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Get ready for an outstanding entertainment program.
The Jimmy Dore Show.
Hello, this is Jimmy.
Hey, Jimbo, this is Rick Perry, former governor of Texas and future former Secretary of Energy.
I am here representing the future formers of America.
Oh, okay, then.
So how are things, Secretary Perry?
Man, not good.
Why?
What's wrong?
I'm having a crisis of conscience.
About what?
I must confess I have committed sins of thought against the Republican Party of my native state.
Vast, rugged, and penultimate chaos.
How so?
I like Beto Rourke, dude.
Ooh, really?
Yeah, I can't help it.
That guy's awesome.
You really think so?
Oh, he's so cool.
He's dreamy.
But I can't think that because he's a Democrat and he's running against Ted Cruz.
Yeah, that puts you in a bit of a pickle, doesn't it?
Yeah.
A deep-fried Texas state fair pickle, which are disgusting, by the way, like this situation.
If he were running against anyone other than Ted Cruz, it might be different.
It'd be like, okay, here comes another young charismatic Democrat challenger.
We've seen this before.
Right.
But compared to Ted Cruz, Beto Rourke is like the fucking fawns, dude.
By comparison, his coolness has almost a supernatural quality to it.
I suppose you're right.
He's so painfully the alpha male in the race.
I literally think he chose that nickname so it could be Beto versus the beta.
I believe he got that nickname growing up in El Paso years ago.
Ooh, you gotta look out for those long game sons of bitches.
Let me tell you, man, I'm gonna live with you.
None of us like Ted Cruz.
None of the good old boy G.O.P. The gob gob.
He ain't a real Texan, and you can smell it off the slime that comes out of his skin.
The problem is, he don't even know what a dork he is.
No.
He thinks he's a suave dude.
Wow.
Yeah.
Yeah, he's got like positive body dysmorphia, but for his soul.
So he doesn't know what the hell he's doing running against this guy, Beto, and it's got the rest of us running scared.
What do you mean?
Beto has this picture of him skating up to a Waterburger all over social media.
And Ted Cruz is all like, look at this here dupe is skateboarding into a Waterburger.
And real Texans are like, hey, man, I want to skateboard into a Waterburger rock goddamn now.
That's awesome.
Right, right.
And Beto used to be in a punk band a long time ago.
And Ted Cruz is trying to use this against him.
And that backfired because then someone posted a picture of Ted Cruz from his high school yearbook dressed as a mime.
A fucking mime.
Which is like the platonic ideal of unlackable thing.
Punk bassist versus mime.
Even the chain-rattling ghost of Lee Atwater on Christmas Eve couldn't figure out how to spend that shit.
I hear you.
Apparently, Beto got a DWI when he was young, and Ted published the mug shot.
Well, guess what?
Beto is hot as hell in it.
Young, handsome, disheveled, tanty-dropping dynamite.
I'm like, Ted, this whole strategy would work fine in 1910, but guess what?
Women can vote now, you carpetbagging slea stack.
You're unwittingly making this race about you going against the world's most bangable dude.
Who wants to give your family health care?
I see.
There's a new phrase for forces that Ted has conjured in this race.
Oh, really?
What?
Big dick energy.
It refers to a certain easy, charismatic, kind confidence that men have when they know they have a horse wang.
Big dick energy is the kryptonite of the Republican Party.
Clinton had it.
One.
Obama had it.
One.
Now here comes big old O'Rourke.
We simply lack a political machine with the capability of stopping these BDE dudes.
And dumbass Ted Cruz is making the campaign about that.
I see what you mean.
And the election's coming up soon.
There is no time for Ted Cruz to do the amount of joking exercises that would be required to turn his boat around.
He's trying to get all the super PAC money he can.
In Texas, that ain't going to stand up to an opponent who is super packing it, metaphorically speaking.
Yeah, yeah.
So what are you?
What are you and the rest of the Texas GOP establishment going to do?
I don't know, man.
Just hang back, try to maintain our dignity, let the cards fall where they may.
Beto O'Rourke has the face of Thomas Jefferson, the soul of Robert La Follette, and the Johnson of Lyndon B. Johnson.
And Ted Cruz is a discarded creature mock-up from 1982's The Thing.
Wow.
Yeah, I guess I'll just stay here at the Department of Energy.
The Department of Big Dick Energy?
Well, if I'm being honest, it's more like the Department of Adequate If She Loves You for other reasons, dick energy.
It's the Jimmy Dore Show.
The show for...
...the kind of people that are...
...the hell bents maybe on tearing down our nation...
It's the show that makes Anderson Cooper save.
It's hard to talk to you, Kali.
Here's a guy who sounds a lot like me.
It's Jimmy Dore!
Hey, everybody, welcome to this week's Jimmy Dore show.
Oh, got a lot come up.
We're going to see you October 12th.
October 12th is a Friday.
We're doing a live Jimmy Door show in Burbank, California.
Special guest Abby Martin will be on that show.
Go to JimmyDoorComedy.com for a link for tickets.
See you October 12th.
That's a Friday.
Now let's get to the jokes before we get to the jokes, shall we?
Boy, hey, John McCain, come on.
Huh?
Imagine, though, imagine the world we'd live in if corporate media shed tears for the results of war the same way they shed tears for the people who supported the wars.
Yes.
How about all those people who said, when I die, I don't want Trump coming to my funeral.
I don't want him saying, hey, I get it.
You guys are incredibly edgy, but I'm pretty sure Trump wasn't planning on coming to your funeral in the first place.
Hey, did you guys catch the debate with Cynthia Nixon?
Did you see that run?
I missed it.
Well, I got to tell you, Cynthia Nixon, she did really well, and she really handled Cuomo well.
But then again, she's used to working with actors.
I'm sure you get that joke.
A breaking ex-papal envoy calls on the Pope to resign, Pope to finger Holy Spirit.
You know, only a country with the kind of deep self-reflection it takes to start a Michael Cohen GoFundMe page would eulogize a guy who gave us Sarah Palin.
An MSNBC journalist just reported that John McCain was now in heaven.
It was hard for him to get in because it was so overcrowded with all those people he killed.
You know, in a nostalgic nod to his Navy career, I'm told that John McCain plans to crash his funeral five times.
So a lot of people now want Trump and the Pope to resign.
Have you ever thought about what we're going to do with all those robes and golden toilets?
I don't know about you, how you feel about immigration, but I am getting tired of all these illegal Eskimos and their anchorage babies.
Hey, guess what?
The Democrats are standing up to Trump by fast-tracking all his judicial appointments.
Wait a minute.
That sounds like the assistance and not the resistance.
Plus, CNN caught lying once again.
Two weeks in a row, caught blatantly lying and not retracting.
We're going to talk about it.
Plus, the Democrats and super delegates, but Donna Brazil reassures the donors that the voters will never control the party.
Plus, we got phone calls today from Rick Perry, Chuck Schumer, Chris Christie, George Clooney, and a bunch of other people.
Call in this week on the Jimmy Door show.
While I was starching my linen cotton blended short-sleeved shirt today, a bunch of people apparently mistook my answering machine for John McCain's tribute line.
We're all in his debt.
Sure, he's responsible for Sarah Palin, the Tea Party, and Donald Trump.
But aren't we all okay?
Maybe not.
Sorry, that was pretty stupid.
Anyway, we lost a member of our club.
I looked up to him and all he accomplished.
Especially those eight fucking homes.
Man, that is sweet.
Eight homes?
It's a lot of couches.
I mean, you gotta hire people just to stock the refrigerators.
Only Mavericks have eight homes.
Man, you gotta do better.
Get your eight homes in order, Donner.
Jimmy Chuck Schumer.
John McCain was the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life.
When I heard the news, I collapsed on the Oriental rugs I just bought on eBay and cried my little heart out.
I wept, then I released.
That's right.
I released like a damn racehorse.
Cathartic and so beautiful.
Like a god to me, he was.
Oh, God.
Oh, God.
Excuse me.
Oh, God, do I really have to say this shit?
Okay, here goes.
Blah, blah, obligatory reference to honor and service, meaningless claptrap about patriotism, brazen overuse of hero and heroic and desperate attempts to keep sapheads from turning on you.
Empty condolences to every shameless enabler who took part in this racist warmonger's life.
There, I feel dirty now.
I need a goddamn shower.
Sean Spicer here.
Anything happening?
Anyone there?
What's up?
Anyone?
Hello?
Boehner here, and McCain is not.
Let's all raise a glass of Dago Red in honor of old WhatsApp, shall we?
Don't tell me, I've had too much to drink.
Nobody tells a bader when he's had too much to drink.
Where'd everybody go?
Come on.
Whoa, Jennifer Terrison Ford.
Whoa.
I just heard the news.
Is Robin Leach really dead?
All right, movie pitch coming at you.
Hey there, George Clooney here.
You should see them all.
Oh, and I appreciate your service on all that and all that jazz.
No one does prison like you, bro.
No one.
But I look better in a prison uniform.
I got a square jaw.
I'm almost like a gazelle.
Kids eat like two moose.
Not important right now.
Cloon.
You got to edit, edit, edit, baby.
Hi, everybody.
Welcome to the Jimmy Door show.
I am here.
You can see my shirt on the inside.
It has a different color color.
That's how you know it's nice.
I'm here with Mike Preisner from Eyes Left Podcast and Abby Martin from Empire Files.
Hi, thanks for coming.
Thanks for coming into my studio.
I appreciate you making the trip.
And we talked about this on Saturday's show, but I got a response.
So we're going to revisit it.
MSNBC tweeted this out.
New Democrats vote to strip super delegates of power and reform caucuses ahead of the 2020 presidential race.
Donna Brazil tweeted out, Democrats voted to remove automatic delegates from the first round of voting.
Now, the first problem with this tweet is already apparent.
She calls super delegates automatic delegates, which is gaslighting 101.
So there she is.
Oh, automatic delegates?
Oh, they're automatic.
They're not super delegates.
Oh, that's just, it sounds like something that just Jesus created when he invented political parties.
What?
Do you have your automatic?
Oh, automatic.
I didn't.
So it doesn't sound as corrupt as super delegates, which is corrupt.
So she says Democrats voted to remove automatic delegates from the first round of voting, which is everyone's cheering this, right?
I mean, like grassroots people, activists, even people went on hunger strikes to see this happen.
Even Tom Perez realized that they had to do this.
So they did this, but Donna Brazil did not want this to happen.
In fact, she gave a 10-minute impassioned speech supporting super delegates.
Did you hear about that?
She did that.
She did that.
So she says Democrats voted to remove automatic delegates from the first round of voting, but we still have seats at the table.
We are still in the room and very much capable of setting the menu.
Hashtag power rising.
So what she really should have put was hashtag power to the powerful.
Because that's what she is doing.
And I think she screwed up and didn't realize that she wasn't sending an email to her friends who are donors.
And what she did was she tweeted this out, like, oh my God, that's what we're, this is my private position, not my public position.
So what she's telling voters, grassroots activists, progressives, everybody who was for getting rid of super delegates, what she's telling you is we're still going to stick.
We still set the agenda.
We've still got to find a way to nullify your votes.
And the elites are still driving this bus.
So as much as you think you matter, you do not matter.
We still matter more.
And who is she saying this to?
She's saying this to her donors because they're nervous.
They're like, well, now we don't have any control over who becomes your nominee.
I don't want to give you guys all this money if we can't control.
Are you going to let Bernie Sanders become the goddamn nominee?
That's what this is.
And so what she's saying is, no, no, don't worry.
Don't worry.
Just like we totally cheated him last time, we have many ways to cheat him this time.
That's what that, to me, that's what that is saying.
So do you, let me throw it over.
Do you think that's what she's saying, Mike?
Yeah, no, she's talking about the kind of democracy that they want.
Like, you can sit at the table and decide on things, but we set the menu, meaning we get to decide what you're going to get to decide on.
Yes.
So, yes, it's more democratic, but you only get to discuss and decide about the things that we put on the menu.
Yeah, like if we don't want to talk about Medicare for all, you don't get to talk about it either.
You don't get to vote on it.
Don't worry.
If we don't put it on the menu, they don't get to have it.
That's what she's so she's reassuring her donor class, right?
It's just astounding that she said this publicly again.
Again, I mean, she was the you know, she was the center of all the controversy with the feeding elections to Hillary Clinton.
She did that public resignation.
What was it, CNN that she was a host for?
I mean, it's just amazing to me that she's coming out there and she's like, no, no, no.
She's like, don't worry about this because everyone is all excited about stripping superdelegates.
She's like, no, no, no, no.
We're still setting everything.
I mean, who are these people?
How out of touch are they with normal people?
They don't acknowledge inequality.
They don't acknowledge the reality of this country.
They're just straight up talking to their corporate donors and that's all they are.
It's unbelievable.
I sent this to my friend Steve O, who hosts aggressive progressives with me at the Young Turks.
And he three times emailed me back.
What am I missing?
What is she saying that I don't understand?
Because he can't believe that she tweeted that.
So he's literally like, I have to be missing something.
And I'm like, you're not missing anything.
He writes back, come on, I have to be missing.
This can't be what they're.
And I'm like, no, she's literally doing what you think she's doing, Steve.
She's reassuring donors publicly that don't worry, we still control the party.
Don't worry about those pesky voters.
It'd be like Tom Perez being like, don't worry, we're going to immediately ban this fossil fuel thing again.
Like, don't worry, guys.
I know that this is like a public thing.
It's all fake.
So two months ago, let me just, to her point, two months ago, they took a vote at the DNC and overwhelmingly they decided to not take fossil fuel donations anymore.
That got a lot of headlines.
Two months later, just recently, they did it in secret.
They overturned that rule.
So she's saying, this is her going, don't worry.
We can overturn this at any time we want anyway.
Don't worry about it.
And we can do it in secret.
So here's what Peter Deuce says.
You tell him, Donna, Democrat elites will still be deciding what the peasants and peons get to eat.
Thank you very much.
Hashtag own together, hashtag still withering.
That's what that says.
That's what that says.
By the way, Donna's, you know, Donna's original tweet only got like 165 likes.
His thing got 792.
Then I said, so I tweeted this out.
Donna Brazil comforts the powerful over super delegates, reminding them not to fret as they still have control over the party and can nullify will of voters.
Power to the powerful.
Hashtag the resistance is the assistance.
So she comes back at me.
She comes back at me.
She says, please do not speak for me.
I don't know what kind of, you know, that just goes to show you what a disingenuous debater Donna Brazil is because we know she's a cheater and a liar already because that's why she had to resign from CNN.
She got caught lying and cheating.
And who is she cheating?
She was cheating you.
She was cheating the progressive people.
She wasn't cheating the Republicans.
She wasn't cheating the Russians.
She wasn't cheating the Iranians or Al-Qaeda.
She was cheating you, the American people.
She was cheating half the goddamn Democratic Party, you, and eventually the entire country.
That's who she was cheating.
She wasn't cheating our enemies.
She was cheating us.
And she had to resign because she's a freaking cheater and a liar.
And she says, please do not speak for me, which is her being a disingenuous debater, lying also, because I'm not putting words in her mouth whatsoever.
I'm commenting on the words she used.
She says, you can disagree.
I don't disagree with you.
I agree what you're saying is true.
I'm not disagreeing with you.
I'm saying I know what you're saying is fucking true.
Not disagree.
So again, she's just, this is her knee jerk.
Their knee jerk, the people in power, is the gaslight.
And that's what she's trying to do.
She's trying to pretend like she's trying to shift the argument into something it isn't.
She's trying to have a straw man.
Like, somehow I'm putting words in her mouth and I've disagree.
No, no, I'm not disagreeing with you and I'm not putting words in your mouth.
She says, but I know what I stand for and what shall never stand in a democracy like ours.
That's just empty gibberish.
What stands right now is corporate corruption, legal bribery, and you cheating.
What actually stood in our democracy was the entire Democratic primary was election fraud.
That's what actually stands in our democracy.
And you know how I know it was election fraud?
Because you told me it was.
You personally, Donna.
She says the right to vote is sacred, but apparently more sacred for others than for some than others.
It's more sacred for superdelegates.
The right to vote is sacred.
That's what I'm saying.
And it shouldn't be superseded by someone who's powerful or rich.
The right to vote is sacred.
No matter if you are a pledged majority delegate or unpledged minority, we cannot change a perception problem this way.
It's not a perception.
See, this is what the Democrats think.
She's still pretending it's a perception problem.
That's what Debbie Wasserman Schultz said.
That's what Nancy Pelosi said.
That's what Tom Perez said after they lost to Trump.
We got to get our message out.
No, no, your message got out.
Your message is you're just like the corporatists who own the Republicans and everyone knows it.
That's why half the country doesn't vote.
So this, again, this idea that it's a perception problem.
So I just said, hey, sad to see you double down on sticking up for the powerful over voters.
The fact that you're not embarrassed by your original tweet is why you and Democrats are losers who lost to Trump and are wiped out at every level of government.
Congrats on taking fossil fuel donations.
Dave Anthony, the host of the Dollop, very popular podcast about history.
He says, Donna Brazil literally just tweeted what Jimmy Dorr called her out on.
And then she told him not to put words in her mouth about the things she just tweeted.
And then he links all the tweets.
That's what, so if you understand why progressives want nothing to do with the Democratic Party and why Bernie's effort to sheepdog people into that party is failing, this is it.
They're not changed.
They're just as bad as they ever were to Democrats.
They're not changing.
So this is a, this is a stunner.
That was that was, that was like, oh, I thought she was going to like delete the tweet or say that's not what I meant.
But no, she has, she's such a good liar.
She knows to pretend like she's attacking.
She knows to not to apologize for being horrible.
So she, because she can't admit what she's doing.
So she pretends that she's being attacked or something.
You're putting words in my mouth.
She's just a fucking horrible liar.
And that's why the Democrats only have 26% people in the country consider themselves Democrats.
47% of people in Americans consider themselves an independent.
So, almost twice as many people consider themselves independent as considers themselves a fucking Democrat or a Republican.
People are sick of this shit.
And it's too bad because people are actually ready for a revolution, and Bernie Sanders is not giving it to them.
Let me throw it over to you.
Any other words about to see that play out like that?
Were you surprised she doubled down on it?
Well, it's funny to see her say that the right to vote is sacred, which just sounds like a good slogan.
But in her contact, she's talking about the right to vote for superdelegates is sacred.
And to talk about a democracy like, all right, it's been a democracy where reset the agenda and what you get to vote for.
Yes.
So it's good when you look at just her tweet.
It's like, oh, yeah, those are values I stand for.
But when you look at what she's actually saying, right?
Yeah.
When you look at what she's actually, I'm not kidding.
Steve-O three times emailed me.
Come on.
What am I?
I have to be missing something.
No.
I hate when people are like, we just need to make the Democrats care.
The Democratic Party is designed to basically fall in the hands of corporations while talking out of both sides of their mouths.
So like the Ocasio-Cortez phenomenon, you have Tom Perez acknowledging she's the future of our party, right?
Because they really want to capture that energy.
But then you have Amy Goodman confronting him at the Unite the Families rally or whatever that they sponsored.
And he actually said, you know, we love Ocasio-Cortez.
And she was like, well, do you actually support single-payer?
And he said, I support affordable healthcare.
See, they just keep doubling down on completely empty rhetoric.
Speaking out of both sides of their mouths.
And that's only because they have to please their donors.
They know right now, even the majority of Republicans are for single-payer Medicare for all.
Did you know that?
Yes.
Now, even the majority of Republicans, something like 80% of Democrats.
So this is called a banana republic, I think.
They're not at all responsive to their, I mean, that's the minimum.
Chomsky says the minimum that what you're supposed to have in a democracy is the elected officials represent the people who voted for them.
We can't say that we give you that.
So even guys like Paul Crummen admit that we live in an oligarchy as he's making the case for to vote for Hillary Clinton.
He was admitting, yeah, we live in an oligarchy.
Yeah, that's what it is.
I mean, so we don't have a fucking democracy.
And so people who wag their finger at people who vote third party, you know, are colossal assholes.
Yeah, I mean, I was just going to say that Democrats, I hate them so much because, you know, unlike Republicans who are just unabashed monsters, you know, anti-science, all of this, the Democrats pretend to be on your side.
They literally exist to co-opt this revolutionary language and movements time and again to just bring them over to a voter base.
It's just disgusting because at least we know what the Republicans stand for.
These people are corporate shills and they'll just grovel to their masters every single issue and fail time and again, whether it be the environment, human rights, or democracy, apparently.
Democracy.
Yes, you're 100% right.
And then she put all these bullshit, flowery language around it.
You know, like, I know what I stand for.
What won't stand in democracy?
The sacredness of a vote.
And you're sitting here arguing for undecorved Democratic shit.
You are comforting the 1%.
Don't worry, you guys still control us.
And then you do something like that publicly, which is why Donna Brazil is a bullshitter first in the middle and at the end.
And I've had a lot of people on the left say, no, we got to reach out to people like Donna Brazil.
She's the one who told us that the election was all rigged.
She's the one who tried to make it right.
Bull.
She got caught.
She got caught.
Exactly.
And Donna Brazil is part of the people who have to go.
Why would you want to be in a party with a cheater liar like that who cheated and lied to you?
And it's doing it right now.
And is doing it right now.
She can't help herself.
She's right down in public.
What?
Power rising?
Power rising.
Yeah, the powerful are finally going to have their day.
You know, it's been a while since Chris Christie called me.
I wonder how he's feeling about the story I just read about him taking laundered money from a Malaysian embezzler.
Hello?
You ain't so tough.
You think I took a lot of money from a Malaysian embezzler?
Hotshot?
Well, I ain't took the laundered money from a Malaysian embezzler.
You want to know why?
Yeah, why?
Because you took laundered money from a Malaysian embezzler.
I did not.
That's why you're wrong.
You think you didn't, but you did.
But I just read that.
You think you just read something about me in the papers?
Well, you ain't read nothing about me in the papers.
Understand?
Well, I just did, though.
You ain't read nothing about me in the papers, hot shot.
No way.
Why?
Because I just read something about you in the papers.
And it ain't so good.
So what'd you just read about me in the papers?
You've been taking laundered money from a Malaysian embezzler.
But the Wall Street Journal just published a story saying you took laundered money from your Malaysian client who stole $5 billion from a development fund.
The Wall Street Journal didn't publish nothing.
Understand me?
No, why?
Because I'm going to publish something about them.
What?
About them trying to publish something about me, but they can't.
Because I'm publishing something about them.
And it won't be pretty, believe me.
But this could be the biggest fraud in financial history.
And you're the guy's lawyer.
Whoa, down there, little fella.
I'm going to unpack this for you, all right?
So you're saying I took laundered money.
Yeah.
From an embezzler.
Yes.
And I'm his lawyer.
Right.
Well, that's wrong.
You know why?
Why?
Because you're the one who took laundered money from an embezzler and you're his lawyer.
That's why.
I'm just saying it looks bad, Chris.
Yeah, for your big shot.
How does it look bad for me?
Let me ask you a question with another question.
How does it not?
But you're his lawyer.
You're his lawyer.
But I don't even have a law degree, Chris.
Of course you don't.
You know why?
Because I do.
And you know what that makes you?
This is pointless.
You think this is pointless?
You don't know pointless.
I know pointless.
And this ain't it.
Let's change the subject, Chris.
What's your reaction to John McCain's death?
John McCain is dead.
He thinks he's dead, but he ain't dead.
I'm the dead one.
You don't know what that is, Scott.
I've been dead a long time.
I'm dead or the dead.
Beth thinks it's a hot shot, but it ain't.
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So the Democrats are the resistance.
That's what they say.
They're the resistance.
They're resisting Trump.
Except they're not.
The Democrats, just enough Democrats join you to regulate Wall Street.
All the Democrats joined in giving the guy who's a maniac, crazy person who's a Manchurian candidate.
He's actually working for the Russians.
They gave him an extra $80 billion for bombs.
Isn't that funny?
If you really thought he was working for the Russians, why would you give him extra money for bombs?
And now they're standing up to his judicial nominees.
I mean, they're actually fast-tracking them.
They're actually fast-tracking.
The Republicans who wouldn't even give a hearing to the Supreme Court nominee of Barack Obama for a year.
Chuck Schumer is going to fast-track their lifetime appointments.
Senate Democrats just gave a huge gift to President Donald Trump.
They agreed to expedite votes on 15 of his nominees to lifetime federal court seats because they wanted to go home.
That's some killer Labor Day plans.
Some of them.
They wanted to go home and camp.
That's what they said.
They wanted to go home and campaign.
Majority leader Mitch McConnell had lined up votes for all those district court nominees last week.
Normally, Senate rules require up to 30 hours of waiting time for each nominee, something Democrats typically take advantage of to delay action on confirming Trump judges.
They had fishing trips to go on.
But minority leader Chuck Schumer cut a deal with McConnell on Tuesday to bypass the wait times and let them all get through.
I know you guys completely obstructed Barack Obama's court appointment and whatever.
It's punishment for that.
We're going to fast-track everything you want.
See how we fight?
We're the resistance.
Why did they do that?
So the Democrats could get back to campaigning and focusing on winning reelection in November.
The Senate is now out of session until next Tuesday.
Of the 15 nominees, six were confirmed by voice vote on Tuesday.
Another one was confirmed on a recorded vote.
The remaining eight will get quick votes next week.
And one of those is just going to be a text message.
It is a major win for Trump and McConnell, whose number one priority is filling up federal courts with conservative judges, many of whom are incredibly anti-abortion, anti-LGBTQ rights, and anti-voting rights.
Chuck Schumer got to fast-track those.
Trump has gotten 26 circuit court judges confirmed, more than any other president at this point in the term.
That's...
I'll quit.
What are they doing?
Another way of putting it: one in seven U.S. circuit court seats is now filled by a judge nominated by Trump.
It would have taken only one Democratic senator to say no to letting the nominees through this week, but none did.
One.
Even Bernie Sanders didn't.
Wow.
Bernie's playing ball.
Elizabeth Warren didn't.
Bernie didn't.
Kamala Harris didn't.
That's surprising.
Corey Booker, fighter of the people, for the people, fighter of the people.
Trading this many lifetime positions away for a couple of days back home in the dead of August is a metaphor for how myopic the Democrats' approach has been at this dark moment in history, said Brian Fallon, who awkwardly, guess what he used to do?
He was Chuck Schumer's chief spokesperson before.
He's ripping Chuck Schumer.
Even he's ripping him.
Do you understand that Chuck Schooter doesn't really have any dignity?
He doesn't really have at all any integrity.
Do you realize that Chuck Schumer is just a lying cheater, corrupt of the highest magnitude, who puts on a suit and glasses?
Doesn't wear the glasses right?
So you think, oh, he's a white guy in a suit and glasses and he's nominated and he's, you know, the Democrats all put him as a leader, which they didn't, that Wall Street does.
So he can't be 1,000% full of it, can he?
Yes.
Does he have any integrity?
No.
These guys don't care.
He is now the executive director of Demand Justice, a progressive judicial advocacy group.
That's Brian Fallon, Chuck Schumer's previous spokesperson, chief spokesperson.
Well, it's interesting to note, too, and I'm not super familiar with Demand Justice.
Like, I don't know a ton about that group, but it's always interesting when you see somebody who started working with elected officials that then decides, I'm going to work on a cause instead.
Yeah.
Because it's like, I kind of reevaluated how change really works.
We should get that guy on the show.
And that Trump put Neil Gorsick on the Supreme Court and his poised to get another justice through, Brett Kavanaugh.
And you've got a president drastically reshaping the nation's courts for generations.
An entire branch of government is being lost for generations, and Senate Democrats are willfully blind to it.
So people with power who could actually stand up and do something aren't.
They're not doing anything.
But you got to vote blue.
So people will wag their finger at me because do you know I remember people on panel after panel screaming at me about the judicial appointments that Trump's going to make?
Well, guess who doesn't give a fuck about it?
The Democrats who are actually in power, even Bernie Sanders.
Not one person is standing up.
So are you still going to wag your finger at a nightclub comedian with no money and no power and blame the judicial system on me because I wouldn't vote for a corporatist warmonger?
Or are you going to actually start now like a grown-up and holding people in power responsible and accountable?
We know the answer to that.
They're going to keep wagging their finger at people like me with no money and no power.
And they're going to keep turning their head and turning a blind eye to the Democrats who keep selling you out every goddamn day.
If people knew how much the Democrats and Barack Obama sold us out, you would never stop screaming.
If people read that book, Listen Liberal, they'd never stop screaming.
So all the people who oppose me or people who are on the left who are frustrated with me and the fact that I wouldn't support a corporatist warmonger anymore, I wouldn't keep doing that like we've been doing for the last 40 years.
Those people, none of them have read Listen Liberal.
None of them have read Listen Liberal, just so you know that.
I have, which is why I'm now a radical, because I saw a history of what the Democrats did to their party, to the workers, to minorities, and to the economy, and to progressives.
So I'm acutely aware.
In the coming months, so an entire Branch of government is being lost for generations, and the Senate Democrats won't do a goddamn thing.
If I was a Senate Democrat, I would oppose it.
I would stand up.
I would stop it.
Why wouldn't they stop it?
To me, this is way, way, way worse than voting your conscience and voting for a Green Party candidate.
Would you say this is way, way, way, way worse than that?
Yeah, because I don't think voting your conscience is a bad thing.
And furthermore, I think, you know, especially a lot of people in my generation, we've never felt this strong allegiance to the Democratic Party ever.
We always just felt like, well, if we have this A or B choice, they're a little clearer.
And then what happened in 2016 and what continues to happen with stories like this, all of our worst suspicions were confirmed.
So now we're figuring out what to do next.
Yeah.
You got to vote blue no matter who.
That gives you the votes to oppose Trump, like the votes that Joe Donnelly cast and Joe Manchin cast and people like that.
Yeah, Claire McCaskill.
Yep.
An entire branch of government is being lost for generations, and Senate Democrats are willfully blind to it.
In the coming months and years, these same Democrats will issue outraged statements about the rulings issued by these very judges that they could not be bothered to try to slow down.
It is pathetic, he says.
That's Chuck Schumer's old chief spokesperson.
But delaying action on Trump's judges is one of the few ways Democrats can do something to push back on his agenda.
They could have caused more trouble for McConnell by requiring recorded votes, since it takes at least 51 votes to advance any judicial nominee.
And guess what?
John McCain is dead.
So they only have 50 votes right now.
50 to 49.
And it's very rare that there's 50 Republican senators in D.C. in the Senate chamber at the same time.
Given that the partisan breakdown in the Senate is 50-49 and that McConnell has had attendance issues with his members, that's what I'm just talking about.
It's easy to see some of these judicial nominees not getting through or at least being beset by delays.
McConnell, Mitch McConnell, when he was in the minority, Mitch McConnell was the master of delaying action on judicial nominees under President Obama.
McConnell leaned on every procedural tool in the book to delay or deny votes to Obama's court picks, including, of course, denying a confirmation hearing for his Supreme Court nominee, Merrick Garland.
So again, this is the old story of the book.
The Republicans know how to fight.
They don't bend.
They don't buckle.
And Democrats can't wait because they're chosen.
Do you understand?
They're chosen.
The donors are telling Chuck Schumer to let these judges go through.
The donors are.
And he says, okay.
That's why this is happening.
And he tells Bernie, you got to let these go through, or we're not going to let you run as a Democrat.
Bernie goes, okay.
Progressive groups desperately want Democrats to play a similar game of hardball, but it hasn't happened.
No, you think, no, no, not happening.
Get this.
There's the last thing from that article.
Most of these district court nominees are uncontroversial, but one of them, Charles Goodwin, was rated, quote, not qualified to be a judge by the American Bar Association.
Oh, six Democrats join Republicans to confirm him anyway.
Yeah, it's not even that the Democrats aren't playing hardball.
They're not playing ball at all.
They're laying down on the field and saying, we give up.
They're not even playing wiffle ball.
No.
They're not even playing kickball.
The Democrats aren't playing.
Well, they are playing.
Well, I'm telling you, this is what you, this is why half the country doesn't vote.
This is why.
And you still want to wag your finger at the people who actually turn up to vote.
This is why.
Because the Democrats don't do a guy.
They rolled on DACA.
They rolled on this.
They rolled on the Pentagon.
They rolled on deregulating Wall Street, but they're not rolling.
They're actually that they want to do this.
Chuck Schumer wants to do this.
Why does Chuck Schumer want to do this?
Because his donors want him to do this.
So he doesn't give a fuck.
He doesn't give a fuck about you.
At all.
At all.
They don't care anything about DACA pay.
They don't care about immigrants.
They don't care about anything.
These people are megalomaniacs.
Chuck Schumer is your enemy.
But you got to vote blue.
You got to vote blue no matter who.
Vote blue no matter who.
Alyssa Milano will tell you.
Adam Gentleson, that's a great name.
He says this comes down to leadership.
Senate Democrat leaders could take a stand and station one senator on the floor at all times to object, forcing McConnell to jump through interminable hurdles and produce 51 votes twice for each nominee, likely resulting in fewer lifetime Trump judges.
But Chuck Schumer ain't going to do any of that.
Nothing.
Nothing.
Do you know how the Republicans just laugh?
They must just be laughing.
Mitch McConnell and all Ted Cruz and all those Lindsey Grahams.
They must just be laughing their heads off.
They never paid a price for obstructing Barack Obama's choices.
They never paid a price for that.
Nothing.
And what is their punishment for obstructing Barack Obama for eight years and obstructing his Supreme Court?
Their punishment is they Chuck Schumer goes, how can I help?
How can I help you guys?
Mr. Trump, you want some judges lifetime?
Even Chuck Schumer's old chief of spokesperson can't take it.
But I'm supposed to take it.
You're supposed to take it, Ron.
Progressives are supposed to take it and keep voting for these guys.
I'm done.
I'm not voting for these guys.
I'm not voting for any Democrat who takes corporate money.
I'm not voting for them.
That's just it.
I don't care who they're running against.
If you want me to vote for someone running against someone horrible, don't put up someone who's a fucking horrible also.
I mean, that's the irony in all this.
Blue, no matter who gets us this.
Blue, no matter who assists Trump, doesn't oppose him.
You're 100% right.
100% right.
Okay, so the Democrats are even worse than I thought they were going to be.
And get ready for four more years of Trump and get ready for four more years of Russia, Russia, Russia, and scapegoating.
So CNN, you know, is horrible, right?
Do you know CNN what it stands for?
One of those N's actually stands for news.
Other one stands for not.
Correct.
They launched this story.
Wow, they were really excited about it.
You want to see the story here to breaking news.
We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world.
This is New Day.
It is Friday, July 27, 6 o'clock here in New York, and we do begin with breaking news.
For those of you who have not paid much attention to the Russia investigation, today would be a good day to start doing so.
Indeed.
Indeed.
Wait, sources tell CNN that President Trump's longtime former personal attorney, Michael Cohen, has begun spilling the beans.
One of the bombshells he reportedly wants the public to know is that then-candidate Donald Trump knew in advance and approved of that June 2016 Trump Tower meeting in which Russians promised dirt on Hillary Clinton.
And these sources say Cohen is prepared to make that claim to special counsel Robert Mueller.
Now, if this is true, it means the president lied about it publicly.
It means that Donald Trump Jr. lied about it under oath.
And it means the current president of the United States had knowledge of and approved of accepting Russian help during the campaign.
By CNN's count, President Trump and his team have denied he had contemporaneous knowledge of the Trump Tower meeting on more than 15 occasions.
Now, to be clear, there are six.
So they're really hyping this story.
Today would be a good day.
Yeah, I smell a little desperation right out the gate there.
Like, if you've been ignoring what we've been pumping for two years nonstop, now's the time to change.
Yeah, now, you can.
It's the end of August 2018 would be the time to tune in.
I know we've been doing this since 2016, but don't worry, forget it.
Now's the time.
So here's another, here's the reporter that broke that story for them.
And he's on with Chris Cuomo.
Well, Chris, tonight, sources with knowledge tell myself and Carl that Michael Cohen claims that then candidate Donald Trump knew in advance about the June 2016 meeting in Trump Tower in which Russians were expected to offer his campaign dirt on Hillary Clinton.
Crucially, these sources tell us that Cohen is willing to make that assertion to the special counsel Robert Mueller.
I should say that contacted by CNN, one of Cohen's attorneys, that is Lanny Davis, he declined to comment.
And of course, Chris, I know you're.
Okay, so that's a lie.
So when he said, first of all, when he said that we have sources, turns out there's only one source.
Well, anyway, so he said that, right?
So Cohen, our sources say Cohen's going to say that Trump had prior knowledge of the meeting in Trump Tower, which he's said he hasn't for two years.
Our sources, the source that so then Washington Post and the New York Times saw that story and they confirmed this reporting.
And who they confirmed it with was Lanny Davis, who is Cohen's lawyer.
Then this happened.
You said that Michael Cohen was present for a meeting with N.K. Trump and his son Don Jr. about the Trump Tower meeting.
This is obviously an incredibly important issue.
You've also said that Michael Cohen testified truthfully to the Senate Intelligence Committee.
And according to the chair and the vice chair of the committee, he told them that he had no knowledge of the meeting until he saw it in the press.
How can both those things be true?
Either he knew the meeting or he didn't know about the meeting.
Well, I think the reporting of this story got mixed up.
And in the course of a criminal investigation, we were not the source.
So there he is saying we were not the source.
There he is.
So Washington Post and New York Times go, oh my God, he was our source.
He was our source that confirmed this story that CNN reported.
And so then they retracted their stories.
Right?
So after he BuzzFeed broke the story that he, no, he was saying no.
So CNN, so then Washington Post, New York Times, they retract.
CNN still hasn't.
CNN's still going with this bogus story, even though their source and they won't even admit, well, here, here's Glenn Greenwald talking about it.
I find it to be, and obviously this is a high bar, one of the most humiliating and scandalous moments in the entire media behavior of the.
First of all, I just like hearing that.
But let me just say one more thing for clarity.
When this guy here, when this guy here said, when they go, oh, wait, Lanny Davis didn't give us comment.
Well, that's a lie because he was their source.
So that's what that lie was.
And then he comes on, so then he comes on with Anderson Cooper and says, I was not your freaking source.
And here's what Glenn Greenwald says about all of this.
I find it to be, and obviously this is a high bar, one of the most humiliating and scandalous moments in the entire media behavior of the Trump-Russia saga.
You know, I've been on your show to talk about a lot of these humiliating moments, and this might be one of the worst ones yet.
Keep in mind that in addition to all the facts that you just said, what's so crucial about this is that after Lanny Davis went on CNN with Anderson Cooper and to Anderson Cooper's shock admitted that everything CNN had been breathlessly hyping is true was actually false, namely that Michael Cohen was there when Trump learned about the Trump Tower meeting in advance.
The Washington Post and the New York Post listened to that and they said, wait a minute, we independently confirmed CNN's stories based on an anonymous source and our anonymous source was Lanny Davis who's now saying the whole thing is false.
So what they had to do and what they should have done, which is they retracted the story.
They outed their own source.
They said our anonymous source is Lanny Davis and we now retract it because he says it's fault.
CNN couldn't do that because they lied to the entire world.
They said, as you just played, that they tried to get a hold of Lanny Davis and he refused to comment when in fact, of course, Lanny Davis was also their source and they don't want to admit that they lied to the world.
So they can't retract the story and they can't admit they lied.
So they're just continuing to stick to what everybody knows is a lie, but not many people care because people think, a lot of people anyway, that it was done for the right political agenda.
So this is from Glenn's article about this.
He says, only one of two things can be true here, and either is extremely significant.
One, CNN deliberately lied to its audience about Davis refusing to comment on the story when in fact Davis was one of the anonymous sources on which CNN report depended.
And CNN claimed Davis refused to comment in order to hide Davis's identity as one of their anonymous sources.
That's what it looks like what happened.
Or two, Davis is lying now to BuzzFeed when he confessed to having been one of CNN's sources for the story.
So he confessed to BuzzFeed he was the source, and then he reversed that, no, I never, that's, I can't confirm that Cohen's going to say that.
That's not true.
So the whole story falls apart, except CNN's sticking by it.
And so Glenn also makes this point, and he's made it before, which is an awesome point.
Because people go, well, you know, news people, they breaking news, they have sources that recant, and they get stories wrong all the time, but they correct, right?
Even though CNN's not correcting.
But they actually have fired some people over getting the Russia stories wrong.
They have.
Last year.
Oh, well, you know what?
Yeah.
Or let some people go.
But what Glenn points out is that if it was just honest mistakes by the news media, then you would imagine that half the mistakes would be one way and half the mistakes would be the other way or close to that.
Every time there's a mistake in this Russia story and Trump collusion, it's always the same way.
It's always a mistake that aids the establishment narrative and is anti-Trump.
That's what he's, well, he points it out.
So here they are.
Here's one of them.
Russia hacked into the United States electrical grid to deprive Americans of heat during the winter.
That was a story published by the Washington Post.
Totally bogus.
An anonymous group, Proper Not, documented how major U.S. political sites are Kremlin agents.
That was in the Washington Post.
Democracy Dying in Darkness.
Oh for two.
Yep.
WikiLeaks has long documented relationship with Putin, Garden Print, Guardian Print and Debt.
That's not true.
A secret server between Trump and Russia Bank has been discovered.
That was in Slate.
Also, RT hacked C-SPAN and caused disruption of its broadcast.
That's my first time hearing about that one.
That's me too.
We have a mission.
We need to hijack a station nobody watches.
Why?
We need to do it.
Hijack the one nobody will.
There are 13 people.
They're going to be very upset.
We're going through sold Discord.
So, there's another one.
Russia hacked into a Ukrainian artillery app.
That was CrowdStrike.
We've talked about that BS story before because CrowdStrike is the same that was totally debunked.
They totally made stuff up.
CrowdStrike did.
And they're the ones that the DNC and the FBI relied on to do the search of the server.
The DNC, this corrupt company called CrowdStrike, who's been caught lying before.
Another one: Russians attempted to hack the election system in 21 states.
Multiple news outlets echoing homeland security.
Not true.
Links have been found between Trump ally Anthony Scaramucci and Russian investment fund under investigation.
Also, so they're always wrong in the same way.
Remember that story last year that, or was it this year, that they had the dates wrong on the emails that proved collusion and they all, every news organization got it wrong.
The email came after.
It was just, it just keeps happening.
So the story here is that CNN will not correct, at the very least, a known error.
But they did lie.
So that's why they can't correct it.
That's what Glenn Greenwald is saying.
Because that guy who went on and said, oh, no, he didn't comment.
That was one of their sources or their source.
So that's a lie when they said he didn't comment.
So here's Glenn Greenwell tweeted this out.
He goes, the newsletter from CNN's media reporters pretends to address the scandal surrounding its blockbuster Cohen debacle, but it entirely ignores, like the network itself, the key problem.
Their reporters outright lied when they said Lanny Davis, their source, refused to comment.
And here's what they're saying.
And I'll read you the part.
It says, over the past week, Cohen lawyer Lanny Davis has publicly said he was one of the sources who confirmed the news to CNN and other media organizations.
Davis now says he cannot confirm the news.
Davis Walkback has prompted critics, a good chunk of whom belong to the right-wing media universe, to unleash a torrent of criticism on CNN.
Trump allies have also fanned the flames.
Throughout the day, Donald Trump Jr. and others tweeted about the issue.
Glenn says this: CNN strategy here is obvious as it is lame.
Pretend it's just a scandal among the right.
That's one, not true.
And two, an indictment of non-conservative journalists if it were true.
It's a huge deal that CNN outright lied about a key issue on its biggest story and won't address it.
So now you know why people get their news from YouTube.
This is every week now we can report a story where CNN is caught lying, like Jake Tapper got caught lying and they won't correct it.
Jake Tapper literally called what he did a fact check.
And so they won't correct it, Ron.
We called a guy.
No, you know, I wanted to make a small side note.
I like how Glenn pointed all this out on Fox News, too.
There's a famous quote, and I forget who said it, but they said that when politicians argue about why the other one is not fit to lead, that's the only time they're actually telling you the truth.
And I think it's like a cable news outlet only does well when they're pointing out how shitty one of the other ones is.
Today, Fox News pointed out that CNN's shitty.
Tomorrow, CNN will point out why SNBC is shitty.
They get it right that time.
Well, it's funny because Glenn Greenwald, Glenn Greenwald gets invited on Fox when they want to criticize CNN, and he gets invited on CNN when they want to criticize Fox.
Yep.
That's very interesting, isn't it?
It is.
Yeah.
So again, another black eye for the mainstream media.
And now when Trump says fake news, now it lands, and now you know why it lands with people because this is two weeks in a row caught blatantly lying and not owning up to it.
This is two weeks in a row.
And that Jake Tapper one was just a head scratcher of a head scratch.
Well, it's just not a head scratch.
It's a head scratcher how he could do it with a straight face.
But 30 grand a day buys a lot of straight faces.
Right?
I could do that for 30 grand a day.
I could tell people Medicare for all actually costs more.
That's what Jake Tapper did.
He told people it costs more.
Really expensive.
Yeah.
CNN, way to be so awful, you prove Trump right.
That's how awful you are.
This is what's happening, Ron.
This is exactly what's happening.
But I'm sure I'm but this is the news organization that slandered us or smeared us.
This is that.
They're the ones who are going to tell you what's if it's an apple, it's an apple, not a banana.
They're just liars.
And they're bad at it.
They do horrible news anyway.
And, you know, they're for every war.
They're lying to you that Medicare doesn't save money.
They're lying to you about one of the biggest issues in the world.
They never cover climate change.
Why?
Because they're sponsored by fossil fuel companies.
They haven't found a guy to call yet.
Once they find someone to call.
Hey, is there an app that covers climate change?
Maybe we can outsource.
We hooked up with factcheck.org.
Is there like climatecheck.org?
We could have them do our work for us because I don't know how to do climate change stories.
Wow.
Two years later, here we are.
Okay, that was fantastic.
That was going to be it.
Isn't it something?
It's like every week you hear, this is it.
We got him.
Oh, and now you know why people get their news from YouTube.
Uh-oh, it's Master of the Senate, Chuck Schumer.
Hello.
Yes, it is I, Master of the Senate.
Strange visitor from a gated community.
came to Congress with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men?
Hello, Senator.
How you holding up after John McCain's death?
Why?
The guy always looks so healthy to me.
So unexpected.
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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