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Get ready for an outstanding entertainment program.
The Jimmy Dore Show.
Hello, this is Jimmy.
Who's this?
Jimmy!
This is President-elect Joe Biden.
Oh, hello, Mr. President-elect.
How are you?
Jimmy, I'm doing pretty damn great.
Thanks for asking.
Glad to hear it.
Jimmy.
Uh-huh.
Yeah.
It's starting.
Oh, what is the transition?
Right.
The Trump administration has decided to begin the transition.
Yes, I'm aware of this.
And I also name my old friend John Kerry to be the nation's first climate czar.
He's going to fix everything, Jack.
And how exactly is he going to do that?
By scowling at carbon like some kind of weird ghoul.
That's how.
Oh, I see.
Okay, I got it.
Anyway, this is all great news.
Well, if you say so, Joe.
You don't believe me?
Just look at the Dow Jones, JV Jones.
It hit 30,000 on this news.
I'm not really sure that that helps most Americans, though.
Yeah, you're probably right.
But 30,000.
Holy cow, that's a lot of Dow.
How do you plan on ensuring average Americans get a fair share of this skyrocketing Wall Street wealth?
Jimmy, I plan on appointing another czar to do just that.
And what happens when the person you appoint to this position is just another corporate lackey who has no tangible interest in helping the American working class.
Ah!
That's why they're going to be a woman of color or an LGBTQ.
So you're not allowed to criticize them on what they're doing.
Uh-huh.
Hey, Mr. President, I don't have a job and I can't feed my family.
Your administration isn't doing enough to help me.
Oh, yeah, where are you?
Some kind of racist?
Sit down and shut up, Paul Connor.
God, for that guy to be able to hide behind that is fucking amazing.
Of all people.
It's pretty slick, isn't it?
Yes.
Call me slick, Rick.
Yeah.
How heartbreakingly cynical, Joe.
Thank you.
Yeah.
And you're welcome.
Hey, what are you doing for Thanksgiving, Joe?
I'll tell you what, Jimmy, the whole family's going to get together.
Cook a giant bird and have a big old gobble gobble.
Joe, that is exactly what we are not supposed to be doing this year, buddy.
No, no, Jimmy, don't worry.
We'll stay kind of far apart.
No, Jimmy, don't worry.
We'll stay kind of far apart and wear masks around our necks.
Also, we're rich.
Yeah, yeah.
Hey, I see.
Do you have any Biden Thanksgiving traditions?
No!
Wow.
Okay.
Now, that's by design.
We like to make every year fresh and full of surprises.
The past few years has been, what's Hunter going to do?
Oh, Although, I will say every year we do go around the table and say what we're thankful for.
Ha ha ha!
And what are you thankful for this year, Joe?
The fact that I was nominated by the Democratic Party and have now somehow become president-elect in defiance of the better instincts of every thinking American.
It's a miracle.
Jimmy, I truly see the hand of God in there.
Okay, well, you have a nice...
You too, Jimmy.
But you stay home and don't go anywhere.
You're not rich enough to survive.
Everybody, welcome to this week's Jimmy Door show.
Let's get to the jokes before we get to the joke, shall we?
I don't know if you heard, but California Senator Dianne Feinstein stepping down as the lead Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee.
She says she wants to spend more quality time with her family doing harm to the country.
Hey, did you hear Andrew Cuomo got is receiving an international Emmy for the press conferences he did over COVID?
No kidding.
I'd like to congratulate Andrew Cuomo for getting an Emmy for best actor in the role of a politician pretending to care about people.
You know, I don't know what to make of the world right now, but it's a good thing Charlie Manson died three years ago because if he could see what's going on right now, he'd go nuts.
Hey, holiday fun fact.
This Thanksgiving, Americans will eat 700 million pounds of self-hate disguised as turkey.
Hey, Barack Obama just dropped volume one of his third memoir at $60 million.
I predict memoir number four will arrive by Amazon Drone and the cost automatically withdrawn from our annual oxygen fund allotments.
I think we can finally say the noose is tightening.
The walls are closing in.
The dominoes are falling.
It's the end of the third quarter.
The bottom is falling out.
He's reached critical mass.
The ceiling is falling.
The cracks are showing.
It's the beginning of the end.
It's only a matter of time.
Someone's going down.
The writing's on the wall.
It's the boiling point.
It's a watershed week.
He's standing on a precipice.
The damn's gonna burst.
It's getting dark.
They're turning up the heat.
It's the end of the road.
The jig is up.
The hands are at midnight.
The sun is setting.
The chain has been broken.
The pressure is on and it's the tipping point.
Trump better watch it.
Hey, what's coming up on today's show?
Amazon is spying on its own workers and using the Pinkertons to prevent workers organizing, just like the good old days.
Explosive leaked CIA documents show how the war machine controls public opinion.
How do they do it?
The answer just may surprise you.
Or will it?
Brunch liberals attack Aaron Brockervich for telling the truth about Joe Biden's new anti-environment cabinet picks.
What's the truth about Biden's cabinet picks?
We'll tell you, and it's not pretty.
Governor of New York Andrew Cuomo is given an Emmy award for being the worst leader, but the best TV press conferencer ever.
Plus, we got phone calls from Joe Biden, David Axelrod, Jeb Bush, Rick Perry, Sean Connery, Chris Christie, and Barack Obama, plus a lot lot more.
That's today on the Jimmy Dore Show.
Jimmy Dore Show.
Hey, Biden's got his new Secretary of State.
Are you ready?
Who is it, Jimmy?
Biden chooses Antony Blinken.
Hello, Antony.
It's not Anthony.
It's Antony.
Antony.
Antony Blinken.
Steve Dahl used to do this character, Alex.
Antony.
It's very funny.
Anyway, here's Biden's new Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, defender of global alliances as Secretary of State.
Whew, here we go.
Basically, so if you want to know who this guy is, Biden, this is from Ben Norton.
Biden's Secretary of State nominee is now official.
He's a liberal war hawk, Antony Blinken.
He supported the 2011 war that destroyed Libya and unleashed slave markets.
He defended Israel's massacres in Gaza.
He started the catastrophic war on Yemen.
And he's a neoliberal at a private equity firm.
So basically, you see what this guy's done in the world?
He's basically the guy.
If the world was a cocktail party, this is the dude who put his in the punch bowl for no reason.
That's who this guy is.
Want to also know who he is from Sarah Abdullah?
Who is Antony Blinken?
He advocated for a war in Iraq.
He's a backer of bombing Libya and Yemen.
He's an architect of arming al-Qaeda in Syria.
He's a proponent of the CIA coup in Ukraine.
He's a champion of NATO expansionism, and he's a hardcore supporter of Israel.
Correction, he stuck his and balls in the punch bowl, and nobody caught him.
That's who this guy is.
Biden's foreign policy picks are from the hawkish national security blob.
That is a bad sign.
Biden's incoming team helped shape some of the most militaristic policies of the Obama administration.
Who could have seen this coming?
Everybody at this show did.
But, you know, Michael Moore is going to tell you what a choir boy this guy is.
What a good Catholic Joe Biden is to pick a guy who wants to go now commit a genocide in Yemen.
That's what Michael Moore is going to tell you.
Why?
Because Michael Moore sometimes is crazy, like half the time when he talks.
On purpose, in front of a camera.
Tony Blinkland, Antony Blinken, and Michelle Florner joined a high-profile, wait till you find out who she is.
Joined a high-profile roster of former policymakers for the private equity firm Pine Island Capital Partners, Incorporated by John Thane.
In other words, a bunch of kids are gathering.
It's a gaggle of kids.
Is there a word for that?
John Thane, who's that?
John Thane is an investment banker.
He tanked Merrill Lynch, sold it off to Bank of America, and paid himself several bonuses along the way.
He's a real ethical guy.
At the height of the subprime mess, John Thane spent $1.2 million remodeling his office, installing a $35,000 toilet.
This is the kind of you would expect Trump appointees to be known for.
Well, as long as you're full of, I guess you might as well have the world's most expensive depository.
Blinken, Antony Blinken, and Flournoy's firm told executives they would share their passion.
Are you ready for this?
They would share their passion like David Axelrod.
They would share their passion for helping new companies navigate the complex bureaucracy of winning Pentagon contracts.
Who grows up to have such a passion?
That's your passion?
My passion.
What I do for money is I help people get contracts to go murder other people.
But what my passion is, is, you know, badminton or to crochet or opera.
But my passion, your passion is helping people navigate contracts at the Pentagon.
That's your passion.
That's your passion.
Helping people get contracts to go murder other people en masse.
These are the same people whose parents wouldn't allow them to have pets when they were children because they were afraid of what they would do to them.
That's who these guys, that's who Antony Blinklin is and Freunduri.
Michelle Freunuri.
Clients include, and his clients included an airline, another, a global transportation company, a third company that makes drones that can instantly scan an entire building's interior.
Just add, just put it, why just put it oil companies.
Among the clients is the Israel artificial intelligence company, Winward.
Their surveillance offer tracks vessels in real time.
Two former Israeli naval intelligence officers established the company in 2010.
The former chief of staff of the Israel Defense Forces serves on its board.
Former CIA director David Petraeus is an investor.
What a great company.
Dude, then people, so if you point this out, that Biden is putting these maniacs in his cabinet, there will be ridiculous people, blue MAGA, who do this.
They go, dude, we're still dealing with a president who used the office to enrich himself.
Let's try to chill for like five minutes.
Wow.
Yeah, we don't, let's chill for five minutes because it's not like we have a 40-year history of Joe Biden to know exactly what he's going to do.
Let's wait and see.
I say we wait to act until right after it's too late.
That's when I think we should do something.
That's a good that.
Thank you, Matthew.
Here's more.
Oh my God, you mean Antony Blinklin and Flornori made a living in between government work?
That's what he calls engineering a genocide in Yemen, earning a living.
That's what he calls earning a living.
Advocating for illegal wars in Libya, Syria, a genocide in Yemen.
That's called earning a living.
Oh, because they're responding to the American prospect, Dave Dayon, who this article we're covering.
That's where it was.
He plea tweeted out.
So they're responding to Dave Dayen.
This is what a Democrat says.
The horror, knowing how ethical they are, doubt they'll continue their work while back in government, but maybe we should offer these high-profile jobs to bums off the street.
Is that better?
Made a living, Sean Olson corrects, made a living by helping the war machine navigate the contracting process, and before that, selling the Iraq war.
How many more trillions do we have to spend bombing brown people before we get health care?
The horror is that he helped destroy so many societies.
The genocide in Yemen is unforgivable, and so was the Iraq war.
This is a guy who writes for Vox.
This is a real person employed by Vox to write news things.
Dave Dayon tweeted this out.
Read what Blinkland did in between the Obama and Biden administrations, getting rich, working for corporate clients at a pop-up strategic consultancy.
And so this guy, who's a writer for Vox, retweets that and says, Blinken participated in society, the horror.
Wow.
Okay.
Wow.
That's what they call participating in society.
There it is.
Oh, he probably went to journalism school.
That's what it is.
He went to journalism school and so he I don't even know what to say to this.
I mean, there's a lot.
Look, there's a lot of followers to be gotten by pushing that stuff.
Wow.
That's just amazing.
not even going to engage with the pretense of reporting on the new administration.
So they're not even...
He doesn't want you to know.
That guy doesn't want you to know that Joe Biden is filling his cabinet with people directly from the military-industrial complex.
Pro-war mongers, people who have the worst records in the world.
This guy at Vox doesn't think you should know that.
And that's why we have a show.
I can't let this get lost.
The next United States Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, is a new dad.
That's beautiful.
He's a new dad.
It will be inspiring for working parents everywhere to see America's top diplomat in action as he also helps raise two toddlers.
I bet you each of his toddlers has a gold toilet, do you think?
Wow.
Because he has kids.
So because somebody has a kid, they're automatically great people.
Right.
They're virtuous.
He supports U.S. intervention that kills hundreds of thousands of innocent men and children.
And I love this.
Well, if you're going to be picky.
You're going to be picky.
Oh, my God.
The war criminal has children.
So sweet.
Look at how she frames this.
Biden's flow of experienced and qualified cabinet picks are like democracy foreplay.
I can't wait for the orgasm January 20th.
This is that's a real, that's impossible to parody the mentalness of these people.
You can't parody that.
The Onion can't do anything with that.
They can't write anything crazier than that.
Come on, that is ridiculous.
That's real.
That's real.
I like when Rebecca goes, what's really going on here?
Oh my god, Rebecca, I love you!
Hey, former President Barack Obama is calling me again.
Hello.
Hey, man.
You see my 60-minute interview?
Yes, I read about it.
Boy, that's Steve Croft.
Can really ask the tough questions.
You mean Scott Pelley?
Like that, the better.
Did he do it?
Did he do it this time?
Fuck no.
He did something far more important.
He actually let me open up about my new memoir, A Promised Land.
Oh, God.
Wow, right.
In an exclusive interview, these kinds of things just don't happen when folks like me are trying to sell their books.
They usually clam up about it and try to stay away from the press.
I didn't know that.
Yeah, Jimmy.
I literally opened up about all 768 pages.
Volume one covers a young brock growing up in Chicago and ends with the conditional release of Osama bin Laden in the Napa Valley wine cave in California.
Wow, Osama bin Laden is living in California.
If you call doing real estate living, that guy knows about the construction business.
We got a housing crisis going on, Jimmy.
Too many folks aren't pulling up the damn pants to pay their rent.
We need the talent.
And the men man knows the business like nobody's business.
But he was our sworn enemy.
So were those Nazi Germany folks?
But we reached across the aisle.
I'm going to put it up for NASA.
Hear the words, Jimmy.
NASA, Nazi.
Coincidence?
I think not.
Whose idea do you think it was to let Elon Musk into the space station?
At the end of the day, folks are just folks in space.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
We all want the same thing.
Money and complete domination of other folks.
Your first volume is over 700 pages long and glossy.
Guess what I wrote about?
Something completely out of touch with the way real people live, I'm guessing.
I said you think you have a man now.
Well, shut up.
800 years ago, Gangas Khan was boiling people alive and peeling out their skin.
Well, what's your point?
Buy a promised land.
It's a touching, compelling read, dotted with instances of paralyzing self-awareness.
Have we killed some folks?
Why do you think it's appropriate to compare life 800 years ago to the life Americans live today?
Because anything looks better compared to getting your skin peeled and your ass balled alive.
Woo-hoo.
Obama killed my father than me.
Be thankful it's a fucking drone and not some of those folks running around with those gang of folks.
Bin Laden, back me up.
Ladies, take a break.
Mike Trump.
I don't think I want to read your memoir, Brock.
This idea of purity, and you're never compromised.
You should get over that quickly.
Delassie and I killed some folks.
I bet you killed a few folks, too.
Who hasn't?
Buy my new book.
It's got an introduction by Alyssa Milano.
So, hey, guess what, everybody?
Trump administration rushes to sell oil rights in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Trump administration rushes to sell oil rights in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Because why not?
He still has the keys for a few more months.
Why not?
Hey, could someone from QAnon tell me how this is part of the big plan?
This is literally what he's doing.
He loses an election and then he rushes to sell oil rights in an Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
This is the equivalent of Trump farting on the door as he leaves a party.
And by the way, all you people who are still Trumpers, I know he got like 70-some million votes, the largest vote getting of any Republican ever.
So there's a lot of people who are still pro-Trump in the United States.
This is what Trump is doing instead of pardoning Julian Assange.
This is what Trump is doing instead of pardoning Edward Snowden.
This is what he's doing.
Okay, just so you know.
It's the latest push by the Trump administration to auction off development rights in the pristine landscape before president-elect Joe Biden takes office.
So that way Joe Biden doesn't have to do it.
Starting Tuesday, oil and gas companies can pick which parts of Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge they're interested in drilling.
Imagine being that evil.
Just for a second.
Imagine being that evil.
Hey, which beautiful, pristine land do I want to ruin today?
I've got my pick of the litter.
I feel like a kid in a candy store.
The American Petroleum Institute, a national trade association, welcomed the call for nominations, saying in a statement that development in the Arctic refuge is long overdue.
Yes, we've been waiting to ruin this piece of land for a long time.
Finally, we're getting our opportunity just in case society does something about fossil fuels.
The Arctic Refuge Coast Plain is about 1.6 million acres.
It's a place where caribou migrate, polar bears den, and migratory birds feed.
It's also an area believed to hold billions of barrels of untapped oil.
If drilling leases are finalized before Biden takes office, they will be difficult to revoke.
Doubtful Joe Biden would revoke them anyway, but it's a good thing the excuse is there that it's hard to do.
And what does Barack Obama say about this?
Barack Obama says about Trump, this is not normal.
Oh, really?
Can I just tell you, Obama administration approves Arctic drilling.
It's very normal.
This is very normal.
This guy saying what Trump is doing is not normal is a liar of the highest order.
Barack Obama is a war criminal, a liar, and an enemy of workers and the environment because that's what this guy did, and he's a liar.
Either we unify against the corporatocracy or we perish because Donald Trump and Barack Obama are the same.
I know that sounds weird, right?
Huh?
One of them talks a lot nicer.
One of them took us from two wars to seven.
One of them made the banks bigger.
One of them made the banks bigger while kicking 5.1 million families out of their house.
One of them opened the Arctic to drilling twice whenever Shell Oil asked.
One of them gassed immigrants at the border.
One of them put immigrants in cages.
One of them put fracking pipes underneath this country.
One of them let cops crack the heads of peaceful protesters that occupy Wall Street.
One of them let it play out at Dapple.
One of them killed nine out of 10 innocent people with a drone strike constantly, every day.
One of them.
That's normal.
But Trump opening up the Arctic to oil companies isn't normal.
Well, yes, it is normal.
Because that's exactly what Barack Obama did, too.
Barack Obama is, he's different than Trump.
In a lot of ways, he was a worse, a lot worse than Trump in a lot of ways.
Not just one or two.
In a lot of ways.
So what does this leave us?
We have to unite against both of these motherfuckers, the Democrats and the Republicans.
And when I say Democrats, I mean all the Democrats.
I don't, you know, the good one like AOC, who's right now pretending that it's the Republicans who did the CARES Act.
It's the AOC pretending it's the Republicans who did the wars.
AOC being a partisan hack of the highest order and gaslighting people into thinking that the Democrats are actually an opposition party when they're not.
The Democrats are not an opposition party.
The Democrats are not an opposition party.
Just so you know, the Democrats are not an opposition party.
Joe Biden is not in opposition to Donald Trump's policies.
Neither is Nancy Pelosi, by the way.
And they all agree on keeping you away from healthcare.
For what?
For profit.
So someone else can profit while you stay sick and go bankrupt.
That's the problem.
That's why we got Trump because of Barack Obama normalized stuff like this, normalized the banks running our economy, normalized war, normalized making the Bush tax cuts permanent, normalized keeping Guantanamo open, normalized torturing whistleblowers.
Barack Obama did that.
Barack Obama tortured whistleblowers.
He did that.
Barack Obama prosecuted whistleblowers.
He did that.
Everything he said Trump is not normal, he did it.
Barack Obama did it first.
Whatever you say Trump did, he did it first.
Oh, he didn't put it.
He didn't have a Muslim band, though.
Yes, he did.
And B, he bombed the Muslims, which is a little worse than banning them at the airports.
But now you've got AOC running around telling everybody it's the Republicans that are bad as she carries water for Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, and Joe Biden.
That's what AOC is doing right now.
And she's lying to who?
She's not lying to Republicans.
She's lying to her own followers.
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Well, I was out observing International Hat Day.
That's a thing.
A bunch of people left Thanksgiving messages on my analog message machine.
No kidding.
Hi, everybody.
This is Rick Perry, former commander of all the energy of the universe.
And I'm so thankful everyone's forgotten me.
Hey, man, here's the third thing.
This is Joe Biden.
Hey, I thank you for choosing me as your president.
The difficult work up ahead of us will be difficult, but don't lose your heart on.
I promise you all this.
I will be your president for all Americans.
Not just you that voted me for with lamp car camera TV.
That includes racists and fat people here's the thing.
I need some money.
Austerity won't pay for itself.
I know a lot of you are hurting.
But firstly, we have donuts.
This is Herman Kane.
I'd be thankful if somebody told me what in the heck happened.
Seriously, could someone throw me a damn bone here?
I know it wasn't my fault.
That's for Dawn, sure.
Call me back.
It's all free.
And don't load your pizza up with vegetables.
That's for pansies.
Hey, folks, read my new book.
It's got an afterword by Sarah Cooper.
Ha ha ha!
Ha ha ha!
*BEEP*
Hello, Jimmy.
This is David Axurod of the Axe Files.
This Thanksgiving, I am thankful for the latest episode of The Hacks Files because it features the exciting political strategist Paul Bergala, fresh from Hacks on Tap.
Hacks on Tap is where political analysts meet beer.
What's the result?
Find out on the next Hacks on Tap.
We get down and dirty inside the nooks and crannies of the political process.
And don't miss my newest podcast called Electoral Asphyxiation with David Axelrod.
My first asphyxiation is about to drop.
So why don't you and your special lady pour yourselves a glass of my blended artisanal wine, Rose Axelod.
With just a hand of almond, Rose Axarod is an intense and complex state experience, zestfully accented with right notes of kiwi fruit and slightly dampened cardboard.
School.
What's and thirdly?
We need cash for the residential transmission seat.
Secondliness, we owe these tube self-pemmican.
No, I will not take my nap now.
Let go, my arm, before I wrap my chain around your neck.
I'm fine.
Larry, fine.
He was the best of stooges.
Curly got all the laughs, but Larry was the best.
I marched with him and Selma.
My wife's name is Jill Biden, and today's date is November o'clock.
What am I thankful for, you goddamn son of a bitch?
Glad I kicked the bucket before I had to watch another Randy Rainbow's fucking song parody.
Stuff the fucking turkey, you wimp.
Come on.
Crying now?
Is that what you're doing, hush?
Just stuff the bird, you gotta mouth pump-faced brat.
And don't be a freaking cheapskate with the stuffing this time.
As a matter of fact, send me some of the box.
I'm not axing you, I'm telling you.
Stuff your fucking stuffing in the box, put stamp on it, stuff the stuffing box in a mailbox and mail it to me.
I reiterate, stuffing, stuffing in a box, stuff the stuffing box into a big a box stuff with mail and mail.
Don't worry about no preservatives and no frilly shit like that.
I like my stuffing to have a padine on it.
Like a well-aged cheese wheel.
Only this is like a statue made out of fucking stuff and got it.
And be thankful I don't come over there and weasel Oliver Velveeta processed cheese bread, dead meat.
Come on, man.
I'll work as hard for those who didn't vote for me as I will for those who did vote for me.
I'll fight as hard for the selfish hoarding 1%ers who stole trillions from Native Americans while profiting off their suffering as I do for the 99%.
And not only is that undemocratic and against majority rule, it's psychotic.
Wow, I didn't slur my speech once saying that.
Hello?
Hello?
Where is everybody?
Anybody there?
Hello?
God, geez, darn it to heck.
Do y'all know who Aaron Brockovich is?
Y'all know who Aaron Brockovich is?
What was the movie?
What was that called?
That movie that she's.
Can you look it up?
I think it was called Aaron Brockovich.
Was it called Aaron Brockovich?
Are you kidding right now?
The movie.
The movie.
I think it was.
Ha ha ha ha ha.
Aaron Brockovich.
Yeah, it's called Aaron Brockovich the movie.
Right?
I guess so.
Yeah.
So she took on the corporate polluters and she won.
She was played by Julia Roberts.
So that's going to get you.
That's got to be nice when that happens.
Dear Joe Biden, are you kidding me?
This is Eric Brockovich coming at Joe Biden.
Are you kidding me?
She says, The president-elect has tapped the former DuPont consultant to join the Environmental Protection Agency Transition Board.
And she says, Dear Joe Biden, are you kidding me?
And Joe Biden says, No, I'm not kidding.
You're looking at a newly elected Senator Joe Biden.
I got to straightface some of these jokes sometimes.
Dare I say, this is Eric Brockovich talking.
She says, Dare I say, I had hopes this new administration would usher in the dawning of a new day.
No, he said nothing will fundamentally change.
He said that.
Okay.
As picks for president-elect Joe Biden's Environmental Protection Agency transition team were announced.
I felt concerned and disheartened about a chemical industry insider being on the list.
Are you kidding me?
Well, did you dismiss all the fracking pledges he made?
What do you think goes on with that fluid?
Michael McCabe, a former employee of Biden, later jumped ship to work as a consultant on communication strategy for DuPont during a time when the chemical company was looking to fight regulations of their star chemical purofluorocononic acid PFOA known As C8.
Hey, is there an issue where you were fighting for the wrong side?
Oh, we've got a job for you inside the Biden administration.
If Biden's transitional team involved a head of karate, he'd recruit at Cobra Kai.
PFOA pollutes the blood of nearly every American and can pass from mother to unborn child in the womb.
That's what that guy was lobbying for.
This toxic industry product is a stable compound, not easily broken down in the environment or in the human body, giving it the nickname Forever Chemical.
It should go without saying that someone who advised DuPont on how to avoid regulations is not someone we want advising this new administration.
See, Joe, you're confused about who the bad guys are.
This smells of the dawn of the, this smells of the dawn of the same old, to quote the who, meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
You know, the who also said we won't get fooled again, which clearly proves they are not an American band.
The newly elected president says we need to listen to the science.
Are you really listening to the science or are you listening to an industry insider who is controlling the message?
I'm listening to, you know, go vote Trump then.
That's what Joe Biden says to Aaron Brockovich.
Go vote, Trump.
Are we the people supposed to trust a former DuPont man in a transition team tasked with reviewing the chemical safety board?
Is this how the newly elected leadership wants to start what is supposed to be a healing and unifying administration?
Yes.
Yes, it is, Aaron.
Are you not familiar with any of Biden's earlier work?
Because this is right in keeping with it.
This is on brand.
Are we already falling back on the old and antiquated hide and seek, conceal, dodge, and deny leadership?
Or are you going to come out and be the change and hope needed when it comes to the environment?
We elected a guy who's been getting it wrong for 40 years on the environment, and he's 78 years old.
Thank you.
We are in this mess because we continue to do the same thing, Aaron Brockovich says.
For years, I've been trying to impart a simple concept that Superman is not coming.
I call on Joe Biden to do the right thing.
And unfortunately, Aaron, your call went straight to his voicemail, and the cassette tape is full.
We want now, this is our people attacking Aaron Brockovich for pressuring Joe Biden to get a lobbyist out of his cabinet, out of his transition team.
These are people coming at her for this.
We want Aaron Brockovich to be better, not so sure she can be.
Better DuPont to be with us than against us.
That you don't get this is stunning.
148 likes on something like that.
What?
What does that even mean?
We want DuPont to be with us?
What?
That's like saying you want Raytheon to be with us or Exxon to be with us.
Prairie Live does.
That's exactly what Prairie Live wants.
What in the F?
That can't be a person.
That's got to be some kind of corporate pretend.
That's not real.
Here's another one.
Let the man take office.
He can't even do anything yet because of the petulant president of the United States we have now.
Just stop.
What in the guy's staffing up?
The president's not doing.
Joe Biden is staffing up his White House right now.
Wow.
So you see, whenever you say something that makes sense in the United States, this is what happens to you.
There's a troll army out there to say the most ridiculous shit.
There's people who fucking troll me say I shouldn't criticize politicians.
That's what this is.
Don't be a Debbie Downer and hold your elected officials accountable for their actions and the decisions.
Don't do that.
That's yucky.
Okay, it's almost Thanksgiving.
Can't we all just be happy right now that we have a new president, Jimmy?
We should be.
Hey, has Elizabeth Warren called anybody a sexist lately?
Because that's what they do, right?
That's what Elizabeth Warren, that's what they call Bernie sexist, right?
Yeah.
And people still supported her after that.
Police, his decades-long record in politics should have been a warning.
Okay.
Ugh, and it's starting already.
Not you, Aaron.
Damn.
I really expected better.
Nope, not going to let you ruin my day.
Poof, be gone.
That's people coming at Aaron Brockovitz for saying that.
Not you too, Aaron.
How many people are going to tell me how shitty Joe Biden is?
I like having my head in the sand.
Who doesn't love the beach?
What the F?
Again, 179 likes.
Isn't that amazing?
People just want to put their head in the sand.
It's exactly what we said they would do.
And that's what they're doing.
Joe Biden, just as bad as Trump, he's staffing his cabinet with the swamp people.
Nothing but lobbyists and corporate tools.
And people are like, don't do anything about it.
What is starting?
An attempt at accountability?
Oh, the horror.
And the armchair quarterbacking begins.
Love you, what you stand for, Aaron Brockovich, but let Joe Biden do his job.
This is not helpful.
Yeah, people shouldn't have an opinion on elected officials.
It's not like the elected officials are supposed to work for us or anything.
Why don't you guys just be quiet?
What is that?
What is 99 likes?
Now you know why America's in the place where it is.
Aaron Brockovich says this is not armchair quarterbacking.
I've spent my life in the trenches and have the have the compromised immune system to prove it.
Making sure even our friends know we are watching is important.
No administration has done enough to protect our water, and I'd like this one to be different.
900 likes.
So that's encouraging.
Ryan Knight says, hashtag Blue Maga is now going after Aaron Brockovich for writing an important article calling out Joe Biden for hiring a DuPont consultant for his EPA transition board.
We don't have two parties in America anymore.
We have two cults who defend anything their leaders do, Even when it's wrong, okay.
Thank you, Aaron Brockovich, and thank you, all the asswipe Democrat stands.
I look forward to them making a video about us criticizing Joe Biden for this.
I hope they do.
I hope, though.
It always bumps me up if I get up and like, oh, nobody did a bad faith attack video about me in the last at least three days now.
Man, I'm losing it.
I'm losing it.
You know what happens is, as I went gray, I fucking hate the gray.
But people think it looks okay.
I just, some people I see, like under a video, somebody had tweeted out a snippet video of me.
And underneath somebody was like, holy shit, that guy aged like 20 years.
I was like, I just stopped dying my hair.
I just stopped dying my hair.
That's all I did.
My skin's still pretty tight.
I put on the oilable layer.
I think it does look good, Jimmy.
My hair?
Yeah.
That's very sweet of you.
So I want to remind everybody what's going on.
There's a war on actual journalism, not fake journalism like Jim Acosta, where you be an there's a real journalist, Julian Assange, and people don't realize what Julian Assange.
I have to remind you what Julian Assange is being prosecuted for, not for anything to do with the 2016 election or Russia or Trump.
No.
What is Julian Assange being prosecuted for?
For revealing war crimes of the United States.
That's what this is about.
It's not about Russia.
It's not about WikiLeaks' emails with the Trump campaign.
Nothing.
It's got nothing to do with that.
This is about prosecuting Julian Assange for printing articles that expose war crimes.
Just like the government of the United States under Barack Obama tortured Chelsea Manning over the same thing, they're doing that to Julian Assange right now.
So now they're prosecuting him.
And the hearing is farcical.
The press, the way the press.
So the press is being prosecuted by governments and the press won't even cover it.
Why?
Because the press is owned by the oligarchs who are prosecuting him.
The same people who are prosecuting him own the media.
Why are they prosecuting him?
Because he upsets the war machine, which is worth trillions of dollars every year.
They also own the news media.
So that's why they're giving him horrible coverage.
Assange is waiting to find out if he will be extradited to the United States to face charges of conspiring to obtain and disclose classified documents passed to him by former U.S. Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning.
U.S. corporate media have buried coverage of Wikileaks founders Julian Assange's extradition hearing in the UK, despite it being the media's trial of the century.
But even in the scarce coverage that does exist on this unprecedented case with immense implications for freedom of expression, one would hardly get the impression that the United States and the British governments are involved in an illegal conspiracy in violation of their own laws to punish Assange for the crime of journalism.
That's what's happening.
The United States of the UK are violating their own laws to prosecute a journalist, and journalists aren't even fucking saying anything.
That's how the United States gets into the position we're in.
That's how I get to have a popular show because guys like Jake Tapper don't have the, will never tell you the truth about Julian Assange and WikiLeaks, ever.
Julian Assange, campaigner or attention sinker.
That's when the BBC does this.
So the entirety of Western media does complete smears of an actual journalist because the media is bought.
And then someone from the BBC goes to interview the president of Azerbaijan and accuses them of not being fair and having fair and free press.
Watch what happens.
Why do you think that people in Azerbaijan do not have free media and opposition?
Because this is what I'm told by independent sources in this country.
Fresh independent sources.
Many independent sites.
Tell me which.
I certainly couldn't name sources.
Oh, if you couldn't name that.
So here, let's play.
Let's play it from the stop.
So she's accusing them of not having a free and independent press.
And he says, who told you this?
And she goes, sources.
Why do you think that people in Azerbaijan do not have free media and opposition?
Because this is what I'm told by independent sources in this country.
Fresh independence.
Many independent sites.
Tell me which.
I certainly couldn't name sources.
Oh, if you couldn't name that, it means that you're just inventing this story.
So you're saying the media is not under state control?
Not at all.
Yeah, it is allowed, of course.
I mean, NGOs are the subject of a crackdown.
Journalists are the subject of a crackdown.
Not at all.
Critics are in jail.
None of this is true.
Absolutely fake.
Absolutely.
We have free media.
We have free internet.
No, just for you, just so you know, everything she just accused this guy of doing, and I don't know if Azerbaijan, I don't know the inner workings of their country.
Maybe he's doing that.
Maybe they're not.
I don't know.
But I do know this.
Everything she's accusing him and his government of doing to journalists, the United States and the West and UK have done.
That's exactly what they're doing right now.
That's exactly what Barack Obama did to journalists.
He cracked down on critics of the government.
That's what she's accusing Azerbaijan of doing right now.
That's what exactly the United States did.
And watch how he catches her.
The number of internet users in Azerbaijan is more than 80%.
Can you imagine the restriction of media in a country where the internet is free, there is no censorship, and there are 80% of internet users.
This is, again, a biased approach.
This is an attempt to create a perception in Western audience about Azerbaijan.
We have opposition, we have NGOs, we have free political activity, we have free media, we have freedom of speech.
But if you raise this question, can I ask you also one?
How do you assess what happened to Mr. Assange?
Is it a reflection of free media in your country?
Let's talk about Assange.
How many years, sorry, how many years he spent in Ecuadorian embassy?
And for what?
And where is he now?
For journalistic activity.
You kept that person hostage, actually killing him morally and physically.
You did it, not us, and now he's in prison.
So you have no moral right to talk about free media when you do these things.
Returning to the conflict.
Yeah, better return to the country because this is not what you like.
You like only to accuse, only to attack.
Thank you.
Now, the point of this, of me showing you this, isn't to show you what a good guy he is or what a great government they have in Azerbaijan.
The point is to show you that the exact thing that the West accuses other people Of doing, we have done in spades and are currently doing the worst thing in the world, prosecute and persecute journalists and critics of the government.
That's what we do in the United States and Britain.
That's what they do.
Thank you.
That's what they do.
They got no leg to stand on.
Do you understand that now?
Do you understand how we can't call so when somebody in the United States calls Putin a thug for the way they treat journalists?
You go, what?
You guys have been prosecuting journalists since forever.
What are you doing to Julian Assange?
Didn't you torture Chelsea Manning?
What about all those whistleblowers that Barack Obama used the Espionage Act against?
And he says, what?
So you got, yeah, you don't want to talk about that.
You want to talk about, you got no moral leg to stand on.
Tell you pointing the finger about Azerbaijan and the way we treat journalists.
You guys are currently torturing a guy, trying to kill him for doing journalism.
And you're going to come to my country and tell us how to, how we should do it.
Thank you.
Julian Assange locked down in prison after COVID outbreak.
But by the way, can I just tell you this?
So this, Julian Assange, campaigner or attention seeker.
That's from the BBC.
Yeah, totally.
That's what this is all about.
He wants attention.
Can I just tell you, people who want attention start a podcast or an Instagram or a TikTok.
They don't spend years in prison in solitary confinement for doing their jobs.
But then again, Julian Assange did defend a Royal Navy whistleblower who exposed security problems at Britain's Trident nuclear base.
So I guess that's kind of a TikTok.
You've heard of Shoot the Messenger.
The Julian Assange case is imprisoning the messenger, torturing the messenger, smearing the messenger so the public isn't outraged, and then make the messenger vulnerable to COVID.
After an outbreak of COVID-19 cases in Julian Assange's wing of Belmars prison, Assange was placed into lockdown.
Lawyers for Assange told a London court earlier this year that he has an underlying lung condition that makes him a high-risk patient.
Assange is waiting to find out if he will be extradited to the United States to face charges of conspiring to obtain and disclose classified documents passed to him by former U.S. Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning.
A London judge is going to issue a ruling on January 4th.
But the NFL player stood up for Colin Kaepernick more than journalists are standing up for Julian Assange.
And nobody put Colin Kaepernick in solitary confinement.
The corporate media's complicity around Julian Assange proves that they will be complicit in covering anything for the elite.
Anything.
It's a sad state of affairs when those who steal from the working class get rewarded.
And those who publish things to expose them get put in jail.
So it's just a mess.
I don't know.
It's just, here we are.
This is totally about Julian Assange wanting attention.
Okay, so there you go.
That's what happens when the BBC tries to point the finger at another country's leader about the way they deal with the press.
I want to play that again.
I want to.
How do you assess what happened to Mr. Assange?
Is it a reflection of free media in your country?
Let's talk about Assange.
How many years, sorry, how many years he spent in Ecuadorian embassy?
And for what?
And where is he now?
For journalistic activity.
You kept that person hostage, actually killing him morally and physically.
You did it, not us.
And now he's in prison.
So you have no moral right to talk about free media when you do these things.
Returning to the conflict.
Yeah, better return to the country because this is not what you like.
You like only to accuse how easy it is to humiliate and embarrass a Western journalist.
How easy is it?
It's super easy.
I do it here on a daily basis.
How easy is it to do a better job than a Western journalist?
Super easy.
Super easy.
Even the ones who are the good journalists are willing to do propaganda at the drop of a fucking hat.
Guys like Glenn Greenwald have the guts to walk away from a cushy job to tell the truth to not be part of censorship in the aid of the oligarchs.
And of course, the YouTube shows that screamed the loudest Russiagate, which made this censorship environment possible, I'm going to guess also are wrong about Glenn Greenwald.
I'm going to guess.
Thanks for the lane, I guess.
It would be nicer if we had allies fighting on the left, but the people who consider themselves on the left, if you side with the intercept over Glenn Greenwald and you're a Russiagator and you attack Trump from the right, I got news for you.
You're not on the left.
You're not on the left.
I got news for you.
You might say you are, but your actions betray you.
You're a right-winger when it comes to foreign policy.
You're a right-winger when it comes to freedom of the press.
You're a right-winger when it comes to censorship.
You're a right-winger when it comes to the Democratic Party.
You're for them.
They're a right-wing party.
You're a bunch of fucking right-wingers.
It's not easy to outleft those people.
I do it on a daily basis over here.
That's why we get a lot of hate because whatever you outleft someone drives them fucking nuts.
And of course, we do it in a more entertaining way than they do.
This is from Action for Assange.
Thank you for covering Julian Assange's extraordinary rendition.
The judge concierge to the State Department, is scheduled to rule on his extradition January 4th.
Soon, we'll be announcing our protest plans for January 3rd and 4th.
Keep it up.
Thank you.
And keep us informed about those actions.
Really appreciate you.
Thank you so much.
Hey, Jeb Bush is calling me.
Hello.
Oh, hi, Jimmy.
What's the matter now, Jeb?
Nothing.
Come on.
I can tell by your tone that something's wrong, Jeb.
What is it?
Oh, gosh, darn it.
I congratulated Joe Biden one day before my stupid brother did.
Nobody noticed.
Is that fair?
Well, I don't know, Jeb.
You were never president, though.
Oh, seriously?
Why do people keep bringing that up?
There's a lot you don't know about me.
I have special powers, not talk to spirits.
Joe Biden's going to give me that master ship.
Hey, you know, there's a lot more to that phone call, but we don't have time in today's podcast.
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Today's show was written by Ron Placone, Mark Van Landowitz, Def Zamarano, Jim Earl, Mike McRae, and Roger Rittenhouse.
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That's it for this week.
You be the best you can be, and I'll keep being me.
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