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April 11, 2019 - Jimmy Dore Show
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Get ready for an outstanding entertainment program.
The Jimmy Dore Show.
Well, I thought I'd give Bernie Sanders a call and ask him about what's up with his tax returns.
Hello, Bernie, you there?
Oh, for crap's sake.
What the hell do you want now?
I want your reaction to the segment Don Lemon just did about your tax returns.
Don what?
Lemon.
Yeah, sure was all right about that.
If he were a car, his career would be on its third airbag recall.
I don't exactly know what that means, but it sounded funny in the mirror.
Don Lemon said that you're trying to hide something like Trump is doing with his tax returns.
His guest, Rick Wilson, said you're hiding how rich you are.
Rick Wilson is trash.
His head looks like a light bulb covered with dead moths.
Next.
Well, why do you think people in the media like Don Lemon and Dana Milbank keep comparing you to Donald Trump?
Because when I'm president, they might actually have to learn journalism again.
But I seriously doubt it.
Look, I've released a detailed financial statement every year.
I've been in Congress.
So don't get your trousers in a ward in Great.
You'll see my shit soon enough.
And then you can all resent my retirement savings while Democrats give Trump another $700 billion war budget and the earth drowns in sewage.
So you're going to release 10 years of taxes after April 15th?
Well, sure, you're a war.
Hey, Chuchi, do you like history?
That wasn't my focus in school.
No.
Here's a crash course.
In 2008, Obama and Hillary didn't release their taxes until eight months before the general election.
We're now 18 months before the general.
I'll release them soon enough.
And you're going to be bored shitless by them.
I guarantee you, just like I'm bored shitless by this conversation.
All my receipts are in paper grocery bags labeled with old magic markers.
So you'll release them then?
Give me time to go through those fucking paper bags, you pest.
Anything else?
Would you like to see if I installed a second bathroom without a proper permit?
I guess not.
Thanks for taking my call, though, Bernie.
You're welcome, and thanks for wasting my fucking time.
I'm trying to save the world here, and you pests want to see the amortization schedule for my Honda Civic.
Everything's fastened together with rubber bands, for God's sake.
I love it.
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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.
Hi, everybody.
Welcome to this week's Jimmy Door show.
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Now let's get to the jokes before we get to the jokes.
We're coming to you live from America.
America is a place where most people can't afford to get married while their taxes are used to pay for Jeff Bezos' divorce.
Hey, but there is good news.
Bank of America says they're raising their minimum wage to $20 an hour.
Whoops, my wrong.
They're going to raise their minimum overdraft penalty to $20 an hour.
Hey, if Jesus were alive today, what would he be doing?
Probably he'd be selling his kidneys for an iPad.
Walmart says they're going to replace thousands of workers with robots.
Negatives, they can't feel love.
Positives, they can't feel pain either.
So they won't complain to cops when they're chained overnight to the lawn furniture.
Here's a little play that tells you what the corporate Democrats are like.
Let's protect the Titanic.
Oh, we're sinking.
Stop dividing us.
You know, I wish Bernie would put his Medicare for All bill on the back of his tax returns because then the media would actually read it.
Hey, speaking of which, you know, Medicare for All, there's actually, there is another bill that's seen as a compromise for Medicare for All.
It's called Medicare for America.
Here's the particulars.
Medicare for All gives everyone health care and lowers the costs.
Medicare for America, if you like your private insurer, you can keep it.
And if you don't, you get a number you can call where somebody will stand on a table and tell you it's going to be okay.
Hey, did you hear both Fleetwood Mac and the Rolling Stones have canceled on the New Orleans Jazz Festival?
Hey, Jazz Fest, maybe this is the universe telling you guys to pick a headliner who actually plays jazz.
So tip of the day, always be sure to pick the right person for your assisted suicide.
You don't want someone who's going to bore you to death.
Jennifer Jennifer Jennifer Jennifer Jennifer Hey, did you hear Kirsten Nielsen just resigned her position as DHS secretary, Department of Homeland Security Secretary?
Nielsen said she wanted to spend more time writing a better punchline for the usual she wanted to spend more time joke.
Hey, did anybody see the big headline today on the Hills website that reads Steve Mnuchin, Maxine Waters get into a fiery exchange over length of hearing?
This is what happens when Democrats like Kamala Harris refuse to prosecute real criminals like Steve Mnuchin.
They end up in Congress arguing with him over Roberts' rules of order.
Hey, topic of the day, no comic should be allowed to wear a headset, Mike, on stage unless they're about to give me change with my prize.
What's coming up on today's show?
Hey, Barack Obama rips progressives for being purists over stuff that everybody in the country actually wants.
Plus, the New York Times uses a comedian to push CIA propaganda on Venezuela.
We debunk it.
And Julian Assange threatened with expulsion from the Ecuadorian embassy.
Is it a setup?
Plus, we got phone calls from Herman Kane, Chuck Schumer, Liam Neeson, and Bernie Sanders, plus a lot lot more.
That's today on the Jimmy Dore show.
The Trump administration, military industrial complex, the fossil fuel companies, they all want to go into Venezuela and steal the oil because Venezuela has twice the amount of oil of Saudi Arabia.
So that's a big deal.
And so they're now manufacturing consent for this war in Venezuela or this coup.
So they first, they try to do a coup and then they'll do a war or an invasion.
And this isn't anything new.
And even going back to the first war in Iraq in 1991, they lied us into it.
So the country wasn't for the war, us going to the Kuwait, right?
So Iraq invaded Kuwait and they said they were slant drilling.
And so we said okay, pretty much said okay, that Saddam could do it.
And then when he did it, we were like, ah, we're going to go fucking.
So watch.
So this guy from a documentary in Canada, they documented this.
So then they had this, they had to do propaganda.
So the Kuwaiti ambassador's daughter gave false testimony in Congress on national TV that Iraqi soldiers were taking babies out of their incubators and throwing them on the ground.
And then everybody in the United States was like, oh my God, let's go.
We have to go help those people.
That's how you got your war.
And he documents it.
Watch.
Iraq attacks Kuwait, claiming the Kuwaitis are slant drilling into Iraq's oil fields.
U.S. President George Herbert Walker Bush pushes for a land war against Iraq.
But polls show the U.S. public is split 50-50 on that idea.
Then comes this eyewitness testimony before a congressional committee from a 15-year-old Kuwaiti girl.
The claim is she cannot be identified for fear of reprisals.
Well, I was there.
I saw the Iraqi soldiers coming to the hospital with guns.
They took the babies out of the incubators.
Took the incubators and left the children to die on the cold spark.
The U.S. public is outraged.
The result?
Support for land war zooms.
It's a turning point.
Desert Storm is launched.
135,000 Iraqis are killed.
An estimated 1 million Iraqis, many of them children and old people, then die as a result of 10 years of sanctions.
One small problem.
There never were any incubator baby deaths.
Not one.
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's investigative flagship program, The Fifth Estate, reveals the girl to be the Kuwaiti ambassador's daughter, given her lines and coached in acting by the giant American PR firm Hill and Knowlton.
It's one phase in a $10 million joint U.S.-Kuwaiti campaign of deception.
This man is lying.
I myself bet it 14 newborn babies that had been taken from their incubators.
This man is lying.
And they had kids and incubators, and they were thrown out of the incubators so that Kuwait could be systematically dismantled.
There were a lot of people who participated in a conspiracy.
Yes, an out-and-out conspiracy of fake organizations, false documents, fraud, and disinformation.
So if a new man named Bush is in the White House and helps engineer a brazen deception in order to achieve global geopolitical goals, as well as domestic and personal ones, it wouldn't be a first, would it?
No, it wouldn't.
So now you see how this works.
That's the first, that's how they did it before the internet.
So now, here's a young lady coming on Fox News to tell you about Venezuela.
You ready?
You know, my mother left Venezuela in the 80s because under Hugo Chavez, the president, not dictator of the country, socialism was rampant and it was ruining the country.
I'm sorry, when did your mother leave?
You know, my mother left Venezuela in the 80s because under Hugo Chavez.
That's weird because Chavez won his first election in 1998.
So they can't even lie straight.
They can't even get their lie.
My mother left because Chavez, in the 80s, Chavez was hooked.
Chavez wasn't elected until 1998.
So do you see what they do?
They get these people who never lived in Venezuela, who are in America, to go on and say, I'm Venezuelan and my mom this.
These are the people they bring on.
They don't bring on people who have a counter narrative to Donald Trump.
These are the people who they bring on.
This guy's funny.
He goes, guys, wait, there's a logical reason to all of this.
She saw through time itself and saw the perils of the Tavista menace and ran away from her country a decade before it ever happened.
So what's really going on in Venezuela is we told you what's happening, and they've been trying to overthrow the socialist government in Venezuela ever since they got elected.
They did it once before 2002.
And it's because the socialist government raised people out of poverty, made literacy a thing, raised their literacy, also built millions of housing, of apartments for their homeless.
Everybody health care.
So, and we can't have that.
You know, Venezuela used to give oil subsidies to people in the United States.
Did you know that?
Yeah.
They had a program to help the poor people in America who couldn't afford heating oil in the winter.
Venezuela would supply it for them for poor people in the United States because our government didn't.
So right now they have Juan Guaido.
Juan Guaido is the CIA puppet who Trump wants to take over Venezuela and he's ready to open up the oil industry to American and British corporate oil companies.
That's what this is all about.
That's what this has always always been about.
They have twice as much oil as Saudi Arabia.
So the New York Times did it.
They had this Johanna Hausman and apparently she's a comedian.
I don't know her.
Grammy never.
Nope, no, no.
So apparently she's a comedian and she's done videos for Univision or something where she's gotten like 4 million views on several videos.
I saw that.
So they had her do the New York Times produced this op-ed of her doing prop CIA propaganda about going into Venezuela.
And I'll show you a little bit of it.
Here's a little bit of it.
There is total chaos in Venezuela.
Hunger, lack of medicine, and latest, nearly the whole country had a blackout.
Okay, and see, she never tells you any of the reasons for any of those things.
And she makes you think it's because of socialism or Maduro or Shaviza.
It's because the United States and Saudi Arabia.
So Saudi Arabia is overproducing oil.
It knocked oil's prices down from $100 to down to like $28 a barrel now.
And then the United States put sanctions on.
Just like with Iraq, those sanctions aren't there to bring democracy to the people.
They're there to bring a country to its knees so we can then steal their natural resources.
So that's what we're creating, these economic problems in Venezuela, the United States, by our sanctions.
The rapporteur on Venezuela, the U.N. rapporteur, said that our sanctions rise to the level of a war crime, what we're doing in Venezuela.
That's the UN's rapporteur.
That it's a human rights violation.
What we're killing people, it's our sanctions that has caused it.
And how did the power go out?
Again, she's pretending to not know.
Again, so that's what this is.
This op-ed is a lie, and it's pro-coup, pro-invasion, pro-Trump narrative in Venezuela.
The whole conversation in the States focuses on what Trump is doing about Venezuela.
And rumors are spreading that the U.S. is considering military interventions.
All options are over.
This movement on the American left against any U.S. involvement in Venezuela is gaining traction.
We've got Noam Chonsky, Roger Waters, Oliver Stone, Boots Riley, Ilan O'Marr, AOC, Jill Stein, and Bernie.
Why have you stopped short of calling Maduro of Venezuela a dictator?
Well, and of course, we've got this lovely guy.
Donatrum Hans of Venezuela.
It is not a good look when your slogan is.
So I guess we're not supposed to like Boots Riley, Jill Stein, Oliver Stone.
Those are all negative people.
Those are Russians.
See, those are all.
Uh-oh.
There's lots of other people who are again.
So they, again, this is propaganda.
So do you see how propaganda works?
You know who thinks about this?
So she doesn't show you evidence.
She just goes, guilt by association.
Look, we don't like these guys, right?
We don't like Bernie Sanders.
It's crazy.
This is how propaganda works.
And there's a big thing she's not telling you, and I'll tell you in a sec.
Is co-opted by a tyrannical dictator.
Now, Trump usually and again, Maduro, she says, is a tyrant.
Oh, no, Trump is corrupted by a tyrannical dictator.
Authoritarians.
But this time, it seems like it's the liberals who are signing with one.
Now, I am not a pro-Trump military hawk.
So in Venezuela, Trump is for getting rid of Maduro.
And she says, oh, my God, the liberals are signing with a strongman dictator, Maduro.
But if you're siding with Trump, you're also siding with Trump.
What?
I'm told Trump is a puppet of Vladimir, of a foreign enemy, a hostile state, that he's a traitor to our country.
So he's not now?
Again, their logic is backwards and upside down and inside out.
And it's this is guilt by association.
And they have this woman who's a comedian tries to be cute about it.
This is how you do cute propaganda, I guess.
Reference my spirit animal is Ruth Theater Ginsburg in workout clothes.
But this movement is dangerously glorifying a brutal dictator and promoting inaction.
No, no, we're not glorifying a brutal dictator.
What we're doing is we're not codifying the pretext, the CIA's bullshit pretext for invasion or a coup.
And that's what you're doing.
How many dictators allow their opposition leader to hold rallies in the middle of the state capitol?
Okay.
Again, they had elections.
The opposition didn't participate.
It was the Maduro wanted to have the UN come in and certify their election.
Previously, the Carter administration had said their elections were some of the best.
The people who have horrible elections are us.
It's the worst combination.
And by the way, if you're really worried about poor people in another country, she said, so she's doing that thing of, oh, I don't want invasion, but we have to help them.
We can't do nothing.
If you really cared about poor people, turn your head to the right and look out your window because there's a tent city right outside it.
If you're in New York City, there's a tent city right.
You know, if you're in D.C., there's people eating out of a fucking garbage can right now.
So there are more people living in poverty in the United States than there are people in Venezuela.
So anybody in the United States who says we have to help people in Venezuela before they help the, they'll step over a dead baby in the United States so they can go give aid to somebody in an oil-rich country.
You get what I'm saying?
Because that's what this is.
For ordinary Venezuelans.
First off, if you look closely at these protests, it's very unlikely you'll bump into, you know, an actual Venezuelan.
So now she's being snarky about people doing protests in the United States against our United States government intervening in Venezuela.
And now she's going to show video of it and said these people aren't even from Venezuela.
Yeah, because they're doing protests against our government in our country.
Watch this.
Are you broke?
Where are you?
There.
Here.
Are you broke?
Where do you prove?
Where are you from?
Philadelphia.
I don't know if you see what it says there in the corner.
This is a protest in Philadelphia.
And this is evidence that she's using to show this is a bogus rally because these people aren't from Venezuela who are protesting against our government's involvement in Venezuela in Philadelphia.
Again, this is what you call gaslighting.
Another term for this is being deceptive and lying.
This is pushing a false narrative.
Trust me, if this was an actual Venezuelan protest, it might look more like this.
Yeah, that's in Venezuela, not Philadelphia.
You see the difference?
And you know, I do want to point out one thing, Jimmy, that it is on a rare occasion that when somebody says, trust me, I can.
Yeah.
In a propaganda video, when you say, trust me, this is straight up propaganda.
And it keeps going.
It doesn't stop.
me remind you what's going on back home.
Inflation is at two point...
When somebody says, let me tell you what's going on back home.
That leads me to believe that's your birthplace.
That's where you've lived.
That's where you are now.
That's where you've grown up.
That's where you've been.
My home is California.
Yeah.
I've been here my whole life.
That's your home because you were born here and you live here.
You're saying she wasn't born in Venezuela?
Oh, no.
Isn't she born in the UK?
She's born in the UK.
Wasn't she educated in the United States?
Don't know.
And she lives in the United States.
And her father teaches at Harvard.
And it's going to get to that.
And his name is Ricardo Hausman.
So I'm not even going to play any more of this because this is just flat out.
It just keeps going.
And there's no point in it, right?
It's just one propaganda lie after another.
And they got someone who is, you know, kind of supposed to be interesting to listen to talk about it.
It's just propaganda.
So here's Juan Guaido, the person she and her people are, the people who think like her are supporting.
Juan Guaido went actually to the barrio to meet with the actual people.
And this is what happened.
They surrounded his car and they tried to get at him.
And it was actually the government security who had to save Juan Guaido.
So Maduro's own government workers were protecting the guy who's trying to throw him out of government.
You see this?
You see this?
So that's what happens when Juan Guaido goes to the barrier.
And there's also another thing happening in Venezuela where there's the minority ruling class, which are rich white people.
And most of the other people who live in the barrio are darker skinned.
So there's a big racist element to that that we talked about with Greg Palace because he documented that.
I didn't realize that.
That is totally true.
So this is what happens when he goes to the barrio.
This is what happens when Juan Guaido.
So the woman you just saw doing the New York Times propaganda, her father is the advisor to Juan Guaido.
And these are the people.
Turn up.
Aquí está el pueblo sacando Guaidó.
Aquí está el pueblo revolucionario.
El pueblo real de la parroquia.
Guaidó intentó entrar aquí a la parroquia, pero aquí no tiene cabida.
La oposición no cabe.
All right, stop.
you Thank you.
So that's what happens when Juan Guaido goes to the barrio.
And as Ben Norton points out, the New York Times spread the Iraqi WMD's lie and the Kuwaiti babies and incubators lie.
Now the New York Times is failing to disclose that Johanna Hausman is the daughter of the elite Harvard economist working with the Trump regime to privatize Venezuelans' oil industry.
Her dad was also a board member of the Venezuelan central bank before Chavez under IMF rule when poverty was the worst in the country's history.
Here's the UN human rights investigator for Venezuela debunking everything she says.
And so they linked to that video that Abby Martin did featuring the special investigator, the rappon tour from the UN on Venezuela.
The subtitle, An Ocean of Lies on Venezuela.
Also, so here is her dad, Ricardo Hausman.
So Anya Permpel tweeted out that the same thing they failed to disclose.
And then her dad, who is, again, let's remember, board member of Venezuela's central bank before the socialist revolution.
So he's part of the problem.
He says, this tweet surely deserves at least an honorary mention among the year's most sexist comments.
Since Joanna Hausman is my daughter, she's not entitled to her own opinion.
She must be speaking on behalf of some male figure that tells her what to say.
Seriously?
So you're trying to say that her association, her lifelong association with Juan Guaido's fuck advisor, has nothing to do with her, that you shouldn't have to disclose that?
Really?
That's what you know about journalism.
Neoliberal Harvard economist who destroyed Venezuela's economy and is now working with the Trump regime to try to privatize its oil industry says it's sexist to point out his daughter, whom the New York Times is amplifying, is from an ultra-elite ruling class family.
That's who Johanna Hausman is.
She's not part of the people in the barrio.
She doesn't even live in goddamn Venezuela.
She wasn't even born there.
Her father was part of the problem why they overthrew her father.
And now these same pricks are trying to get back control of the government at the behest of the CIA and Donald Trump and British Petroleum.
They're all trying to, that's why, that's why the UK froze their gold.
They have billions of dollars in gold Venezuela has, and they took it from them because Venezuela won't give their oil to British petroleum.
And this is the stuff they don't tell you.
And he's trying, and he also says Ricardo Hausman is the economic advisor to Trump-appointed Venezuelan coup leader, Juan Guaido.
He is the coup regime's delegate to the Inter-American Development Bank and is playing a leading role in the attempt to privatize Venezuela's oil industry.
Yeah, I think that's kind of important to tell when you have a comedian that the New York Times is amplifying and making a video of to do propaganda, regime change, Trump pro-Trump regime change, CIA propaganda.
I think it's pretty important that we know all that about her background.
Otherwise, you're doing what they call journalistic malfeasance, which is what the New York Times and the Washington Post CNN do on the regular.
You remember we went to the Oslo Freedom Forum last year where Gary Kasparov, where I challenged his regime change war bullshit hiding behind human rights, using human rights as a shield to go in and do regime change wars.
I sniffed it out at their press conference and Gary Kasparov called me a Putin's body in front of a room full of reporters and we outed them as the neocon con men that they are using human rights as a shield to do regime change wars.
We broke that story on the Jimmy Dorf show.
Guess who the comedian performing at the Oslo Freedom Forum is?
I got kicked out of the Oslo Freedom Forum.
She's going there to perform uncritically.
So she's in bed with the guy who I outed was Gary Kasparov and Thor Helverson.
Thor Helverson, aren't they cousins?
What was their relationship?
Let me look at how they're connected.
So let me backtrack on that.
But they're all from.
They're all connected to Guaido.
Thor Helverson, her, her father.
So I extended an invitation to her.
I extended an invitation to her to come on the show and enlighten our audience about Venezuela.
Right?
I said, extending an invitation to Joanna Houseman to come on the Jimmy Door show and educate our audience about Venezuela.
It looks like we had it all wrong, but your video explained clearly why Trump and Elliot Abrams are right about overthrowing another South American government that is oil-rich.
Now, of course, she didn't respond, but someone else did.
It was this guy, Nadal Baraki.
He retweeted me and said, you will be educated when you learn to see things from other people's perspectives, meaning the CIA, John Bolton, Elliott Abrams, rich people who broke Venezuela in the first place.
It's not about the U.S. overthrowing a government.
It's about a country being raped and killed by a narco-dictator asking for international help.
Sometimes the U.S. is not the center of the universe.
Yeah, you know how we like to help people in other countries because they're poor.
You know how we're helping people in Yemen right now die through a genocide.
We're helping Saudi Arabia commit.
That's how much we give a shit about poor people in other countries.
We don't even give a shit about poor people in our own fucking country, let alone another country.
We don't even give a shit about us because they have twice as much oil as Saudi Arabia.
And this guy's trying to bullshit in Gaslight.
Okay.
I invited him on the show.
Anytime you or Joanna Hausman or anybody else with a blue check wants to come on and educate my audience about Venezuela, you have an open invitation.
When are you available?
So I don't know if you know about how Twitter works, but I started following him because sometimes if you follow people, you can then send them a direct message.
So I wanted to send him a direct message saying, here's my schedule.
So I started following him, except he has his settings where you can't DM him, right?
That's what that looks like.
You can't DM him because I'm following him.
Otherwise, there'd be a mailbox there and that's I could press and deal.
So if you follow me, you can DM me.
My DMs are what they call open on Twitter.
Now, I don't get to all of them, but they're open.
I don't get to half of them, but they're open.
So then the people I follow come up in one category.
And the people I don't follow, but who follow me who send me an email, they come up in another category.
So that's called having your DMs open.
Well, he doesn't have his DMs open, so I couldn't DM him, right?
Here's what he says.
That would be great.
DM me.
Nadal, come on.
Come on, buddy.
Come on, baby.
By the way, I think if you want to know the truth about Venezuela, I go right to a food writer.
Boy, a white Hispanic from the Miami area who's pro-regime change in South America?
What a fucking shocker.
The complete denial of America's long history of overthrowing countries that won't give us their natural resources is just funny to me.
And they keep contradicting themselves.
And then the dad playing the sexism card.
It's so great.
Anytime you call out the ruling class for who they really are, the warmongers, the only thing they have left is the Hail Mary pass of identity politics, hoping that there's some sort of groundswell of hashtag me too jumps on you or whatever, even though it was a woman that was calling out his daughter.
So, so Nadal Baraki, who's a food writer, got a lot of followers.
You have an open invitation.
I know you're too afraid to actually come on or to even have an honest interaction on Twitter.
Could you have less of an honest interaction on Twitter?
Oh, sure, DM me, and you know your DMs are closed.
Like, that's how big of liars these guys are.
They can't even fucking give.
You can't even go two tweets without bullshitting 100%.
You can't even go two tweets without me catching you do this, which is why you'll never come on the show, which is why Joanna will never come on the show and her dad will never come on the show.
Because it doesn't take brains to debunk you fucking liars.
A guy like me could do it.
And I'm doing it right now.
Doesn't take brains.
That's why I can do this.
If it did, it'd be tough.
Doesn't take brains.
You know what it takes?
It takes not being bought by the people you're supposed to be investigating and exposing.
I'm not bought by anybody.
So I get to tell the truth.
And my dad doesn't work for a fucking CIA regime change puppet who fucking paid for my school and everything else.
I don't have those conflicts of interest.
I grew up poor.
My dad was a poor cop with 12 kids.
Nobody paid for shit.
I went to state college.
I just went to Nadal's page, his Twitter page.
Yeah.
And I opened up one of the tweets and somebody from, it's called Revive Democracy.
They say, how is Maduro a narco-dictator?
Can we get examples?
Where's a link?
And he's doing it straight to Nadal.
And Nadal's response is, really?
Question.
That's not a response.
Well, then I'm convinced.
Aren't you?
Really?
Yeah.
Oh, that's right.
I was hoping he would say, really, then I would know.
Yeah, I was like, password, I know you're right.
So that's what he.
And that's the thing that we're finding, Jimmy, is every time we ask people for links to support their, you know, pretext CIA propaganda, they don't have a link.
And so that's who these guys are.
They're so easy.
It's so easy.
Even a dumb guy like me, I could do it drunk.
I smoke pot when I get up.
I can see right through you.
It's so, you're so lame.
That's how lame these guys are.
And by the way, his own tweet, one like.
That's his own tweet.
He retweeted it one like.
Well, everyone can like their own tweet.
One.
So even his own followers don't fucking buy his stupid bullshit.
Nadal, if you're watching right now, go ahead and tweet at us and we'll hook you up, okay?
Because I don't know how we're supposed to get a hold of him now.
I don't know how we're supposed to get, you know, my DMs are.
By the way, my DMs are open, Nadal.
You fucking wimp.
Really?
You half a man.
You fucking half a man.
Ha ha.
I guess I'm going to guess he writes mostly about Keish.
Anyway, there you go.
That's how easy this is, ladies and gentlemen.
You too could be a great news person.
All you have to do is not lie.
Get a camera, go on YouTube.
You also can do this.
It's not hard.
All you have to do is not fucking lie and don't believe anything the government tells you.
Yeah.
What is the point of being a YouTuber if you fucking push CIA hoax talking points?
Who do you know?
I don't do this because MSNBC is getting it right most of the time.
Say, who do you know that you grew up with that goes, you know, when I grew up, I want to be a CIA talking points head.
Yes.
Someday I'm going to be pushing CIA talking points.
One of these days.
That's what I want to do when I grow up.
I want to push CIA talking points.
Wow, it's Master of the Senate and seven-time veteran of the Daily Show, Chuck Schumer.
Hey, Chuck.
Yes, it is I or me or him, Charles Chuck Ellis Schumer, protector of adequate health care for all.
Oh, who could afford it?
What?
We're protecting your health care, Jimmy.
That's what?
What are you talking about?
Oh, my lord.
Didn't you see us protecting your health care the other day?
Well, did you?
Me and Nancy up there on the steps of the Supreme Court protecting your health care like the warriors we are.
And by the way, a big congrats to Speaker Pelosi for winning the Nobel Peace Prize for leading the battle cry against the scourge of Medicare for all.
Oh, my goodness gracious.
I thought it was the Profile and Courage Award.
It's exactly that kind of sexist narrative that cost Hillary the election, Buster Brown.
But it wasn't the Nobel Peace Prize, Chuck.
Oh, it wasn't, was it?
Well, you just wait, Captain Letdown, because there will come a day when she does get that prize.
Because the only path to quality, affordable health care for all Americans is the ACA, not some free giveaway to cancer queens.
Giveaway to who?
You know, cancer queens.
These women gaming the system, having cancer out of wedlock, spending all their food stamp money on chemo, showing little desire to work.
Wow, I haven't heard this one before.
That's because most of them are dead, Jimmy.
And guess who picks up their debt?
Shameful.
And don't get me started on those insulin scam artists buying insulin on Craigslist for half what it costs at right aid.
That's a theft of over $400 per bottle.
No, sir.
We must protect your health care and your freedom to be free from the free health care scammers.
But I thought being free was the most affordable.
How can free be affordable?
Freedom always comes at a price, my good fellow.
Take our slaves, for instance.
They worked hard.
They script.
They saved their scripts for a rainy day.
And they pulled themselves up by their bootstraps when they had them.
And before they knew it, they earned the right to enjoy 150 years of Jim Crow.
Wow.
Now, I'm not saying it was easy, but our forefathers didn't get thrown out of Holland for being annoying zealots for nothing.
No.
They knew the only way to freedom was to dress in heavy woolen cloaks during the summer and then freeze to death in the winters of Rhode Island after begging natives for acorns.
True freedom is incremental.
It's in the Constitution.
You know, I didn't know that.
Yes, it was hard.
But all it takes is a pocket full of gumption.
A few hundred years and Shazam.
You're in a food desert paying more for gas than rich people in Beverly Hills.
Upward mobility.
Say it after me, Jimmy.
Upward mobility.
Ready?
No.
Upward.
Oh, stop it, you net negative.
Your negativity is contagious.
It makes people nervous.
What people?
Wall Street.
Yeah, Wall Street is a street full of money.
It's not people.
I have a parmesan wheel.
How did that really took a turn that call?
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Hey, this is Jimmy.
Who's this?
Seamus, my old friend.
Oh, is this Liam Neesum?
It most certainly is, Laddie.
How are you?
I'm doing well, Liam.
How are you doing?
James, I couldn't be better.
I'm ready to get it started.
Get it started?
Get what started?
What do you mean, get what started?
Why, you're the first stop, of course.
First stop of what, Liam?
My media rehabilitation tour, you silly little goose.
Oh, okay.
All right.
My public relations consultant told me to start small.
Well, that doesn't make me feel very good, Liam.
I'm not here to give you a rub and tug, young soldier.
I'm here to get my arse back in the driver's seat.
Or my career arse, I should say.
Okay, what exactly are we doing here?
Well, Jimmy, do you recall that a few months ago I revealed in an interview that was ostensibly to promote a motion picture I was starring in?
That years ago, during my tempestuous Irish youth, I once roamed the streets at night looking for a blackman to obliterate.
Yeah, I remember that.
Yes, quite.
Well, that little incident cost me dearly in the PR department.
I'm not going to lie.
Yeah, I would imagine.
And to be honest with you, I was a little surprised at the blowback.
You know, it's not like I pulled strings like that, Felicity Huffman, to get my wholly unqualified and unprepared daughter into the UFC.
Liam.
That's an astonishing abdication of parental duty.
Yeah, I don't think that.
I know some of these UFC fighters.
I felt their shoulders and their haunches with my own hands.
And believe you me, Sonny Jim, you send your unprepared, untrained Instagram Marvel teen daughter into that cage.
She's going to leave with more than just a few goose eggs on her noggin.
It's USC, Liam.
What?
They got her into USC, the University of Southern California, not the UFC.
Oh.
Anyway, I was surprised at the blowback.
Actually, I'm not supposed to say that.
I'm already fucking this up.
All right.
Rule number one: accept negative blowback in its totality, no matter how hyperbolic it may appear.
There are rules.
Oh, of course.
There's about ten really good ones.
All the high-dollar PR gurus make you memorize before the rehabilitation.
I'll share them with you for when the inevitable time comes that you do or say something unforgivable.
So far, so good.
Well, that's what I thought as well.
Here's a good one.
Rule number nine: primarily direct your apologies towards the specific group or groups you have offended.
So today, on your show, I would like to offer a heartfelt apology to all blackmen who are wandering the streets at night looking as if they're up to no good.
I'm not sure that's a good apology.
Was at least I didn't say, I'm sorry you took offense.
That's a no-no.
Beware the back-ended apology, Jimmy.
Beware it.
Okay.
Okay.
Rule number four: acknowledge your own privilege.
Now, this one has always been a bit of a queer puzzle to me.
This notion of privilege.
I'm not sure what I think of it.
I have danced with the idea.
Sometimes a gentle midnight rooftop waltz.
Other times, a violent, animalistic Dionysian freak out to the beat of savage jungle drums.
Okay.
So I think I understand it in this context.
If I had murdered a black man years ago, it would have been my privilege to have done so.
To have taken the life of so worthy an adversary.
Yeah, I don't think so.
This is the highest respect a man of honor can bestow upon a hypothetically murdered victim.
Respect and privilege.
Sluncha.
Yeah, I don't think you understand this at all, Liam.
Honestly, I'm glad you came here first, so I can tell you to go back to the drawing board and don't contact any other media outlets yet.
All right, Jimmy, fair enough.
But I shall return, as I can promise you.
And stay inside tonight, my brother.
Off of those Pasadena streets.
Jackals own the night, I tell you.
Jackals.
Wikileaks tweeted this out, breaking a high-level source within the Ecuadorian state has told WikiLeaks that Julian Assange will be expelled within hours todays using the NA papers offshore scandal as the pretext, and that it already has an agreement with the UK for his arrest.
So that got everybody's, so that needs to get out there.
And then, but then the most recent story, so I wanted to see, so it hasn't happened yet.
He still hasn't been kicked out yet, because the most recent article I got was this one, and that was from today at 3.38 a.m. Pacific Daylight savings time.
So, and this says Ecuador rejects WikiLeaks' claim it plans to expel Julian Assange.
Assange hasn't left the country's embassy in London since he sought refuge there in 2012 to avoid potential extradition to the United States, to where they will then definitely torture him, like they did to Chelsea Manning.
Who's back in jail?
Who's back in jail?
Who they put Chelsea Manning back in jail over this issue.
Ecuador, this is according to NBC News.
Ecuador has denied that WikiLeaks claim that it is set to expel Julian Assange from its embassy in London, rejecting what it called an attempt to stain the dignity of the country.
So you see what they're doing.
So to me, if you read between the lines here, we know that the government in control now of Ecuador is beholden to Goldman Sachs, right?
And that they received a couple of half a billion dollar payments, a couple of those.
And so now they're all about finding a reason to expel him.
And so this Sounds like another one.
Like, so they plant, they tell Wikileaks, they have a high person in the Ecuadorian government, tell WikiLeaks this is happening.
So then they announce it so people can start rallying around him.
And then Ecuador uses that as, look, he's defaming us.
Look, because they want to kick him out now.
The people who are in power now, but the people before didn't.
Okay.
So does that follow?
Do you follow what I'm saying?
Yeah.
So that very well could be exactly what's happening.
So now they go, oh my God, we're trying to, and this guy can't stop slandering us.
Did you plant that story with Wikileaks?
Right?
Ecuador's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement late Friday that Assange and WikiLeaks have shown ingratitude and disrespect toward the country that has given him protection on its diplomatic soil by fueling rumors that he would be handed over to British authorities.
So that's just really suspicious to me.
That's just super suspicious.
Exactly what I think happened is what I think happened is happening, that they're trying to do this now so they can have more cover for when they finally do kick him out at the behest of the Western powers.
Okay.
Ecuador has made significant expenditures to pay for his stay and has endured its rudeness.
The ministry said.
Last month, Ecuador's National Assembly issued a resolution to investigate if Assange played a role in the publishing of private information about President Lenin Marino on social networks.
On Tuesday, Moreno blamed Wikileaks for recent allegations of offshore corruption, but appeared in local media outlet that appeared in local media outlets and the publication of family photos, photos to social media.
So do you see what they're doing?
Okay, you see what they're trying to do.
So now Ecuador is trying to paint Assange as some kind of a traitor to their country.
Hey, he's revealing stuff that's negative about our president.
Do you see what they're doing?
So now they could use like this guy's dangerous.
He's revealing secret stuff.
Wikileaks in a statement called Moreno's charges completely bogus, saying it reported on the accusation of corruption against the president only after Ecuador's legislature investigated the issue.
So Wikileaks only reported on an investigation that had already been done by their own government.
And again, WikiLeaks doesn't go hacking people's computers.
Right.
They are given information and they put it on the internet.
That's the thing that they have.
Everybody thinks like Julian Assange is just around hacking people's computers.
No, they're a publisher.
They're publishers.
So that's why this is all a big deal because traditionally publishers have never been prosecuted in the United States over publishing classified information that the public had a right to know.
Like that's what that whole movie The Post is about.
It's about Daniel Ellsberg who got those that Rand study and he published it that revealed the Vietnam War to be a hoax on the American people carried out over, I think, four presidential administrations.
So it didn't matter Republican Democrat.
It was the military industrial complex, right?
And who and had the presidents in their back pocket.
Same thing with Watergate.
Same thing.
Right.
So you get to publish stuff, but the crime would be hacking into a computer to get it.
That is a crime.
But when someone has that information and then they give it to a publisher like the New York Times or the Washington Post or WikiLeaks, then they can publish it without fear of recrimin or of prosecution.
So that's why this is totally different because they're trying to shut down, they're trying to charge Julian Assange and trying to shut him down, even though the precedent is that we shouldn't be doing this.
And they're trying to find ways.
So what they want to do is connect Julian Assange with Chelsea Manning and say that Julian Assange encouraged Chelsea Manning to get those files or helped or assisted because that's a crime.
But they did, according to everything, we know WikiLeaks didn't do that.
Julian Assange didn't do that.
Julian Assange was just helping, just published what Chelsea Manning uncovered, right?
Am I correct on this?
Okay.
And that's what they're doing anything they can to get him.
They tried the fake rape allegations to get him to Sweden.
Yeah, he's fake.
They'll stand trial.
Just don't extradite me to the United States.
They wouldn't guarantee that.
They wouldn't guarantee that.
And then the woman who was in charge of, or the prosecutor that was in charge of that case, has been reprimanded for how horribly she handled it.
Yeah.
By the way, Marino provided no evidence, but the speech reflected ongoing tension between Assange and his hosts at the Ecuadorian embassy in London.
So all that stuff he accused Assange of doing, they didn't provide any evidence of it.
That's according to NBC freaking news.
And if they're saying it, which it goes against their narrative, that it has to be true.
That's what, when do you believe NBC news?
When they tell you something that goes counter to their own stupid narrative.
That's when you're like, oh, what must be, you know, there you go.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said its statement late Friday, in its statement late Friday, that Ecuador had filed a complaint with the United Nations over what they called illicit publications.
So they're going after the publisher, not the person who got hacked the information.
They're going after the publisher, which is Julian Assange.
Mr. Assange has rights, but also obligations to comply with it, warned.
No person under the jurisdiction of Ecuador is above the law.
So they want to get at him.
They file this complaint with the United Nations.
It's crazy.
They're giving him asylum and they're filing shit.
Again, you see what's going on.
I hope you do.
And Gordon Dimack posted this.
He said, Julian Assange has taken the fundamentals of journalism from the analog age and transferred them flawlessly into the digital era.
This is war on what is left of the fourth estate.
Any journalist not jumping up and down screaming bloody murder, he says blue.
I say bloody murder right now is bought and paid for.
And so, well, I don't know if they're bought and paid for, but they want to be bought and paid for.
Because if you, you know, it's again, this is one of those stories that doesn't help your career.
You know, telling the truth about the most important thing, freedom of journalism, freedom of the press, that actually doesn't help your career in this neoliberal surveillance state that all these journalists operate in.
And I'll go one step further.
You know, any of these journalists that end up going to these, because there's going to have another one of these correspondence dinners.
And if you don't go there with the express intent to bust their balls for how shitty they are, then you are proud of the problem.
Yeah.
You're part of the problem.
If you're going to that correspondence dinner to rub shoulders with these fuckers instead of bust their balls, then you're part of the problem.
That's a fact.
Okay.
Because you should be calling those motherfuckers out, not fucking putting on a tuxedo and drinking cocktails with them.
Well, Jimmy, it's not just, they haven't just bought, the corporate media has also bought out entertainers.
Because as a comedian, if you want to get a job, you can't say the things you say on this show or on my show, Political Vigilante.
Oh, no.
We're not going to get hired to be late-night talk show hosts on them.
Oh, no.
There's no way we can't.
Look what happened to Colbert.
He totally flipped to neoliberal.
He totally stopped challenging the establishment.
Neoliberal is something that Chris Hedges wants to do.
The corporatists.
Corporatists.
Corporatists.
The corporatists.
And then you see, you know, I saw I saw a comic get called out for being a corporate comedian, and he went nuts.
You know, he's a neoliberal corporate.
It was Neil Brennan, I believe, got called that on Instagram.
And people got, he got, he went furious because that's the thing.
If you want to get paid by the corporate media, you got to play their game.
So you can make fun of Trump and his hair and this, that, the other thing, but you can't, you can't say they're pushing the war machine.
You can't, you can't say that Stephen Colbert or them are bought and paid for their, you know, segments that Rachel Maddow has that are paid for by Boeing.
You can't call that out.
You can't call that out.
You won't get a job.
The fucking CBS is sponsored by the banks, oil industry, and military industrial complex.
I mean, that's, of course.
I lost work because of my Twitter feed two years ago.
I know.
I know.
Take that story that, yes, you were scheduled to host.
A movie review game show for a big, a movie review, online movie review company that is owned by one of the major conglomerates.
And they saw my Twitter feed and my Twitter feed was calling out at the time Anthony Rendon and the other California state legislator Democrats that had sold us out for single payer in 17.
This is, remember that spring or summer they sold us out.
And I was just calling him.
I wasn't swearing.
I wasn't all caps.
I wasn't, I was just calling out the corporate Democrats for selling us out.
And I got fired from a job for that, which is just a shot across the bow going, hey, Graham.
And I was about six months into doing my political vigilante show and I had to make a decision.
I had to make a decision, having done over 300 episodes of TV.
If I want any more jobs in corporate media and television, if I want to be on Comedy Central and get a Netflix special, I got to rein back or double down and tell them to jam it.
So that's what I did.
I told him to jam it.
That's a boy here.
And that's why you're in my garage.
But it's well worth it.
Nice garage, Jimmy.
When the truth loses you, friends, get better friends.
Get better friends.
Because you know what I have with me in this garage?
My integrity.
I can look at myself in the mirror.
I still live in my one-bedroom rent-controlled apartment because the bank stole my home.
But guess what?
I got my soul.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That and the dollar will get you on the bus.
Anyway, we'll be right back.
It's a real good litmus test for how, for me, if somebody considers themselves, you know, a real journalist, they would be talking about Julian Assange.
And you can have problems with how Julian Assange does his work.
You could be critical of certain things, but you can't turn your back on someone who's now being prosecuted because he's a threat to the establishment.
That's why he's being prosecuted because he's an actual threat to power.
That's why.
And of course, it's the people who just fed you a hoax and an evidence-free red baiting conspiracy theory for three years want you to believe that somehow Julian Assange is also an enemy of the United States and in bed with Russia and some kind of compromise and he's your enemy.
Those people, again, are horrible people and they're all bought and paid for.
And again, if you're not, especially if you consider yourself alternative news and you're not sticking up for Julian Assange, then there's really, I don't know, there's really not much point.
I don't understand why people would.
So that's a good litmus test for me.
If you consider, so this is a big, this is another big test for journalism and journalism is failing it.
Well, that's the thing.
People like, if you got bent out of shape about Kosoji getting murdered, okay, but then you can't then not get bent out.
Why are you, why is this, why is this different?
You know, how, and most, most journalists or indie media people, I go, do you know about Serena Shim?
They go, who's that?
I go, oh, that was the American journalist that was, had a very suspicious death after she had revealed that we were letting ISIS get through U.S. bases through Turkey into Syria.
And weird, then she has a weird car accident.
Nobody ever investigates it.
So you can't just pick and choose which things to be outraged about.
You got to show they're all wrong.
There's a problem with all of them and you need to stand up for them.
Jim Acosta, the grandstanding jackass, Jim Acosta, everybody gets upset over him and clutches their pearls over Trump being rude to Jim Acosta.
But the same Trump's CIA is going after Julian Assange and they're all stupid about it on purpose because it takes real courage to stand up for the truth.
And as most times we've seen, most people don't.
And that's why the journalism profession is filled with just as many fucking hacks as any other profession.
Just as just a handful of people are worth their assault in journalism.
And I know Phil Donahue, he said that nobody respects the guy who does the roundhouse criticism of all media.
There's a lot of people doing a lot of good work.
And there are.
But overall, where are they?
Where are all those people doing good work pushing back against Russia Gate?
They were still doing good work probably about something else, but they never stuck their chin out to push back against the biggest fucking hoax that journalism as a group was pulling on the American people.
They just put their head down because it didn't advance their career.
It doesn't advance your career.
Aaron Mate just won a fucking award for the work he did on Russia Gate because he's an actual journalist.
They couldn't give it to a Jagoff Nightclub comedian, right?
So they gave it to an actual journalist.
Is his phone ringing off the hook with offers?
No.
If journalism wasn't toxic, which it is, if journalism functioned in any weird near a normal or a healthy way, or even like a normal business did, the people who got Russia Gate right now would be getting offers and raises and everybody would be a bidding war to try to get those people in their newsroom.
But that's not how journalism functions.
Journalism is dysfunctional and toxic.
And people don't like reminders of them being wrong on a nuclear scale.
They don't like them hanging around their newsrooms.
So guess what?
So they can get it wrong again.
These are the same people who got Iraq wrong.
These are when we got it right.
These are the same people who got Libya wrong.
These are the same people who got Syria wrong.
These are the same people who are currently getting Venezuela wrong.
And they're all doing it on purpose.
As a group, journalism is doing this.
And there's almost no one pushing back.
And the only people who are being pushing back are being smeared on the regular.
And where's the rest of the journalism?
Where does Chris Hay stand up for those people?
Where's Lawrence O'Donnell sticking up for those people pushing back?
What they do is they all sit around a table at MSNBC and attack someone who's telling the truth about the Syrian war like they did to Tulsi Gabbard.
That's what they do.
So I don't have much respect.
I know Phil Downey likes to, so those people who are doing good work, what they need to do is stop doing their good work for one fucking day, stick their head up and push back against the evidence-free red baiting conspiracy theory that their whole profession is spinning at the top of their lungs.
That's what a good journalist would do.
Not only just do good journalism on a thing they're working on, but actually stop and push back instead of leaving it up to five or ten motherfuckers in the entire country.
It's also hard to push back when you have the CIA and your production team or wherever else.
That's right.
And NBC hired flat out the head of the CIA to now rub shoulders in the green room with Rachel Maddow and Chris Hayes and every other fucking guest that comes on there.
That's their expert.
The CIA, they bring them right in.
They give them a contract.
The people they're supposed to be debunking, they pay to come on and lie to us.
So that's what I say.
So I'm going to disagree with Phil Donahue on that one.
That, yeah, all those people who are doing good work, who weren't working on Russia Gate, should have stopped the good work they were doing once a week, maybe, and pushed back against this fucking thing instead of leading it up to five or 10 jagoffs who got smeared for three years straight.
People still doing it, by the way, still smearing Aaron, still smearing Glenn Greenwald.
And of course, us all the time.
So that's what I have to say about that.
And that's a good litmus test.
Again, journalism as a group, turning a blind eye to Julian Assange.
In fact, even helping it along as a group, which is why we do this show, which is why we're better than them, which is why our country's in such a shit shape, it is, is because it falls on people like me to tell the fucking truth about what's happening in this country.
Now you know why we're fucked.
Because it does.
It does come down to people like me and people who are ostracized, like Aaron Matei and Max Blumenthal and Michael Tracy and Glenn Greenwald.
It does.
And now that the hoax has been revealed, have they stopped?
No.
No, they are not stopping.
They are doubling down.
Think Progress just did another article about all the people that Mueller left out of his Russia gating.
We got more Russians, more Russians, more Americans who are suspect.
Your hoax just got exposed as a hoax.
Still doing it.
And the other media doesn't call them out.
So that's why as a group, and I feel genuinely sorry for people like Michael Tracy and Glenn Greenwald and Aaron Mate and Mac, they actually have to fucking work.
That's their peers.
Journalists are their peers.
I genuinely, because they have to get jobs now and work with those fucking people.
Anyway, I don't know how much I'm allowed to say about the nation magazine, so I won't say anything, but it was really brave of Katrina Vandenhoeff to have Aaron Matei continue to do accurate and reporting and stick to journalistic standards while the rest of his profession was ignoring them.
And it actually took courage to stand up for journalistic standards.
Isn't that why?
That's how fucked up things are in this country.
Just standing up for journalistic standards makes you a pariah in the era of Trump.
I mean, it's always been that way.
I mean, the MSNBC fired Phil Donovan for telling the truth about the Iraq War.
That was in 2002 and they fired, or three, and they fired Ed Schultz and Jesse Ben Ashley Banfield fell ed church just because he wanted to cover Bernie Sanders.
They fired him.
And notice who didn't get fired?
The rest of the people who are there.
They didn't get fired.
So that's all you need to know about the people left at MSNBC, right?
Would there be anything else you need to know?
They fired Ed Schultz.
They didn't fire Chris Hayes.
Who do you want to fucking listen to?
So let's get to this.
So now, Barack Obama likes to go to other foreign countries and wag his finger at voters.
And now he's wagging his finger at progressives.
And what you need to remember, what people forget, because Trump is so horrible, people are overloving the memory of Barack Obama.
And people don't realize that the reason why we got Donald Trump is because people were hurting.
They voted for a black guy with a Muslim name, and he then governed exactly like Mitt Romney.
So we were never given left-wing policies.
We were never given that.
We were governed by a right-wing Barack Obama.
That's a fact.
And here's the proof.
The truth of the matter is, is that my policies are so mainstream that, you know, if I had said the same policies that I have back in the 1980s, I'd be considered a moderate Republican.
So that's why we got Trump, because he didn't break up the banks.
He didn't help the people save their houses.
He didn't help the unions.
He didn't end the wars.
He expanded them.
His whole cabinet came from an email.
This is from October 6th, 2008, before the election.
His entire cabinet came from an email from a guy at Citigroup.
That's the guy, SeatCity.com, sends it to Barack Obama's co-chair, John Podesta.
And there it is.
Hey, here's a list of all the people I want.
This was October 6th.
The election was November 4th.
And yet Froman, an executive at Citigroup, which would ultimately become the recipient of the largest bailout from the federal government during the financial crisis, had mapped out virtually the entire Obama cabinet a month before the votes were counted.
So now when you watch this video of him just the other day, you'll know why he's saying this stuff.
I know from experience in passing the healthcare law that I had to work on in the United States that that was not the ideal health care program that I wanted to set up.
It's what I could get at the time.
And if I could establish the principle that everybody gets healthcare and get 20 million people more healthcare, even if 10 million still hadn't gotten it, that's what I'm going to do now.
First of all, it was 30 million people who still hadn't gotten it.
And the rest of the poor people that you did give Obamacare to, it was almost worthless to them because they had deductibles of $5,000, which means they couldn't go to the doctor when they had a symptom.
So it didn't change poor people's lives almost at all.
And it left 30 million people out.
He's lying.
And he did that on purpose.
He could have gotten the public option.
He chose not to.
People blame it on Joe Lieberman.
It was Barack Obama and the people inside the city group that told him what to do and he did it.
And then I'll fight some more later for the other 20%.
When did that fight happen?
Did anybody remember that fight?
He fought after they passed Obamacare.
Do you remember him fighting to bring better health care to anybody else or a public option or anything?
When did that happen?
I don't even remember kerfuffle over it, much less a fight.
Then I'll fight for it later.
What does that mean?
You mean after they flip the house on you in the Senate and you have absolutely no control of the Congress anymore, that's when you're going to get good health care.
Is he still?
Is he still asking for Medicare for all?
So I just want to tell you that Barack Obama, when he was president, when Barack Obama became president, he had complete control of government.
They had a filibuster-approved Senate, the Democrats did, for at least a couple months.
And if the Republicans have that, they jam every goddamn thing they can down.
And what Barack Obama did was pretend that his hands were tied.
They weren't.
And he did it on purpose.
So to go back to the point that was made by Conlin, what's true for me when I was a president or an elected official, it's going to be true for you as well, even within your own organizations.
And one of the things I do worry about sometimes among progressives in the United States, maybe it's true here as well.
There it comes.
Is a certain kind of rigidity where we say, ah, I'm sorry, this is how it's going to be.
And then we start sometimes creating what's called a circular firing squad where you start shooting at your allies because one of them is straying from purity on the issues.
Okay, so what he's telling you again is don't fight for things you believe in.
Don't fight for Medicare for all.
Don't fight for a public option.
Don't fight for a living wage.
Don't fight to end the bank, break up the banks.
Don't fight to end the wars.
Just take whatever the establishment is willing to give you.
Because I'm going to tell you something when he's talking about purity.
When he's talking about, say, Medicare for all, which the overwhelming majority of Democrats and Republicans are for, the country's for it.
You know who's not for it, Barack?
The health insurance companies and Wall Street.
So when you say you can't be pure and you have to negotiate, what you're literally saying is you're negotiating between what the people want and what Wall Street wants.
And that you have to give in to Wall Street.
Not other people, not what the Republicans want, because the Republican people voters want Medicare for all.
So you're not saying negotiate With Republicans, you're saying literally negotiate with the donor class.
That's what he's saying.
This is the complete opposite of everything that got him elected the first time.
Like he went from, yes, we can to, well, we could have, but whatever.
Let's go bowling.
Let's go.
He went from, yes, we can to get, take what they'll give you.
And don't be a purist.
What he's telling you is don't fight for things that are overwhelmingly popular.
And who should we negotiate with?
With the donor class.
He's not saying negotiate with other voters.
That's not what he's saying.
He's saying we have to negotiate with the donors because the other voters want it.
So who are we now negotiating?
Who are we being pure to?
What he's talking about is you have to accept corruption.
And if you push back against corruption, I'm going to call you a purist.
And why does Barack Obama say that?
Because he's bought and he was from day one.
Barack Obama was bought from day one.
And because we have Trump, people are pretending he was Santa Claus when what he was was Mitt Romney.
And when that happens, typically the overall effort and movement weakens.
So I think whether you are speaking as a citizen or as a political leader or as an organizer, whether you're in the nonprofit space or civic space or you're in the political arena, you have to recognize that the way we've structured democracy requires you to take into account people who don't agree with you.
Yeah, that's not democracy.
What you're talking about is corruption.
That's what he's talking about.
And Barack Obama is bought and paid for it.
And if you don't know it, if that email from Citigroup, there's a million things I could show you.
A million things.
Barack Obama goes from the White House to Wall Street in record time.
That's another headline.
I could show you a million things.
So what he's saying is you have to realize you're not going to get everything you want.
What he means is the donor class is going to keep things from the citizens that the citizens want.
Because again, the overwhelming majority of Democrats, almost 90%, want Medicare for all.
Nine out of 10 Democrats.
So who are you saying negotiate with?
Republicans also want Medicare for all.
The voters.
You know who doesn't?
The donor class, which is who he's a part of.
This is all about class.
This is about the class.
It's not about that he's black or that someone's a Muslim or that someone's a lesbian or that someone's a gay or a transgender.
It's about the class they're in.
Barack Obama is a 60, 80, 100 millionaire right now.
And he always came from this class.
All of his cabinet came from this class.
And that's the problem.
And I learned that reading Thomas Frank's Listen Liberal.
And this is all bullshit.
See if there's any more to this.
That, by definition, means you're not going to get 100% of what you want.
But you should take some time to think in your own mind and continually refine and reflect.
What are my core principles?
Because the danger is if you don't know what your principles are, that's when you compromise your principles away.
Uh-oh.
So you have to know ahead of time.
Here's what I'm saying.
So he's saying compromise, but don't, but don't compromise too.
That's what he's saying.
So what he said is he knew his principles entering office, and those principles were not to represent the needs of the people.
That was his core principle.
He didn't give the unions card check, which he could have did, didn't do it.
He could have broken up the banks.
He didn't do it.
Could have saved small banks, didn't do it.
Could have saved people's houses.
He didn't do it.
Could have helped the unions in Wisconsin.
Didn't do it.
Could have done a million, could have ended the wars.
He expanded them, didn't do it.
So what he's saying, again, so now he's saying, but you know, you have to have core principles.
Yeah, my core principles is no corruption.
If I'm going to negotiate with someone, it's going to be with other voters.
It's not going to be with donors.
And that's what Barack Obama wants you to do.
And that's what he's telling you.
Don't fight for what you want.
Go ahead.
I can't help notice, but you've stopped that video at like the most perfect moment.
I mean, look at, oh, don't fight for your principle.
It looks like that's what he's doing.
It looks like he's doing the CK.
It's not a double CK.
You got to market your principles.
Yeah, exactly.
You know, Jimmy, it wasn't that long ago where we were watching a video where he was in Italy and telling people that the bad government.
Yeah.
Instead of like, I wonder why people aren't voting, especially for after eight years of me.
I wonder why people don't feel government's responsive to their needs.
Let's see some of the people.
I'm trying to compromise on here are the things that I'm not.
You can't set up a system in which you don't compromise on anything, but you also can't operate in a system where.
Yeah, okay.
You can't operate in a system where, you know, you actually start legislating that help people.
Instead, I mean, there's got to be massive profits attached to any help we give to people, like the health care bill.
Well, we had to ensure huge profits for big pharma and the health insurance industry and Wall Street.
That's how you get things done.
You ensure that there's going to be a big profit motive to whatever legislation you pass.
And somehow, even giving us, we finally get some sort of health care access, some sort of, right?
Still bankrupts us.
Even with that, yeah, still bankrupt says, still makes it hard to get prescription drugs.
It's so expensive if you have to get one prescription drug a month.
It's awful.
So also we look at this guy, and now we have Trump.
He didn't inspire anybody to take over the baton, except we have Donald Trump.
So he's got a larger military budget.
So now going on eight, nine, 10 years after he passed his big health care plan, insulin has become so expensive that as many as one in four people with diabetes are now skipping life-saving doses.
Congratulations, Brock.
That was a hell of a great program you instituted.
That giveaway, that right-wing healthcare plan that Mitt Romney would have instituted too.
You got elected, so you got to do it.
This is the result.
Hey, hip hip, hooray.
The inventor of insulin, Dr. Frederick Banting, said insulin does not belong to me.
It belongs to the world and gave the patent to the University of Toronto for the sum of $1.
It's mind-boggling that such essential life-saving medicines aren't accessible to so many people in a country as rich as the United States.
Here in New Zealand, we have a $5 copay for a three-month supply of most prescription medicines.
Barack Obama would tell you to be a purist if you want the same thing.
Yeah, it's so interesting hearing him say things like, oh, you know, you can't be too rigid and say, well, this is the way it's going to be.
You know, when Dennis Kucinich did the Jimmy Dore show and you asked him about, hey, you really pushed back against when Obama was taking away the public option.
I mean, we all remember when that bill came into the, came into the sphere and it got gutted and gutted and gutted and gutted.
And when Dennis Kucinich, one of the few people that stood up against it and said, Obama, what about the public option?
And he told us, he said, you know, Obama just said, this is the way it's going to be.
So I guess when Obama's talking about things you won't compromise on, I guess you won't compromise on a handout to the donors and a handout to the health insurance industry.
Because he told Dennis Kucinich, oh, well, that's just the way it's going to be.
No public option.
And what kind of compromise have we had on war?
We've come, first of all, we're living in what the, this is, this is nothing but compromise.
We live in an Oligarchy.
Barack Obama is pretending he doesn't know this.
That our compromise purists, our will is never reflected in legislation, Barack Obama.
And he knows that.
That's Barack Obama gaslighting.
Barack Obama is a bought and paid for gaslighter, which is why we got Donald Trump.
And that's the mission of the show to remind people of that or to even fucking teach them that in the first place.
And there's a lot of places that just focus on Trump.
They're not alternative news shows.
That's what MSNBC and CNN does.
Here, we're going to tell you why we got Trump.
If you want to go hate on Trump, then go watch Rachel Maddow or the other YouTube shows that do that.
They're not alternative news shows.
They're the problem.
They're propping up Trump.
They're still pushing Russia Gate in a different version.
And the real problem is this corrupt, bought Democratic Party.
Herman Kane is on the line.
Hello.
Hi, hi, hi.
Say hello to me, Herman Kane, future former pizza guy of the Federal Reserve, whatever that is.
What's the first thing you'll do once you take your seat on the Federal Reserve, Herman?
Find out what the hell the Federal Reserve is.
I might ask somebody, or even Alta Vista hit.
But you can be sure I'll find out.
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