.
I'm here with the Miserable Liberal at Ron Placode.
I'm miserable.
So guess what?
We all know this.
You know this, right?
So nine out of ten people in the United States want DACA.
Sounds like a no-brainer, right?
The Democrats don't even have to fight for it.
They just don't even have to make a case.
Well, turns out they don't stand for it.
After Senate Democrats voted for a three-week government funding extension Monday, Republicans and liberal progressives seemed to agree about one thing, the Democrats caved.
So Chuck Schumer and Dick Durbin completely cave in to Donald Trump.
That's who they're caving into, by the way, Donald Trump.
So it's so bad they're caving, then even Democratic hacks like Jamil Smith says, the Democrats appear to have caved.
Rather than continuing to insist that DACA, opioids, and their other demands be addressed, it looks as though they have taken a deal to end the shutdown that relies upon a Senate majority leader's promise.
If so, they are fools.
And so they totally, totally capitulate.
To who?
To Donald Trump.
That's who the Democrats are caving into.
The most unpopular president in the history, they're caving into him.
And how does Trump reward them?
How does this good reworking relationship turn out for them?
Big win for Republicans as Democrats cave.
That's how he rewarded them.
He went on Twitter and told everybody they fucking caved.
Because they did.
And what did they do again?
After they, after they, so that pissed off the Democrats so much, they decided to double cave.
They double fucking caved.
Budget talks progress as Senate Democrats drop the dreamer demand completely.
And you can't see this, but at the bottom underneath this picture, it says, we're viewing immigration and, and spending on separate terms, because they are on separate paths.
Senate minority whip, Dick Durbin said, that they're viewing immigration and spending on different terms, because they're on different paths.
That's why he said they're doing it.
It's almost like Dick Durbin went to the Republicans and he was like, ah, you know, we're going to cave.
So how do you guys sell this bullshit?
Yep.
And then, oh, they're, they're on two different paths.
Oh, two different paths.
Got it.
Got it.
All right.
All right.
Two different paths.
Copy, paste, leave.
So here's the part.
So here he is saying that.
So here's what's being left out when this is being reported.
When you see this reported, even in Politico, they report, Hey, they cave there.
Everybody's saying they caved.
What they're leaving out is why.
Because that's not why.
The reason they caved is not because they're on separate paths.
That's a exact, just like Ron said, that's a bullshit way to try to sell this.
The reason why they did that was because their donors told them not to shut the government down.
And I don't give a fuck about the dreamers or the DACA or anybody else.
Do not shut government down because it costs donors money.
And that's why they did it.
And I know you, I know there's a lot of people who think we're still being ridiculous by not supporting corporate Democrats.
You're being ridiculous for not supporting.
So all those people who wag their finger still, are you still wagging your finger?
Yes, they are.
I blame Susan Sarandon.
I don't know who you blame.
I'm sure all the DACA people are going to blame Susan Sarandon and probably Jill Stein or the Russians or James Comey or WikiLeaks or Julian Assange.
Or I don't know me or Ron or Steph.
I don't know who, who else are they blaming today?
Anybody except the people with power.
And the reason they did that was because their owners, which are their donors, told them, they told them to do that.
That's why.
And that's what people are leaving out of this equation.
But the House Democrats have signaled that they are not ready to go along with a long-term budget deal without a fix to the deferred action for childhood arrivals.
DACA.
So now we're going to have to cross our fingers that the Democrats in the House go along with something that has 90% approval in the country.
That's how unbelievably bought your fucking Democrats are.
How could anybody in their right mind wag their finger at anybody who won't support this shit?
How could anybody?
I just happen to be out in front on this.
I wouldn't vote for fucking Hillary Clinton for the same goddamn reason.
You got to vote for Democrats.
They're not the resistance.
The Democrats are not the resistance.
Hey, we're way more fucked than people think.
And if Bernie Sanders doesn't try to fucking prop up a third party right now, you're in for a shitload of headaches.
Because you don't think they're going to fuck over Bernie Sanders when he tries to run in the Democratic primary again?
You don't think they're going to everything?
You don't think they're going to find a picture of him with a dead goat?
You don't think they're going to do everything?
Right now, he's got a $700 suit coat jacket.
Did you know that?
Do you know that he went and he had dinner at a steakhouse that cost $60 a steak?
That's the kind of shit they're reporting right now.
So to me, it's way worse.
So there's a little bit more to this.
We are insisting that these things be in the same negotiations, said a senior House Democratic aide.
So the House Democrats seem to be having a bit of a spine.
To us, what's important is, are their talks linked or not linked?
To us, they're linked.
Meaning you can't do a budget without DACA.
They're linked.
Dick Durbin, Chuck Schumer, says they're not linked.
They're totally separate.
Why?
Because their donors told them to say that.
Dick Durbin is a spineless piece of it.
Dick Durbin doesn't have the guts of an eight-year-old.
Dick Durbin is not your friend.
Dick Durbin is working against you.
The Democrats are working against you.
They're not working against the Republicans.
They're not working against the Russians.
They're working against you.
The Democrats.
And now we're supposed to vote for the Democrats.
Or we're being ridiculous.
As that sexual harasser from Minneapolis told us.
Senator Patty Murray, Democrat from Washington and another member of the democratic leadership said that although she would prefer a deal to protect young undocumented immigrants be part of a budget negotiation the agreement reached with mcconnell could make that impossible i'll throw it over to the panel yeah i mean It's just,
it's unbelievable that, I mean, basically, they're their whole, well, okay, we'll compromise.
We'll talk about it in a couple weeks.
And then before the couple weeks has even gotten here, they're like, ah, we don't need to talk about it.
Or, yeah, we'll probably, if we don't talk about it, we'll just go along anyway.
It's like, wow, you're the worst man.
If anybody, you'd be the worst debt collector in the history of the world.
Hey, are you going to pay for this?
Yeah, but three weeks from now.
Okay, well, if you don't pay three weeks from now, that's okay, but you should.
Do you see how do you see how Trump is not the problem, right?
So you see how Trump is not the problem.
The problem is the corporate-owned Democrats.
You see that, right?
Because that's why they won't stand up for you because their donors told them not to stand up for you.
And so they go, okay.
And it's not like they're afraid to stand up to their donors.
They don't want to stand up to their donors.
They want to do whatever their donors say.
It's not like, oh, I wish I could stand up to them.
They don't want to.
They don't give a shit about you.
February 8th, we're going to have another stopgap bill, but we have to have the budget agreement in order to move forward.
That's the goal, Murray said.
And then the deal is that if DACA is not part of that, then it will be the next thing considered.
This is the Democratic leadership.
So, Jimmy.
Well, first, we have to give the Republicans everything they want, and then we cross our fingers and hope that they do the right thing.
And by the way, they're only asking for one thing.
They're not even asking for it, by the way.
That's how bad of it.
When you negotiate, you go, we want 10 things, just like the, you know, the Republicans are doing.
They want border security.
We want this.
We want that.
They want a million things.
You know what the Democrats come think?
We want one thing.
You can't have it.
Okay.
And it's because they're paid to not represent you.
And they don't represent you.
And you're stupid if you vote for corporate Democrats.
And if you wag your finger and tell other people to vote for corporate Democrats, well, shame on you, you soft-brained, elitist, well-to-do, stupid idiot.
You know, the only people who wag their finger at me about not voting for Hillary Clinton are people who grew up in cul-de-sacs.
I'm sorry, Steph, I cut you off.
No, I, I, you know, Jimmy, I don't have faith that in March, the Democrats are going to have a spine.
They're not going to have one.
Steph, this is, they don't, it's not, it's not even about having a spine.
They have a spine.
They stand up for their donors.
They have a spine.
Dick Durbin, when he's doing this, is showing that he could stand up to his voters.
He doesn't stand up to his donors.
He has a spine and he's standing up to his vote.
The people, his constituents, that's who he shits on.
That's who he wags.
You can't, he doesn't stand up to anybody else except his own donors, I mean, his own voters and says you can't have it.
Why?
Because you voted for me.
Because you elected me.
Why?
Because Trump.
And then they give Trump everything he wants because they're bought by the same people.
And that's what you won't hear on MSNBC or CNN or at ABC or in the Washington Post or the New York Times.
Why is this happening?
This is happening because they're bought, because our politics is broken.
Because people think Barack Obama was a good guy and he left office with freaking $85 million in his bank account.
And the banks got bigger.
And the fracking got bigger.
And the wars got bigger.
That's how broken our politics are.
That we think someone like that is good for us.
That somehow things would have been better if we just get more, if we just get more Democrats.
Negotiations have already negotiated.
Get this.
You ready for this?
Here we come.
Negotiators have already agreed to a massive boost to a massive boost to the Pentagon's budget.
That's what they've already agreed.
The Democrats have already agreed.
So last year, they gave an extra $80 billion to the Pentagon.
That was more than Trump even asked for.
By the way, we should be reducing the Pentagon's budget.
And they keep pushing it up.
So now we spent another $80 billion last year, which, how much is that money?
What does that mean, 80 billion?
Like, what could we have gotten for that?
We could have gotten free college for everybody.
Just like that.
Just like that.
So when they tell you, oh, Congress moves slow and things don't happen overnight, they're full of shit.
That's what they tell you when you want something that's good for you.
But if you want more bombs and more war, they already did it again.
They already did it a day.
That's already been taken care of.
So they've already, while the figures are still in flux, multiple sources say Congress would raise the military spending by at least 70 billion above the caps for fiscal 2018 and 80 billion in fiscal 2019.
We can wipe out all student debt with that, just that increase.
Just that increase could wipe out all student debt within 10 years.
It could send everybody to college for free.
So when they tell you we're broke, who's going to pay for that?
Those are idiots or liars repeating corporate talking points.
What remains is how much to spend on domestic programs.
So they can't figure that out, including everything from Homeland Security to the Department of Education.
But we got the bomb, the war, the war budget, right?
We got the war budget.
These are Democrats.
We're viewing immigration and that same stupid, has the same stupid quote.
So there we are.
There we are.
There we are.
Let me take a look at his stupid face again.
That guy is a liar and he lied.
He's lying not to the Russians, not to the Republicans.
Dick Durbin is lying to you.
He's a liar.
And he's completely corrupted and bought.
You know, this is not a good guy, not even a little bit.
Dick Durbin is your fucking enemy.
Sorry, Ron.
Well, I was just going to say, no scientific study that I know of has been done yet, but I'm pretty sure that's the face one naturally makes when they memorize a GOP talking point and spit it back out.
I think it's safe to say.
I have no idea how anybody in this country isn't screaming at the top of their lungs and calling for a revolution.
Your government is completely working against you.
Completely.
They literally, they could wipe out all everybody could go to college for free like that.
And they decided, fuck it, we're not going to do that.
Just like that.
I have no idea why there isn't a revolution happening in this country.
Oh, I think I do.
I think I know why.
Because the whole mainstream, because everybody in the media tells you you can't.
Everybody in the media wags the finger right, so you got to vote for Hillary Clinton like she's some savior.
This is who you want me to vote for.
This imagine the kind of shit Hillary Clinton would be doing if she was president.
Imagine.
Imagine what she would be giving into on to the Republicans in the Senate and the House.
Imagine here they are with all the power.
They can't open government back up without them.
The most unpopular president in the history, the most unpopular Congress.
The only other bill they could pass was a tax bill that everyone hated.
And this is them.
The Democrats are not your friend.
This guy is working against you.
This guy is a liar and he's lying to you.
Oh, my God.
And you're not going to hear that.
You're not going to hear why.
You're not going to hear why.
By the way, they'll probably, Rachel Maddell and Chris Hayes will tell you that this is smart.
I'll bet you any money they tell you this is smart.
I can't watch their shows anymore because I like to eat dinner.
And it's hard to keep it down if I watch their show.
They're disgusting.
So there you go.
You're being ridiculous if you don't vote for this.
I must be a Putin puppet.
These motherfuckers are working against you.
What's their, they're not even in bed with the Kremlin.
What's their excuse?
What's Dick Durbin's excuse for working against his own people?
By the way, he wants to cut Social Security and Medicare, Dick Durbin.
Just so you know.
He wants to cut Social Security.
This guy's not your friend.
He's the leader.
He's a leader.
Well, anything else?
Well, I was just going to say, like, when you were talking about MSNBC and stuff like that, people like to make this excuse, like, oh, well, this is all about compromise and bipartisanship and throw those platitudes out there.
And it's like, well, okay, here's what's going on contemporarily right now.
One party is coming up with policy ideas that benefits nobody that 90% of the public is against.
And another party is not resisting it at all.
That's not bipartisanship or compromise.
That's a government working against the people.
That's a broken system.
We have a broken system.
And you know, we've talked about this before.
Look at our budget and see what we value.
And what we value is war.
And we're disposable.
All of us are disposable.
War, that's a money-making enterprise right now.
And it's killing our country.
And it's divided our country.
And, you know, Jimmy, when I watch this, I just, you know, I was doing the research about, you know, Hispanics in America.
That sleeping giant should exit the Democratic Party and join independent parties.
And we should all get more involved because they're fucking us.
Well, the Justice Democrats were a good idea.
Too bad the Justice Democrats are all staff with a bunch of knuckleheads.
Their candidates are good.
The people who are candidates are great.
Their candidates are great.
I like the Justice Democrats candidates.
The Justice Democrats as an organization leaves a lot to be desired.
You know, like, we're looking for a progressive movement.
Progressives on significant issues that are progressive in the way that they behave and not reactive.
I should be in bed reading Garrison Keillor's limericks.
Yes, hello.
Is there anyone on the other end of this telephonic speaking device?
Yay, former Governor Perry.
It's me, Jimmy Dore.
Hi, Jimmy.
Can you feel me hugging you right now?
I'm a hugging type of guy, aren't I?
I like to hug people.
It's my thing, that's all.
Nothing more to it than that.
I don't know why you liberals get your Vulcan skivies in a wall over it.
Well, maybe some people are upset because you hugged the CEO of a coal company, then fired a Department of Energy photographer who leaked the picture.
Flap doodle.
That's not what happened at all.
Are you interested in the truth?
Because I'll tell you the truth if you're really interested.
Of course.
What happened was I hugged the CEO of a coal company and then fired the Department of Energy photographer who leaked it, okay?
Okay.
What's wrong with hugging people anyway?
I've hugged you many times, and I think you're the devil incarceration.
See, no favoritism there.
And I just, I just love people, Jimmy.
Yes.
Huggies.
No, Rick.
And just to be clear, we've never hugged.
Oh, sure.
We have.
Don't you remember?
It was right after you got fined for flagrant, reckless, and highly negligent violations of mind safety law.
I don't remember that.
And then you gave me a four-page confidential action plan sponsored by a coal industry.
Remember?
I do not remember that.
I always fire a photographer right after hugging a coal industry CEO, but it's purely coincidental.
It's all part of my journey.
Do you have a journey?
My journey is to hug every coal industry CEO in the universe because we need more clean, dirty coal to burn so as to make bricks and steel for the border wall.
The border wall is on my vision board.
A vision board is a powerful tool to manifest my life desire.
What's on your vision board, Jimmy?
I don't have one of those.
Oprah has a vision board.
Why do you hate Oprah?
I don't hate Oprah.
Guess where I hang my vision board?
On my want wall.
Guess where my want wall is?
Where?
In my dream dungeon.
You don't want to know what goes on in there.
That's my private place I go to when I feel sad.
But mostly I just use it to do unspeakable things to cats.
Anyway, I believe if you put positive mental energy into the universe, you'll be the recipient of good things.
That's basically my philosophy and my role as CEO of the Department of Energy.
So what's next on your vision board?
I'm going to tongue kiss the CEO of a nuclear power plant.
I have to go to my dream dungeon now, Jimmy.
I hope you have a happy Groundhog Day and get all the Groundhogs you wished for on your wish wall.
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Now let's get on to the second half.
On the phone, I have Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Bibi, how are things?
Jimmy, you remembered to call me Bibi up front.
Already, we are cutting the fat from this sketch.
Right, exactly.
Hey, Bibi, you are at the big meeting in Davos at the moment.
How are things going there?
Things are going very well, Jimmy.
We are making great strides.
And of course, it is always wonderful to be here in the beautiful nation of Switzerland, who so bravely cut a deal with Hitler during World War II and accepted so much Nazi gold for safekeeping.
Such an honor.
Anyhow, you, Donald Trump, and the other world leaders have been discussing the prospects for Israeli-Palestinian peace, I understand.
Yes, yes.
We have been doing that highly choreographed square dance for the amusement of others and ourselves, you could say.
Jimmy, my feet are killing me.
Mr. Trump has been espousing his deal-making prowess, as is his want, and I have been declaring Israeli non-negotiables, as is mine.
Non-negotiables, such as well, first of all, no matter what peace may look like in the future, the capital of Israel will remain Jerusalem.
Yes, I have to quote from you here, where you say that Donald Trump, in naming Jerusalem as the U.S.-recognized capital, has, quote, done a great service for peace because peace can only be based on truth.
You can't build peace on a fantasy.
That is absolutely correct.
No fantasy.
We must operate within hard realities.
And the reality is that Jerusalem has been the capital of Israel since Yahweh promised it to the Hebrews in the form of a burning bush.
Okay.
We must be realistic.
Right.
And as far as actually negotiating anything with the Palestinians.
We are leaving that to the Trumps.
Donald Trump, the great deal maker.
Yeah, uh-huh.
And I have nothing but confidence in Jared Kushner and his team as well.
As I have said previously to pub publicly, they have a background in real estate deals.
And this problem has, well, I suppose real estate elements to it, depending on how you look at it.
Are you serious?
Of course I am.
What harm could come by leaving the negotiation of one of the globe's greatest political, religious, and military quagmires to a pugilistic, willfully ignorant bully and his team of woefully incompetent sycophants.
Phoebe.
What?
Phoebe?
What?
If I didn't know any better, I'd say you don't want this solved at all.
And you're taking steps to ensure it won't be solved anytime soon.
Oh, Jimmy, how could you be so cynical?
Well, you literally said as much during our last phone call.
Oh, right, right.
Okay, you got me.
Yeah, so anyway, we let the Trumps deal with the chumps, and I can focus on strong-arming America on the Iran deal.
Then we'll go skiing.
I see.
And meanwhile, you create a smokescreen by making the Palestinians look intractable by refusing to meet with Mike Pence.
What do you mean?
Oh, he's the American vice president, after all.
You know as well as I do that he was a laughable choice to make diplomatic overtures to the Palestinians.
Why?
Just because he's an adherent of a brand of American evangelical Christianity that sees Israel purely as a staging ground for the end times?
An event that can only be brought about by the physical removal of Arabs from all Israeli borders?
Um, yes, huh?
I hadn't thought of that.
Now that you mention it, I suppose having a world leader meet with a people who prays for the complete erasure of those people is sort of funny, ironic.
Yeah, totally hilarious, Bibi.
I don't see how you think you're going to get away with this sort of duplicity.
Jimmy, look out!
It's Iran!
What?
Where?
Haha, gotcha.
That's how.
Oh, this is all so dirty.
No, you don't like it?
Well, feel free to take a bath in the River Jordan and cleanse yourself.
Be our guest.
Meanwhile, the rest of us will be here in Switzerland dealing with realities in charming little chateaus.
If you excuse me, Damai, Defense Minister, and I are closing an arms deal this afternoon.
So we'll be well prepared for the next projected intifada.
Let's just say if you have any stock in Northrop Grumman, expect a nice return for the third quarter of the 2018 fiscal year.
Ah, Switzerland, a one-stop shop.
Here with the miserable liberal at Rod Wako.
Hello.
Hello.
So the 2018 midterms are coming up.
And if you don't know how this works, is the in the Democratic primary, the Driple C D Trip, as it's called.
Driple C, the 3C stands for Congressional Campaign Committee, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Driple C. And they're supposed to help people get elected to Congress who are Democrats or running in the Democratic Party.
They're not really supposed to weigh in in primaries, but they do.
And this is what this article is about in the intercept by Ryan Grimm and Lee Feng, or Fong.
I don't know how you pronounce his last name.
The dead enders, candidates who signed up to battle Donald Trump, must get past the Democratic Party first.
So we know that the Democratic Party, they focus on money.
So if you want to run for Congress and you say you want to run as a Democrat and the Driple C, the first question they'll ask is, how much money can you raise?
How much money do you have?
Where can you get money from?
That's all they care about.
There's a couple of reasons for that.
I think the biggest reason is because they're in bed with their own consultants and they want you to get that money and give it to them Because that's all they think about.
They make a good observation.
They say, focusing on dollars, the party winds up with medical device executives running for office rather than American government teachers or football coaches.
So by having that focus on money, that's what you end up with.
You end up with Chuck Schumer, Tim Kaine.
Democratic Party officials are not by nature moved to deep reflection by election losses.
They have a plan and they're sticking to it.
The bad news for grassroots activists is that the Democratic Party's leaders cannot be reasoned with, but they can be beaten.
If Democratic leaders are getting the sense that 2018 could be a wave election, much like the 2006 election.
So people hated George Bush and Dick Cheney so much.
They also hated the Democrats who went along with them because they did.
They went along with the war.
They went along with Warrantless Spy.
They went along with the Patriot Act.
They went along with Tort.
They went along with it all.
They did.
Which is why Howard Dean used to say, I'm from the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party, and people would cheer because the Democrats became Republicans.
And guess what?
Everyone notices.
So in 2006, they had a wave election.
People were so sick of the Iraq war.
They were so sick of George Bush and Dick Cheney that they rushed it and the Democrats had a blue wave election.
So they say, well, let's look at the last one.
We had a last blue wave election in 2006.
Rahm Emmanuel had his theory on how to run stuff in the Democratic Party.
The Driple C was run by Rahm Emanuel then, who institutionalized the practice of only endorsing candidates with a demonstrable ability to either fundraise or pay for their own campaigns, which is how you get Congress full of fucking millionaires.
Democrats that year beat 22 Republican incumbents.
Wow.
And picked up eight open seats that had previously been held by Republicans.
So this is the Democrats' strategy now is, ah, people are going to vote for us because they hate Trump and the Republicans, even though we're just like the Republicans.
They just caved into them twice again this one week.
One week they just caved into the.
And why did the Democrats cave into the Republicans over the budget deal in DACA?
Because their donors told them to.
Because the Democrats don't represent you at all.
Because winners write history, the strategy has become conventionally accepted as wisdom worth following.
The conventional, the wisdom, conventionally accepted as that wisdom being get people with a lot of money to run.
That's the wisdom they're talking about.
But if you take a closer look at the races themselves, that suggests that the Driple C was flying blind.
So let's look at some of those.
So even though they won because of the blue wave in 2006, they had a lot of failures because of that stupid strategy.
They won in spite of that stupid strategy, not because of it.
And let's take a look at it.
They take a look at they go, for instance, in California, the Driple C backed Steve Filson, a conservative pilot against Jerry McNerney, who Emmanuel believed was hopelessly liberal.
After McErney beat him in the primary, a peeved Rah Emmanuel said the Driple C wouldn't be helping him in the general.
So this guy who's actually progressive beats the guy who's not, the conservative pilot who Ram Emmanuel liked because he's conservative and he has a lot of money.
So he beats him in the primary.
Rahm Emmanuel's like, I'm not helping you.
Screw you, not helping you in the general.
And guess what?
A coalition of environmental groups got behind him instead, and he won anyway.
Here's another case in upstate New York.
Ram Emmanuel went with Judy Edelotte, a former Republican, a former Republican who was a tremendous fundraiser.
She was crushed by environmentalist and musician John Hall, after which the Driple C shunned the race as unwinnable.
Hall one.
In district after district, the National Party is throwing its weight behind candidates who are out of step with the national mood.
That's happening right now.
The DCCC is throwing its weight behind candidates who are out of step with the national mood.
They're getting a bunch of Hillary Clintons to run for Congress.
The Driple C, known as the D-Trip.
I said it before.
D-Trip.
It says it right there.
D-Trip.
Has officially named 18 candidates as part of its red-to-blue program.
So it's going to take seats that were red and switch it to blue.
Now, a lot of that is because the districts were gerrymandered to be Republican, but in the last 10 years, those districts have changed.
And there's a lot of those red districts, which are now blue.
Or the demographics are.
Put it that way.
So they have this thing called the red to blue program, and they're backing 18 candidates, the Driple C. And who are them?
Well, in many of those districts, there are at least one progressive challenger.
The party is working to elbow aside.
Some more viable than others.
Like, let's, you all remember James Thompson.
He had that special election in Kansas, and he, and then the DCCC wouldn't give him support because he was too liberal in Kansas.
He's running again for the Wichita seat in 2018, and he said the Driple C is specific about why it wants candidates to raise money.
And here's what he says.
You want to know why the Driple C wants candidates to raise a lot of money?
He says they want you to spend a certain amount of money on consultants.
And it's their list of consultants that you have to choose from.
Those consultants tend to be Driple C veterans.
A memo the party committee sent to candidates in December lays out some of the demands the Driple C made around spending.
We already covered that, that memo they sent to the candidates running in the Democratic primaries.
They said, don't say anything that will hurt the Democrat in the general.
Well, how are you supposed to run in a primary if you can't actually run against the guy, whoever the person is?
So they said that.
Plus, they said you had to put 75% of your advertising in traditional media.
But the increased party primary meddling in races in other parts of the country has come at a time when the Driple C is increasingly wedded to congressional moderates.
In somewhat of a reprisal of the Emmanuel strategy, the Driple C is leaning on business-friendly Democrats to take back the House.
Just like what we said, the Democrats learned nothing from Trump.
From losing to Trump, they've learned nothing.
They're doubling down on Hillary Clinton.
They're getting a bunch of Hillary Clintons to run for Congress, and they're hoping you vote for them because their donors want them, and they are hoping you vote for them because Trump.
Even though they're going along with Trump, Ron.
And we all know business-friendly is code for corporate and for the 1%.
Yes.
That's what business-friendly is code for.
But, you know, I did learn something new today, Jimmy.
For the longest time, I thought the Triple C stood for corrupt Clinton Cash.
So I learned something new.
Bam.
Ron.
The new collaboration is a stunning reversal for the party that has seen a groundswell of support for progressive ideas.
Still the most popular guy in the Democratic Party is Bernie Sanders, even though he's not a Democrat.
Such as the $15 minimum wage and single-payer health care that are staunchly opposed by the blue dog wing of the party.
Let's get a little less.
The blue dogs, which you know what the blue dogs are.
The blue dogs are Republicans who like to pretend they're, I don't know why they're Republicans who are cool with abortion.
Some of them might have a gay friend.
Some of them might have a gay friend.
Yeah.
Operatives from the Driple C met on a weekly basis with the blue dogs to discuss recruitment and how to best steer resources to a growing slate of centrist Democratic candidates.
Why do I need to consult with the blue dogs on the progress of the Democratic Party?
How?
Of course they came up with this.
This is amazing.
This is exactly why you shouldn't have voted for Hillary Clinton is exactly why you should never vote for a corporate Democrat.
This is exactly why.
Because they don't represent you.
That's why.
And they're going to give you more.
And they learn nothing from losing to Trump.
You're upset about Trump.
They're not really upset about Trump.
The Democrats are not that upset about Trump.
I know that sounds funny.
They're not.
The Driple C recognizes that the path to the majority is through the blue dogs.
Representative Kirsten Sinema, a Democrat from Arizona, chair of the Blue Dog Pact, told Politico.
Okay.
But there's more than one way to raise big money.
As get this, this is a great example.
So this Jess King, a Driple C official, said that the Pennsylvanian, Jess King, wasn't invited to candidate week in Washington because Jess King's campaign had not been in close touch with the National Party, and that party's support is a two-way street.
So they're saying, well, she's not supporting us.
So she's a progressive.
That's why they don't want her.
And so guess what she did?
But by the party's favorite metric, fundraising, going in alone hasn't hurt Jess King.
In the fourth quarter of 2017, relying on small donors, Jess King added another $200,000 to her ward chest, bringing her above $300,000 for the first year.
That's pretty good.
Do it with small donors without the Driple C's help.
Her fundraising broke a record last year held by Christina Hartman, who was a corporate Democrat who beat Jess King last year.
Now, Jess King, as a progressive doing small donations, is out fundraising their biggest corporate fundraiser.
Whoa.
So their stupid strategy is being repudiated right in their fucking face, and they don't care.
You have to understand that it's not like the Driple C is like, well, I think this is the best way to win.
They're like, this is the way we want to win.
I do not want to win with progressives.
You know the saying.
You know it's truism that the Democrats would rather lose to a Republican than win with a progressive.
So this isn't their idea of the best way to win because the best way to win would be to ape Bernie Sanders' program and his platform because it's the most popular platform.
He's the most popular politician in the country.
You would just want a bunch of Bernie Sanders.
They don't want not even one.
The Driple C. So let's look at some of the races this year.
Like in California District 50, MR Campaign had his moment in the viral sun earlier last year as the internet celebrated the hotness of this congressional candidate.
He has since won the backing of the Justice Democrats and a slew of local labor and Democratic groups.
His opponent, Josh Butner, has said that he was not recruited by the Driple C, but he was encouraged to run by local Democrats.
The new Democratic Coalition Pact, the pro-Wall Street wing of the House Democrats, has given that guy, Butler, five grand.
Butner was cited in two articles about the party's ability to recruit veterans.
The Driple C made sure to alert reporters about the coverage, issuing a press release.
So they're, again, working against the progressive, working for the conservative, pro-Wall Street Democrat.
That's who the Democrats are.
And again, it's not because they think he has the best chance of winning.
It's because they don't want to win any other way.
A win with a progressive is a loss for the Driple C. You get that, right?
Because they want to win for Wall Street, not for you.
It's becoming, even in the era of Trump, they're still doing this.
They don't care.
They don't care if they keep losing as long as progressives don't win.
And why?
Because their donors want it that way.
Who's their donors?
Wall Street, Big Pharma, the military-industrial complex, and big oil.
That's it.
I don't want to assume foul player from the party, but there have been people suggesting they're tipping the scales, says Campaign.
You think?
You think they're tipping the scales?
He said that on January 27th when the district does its pre-endorsement voting.
He said that on January 27th, when the district does its pre-endorsement voting, he hopes to win the votes of those delegates by a wide margin to send a message.
But that message will not be received by the Driple C. The message that, hey, you guys should support progressives, that will never be received.
I'll throw it over to my panel.
Well, this is one of the reasons that I think the Democrats are kind of broken beyond repair and a new third party is needed because this group in principle and as far as the voters are concerned, they are already an obsolete gatekeeper.
If we had a viable, contendable third party, they would be a complete obsolete gatekeeper and we'd never have to worry about the Griple C ever again.
We've had this conversation a lot.
You know, it's like the Democrats are just there to be an obstacle for progress.
Where's the progressive candidates that they're championing?
The Driple C. No, that's Steph.
That's the whole, that's what we're saying.
Well, I just want to paraphrase one of my favorite Twitter parody accounts, Peter Douche.
Keep in mind that Bernie's platform and his ideas just represent the fringe group of the majority of Democrats.
Yes.
You know, and that's the truth.
Right.
So your government's broken.
Your Democratic beat.
You know why?
Because your Democratic Party's broken.
Why?
Because Bill Clinton and Al Gore decided to get in bed with the people they're supposed to be fighting against, which is Wall Street, Big Pharma, the military-industrial complex, and big oil.
Those are the people you're supposed to be fighting.
You can't be fighting for Wall Street and fighting for workers.
Their agendas are diametrically opposed.
And this is an economy that's run by the banks.
And this is how it ends up.
Income inequality is bigger since the Middle Ages.
Middle Ages.
So it should be a huge blue wave.
It still might be a blue wave, but we're going to get a bunch of goddamn corporate Democrats.
And you see what happened this week?
The Democrats have caved in twice to Donald Trump on the budget.
Twice.
They have DACA, which is favored by nine out of 10 people in the country.
Nine out of 10.
The Democrats rolled over, gave up 90% of the country.
They didn't stand up for 90% of the country.
It's sad.
It's worse than sad.
It's like it's a crisis.
Like, I don't, I say one or two more elections like this with corporate Democrats and there will be real revolution.
How much more can people take?
I don't know.
Again, 63% of the country can't afford a $1,000 emergency.
50% of all the people in the United States are poor or low-income.
50% of all wage earners earn less than $30,000 a year.
This is what we're left with.
There we go.
Democrats are like, ignore it.
Ignore it.
Let's keep doing the bidding of Wall Street.
Let's not help people ever.
And by the way, let's keep spending money on the military because all the money it would have taken to send everybody to college for free, the Democrats gave it to the military.
They gave it.
No fight, no nothing, not even a debate.
Whew.
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Hello.
Firstly and foremost, thank you to the 1.1 million people who tuned in live to the first ever National Medicare for All Town Hall last night.
And I've got the helicopter photos to prove it.
The internet was jammed.
Senator Bernie Sanders, congratulations on such a fine turnout.
Don't congratulate me, Jimmy.
Congratulate all those Americans who managed to lift their finger long enough to press a computer mouse.
This is America, after all.
I was surprised half the country wasn't idling the SUV at the local hobbies.
But yes, Jimmy, I am delighted that we circumvented the major TV channels in attracting 1.1 million people.
That was quite a feat.
It's hard going up against the establishment media.
That's right.
It took the first nationally televised Senate town meeting that took place outside the traditional corporate media.
So fuck you, Duhont Network.
I think it's important to note that I got more ratings wildly flapping my arms for emphasis than Rachel Maddow did for tapping a pen on a desk while looking dyspeptic.
And the auditorium was packed.
With over 450 people, Jimmy, and not a paid audience like they get for the Ellen Show.
But what about the backlash you'll get from people who don't want to lose their private health care plans?
Look, I understand that some Americans may want to keep their old plans that only cover one-third of their body after a $10,000 co-payment.
And that's why my Medicare for All plan requires mandatory psychoanalysis for every one of those dipshits.
It's in the formulary.
But nearly half of Americans with insurance get health coverage from an employer.
Yeah, right.
You know, that's going to be good.
Until you get your prostate checked by Dr. Ronald McDonald.
Dissatisfied with your coverage?
Just try filing agreements with the vice president of snacking.
And don't get me started on Nurse McChees.
She's disgusting.
No, Jimmy.
Together, we will successfully move the United States to a Medicare for all single-payer system and guarantee health care to all.
Except you.
You really annoy me.
You've been fighting for single-payers since you entered Congress in 1991.
Why do you think the movement is finally picking up steam?
Gangrene.
I think the average American realizes that paying a little more with taxes is a small price to pay to keep all your body parts.
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