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Get ready for an outstanding entertainment program.
The Jimmy Dore show.
George Clooney's in the news again.
Let's call him up.
Cloons here.
Hey, George, it's, uh, Let me guess.
Joe Rogan.
No, George, it's Jimmy Dore.
Darn, so close.
What?
Jimmy, I'm trying to train myself to be psychic.
So I'm doing this thing where I'm not looking at caller ID and I'm trying to guess who the caller is.
But hey, I was close this time.
Both you and Rogan.
Huge in the world of podcasting.
Yeah.
Okay, I see.
Could you do me a favor and just pretend you're Joe Rogan for the rest of the call so I feel better about my predictive abilities?
I can't do that, George.
I'm Jimmy Dore.
I'm going to be Jimmy Dore.
Fine.
Fine.
So, George, in a book that was recently published, it was revealed that you and accused sex trafficker Gislane Maxwell shared a tryst once.
Define Trish.
Well, this appears to have been about a certain sex act performed in a bathroom.
Oh, okay.
Hey, let me guess the sex act.
No, that's besides the point.
We don't really need to go into what the devil's chopsticks.
The Bang June Hole.
The second partition of Poland.
No.
King Touch Revenge.
The Walla Walla Tesseract.
What?
No.
The Denver Scramble?
Isn't that a breakfast?
The Joni hates Chachi.
The contrite.
These are all drinks.
The malfunctioning log flu.
No, George.
Uh-oh, oh, wait, wait.
The fog hat.
Jesus Christ.
No, I, I have to know, what is the fog hat?
Oh, that's the one.
That's the one where you grow a handlebar mustache and teach yourself how to play Maybelline on a Fender Strat.
That's a sexual act?
It is if you play it in G minor, baby.
Jesus.
Look, the point is that what exactly the sex act was doesn't matter.
Okay.
Look, I'm just curious.
How do you feel having your name connected with such a heinous person?
Well, when was this?
It was 2001, apparently.
2001?
That was the year Ocean's 11 came out.
I was still Batman then, for Christ's sakes.
Jimmy, I hate to break it to you, but Georgie Porgy was a busy boy back then, if you know what I'm saying.
There's no way I would remember this one particular woman.
I see.
I got it.
Look, just because I gave some bra the old Zephyr teach-out in a bathroom 20 years ago, doesn't mean that I condone...
Up again?
Sex trafficking.
Oh, sounds sexy.
I assure you, it is not.
It involved teen girls.
Okay, I'm waiting for you to get to the not-sexy part.
No.
Against their will?
Yeah, that's frowned on, I guess.
Look, I vaguely heard about this, I guess, but I don't know anything about Jeff Epstein.
His plane, his island, the temple on his island with that giant altar, and that secret chamber behind the altar with the password to get in his Megiddo.
I don't know anything about any of that beyond what I was told by lots of people.
So trying to make a connection there with me is a fool's errand, my friend.
So you can put that in your podcast and smoke it.
So you're saying there's no real connection between you and her.
Who?
The person we have been talking about.
See, I've forgotten even what or who we're talking about.
Just Lane Maxwell.
Oh, of course, just Lane.
Nice lady.
It was a hell of a beach.
Establishment media sets of farm and spiding.
So good luck, bullshit we can't afford, why is fomenting this?
Whoa, watch and see as the jack off the median speeds and jumps the medium and hits them head on.
It's the Chimitor Show.
Yeah.
Hi, everybody.
Welcome to this week's Jimmy Door show.
Let's get to the jokes before we get to the joke, Shelby.
Hey, did you hear that a senior counter intelligence official is wording that Russia is working to denigrate Joe Biden?
How?
By releasing his voting record.
Come on.
I mean, things are pretty grim, but as long as LinkedIn tells me I appear in more than 10 searches, I'll be all right, right?
Come on.
So, Joe Biden picked Kamala Harris.
Hey, what's the strongest argument against Kamala Harris?
Joe Biden chose her.
Hey, here's something you'll never hear from anyone.
Thank goodness Biden finally chose his running mate.
Now I can decide who to vote for.
Hey, by the way, I don't know if you heard Nancy Pelosi was praying for the poor people instead of doing it, just doing things for her.
In case you missed it, here's some of the highlights from Nancy Pelosi's, quote, responsive prayer for justice.
Please, God, don't let leftists force a rent freeze that'll cut into the bottom line of my $200 million real estate business.
That's one of her prayers.
Another one is, please, Jesus, oh, God, don't let millions of grubby homeless people without healthcare trample my vineyards in Napa Valley.
That's another one of her prayers.
The only relevant thing I noticed from Nancy Pelosi's prayers is that her constituents don't have one.
I noticed that sounds constituents, funny.
It was so funny.
It was a little funny.
Constituents.
It was like you were Nancy.
Hey, what's coming up on today's show?
Hey, guess what?
Joe Biden chooses Kamala Harris, and we take a look at the endless circle of hypocrisy surrounding it with journalist and editor of the gray zone, Max Blumenthal.
And in the middle of record unemployment and a pandemic, Democratic Senate leader Chuck Schumer wants to ban TikTok before Trump does.
That's their priorities.
And George Carlin gets bastardized for partisan propaganda.
It's a big club, and we ain't in it.
Plus, Trump issues executive orders for the pandemic.
Is he trying to outflank Joe Biden to his left?
The answer just may surprise you.
Or will it?
Plus, we have phone calls today from George Clooney, Chuck Schumer, Jeb Bush, and Joe Biden, plus a lot lot more.
That's today of the Jimmy Door show.
So Trump made a big announcement.
Okay.
So Trump made a big announcement.
And here it is.
Trump signs executive actions on coronavirus economic relief.
And the subtitle or the subheading is: Democrats promised last week to file a legal challenge if the president acted through executive order to circumvent Congress, which has the constitutional authority to determine federal spending.
So what they're saying is that Nancy Pelosi has the power of the purse.
That's what they say.
That's the saying, the power of the purse, meaning the government doesn't spend any money unless Congress says it can.
Congress determines if that's okay.
And so that's what they're talking about.
But now this puts the Democrats in a bit of a pickle, which we'll talk about in a second, because, I mean, I'm sure Trump would love them to challenge his executive orders because then it would be Trump saying, hey, I'm looking to give you guys stuff, and the Democrats want to stop it.
So it's a political tactic that's good.
So here's what's, but here's what it really is: the executive action defers payroll taxes through the end of the year.
Defers.
That doesn't mean, that means they're still due.
That means you just don't have to pay them.
So that's bullshit.
I mean, it's, you know, it sounds good, right?
The executive action defers payroll taxes through the end of the year.
Defers.
I don't know.
So, and then, of course, the criticism of that is that that's going to mess up Social Security because that's how, okay, so you get that.
So that's kind of ironic that they're trying to, that he's trying to do a head fake where here's a program that helps people at the same time trying to mess with Social Security, the thing that actually helps people.
What they should be doing is expanding Social Security to cover everybody.
Bernie always says that we need to expand Social Security.
Is UBI considered?
Would that be considered?
That's what they should be doing.
Okay.
It also defers student loan payments through the end of the year.
That's great.
That's great.
Easily done.
Discourage evictions.
Now, that doesn't mean ending evictions.
That's nothing.
That's nothing.
Discourage.
Discourage.
So he's asked the federal government, HUD, to look into if there's something, if they can help people.
That's nothing.
And extend enhanced unemployment benefits that expired last week, but a reduced level of $400 instead of the prior $600.
Okay, so here's the real truth about that.
It's actually $300.
So it says $400.
The news reports it as $400.
It's not $400.
It's $300.
Where does the other $100 come from?
That Trump wants the states to pick that up.
Trump wants the states to pick that up.
And the states are already saying, we got no freaking money, buddy.
We don't have any tax revenue because we shut down our economy because it's a coronavirus.
We don't have that money.
And Trump also, by the way, is going to take the money for this from FEMA.
And so that's, this is what the Democrats are saying that they're going to challenge.
They might challenge.
I think it's a bad idea.
Politically, it's a bad look for them to challenge Trump wanting to give people money.
The Democrats, I thought, though, wanted to.
Anyway, so here, we're going to get into what's going on.
Okay.
So there you, so there you go because that's the, that's the base.
So this is Trump realizing he's losing to Joe Biden, who still can't read a statement.
Not only can he not speak extemporaneously, he literally cannot read a prepared statement.
Wow.
And Trump is, that's how bad Trump is.
Trump's big idea was to send G-Men, government goons to kidnap people.
Like that would make people, that's going to turn on some people, but it's going to lose most everybody.
And he is.
He is losing most everybody.
He's down by 10 points.
And so this is a response to that.
This isn't Trump really caring.
And look at this.
This is nothing, right?
And then this actually could hurt you.
So this is okay.
And then the end of the student loan thing is great.
All Trump has to do.
Well, we'll get to what I'll Trump says.
But it's not really end student loan thing.
It's really just ended to the end of the year.
Yeah, nobody has to make a payment.
Right.
And then.
Yeah, but then you pick it back up, but it's not like you have to make a big balloon payment in January.
Okay.
Right.
Like they would, like they're talking about with the with the payroll taxes.
That deferred.
Got it.
So correct me if I'm wrong.
Deferred means that they're still due.
You just don't have to pay them right now.
Then you have to pay them.
Put off.
I'm pretty sure that's what this means.
Yeah.
Deferred means put off an action or event to a later time.
Postpone.
So it's not.
But that means you still owe the taxes.
That doesn't mean we're canceling those taxes.
That means they're deferring.
So anyway, here what else is going on.
Trump's decision to extend a student loan freeze will put about $1.2 trillion of debt on hold until next year.
Wow.
Here is what here's what financial writer Dave Dayon says.
He says, it will be amusing if Trump uses executive action to stop student loan payments after I was told for about a year that there's no, no, no way that student debt could be canceled, which is within the same authority and discretion.
So there you go.
That's hilarious.
So there you go.
I don't know what else to say about that.
That's what's happening.
So here's what, so what Trump is trying to gain ground in the election.
This is how politics is supposed to work, where the campaigns are supposed to compete with each other to offer People things that make their lives better.
Joe Biden is not participating in that.
The Democrats and Joe Biden, the Congressional Democrats completely compromising at every turn.
We're not getting anything on the rent eviction, nothing.
They're not getting money for state.
So the reason why you're not going to get anything is because when they passed the CARES Act, that's when the Democrats had all their power.
Because everybody in Congress, all the rich people in the country, the oligarchs, wanted their $5 trillion.
And so the Democrats could have said, okay, we'll give it to you.
Well, you got to give everybody a UBI in healthcare.
And they didn't.
You know why?
Because the Democrats don't want to give everybody a UBI in healthcare.
That's why it's so easy for Trump to make a dent like this, even with a bullshit, mostly bullshit proposal like that.
It's easy for him to get left.
And this is maybe just the start.
Can you imagine if Trump says, hey, I'm going to legalize marijuana, then we're going to release everybody in prison for marijuana.
And then he said, Ed and we're going to do a UBI.
And then he said, hey, by the way, we're going to expand Medicare to include everybody during this crisis.
All he needs to do, I think, is one of those things.
And he could beat Joe Biden.
So he's starting to flirt with shit to do.
That's what this is.
Trump is starting to flirt with shit to do to get back in this race that he's been down from a guy who can't even read a statement.
And so some people are saying Biden peaked too early.
So we'll see.
Joe Biden literally can't talk.
He's demented.
I think it's funny.
And everyone said he peaked.
Well, he peaked in the polls.
Joe Biden is demented.
He has early onset dementia.
It's sad to see.
But it's also super insulting and it's angering because it's the establishment bullshitting you from top to bottom.
The Democratic Party leadership, the Joe Biden campaign, the media, the news media ubiquitously.
Okay, so there's that.
I don't know.
That's how pathetic this is that Trump can almost easily outleft Joe Biden this easily.
So we'll see.
I hope that it does happen.
I hope they get into a bidding war and who's going to...
You said you're going to veto health care for people if it passes the Congress.
They asked him that.
Yes, do you still see he said yes?
He still would still veto Medicare for all.
He's got no solutions.
He's the enemy.
He's this person we have to fight against.
He's just a different problem.
He's just a different problem, Joe Biden.
And the bigger problem is you're going to have to fight the Democrats and the Republicans to get Joe Biden to do something.
Okay, good luck with the election.
So Joe Biden's calling me again.
Wow.
Hello.
Hey, man.
This is Joe Biden calling you again.
Hello.
Yes, hello.
I know.
You don't know who he, Jack.
And I'll tell you why.
Are you ready?
Yeah, here it goes.
First, here's the thing.
And I want to be very clear on this so you'll understand.
Secondly, there's no proof of any of it.
Thirdly, you got to be on crack.
You seem pretty excited about something, Joe.
What is it?
I am.
Joe Biden just hit 3 million Instagram followers.
That's a big number, you bum fuck.
Don't you just announce, didn't you just announce Kamala Harris as your running mate, Joe?
Who told you that, you moose-knuckled tater-tosser?
It's all over the media.
Your campaign did.
Well, I knew that.
Come on.
What was your criteria for picking your running mate?
Firstly, you have to be trustworthy and meet my worldview on important issues.
Yeah, okay.
Secondly, I wanted to pick a cabinet that looks like the country.
And the last time I noticed, this country looked just like an ex-cop with a creepy laugh who put kids in jail for druancy and executed innocent people on death row.
Got it?
Okay.
And thirdly, and most importantly, considering my multiple brain surgeries, they have to be someone who can immediately take control of America's precious stockpile of delithium crystals.
Should I suddenly become incoherent?
As you know, without delithium crystals, it's impossible for our country's fleet of starships to properly cool their hypersonic warp drives.
Hypersonic warp drives?
Yeah, man.
It's a big response of Philly.
What?
You heard me.
It's a big response of Philly.
Stop the horsing around, Hop Along.
When Sally and I are elected, we're going to inherit a nation divided and a world in disarray.
Dirty clothes will be scattered everywhere.
We won't have a minute to waste.
That's why I picked her.
She's ready to lead on day one after they announced my stroke the night before.
She's ready to lead on day one after they announced my stroke the night before.
What's your platform to deal with all the country's problems, Joe?
Don't worry, Jack!
My platform is I got a plan for everything.
A plan for climate change, Joe?
40 million people facing evictions.
How about that?
I got nothing.
How about our racist criminal justice system?
What is that?
Seven illegal wars.
How about millions of hungry Americans?
Build back better!
*laughter*
He just screams, Billback.
That's kind of how that's what he does.
How about massive unemployment?
Okay, now you're talking.
Oh, my bad.
I got nothing for that either.
Then what's your platform, Joe?
If you have a problem figuring that out, then you go black fat.
And don't you forget.
One day we're going to have an electric Corvette that goes 200 miles an hour.
Vo-vo-voom!
God bless our troops.
So, I don't know if you know, but George Carlin was not a partisan.
In fact, his whole thing was he didn't participate in politics.
He made fun of it.
And he knew there was his joke was, again, I'm going to butcher it, but when something is bipartisan, that means there's an extra big screwing coming your way.
That's what he said.
So they took this George Carlin rant and they made it into a partisan commercial.
You want to hear this?
Here we go.
And we can hear it.
We got some dumbass motherfuckers floating around this country.
Dumb ass motherfuckers.
The real owners, the big, wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions.
The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice.
You don't.
You have no choice.
You have owners.
They own you.
They own everything.
They own all the important land.
They own and control the corporations.
They've long since bought and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the state houses, the city halls.
They got the judges in their back pockets, and they own all the big media companies, so they control just about all of the news and information.
Now, I don't know if you see how disgusting this is, but it is.
This is a partisan bullshit thing that they're launching against Trump.
Do you see when they talked about the media?
They only showed right-wing media as if MSNBC and CNN isn't completely corrupt.
As if the New York Times and Washington Post doesn't push for every war, doesn't lie to you on the regular, didn't push an evidence-free conspiracy theory for three years.
So I don't know if you saw this commercial, but it's pretty disgusting.
I don't want to play any more of it.
It's just horrible that they did this.
And I don't know if you know anybody who knows George Carlin, but I'm pretty sure he would be disgusted by this.
George Carlin did a whole rant about how he doesn't vote, doesn't participate, this and that, does a whole rant about bipartisan bullshit.
This is just a partisan to use.
And so let's remember, okay?
It's a big club and you ain't in it.
Let's remember it.
That's Hillary Clinton holding Trump at his wedding, giggling.
Her arm around Trump.
We're buddies.
Bill Clinton called Trump, told him to run.
They're buddies.
They're golf buddies.
They're wedding buddies.
They're buddies.
And you're a chump.
Here we go.
Archive footage shot by NBC shows Donald Trump at Mar-a-Largo with Jeffrey Epstein in 1992.
That was more than a decade before Epstein's plea deal in Florida.
There they are.
Newly surfaced video shows Trump and Epstein at a party.
Jelena's in the background.
Oh, yeah, you're right.
There she is.
There's Trump.
There they are.
There's some young ladies.
Wow.
Looks like it's more women than men at this point.
You think?
Donald Trump said in 2002, Epstein is a terrific guy.
He's a lot of fun to be with.
It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do.
And many of them are on the younger side.
Trump said that.
Here we go.
Newsweek.
Bill Clinton went to Jeffrey Epstein's island with two young girls.
Virginia Guffrey says that's from July 30th.
Bill Clinton went to Jeffrey Epstein's island with two young girls.
What in the F?
In unsealed court documents involving the dead child, sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and his alleged accomplice, Jelaine Maxwell, a woman named Virginia Guffrey, who is now publicly accused Epstein of sex trafficking, said she saw former Democratic president Bill Clinton on Empstee's Island with two young girls from New York.
And Jimmy, I think it's pronounced Guffre.
Guffray, thank you.
In questioning by lawyer Jack Scarola, Virginia Guffray was asked for any recollection of Jeffrey Epstein about former President Bill Clinton.
Yes, I do, Guffray answered.
He would laugh it off.
You know, I remember asking Jeffrey, what's Bill Clinton doing here on Epstein's Island kind of thing?
And he laughed it off and said, well, he owes me favors.
He told me a long time ago that everyone owes him favors.
They're all in each other's pockets.
Scarola then asked if she was ever present with Epstein and Clinton on the island.
Ghislaine Maxwell, Emmy, another girl who was allegedly a regular at Epstein's house.
So it was Jelaine Maxwell, Emmy, and there were two young girls that I could identify.
I never really knew them well anyway.
It was just two girls from New York, Guffray answered, and said they were all staying in Epstein's house on the island.
I'm going to think that's a typo.
The two young girls that I couldn't identify.
I never really know them, didn't know them well anyway.
It was just two girls from New York.
Epstein had multiple ties to Clinton, along with many other big-name celebrities, who was a repeated passenger on Epstein's private Boeing 727 plane, which was nicknamed the Lolita Express due to the frequent delivery of underage women to the island of Little St. James.
Gawker released the flight logbooks for Epstein's Gulf Stream, Lolita Express 727.
And Clinton is listed as having taken at least 11 flights.
11.
That's like one a month for a year when you skip Christmas.
11 flights.
In one flight, Clinton allegedly flew with a softcore porn actress listed under massages in Epstein's address book.
On all 11 flights, he rode with Maxwell and Epstein's former assistant, Sarah Kellen.
Kellen has been accused in court filings of recruiting young girls acting as a pimp on Epstein's behalf.
On multiple flights, additional women who flew with Clinton are either listed by only their first name or simply as female.
This is Bill Clinton.
This is Trump.
This is making a mockery of your idea that there's a difference.
In a statement to Newsweek on Friday, a Clinton spokesperson denied the allegation.
Boeing.
Here we go.
Exclusive Joe Biden and Democrats unveiled details of DNC convention.
Do you want to know what the details are?
What?
You're shifting gears on this story, Jimmy.
I thought we're talking about Trump and Epstein and Clinton and the Democrats being in bed with the sex trafficker and the hypocrisy of the Democrats using George Carlin to make a partisan argument.
Well, the reason why is because guess what?
The lineup will include former President Bill Clinton as a speaker at the DNC convention.
The guy hanging out on Jeffrey Epstein's plane on his island.
11 log flight logs.
He's going to be speaking at the DNC convention.
That'll show, that'll show that Trump that he's a misogynist sexist, won't It grab him by the pussy.
You have to vote for Joe Biden because he's got Bill Clinton and Jeffrey Epstein's buddy speaking for him.
So here we are.
This is what's called a banana republic.
What would you call this?
It's just complete corruption.
Failed state.
A failed state.
Just complete corruption.
Jesus.
How much do you think her jewelry is worth that she's wearing?
How about hers?
I'm going to say Bill Clinton's suit's about fucking 10 grand.
I'm going to see the jewelry.
This here is probably 50 grand.
I don't know.
What do you think this dress is worth?
Now, does Trump rent that tuxedo, you think, or is he buying it?
It's such a great candid shot.
Such a great leaders of our country.
It's neat that they get along.
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Wow, Jeb Bush is calling.
Hello.
Oh, hi, Jimmy.
And thanks for asking me how I'm doing.
I'm sorry, Jeb.
How are you doing?
Oh, like you care.
What's wrong, Jeb?
Nobody on the TV ever mentions me anymore.
Oh, fiddlesticks and road apples.
Wow.
Well, gosh, excuse my swears.
I'm sorry.
That's okay, Jeb.
But try to watch your language, all right?
Oh, gosh, darn it all the heck.
Just that I'm so angry.
Sometimes I can't control my rage.
I feel so left out.
Golly, the gum drops.
It's not fair.
What, what, what?
What's not fair, Jeb?
Before I tell you, do you want to buy some of my mom's gold coins?
I got a whole warehouse of them.
What gold coins?
The United States men made a bunch of $1 gold coins with her face on it, and I can't unload.
I mean, I was wondering if you'd like to have a few hundred for your coin collection.
That sounds very nice, Jeb, but I don't have it.
I don't have time for a coin collection.
Are you sure?
They're really keen.
Mom's wearing that three-strand pearl necklace of hers, and she'd look almost happy if her smile wasn't so menacing.
What's the occasion for this coin?
To honor those whose superior deeds and achievements have enriched U.S. history or the world.
That's what it says on the box.
You know what I say?
What?
It's a bunch of bullshit.
My mom's got her own coin, and now my dumb brother's got a book coming out full of dumb paintings.
Why can't I have a book full of my dumb paintings?
Well, why can't you?
Because I hate art.
How could you hate art?
I just don't get to deal with it.
Just a bunch of colored lines and squiggles representing someone's interpretation of reality.
Visual ideas transcending time and space.
A peek into the primordial psyche of the collective human spirit.
I mean, who gives a fuck, right?
Excuse my swears.
What is it about your brother's paintings that you dislike so much, Jeb?
Are you serious?
You killed a million people, you dip shit.
I mean, guy, he's got a dumb book coming out for 200 bucks a pop, and here I am giving talks at charter schools and eating worms.
Am I the only one who sees the truth?
Oh, yeah, the million people thing.
But don't you think it's time for Americans to unite and move on?
Last year, I even got an exhibit at the Kennedy Center.
No.
You don't see anything wrong happening here?
What do you mean?
I've been working on the same giant aluminum fourth ball for 20 years.
I can't even get Neil to look at it.
Am I below Neil on the bush ladder?
Really?
Not fair.
All right, back to your brother's paintings.
Are they landscapes?
They're portraits of immigrants.
Those are people who were forced to move here because of our foreign policy.
That's kind of harsh, isn't it?
Oh, my God.
What happened to you?
I'm fine.
I think it's nice your brother is publishing his portraits of immigrants.
I bet he put a lot of love into them.
My brother started ICE.
Remember ICE?
I'm the only sane person left in this country.
But his paintings are so childlike and appealing.
And the way he and the Obamas get along, it makes everything all right.
But he danced with Ellen.
I guess people just don't care anymore about the past.
And why should they, right?
Oh, my God, this is a nightmare.
I'm living in that Twilight Zone where everything's the opposite of what it usually is for no logical reason.
And then the host guy comes on and says, was the earth getting too hot or was it getting too cold?
We'll never know because this is a Twilight Zone.
And then mom makes me do the dishes while my brothers throw turnips in my head.
Hello?
Hello?
But he danced with Alan.
First, I want to talk about the breaking news that Joe Biden has chosen Kamala Harris as his vice president.
Now, I just want to set the stage.
Remember the kind of guy Joe Biden is.
We're the world's largest penal colony.
How did we get there?
We have 5% of the world's population.
We have 25% of the world's prisoners.
How do we get there?
Here's Joe Biden.
He's going to tell you how we got there.
Alone.
And the sad part is it that we have no more police in the streets of our major cities than we had 10 years ago.
And what the president proposes won't help much.
What he proposes is no increase over what the Congress has already approved last year.
In a nutshell, the president's plan doesn't include enough police officers to catch the violent thugs, not enough prosecutors to convict them, not enough judges to sentence them, and not enough prison cells to put them away for a long time.
That's why right now, six out of every 10 criminals who are arrested on drug charges have their cases dropped.
That's why we think the president should triple, triple the commitment that he's made tonight for police, prosecutors, and judges for our cities and our states.
So that's how we got there.
Guys like Joe Biden writing the crime build, saying stuff like that, wanting to, you know, build more prisons.
So his, what are you saying?
More prisons, more cops, more prosecutors, more prisons.
That was his, and so then Kamala Harris comes along and says this.
For people who are progressive thinking and liberal-minded, or just progressive thinking in terms of just fix it, fix it, is that we all have these posters in our closet that is attached to a stick that we sometimes will cart out when we're talking about criminal justice policy and those statistics that you first heard when we opened it up, incarceration.
And we run around with these signs, build more schools, less jails.
Build more schools, less jails.
And we walk around everywhere.
Build more schools.
We protest, build more schools, less jails.
Put money into education, not prisons.
There's a fundamental problem with that approach, in my opinion.
And it's this.
I agree with that conceptually.
But you have not addressed the reason I have three padlocks on my front door.
So part of the discussion about reform of criminal justice policy has to be an acknowledgement that crime does occur.
And especially when it is violent crime and serious crime, there should be a broad consensus that there should be serious and severe and swift consequence to crime.
I was speaking before the San Francisco Democratic.
So he got Kamala Harris to fulfill his vision for America.
And Kamala Harris went on to do that.
Let's just hear if she has a little more to say.
The annual meeting.
And it was a Saturday.
I'd done a bunch of events.
So I got there.
I was a little tired.
And I got to the podium and I looked out at the San Francisco Democratic Party.
And I just stood at this podium.
I kind of leaned over.
I was just exhausted.
I'm looking at, you know, the glorious party that it is, right?
So it's like the black guy with the blonde hair, the white guy with the dreadlocks, you know, the lady there with the purple hair and all the buttons, right?
And I just looked at this fabulous motley crew and I said, okay.
So who of us as Democrats, raise your hand, is saying people shouldn't have to go to jail.
And you could see these hands just start to run up.
I said, hold on.
One human being kills another human being.
A woman is raped.
A child is molested.
Is that what we're saying?
So the knee-jerk response was to suggest we don't want law enforcement and public safety.
But that's not what we mean.
So there you go.
There's Kamala Harris.
Just so you case, I have a great honor to announce that I've picked Kamala Harris, a fearless fighter for the little guy and one of the country's finest public servants as my running mate.
Now, I just want to tell you one more.
I would not be standing here were it not for the education I received.
And I know many of us will say the same thing.
And I believe a child going without an education is tantamount to a crime.
So I decided I was going to start prosecuting parents for truancy.
Well, this was a little controversial in San Francisco.
Stick it up for the little guy.
That's how you stick up for the little guy.
You prosecute people who have been shit on by the system as hard as anybody has gotten shit on.
People who have been abused by the system, people who don't have a chance.
That's who she's going after.
She's not going after middle class or rich people.
She's going after the poorest of the poor.
And she's threatening them with jail.
You want to hear it?
You think I'm kidding?
And frankly, my staff went bananas.
They were very concerned because we didn't know at the time whether I was going to have an opponent in my reelection race.
But I said, look, I'm done.
This is a serious issue, and I've got a little political capital, and I'm going to spend some of it.
And this is what we did.
The place where she decided to spend her political capital was to throw parents of poor children who are truant in jail.
That's where she decided to spend her political capital.
Not prosecuting bankers or Steve Mnuchin, which she inexplicably did not, which we're going to get to also.
But she decided to use all her political...
Let's use it.
Let's terrorize poor people.
Here we go.
We recognized that in that initiative, as a prosecutor and law enforcement, I have a huge stick.
The school district has got to carry it.
Let's work in tandem around our collective objective and goal, which is to get those kids in school.
So to that end, on my letterhead, now let me tell you something about my letterhead.
When you're the DA of a major city in this country, usually the job comes with a badge.
And there is often an artistic rendering of said badge on your stationery.
So I sent a letter out on my letterhead to every parent in the school district outlining the connection that was statistically proven between elementary school truancy, high school dropouts, who will become a victim of crime, and who will become a perpetrator of crime.
We sent it out to everyone.
A friend of mine actually called me and he said, Kamala, my wife got the letter.
She freaked out.
She brought all the kids into the living room, held up the letter, said, if you don't go to school, Kamala's going to put you and me in jail.
That's hilarious.
She's scaring the shit out of people with jail for truancy.
So let's bring in, there's wait, we're going to talk a lot more.
Let's bring in Max Blumenthal.
I just, so there you go.
So it's a natural pick.
First of all, it makes no sense to me this pick because she doesn't help him electorally.
She's a senator from California, which he's already going to win.
She got no votes in the primary.
No one fucking likes her.
And she's a cop in a time of an anti-cop sentiment in this country.
It doesn't make any sense.
So of course Joe Biden picked her.
It was a nice fuck you to everybody who's progressive in the country.
That's why they did it.
And Bernie's going right along with it.
You don't even have to ask.
You don't even have to ask that cuck.
He's such a cuck.
So I'll just bring in Max Blumenthal.
Max, any reaction to the pick by Joe Biden of Kamala Harris?
Well, as usual, my reaction's the same as yours.
And I had forgotten about some of those statements, especially about truancy, where she's basically saying, you know, if you don't go to jail for truancy, if I don't lock you in a juvy cell, then you're going to the school to prison pipeline.
It's a really wonderful choice.
You don't actually hear her addressing the underlying causes of this hideous scenario that she's addressing with this sadistic carceral solution.
And I mean, whether The Republicans in the Trump campaign want to use those clips to depress Democratic turnout, or we just simply remember them because that's her real record.
It not only brings nothing to the table, it actually wastes what was an opportunity for one of the key authors of the new Jim Crow, Joe Biden, to kind of address his terrible past.
But of course, he wasn't going to pick someone like Barbara Lee, who was the only person who is right about this still ongoing war in Afghanistan.
He wasn't going to pick someone even like Karen Bass, who was too moderately progressive for him because she once said a warm word about Fidel Castro, whose program in Cuba has achieved more in terms of health care and education than the entire Democratic Party has for its constituents in the last 50 years.
So you can't have that.
And the real reason that you can't have figures like them is they're simply too independent.
They want someone they can easily control, who's going to do what they want.
And so here we're stuck with Kamala Harris, the author of the new Jim Crow, has selected the former attorney general who helped implement it.
The implementer.
Going after not just truants, and she's referring to urban brown and black youth, but also marijuana users.
Yes.
Under her watch, over 1,900 people were prosecuted for marijuana violations.
And Tulsi Gabbard brought this up in the debate, which effectively did away with Kamala Harris.
That was the end of her.
She had no way to come back from Tulsi Gabbard factually pointing out that Attorney General Harris was throwing people in jail for smoking weed.
But there's so much more to this.
First of all, Kamala Harris went on the breakfast club in, I think, February 2019 and bragged and said, Yeah, I inhaled.
I inhaled.
I'm from Jamaica, so I inhaled.
And I want to read this statement from her father, Donald Harris, who was actually a Marxist, sort of like Pete Buttajudge's dad.
So, you know, if you're a Marxist out there, you should really worry about yourself.
Kids turn out to be neoliberal assholes.
Yeah, it's like worse than Alex Pikachu.
Yes.
Alex Piketon looked like Jimmy Stewart compared to these guys.
Yeah, I mean, he at least didn't pretend to be some like woke liberal character.
But anyway, Donald Harris, the father of Kamala Harris, said this about his daughter.
My dear departed grandmothers, as well as my deceased parents, must be turning in their grave right now to see their family's name, reputation, and proud Jamaican identity being connected in any way, jokingly or not, with the fraudulent stereotype of a pot-smoking joy seeker and in the pursuit of identity politics.
So she not only got that condemnation from her father, but she revealed the double standards and just sheer entitlement of bragging about smoking weed on the presidential trail to appeal to like millennials, while you have this hideous record of throwing millennials in jail for smoking weed.
And that's what she did.
And so in her response to Tulsi Gabbard, she said, well, what about she pivots to the neocon right because she can't address it and further reveals her true self.
But she had no response.
She wound up winning less delegates than Tulsi Gabbard, the target of one of the biggest disinformation campaigns by the DNC in recent history, did.
Tulsi Gabbard, correct me if I'm wrong, Tulsi Gabbard won more delegates in the Democratic primary than the vice presidential nominee.
You know what?
I'll have to check that.
It sounds correct.
I don't have to check that.
I don't think Kamala Harris won one delegate.
I don't think she did, but let me play that.
You bring that up.
I have it loaded in the program.
So let's go ahead and play it.
It's your response.
I want to bring the conversation back to the broken criminal justice system that is disproportionately, negatively impacting black and brown people all across this country today.
Now, Senator Harris says she's proud of her record as a prosecutor and that she'll be a prosecutor president, but I'm deeply concerned about this record.
There are too many examples to cite, but she put over 1,500 people in jail for marijuana violations and then laughed about it when she was asked if she ever smoked marijuana.
She blocked evidence.
She blocked evidence that would have freed an innocent man from death row until the courts forced her to do so.
She kept people in prison beyond their sentences to use them as cheap labor for the state of California.
And she fought to keep cash bail system in place.
That impacts poor people in the worst kind of way.
Thank you, Congresswoman.
Senator Harris, your response.
That's a pretty great takedown.
That was pretty good.
And then what I liked was that Anderson Cooper made her watch that again afterwards and watch her response.
Some of the toughest critique or attacks at you came from Tulsi Gabbard.
Just for our viewers who haven't seen it, I just want to play some of that and have a response.
So what I love is that Anderson Cooper is making her watch this.
I'm concerned about this record.
There are too many examples to cite.
She put over 1,500 people in jail for marijuana violations and then laughed about it when she was asked if she ever smoked marijuana.
She blocked evidence.
She blocked evidence that would have freed an innocent man from death row until the courts forced her to do so.
She kept people in prison beyond their sentences to use them as cheap labor for the state of California.
And she fought to keep cash jail system in place.
That impacts poor people in the worst kind of way.
That is so mean of Anderson Cooper to do that.
It's almost like some kind of BDSM kind of a thing.
We're going to humiliate you.
Are you wet yet?
Watch this.
We're going to bring her on.
Here we go.
Thank you, Congresswoman.
Senator Harris, your response.
As the elected Attorney General of California, I did the work of significantly reforming the criminal justice system of the state of 40 million people, which became a national model for the work that needs to be done.
And I am proud of that work.
And I am proud of making the decision to not just give fancy speeches or be in a legislative body and give speeches.
Give fancy speeches.
That's one of my all-time favorite things that ever happened.
Give fancy speeches.
That's all she does is give fancy speeches.
That's all Kamala Harris does.
That's all she does.
You remember her campaign rollout?
It was like in downtown Oakland, they had thousands of people there for a fancy speech.
It was like she was being inaugurated at this Super Bowl ceremony.
Yes.
And then she winds up winning zero delegates.
And watch, and here she goes, Max, doing exactly what you said she was going to do.
She had nothing.
She had nowhere to go, so she goes here.
I mean, listen, this is going to sound immodest, but I'm obviously a top-tier candidate.
And so I did expect that I would be on the stage and take hits tonight because there are a lot of people that are trying to make the stage for the next debate.
Yeah, for a lot of them, it's Stuart Doc.
Well, yeah, and especially when people are at 0, 1%, or whatever she might be at.
And so I did expect that I might take hits tonight.
But, you know, listen, I think that this coming from someone who has been an apologist for an individual, Assad, who has murdered the people of his country like cockroaches.
I guess he uses a raid can.
What?
Like cockroaches.
Like us, we kill them like Buffalo.
I don't know.
How do we kill people?
We don't kill them like cockroaches.
We kill them like nice, like Christians.
Do we do it like we have a Christian bomb that hugs them to death?
How do we kill them?
Go ahead.
I guess more like Buffalo, which we also slaughtered American settlers in order to deprive them of a source of food.
But she's referring to chemical attacks, which means, you know, she was on the intelligence committee.
She was a cipher for the intelligence apparatus.
She doesn't question them at all.
And I mean, I don't want to get away from the crime issue too much, but just on that point, this is someone who, on the same appearance on the breakfast club, when she was bragging about smoking weed after locking up weed smokers, she claimed that Colin Kaepernick's take-a-knee protests were the result of Russian active measures, that Russian propaganda was hyping this up and it wasn't really a real thing.
And that this was an attack on our democracy and that Russia is trying to divide us along racial lines, that there really weren't racial problems in the U.S. I mean, she couldn't even speak to a personal experience about that.
It was all just a confabulation, a hologram projected from gamma rays emanating out of the brain of Vladimir Putin and the FSB.
So it just shows, it just speaks to why she was selected as VP because she's going to fully embrace the agenda of the national security state, the deep state, whatever you want to call it.
But back to one point Tulsi Gabbard made, Tulsi referred to Kamala Harris seeking to deny minimum custody inmates, people who had committed minor crimes early release or parole.
And Kamala Harris's lawyers, when she was attorney general, did so on the grounds that doing this, releasing these people who had committed petty crimes, would deny California an important labor pool.
That was their exact argument, an important labor pool.
So basically, slave labor.
Kamala Harris was effectively enforcing a system of, or defending a system of semi-slavery where inmates would go out for a dollar an hour and fight wildfires across California.
That's just beyond disgusting.
And here's her reward for it.
And here's her reward.
Max, it's worse than that.
She was ordered.
Her office was ordered to release those prisoners, right?
So they'd already come in front of a judge.
They'd already made this case.
And the judge ordered them to release the prisoners.
They didn't do it.
And then they make this argument that it would upset the prison labor force in California.
And then when that makes the front page of the LA Times, Kamala Harris says, I didn't know that was our policy.
I'm shocked there's gambling happening here.
She pretended she didn't know anything about the policy, that it was, that was just the lawyers working for her were arguing that in court.
That really wasn't how she felt.
Well, I think the reality of all those videos betray your bullshit, Kamala.
She never prosecuted Steve Mnuchin, who is now the Secretary of the Treasury.
Now, Steve Mnuchin was the head of one West Bank, and they're committing lots of crimes, a lot of crimes.
How many, Jimmy?
Well, the lawyers from Kamala Harris's office investigated, said they found a thousand instances of criminality.
And if they looked a little harder, they would probably find a thousand more.
Kamala Harris never prosecuted Steve Mnuchin, and she's never explained why she didn't do that.
Ever.
She did get a campaign donation.
The only Democrat that Steve Mnuchin donated to was Kamala Harris.
Of course, that's who Joe Biden picked.
Do you see we're being run by the most corrupt criminals that you could possibly imagine?
Do you know that Joe Biden is not less corrupt than Donald Trump?
Do you know that?
I don't think you know that.
Well, the difference between Biden and Trump on that count is all Biden got was like a union windbreaker.
He didn't like even make that much money.
You know, he did whatever the credit card industry wanted, but he doesn't have a whole lot to show for it.
He got nothing.
His kid got a job, but he didn't get it.
Yeah, it's like they sell out for nothing.
Like what Bernie's doing right now.
Bernie, what are you getting out of this?
Fucking nothing.
Let me read his tweet and I'll come to you.
He says, congratulations to Kamala Harris, who will make history as our next vice president.
She understands what it takes to stand up for working people, fight for health care for all, and take down the most corrupt administration in history.
Let's get to working with.
Jimmy, read the tweet right underneath it.
It says, hashtag from Mr. Feel, hashtag stay home November.
This is why the progressive movement must move past Bernie.
He has no solidarity with us.
Well, I mean, and it's a false statement.
She doesn't support health care for all.
She signed on with Bernie's Medicare for All so she could be next to him in a press conference.
And then when she was asked about it, she said, no, no, no, I wouldn't do anything to affect private insurance when Don Lemon asked her on stage.
So she was just a complete fraud about that.
But I was going to say, you know, if everyone in the Democratic Party, the Democratic Party elites want to blame Ralph Nader for getting George W. Bush elected, shouldn't they love Ralph Nader?
Because George W. Bush just got a standing ovation from Democrats at John Lewis's funeral.
So shouldn't they be happy that George W. Bush got elected?
They love him.
They love the fact, apparently, that he turned the large parts of the Middle East into smoldering ruin.
They love the fact that he waged a war on science and prevented stem cell research from advancing.
They love the fact that he flew over New Orleans in a 747 when the city was underwater and did nothing.
They love the fact that he gave one of the largest tax cuts to the rich and wasted the social security surplus.
They love the fact that he gave us Dick Cheney and the neocons and we're still fighting this war in Afghanistan.
If they love that so much and it's all Ralph Nader's fault, shouldn't they thank Ralph Nader?
I always thank him for the torture program.
Oh, yeah, I love the torture program.
You know, when they pulpified the legs of Afghan taxi drivers, and then the only people who went to jail were the like low-level grunts who did it.
Actually, the only person who went to jail for the CIA torture program under Bush was John Kiriaki because he blew the whistle on it.
That's how we do it in America, baby.
You know that.
The criminals don't go to jail.
It's the people who tell us.
So it's my theory that the United States, we're one large nation.
We're adult children of alcoholics.
That's our personality.
And as a country, we don't get angry at the people who are hurting us and the criminals who are stealing from us and having our kids be killed and killing other people while they steal from us and line their pockets.
We don't get angry at them.
We don't get angry at Dick Cheney or George Bush or Barack Obama or Joe Biden or Bill Clinton.
Who do we get angry at?
We get angry at the people who tell us that they're committing war crimes.
We don't get mad at the people who are doing war crimes.
We get angry at the people who tell us that is the classic symptom of adult children of alcoholics.
And that's what we are as a nation.
And that's why we're a failed state right now.
Like people don't understand.
The United States is a failed state.
What do you call a country where 80% of the workers live paycheck to paycheck?
80 million people have underinsured or no healthcare.
45,000 people a year die without because they don't have health care.
Hundreds of thousands go bankrupt just because they get sick.
This is a failed fucking state.
And that's why, you know, you see Bernie or anybody, they're cheering electoral politics.
It's so ridiculous.
It's so, oh, look, do you see Corey Bush got it?
Oh my God, look, we got another progressive who's going to completely capitulate to Nancy Pelosi and the fucking Democratic machine, just like AOC, every single member of the squad, and Bernie Sanders, who voted for the biggest, largest upward transfer of wealth in the history of the human race.
They did that right in your fucking face, and then they lied to you about it.
Bernie lied to you.
AOC lied how she voted against it.
Everybody that they lied to you about it.
They told you there was good stuff in the CARES Act when we all know there isn't.
And now you have nothing.
And now you have to rely on Trump to send you 400 bucks.
Now you got to rely on Trump.
Please, God, send us 400 bucks until Christmas.
So let me, let's see, let's look at what else I have.
I have some stuff prepared here.
By the way, don't buy that she was against the death penalty.
Don't buy that bullshit.
Kamala Harris touts her opposition to the death penalty.
Her track record's more complicated.
And then here she is with Steve Mnuchin.
She's never answered for that.
I think we've covered this pretty good.
Oh, here we go.
How Kamala Harris fought to keep nonviolent prisoners locked up.
In late 2014, lawyers from Kamala Harris's office claimed that nonviolent offenders needed to stay incarcerated lest they lose bodies for fire camps in the wildfire plague state.
That's what we were just talking about.
California submitted a proposal for relocating inmates to fire camps to fight wildfires and preventing out-of-state prisoners from being returned.
Harris has been criticized on multiple occasions for fighting to keep people, including innocent ones, in prison.
In the case of Daniel Larson, an ex-felon sentenced to 27 years to life under California's three strikes law, Kamala Harris argued that even if Danny was innocent, his conviction should not be reversed because he waited too long to file his petition, according to the California Innocence Project, which took Larson's case.
So there you go.
That's who she is.
That's who she's always been.
That's who Joe Biden is.
It makes perfect sense if you look at it from that end.
But if you look at it from an electoral politics, it's just like Hillary Clinton picking Tim Kaine.
It does absolutely nothing to get a vote.
Nothing.
Do you think it does?
Go ahead.
You know, Hillary would have wanted to win Virginia.
So arguably Kane did more.
Although, like, I don't know about his harmonica skills.
He's kind of just, he's just such a pathetic.
She picked somebody to his to her right.
Tim Kaine was an anti, wasn't he anti-abortion, anti-union, anti-worker?
She picked up, she picked new fucking Gingrich.
Yeah, he was, he won election in Virginia before the state really started swinging left, before there was this big shift, which was essentially a demographic shift.
And so he has a lot of right-wing positions, including on abortion, which weren't a problem because she picked him.
Planned Parenthood didn't really say anything about that.
I don't remember.
No.
But whatever.
That's in the past.
This is now.
And, you know, it was so depressing from the beginning after Biden basically slept his way to the nomination that he announced that he was going to pick not a woman for vice president.
That was such a lie that he said he was going to pick a woman as vice president.
He was going to pick a woman who was a prosecutor because who were his top three choices?
It was Kamala, Gretchen Witmer, and Amy Klobuchar.
And, you know, until Klobuchar, you know, faced the fact that she had presided over this complete catastrophe in Minneapolis, which blew up with the murder of George Floyd.
But it was like, you can't, she's not actually looking at the entire field of women and judging them based on merit.
It's just who is going to be the person that will represent the biggest insult to anyone who remotely supported Bernie Sanders.
And who will push Bernie Sanders in the position of endorsing that person to demoralize whatever movement there was to put pressure on the Democratic Party?
And in the middle of a pandemic, with the unemployment rate pushing above 15%, with people about to be thrown out of their houses, with a proposal to pay Americans just a measly $2,000 a month languishing in the Senate because the Democrats won't do anything with that proposal.
This is the person we get.
And it's just one insult after another to the point where I don't want to spread cynicism, but I don't know what else to say about this.
I mean, Joe Biden already on his own is just such a, it's just such an insult.
This is someone who basically won South Carolina because Jim Clyburn, who's like this, you know, local machine politician and a tool of big pharma, shepherded people to the polls to vote for him.
And that was it.
So here we are.
And, you know, we haven't even talked about the insults that have been taking place, the kind of anti-democratic practices.
And I'm sure you've talked about this on other episodes within the DNC, where the delegates, many of whom are corporate lobbyists, who approve the campaign platform plan, are taking the popular will of the Democratic Party constituents and rejecting it,
especially on issues like Israel-Palestine, where Biden personally intervened in the platform debate to prevent the word occupation from being mentioned.
And this also speaks to who Kamala Harris is.
Kamala Harris is someone who said that the reason she loves Israel so much and is so inspired by it is it reminds her of Martin Luther King's march in Selma across the Edmund Pettus Bridge.
She actually said that, I think, at AIPAC.
She's someone who in 2017 went and had a personal meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu, the world's leading segregationist, the face of apartheid, and has been feeding at the trough of the Israel lobby's funding mechanism along with big tech in California.
So this is how she got to where she is.
And this is why, and this is the system that we're stuck with.
And, you know, when you see young people confronting Chicago police in downtown and people just dismiss that, oh, just a bunch of looters.
Or you see what's happening in Portland.
This is just a generation that's been betrayed by people like Kamala Harris.
That's really what we're left with as the resistance.
And it's not a pretty picture.
Well, what I heard is that he was thinking of picking Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, but They didn't like the bumper sticker, you know, Biden bottoms.
Maybe he does.
Maybe he does bottom, you know, which maybe he tops from the bottom.
Who knows?
Anyway.
Well, Bernie's the bottom in this situation.
No shit.
And by the way, there is no bottom to this.
There is no bottom.
The bar is low.
The bar keeps going lower and lower and fucking lower.
So here is at the debates.
Remember this?
Believe.
And it's personal.
And I was actually very, it was hurtful to hear you talk about the reputations of two United States senators who built their reputations and career on the segregation of race in this country.
And it was not only that, but you also worked with them to oppose busing.
And, you know, there was a little girl in California who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools.
And she was bussed to school every day.
And that little girl was me.
So I will tell you that on this subject.
Why are you laughing, Max?
Max, why are you laughing?
I'd forgotten all these performances, but I remember she had had t-shirts ready before the debate to sell that girl was me.
Oh, no.
Yes.
No.
Yes.
Oh, my God.
She's got to give, talk about your fancy speeches.
You're a cynical exploitation of identity that you're like going to sell t-shirts off.
That girl was me.
That girl was.
I mean, imagine if you're wearing that shirt now.
Like, okay, it was you doing what?
Like, what does that mean?
Here's a little bit more.
Do you agree today?
Do you agree today that you were wrong to oppose busing in America?
Do you agree?
I did not oppose busing in America.
What I opposed is busing ordered by the Department of Education.
That's what I opposed.
Well, it was not a failure of.
Okay, there you go.
That was her big takedown.
By the way, Joe Biden became the Democrats' anti-busing crusader with a school desegregation lawsuit roiling Delaware in the 1970s.
Mr. Biden led an effort in the Senate to end court-ordered busing.
Yeah, corn pop ain't going to an integrated school under Biden.
Right.
Right.
I mean, he, you know, he was a backlash right-wing Democrat when he was coming up in Delaware politics.
And there were articles about him in local Delaware media about how, you know, in Wilmington media, about how he wasn't your ordinary liberal Democrat.
You know, he was breaking from the party's McGovernite base.
And that's, that's who he was throughout much of his career.
I don't know if you have the clip up, but it's my favorite Biden clip where I think he's wearing suspenders.
He's seated in the Senate Judiciary Committee, I think, and he's demanding that raves be illegalized.
And he's calling for prosecuting rave promoters, bulldozing raves under the Crack House Act.
And then he said, I don't care if you're guilty of anything.
Find a justification.
Fine, just find one.
Like fabricate charges against them to ban raves.
And so I'm guessing his favorite movie is Footloose.
It really, it was like the preacher in Footloose, but it should be remixed with some trans music.
I mean, it's just such a classic Biden performance.
So here it is.
Let me hold it up to the camera maybe.
There is a little girl in California who was bused to school.
That little girl was me.
Oh, my God.
All her staged attacks and important performances during the debates, they were all designed to get her in the spotlight without challenging any of the establishment status quo priorities of the Democratic Party.
So her other attack, I think – I don't know who she directed it against, but it was, you know, do you support removing Donald Trump from Twitter?
Yes.
Like, wow, that really is going to advance the hopes and dreams of Americans who are working three jobs.
So I got it.
I'm selling a t-shirt now, Max.
I don't know if you know this, but it's going to be up on the website.
And it says, there was a little girl in California who put thousands of marijuana users in prison while letting Steve Mnuchin walk free after defrauding thousands out of their homes.
That little girl was me.
Yeah.
She presided again over 1,900-plus prosecutions.
And her excuse is, oh, well, most of them didn't go to jail, but why didn't she provide instructions to the local prosecutors not to prosecute or do what her successor did?
As soon as Kamala Harris was gone, they were able to expunge all of the convictions and just let everybody live their lives.
They had to wait for Kamala Harris to be gone.
They had to wait for her.
And we had to wait for her to get out of office so we could have reform.
You know, if the Democrats were smart, they would take up the cause of marijuana.
Everybody's smoking it.
It's much better for you than alcohol.
Dana Rorabacher, fellow former Republican congressman, is going into business, selling it.
So is John Boehner?
Yeah, it's a bipartisan issue.
It's a real winner.
You know, it'll help you in states like Arizona, where they can't quite get it legalized, but everyone is smoking it.
It's a way to win people, to get people engaged who don't normally vote, but they will not touch it.
And again, at the DNC plank, the DNC convention committee, they refused to call for it to be decriminalized, which I think 70% of Democratic voters support.
So, I mean, we're just looking at the most undemocratic Democratic Party I can remember.
Well, 90% of the Democratic Party wants single-payer health care, and they vowed that it's not in the platform.
And Joe Biden has vowed to veto it.
If it passes, who are they representing?
Well, we know they're representing their corporate interests.
But it's like they can't even pretend to represent people anymore.
And still, Bernie and every other jagoff pretend progressive is yelling that you got to still fucking vote for them.
Even as the Democratic Party continues to shit down their mouth, they keep telling with the shit coming out of their mouth, fucking vote blue.
They're still doing it.
You know, one of the raps on John McCain picking Sarah Palin, besides the fact that like 95% of her brain was bong water, was the fact that he was very old and physically worn down, and she would potentially be the next president, which is frightening.
Right.
Now you have a scenario where Kamala Harris could be the next president.
That's right.
Very easily.
You know, the campaign, as I said, it's like weekended Bidens.
And he's just kind of like being wheeled around on a gurney to the White House now behind him.
And so now all these people, all my Hollywood blue check friends are going to be applauding this.
And I even saw them quoting Hillary Clinton today already and acting like, instead of this is something we're going to have to fight against.
Do you know after the election, you're going to have to fight against them to get any fucking thing done?
But they don't care because they're rich now.
All my blue check Rollywood friends are super rich and they don't fucking, they don't know who they didn't get kicked out of their house by Steve Mnuchin and she didn't prosecute them.
They didn't get thrown in jail for weed.
And if they got arrested, they had a great lawyer get off.
Nothing's wrong.
They have no problems that they need Joe Biden and Kamala Harris to solve.
They have no problems.
They got their health care.
They got their medicine.
They got their education.
They got their kids' education.
They got fucking everything.
And all they could do is tell you to vote.
And presumably they didn't get molested by Catholic priests.
She refused to prosecute, also.
That's right.
But as Biden said, nothing will fundamentally change when I'm elected.
Nothing will fundamentally change.
So that's, you know, I don't know what kind of 180 he's going to do on that right now with this pandemic, just lifting the mask on neoliberal capitalism and ripping a hole through the economy.
But it's going to be fairly interesting.
So far, he hasn't had to say anything.
He hasn't had to campaign because, as Katha Pollitt at the nation said, if he boiled babies in public, she would still vote for him.
Yeah.
I know.
I know.
That's wonderful.
It's like, you know, you can do whatever you want as long as you're not Trump and just abuse us all you want and betray us all you want.
And so now we have Kamala Harrison.
I mean, whatever.
The VP pick, they played it up and waited as long as possible and fueled speculation in order to keep Biden in the spotlight without him actually having to say or do anything.
That's right.
And now we have the VP pick.
I'm more concerned about the other cabinet picks, specifically on foreign policy, because if Susan Rice isn't the VP, VP pick, and I don't know why she ever was considered, she is almost certain to be the nominee for Secretary of State.
And this is someone who was stood apart after Hillary was left, after Hillary left the State Department.
She was really the leading warmonger in the Obama administration.
I was watching a talk she gave last year about her book.
I forget had some phony title, like Things Worth Fighting For.
And she was boasting on stage at Georgetown University about how she was the lone voice in the Obama administration calling for bombing Syria in 2013.
And she later realized she was wrong, but then she said Trump was right for bombing in 2017 and 2018.
In my book, The Management of Savagery, I actually wrote about her a little bit.
I'll just read you.
It's a quick paragraph.
Basically, you know, so they're preparing the case to go into Libya to bomb Libya and take out Gaddafi.
It's 2011.
Obama is saying Gaddafi threatens a bloodbath that could destabilize an entire region.
And he said that he's refusing to wait for the images of slaughter and mass graves before taking action.
So they're not saying he's slaughtering anyone.
They're just like, he's going to maybe, so we have to slaughter them.
So here comes Susan Rice.
Susan Rice took the humanitarian hysteria to new heights, claiming without a shred of evidence that Gaddafi was handing out supplies of Viagra to his troops to encourage mass rape.
The rizzible allegation, first broadcast by the Qatari run Al Jazeera, was soon picked up by the BBC and Associated Press.
Luis Moreno Ocampo, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, declared excitedly there's some information with Viagra.
So it's like a machete.
It's new.
Viagra is a tool of massive rape.
It was completely fake.
And Susan Rice deployed this fake claim in order to stir up this regime change operation in Libya, where a civil war is still raging today.
It's become a proxy war with actors from across the region ripping the country to shreds.
The country's been turned into a failed state.
It went from being one of the most, if not the most prosperous state with the highest quality of life in Africa to the least prosperous.
And she helped return slavery to the African continent.
So that's a legacy that isn't even being discussed.
Everyone's saying, oh, well, Susan Rice had this role in Benghazi.
That's what the Republicans say.
Benghazi was this phony partisan distraction for the complete destruction of an entire country and the destabilization of an entire region in Africa.
But those people don't matter.
The only people who matter were the security guards at Benghazi.
And it really speaks to how Susan Rice has survived this long and why she is where she is.
She'll be Secretary of State.
Defense Secretary will be Michelle Flournoy, allegedly.
She's basically like this Beltway blob creature who has cooled her heels at a think tank called the Center for New American Security, which is funded by the arms industry and the State Department.
Her previous director was Victoria Newland, who oversaw the regime change operation in Ukraine.
And, you know, Biden's NSC is National Security Council director would be Anthony Blinken, Tony Blinken, who is another real Democratic war hawk who supported every regime change operation going back to Yugoslavia.
These people still think that they can rule the world by force.
These chicken hawks still think that they can cook up some humanitarian interventionist scenario and then send in the Air Force.
And that's particularly dangerous.
Whereas Kamala Harris is just there as a sort of cipher for their interests as someone who really isn't independent or capable of carving out her own space.
That's precisely why she's there.
All right.
So I just got, let me see what this is.
Someone just texted me.
This is Joe Biden.
I'm going to guess it's going to be funny because he hates electronic music.
Let's see.
Oh, it says the rave thing.
Yeah, they're passing new ordinances relating to stiff criminal penalties for anyone who held a rave.
The promoter, the guy who owned the building.
I would put the son of a gun in jail.
There's no doubt about where these raves are.
In the middle of the desert.
Arrest the promoter.
Find a rationale.
Keeping an unsafe example.
I'm the guy who authored the crackhouse legislation.
We can use the crackhouse legislation to tear down these buildings.
Wow.
Find a rationale.
We've got to stop kids from having parties.
Wow.
Find a rationale.
It's like there may not be any criminal violations, so plant evidence.
Yeah, find a rationale.
Twist the law.
Wow.
Wow.
That's kind of amazing.
That's kind of amazing.
Over raves, over parties.
The other thing is he didn't really stutter there.
He's really speaking very well.
Oh, yeah.
Now, now he can't even read a, he can't even read a statement.
Literally, he was trying to read a statement the other day and he fucked up.
He had to stop and he tried to, and he tried to ad lib, but it fucked up even worse.
I mean, I love Trump, you know, all the little jokes like Trump saying, yo, Semite and Thailand.
But with Trump, you get like funny tweets of calling like James Comey and Clapper dirty cops.
But Biden said, you know, my Twitter won't be the problem.
I'm like, that's probably the only good thing about Trump.
And we're going to lose that.
I know.
Right?
Yeah.
I'm not supporting Trump.
I'd prefer that Trump would leave office.
I'd prefer that he not be in office just so this hysteria dies down.
and we can get back to actually talking about issues instead of evidence-free conspiracy theories that red bait the president of the United States and normalize McCarthyism on the left.
You know, that's one thing I'm hoping will die down, but I think we'll be left with China hysteria.
Yes.
And it will be advanced at the highest levels.
And Biden is trying to campaign to Trump's right on China.
Trump is doing everything he can to turn up the heat on China and whip up complete hysteria among the public.
So it's that, I mean, that's what we're going to be left with.
Hey, Chuck Schubert's out of the line.
I hope he's got some good news about the new stimulus bill.
Hello.
Oh, mercy me.
I am beside myself.
I just do not get this guy.
What happened, Chuck?
He refuses to negotiate this man, this president.
He's so hard to work with.
Have you noticed that, or is it just me?
Because I think he's hard to work with, if I may be frank.
I heard that, yeah.
Things simply aren't done this way.
Well, what are you guys going to do about it?
I'm going to put my foot down.
That's what.
Or take a two-week vacation.
No, I will put my foot down for darn sakes.
Yes, I hereby call on all the top Republicans to come to the table and make a deal mostly favoring their interests.
There, I said it.
And now I'm emotionally drained.
Spence, disappointing to say the least.
The American people need real relief during this most unpleasant, deadly pandemic.
Free health care would do that, Chuck.
Oh, out of the question.
Free health care is the last thing people need when they're dying.
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