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Get ready for an outstanding entertainment program.
The Jimmy Dore Show.
Okay, I got a phone call, but I don't recognize this number.
Hello, this is Jimmy.
Hello.
Hello, who is this?
This is Al Pacino.
Al Pacino, the Al Pacino.
How are you?
I'm good, Al.
Thanks for asking.
I can't believe you called the Jimmy Door show.
I know.
I mean, what possible reason could you have for calling in?
You're a very knowledgeable man about politics.
I want to be knowledgeable about politics.
You and I team up, work together, figure things out.
A symbiotic relationship.
Yeah, I'm not sure I understand.
Look, you got George Clooney calling into your show.
You got Finch Fawn calling it.
Al Schwartzeneg.
Yeah, yeah.
I want to be one of these guys.
How do I get to be one of these guys?
You mean you want to call into the show occasionally and discuss current events?
Yeah.
Well, of course.
And with a word and a will, it has transpired.
I am on the phone with Jimmy Dory.
Can you feel it?
It is hot outside.
Ah, yeah.
All right, Welda.
What do you want to talk about?
I have to admit, I'm a little behind.
I hadn't noticed that Richard Nixon wasn't president anymore until I was done filming the HBO Joe Paterno movie.
How is that possible?
What?
I've been researching rules for 45 years.
Intensely.
I've been preoccupied with art.
And politics is the enemy of art.
Okay.
But things are dire.
I need to start paying attention and formulating opinions and stating said opinions in a public forum.
The progressive movement could sure use an El Pacino.
Oh, I haven't made up my mind yet.
Progressive.
Maybe regressive.
Maybe progresso.
Maybe left.
Maybe left.
Maybe right.
Maybe in the middle.
Maybe on top above.
Why does it gotta be a line?
If I am informed, I refuse to be confined.
All right, then.
But I'm learning, right?
Jimmy, listen.
For the first time in my life, I own a computer.
I'm learning to use it.
It was a gift from my daughter.
So, in order to learn about politics, I turned on my laptop computer.
Okay.
Then I accessed the mainframe.
Yeah, I don't think that's how it works, Al.
And this computer told me that Russia decided our election in the United States.
That's not talking Russia.
No, Al.
A lot of people say this, but that's not actually that.
And that's why this clown, this buffoon, is president.
Instead of that Hillary kid, who I thought was a wonderkind, came out of nowhere, this kid.
What?
Out of the blue.
Al, Hillary Clinton has been part of the American political landscape for well over a quarter century.
It's true.
Oh.
Hold on.
Wait a minute.
Is she that young lady who performed Fellatio on Bill Clinton?
No, she was...
Because I thought maybe...
Like, you're a Clinton.
I'm a Clinton.
And then Chatty, Chatty, Chatty.
And flirty, flirty, flirty.
Jesus.
And the next thing you know.
No, Al, no, man.
You really are behind on everything, aren't you?
Yeah, it's like I just came out of a fog bunker.
Okay, well, to fill you in, Al, no, Russia did not steal our election.
That's just a distraction to make us forget what a horrible candidate Hillary Clinton was.
Oh, so she's bad.
Yeah, in my opinion, and the opinion of many others, yes.
So then, maybe there is something to this rumor that she has a pizza restaurant and she's turning little kids into pizza toppings and then serving that pizza to other children or something.
No, that's called Pizzagate.
That's bogus.
But you said she's bad.
Yeah, but that.
But Pizzagate is bogus.
I'm so confused.
Did my computer lie to me?
Probably.
I want to kill this fucking thing.
Look, Al, just check in with us occasionally and we'll set you straight, okay?
All right, Betty.
I appreciate it.
Truly.
From the heart.
But I'm still going to bash this fucking machine apart.
Raphael, bring me my vengeance cloak.
It's the Jimmy Dore show.
The show for blackbeast.
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 if you guys.
And now, here's a guy who sounds a lot like me.
It's Jimmy Dore.
Hey, everybody, welcome to this week's Jimmy Door show.
Big thanks to everybody who came out last Friday for the sold-out Live Jimmy Dore show at Flappers and Burbank with Abby Martin and Dave Anthony.
What a great time we had.
Thanks, everybody, who made it out.
It was fantastic.
Nice to meet you.
Now let's get to the jokes before we get to the jokes, shall we?
Hey, it was International Day of Friendship.
Did you guys celebrate that?
I celebrated International Day of Friendship by taking names and making a list.
Hey, did you hear Word or Herzog's got a new documentary out about Barack Obama?
It's called Caves and Forgotten Dreams.
All I'm saying, you know, the economy's bad for real people.
All the money's going to the 1%.
And all I'm saying is this country has reached the point where the only financial hope for most people is finding a bizarrely shaped potato chip.
Hey, you know how real words, how the news media calls things that aren't things, things?
Well, for instance, how the news media in their dictionary, the term Controversial video.
The definition is body cam footage of a cop murdering someone.
And I don't know if you heard, but Ivanka's fashion company went under.
Did you hear about that?
Yeah.
And all I could say is it's hard to make fun and make jokes about Ivanka's fashions going under when the DNC still insists on wearing the same shit eating grin that lost us the election.
Hey, I called my Democratic representative office the other day.
You know, have you ever done that?
Called your Democratic Representative's office.
It's a lot like calling your health insurance company.
All you get is arrogance, condescension, and buck passing, and then you're left with an STD.
Hey, can I just give a tip to everybody who has a business out there?
If your national business model can't support a $15 an hour wage, then your business is a failure and deserves to die.
Hey, what's coming up on this week's show?
Hey, the Koch brothers did a study to see how much Medicare for all costs.
Turns out saves us trillions.
Oops.
We're going to talk about it.
Plus, the way the horrible media has covered it.
Jim Acosta, CNN's Jim Acosta, is upset because he went to cover a Trump rally, and the Trump rally people didn't like him.
Turns out left, right, and center hates the establishment media.
Even Fox viewers approve of Medicare for All.
Are you kidding me?
Plus, Megan McCain weighs it on Medicare for All.
Joy Behart takes her down.
And the Secretary of Education's yacht.
That's right.
That's a real sentence.
The Secretary of Education's $40 million yacht was untethered from its moorings.
More to come.
Plus, phone calls today from Al Pacito, Barack Obama, Sean Spicer, and Chucky the Shoe.
That's today of the Jimmy Door Show.
Hi, everybody.
Welcome to the Jimmy Door Show.
I'm here with the political vigilante, Graham Elwood and Rob Lacone.
Hello.
Grab, you have a live show coming up?
Yeah, I'm going to Seattle August 9th to do political vigilante live, and I'm doing stand-up comedy August 11th in Seattle, August 9th and 11th.
Go to GrahamElwood.com for tickets.
All right.
That sounds like fun.
We have to go to Seattle soon.
Oh, it's a great city.
It is.
You know, so Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders are scaring the hell out of everybody because they're promising the radical idea to bring stuff to America that every other Western democracy has had for decades.
And it's really freaking out the plutocrats and their minions.
They're trying everything they can do to discredit Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders' version of socialism.
First of all, they say, oh, well, it's going to, you like Venezuela?
Well, that's not the version they're talking about.
In fact, they're not even really talking about socialism.
What they're talking about is Scandinavian style democratic socialism, which is a lot different than Venezuelan socialism.
They're not talking about the workers owning the means of production.
They're talking about having a welfare state that is there to help distribute the income and to provide a cushion for the brutalities of a capitalistic market.
Graham, do you want to say something?
Well, yeah, part of the other thing, too, about the Venezuelan style of socialism is it includes America coming in and messing with it and screwing it up.
That's what we've done in Central and South America for the better part of five decades.
In a developing, under-resourced country.
Yes.
And you're comparing that to the richest country.
The richest country in the world.
In the history of mankind.
Yeah.
That's exactly.
And I'm pretty sure we have sanctions on Venezuela.
When the most powerful, richest nation in the world puts sanctions on you, I think it's going to hurt your economy.
It might, you know, when you won't play ball with your oil that America thinks it owns.
Which is exactly what it's like.
That's exactly what's happening.
And I wouldn't.
Anyway, so I don't want to go.
But anyway, that so when people say, oh, your socialism hasn't worked anywhere, we're not talking about that type of socialism.
We're talking about the kind that's practiced in Iceland, the kind that's passed in Denmark, Sweden, Norway.
I was just in Norway.
Everyone is happier in Norway.
I just have news for you.
People are just happier.
They're less stressed.
They're more relaxed.
And they're nicer.
You know why?
First of all, there aren't tent cities in Norway.
Guess what they don't have?
10 cities.
You know what else they don't have?
People go bankrupt because they get sick.
That's right.
You know what else they have?
Everybody gets four to six weeks vacation paid every year.
Everybody gets it.
They just did a study that the American worker has less vacation time than medieval serfs.
And you wonder, it's like, gee, why are they so happy in Norway?
Yeah, because they don't have three jobs and no money in the bank.
And they don't have to worry about getting sick.
Everybody I know worries about an illness in their family that's going to bankrupt them.
Even if you have insurance.
Even if you have insurance.
I got sick.
I had insurance.
Cost us, wiped us out because the insurance just doesn't pay out of hand.
In fact, that's the whole point of insurance is to not pay.
Right.
That's how they make money.
They don't pay.
Okay.
All right.
So the idea of Medicare for all is that everybody's on the insane insurance program.
So you don't pay into your, you just pay into one big one because that's how insurance works.
I love that they always go, oh, oh, you want someone else to pay for your medical bills?
That's how insurance works.
Yeah.
If you have insurance, you pay someone a little money and then they pay you a lot of money with other people's money when you get sick.
That's how insurance works.
Other people's money pay for your bills when you get sick.
That's why it's called insurance and not a savings account.
And you know the chances of you getting sick at some point?
100%.
100%.
We all die.
That's right.
But it'll probably happen when you have Medicare for all.
So they decided, the Koch brothers funded a study to try to discredit Medicare for all.
And, well, here it is.
It's by Charles Blahaus at the Mercatus Working.
It's called the Mercatus Working Paper.
And, well, the title is The Cost of National Single Payer Healthcare System.
And, well, turns out it was one of those things, be careful what you wish for.
They did a study and it showed that it would actually save money.
They're not affiliated with the Cokes anymore.
Let's see.
All studies in the Mercatus Working Paper Series have followed a rigorous process of academic evaluation, including at least one double-blind peer review.
Working papers present an author's provisional findings, which upon further consideration and revision are likely to be republished in an academic journal.
So there you go.
So this is all academic up.
The cost, and it turns out they're going to save money.
In fact, what it says is the U.S. could ensure 30 million more Americans and virtually eliminate out-of-pocket health care expenses while saving $300 billion in the process, according to a new report about Medicare for All released by the Libertarian Mercado Center.
In the report, Charles Blahos attempts to roughly...
Blahouz.
Blahoos.
Charles Blahus.
He was almost Bronson.
He was almost cool.
Charles Blahoos.
No, it's not Blahus.
It's Blaus.
Either way.
Hey, Charlie, what's your mom wearing today?
I bet it's a Blahaus.
Poor guy.
Why don't you go do one of your surveys?
Blahaus.
In the report, Charles Blahaus attempts to roughly score Bernie Sanders' most recent Medicare for All bill and reaches the somewhat surprising conclusion that if the bill were enacted, the new costs it creates would more than be offset by the new savings it generates through administrative efficiencies and reductions in unit prices.
What?
Wait a minute.
Wait a minute.
So when people like Megan McCain, so when people like Megan McCain and John Stossel say things like, oh, how are you going to pay for that?
Or when Willie Geist says, how are you going to pay for Medicare for All?
It seems like a gift under the tree.
You go, how am I going to pay for something that's cheaper?
Yeah.
Well, we'll just use the money we're using now, but less of it.
Does that work?
That's how that works.
So, but here's what I love.
The real game here for Mercatus, that's the libertarian organization that did the study.
But the real game here for Mercatus is to bury the money-saving finding in the report's tables while headlining the incomprehensible large $32.6 trillion number because that's how much it would cost.
$32.6 trillion.
And they want to highlight that number in order to trick dim-witted reporters into splashing that number everywhere and freaking out.
So that's, yeah, that's how much healthcare is going to cost, which is actually less than we would pay if we didn't do single-payer Medicare for all.
That's actually less than what we would be paying.
And by the way, we cover 300, the 30 million people not covered, and nobody has a copay.
Nobody has to worry about any getting a bill.
Oh, so you mean the reporters left out the actual number we're paying now against the new number from the report?
That's weird.
Let's look at the headline.
Here's from the AP study, Medicare for All projected to call $32.6 trillion.
That dim-witted reporter.
Oh, dim witted.
And look at letters to the front line.
Oh, look at that old socialist down there.
I want to spend all of your money.
$32 trillion.
I saw a pony, I swear.
So there's a little more to this.
So that's exactly what just happened with the AP.
The AP took the bait, dim-witted reporters, and they just ran with that number.
That's scary.
Instead of the headline being the headline, it should be Medicare for All saves hundreds of billions of dollars a year.
That should be the headline.
But guess what?
Even in this study, the guy lowballs the savings, right?
So he assumes administrative costs will only drop from 13%, which is what health insurance administrative costs are now, to 6% for those currently privately insured.
Why would he pick 6%?
I even know this, that Medicare's overhead is 2%.
So why wouldn't our overhead be, why would it be triple what it is right now?
So this guy's saying, even with him inflating that number and saying that the medical overhead would be 6% instead of the 2%, which it is now for Medicare, even then we still save hundreds of billions of dollars.
So even then with him inflating that number, tripling it by 300% more than it actually is, we still save money.
He also assumes utilization of health services will increase by 11%.
But aggregate health service utilization is ultimately dependent on the capacity to provide services, meaning utilization could hit a hard limit below the level he projects.
I don't know what any of that means.
Do you know what that means?
So it sounds like he assumes utilization of health.
So what that means is that more people will now start using the healthcare system who previously weren't because they weren't insured and didn't have any money.
So now we're going to have an uptick of 11% more usage utilization of healthcare now that we have Medicare for all.
But he says that could hit a hard limit below this level.
So that's not even for sure.
So of course he's giving you the highest number possible, just like he gave you the highest number possible for overhead, which it won't be 6%.
It'll probably be closer to 2%.
This is the main scare tactic.
Scare scare tactic.
When they say, because they're like, then everyone's just going to like, anytime I got a little cough in my throat, they're going to go to the doctor instead of just buying cough medicine.
And the thing they never figure into it is right now, one of the big drains on our medical expenses are people only going to ERs or free clinics when something gets so, so severe.
When actually this kind of thing has a lot of preventative medicine that again, in the long run, saves money.
Yeah.
Because you're not, you're not, you're being, they're giving you, there's people under Obamacare, which is not great, but I use it and it has saved me money.
There's people that went, wow, I went to the first doctor for the first time in 10, 15 years, and I got all this information and preventative care.
So now actually I'm healthier.
And in the long run, you will spend less money.
Yes.
It's actually cost less money.
Preventative care saves money.
For instance, let's say someone has an infected tooth, so they don't have insurance or dental insurance.
So they don't go to get it taken care of until, because this is an actual story that I read about, until it became a blood infection in their blood.
Now they go to the emergency room and now they need to get hospitalized.
And instead of just having the tooth taken care of when they were supposed to, now they have to be hospitalized.
Yeah.
This is a grand versus the $50,000 of being hospitalized.
Yes, correct.
So that would be an instance where it saves money to insure everybody because we could take care of this person's tooth problem for $1,000 instead of $50,000 down the road.
There's certain countries where like gym memberships, yoga, all this kind of stuff are discounted through your insurance because they know that if you do that, you're less of a drain on the public health care because you're taking care of yourself.
But even if we do take this study, this libertarian study, this guy Blahaus's numbers, even if we take Blahaus's numbers at face value.
I think it's Blow Us.
I think it is Blahus.
Even if we take Blois's numbers, we get to ensure every single person in the country virtually eliminate cost sharing and save everyone from the hell of constantly changing health insurance, all the while saving money.
You would have to be a fool to pass that offer up or a capitalist.
Capitalists don't like Medicare for all, which drives me nuts because it actually would help most businesses and most corporations if we had Medicare for all.
Take out the hippie moral reasons for a second.
We should help our fellow man.
Just take the money.
Just take those out for a second.
just the dollars and cents.
As a capitalist, your employees will be better.
They'll be healthier.
They'll be more productive.
They won't be spending all their money on surgeries and they'll be spending it on your products.
Like, just from a greedy capitalist point of view, this is a better product.
That's what I don't understand because it's in the capitalists.
Like, for instance, the auto industry, right?
So now they have to compete against places, countries like Germany and Canada that have health care built into their tax base.
So it doesn't, so their auto industry doesn't have to pay that.
So what I'm saying is it's cheaper to produce a car other places because in America, we have to, their company doesn't have to pay for the car.
They also have to pay for the health insurance of the people making the car, which that's not in other countries.
So I don't understand why it's taking so long because it would help the capitalists.
You know what I mean?
Like, I think.
You know, it's just looking at it from like a productivity standpoint, like an evil capitalist productivity thing.
Okay, you have employee why doesn't go to the doctor, maybe has a little heart thing and it doesn't get corrected until it becomes catastrophic.
Then they're out for weeks and weeks at a time.
Meanwhile, if they had a good plan and had preventative care, they went and got checked up once a year, got caught before it turned into anything big, and it was a procedure that they missed a day of work for.
So there you go, evil capitalists.
You're losing production from this work.
I think my answer to your question, Jimmy, is I think that we forget that the corporate mind structure, the capitalist structure, is not long-term.
They're not sitting there going 20 years from now.
They're literally the next quarter.
So we get the shareholders.
Literally, we just need a profit in the next quarter so the shareholders are happy.
That's their whole thinking: just this short-term, get the numbers up.
It is.
So they're not thinking any long-term anything.
So there you go.
It's a great study.
All your dickhead reporters are going to report it that way.
But it actually, the headline should be: Medicare for All projected to save hundreds of billions every year.
So we told you already about the Libertarian Koch Brothers-funded Libertarian Institute went ahead and did a study about how much Medicare for All would cost everybody, and they found out it would say, even using their inflated numbers, they even say it would save us like $300 billion a year.
The problem is they didn't want that answer.
They wanted another answer.
So Bernie Sanders tweeted this out.
Even a Koch brothers-funded attempt to trash Medicare for All can't hide the truth.
Medicare for all will lead to a $2 trillion reduction in national health expenditures over 10 years.
That's a trillion with a T. So get ready for the dumb right-wing tweets about it.
Here we come.
Steve Goldstein says you need to spend $32 trillion to save $2 trillion.
Doesn't sound like a selling point to me, but what do I know?
Well, basic arithmetic.
You don't understand basic math.
Yeah, that would be what you don't know, Steve.
You don't understand basic arithmetic.
Yeah, something is $34 trillion and now you're going to spend $32 trillion.
So that's $2 trillion less, Steve.
Yeah.
You're not actually spending $32 trillion to save $2 trillion.
You have to spend that $32 trillion anyway.
You're not spending the next $2 trillion.
This is tough for you, Steve.
I get it.
Steve, when you see the $100 pair of shoes that you don't really need and they're on sale for $80, do you think you're saving $20 or still wasting $80?
Oh, I got to spend $80 to save $20.
No, thanks.
No, I'll walk around barefoot.
Steve.
Steve, how did you get a blue check?
Steve?
He is the Steve Goldstein with the blue check, the Washington Bureau Chief for Market Watch.
Wow.
He's a guy who deals in economics.
You wonder.
I'm going to guess the people who read MarketWatch don't know what the fuck's happening on the market.
Well, I have more followers than Steve, so that makes me feel better.
Wow.
He's the Washington Bureau chief for MarketWatch.
Now you know what MarketWatch is worth.
Nothing.
Nothing.
In fact, you will lose money.
You will lose $2 trillion if you read MarketWatch.
It'll cost you $2 trillion if you read MarketWatch.
Well, Mark, let me explain.
There's somebody, a guy I follow on Twitter, actually going to give a little economics to Mr. Washington Bureau Chief MarketWatch guy.
He goes, Grocer, I lowered the price of your food by 20%.
So instead of paying me $50, you just pay me $40 for the same stuff.
Economics genius from MarketWatch says, ah, but I still have to pay you some money, right?
Nice try, fucko.
I'm not going to eat the invisible hand and work it out.
So this simple economics is something Mr. Washington Bureau Chief of MarketWatch can't get through his head.
Just doesn't.
I don't care.
I say we go back to spending $2 trillion more.
I wish I had $10,000 to go to Mark to go to this guy, Steve, go, hey, Steve, what should I do with this?
Just to see him waste it and shit it away, just to see how bad he's going to screw it up.
Wow.
Wow.
He's got a heck of a profile pic, though.
Yeah, that's his good side.
Yeah.
And he's got a penguin up there for no earthly reason.
Well, it's a one-flippered penguin.
So it's got just got one wing.
Isn't that something?
So now it just goes in circles, kind of like his MarketWatch.
Steve tried to sell him the other wing for $2 trillion.
MarketWatch.
Wow, it looks like Barack Obama's on the phone.
Hello.
Jimmy Dohr.
Got some bad news for you.
Former leader of the free world, Netflix producer and best-selling author Barack Obama.
What's the bad news, buddy?
We had to postpone the groundbreaking ceremony for my presidential library after a trial run by Haywire.
How does that?
What do you mean?
Non-Thai kids got trapped in the section on caving.
That's terrible.
Yeah, but our thoughts and prayers are with them.
Are they all right?
Who knows?
Last we heard, they were attempting to explore how I trashed single-payer and extended the Bush tax cuts.
That's a particularly treacherous set of caves.
Don't know why they ever went in there.
I was lucky to get out myself.
Has the government offered any help?
Yes.
Elon Musk wanted to send out a rocket, but I had to refuse.
Why?
The library, son.
Got to keep the noise down.
Can't be sent to the damn rocket in there.
Besides, I had a better solution.
Send in ICE.
With the powers I gave them, they can find anything.
You see, everything heals itself.
Take the village.
What happened after you send in ICE?
Well, good news and bad news.
Good news is they found the kids.
Bad news is they lost them.
But they still got some leads after arresting some suspicious characters hanging around outside the caves.
Suspicious characters?
Their parents.
Isn't that kind of harsh?
Look, they shouldn't be sending their kids here to look through my caves in the first place.
It's dangerous.
It's a presidential library, not a source of knowledge.
Well, what's going to happen to the kids now?
Don't worry.
We're only delaying the groundbreaking by one year.
The people aren't ready for this yet.
We have to take this incrementally.
But those poor kids could be dead by then.
Hey, you see me and Joe Biden surprised everybody at a Washington, D.C. bakery yesterday?
We literally ordered the same sandwiches.
You got to love it.
Chill's great.
But what about all those kids trapped in your caves?
We ordered the same sandwiches.
Come on, get with it.
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Oh, I don't recognize that ring anywhere.
Oh, is it Master of the Senate, Chuck Schumer?
Yes, it is I, Master of the Senate, Charles Chuck Schumer.
My motto, what goes around a half dozen of the other.
I take the hard stand so that others may benefit from my leadership.
I seek no fortune.
I seek no fame.
I seek only justice and good fellowship among my people.
For I am master of the Senate.
What about moderate Democrats who are saying that they're not going to oppose Kavanaugh in the Supreme Court for the Supreme Court justice?
Is that a thing?
I haven't heard that's a thing.
That's a thing that's happening.
Yes, it is, Chuck.
Well, here's the thing, Jimmy.
We must nip this apple problem in the bud.
For as we all know, one bad apple or regulation can ruin a whole bunch.
Anyway, you slice it.
The bad apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
You understand my position now, Jimmy?
I'm under so much pressure lately.
I need a vacation in the Holy Land.
But you promised to fight hard against Kavanaugh.
Oh, yes, absolutely.
And here's my plan.
I don't believe in hardball tactics.
I'm a softballer.
I like playing Toss the Beanbag.
I'm the kid at the party who smiles when the mean kids viciously attack him with the water weenie.
I'm pragmatic.
How is getting raped by a water weenie pragmatic?
That's called playing the long game.
We mustn't upset conservative voters before the December midterms.
I'm a holder, not a scolder.
The midterms are in November, Chuck.
Yeah, right.
Supreme Court justices are appointed for life.
Isn't that thinking long-term?
I will oppose Judge Kavanaugh's nomination with everything I have, and I hope a bipartisan majority will do the same.
All right, that's good.
On the other hand, let's see who this nominee is and let's see where he stands on these important issues.
We already know where he stands on important issues.
He's against abortion rights, against environmental regulations, and against net neutrality.
And that is why I will oppose Judge Kavanaugh's nomination with everything I have.
And I hope a bipartisan majority will do the same.
Yeah, well, okay.
Well, that sounds reassuring.
However, a number of Democrats have indicated they'll vote to confirm him, and that's fine.
You see, I don't want to dictate.
I want to lead.
How can you lead without setting any kind of guidelines, Chuck?
Good question, citizen.
The answer is simple.
For every liberal judge we lose in the Supreme Court, we will pick up two moderate Republican judges in fantasy land.
And you can repeat that in unicorns and fairy dust and ponies.
For I am Schumer, master of the Senate.
Now, if you'll excuse me, somewhere out there is a town hall meeting I should miss.
My work is done here.
Away!
We've been talking about this, that there's a new study out about Medicare for All, and it was commissioned by the Koch brothers, and it was trying to discredit Medicare for All because it scares the hell out of them.
Because Medicare for All, there's nothing scares the right-wing more or that I don't even know the right-wing.
Let's just say the neoliberal capitalists.
Nothing scares them more than Medicare for All.
Why, Jimmy?
Well, it's the same reason why Barack Obama was not allowed by his donors to put a public option in Obamacare.
He could have did it like that.
He didn't need a Philipp.
He didn't need Joe Lieberman.
He didn't need, because they didn't need 67 votes to get it passed.
They passed that Obamacare on 51 votes.
So he could have put that public option in there.
And he didn't.
And why didn't his donors want public option in there?
Why are they afraid of Medicare for All?
Why?
Because it proves government works.
That's why.
And once people see that government can work, it's all over for them.
So then they're capitalists.
Oh, we can never have any.
Do you want the government running your health care?
Yeah.
Turns out I would like them to administer my health care insurance program because the people who have Medicare are the most satisfied of anyone in the country with their health insurance program.
So yeah.
And by the way, it has 2% overhead, Medicare for All.
So it turns out it saves us hundreds of billions of dollars.
Gonna save us over $2 trillion over 10 years.
That's what this is the study by Charles Blowus.
And it's a tough name to grow.
He blew us.
Charles Bluey.
He blew it.
I'll tell you what with this study.
He certainly blew it.
Because that Mercatus is a libertarian think tank place, and it was funded by the Koks.
And they wanted him to say, no, Medicare for All is going to cost a lot of money.
Turns out it's not.
It's actually going to save everybody money, and it's going to insure everybody.
And then nobody has to worry about getting sick anymore and going bankrupt.
And we don't have to, and GoFundMe is going to be out of.
So you see what I'm saying?
So that would be, wouldn't that be nice?
You have a medical problem.
You just go get it taken care of.
You don't have to worry about, how am I going to finance this?
Where am I going to get it?
I got to go.
I got to have my doctor on the phone for three hours talking to my insurance company.
And medical care now, as you go on to the doctor, they got to turn you over, man.
It's five minutes.
Yeah.
Oh, you got this and this.
All right.
Here's this prescription.
Go.
Is this something about you going and you get knocked out?
You have an operation and they send you home the same day.
It's crazy to me.
I don't know.
I guess it's okay because when my earned it, that's what happened.
But the point of this video is how much it's effing the people up who are against Medicare for all.
Fox and Friends put out a thing.
It says Bernie Sanders Medicare for All bill estimated to cost $32.6 trillion.
New study says, with the benefits outweigh the cost, well, why don't you tell me how much money it would cost otherwise?
They don't tell you that.
It would cost $34 trillion, almost $35 trillion.
Bernie Sanders plan saves you $2 trillion.
Why don't you just put, why wouldn't you put that in?
Because they don't want to tell you the truth.
That's why they want to gaslight you.
So that's them gaslighting their own fucking viewers.
That's what Fox and Friends is doing right there.
They all do it.
CNN does it.
MSNBC does it.
Here's Fox doing it.
That's why people don't trust the news media.
They're fucking liars and gaslighters, and that's what this is.
Interesting results, though, huh?
And guess what?
Their own fucking viewers see right through them.
See right through them.
Do you see this?
Bernie Sanders, Medicare for All Bill.
Would the benefits outweigh the costs?
Yes, 73% Fox and Friends viewers.
Wait a minute now.
All these Hillary supporters told me that there's no way Bernie Sanders would have been, he would have won for president.
No.
Wait a minute, though.
73% of a bunch of conservative red staters are down with his Medicare for All program.
Weird.
That's weird.
Fox and Friend viewers, and not just a handful of them.
31,650 people voted on this.
That's a huge sample.
That's not just a couple people.
So that's, I think this is meaningful.
And this isn't scientific because it's just a poll they put up on the Twitters.
But I still think that's significant when 30,000 people who follow Fox and Friends vote on that.
Well, what I find the craziest of all this is I was told by the establishment that Democratic socialism couldn't work in the heartland.
So only people in New York and California watch Fox and Friends who knew that.
Democrats.
Just this lefties and that.
The lefties say it won't work in the Midwestern Democrats.
The Democrats.
Socialism doesn't work in the Midwest.
And when that happened, I remember tweeting.
I was like, yes, I'm from the Midwest.
Midwesterners love having all their jobs getting shipped overseas.
They love crowdfunding surgeries.
They love all the foreclosures that all the people in the Midwest loved it.
Why would they want socialism?
Oh, I would love to know where these are all the Fox and Friends people that live in Portland.
They all live in Portland and San Francisco.
Big Fox and Friends hotbeds.
They got bars dedicated to it up there.
Austin, Texas.
Even Nancy Pelosi is not down with this.
Fox and Friends viewers are to the left of Nancy Pelosi.
Think about that.
Fox and Friend viewers are to the left of the Democratic Party and Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic leader, and Chuck Schuber.
Think about that.
Fox and that's how fucked up the country is.
That's how to the right the establishment.
The people aren't right-wing.
The people haven't gotten more conservative or right-wing or whatever you want to call it.
It's just the establishment and the news media has shifted to the right.
So now things that other Western democracies just take for granted.
Like, you know, I get sick, I go to the doctor, I don't go bankrupt.
This is a centrist thing in other countries, in Europe.
This isn't even a left-wing thing.
This isn't a left-wing issue.
This is what Margaret Thatcher herself said that.
Well, I'll tell you what she said.
This is what Margaret Thatcher said.
She's a right-winger, Margaret Thatcher.
They don't come much more right-wing than her.
She said the principle that adequate health care should be provided for all, regardless of ability to pay, must be the foundation of any arrangement for financing the health service.
She said that while night-sticking unions.
Yeah.
I mean, that's how right-wing she is.
That health care should be provided for all regardless of ability to pay.
That's the foundation of any arrangement for financing health services.
So turns out even right-wingers get it.
This is just bullshitting, gaslighting from the establishment and the establishment news media.
That's all this is.
When you see a guy like Willie Geist ask Ocasia-Cortez, how are you going to pay for Medicare for all?
That's him gaslighting her.
He's aware.
He went to college.
He does the news.
He knows how healthcare works in the rest of the world and how we pay twice as much here.
So when he says that, he's gaslighting his own viewers, just like Fox News.
Fox and Friends are gaslighting their own viewers.
That's what the news does.
That's why people hate the fucking news.
And that's why we have a show.
Now you know.
Anything else?
Well, I was just going to go on that example because I mean, even though we've made the point, it's just so crazy.
I mean, we showed a video on this show where Teresa May and Jeremy Corbyn were debating the health service, but they weren't debating whether it should exist or not.
They were debating how much money to put into it, with both of them having the answer of at least some.
Here in the United States, our left-wing party isn't even sure that that should exist.
Right.
To me, the good news is this Fox and Friends thing, because I think what's been happening is people are on all sides are going, this is bullshit.
Yeah.
People are waking up.
Fox and Friends viewers are waking up.
You know what I mean?
When people get sick, Graham, they have to go to the doctor.
They get screwed.
They know how this works.
It doesn't matter if you're a Republican or a Democrat or a Green.
You know that the medical thing in America is effed up and people are going bankrupt.
Doesn't happen in other countries.
It doesn't matter.
And that's the thing where they're like, well, this socialism might work in the Bronx, but it might work in the middle.
You know what?
People can't afford medical bills in the Bronx.
They can't afford it in rural Iowa.
They can't afford it in San Francisco.
They can't afford it in Wyoming.
Everyone everywhere in America knows someone, if it didn't happen to themselves, knows somebody that had a huge financial upheaval because of just a medical thing that happened.
That's why it's 73%.
That is exactly why.
So there you go.
And now you know why people don't trust the media.
And I don't know if you heard there's been tragedy in the Trump administration.
I don't know if you've heard about this, but Betsy DeVos'$40 million yacht was untied from a dock and set adrift by some vandals.
How did they not?
You're there.
Set it on fire.
Fire!
You're fucking there!
Fire!
Drifting away on fire like a fucking Viking fuel going on to say goodbye, Rich.
She's going to get the fucking insurance money.
Here's what I said.
I said, what kind of a Nazi separates a mother from her yacht?
Hopefully, DHS will sort this out and reunite that traumatized yacht with its mommy.
I saw resistance people actually being like, you know what?
This has gone too far.
No!
Oh, yes!
It's not a lot of money.
A fucking yacht!
Yeah, yeah.
This has gone too far.
Property goes.
All over the place.
Like, look, we don't, we don't vandalize.
Yes, we vandalize fucking yachts.
It's property.
Fuck you.
It's the 10 yachts.
They have a party called the Tea Party.
You motherfuckers.
Are you kidding me?
Brother Herricks.
Based on property damage.
The Tea Party is based on property damage.
Yeah, but you guys, don't you remember the Battle of Seattle?
Those Starbucks windows have feelings.
I don't know.
Don't you think like it's just one yacht a day and we'll start taking back America?
Yes.
Yes, to fucking up the yachts.
Yeah, all yachts should be on fire right now.
If we live in a proper country, all yachts would be on fire.
And the rich people would be going like, what?
What are we doing?
Yeah, well, you know, 30 million people still don't have health care.
There goes your yacht.
Maybe you should advocate for others.
Here's the things that we can afford.
The Iraq-Afghanistan war, the Wall Street bailouts, big oil subsidies, and the F-35 program.
Things we can't afford, you know, healthcare, infrastructure, public transport, education, renewable energy, clean environment, feeding the poor, and public elections.
Those are the shit we can't afford.
Those gifts won't be under the tree this year.
Maybe next year.
And Megan McCain.
Oh!
You know what?
Okay, hold on, hold on.
She earned her place.
She's a very accomplished woman who managed to pull off being one of John McCain's sperm.
That is a big deal.
So, the first time I ever saw Megan McCain, she was on the Bill Maher show, and she was saying that Barack Obama is blaming the Bush administration too much.
The Obama administration really has to stop completely blaming everything on its predecessor completely.
And I really am sick of hearing, no, well, we were handed this rear hand to this.
I know.
Everyone knows, but we need to move on.
Same thing, the theme with me.
We need to move on.
You think that's what Obama's doing?
You think he's doing it?
I do, to a degree.
So now, Paul Bagala is on the panel, Paul Bagala, who is a lefty, and he says, No, I think that they should blame the Bush administration more.
And here we go.
Well, not to enough of a degree.
Sorry.
Not nearly enough.
Ronald Reagan blamed.
So he just said, Ronald Reagan blamed Jimmy Carter every day for eight years.
And so that's his comeback to Megan McCain.
Now, Megan McCain at that time thought it was clever for her to say, I wasn't born then yet because he's younger than everyone on the panel.
But watch what happens.
Here we go.
In the speech, what President Bush said, one of the things he's had to achieve.
Yeah, I wasn't born yet, so I don't know.
Well, God bless you.
I was born during the French Revolution, but no bad.
Yeah.
Sorry, I yelled.
Dang.
Look at that face he's making.
That's a knockout face.
That's a, oh, you feel me now.
Can you imagine saying, don't talk to me about anything before 1900?
Before I was born?
I don't.
I can't.
Before I was born?
So here she is on the view, andrew.
Akasia.
Andrew.
What's that?
She's the spew of the view.
Yeah.
Oh, that should be a t-shirt.
The spew of the view.
Oh, we're going to make those.
All right.
We're going to make those.
Okay, no problem.
And so Megan McCain is upset about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez too, and she starts going fucking crazy.
Watch what she says.
Problem with socialism, in the words of Margaret Thatcher, at a certain point, you run out of spending other people's money.
So what she is good at is repeating talking points somebody told her, right?
She doesn't think for herself.
She doesn't have an original thought in her head.
And she just repeats shit.
And she just repeated, somebody said, oh, Margaret Thatcher said, what did Margaret Thatcher say?
Problem with socialism, in the words of Margaret Thatcher, at a certain point, you run out of spending other people's money.
Margaret Thatcher said, at a certain point, you run out of spending other people's money.
You know what else Margaret Thatcher said?
Margaret Thatcher said the principle that adequate health care should be provided for all regardless of ability to pay must be the foundation of any arrangement for financing the health service.
She also said that.
Oh my God.
That's what also Margaret Thatcher said.
You fucking dummy.
I mean, but when you can use Margaret Thatcher against us, we're fucked.
Yeah.
I don't know, but whatever Margaret Thatcher said, I don't understand it because I wasn't born then.
Here we go.
Here she is.
Problem with socialism, in the words of Margaret Thatcher, at a certain point you run out of spending other people's money.
Venezuela, one of the richest countries in the world in the 70s.
Now the average Venezuelan has lost 24 pounds because they're starving to death.
90% of the country is Scandinavia.
And then she's talking more about Scandinavia than Venezuela.
I'm sorry.
I need, this is what I need from her.
Name one country that socialism has ever worked.
Okay, now Joy is about to do that, and she's going to ignore it.
Okay, name one country where socialism has worked, ready?
Also, every democratic socialist who is going on TV saying that it's good.
Denmark, Norway.
Finland.
It says Finland.
When Joy Beher can debunk you simply by saying the names of countries, it's time for you to stop fucking talking.
Also, when Joy Behar is doing that, it means we're starting to win.
Yeah?
Yes, that is what that means.
Iceland on your tax form.
Joy.
On your tax form, I think you should start paying the amount of taxes that every socialist in this country thinks you need to.
Because if you think the government is so good at spending money, look at the VA.
That's right.
You should be paying the same amount of money and taxes that I should be paying on the money I inherited.
20,000 people are going to be able to do it.
It's always dangerous.
I'm just taking every country.
I'm sorry.
Hold on a minute.
Hold on.
Everybody, everybody.
God bless you all.
Then everybody stop talking over each other and I want to talk about it.
Don't make a thousand people in any way.
In no way can be related in any way comparably to the United States of America.
I'm sorry.
Then you need to be paying the amount of taxes.
They're hilarious.
Let her get a thing and buy it.
Because if it's coming normalized, it petrifies her that it gets normalized that we might have fucking health care for everybody.
This is the greatest argument for 100% estate tax I've ever seen.
Ever.
Ever.
Just 100%.
No, if your kids are that great, they'll be able to do what you did and fucking build yourself up from your bootstraps.
Come on, let's see them go.
Let's see her fucking spawn kick ass in America.
Let's go.
Megan McCain is so white, she was given an honorary degree to teach yoga.
Someone said the problem with capitalism is that at some point you run out of your parents' money.
Yes.
Bam!
Her biggest claim to fame is that her dad's a war criminal.
Yep.
That's why she's famous.
She's like the type of person who would spend the entire first date bitching about the restaurant.
That's who she is.
And can we get the Venezuela trope out of the way that all conservatives follow a meme on Reddit that says, look at Venezuela, they're eating rats.
Look, Venezuela is an underdeveloped country that had a resource curse and it's been under attack for the last 20 years from the U.S. Empire.
The U.S. is the richest country in the history of the fucking world.
So if it actually switched to worker-owned cooperative-based system, it would actually be monumental, nowhere near what Venezuela is at all.
So these people are just despicable.
I'm sorry, if you would just go ahead and just be able to name me just one country.
I'm just totally sorry about that.
Go look at the fucking food program that they started to combat this fucking nightmare that the rich capitalists are thrusting upon them.
Like, it's fucking impressive as shit.
Yeah.
It really is.
Like, if you dig into it and read about it, you're like, well, the fuck, the way they're fighting back against these capitalist motherfuckers is impressive.
Also, you know what I never realized about capitalism?
I never really thought.
at some point, all the rich people start having stupid fucking kids.
Then the stupid fucking kids are put in places of power, and then it's a fucking shit show.
That actually is the truth.
That actually is the truth.
It's the third generation.
The third generation of rich people is worthless.
Worthless.
They're dumb.
Fucking worthless human beings.
And they're fucking.
Look at Charger.
Look at Joe Kennedy.
Yeah, and billionaires used to be.
Oh, no, he's great.
He's against everything.
He's still afraid of pot.
Joe Kennedy.
By the way, Megan McCain, I love that she put that school teacher with a Coke problem outfit on.
And Megan, if Medicare for All and Education for All scares you, here, this person says, I have some more words that will scare the shit out of you.
Roads, bridges, police, government, libraries, armed forces, Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, free and appropriate public education, firefighters, stoplights, Amtrak, Coast Guard, and ICE, which Republicans love.
Number one, Megan McCain went on a big tour with Michael Ian Black.
What?
Yeah.
She went on a big book tour with them.
They tried to join forces, you guys.
She really.
Yeah, Michael Ian Black has lost his fucking mind.
He makes funny jokes about popsicles, but when he starts to talk about politics, he sounds like fucking Fred Flintstone.
I love Michael Ian Black, but he's way out of his fucking language.
Fuck Ian fucking a million dollars being a puppet in the dot-com boom.
Fuck him.
Yeah, fuck.
I say fuck him.
By the way, Megan McCain, I just want to let you know from Gallup, Americans with government health plans are the most satisfied.
So that's who I wanted fucking running my healthcare.
Okay, thank you.
And by the way, Megan McCain is rich because her dad is a millionaire.
Her dad is a millionaire because he married her, a beer heiress.
She wants to talk about running out of other people's money, but literally nobody in her immediate family actually earned anything.
Not to mention that John McCain's the guy who actually forgot how many fucking houses they owned.
Not because he was senile.
This is way long ago.
He actually just has so many that they just forgot.
He forgot how many houses he owned.
Folks, I smoke a lot of pot.
But I could smoke a pound of the best shit in the world.
And you asked me how many houses I own, I would know.
Jimmy, how many houses do you own?
They own half a house.
LAUGHTER And if I forget to clear my browsing history, I'll own zero houses.
I saw you in front of Costco, and you were like, do I live here?
So it might be too much with the pot.
Glenn Greenwald said, speaking for myself, if I were running a political party, I would not want the face of it to be a child of extreme wealth who inherited her parents' money and monetized their fame, screaming about the evils of less fortunate kids getting health care and being able to pay for college.
Yeah.
And yet the Democrats are so lame it works.
Yes, it is.
Soledad O'Brien says, full-on freak out.
She tweets out that what I just showed you.
And Megan McCain got upset.
She goes, get a life, Soledad.
I'm passionate and don't want my grandkids growing up in a socialist nascent.
And someone said, "Imagine being so passionate about making sure other people's kids grow up without healthcare." It's so easy.
It's just so easy.
They're so fucking.
Did you see this story?
Mom of a woman who died, medics assumed their daughter couldn't afford an ambulance ride.
That's a true story.
And I said, Megan McCain applauded the medics' fiscal restraint, saying, at some point, we're going to run out of other people's money.
I know, it's sad.
It's true.
By the way, here's what all this Russia gate leads to.
Just going to say it, if you are throwing your weight behind Bernie 2020, you are virtually ensuring another four years of Trump.
You are also getting in bed with the Russians.
4,000 retweets.
4,000 retweets.
And here's James Comey.
Democrats, please, please don't lose your minds and rush to the socialist left.
The president and his Republican Party are counting on you to do exactly that.
America's great middle wants sensible, balanced, ethical.
So this is all against, this is all about Ocasio-Cortez.
Megan McCain's freak out, that fucking woman's freaks out, and James Comey, it's all about, oh my God, they might do something for most of the people.
And James Comey, by the way, and he knows what he's talking about.
Socialism is bad because he fucking made $13 million as a lawyer for fucking Wall Street, that cocksucker.
He's a fucking cocksucker.
Fuck him.
And I'm saying cocksucker in a gender-neutral way.
Gee, I hope that's not Sean Spicer on the phone promoting his new book, The Briefing Politics, The Press, and the President, which details his time in the White House.
This is Sean Spicer on the phone promoting my new book, The Briefing, The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover, which details my time in the shit.
Wait, what the hell am I saying?
Can I start over?
Hello.
Hey, you know there's a lot more to that phone call, but we don't have time in today's podcast.
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