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March 16, 2018 - Jimmy Dore Show
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Get ready for an outstanding entertainment program.
The Jimmy Dore Show!
Hello, who's this?
Hey, buddy.
What's going on?
It's Harrison here, the big H. How's it hanging, Brohim?
Harrison Ford, what a pleasure.
It's been quite a while.
I hear you're under investigation by the FAA.
Huh?
I am?
Yeah, dude, you didn't know that?
I just read about it in the newspaper.
You flew over a passenger jet at John Wayne Airport.
Fuck.
Are you serious?
I did that?
Yes.
And I'm not supposed to do that.
Not according to the FAA.
They're investigating you.
You flew over a passenger jet.
Are you sure it wasn't a really big seagull?
We've got some big ones in Orange County.
All they do is fucking heat onion rigs all goddamn day.
And then they balloon up like John Goodman on Thanksgiving.
I never flew over no passenger jet, Jeremy.
I'm a professional.
I'm a highly rated pilot and can fly nine types of airplanes.
Whoa, what kinds?
Well, there's the type with propellers, you know, like big fans, and you put them in the front or on the wings and suddenly doodly do you're flying.
I'm highly rated.
I've crashed more planes than John McCain.
I read you also own a seaplane.
It wasn't a seaplane before I got it.
And you own a helicopter.
Now, why do you need a helicopter?
To hover over my crop of sweet Chiba Chaba.
You know, you've been flying for years.
Do you have a favorite landing field?
Yeah, the Santa Monica Golf Course.
Why did you call me again?
You called me.
Look, hey, Harrison, do you have any new films coming out this year?
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Ramps.
I'm 74 years old.
It's time for my nap, Jeremy.
Over and out.
Is that airliner supposed to be underneath me?
I want a heart attack!
It's the Jimmy Dore Show.
The show for...
...the up-minded, low-en-legged lefties.
The kind of people that are...
It's the show that makes Anderson Cooper save.
It's hard to talk to you too guys.
And now, there's a guy who sounds a lot like me.
It's Jimmy Dore!
Hi, everybody.
Welcome to this week's Jimmy Door Show.
We're going to see you Monday, March 26th in Austin, Texas.
That's our second show in Austin.
We're adding a second show Monday, March 26th.
Also, March 30th in Burbank, California.
We'll see you there.
Those are our next live Jimmy Dore shows.
Let's get to some of the jokes before we get to the jokes, shall we?
I don't know if you know, but have you seen all the children are walking out in protest, right?
They want to feel safe in schools.
They want some gun legislation.
They're demanding it.
And, you know, just imagine if all the oversight on children trying to protest school shootings was channeled into preventing future school shootings instead.
Imagine that.
Yeah.
Hey, fun fact, Stephen Hawking died and he didn't believe in heaven, but he was a big fan of universal healthcare.
Hmm.
Interesting.
You know, exactly one year ago, Rachel Maddow devoted a week to Donald Trump's 2005 tax return.
The only people who remember that now are MSNBC's accountants, Rachel's realtor, and the makers of catheters delivered discreetly to your door.
After more than a year of this nonsense, there's more real evidence that the health insurance industry conspired to meddle with and destroy our democracy more than there is for Russia.
So if you want to cry treason, you can start with Blue Cross.
Hey, have you heard about the Chinese space station crashing to Earth?
An hour later, you wish you hadn't written this punchline.
The Chinese space station was sold on budget, it had to jump off the roof of an iPhone factory.
It's March Madness, and I had Trump Jr. and Vanessa, so my bracket's already done.
That's right, they're getting divorced.
You know, when Trump appoints Fox News personalities to his cabinet, all he's doing is moving people from one department of his administration to another.
Did you know that in the wake of Stephen Hawking's death, Donald Trump has expressed solemn regret that he never took the time to make fun of his disability?
Russia has been already convicted of a chemical weapons attack on an ex-former Soviet spy inside the UK before an investigation.
That's how good their investigators are in the UK.
They know who did it without an investigation.
Did they really do it?
Does this sound like WMD's all over again in anthrax?
The answer just may surprise you, or will it?
We're going to take a look at that.
Plus, Jeremy Corbin has a rational response to the alleged Russian nerve tech, and he immediately gets smeared for it.
We'll talk about that.
Plus, Democrats already voter shaming for 2020's election.
Hey, what are the consequences of Barack Obama not prosecuting any of the war crimes he was supposed to, or any of the torturers?
Well, the consequence is Trump gets to appoint one of the torturers to head our intelligence organization.
We're going to talk about that.
Plus, we got phone calls from who?
It's a mystery this week.
Plus, a lot lot more.
That's today on the Jimmy Door Show.
Oh, look, it's a call from CNN regular Anthony Scaramucci.
Hello?
Hey, Jimmy, call me the mooch or moochie, okay?
Okay.
But please don't call me Tony or Smoochie.
You're not going to call me Smoochie, are you?
Good, because I'm pretty much a practical, common sense-oriented guy, like our president.
But call me Smoochie, and I'll rip your face off.
Get it?
It's just my thing.
Why do you think Donald Trump is a common sense-orientated guy?
Because he is, all right?
Because he got out of that climate accord thing.
And my prediction is that sometime at the end of 2018, people are going to look back at him and say, wow, he had a lot of common sense for getting out of the climate accord.
Why?
You ask a lot of questions for such a little guy.
How tall are you?
It doesn't matter.
Alliances are made to be broken.
My dad taught me that.
He threw me out of the house when I was seven.
I'm kidding.
That never happened.
But what if it had, right?
Anyway, I thought I had very strong alliances with people in the White House that I in fact did not have.
It's kill or be killed.
I'm proud I lasted 10 old days.
I gained a lot of experience even though I was a victim.
But I admire that about the president.
He makes business decisions.
That's different from the government.
In business, you're on top one second, and the next, they stab out your fucking eye with an ice pick.
Jimmy smokes on you.
I only have pot.
And besides, we're on the phone.
How can I give you a smoke?
You can't get intoxicated.
In the White House, everybody was high on power.
One second, you're on top, and guess what happens to you the next?
They stab your fucking eye out with an ice pick?
A fucking ice pick.
Donald really didn't want to sign the Paris Accord and go along with the crowd.
He's an entrepreneur, a man of business.
Guys Like that, diverge from crowd thinking.
You go with the crowd too long, and before you know it, you're standing in line, a long line leading to a darkened hallway.
And before you know it, you got a fucking ice pick sticking out where your eye used to be.
So you have no hard feelings towards Trump.
Heck no.
Like I said, my prediction is sometime at the end of 2018, people are going to look back at him and say, wow, you had a lot of common sense for sticking a fucking ice pick in my head.
In this business, you come and you go.
It was my time to go.
No hard feelings.
I'm fine with it.
But Steve Bannon is a loser.
I've seen this guy operate.
It's his way of the highway.
That's the way he was over there.
The first pill you take is the anti-friendship pill.
You can be my friend for 30 years, but I'm going to stab your eyeball out with an ice pick if it gets me more power.
The second pill you take is the power is aphrodisiac pill.
Students of history know the power corrupts and the corrupts absolutely.
And then they stab your fucking eyeball out with an ice pick.
It's not just any ice pick, a dirty one.
One you wouldn't want your sister to see.
That's how these people operate, and I respect them for it.
But now I've said too much.
It's all over for the moots.
The United States, we're the good guys, except we torture people and we set the world on fire for corporate profits.
Not a big deal.
We have some bad weekends.
We have some bad.
Yeah.
So we did a thing called extraordinary rendition.
Guess what?
Barack Obama didn't prosecute any of those people who did torture.
There was a torture report.
We tortured the hell out of people, innocent people.
Most of them were innocent that we tortured.
I laugh because it's horrible.
Well, here's Barack Obama talking about torture.
It's clear from the IG report that some very poor judgment was shown in terms of how that was handled.
Keep in mind, though, that John Brennan was the person who called for the IG report.
And he's already stood up a task force to make sure that lessons are learned and mistakes are resolved.
With respect.
So he set up a task force to make sure lessons are learned.
Well, you can't learn any lessons, Barack, if you seal the report, which is what he did.
He sealed the report.
Nobody can read it.
So now nobody can gain information of how these things happened, how they got ordered, how they got carried out, what the chain of command was, how we can, and more importantly, how we can prevent these things from happening in the future.
That's all the things we would learn from a torture report.
But neoliberal warmonger Barack Obama is in bed with torturers.
It's not up to him whether he prosecutes them or not.
It's legally bound to prosecute them.
And he still didn't.
Just like a right-winger, Barack Obama didn't prosecute torturers.
Here's why he said, here's why he said.
The larger point of the RDI report itself.
Even before I came into office, I was very clear that in the immediate aftermath of 9-11, we did some things that were wrong.
We did a whole lot of things that were right, but we tortured some folks.
We tortured some folks.
We tortured some folks.
He makes it sound nice.
We did enhance interrogation.
You know, we put on some mood music and a little track lighting.
And then we got the folks in.
And bring in the folks.
And they filled out a survey after.
They weren't happy.
They weren't happy.
Go up, bring the folks in.
Hi, folks.
Good to see you.
Lay down.
We're going to torture you.
We're doing a lot of things that are right.
We're doing a lot of things that are right.
So one of the big reasons why you should have made that torture report public was for what I just told you.
So we can figure out how this happened and prevent it from happening again.
And that's also why you prosecute people.
There's many reasons why you prosecute a crime.
One of them is so it deters this crime from being committed in the future.
When you don't prosecute a crime, you guarantee that that crime is going to continue to be committed.
Guess who is our new CIA chief?
Our new CIA chief is Gina Haspel.
She was a senior official overseeing top-secret CIA program that subjected dozens of suspected terrorists to savage interrogations, which included depriving them of sleep, squeezing them into coffins, forcing water down their throats.
I would also put anal raping, stress positions, waterboarding.
So from 2003 to 2005, she was the senior official overseeing that.
Now she's the head of the CIA.
Instead of being in jail, where she should be, now she's the head of the CIA.
She's the head of our intelligence community.
A torturer.
So that's when Barack Obama does the bidding of the deep state, which is what he did and the establishment.
He covered up war crimes, which he's legally not allowed to do.
He's legally bound to prosecute torture wherever and whenever.
It's not up to him, although I guess it is.
In 2002, Haspel was among the CIA officers present at the interrogation of Abu Zubaida, an al-Qaeda suspect who was tortured so brutally that at one point he appeared to be dead.
Can you imagine that?
Bringing a guy, bring the folk in.
Hey, folks.
Hey, we're going to mess with you physically until we all think you're dead.
We're going to do it really slow and really painful.
And then we'll let it play out.
They're going to let it play out.
And then we're going to wag our finger at Putin and tell him what a bad guy he is because he kills people.
Haspel, a career CIA employee, took part in another of the agency's darkest moments, the destruction in 2005 of videotapes of the interrogation of Zubaya and a second suspect, Abdelrahim al-Nashiri, at whose torture she was present.
Wow.
And she destroyed the evidence.
They destroyed the evidence.
They destroyed the evidence, the videotapes of their torturing people.
They destroyed that, which is also a crime, which also wasn't prosecuted.
Boy, I wonder, I hope someday she gets caught selling Lucy's outside of a grocery store in Staten Island so we can choke her out.
Yeah, you know the best part.
I think, to the best of my knowledge, the only person like in power that said anything about this or in office, I guess, is Rand Paul.
Rand Paul.
He's the only person.
Rand Paul said something about this.
Only person that said anything.
One person.
John Sifton, a senior official at Human Rights Watch, said the significance of Haspell's appointment lies in the fact that she was intimately involved in the secret CIA program, known by its initials, RDI, rendition, detention, and interrogation.
That's what Barack Obama was mentioning, the RDI report.
Rendition, detention, and interrogation.
Rendition.
Through the program, the CIA not only tortured suspects, but kidnapped them from Various places around the globe and often delivered them to third-party countries that tortured them.
You are putting a person in leadership position who was essentially involved in a legal program, Sifton told me.
President Barack Obama ordering the closure of the secret prisons or black sites in 2009.
So by the way, this is an article.
This is New Yorker.
This was back from, this was last in 2017 in January when she was the deputy director.
Now she's the head of the CIA.
So this is what they were saying back then.
A former government official who spoke to me on condition of anonymity said that the promotion of Haspel amounted to the CIA's revenge.
The agency is giving the finger to anyone who was ever critical of the program, meaning their rendition torture program.
In 2002, according to people I spoke to, Haspel was present at a CIA black site in Thailand when Zubaya and El Nashiri were being tortured.
It's not clear whether she took part in the interrogations themselves.
Abu Zubaida's interrogation, which is recounted in the intelligence committee's landmark investigation, was particularly gruesome.
According to the report, he was waterboarded 83 times.
So my question, when you hear something like that, he was waterboarded 83 times.
Well, they say waterboarding works, which is why you do it.
Why would you have to waterboard him twice?
And if you're waterboarding him 83 times, what did you forget to ask him those first 82 times?
82?
I'm just pondering how that's physically possible.
That you can waterboard a guy?
83 times.
Yeah, one time is considered torture, and it's supposed to make you crazy because it makes you think you're drowning.
All your things happen.
Yeah.
And there they did it to him 83 times.
At one point, he became not responsive with water bubbling up from his lungs.
Doctors had doctors.
So there's doctors there participating in torturing someone.
Doctors had to revive him.
During his confinement, Zubaida lost sight in his left eye.
Yeah, I'm surprised he didn't go completely blind.
I mean, wow.
In 2005, she was involved in the decision to destroy the videotapes of interrogations of Zubaida and El Nashiri.
So not only, isn't that amazing?
The decision, which was made with no apparent outside consultation, enraged members of Congress who are legally obliged to oversee the CIA.
Sifton of Human Rights Watch said the order to destroy the tapes was made by two people, Rodriguez and Haspel.
Hapsel.
So she's, so there you go.
Oh, this is also from that article.
When Obama took office in 2009, he declared that he would not prosecute anyone involved in the CIA's interrogation program, not even senior officers, among them whom Haspel was one.
At the time, Obama said he wanted to look forward and not back.
But the past, as Obama well knows, never goes away.
With the prospect of American torture looming again, I wonder if Obama regrets his decision.
After all, people like Haspel, quite plausibly, could have gone to prison.
I wonder what Barack Obama thinks about that today, now that she's the head of the CIA.
He doesn't.
He's busy.
He's busy.
Building a library.
I wonder what he thinks about that.
I really do.
Oh, by the way, so CNN, they're going to let us, James Clapper, I support Trump's pick for CA director.
Isn't that fantastic?
Thank you, CIA.
Thank you, CNN, for letting us know another liar.
That's the guy who lied to Congress about the surveillance state.
Lied on camera in public to Congress.
That's the guy.
And if you lie, again, if you lie at the behest of the establishment, you never have to pay a price.
Look at this.
The other torturers are having to pay a price.
This guy doesn't have to pay a price.
You know who does?
The guy who sells Lucy's out in front of a grocery store on Staten Island.
He has to pay his price.
Yeah.
And let's not forget the other new face going on is Mike Pompeo, who is more hawkish.
He tortured every country in the world.
But, you know, one of those countries is Russia, so it's all okay.
Yeah.
So Mattis, Mattis was actually against torturing, and he convinced Trump to go to not be with it.
He told Trump that you get more out of a suspect with a six-pack of beer and a pizza than you do by torturing them.
And so, but now this signifies that Trump is going the other way.
He's more into torture.
And Barack Obama made that possible.
Barack Obama made Trump ordering torture possible because he never prosecuted the people who carried out torture when it was ordered by George Bush and Dick Cheney.
So you see how that works?
How Barack Obama is one of them?
You see how that works?
How Barack Obama took two wars and made them eight.
How Barack Obama made the banks bigger.
How Barack Obama opened up the Arctic drilling.
You see why we have Trump, right?
So that's why we have Trump, and that's why we have a torturer at the head of our intelligence community right now.
That's why.
And now do you understand why when shows like this say that attacking a knee-jerk reactionary like Trump from the right is a bad idea?
Bad idea.
Do you know why we're saying that now?
Is this one of the many, many for instances of why we say those things?
Hey, believe me, you keep attacking Trump from the right.
He's going to go ahead and do something crazy.
He's going to go ahead and do something crazy.
Like, I don't know, order torture.
I love.
Yeah.
Anyway, so, all right, we have to ask.
Can I just ask that, please add, please?
Okay, so I'm looking at corporate news, ABC, and they said Christopher Anders, the deputy director of the American Civil Liberties Unions, Washington's legislative office, demanded that the CIA declassify and release every aspect of Haspel's torture record before considering the nomination.
Christopher Anders, the deputy director of American Civil Liberties.
Oh, really?
He's demanding that?
Yes.
That ain't going to happen.
Okay.
So now here's a little bit interesting about my California senator, Diane Feinstein.
She's very have soft words.
Okay.
So in 2013, Senator Dianne Feinstein blocked Haspel's promotion to be the head of the National Clandestine Service.
Yep.
Feinstein said Tuesday she will wait until Haspel's confirmation hearings to make a decision about her becoming the next CIA director.
And it continues.
Feinstein, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, told reporters that since 2013, the two have spent time together.
Oh, she's hanging out with the torture.
We've had dinner together.
We've talked.
Everything that I know is that she has been a good deputy director of the CIA.
That's Dianne Feinstein for you, everybody in California.
Diane Feinstein is cool with torture and goes as far to call Haspel a good deputy.
So if you're advocating torture, then you're good.
Then you're good to Diane Feinstein.
Well, maybe Diane saw into her soul.
Or maybe Diane got a taste of being waterboarded.
You think?
No.
Anyway, it's remarkable.
So there you go.
that's why you have to prosecute torturers, Barack Obama.
That would be why.
Because if you don't prosecute torturers, then the next person to head our intelligence community is going to be a torturer.
Can I just add that?
And then that sends the message to everybody else in the intelligence community that torture's cool.
It'll never be prosecuted because it won't.
And then that sends the message to the rest of the world.
Everybody seems to be worried about our image that Trump projects to the rest of the world.
And they're so embarrassed that other countries look down on us.
But they don't care if they look down at us for torturing people.
They only care if they look down at us because Trump is a jerk.
Isn't that funny?
I'm sorry.
Do you want to say that?
Let me see the wise words of Dianne Feinstein.
She says, hopefully, the entire organization learns something from the entire enhanced interrogation program.
And she adds, right now, I'm waiting for the hearings.
She says, well, there were no hearings.
But as far as the confirmation for those hearings for the confirmation.
Yeah.
So what's read that again soon?
So she says, Diane Feinstein quotes, Hopefully the entire organization learns something from the entire enhanced interrogation program.
So she even saying that, she calls it enhanced interrogation.
She doesn't call it torture program.
So you're trying to be stern with torturers?
Call it torture.
Don't call it enhanced interrogation because that makes it sound nice.
So there you go.
There's your neoliberal warmonger in chief.
He's very, he talks really nice.
He's nice to meet.
He's very cordial and he's gentlemanlike.
And he's a warmonger who had a kill list that he signed off on every day.
One of them included a kid.
And that's why you're supposed to do your job and prosecute torturers.
But that's not what he did.
Okay.
Well, can I say on a positive note, Jimmy, that it's nice to see that a woman is making such progress in a torture program.
Yes.
Way to go.
So I've seen this be reported by other places.
Like, oh, my God, can you believe Trump is nominating a torturer?
Diane Feinstein loves her.
And Barack Obama made it possible.
So that's why we're here.
We're here to remind you of how we got Trump and all this horribleness.
How do we get Trump in this horribleness?
Obama made this possible.
How do we get a torturer at the head of the CIA?
Obama made this possible.
And I know I can't wait to read the comments from the David Brock trolls that come over, the Hillary voters that come over and say, oh, really?
This is Obama's fault?
Yes, it is.
And you're not being honest.
In the words of Jack Nicholson, you can't handle the truth.
They might not be being honest, Jimmy, but they are correcting the record.
Hey, looks like we have Vince Voda on the phone.
Vince, how are you?
Jimmy, baby.
Great.
How are you doing?
I'm fine, Vince.
So you're well.
Well, as well as itself, 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?
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 the how dare you, Jimmy?
How dare you besmoach 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.
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 chibronies being called out these days.
They're all male feminists.
Izz, 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?
I got to get some sleep eventually.
This flags 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, kitty-grabbing sad-sacks.
And now it's time to pay 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 flabby 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 back, we're going to have a frat renaissance.
It's going to be great.
Do you want to be in on it?
You can 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, 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 could be a dynamic.
I could be the conservative guy.
You could be the liberal guy.
We, 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 Bonaduce and You 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.
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Now let's get on to the second hand.
Hey, this is Jimmy.
Jimmy, Previet.
This is Vladimir Putin.
Hey, Putin, you mean the Putin?
The president of Russian Federation.
How'd you get my number?
Please.
All right, of course.
Wow, Mr. Putin, how are you?
Good.
Very good.
Are you watching over there in Moscow?
No, we are watching other shit show.
That of NATO amassing tanks along the eastern Polish border.
Oh, right.
That's happening too.
Yeah, not good.
Not good.
Should I be worried?
Play your games, America.
Play your games.
Just know that we Russians are good at only three games.
Chess, Tetris, and international nuclear brinksmanship.
So, needless to say, back then and playing circus better was Moldavian, not Russian.
Some say hacking elections is another game you guys are good at.
Jimmy, I don't know what you're talking about.
Your electoral college shows Trump fair and square.
You can't handle truth.
You blame Russia.
Song as old as time.
You know, Mr. Putin, a lot of people are saying that the reason Trump appears so pro-Russia and pro-Putin is that you have dirt on him and you're blackmailing him.
Is it so impossible that he just might like me for me?
You never think of this?
Besides, this rumor of what he did in Moscow hotel room is just rumor, of course.
Why would we leak this contramat to press if we wanted to blackmail him with it for four years?
Yeah, I guess you have a point.
Unless, of course, that was just tip of iceberg.
Yellow iceberg.
Oh, go on.
Imagine if there were other rumors.
Well, I guess we should know.
Maybe he on the video letting those prostitutes urinate on him.
Okay.
Maybe small dogs involved too.
Oh, no.
Dogs urinate on him.
He urinates on dogs.
All in bed that he sleep in later.
Jesus.
Dogs dressed like small lady dancers with tutus, like from Russian ballet, but with small dogs.
I don't.
Maybe Kelly and Conway involved too on rumor video.
Please don't.
Being orally pleasured by Siberian Wolverine that had been starved for two weeks in cage.
Okay, okay.
I'm going to hang up, okay?
While same time, she fillets severed penis of Rasputin.
Okay, good.
Goodbye, Mr. Putin.
And Donald Trump urinating on all of them.
Okay, I'm hanging up.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
What?
You know what KGB code name for this would be called?
No, tell me.
The aristocrats.
Oh, come on.
Got you, you fucker.
You really are a jerk.
But seriously, we have hold up on tape and you will see it all eventually.
Okay.
Hi, everybody.
Welcome to Jimmy Dorsey.
I'm here with Richard Ascow, R.J. Escow from the Zero Hour.
How are you, Richard?
I'm doing fantastic.
Also here with Miserable Liberal.
Hi, Steph.
I'm miserable.
I wanted to show people this.
Sean King tweeted this out.
He said, I really do wish many of you would consider giving Bernie a second chance or at least attend a Bernie event in person to wrap your mind better around what's going on and why so many people support him.
Just writing him off completely says more about you than him.
I don't know who he's talking to.
80-some percent.
Well, actually, 92%, according to polls, 92% of a Democratic Party has a favorable view of Bernie Sanders, right?
And then there's that 8% that doesn't, or Johnny Gros calls him, the hate percent.
Right.
There's literally just 8% of the Democratic Party that has a negative view of Bernie Sanders.
So I don't know who he's.
So is that that must be who he's talking to, those people?
Well, yeah, no, look, I think that I take that as being a reflection of Twitter as this distorted and social media in general as this distorted environment that Sean, like so many of us, is getting all sorts of hate about Bernie because that 8% probably does 60% of the Democratic liberal tweeting on social media, partially.
And now here's another thing.
That's the correcter record.
Ah, exactly.
Exactly where, you know, I wrote a piece after the primary was over and there was fighting over like the convention and how it was going to go on all of that.
And they were saying, oh, Bernie doesn't have any leverage.
He lost.
That was the party line, right?
I wrote a piece for the Huffington Post called, Yes, Bernie has leverage.
Deal with it.
And that, that piece got hundreds and hundreds of comments.
The way Facebook, the way Hoving and Post worked, you had to be on Facebook to comment.
You had to have a Facebook account.
So it got hundreds and hundreds of comments.
And I started to say, and they were all the same.
And I started thinking, like, who's behind this?
Because we had already known David Brock.
They're going to spend a million dollars, correct the record, you know, sort of infiltrating social media with, you know, they're all outrage when Russia does it, but they do it themselves, right?
And so I started like following, like, and it would be like a Facebook page with like no picture and no timeline.
And, you know, it was clearly just troll factory.
Yeah.
And then you get other people who are obviously paying Cherblue or whatever it's called.
These other places that are obviously, they are troll factories.
It's just that they're not, at least directly, being paid by Russia.
They may be being paid by the bank that paid Bill Clinton or whatever, but certainly I don't know about it.
But okay, so to you, it's okay.
You don't mind trolls and bots and people distorting the social discussion as long as your money's coming from Wall Street.
And you know what I mean?
If you believe in democracy, you should hate this just as much as you hate any other troll farm.
I couldn't agree with you more.
So he's trying to implore, I guess, that 8% of people who say they don't like Bernie Sanders, which is just crazy.
Like, I don't, that's just a crazy thing.
If you're anyway, especially since those people who don't like him are the people who demanded Bernie Sanders' supporters vote for Hillary Clinton, I'm sure they would demand the same of themselves to support whoever the Democratic nominee is.
I'm sure that if Bernie were the nominee, that they would just say, look, you got to vote for the nominee.
Yeah, to you, he's the lesser of two evils, right?
Yeah, that'll be so.
So here's what this got him.
So this is what that got Sean King to write that.
He said, at this point, this is underneath that.
At this point, if you don't vote for a Democrat in 2020, you are aiding and abetting the GOP Russian alt-right coup.
The political reality and math is just that stark.
So, hey, Californians, this is amazing to me.
So now they've upped the ante.
Now, not only are you not only a bad person for not supporting Hillary Clinton or a corporate diswarmonger against Trump, you are now literally aiding and abetting, you're now a traitor to our country.
First of all, I like the fact that he does you with just the letter you.
It's very like 1990s print, very retro look for him, despite the fact that you now have 280 characters.
But that aside, look, you know, they've been playing this game as long as I've been around, which is a ridiculously long time.
You know, they've just, this is always no, oh, no, you're helping Nixon.
Oh, no, you're helping Reagan.
Oh, no, you're helping.
Now I'm going to sound like you, Dora.
Now, you're just helping.
This is the old game.
No, if you don't put up a Democrat that people want to vote for, maybe you are aiding and abetting the right coup.
So Sean Masterson.
With only 17 retweets and 153 likes.
Usually stuff like that gets thousands, right?
Yeah.
It's just to make the math is just that stark.
Yes, the math is just that stark.
Says the person who thinks 13 Twitter trolls and one Facebook ad brought down a billion-dollar campaign.
Right, $2 billion.
That's right.
That's right.
The math is just that stark, Richard.
Says the person who wants to shame people whose candidate received less than 1% of the vote.
That's who's responsible, right?
The math is just that stark.
Says the person who blames everything except the Electoral College.
You know, Hillary Clinton literally got 3 million more votes than Donald Trump.
So wagging your finger at fucking Steele Stein voters, Jill Stein got less than 1% of the vote.
It's the Electoral College.
There's a million things that you should be angry at.
People voting their conscience is the last thing you should be angry at.
And they're not just angry about it.
They are actually filled with hatred towards those voters.
A vile gut hatred that just pot smoking, you know, reggae listening, whatever their thing is, whatever their mental images are just the worst of the worst.
It's like, you know what?
Pot smoking, reggae listening people, whatever you think of them, they're really generally not that malicious.
You know, they don't really deserve all that hate, number one.
Number two, maybe it's like if you don't like voters enough to want to go out and get their vote, then maybe politics is not the line of business for you.
Yes.
Yes, exactly.
So what we've said here is that Hillary Clinton was the first candidate in history who wasn't expected to garner votes through campaigning.
She's just supposed to get those votes.
You just owe them to her.
And now that's continued because now people just keep saying that I needed this.
This is the continuance of this.
Just vote Democrat.
Just keep voting Democrat.
Guess what?
This is what I want.
Come get my vote.
Come get my vote.
Come and get my vote already, Democrats.
Quit yelling.
Quit voter shaming and start politician shaming.
Start wagging your finger at Hillary for being a part of administration, Barack Obama administration that opened the Arctic to drilling twice, that took two wars to seven, that made the banks bigger and kicked 5.1 million families out of their homes so they can make the banks better.
Who let cops crack the heads of peaceful protesters at Occupy Wall Street?
Who didn't put on a soft shoe to help union workers?
That's who you should be.
There's a million people for you to be angry at.
Voter shaming for environmentalists would be the last person that I would be.
It's amazing.
This is their strategy from 2016.
It didn't work.
This is the exact same strategy.
Yeah, you have to vote for her because Trump.
You have to vote for someone because someone else is a bigger nightmare.
That failed in 2016.
But you know what the Democrats say?
It's never too early to start a restart a failed message.
That's where the Democrats vote for us, you horrible person.
That's what their message is.
No, no, and it's been their message for a very, very long time.
But you know why it failed in 2016?
Why?
Because the math is just that stark.
The math is just that stark.
It's just that stark.
Hey, vote for us.
Don't be an idiot, you Russian dummy.
That's their selling pitch.
Right.
Well, you know, the classic moment to me was when Clara Jeffrey, who is the publisher of my Jones, tweeted, and I know I'm sure you've talked about this on this show.
I've never hated millennials more.
Do you know about that tweet?
I've never hated millennials more.
Well, that'll bring them running to your candidate.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, okay.
I vote for people who hate me too.
Yeah, yeah, that's what I want.
Politicians who hate me.
You know what?
I'm waiting for them to say, don't be a deplorable vote Democrat.
Oh, that's really going to bring the people right into your party.
Here's the Democrats reach out, right?
So, oh, you're a misogynist, you're a disobedient basement dweller.
You're a Russian troll.
You're a socialist.
You're a Trump supporter.
You're a purist.
You're a privileged white man.
You're a Bernie bro.
Now vote for us.
Right.
That's great.
Now vote for us.
That image is great.
That's fine.
I can't read the guy's name, Jay Branz.
Yeah, well, the Jay has done a good job there.
Yes, he has done a great job.
And, you know, this idea that you have to vote Democrats because of the Republicans.
Here's the 16 Democrats who voted to roll back the banking regulations just now.
They got in bed with Trump to do this against the will of the people.
Go ahead, Richard.
This is what I was just writing about.
These guys, that bill that permits or that takes the brakes off because they never stopped doing it, banks to discriminate against people of color, and they also discriminate in mortgage lending against women, too.
That bill that gives a green light to that, that bill that had a special favor put in for Citigroup and the other biggest of the big banks, even though they say it's for community based.
That bill that, by the way, Citigroup, which is the Democratic, which staffed Barack Obama's administration and was created by the Clinton administration, Bill Clinton administration.
He created Citigroup because he got rid of the regulations that said you couldn't.
And then, right, that said you couldn't merge travelers and Citigroup.
Travelers, Insurance, and Citibanks.
And then, of course, his own Treasury Secretary, Robert Rubin, went on to become the CEO of Citigroup and should have gone to jail, but didn't because Obama was presiding over the investigation.
So there you have, you know, Maggie Hassan and Gene Shaheen and Heidi Heitkamp and Mark Warner and Tim Kaine, Hillary's, as you've mentioned, running mate, Claire McCaskill, John Tester, Doug Jones.
So look, we could go on and on, but the point is these 16 Democrats, obviously some other Democrats didn't.
Elizabeth Warren has been going after these guys, Sherrod Brown.
But the fact is that this big Republicans couldn't have done it without these guys.
That's right.
Well, also people are.
I'm sorry to cut you off, Jimmy, but I'm getting upset.
Every single one of these guys should face a strong primary challenge.
And you know what?
I say, get out of my Democratic Party.
You are not representing my needs, and you certainly aren't representing people of color or the struggling class.
You're making it harder for us to succeed.
And you know, Richard, you're so right about these women that are supposed to be proponents in support of these women.
Two times up all of them.
So what are you doing?
Screwing them over.
You're not only screwing them over, you're going to screw their children over.
Yes.
Yes.
Right.
So.
But this one, you got to vote for that.
You can't not support it.
These really aren't Democrats.
These are corporate.
So what this guy says here is that you have to vote for them no matter what, or else you're a GOP Russian alt-right.
You're part of that.
If you don't vote for these people who are screwing you over as hard as it, by the way, this is the point that a lot of people miss.
The Democratic leadership let this happen.
People go, no, Chuck Schumer voted against it.
Chuck Schumer could have killed this on the motion to proceed.
They need 60 votes on a motion to proceed.
Chuck Schumer could have killed it.
He didn't do it.
He allowed this to happen.
This is Chuck Schumer secretly wanting this bill to pass.
That's what this is.
So this is the Democratic leadership pretending to resist Trump, which is why we got Trump in the first place because they don't resist.
They have no plan.
They don't want to break up the banks.
They don't want to put regulations on the banks.
I'm talking about the Democratic leadership.
They don't want to do it.
They don't want to make the war smaller.
They don't want to make the bank smaller.
They don't want to give you Medicare for all.
That's why you got to stop voting for them.
And if you pledge your vote to the Democratic Party before the election, that's why you get this, you dummies.
That's why this happens.
Pledging your votes to people who don't represent you is the dumbest thing you could do before.
Oh, no, we're going to hold their feet to the fire after the election.
You can't get them to cotton to your ideas before the election.
Have you ever heard anything dumber than that?
You know how the Tea Party took over the Republican Party?
By stopping voting for those mother efforts.
Absolutely.
They just said, well, okay, you know, do it.
Sure, nominate the guy we don't like, but we're not going to vote for you.
Yeah.
I'm all for that.
I'm all for that.
I'm all for primarying every single one of them.
Every single one of them.
Every single one of them.
I'm for Paula Swearengen in West Virginia, primary and Joe Manchin.
I would primary.
And they tell you not to prime.
You know, they get so offended when somebody primaries a sitting Democratic senator.
No, no, we don't have a House of Lords in this country.
That's right.
You don't have to do it.
You got a title to the seat.
Yeah, if you don't represent me, I'm going to run somebody against you.
So, no, they would say, oh, you got to vote for Claire McCaskill because he's in a red state.
What's the point of having a Democrat in a red state if they vote Republican?
Well, and there's no point.
Also, that's based on the false logic that says that the only way to win in a red state is by pretending to be a Republican.
Try being a liberal lefty progressive.
Somebody who says, I mean, look, Missouri, that state used to go Democratic.
You know, Montana, you can win in the West with a, you know, you just have to run a very different kind of candidate, somebody who's really going to, you know, every state in the union, most people are working people.
People like people like Bernie Sanders' message.
Somebody with Bernie Sanders' message.
I would like to give that a litmus test.
Hey, I'm not going to be bought by corporations.
I'm going to take your worries of health care away from you, and I'm going to provide your kids with free college.
That's a winning message, no matter where you go.
The majority of the country is for Medicare for all right now.
And the only people who are against it seem to be still the Democrats.
You know, my head is snapping back when I keep reading all the numbers that these people have received from the financial sector.
I mean, look at how much Michael Bennett has received.
Oh, that's low.
These are very low.
I went through the numbers for a piece I'm writing now.
They look, no, they're about right.
Yeah, Michael Bennett, to be honest, I can't see them from here.
$1,908 for Bennett.
Yeah, that sounds about right.
But you also have to throw in their security and investment.
There's also commercial banking.
There's also lobbyists.
There's also lawyers and law firms, some of which has also influenced peddling on behalf of Wall Street.
It's these 16 people together got 24 million from Wall Street, got 42 million from law firms, got 4 million from lobbyists, and 10 million from groups promoting women's issues.
And so they're going to make sure to pass a bill that discriminates against women.
But we need to be worried about Russia's influence in our government.
That's what MSNBC would tell you.
The Washington Post, the New York Times, and most of your lefty news organizations today would tell you, don't worry about that.
Let's worry about Russia.
Then they'll give lip service saying, oh, no, this is important too, but we're going to talk about Russia and Trump 99% of the time.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and suspect that you've discussed Adam Schiff on this show.
Yes, we have discussed that.
Okay, you can be as Wall Street a Democrat as you want.
Just make sure your Twitter feed is all Russia all the time.
Yes.
And you're a hero of the resistance.
That's what we call Mick resistance.
That's not real resistance.
If you want to know.
You talked about the Fearless Girl statue on this show.
No.
The Fearless Girl Statue, which everybody was celebrating.
You know, you have the Wall Street Bull, and then somebody put up the fearless girl standing up against the Wall Street bull.
And everybody's saying this girl was a symbol of the resistance.
It was a Wall Street bank that put up the fearless girl statue.
That is, to me, the perfect metaphor for what Democrats like these are doing, which is to say to put up a symbolic opponent to a symbolic oppressor, but it's all funded by the same people.
That's the metaphor.
That's the living metaphor.
Okay, we're going to end it there.
That was an awesome way to end that segment.
Wow.
It's a symbolic resistance to a symbolic oppressor.
The oppressor isn't Trump.
The oppressor is the system that gave us Trump.
Would that be, am I misinterpreting your metaphor?
Yeah, that would be it.
So the problem is he's a temporary, he's a temporary lever in a system of gears.
Right.
Right.
Trump is.
He's not the Trump.
Trump didn't take us to Afghanistan for 17 years.
Trump didn't start the Iraq war.
He didn't do Libya.
He didn't take the banks and make them bigger.
He didn't, right?
So this is.
Right.
And these Democrats who are now nostalgic for George W. Bush.
Yeah.
Stick around.
In 10, 15 years, they'll be nostalgic for Donald Trump.
Yeah.
Ha ha.
Yeah, there'll be someone worse than Donald Trump.
Yeah.
So I want to talk to you about Jeremy Corbyn's response to the alleged Russian nerve agent attack on a Russian spy that just happened in the UK.
So here's how NBC reported it.
Sergei Scripal, a former Russian spy, was poisoned with military nerve agent.
He and his daughter seriously ill.
It's highly likely that Russia was responsible.
British Prime Minister Theresa May giving Russia a deadline midnight tonight for answers.
President Trump backing Britain, threatening consequences.
It sounds to me like it would be Russia based on all of the evidence they have.
Russia's foreign minister says that's garbage.
It won't heed any deadline and wants samples of the nerve agent used.
The crisis deepening.
Britain ready to expel Russian diplomats and to impose new sanctions.
Bill Neely, NBC News, London.
Okay, so there you go.
Putin decided to poison a spy, do it in a way that totally points the finger at himself because they're saying they used a nerve agent that was developed by the Russians and only they use it.
That's what that's what they've been saying.
And so what Russia has said is show us.
You saw the Russian ambassador say, well, show us the proof.
You have to send us the, we'll analyze the nerve gas that you say came from us.
We'll talk.
And so there's, you saw the report, and you see how everyone's reporting this, and everybody's going along with this is WM.
This is Saddam's a bad guy.
Remember how they said Saddam's a bad guy?
He takes babies out of cribs and they throw them on the floor.
That's what, remember that?
That's Saddam's a bad guy.
That's what's happening again.
So they keep saying, look, he kills, he kills people and he kills people.
Barack Obama had a kill that.
So I'm not saying, I'm not doing people go, oh, why are you defending Putin?
I'm not defending Putin.
I'm trying to cut through propaganda by the intelligence communities and our governments.
So we can make clear-headed decisions.
So when I heard about this, that oh, it's definitely the Russians.
They know already before an investigation.
They know already.
Already.
I don't know.
I remember last time that happened, we went into Iraq.
And then some, here's a guy named Tom Slaughter, who I don't know from Twitter.
I saw this, and I'm like, that's exactly what I was thinking.
He says this Putin guy is really something at the height of an anti-Russian hysteria in the West.
And right before both the Russian election and the World Cup, he decides the time is right to execute a spy living openly in the UK since 2010 using a Russian nerve agent.
I don't know.
You tell me.
So now everywhere you're going to see it reported as definitely Putin did it.
Even Trump is saying that today.
To me, it doesn't pass the smell test that they would do this.
And this is not me.
So this is everybody ramping up again.
Please don't look at the establishment.
Please don't look at why we got Trump.
Please don't look at why we got why Brexit happened.
Please don't look.
Just keep focused on Russia.
Russia's the cause of all our problems.
Well, I just have two things.
The idea that the spy is living openly in the UK and that they've decided, after which that he's been poisoning his daughter too, that it's appropriate now to throw out the diplomats from Russia makes no sense to me.
Right?
Doesn't make any sense whatsoever.
I know.
And then what a perfect tool to use to frame Putin.
Yeah.
Well, no, you're talking about clear-headed decisions.
And another thing that's happening now because of this is they want to ban RT in the UK now.
They want to kick out that bureau in the UK, which even if this is, and yeah, we're shooting first and asking later, first of all.
But second of all, what does a media outlet have to do with this?
Why would you then kick out a bureau?
Like, it makes absolutely zero sense.
I mean, it doesn't like were all the panelists accounted for when this happened.
Like, are you kidding me?
So when England supports siege warfare, which is a war crime in Yemen, do we then ban the BBC in the United States?
Yes.
So what?
So when the, through the UK bombs a hospital or something, if they do that, do we then ban the BBC in the United States?
So that's what they're doing.
That's, yep.
So this is.
And I just want to remind people who, because what they're doing is this is propaganda to get you to go along with anything they say about Russia or any ramping up of military.
We're not questioning the 80 billion extra a year we're spending on the military or the expanded spying powers for Trump.
They're not talking about any of that.
And I'm showing you this to remind you.
So what this is propaganda to get everybody hating on Russia and Putin.
And just like the propaganda was to get everybody hating on Iraq and hating on Saddam Hussein.
I just want to remind you that we have a torture program in the United States that was started at the top of government, carried out by our intelligence community.
And the people who wrote it up and made it legal get rewarded with Professor Yu is the Emmanuel Heller Professor of Law and Director of the Korea Law Center, the California Constitution Center, and the law schools program.
So there you go at Berkeley Law.
There it says, so look at him.
He got really punished for going along with the torture program.
So I just want to let you know, people go, oh, Putin's horrible.
He kills people.
We have a torture program program.
We never prosecuted anybody, never even had a hearing.
Barack Obama took that torture program, closed it up.
Nobody could ever see it.
So we can never learn from it again.
And now our new CIA director is a torturer.
Jeremy Corbyn responded to that, and here's how he responded.
He said the attack in Salisbury was an appalling act of violence, which we condemn in the strongest terms.
Nerve agents are abominable if used in war.
It is utterly reckless for them to be used in a civilian environment.
The prime minister said on Monday and again today that Russia was either directly responsible or it was culpable because it lost control of this nerve agent.
The Russian authorities must be held to account on the basis of evidence, emphasis mine, on the basis of evidence.
And our response must be both decisive and proportionate.
Boy, it sounds like he's, I don't know, being like a rational diplomat.
It's like he's being a real statesman, like he's trying to be the only thing we have to fear is fear itself kind of a guy.
It sounds like something a Putin puppet would say.
He's got more to say.
He says the attack in Britain has concerned our allies in the European Union, NATO, and in the United States, and their words of solidarity have strengthened our positions diplomatically.
We have a duty to speak out against the abuse of human rights by Putin's government and its support, both home and abroad, and pay tribute to the many campaigners in Russia for human rights.
And we must do more to address the dangers posed by the Russian state's relationship with unofficial mafia-like groups and corrupt oligarchs.
Sounds pretty strong, everything he's saying.
We need to expose the flows of ill-gotten cash between the Russian state and billionaires who become stupendously rich by looting their own country and subsequently using London to protect their wealth.
We welcome the prime minister's clear commitment today to support the McNinsky Act to sanction human rights abusers as we have long been calling For Britain should build an international consensus to strengthen the chemical weapons convention and ensure that such a horrific attack never happens again.
Now, that sounds pretty clear-headed, pretty strong, and exactly what a statesman would say, right?
Waiting, if we're going to do something, it's got to be based on evidence.
Based on evidence and that the appropriate parties are held responsible and the offenders are the things we're trying to prevent.
And our response is proportionate.
Proportionate.
Yes.
Right.
That's another key word.
He's so reasonable.
It makes me uncomfortable.
It does.
Well, it makes a lot of people uncomfortable stuff.
And who do you want to who else?
Here you go.
This is astonishing.
Corbyn's response to a statesman like Theresa May sounds like it was written by Putin himself.
Okay.
Okay.
So do you see that there's nothing you can ever do on the left that's going to stop red smearing?
So when Bernie Sanders staff tweets out all that bullshit Russia gate stuff, that's not going to help you.
They still are going to call you a Putin puppet.
They do it right now.
They're doing it right now.
And look what they're doing to Corbin.
They're doing that right now.
So no matter what he says, he's a Putin puppet.
That's the new thing.
That's how the establishment is trying to silence progressives here and across the pond.
And they're doing it for your own good.
Not a single word of condemnation for Russia from Corbyn on the Salisbury attack in the commons now, instead calling for dialogue.
Instead, questions Tory donations.
Shouts of, are you saying this for a clip on Russia today?
That's a guy named Greg Hands.
He's a Tory.
Michael Tracy retweets that and says, again, this Tory line of attack on Corbyn is virtually identical to the mainstream Democratic attack on Trump.
What does that tell you about the premise, the premises that underlie the criticism?
I disagree with Michael Tracy's analysis because over in the UK, they know that the Tories are the right-wing party.
And here we don't know the Democrats are right-wing parties.
Yeah.
Well, Labor used to be pretty right-wing until Jeremy Corbyn took it over.
That's true.
And I guess that's what Bernie Sanders thinks can happen here is that he can take it over the way Jeremy Corbyn took it over.
Remember, there's more than two parties in the UK.
Yep.
So just remember that.
So it tells me that these premises that underlie these criticisms are BS.
That's what that tells me.
That the premises that underlie these criticisms are BS.
The Tory line of attack on Corbyn is virtually identical to the mainstream Democratic attack on Trump, that Trump's somehow in bed with Putin.
Here's another one: a glaring omission.
Jeremy Corbyn refused to even once directly condemn the Russian government for the Salisbury attack and his response to the prime minister.
This will haunt him.
Labor would perform better on these issues if Corbyn got rid of his two advisors whose whole approach to international affairs can be boiled down to Putin as a point.
This is unbelievable, right?
So people just get to write this is so me being in this world, this political world for the, since, I don't know, 2008, 9, when I got my radio show on KPFK and my hour special on Comedy Central, which was political.
It's wild to watch the newspapers.
They just can say, they just did it to me.
They just, somebody just wrote an article in some corporatist Democrat rag saying that I was pro working with racists or something like that.
I was pro, which I actually said the opposite.
I actually said that I don't endorse that tactic.
I'm working with racists.
I don't endorse that tactic.
And they just said the exact opposite.
So you saw, I just read you Jeremy Corbyn's thing, and they just said the exact opposite of what he said.
Yeah, they did.
That's what this is.
And just get ready for more of it.
So anybody who's progressive, I just got it from the corporate Democrat rags.
Isn't that funny?
The exact opposite of what I said.
So anybody who's anti-war and progressive, they're going to smear you.
And then, you know, then if you answer the smear, it just elevates the smear.
So now, and more people will see it.
So I don't really answer to smears like that.
And unless it comes from the Washington Post, and then I look, then I'll have fun with it.
So I don't, you can't, you can't, there's so many people lying about what I say right now.
It's funny.
I can't believe, you know, people say your show's popular.
And then I'm like, it's kind of popular.
You know, we have over 300,000 subscribers.
The Young Turks have 3 million, right?
So we do okay.
But then I can't believe all the videos that people make, articles people write, completely slandering this show, me, and saying that we said stuff we didn't, deceptively editing videos.
You've seen that happen.
Oh, yeah.
About when I talked with Joe Rogan, people selectively not showing the parts that would exonerate me.
So it's just, so that's what this is.
So you're a progressive, corporate Democrats smear you.
I'm getting smeared way more by corporate Democrats than the right wing ever smeared me.
We're all going to be called Putin sympathizers on Twitter this week.
Yes.
All of us are going to.
Oh, of course.
We can time stamp different parts in the video where we're like, we're waiting for evidence.
They're not, you know, we're not, we're waiting for the proper evidence.
Won't matter.
So yeah, the last time.
Right.
The last time this happened is when we covered Wheeler when he was talking, when Wheeler was talking about the Seth Rich investigation as it was happening.
And we said in that video, we're going to wait for evidence.
This is suspicious.
We're going to wait for evidence, unlike the mainstream news media.
Same thing here.
Everybody's jumping to conclusions.
And if you don't jump to a conclusion that Russia did it, then you're a Putin sympathizer.
Even though we know their intelligence community has lied to us repeatedly, repeatedly.
The Iraq war, torture, okay?
Just keep those two things in mind.
We don't have to go anywhere else.
So there it is.
So just so you know, that's what's going to happen.
It's happening to Jeremy Corbyn all the time.
We just showed you another video where they tried to say he was in bed with the communists.
He was giving secrets.
Remember that?
And it's going to, if as soon as Bernie declares that he's running again, they're going to come at him so hard, meaning the corporate Democrats.
And they'll do it in sneaky ways.
They're going to do it in sneaky ways.
They'll use surrogates to attack them.
They'll get their friends in the right wing to write articles.
It'll amplify them.
They'll do all kinds of stuff like that to screw over Bernie Sanders because he's a progressive.
And now is Bernie Sanders perfect?
By no means is Bernie Sanders perfect.
Nobody is.
Bernie Sanders is the least flawed guy who has a chance to become president that I know of.
And people go, yeah, but he's got this flaw.
I know.
I'm not trying to pretend Bernie Sanders doesn't have flaws.
He could be better on a lot of things.
Right now, he's the best on things of anybody who's viable.
Am I wrong about that?
I completely agree.
Okay, so I'm, you know, I'm all, you know, so I hope people, I think people who watch the show know my position.
I'm for progressives, no matter where they are, no matter when they run.
I'm for progressives.
What do you think about that?
All right.
So again, this is the establishment, the establishment news media.
This is the establishment intelligence community.
This is neoliberalism.
That's what I think this is.
And they want to screw over progressives.
And it's not stopping.
It's only ramping up.
And Jeremy Cormer actually took over the party, which is why they can't stop attacking him like this, like over the top.
Bernie doesn't have any power yet right now.
He's not in the head of the party.
He's not, but believe me, as soon as it looks like he might be, things are going to hit the fan for him.
They're going to make this look like child play.
Oh, yeah, absolutely.
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