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The Jimmy Dore Show.
So everyone in Las Vegas, including that crazy mayor they have, is trying to reopen the casinos.
And I believe we have historical Vegas bigwig Mo Green is on the phone to discuss the matter.
Mo, are you there?
Hey, Jimmy, Steph, everybody's here.
How you doing?
Hey, bye.
Good to see you.
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
Yeah.
Hi there, Mr. Green.
Thanks for being on the Jimmy Door show.
My pleasure.
Hey, what do you say instead of a couple of nice beef burgundies on the house?
How's that sound?
That sounds great, Mo.
Thank you.
So you really think they should reopen the casinos in Las Vegas?
Do I think?
Jimmy, we don't have a choice.
I'm losing money hand over fist here.
It's not just me, everybody.
The Riviera, the Tropicana, Circus Circus, the Sands, the Tally Hole.
We're all being bled out dry out here in the desert.
They may as well shut the water off.
But every model predicts more deaths from COVID-19 if we reopen crowded spaces prematurely, especially places like casinos.
People die every day.
How's that my problem?
It's Vegas, Jimmy.
People die in the street.
They die in the gutter.
It's been that way for years.
And the gaming commission never tried to pin it on my coat before.
Why it's not now.
Uh-huh.
Look, it's not just me.
It's not just the bosses.
The workers, the four managers, the waitresses, the women in the basement doing the goddamn laundry.
They all depend on the casinos being open and full.
I try to run a business here.
People depend on you.
Full?
So you wouldn't even assent to limiting it to 50%?
50%.
50%.
You goddamn pollocks really make me laugh, you know?
No, not 50%, not 75, 100%, Jimmy.
When we open back up, we got to be banging on all cylinders to make up for the lost revenue.
I'm tired of letting everybody go.
I'm firing cocktail waitresses doing a dying.
What the hell's the matter with you?
What the hell's wrong with me?
What the hell is wrong with you?
All these employees you pretend to care about, they're the ones who are going to get sick and perhaps die from going back to work, Mo.
Look, we'll all wear masks.
We'll wipe everything down.
We'll do all that crap.
It's still not going to be enough, Mo.
It's Las Vegas, Jimmy.
This town was built on people taking their chances, and I helped build it.
Well, with all due respect, Mo, I think people like you should be stopped.
Quite frankly, I think the federal government should ensure that casinos don't reopen.
It would be a federal disaster.
You shut me down.
I shut you down.
You don't shut me down.
I shut you down.
Not to mention, wouldn't it be bad for business for a casino to reopen and get a bunch of people sick?
Yeah, okay, Jimmy.
Let's talk business.
First of all, you're all done.
The federal government don't even have that kind of muscle anymore.
Trump's first order of business was to weaken the executive branch to the point where not a single debate could say peep without his approval, right?
I talked to Scaramucci.
I talked to Venucci.
I know what's going on over there.
And there isn't anybody in D.C. who would dare come and try to shut us down.
Not even Saatchi.
Well, you know, I see you can't be reasoned with.
So from where I'm sitting, you just seem like another sick example of crony capitalism, Mr. Green.
Just another symptom in league with the Trump administration to do business at whatever cost, just to line your pockets.
And I will never stop talking truth to power.
And you may be a fictional character from a 50-year-old movie, but I am not afraid of you.
Do you know who I am?
I'm Moe Green.
I made my phones when you were doing Yoda run.
Yoder runs.
Establishment media sets of August fighting.
So good luck.
Watch and see as a jackdog comedian who speeds and jumps comedium and hits him head on.
It's the Jimmy Door show.
Hi, everybody.
Welcome to this week's Jimmy Door show.
Hey, let's get to the jokes before we get to the joke, shall we?
Did you hear for the first time in nine years, NASA is sending Americans back into an empty, soulless void in search of life?
And then after they're done in Florida, they plan on going back into space.
Come on.
It's a Florida joke.
I actually like Florida.
The murder hornets.
Have you heard about them?
No.
They're these like, you thought the killer bees were bad.
Yes.
These are killer hornets that are killer.
I mean, they're deadly.
One of them kept me on hold for three hours before telling me my insulin wasn't on the formulary.
I don't know if that's a good joke or not.
Hey, what's the accepted way to justify killing essential workers for the economy?
Call them heroes.
Yeah.
Hey, I know we're supposed to be taking to the streets in a revolution right now, but I don't know.
I'm still waiting to see how the seven stimulus bill is going to work out.
Maybe we won't need to riot.
Hey, what's coming up on today's show?
We talk with former MSNBC host and New York Times best-selling author Dylan Radigan in our Corona Money Talk segment.
And today, Trump is pushing tax cuts, payroll tax cuts.
And what is that code for?
Well, the answer just may surprise you, or will it?
Plus, Nancy Pelosi has a healthcare answer.
Just kidding.
But she does talk about it on TV even.
Who's your enemy?
Turns out it's Joe Biden.
Plus, Amazon vice president resigns.
Phone calls today from Mo Green, Joe Biden, David Axelrod, and Barack Obama, plus a lot lot more.
That's today on the Jimmy Door Show.
So I'm here to let you know that who's your enemy?
Joe Biden is your enemy.
If you are middle class, if you are working class, if you are liberal, conservative, progressive, even if you're just a Democrat, Joe Biden is your enemy.
What do you mean?
I thought Biden is a good Democrat.
You ever see this headline?
Did you know Joe Biden endorsed Republican Congressman Fred Upton in his reelection.
Mr. Biden stunned Democrats and elated Republicans by praising Mr. Upton while the lawmaker looked on from the audience.
Alluding to Mr. Upton's support for a landmark medical research law, Mr. Biden called him a champion in the fight against cancer and one of the finest guys I ever worked with.
Mr. Biden's remarks, coming amid a wide-ranging discourse on American politics, quickly appeared in Republican advertising.
The local Democratic Party pleaded with Mr. Biden to repair what it saw as a damaging error.
On November 6th, Mr. Upton defeated his Democratic challenger by four and a half percentage points.
That wasn't the distant past.
That wasn't in a safe blue or a red state.
This was 2018 in the swing state of Michigan during the midterms when Trump is president.
The state that Hillary Clinton lost to Trump and Joe Biden is there working against Democrats.
Eric Lester, a retired physician who chaired the Democratic Party in Barron County, Michigan during the midterms, said he viewed Mr. Biden's supportive remarks about Mr. Upton as a betrayal.
Mr. Lester, who attended the speech, said he had confronted an aide to Mr. Biden in the hallway, telling him the former vice president had badly damaged the Democratic cause.
It just gives Fred Upton cover and makes it possible for him to continue to pretend to be a useful, bipartisan fellow, Mr. Lester recalled saying, adding, I entered the hall with positive feelings about Mr. Biden and felt very frustrated.
The Republican used Joe Biden's endorsement in his campaign against the Democrat running that year.
Biden endorsed the Republican who wrote the bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
This Republican narrowly won against the Democrat that year.
Longjohn, meanwhile, said he was dismayed that Biden clapped Mr. Upton on the back in an establishment political way.
And that when his campaign reached out to Biden for an explanation, there was nothing but silence.
Why would Joe Biden do that?
I'll tell you why.
Why would Joe Biden endorse a Republican who wrote the bill to repeal the ACA?
Because he was getting paid.
Biden went to Michigan to help keep Republicans in power, and he did it for money.
You can buy Joe Biden for $200,000.
In the speech delivered for a $200,000 fee, Biden, whose eldest son, Bo, died of brain cancer in 2015, also called Upton the reason we're going to beat cancer, ostensibly for his work to fund cancer research.
Both statements soon appeared in pro-Upton mailers, and Upton referred to the praise in a debate with his opponent, Matt Longjohn.
And they say Bernie Sanders is not a team player?
What kind of Democrat goes to a swing state to get Republicans elected?
I'll tell you, the kind the Democrat establishment will move heaven and earth for to make them their nominee for president.
Because the two-party duopoly has made you a prisoner.
Establishment Democrats don't care that Joe Biden will do for Trump in 2020 what he did for Fred Upton in 2018, get them re-elected.
Let's hide our heads in the ground and pretend Biden can defeat Trump.
Let's pretend Joe Biden isn't going senile.
Let's pretend Joe Biden doesn't sexual assault staffers.
Let's pretend.
Even still, Joe Biden's entire political career should disqualify him from getting your vote.
Joe Biden won't work with progressives.
Joe Biden says he will veto Medicare for all.
Joe Biden votes for the Iraq war.
Joe Biden writes the crime bill.
Joe Biden writes the Patriot Act.
Joe Biden passes NAFTA.
Joe Biden pushes the TPP.
Joe Biden tries to cut Social Security.
Joe Biden was against marriage equality.
Joe Biden makes bankruptcy impossible for working people.
Joe Biden is being accused of rape, and Joe Biden is corrupt.
Joe Biden is your enemy.
Hello.
Hi, Joey.
Recognize this voice?
Come on, people.
Get with it.
Drink the flip water.
Oh, Barack Obama.
Bingo.
Oh, man, things are really getting fucked, aren't they?
Yeah, you're not worried about Biden's sexual harassment complaints, Barack?
Don't worry.
Barack's got this.
I got a plan C. Plan C?
What was Plan B?
Sell all my airline stocks.
And you're certain this will blow over.
I'm confident that once the Secretary of State authorizes the disclosure of the alleged complaint, it's alleged complaint, Joe Biden will be fully exonerated.
Yeah.
And what has the Secretary of the Senate said so far?
She says she's not authorized to disclose the complaint.
Why?
Because any complaint against Joe Biden cannot be disclosed because that would violate section 313 of the Senate confidentiality law.
I never heard of section 313 of the Senate confidentiality law.
Of course not, you dummy.
It's confidential.
But Biden said he never had any employee non-disclosure agreements.
And he was right.
This is the law, not an agreement.
Then how can this ever be made public?
I guess the Senate would have to change the law.
Then why don't they?
That would defeat the whole purpose of having a confidentiality law.
Well, who voted for this law anyway?
I can't tell you.
It's confidential.
Look, I don't believe that.
Joe's innocent.
He did not commit non-consenting Congress with that woman.
Do you think Biden can mentally last through the election, Barack?
Did you just ask if Michelle would take his place?
Because I think you just asked if Michelle would take his place.
You guys can't do that.
Wrong.
It's COVID time.
We can do it if we want.
Pull up your tiny puppet fans, puppy.
You know, millions of people have lost their jobs because the government has ordered businesses to close because of a pandemic.
We already pointed this out before.
So, because people are losing their jobs, they lose their health care.
Because in America, we have a corrupt government which ties people's employment to their ability to receive health care, which makes no sense to anybody else in the world.
So, they don't do it that way.
But we do it that way here.
And so, Hillary Clinton tweeted this out on April 2nd.
She said, Millions of people have lost their employee-tied health care over the last two weeks because of the pandemic.
It's an easy call.
Reopen the healthcare exchanges.
So, what's wrong with that?
Well, open up to what?
Buying insurance we can't afford with copays to high, too high to use.
My health is not a commodity, not to mention how terribly insulting and inappropriate this is under the current circumstances you helped to create.
There were already 30 million uninsured, 68,000 annual deaths, and 50,000 annual, no, 500,000 annual bankruptcies because Obamacare is an abject failure.
Healthcare is a human right.
So, that was April 2nd, and we made fun of her then.
Now, here's Nancy Pelosi.
This is today she tweeted this out.
This is Nancy Pelosi today.
This is what she has to say today.
It's May.
That was April 2nd.
That was Hillary Clinton saying, Hey, people don't have health care.
Well, let's let them buy some health care.
Here's Nancy Pelosi, May 6th.
We have asked the president to have a special enrollment period for the Affordable Care Act for people who do not have insurance now so that they can sign up overwhelmingly.
A month later, she's the same thing.
Hey, so people lost their jobs and they lost their health care.
So, we're telling the president to open up the ACA enrollment so they can go buy some health insurance.
The people who just got laid off, the people who don't have jobs, the people without health care in the middle of a pandemic, let's sell them some health care.
So, we said this the first time.
Malcolm Fleshner actually said this.
This isn't let them eat cake.
This is let's sell them some cake.
So, that's Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi.
And do you think fucking Ari Melber said anything to her?
Do you think he pushed back on that?
Like, isn't that ridiculous?
No, of course not.
He's a good boy.
He's a good boy.
He's not going to do it.
He's not going to screw up his gig.
Here's the Democratic Party.
Here's what the Democratic Party said.
With rising unemployment numbers, many are estimated to lose their health care coverage.
Healthcare is a human right, and we must work to ensure all Americans have access to quality, affordable.
If it's a human right, affordable and human right don't go together.
It's a human right that you get a good deal.
That's not a human right.
This is 2020 in the middle of a pandemic.
This is the Democrats' big idea.
By the way, Trump has already outlefted them on it.
Trump already said we're going to pay for everybody's coronavirus through Medicare.
We're going to expand Medicare.
So if you get sick with coronavirus, no co-pays, no deductibles, that we're going to pay directly to the hospital.
That's more than this is what this is the Democrats' big idea.
This is their big idea.
They've done nothing for people to get health care in the middle of a pandemic.
Nothing.
Do you understand why this is a dead party?
Why there isn't even a second party in this country?
There is no two-party system.
Every one of your non-corporate money justice Democrats voted for the fleecing of America.
There's no two parties.
Bernie Sanders voted for the fleecing of America and bragged about it afterwards.
Here's what my friend Ronnie says: you have no fucking conscience.
Do you think we're as dumb as people that think Biden isn't a rapist and you didn't rig the machines?
We aren't voting for you.
Go F yourself.
Apparently, human rights have a price.
Hope you can afford whatever the Democrats decide is affordable.
I know I can't.
Apparently, human rights have a price.
Oh, and so there you go.
So that now, and here's so that I just wanted, that's it.
That's the Democrats' approach to healthcare.
That's Nancy Pelosi.
That's the Democrats' official Twitter account.
And that's Hillary Rodham Clinton.
And Joe Biden has zero, no plan for anybody.
He has no plans to do it for any problem right now.
He and Bernie Sanders are working on a task force.
They have a task force to come up with solutions to our problems right now.
Because the solutions are a secret or a mystery that we need a UBI in goddamn Medicare for all right now.
It's a mystery.
Bernie and Biden are going to appoint task forces.
And so here's just, and here is one more.
Here's Ilhan Omar.
And she said, we should allow these times to guide us in repairing the injustices in our country.
We can pass Medicare for all, cancel student loan debt, guarantee housing, and make meals universal for students to build a better tomorrow.
Strong tweet.
That's a very strong tweet.
Here's what my friend Comrade Misty, Putin's buddy, said.
Yay, another impotent tweet.
Well done.
Well done.
We'll go one more.
She sided with Zionists against Iran, but her tweets are like heroic.
Comrade Misty is Putin's buddy says, my favorite is when she so bravely goes after Republicans, makes her blatant refusal to hold her own party accountable a total non-issue.
uh-oh All I'm going to say is if you can get Medicare for all by tweeting about it, then Ilon Omar is going to get it done.
But normally what has to happen is you have to take control of the House, your party.
Oh, wait, they did.
Then you have to have a leader.
Oh, they do, Nancy Pelosi.
And then that person has to introduce that bill so everybody gets to vote on Medicare for all.
Oh, Nancy Pelosi isn't doing that.
Then maybe you're supposed to call her out.
Maybe you're saying right now, if we need all this stuff right here, why isn't your leader proposing that you vote on it and implement it and send it to the Senate and watch Mitch McConnell look like a piece of shit that he is because he's not going to give anybody health care?
But the Democrats are.
Oh, that's right, because the Democrats are just as corrupt as Mitch McConnell, if not more so.
And you are also corrupt, Ilan Omar, because you are cowardly, just like all the rest of the progressives in Congress and Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth.
You will not call out your leadership.
That's what's called for here.
This, you know what this is called, Ilhan?
This is called empty virtue signaling.
Because you know this isn't going to happen unless Nancy Pelosi decides it will.
And you won't even mention her name.
That's how cowardly the progressives are in Congress.
I'm sure Elon Omar has written bills for each one of these things and submitted them to a committee.
Nancy Pelosi is never going to have a vote on Medicare for all.
And Ilhan Omar is never going to force the issue.
So we'll never get it.
But she can virtue signal on Twitter all day long.
Nancy Pelosi is standing in the way of each one of these things.
Nancy Pelosi is.
Most powerful woman in the history of our country, Nancy Pelosi, is blocking all this stuff.
And if you want, and here's the star reporter over at the Washington Post.
She says, four major pieces of legislation, trillions of dollars.
Thank God Speaker Pelosi is there, or we'd have nothing.
You want to know who Nancy Pelosi really is?
This was from back when 60 Minutes still would do a real report once in a while before they started having X Fox news producers run their show.
Here's 60 Minutes.
Watch this.
It's for one more example of good things happening to powerful members of Congress.
Another is the access to initial public stock offerings, the opportunity to buy a new stock at insider prices just as it goes on the market.
They can be incredibly lucrative and hard to get.
If you were a senator, Steve, and I gave you $10,000 cash, one or both of us is probably going to go to jail.
But if I'm a corporate executive and you're a senator and I give you IPO shares in stock and over the course of one day, that stock nets you $100,000, that's completely legal.
And former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her husband have participated in at least eight IPOs.
One of those came in 2008 from Visa, just as a troublesome piece of legislation that would have hurt credit card companies began making its way through the House.
Undisturbed by a potential conflict of interest, the Pelosis purchased 5,000 shares of Visa at the initial price of $44.
Two days later, it was trading at 64.
The credit card legislation never made it to the floor of the House.
Congresswoman Pelosi also declined our request for an interview, but agreed to call on us if we attended her news conference.
Madam Leader, I wanted to ask you why you and your husband, back in March of 2008, accepted and participated in a very large IPO deal from Visa at a time there was major legislation affecting their credit card companies making its way through the House.
And did you consider that to be a conflict of interest?
I don't know what your point is of your question.
Well, my point is that you're a criminal.
That's the point.
The point is you're a criminal and you know it.
And that's the look Nancy Pelosi gives when she's being called out for her criminal behavior.
And that's when she's lying.
That's her lying face.
I don't know what you're talking about.
And is there some point that you want to make with that?
Well, I guess what I'm asking is: do you think it's all right for a speaker to accept a very preferential and favorable stock deal?
Well, we did.
And you participated in the IPO.
Well, I have no idea.
And at the time you were Speaker of the House.
You don't think it was a conflict of interest or had the appearance of a conflict of interest.
It only has appearance if you decide that you're going to have elaborate on a false premise.
But it's not true, and that's that.
I don't understand what part's not true.
Yes, sir.
That I would act upon an investment.
Congresswoman Pelosi pointed out that the tough credit card legislation eventually...
There's your sociopathic criminal, Nancy Pelosi, became a hundred millionaire while she's been in Congress.
She is complicit in war crimes, which is why George Bush and all the people who ordered torture were never prosecuted because she was the person who was supposed to do it.
And Julian Assange revealed she was complicit in war crimes in the torture.
And that's why they want to kill Julian Assange, because he turns up the dirt on all these people.
He exposes all their war crimes.
That's where they want to kill Chelsea Manning.
He exposes their war crimes.
She exposes their war crimes.
Quite a video, huh?
About her.
You know, you thought it was just a few senators who did that with the coronavirus when they got the inside information.
Then they sold all that stock and bought other stock.
Nothing happened to any of those people.
Nothing happened.
Nothing happened to her.
They're all criminal.
So you think that she's less criminal than Trump?
She is not.
And she is, you know, who's the happiest person in the country that we have, Trump?
Nancy Pelosi.
Because she could go, look at that.
Look at the village idiot.
Look at he said something stupid about bleach.
Look, he said something else stupid.
Look over there.
Don't look at what I'm doing.
Don't look at how I'm screwing you as hard as Mitch McConnell could ever screw you.
That's your female Mitch McConnell.
Hey, Joe Biden's calling me.
Hello.
Jimmy.
How you doing?
I'm excited.
I'm energized.
I got this thing.
You know, I got the, I got the fever for the flavor of a Pringle, fat.
And don't forget that.
I need you to help me restore the soul of this thing.
Yeah.
Let's go back, Jack.
See?
How can I do that, Mr. Vice President?
Yeah.
Come on, man.
I said, how can I do that, Mr. Vice President?
What?
You don't get it.
This is your campaign, Jackson.
Join my mailing list at Joe.
Joe Biden.
Joe Biden at 3-0.
JohnBiden.hotmail.
Why?
Because Joe Biden wants to make sure you're looped in on the news that matters most.
Starting with Joe's running mate.
Who's it going to be?
I don't know who.
Who's it going to be?
God damn it.
A woman.
I told you.
The problem is the pandemic is this president who has no intercourse whatsoever with the country.
Did you just say intercourse?
No, it's not true.
I'm saying it's very unequivocally it ever happened.
And it didn't even know that woman.
No, no, no.
Then why won't you just let an objective commission or something do a search of your University of Delaware archives for Tara Reed's name?
Look, here's the thing.
First of all, number one, there's only one place such a record could be, and that's at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Where?
The National Archives Administration Archives.
I'm all for transparency.
I've already given permission to the Secretary of the Navy to release them.
Why would human resources complaints be in the National Archives?
Oh, come on, man.
My great-grandpappy Civil War pension is in there.
There's a complaint, that's where it would be filed.
Then why not open your archives?
First A. I'm prepared to do that, but you can't just open my archives.
You just said you're prepared to do that.
Of course, I did.
So what?
Then why not open them?
Jimmy.
Yeah.
I'm going to sit here in uncomfortable silence for a moment.
Why can't you just do a name search in your archives?
Because that's not possible, you jack-alope.
You don't do that.
It's not something people do.
Don't be a dippity to cracker.
Fat.
Look, women need to be believed.
And Tara Reed has no credibility.
You're saying she's a liar?
Of course not.
She just has no credibility.
What's the difference?
Why don't you open your archives?
Come on, you're boring me, kid.
There's all hat, no cattle.
A personal complaint against me can only be in the National Archives.
My personal archives do not contain personal files.
I mean, my personnel files do not contain my personnel files.
Put the tea on.
We're ready for muffins.
What?
Your wheels ain't got no spokes, Ginger Snap.
Call your pancakes.
Jesus Christ.
That is how he talks, though.
Okay, but what if the National Archives don't have the personnel files you say they do?
And if it would be anywhere, it'd be at the Elks Lodge in Dover, New Hampshire.
As for Nathan.
Why are they at the Elks Lodge in New Hampshire, Joe?
Look, we've gone through this already, Jack.
Everybody knows all my stuff was transferred there after the fraternal order of buffaloes went bankrupt.
Come on, man.
I won Kansas.
We got to stop the thing with the murder hornets.
Don't take the bleach.
I got to go.
Hello?
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Hey, David Axelrod's on the phone.
Hello.
Hello, Jimmy.
David Axelrod, former senior strategist for Barack Obama, host of the Axe Files, and according to Joe Biden's granddaughter, jerk with a microphone.
Hi, David.
How are you?
You know me, Jimmy.
I look at the turned-up world of politics with my button-down mind.
Say, did you happen to read my latest New York Times opinion piece I wrote with the fabulous David Prough?
You'd better believe Sphincters are tiding over at the RMZ.
No, I didn't see it.
What's it about, buddy?
Before we begin, I'd certainly be remiss not to ask how your special lady is doing tonight.
How's your special lady doing tonight?
I don't think that's an appropriate question during this discussion, David.
No need to worry, Jimmy.
When you get to know me, I'm a very affectionate individual who is a natural toucher.
You mean nothing to me sexually.
Jesus.
Oh, my God.
That's so crazy.
Thanks.
Thanks.
What did your editorial cover, David?
Everything Joe Biden needs to do to beat Donald Trump with my simple bullet points.
One, expand your digital footprint.
What does that mean?
It means to win, Joe has to find a way to get beyond the basement tapes and project himself into our ever-increasing digital space.
But out of basement tapes.
Not being attuned to the youth culture, you might appreciate my sly reference to the basement tapes.
A group of recordings Bob Dylan did with the band in 1967.
This unbridled, youthful efflorescence presented for the first time a raw musical patois literally bursting with the erotic passion and viscous sensuality of the summer of love.
Jesus.
Oh my God.
Who is this editorial supposed to be reaching anyway, David?
The Democratic Party's most important developing demographic, suburban empathy Facebook mom.
Joe must harness his intrinsic sense of empathy and authentic sense of compassion, uniquely suited to this agonizing moment.
And what about all the people he lashes out at on the road?
You mean that fat old damn liar lady he called fat old and a damn liar?
Yeah, that was that.
And that lying dogface pony soldier girl he called a lying dogface pony soldier.
Yes, yes, David.
And that full of shit factory worker he should have slapped that he said was full of shit and threatened to slap yes.
Yeah, I don't know what you're talking about.
Anyway, to increase Joe's digital footprint, Bernie Sanders must commit two days a week to sharing Joe's posts on Twitter and Facebook.
Do you think Bernie's fans are going to like that?
No, but it will demoralize them to the point where they think all struggle is useless.
Yeah.
This will make it easier to deploy the organ harvester drones during phase two of the reopening.
What?
What?
Learn more about it on my new podcast.
Living in a cave with Axelrod.
Tune in.
I'll teach you how to live in a cave with me, David Axelrod, survival strategist.
Bye for now, Jimmy, and get off the grid.
Everybody, friend of the show.
I'm doing good.
Sylvia Radigan is here.
You know, Dylan Radigan from best-selling New York Times author.
He's also an award-winning Bloomberg news reporter, the host of his own show on MSNBC.
He now is on a podcast with Tom Soznoff at Tasty Trade, and he's here with us now to do Corona Money Talk.
How are you, Dylan?
I'm good.
I mean, who knew we were going to stumble into this a couple months ago when you first called me to talk about this when they first architected the bailout to sort of set in motion the greatest, literally the greatest robbery in the history of the world.
It's amazing that we're here.
It's interesting to watch it continue to evolve.
And I'm glad that you've given me an opportunity to talk to you about it.
Yeah, no, I'm glad that you're available.
Are you so what are you noticing that is happening?
Do you notice that people like the because the what we've posited here at this show is that people don't know what's coming.
They don't know how bad this is.
Are people starting to figure out that the government is completely not helping them and they're not actually doing anything?
Are they starting to wake up or no?
I don't think really yet.
I mean, I spoke to a couple of people earlier this week, you know, and there are huge institutions like Citadel or Ray Dalio, these massive billionaire hedge funds that were bailed out in March that nobody comprehends that literally some of the wealthiest human beings in this country who run some of the biggest highly leveraged investment funds in this country or
lending funds were bailed out in March when the market was limited down.
So something like that has not revealed itself yet to people.
I don't think people understand the contrast between the, I mean, I don't even have the adjectives for it, but so I'll just say the horror of what was done in terms of the bailout for the super rich institutions with 40 million unemployed and no support of any kind for the unemployed while simultaneously using the tax dollars to finance the super wealthy and
the super wealthy's consolidation of ownership of resources.
And I don't want to be redundant to our past conversations.
I think we have to start to take what I've described and you've described and Steph's described and others around your show as fact.
I think it's important that we remind people of that.
But I think for these conversations to be useful, I also think we need to sort of move through time as this happens.
And I think we're really now just starting to move into a period of time where people are just, just, just starting to comprehend not just how big the unemployment issue is and is going to continue to be in this country, but how directly the unemployment issue targets the most vulnerable country.
And so it's not a uniform unemployment.
It's actually a hyper-targeted unemployment, and it's a targeted unemployment that directly seeks to unemploy those who can least, those who have the smallest or the shortest financial runway to endure it.
And so anyway, I mean, I was talking to some folks that were at Warren Buffett's meeting.
I guess it was last week, was Warren Buffett's annual meeting.
And even Warren Buffett was very cautious about this entire situation.
And he's sort of, you know, one of the great cheerleaders for America.
And so sort of, however, you look at this, we're in a moment where the only reason I think there's not as much of a panic as there could be or would be is because the financial bailout, those trillions of dollars from the Federal Reserve and from the Treasury, have done an incredibly good job of supporting the stock market, that that has created a false sense of security in terms of the health of our economy.
I think you probably remember how people felt when the stock market was down 30 or 40 percent.
It was going limit down every day and people were in a panic.
I think the only reason that there's any complacency right now is because the stock market has really been completely disconnected from the U.S. economy.
Yes.
And as a result, it creates a false sense of security.
At the same time, the rate of evolution of the problems is a slower evolving thing, whether it's the virus and the infection itself or whether it's the economic trauma and the social crisis that is coming over the next couple of years, certainly in this country.
But I think you're looking at maybe years.
Again, when the financial crisis happened, that was 2009, right?
That was September 2009.
Occupy Wall Street didn't happen for two years after that.
It takes a long time for the awareness of the information.
You know, if everybody listened to your show or if everybody listened to my reporting on your show, or if everybody comprehended and believed it, there would be a more immediate response, but it's just not the nature of the beast.
And there's such an all-consuming and low-utility pool of information out there from the primary information brokers and plus the bubbling effect and all the things people read what they want, Facebook, all the shattering of the information markets make it take longer for this to happen, make it easier to blame different people, all of those things.
But this is going to be a profound and life-changing couple of years for this country.
And parts of that are going to be really, really awful, I think.
Yeah.
Yep.
I know.
Okay.
So I saw this story at CNBC, and it says Trump is insisting on a payroll tax cut for workers, why some experts say it's a terrible idea.
So let me just go through it a little bit.
Moronic.
But remember, he's a village idiot, so we ought to be nice, but I'll let you keep going.
Yeah, so President Trump is digging in his heels and demanding that further stimulus legislation passed by Congress must include payroll tax cuts for workers.
We're not doing anything without a payroll tax cut, Trump said.
The $2 trillion CARES Act implemented by Congress gave employers a temporary reprieve from payroll Taxes until the end of the year.
That goes for Social Security and certain railroad retirement taxes.
Now the president wants to give workers a similar cut.
The main problem with the proposal is that it would go to the people who least need help.
It seems that like you're deliberately targeting it to people who are in the best situation, the ones who are still working.
So what this, let me just.
No, it's exactly what you described, Jimmy.
And so start at the top of the decision-making tree.
As soon as there's a crisis, the first people that are looked after are the multi-billionaires.
So whether it's the multi-billionaire banking system participants or the multi-billionaire business enterprises that are the most connected to the government, they're taken care of in the first 24 to 72 hours, right?
Right.
And then there's a progression of caretaking, if you will, in terms of the policymaking from all the Democrats, including all of everybody's leftist favorites and certainly all the Republicans, including everybody's populist right-wing favorites, that continues to favor those who have the most while simultaneously doing the least for those who have the least.
And the idea of prioritizing a payroll tax cut, which is basically an increase in take-home pay for people who currently have jobs at a time when the obvious and most catastrophic issue that exists in this country is 20, 30% unemployment, 40 million people likely to be unemployed, which again is not a recession.
That is, by definition, a depression.
You know, that's not an, that's not an opinion.
That's another fact.
And so the idea that the government is not prioritizing basic intervention for those that are the most exposed to the consequences of this depression and at the same time is doling out money by the trillion to the richest and the most privileged,
or at the very least, the people that are the most, again, after they're done with the richest and the most privileged, then looking to give a raise to those who are among the most stable is a remarkable window into the insight of the character of the American government.
But again, this is a character that existed, has existed going back certainly to Bill Clinton and really before.
I mean, this is not a new character insight for the American government.
The American government has been taking care of the wealthiest interests, whether it was with NASDAQ, whether it was with the financial deregulation in the 90s.
I mean, go down the list.
Trump is particularly offensive and crude and barbaric and murderous in his disposition and his nature, but he is in no way unique in following the standard protocol of using the government to benefit the rich, to consolidate wealth and to destroy and deprive the most impoverished.
I mean, listen, America functionally is a third world country that's hiding behind the edifice of Hollywood, Silicon Valley, Wall Street, and its military.
But if you stripped away the American military, Wall Street, the Valley, and Hollywood, what you would see and what you are seeing as a context, a consequence of this virus is a third world country, both in the nature of the priorities of the government and how it functions and in the resources and opportunities that are available to the vast majority of the people who live here.
So let me just explain to people what this means by the, what, and what the purpose of this is, this payroll tax.
So what that means is no one's putting money into Social Security, right?
So that's what they mean by payroll tax.
And so this is just another attempt to bankrupt Social Security so they can eventually privatize it.
That's exactly what this is.
And in fact, in this article, it goes on to say the economic recession will likely speed up the exhaustion date for Social Security trust funds.
So what that means is the exhaustion date, that's a term that means when Social Security will have to start paying out more money than it actually takes in and has.
That's the exhaustion date.
And so any plans for payroll tax cuts would have to include ways to replenish those funds, which are currently scheduled to run out in 2035.
At that time, 79% of promised benefits will be payable.
So what they're trying to do.
But do you understand the absurdity of talking about money as if it's scarce?
Yes.
The idea that, oh, there's an exhaustion date, or oh, we can't pay for this or, oh, you better go get a job at a time when literally trillions of dollars are being given away to special interests.
It is incomprehensible to the idea of utilizing scarcity or limited funding as a point of leverage for policymaking while simultaneously supplying infinite capital from everything from oil companies to airlines to down the list is an indication of how third world this government is.
But Dylan, aren't you, I mean, honest, aren't you surprised that no one, no one in the news media, no one in politics is screaming about this?
No one.
Bernie Sanders and the squad are voting for this shit.
I mean, honestly, I am surprised.
I am surprised.
I mean, I would I would even think politically it's to their advantage to try to to speak up on this.
They won't, you know, forget their moral character.
Bernie Sanders, it is such a winner politically to stand up and fight for people at this moment.
There's just every Democrat in the Congress is ceding that to the right right now.
They're letting Joss Hawley and fucking Mitt Romney out left them.
It's happening.
It's not not making it up.
Trump is out lefting them.
It's a no one, including Bernie Sanders, is screaming about this.
It is shot stunning.
I mean, aren't you surprised?
I mean, just forget even the moral character.
I don't know what I honestly don't know what they're thinking.
I don't know because because Dylan, here's what I say when I've had three Negronis.
I say, what is what is in it for them to not give people cash payment?
They've already proven they're going to print as much fucking money.
It doesn't matter.
What would stop them from giving a trillion dollars to people?
Why won't they fuck so that people can go out and buy shit?
Like, is it now?
I know it's this sort of I mean, I can offer my explanation, but it's not even I don't know how meaningful it is.
I said it to you last week.
There's I think there's this sort of this false adherence at the sort of civilian level of this mythology of American sovereignty and self-sufficiency.
We have, you know, people don't want to really don't like the democratic socialism.
But they seem really enthusiastic for corporate socialism.
Yes.
Yes.
A hundred percent.
I mean, America is a corporate socialist country.
And that's I mean, listen, they're young.
gooperman is one of the you know most, again, rapacious hedge fund managers on Wall Street.
You know, this is a very aggressive, very experienced, ruthless money man in New York.
And he came out recently and said, listen, I don't, he's, you know, some of these guys are at least smart enough to worry about the pitchforks.
You know, it's like, they're like, I don't know how you could possibly expect to always have the bottom, the fallout on the bottom, be protected by the government and not expect the upside or the progression of resources up to be controlled by the government.
You can't have it.
He was making the point that you can't have it both ways.
Now, remarkably, America has it better than both ways.
They have this amplification of the profits for the super rich and total protection from economic losses for the big companies and the super rich while simultaneously literally no safety net for more than half the country.
So I just want everybody who votes Trump who watches this show and who's a Trumper to know that what Trump is trying to do is fuck you right now.
He's not trying.
He's fucking you.
So you're getting fucked hard by Trump and by Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer and Mitch McConnell.
They're all your enemy.
There's no doubt about it.
And if you don't see through that now, then you deserve what you have coming.
But let me tell you something.
Trump is no friend.
He's trying to take away your social security right now.
That's what Trump is trying to do.
Is it his idea?
No, it's not Trump's idea.
This is shit that's being told to him by guys like Larry Kudlow and Steve Mnuchin, guys who have been waiting their entire fucking lives to do this, to get rid of Social Security and put that money into the stock market.
That's exactly what they've been trying to do their entire life.
And now Trump is going to help them do it.
And so just so you know, eliminating payroll tax is code for eliminating Social Security and Medicare.
And when you hear Trump say we want to eliminate capital gains, that's code for eliminating all the tax on the 1%.
That's what Trump is doing right now.
So I know there's a lot of people who are conservatives who watch the show because they like that I'm a truth teller.
Well, it's the truth that Trump is fucking you as hard as you've ever been fucked right now.
Harder.
And he's trying to do it more.
And the only thing and they're using the biological crisis to seize the opportunity to do all the worst things, which is if you ever want, you know, you see the true character of anyone when you're in a situation like this and the character that's been revealed about our government is staggeringly hostile to the people that live in this country.
I mean, none of this is Trump's idea.
That's the thing.
You have to understand that Trump is just a figurehead, right?
And he's doing everything that Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Mitch McConnell, Larry Kudlow, and Steve Mnuchin want him to do.
He doesn't have any ideas on how to handle a fucking pandemic or a crisis or a banking crisis.
He doesn't have any idea how to do anything.
He's doing what he's being told to do by the business community, and he's fucking doing it.
And guess what Nancy Pelosi is doing?
She's doing what she's told to do by the business community and she's doing it.
And guess what the squad and Bernie Sanders is doing?
They're going along with it and not doing a goddamn thing.
Your entire government has just turned their back on you.
And I just got an email today from Bernie Sanders asking for more money.
He's asking me for money.
The fucking balls that these cocksuckers in fucking DC, unbelievable.
If I get one more email from Bernie fucking Sanders asking me for money, hey, why don't you go book your next talk show?
Because that seems to be his job now.
He doesn't do anything for you in Congress, but he's hosting a late night talk show.
He'll have Cardi B on later on this evening.
Here's what, here's Donald Trump.
Here's what Donald Trump tweeted out today.
And I want to get your opinion on it, Dylan.
He said, well-run states should not be bailing out poorly run states using coronavirus as the excuse.
The elimination of sanctuary cities, payroll taxes, and perhaps capital gains taxes must be on the table.
Also, lawsuit indemnification and business deductions for restaurants and entertainment.
Now, I know he didn't write that tweet because he doesn't know how to, he doesn't know what lawsuit indemnification of business is.
But I'll tell you what that means.
That means if when Amazon forces their people to go back to work and doesn't give them safety supplies or have them social distance correctly, they can't be sued.
So the capitalist who then sacrifices your bodies for their profits cannot be held responsible for their irresponsibility or on purpose killing you.
Like what's happening at meat packing plants right now.
What's happening at UPS?
What's happening at Amazon?
So what's your reaction to him saying well-run states should not be bailing out poorly run states and using the coronavirus?
Well, there's layers of absurdity in that.
And you just did a nice assessment of it.
One, we have to be a whisper away from where we were before the original union movement happened in this country with the, and I'm going to forget, and I'm going to forget the name, but then the very famous fire where a lot of people died.
The triangle waste, the triangle waste factory fire.
There you go.
Yeah.
We have to be a whisper away from that type of an event in the context of what's being discussed here relative to whether it's Amazon workers, meat packing workers.
I mean, there's so many densely populated work environments in this country where that type of an architecture of forcing people to work to do everything you just described is I don't see how it doesn't become a catalyst for something bigger than what happened in the original union movement.
One.
Two, the entire supposition there.
I mean, as you know, as a California taxpayer or myself as a New York taxpayer, the implication of Trump's statement is that the states have the bigger economic issues because they have A, the bigger economies and B, the more aggressive lockdown policies are the ones that don't deserve quote-unquote bailouts.
I mean, if we're going to go down this road, I think everybody knows that for every dollar that comes to California or to New York from the federal government, two or three dollars from our paychecks leave California and New York to go to pay for to subsidize states like Kentucky, Mitch McConnell state, right?
Right.
And so the entire argument, I mean, if they want to go down this road, it's ridiculous.
But trust me, if we're going to break up the United States of America, you would much rather be a resident of the country of California in terms of its wealth and resources as a nation state or the country of New York than the country of Kentucky.
So the very suggestion that Trump wants to pit the states against each other using the federal government is a real loser for the states that Trump is supporting for Trump's voters.
So for instance, Mitch McConnell hails from Kentucky.
Now, if Kentucky goes bankrupt, guess what goes bankrupt?
The teachers' pensions funds, the firemen's pensions funds, the policemen's pensions funds.
So now all those people's pensions go bankrupt because Mitch McConnell wouldn't bail out his own goddamn state.
How the fuck is this politically tenable?
Dylan?
I don't know.
I mean, you have me speechless, Jimmy.
I don't understand the politics.
I suppose that because the politics really that were designed and created originally by Bill Clinton, really problem before that, Lesser of Two Evil, where people basically no longer are given the opportunity to vote for anything that they believe in.
They're just are forced to choose between who's the least abhorrent of the two candidates, with Hillary Clinton versus Donald Trump being sort of the most recent expression of that.
And the thing with Lesser of Two Evil voting is you don't have to do anything for anybody.
You simply have to raise money and run a media campaign that absolutely massacres the identity of your opponent so that however much they hate you, they hate the other one more.
And I feel like the Mitch McConnell's of this world have actually mastered that lesser of two evils mind game.
Yes.
And once you're in that lesser of two evils architecture, all these other issues that we talk about become irrelevant because the entire political system is simply based on the ability to massacre your opponent's identity using money.
And as long as you're confident you can do that, you can literally rape and pillage your own people to the point where they're homeless and dying in the street.
And as long as when it comes to campaign time, you can rape and massacre your opponent, you'll still get re-elected.
That's why this is a third world country.
Yes.
Hey, this is Jimmy.
Who's this?
Jimmy, baby, it's double V. Oh, hey, it's Vince Vaud, conservative actor and friend of the show.
How are you, Vince?
What's up?
I'm doing fantastic, James.
I couldn't be better.
Vince, where are you?
Are you sheltering in place or are you at home?
Oh, because of the virus.
That scary, scary virus.
Yeah.
Oh, I'm going to completely stop living my life because of this tiny little microscopic dot.
Come on, Jimmy.
Are you a wuss?
I didn't take you for a wuss.
I'm very surprised to learn that you are a wuss, as a matter of fact.
Vince, do you realize the danger you and others are putting us in by ignoring these guidelines?
Danger?
You want to talk danger?
I'll tell you what the real danger is: the federal government telling us what to do.
Regular, red-blooded American citizens lying down to the jackbooted thugs of the state trying to run our lives.
Then what's going to stop the spread of the disease, then, Vince?
Think about that.
The free market, baby.
Hey, you know, there's a lot more to that phone call, but we don't have time in today's podcast.
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