Get ready for an outstanding entertainment program.
The Jimmy Dore show.
Hey, Bernie Sanders is calling me.
Hello.
Jimmy Dore.
Before you start with the usual bullshit, I want you to know that during today's inauguration, I wore my signature beige parker and a pair of very warm-looking mittens.
For God's sake, will you let me finish?
Go ahead.
I'm sorry, Bernie.
I also want to inform you that they are made from repurposed wool sweaters and lined with fleece made from recycled plastic bottles.
The sensible fit is drawing praise from viewers across the country.
So you can also suck on that if you like.
You look good today, Bernie.
Why don't you blow it out your ass smart, Alec?
I also noticed you were the only one there who was genuinely socially distancing himself.
Well, there was the other way around.
Everyone there hates me.
I really don't know why.
Haven't I done enough for these numbers?
And now they want me to withhail their germs, too?
That's where I draw the line.
Let them get death leo for a stupid photo up with goth fucking Brooks.
Can you imagine what it must be like to be Chris Christie and lose your sense of taste?
We're all glad you're taking care of yourself, Bernie.
Really?
You can wrap that up and stick it somewhere, young man.
Listen up, but listen good.
I want you to shut your damn pie hole at least long enough for me to make my point clearly and completely.
Understood?
Now get ready and sit your fat ass down because here it comes.
I'm about to flap my arms for emphasis.
And once that starts, there's no stopping me.
Seriously, I have to take bills for that.
All right, go ahead, Bernie.
I am delighted.
Delighted to learn that Joe Biden is going to cancel the Keystone Pipeline Burbit on his first day in office.
With all of the major crises facing America, we must never lose sight of the most existential threat facing our planet, climate change.
Hey, that's great.
And how come he refuses to ban fracking?
And how come you refuse to shut the fuck up?
Thanks a lot.
I think I just want my rotating cup.
Look, I'm a very strong advocate of the Green New Deal.
I like the Green New Deal.
But the Green New Deal and I have some differences.
It is imperative the Democrats pass a new, bold, and aggressive economic agenda within the first 100 days within the context of what Joe Biden wants.
And what does he want?
What does Joe Biden want?
For me to work within the context of what he wants.
And is that what you want?
I want what he wants, but within the context of what he wants new.
What's new?
Nothing much.
What's new with you?
Get it?
What's new with you?
Expect more of this kind of mirth or joviality, at least until we lose the midterms two years from now.
That's all Bernie's got for now.
It's time for my goddamn nap.
Yep.
Establishment media sets of artists light and so good bullshit they can't afford commenting this boat comedy who speeds and jumps comedy come and hit some head-on It's the Jim Door show Hi, everybody.
Welcome to this week's Jimmy Dore show.
Hey, let's get to the jokes before we get to the joke, shall we?
Breaking, Lil Wayne gets Lil Pardon.
Hello, I'm Jimmy Dore, and I'm keeping my suitcase packed in anticipation of the upcoming Tom Cotton presidency.
Hey, have you heard Walmart has announced they will significantly cut salt, sugar, and fats in their food department?
How?
By moving them into their pharmacy.
Come on.
Come on.
It's goddamn Walmart.
Hey, everybody.
I know that waiting for incremental change is frustrating, but you have to wait for increments incrementally.
That's just the way it rolls.
Hey, did you hear Bill Gates has now become the biggest owner of farmland in America?
Yes.
Well, say hello to beige food, ladies and gentlemen.
Hey, here's something Martin Luther King Jr. never said.
I've seen the promised land.
I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will leverage existing mechanisms to deliver material benefits incrementally to the people.
I know.
It's funny.
It is funny, but it's not necessarily funny in that way.
Hey, what's coming up on today's Jimmy Door show?
Well, inauguration day, the Biden era begins.
The candidate who promised nothing will fundamentally change is now president of a nation where everything needs to fundamentally change.
Democrats won't be getting a COVID relief bill to the floor until March.
And that's fine.
Democrats promised $2,000 checks, and now the Georgia voters feel betrayed.
That's fine.
Hey, are progressives going to pressure Joe Biden and the Democratic Party leadership?
The answer just might surprise you.
Or will it?
Plus, phone calls from Bernie Sanders, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, and CNN's Jake Tapper.
That plus a lot lot more on today's Jimmy Dore show.
We're here.
We're joined now live.
We're drawn live via the internet with the host of Get Your News Out with Rod.
It's Rod Blacode.
Hi, Rod.
Howdy, howdy, Jimmy.
Happy inauguration day.
Hope your brunch was spectacular.
I had my usual scrambled eggs on toast, of course, but made with my own technique.
Nobody, well, actually, Julia Child's technique.
Have I ever made...
Go ahead.
No, I was just going to say I had spaghetti with the cat.
It's a typical day for me.
Ron, I get these noodles.
I should send some to you.
These noodles, I get them up.
Well, you live by little Italy, but these come from Italy.
Big carbon footprint, I know.
But they're called a taglioni, and they're like, they're like, they're like a popperdell, but they're skinnier, like a lot as fat.
And they have lemon in them, and they come right all the way from, I think, Tuscany.
Oh, my God.
And you only cook them for like two minutes.
That sounds amazing.
You gave me something.
I don't know if it's like a similar, like if it comes from the same place, but you gave me, I think it was a wheat pasta.
Oh, yeah, Bucatini.
Yeah, and it was one of those, it was a similar scenario where it's like it was very fresh and you just cooked it for like a couple minutes and it was done.
Yeah, that was excellent.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Fresh pasta cooks like that.
Anyway, I've been eating a lot more pasta because I'm gaining weight again.
I'm getting weight.
Oh, you are.
Because all that goddamn pasta I've been eating.
Yeah, I'm steering clear of that.
I know.
I just started eating pasta like crazy this last two weeks, just twice a day eating pasta.
That pasta is so delicious, Jimmy.
So delicious.
It does taste like fresh pasta.
And I get this special olive oil, Ron.
I should send you this olive oil, too.
It's amazing.
I make a pesto with it.
Yeah, I see the pictures, man.
I'm always impressed by your culinary flexes.
I'm like, well, I got to get in the kitchen and make something, man.
Jimmy's chefing it up over at his place.
I got to make something for the wife.
I got to show up here.
I do live in Little Italy.
You do live.
I'm telling you, I follow Marcella Hassan's pesto recipe to a tea, and I use the special olive oil.
Comes all the way from Italy, special.
They pick them a month ahead of time.
So it's, oh, anyway, it's the best.
You know how when you make a pesto and if you leave it out, it starts to oxidize and turn dark color.
It doesn't this olive oil doesn't turn.
You can leave the pesto out all fucking day.
It won't turn color.
Jeez, dude.
Yeah.
I don't know what's going on.
All right.
All right.
Let's get to the, we're going to talk about Georgia first because there's a betrayal happening.
A betrayal.
Georgia voters enraged after Democrats' promise of $2,000 checks becomes a $1400 check under Biden's stimulus because Georgia voters, like most Americans, understand numbers.
They get.
They get what's happening.
Only in the U.S. would they not only make regular payments to not would they only not make regular payments to people during a pandemic and an economic collapse, but they're going to nickel and dime the crumbs that they do throw us.
That's amazing.
It is remarkable.
Well, here's what's happening.
President-elect Joe Biden released his long-awaited stimulus proposal that contained an inauspicious provision for millions of Americans expecting additional $2,000 stimulus checks.
Instead of that long-promised amount, Biden's proposal only calls for an additional $1,400 in stimulus because he already got what he wanted from you.
That's why.
Why aren't you getting what he promised you?
Because he already got your vote.
That's how, Jesus Christ.
I don't know.
I might be able to push my $1,400 left.
Do you think we can do that?
Push it up to $2,000.
They really underestimate just how much people are hurting economically, a Georgia voter said, referring to Democrats who he views as reneging on their word because they're reneging on their word.
It's not that they understood, it's not that the Democrats are underestimating how much people are really hurting.
They're not even estimating it.
They don't give a shit about how much people are hurting.
George Carlin wasn't kidding 10 years ago when he told everybody they don't give a shit about you because they don't.
They don't.
All right.
Let's remember: politics attracts the most mediocre and narcissistic of people.
And that's who is in politics.
Okay.
Democrats on the campaign trail repeatedly re-referenced $2,000 checks during the final stages of the Senate runoff, seizing upon the populist issue after President Donald Trump, after Jimmy Dorr went on Tucker Carlton, and then President Donald Trump threatened to veto the most recent stimulus package in part over a professed belief that the $600 payments were not generous enough.
And there was no, there's no, by the way, Democrats on the campaign trail repeatedly referenced $2,000 checks, and they didn't reference a $2,000 check with an asterisk, meaning, oh, minus the $600 you already gotta, but it's really fine.
They didn't do that.
Trump quickly buckled and signed the stimulus into law.
Democrats, sensing a golden opportunity in a winning issue, continued their pitch for $2,000 checks.
Rachel Kahn is a left-wing organizer from Atlanta, Georgia.
She reluctantly voted for Biden and is generally skeptical of the Democratic Party as a vehicle for progress.
Khan said the expectation for Georgia voters was that Biden and the two winning Senate candidates had sincerely promised them $2,000 checks.
I would confidently say their messaging said an additional $2,000, not $2,000 minus $600, she told Mediite.
The check is in this campaign ad sure doesn't effing read $1,400.
So there it is.
There's a campaign ad.
There it is.
You want a $2,000 check?
It doesn't say you want a $2,000 check.
Minus a $600.
It says you want a $2,000 check.
Biden, build back better.
Rogilio Lenares from Atlanta canvassed innumerable Georgia voters as part of One Service Industries Union's massive outreach program on behalf of the Democratic Party during the Senate runoff.
I was on the ground and I knocked on over a thousand doors.
At the doors, I was literally telling people $2,000 checks.
You can rely on this.
I'm a man of principle and morals, and I feel like shit.
I lied to them.
I was lying to them the whole time.
I was lying to people that were relying on this.
At that time, I didn't know it was a lie, but that was not the reality.
Now they're going to come to this guy's house looking for an extra 600 bucks.
Lenares consistently reiterated that many Georgia voters feel taken advantage and crestfallen because there's essentially nothing they can do about the Democratic Party's abrupt reversal on the amount of direct aid currently being proposed.
I know people are pissed off about it, Lenares continued.
People are very mad about it.
We are so on our knees as a country.
We don't have much leverage.
The working class small businesses who are getting hammered, I'm pissed off.
Everybody's pissed off.
Union workers are pissed off.
It's sad.
It's absurd.
It's disgusting.
But there's not much people can do.
Well, I hope he realizes that he's committing violence when he gets pissed off like that.
You're not supposed to get pissed off at people in government because that is violence.
That's what I learned.
This is pretty much a betrayal of the working class, he said.
Here is Casey Hunt.
Remember when Casey Hunt tweeted out?
Joe Biden wouldn't say if he's talked to Mitch McConnell.
I'm just struck by the reality that we'll now have a president who, as a rule, doesn't lie, even when it might be easier.
That's why we have a job, Ron.
That's why we're able to make that's why we have a show.
There it is right there at 14,000 likes.
And these people want to ban QAnon.
These are the people who are saying other people are naive morons who are gullible.
Well, have you seen the people who are defending Joe Biden and everyone on this where they're just like, look, clearly, clearly that's what they meant.
They meant that in addition to the 600, you're going to get 1,400 more.
That's how math works.
What's wrong with you?
And it's like, look, they clearly campaigned on $2,000.
And also, can we back up a little bit and just reiterate how criminal it is that we haven't had an emergency UBI since the pandemic has started and pretty much every other country has?
Yeah, I keep saying it on this show over and over that no other country is doing it like this.
We're the only major Western country that is not providing Medicare for all single-payer health care to its own people during this time.
And we're one of the only, we're the only Western country not giving people a direct UBI during when we shut down your business.
In Japan, they're giving people 100%, 75%, 80% in Europe, UK, France, Spain, Canada, everybody has healthcare.
Everybody's getting a UBI.
And that's why a lot of people in Canada think I'm a little too angry because they already have their UBI and they already have healthcare.
Of course, it's easy not to be angry when you already have the shit I'm fighting for.
What the fuck?
Yeah, so there you go.
Remember, Joe Biden, he's a man of his word.
We owe these truths to be self-evident.
Oh, men and women created by the go, you know the thing.
I'll never get over this guy mouthing the words with him.
And then, as soon as Joe, he just puts his head down in shame as soon as he stopped watching.
We owe these truths to be self-evident.
Oh, men and women created by the go, you know, you know the thing.
He just knew it.
He just knew it.
All right.
We're almost at it.
So I think that's a great way.
So the Democrats are on their way to losing the midterms.
That's what that is.
When you promise people $2,000 to come out and vote for you, they come out and vote for you, and then you short them by $600.
That's how you lose a midterm.
Well, if they pull the same stunts that they did, you know, I mean, the last time we were in this situation, as we all know, it was when Obama got in and they had the House and the Senate and they gave us Mitt Romney's health care plan, and then the midterms were pretty brutal.
If they try anything like that again, it will be 10 times worse.
Because guess what?
The one big difference right now is that people aren't asleep this time.
You know, this isn't like Barack Obama comes in and everybody likes him and he's super popular and everyone falls back to sleep.
No, Joe Biden is not as popular.
He's certainly not as well spoken.
And we're in a pandemic.
So people are really eager for some solution.
So yeah, I mean, if they pull the same thing they pulled in 2008 to 2010, I mean, the midterms are going to be I mean, yeah, Republicans are going to have a field day.
It's going to be group.
So you're saying if when you say if they pull, I mean the Democratic Party, when they had complete control of government, they govern just like right-wing Republicans anyway.
They took us from two wars to seven.
They made the banks bigger while kicking 5.1 million families out of their house.
Darack Obama deported more Hispanics than all the presidents combined since 1890.
Trump didn't even come close to deporting as many as he did.
Barack Obama built those cages.
He put those kids in.
Barack Obama gassed immigrants at the border.
He opened the Arctic to drilling twice.
There's fracking pipes underneath this country because he got rid of the regulations against it.
I could go on and on and on.
His whole cabinet came from Citigroup.
I mean, Occupy Wall Street.
He crushed them.
He got rid of his movement that supported him into the White House.
He disbanded them.
I can go on and on and on.
He covered the greatest hits.
I mean, yeah, he never put that comfortable shoe on.
He never put that comfortable shoe on.
He was going to put on a comfortable shoe and go join picket line people on a picket line.
He wouldn't even mention a picket line.
Not only would he not put on a soft shoe and go march with them, he wouldn't even mention picket lines.
Do you remember how he wouldn't mention the Wisconsin teacher strike?
Yeah, the teachers.
He was supposed to march with them.
No, he didn't march with them.
No.
And then we got Mitt Romney's health care plan.
And then we got Mitt Romney.
Look at how that worked out.
And we didn't even get a public option, which he again promised he would not sign a healthcare plan without a public option.
And then he signed a healthcare plan without a public option.
When they had complete control of government, like they do now.
So they have complete control of government.
Oh, by the way, I don't know if you saw Jake Uger tweeted out that they have to push for Medicare now.
He's like, now you don't have any excuses.
It's like, what the fuck?
Anyway, so you're going to see a lot of full progressives pretend to be pushing the Democrats and the progressives now that they have no power.
So now all their leverage is gone.
They've re-elected Nancy Pelosi as speaker.
And now you're going to see a lot of pretend force-to-vote shit because they don't have the leverage they did.
So we'll see going forward, but you're going to see a lot of people.
So Ron, you know that they're not even going to have a stimulus bill on Joe Biden's desk until March, right?
I saw that.
Yeah, that's what they're speculating, which, you know, I guess we'll just all chill out, catch up on Netflix until then.
It'll be just fine.
No, Ron, what's the proper response to that?
Now, we're supposed to nice them into doing something, right?
Yeah, I mean, I think like polite tweets just saying like, hey, could we maybe speed this up a little bit?
And if not, I don't know, maybe send a fruit basket or something.
Yeah, maybe send some gifts and stuff.
And then when they don't do it, you know, just keep doing that.
That's how politics works, Ron.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
I've been inspired all day.
Hey, this is Jimmy.
Who's this?
Jimmy, it's Jake Tamper.
Ah, yes, from the lead with Jake Tapper on CNN.
From the lead with Jake Tamper on CNN.
Right, right.
The lead.
Yes, go on.
Yes, go on.
Oh, right.
Jimmy, I wanted to call on this holiest of American days, inauguration day, and express how humbled I am by the experience of having watched Joe Biden and Kamala Harris be sworn in as president and vice president, respectively.
Is that so?
Yes.
Seeing this seamless, peaceful transition of power play out as it always has, despite the destabilizing events of January 6th, shows just how powerful our democracy really is and the truths and ideals that undergird that democracy.
Truths and ideals that are truly larger than any one man or woman.
Uh-huh.
Jimmy, I also have to remark on the palpable sense of relief that was felt all over Washington, D.C. And I suspect the entire nation that Donald Trump is no longer the most powerful man in the world.
Yeah, now it's Joe Biden.
Hallelujah, right?
Hallelujah indeed.
Hosanna in the highest.
Oh, God.
You know, I suspect it will probably take months, perhaps a year, maybe even until the coronavirus is firmly under control, until the American people are going to be able to truly process the trauma that they've been through over the past four years.
You think so, huh?
Unequivocally.
Having a president who routinely spewed hateful, racist, misogynist language, demonized political opponents, spread lies and misinformation so aggressively that the results nearly ended up tearing our democracy asunder.
These are things that I have not experienced in my professional career or even my lifetime.
Hey, how's Joe Biden going to make things better?
And simply the idea that the White House is now inhabited by a man whose heart and very soul are undeniable.
Jesus.
That itself is a comfort.
His sense of empathy.
His love for others bleeds out of his pores and informs every decision he makes.
How is he going to make things better?
Contrast that with the previous occupant.
Foul demon of a man, soulless, animated by an ancient evil from the very pits of Babylon, whose name Has not been uttered for 100 centuries.
Jake, how?
Oh, I'm sorry.
I'm bloviating.
Did you want to ask me something?
Yes, Jake.
How is Joe Biden going to make things better exactly?
I don't know.
Love or some shit.
Who cares?
Well, Jake, I'm so glad that you have such a rosy picture of the future, but.
Excuse me?
Rosy future.
Jimmy, I am scared shitless.
What?
Why?
Because you see Joe Biden's fundamental inability to rise to the moment?
No dipshit.
Because I'm a CNN anchor looking down the barrel of a Trump-free future.
Yeah, what?
Look, asshole.
Each one of us on this network starts every show with a 15-minute philippin against Donald Trump.
Then we have guests on just to add to the chorus.
We have no other point of view than Trump is bad.
And we thought he was going to win again, so we didn't bother to figure out another point of view.
Jimmy, we are fucked.
Are you serious?
Dude, Don Lemon has been drunk since 10 a.m.
Anderson Cooper is doing that thing where he laughs and cries at the same time.
Erin Burnett, who has multiple personalities, has reverted to her core identity, mean girl at summer camp, and is running around giving interns wet willies and Indian burns.
Point being, I highly recommend tuning in tonight.
Yeah, I'm sorry.
I didn't realize.
Yeah, that's why I'm trying to get my final licks in.
I'm literally comparing Donald Trump to an ancient Mesopotamian demon, for Christ's sakes.
Hey, here's an idea.
How about you hold the incoming administration's feet to the fire, Jake?
Yeah, man, nothing going.
We're supposed to talk about him like he's grief Santa or whatever.
That's from the cops.
Besides, anything controversial, he's just going to have Kamala Harris roll out for him.
Well, then criticize her.
That's funny.
That's a good one.
What's so funny, Jake?
Look, Jimmy, I remember early on in Obama's first term, I criticized something he did.
And Jimmy, somebody called me a racist.
And I am not going to go through that again.
Thank you very much.
So no one over at CNN has any kind of spine?
Hey, man, I...
Brian Stelter is naked and smearing margarine on non-food items again.
He does that when he's abjectly terrified.
I'll talk to you later, Jimmy.
All right.
Tough times over at CNN in the post-Trump era.
Hey, President Biden assumes office at a time when our nation is facing a crisis that demands urgent action.
Starting today, the president will take decisive actions to address these challenges, prevent other harms, and restore America's place in the world.
That's from the White House's account.
That's on the day.
There it is, January 20th.
I just want to let you know that Joe Biden is a war-mongering maniac with blood on his hands.
He's a war criminal.
And if you think he's going to do anything good on foreign policy, you are wrong.
He is a tool of the military-industrial complex, and he's going to overthrow democratically elected socialist governments.
Like which one?
Like the one in Venezuela.
The one that Trump wanted to overthrow?
So does Biden.
Isn't that weird?
Almost like professional wrestling, where they all work for the same guy.
Biden will recognize Juan Guaido as Venezuela's leader.
He's going to recognize Juan Guaido.
Juan Guaido's not even in the fucking government anymore, right?
Right.
A CIA puppet, Juan Guaido.
U.S. President-elect Joe Biden's administration will continue to recognize Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido as the South American country's president.
Anthony Blinken, Biden's nominee for Secretary of State, said on Tuesday.
Blinken told a member of the U.S. Senate, well, I'll show you what he said in a second.
Here's Ben Norton.
Ben Norton says, Biden promised nothing will fundamentally change, and he meant it.
His administration will keep recognizing unelected right-wing coup puppet Juan Guaido as a fake president of Venezuela.
This is even after this clown lost his seat in the National Assembly.
Guys, let's not be too hard on Biden when it comes to foreign policy.
He's only had 40 years to get his shit together.
The European Union no longer recognizes Juan Guaido as Venezuela's interim president.
That was back in July.
No, I'm sorry.
That was not July.
That was January 7th.
So the European Union is done with Juan Guaido.
Joe Biden still knows he's our guy.
Ajuma Baraka says, hey, I thought Democrats were supposed to be the smart ones, like the characters in the West Wing show.
Surely this was said just to get Blinken confirmed.
He cannot be that dumb.
Guaido is supported by 3% of the population, and even the Europeans dumped him.
But the United States government doesn't care.
They don't care.
Here is our new Secretary of State.
This is at his confirmation hearing.
This is Tony Blinken, Antony.
Watch what he says about Venezuela.
Now, you know, Venezuela, right?
You know, they're a socialist government.
So immediately America has to overthrow them because we want them to be capitalists and we want to be able to exploit them and exploit their natural resources.
So Venezuela is keeping, they have more oil than Saudi, you know, the joke I used to tell is they have more oil than Saudi Arabia in Venezuela.
And as soon as I found that out, I knew it was just a matter of time before we had to bring their people some democracy.
And you think I'm kidding?
Let's listen to him.
Here's Joe Biden, Secretary of State.
Which agree with you, Senator, first of all, with regard to a number of the steps that were taken toward Venezuela in recent years, including recognizing Mr. Guaido, recognizing the National Assembly as the only democratically elected institution in Venezuela,
seeking to increase pressure on the regime, led by a brutal dictator in Maduro, as well as to try to work with some of our allies and partners.
The hard part is that for all of those efforts, which I support, we obviously have not gotten the results that we need.
And one of the things I would really welcome doing, if confirmed, is to come and talk some of that through with you and with others on this committee because we need an effective policy that can restore Venezuela to democracy, starting with free and fair elections.
Did you hear that, Rod?
They got to restore Venezuela to democracy.
Yeah.
Starting with free and fair elections.
You know how Democrats love to run free and fair elections.
You know how maybe they'll give them an app that they use in Iowa to help them count the votes.
Maybe they'll.
That's one of the very typical war is peace moments.
Yes.
Yeah.
Maybe they'll have Debbie Wasserman Schultz go down there and run their primaries for them.
This is the guy.
This is the guy that Joe Biden is putting in as Secretary of State.
He sounds just like John Bolton.
Does he not sound like John Bolton, Ron?
He's John Bolton in more words.
Yeah.
Like he's kind of, I mean, John Bolton does not.
John Bolton is not subtle with his warmongery.
This guy, you know, dresses it up a little more.
He's saying the exact same things.
He's just taking longer to say.
Yes.
There it is.
He was talking to Marco Rubio.
That's who he was talking to that whole time.
I'd like to come back and work with you to try to overthrow a democratically elected socialist government.
I like to work with Republicans and any other crazy neocon corporate tools.
I'd love to work with you, too.
You're a lunatic?
Me too.
Bipartisanship.
Bipartisanship.
Breaking Biden state.
Biden state pick says U.S. Embassy will remain in Jerusalem.
What do you think of that?
You remember all the shit people gave Trump for doing that?
And rightly so?
Turns out Biden's exactly the same.
Isn't that wild?
Well, I mean, we know his most honest thing on the campaign trail.
Nothing will fundamentally change.
Nothing's fundamentally changing.
President-elect Joe Biden will not reverse Donald Trump's negotiation of Jerusalem as Israel's capital, but will seek a state for the Palestinians.
Antony Blinken in his nominee for Secretary said Tuesday.
There it is.
So nothing is fundamentally changing, everybody.
I hope you understand this.
We're going to keep being imperialists.
The Democratic Party is the party of imperialism, which means killing people for their natural resources.
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Oh, hey, I'm getting a call from the White House.
Hello.
Hey, Fat.
Guess what?
I'm Pepsodon.
I'm finally Pepsods of America.
I think you mean president.
You're finally president, not Pepsodon.
No, I meant Pepsodon, you jackass.
Come on.
What the hell's wrong with you, man?
I'm Pepsodon.
Deal with it.
I think you got the words mixed up again.
You're president, not Pepsoden.
Malarkey, monkeyface.
I'm a minty-flavored toothpaste derived from Sassafras.
Shut up.
Hey, you see me get sworn in at the thing for the thing today?
Yeah.
Chuck Todd said it was a normalizing elixir.
That's a lot like a martini, but with Sassafras in it.
Sassafras.
I watched the inauguration, Joe.
It's kind of disturbing.
Nobody there was six feet apart from anybody.
Stop it, Jack.
It was only up on the stage.
What do you care?
Don't we all have wives who can take over for us once we get shit?
Besides, we're all wearing that stuff you put on your face.
Masks?
Shit-eating grins.
And wasn't Amy Klomichar munificent?
And that Roy Blunt.
It was really nice to hear the fresh voice of an old white guy who's against abortion and raising taxes on the rich.
I don't get his last name, though.
Is he one of them potheads?
No, that's just his name, Mr. President.
Sassafras, you ass.
John Todd said years from now people look back on his days they did to McCarthy era and said the system worked.
Jeez.
What do you think he meant by that?
A return to normalcy.
Blacklist, Cold War, censorship, and another space race.
Space race checks fresh.
Sash Fresh.
Lady Gaga came all the way over from fucking a ballast to sing our nation's thief song.
Well worth the super spreader.
Yeah, it was a great triumph.
But it's not just the triumph of a candidate, but that of a cause.
Cause why?
Democracy is fragile.
Like my hips.
It's like Jesus said in the Bible.
Look, folks, four score and two Wimbledons ago, our fathers and their fathers' fathers, etc.
You know, that's true.
America's been tested.
We'll lead not only by the example of our power, but the power of our example.
Not just by the strength of our leadership, but by the leadership of our strength.
Not just by the guidance of our values, but by the values of our guidance.
Not the spring in our step, but the step in our spring.
Jesus Christ.
Look, folks, I know you're all cold and you want to get back in your homes away from all the viral death floating around you.
Let me spray some more important Claren Phlem all over your fucking face.
I mean, this sincerely.
I believe that, Joe.
We're now on this hollowed ground.
Where just a week ago, violence arose with such a clatter.
Our better angels sprang from bed to see what was the matter.
And in our uniquely American way, they knew what exactly they had to say.
Give me a head with hair, long, beautiful hair, shiny, gleaming, streaming, flaxing and waxing.
Now dash or now dancer on Donner and Blitzen.
To the top of the porch, to the top of the wall.
Now dash away.
Dash away all.
That was beautiful and inspiring inaugural speech, Mr. President.
Thanks.
But you're still not getting Medicare for all, Fat.
Shasha Frash.
Yeah, no shit.
So there's a strike happening in New York City.
Workers at a New York City produce market launched first strike since 1986.
This is an article by Eric Schreibner from the WSW.
That's the World Socialist website.
Let's get, so this is, this, this, these are the people.
This is where the future of America is.
People like this.
We need people who have the courage of these people to go on strike against the oligarchs.
That's what's going to save us.
Not Joe Biden and Kamala Harris or a bunch of pukes on MSNBC, okay?
It's going to be people like this that save this country, if it's savable.
Where, where, where's, where's AOC?
them where's the where's the Justice Democrats where's Where's Bernie's?
Where are they?
Where is everybody?
Where are they?
More than 1,400 workers at the Hunts Point Terminal Produce Market in the Bronx, New York began a strike over management's refusal to raise their hourly wage by $1.
The workers are also demanding better health benefits.
Once again, they're demanding things they shouldn't even have to ask for.
Health care.
They have to go on strike and demand it.
Stuff they shouldn't even have to ask for.
But only in America do workers have to go on strike to see a doctor when they get sick.
Management's counteroffer has been an insulting 32 cent raise.
And an Arby's coupon, I understand.
I mean, come on, Ron.
32 cents goes a long way in New York City.
That's the king of affordable cities.
30.
You can't even turn off your alarm clock in the morning for less than 50 cents.
You can afford to breathe for two minutes with 32 cents.
Hunts Point is the largest wholesale produce market in the world.
In the world.
The largest wholesale produce market in the world.
And we pay them like shit.
And we don't give them proper health care.
A huge portion of the fresh food consumed by the 22 million people in the New York City metropolitan area flows through that market.
The striking workers range from warehouse workers to truck drivers.
Their base annual salary is $40,000.
$40,000 for truck drivers and workers in New York City.
Their base annual salary is $40,000, which is totally insufficient to live on in one of the world's most expensive cities.
And these people are breaking their backs.
Oh, yeah, that is.
That is in all kinds of weather.
And so when they pay people that low to do grown-up jobs in a big city like New York, what they're expecting is that taxpayers are going to make up the difference with food stamps, with free health care.
That's called corporate welfare.
You strangle the job market, don't pay living wages for your bottom line, and expect the city to pick up the difference.
That's what's happening.
The company's rejection of the extremely modest demand for a wage increase comes after Hunt's Point workers sacrificed their own health for nearly a year amid a pandemic that is once again raging out of control.
So just in case you weren't sure of how big an F you they're giving the workers, there it is.
They've been an extremely modest demand while they've been working in the COVID without protection.
As many as 400 workers have been infected by COVID-19 to date, and six of them have died.
Workers continue to struggle with poverty-level wages while no expense has been spared to inflate the stock market and rescue the fortunes of the corporate and financial leaders.
That's exactly true.
Trillion dollars a day, if necessary, to Wall Street.
Asking for a dollar is really nothing, a striking worker said, summing up the attitude of the picket line.
They should feel good about it, not telling us that we're lucky to have a job.
You're lucky to have me working for you.
That's how I feel.
Yeah, giving someone a job is not charity.
You need that person or else you don't make any money.
They're a necessity.
They're super important to you making money, the business owner.
Yeah, somebody needs to put what that guy just said on a meme and it needs to go viral.
Like, you're lucky to have me working for you.
That's right.
That's one of the most powerful statements right now that is so true.
That's always true, but now even more so than ever before, that that should just be everywhere.
Dr. Doc worker Jimmy Morales told CBS that he works 10 hours per day for six days a week, no matter the weather.
He said that he and his coworkers need a raise to support their families.
They refuse to return to their jobs until management accedes to their demands.
He has to work 10-hour days, six days a week, no matter the weather.
You know what Republicans call that?
They call that right to work.
That's what they'll call that, a right-to-work state, where you don't have any union protections and you're at the mercy of a capitalist who wants to exploit you as much as they can.
That's called right to work.
Right to work for shit wages.
They're not treating us fair, a worker told ABC.
They do not think that we are essential.
We are essential.
I mean, if this proved anything, the essential workers are those doc workers, workers at Amazon, workers at grocery stores, healthcare workers.
Those are the people that are essential.
Look how capitalism doesn't work if you don't have teachers.
We don't have people.
We don't have any place to send our kids all day.
Teachers are essential workers.
We literally call them essential workers.
Like, it's not being hidden.
They are called essential workers.
They're called essential workers.
They're called society.
Because what are you going to do if you can't get food at a grocery store?
What are you going to do if you can't get your medicine at a pharmacy?
CEOs of hedge funds, CEOs of corporations, marketing departments, bean counters, the people doing the rulers' bidding and keeping workers down.
They're not essential.
That's who's not essential.
Political consultants, not essential.
Tensions have long simmered at Hunts Point where rotten last-minute deals between Teamsters Local 202 and the companies averted strikes in 2015 and again in 2018.
However, under conditions of a pandemic and inequality soaring to grotesque new heights, the union was no longer able to hold back the worker strike.
So just so you know, throughout the pandemic, the Teamsters and their fellow unions have collaborated with companies and both political parties in ensuring that essential and non-essential workers alike remained on the job.
Whatever the cost to their health to keep profits flowing for their wealth.
So it looks to me, Ron, by the IS article, and I wish I had the author of this article on.
I meant to and I forgot to reach out.
But it seems like he's saying that the Teamsters leadership and other union leadership has made sure that the corporation did not miss a beat, that they kept work, no matter what the cost to their own workers are.
That they colluded with the people they're supposed to be organizing against, the union leadership.
Is that how you read that, Ron?
That the Teamster leadership is actually not working in the best interest of the workers, but actually making sure that the company is working in the best interest of the company.
Because that's what it seems like to me.
That is how that reads to me as well.
And yeah, if that is the case, then yeah, they are organizing with the wrong people.
The only people that the union leaders should be organizing with are the workers to assure their best interests.
And, you know, I think that any, I mean, I understand like you can't have every single worker at every single meeting, so you have to have a representative.
I understand that, but I think it should be incredibly transparent so the workers know exactly what is going on and there should not be anything that they have to hide.
And if there is, something's going on that shouldn't be.
And of course, the cops are attacking and arresting the protesters, the striking workers, because cops are tools of capitalists.
Don't ever forget that.
They're not there to ensure your safety or their number one priority is to maintain property for the capitalists.
And we're going to cover that story tomorrow about how the cops are treating the striking workers.
We'll cover that tomorrow.
I would love to, I would love to go out there and interview those people.
I would love to cover this.
This is what it's going to take.
It's going to take people getting out there.
It's going to take people getting out there.
Yeah, this needs to happen everywhere.
It needs to happen at every Walmart, every Amazon fulfillment center, every Ralphs.
It needs to happen everywhere.
The essential workers can shut down this country like that.
And they need a leader to convince them that they have that power and then to lead them into it.
I was hoping it would be Bernie Sanders or somebody like that when this COVID thing started.
Bernie wouldn't even mention force the vote, wouldn't even come out of it.
How disappointing was that for you, Ron, that Bernie wouldn't even mention it?
It was disappointing.
I think, though, there's no chance any elected official is going to be that leader.
I just think the chances of that happening are non-existent.
So I don't.
Yeah, I mean, it's going to take.
I don't know.
Like, where are the Eugene Debs?
I thought.
It's going to be like someone that leads labor.
That's what I feel is missing, especially compared to past generations.
We need someone like Justin Jackson.
Yeah.
To be cool.
Or just a bunch of Christian Smalls.
If every warehouse had a Christian Smalls.
That's right.
We need a bunch of Christian Smalls, a bunch of Justin Jacksons, or it's just maybe those two guys.
How about that?
How about they work together?
You know, we definitely, you need leaders.
And that's what was wrong with Occupy.
There were no leaders.
And I understand the idea behind that, right?
I understand that you want democracy, you want this, and leaders can be corrupted and infiltrated.
And I get that.
But you see how well that works.
It didn't.
It's a flawed system, but you got to have leaders.
So just so you know, 36% of Americans are already on single-payer health care.
Did you know that, Ron?
But Medicare and Medicaid cover 36% of Americans.
That's a third of America is already on single-payer healthcare.
If you add in the military, it goes up to 41%.
So four out of 10 Americans, almost half of America, is already on some kind of, it's already on single-payer health care from the government.
Just keep that in mind.
So what we have is private health insurance standing in the way between the most healthy Americans and their doctor.
Why?
Because they can make the most money off of healthy people.
Sick people, they don't want to cover the elderly, stuff like that.
So right now, Joe Biden has his plan.
We are going to build a better healthcare system that puts you and your family first and that every American can be proud of.
We're going to come up with a healthcare plan that puts you and your family first in line for bankruptcy because that's the plan he came up with already.
You know, Joe Biden already came up with a healthcare plan.
It's the one that's bankrupting you right now.
That's his plan.
Obamacare, he was his vice president.
That's their plan.
The healthcare system you're living under today is the one he designed.
Biden lifts health care plan from insurance lobbyists.
They probably wrote it at a dinner that they were having for him.
The incoming president's plan mimics an insurance industry letter instead of pushing promised public option or democratic legislation to expand Medicare.
This is by Andrew Perez and Julia Rock.
So he's not even going to get us a public option.
They're not even going to do that, Ron.
Yeah.
They're not even going to do that.
President that Barack Obama promised us 12 fucking years ago.
Over, no, 13.
13 years ago.
Ah, geez.
Yeah.
President-elect Joe Biden's new COVID relief plan does not adopt existing Democratic legislation to expand government-sponsored medical coverage, nor does it propose a promised public health insurance option.
You know, the public option that they've been dangling over your heads for over 13 years now?
Still not happening.
Still can't even, not only can they not get you Medicare for all, they won't even get you a public option, something Barack Obama promised us 13 years ago.
How old were you 13 years ago, Ron?
Oh, jeesh, man.
You're not only outing me, but you're making me do math.
How old are you?
How old are you now?
I'm 36.
So you're 23.
Yeah.
I can do that, Math.
We were promised a single-payer health care plan by a guy who was in charge of the government.
They had the House, the Senate, and the White House promised you a public option when you were 23.
I remember.
Yeah.
Instead, it adopts proposals, Joe Biden's healthcare plan.
It adopts proposals from health insurance lobbying groups, lobbying groups' recent letter to lawmakers demanding lucrative new subsidies for insurance companies at a moment when those corporations have recorded record profits as millions lose coverage and many face claim denials.
Sounds eerily familiar.
It's weird these insurance companies keep getting money and healthcare doesn't get any better.
Isn't that weird?
Very, very interesting.
Like, I'm noticing a trend.
Biden's plan would shovel billions of dollars to private health insurers by providing subsidies for Americans to buy coverage through the Affordable Care Act, which are far more expensive than government health care programs and plagued by high rates of claim denials.
In other words, there's more money for scam health care plans that make CEOs richer under Joe Biden's plan than under a public option.
So we're going to do Joe Biden's plan to make CEOs and stockholders wealthier.
It gives you worse coverage.
It gives you worse health care.
And it probably will bankrupt you, but, you know, who gives a fuck?
Joe Biden's a monster.
Those initiatives, which could boost insurer skyrocketing profits, were recently recommended in a letter to lawmakers from America's health insurance plans and the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, two insurance lobby groups in Washington that have opposed the expansion of government-sponsored health care programs.
While Medicare for All could actually save the country up to $650 billion annually, $650 billion annually, $650 billion.
How are you going to pay for that?
Where are you going to get $650 less dollars?
$650 billion annually.
According to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, Biden is now proposing some of the most costly and inefficient ways to expand healthcare insurance coverage.
The moves still leave people exposed to substantial out-of-pocket costs from deductibles, co-pays, and co-insurance that act as barriers to care.
Nothing's going to fundamentally change.
Keep that in mind.
He wasn't kidding.
During the 2020 campaign, a healthcare industry front group called the Partnership for America's Healthcare Future spent $4.5 million on advertisements attacking Medicare for all.
The group launched the last wave of ads in South Carolina, where Biden's strong performance helped propel him.
The future is not going to be pretty, Ron, but there will be a copay.
Again, 80%, 87% of Americans want Medicare for all.
Biden consistently campaigned in support of a public health insurance option.
And after the primary, a joint task force made up of Biden and Sanders allies negotiated a fairly robust public option plan.
The DNC's 2020 platform included a similar pledge.
So not only does Joe Biden go against the 87% of his own party, he goes against his own promises too.
He's not even doing peanuts.
He's doing shells.
Actually, screw it.
Now he's not even doing giving us the peanut shells.
He's going to let you look at a picture of a peanut.
Yeah.
Now, on the eve of his presidency, Biden is proposing a much more conservative health insurance expansion plan proposed by the health insurance industry.
If enacted, the plan could head off any talk in Washington of a public option plan down the road.
Wow.
Hey, instead of a public option, Joe Biden's going to be experimenting with no option.
Yeah.
How do you like that?
We were going to give you the public option, but I thought about it, and we're going to give you a no option.
Jesus Christ.
And here's how the media is covering him.
What we've been through throughout four years of the Trump presidency and the contrast on display tonight was so stark.
I mean, those lights that are just shooting out from the Lincoln Memorial along the reflecting pool, it's like almost extensions of Joe Biden's arms embracing America.
It was a moment where the new president came to town and sort of convened the country in this moment of remembrance, outstretching his arms.
And contrast that with that video you just saw of a disgraced president on his way out at his lowest point in his presidency at the very end here by himself fighting for his political movement to live on and not even necessarily promising that he's going to be leading that movement, you noted, in his so Joe Biden's arms are embracing all of us and we still have a couple of shots to get it at Donald Trump.
Say, Mel.
This is that's amazing.
I thought he was going to say those lights were, he said that they were an example of Joe Biden's arms outstretched.
I thought it was, he was going to say to go and sniff your hair.
Like, I was just like, so like, I don't understand why they have to make the illusion of something like this, that there's some sort of grace and vision that Joe Biden has.
The reason why is because they're selling Joe Biden right now.
That's why, because they're selling him.
Yes, he's the product.
They've been selling Donald Trump as the devil, and now they're selling Joe Biden and Kamala Harris as the angels.
And that's their thing.
And so they'll go back to giving softball interviews and sweetheart coverage to the Democrats.
And then Fox News will go back to being Fox News.
And so we'll have a nice divide.
We'll have MSNBC and CNN and Fox News on this side.
And of course, New York Times and Washington Post.
Only Democrats read the goddamn New York Times.
I mean, the fact that to think that the problem is just right-wing media, the left-wing media is just as siloed, just as ridiculous.
RussiaGate was queuing on for the left, except everybody on the left doesn't know it.
Isn't that funny?
Ron, how often do you bump into that?
People on the left saying, oh, these QAnon guys are crazy.
And I go, well, no crazier than RussiaGate people.
And they look at you like, no, that was real.
Does that happen to you?
Not often because I don't, I try to avoid a lot of things on Twitter.
But yeah, I mean, it's definitely there.
And, you know, it's not, these are like the right and left media within the corporate confines.
So really, it's like, you know, this is not the left media.
This is just the corporate approved, you know, narrative that they feed you, which is just confirmation bias for whatever audience member they're pursuing.
If it's, you know, the corporate right on Fox News or the corporate left on MSNBC.
But I think another thing here with the Biden's healthcare plan, I know there were grumblings where they were saying, oh, there's a chance we might get an emergency bill that gives everyone health care during the pandemic.
And, you know, my response was, I'll certainly believe that when I see it, and I'm not getting my hopes up.
And the reason was I kind of feel like if they were to do something like that, taking it away would be very difficult.
No, you can't, you can't give people health care and then take it away.
Exactly.
And that's why, like, like when they were grumbling about that, I'm like, you know what?
I bet they're not going to do that.
And then try to do as little as possible, which is what this is.
And the reason for that is because they know if there was something like an emergency, you know, universal health care program during a pandemic, which we so desperately need, just, you know, generally, you got to get people healthcare.
But if we ever got it, they wouldn't be able to take it away.
And that would go down in history as the time the United States finally caught up to where the rest of the industrialized world has been for decades and gets everybody healthcare.
Well, it turns out they don't want to do that.
That's why they're not going to do it, Ron.
Exactly right.
And Joe Biden could give us, according, well, Kyle Kalinsky told me that he looked into it and that Joe Biden could, as executive order, just say national emergency, everybody gets healthcare.
That he could do that for the duration of the national emergency.
And again, once you point out, once you give people health care, you can't take it away.
And so that's why we're not getting it.
It's just amazing.
We're living in 100% corrupt times and people are still people in like the commentary world are still acting like we're in normal times.
This isn't normal times.
And you can keep pretending that politicians are your allies or your friends because they give you lip service, but politicians are narcissistic fucking maniacs, okay?
In case you didn't know, and that's why we live in the country we live in.
So if you think that politicians are your allies or they're your friends, you're a chump and you're probably acting like a cuck right now defending corrupt politicians who just betrayed us.
People I helped get elected just betrayed us because they're corrupt.
And just because you don't take corporate money doesn't mean you're not corrupt.
There's lots of ways to be corrupt, dummy.
Corporate money is just one way.
Why do you think AOC and the squad didn't do force the vote?
Was it because they weren't corrupt?
Was it because they had a legitimate reason not to do it?
Of course they didn't have a legitimate reason not to do it.
There is no legitimate reason for them not to do it.
So why didn't they do it?
Well, it can't be corruption because they don't take corporate money.
Doi.
What the fuck?
What are you, a child?
Of course they're fucking corrupt.
Of course they didn't do what they're supposed to.
Of course they just betrayed you and everyone sees it.
Why don't you go work for the intercept if you're going to keep running interference for fucking politicians?
Boy, that intercept, quite a gig, isn't it, Ron?
Who knew?
Who knew the intercept would soon, within four years, turn into a fucking mouthpiece organization for the Democratic Party.
Unbelievable.
As soon as you get hired, you have to start tweeting out shit as if they're Debbie Wasserman Schild.
I'm not kidding.
Were you stunned by Ryan Grimm running that much interference for politicians?
I've been stunned by a lot of his behavior as of recent.
I mean, I've seen some of his tweets, and that was pretty cool when he tried to explain football to Justin Jackson.
That was a fumble.
That was memorable.
But yeah, I mean.
I think Ryan Grimm got caught.
He got caught with a safety.
The other team gets two points, and then you have to punt.
That's not good.
All right.
We're done for today for me.
Ron, what do you want to tell people?
Well, people can follow me on Twitter at Ron Placone and all the other social media at Ronplacone, youtube.com/slash Ron Placone.
You can catch me there.
And someday when this is all over, I look forward to being on the road again.
But in the meantime, I'll see you online.
On the road again.
I can't wait to get on the road again.
Life I love is making comedy with my friends.
And I can't wait to get on the road again.
I've been dreaming about like shitty one-nighters from the past.
Like that's that's how much I miss it.
Have you been doing that?
Yes, I miss it.
I really am missing it a lot.
That's funny.
That's funny that he says one-nighters because some people might think that's like a one-night stand.
Like, I really miss one-nighters.
No.
No, that's not.
No, he doesn't.
He's not saying he misses the casual sex that surrounds, that often surrounds road comedy.
He's not saying he misses the one-night stands with the one-nighter, you know, the one-nighters with the waitresses and shit.
I fucking miss that stuff, man.
No, it's a show that's like one night.
Yeah.
You're not there for a whole week.
You're just in town for one night and you move on to another town the next night.
It's called a one-nighter.
Yeah, it's what we call it in comedy because like if you're not working a one-nighter, you're working in a club where you're usually there for like three to four nights.
Yeah.
So that's for people who didn't know that.
Hey, Barack Obama's on the phone.
I hope he has some reassuring words during this trying time.
Hi, Jimmy.
Don't worry.
I'm confident Smoking Joe is going to build us back better to a new era of peace and prosperity.
And mark my words.
But under your presidency with Biden, the war budget increased by 80 billion.
It's like I told a maskless lady Gaga this morning at the inauguration when we all hugged and rubbed up against each other.
This will be an administration that respects science.
If he refuses to stop any of this, how is Biden going to build a new era of peace and prosperity, Barack?
Would you like to speak to a manager?
Because if you're going to get abusive, I can just put you on hold while I transfer you to another associate.
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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