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May 24, 2018 - Jimmy Dore Show
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Get ready for an outstanding entertainment program.
The Jimmy Dore Show.
What?
Hey, Vince, it's Jimmy Dore.
Oh, hey, Jim.
Hey, look, can I call you back?
I'm watching the news right now.
Oh, really?
What are you watching?
Jimmy, I've been staring at this live feed of the volcano on CNN.com for seven hours straight.
Have you seen this?
Yeah, yeah, Vince.
There's a fucking volcano erupting, Jimmy Dore, right now on Earth in the United States.
Yep.
This is the coolest thing I've ever seen.
It's a goddamn volcano blowing up.
Lava, gas, ash, baby.
Yeah, that's what it does.
I guess it's going to be your whole show this week, right?
Put all that progressive Lily Festival crap to that at least for a while while this is going on, right?
This is quite an amazing spectacle, agreed, Vince, but volcanoes are natural occurrences.
And I do a show about the news.
This is the news, you fucking dope.
I really wish you wouldn't talk to me that way.
Sorry, I'm all lava up.
We do political news.
You know this.
Come on.
This volcano is politics.
What does that even mean?
I don't know, but it means something.
I can tell you that.
It's a giant metaphor for some shit.
That's for sure.
There's no denying it.
I guess.
Have you even seen this lava erupting, spewing up all red and shit?
Yes, Vince.
It's like the earth is bleeding.
I know.
It looks like when Jaw has bit that kid's leg.
How anyone could give a shit about anything else right now?
I don't understand it.
The losers still trying to take down our greatest president so far.
Still with this Russia crap.
Still with this jilted prostitute, Stormy Daniels.
She's a former porn star, Vince.
And even though I think all this is a giant distraction, what she does for a living shouldn't be relevant.
You're really just sort of...
I know you have to cater to some more sensitive progressive types now that your show has grown.
I realize that.
But I swear to God, if you use the term slut shame to me, unironically, I'm going to throw you into this fucking volcano.
Choose your next move very carefully, Red Cloud.
Okay, fine.
This isn't the hill I'm going to die on.
Yeah, you're right.
That fucking volcano is the hill you're going to die on.
Then you got that prostitute's lawyer, that freaky weirdo Michael Avenatti, who looks and acts like a robot who is sent from the future to stop a botched order of pasta fajul from making it to table 27.
Right.
Who in their right mind could possibly give a crap about any of that when we've got like dinosaur shit going on in Hawaii?
Because what is happening in our political system right now, Trump or no Trump, ultimately affects more lives than the volcano.
You don't understand the volcano.
I don't want you talking about the volcano anymore.
I just bought a ticket to Hawaii online.
This means something, Jimmy.
I have to be there.
I have to.
This is calling to me, JD.
This is who I am now.
I'm Vince Volcano.
That's a good stage name.
Yeah, it's pretty tight, honestly.
But this is about my destiny.
I must get close to it.
Vince, be careful.
It's very dangerous there.
The volcano won't hurt me, Jimmy.
I know it won't.
How?
It just told me.
Vince, what are you...
What I do expect is for you to respect my decision.
Vince, no!
It's the Jimmy Dore Show.
The show for...
...the kind of people that are...
Comments maybe on tearing down our nation.
It's the show that makes Anderson Cooper save.
It's hard to talk to you, T-Wali.
And now, there's a guy who sounds a lot like me.
It's Jimmy Dore!
Hi, everybody.
Welcome to the Jimmy Dore Show.
I'm here.
We have special guests with us.
It's Sam Tripoli, the Tinfoil Hat Podcast.
I'm Sam.
Sam's got a big show coming up in San Francisco.
What's the date on that, Sam?
June 1st, Cobbs Comedy Club, and then June 2nd at the Sacramento Punchline.
Live Nation presents the Tinfoil Hat Comedy Night, an hour of comedy with a little Q ⁇ A at the end.
Okay, and that's the, it's a great place for it, Comedy Club, because you're a comedian and you're funny.
Thank you.
You should be.
You like me.
You really like me.
Yeah, yeah.
So the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
Now, this is a video that was from a couple years ago.
And this is the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, How to Build U.S.-Israel Coordination on Preventing an Iranian Nuclear Breakout.
So that's what it's all about.
And it's that guy that Patrick Clausen is going to be the guy speaking.
He's this guy.
And so now this guy, you know, he's not a nobodies, right?
So he used to be a senior economist at the World Bank.
He was also an economist at the IMF, International Monetary Fund.
So this guy's very influential in international politics.
And here he is.
Now, when we tell you the real reasons for war, places like the CNN call us, they smear us, right?
So if you tell the truth about war, they'll smear you as a conspiracy theorist, right?
Even though the biggest conspiracy in my lifetime was the Iraq war.
That was a conspiracy of lies to get us into an illegal war.
And by the way, every war in my lifetime has been a bullshit illegal war.
So the Vietnam War, based on a lie.
We know that now, Pentagon Papers.
We know that First Gulf War was a bullshit war for oil because many sources, one of them is chief of staff to Colin Powell, Colonel Wilkerson, who said that was the war that opened his eyes to what all our wars are about, oil.
The next war was the Iraq War.
The Second Gulf War, we all know that was WMD's lies.
Libya also, what did they tell?
I don't even know what the lie was.
They're fighting terrorism.
That was the most advanced country in Africa.
They turned it into a failed state with slave trading.
So here is Pat Clausen, and he's going to talk about the next war, right?
So we showed you General Wesley Clark.
Hammer nail.
We showed you General Wesley Clark saying that after 9-11, they already had a plan to invade seven countries.
About 10 days after 9-11, I went through the Pentagon and I saw Secretary Rumsfeld and Deputy Secretary Wolfowitz.
I went downstairs just to say hello to some of the people on the joint staff who used to work for me.
And one of the generals called me and he said, sir, you got to come in.
You got to come in and talk to me a second.
I said, well, you're too busy.
He said, no, no.
He says, we've made the decision we're going to war with Iraq.
This was on or about the 20th of September.
I said, we're going to war with Iraq.
Why?
He said, I don't know.
He said, I guess they don't know what else to do.
So I said, well, did they find some information connecting Saddam to al-Qaeda?
He said, no, no.
He says, there's nothing new that way.
They've just made the decision to go to war with Iraq.
He said, I guess it's like we don't know what to do about terrorists, but we've got a good military and we can take down governments.
And he said, I guess if the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem has to look like a nail.
So I came back to see him a few weeks later.
And by that time, we were bombing in Afghanistan.
I said, are we still going to war with Iraq?
And he said, oh, it's worse than that.
He said, he reached over on his desk.
He picked up a piece of paper.
He said, I just, he said, I just got this down from upstairs, meeting the Secretary of Defense's office today.
And he said, this is a memo that describes how we're going to take out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and finishing off Iran.
The CNN would call him a crazy conspiracy theorist.
So when you tell the truth about the war, that's what they do.
They smear you as a conspiracy.
That's exactly what happens.
Okay.
So now we're going to show you how do you manufacture those wars?
Well, if you want to have a war with Iran, how do you do it?
Well, we know how they did it in Syria.
So in Syria, they said that, oh, Assad's a butcher.
We love butchers, by the way.
You see how they just butchered people in Gaza?
We love that.
We don't have no problem with that.
Netanyahu, we have no problem with Saudi Arabia being butchers.
We prop up most of the strongmen dictators in the world.
So we have no problem with that.
But how do we, so how are we going to get it?
So that's how they got us into Syria.
Afghanistan, you know how we got into Afghanistan.
Libya, they said, again, terrorists in Libya.
We got to go after them.
Yemen, I don't know what the lie is they've said about Yemen.
I just know that we're there.
And have they told anybody why we're in Niger or any of those places?
Why we're no.
I don't know why they say we're there.
It's always about fighting terrorism.
So he's going to show you this is how this is before a couple years ago.
This is before all the current stuff was happening with Iran.
Just like we've showed you, they've wanted to overthrow Syria for decades.
And in 2006, Christian Oman Hoor on CNN even admitted that they've been talking about regime change.
That's in 2006.
So they've been just making up reasons.
And that's what everybody knows.
That's what the CIA does.
That's what the United States government does.
It invents reasons to have a war.
And this guy, Pat Clausen, over here at the Washington Institute, former senior economist for the World Bank, here's how he says we're going to get into Iran.
I frankly think that crisis initiation is really tough.
Crisis initiation, Sam.
That's what he calls it.
Crisis initiation.
It's really tough.
Here we go.
And it's very hard for me to see how the United States president can get us to war with Iran.
Just that right there.
It's very hard to see how he's going to get us to a war with Iran, especially after we did Iraq.
Boy.
And we did Libya.
And we're still in Afghanistan and Syria.
I just don't.
Well, we'll see what happens.
Which leads me to conclude that if, in fact, compromise is not coming, that the traditional way of America gets to war is what would be best for U.S. interests.
Some people might think that Mr. Roosevelt wanted to get us into World War II, as David mentioned.
You may recall we had to wait for Pearl Harbor.
Some people might think Mr. Wilson wanted to get us into World War I. You may recall he had to wait for the Lusitania episode.
Some people might think that Mr. Johnson wanted to send troops to Vietnam.
You may recall they had to wait for the Gulf of Tonkin episode.
Okay, that's Gulf of Tonkin was revealed to be complete bullshit, completely invented, didn't happen.
It was a fault.
That's called a false flag.
Okay, right?
Right.
We didn't go to war with Spain until the U.S.S. Until the Maine exploded.
Also, bogus.
Right, here we go.
And may I point out that Mr. Lincoln did not feel he could call out the Federal Army until Fort Sumter was attacked, which is why he ordered the commander at Fort Sumter to do exactly that thing, which the South Carolinians had said would cause an attack.
So this guy's making the case that the government, whatever it needs to do to start a war, should do.
That's the case he's making, right?
And you need some big event to start a war.
And he's saying Lincoln started the war by provoking it, doing exactly the thing he knew would provoke.
That's what he's saying.
So here we go.
So if, in fact, the Iranians aren't going to compromise, it would be best if somebody else started the war.
One can combine other means of pressure with sanctions.
I mentioned that explosion on August 17th.
We could step up the pressure.
I mean, look, people, Iranian submarines periodically go down.
Someday one of them might not come up.
Who would know why?
We can.
This is how these people think.
Just so you know, just so you know.
I mean, people are giggling.
Well, it could go down and ever come up.
Who knows?
This is how it works.
And they're doing it.
They don't even hide it.
It's not even hiding it.
Here we go.
A variety of things if we wish to increase the pressure.
I'm not advocating that, but I'm just suggesting that this is not a either-or proposition.
It's just sanctions has to succeed or other things.
We are in the game of using covert means against the Iranians.
But did you see how he did a disclaimer?
I'm not advocating that, but we are in the game of using.
I am not going to advocate it publicly.
I have to use this disclaimer when I speak about this publicly because I'm a senior advisor at the World Bank.
So I have to use this bullshit disclaimer that I'm not advocating for the thing I'm advocating for.
We could get nastier then.
So let me throw it to my panel.
Let's throw it to Sam.
Sam Tripoli, what do you think about that?
You know what this guy reminds me of?
It's like, you know, Jimmy, we've done late-night shows at the comedy clubs and the language is a little loose and a little vulgar.
And then you see that same comic and he doesn't realize he's at not an economy club, but he's around kids and he starts talking.
He's like, oh, I'm not the kind club.
He's literally talking like how they talk at these board meetings.
And when he does the disclaimer, he realizes, oh, I'm not around these lizard people anymore.
And I got to put this disclaimer.
That's how they think.
They literally think like that when they're around each other.
And they literally, like, dude, the Gulf of Tonkin Wasn't even real.
He's even lying about Lincoln.
Lincoln didn't want to go to war.
It was the Federal Reserve that wanted to go to war.
Another banker's war because Lincoln wanted to get rid of the Federal Reserve.
It's just all BS.
These are all bankers' wars.
That's all they are.
9-11, you could get into a lot of that stuff, too.
It's these dudes in suits that send our kids and our sons and our daughters to fight these wars.
And nobody with his genes will ever set a boot in anywhere where he wants to go fight.
Right.
They don't go there.
Right.
It's our kids.
It's our neighbors.
It's our family members.
They go fight these guys because they can't have enough money.
Like, how much is enough?
Right.
And that's just all it is, dude.
The IMF, WBO, just raining on everybody.
And what he's saying is, well, you know, the reason we go to war is because it's in our interests.
Not because we're being threatened.
Not because we have a lethal threat from another country or someone has attacked us.
But we go to war because it's in our interest.
Who mean we, though?
Who's our?
That's what I think.
Right.
He's talking about corporate America's interests.
That's what he means.
When he says in our interest, he means corporate America's interests, the petrodollar's interests.
Oh, yeah.
That's what he means our interests.
But you know what I liked about him, though?
He said we need to wait until some big event happens.
And it was as if he was winking to the audience.
Like, when's that event?
Yeah, like one of those submarines just doesn't come up.
The Libya, why'd we go to Libya?
He wanted to get off the petrodollar.
That's right.
And that's the same thing with Venezuela.
They want to get off the petrodollar.
You know, Nixon took us off the gold standard.
The Federal Reserve Nixon takes us off the gold standard.
And now our money is backed by oil.
There's unlimited oil at that time.
It was kept going.
So you can print as much money as you want.
So people don't understand the petrol dollar.
I've explained it a few times.
And he said, so when Nixon took us off the gold standard, we then went to the petrol dollar.
And what we said to Saudi Arabia, if Saudi Arabia, if every time someone buys oil from you, you make them use American dollars.
So they had to take their own currency and then purchase American dollars and then buy the oil, right?
So that helps prop up.
And then they take some of that money and invest it here to Saudi Arabia.
And in return for Saudi Arabia doing that, we would then promise the use of our military anywhere they wanted, which is why we're in Yemen, which is why I'm sure we did Libya, which is why I'm sure we're in Syria.
Part of it, Israel also wants us in Syria.
Yemens, their big thing that we're committing these atrocities for is because they are supportive of the Palestinians.
They are giant supporters of the Palestinians.
They have marches constantly for the rights of the Palestinians.
And Saudi Arabia, Israel do not like that at all, man.
Yeah, Saudi Arabia, we are in Yemen at the behest of Saudi Arabia for sure.
And, you know, they want to topple the government there.
And we're helping them.
And what they're doing is a thing called siege warfare, which is a war crime.
And we're participating in it.
So all these wars are all bullshit.
And this guy's just, I mean, if that doesn't let you know how bullshit they are.
Are you telling me we're not spreading democracy in the Middle East?
Yeah.
Oh, my God.
They want to put a pipeline through Syria.
Looks like we got to bring some liberty to Syria.
Yeah.
Looks like they could use some democracy.
Show me one place that has gotten better since we've gone in.
Exactly.
Show me one place where the standard of life.
You were right, man.
Libya had the highest standard of living before we went in and illegally assassinated.
Right.
You know, and who did that?
Obama and Hillary.
And Hillary, that's correct.
Do you know what?
People forget this, or people don't even know this, that, you know, people think about George Bush being a horrible warmonger, which he was.
Yeah, for sure.
And he started the, well, he did the started Afghanistan.
And a shitty dancer.
You see him with Ellen's?
Very shitty dancer.
So he started the Afghanistan war, which is still going on, by the way.
It's almost almost two decades, almost 20 years.
Have you seen that?
When the Afghani war started, they said they showed a picture of Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake together when they were all in their highlights, rhinestone cowboy look.
That's how long it's been.
Like it's been two decades that we've been out there.
I frequently figure out what Britney was doing.
Yeah.
In my line.
That's how I mark time.
And then he did Iraq.
George Bush dropped 70,000 bombs during his two terms as president.
70,000 bombs.
You know how many bombs Barack Obama dropped?
Hope and Change, Nobel Peace Prize winner?
He dropped 100,000 bombs.
Did he run out of bombs, Jimmy?
They literally ran out of bombs for a little while one year.
So I just want to make everybody realize that we're in that thing that General Eisenhower warned us against was the undue influence of the military-industrial complex.
It's happening.
This is what we're in.
We're in perpetual war.
Barack Obama, Peace Prize winner, took us from two wars to seven.
Now we're in eight.
And they're all bullshit.
Not one of them is not bullshit.
They're all bullshit.
Why are we still in Afghanistan?
What the effort do you think we're doing, Sam?
Jimmy, if you take a look at the list of that Wesley Clark, all the countries you list, and you compare that to countries that did not have centralized banks in the year 2000, it's almost identical.
The only one that's off there is North Korea.
And look what we've been trying to do with North Korea.
But it's almost the exact same list.
So you're talking a central bank, like a Rothschild bank kind of a thing?
It's all the WBO, IMF.
There's actually somebody, it's called the Bank of International Settlements, and it's actually a little bit bigger than that.
You know, the Rothschilds are like the boogeyman.
You know, oh, the Rothschild.
It's like they're just a part of this group.
But it's the, like, you know, like Russia, like the way we fight terrorism.
Well, Russia kicked the Rothschilds out, and they're like, we fought, we got them out of Mother Russia.
And the population's like, yeah, down with the Rothschilds.
But they're still part of the Bank of International Settlements, which runs all these centralized banks.
Oh, okay.
I'm not up on that like I should be.
I'm not, that's complicated.
Drop in knowledge.
That confuses me.
So anyway, there you go.
I just wanted to show you that video.
There they are.
You know, what they say at GAF in Washington is when someone accidentally tells the truth.
And so there you go.
Do you want to hear him say that again?
I actually do want to hear him say it one more time.
I frankly think that crisis initiation is really tough.
And it's very hard for me to see how the United States president can get us to war with Iran.
Which leads me to conclude that if, in fact, compromise is not coming, that the traditional way of America gets to war is what would be best for U.S. interests.
Some people might think that Mr. Roosevelt wanted to get us into World War II, as David mentioned.
You may recall we had to wait for Pearl Harbor.
Some people might think Mr. Wilson wanted to get us into World War I. You may recall he had to wait for the Lusitania episode.
Some people might think that Mr. Johnson wanted to send troops to Vietnam.
You may recall we had to wait for the Gulf of Tonkin episode.
We didn't go to war with Spain until the U.S.S. Until the 19th exploded.
And may I point out that Mr. Lincoln did not feel he could call out the Federal Army until Fort Sumter was attacked, which is why he ordered the commander at Fort Sumter to do exactly that thing, which the South Carolinians had said would cause an attack.
So if in fact the Iranians aren't going to compromise, it would be best if somebody else started the war.
One can combine other means of pressure with sanctions.
I mentioned that explosion on August 17th.
We could step up the pressure.
I mean, look, people, Iranian submarines periodically go down.
Someday one of them might not come up.
Who would know why?
Somebody laughed.
We can do a variety of things if we wish to increase the pressure.
I'm not advocating that, but I'm just suggesting.
After he just says we could do that, we could do all these things to start a war.
I'm not advocating that.
Yes, you are.
This is not an either-or proposition.
It's just sanctions has to succeed or other things.
We are in the game of using covert means against the Iranians.
We could get nastier with that.
Get nastier.
What is that talk?
Well, I think the reason we're not going to see any speeches like this on the corporate media is because it probably blows the general public's mind, or it would, if they realize how many powerful people think in terms of the economy as war.
This guy just gave a speech talking about war like an economic opportunity.
And that mode of thinking and acting is not uncommon.
That's why we're in all these useless wars.
Well, Hillary Clinton said we need to start thinking of Iraq as an economic opportunity.
And let's not forget that the conspiracy out there is that Reagan, through back channels, told the Iranians to hold the hostages even longer so they could win the election.
Yes, that's a great point.
People forget about that.
People forget about that.
That Reagan was in collusion with the Iranian government to with the Ayatollah to hold our prisoners longer so he could win the election.
So it would look bad for Jimmy Carter.
That's treason, and you're not allowed to do that.
What is going on in Washington right now is like it's levels beyond Benedict Arnold.
Like it is so bad.
I have no clue what it means to be an American now because nobody gives, nobody cares for their own country anymore.
They're just selling us out left and right.
It's unbelievable.
This guy, you remember they also said it's illegal.
You remember they said reading Wikipedia, if you read the Wikipedia leagues, it was that's illegal.
You mean the WikiLeaks?
The WikiLeaks, yeah.
Yeah, CNN said that was Cuomo on CNN.
You're not allowed.
It's illegal if you read them.
We were journalists, so we could read them.
What the hell?
It makes no sense.
And they just put it out there, and they don't care if you believe it or not.
They're just trying to get your mom scared.
Yes.
Yes.
And it's working.
And they're trying to get us scared from talking about stuff.
They don't want us to talk about the war, honestly.
They don't want us to talk about false flags, honestly.
They don't want to talk as we're spending $700 billion a year on the military.
There's 700 billion reasons to shut people like us up.
It's interesting how much money we're spending on war, but these news channels on YouTube are demonetized if you're talking about war.
Yes.
Yeah.
They don't mind sponsoring war.
They don't want to sponsor the debunking of a bullshit war.
That's what advertisers don't want to do because there's ads all over CNN when they show the bombs taking off and Brian Williams nutting in his pants over it.
They love to sponsor that stuff, but they don't want to sponsor if you tell the truth about it.
Like, hey, when that bomb lands over there, that's an illegal act of war.
When we bomb a sovereign country, that's a legal act of war.
So I just wanted to present that to you.
And of course, you know, Wesley Clark, General Wesley Clark, and anybody who tells the truth, we will be smeared for this, I'm sure, for this video.
And CNN will probably put me in another bogus article.
You know that the establishment news is pro-war.
And that's why they're throttling us, and that's why they're smearing us.
It's because they're all pro-war and all those wars are bullshit.
There you go.
There you have it.
Right from the horse's mouth.
That's how they talk about it when they think you're not looking.
Gosh, that's Sean Spicer on the phone.
I hope he doesn't get all defensive and tell me he's still relevant.
Hello.
Yeah, hi, Jimmy.
Hey, look, I don't want to get all defensive, but I'm still relevant, okay?
I just wanted to put that out there into the ether.
Next question, Jimmy Dorf from Jimmy Dorso.
In what way do you still have anything important to say about current events?
Well, for instance, for example, and as a particular illustration, take the fake controversy over the tweets of our great leader.
Donald Trump.
Huh?
No, Mike Pence.
You want to talk about Trump?
Shoot.
Okay.
I got it.
Wait, hold on.
See, you're not in the loop anymore.
Sarah Huck.
Don't you dare utter that name.
She'd be nothing without the competent leadership and solid foundation I established before she arrived.
As to my relevance, I'm completely in the loop concerning many important items, national security and whatnot.
Okay, stop it, will you?
I'm not crying.
Those chocolate onions.
Yes, you in the third row.
Can you answer an article that just came out in the Hill that Trump staff purposely composes tweets on his behalf with grammatical and spelling errors?
Yes, I'll take that question.
Thank you.
Poppycock, why would they do that?
They write in his style so it doesn't look like someone else is writing a lot of his tweets.
Oh, really?
Well, that does make a lot of sense.
Hey, wait a minute.
No way, Jose.
Okay?
Donald Trump does not need anyone to write stupid for him.
He does stupid fine all on his own.
And thirdly, the president does not post grammatically uncorrect tweets, okay?
I before E, except after C. It just seems to me that there's an awful lot of incompetent, stupid people in that White House.
Is that a fair statement?
Well, sure, I could agree with that.
Hey, there you go again with your war traps.
It's just no surprise people call our president the great communicator.
For example, when the president says he is on the law, he means above the law.
He cuts through the bullshit and creates his own grammar rules.
This is why he appeals to the average Mike.
You mean the average Joe?
No, Mr. Trump calls them the average Mike.
It's always been average Mike and everyone knows it.
Okay?
Got it?
Got it.
Hey, can I ask you a question?
Sure.
The perfect subjunctive of the verb to pussy grab.
Just asking for a friend.
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Hi, Jimmy.
Well, you probably heard dad's going back to the compound.
Yep, like clockwork.
Every summer, good old dad has to go back to the candle bunker.
I mean, back to candy bunk.
Don't get me wrong.
I love the compound.
I love it.
The compound.
Yeah.
Compound is a really relaxing and inviting word, isn't it?
Say it with me.
Compound.
Hey, where are you going this summer, Jeb?
Oh, me, the compound.
Oh, sure.
Other people go to Hawaii or maybe France for vacation, but I'm going to the compound.
A lot of good things are named compound, like compound sentences.
Where are you going for vacation this summer, Jeb?
Oh, I'm going to compound.
An impenetrable fortress surrounded by treacherous reptiles and electrified fences.
Oh, baby Jesus, I don't want to be at the compound.
I don't like the compound.
Please, please, don't compound.
Hi, Compound.
Please be nice this time.
I'm the sensitive bush, remember?
I guess I just missed my mom's looming presence like a nag drone, constantly hovering, waiting for an opening.
The non-stop terror.
Oh, Jesus, or whomever is the goddess of the gods, please protect me from the terrible fate which awaiteth me in my darkest moment.
I stand here at the abyss, trembling with uncertainty and self-doubt.
Is there life after death?
Is there a Walker's point in heaven?
And will she be there?
May I have an answer soon?
I need to plan ahead for the rapture.
Oh, yay!
Cold cuts for dinner.
Wow, Freddie Mercury, sure had big teeth.
What the fuck?
So I built a house in the compound.
It's got a wrap-around porch.
Dad calls him a reach-around porch.
Dirty, dirty man.
Anywhere you sit on my porch, you see the Atlantic Ocean.
Nothing but ocean.
North Ocean, South Moor Ocean, East Ocean.
What about West, you ask?
That's where the guard house is.
Beyond that is precious freedom.
But here I sit, motionless in a murky nether world from which I will never escape, praying for the sweet release of death.
Gosh, now I know how Terby Shivo felt.
Boy, there is egg on my face, right?
No regrets.
Okay, look, I'm not knocking the feeding tube industry, okay?
George W. spent most of college with a rubber feeding tube down his throat.
Of course, it was attached to a beer hat.
I hate my brother.
That should have been my presidency.
Yeah, Freddy had a beautiful voice, but those teeth were a distraction.
Were Dennis that hard to find in the 70s?
I mean, come on.
Be honest, Trump is way worse than my family, right?
The Amissus yet?
Anybody?
Please clap.
Hi, everybody.
Welcome to Jimmy Dorso.
I'm here with the Miserable Liberal and Ron Placone.
I'm kind of miserable.
Ron Placone on tour with Graham Elwood, the Progressive Comedy Tour.
Where are you guys going to be in June?
Yeah, so June 20th, we're going to be in Nashville, Tennessee at Zaney's Comedy Club.
June 21st, Stand Up Live in Huntsville, Alabama.
June 22nd, the block off Biltmore in Asheville, North Carolina.
June 23rd, we'll be at Fort Pegg's Beer Lounge in Louisville, Kentucky.
And June 24th, we're closing out at the punchline in Atlanta, Georgia.
That's our Southeast Leg.
So ronplacone.com for tickets to all those shows.
All right.
Go check it out.
It's a fun show.
So, you know, Google is a huge, huge corporation.
Now it owns YouTube.
That's how big Google is.
And they remember they had their motto, do no evil, or don't, right?
That was their motto, something like that.
Don't do evil, right, Arno?
And so they got into the drone business.
Wait a minute.
Sounds a little evil.
They're into the drone business.
Well, here's from this from Engadget.
Google employees reportedly quit over military drone artificial intelligence products.
4,000 employees have petitioned to end Project Maven involvement.
So that Google's involved.
So Project Maven seeks to help the military analyze drone footage faster through machine learning as the artificial intelligence detects people and objects from human review.
Did you want to say something?
I was just going to say Project Maven sounds way too much like Project Mayhem.
Like I'm already creeped out.
Those who resign from Google cited ethical concerns over the use of artificial intelligence in drone operations and the company's broader involvement in political and military spheres.
Google recently sponsored the conservative political action conference.
That's CPAC.
Google recently sponsored CPAC.
Wow.
Some of the employees who have resigned and the petitioners claim MAVEN runs contrary to Google's ethos.
The mantra, don't be evil, has long been at the heart of Google's principles.
The company has insisted that the AI is not being used for combat operations, but its involvement has still upset many within its ranks.
Meanwhile, artificial intelligence and ethics academics who are supporting the petition also want Google to back a treaty banning autonomous weapon systems and suggested that Google's obligations extend beyond America's interests as they are tied to a global user base.
So they're saying this, hey, Google, you're not, you can't be rah-rah USA military because you have a global customer base.
You represent everybody uses.
That's what they're saying.
More than 90 academics in artificial intelligence, ethics, and computer science released an open letter today that calls on Google to end its work on Project Maven and to support an international treaty prohibiting autonomous weapon system.
That's from Gizmodo.
And Google said, no, you nerds, we're doing it.
So this is from Gizmodo.
If ethical action on the part of tech companies requires consideration of who might benefit from a technology and who might be harmed, then we can say with certainty that no topic deserves more sober reflection.
No technology has higher stakes than algorithms meant to target and kill at a distance without public accountability.
That's from that letter from the 90 academics.
That's pretty powerful stuff.
No technology has higher stakes Than algorithms meant to target and kill at a distance without public accountability.
Google has moved into military work without subjecting itself to public debate or deliberation either domestically or internationally.
And this is from Gizmodo.
While Google regularly decides the future of technology without democratic public engagement, its entry into military technologies casts the problems of private control of information infrastructure into high relief.
So there you go.
Google getting into the drone business, getting into hooking up with the government and the military.
And so let's remember what fascism is.
Fascism is when the business and government coalesce to further the interests of business and government, not the interests of the people.
Right?
So, like, for instance, pharmaceutical companies bribed our legislators and they passed a law making it illegal for us to buy drugs from Canada.
That doesn't help the American citizens.
Who does that help?
That helps the pharmaceutical companies' profits at the expense of the United States citizens' health.
That's called fascism.
That's what fascism is.
So we're living in it right now.
And now people are trying to put their foot down about Google getting more involved in that kind of thing.
So it's pretty nefarious because I'm thinking right now: all right, now I might be overreaching here, but if I do, let's say I do a Google search engine, right?
And maybe I'm up to no good, or I want to create trouble or havoc or a rebellion within the United States.
Could they then send a drone?
Could Google send a drone?
The government could do whatever they want.
Google doesn't send drones.
The government does.
They're just assisting them in their AI, their artificial intelligence to help them target people better.
Fantastic.
Which is what it sounds like, right?
Yeah, I mean, and that is, I mean, again, this letter is insanely scathing.
I mean, they're basically saying you crossed the line.
You had no business crossing it.
You didn't consult anybody.
You're overreaching.
We had run rule.
It was don't be evil and you broke it.
One rule.
Don't be bad.
We're not that evil.
They're just drones.
Kids love flying drones.
Come on, Ron.
So there you go.
Everybody's getting it.
So now the Pentagon and the CIA have Jeff Bezos and Amazon and the Washington Post in their back pocket.
And now Google's getting in bed.
By the way, this isn't new, right?
To think that Google hasn't been compromised already with the government.
And, you know, I was reading Listen Liberal, and they talked about wherever Hillary Clinton went and gave a speech around the world, there was the CEO of Google.
That's in Listen Liberal.
And if you watch this show, you should read that book because then you'll know why I feel like I feel and say the things I say.
And all the people who criticize me about my stance, my anti-corruption stance, my criticism of the Democratic Party, people who criticize me for criticizing the Democratic Party have not read that book.
Yeah, it looks like they got rid of the don't be evil phrase in all of their code of conduct in Google's company.
No kidding.
So that's no longer part of Google.
They got rid of that code of conduct.
Yes.
Don't be evil.
That's so funny.
So now they died quietly in the, you know, wild decisions.
How did you find that out?
It's today.
I just Googled it.
You just Google it?
I Google it.
Fantastic.
So the, wow.
Well, when you can't follow the rules, get rid of rules.
Yeah, yeah.
Change the rules, right?
Just like the Democrat DNC, if you can't win with the rules, break the rules.
Commit fraud on your own people.
So there you go.
I thought we'd bring you that story.
Google.
Now they can be evil, I guess, sometimes.
So William Craddock tweeted this out.
And this is kind of amazing, this video I'm about to show you.
And he says at a Council on Foreign Relations Forum.
That's what we were just talking about off camera.
Council on Foreign Relations Forum about fake news, former editor at Time Magazine.
His name is Richard Stengel.
He directly states that he supports the use of propaganda on American citizens, then shuts the session down when challenged about how propaganda is used against the third world.
You ready?
Watch this.
Now, keep in mind who this guy is, former editor of Time Magazine.
Listen to what he has to say.
You'll be the last question, but I just want to weigh in on that for one second.
So there's another word for master narratives.
It's called history.
Basically, every country creates their own narrative story.
And, you know, my old job at the State Department was what people used to joke as the chief propagandist job.
First of all, how awesome is it that the guy used to be at the State Department?
Now, then he was the editor at Time Magazine.
What?
The F?
Let's just get Henry Kissinger to run New York Times.
Are you kidding me?
So, and did you hear what they used to call him?
You know, my old job at the State Department was what people used to joke as the chief propagandist job.
We haven't talked about propaganda.
That's a hilarious joke.
That is so frank.
People used to joke that my job was a chief propagandist because that's what I would do.
We joke about things that are real.
Sometimes they call me minister.
It was hysterical.
I'm the best liar.
Ganda, I'm not against propaganda.
Every country does it, and they have to do it to their own population.
And I don't necessarily think it's that awful.
And this idea of a news cartel.
I mean, I was editor of Time in 2012 during that election.
And I remember, you know, you're competing against cartels and everybody.
I remember being on a panel with the then editor of the New York Times who said, it's really hard to break through these days.
This is the editor of the New York Times saying it's hard to break through.
I almost, I wanted to jump off the platform.
Like, what's it like for the rest of everybody?
So, I mean, there's no, I mean, there are cartels, but cartels don't have hegemony like they used to.
So what he's trying to do is trying to make you believe that there is an agreement.
There is not agreement in the establishment on what the talking points are to be pushed, which is complete BS.
Why is it that every news organization pushed the Iraq war when everybody knew there was a BS war?
He's saying, well, there's no central planning.
We don't get together in a smoke-filled room and figure all this stuff out.
I mean, it's come on.
I mean, even people like the New York Times can't break through.
There are six companies that own all our media.
Six companies that own all our media.
The guy who owns the Washington Post is in bed with the CIA and the Pentagon and owns our politicians and manipulates the tax laws and has all your data.
That's the owner of the Washington Post.
There's other billionaires own the New York Times.
And this guy is trying to pretend that everything's on the up and up in the news business.
That's what he's saying right there, right?
That's what that is?
Okay.
So watch, it gets worse.
The gentleman right there, last question.
I don't think you want to address the history in terms of understanding what happened in the world.
So he just got done saying propaganda is pro-pop propaganda.
So there's a guy who's coming from a third world country.
He's like, you don't understand how propaganda, the effects of U.S. propaganda on third world people.
Here we go.
Because what is happening in America is what the United States flipped on the global Sultan in the third world, which we live with for many, many years in terms of a master narrative that was and still is propaganda.
So that's a beautiful point.
That's a beautiful point what he's saying.
Look at the U.S. propaganda, what it did to the global south and the third world.
That's a beautiful point that guy makes.
Now let's watch this former State Department guy handle it like the chief propagandist that he is.
You ready?
You ready?
Former Time magazine editor after he just got done saying he endorses propaganda being done on people by our government.
He just said that.
We didn't miss that, right?
We heard it.
He just got done saying propaganda is good.
They should people, government should do it on their people.
And he's saying, do you know what the effects of U.S. propaganda has been on the third world?
And here's how he handles it.
You know what?
I hate last questions.
Don't you?
I never, I usually just want to end something before the last question.
But at any rate, I want to thank this fantastic panel for today.
Wow.
Thank you.
And I do want to say, I actually think, I mean, the talk about optimism, I mean, the optimism is all of you there.
You can hear people yelling.
Like, you're not going to answer his question, you're not.
And he's just ignoring it, completely ignoring it.
And nobody on stage is going to hold him accountable.
Nobody in the back is scratching your head going, what the fuck just happened?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
He's got a very Harvey Weinstein vibe right there, doesn't he?
Like, he's got those weird bags under his eyes that you get when you sell your soul.
Yes.
Figuring out how to teach your students about this and using some of the techniques and some of the sources that we've talked about here today.
And I hope you're successful.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
That really happened.
That really happened.
Master narrative.
It's called history.
Governments make their own history.
Propaganda on people is good.
I endorse it.
Former editor of Time magazine.
Now you know why people get their news from YouTube.
Now you know why people can't trust the establishment media because they're pro-government propaganda.
And he, by the way, they hire propagandists to be the editor of their freaking news magazine.
You think that's an accident?
He would tell you it is because we can't even get our stories to break through.
What a disingenuous jagoff that guy is.
What a complete propagandist that guy.
Former editor of Time Magazine.
I want to hear him say that again.
I know this sounds crazy, but you'll be the last question, but I just want to weigh in on that for one second.
So there's another word for master narratives.
It's called history.
Basically, every country creates their own narrative story.
And, you know, my old job at the State Department was what people used to joke as the chief propagandist job.
We haven't talked about propaganda.
Propaganda, I'm not against propaganda.
Every country does it, and they have to do it to their own population.
And I. That's the editor of Time Magazine.
I'm not against propaganda.
Every country does it.
They have to do it to their own people.
Oh, so propaganda is a good thing.
That's what we need.
According to the editor of Time Magazine.
When you made millions of dollars off it, it becomes a really great thing.
You need to.
That's when you need to.
You mean propaganda like that Saddam is a threat and he has WMDs?
Do you mean that kind of propaganda that you guys just repeated in Time magazine uncritically?
You mean that kind of propaganda is okay to do on people?
Or the kind of propaganda that says we can't afford free college.
We can't afford a living wage.
That kind of propaganda, the propaganda that says we need to be in Afghanistan for two decades, the kind of propaganda that says we need to invade sovereign countries illegally and overthrow them and kill hundreds of thousands of people at the behest of fossil fuel companies.
I mean, that kind of propaganda is okay.
The kind of propaganda that says we need to be in Libya, we came, we saw he died, that kind of propaganda?
Or the propaganda right now that says Iran is a threat somehow to us and that we have to invade in Iran?
I mean, that kind of problem.
So which is the propaganda that I don't, I don't know.
I would love to be able to talk to that guy.
I'm sure he would ignore us just like he ignored his last question.
He doesn't like last question.
He doesn't like last question.
He doesn't even like questions.
That would be funny if you like did a Skype interview with him or something and then you asked something he didn't like and he was like, well, I want to thank you for having me and just hangs up.
Unbelievable.
So you know what, Jimmy?
This also makes me think, you know, immediately when we're talking about how like there are these nefarious forces that infiltrate stuff that we otherwise wouldn't think was going to be bad.
It's like Susan Rice on the board of Netflix.
Why does she need to be on the board of Netflix?
And what kind of influence is she going to have?
I'm Lisa Rice on the NCAA playoff committee and she's the head of their ethics.
Like how is that possible?
First of all, you know what this video tells me?
Don't trust anybody with skinny ties.
Fuck that shit.
I just, you know, propaganda is basically ultra-rich people convincing rich people, ordering rich people to tell the middle class that poor people are the problem.
And that's really all it is.
That's very astute.
Yes, I would agree with that.
I saw that in a meme once.
Yeah, I saw that.
I think I saw that meme.
And you wonder why we, you Wonder why half the country doesn't vote because jag offs like this don't break through the propaganda.
They're the propagators of it.
They're the stenographers to propaganda.
And then when someone actually makes a good point about it, he ignores it.
Who's pro-lying?
That's a real journalist.
That's a good journalist, that guy.
Who's pro-lying?
Where in the rest of the world would you be like, hey, dude, I'm cool with being lied to.
Yeah.
It means we get somewhere where I might not normally want to go, but if I'm lied to and I get, I'm cool.
Where is that work anywhere else?
I used to be the editor of Time Magazine.
You know how we used to, oh, we have to fight against the government propaganda.
But what this guy would say is, yeah, we have to help them.
We have to help them.
We have to help them spread their propaganda.
And we did.
And that's why he's still invited back.
Where is this place?
The Council on Foreign Relations.
That's why he's invited there.
Illuminati.
Oh, my God.
That's why he's invited there.
Because he's a good boy.
And he pushes the establishment line on war and propaganda.
Well, I was going to say that's another beautiful dose of irony.
It is the Council on Foreign Relations.
And then when somebody asks a very critical question relating to places that aren't the United States, he's like, thanks for coming, everybody.
Don't forget to teach.
Peace out.
Don't forget to teach.
This is like all the bad guys from every comic book.
They meet here and just discuss all the evil stuff they're into, right?
I mean, like, these videos from this area is just ridiculous, dude.
They look at people as zeros, ones, and zeros, binary code.
We are statistics.
We are not people.
You're right.
We are numbers that they crunch to get dollars.
And we got to influence as many of those ones and zeros as possible.
Nice to know that the editor of Time magazine is pro-government propaganda being done on you.
You all remember this, right?
When Madeline Albright, who takes credit for a genocide, 500,000, who at one time did, of 500,000 children being killed through sanctions in Iraq.
Remember, she famously said it was worth it.
It's worth it.
She since said that it's not worth it, but she said it.
And here she was during the campaign for Hillary Clinton.
We can tell our story about how we climb the ladder.
And a lot of you younger women don't think you have to.
It's been done.
It's not done.
And you have to help.
Hillary Clinton will always be there for you.
And just remember, there's a special place in hell for women who don't help each other.
Man, that gets a big laugh.
I mean, they're going.
Look at Cori the corporate booker.
All three of those people on stage are what's wrong with America, by the way.
Hillary.
One, two, three.
She's not only going to the White House, but to that other place.
Oh, she's going to heaven after she brought slave trading back to Libya.
She's going to go.
So that happened.
You remember that special place in hell, and the place goes crazy for women who don't help other women.
And Hillary would never contradict that.
Never.
She would never.
And well, right now in New York, you know, Andrew Cuomo, who's one of the worst corporatists around, is running against what people are calling a progressive upstart, Cynthia Nixon.
She's from Sex in the City, and she's to the left of Cuomo on everything.
Very much so.
And so you figure Hillary would probably support that woman, right?
Because that's the way she's.
Oh, my God, she's going to hell.
Oh, my God.
She's going to hell now.
I'm sad for her.
Awkward.
So what else do you need to know about her?
What else do you need to know about Hillary Clinton?
What else do you need to know about people who say things like that?
Madeleine Albright, who said that?
There's a special place in hell for women who don't help other women, unless those other women are progressives.
Yeah.
If those other women are progressives who are actually trying to help people, God doesn't put you to hell for that.
God gives you a pass.
If you are a corporatist warmonger who voted to kill people many times over, if you giggled about killing heads of state of other countries as you're turning those countries into failed states and havens for terrorists, because that's what she did.
We came, we saw he died.
And now Libya is a failed state.
And they're literally having slave trading.
And it's because of in no small part due to Hillary Clinton.
And but you can't, you get, you got to support, you got to support her for that.
Those are God's exceptions.
If the Bush administration taught me everything, God's exceptions are war and now progressive women.
Those are the exceptions.
It's in the Bible somewhere.
Oh, yeah, right?
Corinthians.
So I don't really, is there much more to say about that?
I mean, I could go into, there's a new CBS poll out.
We'll talk about it in our next video that says, well, I'll just give you a little taste of it.
Important for Democratic candidate priority.
This is the Ask them for the Congress.
We'll do this in another video, but 72% among Democrats and independents thinks it's important for Democrats to promote a progressive agenda.
That's an overwhelming super majority.
Think that it's important for Democrats.
That's independents and Democrats think it's important for Democrats to promote a progressive agenda.
Democrats have not been promoting a progressive agenda, which is why they are now even in the congressional generic balloting between Republicans and Democrats.
Despite the unpopularity of the White House.
Despite the overwhelming unpopularity of Donald Trump with independents and Democrats.
I can't think of another time that's happened in my lifetime where it's like you have such an unpopular White House and the significance of flipping is so low or the chances of it.
They're not chances, but you know, like there's such an underwhelming opposition.
Like I can't think of a time in my lifetime because it almost always flips.
The Democrats just joined the Republicans in deregulating Wall Street and bloating the Pentagon budget, giving 80 billion extra deer.
What if those same Democrats screamed at the top of their lungs, instead of this 80 billion to Trump for bombs in the Pentagon, why don't we spend it for free college for everyone?
What if they were doing that instead?
They probably would have an advantage electorally.
Have you heard of one leader in the Democratic Party that stepped up to bat on behalf of the teachers who were on strike?
No.
Anywhere?
Well, Bernie, probably.
You know, I haven't followed it.
But no, I'm going to say I haven't heard any Democratic politicians going.
But you know What there's another thing too.
The teachers also want to keep their strikes non-political in a sense, right?
Okay.
Because it's not a Democrat or Republican.
It's everybody against the man.
So that makes their well, that makes it pretty easy for the Democrats.
Makes sense.
They're not really supporting the working class.
I agree.
I would still go out there and support.
If I was a Democratic politician, I would still go out and support.
I mean, you know, you can still support their cause as an elected figure.
Yeah.
And speak out for it.
You don't have to.
Okay.
But there you go.
72% of Democrats and independents.
That's a brand new poll from CBS News.
There you go.
72%.
Hillary Clinton says, screw those people.
Just like she said, just like 40% of the people in the Iowa caucuses consider themselves socialists.
Instead of going, wow, the tide is turning, huh?
People are really recognizing the failings of capitalism.
Huh.
See, when I see that poll, I just see that 28% of people are going to heaven.
That's what I see.
Ha ha ha!
Okay, there you go.
So very awkward for her.
I'm sure it's very awkward for her.
Now she's a Cuomo bro.
Hillary's a goddamn Cuomo broke.
We should put that in the title.
That needs to trend.
Yes.
Cuomo bro.
Hashtag Cuomo bro.
do it.
Ha ha ha.
Yeah.
Ha ha ha.
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You know, the usual.
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