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April 25, 2019 - Jimmy Dore Show
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Get ready for an outstanding entertainment program.
The Jimmy Dore Show.
Wow, Barack Obama's on the line.
I wonder if he's going to ask us how we're all doing tonight and if we're ready to laugh.
Hello, everybody.
How y'all doing tonight?
Are you ready to laugh?
Former President Obama, how you doing?
What's new?
Guess what?
Los Angeles is renaming Rodeo Road after me.
Barack, Texaco Hope.
Obama.
I never heard of Rodeo Street.
This is exactly the kind of lack of civility that costs us the election.
Listen up, folks.
Folks have to be better, folks.
Then folks can get along with other folks.
Listen to your inner folk.
Don't succumb to negative folkiness.
Can't we folks just get along with the folks who were trying to slowly strangle you, folks?
Getting a street named after you is quite an honor.
When is the dedication?
May 4th or some shit.
Don't look for me there.
Why?
Because Obama Road intersects Martin Luther King Jr.
Boulevard.
And I ain't going on in that neighborhood.
I'm not running for president anymore.
You want me to show up for something?
There better be a check for 400K waiting for me at the omelet bar, bitch.
What street renaming ceremony would you show up to?
Wall Street, fool.
Baomi, Obama Road is chump change.
Give me Baracka Wall Street or Wallerock Street or just Obama Street.
My road.
Come on, guys.
Ladies, take a break.
Don't you think the public has had it with politicians catering to Wall Street?
Catering to Wall Street is a winning strategy.
For instance, I still believe Joe Biden would be an excellent president amid all the allegations of inappropriate touching and rumors of missing hitchhikers in Texas.
Yeah, but all those are things, those are really bad things.
Don't let perfection be the enemy of failure.
Frigidity can lead to a circular firing squad.
Speaking of rigidity, guys, keep it in your pants.
Ladies, take a break.
Hey, what do you think about Pete Budegen?
Has he got the attention of a lot of your major donors?
Are you sure that's how you say that?
Anyway, I know.
He's like the white meat.
Wait a minute.
I'm the white meat.
No, but he...
Stop with all the butties, you divider.
You're weakening the movement.
What movement?
The moderate movement.
You got to resist in a non-confrontational manner.
Perfection is the enemy of non-perfection.
Non-perfection is the only way we can elevate the conversation to where nobody gets offended.
And when nobody gets offended, nothing happens.
And when nothing happens...
We're dating now.
Guys, take a break.
Ladies, I'm not letting you off tweets either.
Didn't California also approve a plan to rename the 134 freeway the Barack Obama Highway?
That's right, Jimmy.
And it's appropriate because the 134 never had an exit plan to get onto the 101 South.
Thank you, good night.
I'm worth 100 miles.
Big growth out.
Ah.
I want a fire like that.
It's the Jimmy Dore Show.
The show for...
...the up-minded, lowly-lovered lefties.
The kind of people that are...
It's the show that makes Anderson Cooper save.
It's hard to talk to your T-Wales.
And now, here's a guy who sounds a lot like me.
It's Jimmy Dore.
Hi, everybody.
Welcome to this week's Jimmy Dore show.
Hey, guess what?
We have a last-minute live stand-up show happening this Sunday.
That's right.
This Sunday, April 28th.
It's in Hollywood at the Sycamore Tavern.
That's on Sunset, just west of Highland.
We're doing a live stand-up show.
It's Jimmy Doer's Jag Off Comedy with Jimmy Dore and friends.
We do them every once in a while.
It's always fun.
It's at the Sycamore Tavern in Hollywood.
You can go to JimmyDoorComedy.com for a link for those tickets.
Right now, let's get to the jokes before we get to the jokes, shall we?
Hey, did you hear a new study out just determined that one half of all American rivers are now too polluted to sustain crude oil?
True story.
True story.
Hey, I'd like to join in the call.
People are wanting to impeach Donald Trump.
I don't know if you've heard that.
A lot of people, it's Kamala Harris calling for an impeachment of Donald Trump.
And I'd like to join the call to impeach Donald Trump.
But isn't there an easier way to destroy the Democratic Party?
Hey, I know.
Let's do the Russia thing again.
Hey, Joe Biden promised to make his candidacy for president official this week with a video announcement.
And to prove he isn't out of sync with the current energy of the Democratic Party, he plans on releasing it on beta.
I refuse to consider Joe Biden for president until he reveals how much money he's taken from Pro Concentrate.
Hey, did you know, according to a report by Brown University, America's war on terror has killed a minimum, a minimum of 500,000 people around the globe, half of them civilians.
Wow, we really are the world's cops.
You get that one.
Come on.
Hey, did you hear Steve King?
Representative Steve King is in trouble again for saying a bunch of racist stuff.
And then he compared himself to Jesus.
Yeah, you remember that famous Bible verse?
I say unto you, I can't be racist.
I have a black friend.
Hey, did you hear Nancy Pelosi yesterday?
Nancy Pelosi tweeted, nothing is more wholesome for America than the increased participation of women in our government and our politics.
She then dismissed the progressive women who helped win the house as a glass of water.
Hey, you know, I went to a party the other day.
It was thrown by the Underground Centrist Society.
No, it's quite a party.
Just a few, just a few people standing around where a keg is supposed to be, and they were talking about how acquiring one was actually unrealistic.
Hey, what's coming up on today's show?
A comedian becomes president of Ukraine.
That's right, a comedian, because when politicians become a joke, people turn to comedians for sanity.
We're going to talk about it.
Hey, guess what?
The progressives turned out to elect the Democratic delegates to the California Democratic Party, and the establishment is cheating them again.
We talk with Maria Estrada, who ran against Anthony Rendone, and she's talking about the cheating that's happening right now, currently inside the California Democratic Party.
She'll be here.
Plus, the yellow vests are upset that there's billions of dollars for the Notre Dame repair and none for people in the street.
Plus, we got phone calls today from Bernie Sanders, Mitt Romney, Barack Obama, and Rick Perry, plus a lot lot more.
That's today on the Jimmy Dore Show.
Whoa.
Hey, you know, I hear Rick Perry is leaving the energy department.
I say we give him a call, huh?
Hello, McBride's Gun and Coin Shop.
This is Rick speaking.
Secretary Perry.
That too.
It's Jimmy Door.
It's Jimmy Door, buddy.
Oh, hey, Jim Jam.
What's flapping?
Not much, Secretary Perry.
What's flapping with you?
Flappers Comedy Club in Burbank.
That's what's flapping.
Oh, yeah?
I took a stand-up class there once with an emphasis on using Twitter.
Oh, yeah.
How was it?
It was fun.
I mean, seven grand was a lot of money, but I really learned a lot.
I hear you're thinking of leaving the energy department.
Is that true?
Well, I'm sort of trying to keep it under my hat and close to my vest, if both are possible simultaneously.
But I suppose it wouldn't hurt to tell you about it in a recorded phone call.
But yes, I'm considering moving on to greener pastors.
You mean greener pastures?
What?
What?
Greener, greener pastures.
That's the express.
Greener, greener pastures is the expression.
It seems like you would know that one.
Oh, man, that makes way more sense.
I've been saying that wrong a long time.
Greener pastors?
What did you even think you were saying?
I don't know.
I guess the idea was that greener pastors, you know, in the sense of less experienced ministers, so that with the rookie in the pulpit not yet wise in the ways of guiding the flock, the congregation or faith community could experience positive or progressive change, unfettered by rigorous application of biblical strictures.
I guess that's what I was thinking.
I don't know.
I can't believe you thought that, Rick.
Yeah, honestly, every time I'd use that expression, I'd always think in the back of my mind, man, that is a really circumlocuitous way to arrive at the concept of a better place.
Anyway, yeah, I'm moving on from energy.
Where do you think you'll go?
Oh, somewhere in the private sector, definitely.
Really?
Yeah, I really have to make a shit ton of money.
I've been sort of putting that off for too long, dicking around in politics and such.
I was governor of Texas for 12 years.
Think of how much money I could have made in that time with a real job.
Yeah, right.
So now it's time for daddy to get to work so I can afford one of those rich guy climate change bunkers in the Sierra Mountains.
You and Steph got one of those lined up?
I got to check with our accountant, but I'm pretty sure no.
Better get to earnings, son.
12 years, TikTok.
Anyways, there's obviously always lobbying.
You know, that's always going to be there for me.
Right, lobbying.
But that just seems so hacked, though.
You know, so predictable.
I like what Rick Santorum did when he left the Senate, remember?
He became CEO of some dumb movie studio in Dallas that makes movies for only Christians.
Right.
Yeah.
Like if a Jew tried to watch one of them movies, they can't see it.
It's just a blank screen to them.
Special software.
I want to do, I want to do something like that, but not exactly like that.
Like, is there an anime studio where they make anime for only Christians?
Are you asking me?
Yeah.
I have no idea, Rick.
Sounds like something that would exist, though, right?
No, not really.
Like, like those girls' eyes are so big because they're staring at the majesty of God's creation.
Yeah, yeah.
Uh-huh.
And their skirts are so high because, well, Bible ain't never said there's nothing wrong with no panty line.
You know what I mean?
I guess.
Well, I'll figure it out.
Well, if you've got any ideas, you let me know, okay, Jim Formation.
I will, Secretary Perry.
But for real, like they say, when you hit your 60s, you got to quit screwing around, get serious, and make Christian anime so you can afford a doomsday bunker.
There's an expression for that, right?
Greener pastors, I believe.
That's the one.
I don't know if you know this, but when the world goes insane and politicians become a joke, voters turn to comedians for sanity.
That is what's been happening.
When politicians become a joke, citizens turn to comedians for sanity.
Because what's happening in the Ukraine?
Well, Ukraine's upcoming.
This is this is this already happened, but this was an article just before the Ukraine election that just happened.
And it says Ukraine's upcoming election pits a deeply unpopular president against a TV comedian.
For millions of Ukrainian citizens mired in economic corruption, this election is anything but funny.
This comedian's serious about politics.
Oh, yeah.
I was thinking as you read it.
I was like, oh, man, how many of those are going to be in the article?
This guy's platform is no laughing math.
I want to represent you.
No joke.
Yeah, but the election victory is the punchline.
So this is a great article.
It says, for the past five years, Ukraine played a central role in U.S. foreign policy.
Washington, Washington, D.C. vigorously supported the 2013-14 Medan, Maidan, Mike pronouncing that correctly, Maiden, Maiden uprising that ousted Viktor Yanukovych and brought Poshenko to power.
Now, we supported Pashenko, and a lot of people say that he supports Nazis.
Okay, just so you know, that's who we're supporting in the Ukraine.
A bipartisan who's who of Washington power brokers, including Senator John McCain and Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Newland, hustled into Kiev to cheer on the uprising.
So the United States is there cheering on and overthrowing another government.
And did they pick the right side?
Did they pick the people of the people?
Well, what has happened since we backed that Porschenko?
Well, what's happened is a recent poll showed over two-thirds believe the country is headed in the wrong direction.
While Gallup reported that Ukraine now has the world's lowest trust in government at 9%.
That's what the United States does.
Do you understand that we install leaders that are friendly to Wall Street and our corporations and that the people hate?
Do you understand how that works?
Do you see it now?
So we installed this guy.
Lowest trust in government.
The world's lowest trust in government, 9%.
That's our guy.
That's the guy the United States backed.
That's our intelligence agencies backing them.
That's the CIA, the NSA.
That's our good intelligence people.
Over the past five years, as Western politicians and think tankers churned out bromides about Kiev's being on the front lines of freedom and democracy, ordinary Ukrainians were plunged into an economic nightmare in a nation that, under Porschenko, became the poorest country in Europe.
So we institute another friggin revolution.
We do this.
And who do we install?
We install another oligarch who's 100% corrupt and screws over his own people.
It's weird we're never supporting the guy who's speaking for the people.
Isn't that weird?
It's like I'm noticing a trend.
It's like I'm noticing a template.
I'm noticing a template.
The United States and the European Union sank billions into Porschenko's Kiev in the hope he'd tackle corruption.
Of course, the notion was ludicrous.
Putting one of the world's richest men in Ukraine, putting one of the richest men in Ukraine whose assets has soared the year after the Maidan uprising in charge of defeating corruption.
So what did the United States do?
We find the rich guy over there who's friendly with us.
We install him and then we put him in charge of defeating corruption.
And the way they put it in the nation is that it's a bit like putting the drug baron El Chapo in charge of drug enforcement.
The outcome wasn't hard to predict, but it was hard for John McCain.
It was hard for the United States State Department.
It was hard for our CIA to figure out.
The West's faith in Porschenko further cemented hatred against him.
One would imagine the only thing worse than being unable to afford food is doing so while listening to the, quote, let them eat spreadsheets, end quote, platitudes from Western analysts as the country's billionaire president adds to his own piggy bank.
So do you see what the United States people are, our neoliberal elites are doing?
And they're telling everybody, oh, we've got, let them eat spreadsheets, platitudes from Western analysts as the country's billionaires add to their.
It's almost like this is like a worldwide system of neoliberalism, liberal liberal fucked everybody except the oligarchs system.
This is your capitalism.
So he won.
So the comedian won.
So they had the election.
The Ukraine comedian Zelensky wins presidency by a landslide.
A landslide.
Now, this isn't a comedian like, you know, Al Franken, who devoted his life to politics, wrote book after book about politics, hosted a radio show talking about politics, a national radio show, does national television sketches about politics, went and toured the country, and then he ran for office and won.
This is just a Jagoff comedian who decided to be president.
He won in a landslide.
Do you see how when people are corrupt, you go for it?
Do you see what happens?
The polls give the political newcomer who dominated the first round of voting three weeks ago more than 70% support.
Mr. Zelensky, 41, challenged incumbent President Petro Porschenko, who has admitted defeat.
The apparent result is being seen as a huge blow to Mr. Porschenko and a rejection of Ukraine's establishment.
Well, there's similarities.
There it is.
So there's the guy.
There's the comedian, Voldemir Zelensky, got 73% of the vote.
73%.
And then Petro Porschenko, 24%.
So all the rich people voted for him.
And all the rest of the people who were left over voted for the comedian.
The apparent result is being seen as a huge blow.
Oh, we just did this.
Russia annexed Ukraine's Crimea Peninsula on March 24th after a controversial referendum on self-determination, a move condemned internationally.
Since then, Ukraine forces have been fighting Russian-backed separatists and volunteers in the East.
Mr. Zelensky's start.
So you want to know who this guy is?
So by the way, he's going to try and stop this.
So Zelensky is going to try and bring peace to this problem of the separatists, Russian-backed separatists.
But who is this guy?
Well, he started a long-running satirical drama.
You're not going to believe this.
Servant of the people, in which his character accidentally becomes Ukraine's president.
No.
This is a real thing.
This really happened.
He plays a teacher who was elected after his expletive-ridden rant.
There it is.
Expletive laden rant about corruption goes viral in social media.
Wow.
Boy, I think I know of another comedian who has expletive layden rants about fucking corruption.
Where's my goddamn presidency?
Well, it's not too late.
I got to be willing to run, I guess.
Come on, everybody's saying I'd vote for comedian Jimmy Dora.
Tulsi Dora Dor Ventura, Dora for president.
Tulsi got on the debate stage.
I think I bet if I pushed it hard, could I get 65,000 donations, unique donations from 30 different states?
Isn't that the criteria?
I think so.
Yeah, only one way to find out.
I mean, could I get 65,000?
I bet you we could.
Should we do a GoFundMe?
Is that how you would do it?
You would do it through a GoFundMe?
I just know.
You just do it.
You got to set up a thing.
You have to set up a campaign and you have to set up where you can take money.
And I think you do that through Share Blue or something.
Yep.
It would be awesome to get on the debate stage and tell people the truth about the origins of RussiaGate and the failure of the Democratic Party and their minions in the press.
I would never answer the direct question.
I would always answer the question I want.
That's right.
Me too.
And I would make sure to stand up and walk around a lot.
Anyway, so here we go, let's keep going.
So that's who he is.
Can you believe this?
That's a real thing.
He played a character that accidentally becomes Ukraine's president after he has an expletive layer in rant goes viral.
He just posted that as his stump speech.
He's like, I'm already halfway there.
i want to catch this series now don't you me too his show was the servant of the people so i guess his political party is called servant of the people analysts believe that mr zelensky's informal style and vow to clean up ukrainian it's going to drain the swamp so he's got an informal style expletive led and ran about corruption and he's going to drain the swamp so people are desperate And he's going to revamp the economy with a daily two-drink minimum.
Ladies, take a break.
Guys, back me up on this.
Yeah.
So analysts believe Mr. Zelensky's informal style and vow to clean up Ukrainian politics resonated with voters who are disillusioned with the country's path under Mr. Porschenko.
Eschewing traditional campaign tactics, Mr. Zelensky channeled his on-screen persona by promising to stamp out corruption and loosen the grip of oligarchs in the Ukraine.
Sounds very much like someone here in the United States.
Experts say his supporters, frustrated with establishment politics and cronyism, have been energized by his charisma and anti-corruption message.
Boys, a lot of similarities.
Turns out people are people, huh?
No matter where you are.
People are people.
Sounds like they want a Bernie too.
Sounds like they want a Bernie or a Tulsi right there.
So that's what it sounds like.
Yeah.
So there you go.
There's the story about the comedian who became president of the Ukraine after the United States effed it up.
So you know what happened in France with the Notre Dame burning down?
And so lots of people are now, a lot of real wealthy French people are proposing money to fix it.
It says, this is from the Wall Street Journal.
It says Notre Dame pledges from France's wealthy re-energized the yellow vest protesters.
So it says the campaign to rebuild Notre Dame is eliciting vast donation from France's richest families and it has become a target of the yellow vest protest movement.
Nearly a billion dollars in reconstruction pledges have poured in since a fire tore through the famed cathedral's roof Monday evening, bringing down its majestic spire and shocking the world.
Protesters taking to the streets Saturday, meaning today, for the 23rd consecutive weekend of yellow vest marches.
That's almost six months straight of yellow vest marches.
However, decried the hypocrisy of elites who they said were willing to mobilize large sums to rebuild the cathedral while allowing France's working class to languish.
The sight of billionaires and luxury good companies opening their checks books for a cause that didn't directly benefit French workers rankled unions in particular.
The head of the CGT, France's largest union, said the efforts on behalf of Notre Dame revealed a deep-seated hypocrisy at the top of French society.
So isn't that something?
We're broke.
We're broke.
Hey, Notre Dame Bill, we got billion.
Don't worry about it.
So they just repealed the tax on these wealthy people.
So there's a wealth tax that they repealed, and that's part of their yellow vest protests.
And now those people who got their taxes cut now, oh, well, we got money to rebuild Notre Dame, but we don't have money for workers.
No.
If they're able to give tens of millions to rebuild Notre Dame, then they should stop saying that there isn't any money to address social emergencies.
If they're able to give tens of millions, well, that's what I say about a United States military budget.
If you're able to increase it by 40% since 2005, you didn't increase education 20%, food stamps 40%, college funding 40%.
On Saturday, 9,000 protesters poured into the streets of the French capital, according to the Interior Ministry, an increase of last week's demonstrations.
Police also made more than 160 arrests amid violent clashes that saw protesters smash shop windows and set small fires.
We are all cathedrals.
And Notre Dame, but not us, red banners carried by yellow vest protesters who marched from the Place de la Bastille to the Place de la République on the east side of Paris.
We are all cathedrals.
I like that one.
I do too.
I like that one.
So that's exactly right.
So people in the United States, what do you say?
25% of the people skip diabetics skip insulin in the United States because they can't afford it.
This is a country where this is the world we're living in.
This is a neoliberal, which means corporatist running the world.
So when you run, when corporations run the world, they're not interested in helping people.
They're only interested in maximizing profits.
And we'll help you if there's a profit motive involved.
If we can make a profit off it, we'll help you.
Hey, we'll help teach your kids math, but there's got to be a profit motive.
That's what charter schools are.
We've got to be able to make money for a corporation.
So this is the result of it.
And the people in France have much less of an appetite for corporate bullshit than we do in the United States.
So in the United States, even though we were founded on a violent revolution, we haven't, and then we had the Civil War.
We don't do stuff.
We don't protest anymore en masse.
We did Occupy Wall Street, and then Barack Obama let the cops crack the heads of peaceful protesters from coast to coast, and that was the end of that.
And so what we need, we need is this.
We need this coming to the United States.
We need yellow vestors.
See the yellow vesties?
We need yellow vestors out there protesting.
That's what the United States.
Someone sent, oh, did you show the yellow vest?
Someone said that.
Yeah, I wanted you to put it on right now.
I'd love to put it on.
All right.
This is all right.
And that's from Philippe and Brigitte.
Philippe and Brigitte.
Thank you very much.
Wow, this is a genuine yellow vest from France.
Yes, it is.
Yes, it is.
It feels good.
Feels good.
Looks good.
Let's go stir some shit up.
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Hey, look, it's newly christened Maverick.
Mitt Romney's on the phone.
Hello.
Oh, my lord.
Look out, World, because I am sickened.
Sickened, I tell you.
Sickened by all of the dishonesty coming out of the Trump White House.
Wow, you really sound sickened.
How sickened are you, Mitt?
I got the shits in a cage on top of my station wagon sickened, Jimmy.
Wow, that's pretty sickened.
You haven't heard the worst of it.
Did you see that scene in Game of Thrones where they all get their throats cut at a wedding?
Sickened.
I'm any sex scene with Seth Rogan.
Second.
Wow, that sounds scathing?
Yeah.
Yes.
That's exactly what Newsweek called it.
Scathing.
And you know what else they said I said?
I said I was sickened at the extent and pervasiveness of dishonesty and misdirection by individuals in the highest office of the land, including the president.
But you just said that.
I want to make sure every I want to make sure everybody hears it, Jimmy.
I am sick because I'm taking the country on the Straight Shooter Express right now.
And I ain't stopping until you all come down with the shits in a cage on top of my big red caboose.
What else did Newsweek say about you?
I don't know.
I stopped reading in the fourth paragraph because they misspelled my last name.
Who the fuck is Mitt Romany?
You know what he meant, Romany.
What kind of a name is that anyway?
Russian?
My grandfather, Gaskell Romney, would be so steamed if he were alive today and not frozen in a steel tube 10 miles beneath a salt mine.
Gaskell?
Yes, Jimmy.
It's short for jerk face.
But Romany sounds rusty-like.
And I'm not a Ruski, Jimmy.
I'm not some square-headed Cossack robot who nearly killed Rocky, one of this country's best actors.
I'm not part of the Slavic horde that Hitler warned us about in the 30s.
No, I have a BA in English, not a BA in weird squiggly marks over a pictograph of a bucket.
Don't you think there might be a hint of racism behind all the hysteria and accusations of Russian attacks and conspiracies?
Oh, what a cheap shot.
Racism can't exist if you get rid of the stuff that makes you racist.
Like what Hitler did with all those Jewish Bolsheviks in Russia.
See?
Get rid of the cause of racism and racism goes away.
Weren't you the only one to bring up the so-called danger of Russia during the 2020 debates?
Yes, I was.
And I can't tell you how tickled I am that your party goaded a man with the intellect of a taffy puller into starting another Cold War with the Soviet Union.
I'll give you a hint.
Very tickled.
The intellect of a taffy puller.
That's what I said, Buster Brown.
Don't you have any fears about us getting belligerent with another nuclear power, Mitt?
Oh, goodness, no.
We have the best nuclear weapons in the universe.
And I feel so vindicated, I could almost crap my pants on top of my car for the third time this week.
And it's only Monday.
So our guest is here.
It's Maria Estrada.
Hi, Maria.
How are you?
I'm great.
How are you?
I'm doing good now.
If you remember her, she was running.
She ran against Anthony Rendon.
He is the speaker of the Assembly in California, and he was corrupt.
And he's the one who killed Medicare for All.
He still is corrupt.
He still is.
And he's the one who killed Medicare for All.
So she ran against him, and she did very well in the primary, and then you lost in the general.
Now, the way California works is they have everybody runs in the same primary, and then the top two run in the general.
So that's how she was able to run against Anthony Rendon twice.
So, but you're here, and now, because you're being cheated, because you're running to be a delegate in the California Democratic Party, right?
And so I just want to tell people what happened the last time we did this.
So Bernie ran for president.
He woke up all the progressives and he said, let's take over the Democratic Party.
So in January 2017, all the progressives came out in California and voted for their delegates to the California Party.
And then we thought we took over because the progressives won way more seats than the corporatists.
So we're like, hey, we took over the Democratic Party.
Except they also cheat.
So when we went to the convention, they have a thing, state-level superdelegates.
And the state-level superdelegates overturned the will of the people, and they cheated the progressives again.
So the Democratic Party in California cheated the progressives at the convention, but it seems like this time they're not waiting for the convention.
And Maria Strada was running in District 51.
63rd.
I'm sorry, 63rd, 63rd?
63rd.
I'm in Rendon's district.
Okay, so tell me what happened.
I just laid it out about the corruption that's going on, that the people that were running out of the other slate, about half of them were elected officials.
We had mayors, vice mayors, and city council members and school board members from all over the district.
So a delegate supposed to be an elected delegate that is supposed to be people from the community that are speaking on behalf of the community, not elected officials.
So the fact that most of the slate consisted of elected officials already in the community and the fact that the speaker already gets 30 of his own delegates that he picks plus six every.
So that's the superdelegates.
That's the superdelegates.
So those aren't really elected.
Those are handpicked.
Those are handpicked.
Unbelievable.
So.
That's amazing.
So we're the third that gets elected and they they robbed it from us.
So there were 542 ballots cast.
22 people registered that day.
Because I wasn't on the ballot for executive board, the convener, regional director, stated that I could that they could write my name on the ballot.
So like he said it like three times and he announced it.
And it caused confusion because like we bring people in.
You don't know what that is.
You have no idea what it is.
You come in and you're trying to come in and vote.
So people thought that they if they were going to vote for me, they had to write my name on that ballot and they didn't vote for me for for regular delegate.
Right.
So I got 100 and like 135 votes for regular delegate.
And I think I got 174 for executive board.
And that was with my name not being on the ballot.
But it's against the bylaws to actually write a name on a ballot.
So that makes it invalid off the bat.
OK.
So let me just say again.
Now, I've witnessed this firsthand.
Whenever there's chaos in a voting situation, it always favors the establishment.
Why?
Because the establishment gets to count the votes.
The establishment decides what the number is.
So if there's chaos and all the rules aren't being followed and things look helter skelter, that favors the establishment always.
And that's why it's like this.
Oh, your name's not on the thing.
And we didn't do that.
And we didn't do it in time.
And you got to.
Oh, the slate's not right.
And we didn't count it.
Correct.
All that.
So all that.
Whenever there's chaos that favors the establishment and screws progressive, which is what's happening right now.
So.
So.
But.
But there's kind of a good result to that.
So you weren't on the ballot.
Right.
you're not on the ballot and you protested and you submitted a i immediately challenged it before i left there i challenged it okay i emailed um everybody at cad him that i could get my hands on and said you know this is not a valid right election.
And they agreed, right?
No, not really.
I ended up having, and they, the regional director, Sergio Carrillo, said he would send me the voter list so that I could go through it.
One of the gentlemen that was registering people in said to me, you really need to ask for a new election because this wasn't proper.
Okay.
And anyone with half a brain would have saw that it was a bad election.
And so you did.
So they actually wouldn't give me the registration form.
So I had to fly up to Sacramento, went through there, and there were nine no-party preference, five people that weren't on the registration rolls, and two Republicans.
So I told them 16 out of 40 people in this one city were not eligible to vote.
So it's safe to assume that that's across the board.
I don't have time to check this.
The fact that you didn't hold a proper election, this whole thing needs to be redone immediately.
Again, so this is just the Democratic Party cheating progressives.
This is straight up Democratic Party cheating progressives.
This is straight up Democratic Party policy.
This is how they work.
This is how.
And so this idea that Bernie has that we can take over the party, because he said we should do this.
And he said the Democratic Party in California is the biggest Democratic institution outside the national DNC and watch the progressives should go take it over.
So we showed up now twice and they're cheating us twice.
And Bernie isn't saying a goddamn thing about it, is he?
Yeah.
Well, I actually am of the belief that we do need to infiltrate that party because they are in control.
But I don't believe how's that going?
Well, if it's not, that's the whole point is.
But how do you infiltrate a party that's bent on cheating you?
It's exposing what they're doing.
Everything that happens, I put it out there.
People don't even know who these people are.
I know.
Again, that favors the establishment.
Nobody knows.
Oh, I take screenshots of their pictures.
I doubt 20,000 people are even going to watch this goddamn video.
I'm not even kidding.
Oh, I this is not a sexy topic.
People don't even understand how it's going on, and that's how they want it.
And that's why we need Bernie or someone with his platform to say something about it, but he won't say a goddamn thing about the party cheating to progressives.
He's telling to join.
Well, let me put it to you this way.
I ran in a district where people don't vote, and I got 41,000 votes, and I spent $20,000.
The speaker spent a million dollars.
He got 48,000 votes, and I had nothing.
So he had to buy those votes.
So I'm going to run again against him.
And I'm telling you that I'm going to 41,000 votes.
If I could get 41,000 people in a community of people that don't vote, we had a meeting in Linwood, a city council meeting, regarding the cannabis issue.
And half the people that showed up were students, high school students, who were speaking out against that issue because it is all over the place.
People are getting engaged.
I could say in my community, they are.
My goal is not to take over the party as a whole.
My goal is to take over my community.
Whether I'm going for city council seats, school board seats, we're going to run slates throughout that community because it's not just about an assembly member.
It's about everyone at the local level that is corrupt.
They're corrupt from the very top to the very bottom.
And unless you address that, you can't address the top part.
Because the people that are in Sacramento aren't necessarily on my school board using Prop K money for other stuff.
That's not how it works.
I have four public records requests in four cities in my district, and I have attorneys involved because they're refusing to give me information that I asked for in December that they're legally bound to give me.
So that's how far this corruption is.
I couldn't agree with you more.
The party is corrupt.
And you're trying to have a revolution inside a counter-revolutionary party.
I'm pretty vocal about my position and what I think about the Democratic Party.
A friend of mine is the chair of the Arab American Caucus, and he's in Orange County, and he has the chair of their Democratic County Committee, and a bunch of people there attacking him for calling out Chuck Schumer.
I agree with what he said, and he's being attacked.
All of this needs to be exposed.
Their position on Islam, the fact that they're so tied to AIPAC.
I mean, you have these delegates, and I could tell you, Mark Gonzalez, who's now the chair, that Eric Bauman be thrown to the position LE CDP, who's been to Israel.
They all being, all of these delegates are flown to Israel.
They'll post it.
And you have Anthony Dendon's cousin actually writing, Welcome to the AIPAC family.
I mean, this is how the party works.
It's like a mafia.
I told you this the last time I was here.
Yes.
They run it like a mafia.
So now let's talk about 51.
Well, 51, they, I actually, when I was up there, one of the candidates, Janine Rohn, was up there with me.
I mean, they bust people in.
It got very aggressive.
A woman slapped another woman after stealing her phone.
She took it back.
Just, I mean, the unions were involved and they're trying to, I mean, we had to unions are not very pro-progressives, right?
Well, but see, this is the problem: you had three slates, and one of the slates had union members and progressives who ran against the progressive slate.
So we're actually kind of, you know, fucking ourselves by running against each other and not speaking.
So that in itself caused a problem.
So I don't have patience for it.
I don't have, I just don't have a lot of respect for it, but I'm in it because I feel that this is a necessary step.
If I run as a green, a lot of Mexicanos see Greens as like old white hippies.
I mean, that's just the reality of it.
I certainly appreciate the position that you're in.
And I understand someone who's working at the grassroots level doesn't have the ability to start a third party.
What I'm saying about is we need to encourage people like Bernie, Nina, Tulsi, Roca, all these people who are actual progressives who don't tow the corporate line anyway, get the F out of that goddamn party because they ain't letting you take it over.
But you, again, people like us with no money and no power, we don't have that ability.
The ability, the way you need to start a third party is you need to have a charismatic leader who's already popular and has power to convince other people who are charismatic leaders and who also have power to then start.
And that's how Bernie's the most popular politician in the country.
If he started his fucking old party, they would have to say there couldn't be anybody more unpopular than the Democrats and the Republicans right now.
Strategically, it makes sense to run as a Democrat, just like strategically for me.
Strategically for you, it doesn't.
And the funny part is Fox was more respectful to him than CNN.
That's exactly right.
That's the reality of it.
And all those corporatists told him not all those guys like Daily Coast and the, they said, don't go on Fox News.
Really?
Yeah.
Really?
Don't go talk to half the country?
Why?
Because he might fucking convince them to vote for him.
Well, that's the last thing they want.
They seem to like what he said.
Yeah, of course.
Well, because, you know, I've made this point already on the show today.
I'll make it to you that the Democratic leadership, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Naritana, they are to the right of Trump voters.
Right?
You know that.
I'm sure you know some Trump voters in your district, and they're for Medicare for all and for free college.
And you guess who's not?
The Democratic leadership.
So the goddamn Democratic leadership is to the right of Trump voters.
Well, that's because they're hardcore capitalists.
I mean, that's the, I mean, you got to call it what it is.
They're all for a capitalist system.
I'll be honest with you, my thought process with supporting Bernie is twofold because not only because he's the most progressive right now that we have to settle for, but because I feel that I'm very tied to Mexican politics.
I was in Mexico for Obrador's inauguration.
Oh, yeah.
I met with Congress when I was there.
I met with Congressman.
They flew up to Sacramento, met with them there about indigenous rights and labor rights.
And they announced that neoliberalism is no longer going to be allowed in Mexico, that the resources of Mexico have to go to the Mexican people first before they will go to the United States and Canada.
And I feel that if Bernie doesn't win and Trump comes in again or some neoliberal, that they will try to assassinate him.
That's what I believe.
So I think that the best shot he has at succeeding is if Bernie Sanders wins.
Otherwise, they won't go in like they're trying to do in Venezuela.
They won't do that in Mexico.
You know, CIA.
I agree.
I mean, it's not like that's not possible.
We know that that's happened.
Oh, you mean that the United States?
The United States would go to Mexico.
We'll go after Mexico.
Walk off another country's leader.
That would never happen.
Yeah, but see, that's undemocratic, Maria.
That's my thought process.
And that's why, to me, it's very important that Bernie Sanders wins.
I agree with you.
There's a lot more at stake than just Bernie Sanders.
No doubt.
You know what I mean?
No doubt about it.
I think it's very important that we get a representative of the people at the very least in government.
We don't have that.
We don't have it right now.
And even the people who say they are, like Barack Obama, you know what that was.
That guy was, he was Mitt Romney.
Fernandez Noroña, the congressman we've been in a meeting with, said he's the whitest black man that's ever been elected.
If Lopez Obrador is successful, it would change the Americas completely.
Completely.
People don't realize that Mexico, what's happened in Mexico, is the result of 100 years of neoliberalism.
That's exactly right.
Not 100 years of socialism or progressive policies.
Correct.
And so, I mean, so his party, he's a third party, came out of nowhere.
Yeah, they're four years old.
Actually, four-year-old party.
Four-year-old party.
And they take over the goddamn country.
So this idea that this can't be done is, again, it's a talking point.
And I'm not saying you should do it.
I'm saying we need a leader to do it.
And it's just never going to happen.
It's just not going to happen in America.
We're brainwashed.
The corporations have brainwashed us.
They own all the TV stations, all the newspapers, all the radio stations, and we're corporate brainwashed.
And that's it.
Corporate fascist state.
That's what it's a fascist state.
We live in a surveillance state.
I mean, there is no freedom.
The Fourth Amendment's been taken away.
And so is your democracy.
And it's living proof.
You can't even have a peacefully protest with protests.
I was in Sacramento when the Stéphane Clark thing happened.
And friends of mine were out protesting and they were dispersing, ready to leave.
And the police came and funneled them in on a bridge and tied them all up, you know, with the zip ties.
It's 10.30 at night, left them out there for four hours, cold, and it was clergy.
You had minors.
You had people in wheelchairs, attorneys, all arrested.
And they weren't doing anything wrong.
So if you're peacefully protesting and the police are treating you like that, at a certain point, you're going to say, I mean, violence is going to have to come to play because if you're not doing anything wrong and they're treating you that way, you're going to have to be more aggressive in your approach of how you're going to handle stuff like that.
Well, yellow vests need to come to America.
There will be no change electorally until we get elected.
Even if Bernie Sanders somehow manages to overcome all the cheating and rigging and becomes the nominee or the president, they will just screw him hard.
Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer will join with Mitch McConnell.
They already have, in my mind.
They already have.
They already have.
I feel that they have.
They have done no pushback against Trump.
None.
Correct.
You are correct.
They've done no pushback.
He got more federal judges.
No, they're fast-tracking as judges.
Oh, yeah.
So what we're going to have to do is going to get yellow vests no matter if Bernie wins, if Bernie doesn't, we're going to have to get a yellow vest in here because the establishment's not going to let go.
This idea that if Bernie wins, they're going to, all of a sudden they're going to let go.
They ain't going to fucking let go.
They're not letting go of government.
Either way, we're going to have to yellow vest it.
And so everybody get ready.
You should start working out now and get in shape because we're going to have to get out in the streets.
Now you're talking crazy.
Now you're talking crazy.
You know, I just want to say something really quickly.
You know, I sit here and I have never wanted to run for office.
Why did you run?
Why are you participating in this?
I think it's just necessary.
Tell them, tell them, fucking tell them, Maria.
Tell them.
Fucking let them know who you are, honey.
Because the condition of our communities are it's dire.
It's unacceptable.
And it's just sad to me that there was a time where Chicanos fought for a place at the table to represent our communities.
And now we have our communities being represented by our own people and they're fucking us over and they're selling us out.
And it's unacceptable.
We need to recognize that, like I've said, it isn't white Republicans in Southeast LA and South Central running our communities.
It's black and brown people, Democrats that are beholden to the powers that be into dirty money.
They've allowed our communities to deteriorate.
And unfortunately, they're poisoning and killing us is what they're doing.
No one is being held accountable.
And no agency, no government agency is doing anything to protect these communities.
We just had an explosion at a refinery.
There've been 10 explosions since 2017.
What city?
Well, it's Torrance, but it's all South Bay and all through the Alameda Corridor.
So you have people that are ingesting all this stuff and children that's going in their lungs.
And then you have people that are all of a sudden they have cancer.
They have no idea.
Well, you've been poisoned for years and years, your entire life, the whole time you've been there.
And they are not giving us resources to be in a position of power where you know you're representing a community that has that many health issues and environmental issues and to be the one man that has the power to give them health insurance and that you pull that from them and you take that.
That's disgusting.
And that's exactly what's happened in our communities.
And these people need to be held accountable from Jimmy Gomez in the 34th congressional district to Rendon to Cristina Garcia to Manuel Santiago.
I mean, these people, they'll support one thing and everybody's all jumping on them.
But the fact is, is overall their policies have been horrendous.
They're killing us.
Like I said, it's not Republicans doing this.
So we need to wake the fuck up and people need to open the fuck their eyes and see what's happening.
And we need to do something about it.
If it has to be me and my community speaking up and speaking out, then that's what it's got to be.
So it has to be a fair election, regardless.
If we lose, we lose.
But it has to be fair.
And that's just how it works.
That's a democracy.
But if you're trying to fuck the scales and not allow people to have their voice, then you are a disgrace to your party.
You're a disgrace to the state, and you're a disgrace to the people that you represent.
And that's what I won't tolerate.
And that's why I'm doing this.
Yeah.
Well, you know, I like to say, hey, if you're not interested in fair elections, join the DNC.
Anyway, so.
Masterfuckery, yeah.
Yes.
Like in Sacramento, you talk about how those cops were abusing peaceful protesters.
Now, the way you stop that isn't by another citizen saying something.
The way you stop that is someone with power saying something.
The mayor or a congressperson or a senator or the governor.
None of them said anything.
Not attorney generals.
Not attorney general.
Nobody's saying anything.
And these are all Democrats in California.
We're all Democrats in California.
And, you know, I just want to point out something about this moment being on this show.
First off, you got two Latinas from Linwood on the same segment, Which is fucking rare that you ever see Mexicans that look like us that speak like us on TV or anywhere.
And I just want to say that somebody pointed out this is news, what we're talking about.
This is like old school news.
When's the last time that you see a local politician on local news talking about something that is affecting the people?
Unless it's about a crime.
At right aid.
And people of color have just committed mascara.
We've got some shoplifters for you.
Have you seen these people?
Contact the cops.
So that's why I'm very proud that we're able to help our community and have people like you, Maria, on our show.
So I'm going to show you a video now.
This is the video.
This is from Tina Desiree Berg, right?
Now I follow her on Twitter.
This was sent to me by someone inside the progressive wing of the Democratic Party.
And this was from District 51.
Now they're going to have to do a re, they're doing the re-election in District 51 because the cheating was so blatant.
Do you support Medicare for all?
Wendy doesn't.
Wendy does not support Medicare for All.
Is that a progressive stance?
Ready for the people.
Right, because we don't support overturning Prop 10.
Our overturning Costa Hawkins.
She didn't support Prop 10.
Is that progressive?
She did not.
She's 20 points right now.
She does not run it.
She's running for 100.
So it sounds like they're having a conversation or a debate about who on this slate is more progressive and what they support and what they don't support.
And it sounds like some people don't like to hear that the person calling themselves a progressive actually isn't supporting things like the repeal of Costa Hawkins, which is the rent control bill in California.
Okay, so let's watch a little bit more of that.
Again, I haven't seen this before, so I don't even know what this is.
This just got sent to me by someone who I know inside the Democratic Party said this would be a good video.
Oh!
Hey!
You just grabbed my commercial.
See that?
Let's watch back that up.
I don't know if you caught that.
She's a you!
You just grabbed my camera.
Give me my phone, baby.
What do you think you're doing?
I don't care.
You don't get grabbing your phone.
You don't get to grab my hand like that.
You don't get to grab my hand like that.
You get to threaten me and steal my phone.
Don't grab my hand like that.
So this woman assaulted her with the grabbed the camera from her and then started screaming, don't grab my hand like that.
The person assaulting the woman with the camera starts yelling donuts.
So that's like the cop.
Stop resisting, right?
That's what that woman's doing.
Okay.
Then don't fucking steal my phone.
Don't grab my hand.
Oh my God.
Okay?
Don't steal my phone.
She's lucky she didn't grab my phone.
Well, first of all, she would have been arrested.
I would have had her arrested, but for some reason they didn't arrive.
Okay, here's the other camera.
She's running her hand for her.
Hi.
She's, hey, you.
She just grabbed my smartphone.
Give me my phone, lady.
Wow.
Somebody can just steal somebody's phone.
Entitled.
Wow.
Then she slapped her.
You see the slap?
No, I heard it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And she didn't press charges.
This is the unfortunate part is there was a conversation that was had.
A woman said, Latina said, you white progressives come here in our neighborhoods and try to tell us what we should be doing, which in part I agree with.
And then she said, we had a bunch of elderly people coming in on a bus that we got them engaged in this election, and you guys were intimidating them and harassing them, recording them.
Who do you think you are?
And you guys are a bunch of racists.
And then I said, okay, stop.
I let it play out for a little bit.
And then I said to myself, this is the race card being used at the very wrong time.
So I said to her, I believe that we do need to record this because the Democratic Party is corrupt as fuck.
And if we don't, they're going to say, deny that they ever did any of this.
So for one, we have to record.
Secondly, I said, so you went and brought all these elderly people on a bus, right?
And you did them to help them participate in this process.
I said, so do you always take them out on outings?
Do you take them to the movies or different events or just when you need their vote for something when you're lying and manipulating them and telling them to come vote something and they have no fucking idea what they're voting for?
Because at that point, you're using elderly people and you're manipulating them.
I go, and you're exactly the kind of fucking shit that I'm fighting against.
You're the kind of people, the kind of Latinos that to me are a bigger detriment to our communities than white people, than Republicans, and than anybody else.
I said, so don't tell my friends that they're fucking racist when it's you're the one that's using your own fucking people to win this election.
And that's what I don't tolerate.
So at the end of the day, is that that's what this is about.
It doesn't matter that she's Mexican or white or black or whatever.
These are not fair elections.
And if you're partaking in that corruption, then I have no respect for you.
And we should.
She would have grabbed my phone.
She would have got beat down.
It's real simple.
All right.
Please give me my phone back.
Pretty, please.
Oh, please.
And I also know I talked to Todd Jones, correct?
And Todd mentioned when we had all gone out on a Sunday and we went to do our voting for the delegate, correct?
And he was in there and he was filming.
They asked him to stop filming because at that place, they didn't even understand that the rules and policies allowed him to film.
It's a public event.
It's actually, they encourage, well, part of the bylaws actually states that the regional director has to take every effort possible to notify every Democrat in that district, at the very least, an article, newspaper ad.
And so I said, hey, did you're, and everybody's like, what are you talking about?
I go, that's in the bylaws.
None of them ever did it.
Uh-huh.
Because they've never had to.
Of course.
Again, the Democratic Party is corrupt at every level.
Yep.
And the idea that they're going to let someone who represents the people do anything inside that party is a pipe dream.
And, you know, even if Bernie gets elected president, they're all going to work against him anyway.
So that, but still, we have to work for Bernie.
We have to try to, we have to do what we can.
But what we really need to do is get yellow vests out in the street, and nothing's going to change until it happens.
Until they shut capitalism down, they're not going to break up Google.
They're not going to break up Amazon.
They're not going to break up Goldman Sachs and Bank of America until Yellow Vests shut shit down.
And you're not going to get Medicare for all.
You're not going to get free college.
You're not going to get a goddamn living wage.
You're not going to get money that's being spent on bombs being put back into our communities like it should be.
That's not going to happen until we actually get in the street and shut shit down.
And that might not ever happen.
This is a country that was started, founded on a violent revolution.
And we can't even peacefully protest anymore.
Look what France is doing, for God's sake.
They used to have guillotines and they never forgot their heritage.
We forgot ours.
And it's because we let the motherfuckers who are killing us control all of our media and all of our politicians.
All right, Maria Estrada, thank you so much for coming in.
And please keep us abreast.
And we'd like to have you back in.
I thought I'd give Bernie Sanders a call to get his take on that CNN town hall the other night.
Yeah, well, listen.
Chris Cuomo is a googly-eyed goomba with a hearing problem.
I can't tell if he's trying to ask a question or announce a goddamn train.
the hell is wrong with that blockhead?
Well, I don't know.
I don't know much about Chris Cuomo.
It was a rhetorical question.
Did you go to finishing school?
I didn't know finishing school would have anything to do with this conversation, but are you irritated that CNN stacked yet another town hall against you?
Of course not.
How could a person possibly get irritated when something promoted as a town hall turns into an infomercial for the Harvard Undergraduate Centrist Society?
That was sarcasm.
Yeah, I thought you did a good job countering their mischaracterization of socialism.
Look, you may be of the opinion that it's radical to believe there's something wrong in this country when we have three families owning most of the wealth.
Well, I don't.
No, that's not my opinion.
If I wanted to know your opinion, I'd squeeze it out of your misshapen head while whistling the commercial jingle for Jimmy Dean's sausage.
I love cantankerous Bernie.
Other than that one question about democratic socialism, what was your overall impression of the town hall?
My impression.
You really want my impression?
Yeah, don't be shy.
Okay, I'll put it as diplomatically as I can.
They're all just a bunch of fucking money puppets.
You think kids go to dumps like Harvard and Yale to think for themselves?
Hell no.
They're writing out the trust funds until that big inheritance package comes after daddy mysteriously dies of a stroke in the panic room.
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