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Get ready for an outstanding entertainment program.
The Jimmy Dore Show.
Hey, hey, this is Jimmy.
Who's this?
Hi, Jimmy.
It's Bernie Sanders.
Oh, hi, Senator Sanders.
Hey, how is the how is the impeachment part two going?
You know, you do what I'm talking about.
That bullshit.
Yeah, you know.
You know?
I mean, what do you want from me?
His lawyers are troglodytes.
His entire case is a Shonda.
And he's going to get acquitted, and everybody knows it, especially our senators.
Yeah.
The whole thing is a goddamn circus.
Yes, right.
There should be people selling cracker jacket animal crackers up with the nose.
No, fuck.
Yes.
But there's other shit going on.
Impeachment is a sideshow.
The Senate also has other business to attend to.
In the spirit of walking and chewing gum and not actually accomplishing anything at the same time.
You have a big committee hearing today, right?
Yes, yes, yes, yes.
Let's cut the chase.
Naira Tandon is appearing before my committee that I chair as part of a confirmation process for her nomination.
Yeah, that's right.
And everyone is making hay over it.
Yep.
What is Bernie going to ask Naira?
Yada yada yada.
Yeah, that's fucking right, Bernie.
Are you going to confront her about her backstabbing and malicious actions and words towards the progressive wing of her own freaking party?
Confront?
What?
Confront?
Come on, get real, Jimmy.
What am I?
Aaron Brockovich?
Get the fuck out of here with confront.
Have you gone absolutely bonkers?
Bernie, why not?
Jimmy, for Christ's sakes, not a few weeks ago at the inauguration, I was roundly criticized for sitting.
Mind you, sitting with mittens.
I was sitting, he was stated from certain quarters in a very racist and misogynist way.
What does that even mean?
Literally, who the fuck knows?
But that's just how it goes for me now.
I can't get away with sitting on my tokas.
Literally just sitting on my tukas, Jimmy, with our women of color or the media saying that I hate women of color in politics.
Now, given that, do you really think that it is on the menu for me that I, well, having a momentary moment of power in a procedural sense over a woman of color, a proud woman of color, that I'll confront her, contradict her, speak to her in anything louder than a mumble?
A mumble.
That's right.
Yes, Bernie, I agree.
The situation is intolerable.
But don't you think you have let it get this far by not speaking up for yourself, Bernie?
That you missed an opportunity to put these sort of criticisms to bed?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Hindsight's 2020, isn't it, Pearl Vision?
Yes, you're probably right, but MSNBC and all these fucking people have established their goddamn Bernie narrative, and it's too entrenched.
The only option I have now is to performatively avoid being confrontational or bellicose in any way to any of their precious angels so I can avoid these public Bernie kerfuffles and hopefully, hopefully, influence the administration to be a slightly left.
A little bit.
A teens.
A teens?
It's just a teens.
Probably the best we can do at this point, let's be honest.
Bernie, what would be the worst that would happen if you asked Neritan about her current attitude towards progressive wing of the Democratic Party?
Well, first of all, Sarlina Maxwell will call me a racist on television.
With no one pushing back.
And if Joey Reed, if she's anywhere in the vicinity, she'll tag in like a wrestler and say that she suspects, she suspects that I am a misogynist to hate women.
Okay, I got it.
All right, I see.
And then, if past this prologue, she will continue her anti-Bernie Filippic on Twitter and add that I'm probably anti-Semitic too.
But, Senator, aren't you Jewish yourself?
Yes, of course.
But what does that have to do with anything?
Nothing.
Well, they'll point that out on Twitter.
And then a Joey Reed surrogate will tweet, he can't be anti-Semitic because he's Jewish, but with that thing where every other letter is capitalized, so it's sarcastic.
So that's what you do when someone levels a completely anti-argument at you.
You use the capital letter thing, and then every fucking moron who follows you thinks, oh, okay, that obviously true thing is stupid, actually.
And then Joey Reed will like that tweet, I assure you.
That, wow, yes, wow, yes.
Yeah, so people think, oh, you got him.
He's an anti-Semite.
You proved it with the tweet.
The alternating capital letter thing.
That proves he's a Jewish anti-Semite, QED.
See, this is the type of thing we're up against, Jimmy.
I can't fight this shit.
So what are you going to do?
I'm going to let a hangar-on go goddamn self.
She'll get confirmed, sure, but she'll become one of the most reviled people on Capitol Hill because she's a depraved opportunist and a person who is shamefully devoid of principle.
Are you saying this because you are a misogynist, Bernie?
No, I'm saying it's because she's a fucking bitch.
Oh, Bernie.
Ah, you're falling into their trap.
No, no, no.
No, Bernie.
What would Joy Reed say?
What would Joy Reed say?
Who gives a shit?
They're all going to say whatever the fuck they want to about me anyway.
They're all a bunch of goddamn...
Hey!
Hey!
Phew!
Establishment media sucks All gaslighting So good luck Bullshit we can't afford Why he's fomenting this Whoa-oh-oh-oh Watch and see as he's jack off The median speeds And jumps the medium And hits them head on It's the Jimmy Tore Show Nair Tanden has come at me Directly on Twitter And this is one of my favorites She says, Important thread.
Jimmy Dore has created multiple videos to attack me.
I ignore them.
they could be both vicious and ludicrous well I don't know how she knows that they're both vicious and ludicrous if she's ignoring them and I don't know if she knows that by tweeting about them that is a the definition of not ignoring them so you know they're more they're vicious and ludicrous because you watch them that's exactly also not ignoring them someone needs to explain to you what ignore means so and why do i bring up narratandon because oh my god the u.s senate will convene hearings on the confirmation
of Neera Tanden to lead President Joseph Biden's Office of Management and Budget this Tuesday, which today's Monday, which is tomorrow.
And what's going to be, well, what's going to be funny is watching Bernie Sanders say nice things about her.
And I'm going to tell you why that's funny in just a second.
But let me just tell you who she is real quick.
She's one of these people.
She's one of these neocons who calls herself a lefty.
She's not.
She's a corporatist.
And I'm going to show you how she's also an imperialist.
So she's for cutting Social Security.
I have the videotape of her.
We're going to show that later of her advocating for cutting Social Security.
There it is.
She says, we need to put both entitlements on the table as well as taxes.
That's her quote from her.
But this is from WikiLeaks.
So now we've showed you this a couple of times on the show before.
And this is why Neera Tanden doesn't like us at the Jimmy Dore show is because we reported that what WikiLeaks revealed, and this is an email...
from foz shakur who was at the center for american progress which neritandin is the president of or was and uh he went on to become bernie sanders campaign manager and inside this email what is revealed focour says, I don't think it's fair that we create our own domestic problems and then ask other nations to pay for it.
You see the adverse incentive problem here, right?
Faz Shakur, if we think we can make money off an incursion, we'll do it.
That's a serious policy messaging moral problem for our foreign policy.
Neeratandon says, we have a, so he's saying, hey, we should stop invading other countries because there's financial gain for it.
That's not good.
Neeratandon comes back with, we have a giant deficit.
They have a lot of oil.
Most Americans would choose not to engage in the world because of that deficit.
If we want to continue to engage in the world, gestures like having oil-rich countries pay us back doesn't seem crazy to me.
So what she's doing there, they're talking about Libya, and she's saying we need to take their oil to pay for our invasion of their country to overthrow it.
That's what she's saying.
And the reason why we want to take their money is because if we don't take their oil money, we're going to have to cut social programs at home.
So we need to kill people in Libya, devastate their country, steal their natural resources so we don't have a political problem at home of hurting our people at back here.
So that's what she's advocating for.
Who else advocated for that?
Bomb the oil, take the oil.
Bomb the oil, take the oil.
Just take it, right?
I've been saying that for four years.
Who else said that?
The rebels were.
But I'll tell you what, I'm only interested in Libya if we take the oil.
If we don't take the oil, I have no interest in Libya.
So there is Neratandon was the precursor to Donald Trump's imperialism stealing the oil strategy.
And here's what she said about Julian Assange after Julian Assange revealed that she was for imperialism and stealing other countries' natural resources to pay for those things.
She says this about Julian Assange.
There are many cultists on this site, but the Assange cultists are the worst.
Assange was the agent of a proto-fascist state, Russia, to undermine democracy.
That is fascist behavior.
Anyone on the left should abhor what he did, not celebrate it.
No, what he did was expose your fascist behavior, Niratandon.
And now you want to continue with more fascist behavior by persecuting and prosecuting journalists who tell truths about powerful people like yourself advocating for stealing other countries' natural resources.
That's why she wants to kill Julian Assange, and that's why she wants to come at the Jimmy Dore show.
So you get it, right?
So I reported what Julian Assange did.
She wants to get rid of him.
She wants to get rid of me because I report what Julian Assange reported.
That's what this is all about.
And now she's going into Joe Biden's, Joe Biden's administration.
And here is the article from the gray zone.
It says, will the Senate scrutinize Biden's budget nominee Neeratandon's apparent pay-for-play foreign policy corruption?
And this is from our guest, Max Blumenthal.
And real quickly, he says, as president of the Center for American Progress, Nira Tandon raked in whopping donations from regressive right-wing foreign governments while she advanced their hardline policy priorities in Washington.
Will the Senate ask her about these sordid arrangements?
I got $2,000 checked that says no, they won't.
How about that?
Okay.
Tandon is a veteran Democratic Party operative, best known for her fanatical loyalty, fanatical loyalty to Hillary Clinton, intemperate online commentary, and visceral loathing of anything remotely affiliated with Bernie Sanders.
Under Tandon's watch, CAP raked in hefty donations from foreign governments and their lobbying operations while churning out policy papers and organizing events that further those donors' interests inside the beltway.
And who were those donors?
Those donors included lobbyists from the apartheid regime of Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the United Arab Emirates, whose ambassador to the U.S. publicly thanks Center for American Progress for a favorable report it published following a series of substantial donations, and the administration of Taiwan, which used Center for American Progress as a vehicle to campaign for more hostile U.S. policy towards China.
These apparent pay-for-play arrangements were defining features of Tandon's time at the helm of the one of the most heavily funded beltway think tag operations, the Center for American Progress.
But strangely, as her confirmation to Biden's administration moves forward, even her fiercest adversaries in the Senate have not signaled any intent to scrutinize the ethical baggage she accumulated while pushing the Democratic Party to adopt a decidedly neoconservative foreign policies.
And of course, you know what happened in Libya: executions, torture, slave markets persist in Libya.
And this is what she said.
Hey, which entities want American troops totally removed from Iraq?
Iran and ISIS.
So let's bring in Max right now.
So, Max, I want you to come out and give the balance.
Tell me some of the good stuff about Nera Tandon because I don't want it to be all negative.
And so that's why I have you on.
I want to give a fair and balanced approach to Nera Tandon.
This pattern of Nira's tantrums.
And there's a reason she's earned the nickname Nero Tandon for this kind of outrageous behavior, which is often in defense of Hillary Clinton.
I mean, you ask Hillary Clinton one critical question about her role in falsely whipping up WMD hysteria on the Senate floor, which ultimately led to the death of around 1 million Iraqis.
And you get physically assaulted.
So this kind of behavior is familiar to people online who've encountered her.
And I was telling a story about how I criticized John McCain and pointed out these racist comments he made.
I hate the gooks and I always will hate them, John McCain said.
I mean, he refused to apologize for that.
And then she comes in and starts attacking me and accusing me of helping Trump and starts making comments about my childhood and just trying to personally dehumanize me for criticizing the biggest neocon warmonger in the Senate.
And this is the kind of behavior we're familiar with, but it conceals, I think, a much more salient issue about just pure sleaze, corruption, and the real concrete role that she has played in infecting the Democratic Party with militarism and neoconservatism by raking in money from people and governments who are not unlike Donald Trump around in the rest of the world and
taking that money and then advancing those governments' militaristic interests in Washington.
One figure I would point to is Shinzo Abe, who is the former prime minister of Japan.
Nira Tandon flew out to Tokyo to have a friendly meeting.
She proudly tweeted an image of herself with Abe.
And then, as CAP proceeded to take between 200,000, I think $100,000 and $250,000 A year from the embassy of Japan, Nira Tandin proceeded to advance closer ties between the U.S. and Japan, of course, to counter China, to turn up the new Cold War with China.
Let's just talk about who Abe is, because this is lesser known.
I mean, we can get into her relationship with Netanyahu, cozying up to him.
But Abe is the maternal grandson of a Japanese war criminal who led slave labor camps in Manchuria during the Japanese occupation of China.
He has paid homage repeatedly at the Yasukuni Shrine to 14 Japanese Class A war criminals who committed the most heinous acts in Korea and China.
He's a right-wing figure who's done everything he can to undermine Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution, which prevents Japan from having a standing offensive army.
He's whittled away at individual liberties in Japan, tried to beef up surveillance, cracked down on activists, and just generally tried to remilitarize Japan.
And this is who NERA flies halfway across the earth to make ties with and then effectively lobbies for.
I mean, anyone watching this right now, just Google Center for American Progress in Japan, and you're going to find all these policy papers making right-wing Japan out to be the top U.S. ally in the Pacific Rim.
Same thing happened with Taiwan, which is another government that has a very fairly hardline leadership in Tsai Ing-wen and has been dumping hundreds of thousands of dollars every year into the Center for American Progress.
And, you know, look up Taiwan and Center for American Progress.
You're going to find all these articles, including in CAP, but at other publications, advancing closer ties between the U.S. and Taiwan to turn up the heat on China.
And they never acknowledge that they're essentially being paid to do that.
And last year, Neera Tandon hosted a webinar with Taiwan's president, Tsai, and it was co-hosted by the Hudson Institute, which is the new employer of Mike Pompeo, the most hardline militaristic, neoconservative Secretary of State and worst Secretary of State in recent U.S. history, also funded by the government of Taiwan.
And the Taiwanese president, one of the first things she starts doing is bragging about how much she's increased the military budget.
Our military budget is unprecedented.
We're buying more weapons than ever before, which relates back to Neera Tandon at the Center for American Progress, who has hired as senior fellows, former vice presidents for defense contractors like Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin and Ray Theon.
I think someone who's on the board of Lockheed Martin right now, Rudy DeLeon, is a former executive at the Center for American Progress, and CAP has been funded by the arms industry as well.
So it all fits together along with all the corporate money she's taking in.
And we haven't even gotten into her censoring and forcing employees out the door for daring to criticize Benjamin Netanyahu, the apartheid lord of Israel who is fully aligned with the Republican Party, who fully aligned himself with Donald Trump, who named a settlement after Donald Trump in the Golan Heights.
And Neera Tandon hosted Netanyahu in 2015.
And as we learned from internal Center for American Progress emails, she did so in order to court Israel lobby donors.
So it's all about the money with her.
And this is the person that they're going to put in Biden's budget director to overlook, to look over the money.
She's a ghoul.
And also, what people probably don't know is that she's a union buster.
Think Progress, which was run by the Center for America, funded by the Center for American Progress, they unionized.
And what did she do?
Well, Think Progress then shut it down after they unionized the Center for America's Progress.
Isn't that amazing?
Also, here's another revealed email from WikiLeaks.
This is their strategy to help Hillary Clinton.
Brown and women pundits can shame the Times and others on social media.
So if anybody criticized Hillary Clinton, they would get women and brown people, brown and women pundits, can shame the Times and others on social media.
Joan Walsh, Matt and Gilesias, Alan Perry, Bacon, Greg Sargent to defend her is helpful.
So that's the people in the media they were going to get to be in the tank for Hillary Clinton and they were going to use identity politics to shame anybody who criticized her.
They can be emboldened for what it's worth.
I pushed to do this a year ago.
So that's that's and that's just kind of regular that's part for the course, right, Max?
Yeah, I mean, look at what she did to Matt Brunig when he was at Deimos.
Matt Brunig is a left-wing economist who dared to challenge Joan Walsh and Neera Tandon on Twitter.
And I think he wound up calling Nira Tandon sleazy.
I think, you know, read my article and tell me if that's sleazy or not, what she's doing.
But she took extreme measures, calling Deimos, calling their, I don't know if she called their funders, but she was she was working the phones and really taking time out of her day day after day to make sure that he got fired for challenging her on Twitter.
So she, I mean, then this is someone who's was not in a senior position in Washington.
I mean, this is a young person working their way up who is offering an alternative version of the neoliberal economics that she represents.
But I mean, she's also positioned herself kind of as a feminist.
I think her Twitter bio says she's a feminist.
And the United Arab Emirates is not a place where feminists would find allies.
The United Arab Emirates is a permanent monarchy run by a literal king.
It's basically run by a crown prince, Mohamed bin Zayed.
And women don't really have rights there.
It's certainly not a liberal democracy.
And Neera Tandon has raked in up to a million dollars a year.
I think it was $700,000 in 2016 from the United Arab Emirates at the Center for American Progress.
Their support for the United Arab Emirates and its agenda, its agenda in the Middle East, which partly includes to perpetrate the worst humanitarian catastrophe in the world in Yemen.
Their support was so strong that when they issued another one of these phony policy papers, which basically read like a press release for the United Arab Emirates embassy that was funding them, calling for basically a wish list of Saudi and Emirati demands across the Middle East, saying almost nothing about Yemen, the ambassador to the UAE in Washington, who was hosted on a panel by Tandon's think tank, personally thanked them for that policy paper.
And there's more to it.
The policy paper was co-authored by a former employee of the embassy of the United Arab Emirates.
It's not like they're even going to some policy experts.
They're like, we're just going to bring in the guy who gave us the money to write a paper for us.
And then we're going to host his boss to praise us in Washington.
And this is a permanent monarchy that represents the most anti-feminist, anti-humanist agenda you could possibly find on the planet paying Neera Tandon's bills.
I mean, will this be brought up?
No.
Will Bernie Sanders bring this up or will he raise a mitten in approval of this pay-for-play sleaze monger who's supposed to oversee the budget for the president?
It's really disturbing that we need to even ask those kinds of questions.
But again, this is Washington and this is business as usual.
I mean, these kind of arrangements, unfortunately, that's how the think tanks work in Washington.
So, you know, her going after Matt Bruinig like that and getting him, trying to get him fired.
Right now, the Biden administration, the next story, we're going to show you how people inside the Biden administration were having meetings with Silicon Valley on who to censor.
And so now she's right in the belly of the beast.
She's going to be having meetings with those same people who come right from Silicon Valley telling them who to censor.
And so that's her go-to is if you criticize her, she tries to get you fired, scare anybody from criticizing her again and try to get you deplatformed, which is what she tried to do to me.
And why I had to remind people on the left that censorship is bad, even if the guy saying stuff is saying mean stuff about you.
You shouldn't try to go.
That was with Carlos Maza.
And they used that.
Go ahead.
Well, this is someone who's presided over a reign of censorship on behalf of her donors at the Center for American Progress, specifically pro-apartheid, pro-Israeli apartheid donors, pro-Israeli apartheid lobbyists who began targeting bloggers who were at Think Progress back in 2011, who dared to stand up to Netanyahu and criticize his drive for war with Iran.
And they said, basically, you got to fire these guys.
These are, you know, young bloggers in their 20s who are anti-war.
You got to get rid of them.
So she starts clamping down.
She begins removing without any note or explanation parts of their articles, which, for example, linked the Israel lobby to anti-Muslim campaigns in the U.S. And then in 2015, Center for American Progress releases a report.
It's called Fear Incorporated 2.0.
It's the second part of a very laudable report about the rise of Islamophobia in the U.S. And it singles out Mike Bloomberg, not exactly the most progressive figure, longtime Republican mayor of New York, for the secret demographics unit that he ran through the NYPD to spy on Muslims and basically all aspects of Muslim life in New York, but also outside of New York, going as far as spying on students at the Muslim Student Society at Yale University.
And so there was a chapter in this report that criticized Bloomberg's demographics unit, mentioned his name eight times.
And that chapter, after publication, disappeared.
And the person who oversaw that publication, Yasmin Taib, she later told the New York Times that we were told that Bloomberg was really unhappy with us and we have to take this out.
Bloomberg happened to be a mega donor to the Center for American Progress.
So basically, anyone who paid Neera's bills gets to censor what takes place at this supposedly progressive think tank, which was providing advice to Democrats.
And they were just the donors have their way.
And how can we expect that that culture won't be present in a Biden administration with someone in an influential position like the OMB with Neera presiding over that position?
Of course it is.
Of course.
I mean, the whole goddamn Biden administration is one big corrupt corporate maniacs.
I mean, that's all it is.
So let me move on to the next one.
It's about to get more corrupt with this.
Yeah.
So here, and here she is.
So you remember she wanted to cut Social Security, and here she is saying it.
I think the question really is: if we're going to have a deal to address long-term deficit reduction, we need to put both entitlements on the table as well as taxes.
It's unfair to ask only middle-class Americans to bear the burden of our deficits.
So what she's saying is we need to have the poor.
She's saying we can't just have middle-class people pay for our deficits.
We have to have poor people pay for it because they're the ones causing it.
Do you think I'm kidding?
Plus, Americans actually didn't create the deficits.
So I think.
So, and who did the goddamn poor people?
That's who that's.
And by the way, it makes perfect sense to us.
We have a deficit.
We have Social Security and Medicare looming.
The number of people on Social Security Medicare is now 40 million.
People, it's going to be 80 million in 15 years.
Would you consider looking at those programs, age of eligibility, cost of living, put it all on the table?
The answer is absolutely half.
Yeah, of course.
So that's why she's perfect for him.
He wants to cut Social Security.
She wants to cut Social Security and Medicare.
And that's what's going to happen.
And here she is trying to get me deplatformed.
But watch this.
So before she was nominated to be in Joe Biden's cabinet, this was her bio on Twitter.
President of American Corrective Center for American Progress.
A progressive, an Indian American.
What's her position on Modi?
I wonder why nobody's asking what her position on Modi is.
Remember, they couldn't stop bringing up Modi with Tulsi Gabbard.
I never heard Modi's name until Tulsi Gabbard.
And now you'd never hear it again, ever again.
Isn't that funny?
As soon as they got rid of Tulsi Gabbard, they'd never bring up Modi again.
Isn't that, hey, what's Kamala Harris's position on Modi?
I guess we'll never know, isn't she?
What's her position?
I guess we'll never, it doesn't matter.
If you're going along with war, you don't have to have a position on Modi.
Isn't that amazing?
So she used to call her, she used to call herself a, go ahead.
You want to say something?
No, I think you said it all, but I think we should mention that Neera Tandon, while attacking, just viciously attacking Tulsi Gabbard because she touched the third rail in Washington, which is the bipartisan imperialist foreign policy consensus and dared to challenge regime change wars.
Neera Tandon joined that ferocious mob attacking her.
While Neera Tandon went and met with Narendra Modi personally and boasted about it on Twitter and has forged very close ties with the Hindu nationalist community that exists in the U.S. to support Modi and his BJP party.
Modi, you know, controversial.
I don't even know, it's toxic because he helped preside over the Gujarat massacre of thousands of Muslims when he was a local governor.
And he has since just put the Hindu nationalist movement on overdrive.
He's the subject of one of the biggest, largest protests in the world this year of Indian farmers protesting his privatization and neoliberal policies.
But you're right.
She won't be asked about it because she's not only going along with the permanent war agenda, she has helped craft that agenda.
She has helped cultivate advisors to the Democrats to push that agenda.
And she's done it by lining her pockets or the pockets of her think tank, filling the coffers of this think tank with money from repressive right-wing foreign governments seeking a more militaristic line in Washington.
One of the good examples would be Benjamin Netanyahu, who she hosted in 2015, who is just still on the warpath for a war with Iran.
It's a real reason why there won't be a return to the Iran deal, the JCPOA, along with pro-Israel figures like Tony Blinken, the new Secretary of State, who said that supporting Israel is in his blood.
It's like in his genes or something.
He said that at an APAC meeting.
I mean, imagine if someone said, you know, supporting Russia is a Nige.
Right.
I know.
So Nira Tandon, after coming under attack from the Israel lobby for having a few bloggers at her think tank criticizing war with Iran, she hosts Netanyahu internally.
It's a complete giggle fest.
Like it's a love fest in this closed-door environment where everyone in the crowd is an Israel lobbyist.
And Netanyahu is cracking racist jokes and she's giggling along.
And then she emails John Podesta, who is the co-founder of CAP and says, well, no one can call us anti-Semitic anymore.
So we accomplished that goal.
And she also then fires off another email chirping to Podesta.
Jonathan Levine is joining the board.
So Netanyahu is worth it.
She said, so Netanyahu is worth it.
Who is Jonathan Levine?
He is a Bane Capital executive who is a major donor to the Israel lobby.
And by bringing him on the board, she means we brought on a new donor.
So Netanyahu is worth it.
So by giggling along with one of the worst human rights violators in the world who's on the campaigning for a gigantic regional war in the Middle East in order to bring in some Bane Capital vulture capitalist as a donor, Nira Tannen says it was worth it.
I don't think anything distills her values better than that one email.
Well, here's how I wanted to show that I agree with you.
That's amazing.
But before she was nominated, I want to show people she would call herself a progressive.
Now that she's in the Joe Biden, I'm going to be in the Joe Biden administration.
She switched it to liberal.
Literally, she used to be Center for American Progress, Progressive Indian American.
Now she's Center for American Progress Progressive Liberal.
What the fuck?
She took out the progressive and switched it to liberal.
Awesome.
She's an interesting character profile because she has been on Twitter getting in our faces while the rest of them, many of these other officials, they stay out of those debates.
They stay out of the play pen and they don't engage.
Every time they speak online, it's some boilerplate statement.
So we don't actually know what awful human beings they are.
And the fact that they're all welcoming Nira Tandon and that there's so little criticism of her being appointed to such high position shows they really just don't care about that kind of behavior or this culture of corruption that was fostered under her watch.
And it would be amazing if all these Biden officials, figures like Samantha Power, actually showed their true colors on Twitter because they are under like strict PR guidance not to reveal their true personality.
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But from David Axelrod's vantage point, he feels it's a really solid message.
Well, how do you mean?
A rich white guy in a Jeep commercial talking about centrism.
He talks about a chap who in Kansas in the exact center of the country.
He's driving a Jeep while wearing a cowboy hat.
It's all there, the complete package.
But what's the message?
That the middle has been a hard place to get to lately because you have to cross the great divide and go to the mountaintop.
But now that Joe Biden is president, you can get there in a Jeep.
There's hope on the road up ahead for only $40,000 at $4.49 a month.
That's very inspiring.
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Okay, but do you have any?
I didn't even know that was still a thing, the poke button.
Okay, but that's wild.
But do you have any thoughts on the ongoing impeachment?
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Again, I don't think a poke is still a thing, David, but what exactly does it mean to get poked by the rod?
As you know, Facebook's poke button is one of Mark Zuckerberg's most powerful features.
I don't think so.
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I've never used the poke button ever.
And I don't really want to hear about it.
Actually, I don't want to hear it.
Question one.
When introducing yourself to the opposite sex or same sex, remember, no lines or boundaries are drawn here in the Axelrod grotto.
David advises breaking the ice by referring to yourself in the third person.
For example, hello.
You're speaking with acclaimed author and senior political commentator, David Axelrod.
Would you care to hook up with him tonight in Dave's private Zoom?
You're sorry?
You don't have enough space to save his phone number to your iCloud account.
Or maybe later.
That was one possible scenario, Jimmy.
Aside from the pandemic, what do you think Joe Biden's challenges are?
As I recently opined on my David Axelrod Twitter media echo system, it's the economy, stupid.
Like I tweeted yesterday, the recent job numbers are just flashing.
Okay, okay.
Thanks for the call, David Axelrod.
Wrong choice of words.
How about sagging a limp?
What?
There's no question Joe Biden's relief plan must present a big package to satisfy the awaiting public.
Yeah.
But he can't just thrust it upon America all at once.
This is fun.
Biden is president.
Our side can say whatever it wants now and not get deplatformed.
I know.
And on that note, I'll leave you with the word turgid.
Turgid.
So guess what?
Joe Biden, his first day on the job, he sent troops into the oil fields of Syria.
And now Biden administration likely to keep U.S. troops in Afghanistan amid escalating violence and stalled talks.
Might as well be like all the other presidents, huh?
Including President Mybos.
Nothing's going to fundamentally change.
Still, that's his only honest campaign promise.
By the way, what is the stalled talks?
What the fuck are you talking about?
Stalled talks.
What are you talking about?
The Taliban owns, they control more territory in Afghanistan than they did when the fucking war started.
What do you talk?
What is there to talk about?
Should we stay another 20 years?
No.
Okay, let's get out.
Should we be here?
No.
End of discussion.
No more talks.
Hey, should we be occupying someone else's country with our military for two decades straight?
No.
End of talks.
The Biden administration is indicating it will keep U.S. troops in Afghanistan past a May withdrawal deadline laid out in the U.S. deal with the Taliban.
So they got a deal to get the F out of there, and they're not going to honor this deal, Joe Biden.
Imagine if that was Trump doing that.
President Joe Biden has talked about keeping U.S. forces for counterterrorism or to defend the United States.
Defend us from what?
We'll never know.
We'll never know.
It's unclear under what conditions and to what end and for how long after America's nearly 20 years of war.
It's unclear under what conditions, when, where, whatever we're going to go, we're not going to get out of there ever.
People who were born when this war started are now able to drive a car, vote, and in a year they'll be able to get a drink.
And of course, they're already old enough to be serving in this war.
Wow.
Hey, NATO officials said there will be no full withdrawal by international troops from Afghanistan by April end, as envisaged by the Taliban's deal with the U.S., a move that could escalate tensions with the insurgent group.
Yeah, that's what happens when you stay in someone else's country, you promise to leave, then you don't leave, then they get mad, then there's more conflict, and then we use that extra conflict to justify staying there even longer.
It's almost like we don't want this war to end.
Ryan Grimm will tell you it's my fault for not reaching out to the Pentagon properly to end the war.
That's what the intercepts Ryan Grimm will tell you.
That the activists didn't do it right.
International troops plan to stay in Afghanistan beyond the May deadline agreed with the Taliban.
That's according to four senior NATO officials who said there will be no full withdrawal of the 10,000 troops stationed there.
The move is likely to increase tension with the Taliban, who said there will be consequences if the deal is violated.
One NATO official told Reuters the circumstances had not been met for foreign troops to leave.
Kabul and some foreign governments.
The circumstances had not been met.
What are those circumstances?
We'll never know.
Say the Taliban has failed to meet its promises, pointing to violence that has remained high, while also accusing them of failing to cut ties with al-Qaeda.
Last year, the then U.S. President Donald Trump signed an agreement.
We're going to keep the beatings will continue until morale improves.
We're going to keep killing the Taliban until the fighting stops.
We're going to keep killing them until they stop fighting.
That's what they're saying.
Oh, well, we'd like to stop fighting, but they're still fighting.
That's what they just said.
Oh, violence has increased, so we can't stop fighting.
What?
Agreement with the Taliban, which called for the withdrawal of all foreign troops by May in return for the insurgents fulfilling certain security guarantees.
Trump hailed the accord as the end of two decades of war, but it did not include the Afghan government.
Talks between Kabul and the Taliban have since stalled.
What happens after April is expected to be top of the agenda at a key NATO summit this month?
NATO spokeswoman Ona Lonjescu said, quote, no NATO ally wants to stay in Afghanistan longer than necessary, but we have been clear.
Our presence remains conditions-based.
The administration of Joe Biden has launched a review of the Afghanistan peace agreement.
A spokesman for the Pentagon said the Taliban had not met their commitments, but Washington was yet to decide on future troop levels.
While Afghanistan's presidential palace did not respond to a request for comment.
So that's from Reuters.
And this is from Ben Norton.
He says the Biden administration has been in power for less than two weeks, and it is already sabotaging a very rare breakthrough that would have de-escalated the 20-year war on Afghanistan and is instead escalating the war.
Imperialism is the guiding force of bipartisan U.S. politics.
That is absolutely true.
David Cloud says, breaking Defense Secretary Austin is not ruling anything in or out on possible additional troops to Afghanistan, says Pentagon press secretary John Kirby.
The Biden administration is committed to a political settlement in Afghanistan, one that includes the Afghan government.
Well, the only thing we know for sure is that they're ruling out peace.
And why are they ruling out peace?
Because the new defense secretary came right from Raytheon.
Came right from Raytheon.
That's who these people are.
They're bloodthirsty warmongers who want to kill brown people for more money.
That's it.
That's it.
Isn't it great?
Now we got a person of color to do our imperialism.
Isn't that fantastic?
I feel better.
If only he could be transgender to do imperialism.
Yeah.
Wow.
I just, wow.
Wow.
Hey, a reminder that the leaked Afghanistan papers from the Pentagon said that the United States knew the war in Afghanistan was unwinnable since 2002.
Yet Biden has stopped the troop removal.
But remind me again how Biden cares about the troops or the people of Afghanistan.
The Afghanistan papers, they don't know what they're doing, and they know it's been unwinnable for 2000.
So that's not, they're not about winning.
This is about this about that.
And everyone knows it.
And the news media is bought by the same people who are doing the killing.
And by the way, White House reporters, the Biden team asked them for their questions in advance.
Again, imagine if Trump did that shit.
It's amazing.
And of course, now they're all shutting down independent media.
They're deplatforming, demonetizing.
They're trying to scare the shit out of everybody.
I'm scared.
I'm scared.
They're coming for us.
And they are coming for us.
So we're living in a capitalist end game capitalism.
This is end stage capitalism, and neoliberalism cannot be defended anymore.
So they will continue to use crude tools like censorship to do it and demonetization.
And they're doing it.
They're going to do it.
And so everybody go to JimmyDoorComedy.com and sign up there.
Don't go through our Patreon.
Go through the Jimmy Door website if you want to sign up to be a member because it looks like eventually we're just going to be doing this show at our website.
It's coming.
It's here.
Joe Biden, it's here.
And the left is cheering it on.
And people like the Young Turks are cheering it on because they know they'll never say anything that goes against the establishment.
They're for every war at the Young Turks, every war.
They're for every horrible Democrat.
They told people to vote for Joe Biden.
Who's doing the censoring?
Well, Joe Biden's not doing it at Silicon Valley.
You know that Silicon Valley and the Biden administration are in bed together.
God damn it.
Come on.
What they did at the intercept for Biden.
Hey, former Governor Chris Christie is on the line aloe.
Hey, yes, White.
You see my comments on the events of the last few days this morning or this week with George Stephen Cockalus?
What?
What do you mean by what, no nuts?
I reiterate.
Today, did you see me commentarily tating on this morning about the last few days of this week?
You mean this week on ABC with George Stephanopoulos?
I think I missed it.
When was it?
Oh, you really steam me up sometimes.
It was this morning, today, or this week.
And for your information, I crushed.
George Streptococcus has also interviewed such lumiers as Lady Gaga, El Mo, and George Clooney, which lends a certain gravy toss to the proceedings.
A gravy toss.
Gravy.
You sound a little winded, Chris.
How are you doing lately, Chris Christie, Chris Christie?
I don't sell winded.
You're the one who sells winded.
I'm the very picture of health.
Though I do admit that after my bout with the corolla, I got to regain some serious weight.
No shit.
Hey, how much weight did you lose?
According to all the lab work, about three ounces.
Believe me, you don't want this virus.
I urge most of you, not all of you, but most of you, wear a Max.
That's really serious.
Three ounces.
Wait, most of you?
Why not everybody?
Well, some bricks should suffer out there.
Just saying.
There's a reason why some people get to use shit when everything's closed down and everybody else at home.
Thank you.
I don't need to explain my feelings to you.
Just accept it.
Know your place.
Keep your mouth shut and play along.
You see my BSA on maxes?
You did a public service announcement on masks?
Yeah, I did one of them too.
Real straightforward.
I was wrong to not wear a max at the White House.
Then why didn't you?
It wasn't peer pressure, believe me.
I make all my stupid decisions on my own.
And I urge all he was out there to do to say, wear a max.
But not until you get sick first.
That's the only way to learn.
Trials and errors.
So what did you say on ABC today this week?
This morning?
Yeah.
I said President Trump's conduct was selfish.
It's self-central.
Yeah.
Yep.
I was just absolutely and positively outrageous by what I saw.
If it's sighting in his direction, isn't it an impeachable defense?
I don't know what the hell is.
Hey, would you be saying this if Trump was still president?
Of course.
Like America's democracy is durable and strong or some bullshit.
I am more confident in American democracy today than I was before January 6th.
It's additional supplemental bullshit there.
It's all about your obstacles.
Before I go, ask me if there's anything New Jersey's current Democratic governor is doing anything I like.
Okay.
Thanks for asking.
For your information, you just gave one of them forgivable business loads to Daddy's Cafe in Maryville.
They got the best pepper bit mini bunk cakes with the melted white chocolate pepper bit ganash in all the fucking world.
I love mini buns.
They drive me nuts.
Wear your max.
Say so now, you know, when I was at the Young Turks, four out of five videos they did was about Trump, and they turned into MSNBC, and it was disgusting.
And MSNBC and CNN was just all, it was outrageous porn at Trump.
And turns out Trump's out of office, and CNN primetime ratings fall back to earth in the first post-week Trump.
Now, Brian Stelter is going to tell you that this doesn't matter at all.
Brian Stelter will tell you that doesn't matter.
We don't care about ratings.
We care about news.
In the first week of the Biden administration, the ATT-owned news channel CNN saw the audiences drop precipitously compared with the highs of previous weeks.
Meanwhile, rival Fox News channels saw its own ratings dip slightly after weeks of registering its own sharp declines.
Another network that has been characterized as left-leaning, MSNBC, has also seen significant declines.
This downturn is an indicator of what many industry observers had anticipated.
While with Biden in the White House, networks that have spent the last four years railing consistently against Trump have lost the main attraction that energized their audience bases, making it difficult to hold on to the elevated viewing levels.
Just so you know, ATT owns CNN.
And fortunately for ATT, they were chairs of Biden's inauguration.
Did you know that?
No.
And in return for donating $1 million, they will be invited to future in-person events.
A penny lost, a penny gained, as the saying goes.
Or why did this fucking phone booth not return my quarter?
Where's my 25 cents, you assholes?
Anyway.
And meanwhile, Fox News channel saw its own ratings dip slightly after weeks of registering its own sharp declines.
Well, that's because Jimmy wasn't a guest that week.
That's why.
They did call, and we couldn't make it.
And another network that has been characterized as left-leaning, MSNBC, has also seen significant declines.
And that's with Navalny.
All they talk about is Navalny, Navalny, Navalny, Navalny, Navalny, Naval Nevada.
And they're still trying.
So the downturn is an indicator of what many industry observers had anticipated.
With Biden in the White House, networks that have spent the last four years railing consistently against Trump have lost the main attraction that energized their audience bases, making it difficult to hold on to the elevated.
So in other words, nobody actually watches them for news.
That's what they're saying.
So nobody actually watches CNN or MSNBC for news.
They just turn in to hear stuff about Trump.
Isn't that wild?
It turns out it's not just Trump voters who need a scapegoat.
Hey, change in the U.S. total audience watching weekday primetime cable news.
So there it is.
So CNN at 8 p.m. down 43%, 9 p.m. down 44%, 10 p.m. down 44%.
Fox News was not as bad.
MSNBC down 18%.
MSNBC down 20%.
It's not even infotainment, really.
It's just purely entertainment and the emphasis on the taint.
It could be that this decline is temporary as Trump's second impeachment trial is set to begin February 8th, which could prompt audiences to flock back.
Oh, it's the new season of second impeachment.
Don't worry, folks.
There's going to be a new attraction on the news.
There'll be a new attraction on the news.
Among viewers, 25 to 54, the decline may have hit Cuomo prime time the hardest at 9 p.m., where the audiences fell by more than half.
The only program that didn't see a downturn was Fox News' APM slot to Tucker Carlson tonight, which showed a very slight increase versus the prior week.
Boy, Cuomo's going to need a safe place to weather this storm.
And I hope that dead Fredo storage hasn't closed.
By the way, Tucker's ratings only went up because the word was his audience was hoping I would come back on.
That's the word.
That's the word.
So here, look at this.
Look at the audiences.
Look at it.
There it is.
Okay, she needed a graph.
There it goes.
Look how high.
And then bam.
I'm not good with graphs.
I could just go, look how crazy that looks.
That's Fox News' primetime U.S. total audience in 2020.
That's what that says.
Total audience aged two or older.
Really?
I don't know how.
Two or older.
How do they know that?
Hey, Fox News has seen audiences fall to historic lows since the election.
And as upstart rivals, Newsmax and OANN gain ground.
Can I just go back to Chris Cuo?
Can I just say Chris Cuomos got hit the hardest at 9 p.m.
It's like Chris Cuomo threw his ratings down the stairs and then called him a punk-ass bitch.
And that's weird that among 25 to 54, the decline hit Chris Cuomo the hardest.
I mean, it's that the reason why that happened is because pretty much everybody in this age group know that they have different choices for news.
I think that's why that happened.
That's how they dehumanize people.
That used to be a saying, kill a commie for mommy.
That was to be a saying.
Yes.
That was a kill a commie for mommy.
And that's how they have to, because you have to dehumanize your enemy or else you won't be able to kill them.
That's like when we had that guy on here who was fighting in Afghanistan and he's like, yeah, it's fun to take my scope and my M15 or whatever the fuck and kill a bunch of bad guys and flip-flops.
So he had to dehumanize them.
They're bad guys and flip-flops because they don't have proper military gear.
They're less of a person.
And so that helps him dehumanize them to kill them.
So you can't, it's why, you know, that you can be court-martialed if you fraternize with the enemy.
Do you know what that means?
So if you're caught talking to the enemy, someone who we're supposed to be fighting, and you're not killing them, that's a punishable offense.
Why is that?
Why is that?
Because if a guy shows you a picture of his kids, you probably can't kill him afterwards.
It's going to be a lot harder for you to kill that guy once he's been humanized.
Oh, wait, you've got kids?
I got kids.
You got a wife?
Fuck, I got it.
You got a mortgage?
I got a fucking mortgage.
You got a shitty job?
Who are we fighting?
They can't have that happen.
That's why it's called you can't fraternize with your enemies or else you'll get court-martialed.
And that's what they're doing inside the bounds of the United States right now.
They're saying that you can't talk to this person.
You can't talk to a right-winger.
You can't talk to a Trump voter.
You can't talk to a Second Amendment person.
You can't talk to anybody, even if they agree with you, because that's not how organizing works.
You know, organizing works?
When if you want to organize workers, you don't show up at the shop floor and go, hey, we're all the Trump voters.
All right, you're out.
We're all the Boogaloo boys.
You're out.
We're all the proud boys.
You're out.
We're all the racists.
You're out.
We're all the Second Amendment nuts.
You're out.
Now who's left over?
We're going to organize against a man.
That's not how it works.
You show up.
Here's where we all have a common goal.
We all need a raise from our boss.
We all need to be unified in a raise for our boss.
You don't ask people who they voted for.
You don't ask them their fucking political beliefs.
You rally people around a cause.
That's how you organize people.
You don't show up at the shop floor.
All the Trump voters, you're out.
Who's racist?
You're out.
Who's Second Amendment?
You're out.
Libertarians, I'm not flirting with you.
You're out.
Who's our?
Now who's left?
Nobody.
That's who's left.
And so that's what they're doing now in the United States.
They want to make it toxic.
They want to make you afraid to fraternize with other Americans because it helps their political agenda.
That's the Democratic Party.
The Democratic Party wants you to keep thinking half the country is your enemy because they're not going to do a fucking thing for you.
That's a distraction.
Why isn't the squad screaming about Joe Biden not giving us $2,000 checks?
Because they've already sold you out for their own career.
And anybody telling you the Justice Democrats didn't sell us out is either a dupe or a liar because they sold us out.
And I don't care if they don't take corporate money.
They sold you out for a myriad things.
They could sell you out for their own career, which is exactly what they did.
They sold you out for their own career.
Even as that's KD Porter and AOC were being kicked off committees, they were telling you we're negotiating for committee seats and they didn't get them.
In fact, they got kicked off.
But they can't be seen going against the Democratic Party because they all want to remain inside it and ascend in the Democratic Party.
And that's how they sold you out.
The Justice Democrats are just Democrats and they're not fighting for you and they'll only fight for you when it's easy.
And unfortunately, the same thing is true for Bernie Sanders.
He just went from $2,000 checks to $1,400 checks without pushing back against Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden.
Joe Biden is not Bernie's boss.
We sent Bernie there to fight the Democratic Party, to fight neoliberals, not to prop them up, lie for them, and run interference for them.
And that's what they're doing.
That's what they did with the CARES Act.
That's what they did with this force the vote.
That's what they're doing over the $2,000 checks.
They're fucking you and defending Joe Biden and the establishment.
That's what they're doing.
It's plain to see.
And that's why America is still fucked.
And they're the ones fomenting social disc.
As Dylan Radigan pointed out, this is how you set the table for social unrest in America.
You have a government that abandons its people, and then the people who are the furthest left in government running interference for that oligarchy.
That's exactly what they're doing.
They're keeping us divided and they're making us afraid to talk to each other.
And I'm not going to play that game.
Hey, this is Jimmy.
Who's this?
This is Brad Pitt.
Oh, hey, Brad Pitt.
How's it going, phone man?
Not bad, Brad.
How are you?
I'm doing all right.
Figure to call up and see what you're mad about these days.
Well, there's quite a lot to be mad about if you're paying, if you are paying attention, Brad.
I assure you that I am not.
But go on, give me an example.
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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