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	Get ready for an outstanding entertainment program.
	The Jimmy Dore Show.
	Chuck Schumer's on the line.
	Hey, Chuck.
	Hello.
	Hello, everybody.
	It is I, or me, Jazz Chuck Schumer, master of the Senate and the Jazz Oboe.
	Not many people know that about me there.
	There is a lighter side to the master of the Senate, part of my personality.
	For though I am still master of the Senate, I am underneath a mere mortal man.
	man man Who likes how the oboe swings, Daddy O. Now ask me a question, anything.
	The oboe swings.
	The Texas Supreme Court just ruled Obamacare is illegal.
	Are you finally going to support Medicare for all, Chuck?
	Jimmy, I've said this on television, and I shall say it again.
	There are lots of different routes to a universal health care system.
	There, I said it.
	Are you happy?
	So is that a yes or a no?
	Look, I'm going to get in trouble for saying this out loud, but the time has come.
	Democrats are for universal access to health care from one end of the party to the other.
	There.
	I am totally exhausted, but it had to be said.
	And if this means some big insurance guy is going to look askance at me for saying it, then let the cards fall where they may.
	We want more people covered, and we want better health care at a lower cost.
	Isn't the lowest cost single payer?
	Yes, Jimmy.
	People have different views as how to get there.
	Yeah, but the view with the least cost and the most coverage is single payer, Chuck.
	Many are for Medicare for all, some are for Medicare buy-in, some are for Medicare over 55, some are Medicaid buy-in, some are public options, and some are for physical torture and medical bankruptcy.
	We must respect every direction this debate may take us.
	Well, the cheapest is Bernie Sanders' Medicare for All plan.
	Yes, it's all just so complicated, isn't it?
	No.
	No, not really, Chuck.
	There are just so many variables and so many ways to give Americans the good quality health care they deserve while taking all their money and leaving them destitute.
	But Medicare for all would save us over $2 trillion over the next 10 years.
	I'm going to support a plan that can pass and that can provide the best, cheapest health care for all Americans.
	What do you have to say to the millions of families across America who are now in danger of losing their health coverage?
	I pledge to them this, that I will fight with every fiber of my being to take a swift action to continue their access to deductibles they can never afford.
	What swift action?
	Batting your hatches, Jimmy, because in the next month or so, we are going to intervene.
	And you'll never guess what we're going to intervene with.
	An announcement that you and Pelosi have organized a strong base to support Medicare for all?
	Close, very close.
	We're going to file a lawsuit to protect Romney Care.
	A lawsuit.
	I know, right?
	I can see the t-shirts now.
	Nevertheless, he intervened.
	Oh, my.
	I am spent.
	It's the Jimmy Dore Show.
	The show for...
	The kind of people that are...
	It's the show that makes Anderson Cooper save.
	It's hard to talk to you, T-Vale.
	And now, here's a guy who sounds a lot like me.
	It's Jimmy Dore.
	Hey, everybody, welcome to this week's Jimmy Dore show.
	We'll see you February 1st.
	That's our next live Jimmy Door show.
	It's a Friday night in Burbank, California.
	Go to JimmyDoorComedy.com for a link for tickets.
	Now let's get to the jokes before we get to the jokes, shall we?
	Did you hear Chris Christie did not get chosen as the White House chief of staff, did not get chosen.
	But he says he hasn't ruled out accepting other White House posts if offered, but he prefers to block that bridge when he comes to it.
	Hey, did you hear Sarah Huckabee Sanders did a 10-minute briefing the other day?
	That's pretty short.
	I guess she wanted to make like a future Trump Foundation check and bounce.
	Come on.
	Did you hear Chuck Schumer deflect on Medicare for All again?
	Can't get behind Medicare for All.
	Chuck Schumer is so scared of Medicare for All, you'd think it was eye contact.
	I might be quitting doing this show soon because I've just pitched a new series to Netflix.
	It's called God Muted Me.
	Oh, I love that MSNBC.
	I love it.
	The progressives they put on that channel.
	I totally trust that Joe Scarborough, who cheered on the Iraq war, Chris Matthews, who chaired on the Iraq war, Nicole Wallace, who chaired on the Iraq war, and Bill Crystal, who effing started the Iraq war, will all give me the progressive take I crave on MSNBC.
	And I don't know how people are going to take this, but I simply refuse to believe anyone is passionate about their political beliefs unless I see them send back their avocado toasts.
	Hey, what's coming up on today's show?
	Hey, Trump says we're pulling out of Syria.
	Syria plus new report out.
	Russia targeted African Americans on social media.
	So they had no idea that they were voting for Russia.
	Plus, we got phone calls today from Mitt Romney, Chuck Schumer, and Chris Christie, plus a lot, lot more.
	Whoa, plus, we got holiday greetings from Vince Vaughan and Al Pacino, plus a lot, lot more.
	That's today on the Jimmy Door Show.
	Hi, everybody.
	Welcome to the Jimmy Dore Show.
	I'm here with the miserable liberal and Ron Placone.
	Hey, Jimmy.
	Hello.
	Big news.
	Trump orders U.S. troops to leave Syria as White House declares victory over ISIS there.
	That's from December 19th.
	That's today.
	That's a big deal.
	That's a big deal.
	Right?
	Would you guys agree that that would you, lady and gentlemen, agree?
	You know what?
	I can't even believe I get to see this headline in my lifetime.
	In my lifetime.
	Right?
	Because I had no idea that the military industrial complex would be alive and well.
	And when we get to see a headline like this, don't you feel better?
	Trump promised to pull us out of the wars.
	A lot of people on the right voted for him because of that reason.
	I had my fingers crossed that he would do that.
	And in Bob Woodward's book, he said, why don't we just pull out of Afghanistan?
	And Bob Woodward puts that in the book to make Trump look like a crazy man because then his generals had to talk him down.
	No, we can just pull out and we can just pull out of Syria.
	We can get the F out of there.
	We're only there at the behest of Saudi Arabia and Israel anyway.
	So this is a good thing.
	That's a good thing, but it's going to be now reported.
	I'm going to guess ubiquitously like this.
	Like it's going to be reported like this.
	Russia praises U.S. decision to pull troops out of Syria.
	Here's a guy for the New York Times, Brett Stevens, op-ed columnist for the New York Times, MSNBC contributor.
	He says a gift, it's a gift to Iran, to Hezbollah and Putin, a shameful betrayer, a shameful betrayal of our Kurdish allies without whom we wouldn't have defeated ISIS another day in the Trump White House.
	So he's admitting that we defeated ISIS, but he wants us to stay in Syria.
	That's what he just said in his tweet, this guy.
	You know what?
	Can I say this to me?
	What America knows why we're in Syria anyways?
	Right?
	Like, how many people would really be informed if you went over there?
	They would say because he gassed people, and so we have to go save people who are being gassed by Assad.
	Although that's not why we're there.
	We're in Syria because they want to put a pipeline through Syria.
	And Russia doesn't want that pipeline going through Syria because it's going to bring natural gas to Europe.
	He sells natural gas to Europe.
	So that's, and also Israel wants Assad gone because he's aligned with Iran.
	So it's Israel and Saudi Arabia.
	That's why we're there.
	We're there at the behest of oil and Israel or fossil fuels and Israel.
	And this guy says we should stay there.
	Why?
	He doesn't really give a reason.
	He just says it's a gift to Iran, to Iran.
	So he wants us to go to war with Iran too, this guy.
	We did Iraq.
	We did Libya.
	We're just still in Afghanistan, still in Syria.
	He wants us to go.
	That's what this, this is what the New York Times is.
	That's who these people are.
	Did I tell you that they cheer on every war?
	Here he is cheering on two wars in one tweet.
	The Iran war and Syria.
	In one tweet.
	Both those wars, the American people don't want anything to do with.
	Donald Trump says, we have defeated ISIS in Syria.
	My only reason for being there during the Trump presidency.
	Here's Mia Farrow right underneath his tweet.
	She said, you are putting America in danger.
	How?
	I have no idea how that puts America in danger.
	She doesn't say.
	She says, military experts tell us that ISIS remains active.
	And if we leave, we'll expand.
	Oh, so we just have to occupy the whole world forever because ISIS might expand.
	If we don't occupy the whole world, so we got to stay in Afghanistan.
	We got to stay in Iraq.
	We got to stay in Libya.
	We got to stay in Syria.
	We got to go into Iran.
	Why?
	Because ISIS might expand if we don't.
	She says, while they celebrate in Moscow, Iran, and Damascus.
	And so what I, she says, you are putting military experts tell us.
	Military experts tell us, really?
	I go, you mean the same military experts that lied us into the Iraq and Libya wars and currently has us bombing eight different countries?
	Trump has so completely ruined liberals' brains that they now publicly cheer on war and military confrontations with nuclear powers.
	Hashtag the resistance.
	I don't know if you know, but Mia Farrow's tweet attacking Trump from the right, wanting him to be more militaristic, have more to do more war, bomb more people, create more carnage.
	Her tweet, Mia Pharaoh's, it had 322 likes within a half hour.
	So this is from the article at ABC.
	President Trump's decision followed a phone call.
	So you see that's going to happen, by the way.
	You see, Mia Pharaoh is just, I mean, that's the first thing I, that's the first tweet underneath Trump's tweet that shows up.
	So that's why I grabbed it.
	I just grabbed all this stuff and like very hurriedly put this together because as we were going to air, this story broke.
	This is breaking.
	And also something worth noting because, you know, I'm still keeping my fingers crossed as of the recording of this.
	Well, we're recording it.
	You know, we're still waiting on James Mathis.
	Yeah.
	We're still waiting on that go-ahead.
	So nothing's in stone yet.
	So Trump was on the phone with Erdogan, right?
	The president of Turkey.
	And that triggered the decision last Friday.
	That's what they say.
	During the call, Trump told Erdogan that he was planning to pull U.S. troops out of Syria.
	Chief Pentagon spokesperson Dana White said that the statement on Wednesday that in a statement on Wednesday that the U.S. had, quote, started the process of returning U.S. troops home from Syria.
	Once officially ordered by Defense Secretary James Mattis, the withdrawal would be completed within 30 days.
	That's fantastic.
	Trump's call with Erdogan on Friday followed a week of rising tension with Ankara, including the Turkish leader saying he would launch a military operation against the United States-backed Kurdish fighters in northeast Syria within a few days.
	So Turkey hates the Kurds and they want to get at them.
	While Erdogan and other world leaders such as Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu were alerted to the president's impending decision earlier, some top U.S. officials were unaware until Tuesday.
	Later on Wednesday, the State Department also announced an intended $3.5 billion of U.S. Patriot missile sales to Turkey.
	Isn't that something?
	So a couple of billion.
	We go, okay, we'll pull up.
	What asked why he pulled out of Syria?
	Trump said Turkey buys a lot of our missiles.
	Come on.
	There are about 2,000 U.S. troops in eastern Syria advising and assisting the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic forces in the fight against ISIS.
	The first U.S. troops arrived in Syria under Obama administration in October 2015.
	Now, I remember, correct me if I'm wrong.
	I remember when Barack Obama, they wanted Barack Obama to go in and bomb Syria and he said, we're going to put it to a vote in the Congress.
	And Congress voted that stuff down.
	And so remember, he had his line in the sand and then they crossed it and we didn't do anything.
	Everybody said Barack Obama made a mistake because he didn't do anything.
	Well, he did.
	He did.
	Even though they voted against going to sending troops and he did it anyway.
	That's the thing that doesn't ever get, am I wrong about that?
	That didn't get reported, right?
	That he, it was voted down.
	He said that when I put it to a vote, the Congress said, don't do it.
	He did it, does it anyway?
	Well, yeah, because they decided we needed to do something.
	Yeah.
	For all the same reasons that we keep getting recycled and same old reasons.
	But when put to a vote, the American people say, no, you're at, no, your reasons aren't good enough.
	And that's why they don't put it to a vote.
	And that's why, yeah, that was what everybody said.
	It was a big mistake of Barack Obama to put it to a vote.
	But it didn't matter.
	He still did it.
	He still put troops in Syria.
	He still bombed the hell out of it.
	The original force of 50 U.S. advisors grew to an official level of more than 500, though it actually grew beyond that figure to approximately 2,000.
	So there's 2,000 soldiers that they admit are in Syria.
	That's what they're admitting.
	If these media reports.
	So this is Lindsey Graham, by the way.
	Lindsey Graham went after Trump for doing this.
	Yeah, he's real.
	Because he's a moron.
	He said, if these media reports are true, it will be an Obama-like mistake made by the Trump administration.
	While American patience in confronting radical Islam may wane, the radical Islamists' passion to kill America.
	So he's literally saying we need to stay in Syria so we can fight ISIS in someone else's country.
	There might be someone somewhere in the world that doesn't like us, so we stay.
	We need to stay there and fight them.
	Hey, you know where elf there's a lot of ISIS?
	Anyway, so we just always have to stay fighting in other people.
	And by the way, so if we're fighting, we're in Syria to fight ISIS.
	I thought we were in Syria to topple Assad because that's what ISIS wants to do.
	But you're telling me we're not doing that anymore?
	That we're actually trying to fight the people who are Is that what you're saying, Lindsey?
	So that's how you know this is all 100% complete bullshit, just like the Iraq war was the first time, just like the Iraq war was the second time, just like Libya was, just like Syria was, just like it is now.
	This is all bullshit.
	Complete.
	Because if what he's saying is true, that we need to stay and fight ISIS, that strengthens Assad.
	If we defeat ISIS, that strengthens Assad because they want to overturn Assad.
	So this is a schizophrenia.
	What he's saying, of course it doesn't.
	All he wants us to do is make sure we keep troops there because that's what the military-industrial complex wants.
	And he's a cash sucker.
	Lindsey Graham, big cash sucker.
	We know it.
	And that's what he's doing.
	Well, that's the problem.
	All this bullshit.
	The sad part is there's an economy built around it.
	Yes.
	There's an economy.
	There's a death economy.
	We just had a preemptive strike in Somalia earlier this week.
	Really?
	I mean, yep, there's an economy built around this endless war.
	So when you hear something like this, it's like, well, at least, you know, here's a step in a good direction.
	Hopefully it happens.
	Hopefully this saves lives.
	And so ultimately, and so listen to what he says in the next sentence.
	He says, an American withdrawal at this time would be a big win for ISIS, Iran, Bashar al-Assad.
	Well, how could it be a win for ISIS and Bashar al-Assad?
	Not even bothering to try to make sense.
	Not even bothering to try and make sense.
	Because he knows the American people have no idea what's going on in the Middle East.
	They have no idea.
	Go ahead.
	He's just naming everywhere that's not us.
	Yes.
	This is a big win for ISIS, Iran, Bashar al-Assad, Syria, Russia.
	Al-Qaeda, Israel, Iran, Iraq, Iraq, Canada likes it.
	The Sudan, the Sudan, parts of Antarctica.
	Poland's on board.
	Germany likes it.
	France.
	The Philippines.
	Guadalcanal.
	Doesn't even bother to make sense.
	We have 1,000 military bases around the world.
	We don't know how many because a lot of them are secret.
	So it's probably even more than that.
	Some people say 800.
	Some people say 1,200.
	Some people say 1,000.
	You know how many bases Russia has around the world?
	Eight.
	You know how many we have?
	Thousand.
	And they want more.
	This is, like Ron said, this is one big economy built on death, built on war.
	That's why he wants, doesn't, no matter what happens, you have to keep the troops there.
	No matter if Fashal al-Assad is toppled, no matter if that's, no matter what happens, we have to keep troops there.
	Where?
	Throughout the world.
	Throughout the world.
	He says it right there.
	So watch all the fake progressives report this horribly and attack Trump from the right.
	This is exactly what Trump should be doing.
	Trump should be pulling us out of everywhere in the Middle East.
	But what you're supposed to do then is then you're supposed to cut the military budget in half and reinvest that money in America.
	Like, what if we cut the military budget in half?
	What if we just went back to the Iraq war numbers of $500 billion?
	We could take $200 billion, end poverty in America, or we could end homelessness in America and still have $180 billion left over to send everybody to college for free.
	We could just do it like that.
	So that's the key there.
	That's what we got to do.
	Now, I don't predict that Trump will cut the military budget at all, ever.
	So that's the problem.
	Like, he'll do this part, but he won't do the other part.
	And he'll probably even start another war somewhere else.
	Well, he just bombed Somalia earlier this week.
	So, but watch, again, this is why we're here because this is a good thing, not a bad thing.
	And I wish he would say the same thing about Afghanistan and Iraq and Libya and Somalia and the Sudan and whoever the hell else we are.
	I wish we would pull the hell out of there.
	Hello, this is Al Pacino Carlin.
	I just wanted to call and wish everybody at the Jimmy Doris show a Merry Christmas.
	Or happy holidays, right?
	Because you got all of them.
	You got Christmas and Halakha.
	Kwanzaa, that's still going on.
	You even got Epiphany.
	Don't forget about Epiphany.
	Glad people say it's more important than Christmas.
	Anyway, thanks for teaching me so much about politics.
	And I will talk to you in the year of our Lord 2019.
	Common era.
	Whoa, it is hot outside.
	All right.
	Guess what?
	The boss, Bruce Springsteen, he warns Democrats, find someone with a vision for America's working class.
	You know, someone like Joe Biden, maybe.
	Good old Uncle Joe.
	He has a vision for the working class.
	They're just all unemployed in his vision.
	Yeah.
	That's the vision Joe has.
	How about Corey Booker?
	Send all the blue-collar people to a big charter school in the sky.
	In a recent interview with the Sunday Times of London and with Esquire Magazine, Springsteen laid out a case for how much Democrats continue to be disconnected from the kinds of voters they once embraced.
	The sorts of paid-by-the-hour punch-the-clock workers who labor in factories and other middle-class jobs.
	Springsteen says none of the prospective Democratic candidates seem to know how to speak to working-class voters.
	Really?
	No kidding.
	Now, there's a guy who's been a millionaire since, I don't know, 1980.
	Yeah.
	So about 38 years.
	And even he can see that Democrats are out of touch with the working class.
	A four-decade millionaire, even he can see it.
	As if that's not damning enough, Springsteen went on to point out that you need someone who can speak some of the same language, but Democrats don't have an obvious effective presidential candidate.
	No, no, well, Bernie Sanders, but he's not a real Democrat.
	Is that what he keeps talking?
	Is that what he's hinting?
	I think so, yeah.
	I mean, Springsteen's always been on, you know, the right side of things.
	He's pretty good about that stuff.
	And here he is, you know, a rich guy, but still gets it.
	I mean, seriously, the Democrats still don't have an obvious, effective presidential candidate when you've had Donald Trump.
	No kidding.
	What a huge failure of a party the Democrats are.
	It's because they don't have a message.
	Well, you know, Chuck Schumer's message right now is not Medicare for all.
	That's his message.
	His message right now is we're going to fund the border wall a little bit less.
	That's their message.
	The border wall, it's wrong.
	It's racist.
	It's horrible.
	And we're only going to fund it maybe to the tune of $1 to $2 billion.
	Maybe $3 billion, but not a nickel more.
	So you're willing to negotiate on that?
	I don't want to talk about that here.
	So Bruce goes on.
	He says a lot of what's going on has been a large group of people frightened by the changing face of the nation.
	There seems to be an awful lot to fear.
	Yeah, you know what I fear is the lack of health care.
	That's what I fear.
	You know what those 30 million Americans who don't have health care fear?
	Getting sick and losing everything.
	I also fear endless war.
	How about that?
	That's a lot to fear.
	I fear my water catching on fire if they put a fracking well in next to my house.
	I bet you if I was African-American, I would worry about cops shooting me in the street without fear of any prosecution.
	The fear is grounded in pain, the pain at the loss of jobs, the collapse of communities, and the empty feeling that the American dream has faded.
	Faded?
	Faded?
	Yeah, faded out.
	Faded out.
	And by empty feeling, they mean accurate observation.
	Yeah, yeah.
	I don't know if there's a way to really bring those jobs back.
	And I think that's what's causing so much anxiety to so many Americans.
	Yeah, we could never have a jobs program.
	Jesus Christ.
	Richest country in the world, and its people are freaking treading water.
	The founding fathers were pretty good at confronting their fears and their fears of the country.
	And it's the old cliché.
	We're a genius.
	And it's the old cliché.
	They were geniuses who built the system so an idiot could run it.
	We are completely testing that theory at this very moment.
	I do believe we'll survive Trump, but I don't know if I see a unifying figure on the horizon.
	And that worries me.
	Yeah, it worries a lot of us, their boss.
	Yeah.
	We had a unifying figure.
	We did.
	It's called Bernie Sanders.
	It's Bernie Sanders.
	People on the right said they'd vote for him.
	People on the left would vote for him.
	To me, that's a unifying candidate.
	But they're still pretending that he's not popular with minorities, even though he's the most popular guy.
	They're still doing that.
	CNN calls a thousand people all over 50 years old, white, and live in a Republican community.
	Hey, who do you like?
	That's their polls.
	Anyway, there you go.
	Bruce Springsteen sees the problem.
	Even he can see through it.
	You know who doesn't see it?
	Rachel Maddow, Chris Hayes, Chris Matthews, everybody in Washington, D.C., everybody inside the Democratic leadership.
	That's who doesn't see it.
	Right?
	Anything else we should say about this, Ron?
	You were excited about this.
	No, I was.
	I mean, I thought it was cool that, you know, a lot of times when I hear a lot of musicians, some of whom I like, talk about things, I actually get sad because I'm like, oh, you're saying that?
	But here's a case where it's like, yeah, he still gets it.
	And he gets it because he's an observer.
	Even though he's wealthy now, he's still an observer.
	So he's able to see the problem.
	He's been wealthy long enough, too, to figure, like, why people get wealthy and they're only wealthy for a little while.
	They don't get it right away.
	They think, well, I did it.
	Why don't you do it?
	But like, you see a guy like Charles Barkley.
	Like, he's been rich long enough.
	Now he gets it.
	He's like, oh, yeah, the system's stacked against people like me, except I was able to play basketball.
	And if I wasn't, I'd be screwed.
	So he gets it.
	He sees how the system's, he still gets money.
	He doesn't even need it.
	And there's people who need it and they get screwed over.
	He sees that happening.
	And so does Bruce Springsteen.
	So yeah, it's good.
	That is something when a celebrity actually gets it right.
	It's very comforting because they almost always get it wrong.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	And he's a guy who's done stuff.
	I mean, he still does stuff for the food banks and his communities and stuff like that and funds for him.
	Well, he was, you know, he was supposed to be the real blue-collar kind of musician, right?
	He was that no frills rock and roll, right?
	He was in the age of hairbands, they used to call him, right?
	Yeah.
	Well, at first it was like he was going to be the next Dylan, and then it was just E-Street Band was just such a prominent forest that he became that guy.
	He was just his own thing.
	Yeah.
	I mean, I'm not going to, I'm a fan, obviously.
	So, you know, he did keep it real in an age of, you know, the heavy metal hairbands and KISS and Pyrotechn and all that.
	He didn't do any of that stuff.
	That's true.
	He just kept it real about the performance and the music and the meaning.
	And he would get put on a three-hour show.
	Yeah, he still does.
	I don't know how you do that.
	I mean, last time I saw him was 2009, so it's been a hot minute.
	But yeah, it was a three and a half hour show.
	I know I saw him at the duck pond.
	He did a real long time, and he was all sweated up by the end of it.
	That's a lot of work.
	That's a lot of work.
	But let me tell you, seeing music in a room full of white people, still very unfulfilling.
	White people listening to music together, just not fun.
	We need black people.
	You need some color in there to get people relaxed and loosening up.
	Do you ever see white people listen?
	Here's white people listening to a Bob Dylan concert.
	I told you that story about I went to a Bob Dylan concert and there were people on the floor and Bob Dylan was playing a song and they started to dance.
	So some people stood up and a lot of people didn't.
	And they literally, so those are the rich people on the floor.
	So the rich people went and got the ushers to come tell the people who are standing up dancing to stop dancing at a concert.
	That's a problem.
	And they did it.
	And by the way, all the ushers were black guys.
	So it was, at first, I thought they were just like embarrassed, like telling the white people, stop it.
	Stop it.
	What are you guys doing?
	This is you're listening to Bob Dylan.
	You don't, you look horrible.
	Stop dancing.
	But they weren't.
	They were doing it because they were told to by the other people.
	That's it.
	Remember, that's.
	Anyway.
	All right.
	There you go.
	Democrats still out of touch.
	Even a four-decade millionaire knows.
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	Hey, look, it's freshman Senator Mitt Romney on the phone.
	Oh, hi, Jimmy Dore.
	This is Freshman Senator Donald Trump.
	Richard Romney over here.
	And I'm rip roaring to go to Washington with the D to the C. I am.
	Watch me work now.
	I'm the man with the mandate door.
	I'm going to steam over your roll.
	The people of Utah gave you a mandate.
	How do you calculate that?
	Because I outspent that other loser five to one.
	That's how I calculate it.
	This is going to catapult me into the presidential primaries if I play my cards right.
	According to my metrics, this country is finally ready for an aging, conservative, filthy, rich white man to run the country.
	But that's what Donald Trump is.
	But I'm his nemesis.
	How?
	Because I have gravitas and authority, my friend.
	That's what former political advisors to Bill and Hillary Clinton, Michael Bloomberg, and Tony Blair think.
	And they're known for being in your face with their gonzo in-your-faceness.
	But there's virtually nothing you two disagree on.
	Aha, that's where you're wrong.
	You see, my strength is I'm soft-spoken.
	And when I push the button, you won't even know it.
	No Piatrics, no drama.
	We'll all just go gently into the night while some of us are sipping pigberries on Colob.
	Oh, Jimmy, I can almost taste those collabyan pig berries now.
	Do you have a running mate in mind, Mitt?
	People have been suggesting Joe Biden.
	Ooh.
	Okay, nobody important.
	Between the two of us, we have over 41 years of federal and state white guy pissing on your face and calling it rain experience.
	But there is one problem: he wants to mend Romney Care.
	I want to call it Obamacare and destroy it.
	Biden's against Medicare for All.
	Isn't that what you want?
	Oh, mercy, yes.
	But on the other hand, what if destroying Romney or Obamacare makes it easier to pass Medicare for all?
	Poor Bayne Capital.
	That's a dilemma.
	It sure is.
	I mean, on the one hand, I'm faced with the opportunity of doing great harm to millions of people.
	Yes.
	While on the other hand, I'm faced with the opportunity of doing great good to millions of people.
	It's a real Sophie's Choice, I think.
	What's going to be your first order of business in Congress?
	I'm going to haze me some homos and improve Utah's roads.
	Hi, everybody.
	Welcome to Jimmy Dorsey.
	I'm here with the miserable liberal and Ron Placone.
	Hi, Jimmy.
	Hey, Jimmy.
	Hi, everybody.
	Ron will be in Florida in January.
	Go to RonPlacone.com for his concerts.
	I guess he's called concerts.
	Concerts.
	I call them concerts.
	Comedy concerts.
	Get this headline from the New York Times: Russia's 2016 influence operation targeted African Americans on social media.
	Oh, my God.
	And look at the picture they use.
	It's almost like a cartoon picture.
	Like, oh, it's not good enough for me.
	We will get them now.
	So I don't know if you know, but black people have, they thought they just wanted Medicare for all in free college.
	Turns out they were being manipulated by Russians.
	Didn't know it.
	So, you know what?
	Hillary Clinton should hire the Russians.
	Maybe she would have run.
	Why don't she?
	Anyway, here, I just want to read through this article.
	This is in the New York Times.
	And it's written by someone named Scott Shane and Shira Frinkl.
	It's not stopping.
	I thought that this would stop.
	It's not.
	I mean, I mean, the Russiagate nonsense.
	I thought it was going to stop when even Chris Hayes made fun of one of the memes.
	Yeah, we're going to show.
	I'm going to show that in this.
	Because Hayes is making fun of this.
	So I just want to show you this real quick.
	The Russian influence camp.
	This is from this article in the New York Times.
	Remember, the New York Times on their front page put bogus BS information that could have been easily debunked that led us into the Iraq war, and they didn't.
	So they printed lies right from Dick Cheney's mouth, unedited, on their front page of the New York Times.
	So now they're doing this.
	The Russian influence campaign on social media in the 2016 election made an extraordinary effort to target Africa, extraordinary effort, an extraordinary effort to target African Americans, use an array of tactics to try to suppress turnout among Democratic voters.
	Wow.
	We did a story about African Americans who didn't vote for Hillary Clinton in Milwaukee, and they thought it was because the Democrats didn't do anything for them.
	Turns out it was because they saw a meme on Facebook.
	They thought it was because they voted for Barack Obama, and for eight years, he didn't do anything for them.
	Their lives got worse.
	That's what they thought.
	They were wrong.
	Because the New York Times is here to tell you that there's an extraordinary effort to grab the mind to have mind control over African Americans in Wisconsin and Michigan.
	That's what that New York Times is telling you.
	It goes on and unleashed a blizzard of activity.
	Who chooses these adjectives?
	A blizzard of activity.
	What?
	On Instagram, and that rivaled or exceeded its posts on Facebook, according to a reverber how much they spent on Facebook?
	Wasn't it $100,000 and half of it came after the election?
	Wasn't that the number?
	All part of the plan.
	But they probably did.
	What did they do?
	Did they do $51,000 on Instagram?
	What the F?
	That even exceeded its posts on Facebook.
	Remember, their post on Facebook was almost nothing.
	According to a report produced by the Senate Intelligence Committee, a blizzard of activity, blizzard of activity.
	The report adds new details to the portrait, new details to the portrait that has emerged over the last two years of the energy and imagination of the Russian effort.
	The energy and oh my God, they're blizzarding energy and imagination over what to an effort to sway American opinion and divide the country, which the authors say continues to this day.
	We're helpless.
	Russia's running us.
	We just admit it.
	We're helpless.
	We can't do anything in America.
	Remember when Russia made 80% of our workers live paycheck to paycheck?
	You don't remember that?
	Russia did that.
	Remember when Russia took health care away from 30 million Americans at the behest of corporations?
	Russia did that.
	Remember when Russia buried our college aid students under mountains of debt and then made them never be able to get rid of that debt in a bankruptcy?
	Remember, you don't remember Russia did that?
	Remember when Russia got us in eight wars and bumped up our military budget to $715 billion, bankrupting our treasury?
	Remember when Russia did that?
	You don't remember that?
	It goes further back than that, Jimmy.
	I mean, just look at Dapple.
	Russia has convinced people they need water to survive.
	Remember when Russia did?
	Some people would stop.
	I bet they've convinced people they need Medicare for all.
	Isn't that something crazy, those Russians?
	Guess who does have Medicare for All?
	Russia.
	Anyway, so this is so that's the first three paragraphs of this stupid article from the New York Times.
	I have to say, it's written in such an eloquent manner, you know, this article.
	It's just like, can you imagine that they figured in to use the word portrait that has emerged over the last two years?
	You know what they're saying?
	It's taken us two years just to get to this point.
	And when they highlight energy and imagination, I think they're writing about themselves.
	The imagination we're using to create this Russia narrative for you all to follow.
	Beautiful portrait.
	Here is when this is the CEO.
	I just want to show you this.
	So I want to show you the words they used again.
	This is the first three paragraphs.
	Extraordinary effort, a blizzard of activity, energy and imagination.
	Here's the CEO from Google.
	And he was being interviewed by Nadler, Congressman Nadler, who's one of the biggest Russian gators.
	He said that them hacking the DNC server was equivalent to Pearl Harbor.
	Nadler said this.
	And now here he is interviewing.
	Thank you.
	So now here is Nadler.
	He said that, that it was equivalent to Pearl Harbor.
	Chris Hayes laughed at him when he said that.
	That's how bad over the top this guy is.
	And now here he is, and he's asking questions at a hearing of the CEO of Google about how much money did Russia spend on your platforms, on Google platforms, trying to screw us.
	Ready?
	Watch and watch the answer.
	Okay, thank you.
	Now, according to media reports, Google found evidence that Russian agents spent thousands of dollars to purchase ads on its advertising platforms that span multiple Google products as part of the agents, the Russian agents campaign to interfere in the election two years ago.
	Additionally, Juniper Downs, head of global policy for YouTube, testified in July that YouTube had identified and shut down multiple and shut down multiple channels containing thousands of videos associated with the Russian misinformation campaign.
	Does Google now know the full extent to which its online platforms were exploited by Russian actors in the election two years ago?
	We have, you know, we undertook a very thorough investigation.
	And in 2016, we now know that there were two main ad accounts linked to Russia, which advertised on Google for about $4,700 in advertising.
	We also found other limited total of $4,700.
	That's right.
	Which was.
	Whoa.
	Total of $4,700.
	That's what they spent on all your Klugel platforms.
	That's right.
	Boy, when a guy pushing a Russia conspiracy theory bumps into facts.
	But blizzard.
	Sounds like a blizzard of activity, Ron.
	Doesn't it sound like a blizzard of activity?
	Sounds like a blizzard.
	That blizzard only costs $4,700.
	Here's Chris Hayes making fun of this New York Times article.
	He says, this is an actual meme from the Russian troll farm in which Jesus counsels someone addicted to masturbation.
	Reach out to me and we'll beat it together.
	Here it is.
	There it is.
	The addiction to masturbation.
	Reach out to me and we will beat it together.
	That's like a joke.
	It is a joke, actually.
	It's a joke.
	You can't hold hands with God when you're masturbating.
	I'm sorry, Kim.
	Can Ron do it in a Russian accent, please?
	Can you read that meme for me?
	You can't hold hands with gold when you are masturbating.
	And in Russia, Han masturbates you.
	You masturbate them.
	Active and ongoing interview.
	So this is from that New York Times article.
	Active and ongoing interference operations remain on several platforms, says the report produced by New Knowledge, a cybersecurity company based at Auxon, Texas, that nobody ever fucking heard of.
	Nobody knows who works there, who they are, what their point of view.
	Nobody knows, oh, this dude that we got a new cyber plan.
	They said this.
	A bunch of assholes you'd have never heard of.
	But if they keep this up, they'll get a contract with the Democratic Party.
	You damn right they will.
	Along with researchers at Columbia University and Canfield Researchers, LLC.
	Oh my God.
	Could you guys waste more time on stupid stuff?
	You're at Columbia University and this is what you're doing.
	One continuing Russian campaign, for instance, seeks to influence opinion.
	Oh my God, they're trying to influence your opinion on Syria by promoting Bashar Assault, the Syria.
	Boy, that certainly has that.
	How could you possibly that that's going to overcome the ubiquitous 24-7 billions and billions of dollars of pro invade Syria and throw overthrow Assad coverage that we've been getting?
	I bet you that did it.
	The Russians, they put a meme somewhere on Google or Facebook.
	And that's it.
	Everybody switched their mind about Syria.
	How do you feel about Syria?
	Well, wait until our blizzard is coming.
	There's a blizzard coming.
	The new knowledge report is one of the two commissioned by the Senate committee on a bipartisan basis.
	They are based largely on data about the Russian operations provided to the Senate by Facebook, Twitter, and other companies whose platforms were used.
	So they took the data from all the social media people and then they figured all this out, that Russia's still got control of everybody in America's mind.
	It's amazing.
	The second report was written by a computational propaganda project at Oxford University along with Grafica, a company that specializes at analytics.
	Could you guys go get real jobs?
	Could you go analyzing something actual?
	The Russia influence campaign in 2016 was run by a St. Petersburg.
	This is in this New York Times.
	Oh, I forgot to put it.
	But this is from the New York Times article.
	It says the Russian influence campaign in 2016 was run by a St. Petersburg company called the Internet Research Agency, owned by a businessman, Yevgeny V. Pregafihin, who is a close ally of President Vladimir Putin of Russia.
	That's very much like saying, you know, that Bill Gates is a close ally of President Barack Obama.
	You know Warren Buffett is a close ally of President Donald Trump.
	Do you know that Rex Tillerson, the head of the Exxon, is a close ally?
	What?
	You show me one billionaire doesn't have access to the president.
	Show me a billionaire in the United States, a billionaire in the United States doesn't have access to the president.
	And by the way, Internet Research Agency, where have I heard that name before?
	And when I was reading this article, I'm like, wait a minute, I did a story about Internet Research Agency.
	I remember a guy had already done a story like five years ago on the Internet Research Agency, and he concluded it was just a troll farm.
	Remember, he wrote a whole story about it.
	I couldn't find it.
	I looked for it in my old shows because I know I reported on this.
	But what I did find was this.
	This is from the Assange Defense Twitter account.
	It says, buried in the Mueller AstroTurfing indictment, this goes back to February of this year, is something that we have long suspected.
	The Internet Research Agency, a troll farm, is geared to develop audience in socially active communities, e.g.
	through aligned memes, in order to spam them on behalf of anyone willing to pay.
	So this Is an internet troll farm.
	And what they do is they try to get people to follow them on social media so they can spam them, meaning they can then sell their followers to advertisers.
	It's right there in the WikiLeak document, which says defendants and their, this is, this is from the Mueller indictment.
	Defendants and their co-conspirators also use the accounts to receive money from real U.S. persons in exchange for posting promotions and advertisements on the organization-controlled social media pages.
	Defendants and their co-conspirators typically charge certain U.S. merchants and U.S. social media sites between $25 and $50 U.S. dollars per post for promotional content on their popular false U.S. persona accounts, including Being Patriotic Account, Defend the Second account, and Blacktivist account.
	So they would open up these accounts that would appeal to a certain political bent of people, try to get as many people as they could to sign up for them, so then they could then spam them, sell them to advertisers.
	And that's right in the goddamn indictment.
	So we've showed you, this is just, it never ends.
	So, and by the way, this is from The Guardian.
	Here's another, this is also be interesting because the whole time I'm reading that, I'm like, so what?
	So some troll farm put some memes out that even Chris Hayes makes fun of on Facebook?
	That's what controls our elections?
	Of course, that's not what controls our elections.
	Of course, that's just stupid.
	Of course, this is more just the establishment covering up for the biggest election fraud in the history of our country, which was the primary in the Democratic Party in the 2016 election.
	This also means we don't have to look at any of the problems in America.
	Like I said, Russia didn't make 80% of our workers work live, paycheck, to paycheck.
	50% of them of wage earners earn less than $30,000.
	30 million people still don't have healthcare.
	Russia didn't do any of that.
	We did this to ourselves.
	And we're doing it to ourselves again by pushing propaganda that distracts us from what our real problems are.
	Our real problems are not Russia.
	By the way, and they do that all the time.
	Israel, we did a story about them having troll farms.
	Everybody has troll farms.
	Everybody tries to influence opinion.
	It's called politics, geoglobal politics.
	So this is from The Guardian.
	Revealed U.S. spy operation that manipulates social media.
	What?
	I'll read that again.
	Our U.S. spy operation that manipulates social media.
	We're doing it.
	We're just as bad as Russia.
	I hope they declare war on us.
	Why don't we control their elections and get someone other than Putin elected?
	That's all it takes.
	If all it takes is to just do some social media stuff, why don't we control their elections if they could control ours?
	Because that's how stupid it is.
	There it is.
	It says military sock puppet software creates fake online identities to spread pro-American propaganda.
	That's interesting, huh?
	The U.S. military is developing software that will let it secretly manipulate social media sites by using fake online personas to influence internet conversations and spread pro-American propaganda.
	So it's okay when we do it.
	That's totally normal.
	It's a total normal thing that you would do.
	But when Russia does it, we need to shut down our country.
	We need to kick some people off Facebook.
	We need to censor some other people from Google and YouTube.
	And we need to start bombing Syria.
	And we need to also put sanctions on Russia.
	That's when they do it.
	When we do it, it's cool.
	That's totally what people do who love freedom.
	A California corporation has been awarded a contract with the United States Central Command, which oversees U.S. armed operations in the Middle East and Central Asia to develop what it describes as an online persona management service that will allow one U.S. serviceman or woman to control up to 10 separate identities based all over the world.
	So there's a California corporation getting a contract from the U.S. government, from the Department of Defense, the U.S. Central Command, SEDCOB, to develop online personal management services so that military people can then go spam people on social media.
	The project has been linked by web experts to China's attempt to control and restrict free speech on the internet.
	Critics are likely critic.
	Now, here's the great part.
	Critics are likely to complain that it will allow the U.S. military to create a false consensus in online conversations, crowd out unwelcome opinions, and smother commentaries or reports that do not correspond with its own objectives.
	You mean so it can do propaganda on its own people?
	You mean it could suppress, so this is a good way for the U.S. government to do propaganda and suppress information that is negative about the government?
	Yeah, that's what this is.
	That's what those critics are likely to complain about.
	The discovery that the U.S. military is developing false online personalities, known to users of social media as sock puppets.
	Well, the discovery that the U.S. military is developing false online personalities could also encourage, get this, it could also encourage other governments to do the same.
	So the United States is doing the exact thing the whole establishment media is wetting themselves over today.
	And the United States has been doing the exact thing.
	And what they say in the Guardian article is that this could encourage other governments to do the same.
	So what we said was, yeah, did some troll farm in Russia try to, does Russia try to inflict?
	Yeah, is this normal activity?
	Yes, this is all normal stuff.
	And by the way, this had been going on since 2014.
	Why did they just care about it after the election?
	Why did no one care about it until after the wrong guy got elected?
	And then we pretended Russia controls our elections.
	So there you go.
	That's a great, another great article by the New York Times, doing great work.
	It's unbelievable at this point.
	I mean, it's unbelievable.
	Well, just look at right today, okay?
	It's been revealed that Facebook is selling our private messages to Netflix and Spotify.
	Trump's FCC is trying to make it so that your text messages are no longer common carrier messages now.
	The fact that the New York Times is spending bandwidth or ink on something like this, it goes beyond not passing the laugh test.
	Whatever the level beyond that for absurdity is, that's where they're at at this point.
	And I don't see it stopping.
	I don't see it stopping either.
	So what they're talking about, New York Times is talking about that military is going to influence social media.
	Well, is government military influencing New York Times?
	Right?
	How about that?
	So this is by, again, written by Scott Shane and Shira Frankl.
	And I don't know who they are.
	I don't know them personally, but did you really, this is what you wanted to do with your life?
	This is what you want to do.
	You're not embarrassed.
	And you call yourself journalists and you say Trump is the enemy of journalism.
	No, this is the enemy of journalism.
	More like Scott Shane, am I right?
	Am I right?
	Am I right?
	Honest to God, this, I mean, as a grown-up person, this is what you're doing for a living.
	And you call it journalism.
	Why don't you go work for the National Inquirer for real?
	This is called journalism.
	And these are the people who look down their nose at YouTube.
	The reason why I have a super successful show on YouTube is because you guys suck so hard.
	That's why, because you guys suck.
	And you're willingly doing it.
	You know better than this.
	Anybody who can write this article knows better than this article.
	And yet they did it anyway.
	And now you know why people get their news from YouTube.
	Hey, what's up, everybody?
	This is Vaughn, Vince Vaughn, calling in.
	I'm a secret agent now.
	I just want to wish everybody the Jimmy Dorso, Jimmy, Steph, and the whole gang over there a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
	And I'll be talking to you fuck faces in 2019.
	Thank you.
	How everybody welcome to Jimmy Dorstrom here at the miserable liberal, Ron Placone.
	Howdy, howdy.
	I'm miserable.
	Ha!
	So everybody's worried about, you got to vote blue.
	Remember that, by the way, you got to vote blue because we're a check on Trump's power.
	So now that the big appointments, Chuck Schumer, this is from Common Dreams.
	They're giving Joe Manchin a top spot on the energy committee.
	Joe Manchin literally did a commercial, an ad campaign ad where he took out a rifle and shot a climate change bill, the cap and trade bill.
	Watch this.
	I'm Joe Manchin.
	I approve this ad because I'll always defend West Virginia.
	As your senator, I'll protect our Second Amendment rights.
	That's why the NRA endorsed me.
	I'll take home Washington and this administration to get the federal government off of our backs out of our pockets.
	I'll cut federal spending and I'll repeal the bad parts of Obamacare.
	I sue DPA and I'll take dead aim at the cap and trade bill because it's bad for West Virginia.
	But climate change is good for West Virginia.
	He literally took out a gun and shot the cap and trade bill.
	Well, the joke's on him because that bullet counted as his signature.
	I don't even know what this.
	What do you even say to that?
	I don't even.
	Do you understand why people vote green?
	Do you understand why people can't bring themselves to participate in this corrupt charade?
	Or do you say Sharad?
	This kabuki theater.
	Ah, that's a good one.
	That's great.
	So here's from this article.
	I'll just read a little bit of it because there's even more, it's even more depressing as you get into it.
	Appointing Senator Manchin as ranking member of the Energy Committee is completely at odds with any plan for real climate action, says May Buve, executive director of 350.org.
	Manchin has taken every opportunity to put big oil before the health and safety of communities and our climate.
	So do you know what that also means?
	So has the Democratic Party because that's what the Democratic Party is just putting on the Energy Committee, the leader.
	Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is upset about it.
	She is pushing for the formation of a Green New Deal select committee in the House.
	I think Nancy Pelosi already agreed to that, by the way.
	Nancy Pelosi, you know, to her credit, formed that in the first place.
	Last time I think she was leader or a speaker.
	Well, I mean, I'll be honest, like going on that, the cynicist, cynicist, the cynicism in me is saying like this was kind of an F you for that because Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez showed up to Nancy Pelosi's office with a bunch of protesters and said, hey, we got to do something.
	And the time was yesterday.
	And Pelosi was like, well, you backed me in a corner.
	Okay.
	And now this is sort of the F you for that.
	I mean, that's what the cynicism, that's what it's saying.
	I hope I'm wrong.
	So she wore, according to this article, she joined progressive advocacy groups in warning against the appointment of Manchin, who has raked in over $156,000 in campaign cash from the fossil fuel industries in just 2018 and is reportedly still profiting from a coal brokerage company he helped run before entering politics.
	That's the guy the Democratic Party just put on the energy committee.
	You go, well, that's really just Chuck Schumer.
	Well, for the West Virginia senators' promotion, which was ratified Tuesday evening by members of the Senate Democratic caucus, so it had to be ratified by the Democratic caucus.
	They said, okay.
	You see how rotten this Democratic Party is?
	The Democrats are doing this to climate change.
	The Democrats are.
	This isn't another party doing this.
	Isn't this awesome?
	I don't know if awesome is what comes to mind.
	Right.
	This is something.
	Wow.
	They're doing it right in public.
	He's doing, he made this assignment.
	Literally, it is a big F you.
	Literally anybody else would have been less offensive.
	They picked the most offensive guy to put there.
	While corporate media outlets worked hard to blame Senator Bernie Sanders.
	They did the mother, even Mother Jones, which what the hell happened to so Mother Jones, they got bought, right?
	And then they went south.
	They're like worse than Vox.
	While corporate media, I mean, as far as being in the tank for corporate Democrats and eschewing anything progressive, they backed Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders.
	It's crazy what, so that Mother Jones is just a name, just like just like the Democratic Party.
	While corporate media outlets worked hard to blame Senator Bernie Sanders, currently the ranking member on a powerful Senate budget committee for not abandoning his post to block Manchin, commenters were so yet so they literally they did that.
	So they were trying to blame Bernie Sanders for not quitting his position on the budget committee to take this spot because that could have blocked Manchin.
	But because there's nobody else in Congress that can do anything except the independent Bernie Sanders.
	Well, turns out, second half of that paragraph, turns out that Senator Ron Wyden, Debbie Stabenow, and Maria Cantwell all have seniority over Manchin and could have taken the seat, but chose not to.
	And this is the, so I guess, you know, when Manchin voted for, why am I blanking on the Supreme Court guy's name?
	Kavanaugh?
	Yeah.
	So, you know, went against the Democratic Party and all that stuff and voted for Kavanaugh.
	I guess this is his punishment.
	He gets a kick-ass committee appointment.
	And wasn't, didn't Chuck Schumer say, you know, I'm going to let them vote the way they're going to vote.
	Yeah, he was supposed to whip the vote.
	Yeah, he didn't whip the vote.
	Well, what drives me nuts, too, is I remember like during the midterms, and there were a lot of these blue no matter who folks on Twitter and everywhere else saying, oh, you got to vote.
	We know Joe Manchin's terrible, but you got to vote for him.
	You got to vote for him.
	The Republican will be even worse.
	And it's like, you know, when he had an opponent who wouldn't be terrible, when Paula Gene Swearingen was running against him, where were you guys then?
	You were silent.
	You were completely silent because you don't want primary opponents.
	We need quote-unquote unity.
	And that leads to stuff like this.
	Yep.
	You are correct, Ron.
	And I don't know how could you support this party?
	I just don't get this.
	This is the party doing this.
	Like, well, we're going to reform it someday.
	Yeah, you're still an American.
	You don't have to be part of that goddamn party.
	While dismayed by Manchin's promotion, Bove of 350.org, I hope I'm saying the name right.
	I feel like an idiot For not knowing how to pronounce that name.
	It looks like Boivé, right?
	Or Bove?
	Yeah.
	Bove.
	Bove.
	Of 350.org expressed confidence that not even this foolish decision can stop the groundswell of momentum that's building for a Green New Deal.
	Okay, well, that's fantastic.
	Everybody's happy.
	There's just some quick Oil Change USA tweeted out that Senator Schumer has made Senator Manchin ranking member of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, putting Senate norms ahead of climate safety.
	So I get this idea.
	Again, Trump just, when he goes against climate change, it's just easier to hate him because he puts an ugly face on it.
	Chuck Schumer puts his wimpy face on it.
	What a wimp that guy is.
	Bill McKibben says, yes, we have to change everything to deal with climate change, but no, that doesn't include seniority rules in the Senate.
	Truly depressing.
	At a key moment in Earth's history to see Joe Manchin take over as ranking member of the energy committee.
	Do you see why the Democrats aren't going to be your savior?
	This isn't just Chuck.
	By the way, it's just not just a leadership.
	The whole friggin caucus had to vote on Chuck.
	Lisa for West Virginia says, this development is a genuine tragedy for this country.
	One that denies the punishment endured by vulnerable communities in order to enrich the wealthy.
	With this appointment, that punishment is now set to spread to more and more communities.
	That's right.
	Who pays the price for climate change?
	First, it's the poor people and the vulnerable communities.
	Joshua Green, in two hours of circulating.
	Oh, this was interesting.
	I thought this was in two hours of circulating through GOP gatherings at the Trump Hotel this evening.
	The big preoccupation wasn't Trump, Pelosi, or Schumer.
	It was Ocasio.
	She scares the hell out of them.
	She does.
	So people who don't take corporate money, just like Bernie, she doesn't take corporate money.
	That scares the hell out of them.
	Yeah, and it's interesting seeing what she goes through because she's kind of being honest about it.
	I mean, not too long ago, she tweeted about how she was at that hearing to hear about how to deal with, you know, like lobbying and stuff like that.
	And she heard from all of these big executives and she's like, there was no one here representing labor unions.
	We just heard from corporate executive after the future.
	It was the freshman orientation for the freshmen for incoming congresspeople.
	And you know, like, that's not the first time something like this has happened.
	It is the first time somebody said something.
	Yes.
	That's why our question was, how long has this been going on?
	And nobody's ever said anything.
	It took Ocasio-Cortez to go to Congress for us to find out about this?
	Yes, I guess so.
	Even Bernie Nibble, well, he wasn't a freshman.
	He was a freshman congressperson maybe before they started doing that.
	Yeah, there probably wasn't Twitter back then.
	So before their corporate training.
	Here's the Mother Jones.
	The reason why Democrats are letting a senator from cold country oversee the energy industry is Bernie Sanders.
	It's his fault.
	Not Chuck Schumer or the caucus that appointed.
	How is that not bullying 101?
	Like, hey, here's our crappy choice.
	This guy's a jerk and he's not going to do anything.
	Hey, that's not a good idea.
	Well, why don't you take it, man?
	You're not going to take it.
	You're a wimp.
	It's your fault.
	Like, that's terrible.
	This is an actual from Mother Jones.
	That's actually from Mother Jones.
	Just a joke.
	Now you know why there's just a handful of actual progressive lefty media outlets that are just a handful.
	Wow.
	Anyway, there you go.
	Vote blue, blue wave.
	You know what?
	I tweet out stuff and I do the hashtag blue wave, right?
	Because I'm obviously doing it sarcastically.
	People do that those do not do well.
	I think it makes people feel badly.
	I don't know if you heard, but ABC News political analyst Chris Christie lost another possible job in the Trump administration again.
	I wonder how he's taking it.
	What is it?
	Shut your pie box, all of you.
	What?
	I ask that you respect my privacy during this trying time.
	Yada yada yada, whatever.
	Former Governor Christie, this is Jimmy Door calling to check up on you.
	We heard the news.
	About what?
	What news?
	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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	Today's show was written.
	That's right.
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