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Get ready for an outstanding entertainment program.
The Jimmy Dore Show.
Hello, this is Jimmy.
Who's this?
This is Senator Bernie Sanders.
Oh, wow.
Senator, this time you're calling me.
Yeah, well, what can I say?
I'm a glutton for punishment.
Bernie.
You feral monkey.
I can tell you you're not in a good mood.
When am I ever in a good mood, Jimmy?
This is like talking to sticks.
What's got you so down, Bernie?
What's got me down?
Jimmy, I'm getting frozen out over here.
Frozen out.
Frozen out.
Frozen out of what, Bernie?
The Biden administration.
At this point, it doesn't look like he's going to appoint any true progressives to his cabinet.
With all due respect, Senator, do you really find this shocking?
Look, Joe Biden is a good friend of mine.
But his capacity to fuck everything the fuck up.
Yes, it does continue to astound me.
Yes, it does.
I'm afraid that I cannot say the same thing, Bernie.
Look, I was thinking something.
I mean, something.
I mean, maybe Secretary of Labor was a bridge too far, but I'd even take some health and human services scraps.
Hell, head of a vague task force or some shit.
Or a czar.
Are you kidding?
I'd kill to be a czar.
Student debt czar.
Affordable health care czar.
Just a czar to keep the other czars in line.
A czar czar.
Put me in, coach.
I'm ready to czar it up.
I think all this talk of pushing Biden left has been foolish.
Is it not crystal clear that he does not want to be pushed left?
Look, Joe Biden is a friend of mine.
What?
Yeah.
Ha ha ha ha.
His brain is like one of those flimsy, flappy contraptions that would crash into a hill before the Wright brothers perfected the first airplane.
If you try to get in there and mess with any of his preconceived notions of any kind, his entire psyche would collapse like a building in a Busta Keaton movie.
So why this desire on your part to be part of his administration then?
Look, Jimmy.
Personally, I see his fragile mental acuity as an opportunity.
People are going to be doing all sorts of things in there without him even knowing about it.
And I want in.
I want a piece of this hot, off-the-books executive action.
Think of all the great things we could achieve for the American working class with a completely senile president.
I see.
Quite frankly, I am giving serious thought to just showing up.
Just showing up.
What do you mean, just showing up?
Just showing up to the White House, telling everybody I'm here and ready to get to work.
People won't remember what job I have or when Joe gave it to me, but that won't look suspicious because the president will be senile.
There will be lots of confusing things going on.
Right, right.
Okay.
I'll just waltz in there.
Okay, where's my desk?
Jimmy, Jimmy, you be the other guy.
Where's my desk?
I don't know.
Well, why the hell not?
I don't know that either.
How the hell am I supposed to do my job as secretary of fixing shit while standing up?
I'll get right on that, Mr. Secretary, very fast.
Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, I like this.
I think I've talked myself into it.
Can I get you a coffee while I find your desk?
We're not doing a fucking bit anymore, Jimmy.
Okay.
All right.
I'm sorry, Bernie.
Bernie, do you really think this is a good idea?
Jimmy, do you really think that I'm the only person contemplating this move?
You think that weasel Elizabeth Warren is going to try to weasel her way in there?
Say that she's the czar of men not interrupting women or some shit and just walk around interrupting everyone.
Give me a break, please.
Okay, Bernie.
Well, don't get in trouble.
Don't get in trouble.
Jimmy, I've stood up to pigs who are defending white supremacy.
I can handle a bunch of spineless centrist bozos, but I will keep you posted on how it goes.
Zaza!
Hi, everybody.
Welcome to this week's Jimmy Dore Show.
Hey, let's get to the jokes before we get to the jokes, shall we?
You know, I just wish Trump would concede the election already so the country can get on
to with the business of hating the next president you know I'm really expecting Joe Biden's 0.3% victory over Trump in Georgia to propel the Democrats into a new era of fighting climate change so a lot of people are calling for gatekeepers to censor the internet now a lot of people are calling a lot of people in journalism saw some people on msnbc today calling for
gatekeepers gatekeepers on social media let me give you a little vocabulary lesson the term gatekeeper is just a few censored words away from prison guard well it's official the department of homeland security called the 2020 election the most secure election in american history i blame russia and finally don't forget folks every november 19th is national toilet day did you know that give till it hurts
that's what we say because we're children so what's coming up on today's jimmy door show well cnn pushes shameless pro-war propaganda we'll explore why the establishment is afraid of ending the wars plus people don't understand why the sunrise movement is protesting joe biden before he's even in office joe biden will explain why aoc is wrong about joe biden's chief of staff and we'll explain yes we'll be explaining a lot of stuff about aoc in the coming years
believe me michael moore embarrasses himself for joe biden and kamala harris will we all get embarrassed listening to it the answer just may surprise you or will it plus we have phone calls today from barrick obama mitt romney and bernie sanders plus a lot lot more that's today the jimmy door show all right now the truth be told i have mixed feelings about michael moore he does good work lots of
times his uh you know i loved a lot these movies i like a lot uh probably back to roger and me right i saw that turn me on made me a michael moore fan but michael moore has this you know he has a you know nobody's perfect okay so when michael moore messes up uh i didn't like how he went along with the mccarthy smearing and the syria war bullshit the stuff that they're doing uh on msnbc against tulsi and all that stuff because she stood up against the syrian war
there's there's what there's reasons to criticize to see uh her opposition to the syrian war is not one of them um And, you know, he just let that kind of garbage go.
So I really came down hard on him for that.
And, you know, he's a Democrat stan and all that stuff, but he's, you know, he was a Bernie supporter.
So he's, so he tweeted this out.
So this is what I really, I'm serious, honest to God, I don't know what this is for.
I don't know what this is about.
This is bizarre.
So at a time right now when the Sunrise movement and other movements are trying to pressure Joe Biden, Michael Moore is going on Stephen Colbert saying unbelievable stuff like this.
Listen to this.
He and you and I, we all went to Catholic school and we all learned the same lessons.
And I said to him in this he's talking about Joe Biden.
He's saying he, you, and I all went to Catholic school and we all learned.
I'm not kidding.
That's this is what he's talking about.
Here we go.
He and you and I, we all went to Catholic school and we all learned the same lessons.
And I said to him in this letter, what are those lessons?
The lessons were that the rich man will have a harder time getting into heaven than a Campbell will have getting to the eye of the needle.
Said the 50 millionaire to the other 50 millionaire, unironically.
Maybe that's not the story you use when you're worth $50 million.
Like, that's not an exaggeration.
I say that about people just as an exaggeration a lot of times.
But I'm not saying, that's not an exaggeration.
He's worth at least $52 million, which is great.
He did great.
Good for him.
He and you and I, we all went to Catholic school and we all learned the same lessons.
And I said to him.
By the way, yes, the Catholic school is great.
Catholic school is great.
You need to vote Biden because of the Supreme Court and the Supreme Court has six Catholics on it with Amy Coney Barrett's confirmation, just so you know.
So that Catholic, being Catholic, very slippery slope of what's going on.
He and you and I, we all went to Catholic school and we all learned the same lessons.
And I said to him in this letter, what are those lessons?
The lessons were that the rich man will have a harder time getting into heaven than a Campbell will have getting to the eye of the needle.
That, you know, blessed are.
Hey, I'm going to assume that the guy who got his son a $50,000 a month gig for doing nothing is not going to be guided by the through the eye of the needle, a rich man can't pass phrase.
Don't think.
Don't think so.
And by the way, nothing, nothing.
What is he saying?
Trust me, he's going to be okay.
Joe Biden went to Catholic school.
What the?
What?
I mean, this is, well, I should stop.
I'm going to stop starting and just play the literature.
And you and I, we all went to Catholic school and we all learned the same lessons.
And I said to him in this letter, what are those lessons?
The lessons were that the rich man will have a harder time getting into heaven than a Campbell will have getting to the eye of the needle.
That, you know, blessed are the poor.
That we have to take care of those who don't, who are the least among us.
That's how we'll be judged.
So I said, I'm assuming.
And let me just say this about him talking about the poor and this and that.
And I just want to point out that I have a soft spot for Michael Moore because, like Michael Moore, I also hate my gray hair.
And I dyed the shit out of it up until COVID.
And he hasn't stopped.
So he still goes.
That's nice.
So, and then he puts a hat on on top of it.
That's a guy who's embarrassed of his hair.
He's dying it and covering up with a hat at the same time.
If I was going to wear a hat, I probably wouldn't have bothered to dye it.
But anyway, I just wanted to point that out.
This is a guy in conflict.
Okay.
Here we said this to him: that these are going to be the moral principles of the Biden presidency.
I'm going to just assume that automatically because I do believe he's a man of faith.
And I think that is going to serve us really well.
I mean, just for this example, Stephen, the fact that...
slaughter people while trying to cut Social Security and Medicare.
That's what they would say about George Bush.
They would say he's a man of faith.
And that's what Michael Moore just said about Joe Biden.
So if you want to know how they excuse George Bush's war crimes, they did it the exact way he just said about Joe Biden, that he's a man of faith.
This is all garbage.
Joe Biden is a criminal, a pathological liar, a war criminal, a war monger, and an enemy to people in need.
And lots of people, and there's lots of history of him saying crazy stuff that is easily considered racist.
He doesn't want to live in a racial, he doesn't want his kids living in a racial jungle.
What?
And so why Michael Moore comes on here to paint Joe Biden like he's some kind of Mother Teresa figure?
I don't understand what he gets out of this.
Because if he came on and told the truth about Joe Biden, you know what it does?
It makes half the country think, well, I might disagree with Michael Moore's politics, but at least he's a straight shooter and I can have a conversation with him.
But when you come out and you pretend like Joe Biden is mother Teresa, it makes people go, oh, he's just as big a liar as Trump because he is when he does this.
And he's just a big bullshitter and propagandist as Trump and anybody else.
Karl Rove, when he does this, I don't know what he gets out of that.
I really don't know what he gets out of this.
This hurts the left.
This hurts our cause.
That's my opinion.
Maybe he's got another plan that I don't know because he's smarter than me.
But I don't know what it is.
I wish he would tell me because this just looks like garbage on its face.
But I can't get over it.
Look, his hair looks good.
It's like Rachel Maddow, how she wears jeans that are too big and ripped, and then she has on the biggest fake eyelashes in the world.
That's someone in conflict.
Same thing with him.
He has on his pretend I'm poor uniform where he wears faded jeans that don't fit and baggy clothes, sweatshirts, and then a baseball hat.
That's not nice.
That's that.
And then he dyes his hair.
That's super in conflict.
I don't care how I look, except for right here.
Hey, I'm worse.
I'm much more vain than that guy is.
So let's get back to it.
He picked Kamala Harris to be his running mate.
Put aside the fact that, you know, Trump and Pence were right when they said she was ranked and is right.
That's the most liberal senator in the United States Senate.
So he could have gone the other way, but he went to the left when he chose his vice president.
But more than that, he picked, if you remember the first debate.
Oh, yeah.
She went after him.
Oh, that butted heads.
Yeah.
And you could see on his face, he didn't know what to say.
And he was like, you know, later I thought maybe he's got a little, he has a conscience.
There's a little voice in there saying, well, you know, maybe she's got a point.
You know, it's like, you know, but that was the younger me.
And that's what she was throwing shade on that younger self of Joe Biden.
But here, but the fact that he not only he forgave them, that he held no grudge, that he just didn't forgive.
He put her on the ticket.
Wow, imagine somebody who's in politics their entire life not holding a grudge over something said at a debate.
Unbelievable.
He's going to make an amazing president.
And then imagine that he chose her.
Michael, I know you know this, so I don't know why you said that, but Joe Biden didn't choose Kamala Harris.
Kamala Harris was chosen long before the presidential election started by the donor class on Martha's Vineyard.
I covered it.
The fact that she didn't gain a vote didn't matter.
The fact that Joe Biden couldn't get any votes didn't matter.
They, the donor class, called Barack Obama and Tom Perez and they said, get this going.
We're going to have Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
Why?
Because that's what Wall Street wants.
That's how, that's why he picked Kamala Harris, not because he's a big person.
What is the point of this?
This is as phony as his dyed hair and his fake, shitty hat.
What is the point of this?
Who would do that?
I would like to think I would, but I don't think I would.
I don't know if you would.
You know, we'd like.
He did that.
And I thought, wow, if that is his moral compass, if this is how he is toward people, people who he probably was, he was probably mad at her that night, but he didn't hold it against her.
She had the right to say it.
And then he picks her to be vice president.
This is such a positive sign for me that we are going to be in the polar opposite era than with the four years that we just went through.
This is such a positive sign for me.
Does that sound like a guy trying to convince himself?
Because that's what that is.
This is such a positive sign for me.
You know, there was enough fluff in his endorsement of Biden there that you could make a s'more with it.
That's a good joke, no matter what you think about this segment.
Tip of the hat to Ron Placon on the Moore's joke.
So I don't understand what that is about.
I don't understand what he gets out of that.
I don't understand what the all that does is turn off most of the country.
I mean, who does that?
What is the point?
They already voted for him.
I don't get it, but I'm sure there's, hey, but guess what?
Joe Biden's lengthy history of fabrication, plagiarism, and racial controversy.
In 1987, Biden publicly stated that he marched during the civil rights movement, but later admitted he was not an activist and said he was not marching.
This is that moral guy Michael Moore just told you about, the guy who wrote the crime bill.
This is the guy who doesn't care about the crime bill.
This is exactly about how perspectives change over time.
Bobby Rush, member of Congress, said the other day, I'm ashamed that I voted for the 94 crime bill.
You ashamed of that bill?
Not at all.
Not at all.
Hey, how Kamala Harris fought to keep nonviolent prisoners locked up.
As California Attorney General, she spent years subverting a 2011 Supreme Court ruling requiring the state to reduce its prison population.
The overseeing judicial panel nearly found the state in contempt of court.
That's who these people are, Michael.
What do you get out of pretending they're not horrible, atrocious enemies of the fucking people who just voted for them?
What do you get out of that?
You get invited back on Stephen Colbert's show.
I know that.
Hey, prisoners are getting paid $1.45 a day to fight California wildfires because of Kamala Harris.
Kamala Harris Attorney General's office tried to keep inmates locked up for cheap labor.
Federal judges order California to expand prison releases.
Hey, lawyers for Attorney General Kamala Harris had argued in court that if forced to release these inmates early, prisons would lose an important labor pool.
Do you see who these people are?
That's who these people are.
80 percent, 87 percent of Democrats support Medicare for all, though Joe Biden doesn't.
Thank you.
And as David Sirota tweeted out yesterday, a government in the richest country on earth in the middle of a deadly pandemic, still shaming people for demanding health care for all is not normal.
It is far, far from normal.
And Michael Moore going on TV, not screaming about Joe Biden not doing anything to give people health care in the middle of a deadly pandemic.
That Joe Biden has vowed to ramp up the military for not shaming Joe Biden for that when you get a chance to on television.
Instead, you go on some kind of weird-ass whatever the hell that was.
Fact check, Joe Biden again, dishonestly suggests he opposed the Iraq war from the beginning.
This is the guy you're looking forward to getting rid of the Trump lies.
Joe Biden's opposition to marijuana legalization is at odds with most Americans' views.
Edward Snowden, Joe Biden told countries there'd be consequences if they granted him asylum.
So Joe Biden spends most of his time starting wars, screwing over the poor and workers and prosecuting whistleblowers.
And this is the guy Michael Moore says is the antidote to Donald Trump right now.
He's a good Catholic.
He's got great character.
He's a big person.
What the weapons industry lobbyists are advising Joe Biden.
That's who Joe Biden is, a war-mongering murderer who we all should be looking out for, Michael Moore.
Instead, Michael Moore decides to give the sloppiest BJ in the history of television BJs.
What a ball washing he gave Joe Biden.
And what is that for?
You trying to get invited to the White House?
Joe Biden's vote for war.
In October 2002, he was one of 77 senators who gave President Bush the authority to go to Iraq.
He's still trying to explain that choice.
The U.S. is running out of bombs to drop.
That's from 2015 when Joe Biden was in the White House.
They dropped so many bombs, they ran out of bombs, Michael Moore.
Here's Joe Biden talking about Social Security and Medicare.
Paul Ryan was correct when he did the tax code.
What's the first thing he decided we had to go after?
Social Security and Medicare.
Now, we need to do something about Social Security and Medicare.
That's the only way you can find room to pay for it.
I don't know.
That's the guy who gets giddy, who likes to talk about cutting old people's safety net with a twinkle in his eye and a smirk on his face.
That's who Joe Biden is.
U.S. says deportation of Honduran children as a warning to illegal immigrants.
That's what Joe Biden did.
He deported the most vulnerable people in the world as a warning that more vulnerable people better stop trying to come here for asylum.
Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden once said he didn't want his kids to grow up in a racial jungle in regards to desegregation.
That is correct.
He said that.
Michael Moore.
Tara Reid claims Joe Biden said, I want to F you during alleged sexual assault.
That's from the Business Insider.
Joe Biden's plagiarism problem.
Joe Biden, you want to see Joe Biden's plagiarism?
The new question stemmed from tape remarks of Biden during an April campaign appearance in New Hampshire.
I went to law school on a full academic scholarship, the only one in my class to have a full academic scholarship.
Went back to law school, and in fact, ended up in the top half of my class.
I was the outstanding student in the political science department at the end of my year.
I graduated with three degrees from undergraduate school and 165 credits, only ate 123 credits.
Biden now concedes he did not graduate in the top half of his law school class, that he does not have three degrees from college, and that he was not named outstanding political science student in college.
Newsweek says Biden actually went to school on a half scholarship, ended up near the bottom of his class, and won only one degree, not three.
Joe Biden ranked 76th in a class of 85 at the University of Syracuse Law School.
I mean, this guy comes off this whole thing as a flyway.
Now, Biden says Newsweek is right.
His memory had failed him.
Joseph.
He's a man of faith.
He went to Catholic school.
Look what he did with Kamala.
He overlooked it.
He's a good person.
That's all it takes to convince me.
So when Michael Moore tweets this out, the Stephen Colbert Show has posted this two-minute clip from my parents last week.
My thoughts about the evidence of Biden's moral core and how we may just end up getting our soul back thanks to him.
That's the guy who's going to give us our soul back, you bullshitter.
What is wrong with you?
You know what you should be doing?
You should be doing what Sunrise Movement's doing, going outside of Joe Biden's office and protesting his ass right now, Michael Moore.
Thank you.
What is wrong with you?
That's what you should be doing.
You should be warning people, shouting the alarm that Joe Biden's coming with his war-mongering corporatists that are going to deny you health care in the middle of a deadly pandemic.
That's what's coming.
Biden, these are letters from people, the young people that bought you in office.
We need you to be brave right now for our teachers, for our generation, because we're counting on you.
Yeah, Joe Biden doesn't care.
Joe Biden's that don't care.
Got no empathy for you.
He's already said that.
If someone knows Michael Moore, I don't know him.
I've never met him, never talked to him.
I don't even think I've ever been in the same room as he is.
But if anybody knows him, could you ask him what the fuck is he doing?
And what the point of that was?
There's got to be a point to him to be such a huge bullshitter.
So who was he talking to before he went out?
He's like, all right, so I got to lay it out as heavy as possible that Joe Biden's a good person.
Why?
What is this for?
I don't know.
What is that for?
If you ever see me on television bullshitting that hard, please, please send the guys out with a straitjacket to take me away.
Have me committed.
Take away my power.
Invoke my power of attorney, whoever is next in line to take care.
Because obviously, something went wrong.
All you have is your word.
All you have is your word.
That is not getting something wrong.
That is someone doing propaganda.
Why are you doing propaganda at the top of your lungs instead of doing what they're doing, which is pressuring Joe Biden?
Will you ever pressure Joe Biden?
Ever?
I don't know what that is.
I know people who know Michael Moore.
So if you know him, could you ask him why he would choose to debase himself like that and the country?
And how he feels about having his pretend I'm poor uniform on while still dying his hair.
I'd like to know about that.
Okay.
Wow, former President Barack Obama is calling me again.
Hello.
Hey, man.
You read my exclusive interview in The Atlantic?
Oh.
I told him what I think the single greatest threat to our democracy is.
Guess what it is?
What?
You asshole.
Me?
You think me?
Listen up.
You and people like you have created a situation in which large swaths of the country genuinely believe that the Democratic Party is a front for a pedophile ring.
You got that wrong.
I think they're a front for Wall Street.
Oh, like that's better.
Come on, man.
You folks need to stop it.
You need to unite with the people who don't give a shit about you so we can defeat Republicans.
We don't give a shit about you.
But not in a way that might upset them.
Understand?
But how?
We need gatekeepers to protect folks from the disinformative internet.
You know, from bad thoughts and stuff.
Like when you were in Catholic school and the headmaster told you to stop thinking about fun.
Wow, you really hate the internet, huh, Barack?
It used to be great back when only nerds and missile launchers used it.
But now everybody's on and they all want to say shit.
That's why we need gatekeepers.
But who decides who gets to be the gatekeepers?
Gatekeeper gatekeepers.
We set up a department of gatekeeper folks, the DGF.
And those folks organize ancillary gatekeeper folks who gatekeep on the lesser gatekeeper folks and so on.
I don't know, Barack, the Department of Gatekeeper folks.
It kind of sounds authoritarian, no?
We need to get back to institutional norms, Timmy, and set a new tone.
It's not authoritarian.
It's tone authorian.
We're the tone authorians.
Wow.
It still sounds kind of weird, Barack.
You're right, Timmy.
How about the Department of Press and Social Order?
I don't know.
That sounds like the Vargas dictatorship in Brazil during World War II.
You must have read that on social media or something.
Okay.
How about the Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda?
That was run by Joseph Gorbels.
Okay, how about the Department of Information?
That was run by apartheid South Africa.
Oh, okay.
Here's one that sounds harmless enough.
The Ministry of Popular Culture.
That was fascist Italy under Mussolini.
Don't be a purist, Jimmy.
It's only a name.
I'm sorry.
How about the Ministry of Truth?
Wow.
That's so Orwellian.
It's perfect.
Thanks for the help, Jimmy.
So long.
And don't forget to watch my latest 60 Minutes interview.
Speaking of gatekeepers, it's sponsored by Pfizer.
Yep.
Pull up your damn pants and take your penis pill.
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We are outside Joe Biden's campaign office in Philadelphia demanding that he fulfill his climate mandate.
We elected you, Joe, and now it's time to...
We need you to be brave right now for our future, for our generation, because we're counting on you.
So now that makes sense, right?
That makes sense, right?
You want to make Joe Biden is assembling his cabinet right now, and he's putting, you know, fracking lobbyists and asbestos lobbyists, stuff like that, corporatists of all different kinds, people from the fossil fuel industry.
And so now is the time to keep your eye open and be on it.
That's right.
Some people, there's a lot of apologists for the Democratic Party.
They don't like that.
Like this lady here, she says, what the F is wrong with you people?
He isn't even in office yet.
The first thing he needs to deal with is the pandemic.
Otherwise, everything else is moot.
Jesus effing C. Christ, these people.
Get behind that.
Then we'll take you seriously.
There's always, you always need to worry about something else.
First, he needs to get the pandemic in order, you guys.
You know, that awful thing that we'll have more of if we don't do something about climate change.
Then maybe he might do something about climate change.
Come on.
What does she think that we're only supposed to protest Trump between now and January?
We could only protest Trump.
He's building a cabinet and he's drawing plans for the new year.
Now is actually one of the few useful times to apply political pressure.
I hope this helps.
I want to say thanks to that guy.
But basically, he's like, excuse me, ma'am.
Excuse me, ma'am, who we really want to take seriously.
Here's how basic politics works.
That's how it works.
Who brainwashed these folks?
There are actual enemies to their cause, but they don't even seem to know who they are.
The Sunrise Movement is one of the best Republican operations in existence.
Oh, boy.
See that?
Who brainwashed these folks?
I guess it was Joe Biden who brainwashed them with all the times he said he was against a Green New Deal.
Would that be who brainwashed them?
Do you see this garbage?
These are the same lines I've been fed my entire life.
They were, I've learned, just useless platitudes to pacify people into not putting in the work.
Useless then, useless now.
Politicians are not your friends.
They will not fight for you unless we push them.
It's bitching at a guy who both agreed and has a far better team of experts on the issue than they do.
So they're saying that the Sunrise Movement, they're just bitching.
No, it's bitching at a guy who's setting the stage to do little more than window dressing about climate change and our future of the planets at stake.
That's all.
I love when they say bitching.
So when you're protesting and they don't like what you're protesting about, you're bitching.
Oh, with that Martin Luther King with his whining.
He's still whining about equal rights.
He's still whining about equal rights.
Hey, Joe Biden's campaign co-chair is a big oil and gas booster.
Joe Biden has surrounded himself with people tied to the natural gas industry for his 2020 presidential campaign.
His climate advisor, Heather Zeckel, is a board member of gas company Shenra Energy, while one of his fundraisers is co-founder of natural gas company Western LNG.
In addition, Biden's super PAC supporting his candidacy has a former gas lobbyist on its board.
Joe Biden selected in May to serve as his campaign co-chair, Louisiana Democratic Representative Cedric Richmond.
Despite representing a low-lying Louisiana district, one of the areas in the U.S. most immediately impacted by climate change, Cedric Richmond has voted reliably in favor of expanding production and exports of natural gas and oil.
His voting record is one of the most fossil fuel industry friendly of all Democrats in Congress.
And I'm guessing nothing will fundamentally change.
In 2015, Richmond was one of the 28 House Democrats to vote in favor of approving construction on the Keystone XL pipeline.
That's who Joe Biden's putting in his cabinet.
These are the guys Joe Biden is finding.
Wow.
This is what Joe Biden means when he says he can work with Republicans, I guess.
Last year, he voted in favor of legislation from Representative Bill Johnson, a Republican from Ohio, that would undermine the environmental review process for gas pipelines by stating that all pipelines that transport 0.14 billion cubic feet per day or less should be immediately approved.
The Marathon Petroleum and ExxonMobil refineries in Richmond's districts are located along the banks of the Mississippi River.
Downstream from these plants and a number of chemical company facilities, also in the district, is a region known as Cancer Alley, which for decades has experienced much higher rates of cancer and other diseases than the rest of the United States.
Richmond, a member of the moderate New Democrat coalition.
So I'm just, this is a guy who Joe Biden is just this guy, Richmond, a member of the moderate New Democratic coalition, the New Democratic Coalition, which somehow manages to be even shittier than regular Democrats.
He's a member of the New Democrat Coalition, which is just nothing but a corporatist yes men.
He has voted in favor of many Republican bills opposed by environmentalists over the years.
The League of Conservation Voters gave Richmond an environmental rating of just 46% during President Trump's first two years in office, a lower rating than several Republicans.
So just remember when Joe's not appointing Republicans, he's appointing Democrats with worse records.
There it is.
Representative Cedric Richmond to serve in Biden's administration.
He resigns from Congress.
In the future, never promise to vote for somebody without getting something in return.
Voting is a transaction, not a loyalty oath.
Biden doesn't have to do jack for you now, and he probably won't.
That's a fact.
And that's why I didn't vote for Joe Biden.
And I'm never voting for another corporatist warmonger for the rest of my life.
That started in 2016.
You can join me in joining, starting a people's party because that's what this is going to take.
Because if you think that electing progressives to Congress inside the Democratic Party is going to make a bit of a fucking difference, I hate to break your heart, but you're a chump.
They all voted for the largest upward transfer of wealth in the history of the human race.
You go ahead and try to square that circle.
You don't even know what the fuck is in that CARES Act, which is why you don't ever ask them questions about it, which is why I'm to the left of you.
Hmm.
MUSIC MUSIC Thank you.
Joe Biden's announced that Ronald Klain will serve President-elect Biden as White House chief of staff.
Who is that guy?
I bet he's a big progressive.
I bet he's the opposite of a Republican, corporatist, right?
He's a guy who's going to fight for workers and lefties.
Well, he comes right from K-Street.
You know what K-Street is.
That's where all the lobbyists are.
Well, here, you want to know who he is?
Here he is.
Here's who he is.
Ron Clain was a paid lobbyist for an asbestos industry bailout package, an airline merger, mortgage regulations to help Fannie Mae and drug maker under a congressional scrutiny for withholding life-saving drugs from dying patients, among other clients.
So that's kind of what he does as a lobbyist.
He does all this horrible bad stuff.
He's a lobbyist.
He's going to be his chief of staff.
Klain's career as a lobbyist, during which clients paid nearly $700,000 for lobbying in which he participated, ended when he left his partnership at the law firm McLaveny and Myers in 2005.
So Biden is extending an olive branch to progressives.
It's just covered in asbestos and fracking fluid.
Guy got $700,000 for lobbying.
So, you know, he's a true servant of the working people.
I'm surprised he didn't do PR for Halliburton while he was at it.
U.S. Airways in 2000 and 2001 paid as much as $140,000 to have Klain lobby Congress and the Justice and Transportation Departments on the air carrier's proposed merger with United Airlines.
Again, clearly a grassroots kind of guy.
Going back 20 years, grassroots.
He's been doing this for his whole life, this guy.
Airborne Express in 2003 paid O Melvaney $120,000 to have Klain lobby Congress and the Transportation Department in support of a sale of its ground assets to DHL Worldwide Express.
A $1 billion transaction finalized one month after Klain's firm was retained.
So Klain's team brought in even quicker cash representing the drug maker IMCLEN.
His team lobbied four powerful members of the House Committee on Government Reform about compassionate use investigational new drug applications during FDA clinical testing process.
Okay.
The committee held hearings at which MCLON President Sam Waxall was confronted by survivors of cancer victims who died after trying unsuccessfully to get MCLON to grant them compassionate use supplies of its much valuehood experimental cancer drug C225.
Waxel acknowledged that his company granted only 30 compassionate use supplies out of more than 10,000 requests and said his company should have communicated better with terminally ill patients.
Wow.
From 2001 to 2005, AOL Time Warner paid as much as $130,000 for Ron Klain-led team to lobby Congress and the Justice Department on issues related to competition in internet and related computer sciences.
Wow.
Mark Ames tweets this out.
Incredible, but not entirely surprising.
Biden's first appointee, Ron Klain, worked for Steve Case's Revolution Fund.
Back in 2009, I wrote about Larry Summers' work for Revolution, which got millions in suspicious funds from Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, and Morgan Stadley.
Wow.
Lee Fong tweets this out.
Ron Klain, who will serve as Biden's new White House chief of staff, was appointed in 2016 to the Executive Council of TechNet, the trade group that lobbies for Silicon Valley's interests in D.C. So, when we're supposed to be regulating these companies in Silicon Valley and breaking them up, he's putting someone who's their lobbyists in charge of doing just not that to making sure that doesn't happen.
Ron Clain joins, so this is Third Way.
You know, Third Way is the corporatists who call themselves Democrats, right?
Well, that's most Democrats, but they're explicitly corporatists and Wall Street approved.
And there you go.
They got the right-wing Democrat seal of approval.
So that would be the right-wing corporatist wing of the Democratic Party, the Third Way, explicitly anyway.
The whole Democratic Party's right-wing, except for like six people.
Warren Gunnels is Bernie Sanders' policy wonk.
He says, the ideas Wall Street Democrats at Third Way have pushed.
So just to let you know who Third Way Democrats are who are cool with Joe Biden's chief of staff, this is what they've pushed in the past.
Opposition to a 15-hour federal minimum wage.
They've pushed cuts to Social Security and Medicare.
They've pushed Wall Street deregulation.
They've pushed job-killing trade deals.
And they've opposed Medicare drug price negotiations.
Wow.
That's who the third way is, who's cool with Joe Biden's chief of staff.
Just so you know.
Just so you know, this guy's on the wrong side of everything, making him very much, well, like Joe Biden.
I guess Joe Biden wants to pick people with as many skeletons in their closet as he does.
And let me tell you, the White House is going to need more closet space, folks.
Here he is.
Here he is.
This is him.
This is a tweet from him.
We don't have, this is a tweet from him, February 20th.
No, February 13th, 2020.
This is a tweet from him, Joe Biden's new chief of staff.
You want to hear what it is?
He says, we don't have a COVID-19 epidemic in the United States, but we are starting to see a fear epidemic.
Sounds like Trump, huh?
Sounds like a good corporatist from Wall Street, right?
That's him.
That's Joe Biden's chief of staff.
We listened to the science.
There he is.
Kudos to New York City Mayor and others for standing against that.
So what he's tweeting out is Mayor de Blasio.
It was my honor to spend time with our Asian American-owned small businesses in flushing today.
So they're not wearing masks.
They're not social distancing.
He's saying, don't be afraid of COVID, which was the wrong thing to do.
And here he is saying there isn't a COVID pandemic.
That's him saying in February.
Why?
Because that's what Wall Street told him to say.
And now he is advising the president of the United States.
He's the chief of staff.
Wow.
Wow.
So it's just like you're getting Larry Kudlow.
Is that the same thing as getting Larry Kudlow?
Is that the same thing as getting Steve Mnuchin in your cabinet?
I would say, I would say.
I would say.
So we're.
Okay.
Breaking news, President-elect Joe Biden is said to have chosen Ron Clain to be his chief of staff.
AOC retweets this.
Are you ready?
Good news and an encouraging choice, she says.
Good news and an encouraging choice.
She forgot to ask good news if you're a bank or a pharmaceutical company or a Silicon Valley billionaire or I don't know, a fracker or somebody who's in asbestos.
It's good news for them.
Bad news for everybody else, AOC.
Wow.
Good news for banks.
Good news for banks and corporations.
What in the fuck does she get out of tweeting something like that?
What do you get out of pretending Joe Biden's corporatists are not what they are?
I don't know.
I don't know.
She's getting something out of it.
You tell me what.
What did they get out of voting for the CARES Act?
She got something out of that too.
You tell me.
So Trump announced he's appointing, he fired Mark Esper, the guy from Raytheon who was a defense secretary, and he replaced him with this guy.
Trump administration installs advocate for quick Afghanistan withdrawal at the Pentagon.
This is an article written by Ryan Brown and Barbara Starr for CNN.
This is a fantastic article.
Watch this.
So Trump, well, here, let's get into it.
McGregor's appointment is the latest in a series of sweeping changes at the Pentagon that has put defense officials on edge.
What?
The defense officials are McGregor and the president.
Those are your defense officials.
The guy who's now in charge of the Pentagon and the commander-in-chief.
McGregor's appointment is the latest in a series of sweeping changes at the Pentagon that has put defense officials on edge and fueled a growing sense of alarm among military and civilian officials who are concerned about what could come next.
You mean a withdrawal of our troops?
That's what they're concerned about.
I wonder why they're concerned about that.
Oh, that's right.
Because they all are seeking jobs in the military-industrial complex as soon as they leave the Pentagon.
Because they're all crazy warmongers, right?
Yeah.
But CNN doesn't tell you that.
CNN acts like they're a bunch of concerned people like, oh my God, if we stop doing war, that'll be bad.
They're making CNN is trying to make this seem reckless.
Withdrawing from a 20-year war, CNN and their two writers took two people to write this, Ryan Brown and Barbara Starr are here to let you know that us getting out of Afghanistan is reckless and people are scared and worried about it.
And why are they writing this?
Because they were told to write it this way because they're sponsored by the military-industrial complex and Wall Street.
That's why.
So Trump actually signaling he might follow through on a campaign promise of ending these wars, which everybody wants except people who have financial interest in it, like CNN writers.
Four senior Pentagon officials have been fired or have resigned since Monday, including Defense Secretary Mark Esper, who was fired in a tweet by President Donald Trump.
Esper's chief, you know, Mark Esper came right from Raytheon and is an unbelievably lying warmonger.
Mark Esper's chief of staff and the top officials overseeing policy and intelligence.
McGregor has been a vocal opponent of the U.S. military's mission in Afghanistan and has called for a total withdrawal of U.S. troops and the American embassy.
Now, watch what that's what he has called for.
Watch how CNN writes this.
They go, he's called for a total withdrawal of troops and the American embassy, despite, despite the continued presence of terrorist groups there.
So, according to CNN, Ryan Brown, we're supposed to stay in Afghanistan until there's no more terrorism.
What do you mean?
Terrorism where?
You mean in somebody else's country?
You mean people who live in Afghanistan still live in Afghanistan?
So we have to stay there forever, Ryan Brown, CNN.
Yes, that's what Ryan Brown's CNN is saying.
That he's doing his duty as a good little tool of the bought CNN from the military industrial complex.
He's making you think that it's a bad idea to take to end the Afghanistan war because there's still terrorist groups there.
What?
Did the CIA actually just grab your hand and put it on the pad as you type this?
Ryan Brown, did the CIA actually do that for you?
Was someone from Raytheon typing this for you?
Knowledgeable sources told CNN's Jake Tapper, knowledgeable source, just nobody, they just made up shit.
Knowledgeable sources told CNN's, again, this is no sourcing.
This would be one of those things that Twitter would ban, except it goes for the war machine, so Twitter won't ban this.
They would ban this if it was negative against the war machine, saying there's no sourcing.
But if there's no sourcing and it's an aid of the war machine, then it's okay.
So knowledgeable sources told CNN's Jake Tapper on Tuesday that the White House-directed purge at the Defense Department may have been motivated by the fact that Esper and his team were, are you ready for this?
pushing back on a premature withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Afghanistan.
Afghanistan.
Thank you.
It's been 19 fucking years, Ryan and Brown.
CNN?
It's been 19 fucking years we're in that country killing people for profit.
19 years we're in someone else's country, a generation, two straight decades, killing people on the regular.
I don't know if you read the Afghanistan papers, but everybody knows that it's a joke and we don't know what we're doing there at all.
We're only there because the military industrial complex is making money off it.
But somebody told Ryan Brown over at CNN this.
He thinks he's saying it would be premature.
Their sources say it would be premature to withdraw from Afghanistan.
Let me read the whole paragraph.
Let me read the whole paragraph, right?
Knowledgeable sources told CNN's Jake Tapper on Tuesday that the White House directed purge at the Defense Department may have been motivated by the fact that Esper and his team were pushing back on a premature withdrawal from Afghanistan that would be carried out before the required conditions on the ground were met and other pending security issues.
So do you see how CNN then Ryan Brown is writing this as if it's irresponsible?
How dare you stop doing war in Afghanistan?
That we haven't met our security, there's pending security issues.
Another 20 years, says CNN.
This is garbage.
That's a garbage reporter.
This is a garbage article.
And CNN is garbage.
U.S. military officials have long stressed, this is from the CNN article, have long stressed that the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan is condition-based.
We've all agreed on this.
Everybody agrees that we have to stay in Afghanistan.
Everybody agreed.
Look, we've long agreed.
This is CNN saying this.
This isn't CNN quoting someone.
This is CNN saying this.
This is Ryan Brown, the guy who wrote this, saying this.
No one fucking said this.
This is them saying this.
U.S. military officials have long stressed that the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan is condition-based, with those conditions, including the Taliban's breaking its ties to Al-Qaeda and making progress in peace talks with the Afghan government.
Two conditions that have yet to be met.
So we have to keep staying there, says Ryan Brown from CNN.
He's not quoting anyone.
That's him saying that.
But despite the lack of progress, the Trump administration has already substantially reduced U.S. troops in the country by more than 50%.
Do you see this framing that they're doing in this article?
But despite the lack of progress in Afghanistan, hey, we didn't make any progress, and Trump is already reducing our numbers of troops there.
We've only been there for 20 years.
We haven't made any progress.
And Trump is now going to withdraw troops.
Again, they're not quoting anyone.
This is written directly from the brain of the CNN reporter, stenographer, propagandist, Ryan Brown, and whoever that woman's name was.
Because they can't have one person who can't write this, a bullshit propaganda piece.
It takes at least two people to get this amount of propaganda in one article.
This is fucking stunning, isn't it?
Despite the lack of progress, the Trump administration has already substantially reduced.
Shame on them.
We haven't made progress yet, that damn Trump administration.
They're so reckless.
The Trump administration has already substantially reduced U.S. troops in the country by more than 50%, bringing the number of U.S. military personnel there down to about 4,500, the lowest level since the earliest days of the post-line.
That's a good thing.
You fucking tool on purpose at CNN.
Trump's national security advisor, Robert O'Brien, has advocated for a more accelerated withdrawal from Afghanistan, irrespective of conditions.
And guess what?
That's the right move.
So they're trying to make end.
This is CNN trying to make peace look reckless.
Ending a war that's been going on for 20 years for no reason.
If you read the Afghanistan papers, they have no idea what they're doing at any point, at any time, do they know what they're doing?
They don't even know who their enemy is.
And they all know this, and they keep doing the war anyway.
Why?
So they're upset.
The people at CNN are upset that Trump's national security advisor wants to withdraw troops from Afghanistan, irrespective of the conditions on the ground, something made more feasible by the installation of White House loyalists in a senior defense post.
He has also called for the immediate end to the U.S. military effort in Syria, where a small number of U.S. troops, U.S. troops, backed the Curtis-led Syrian Democratic forces in their fight against ISIS.
So do you see how they're saying Trump won't even fight ISIS?
This is really happening.
This is a real article written by a person who isn't technically working for the CIA, actually technically works for a news organization.
This is the article they wrote.
Took two people to do this much propaganda.
He has also called for the immediate end of the U.S. military effort in Syria, where a small number, just a small number of troops are there fighting for democracy against ISIS, and he still wants to get rid of them.
A small number are fighting for democracy against ISIS.
So these are just straight-up lie.
I mean, you could say it's gaslighting or propaganda, but I'll just say it's lying for the establishment because that's what it is.
And here's the two liars doing it today: Ryan Brown and Barbara Starr from CNN.
Took two people, willing tools of the military-industrial complex to put together this big a piece of propaganda.
Ending a war is bad, reckless.
What are you against?
Why are you what are you for?
ISIS are you against democracy?
So this is CNN making sure more people get killed in Afghanistan, more soldiers get their legs blown off, more children, more farmers get decapitated.
That's what CNN, Ryan Brown, and Barbara Starr are doing.
That's what they do for a living.
That's what they do for a living.
They push pro-war propaganda to help bolster the profits of CNN by getting more ads from the military industrial complex and Wall Street.
So great job by Ryan Brown and Barbara Starr and CNN.
Another garbage propaganda piece that turns out is always pro-war.
And anybody who's against it is a fucking nut.
Wow, Mitt Romney's on the phone.
I wonder if he's got a lot of important stuff to say regarding what's happening in the news.
Oh, hi, Jimmy.
This is Mittens Mittery Rom to the Bomne on the honker.
And I've got a lot of important stuff to say regarding what's happening in the news.
As you know, I'm always all up in that shit, if I may take the liberty.
Of course.
Go ahead, Mitt.
This is really going to blow your socks off.
I've just opened up two new offices in Utah.
One in Spanish Fork, the other in Ogden.
That's it?
That's it.
It's taken years for my popularity to go up enough to open up an office in Spanish Fork and Ogden.
Now I have even more opportunity to reach people who already kind of agree with me on things.
I guess you have a point.
Say, do you know why they call it Spanish fork?
It's really quite a ripping little story.
No, no, I don't.
Why do they call it that?
Well, one day in 1851, while eating at a Spanish restaurante, Joseph Smith was attacked by an angry mob.
After he escaped, someone noticed a fork sticking out of his hat, and they asked, what is that?
A Spanish fork?
Joseph Smith took off his hat, looked at the fork, and said, yes, indeed.
Thank you.
It is a Spanish fork.
From that day on, the town was known as Sunnyvale.
Sunnyvale 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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you be the best you can be, and I'll keep being me.
Don't freak out.
Do not, do not, do not.
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