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April 30, 2020 - Jimmy Dore Show
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Get ready for an outstanding entertainment program.
The Jimmy Dore Show.
Hello, this is Jimmy.
Who's this?
Hey, Jimmy, this is Joe Biden.
Oh, hello, Mr. Vice President.
How are you doing?
Jimmy, I'm quarantined.
I'm trying to run a presidential campaign for my own home.
It's bananas.
Do you like it?
No, I hate it.
I want to be out there on the campaign trail, shaking hands and kissing babies and almost getting into fistfights with strangers.
And of course, have all your local delicacies that you enjoy so much, right?
Jimmy, have you ever had a hefty Carla?
Ha ha ha ha ha!
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
I'm sorry.
No, I don't think so.
Well, I'll tell you what, if you're ever in Lincoln, Illinois, you gotta treat yourself.
A hefty Carla is a lot like a French dip, but the arjuice is a little sweeter.
I don't know what they do to it, but it's sort of a sweeter flavor.
Oh, I see.
Sweeter au jus.
And then while you're eating it, this big broad named Carla comes in, slaps you in the face, tells you that your mother never loved you.
Delicious.
I'll look forward to that, hefty Carla.
Look, I see you got the coveted Hillary Clinton endorsement recently.
That's right, Amigo.
There's no stopping us now.
Uh-huh.
Sure.
We got, listen, listen, listen.
We got Hillary Clinton on our team.
Basically, this whole damn thing is all but over.
You mark my words.
Hillary Clinton, you knew her.
You voted for her.
No, I didn't.
You love her.
You respect her.
And you wish you could smell her hair.
Well, you can't.
That's my game, Jack.
Well, speaking of, are you ever going to address the rather serious allegations made about you by your former senatorial staffer, Tara Reed?
Jimmy, look.
Okay.
Look.
Yeah.
Uh-huh.
I'm looking.
Here's the deal.
Okay.
I'm looking now.
What's the deal?
Who?
Tara Reed.
Yeah.
Never heard of her.
Oh, come on, Joe.
Yeah, no, I'm not touching that.
Well, you have to now.
The hell I do.
Maybe if there weren't a pandemic going on, I'd have to make some sort of tin orange statement.
But look at it.
Look at shit.
The economy's collapsing.
Everyone's dumb little lives are in shambles.
I don't have to say peep about this floozy.
And I'll get away with it.
People are distracted.
Look over there.
Yeah, I know, but it's funny.
I actually just looked over there where I was pointing.
I was making a purely rhetorical point, but I tricked my own brain into looking where I was aiming my finger.
That's funny.
That's funny.
Mr. Vice President.
Hello.
Ms. Reed claims that you accosted her in a hallway and proceeded to...
Give me a break.
Give me a break.
What was this supposed to be?
93?
You think that was my first rodeo?
You think that by 1993, I hadn't figured out that if I'm going to grope somebody, I'm not going to do it in a damn hallway, Jimmy.
I'm going to find some pretense to lure her into a utilities closet or something.
I mean, does she think I was born yesterday?
Her story is a complete crack of shit.
By 93, I had my groke game down, and it certainly didn't involve doing it in public.
Wow.
Wow.
That was very interesting.
Yeah.
You should see how my wife is looking at me right now.
I bet.
Uh-huh.
She looks extremely interested in what I just said.
I would imagine.
So I'm going to need to hang up the phone now, Jim.
Okay, Joey.
Good luck.
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It's the Jim Door show.
Hi, everybody.
Welcome to this week's Jimmy Door show.
Let's get to the jokes before we get to the joke, shall we?
Hey, can we please stop slamming Nancy Pelosi for her expensive freezers?
Where else is she supposed to keep her heart?
Am I right?
Come on.
You know who's really getting hit hard in the economy right now?
Debt collection agencies.
Thank God Congress is getting a bailout.
Come on, kind of ironic.
I have a dream that all our billionaire bigots will one day live in a nation where they will not only be judged by the color of their racism, but by the character of their money.
And Joe Biden is feeling so confident about winning the White House.
You know, he just said he could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and sexually assault somebody and wouldn't lose any voters.
Hio!
Hey, what's coming up on today's show?
Jake Tapper is the only person to finally ask Nancy Pelosi about why she keeps passing these horrible stimulus bills without extracting anything for the people.
And Nancy Pelosi tells him to calm down.
Plus, Dylan Radigan breaks down the screwing of America in the latest stimulus and how criminal lenders are using the same tricks to steal your house as they did in 2009.
Plus, we got phone calls today from Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, and Chris Christie, plus a lot lot more.
That's today on the Jimmy Door show.
So I thought I'd call up Bernie Sanders for his reaction after getting taken off the New York primary ballot.
Hello.
Hello, and welcome to the Bernie Sanders household.
Bernie Sanders is not able to come to the phone right now, but his former self is.
How may he help you?
Hello, Bernie.
Guess who this is?
I'm not playing this game any longer, young man.
I know who you are and what you're up to.
I refuse to say anything bad about my friend Joe Biden, whom I respect.
And blah, blah, Terrell Reed's accusations should be taken seriously, but Donald Trump is the most dangerous monster in the history of the universe this side of Marthra, okay?
But Biden's never going to meaningfully change his platform.
You must know that, right, Bernie?
Oh, nonsense.
For example, the two of us are now seeing eye to eye on economic policy.
So you don't know Larry Summers just joined his team as an economic advisor then?
Of course, sign it.
Wait, what?
Huh?
What?
Oh, Jesus, what the fuck?
Are you serious?
Yeah, I'm serious.
Well, don't you worry.
We still have plenty of leverage once we win a bunch of delegates in New York.
Bernie, New York just took you off their ballot.
But of course, they wait.
Huh?
What the fuck?
They took my name off the ballot.
Are you sure?
Yes, I am sure.
Wait, what ballot?
Are you sure?
Are you sure we're talking about the same ballot?
I mean, maybe there's another New York presidential primary going on in another country.
I mean, it could happen, right?
They took your name off the ballot.
Okay, I'm sure it was just an honest mistake.
It's still going to be a primary.
No, Bernie, the Democratic Party took your name off the ballot.
They canceled the New York presidential primary.
You see, it was all just a misunderstanding.
Wait, what?
The fuck?
I have a good mind to hire some lawyers.
We'll see what our justice system has to say about this after a few months in court.
Oh, my God.
I sound like Chuck Schumer.
Yeah, face it, Bernie.
There's not going to be a New York presidential primary.
Well, thank goodness we still got Guam coming up right.
What?
Guam, the Guam primary.
We can pick up seven delegates there, right?
Come on, cool seven.
And Kansas, I'm going to win the shit out of those 39 delegates.
No, Bernie, if New York can take you off the ballot, why can't everyone else?
Well, I still have all that money I raised from small bonus and my integrity.
Your former senior campaign advisor, Jeff Weaver, just started a super PAC to help Joe Biden.
You see, I wait, what the fuck?
Well, you know what?
I am going to put my foot down by saying I am not supportive of his super PAC.
Oh, my God.
I sound like Chuck Schumer.
Well, at least you still have your prestigious committee assignments, right?
Of course.
I mean, I don't know.
I mean, can I call you back?
Jay, call it kill and tell him to wake Joe up for a second.
Fuck!
Ha ha!
Aaaaaaah!
Hehehe!
you So I want to show you Nancy Pelosi after she passed, she engineered and passed.
Remember, nothing gets passed.
No laws get passed unless Nancy Pelosi says so.
That's how powerful she is.
So no bill gets brought to the floor to get voted on, debated, talked about anything unless Nancy Pelosi thinks it's okay.
So she's the one who's been engineering.
If you're at home right now and you're afraid, why isn't the United States giving me a cash payment every month like the rest of the world is doing for their workers when the government tells their businesses they have to close down?
The reason is because Nancy Pelosi, she's stopping it.
Hey, why don't they give us health care like the rest of the world already has for when a pandemic hits?
They don't have to worry about losing their health care in the middle of a pandemic.
They already have a system that provides them health care.
Why don't we have that?
Nancy Pelosi.
That's who's stopping.
That's who's in the way.
It's not Mitch McConnell.
It's not Steve Mnuchin.
It's Nancy Pelosi.
And the Democrats will not call her out.
Guess who calls her out?
Jake Tapper.
Jake Tapper says, hey, you extracted nothing.
You got no concessions from the Republicans.
You put a bunch of stuff on the bill that they were okay with.
You got funding for hospitals.
They were okay with that.
Well, listen to what he says.
You and Senator Schumer made this major concession on the most recent legislation because you made it okay in this one.
It wasn't a concession.
No, well, I mean, here, Governor Andrew.
I understand what Andrew Scuomo said, and I respect his perspective as a governor.
But the fact is this, they wanted 250 for the PPP.
We support the PPP.
We're part of developing it.
Small business is entrepreneurial part of the optimism of America.
So we're for that.
But we wanted to include more people and more money for the program and for the hospital.
So it was always an interim bill.
It was always an interim bill.
We always said that CARES 2 would be the bill where we would go for state and local.
Right, we will.
So I don't know if you can hear that, Danny, what she's saying.
We always said that CARES 2, the second stimulus, would be where we took care of small businesses.
What?
Why would you do that?
Why wouldn't you take care of small businesses first?
Why wouldn't you take care of people's health care first?
Why wouldn't you make sure cash payments to people first?
This is all garbage.
And Jake Tapper, I'm going to give him credit.
At least he pushed back a little.
Nobody at MSNBC will do this.
So here comes a little bit more to this.
I get that, but I just want to play for you the sound from New York Governor Cuomo because he said he needs money for his state to save New York from an economic tsunami.
Take a listen to what he had to say.
We've been talking about funding for state and local governments, and it was not in the bill that the House is going to pass today.
They said, don't worry, don't worry, don't worry.
The next bill.
I said to my colleagues in Washington, I would have insisted that state and local funding was in this current bill.
I would have insisted that health care was in this bill.
I would have insisted that the post office saving was in this bill.
I would have said that a rent freeze was in this bill.
I would have said mortgage foreclosure relief was in this bill.
I would have said a bunch of stuff that would have, but I would have demanded and payments to cities.
They demanded nothing.
They got nothing for you.
Nothing.
And here, so here's what she has to say about that.
Watch the gaslighting she does.
Because I don't believe they want to fund state and local governments.
So Cuomo says he would have insisted on state funding in the last bill.
And now Senator McConnell is saying he wants to push.
So do you see what a handcuff it puts through?
Hey, there's a Democrat saying that and didn't call her out by name.
All he had to do was say they should have.
And now Jake Tapper picks that up and repeats it.
Do you see how that, if AOC or Rashida Tlaib or Rokana would crit or Bernie Sanders would criticize the Democratic leadership, then the news reporters, that gives them freedom to repeat it and say this guy said it.
So if Democratic of a progressive Politician won't criticize their leadership.
It'll never get repeated on a TV show, and it's never happening.
It took Andrew Cuomo to say this shit.
So let's watch what she says.
The pause button.
Was this a tactical mistake by you and Senator Schumer?
Just calm down.
We will have state and local, and we will have it.
Did you hear what she tells Jake Tapper, just calm down in the middle of a pandemic where they're screwing everyone except the oligarchs?
Calm down.
You're going to get it.
Danny, can you, I'm here with Danny Haifeng from the Black Agenda Report.
My jaw is on the floor.
I can't even get over that she said that.
Calm down.
Calm down.
In the middle of a pandemic where people are fucking shitting their pants because they don't know what they're doing and they've got no income.
They've got no health care.
They don't know what to do.
And Nancy Pelosi is telling you to calm down while she's eating ice cream in front of a $40,000 refrigerator.
I throw it to Danny from the Black Agenda Report.
It looks like another Trump ad to me that Trump will inevitably use this kind of material.
I mean, the deer in the headlights look that you see from her when Jake Tapper is asking one of the few questions that he ever asks, which represents any sort of real journalism, asking her to talk about real concessions that she made and that her party made to the Republican Party.
And her answer is calm down.
We're all into the entrepreneurial spirit of small business.
But at the end of the day, fuck you, workers, fuck you, poor people.
Fuck you, tens of thousands of people who are dying and the tens of thousands more who are losing loved ones.
Fuck you, essential, quote-unquote, essential workers.
Fuck you, healthcare workers.
That's what she is ultimately saying when she goes on CNN and talks to Jake Tapper, who wants to be friendly with her, but he's throwing her softballs and she's making them look like really good, critical questions thrown to her.
When in fact, all she is showing is that she has absolutely no solutions to this crisis, that she's okay with all of the concessions that have been given to the Republican Party.
And I wouldn't even call them concessions.
I would just call them points of agreement at the end of the day.
Well, yeah, that's exactly what it is.
There wasn't a negotiation.
They just, they all agreed on what happened.
The Republicans agreed with everything in this bill, and so does Nancy Pelosi.
And more importantly, the Republicans agree with everything that's not in this bill.
And so does Nancy Pelosi.
What's not in this bill?
Healthcare for workers.
Any kind of pay or any kind of help for the essential workers who are on the front lines right now.
Nothing.
There's no direct cash payments.
There's no credit card relief.
There's no rent relief.
There's no mortgage relief.
There's no nothing.
There's nothing in this bill.
Nothing for the post office.
No, nothing.
And she comes out and says, calm down.
And you still, you're going to turn on and go on Twitter and go on MSNBC.
You're going to see people saying, go yay, queen, yay, queen.
Go get him.
That's what they say to her on Twitter.
So here she is now.
And here she is endorsing Joe Biden.
So this is from ABC News.
And just in House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi endorses Joe Biden for president of the United States, calling him a leader who is the personification of hope and courage, values, authenticity, and integrity.
Joe Biden.
Now, there's few people in the country who are worse human beings than Joe Biden, let alone a good person or a leader.
He's a horrible, horrible, horrible person, a sociopathic liar who has screwed over workers at the behest of banks and insurance companies.
And he's murdered hundreds of thousands of people as a warmongering war criminal that he is.
And he tortured Chelsea Manning.
I mean, just a million horrible things that he's done.
But hey, that's the guy we got to embrace because Trump.
What do you say to her endorsing him?
Totally predictable.
Nancy Pelosi is 100 millionaire.
She works for the same corporate class that Joe Biden works for, that he serves, is so dutifully loyal to.
And I think what's really interesting in this moment, especially in relation to the stimulus bill and Pelosi's response to Clapper, is that it shows, or Tapper, Jake Tapper, it shows that, you know, in times of crises, not only is the capitalist class looking to destroy what semblance of a middle class, so-called middle class exists, but they're also trying to consolidate amongst themselves, right?
There's always a concentration of political power and a concentration of economic capital.
And it's interesting to see someone like Andrew Cuomo, a flank to the left of Nancy Pelosi in order to serve his own political career.
Because at the end of the day, look what Andrew Cuomo has done to New York State.
I mean, he is just as much culpable as the rest of the Democratic Party and the rest of Washington in the fact that so many of the deaths from COVID-19 have occurred right here in this state and in this city of New York City.
But because there is this competition going on, even though they all like to say that they're all together, they're all in it together.
Cuomo has dreams of being what Nancy Pelosi is, the leader of the Democratic Party.
And Nancy Pelosi just was not ready to take the heat from Jake Tapper.
And she ultimately lost that battle.
So even as there are those who are saying, yes, Queen, yes, Nancy Pelosi, there will be a lot more who will say, wow, Andrew Cuomo is far superior to Nancy Pelosi and the Democratic Party leadership in this time.
Maybe he's the future.
And I think that is so critical to understand and examine in this time when you have someone like Joe Biden who can barely speak and barely talk and barely think as the candidate for the 2020 election.
It's Imagine if Nancy Pelosi got a hard question once in a while at MSNBC.
Imagine that.
I mean, we just saw Jake Tapper push back in the itty-bitty bit and it exposed her.
Calm down.
She's telling people, calm down.
A hundred millionaire is telling people to calm down.
It's coming.
Yeah, but you know who didn't have to wait?
The richest people in the country.
Yeah, I know.
Just imagine.
Just imagine.
Well, Danny, I really appreciate you being our guest, Danny Haifong from Black Agenda Report.
And we've covered, you know, you have a great book out.
Everyone should read American Exceptionalism and American Innocence.
It really explains what the culture is, how we got here, the thinking, how imperialism works, how it's really a great book.
Everybody should pick it up.
Danny Haifong over at the Black Agenda Report.
Anything else you'd like to say before we say goodbye?
Well, I'll just say that we can end on a positive note.
There is a worldwide movement out there.
And I always stress this so much because, you know, you'll see Vietnam right now getting coverage in terms of their COVID-19 response.
You'll see, but you won't see how much of these socialist countries that the United States hate so much, whether we like to think of them as socialists or not.
I think the U.S. has a big problem with trying to tell other countries what to do and how they're organizing themselves without any evidence to their arguments.
But, you know, when you have countries like Vietnam, Cuba, even Venezuela under sanctions, being able to address this pandemic in a way where not only is life preserved, but people have what they need in a time of crisis, that it should show us what is necessary and that is power, right?
So working people have power, have much more power in Venezuela than they do here.
Working people in Vietnam.
I mean, you don't lose 3 million people to an imperialist invasion and then beat that imperialist vision unless working people have some power in that country.
And that power is what allows for some really good things to happen.
So I think that if we can figure out how in this context we can organize for that power, we'll be in a lot better shape and we'll be able to move past the politics of the two-party corporate duopoly.
Do you think we will be able to?
Do you think what Jane McLevly said on our show that she thinks she predicts there'll be a lot more strikes before the election, a lot more after, just like there was in 1932 and 1933 that led to FDR implementing the New Deal?
Do you do you are you do you feel uh uh um optimistic about that scenario playing out that workers actually realize their power and that there is actually leaders that rise up and we actually do take control?
I think it's inevitable that there will be some form of rebellion very soon in the United States.
Uh we've been due for it for a long time, and I believe that working people will play a leading role in that rebellion, and it's going, but it's going to take a lot of organizing and it's going to take a lot of education as well.
I think that political education is one of the most important things we need to do right now and to spread that political education to the masses because crises don't always lead to better times for working class people.
And so we need to be cognizant of that.
But I do think that there is a real possibility out of this that the conditions will be even more right for a social movement, for massive social unrest to occur, where there will be more possibilities for our organizations and our demands to be heard.
I am not optimistic that the capitalist system will meet those demands.
I do not believe that at this stage there will be such a thing as a new deal coming from the capitalist class.
But I do think that there will be a rebellion that will demand that, a movement that will demand these things.
And then it's at that point where the real struggle actually begins because it will take a lot of organizing and education to ensure that people don't fall into despair and don't just throw up their hands and give up.
I think that's the biggest thing because then we need to model out what society comes next because I don't believe that the capitalist system will provide it for us.
Hey, dirtbag.
Wait, what's wrong with this?
You see my opinion piece in the Washington Post?
No, I didn't read it.
You didn't read it.
Let me ask you a question.
Of the two of us, which one of us was governor of New Jersey for eight fucking years?
Let me give you a hint.
It was me.
Not you.
Me.
Well, I'm sorry I haven't read your opinion piece yet.
Well, you really missed something, hot shot.
These are impotent times.
The country can really use my noodle during these endemics and shit.
Especially someone like you.
I bet you don't even wash your hands after you slap somebody around like they deserve.
That doesn't sound very nice, Chris.
Yeah, I bet you like it nice, don't you?
What's your advice, Chris?
I got five actions you jerk faces need to start taking to restore the American way of life here.
Are you listening?
Because you don't sound like you're listening.
I'm listening, Chris.
First, we limit all restaurant access.
Aren't we already doing that in a lot of places?
Let me finish.
Limit all restaurant access to just delivering French fries and nacho grande supremo deluxe or some shit like Chinese broccoli or Swiss chardin and boom, you got another foreign infection.
Fries and nachos, you can just stick and seal containers and nobody's breathing over them except you when you're choking on them down watching Debra Norville.
Debra Norville.
What comes next?
Number two: shut down all your state and county parks.
Except those where people can shelter in place on the beach with their fucking fries and nachos.
What?
What?
*laughs*
What do you think of what do you think of Governor Murphy's executive order that New Jerseyans should publicly name people who violate stay-at-home orders?
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
I ain't no snitch.
If I were still governor of New Jersey, I'd make a list of all the snitches and snitch on them.
I'm no snitch.
But I am a snitch snitcher.
I hate snitches.
Okay, so what?
I'm a snitch snitcher.
Okay, so what's your step three then?
We take everybody's temperature.
Digitally, orally, anally, whatever.
And how do we do that?
Easy.
Get the army to do it.
That's using the Defense Production Act there.
So you take everybody's temperature, add them all up, divide by 331 million peoples.
And that hot hot gives you the average temperature of America.
That's what.
And if it's like 98.8 degrees or some shit, you go to step four.
Oh, really?
Which is what?
Put everybody's ass under one of those big yellow fumigation tents, throw in some fries and nachos, wait for the herd immunities.
Just like the Swedens are doing.
Are you sure you want to follow their bottle?
Sweden now has a 12% death rate.
Wow.
Oh, you think you're a doctor or something?
I'm the doctor.
I got a Dr. Laureate from Rutgers.
Right before I surgically remove funding from those hate holes.
I know all about medical stuff.
So is Trump going to fire Dr. Fauci?
Whoa, whoa.
No fucking way he's going to fire Fauci, okay?
Like I said recently at the Chris Christie Institute for Public Policy, wow, this is a big chair.
When you sit down and you become one with it, like it's a big glove or something.
I love this chair.
So, my advice is to find yourself a big chair, order in some fries and nachos, and shut the fuck up.
We're all in this together, Bipsqueaks.
Look, I gotta go.
Oh, Chris Cuomo's on TV right now, Chris Cuomo.
You know him?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
He broke that fucking, I fucking hate him.
We also want to like play wrestle with him too a little bit.
You know what I mean?
Those guys.
Yeah, I know those guys.
Yeah.
But yeah, I fucking hate him, but then, yeah, we'll get a wrestling little bit.
Why do you want to wrestle with?
Because you want to see his guns?
You want to touch him?
No, you know, I'd be submissive.
Aren't you?
The CIA seems to be.
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We're going to talk about money.
Oh, we should have brand this segment.
We're going to be doing segments with our good friend Dylan Radigan going forward.
And we're going to have to put a name on it, like Money Talk or something like that.
Sometchy.
Money matters.
I like that because it's got alliteration.
And we'll talk about, you know, his expertise, which is all about how the finance is working during this COVID crisis.
In fact, he's here with us right now.
Our friend of the show, former host of NMSNBC's The Dylan Radigan Show.
And he was also an award-winning journalist for Bloomberg.
He was a candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives for New York's 21st District.
Please welcome back to the show, Dylan Radigan.
Hi, Dylan.
How are you?
Very well and yourself.
Never run for Congress, Jimmy.
It's a very bad decision.
Don't do that.
Take it from me.
Yeah, yeah, I know.
You didn't seem to be in.
Very, very bad.
It was probably the worst decision of my life, quite honestly.
No, no, seriously.
Like the value of having run for Congress is no matter how bad anything gets, at least it's not as bad as running for Congress.
What was so bad about it?
The thing I can't take is being nice to people and asking them for money.
Yeah, I mean, well, I just basically refused most of that part, which probably was why I didn't win.
But so, yeah, I have major issues with that.
And I guess, you know, the thing that really got me was it doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter.
Come on.
I guess, you know, because I was, I had it in my mind because I, you know, there was a time when I had more of an expectation of justice or fairness from this country, which obviously I have none of that anymore, so it doesn't matter so much.
But there was a time when I actually thought that there was something that was different about America relative to the fundamentally corrupt governments that prevail over every other country in the world.
And thought that perhaps anyway, so I had so that that was my fault, not the countries are running for Congress's fault.
I even had that illusion.
Let's move on.
So let's start talking about.
So you're the financial guru.
You know all there is to know about the ins and outs of how money works.
And so that's why we have you here, especially during the coronavirus.
Now, what we had been talking about, tell me if this is what we had been talking about about how this stimulus package that left out workers, that left out families, that has no UBI, that has no healthcare attached to it, no bailout for cities or states.
So anyway, so it was just a giveaway, trillions of dollars to the already richest people in the country, the oligarchs who control our country.
And now, because we're going into a depression because of the economy shutdown, all the every piece of property and every asset, every business is going to be available for sale at fire sale prices.
And who has all the money?
Well, the oligarchs just got $5 trillion from the government.
And so, and regular people like us don't have any money.
So the income inequality is going to get even worse.
We're living at income inequality levels since the Gilded Age right now.
Okay.
So that's how bad it is in America.
It's going to get way worse.
And here's proof of what we've been predicting here.
This is the Capitol Forum tweeted this out.
Walgreens, CVS Health Step, Walgreens, CVS Health Step Up Buyout Offers During Pandemic.
That's the headline.
Walgreens and CVS Health step up buyout offers during the pandemic.
And then it says, the number one in two drugstore chains in the United States are accelerating efforts during the coronavirus outbreak to buy out rival independent pharmacies upended by the economic turmoil the pandemic has caused, the pharmacist said.
Isn't this exactly what we predicted, Dylan, that there's going to be...
You remember when you and I really started having these regular conversations of whatever it was four to six weeks ago with the beginning of the pandemic, right?
And we talked explicitly about exactly this, how there's a biological crisis, and then there's the economic crisis, which is the collapse in demand from the lockdown.
Then there's the risk of the financial crisis with the collapse of the banks, which was mitigated by the trillions at the Fed.
And then you now have the social crisis percolating and it will continue to grow.
And then one of the contributing, and then you're obviously we're on the brink of what will be some degree of a housing crisis.
Hopefully it won't be that bad, honestly.
I want to believe that there'll be reasons it won't be that bad, but that is obviously on the table.
But compare what you just said, which is that the big oligopoly drug companies are looking to use this opportunity to hoover up whatever's left, whatever crumbs of independent small business are left as the fraudulent PPP is out there to support quote-unquote small business, which is beyond comical.
But, you know, set all that aside, this is exactly what we predicted.
And I ask you to put that in comparison to what the government in the Netherlands said at the beginning of the lockdown.
They said, if there was a healthy business before we shut down this economy because of a biological crisis, the government and the bank's job is to make sure that those businesses, excuse me, are intact when this is over.
Again, this is not, these are not businesses.
These are not small independent pharmacies that recklessly borrowed trillions to go buy yachts and airplanes and blow all the money, right?
These are regular normal flow businesses.
These are businesses like every restaurant in America.
I can go down the list.
I mean, we all know everything that's locked down that have been annihilated, the hotels, I mean, on down the line that have been annihilated by the lockdowns through no fault of their own.
Jimmy Doerr, by the way, can't do stand-up anymore, right?
And along with all the other entertainers in this country, you're fortunate that you have such a big digital platform so you can actually, you know, still provide access to your audience and still have a working economy around you.
But the point is, in America, the political and government decision is explicit and implicitly to give money to the wealthiest institutions to roll assets up as a way to exploit a biological crisis that was no fault of the people that are being victimized by it.
It's bad enough that they did this in 2008 and 9, where they gave the richest and the most powerful all the money to roll up all the distressed assets as they did in the financial crisis.
They repeated that again in the face of a biological crisis.
I mean, I cannot think of a more putrid and disgusting thing for a group of people to do.
I mean, it's no different than robbing someone while their house is on fire.
Because so your house gets struck by lightning.
You're trying to put the fire of your house out from the lightning strike.
And then the government, instead of helping you put out the fire, comes in and steals all your stuff.
And people get mad at me because they get upset that I don't want to perpetuate the myth of America as having some differential.
Again, the Russian government's not particularly nice to their people either.
Neither is the Chinese government.
Even the Mexican government.
Heck, the European governments are a little bit overblown in terms of their perceived glory.
I mean, the EU really is a club for rich people.
There aren't really European countries.
As we discussed last fall, the group of the super rich that sort of are countryless, and then everybody else that sort of is left to fend for themselves.
But I never thought I would see the day where a biological crisis would be manipulated and used by American politicians to empower the rich to raid the rest of the country.
Well, it would be one.
It's incomprehensible.
Well, if I told you, you'd be like, no way, not no way, no way.
But yeah, actually, yeah.
So it's starting.
So here, here it is.
It's starting.
Walgreens and CVS, the number one and number two pharmacies, are starting to buy up all the small pharmacies.
So again, small businesses are going away, and that was part of the plan.
And the thing that kills me, Dylan, is that Jake Tapper a couple days ago was interviewing Nancy Pelosi, and he finally said, hey, you didn't get anything that Democrats wanted in this bill, and now you're all going home.
Isn't that a tactical mistake?
And Nancy Pelosi told Jake Tacker to Tapper to calm down.
And guess what Jake Tapper did?
He calmed down.
Did he calm down?
He did.
He shut up.
He did not have a follow-up question.
And so what do you make of this unbelievable?
Like you're saying this is unbelievable for fleecing of America, but it's happening with the blessing of Bernie Sanders, every one of the Justice Democrats, and Nancy Pelosi.
They're doing this to America, and there doesn't seem to be a level.
It's not going to be a moron to expect anything from the Democrats.
I mean, I don't know who, I mean, the Democrats have been showing you who they are since Bill Clinton, with all due respect.
I don't know what kind of person you have to be to expect a Democrat to do anything other than be sanctimonious, hypocritical, and then rob you.
Republicans are more likely to rob you with a knife in front of you.
The Democrats are more likely to serve you some expensive ice cream and then steal everything when you're out of the room.
The Democrats are more thinking.
Republicans are aggressive, aggressive.
Democrats are passive-aggressive.
They're both in the same business of taking all the resources from everybody for themselves and those who sponsor them.
I mean, that's a known fact in America.
That's not Joe Biden versus Donald Trump.
America's Joe Biden versus Donald Trump.
Pick your senile rapist.
I mean, are you really serious?
So that you, I know you're wrong about this, Dylan, because Chomsky told me, Chomsky told me there's a big difference.
There's a big difference.
Just like there was a big difference.
Between the senile rapists.
Yeah, that's what he says.
He says you're immoral if you don't vote for Joe Biden.
It's a joke.
What's happening?
It's a nuts.
And again, you know, I don't know how Chomsky could talk about this, what the Democrats are doing during the stimulus, and then with a straight face, tell you have to vote for one of them.
Instead of telling people what you need to do is get in the streets right now and overthrow your government, he's telling people to use a voting strategy, which hasn't worked ever.
Anyway, they canceled the presidential.
They canceled the election in New York, Jimmy.
I know.
I mean, they canceled the election.
So you know what happens when you cancel an election in one of the most powerful, richest, and most populous states in America that houses the most populous and most powerful city, arguably in the world?
What?
Surely sets the table for Donald Trump to cancel the election in November.
Now that the virus is an excuse not to vote.
So people are saying, no, that's not true.
The Democrats did it first.
So what are you going to do?
I know, because that's what it looks like.
But what the Democrats are saying is, no, no, that would only apply if Joe Biden dropped out of the race and endorsed Donald Trump, which is what Bernie Sanders has done, which is why they're saying they're canceling it.
Do you see that logic?
I don't care what the logic is.
I'm allowed to go into it.
As a registered voter in New York State, which I am, I'm entitled to go into a voting booth and vote for Mickey Mouse if I want.
Right.
I can write in whatever I want.
Once you take away my ability to vote, period, you have suspended even the thinnest veil, the thinnest illusion of democracy, which obviously this country is not a democracy.
So it's sort of preposterous.
In some ways, it's better that they did cancel the election so that we can just get out of this whole world of democracy thing.
Yes.
I honestly agree with that.
I think it'd be less frustrating.
I mean, the nice thing in China or Russia is people don't get animated about these things because they don't have the, they're like, of course.
They're not sitting there expecting it to function and then being outraged when it doesn't function.
They know it doesn't function.
So they don't waste so much emotional bandwidth on the dysfunction because they never were led to believe that it should function.
Okay.
So I, all right.
I know, Dylan, I know.
And you know.
I sound worse than you this week, Jimmy.
I feel like I've taken a Jimmy pill.
I'm usually the optimist.
Yeah.
But as I, again, as I still peruse the news media and I watch more progressive news than anything, they still don't seem to understand what's happening.
They don't understand what's coming.
They're treating what's happening right now as just another vote.
No one is animated.
No one is holding the progressives feet to the fire at all.
It's kind of remarkable to see.
The most we could get is, hey, they should have voted the other way.
So I've been, you know me, I've been sounding the alarm.
Meanwhile, they're torching the economy.
Meanwhile, they are torching the economy.
There are 26 million people out of work.
There's this, the lockdown, which should have been done a long time before it was done and should be lifted sooner than it was, is being now extended forever for the political convenience of doing it.
There's the absence of testing.
The absence of all the things that are required to actually allow the society to function is political malfeasance on a level that's beyond catastrophic.
It ultimately takes us to why you're going to see a collapse or a potential collapse in the housing market and a significant restructuring and who owns what as they roll the money up into this to the hands of the smallest possible group of people, which is what happened in Russia after 1989.
So Dylan, just tell me that.
So this, I still, I know I'm going to be naive, but.
All right.
You've been watching, you've been watching Rocky movies or something.
Yes.
But so while, while they give the 5 trillion to the richest people and they screw every and they leave everybody else out.
Yeah.
Wouldn't it help them to give everybody health care and a UBI?
It wouldn't hurt.
They would still be able to take over every business in the country and they could still give everybody health care and a UBI, right?
Right.
But if they get, if they did the UBI, the Medicare for all, which you and I, you know, this is, this was a, that should have been done in the first five minutes.
Right.
Right.
But if you do that, you then have to forfeit the fraudulent myth of the sovereign alpha American who could take care of himself and gets business done.
And is the ultimate creator and the ultimate doer.
That American entrepreneur, even though the number of new businesses that are formed in this country is at an all time low, even though social mobility in this country is at an all time low.
But there is a fraudulent myth of the sovereign cowboy, badass American who doesn't need help from anybody and can take care of himself.
And once you do UBI and Medicare for all, you're acknowledging that we're a group of people that can share basic resources in a way that's better for all of us.
And you can still be a wild, badass entrepreneur, cowboy with medic.
In fact, you'd be a much more of a wild ass, badass cowboy entrepreneur.
Yes.
If you had UBI and Medicare for all, because you wouldn't have to quit your, you wouldn't have to lose your healthcare when you quit your job.
And you'd have a little bit of a foam on the runway while you were building your idea.
Ironically, ironically, nothing could be more supportive of the sovereign myth of the American cowboy entrepreneur.
Then Medicare for all and UBI.
But you asked me a question, which is why are they not doing it?
I think the reason they're not doing it is because of the propaganda around self-sufficiency and self-sovereignty that is uniquely American and deeply fraudulent.
But again, May 1st is coming.
June 1st is coming.
People don't have money to pay their rent.
They're already a third of Americans missed their rent payment April 1st.
So I don't know.
I had someone on the show saying rent strikes are going to be meaningless because they're going to happen by default.
And so, you know, Americans don't have any savings.
Everyone knows everyone's living paycheck to paycheck.
So when they lose their paycheck, they lose their ability to pay their debt services to their credit cards, their student loans, their rent, their mortgages.
So I just, it just, it, it, there, I just don't understand.
I don't understand.
You're saying that even, you're saying even, so what you're saying is even as dastardly as their plan may be.
Yes.
That, that, that it's also, they're also dumb is what you're saying.
That you could, that you could perpetuate this dastardly plan in a way that's less stupid.
Is that what you're saying?
Yeah.
I mean, so they are, they are lighting the, the wick of social unrest.
They are.
And why wouldn't they want to keep everybody tamped down while they buy up the country and, and enjoy the $5 trillion they got?
Why wouldn't they, you know, it's just, it's, so it's just like Roosevelt said, Hey, if, if you don't give them some of your money, they're going to take all of your money and they don't, so they need someone to tell them that?
I think they do.
So I think, so, okay, well, riots will be starting.
Um, and I want, I can't wait.
not it's right what are people gonna do when they don't they they're already not having money to buy groceries so we already saw what happened in sicily people went to the grocery store think about occupy whatever it was in 2011.
But I suspect that what's coming is going to make, people are going to be wishing for Occupy.
Yeah, because with the people, what's going to happen is it's not just the Occupy people who are going to be pissed off.
If you notice, a lot of right-wingers with a lot of guns are also out of work.
And they're going to also be pissed off.
And would you want to be a cop going to kick somebody out of their apartment when you know they're heavily armed in the middle of a fucking depression?
I don't think that's going to work out very well.
So I think you're right.
It's going to get Mad Max-y around here.
And, well, that's what I'm saying.
I don't know if you're saying that.
And I just can't get— I'm not ready to go Mad Max.
I hold out hope for a cast something.
You know, there's some scientific asymmetrical event that cuts this whole thing short.
It's just stunning that they just won't take care of the people.
And Nancy Pelosi goes on TV and she spanks the journalists, the guys who are interviewing her.
She puts them in their place and they behave.
They obey them.
So Jake Tapper got his mind right.
It's amazing to watch this happen.
There is no one—this show is the only one I've seen that is screaming about what's actually happening and what's about to come.
And literally no one else is saying this.
And no one else is holding their progressive politicians'feet to the fire at all.
most we can most we can get is someone saying oh bernie should have voted against this stimulus or they should have I honestly see the most of it on the populist right other than you.
I don't see it.
I don't see it on the left at all.
At all.
But I do see it on the populist right because they're aware of what's happening in terms of the overt, reckless, and explicit economic destruction that is being rendered upon this country by the idiocy of its political leadership.
And so I actually see more of it on the populist right and then you.
Maybe that's why one of the Trump advisors reached out to me and asked if he could come on your show because he was starting to agree with you.
Yeah, yeah, that's pretty tricky.
That's pretty tricky because Trump is also Well, that's what I've been telling people.
And people keep saying, no, we have a chance to influence Biden.
We don't have a chance to influence Trump.
And I'm just like, you guys have been wrong about everything since you were born.
And so I'm pretty sure you're wrong about this too.
And they are.
Biden created the healthcare system with Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama that's so catastrophically ill-equipped that it can't even test people for a virus four months after the fact in the face of the biggest economic catastrophe in the history of the world.
And the $4 trillion Clinton Obama Biden healthcare apparatus is belly up, useless.
Useless.
Useless.
But Nancy.
He's charging a fortune from everybody in this country while still leaving them with deductibles.
I mean, keeping them hostage to their jobs or taking their health care away because they're getting laid off.
Everything that you complain about in healthcare, whether it's the deductible, whether it's the accessibility, whether it's the employment, all the everything, everything, all of it was created by Joe Biden, Barack Obama, and Hillary Clinton.
You think Joe Biden's going to help you out?
And this is the point, by the way.
Not that Donald Trump's going to help you out, but Donald Trump is such a beliefless, psychotic idiot that he might do something that's useful for somebody just by accident.
Yeah.
Joe Biden is strategically hostile.
I agree with you.
I know.
And all the people telling me.
Donald Trump is a catastrophic, nefarious, fascist moron, but he might accidentally do something that helps you because he doesn't care either way.
That's exactly right.
All he cares about is how he feels.
He has no ideology.
Donald Trump doesn't care if he instituted Medicare for all or not.
It doesn't matter to him.
Well, what matters to him is his own pleasure.
As long as he feels good, he'll do it.
Joe Biden is a calculated monster, along with the rest of the I mean, people say, oh, how can you call these guys a monster?
You like the American health care system?
Paying twice everybody up much as everybody in the world.
And when there's a global pandemic, there's absolutely nothing.
We can't even run a test.
So you got to lock everybody in their house and destroy the whole economy?
Come on.
I'm with you.
Again, I'm glad to hear you getting upset.
I hate it when I'm the only one.
I was trying to be now.
You got me worked up.
I was doing a good job being calm and disinterested and dispassionate, Jimmy.
I'm a little heated up today.
I'm sorry.
I know.
No, it's good.
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Hey, Jimmy.
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Isn't Zoom having a lot of hacking problems lately?
It went off without a hits, Jimmy.
And yes, that Anthony Weiner dick pic was intentional.
You didn't see my Zoom meeting.
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