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Hello, this is Jimmy.
Who's calling?
Why, it's Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, Jimmy.
How are you this fine day?
I'm doing well, Senator.
How about yourself?
Couldn't be better, Jims.
Couldn't be better.
And why is that?
Have you seen how all our little baby Democrats are growing up?
Have you seen?
Yes.
They've made it through their tumultuous progressive adolescence and are settling into a centrist adulthood.
The cycle of political life, Jimmy, isn't it beautiful?
Not from where I'm standing, it's not.
I mean, actually, getting elected has an effect on a person.
You start to feel pressure in ways that you haven't before.
And if we Democrats know one thing, it's how to apply pressure.
I see.
Jimmy, you have these dull-eyed idealists, ignorant of the true ways of the world, let alone the cutthroat world of American politics.
I mean, get real here.
And, of course, much of their motivation is genuinely admirable.
I gotta hand it to them.
Okay.
Take Alexandria, for example.
Ocasio-Cortez?
Well, yes, of course.
To me, she's just Alexandria.
I see.
Getting on a chummy first-name basis is the first step to passively, aggressively pushing people around.
I don't know if you know that or not.
Oh, boy.
So take Alexandria.
Please, she's a giant headache.
I kid, I kid.
No, but Alexandria had all these progressive sugar plum fairies dancing around in her head, like single payer, no wars.
Fully funded public universities?
Yes.
Justice system reform?
Exactly.
Shit like that.
And you gotta say to these younglings, yeah, and I want a pony.
I mean, I do own a stable of horses upstate, but you understand my point.
Of course, of course.
All of these notions are well and good, but we need to actually win elections.
And once that happens, we actually need to pass legislation.
But Ocasio-Cortez won her primary against an incumbent Democrat.
Ah, but she hasn't won the general election yet.
She's the presumed winner.
It's a blue district, Chuck.
Not with that platform, she's not.
The progressive platform spooks regular voters.
They hear socialism and they think communism.
It's unwinnable.
And blue is our color.
They don't get to just hijack blue.
She beat a Democratic incumbent with that very platform.
Senator Schumer, even you have to know that the progressive agenda does very well with voters once they understand what it is.
Oh, fiddlesticks.
I don't have to know anything.
I'm the master of the Senate for crying out loud.
But all this is besides the point.
Did you see Jimmy?
Did you see her endorse Governor Cuomo?
Yes.
For nothing in return?
Yes.
Nothing.
Because she knows now.
She understands.
They all understand.
If they want that capital at a D after their name, if they want that big D, they're going to have to beg for it.
They're going to have to want it.
This is disgusting.
One by one, they will give in to their greed, their lust, their hate.
They will turn to the middle side.
Tell me, Jimmy, if instead of progressives caving to the centrist Democrat line, progressives actually made the Democratic Party more progressive, what would you do?
Well, I'd probably not be on the verge of a brain aneurysm all the time.
Ah, but what about your show?
What would you talk about?
Join the Legion of Trump is bad, and I'm a good boy for saying that.
Political comedy act?
I hope I wouldn't.
No, you'd be wandering the comedy desert for 40 years.
We're doing you a favor.
You should be thanking us.
And we're going to keep you in business, baby.
Because remember, we're the Democratic Party, also a party of business.
Give me a break, Chuck.
A tax break?
Maybe if you're in the top 1% and the Republicans tell us to, maybe.
But until then, remember the Democratic Party, the centrists.
We are looking out for you.
Okay, good talk.
I'm going to go upstate and play with my ponies.
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Well, Kavanaugh is having his hearings now.
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Andrew Cuomo flips off progressives and Alexandria Casio-Cortez endorses Cuomo.
Plus, Jeremy Corbin attacks bankers and is smeared as an anti-semite.
New study: higher minimum wage boosts pay without reducing jobs.
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So now everybody knows who this guy is.
This is Corey Booker.
His name is Corey Booker, and Big Pharma paid him a bunch of money to vote against lowering drug profit margins.
And what he did specifically was vote against Bernie's bill that would have made it legal, make it legal, make it okay for us to re-import drugs from Canada.
So it's the same drugs.
They're way cheaper in Canada, A, because they actually negotiate with the pharmaceuticals, unlike us.
And so Corey Booker was paid off by the big pharma to vote against that.
So he did.
Senator Corey Booker of New Jersey takes a lot of money from a lot of this is from Open Secrets.
You see all the money he takes from people, right?
Lawyers and law firms, $2 million.
Securities and investments, $2.5 million.
Real estate, $1.5 million.
TV, movies, business services.
So insurance, pro-Israel PACs, half a million.
Pharmaceuticals and health.
There it is.
$419,000.
Internet lobbyists, $417.
So that's why he votes the way he does.
And then Andrew Gillum, who just won the Democratic primary for governor in Florida, who was endorsed by Bernie, who said he was for single-payer, right?
He was.
He campaigned on single-payer.
And well, here he is with Corey Booker.
Watch this.
Hey, it's Corey Booker and Andrew Gillum from the great state of Florida.
And listen, I'm a Jersey boy, but I love Florida.
And I want to say this is in the name of love.
I'm asking everybody out there to support Andrew.
In the name of love.
In the name of love, Corey Booker is asking you to support.
In the name of love.
Not in the name of self-promotion.
Go ahead.
Bono's a neoliberal, too.
So really, Corey's just making connections.
This is awesome.
In the name for love, not for me trying to hook myself to the new popular progressive because it looks too transparent when I try to do it with Bernie.
Looks too obvious when I try to do it Bernie.
So now I'm going to hook myself to this guy.
And we're both dressed exactly the same.
Maybe you guys will think we're the same.
So that's what Corey Booker is doing.
Let's see.
There's more.
Over the country trying to help with this midterm, but I'm going to tell you right now, when it comes to priorities, Andrew is at the top of my list because his election will change not just Florida for the better, but will change America.
Come on.
I just, don't you?
You know, he's going to try and sell you a used car after this, right?
You know that.
That's what's coming.
Jimmy, you're losing money if you don't.
Let's play a little more, play a little more of it.
Yeah.
Well, talk.
We got to get some action going, right?
That's right.
What do we need him to do?
We need you to go and visit us at AndrewGillum.com.
Give a contribution.
If you're a Floridian, get registered to vote.
We've got to vote like our lives depend on it because, in fact, our lives do depend on who the next governor is of the state of Florida.
I'm proud to have this man's support.
And with your help, we're going to bring home a win on November 6th.
So there is an urgency here.
Please don't even take a moment after you see this video.
Please do it now.
Do it now.
Give it a little thank.
Do it now.
And do me a favor.
Share the video to a friend to get them to do it because that is it.
The power of the people is greater than the people in power.
And do me another favor.
Sign up for this credit card.
It gives you the most points of any credit card.
And they give 1% of their profits back to charity.
That's why I'm supporting Capital One.
I'm Corey Booker.
It does sound like he's about to sell you a credit card, right?
Yeah.
Big time.
The power of the people is greater than the people in power, says the guy who's been sucking the people in power off for the last his whole life.
Just a little bit.
He said he owed Betsy DeVos and her organization his political career.
That's who he is.
Say it again?
He said what?
Yeah, he said that.
Yeah.
That Betsy DeVos and her organization, he owed them his political career.
Yeah.
Did he get a yacht out of it?
I don't know what he got out of it.
He got campaign money.
And so I get that Gillum is a Democrat and so is he a Democrat.
Except you're supposed to be a progressive and this guy is the thing you're supposed to be revolting against.
Corey Booker is supposed to be the thing you're revolting against.
So do you see the problem these Democrats get in?
They have to break themselves into pretzels, have to twist themselves into pretzels to go along.
So what Gillum's doing there is twisting himself into a pretzel to say he's proud to have the biggest tool, corporate tool or one of the biggest corporate tools in the Senate, endorse him.
By the way, Corey Booker, this is what a cheap used car salesman Corey Booker is.
He said he's not going to take any more corporate PAC money.
Remember that?
He said because he's taken enough already, but he's going to leave the window door open to taking it again in the future.
Well, that's what they all did.
I mean, that was a nice little head fake.
They're saying it when it's politically convenient for them.
And then when it gets closer to 2020, they're going to say, but Trump and start taking it again.
There's all the potential frontrunners that did that.
Corey Booker, Mala Harris.
And they're going to go, well, we got to be.
We can't show up with a spoon to a night fight.
All that stuff.
That's exactly what's going to happen.
Yeah.
So they're right back in bed.
So the establishment and the donors are happy.
They're happy to see this.
They're happy to see, oh, so Corey Booker is going to help him get his mind right.
Going to get him back into the fold, just like they did, just like they're doing to everybody.
Just like they did to Bernie, Brock.
They're doing now.
They're getting everybody.
Listen, Andrew, I know you want to be on the inside, but I tell you, single payer is not lit, Okay.
So let's see if there's any more of this.
And so please, let's show some people power.
Change Florida.
The fact that this is the guy saying people power, the guy who has stood in the way of people his entire career, this guy, and he's sitting, standing there.
It's just like, dude, I get you have to be friendly with the other Democrats, but you don't have to do this.
And then he tweets it out.
Disgusting.
Which makes me suspicious of this guy.
Like he doesn't, like, politics is all about perception.
And he doesn't, he doesn't know that this is not the best.
What do you think?
I'm going to throw it over to my panel.
What do you think?
Well, come on.
You know, every time I hear the names that they're throwing for a 2020 presidential election and Corey Booker is one of them, I say, why?
But what about this relationship here?
That's what I'm saying.
I think it just sullies his relationship.
Kill him.
I mean, like, that's the person that you want to be endorsing you.
And like, Jimmy, I agree 100% when you say these Democrats have to twist themselves into a pretzel to be able to like compromise.
And like the Democratic Party is awful.
And I don't want Corey Booker helping me in my campaign.
If they get friendship bracelets, I might change my mind, though.
I mean, who doesn't love those?
I hear you.
I hear you.
So it's just, it's just weird to have a guy who does a commercial like this.
What sits beneath our names is a healthcare system that works for everybody.
Our teachers who need to get paid with their worth.
So Corey Booker is for privatizing education and charter schools, and he stood in the way of the pharmaceutical reform.
But he's your best buddy.
First two things he says in his promotional video is a healthcare system that works for everybody and teachers getting paid.
And Corey Booker's the opposite of those two things.
So this is what I mean about them twisting themselves in the pretzel.
Kids who need an opportunity that should not be defined by their zip code where they live or what's not on the track they grow up on.
The politics of hope and aspiration and inspiration and opportunity still lives and it lives right here in the state of Florida.
Let's bring it home.
So that's his, so there you go.
So that guy is palling around with this guy.
It's just gross.
It's very stomach turning.
Instead of sitting there, you know, instead of saying, hey, these are the guys, I have to be willing to make some enemies inside the party to reform it.
Or I have to be willing to have some tough conversations.
But this is just a, I mean, if you, this is politics, right?
So they both think this is good for both of them.
So Gillum thinks it's good for him to be seen with a corporatist-centrist sellout.
And he thinks it's good to be seen with someone who's perceived as a true progressive.
So that's what this is.
This isn't about them actually being buddies.
Well, and what's interesting, too, to me is that if it was influence going the other way, meaning Corey Booker is being influenced by Gillum and Gillum is actually pulling Booker to the left.
Right.
I wouldn't have that much of a problem with it.
I'd actually be like, good.
That's cool.
Correct.
But that's not the way it's going.
And that's never the way it goes.
Andrew Gillum was a proponent for single payer, but I went to his website right now out of curiosity.
Now he changed his tune.
He's talking about strengthening the ACA.
So the influence goes the other way.
So he's already switched his position on that.
He's already, yeah.
He's watering down his tune already.
And that's why they're such buddy buddies.
This does not look good.
Because somebody's going to get some pharmaceutical money?
Is that what's going to happen?
That's not good.
This is not good.
Isn't that like making a deal with the devil?
He's already switched his position on single payer, Ron.
Really?
I mean, I'm on his website right now.
And yeah, he's talking about strengthening the ACA Act, saying that we didn't, he's going to restore the healthcare security.
So, yeah, he's changing his tune.
Oh.
Ugh.
God damn it.
God damn it.
Well, here it gets even worse.
So here is, remember I was making jokes the other day?
I said, because Cynthia Nixon, who, you know, the New York Times calls Anthony Andrew Cuomo sleazy, lowest form of politics, and then they endorse him.
And I said, Cynthia Nixon, who called him a liar on the debate, quit lying, she told him.
And now I wonder if she's going to, oh, she, is she going to tell all the progressives to vote for the Democrats' version of Trump, which is Andrew Cuomo?
And like, nobody could expect her to do that.
But watch this.
You think it's even worse than that?
You guys ready for this?
Watch this.
What I also look forward to moving forward is us rallying behind all Democratic nominees, including the governor, to make sure that he wins in November.
She's a Democrat, so she has to tell everybody that Andrew Cuomo is the answer.
Do you see what the problem is with progressives trying to take over the Democratic Party?
Do you see the problem?
A, it's never going to happen.
And B, they get co-opted.
What do you, what do you, let me, I don't know.
Am I making too much out of this stuff?
He's already.
That was hard to listen to.
I mean, that was, that 10 seconds was hard to hear.
It really was.
Really?
You couldn't just wait a month?
You couldn't wait until maybe November 1st to throw your support behind this guy.
What's the difference?
No, no, I'm asking you why.
Well, for me, it's like, you know, we were, why do people have to keep endorsing these Democrats that are corporate tools?
Why does she have to hurry up?
No, I'm asking.
What's the difference between now and November 1st?
Well, I was hoping that she would push him without giving support.
So this is exactly right, Steph.
She got nothing for this.
Like Cynthia Nixon, like some people were saying, well, maybe Cynthia Nixon will get Andrew Cuomo to admit or to agree to sign on a single payer if it gets passed and then she'll endorse him.
Or maybe she'll get something and then she'll nothing.
They got nothing from Andrew Cuomo.
Nothing.
Nothing.
They're just going along.
They're falling in line.
People fucking hate Andrew Cup.
Andrew Cuomo is what's wrong with this country.
And the Democrats are serving him up on a hot platter for us.
This isn't intellectually honest.
You're just as bad as Republicans when you do this shit.
This is the Republicans saying you got to vote for Warren Moore.
What is that?
Is that too big of a stretch, Ron?
Is that, tell me the truth if you think.
Isn't that the exact, they're just all falling in line.
Andrew fucking Cuomo, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez?
Are you kidding me?
Yeah, there's this weird thing that's completely backwards.
And I've actually had this conversation with Rowe, and I straight up, Rokana, I straight up said to him, I was just like, they should be bending the knee to you and everybody to your left, not the other way around.
You have the people on your side.
They have the money on yours.
So they should come to you and say, how do we keep our jobs?
If that was what was going on, I'd be okay with things or more okay with things at least.
But it goes the other way around for no reason other than the donors in the power.
Andrew Cuobo, what does he think of Ocasio-Cortez?
And what does he think of progressives?
This is what he thinks.
Andrew Cuomo says progressives waves.
It's not even a ripple.
So he's like this to the progressives.
And what are the progressives do?
Nope.
No problem, sir.
We will endorse you.
Here's what he said.
New York's Democratic governor, Andrew Cuomo, has said the so-called insurgent progressive wave in his party is not even a ripple, arguing that it's pragmatists like him who can get things done who are the true progressives.
He just said Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is not a true progressive.
Bernie Sanders is not a true progressive.
Zephyr Teachout is not a true progress.
Why?
Because they can't get things done like him.
And what does he get done?
He gets done horrible stuff.
That's who Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez just endorsed on freaking television.
He didn't endorse you back.
He's belittling you.
And it's exactly what Ron says.
It always goes the other way.
It's exactly what you said to Rokana.
Why does it always have to go the other way, Ro?
Why does it always go the other way, Ocasio?
Why does it always go the other way?
Why don't they come on bended knee?
You are the people.
No.
We're going to let Corey Booker pretend he's the people.
We're going to let Andrew Cuomo pretend he's the people.
He's flipping you off publicly.
Flipping you off publicly.
And what does she say?
What I also look forward to moving forward is us rallying behind all Democratic nominees, including the governor, to make sure that he wins in November.
I'll be voting Howie Hawkins if I lived in New York.
I'd be voting for the Green Party candidate if I lived in New York and extrapolated or extracted nothing from Andrew Cuomo for this.
Nothing.
He's flipping you off.
Governor discussed his vision of the Democratic Party at a press conference on Friday calling Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's win a fluke.
He just called you a fluke and not a real progressive.
And she's going to, and you're going to rally behind him.
There is no progressive takeover of the Democratic Party.
Do you need any, what the F?
And when Bernie said he was calling for a revolution, he wasn't being truthful.
That was just a gimmick.
Now he's not being truthful.
He won't come on this show and talk about it.
Bernie won't even come on the show.
He'll do any interview with anybody if you said you voted for Hillary.
But if you didn't, Bernie won't come near you.
That's the opposite of political courage.
You know, when he went from filling stadiums, when he decided to back Hillary Clinton, you know, he couldn't fill a gymnasium after that.
That's a fact.
What do these people think they're doing?
How does that help the Democratic Party that you're getting behind someone who's manifestly corrupt?
Who's going to keep the voting?
They kicked all the progressives off the voting rolls again and manifestly corrupt.
How does that help your credibility?
How does that help the Democratic Party to endorse someone who's manifestly corrupt as Andrew Cuomo is and an enemy of the people and progressives?
And he just flipped you off publicly.
He is Trump.
And you can't wait to kiss his ring.
Isn't that gross?
Steph, what do you think?
I'm horrified by this.
You know, we were just talking to a neighbor the other day, and they were saying how they had just received from the DNC or some sort of Democratic supporting group that said, do you miss Hillary?
If Hillary was to run in 2020, would you support her?
And it's like the Democrats are learning nothing.
It's they're pushing us backwards.
We're not getting pushed forward.
And when I see Alexandria say this, I mean, we were talking about this on Thursday night.
Is Cynthia Nixon going to throw her support around?
We were kidding about it.
And we're like, how soon is she going to do this?
Little did I know that Ocasio was Ocasio-Cortez was going to do this.
This Sunday, it was like they couldn't wait.
They couldn't wait.
Get her to say this.
That's right.
Well, you know how you resist Trump by voting for the Democrats who are closest to Trump.
We got anybody like Trump?
Yeah, we got Andrew Cuomo.
Let's all vote for him.
That's all you resist.
Why don't you vote for Joel Lieberman while you're at it?
She couldn't even say his name, by the way.
She didn't even say his name.
For the governor.
Yeah.
She didn't even say his name.
And do you know the DNC what it really stands for?
It stands for destructive non-progressive conditioning.
So I thought Andrew Alexandria Ocasio was no, and Any Blue just won't do.
I saw her with Lena Turner just the other day saying any blue just won't do.
Well, if fucking Andrew Cuomo isn't any blue just won't do.
Who are you talking about?
Andrew, so any blue just won't do until it has to?
Until it has to.
I like the first one better.
Any blue just won't do.
We got to leave it there.
Instead of supporting Democrats wherever they are, why don't you support progressives wherever they are?
That's what we do here.
I bet there's a progressive running in the general election in New York for governor.
I bet there's a progressive who has a Green New Deal, I bet.
God damn.
Anyway.
And additionally on this, weren't there also concerns about voter fraud in New York?
Yeah, there's no concerns.
I've heard no concerns over it again.
Again, the best way to resist Trump and the best way to resist Trump is to blindly support the Democrats most likely to vote with Trump.
I don't want to be a Debbie Downer.
But the progressives need the form of organization outside the Democratic Party.
And Bernie's not leading that.
So we're fucked.
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Hello.
Yeah.
Yeah, what?
Who is this?
This is Jimmy Door.
Harrison, is this Harrison Ford?
Before I answer that question, who are you?
As you know, I, Harrison Ford, take my privacy very seriously.
And before I, Harrison Ford, reveal who I am, I want to know with whom Harrison Ford is speaking.
I just told you, Jimmy Doerr.
Okay, here's a security question.
In 1998, I was ranked the sexiest man alive.
What were you ranked in 1998?
I wasn't ranked anything in 1998.
Correct.
Next security question.
There is a species of ant named after myself, Harrison Ford, in recognition of some kind of work I've carried out over the years.
And I can't remember now.
What is the name of this ant?
You have 10 minutes.
The Harrison Ford ant.
Very good.
But how do I know someone wasn't coaching you?
You'll just have to believe me, I guess.
Sure.
Next security question.
Before I became an actor, I was a carpenter.
But what was I before I became an actor?
A carpenter.
You always seem to have the right answers.
That's very suspicious.
I still don't feel I can trust you.
Well, maybe if you ask me another security question.
Good idea.
What actor is rarely seen by the press unless he absolutely has to be.
Harrison Ford.
Whose Star Wars jacket is expected to fetch up to $1.3 million in an auction next month?
Harrison Ford.
What name does Harrison Ford usually go by in professional circles?
Harrison Ford.
Okay.
Who built his own ranch house and smokes a lot of pot?
Harrison Ford.
Okay.
Who built his own ranch house and smokes a lot of pot?
Just yanking your chain.
The answer is Harrison Ford and Harrison Ford.
Both of those men built their own ranch house and smoke a lot of pot.
No value judgments here.
There's nothing wrong with building your own ranch house.
But it's only a slippery slope to selling your own pasta sauce.
Pilot the tower.
Having difficulty relating to person on the other end of the line.
Request alternate route over.
Relate to him on his level.
Over.
Roger.
So, Jimmy, is it Hans Solo or Hans Solo?
Just me.
Mayday, Mayday.
I'm getting too old and we're going to need a bigger boat for this shit.
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Hey, new study about the minimum wage.
Higher minimum wage boosts pay without reducing job study says, huh?
Wait a minute.
I thought when you increase the minimum wage, that that hurts.
Who does that hurt?
That hurts the people that they got to get machines to do.
You got to get a robot.
Minimum wage increases in six U.S. cities boosted worker pay without harming job growth, according to a study released Thursday by the University of California at Berkeley.
Hmm.
In the food service industry, a major employer of low-wage workers, a 10% increase in minimum pay increased the average weekly earnings 1.3% to 2.5% on average across the six cities, the authors found.
So it didn't lower their pay, raise their pay.
They found no significant negative employment effects.
Instead, they estimated that the impact on jobs at between 0.3% reduction and a 1.1% gain.
That raising, so they found that raising the minimum wage could actually gain you 1.1% job, actually could gain you jobs.
I'm guessing because the money you give minimum wage workers goes right back into the economy, they spend that money.
So that maybe creates new jobs.
As opposed to an estate tax where that money doesn't get spent in the economy, that money goes into an offshore account or it goes into a bank and it sits there.
With a substantial number of additional cities and states poised to soon enact similar policies, a large portion of the United States labor market will be held to a higher wage standard than has been typical over the past 50 years.
As a result, they estimate such policies will increase pay directly for 15% to 30% of the workforce in cities raising their minimums and as much as 50% of the workforce in some industries and regions.
So directly, some people will, 15% to 30% of people will directly see.
But the ancillary effect of that is that 50% of the workforce in some industries and regions, so you directly raise 15% to 30% of the people's pay, but 50% of the people's pay actually gets risen or raised.
By contrast, they said the federal and state minimum wage increases between 1984 and 2014 increased paidly for less than 8% of the applicable workforce.
The findings contrast because they did a, remember they did a study about Seattle and they go, oh, Seattle's $15 minimum wage hurt everybody.
Well, these findings contrast with a study by University of Washington economists last year that estimated Seattle's $13 minimum wage reduced hours worked in low-wage jobs.
So that's what they said last year, that, oh, when we raise the minimum wage, the minimum wage workers got less hours.
That's what that study last year said, but this study contradicts it, saying the Berkeley economists suggest that Washington's, the Washington study, failed to account for a Seattle-area employment boom at the time that led to workers moving from low-wage to higher-wage jobs.
So there you go.
Every study I've ever seen about the minimum wage talks about the benefits it has to an economy because all that money goes back into the economy.
When Trump just gave this trillion dollar tax cut, that money doesn't go back into the economy.
But when you raise the minimum wage, that money does go back into the economy and helps everybody.
So let me throw it over to my panel.
Not surprised, right?
Not surprised at all.
I mean, every single argument against living wages is so easily debunkable that it's almost laughable at this point.
Well, if we give everyone living wages, my Big Mac's going to be $20.
No, it's not going to be because when the price of gasoline goes up, the price of your big man doesn't go up.
It'll just be adjusted elsewhere.
That's totally not true.
And besides, the CEO is making about $475 to one, the average worker.
We could change that a little bit.
Oh, well, it's meant for people that are just working part-time, like kids in school.
No, that's not true.
The point of a minimum wage is to be a living wage.
And most of the people working these jobs are trying to support families.
I mean, the list goes on and on.
We could just go on.
And it's just.
I love how people say that to your point, Ron.
People go, it's not supposed to be a job where you raise kids.
McDonald's.
It's just for high school kids.
Oh, really?
Then why is McDonald's open during school hours?
Who's working there then?
Dropouts.
You know, when we see anything about the minimum wage, that it has to be a livable wage.
And what we find out that $20 an hour still isn't a livable wage.
I think we were talking to economists that recommended at least $22 an hour would be more commensurate with what somebody should be paid.
And I just think, like, a person who's earning an hourly wage, that money is going to go directly back into the economy.
And that's what is necessary to rebuild our economy.
And I just sit here and I think, oh, it's like slave labor that we're having people work at $7 an hour.
And if they're making food, they're providing a really important job.
So to me, they should be paid.
They should be paid a livable wage.
And that livable wage should be attached to the cost of living.
And there should be affordable housing.
I mean, there's so many things that go into this.
Right.
A minimum wage, like Ron says, supposed to be a living wage.
We're supposed to give people a living wage in the richest country in the world.
You're not supposed to work for poverty wages at the richest economy in the history of the world.
But that is how we're doing it now.
And everyone thinks, well, if you don't like it, go to school, work harder.
Well, it turns out everybody is.
Everyone did go to school, did work harder, and everybody's making less money.
We have the biggest income inequality this country has ever seen, bigger than the Gilded Age.
We got to go back to the age of Pharaohs to see income inequality bigger than we're seeing right now.
So the last time we saw this, Teddy Roosevelt broke up all the big companies.
So somebody should come in and break up Amazon, break up Facebook, break up the banks, break up the defense contractors, stop the wars, and put all the money back in the economy.
That's what's needed.
That's called a revolution.
And that's what needs to happen.
And it's not happening.
Bernie Sanders now wants you to go, well, play along with Chuck Schuma.
We'll go with Chuck Schuma and Andrew Cuomo and Nancy Pelosi, who already said she's going to do pay go, which guarantees no progressive action could ever happen as long as she's the leader.
Let's go, let's go with them.
Let's stay with them.
It's a dishonest thing for people to say they're going to take over the Democratic Party.
That is dishonest.
Do you think that is honest?
That people really think they're going to take over the fucking Democratic Party by telling them to vote for Nancy Pelosi and Andrew Cuomo.
That's how you take over?
Anyway, I'm getting off on a different topic.
We're talking about, hey, the Democrats, are they pushing for a living wage?
Do you see them at the top of their lungs?
Every Adam Schiff, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, they're always screaming about a living wage.
Oh, no, they're not.
Well, no, and there's the connection right there.
They're not talking about living wages.
And as Steph pointed out, if wages would have kept up with inflation, we would likely be over $20 an hour.
So the fight for 15, which I am in support of, but even the fight for 15 is not asking for what we actually deserve.
And they can't even come to that.
They're saying that's not incremental enough.
So they're not for living wages at all.
So that's what the Democrats should be screaming about.
That's how you oppose Trump.
You oppose him with an alternative plan that people are attracted to that excites voters.
That's how you oppose Trump.
You don't oppose Trump with something that makes, that turns people off, screaming Russia.
And that's what that's what they're doing.
And you know why?
Because they don't have a plan.
Why?
Because they're bought.
Bernie knows how much they're bought.
That's why he ran for president in the first place because they're all bought and people needed an alternative.
So.
I mean, Jimmy, we were listening to Chris Hedge's book.
Yes.
Is it Farewell?
America the Farewell Tour.
Right.
America the Farewell Tour.
And they were talking about these cities that were just shells of themselves because the industry, the car industry went away.
So these entire cities and these entire towns are decimated economically because they no longer have the factories.
So it's like, that's our, we were talking about how that's our model.
That's our economic model.
Our capitalists are going to is at the whim of a capitalist.
If a capitalist can make a nickel more by taking his company that employs the whole town and moves it to Mexico, that's what happens and your town is shit out of luck.
That's the way we're organizing our economy at the whims of capitalists.
Yes.
Yes.
And people say, well, the market's perfect.
And the market, no, the market's brutal and it serves a handful of people.
That's the criticism of capitalism.
And it's correct.
It's accurate.
I think the invisible hand is going to lift all those people out of poverty any day now.
Here we are, the richest country in the world, and half the country is poor or low income in America.
That's a failed system.
That's a failed system.
And why is it failed so hard?
Because our government is bought by corporations.
And the people who are supposed to tell you about that are also bought by those same corporations.
The New York Times, The Washington Post is owned by Jeff Bezos.
He's the guy you're supposed to be resisting.
He's the guy we're supposed to be revolting against.
He owns the goddamn media, the Comcast.
They don't want you to have net neutrality.
They own MSNBC.
If you're against the war, you get fired from MSNBC.
This is the problem.
This is why we need a revolution.
And this is why Bernie missed his moment and is failing hard.
Hard.
If Bernie gets elected president, he's still going to have a freaking house full of Nancy Pelosis and a Senate full of Chuck Schumers.
Gillum, the guy in Florida, he already switched on single payer.
He's back to, he's now, he's going along with the corporate Democrats pushing for the ACA reform.
And we already have it rigged because if I go and protest, then the police are going to bash my head in and there's going to be no consequence.
And if there is and we file a lawsuit against that police force, who's going to pay for it?
The police force?
No, the people.
That's right.
So, you know, what started Occupy was when people were protesting in New York City and the white shirt Lieutenant Anthony Bologna decided to pepper spray some women for absolutely no reason right in their face.
And the cops all stood around and watched him do it.
All these grown big men watched another guy brutalize women, chemically assault them, and they didn't do a goddamn thing about it.
There's your good guys.
That's cop mentality, by the way.
I just want to add to a couple years ago in California, the grocery stores, they were thinking about going on strike to improve their wage.
And I heard repeatedly, well, I don't make that much, and I don't get health care.
Why should they?
And that's the problem.
Instead of thinking, wow, if the workers at Ralph's can make a breakthrough and get a living wage and get some benefits, maybe I can do the same thing where I work.
Instead, people buy into the propaganda of being split with their co-workers, worker against worker.
Why should they get that?
I don't get it.
So instead of wanting to lift everybody up, they want to drag people down to their level, which is exactly what the capitalists want.
You should be in solidarity with your workers.
But you're right.
That's how dumb Americans are.
They'll vote for fucking politicians who are going to take their right to unionize away.
Look what they just did in Michigan and Wisconsin.
And look at the South.
They vote against their own interests all the time.
And like Ron says, right to work means right to exploit you.
But people are easily manipulated.
Why?
Because we don't have a meeting.
And I'm not blaming those voters.
Those voters are manipulated by the press.
And the press is owned by the people who want to take their union away.
And I stand with the teachers that want to go on strike to get better wages and better environment for their students.
Because when a teacher goes on strike, they're striking on behalf of the students.
And don't listen to the bullshit that the school district will say that they don't care about the children.
Guess what?
Teachers have children too that are going to those same districts, by the way.
And additionally, we stand with the hotel workers right now that are going on strike in Chicago because all these people are sticking their chins out in this bleak economy to rise to help their families.
It takes a lot of courage right now.
It does.
And that's how they want us.
They all want us one illness away from bankruptcy so you can never strike.
That's how they want us, Ron.
And to just put a little bit of like, you know, kind of insert some positivity, like reasons to be a little optimistic.
We are seeing more striking than we've seen in years.
And there's probably a lot we're not even hearing about.
There was a prison strike.
There's a prison strike going on.
There's the strike in Chicago.
There's the strike at Sunmade Raisins.
There's a couple other strikes going on right here in California.
And I think people are finally catching on on what right to work really is too.
Because in Missouri, they shot it down by a huge margin.
That is a positive name.
They shot what down in Missouri?
Right to work.
Right to work was on the ballot.
They shut it down.
They did.
Yep.
They shot it down in Missouri.
Even minimum wage when it's on the ballot in Missouri helps.
People come out and vote for the minimum wage.
So Missouri, which is considered the southern state, that's great to see them stand up and give the and stand up for unions, which is what that is, right?
Yeah.
Well, that's one way to fight against the brutalities of capitalism is to have a strong union.
And if we had strong unions and a strong social safety net and lots of social programs like FDR talked about and a workers' bill of rights and all that stuff, we would have a much better form of capitalism.
Capitalism, Marx predicted all the shit that's happening right now, all people treading water in America going bankrupt.
80% of workers living paycheck to paycheck.
And then the cities with their tax base hollowed out are now privatizing all their services.
That was predicted by Marx.
That capitalism would eat the very foundation that supports it, which is what's happening.
Look at Chicago.
They're privatizing schools, parking meters, sewer systems, which is the opposite of what we should do.
Should we privatize the fire department?
Should we privatize the police department?
Okay.
So, by the way, point of this story: minimum wage, good for everybody.
Higher minimum wage, good for everybody.
George Clooney's on the line.
Hello.
The key to being a good director is ensuring that you are working with a good script.
Thanks for that tip.
Of course, you could get a good script and fuck it up completely.
I mean, you know what I mean?
Yeah, has that ever happened to you?
Oh, hell no.
Anyway, who is this?
It's me.
It's Jimmy Dore.
Oh, hey, pal.
Clooney here.
The cloonmeister, Johnny on the spot.
Hope your morning's been cluntastic for you, Sport.
Seriously, how's life in the cash-only land, babes?
Hi, George.
You probably heard the news about me and Amal, right?
I guess it was bound to come out sooner or later.
No, I haven't heard anything yet.
What happened?
We're more in love than ever before.
Oh, that's great.
And frankly, the kids, Stacey and Ock Notton, are so well adjusted that I was thinking about introducing them to Stanislavski and then probably real estate.
Well, that's nice to hear.
What have you been doing lately?
Not much.
Been kind of slow going.
I've been hanging around in cafes a lot.
Hanging out in cafes.
Why?
So I can loudly use the word leverage.
Leverage?
Leverage.
Leverage.
It's a term you use when you need a wedge to shift creative weight from one journey to the next.
Solan Campbell's the hero with a thousand faces.
Get with him, Sport.
Hey, I saw something so inspiring, so moving, so transformational.
I just had to share it with you.
Are you ready?
Wow, of course.
Buckle the fuck up.
There's this miracle kid in Missouri, and he skewered his head with this big meat skewer.
Wild, like his head was a big meatball.
Only it wasn't.
It was his head.
Is he okay?
Oh, yeah, sure.
I went through all the unimportant parts.
And when you're that young, you can grow back a lot of stuff, like your personality and your ability to empathize with living things, stuff like that.
Can you imagine if that happened to you?
Who knows what I'd be as a result?
Would I still recognize a mall for the gazelle-like creature she is?
Would the twins still eat like moose?
But I still make $27,000 an hour.
These are all important questions.
Cut to the chase.
Have you seen a video of that big dog feeding carrots to three rabbits and a piglet?
No.
Oh, yeah.
A big dog is feeding these carrots to these three rabbits and piglet.
It's like nature.
Pristine, innocent, untouched by man.
Of course, the dog's mouth was wired shut.
I'm sure the rabbits were drugged.
But that's how things get done in show business, right?
Don't know about the piglet.
Perhaps the dog or the piglet can be friends.
I don't know.
Life ain't no easy bake oven, Jims.
I was in Ravenna, Italy.
Guess what?
I like to sit in cafes and loudly say the word leverage.
Hear about my scary scooter crash.
I had a scary scooter crash.
Say that real fast three times in a row.
Scary scooter crash, scary scooter crash, scary scooter crash.
Loses all meaning.
leverage.
*Dramatic Music*
Jeremy Corbyn tweeted this out about the banks.
And this is awesome.
Watch this.
Bankers like Morgan Stanley should not run our country.
But they think they do.
Because the party they fund and protects their interests, the Conservative Party, is in Downing Street.
That's why they want to keep the Tories there.
Their rigged economy and their tax cuts for the richest work for them.
These are the same speculators and gamblers who crashed our economy in 2008.
And then we had to bail them out.
Their greed plunged the world into crisis, and we're still paying the price.
Because the Tories used the aftermath of the financial crisis to push through unnecessary and deeply damaging austerity.
That's meant a crisis in our public services, wages, and the longest decline in living standards for over 60 years.
Nurses, teachers, shop workers, builders, well, just about everyone is finding it harder to get by.
Well, Morgan Stanley's CEO paid himself £21.5 million last year, and UK banks paid out £15 billion in bonuses.
Labor is a growing movement of well over half a million members and a government in waiting that will work for the many.
So when they say we're a threat, they're right.
We're a threat to a ding and failed system that's rigged for you.
That's pretty powerful stuff.
They're a threat.
Bankers like Morgan.
They're a threat to a rig.
So bankers like Morgan Stanley should not run our country.
First thing he said.
Now here comes the Smears.
They've been really working overtime.
You know how they called Bernie a sexist and a racist?
They're really because they couldn't call him an anti-Semite because he's Bernie.
But Jeremy Corbin.
So this was caught by Joe Catrone.
He caught, he goes, how can editors at the Chronicle, a London publication, and the Forward, a New York publication, be imbeciles in exactly the same way?
This has to be a setup, right?
Seems like it.
Well, here's what she tweeted out.
Just say the Jews, man.
After that video, she tweets out just say the Jews.
So they're trying to pretend like he's dog whistling, saying that the Jews should not run our country, which he said, Morgan Stanley.
He said bankers.
So now if you're against banks, you're somehow anti-Semitic, which shows what she really thinks about bankers.
Not him.
Her.
This is called projection.
Same thing with this dildo.
Stephan Pollard doesn't even have the ball to call himself Stephen.
Stephan Pollard.
Been hesitating to tweet this because I keep thinking it can't be.
Surely it can't be.
But the more I think about it, the more it seems it really is.
This is nudge-nudge.
You know who I'm talking about, don't you?
And yes, I do.
It's appalling.
So you're appalled, but you still, I'm appalled, but I'm hesitating.
What a passive-aggressive tweet.
That's well, it's a book.
That's how you know he's bullshitting.
That's how you know he's bullshitting and just smearing a guy that he doesn't like because his tweet doesn't make any fucking sense.
So what he's you think it's appalling, but you hesitated.
You kept hesitating.
Okay, but you think it's appalling.
Why would you hesitate?
The guy is being an appalling anti-Semite.
I'm hesitating.
You're a liar.
You know, and we only get like his headshot here, but I bet if they showed his arms, he would be clutching pearls in that photo.
Oh, this guy is.
Stephanie.
Steph, you wanted to say?
Well, the whole idea that if you have any kind of, you don't like the banks, you're doing a nudge nudge.
Come on.
How much have the banks stolen from the people?
Steph, this is them just trying to smear a guy, and here it is.
This is the CNN calling us conspiracy theorists because we debunked the Syrian war.
That's what this is.
They got nothing.
Because that video, what he said is exactly 100% accurate.
That video is 100% accurate.
So they can't actually talk about the facts he's referring to in the video.
So they have to pretend like he's saying something he isn't.
Which is, you know, that's exactly what the establishment does.
Wow.
Can you imagine being that guy?
And like.
Both of those people don't even care what they've taken away from the people.
Right.
And what, right?
And what they also don't care about is now that they're completely devaluing what the term anti-Semite.
So now if you say Jeremy Corbyn standing up against the banks makes him an anti-Semite, well, now anti-Semite isn't that bad of a thing.
Just like when you call Bernie a sexist and then Trump a sexist, well, I guess it's not so bad if Trump is a sexist, if Bernie's a sexist.
So this is called the boy who cried wolf.
So when you call him an anti-Semite, now when an actual anti-Semite shows up, no one's going to listen to you.
Yeah.
So when you call Bernie Sanders a sexist and then when an actual sexist shows up, no one's going to listen to you, which is why you guys lost.
So here it is again.
This is really gross.
This anti-Semitism smears their throat.
And, you know, it's just disgusting.
Isn't it?
I mean, come on.
Yeah, I mean, it is, it is the laziest of interpretations I've ever seen.
And I don't know how these people can actually believe.
I mean, I think it is disingenuous.
But it's not lazy.
There's no way they actually believe it.
So it's not lazy.
It's not lazy, Ron.
They're actually working overtime to try to do mental gymnastics to figure out a way to call him an anti-Semite.
So it's not lazy.
It's just despicable.
Yeah, I mean, I guess what I was getting at is I feel like there's no way they actually believe that.
Right.
You know, like.
And if there isn't, and if they don't actually believe it and they call someone an anti-Semite anyway, what does that make them?
That makes them despicable.
Okay.
I had to walk you through that one, but I'm glad to do it.
Steph, do you have anything else to say about this?
I don't.
I'm done.
This is unbelievable.
But this is what they do to progressives.
When you're a progressive, they'll call you every.
I've been called this, I've been called a sexist.
I've been called a racist.
Me.
I've been called a racist.
Because I'm against war.
I've also been called a racist.
Yeah, I'm actually afraid to weigh in on this, afraid that somebody's going to call me an anti-Semite.
Right?
Yeah.
Okay.
I'm against the bankers, too.
My caller ID says it's the good old days.
It must be Jeff Sessions.
How do you do, Mr. Door?
The Honorable Jeff Sessions at your service, sir.
Mr. Sessions, as Attorney General, are you looking into Judge Kavanaugh and that attempted rape allegation?
Let me say this unequivocally.
If anybody tried to rape Judge Kavanaugh, my office will find the perpetrator and persecute them to within the fullest extent of the law that existed in 1862.
Hey, we don't have time to get the rest of that phone call in today's Radio show.
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Ah, you be the best you can be, and I'll keep being me.
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I'm not kidding.
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