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Get ready for an outstanding entertainment program.
The Jimmy Dore Show.
Gotta recognize this number.
Hello, this is Jimmy.
Who is this?
Jimmy.
It's Shea Wiggum.
Who?
Shea Wigel.
I'm sorry, I don't...
Oh, I see.
I'm afraid I don't recognize your name.
Hey, I'm a character actor.
Oh.
I've been in tons of stuff.
You definitely seen me before.
Oh, really?
I've seen you before.
What have you been in?
More walk empire, true detective, season one.
Waco, latest King Kong movie.
Oh, really?
I haven't seen any of those.
Okay, I'm going to pretend I didn't fucking hear that.
Listen, look, why are you calling me, Mr. Wingham?
Well, a pretty simple reason.
I'm playing you.
You're playing.
Excuse me?
I'm playing you in a movie.
What?
What movie are you talking about?
HBO's making a cable movie about the 2016 Bernie vs.
Hillary campaign.
It focuses partially on the simultaneous rise of independent online media.
I got cast as Jimmy Dore.
Wow.
This is all kind of flattering.
Why haven't I heard about this?
They haven't announced it yet.
In fact, I'm in violation of any number of non-disclosure agreements by contacting you about this in such a public manner.
But I'm not an actor who plays by the rules.
Okay, so what can I do for you?
Well, I'm a method guy.
I like to do my homework.
I want to get a feel for who you are, what you like.
I see.
So where are you from?
I'm from Chicago.
Shut down.
Yeah, I get that vibe.
I guess Chicago.
Hey, I'm from Chicago.
Nobody ever gave me nothing.
I worked for what I got.
Get out of my neighborhood.
I say I want a pizza, but secretly, I want to eat an entire fucking loaf of bread.
I kinda.
Hey, you know, I got the script here.
Could you do some line reads for me?
Like how you would say it.
All right, sure, I guess.
Okay, great.
Thanks.
All right, page 33, first line.
God damn it, Steph.
The fucking internet went out again.
What the fuck?
Come on, say the life for me.
Okay, ready?
God damn it, Steph.
Wait, hold on.
Steph is in the movie, too?
Yeah.
Who's playing her?
Jennifer Lopez.
You mean Steph gets J-Lo and I get some guy I never heard of?
Whoa, whoa on there.
I may not be a household name, but I've been the highlight of some of the best prestige television produced in the past 10 years.
So slow your school.
Ha, ha, ha.
All right, here's another line.
Exterior Bernie Rally.
God damn it, I swear to God, if one more of these Jabronis yells, don't freak out to me in my face, I'm gonna break a cinder block over Ron Placone's head.
No, no way.
I would never say that.
I'm very grateful for my fans.
Are you sure?
It's right here in the script, clear as day.
Yeah, I don't care that it's in the script.
It's HBO.
It's the same showrunners as Boardwalk Empire.
I know this shit.
Ha ha ha!
Ah!
Forget it.
Forget it.
Next.
All right, okay.
Jimmy Dore addresses camera.
My fellow Americans, I do love this country, but I think it can be better.
When it is no longer owned, bought, and sold by the 1%.
When working people, goddammit, the fucking internet went out again.
The End Okay, so hold on.
Is my entire part basically about our crappy internet?
It does appear to be a running theme, yes.
It is safe to say your character arc is centered around technical difficulties.
Well, that's just great.
Thanks.
Look, get back to me when the script is revised to give me a meteor role, okay?
All right, JD, we'll do.
And I got my eye on you.
I'm not going to pull any punches, but I am going to do you justice.
That's the Shea Wiggum promise.
Okay, sounds good, Shea Wiggum.
Shea Wiggum, everybody.
Establishment media sets of artists lighting.
So good luck.
Bullshit we can't afford.
Why is fomenting this?
Whoa.
Watch and see as it's jacked off.
The median speeds and jumps the medium and hits them head on.
It's the Jimmy Tore Show.
The Jimmy Tore Show.
Hi, everybody.
Welcome to this week's Jimmy Door show.
How you enjoying my quarantine?
Do you know a new study?
Hey, let's get to the jokes before we get to the jokes.
Shall we?
A new study by the University of Lethbridge in Canada found that marijuana may prevent coronavirus infection.
How does it do it?
By keeping you from leaving the house.
Get that couch lock weed, baby.
Got that couch lock weed.
Because of the pandemic, members of the Film Academy say they're probably going to postpone the 2021 Oscars.
And I'd like to thank my manager.
And Jesus.
One of the first.
Did you know one of the first signs of COVID-19 infection is a loss of taste?
No.
Yeah, loss of taste.
Doctors say the most accurate way of calculating the rate of infection is finding out how many Americans sat through the first episode of Snow Piercer.
Because they wouldn't have taste, see?
Did you know Missouri just held the nation's first execution since the epidemic started?
Are you kidding me?
The condemned men had a choice between lethal injection or working a day at Amazon.
Good joke.
Did you know, according to a new research by the FDA, the only freshly sliced meat at Arby's is the manager's thumb.
Come on.
Everybody's getting off on Nancy Pelosi calling the president, President Trump, fat or something.
Yeah.
Or morbidly obese.
You know, Nancy Pelosi has the valor to call the president fat, but not enough to call the system that enriched them both bloated and immoral.
Huh?
I mean, I guess calling someone morbidly obese is better campaign strategy than supporting Medicare for all during a deadly pandemic.
Am I right?
Hey, what's coming up on today's show?
Well, Pelosi Guts the Heroes Act.
That's right.
Another stimulus package written by Nancy Pelosi gives the finger to progressive priorities and workers.
Plus, the Fed chairman, actually more to the left than Nancy Pelosi, the Fed chairman.
And we have it for you.
Plus, a triple whammy.
The Dow gains more than 900 points.
Plus, we got phone calls.
Character actor Shay Wingham, plus George Clooney, Barack Obama, and Bernie Sanders.
Plus a lot lot more.
That's today on the Jimmy Dorse show.
So here's the Heroes Act.
This is the act that passed, right?
Heroes Act passes the House.
It omits $2,000 in recurring stimulus checks and other notable items.
Last night, the House of Representatives passed the Health and Economic Recovery Omnibus Emergency Solutions Act or the Heroes Act by a vote of 208 to 199.
The sweeping $3 trillion legislation was dismissed by Senate Republicans with Majority Leader Mitch McConnell deriding it as a big laundry list of pet priorities.
That's what it was supposed to be.
Guess what?
Pet priorities didn't make it in to Nancy Pelosi's bill.
Well, it included many provisions seemingly disconnected from stabilizing the economic effects of the coronavirus pandemic, such as ones related to cannabis banking.
I actually think that's a good deal.
Who cares?
That should have been done a long time ago.
It's a legal product.
Why can't cannabis dispensaries where people get medicine use the banking system that's propped up by my goddamn tax dollars that should have been in there?
For a messaging bill meant to outlie Democratic priorities, the HEROS Act is notable for what it omits.
That's right.
Now let's get to it.
Spearheaded by Representative Pramila Jayapal and the Congressional Progressive Caucus, the Paycheck Guarantee Act would have guaranteed 100% of coverage of workers' wages up to $90,000 a year.
Not in.
And Steph, did you hear all the Democrats screaming about that?
I didn't see anybody say shame.
I didn't see anybody wave their arms.
Shame.
I saw something about Tim Ryan making a stand for helping people, but I didn't see afterwards anybody.
The sponsors argued that given the economic carnage inflicted by coronavirus, Congress needed to think bigger and offer workers as well as businesses, nonprofits, and local governments of all sizes a better path forward in this uncertain environment.
I'm glad you guys are getting around to that fucking mid-May.
It's amazing, Democrats, how there's a pandemic and four months later, they snap into action.
Just like that, they snap into action.
Interestingly, an analysis by Moody's chief economist, Mark Zandy, he estimated that the net cost of the program would be $654 billion over six months, which is actually less than the two rounds of small business loans approved by Congress as part of the paycheck protection program.
Another interesting feature of the proposal would have taken out banks as the intermediary to disperse payments, instead facilitating payments straight from the IRS to employers.
But they didn't.
They left banks in as the intermediary.
Exclusion of the Paycheck Guarantee Act led to a mini rebellion.
Uh-oh.
Hang on.
Led to a mini rebellion with progressives initially threatening to vote against the Heroes Act.
Most members eventually fell in line with Speaker Nancy Pelosi and voted in favor of the Heroes Bill.
Well, it must be a good bill.
It says Heroes.
So it must be a good bill.
A mini rebellion.
Progressives threatening to vote against it, not threatening to go to the press or call a press conference or call out their leadership or blah, blah, blah.
Nothing.
Just vote against it.
A bill that's a wish list.
The HEROES Act included a proposal for a second round of direct payments to Americans, $1,200 for an individual and $2,400 for joint filers and $1,200 for up to three dependents.
Pelosi and Democrats chose the single payment route instead of recurring stimulus payments that would have provided ongoing relief for up to 12 months.
Nancy Pelosi is screwing you on purpose.
Nancy Pelosi is governing exactly like Mitch McConnell or Newt Gingrich.
And the Democrats aren't calling her out.
They're not saying the goddamn, they're not doing nothing.
Representative Rocana and Tim Ryan had introduced the Emergency Money for the People Act, which had attracted increasing support from other House Democrats.
Other similar proposals were introduced by Pramila Jayapel and Rashida Talib in the House as well as by counterparts in the Senate, including proposals by Ed Markey and Kamala Harris and Bernie Sanders that would provide a monthly $2,000 check to those struggling to make ends meet during the COVID-19 pandemic.
As argued in previous column, there is a looming disconnect between the sluggish speed of recovery and the duration of unemployment benefits that were included in the $2 trillion CARES Act passed by Congress.
This problem could have been solved through the use of automatic stabilizers, which would have tied federal aid to economic conditions.
Meaning, hey, we're going to keep giving people money as long as the economy sucks.
But as soon as the economy gets better, we're going to scale back.
So you tie it to how the economy is doing.
You don't just go, we're going to give you this payment.
And then, well, we'll have to come back over and over and over and have this goddamn debate while people are waiting.
You see, Nancy Pelosi doesn't care about you.
Nancy Pelosi is your enemy.
Just as much as Ted Cruz is your enemy and Donald Trump is your enemy.
Nancy Pelosi is your enemy.
And the progressives in Congress are her lapdogs.
Lapdogs.
So congratulations, Justice Democrats, our revolution, brand new Congress.
Congratulations for staying inside this party.
You've accomplished nothing.
Absolutely nothing.
At a time that is tailor-made for you people, you tucked your tail and did nothing.
You're worthless.
Use of stabilizers.
They wouldn't use stabilizers.
So this is the important thing.
The use of stabilizers would have removed the need to continuously pass additional legislation for more aid.
Instead, automatically extending the aid, such as enhanced unemployment insurance until the economy recovers.
That's what other countries have done.
We're not doing it here.
Why?
Because Nancy Pelosi is a rapacious, oligarch, 100-millionaire criminal who is a sociopath.
Nancy Pelosi is a sociopath.
Every much Donald Trump is.
Nancy Pelosi is.
Every bit.
She's a bigger phony because Trump doesn't pretend as much as she does.
The Worker Relief and Security Act, introduced by Senators Michael Bennett and Jack Reed, along with Representative Don Beyer, aimed to align relief with the span of the COVID-19 pandemic, as opposed to allowing benefits to lapse after a fixed period of time.
So you go, hey, we're going to have relief.
Let's make it for the span of this crisis instead of having it end when we still have a crisis.
And then we all have to come back together and figure out another plan.
Let's just keep it going.
However, this proposal, along with the automatic stabilizers of any kind, were left out of the Heroes Act by Nancy Pelosi.
And the Democrats took it.
All those things were left out of the Heroes Act.
That's their wish list.
The Republicans don't even get to vote it down.
They didn't even present it.
Nancy Pelosi wouldn't even present it.
Instead, the bill would simply extend the enhanced unemployment benefits through January 2021.
Problems with the CARES Act weren't limited to eligibility or duration of funding.
They also involved executional mistakes, huh?
Well, the process of delivering funds to individuals and small businesses was riddled with friction and complexity.
No kidding.
Unbelievable.
You know, the $5 trillion that went to the richest people, no problem.
The Fed cuts you a check.
It's there.
Everybody else, us poor suckers, workers, and small business people, had to go through reams and reams.
And the bank said, oh my God.
Many individuals have still not received their stimulus checks from the CARES Act.
Others receive checks, but for a lower amount than expected and are being told by the IRS that they won't be able to receive the difference until 2021 when they file their taxes.
That's what Nancy Pelosi thinks about you.
Fuck you.
That's what she thinks about you.
And all those progressives that you voted for in the Justice Democrats and brand new Congress and all of it, they all said the same thing.
They're not fighting for you whatsoever.
Instead of spending over 18,000 pages on futile proposals, many not germane to the coronavirus pandemic, it would have behooved Democrats to develop proposals to deliver funds more quickly and more accurately to Americans.
But that's not what Nancy Pelosi did.
And there was, I think, eight votes against it from Democrats.
One progressive voted against it.
Now, the Democrats that voted against it, seven out of the eight, were moderates, and they were doing so because they were going to face tough Republican opposition.
So they're going to vote again.
They're not going to do the right thing.
They're acting like people don't want stimulus.
It's just nuts.
So those are the Democrats.
Abby Finkauer, Axney Cynthia, Sharice Davids, Jared Golden, Zochitl, Torres Small, Joe Cunningham, Ben McAdams, Elaine Luria, Abigail Spangberger, and Jayapal, Pramila Jayapal.
One one.
So good for her.
She voted against it.
It's about four months too late, Pramilla.
You know that, though, right?
Yeah, of course you do.
And still won't call out Nancy Pelosi.
It's amazing.
What are you guys afraid of?
What is she going to do?
Ground you?
What's she going to do?
Send you to bed without dinner?
She's not going to let you date somebody?
What are you afraid of?
I have no idea what they're afraid of, but they are cowards.
They are cowards.
And not just, I'm not, hey, at least she voted against it.
At least Pramila Jayapal voted against it.
So you got to get, that's better than all the rest of the progressive.
This is what Pramila Jayapal said when she voted against it.
She goes, at the core, our response from Congress must match the true scale of this devastating crisis.
Their Harrows Act, while it contains many important provisions, simply fails to do that.
Again, doesn't mention not one word about Nancy Pelosi or why it's doing that or why you guys are passing that shitty bill, why it's not in there, why people are still having to wait for money, why we're not going to get relief, or why America is turning into Brazil.
Not one goddamn thing about it.
She acts like it's just another thing.
Jayapel was the only member of the Progressive Congressional Caucus to vote against the bill, though nine other PCC lawmakers didn't even vote.
So here's Sager, and he makes the point very briefly what I've been saying.
The progressives are, there's no fight.
There's no fight in them.
You might as well vote for a Republican.
There's no point.
Here's what he says.
I'm not convinced that fighting hard won't pay off massive dividends.
Why is AOC the person who raises the most amount of money in the House?
She doesn't take one single dollar.
She's never dialed for $1.
She never has to.
Right.
Her entire life.
But there's two sides to that coin.
So why is she taking orders from people who do?
There's no answer to that.
She's protecting her committee assignment like Bernie is.
Is that how shallow these people are?
I just think AOC is a climber in the party, man.
That's all she is.
She's Barack Obama 2.0.
I'm not convinced that fighting hard won't pay off massive dividends.
Why is AOC the person who raises the most amount of money in the House?
She doesn't take one single dollar.
She's never dialed for $1.1.
She never has to.
Right.
Her entire life.
But there's two sides to that coin.
She's also hated.
Exactly.
She's loved and she's hated.
Like, you have to have to.
That's what you have to do.
That's how you get real power.
I mean, look, if.
Yeah, she's hated by her political enemies.
That's how it's supposed to work.
If you're getting anything done, that's great.
You should be happy.
Judge a man not by the friends he's made, but by the enemies he keeps.
That's what John F. Kennedy said.
That there never before in the history of humankind has organized money been more now.
I can't remember the quote.
United.
Organized, but more united in their hatred of me.
And I welcome their hate.
That's FDR.
That's fucking politics.
It's not new.
Connor was going to go on MSNBC and villainize Nancy Pelosi.
I guarantee you he would raise like a million dollars in a two-day period.
It's a great point.
Anybody doing that, anybody who comes out against the establishment is going to be an instant success.
In fact, the last guy who did it is now fucking president.
But the Democrats just won't do it because what the Republicans have said about the Democrats, they are chosen to be weak.
They are chosen to lose.
People want to hear it.
People want to hear it.
Love it.
Yeah.
Same with Pramila Dribe.
Strongly worded letter, offhanded comment to CNN.
They don't care, man.
I mean, this is not even a strongly worded letter.
It's like, we have some concerns.
Pelosi knows she can roll these people all day.
And then at the end of the day, they're not going to do anything.
And at the end of the day, they're not going to do anything.
And they, guess what?
They don't do anything.
Crystal and Saga are 100% right.
Crystal and Saga are 100% right.
They don't do anything.
I can't wait to get close enough to yell at them physically.
I can't wait.
I was going to go to the Democratic Convention this year.
I couldn't wait to get in their faces with a camera.
I couldn't wait to get in their faces with a camera.
I can't do it now.
Coronavirus.
Wow, Bernie Sanders is on the phone.
I hope he's not in a bad mood.
Hello, this is Bernie Sanders, and I am not in a bad mood.
I'm just fucking tired.
All right.
Why is that, Bernie?
Because I'm already resigned to the sad fact that my revolution is now nothing more than a sick front to support a man who spent his whole career fighting against everything I support.
Okay, but that doesn't put you in a bad mood.
Oh, how could I be in a bad mood?
Nancy Pelosi just called Donald Trump fat.
So that's something, right?
Isn't that just another empty gesture on her part?
Oh, of course not.
It's a devastating gut punch to our country's corrupt power structure.
All that's needed now is for Joe to call Trump a Malachi-filled curmudgeon, and the party will finally have a platform.
So you think Biden can defeat Trump?
Yes, because Joe and I are busy building new policy-focused task forces on climate change, criminal justice reform, health care, and then so on.
Come on, Bernie, task forces.
That's why people don't take you seriously anymore.
Fuck you.
Other Jones says Joe wants to hear from quote Bernie's policy wonks.
See, things are looking up.
They're not calling them bros anymore.
Smooth sailing from here on.
We're in the loop.
Who's on these tax forces anyway?
Some fresh new faces.
We got John Kerry on climate change.
Eric Holder on criminal justice reform.
No.
And Pramila Jayapal on healthcare.
No, she's good on health.
Promila Jaypell.
Last time I saw her on Twitter, she was using a Republican talking point like saying access to affordable health care.
Don't be ridiculous.
That's a Democratic talking point.
And what if Joe Biden doesn't pay attention to these task forces?
We have a task force for that.
It's called the Task Force Task Force.
It's smooth sailing from here on in, bud.
It's in the bag.
Is that what Biden told you?
Not exactly.
We haven't spoken in weeks.
He doesn't know how to answer his telephone.
Hello, I can't hear you.
He says, you got the mute button on again, Joe.
He'll say he called me back five times, but it's not my number.
He's calling.
When I finally do get him on the phone, he's like, I called you five times already.
You didn't pick up.
Then how do you two communicate?
We are now assembling a phone task force.
So it looks like your unity task forces are populated by Biden, Harris, Obama, and Buddha Good surrogates who lied about you for over two years.
But Alexandria Cortez says it there somewhere.
I respect Joe Biden.
And when the party moves, Joe Biden has always followed.
The party has always moved to the right.
With these task forces, we're a shoe-in.
Oh, and another 90,000 American deaths shouldn't hurt Joe's chances either.
That really says a lot about Democrats when their ace in the hole is Donald Trump's deadly negligence.
If there's anything I hope we learn from this painful epidemic, it's that we must create a government that works for all, not just wealthy campaign donors.
Now shut up and vote for the guy with all the wealthy campaign.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
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Wow, President Obama's calling me again.
Hello.
Hi, Jimmy.
Guess what I've been doing all week?
Giving online commencement speeches to colleges and high schools all over the country.
I've literally been zooming the shit out of graduation.
People love me.
Because you're an ex-president?
Yeah.
Folks like a man who makes them remember what a president should sound like.
And you're probably wondering, what exactly should a president sound like?
I am.
Like this.
Drank the flint water.
I did.
That's what a president sounds like.
It sounds like, come on, folks.
Let's get it together.
Stop the division.
You got to unite behind hope if you want it.
Do you want it?
Folks are going to be folks.
But it takes good folks to get there.
Don't you have anything real to offer during this time other than the usual gibberish?
I'll tell you what's real, Jimmy.
Folks.
Folks is real.
Why can you ever use the word people?
Jimmy, people aren't folks.
Folks aren't people.
People are what you see on the street every day, sleeping on the bridges.
They all have names.
Yuck.
Whereas folks are folks.
Did you know since I became president, the word folks has been used more times in print than at any time in history?
So folks are how you don't really call anyone out by name?
No, you got it, baby.
Folks means getting it together.
Folks means telling it like it is, but without really saying it.
Yeah.
For example, I just told these high school kids that so many folks in charge don't know what they're doing.
And the ones who do know what they're doing don't know folks.
You got to know folks who know other folks and respect folks.
Vote by them.
All right.
Now I think I'm understanding.
It's about folks.
No, yes, all.
It's not just about folks.
It's about hope and folks.
Hope and folks.
You're not saying it right, Jimmy.
Say folks with a capital F. Folks.
Oh, okay.
Folks, but not people.
Right.
People blame you for things.
White folks say good morning when they pass by on the street.
People die from stuff, whereas folks just sit on their porches and have beers with other what, Jimmy?
Folks.
Excellent.
But why, President Obama?
Because Obama is everything Trump will never be.
Compassionate, honest, and highly intelligent.
Notice how I refer to Obama in the third person?
Yeah, it's pretty creepy.
That's to separate myself from myself.
So it's less confusing for the dumb folks so they don't think I'm full of myself.
Is Obama praising himself or some other person doing it, they ask?
Meanwhile, Yemen.
So to sum up, what's your message for the presidential campaign?
We're all in this together.
Stay the fuck away from Martha's Vineyard.
So here it is.
So here's the big announcement on the task force.
So they're putting together, so Bernie's going to endorse Joe Biden.
So now their two campaigns are getting together.
They put together a task force.
They're putting together different people to join task forces so they can work jointly on policy that will address our problems.
You need a task force on how to fix our healthcare problem.
You need a task force on how to stop bombing other countries.
You need a task force on Medicare for all.
You need a task force on a minimum wage.
What do you need to give you the double CK?
So now here they go.
Biden says in Vegas local TV interview that AOC will be one of be on one of the policy task forces that his campaign and Sanders teams are putting together, but haven't rolled out yet.
He doesn't say what issues she'll be focused on.
So now we already showed you the video of Nina Turner saying she was not invited on these task force.
So someone who's actually a firebrand and a fight, a real fighter, not invited.
Bernie didn't have the juice to get Nina Turner on the task force.
How do you think the task force is going to work out?
How progressive?
So Ryan Noble says, source directly involved with the planning of these task forces tell me AOC will serve as the co-chair of the climate change group.
Oh, fantastic.
One of six task forces set to be unveiled soon by both campaigns.
Other task forces include education, criminal justice, immigration, healthcare, and the economy.
So you don't know what to do on any of those things, really?
Been in public office for 40 fucking years.
You guys don't know what to do.
You don't know what the answers to these problems are?
Really?
I know what they are.
AOC, here's a statement, and it's too small for you to read it, so I'll read it to you.
This is from her, from AOC Spocks Lauren Hidden.
It says, the Congresswoman will be serving as Senator Sanders' representative on a committee the vice president has convened to assist with the development of climate policy.
She made the decision with members of the climate justice community, and she will be fully accountable to them and the larger advocacy community during this process.
She's fucking accountable.
Bloom.
She believes the movement will only be successful if we continue to apply pressure both inside and outside the system.
This is just one element of the broader fight for just policies.
I got your fuck.
Again, I got your task force right here.
Hey.
Hey, how's your task?
I got your task force.
Geez, these are grown-ups.
It's fucking grown-ups doing this shit.
We're getting together.
You know, we're going to really get together and work on these problems, man.
It's about time somebody got together and came up with some solution.
I thought you ran because you had a solution to these problems.
This is such garbage bullshit.
Typical bullshit Democrat bullshit.
Typical, typical, feckless, in nothing.
Are you going to hold hands and beat a drum when you do it, too, in a circle while you have your task force meeting?
Your task force with Joe Biden.
Hey, why don't you ask him, hey, are you going to bring Anita Hill with you, AOC, when you go on that task force?
Remember how you used to talk about Anita Hill?
Do you still talk about Anita Hill when you're working with the Bidens?
You still talk about Anita Hill like you used to in public?
No, I bet you don't.
You goddamn capitulator.
I say the cool kids are saying task force.
I'm so stuck in the past.
I'm still saying window dressing.
It's got 867 likes, 68.
Just as I was saying it.
There you go.
There you go.
Hey, AOC's on a task force.
Everything's going to be okay.
Say, guess what?
Big story.
This is from Source magazine.
New Canadian study says marijuana may prevent the coronavirus.
God damn it, marijuana.
Is there anything you can't do?
I don't know.
According to a study being conducted at Canada's University of Lethbridge, scientists are now theorizing that certain marijuana strains could possibly prevent COVID-19 infection.
You know, unbeknownst to me, I've been a volunteer for this study since day one, just so you know.
Just so you know.
Just tell me what the strains are.
They don't tell you.
I was just telling me what the strains are.
I have some essential shopping to do.
And by the Way, are they paid for these studies?
Because I'd be pretty cool with that gig.
The study's head researcher, get that head researcher, Dr. Igor or Igor Kovalichuk, said a number of them have reduced the number of these viruses' receptors by 73%.
A number of different strains, I'm guessing.
That's what he means by that.
A number of different strains have reduced the number of these virus receptors by 73%.
The chance of it getting in is much lower.
So it reduces the amount of receptors on a cell, I guess.
If they can reduce the number of receptors, there's much less chance of getting infected.
Researchers were able to identify 13 CBD extracts that are able to change ACE2 levels, an enzyme previously linked to COVID-19 infection.
Wow.
Wow.
I don't know, guys.
Chelsea Clinton said there needs to be more research on whether or not pot has medicinal value.
So I'm not sure.
You know, I was going to smoke a little less weed.
I was going to start cutting back, but you can't be too careful these days.
You just can't be too careful.
The data also suggested that some strains were also able to control serine protease TMPRSS2.
What is that?
Control Serine Protease TMPRSS2.
Well, it's another protein necessary for COVID-19 to enter the host cell and spread throughout the body.
So some strains control a serine protease, a protein necessary for COVID to enter the host.
And some affect the receptors.
Wow.
Marijuana is really getting the job done.
If peer-reviewed and more research is actually done on this subject, the study could be performed in the form of mouthwash, gargle inhalants, or gel caps, according to Kovalichuk.
Kovalchuk.
Wow.
Honey, are you getting high again?
Yes, this is science.
All right.
So there's this.
I'm in the middle of an experiment.
Isn't that something?
That's like when the politicians used to say that when I grew up in the 90s, they would say, I experimented with marijuana.
Remember, they would say that I experimented with marijuana when I was younger.
I experimented.
Like they had lab coats on and stuff.
We're experimenting.
No, these guys are experimenting.
You were smoking pot and getting high.
Nobody ever says I'm experimenting with this beer.
I experimented with alcohol.
Did you ever have you experimented with the tangerine tonics?
I experimented with margaritas one summer.
Oh, boy, those are some great experiments.
A lot of stuff blew up.
I made a baby.
How?
So that's quite, I mean, honest, marijuana.
Is there, if there isn't a, it's like the aspirin of our day.
It's a wonder drug.
Maybe aspirin is the aspirin of our day.
And so is pot now.
Maybe aspirin is the pot of our day.
You ever think of that?
So we know when CNN covers Syria and the gas attacks, they do it like this.
They send a reporter, who, by the way, is the granddaughter of the deposed president of Syria, and she picks up a backpack and does this.
And there's definitely something that stings.
Okay.
So that's a CNN reporter in Syria letting you know that there was definitely a gas attack because she went and sniffed some poison gas on a back.
That's exactly what you do.
Hey, is that poison?
Give me it.
Yep, that's definitely.
So, you know, all the reporters go to flint.
They immediately start drinking the water by the gallon.
So these, the Duma attack, the gas attack, we've been, we've debunked it here on the show.
I want to recap it really quickly.
So these are pictures of the shells they said were, look, it's landed in a bed.
You see that it's in a bed.
It's on someone's porch.
And here, see, there's the guy saying, there it is.
We've got it.
It's the gas attack.
The New York Times actually reported that they created a virtual crime scene.
Did you ever see this, Aaron?
I did.
Yeah, I did.
So the New York Times created a virtual crime scene to investigate serious chemical attack.
They couldn't go.
They didn't go to Syria.
But then they had some artists kind of create it in the way that they thought it happened.
And boy, if I'm, as Mike McRae said, if I'm ever accused of murder, I hope they don't actually investigate the crime scene, but I hope that someone imagines the crime scene, which is what the New York Times did.
They literally did this.
And here's their conclusion.
The New York Times said, we were unable to visit Duma, but to get the truth of what happened, we forensically analyzed the visual evidence unwittingly provided by the Russian reports.
Combining those pictures with other videos filmed by Syrian activists, we reconstructed a 3D model of the building, the balcony, and the bomb in partnership with Goldsmith, University of London Research Agency, and Forensic Architecture.
And they concluded it was, it happened.
They even won an award for it.
Guess what?
They're 100% wrong.
And I knew they were wrong before they even put this report out.
We debunked them because real reporters were actually by Robert Fisk.
We're already on the ground there interviewing doctors, interviewing people.
Nobody, nobody verified that there was a gas tack.
Nobody.
So the OPCW, so when you see this, they say, said that was real.
That was placed there by someone.
And you know how I know that was placed there by someone on the ground?
It didn't come from Assad's helicopters or planes.
Well, because there was a leaked report from the OPCW, an engineer's report, that was written, but was not included in the final report.
And what did that, what did that engineer's report say?
That engineers, in summary, observations at the scene of the two locations, together with subsequent analysis, suggests that there is a higher probability that both cylinders were manually placed there at those two locations rather than being delivered from aircraft.
So that says didn't happen.
They took that out of the report.
So then Chris Hayes tells you Gassad is gassing his own people.
He's not, I debunked it.
Robert Fisk debunked it.
The New York Times went along and they lied to you too.
Well, whistleblower after whistleblower has come out saying that the OPCW has been captured by the West and NATO, and they have.
And so now here's the Gray Zones reporting.
This is yours, Aaron.
It says the Gray Zone has obtained documents exposing falsehoods and misleading claims by the OPCW director General Fernando Arias to degrade the reputation of Duma whistleblower Ian Henderson.
So the guy who wrote this is Ian Henderson.
Yep.
So then you found out, you found out some documents.
I don't know how you got a hold of them.
You're good reporting.
That showed that Arias and the inquiry team have asserted that Ian Henderson, the guy who wrote that, was not an official participant in the Duma investigation.
Henderson, they claimed, was not a member of the FFM, which is the fact-finding mission from the OPCW.
And instead, that he was merely, quote, accompanied the FFM to certain sites of interest in a minor supporting role.
So they tried to downplay what that guy did.
They're trying to say he wasn't even really a part of it.
But you uncovered some documents, and I'm going to show them to people that internal documents from the OPCW that actually betrays that lie.
And it said, if you look at here, it says afterwards, ODG is happy if the visits to the cylinders and hospital are led by Ian Henderson.
So that's an internal document that you discovered that said, no, contrary to what the OPCW is saying, he actually was leading the investigation.
In fact, here he is.
There's his name.
The mission personnel.
There it is.
You've uncovered that.
There it is.
That's his name.
FFM.
Here is the OPCW mission on Syria.
So they also said that the only reason that guy was part of that was because he was there.
Well, why don't you explain to it?
What was the excuse that they gave, Aaron, of why Ian Henderson was working with the FFM?
So again, just what you're seeing right in front of you is a cover-up.
And all these documents are showing.
So as you say, Jimmy, Henderson's conclusions, the Syrian government committed a gas attack in Douma.
What Henderson's conclusions pointed to is this was staged on the ground.
So when his report was leaked, the OPCW had a serious problem because the evidence that came out, his report, and then other leaks that came out, kept undermining the official narrative that the OPCW had put forward, advancing the Trump administration's narratives.
And by the way, one of the leaks that we heard that we got was that the Trump administration actually directly pressured the OPCW, where there was a delegation of U.S. officials who came to the OPCW, which is totally unprecedented, and basically told the inspectors, told the team of which Ian Henderson was a part, that Assad was guilty and that that was the conclusion they had to draw, which is completely unacceptable pressure.
And that was one of the leaks we got.
So when all this came out, OPCW had a problem.
What do we do about Ian Henderson, given that he investigated this and his findings undermine the narrative that we've signed on to?
So their only answer, I guess they decided, was to denigrate him.
So they lied about him.
They said he played a minor supporting role in the Duma investigation in Syria and that he was not even a member of the team.
But as you showed, those documents totally undermine that.
They show that not only was he actually an official member of the fact-fighting mission, but that the office of the director general at the time asked that he lead the most critical inspections, the inspections of the hospital where the alleged victims were taken, and the cylinders, the crime scene where the gas cylinders were found.
And the reason why Henderson was asked to do this is because he is a career OPCW official who's been with them since 1997 and was the only member of that entire team who has the expertise that he has in chemical engineering and ballistics.
So these documents show basically that the OPCW leadership has been lying, that in order to cover up their cover-up, they've been lying about Ian Henderson.
And so the last document there you mentioned was basically they had to come up with an excuse for why Henderson was in Syria to begin with.
They falsely said he was not there to falsely said he wasn't there to be a part of the investigation, even though he was.
Instead, they said that he happened to be there to oversee the OPCW command post in Damascus.
And so because he was there anyway, he assisted and accompanied the Duma mission to Douma to investigate the cylinders and help them out.
What they omitted was the documents that obtained showing actually the OPCW leadership at the time asked that he lead those inspections because he was such a critical member of that team.
So it's a huge scandal.
It's a huge fraud.
And just like Russia Gate, it's not being discussed at all in the mainstream media because it undermines a narrative that everybody, such as the New York Times, bought into.
Isn't that amazing that ubiquitous coverage of the gas attack, because that would lead to war.
And that's what the military industrial complex wants.
Raytheon wants a couple of million-dollar bombs blown up every day.
And they own the news media so that the news media does what they say.
It's actually, it's pretty direct like that.
And by the way, Jimmy, it did lead to military strike.
It did.
Shortly after the Duma allegation, Trump and the U.S. and the U.K. bombed Syria multiple sites.
And so, yeah, I mean, it did lead to military action.
And so you'd think, I mean, just as we saw with the Iraq War, when we found out that the Bush administration had peddled this scam to us and pressured other people to go along, that was a huge scandal.
Now we're finding out the exact same thing and literally virtual silence.
I've said this before publicly.
I can't even get it on my own on my old show, Democracy Now, the show I worked for for 10 years, and which is a noble show at its heart.
They can't even mention it because they bought into this narrative, too.
It's really, it's so embarrassing for not just the corporate media, but for so many outlets that have gone along with these pro-war narratives, these pro-war lies.
This really brings up a crisis in lefty journalism.
What does it say about a news show that purports to be a lefty news show that covers the false propaganda straight from the military industrial complex and the and the CIA that led to bombing?
You cover that.
You do the propaganda for that.
It gets revealed that what you did was propaganda, that you misled your own viewers, and you don't cover that.
How can you ever trust that news agency ever again?
I can't.
And what is the implications of that?
What does that, what does that say?
Well, and it's also not just betraying the mission of covering war and covering state and exposing lies, especially lies that lead to war.
It's also, I mean, I said this before on your show, but it's really important.
It's also endangering the whistleblowers who bring it to light.
I mean, we're all supposed to protect whistleblowers for a reason is because they put themselves at serious risk by going public and by challenging power forces Like the U.S. government, especially on such a sensitive issue, such as revealing scams like this, hoaxes, lies that lead to military action.
And these whistleblowers at the OPCW, Ian Henderson, who we know publicly, and there's another whistleblower there whose name has not been publicly confirmed.
They have put themselves at extreme risk because now, you know, outfits like Bellingcat, which is funded by the U.S. government, have been publishing all these lies about them.
And so they're at risk.
Their safety is at risk.
And the OPCW has been attacking their reputations for the sole purpose of undermining the import of their damning findings, their actual science, the evidence that they themselves collected in Duma, Syria.
And the fact that even adversarial outlets like Democracy Now and have ignored them after initially packing the narrative, it's just such a portrayal of everything that the noble institutions are supposed to stand for.
And so I hope they snap out of it, but I'm just grateful that at least we have on your show at the gray zone.
We're not going to be intimidated into ignoring this.
I mean, this is like, to me, this is one of the most important stories of the past year.
And there is more evidence to come.
I can tell you that.
I'm working on my next story on this.
So more damning revelations are coming out.
So the intercept hasn't even covered the whistleblowers on the OPCW?
Zero.
Whereas you could publish multiple columns by a columnist named Robert Mackey, who was pushing the official narrative that there was a gas attack in Syria.
And they published this long article that claimed to be nuanced and ambiguous, but it also ultimately concluded that, yeah, there was a gas attack, a chlorine attack.
And since then, there's been no retraction, no update, nothing, just total silence.
I've honestly never seen a media censorship quite like this one, where you have even progressive outlets ignoring a story that shows the Trump administration lied us into military strikes and showing corruption at the OPCW, the world's top chemical weapons watchdog, a really important body that does a lot of really important work.
Just we have documentation because WikiLeaks has published now so many leaks just showing the extent of the cover-up here, how these OPCW officials censored the ads that their own inspectors found.
By the way, if you're going to Syria and you're inspecting an alleged chemical weapons attack, you're a pretty noble person.
It's not, that's not easy work.
You're putting yourself at risk to go out and try to do a really important task, which is ascertain the veracity of a serious chemical weapons allegation.
And so these people put their lives at risk.
Their organization suppresses their evidence, throws them under the bus, slams their reputation.
And what does the media do?
It completely ignores the story because it undermines an area that they all bought into.
It's crazy.
It's totally crazy.
You know, it's beyond disheartening.
It's beyond all that stuff.
And, you know, I always make the joke: hey, hey, thanks for being such bad news agencies that leave a huge lane for me.
But I don't really, you know, I really don't need the lane anymore.
So they're doing this.
This is the Biden Victory Fund.
A virtual conversation with Hillary Rodham Clinton and DNC chair Tom Perez.
This is a, guess, guess how much it costs?
You could do it on Zoom, May 19th.
So it's coming up from 6 to 7 p.m. just for an hour.
We can get you in for the low, low, low, low discount price of $100,000 if you want to host it.
If you want to be a champion, Hillary, when I say champion, you say fire.
Hillary.
Fire.
Hillary.
Fire.
Champion.
fire.
The Biden Victory Fund brought to you by the people who employed the Pied Piper strategy and still lost.
$100,000.
So there's all these different levels, $100,000 to be the host.
Now, in fairness, if you pay to be the host, that means you get to mute Hillary Clinton and Tom Perez.
So $100,000.
Who's got $100,000 lying around to toss in to go fuck to go jerk off with Tom Perez and Hillary Clinton for an hour?
And by the way, those kind of people, don't you have their number?
You have to put this in a flyer.
Do you know what I mean?
Don't you think they have their...
Why are you posting this?
You don't have, you don't, yes, I exactly, I agree 100%.
I mean, $100,000 percent.
You already know who's going to drop that kind of money.
And then look, I don't know if you see if it goes even lower.
So $100,000 to host, $50,000 to be a champion, $41,100 to be just a supporter.
And then for a friend, it's $15,600.
Hillary Clinton, for $15,000, you can be my friend.
I'm with her.
That's real.
A guest, to be a guest is $5,600 and limited availability is $2,800.
$2,800, limited availability.
It's online.
I don't know.
So let me get this.
Maybe there's a cap on Zooms.
Right, no kidding.
Is there?
No, I think there's a cap on $2,800.
Let me get this straight.
They're doing a virtual conversation and they expect people to pay?
That's not saying.
They don't want to pay me.
No.
Pay me to watch this.
Right.
That's what I'm saying.
You should have to pay me $100,000.
I would watch this for $100,000.
Yeah.
But it's got to be $100.
Yeah.
Here's a joke Rod wrote.
It's going to be hilarious where they need to hire a stand-in company from LA to pay people to log into this thing.
So it looks like they have an audience.
Can you explain to me, though, Jimmy, how a champion for 50K, you could be a champion for 50K, but just a supporter for 41K.
Right?
But how did they come up with the 41,100?
Exactly.
Oh, look at the big Hillary behind me.
She's hiding her jewels around her neck.
Oh, look.
Whatever she's wearing has to cost a pretty penny.
Otherwise, she wouldn't be wearing it.
So there it is.
Now you can make contribution limbs.
That's only for an hour.
I can't believe it's just, it's not 20 minutes.
$2,800.
Rumor has it, rich people who had coronavirus Are buying tickets for this just so they can say the virus was only the second most unpleasant experience of their year.
That's great.
A Biden victory is a lot like The Walking Dead, an unlikely future where a zombie is leading.
Well, it's George Clooney on the phone.
I hope he doesn't call me Checkers and ask how the wind's blowing in my district.
Hello.
Hey, Checkers.
How's the wind blowing in your district?
And it's hot time in DoorTown tonight, eh?
Fuckie.
Put down the Echo Corn Skewers party, boy, because I am about to blow your ever-loving top off.
In what way?
I am here to dispel and debunk the bunk, babes.
Yeah.
Speaking of which, I was looking very dapper in my slick tuxedo over a blinding white button-down shirt, unbuttoned to show my tanned chest the other day.
Well, what was the occasion?
It was Tuesday.
And because I was part of this online fundraiser, it was to help essential entertainment workers during this virus jazz that's going down.
Oh, the virus jazz that's going down, Jimbo?
Hey, you know, there's a lot more to that phone call, but we don't have time in today's podcast.
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Today's show was written by Ron Placone, Mark Van Landowitz, Steph Zamarano, Jim Earl, Mike McRae, and Roger Rittenhouse.
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