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March 18, 2021 - Jimmy Dore Show
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The Jimmy Dore Show.
Hey, this is Jimmy.
Who's this?
Top of the morning, Tariosamus.
It's Liam Neeson.
Oh, hi, Liam.
How are you?
Well, I'm fantastic, as you would imagine.
Happy St. Patrick's Day.
Oh, yes.
Thank you, Liam.
Same to you.
Happy St. Patrick's Day.
Can I fairly assume you're wearing green?
No, actually, I'm not.
What?
Oh, why?
I wish I could jump through this telephone connection and pinch you.
You know, I thought they didn't really celebrate St. Patrick's Day in Ireland like they do here.
Well, that's true, actually.
And that's why I moved to America.
So I could celebrate March 17th like a drunken child.
Also, if I were in front of a green screen and a green shirt, it would just make me look like I was a floating head.
Well, that's a good point.
This is St. Patrick's Day, not the feast of St. Maelmur the Decapitated.
That's in February.
But why aren't you celebrating?
You're a proud son of Aaron, aren't you?
Yeah, I'm Irish, but to be honest, I'm not that into being Irish.
It's just not that great.
Oh, come, lad.
What manner of talk is this?
It makes you who you are.
That fire in your belly, the rage in your voice.
Those are your Hibernian forebears speaking through you.
Yeah, I know.
And to be honest, I could do with less of this fire.
It's exhausting.
I try to use it for good, but if I could trade it out for a chill, I would.
Well, it could be worse.
Your ancestors could have been Ulster Protestants like your friend Mike McCrae's.
I grew up around that lot.
A cold, cruel people.
Wait, what did St. Patrick do again?
Chase snakes?
No, that's just an old legend.
The truth is much more exciting.
St. Patrick was actually a Briton who was kidnapped by Irish pirates and lived there in captivity.
Upon getting free, he traveled to France, joined the church, and decided it was God's calling for him to return to Ireland and spread the word of God to the heathen peoples there.
And that he did, using a shamrock to explain the concept of the Trinity.
Yeah, your classic story of missionaries going to remote islands and forcing Christianity on the indigenous people.
But this time, he used weeds to lie to them.
How cute.
My friend, your cynicism is exhausting.
You know what, Liam?
Being Irish wouldn't be so bad if it weren't for the Catholicism part.
I mean, it sucks.
It ruins us.
Each and every one of us.
We are majorly screwed up because of the church.
And you expect me to celebrate the guy who made us Catholic?
St. Patrick elevated a benighted people out of paganism.
If he doesn't deserve sainthood in a feast day, then I don't know who does.
Well, what are who did the Irish people worship before he got there?
Well, reconstructing early Irish religion is tricky, but we have some idea of their pagan pantheon.
There was a great matriarchal figure named Danu, who was probably a river goddess, and also a very powerful deity named Lou.
And back then, did we have the same effed up attitudes about sex?
No, actually, there is much evidence to suggest attitudes towards sex in pre-Christian Ireland were extremely permissive.
So you're telling me we could be worshiping some guy named Lou and his river witch friend while having orgies, but St. Patrick came over and shoved his Christianity bullshit down our throats.
Do you realize how much more chill that Lou guy sounds than Jesus?
Well, fine.
Go worship an oak tree then, heathen.
Sounds better than being beat up by nuns as a child.
St. Patrick's socks.
Ugh.
Your words strike like a dagger into my believer's heart.
and But despite your apostate ways, James, I will pray for you.
Oh, yeah?
Well, I'm going to pray to Lou.
And I'm going to go to an orgy.
Just kidding.
You know, it goes to show, every time you learn about some celebrated figure from history, they usually turn out to be an asshole.
But at least on this day, you can celebrate the great Irish resistors to English domination.
Wolf Tone, Michael Collins, Eamon Devalera.
Devalera?
You mean the only European head of state to send a formal letter of condolence to the German people upon the death of Adolf Hitler?
Like the old Irish toast says, Jimmy, here's to my enemy's enemies.
Aaron Goglas.
Establishment media sets of artists lighting so good luck the bullshit they can't afford by stomaching this world.
Watch and see as a jackdog comedian speeds and jumps comedium and hits him head on.
It's the Jim Door show.
So did you hear the news?
I don't know if you heard about this, but President Biden said Putin is a killer with no soul and that he will pay a price for interfering in the U.S. elections in 2020.
So we hate Putin so much, we're even angry at him when we win.
Isn't that weird?
He's still, Joe Biden, you beat Donald Trump and you're still angry at Putin even after you won.
Isn't that amazing?
Win or lose, it's still Eurasia's fault.
Think of all the people who are suffering right now who just want to see Putin put in his place, right?
All the people without health care or economic relief or anything like that.
They really, the important thing is Putin.
My landlord said that if Joe Biden holds Putin accountable, nobody has to pay rent anymore.
Isn't that nice?
Finally, a president with some stones.
Putin needs to pay dearly.
Sanctions, military action, his forces in Syria.
I don't care.
Just do something.
Militant.
Let's sable rattle with a nuclear power.
Do something.
Bomb somebody.
Wow.
This is what watching MSNBC and CNN will do to you.
The person who is currently protecting and arming Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Egyptian dictator General Abdel el-Sisi, among other savage despots, explains that he will not stand for murderous autocrats.
The guy who championed the criminal war in Iraq, a war that killed over a million people, and who helped Obama destroy Libya, Syria, and Yemen, killing, displacing, and starving millions of human beings, has something to say about Vladimir Putin.
I'm glad other people.
So that's from Sarah Abdullah.
So I'm glad other people notice this.
And it's not just us at the Jimmy Dore show and the people at the gray zone.
I'm glad other people notice this.
It looks like Joe Biden's telling a real shitty joke and Putin is just tolerating it.
That's what it looks like.
Anyway, Stephanopoulos.
So he went on, so he went, Joe Biden said this on Stephanopoulos.
And watch how Stephanopoulos, so what Margaret Kimberly is saying is Stephanopoulos knows his job, amplified U.S. policy.
So he asked Biden if Putin is a killer.
Russia is not having it and recalled their ambassador from the U.S. So because of this, so hang on.
Do you know Vladimir Putin?
You think he's a killer?
I do.
So what price must he pay?
The price he's going to pay, well, you'll see certainly.
I'm not going to.
By the way, we ought to babble that old trade expression walking chew gum at the same time.
So what kind of price is he going to pay?
You see, George Stephalopoulos, is he a killer?
Who isn't a killer?
Who isn't a killer?
Are you going to say that about the guy who runs Saudi Arabia right now?
Are you going to say that about him?
Are you going to say that about the dictator who leads Egypt?
You can say about the guy who, the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, who literally dismembered a Washington Post journalist?
You're going to do that?
You're going to bring that up, George Stephanopoulos?
No.
Stephalopoulos knows his job.
It's to amplify U.S. policy.
The Russia Gators won, ladies and gentlemen.
It's impossible to have any relationship with Russia.
And by the way, Putin didn't kill a million Iraqis.
That's what the United States did.
I've had people who I respect say to me, oh, Putin's a thug.
Who isn't?
Who isn't a thug?
Not Obama?
Barack Obama dropped more bombs than George W. Bush, Barack Obama did.
Barack Obama created those cages.
Barack Obama gassed those immigrants at the border.
Barack Obama dropped fucking bombs in Syria illegally.
Barack Obama turned Libya into a slave state.
Barack Obama participated in the genocide of people in Yemen.
What the fuck are you talking about?
Putin's a, oh, that guy's a bad guy.
He's a thug.
There's no bigger thugs or terrorists in the United States.
Russia and Iran tried to influence.
So this is new.
So this is the new thing.
So this is the new thing.
Are you ready for this?
This is the new thing.
This is the new bullshit propaganda being printed on the front page of the New York fucking Times.
And I'm sure will be repeated breathlessly on the Young Turks today.
Russia and Iran tried to influence the 2020 presidential election, but China did not.
Intelligence report says.
Hey, what are they going to do a report on how we had record turnout because they made mail-in voting easier and didn't suppress everything as much as we usually do?
What are they going to do that?
When they're going to still keep pretending that some other country is influencing our elections more than Wall Street and the corrupt oligarchy here in the United States.
It's a newly declassified, what it says here, the subheadline.
A newly declassified report represents the most comprehensive intelligence assessment of forward efforts to influence the 2020.
A copy.
Yeah, it's all bullshit.
It's all propaganda.
Jimmy, was it 17 Intel agencies?
Was it 17 intelligence agencies said that they did the thing with the server and that it was three and then it was just a couple of guys that got handpicked by a criminal?
Aaron Matei caught it.
He says, spooks and their media dupes.
Rinse and repeat.
Spooks and their media dupes.
That's what this is.
So that is spooks, meaning CIA, FBI, NSA, and the dupes in the media.
The New York Times.
There you go.
Wow.
Vladimir Putin praises Joe Biden's stance on arms control, hedging his bets on U.S. presidential election.
That's from the AP.
Vladimir Putin praises Joe Biden's stance on arms control, hedging his bets on the U.S. presidential election.
That is from October 2020.
Vladimir Putin praises Joe Biden.
And where does this come from?
This comes from the National Intelligence Council.
This is their assessment.
Foreign threats to the United States 2020 U.S. federal elections.
Here it is.
There it is.
Foreign threats to the 2020 U.S. federal elections.
You want to know what it says?
They had three key findings.
The key finding won, we have no indications that any foreign actor attempted to alter any technical aspect of the voting process in the 2020 elections, including voter registration, casting ballots, vote tabulations, or reporting results.
Okay, I guess that's it.
We should go home now.
No, we have to still ratchet up some bullshit fear.
And what it says here is this.
Key assessment three, key judgment three.
We assess that Iran carried out a multi-pronged covert influence campaign intended to undercut former President Trump's re-election prospects.
We have high confidence in this assessment.
Well, I thought you guys should send Iran a fucking case of champagne.
Aren't you guys happy?
This is the, what the F?
They were on your side.
This is what Time magazine said, that there was a secret history of the shadow campaign that saved the 2020 election, and Iran was part of it.
They saved the 2020 election.
And you guys are upset at them.
Why?
Because you want to evade Iran now after Iraq and Libya and Syria and Afghanistan and Yemen and Somalia and the Sudan.
Now you want to go into Iran?
Really?
Russia recalls its U.S. ambassador for consultations after Biden's conso Biden called him a killer.
And so they're playing a diplomatic game.
So there's your country on propaganda steroids, ladies and gentlemen.
There it is.
George Stephanopoulos leads the way.
Joe Biden plays along.
The young Turks report that Iran and Russia are trying to affect our elections.
And we get another right-wing Democratic establishment president.
There you go.
That's how it works.
That's how it works.
Enjoy.
Enjoy your country.
Hey, President Biden's on the phone.
I hope he doesn't call himself Crusader Joe for the poor.
Hey, man.
It's Crusader Joe for the poor.
Hi, Joe.
In your face, Martin Luther King Jr.
I'm cooking with gas and turning the corner on all that stuff.
You know the thing, right?
What are you talking about, Joe?
Don't you fucking call me Joe.
I'm Crusader Joe for the poor.
What am I talking about?
What kind of question is that?
If you don't know what I'm talking about, then you ain't poor.
Don't call me Joe, damn it.
I'm Crusader Joe for the poor.
Crusader poor for the Joe.
But why?
It's oblivious, stupid, fat, stupid, fat, fat, fat, is fat.
My name's Joe.
My dad had an expression.
Put the cork on the jam and pass the hand, ma'am.
Come on, man.
I could go on and on.
You won the votes of the majority of affluent voters last election.
So, how can you be Crusader Joe for the poor?
Come on, man.
Don't give me that.
Will you shut up?
Do you want proof?
Yeah.
You can't handle the proof.
You want proof of Joe crusading poor for the New York Times lie to you?
Four New York Times journalists wrote that.
They call me a crusader for the poor.
Suck it, Bobby Kennedy.
And that other black guy.
What's his name, too?
Martin Luther King Jr., my mother had an expression.
Clean as a whistle, sharp as a tack.
Nice looking guy.
But they're all in my fucking dust now.
A big fucking dusty deal.
I grew up with a guy named Dusty, real character.
With Joe, Crusader, Joe.
Just shan so you move on.
What?
Crusader Joe.
Now, now, call me champion of the middle class.
The Times called me that too.
In your face again, clean-cut guy.
Jesus, God.
Jesus.
Look, firstly, here's the thing: will you shut up and listen?
I'm listening.
Behold, come bathe in my money shower, poor people.
Now you can move out of that starter house.
And you can buy that new liver.
It's all there, Jack Fat.
We did it all for you.
I promise you this.
If you send John and the Reverend to Washington, those $2,000 checks dollar checks will go out the door.
And oh boy, I'll go out the door immediately.
And that's not hyperbols.
That's real.
And not only are you getting $2,100 checks, you're also getting them with garnish.
Bathe in Crusader Joe's money shower, assholes.
And shut that fucking dog up.
Your fake money shower sucks, Joe.
Tired of all the noise from you guys on the left.
You're like a squeaky wheel or something.
We're riding this car until the bearings completely crack and we go up the cliff into Joe's money shower.
Hey, thanks for calling, Mr. President.
You're welcome in your face.
Jesus Christ.
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Hey, Chuck Schubert's calling me.
Hello.
Oh, my gosh.
Have you heard the news, Jimmy?
Relief is on the way.
I repeat.
Relief is on the way.
This massive Joe Biden relief bill rescues and rewards so many deserving Americans.
I could almost shit my pants over it.
Please tell us about it, Chuck.
No, I will, young man.
There's never been anything like this.
$100 billion will go to the state of New York alone.
That sounds great.
I bet you could forgive a lot of student loan debt with that, huh?
Blah, blah, blah.
We're forgiving interest on it for a while, okay?
Isn't that enough?
You're overlooking what I slipped into the bill at the last minute.
A provision preventing relief money from being used to subsidize new tax cuts for the rich.
Isn't that wonderful?
Say it's wonderful, or else I swear I'll make a scene and go ape shit on you.
It's wonderful, but why didn't you use the power you had to block tax cuts for the rich in the first place?
Because you're not celebrating my mastery of the Senate, that's why.
Only I could promote myself as the savior of everyday Americans from a threat created by my own incompetence.
Why didn't you push that provision during the first relief bill?
I don't know, but who cares, right?
Because now we can do spectacular things like pretending to stop a problem we helped create.
It's genius.
Yeah.
Come on, Chuck.
What are you really doing to help the people?
I'm literally tweeting my ass off.
That's what.
Yeah.
There's over 4,000 children in cages and tents at the border right now.
Oh, enough with the kids in the cages already.
It's so manipulative.
They are not in cages.
They're in overflow containment facilities, OCFs.
So stop it.
Do you hear me?
For God's sake, stop the madness, STM.
It's a crisis.
There are kids sleeping on mats on floors in buildings seven times the legal limit.
Have you even met them?
They're not all saints, you know.
I remember when I was a kid, and boy, were some of them ever so mean, making fun of my Argyle socks.
Their cruelty knew no bounds.
Let's wait until we get the complete picture on them.
Besides, big things are ahead.
Yeah, like what?
I'm gonna come right out and say it, so sit down and brace yourself.
One of the first things I want to do once our new senators get seated is deliver on one of the things we promised once they get seated.
Applause, please.
The Senate is already seated, Chuck.
Oh, no, they're not.
Have you seen the place?
There's furniture everywhere.
Who sits where?
For the life of me, I don't know.
Somebody must have taken those little things with the names on them and mixed them all up or something.
For the life of me, I'm Flormax.
But you're the master of the Senate.
I'm not the master of the place settings, dickhead.
Look, we're turning the corner, my friend.
And with the six-month loans we're giving to our local entertainment venues, we'll be mixing and mingling and coughing and even dancing and singing in public again in no time.
Didn't you see me singing New York, New York on James Corden's show last night?
Hello?
Okay, I'll hang up now.
I bet you hate Argyle socks too.
Start spreading the news.
I'm leaving today.
All right, all right, all right.
All right.
The COVID relief bill finally passed, and there's been a full-out assault of propaganda to make you think it's the best thing since sliced bread, and it's not.
We haven't had any progressive legislation in the United States since I'm going to go back to the Medicare and the Civil Rights Act in the 60s.
Right, Ron?
That sounds good, right?
That sounds about right.
So that was just barely in my lifetime.
That was just, I was born in 1965.
Yeah.
So that was just, where were you born, Ron?
1977?
84.
Oh, Jesus.
Jesus Christ.
Well, how am I supposed to feel?
You guessed older.
I know.
I just didn't want, I just didn't want to be that much older than you.
Jesus.
The year after I got out of freaking high school, he was born.
He could be your son.
It could be my son.
Ron, are you my son?
All right.
So here is the COVID relief thing.
And so now everybody is doing full-speed propaganda to convince the plebs who just got abandoned by their government that their government is the greatest thing ever.
Here is AOC.
Now I'm going to, I'm going to, this is hard to watch.
Maybe it won't be for you.
But for me, it was, it was, I don't, it, everything in me, it pushed every button I have inside me.
But here we go.
Let's here she is gaslighting you about how great.
And I just thought, does she do this one?
She does a lot of, she has a lot of theatrical movements like this.
She starts off like this.
It's more of a performance piece.
It's more of a performance.
Did you notice that, Ron, when you watch this video, all the kind of different hands?
We'll watch.
Let's, here we go.
Here we go.
You know, if you want me to talk about the politics of it, I'm happy to talk about the politics of it.
Of course, it takes a fight.
You know, what the, I mean, come on.
After just not fighting, after not fighting ever.
Ron, can you think of one thing that the squad has ever fought for?
Okay.
Okay.
No, that's a null.
All right.
Back to the video.
Here we go.
We believe that this is not just about Democrats versus Republicans and just doing this ping-pong back and forth.
It's not just about Democrats versus Republicans, Ron.
It's really about the elites versus the working class.
And bad news, nobody's on your team.
Yeah.
I mean, meaning our team, the regular people's team.
Our team.
We believe that the Democratic Party needs to be better too.
And okay, so that takes care of it then.
We need they have to be better, but we're not going to fight or do anything to make them better.
And I'm certainly not going to cross anybody.
But I will tell you that they're doing a great job.
Package like this, it can be really frustrating because you're negotiating within your own party.
But and so, you know, there were things that we pushed for that we wanted.
How did you push for them?
How did you push for them?
You mean you mentioned them at a meeting?
Did you have a strategy with the other progressives in your caucus to actually get them?
Did you have a strategy?
No.
They had no strategy.
What did you actually, when you say push, how did you push?
Well, we didn't actually push.
So you didn't actually do anything?
No.
Would that be accurate, Ron, what I just said, you think?
Yeah, I'd say so.
I mean, I mean, they didn't use the leverage they had when it came to this relief bill.
And just like they didn't use their leverage for force the vote.
Or the First Cares Act.
Okay.
Yeah, I mean, it's tough because the bills that are out there that are good bills, like, you know, I think of like RoCanna's Yemen bill or the bill that goes into digital rights, which I think actually RoConna also authored.
I mean, there's some good bills that are out there that I would like to see become law.
And pretty much all of them, the squad is behind.
But are they going to push for these things?
Are they ever going to get to the floor?
Are they ever going to get voted on?
There's not a lot of reasons to be too optimistic about that.
Okay, back to this.
We wanted this package to go further.
So how did we want this package to go further?
First of all, we wanted stimulus checks to be $2,000.
I believe, you know, the argument for it being $400 or rather $1,400 is we gave $600 in disclaimer $400.
Don't give them any ideas.
That's what it's okay.
Remember, we have $1,400 now, and both of those things add up to $2,000.
Is she also doing sign language while she talks about the bill?
Because that's what it seems like.
I don't like it.
I don't buy it.
I know a lot of you all don't buy it because when we say $2,000, people thought we meant $2,000.
So that is sign language.
So what when you say, what she says, I know a lot of you don't buy it.
What do you mean, buy it?
So you're going to vote for it anyway, though.
You actually are going to vote for it, even though you don't buy it.
You're going to vote for it, right?
You're not going to actually not vote for it.
You're not going to withhold your vote to make them put it back in, are you?
Maybe bring it back up to the 2,000, you know, the thing that they actually said.
No, again, nothing.
They didn't think when we said $2,000.
Come on.
We know that people didn't think, you know, $14 plus the $600.
$2,000, $2K is $2K.
But.
But you're not getting it.
And I'm voting for it.
And I'm not going to do anything to get it for you.
Whatever they said, that's how it goes.
Thanks for your vote.
And thanks for following me on Twitter.
You know, we're not, we don't have a magic wand.
The fact is that.
They don't have a magic wand, Ron.
They don't have a magic wand that could actually give us What they promised us, but we do have a magic wand that gives a trillion dollars a day to the banks.
We do have that magic wand.
Isn't that amazing?
We don't have that magic wand to get you health care or a living wage or a UBI or even the $2,000.
Yeah, I mean, if you're going to say you don't have a magic wand, okay, I'll give you that.
You don't have a magic wand.
All the more reason when you got some leverage, you got to use it.
That's right.
Oh, you don't have a wand, but do you, do you have leverage?
Yes, we do have a magic leverage.
Are you going to use it?
No, that would be rude.
We don't have a magic wand.
And so when you have a bunch of people in the party who want 2,000 and then a bunch of people in the party who don't want, who want 4,000.
I like how she compares what you're supposed to do, actually having a voting strategy with the other progressives.
That's considered having a magic wand.
No one expects you to have a magic wand.
What we expect you to do is what you campaigned on.
Using your leverage to get things.
That's how politics works.
Nobody's expecting.
So she's making up a straw man.
There's a lot of people who want us to have a magic wand.
No, we want you to do what's actually possible.
Not have a magic wand.
So again, this is just lying.
And that's what all the hand gestures is about.
She's very theatrical in this one.
It doesn't stop.
And she's gaslighting and she knows it.
Gaslighting, another form of lying.
1,400.
And the president sides with 1,400.
We're going to get the 1,400.
But that doesn't mean that we stopped fighting and took that line down.
Because even though she, as she said that, she did so that I don't want to be too Joyan Reed on you.
I don't want to bring in a body language expert, but even everybody saw that one.
As she says it, she touches her nose.
That's the Pinocchio.
That's the here.
I'll back it up.
But that doesn't mean that we stopped fighting and took that line down.
So translation, we stopped fighting, meaning we never even started.
When did you start fighting?
It doesn't mean we stopped.
When did you start?
Show me the evidence of your fighting.
I'm going to guess none of it exists.
Because even though they brought it and they said 1,400, what we pushed back with was, okay, if you're going to do that, then we need to include dependents.
Well, if they're going to do that, why don't you just say no?
If you're going to push back, push back and say no.
What was your leverage to make them include dependents?
What was your leverage?
What made them decide to include dependents?
Just that you said it?
That's not how politics works.
Let's get back to the television.
That doesn't mean that we stopped fighting and took that line down because even though they brought it and they said 1,400, what we pushed back with was, okay, if you're going to do that, then we need to include dependents and we need to include adult dependents.
Ron, does she tell us what leverage she used to get that in there?
No, right?
No.
She just said we pushed back.
Why not just push back and say, no, the full 2,000, dummy?
Why stop?
Why settle for less?
I don't understand.
Yeah, I mean, if they started listening to demands, allegedly, why not shoot for the stars and just demand all of them?
Demand a UBI, demand, you know, a retroactive UBI to start at the beginning of last year or maybe shooting in March of last year.
Why not shoot for the stars and see where you land?
Because things are desperate.
Here's what David's friend of the show, David Sirota, says.
And by the way, over at the Daily Poster, which is the news organization he started with like Walker Bragman, a couple other people I don't think I know, do fantastic work over there.
They were the ones, I think they broke the story on Cuomo, screwing over all the old people and then killing them.
I'm pretty sure that they were the ones.
So tip of the hat to David Sirota and the people over at Daily Poster.
It would be hard for six to ten House Democrats to stand up and say they aren't voting for any COVID relief bill without minimum wage.
But that's what real heroism is.
The hard is what creates greatness.
They have a rare opportunity to make real change.
Right now, they have the power.
And they chose, without explaining why, to not use their power.
And that was her lying because that's gaslighting, pretending, well, we didn't stop fighting.
We didn't stop fighting.
We didn't stop fighting.
So they didn't.
They did stop fighting.
They didn't fight at all.
And as David Sirota's tweet reveals, they have the power.
They chose not to use it, and they won't tell you why.
And whoever gets to interview them should ask them, why won't you use it?
Why won't you use your power?
I'm sure David Sirota could snag an interview with somebody in the squad.
It would be nice, David.
I implore you lovingly to ask a question like that.
Why won't you use your leverage ever at any point ever?
That would be nice.
I don't have access to them anymore.
They're already stars.
They already got their careers, but he has access.
I would appreciate if you did that.
Maybe Ilhan Omar, you could ask her about this tweet.
Maybe you could ask her, yes, we can.
With a slim Democratic majority in the next Congress, anything can be possible.
It will literally take five courageous progressive members to get concessions on progressive policies.
And we don't have any.
The only person to vote against the COVID relief bill was a conservative Democrat.
So they don't have any courageous progressives.
None.
And they won't tell you why they won't do this.
This is them.
I didn't come up with this idea.
They did.
I didn't come up with the idea of them getting a floor vote on Medicare for all.
They came up with it.
They won't tell you why they won't do it.
And that makes me a bad person to bring that up.
Right, Rodin, that makes me a bad person, I think.
Here's what.
You are a bad person, Jimmy.
Thank you.
Here's David Sirota again, nailing it again.
Again, everybody should check out the Daily Poster.
The thing is, he says, if six to 10 House Democrats draw a line in the sand and say they aren't voting for a COVID relief bill without a minimum wage hike in it, they become instant megastars.
They get to be heroes on a wildly popular issue and save the Democratic Party from itself.
Truly an epic opportunity.
And he's correct about that.
David Sirota is nailing this.
And I really hope that he would just maybe just show this tweet the next time he gets a chance to interview somebody, one of the progressives in Congress, which he will get that chance.
I won't.
Because they know I'm going to ask him this question.
So they don't expect David to ask it.
So that's why I'm saying sneak it in.
Sneak it in.
Because here's the lie of all lies.
In contrast, this is her talking to Justin Jackson from the, what is, I want to say Falcons.
It's not the Chargers.
From the LA Chargers.
I don't watch the sport.
And I do watch Justin Jackson, though.
In contrast, she says to Justin Jackson, who was saying, if you don't push for force to vote Medicare for all, like Jimmy Doerr said, you all are fraudulent, right?
Basically, what he told her.
And she says, no, no, no.
In contrast, you can use leverage to push for things that can happen and change lives.
She's saying Medicare for all cannot happen.
Even though she campaigned on getting a vote for it on the House floor, she's saying it can't happen.
And she's saying that the $15 minimum wage can happen.
And $15 minimum wage vote in the first 100 days is doable.
Elevating longtime progressive champions to important positions of leadership also doable.
That's the opportunity cost away.
So they didn't force a vote on Medicare for all because if they did that, they would have lost their important leadership positions and they wouldn't have got the $15 minimum wage vote.
They didn't get leadership positions.
They got kicked off their committees and there's no $15 minimum wage in the bill.
You got nothing for nothing.
You got nothing for not getting forcing a vote.
You got nothing for it.
And then you wouldn't force a vote on $15 minimum wage and you didn't make a stink.
You thank them for kicking you off your committees.
Katie Porter, thank them.
So this is all garbage.
And again, this is probably the only show that's going to call them out.
So you're welcome.
David Sirota gives you the broad stroke.
And then we're going to give you this.
We're going to nail it in.
Here, there's more to this.
Here is, but this is these things are doable, but guess what?
Not done.
Isn't that weird?
They're doable, but not done.
Weird.
So here's a little more.
So what happened was that the House included a $15 minimum wage, and the Senate has a parliamentarian that ruled on something known as the bird rule.
And the parliamentarian said.
The more hand use, the more bullshit is being slung.
That's my theory.
What do you think, Ron?
Jimmy, I wish you would stop complaining because I am happy that the mock arena is finally back.
I'm enjoying it.
Can we just try to focus on the positive?
This is going to be tough to get through, but I'm going to try to do it fast.
Here's AOC one more time, one more time, gaslighting you, which is another form of lying.
And she's doing it right to a camera.
And people are buying this garbage.
She says, if you care about student debt cancelization, it's time for you.
It is go time for you.
You need to mobilize.
Let's talk about student loans because I found something very interesting in this bill.
Now, before everyone gets ahead of themselves, there is not student loan cancellation in this bill.
But there's something even worth less.
Watch this.
There is a provision that feels like an Easter egg, which I think gives us.
It feels like.
It feels like.
I was feeling it around and it felt like it, but it certainly smelled like a shit egg.
But I don't know.
It feels like it, but smells like shit.
Here we go.
Some hope because not only are college students going to get stimulus checks that they didn't get last year, but I noticed and some people noticed that there is a tax provision tucked away that says if your student loans get canceled,
that cancellation, you don't have to pay taxes on that cancellation.
Okay.
She already said there is no student debt cancellation in the bill.
But if there was, you wouldn't have to pay taxes on it.
Here's your Easter egg.
Open it up.
It's empty.
What in the shit, Ron?
What in the Which, you know, in other words, you wouldn't have to, it wouldn't be processed like as though it would not be if your student loans get canceled.
This is such a nothing.
She can't even tell you what it is.
She can't even find the words to tell you how good this is because it isn't.
There's nothing to it.
Yeah, it does kind of have that vibe of you're really failing at your sales pitch training.
Yeah.
Like, all right, so pretend you just came to my door and you want me to buy the encyclopedia, volume 12.
Ready?
Just go.
Just go.
Hi, do you do the homework with your kids?
I don't have kids.
Don't panic.
Don't watch the script.
They'll know if you're looking at the script.
Well, all right.
All right.
Start again.
Everybody take five.
Take five.
But remember where you go to to the people that don't have kids.
Well, you do trivia with all your single friends, right?
Don't you want to win it, trivia?
Get this encyclopedia.
You'll win every year.
All right.
Everybody, everybody take five.
Remember, the earning potential is through the roof.
It's through the roof.
It's unlimited.
All right.
I'm going to, I'm going to subway.
You say, well, want to join me?
I need a sandwich.
Take five.
That is exactly what this sounds like.
It will not be treated as though it would not be treated as though the government gave you money for you to pay off your loan so that you would have to pay taxes on that.
So like, let's say you had several thousand dollars in student loan debt.
You wouldn't pay taxes on the cancellation for that.
Let's say you had several thousand dollars.
Several thousand?
That's the problem?
People have two thousand dollars in student loan debt.
Now, there's no student debt cancellation in the bill.
So this provision that's tucked in, I think, tells us, like, if you care about student debt cancellation, it's go time for you.
You need to mobilize.
And now is the time to organize to create the political pressure because in there, tucked away is almost like a little someone's paving the path.
Someone's paving the path.
I can't tell you who.
We're not canceling your student debt, but it might happen at some nebulous time in the future, but probably not because the Republicans are taking over Congress.
But what you have to do is mobilize.
So I just want to let AOC know that the American people did mobilize.
They elected a demented walking death rattle as president.
They then elected the Democrat.
He's a Democrat.
And then they elected the Democrats to a majority in the Senate and in the House.
They mobilized.
They get out.
They knocked on doors.
They got people to vote.
They moved their feet.
They moved their vote.
They're polling.
They got it done.
You guys have complete control of government.
They were, it's, Now we still have to mobilize.
We still have to do more.
What are you doing?
When are you going to mobilize?
When she says you have to mobilize, do you mean we have to go do a protest at the Capitol?
Is that what she means, Ron?
Because she won't say what that means.
She says you have to mobilize.
Do you mean go do a protest at the Capitol?
Why won't you say that then?
When you say mobilize, what do you mean mobilize?
We already mobilized and elected everybody.
Now what?
We have to go do what?
What a kind of mobilization.
Do you know what she means by that?
I have no idea what she means.
I mean, she's technically not wrong when she says that.
And if you ask me, like, well, what do I mean?
If I said that, I'd mean general strike.
We need a general strike right now, general strike immediately.
But she won't, you know, she'll never say that, nor will she tell her 11 million Twitter followers where to go mobilize.
She won't go.
When I mean mobilize, I mean blank, blank, blank.
She won't do it.
She'll never tell them to actually fucking show up and do a protest.
She'll never actually tell them to do a direct action.
She'll never tell them to not pay their rent or their moral.
She'll never tell them to hold back their credit card bill.
She'll never tell them to do anything.
She wants you to go think up an idea, go organize people.
You do it.
Not her.
What in the hell are they doing?
Tell me what they're doing.
Nothing.
Again, here we go.
And I can't claim credit for that provision.
If you want, I can go into some of my specific contributions to this bill as a lawmaker.
In fact, I will get into one of those a little bit later because it's part of money that you can get, additional funds that you can get.
But progressives are looking out for you.
And by the way, this is the benefit.
Progressives are looking out for you, Ron.
Progressives.
I feel so seen.
No, I mean, and this goes into something else.
I mean, I've said this on the show before, too.
It's, you know, yeah, she's not doing anything, any of those things.
She's not telling people where to mobilize.
She's a politician.
This goes into that much bigger question.
Where is our generation's Eugene Debs?
I mean, I mean, that's what we need.
That's what we need.
And that's not going to be someone who's in office.
We need our generation's Eugene Debs.
We need our generation's Emma Goldman.
We need our generation's Lucy Parsons.
We need those types of leaders.
And, you know, I don't know who that is, but what do you think would happen to that person if they actually emerge?
Do you think there would be a cabal of oligarchs sitting in a room thinking up smear tactics to credit discredit that person?
And they would probably.
Yes, of course.
Jimmy, that's what's happened for the past hundred years.
Pretty much, or near 100 years at the very least.
I mean, that's what happened back when the working class was able to mobilize at least enough to have a common goal.
What happened?
Well, the New Deal happened, and the powers that be didn't like that one.
So what happened after that?
Years of McCarthyism and years of smearing and infiltration.
And it wiped out the communists and the socialists.
And now I feel like we're finally starting to rebuild at least.
And yeah, but we need those types of leaders in our society.
I don't know who they are.
I don't know where they are, but damn, do we need them?
I think that Christian Smalls.
Yeah, I mean, yeah, you look at that guy and what he's doing is completely admirable and really leading the way.
And every city needs one of him.
Yeah.
Justin Jackson also has clarity on this.
Unfortunately, he's busy being a professional football player.
You know what?
I just want to show it on.
I just want to say that, you know, Sundays, he's busy.
He's busy on Sundays.
I just want to say that.
Progressives are looking out for you.
Well, they're just hoping you aren't coming to look for them.
Another joke Ron wishes he would have written.
The progressives are not looking out for us.
They're just hoping no one's coming looking for them.
No, no, you got to see this.
them.
from translation translation translation translation Of electing a movement of progressives to Congress.
Oh, because so again, we haven't elected enough progressives, Ron.
Even though they have leverage to use right now and they never will, if we just get more, there's 100 members of the progressive caucus in Congress.
Right?
100, probably at least 100.
When there's so, you know, when there's so few of us, like if it's just, and this is the benefit, for example, of expanding the squad.
Again, we don't need to expand it.
You have enough votes right now to wield power and you won't do it.
I don't, Ron, do people still buy this shit when she says it?
I'm serious.
What percentage of the people who watch this do you think buy this?
If I'm being honest, probably a lot.
Yeah, I know.
That's the sad thing.
I mean, there's, and this goes far beyond.
I mean, I mean, this is an issue that's been going on for a very, very long time in this country where we have this celebrity worship of politicians.
We have this celebrity worship of, you know, people in power because our system's so brutal that you kind of cling on to these personalities.
I mean, even just, you know, and I'm not trying to, you know, insult like Ruth Bader Ginsburg or anything like that.
But how bizarre is it that people have this celebrity worship of a judge?
I mean, that's just very, very strange.
And I'm not trying to be disrespectful to the dead.
It's a very bizarre thing, especially in other parts of the world.
It's just very strange that we have this cult-like worship of celebrity, of political figures, where you have some of the most powerful people in the world, i.e.
the Bidens, the Clintons, signing contracts with Hollywood agencies.
It's just twisted.
And that's one way to put it.
It's very bizarre.
Because there's just four of us.
There's only so much we can do, right?
So by the way, you have done nothing.
There's more than she's only four of them.
From the squad, I think.
So there's Jamal Bowman, Corey Bush, AOC, Ilhan Omar, Rashid Salib.
Why am I blanking Pramila Jayapel?
That's six.
Now we got Rokana.
That's seven.
Who was the woman who won in there's there's another Ayana Presley?
That's eight.
So again, you only need, and then there's, so she says there's only four of them.
So I guess no one will call her on that.
No one will notice.
She just can't stop fucking lying.
And we can't do anything.
And she laughs about that.
They can't do anything.
She's not upset about it.
She thinks it's funny that they can't do anything because she knows that they can.
Only physically so many amendments that we can introduce.
And people will say, why'd you do that?
Why don't you do this?
Why don't you do that?
Because we're human beings.
Which...
Thank you.
That was her excuse.
That's her excuse for not fighting for a $15 minimum.
Do you know what that sounds like?
That sounds like Kamala Harris when she was asked about why those things she said about Joe Biden at the debate and if she still believes them.
And she went, it's a debate.
Ha ha ha!
Laughing like a jackass over nothing.
The reason why we didn't fight for force to vote and the reason why we didn't fight for $15 minimum wage and the reason why we're not getting you anything.
Yeah, we're human beings.
We're corrupted.
She's laughing in your fucking faces.
That's why she won't lift a finger to help you.
She's laughing in your fucking faces.
This is a joke to her.
24.
Amendments that we can introduce.
And people will say, why don't you do that?
Why don't you do this?
Why don't you do that?
And then people say, why don't you do anything?
Why don't you do anything?
And what does she say to that?
Because we're human beings.
Yes.
Yes.
you Thank you.
Wow.
I can't even watch any more of this.
Should I watch more of that, Ron?
Is there anything good coming?
I think we got the theme.
I got it.
I think we got it.
So Danny Hellman says the benefit of electing progressives and expanding the squad.
So she says we got to expand the squad and elect more progressives.
So the benefit of electing progressive and expanding the squad is an Easter egg buried in a pork-laden COVID relief bill, promising that in the unlikely event student debt is ever forgiven, debt holders won't get taxed on the forgiven loans.
USA, baby.
USA.
So that's like if you're drowning, AOC would come by and give you a high five and tell you to mobilize.
We're drowning.
Go mobilize.
High five.
That's AOC's.
That's her strategy to help you.
This may come as a shock, but we're not in Congress, so we can't write or vote on bills.
That's your job, AOC, not ours.
Do your damn job.
Do your damn job.
Didn't AOC shut down Jimmy Doerr when he tried to mobilize progressives around Medicare for all?
That's exactly what happened.
I actually did the hard work.
I actually did the mobilization.
I got 100,000 people to a town hall.
I got everybody talking about it everywhere, especially on Twitter.
And she smeared me when I did exactly what she's been saying we should be doing, mobilizing, pressuring your lawmakers, calling them.
I had people doing all that stuff.
They wouldn't answer their phone.
She said pressuring politicians is violence.
We did all that stuff.
She's full of shit.
But I know that's offensive to Jenk Uger and Anna Kasperian because they don't swear anymore because they become the thing that they used to be the antidote to.
They're television news now.
Their shows on the fucking TV.
Literally.
That's why they don't swear.
What's wrong with telling people to organize?
So this person says, what's wrong with AOC telling people to organize?
Well, the first answer is when Jimmy Dore did it, she said it was violence.
And the second thing is, it's because it's burden shifting when she hasn't done anything on her end.
The squad has had Joe Manchin level sway because of a margin in the House on two items, the speaker and the COVID bill.
They've used that power zero times, made zero demands, and now tell us to go fight.
Lead if you want us to follow.
Well said.
Well said.
Mobilize to do fucking what?
The same thing they just got done mobilizing for months to give the Democrats a president and a majority in both houses of Congress?
AOC is pulling from Obama's playbook.
Draw the UNO reverse, UNO reverse card and blame the people whenever campaign promises get broken.
That's exactly what she's doing.
The UNO reverse card always pulls up its pants.
I told people from the jump that AOC was cultivating a personality cult to turn herself into a political heat sink, just as Obama did.
And even now, people think I'm just being an asshole every time she proves this correct.
Holy shit, who is this guy?
Andre Demise?
Who is that guy?
FKA Andre Demise?
Who is that guy?
I don't know.
That's exactly.
I didn't know there was anyone else saying this besides me.
So there's someone else with a blue check that's been saying this?
And yes, and every time she proves me correct.
I can't wait for the next video by Jenk Uger.
He'll be literally crying this time.
Please do something.
I look like such a fucking cuck.
Please do something.
So again, the way to pressure people like AOC and the Justice Democrats to do what they're supposed to do is you withhold your donations to them.
You call them.
You withhold your donations.
And you let them know how you feel on Twitter and Facebook and wherever Instagram and whatever you do.
You let people know that this isn't okay and you're not putting up with the gaslighting.
Jenk Uger will never tell you to stop donating to these people who are selling you out at nuclear speed and laughing in your face as they fucking do it.
I will because I'm not corrupted by corporate money.
So I can tell you the truth because I'm not looking for a job in journalism like every other person with a show.
Every other person with a show is looking for their next job.
Guess who isn't?
Me.
Every other person.
Hey, David Axelrod is calling me.
Hello.
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