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March 24, 2021 - Jimmy Dore Show
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Get ready for an outstanding entertainment program.
The Jimmy Dore show.
Hey, wow, Vladimir Putin's on the line.
Hello.
Jimmy, long time no touch base.
What is up?
Anything new going on over there?
Well, a bunch of people stormed the Capitol building.
Boring.
In there, don't that.
I'm talking about serious shit like nuclear power plant blowing up.
Whoa.
Or France and Germany invading your country.
Huh?
Or giant meteor destroying St. Petersburg and Stalin, rebuilding it at night without world finding out.
Wait, a meteor destroyed St. Petersburg?
Oh, whoops.
Not meteor, I meant gentrification.
Oh, boy, do I hate capitalism.
And I'm an oligarch for crime in his sake.
No figure.
Hey, here's important news.
In a new poll, 62% of Americans say they want a third political party.
Wait, you have two parties?
When did that happen?
Oh, I get it.
That is a joke, right?
Don't pull Vladimir's leg like that.
He's not quick on uptake as he used to be.
By the way, you know this call is being listened to, yes.
Yeah, our private conversations are being monitored.
Yes, my creepy uncle is in the kitchen, and I just heard him lift up the extension.
Get off the phone, you freak.
I'm so sick of this shit.
I might just retire to live near remote lake so I can cut hole in ice and dive without claws in frozen water for photographers.
That is so Vladimir Putin.
I know.
You're thinking of retiring, Vladimir.
Why?
Because of Joe Biden.
Haven't you heard?
The noose is tightening.
The walls are closing and the dominoes are falling.
It's the end of the third quarter and the bottom is falling out.
That doesn't sound good.
You're telling me Rachel Maddox says it's the beginning of the end for me.
It's only a matter of time.
The writing is on the wall and it's the boiling point.
That's terrible.
I know, right?
I'm standing on precipice.
The dam will burst.
They're really turning a beat.
It's the end of the road and a GG's up.
Wow.
But wait this more.
Apparently the ceiling is falling.
The cracks are showing.
The hands are at midnight.
The pressure is on.
And it's the tipping point.
Already.
I mean, huh?
So please answer Vladimir this.
What they do with this clubhouse team.
What do you what do you mean?
Are you on clubhouse or are you in it?
Is it a real house?
Is there a club there?
Do people go there to eat cheeses and dance?
I don't get it.
It's just a new audio chat app.
What now?
You don't know what an audio chat app is?
You're going to translate that into English, Captain Nerd ass hat.
Remember, I'm just an old-fashioned country oligarch who likes to spend his day riding horse by river with no shirt on.
It's just another kind of social network thing, I guess.
Oh, so why does Elon Musk want to talk to me in the clubhouse?
Does he like me or something?
Why do you care?
Because he's a freak and I don't want anything to do with him.
He told a rescue team in Thailand to put his submarine the size of Korsk through underwater tunnel.
Jimmy, honest opinion.
Who is better billionaire, me or Elon?
I think you're all equal.
But I play hockey, gride horse, to judo, and dive nude into Ice Lake.
Oh, forget it.
Just don't bomb us, okay?
We just started getting all the mold out of my palace.
Toodles.
Toodles.
Yes.
Biden's White House asks staffers to resign over past marijuana use.
Oh, so I guess we got to get a new vice president.
That's what I thought, Graham.
So he's telling people who use marijuana in the past that they have to resign, not his vice president.
Man, who knew working for the guy who wrote the crime bill would backfire?
Can you imagine that?
Oh, fuck.
I didn't think he would be an asshole to me.
I thought he would just be an asshole to everybody else.
Hello, Joe Biden staffers.
This is karma.
I've got some bad news for you.
Joe Biden's firing you for your past marijuana use.
Hopefully they will qualify for a one time payment.
They must have.
By the way, you know, those people are potheads.
They must have been high if they thought Joe Biden was an ally.
I wonder if they regret screwing over the guy in the primary who wanted to legalize it.
Biden fired a ton of young staffers for marijuana use because Kamala Harris was having a hard time fighting the urge to arrest them.
A member of a number of White House staffers were asked to resign or demoted for past marijuana use, regardless of whether those employees had been in one of the 14 states where the drug is legal.
What in the are you kidding me?
That is that is so they're going to ask them to resign for doing something that was legal.
Why not just include alcohol?
The Biden.
But you don't have to resign for the for Libya, Joe, or putting kids in cages or for the Iraq war.
Joe Biden doesn't have to resign for any of that.
Or how about the crime bill?
No, you don't have to resign for it.
No.
How about the regulation of Wall Street?
No.
How about for saying you wouldn't want your kids to grow up in a racial jungle?
No.
Still, though.
The Biden administration required workers to disclose past marijuana use on a background check form, but told some new hires that it would overlook those who answered yes.
Despite this, White House Director of Management Anna Philippic led a series of one on one calls with staffers this month asking those who admitted to past marijuana use to resign or be placed in a remote work program.
You motherfuckers.
You.
That's like shit you would think the rightest of right wing assholes would do.
Oh, that's right.
That's what Joe Biden is.
People forget Joe Biden's a right winger.
He's a right winger.
He's not a left winger.
a pro-war anti-worker pro-Wall Street fucking right-winger it's exclusively targeting young younger staff and staff who came from states where it was legal, one former staff said.
Although marijuana has been legalized in a growing number of states, the drug remains illegal on the federal level, making it difficult for staffers trying to get security clearances if they've used the drug before.
What about Kamala Harris, though?
Kamala Harris says she smoked pot and supports marijuana legalization.
That's right from CNN.
So I'm guessing Kamala Harris is not getting fired or being offered remote workspace.
Ha ha ha ha!
Thank you.
You know who's not getting fired?
We hold these truths to be self-evident.
All men and women were created by the, go, you know, you know the thing.
Jesus, Jesus, Jesus.
Graham, Graham, what do you think about the Joe Biden administration firing all their young staffers for legally smoking pot and admitting it while keeping Kamala Harris, their vice president, as the vice president?
Well, Jimmy, I don't think it's fair that you're smearing Joe Biden, who's our progressive hero that's going to take on the Trump administration.
I mean, it's just like, it's so funny.
I keep waiting for the neoliberals to realize how they've been duped and scammed, but they won't.
They'll find some excuse to go, well, he had, I mean, you know, you got a clean house because they'll have some excuse.
Like they just made, I just listened to a bunch of these make excuse for him bombing Syria rather than give people, you know, Medicare for all or stimulus plan or anything like that.
So this is, and as you said, look, the Republican Party has gone so far to the right.
They're a neo-fascist organization.
And the Democratic Party is the Republican Party of 30 years ago.
So this is what the Republican Party would have done.
I mean, this is what George H.W. Bush would have done.
What Ronald Reagan would have done?
Reagan would have done this.
I mean, this is what rich old white people in power that thinks that, I mean, what did they show Joe Biden?
What movie did he watch after he tripped up those stairs?
Did he watch Reefer Madness and be like, oh, no, these kids are going to be smoking those marijuana cigarettes and they might start listening to jazz music?
Like, what, what?
Especially when Joe Biden's kid is Hunter Biden.
Yeah.
We're supposed to have sympathy for them, that his son's a crackhead and all that.
We're supposed to have sympathy for their problems.
Right.
Yeah.
Typical.
I mean, this thing is just littered with the hypocrisy of not just the Democratic Party, but the ridiculous two-party system that is nosediving America into complete collapse.
And I mean, if you need any more evidence that Biden's administration is out of touch and doesn't know what they're doing, as are the Republican, like they're both these two awful parties are completely out of touch.
It's like there's what, 13, 14 states?
I mean, they should just do a story on the state of Colorado that legalized recreational marijuana several years ago and has been making like it's helped their economy.
And yet, you know, for any of the how are we going to pay for it crowd, if you decriminalize marijuana on a federal level, the tax money from it would be, could answer any of our, just, just, just weed.
Just weed alone could answer any of our issues that they can't seem to find the money for.
But it's just the ridiculous nature.
And this is honestly, I don't think people realize this is the soft, cuddly fascism of Joe Biden.
We got rid of the overt fascism of Donald Trump, and now we've got the soft, cuddly firing people for smoking weed.
Like, what is it, 1953?
What year is this?
Like, give me, it's unit's unreal, but I mean, they're going to just say, well, at least we got to read it trump, I guess.
I don't know.
I have no faith in the neoliberal pulling their head out of their ass.
30 years ago, 30 years ago, over a generation ago, President Bill Clinton admitted to smoking pot.
The president, 30 years ago, was the president that Joe Biden voted for, admitted publicly to smoking pot.
So did his vice president, by the way.
Just like Joe Biden's vice president.
Who else admitted?
There was a bunch of people at that.
Did Newt Gingrich admit it?
It was like a bunch of those motherfuckers.
But it was Bill Clinton was the famous one because everyone did jokes about it because he tried to claim he didn't inhale.
But he smoked it.
Still, it's illegal.
In the meantime, doesn't Biden sent have a drug addiction policy?
Yes, we just what percentage of people in America still think like marijuana is evil?
Like what percentage of people are like, oh, marijuana, like what, I mean, I don't, and what, what is their age bracket?
What, what is their demographic?
I just don't, I mean, we've just done, we've done, we could go on and on about all the positive things that have happened.
And to people like, oh, I know people that have gotten addicted to weed.
Of course they are.
Of course people have done too much of weed, but alcohol is legal.
Cigarettes are legal.
Like I literally, and the things that Joe Biden has participated in that are awful.
I mean, as a, as a senator, as vice president, and then this is what he's firing his staff on?
This is what he's firing his staff over.
I mean, they should fire Kamala Harris, not just for smoking weed, but for, you know, letting one West Bank by protecting Steve Manooj, not prosecuting when she was Attorney General of the State of California, when she was district attorney in San Francisco, she protected pedophile priests.
Are those things not as bad as smoking a plant?
I mean, I'm with you, buddy.
It's, it's, I, I, I'm, this never ceases to amaze me.
And the corporate media will keep protecting him.
I mean, so, so do you think that Kamala Harris on her form said she didn't smoke pot?
That's why she's able to get a security clearance?
Did she lie on her form?
Yeah, that's a great question because if she lied on her form, then she should be impeached.
Yes.
She should step down.
Either she smoked, well, she already admitted publicly she smoked weed, so then she should be fired for that.
And if she lied on her form, which is why they haven't fired her already, then she should be fired for that.
That's right.
So she got two, she's got two firings reasons.
Yeah.
Two fireable actions.
Two fireable actions.
I mean, this is like, if this is, you know, either put all these kids back on the payroll and say, yeah, we were idiots who were firing people for marijuana.
Or the vice president needs to step down.
That's right.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
Or the vice president needs to step down.
I'm just asking for consistency.
Yeah.
Hey, renowned linguist and cognitive scientist Noam Chomsky is on the line.
Hello.
Hi, Jimmy.
Thank you for having me on your show.
Noam, the world is facing catastrophic threats, the likes of which have never been experienced before at the age of 92.
What keeps you learning, teaching, and motivated during this great upheaval?
Just smoking out of a beautiful pipe, the best hash.
Nothing added to it, just ice and water.
Some people like to use butane and all sorts of bullshit to extract the best sticky, but I prefer it clean.
In other words, all you're getting are those beautiful, oily heads of the bud.
Okay, but what do you tell young people who are disillusioned with the concept of constant activism?
I used to get a lot of bad read from a guy named Lester.
He had a seven-foot bong.
What?
In essence, it's a metaphor for why progressives must revitalize the labor movement.
Where are you at with dabbing nowadays?
Are you still in the dabs or one?
Hey, that's pretty strong pot, Noam.
Jimmy.
Do you ever think about stuff?
Well, I mean, yeah, of course, but I would imagine a great writer and thinker like yourself would do it constantly.
I have written over 150 books on linguistics, history, and political thought, but I never enjoyed a single minute of it.
Why?
Because it took away from my high time.
Even your book, Manufacturing Consent?
No, that was totally written by weed.
The book cover should have read by Noam Chomsky and Weed.
Now I won't write unless I'm properly zoned with my exotic playlist.
It consists of a psychedelic collection of Turkish jazz punk from the 1970s.
How do you prepare for a writing session?
Personally, I like to jump straight to a blunt, followed by a bong.
That's when you really start leveling up.
The secret is learning how to roll while you're driving with one knee.
I've seen people do that.
I've seen people do my old college roommate.
Anyway, hey, that sounds dangerous, Noam.
Under those conditions, it is necessary to have an automatic.
Noam, why don't you just roll your blunts before you get in your car?
Have you ever wondered hard, and I mean really hard, about what the deal is with airline food?
Well, I know a lot of comics who have.
I really thought I could come up with a new angle allowing for the abstract structures of a specific language as they may relate to structures in other languages.
But no matter what, you can't get around the simple fact that airline food is just bad.
It is bad.
During my post-grad days at Harvard, there were these two fellows named Fat Freddy Frietowski and Free Will and Franklin.
And they awoke my mind to the weed universe.
Noam, I really don't think this is a good look for you.
Remember a while ago when I told everybody that once Joe Biden is president, we can push him to the left.
Yes, I remember.
Well, I don't think that's going to happen.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha.
That's not going to happen.
At least not in the foreseeable future.
What do you mean by foreseeable future?
Like before the sun explodes into a million beautiful colors.
That's not very helpful, Noam.
Speaking of the sun exploding, have you seen my lighter?
No, I haven't, Noam.
I haven't.
Help us.
Don't worry, Jimmy.
We will get you through times of no money.
Better than money will get you through times of no weed.
Yeah.
What's my advice?
Don't get burned later.
Do you know this?
So this is the pushback.
Aaron Mate at the Grey Zone has a great story.
Five former OPCW officials joined prominent voices to call out.
This is from March 14th to call out the cover.
Now, you know, we've been on that cutting edge.
We were reporting this way ahead of the gray zone.
And Eric Matei, we were on the gas attacks before it was cool.
And so from the Grey Zone's reporting, prominent signatories and five former OPCW, OPCW stands for the, oh, damn it.
Office for the Prevention of Chem or Chemical Weapons.
It's off.
Organization for the Prevention of Chemical Weapons.
That's it.
Thank God.
Prohibition.
Prohibition.
Organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons.
Got it.
I remember the CW.
I was winning WB and C. Anyway, prominent signatories and five former OPCW officials are calling on the chemical watchdog to address the cover-up of its chemical weapons investigation into the Syrian city of Douma and to hear out the dissenting scientists whose findings were censored.
So just so everybody knows, they kept saying that Assad was gassing his own people.
There was no evidence ever.
And the reports from the OPCW, which is supposed to be an impartial organization, when they went in, they investigated.
Well, they didn't put in their report the facts that they actually had found.
And that's why it took five OPCW whistleblowers to tell you what was in the original report that got taken out.
The first thing was the engineering report that showed the bomb that could, that this couldn't have happened.
Okay.
So leaks from inside the OPC show, the key scientific findings that cast down on Glaibian government guild were censored.
Just what I just said.
It was said a little more boring there.
Since the cover-up became public, the OPCW has just, so it became, now everyone knows there's been a cover-up now.
They still won't apologize to me at CNN for calling me a conspiracy theorist because I got this story right.
They're never going to stop doing that.
Other assholes on MSNBC platforms also said that about me, said I'm a gas attack denier.
They were spreading a conspiracy theory.
I was doing the hard work of debunking it.
And of course, they'll never apologize For it.
Since the cover-up, the cover-up became public, the OPCW has shunned accountability and publicly attacked the two whistleblowers who challenged it from the inside.
The statement of concern is signed by five former OPCW officials, including the organization's founder, founding leader, Jose Bustane, and others, including Noam Chomsky, Daniel Ellsberg, Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, Tulsi Gabbard, John Pilger, Lord West of Spithead.
Come on.
That's not a real person.
You guys are making shit.
Okay, as well as two former senior you, you come on.
Lord West of Spithead.
I'd be going up to Spittelbrill.
Please get your genital cuff.
The issue at hand threatens to severely damage the reputation and credibility of the OPCW and undermine its vital role in their pursuit of international peace and security, says the statement.
It is simply not tenable for the scientific organization for a scientific organization such as the OPCW to refuse to respond openly to the criticisms and concerns of its own scientists whilst being associated with attempts to discredit and smear those scientists.
And our next guest, Aaron Matei, went on the Tucker Carlson show to give more information about this.
And I was going to play it because it was pretty.
The facts here are overwhelming.
But I'm not.
I'm going to just bring Aaron on and have him tell us what the facts are that are overwhelming.
Aaron Matei, come on.
How are you, Aaron?
Hey, Jimmy.
How you doing?
You know Aaron from the gray zone.
you know him from pushback, you know him from, Why didn't you go on Rachel Maddow or Jake Tapper?
Why do you go on fucking talk?
Why do you got to go on Fox News?
What are you, jerk?
I must have missed their invitation.
I didn't realize I was invited.
Damn.
Oh, seriously.
I could have reached MSNBC and CNN, but I guess I missed the invite.
Oh, so along with every single other major media outlet that has refused to cover this story from the start.
It's amazing that they won't come.
CNN will literally smear me still.
It's in my Wikipedia page that says that I'm a conspiracy theorist about Syrian gas attacks.
We've debunked it.
It's not true.
As CNN was lying and spreading conspiracy theories and then smearing the good journalists who were getting it right.
So what we, what did, so no, tell me, what, what did you tell on, what did you tell Tucker?
Tell it to our audience.
Well, just that this is, you know, usually when you have stories like this, when we hear about the reasons we have to go to war, usually the reasons are pretty transparently bullshit.
But it's rare that we have such a level of overwhelming evidence and not just evidence, but even whistleblowers saying that the actual facts were covered up.
And what I pointed out is that the facts of this case are not in question.
The original OPCW team that went to Syria, went to Duma to investigate, found no evidence of a chemical weapons attack.
They wrote a report.
That report was suppressed.
And actually people above them, above the team that went to Douma, tried to insert a whole bunch of conclusions that did not match what the team had actually found.
And these unsupported conclusions all pointed to Syrian government guilt.
So right from the start, there was an attempt to introduce claims that were not grounded in fact.
And this basically devolved further.
The original team's report was censored, kept from the public.
And finally, the final report that came out from the OPCW about a year later in March 2019 said essentially that the U.S. narrative was correct, that there was reasonable grounds to believe that there was a chlorine attack in Douma.
And the inference of the report was that the Syrian government was guilty.
And that was the pretext for the U.S. bombing of Syria that same month back in April 2018.
So this was basically a conclusion that was used to help justify the U.S. narrative.
But that's when we got all the leaks from inside the OPCW just showing the cover-up that happened.
The original report was censored.
The team that went to Duma, they were basically taken off the case and replaced by a bunch of people who never set foot in Syria.
That group then excluded all the key original findings that pointed out there was no evidence for this being a chlorine attack.
There was mean, well, some internal dissent.
We've got leaks at the gray zone showing that one executive at the OPCW was very alarmed at all this, but this executive said that they didn't want to say anything because they didn't want to help, quote, the Russian narrative.
And of course, why is anyone's narrative even being introduced here?
It shouldn't be about narrative.
It should be about science.
And that's what was censored to justify a pro-war deception and an ongoing one because now when the U.S. occupies one-third of Syria, we're still there.
We're occupying a third of Syria right now.
And when the U.S. does that and also imposes murderous sanctions that prevent Syria from rebuilding from the war that we fueled and prevent Syrian children from getting food and medicine, you hear U.S. officials, whether it's Mike Pompeo or now his successors in the Biden administration, they say things like Assad gassed his own people.
So we have to impose these murderous sanctions and occupy their country.
So you can see the motives.
We can see why lies like this, like these chemical weapons allegations are so important because they're used to justify warfare and starving countries that we've targeted.
And what's amazing is despite all these damning facts, you can't get anyone in the media except for you, Tucker Carlson, the gray zone, and a few others to cover it.
Not even Democracy Now will cover this, correct?
Correct.
Correct.
Yeah, the War and Peace Report, they call themselves the exception to the rulers.
They've been in lockstep with the rulers on this issue.
It's been really shameful.
And, you know, I've said this before on your show.
I worked there for over a decade and I learned so much about journalism there.
So it's been really, what can I say, to see a show that used to challenge power now carrying water for it on one of the most important pro-war deceptions in recent memory, certainly since the Iraq war.
It's unbelievable.
But I've tried.
I've tried to get, you know, I've wrote them privately.
I've tried to pressure them publicly, but nothing.
And that just speaks to so many progressives were duped into going along with the propaganda used to justify the dirty war in Syria.
And now something like this, which exposes a major deception at the heart of that, because I guess the truth is just so damning for so many people who bought into all this stuff.
They don't want to grapple with it.
Why do you think Tucker Carlson is allowed to tell the truth about the Syrian war and the propaganda the United States government and the Western intelligence communities are spewing?
Why do you think he's allowed to bring you on to tell the truth about this when literally no one else in the establishment media or even public news media like Amy Gooden, they won't even touch this.
What is your I can't I have no idea.
Do you if he was less popular, there's no way he'd be allowed To do this.
But I think at this point, because he's basically the most popular cable news host in the country, he's achieved a certain level of power where they can't mess with him because Fox would be messing with a very profitable operation.
But if he was like a less popular cable news host, there's no way he would do this, that he'd be shut down.
I'm sure very quickly.
I mean, we saw that with Phil Donahue before the Iraq war.
His show was actually popular on MSNBC, but he was bringing on critics of the drive to invade Iraq.
And so they canceled him because he wasn't powerful enough to withstand it.
And why Tucker Carlson does it and Amy Goodman doesn't?
I mean, I don't know.
That's a question for Amy Goodman.
It blows my mind that there's been such converging silence around this story.
And actually, the one time Amy and Democracy Now covered it, they brought on this guy who's an apologist for the dirty war in Syria, who actually ended up doxing one of the OPCW whistleblowers well before his name became public.
And that's who they had on to talk about it.
And of course, he completely minimized it and distorted the story.
And since then, they've either ignored it or have misreported it in the few times that they even acknowledge its existence.
Compare that to the intercept, another so-called adversarial site.
When the initial Duma incident happened, they have a columnist named Robert Mackey who wrote a series of columns sort of mocking Russia and Syria for denying that Syria was guilty.
Since the whistleblowers came out, he's gone completely silent, said absolutely nothing.
And the intercept itself has not even acknowledged the whistleblower's existence.
So search for OPCW whistleblowers, Duma on the intercept, zero results found.
So on the supposed adversarial site that says in its mission statement that we welcome and champion whistleblowers, something to that effect, they won't even acknowledge these whistleblowers' existence.
That's weird because every time I bump into the intercept, they're doing fantastic.
Yeah.
Yeah, but it says something.
It says where our media is at.
That this is you'd think after the Iraq war, especially when a lot of liberals got duped into going into a complete con, that people would have learned their lesson, but it's actually gotten even worse.
You had more dissent at the time of the Iraq war on major pro-war deceptions than you do now.
Of course.
Yeah, not only do you have some progressive outlets ignoring the story, but even going along with it and promoting it.
And then when the facts come out, as overwhelming as this, documents, which is the lifeblood of journalism, we love documents.
We have them from the OPCW.
There's a lot of them, including the original report that was censored and whistleblowers.
We love whistleblowers too.
Are we supposed to?
Nothing.
Can't even acknowledge their existence.
So you're saying that the reason why you went on Tucker Carlson, Fox News, to tell the truth about the Syrian war is because nobody else in the media will tell the truth about the Syrian war.
Well, it's certainly true that nobody else in the media will tell the truth about the Syrian war.
I mean, I want a Tucker Carlson's show because he has a big audience.
And I have a duty as someone who is reporting on this story and reporting on it extensively to reach as many people as I can.
And it's just crazy.
Like there's so many things where I don't agree with Tucker Carlson at all.
I think he has some views that I completely reject.
But it's crazy that Tucker Carlson, a right-wing cable TV host, is doing a better job at covering such an important issue than major progressive outlets.
It says something, not so much even about Tucker, but about them.
Yes, that's exactly right.
It says everything about them.
It says everything about MSNBC, CNN, the New York Times, The Washington Post, Democracy Now, the Young Turks, the entire left-wing media.
It says everything about them, that they're mostly garbage and they can be outdone by a fucking pothead in his garage.
That's what it says.
That's how shitty the news media is in America.
I mean, they're just, I mean, just go on Twitter and you just see, you see them the way they attack Glenn Greenwald for doing honest journalism.
Journalists never engaging in his arguments, just always ad hominin smearing.
That's what journalism is in America.
Nothing but fucking smear merchants and go along.
And, you know, and then, yeah, it's, it's, it's, and it just goes to show you that the courage is always more important than intelligence.
And I, and that's coming from a dumb guy, of course.
But that's why I'm able to outdo people with much higher IQs and much better pedigrees educationally than me, is because I have the courage to do it.
It doesn't, and it doesn't take much, by the way.
It doesn't take much.
And I always chalk it up to that.
I came from comedy and I made my bones in comedy and I don't give a shit about getting a pat on the head in journalism.
And it's so easy.
But anyway, that's the thing.
That's why the country's in the position it is because there aren't more Aaron Matei's.
There aren't more gray zones out there.
And the people who we think are like Aaron Matei in the gray zones like Democracy Now, like the Young Turks, like MSNBC, they're completely co-opted, completely.
They won't tell you the truth about foreign policy.
They just won't do it.
They're not going to cross the war machine.
They're not going to cross the war machine.
Every time I was at the Young Turks, every war, they were pro-war.
They were pro-Afghanistan war.
They were for keeping the troops in Afghanistan.
They were pro-Libya.
Down goes Gaddafi.
They were for bombing Syria.
The first time they're for bombing Syria.
The second time wanted it done harder.
That's your fucking lefty media getting outdone by a pothead comedian while not even trying.
And that's the kind of bullshit that happens at other media outlets.
So if whenever you get to the left of the Democratic Party and you're a threat to them, they will immediately smear you as being a right-winger.
Somehow you are surreptitiously and nefariously propping up the right wing while pretending to be left wingers.
That's all they have.
They did that to me.
They did it to, first of all, they did it to Joe Rogan.
So Joe Rogan, he comes out, he endorses Bernie Sanders.
What do they do?
They immediately, and he voted for Bernie Sanders.
First, he said he liked Tulsi Gabbard, who was to the left of the Democratic Party.
Then he endorses Bernie Sanders, votes for him, and then they smear him as a right-winger, right?
You saw, oh, he's transphobe, he's a misogynist, he's a sexist, and he's a right-winger.
That's the same thing they did to Bernie.
Same thing they did.
And then they did it to me.
So here it is.
I got to their left, and I made a big impact with forced the votes.
And everybody knows who we are.
And everybody knows that the squad are frauds.
And the Justice Democrats are a failed experiment.
Everyone knows that.
Even the founders of the Justice Democrats are admitting that now.
Dirtback left stars are flirting with the right.
And look at that.
Look at that.
What a nice picture.
Flirt away.
I'll flirt with that motherfucker.
Are you kidding me?
Next time somebody tells me to go fuck myself, I'm going to get that picture.
I'll bang that guy.
You kidding me?
So they did that to me.
And now they're doing it to Andrew Yang.
Andrew Yang is now leading in the polls to be mayor of New York.
And what do they do to him?
They get their rag, the Political, which is now a DNC freaking rag, says how Yang charmed the right on his road to political stardom.
This is the first, this is, this is the first sentence.
Ready?
This is the first sentence from this article.
Andrew Yang's road to fame was paved with right-wing podcasts.
That's the first sentence and the first paragraph.
That's the whole paragraph.
That's what they want you to know.
He is in bed with right-wingers and he should be dismissed.
And he certainly should be in trouble.
That's what political, here's the next paragraph.
Before he joined the New York City's mayor race in January or appeared on a presidential debate stage during the Democratic primary, Andrew Yang reached an audience of millions through shows that promoted a strongly anti-progressive point of view.
And they make that sound like that's bad.
When I grew up politically, it was considered a badge of honor if you could turn a right-winger into being a lefty.
That's considered a badge.
You bring your, like when Bernie Sanders went to Fox News, and then Fox News does their own poll, and they find out 71% of Americans are for single-payer healthcare because Bernie Sanders went and talked to partly because Bernie Sanders went and talked to them and he explained.
So you're supposed to bring the message.
Like when I went on Tucker Carlson and I argued for Julian Assange's pardon because he's a real journalist and Tucker Carlson, the number one conservative news host, says he changed his mind based on the strength of my argument.
That's what you're supposed to be doing.
So Andrew Yang brings his ideas to anti-progressive shows.
That's what you're supposed to do.
They're trying to make it seem like something nefarious.
During one interview, Yang said, there are many elements of Trump voters that I completely get and empathize with before describing people who had become disaffected with corruption and checked out.
So that's also bad, right, Aaron?
You're not supposed to, you're not supposed to identify with any elements of Trump voters.
You're not supposed to do that.
That's bad, right, Aaron?
Yeah, they want this siloed way of interaction with politics and media where you only speak to people who are already on your side and already only fall within a very narrow category of people, which is coastal liberals with their own set of concerns and not try to reach people who are outside of you.
Now, when I say all this, I don't want to sound like I'm endorsing Andrew Yang because I actually can't stand Andrew Yang.
I'm not on board with Andrew Yang either.
But I agree with your point that to go after someone for trying to reach people.
It speaks to the liberal myopia that just is the reason we got Donald Trump is because liberals want to live in this fantasy world where Hillary Clinton was this amazing candidate.
And then when she lost, instead of looking honestly at what the problems were with her and her wing of the party, it was all the Russians' fault.
Let's blame the Russians now.
And that's the same thing now.
Because anybody who tries to actually reach people in their concerns is doing some kind of sacrilege.
It's a cult mentality.
He's talking to millions and millions.
According to their own article, he's talking to millions and millions of Americans.
Yeah.
Not Saudi Arabians, not Russians, not Venezuelans, not Germans.
No.
He's talking to millions and millions of Americans with his political message.
Jim, if we're talking about Andrew Yang, though, can I just give a shout out to Diane Morales, who is a real progressive, a real lefty who is in the New York mayor's race.
She's awesome.
And I recommend people check her out.
She hasn't gotten very much media attention, but she's like an actual progressive, unlike Andrew Yang.
I think has this weird populist shtick, but I don't think he stands for anything really good.
Yeah, it's not weird.
He has a popular stick, and I get it.
We've challenged him when he came on our show about the minimum wage and how he pays for his UBI as regressive.
But there's a usefulness to Andrew Yang, and meaning like he raises people's consciousness about what's wrong with the system.
And he also, his UBI idea was a big help to get people to think that way, even though the way he pays for his UBI is wrong.
So Yang made appearances on Dave Rubin.
This is from Politico.
Yang made appearances on Dave Rubin, the Ben Shapiro show, the Joe Rogan experience, and Tucker Carlson tonight to promote his candidacy.
Wow, somebody wants to get elected is now reaching out to voters across the spectrum.
And this is somehow bad.
This is bad.
And by the way, again, the Joe Rogan experience endorsed and voted for Bernie Sanders.
And, you know, Jim, you can see it.
You can see how this translates to audience numbers.
Like, look at all the progressive or liberal shows that only talk to each other and only interview each other and only have each other on as guests.
You see it in their view numbers now on YouTube.
They don't reach that many people.
If you want to reach people, you have to show some an open mind and a willingness to acknowledge other people's humanity, especially those you don't agree with.
And you don't just shut people off whose views you aren't totally in line with.
You talk to them.
That's the whole point of politics.
It's not to, you know, like it's not high school.
If you want to have a click, then you go back to high school and find friends and talk amongst yourselves.
But in media and politics, the whole point is to like interact with people.
That's the whole point.
You try to win people over to your side.
Well, you saw what happened to me when I interviewed.
I interviewed a Boogaloo boy.
They made it sound like I joined the Boogalo Boys.
I just interviewed a guy.
All I did was interview him.
That's all I did.
I didn't join them.
I didn't endorse their organization.
I didn't marry his sister.
I didn't fucking do anything.
I interviewed a guy.
But that is what Chomsky talks about, what the liberal press is there to do, Aaron.
You know that.
They're there to set the parameters of the debate.
So now you're not allowed to talk to anybody who we did seem what he call a deplorable.
So I had talked to a deplorable, and how dare you, even though Joe Biden had half the Republican Party at his own convention.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So by these, so this is from Politico, even more bullshit.
Here it is.
I want to show you.
It's fun.
By then, these shows had built a reputation.
So he appeared on all these shows, Dave Rubin, Ben Shapiro, Joe Rogan, Tucker Carlson.
By then, these shows had built a reputation as highly critical of progressive policies and woke culture, a viewpoint that had built them a collective nationwide audience of millions.
You know, first of all, Joe, again, Joe Rogan is a progressive.
He voted for Bernie Sanders, said he loves AOC and Tulsi Gabbard.
This is just garbage.
Also, any political consultant is going to tell you, if you want to get elected president, only go on shows where your point of view is reflected in its entirety.
That's how you appeal to the masses.
Remember when Elizabeth Warren boycotted Fox News?
And that worked out perfect for her.
That's how you're supposed to do it.
She finished fourth in her home state.
That's what you're supposed to do.
Yeah.
So they're trying to make normal politics sound scary and nefarious because why?
The guy who's not a Democrat for real, the guy who's the outsider to the Democratic Party, is in the lead.
That's what this is.
He didn't pay his dues as a Democrat, and he's telling truths that the Democrats don't want him to tell.
So here we go.
Yang's podcast appearances were hosted by a loose collective of political commentators, immortalized in a New York Times profile as the intellectual dark web, a term coined by podcast host and Theal Capital Manager Eric Weinstein.
Oh, that's where Eric Weinstein comes from.
I didn't even know that.
In an interview with Politico this week, Andrew Yang characterized his media strategy as an underdog's effort to boost his profile while broadening his appeal beyond Democrats.
That's exactly what it is.
I think the Democratic Party needs to try and gravitate away from identity politics and towards things that would actually bridge the gap.
And that's what they don't want you to do, Andrew.
That's why they're coming at you.
I don't think it's a great way to try and build consensus or bring people together or get big policies across the finish line.
And I think it's a kind of stupid way to try and win elections, Yang said.
He's saying by relying on identity politics.
That's what he's saying.
Also, I was trying to, frankly, get people to pay attention to my campaign and the ideas about automation and universal basic income, he said.
Yang did not distance himself from his comments and said he did not regret his appearances.
Wow.
How dare he not reject and denounce himself for talking to other Americans who don't agree with him politically?
This is what liberal politics now, it's just tattletailing and scolding for people for talking to the wrong people.
And it bothers me that this is benefiting people who I don't even like, like Andrew Yang, who at least has the sense to realize that it's good to speak to a wide audience and to get his message out.
That's a good thing.
At least he recognizes that.
I wish people whose ideas I agree with, like progressives, people who support Medicare for all, people who, unlike Andrew Yang, oppose charter schools, you know, people who, unlike Andrew Yang, support the human rights of Palestinians.
Andrew Yang is anti-BDS.
But I wish people with my politics could have the sense to talk to as many people as they can because that's what politics is.
And it's, you know, you've been talking about this for a while.
Wow, the self-defeating mentality of the Democrats to not fight for anything and then to shun efforts to try to reach people.
It's going to, it's a bad recipe because in 2020, there was something unique.
There was a guy named Donald Trump who mishandled a pandemic.
And if not for the pandemic, I think he would have been in a much better position.
In fact, there's a new book out called Lucky.
It's about Joe Biden's candidacy.
It's by the same people who wrote that book Shattered about the Hillary Clinton campaign in 2016, which told us that basically within hours of Hillary Clinton losing to Trump, that her team gathered together and decided that they were going to blame Russia for their loss instead of themselves.
And this new book, Lucky, quotes one of Biden advisors who says that I'm paraphrasing, but COVID-19 was the best thing that could happen to him politically.
Because without COVID-19, you think Trump would have lost that one?
I don't think so.
No, no, it was COVID.
In 2022, Trump is not going to be on the ballot.
And what are Democrats giving people?
They're scolding people who try to reach other people who don't necessarily vote for them.
And they're caving on things, as you pointed out, on like a $15 minimum wage.
So it's not a good omen.
Well, here is, you want to know who really is flirting with the right wing?
It's the freaking head of the party.
It's the head of the party.
Talk about war birds of a feather.
Yeah.
Are you kidding me?
How about this?
How about Kasich and Biden team up?
Yeah.
That guy was their number one guy at the goddamn convention.
They thought he was going to get them Ohio.
Didn't happen.
Yeah.
They brought on John Kasich, anti, couldn't be more anti-worker.
Yeah.
Biden Schumer vowed continued bipartisan outreach after no Republicans back relief bill.
So they don't, they want to work with that, but you can't even, Andrew Yang can't even go on a podcast.
So Joe Biden can literally not only flirt, but work with and pledge support and ask for support from actual powerful right-wingers.
But Andrew Yang talks to some fucking Jagoff podcasters with zero power.
And that is, you are in trouble.
Oh, boy.
So don't forget that Democrats and Republicans used to be one party and not much has changed.
And the Schumer, he's vowing to continue for continued bipartisan outreach.
They don't need it.
Anyway.
All right.
So there you go.
That's what they're doing to Andrew Yang.
So now you see the playbook, right?
They did it to me a couple times now, right?
They try to smear you as a conspiracy theorist.
Well, they can't do that to Andrew Yang, right?
They can't smear him as a conspiracy theorist or a Russian, but they can smear him as somehow he's a little too friendly with right-wingers.
Bad.
That's shameful.
So now you see the playbook, right?
Hey, Joe Rogan got to the left of the Democratic Party.
Smear him as a right-winger misogynist.
Hey, Jimmy Dora got it to the left of the Democratic Party.
Smear him as a right-winger misogynist.
Hey, Andrew Yang is leading all the Democrats to the New York mayor race.
Smear him as a guy who was getting bed with the right wing.
And right now, there's the, go ahead.
Well, it's funny.
I've never before ever said to someone else who, you know, you're responsible for someone else's opinions.
Never.
Right?
This is a new principle that's only been introduced recently with people like us because we go on Tucker Carlson all of a sudden because we commit the crime of speaking to Tucker Carlson and his millions of viewers.
Now we're all of a sudden responsible for everything else he says.
You know, that's a principle I don't see applied pretty equally.
In that article, it said they talked about Dave Rubin and they said, Dave Rubin, who has interviewed white nationalists, this and that and blah, blah, blah.
And they named everything anti-this and anti-trans activist.
And I go, yeah, he does an interview show.
That's what, if you're a journalist, you know, you could say that about fucking Walter Cronkite.
You could say that about anybody who's supposed to be doing interviews.
They're supposed to be interviewing fucking people from all walks of life.
Phil Donahue.
I grew up on Phil Donahue.
I know who David Duke is because he was a regular on the fucking Phil Donahue show.
This idea that interviewing people who are outrageous is wrong, people who are way out of line with you politically.
That is crazy.
Again, that is the establishment trying to control the narrative and they're trying to keep you in your siloed away and fighting each other.
That's all that is.
And they're really ramping that up now because that's all they got.
Because as soon as the class, as soon as the Americans realize that this is a class war and not a left-right war, the establishment is fucked.
And they're coming closer to realizing that.
And shows like this are helping.
And that's why they got to extra smear us.
So I know you think you thought Trump and Russia Gate was over.
It is not.
Our favorite Rachel Maddow.
Now, if I were to sit down to write a comedy sketch, it wouldn't be much different than this.
If I was going to try to write a parody of Rachel Maddow in this moment right now, I don't think I had to have to change a word because she even makes fun of herself at the end, unwittingly.
The unacknowledged ironies through this whole thing by her is just, and I'm glad I have Aaron Matei with me because he wrote one of the only articles that I saw that actually called out Rachel Maddow for this kind of garbage back when the intercept would actually print something worth fucking reading.
That was back, but that was 2017, I think, right?
That was early 2017.
That's when Glenn Greenwald was still there.
And I'm sure he had to break some chins to get that article printed in the intercept, right?
He did.
The only reason I got to write the article is because of him.
Absolutely.
That's right.
So here she is.
Ready?
Are you ready?
Here we go.
One of the things we've learned just this week from the intelligence director is that part of the disastrous Trump COVID response is that.
First of all, I like that she learns things from the intelligence community.
Other journalists debunk things from the intelligence community.
Rachel Maddow learns them.
So she's a student and, you know, the CIA, they're the instructors.
That's how this works, right?
She's sitting in the front row and she's got her homework done, by the way.
Her dog did not eat it.
And she's got an extra pencil in case you need one.
That's how prepared Rachel Maddow is for her class at the CIA.
They're going to teach her about what's going on.
You want to hear what they learned her?
Watch what she got learned.
One of the things we learned just this week from the intelligence director is that part of the disastrous Trump COVID response.
That would be like saying, that would be like if this was 2001, I would say something we just learned this week from the CIA is that Saddam's working with the Al-Qaeda and he's got nuclear bombs.
That's what we learned this week.
Not what we were told by the CIA and we should take skeptically.
Not the propaganda that's being spewed now that we're going to look into because there's been no corroborating evidence.
This story that the government's saying now that we can't actually verify.
No, she's not saying any of that.
She's saying we learned this thing.
Why?
Because they said it.
That's it.
That's her journalistic rigor.
It doesn't exist.
And I have nine out of ten of my ex-comedy friends in Hollywood watch her credulously.
I'm not fucking...
One of the things we learned just this week from the intelligence director is that part of the disastrous Trump COVID response is that Trump put in a key COVID response role.
One of the people who helped Russian intelligence with its 2020 election attack.
You know why our COVID response sucks so bad?
Russia.
Fucking Russia.
And you know, why didn't she blame Russia when Texas got frozen out?
Because that's what she does anyway.
That's her whole thing.
Remember, she said Russia could pull the plug on our heating grid.
And then it got pulled and she didn't blame them.
But she is going to blame them for our COVID response.
And she's laughing because she knows it's a fucking joke now.
She's saying that Trump screwed botched the COVID response because Russia wanted him to.
That's what she's saying.
You know, blaming a foreign country when your country fails miserably during a pandemic is something you would expect from the right wing.
This is Biden's Putin debate prep coach, by the way, right here.
You know, they're going to have a debate, Biden and Putin.
She's going to be the, here we go.
So this is what she's saying right now.
It gets even dumber.
Do you want to hear it?
It gets dumber.
I mean, how do you even begin to unravel that?
How do you even begin to get accountability for that?
Okay, the way you begin tell Revelat, I'm going to tell you this is how journalism works.
I already smoked pot today, so I'm going to tell you how it works, okay?
And I'm going to say it extra loud so we can get through your fake eyelashes and into your brain.
How you unravel that is the jumping off point is that the intelligence community is lying.
That's where you start.
And until you can confirm what the intelligence community is saying, you consider it a lie.
That's how you unravel it.
Now, did you confirm any of that?
No.
Did you do any journalism on this?
Zero.
Are you repeating propaganda straight from the CIA intelligence community?
Yes.
Uncritically?
Yes.
Are you committing journalistic malfeasance?
Yes.
Are you doing straight-up propaganda?
Yes.
Are you manufacturing consent?
Yes.
That's what she's doing.
And people have a problem with fucking Fox News.
Somehow they're better.
This is better.
This is somehow fucking better.
This is the kind of shit you get at the young Turks.
And when does the Justice Department stop knocking on people's doors about this stuff?
What?
I mean, this is not a normal.
Again, nothing verified.
Just some wild accusation that Trump put a fucking Russian puppet in charge of COVID.
And she wants to know when is the FBI going to start knocking up people's doors.
When is a psychiatrist going to start knocking on people's doors at MSNBC?
That's my question.
When is it?
I mean, social workers, the whole thing.
To try to unhow do you unwind this?
This crazy jack in the box.
You never know what's going to pop.
Normal level of stuff that needs fixing.
This is this is nutty stuff.
Yes.
Watch this space.
I watch this space.
So she's been saying this for fucking five years.
And now she's still doing, watch this space.
We've got traitors.
You've been saying Trump was a traitor for five years.
And somehow the FBI, the CIA, the NSA, the DNI, nobody can catch him.
But he even had Russia run our COVID response.
You know it.
Does James Comey knew it?
She knows it.
And she says it's nutty stuff.
It is nutty stuff, Rachel.
It is very nutty stuff.
Aaron, a real journalist, would you like to weigh in on that piece of videotape?
The problem with it, it's like nothing I say can do justice to how fucking funny it is.
It's like a bit.
As you said, it's like you couldn't, if you were trying to write a Rachel Maddow parody, I mean, it's exactly that.
It's so fucking stupid.
And it speaks to how, as you say, these people are not journalists.
They're stenographers.
You know, the most accurate claim that I saw in the media about this intelligence report was buried in an article in the New York Times about it.
You know, the truth is always, or sometimes it's buried near the bottom.
And the Times says the declassified report did not explain how the intelligence community had reached its conclusions about Russian operations during the 2020 election.
And despite that very glaring fact, which the Times managed to acknowledge in passing at the bottom of an article, people like Rachel Maddow not only accepted all of its conclusions, but then even invented their own crazy conclusions of their own.
Like Russia had somehow infiltrated Trump's COVID-19 response.
And you saw on Twitter too, like, you remember back before the election when we were banned basically from talking about Hunter Biden's laptop because some anonymous officials said it might be Russian disinformation.
So then, like, so this report comes out, doesn't even mention Hunter Biden's laptop or provide any evidence whatsoever that Russia is behind anything to do with Hunter Biden.
But people were saying on Twitter, this is the proof Hunter Biden's laptop did come from Russia, you know, in your face.
And like they were trying to like, it doesn't even mention the fucking laptop.
So it's a deranged cult.
That's why I call it Bluenon.
It's, I think, more dangerous than QAnon because QAnon is a, you know, group of people mostly confined to internet chat rooms.
A couple of people went to protest.
There's maybe one or two members of Congress who are down with QAnon, but Bluenon is has infected the entire liberal establishment media pretty much.
Their influence networks, to use an intelligence community term, are on major networks broadcasting propaganda like this to millions of people every single night.
There are members of Congress who are Bluenon adherents, like Adam Schiff, who read the Steele dossier into the congressional record.
Jesus.
So we have disinformation constantly, but it's Russia gate disinformation.
And Rachel Maddow, the fact that she can still do this after four years of humiliation, of failed bombshells, and still say with a straight face after all of it, watch this space.
Watch this space.
Yeah.
Watch this space.
That's unbelievable.
But you understand that's what it's all about.
Please keep watching because people have stopped watching Rachel Maddow because Trump and Russia have left the news.
And so now she's reinvigorating the Russia-Trump conspiracy theory.
And what does she say?
Please watch this space.
Keep watching.
Why keep watching?
You really think something's going to come of this, Rachel?
You've been saying this for five fucking years.
Remember what they were saying?
Remember, she was saying.
And it is like negative 50 degrees in the Dakotas right now.
What would happen if Russia killed the power in Fargo today?
What would happen if all the natural gas lines that service Sioux Falls just poofed on the coldest day in recent memory and it wasn't in our power whether or not to turn them back on?
I mean, what would you do if you lost heat indefinitely?
So that's what she wanted you to be afraid of during the winter.
Russia is going to turn off our power.
But you know, the real threat was, of course, the privatization and the neoliberalization of our power grid.
That was the real problem.
As Shama Sawant pointed out, millions are freezing in Texas due to an unmitigated failure of deregulated and privatized energy.
States like Texas, California have seen massive privatization of power grids for years and a model of perpetual auctions, nonstop bidding, and profit maximization.
She should have been doing that story last winter.
Instead, she was saying, hey, Russia's going to turn off your heat.
No, the people are going to turn off your heat are the capitalists who fucking buy ad time on your TV show.
That's who's going to turn off, not fucking Putin or Russia.
And Rachel Maddow knows that.
And she's 1,000% corrupt.
And she's a straight-up liar for the establishment for $30,000 a day.
And goddammit, I would do it too.
I would fucking, I'm not better than her.
I wore faked eyelashes without being paid.
It'd be a fun acting job to pretend that you're a serious anchor and then every night spewing like this insane Russia conspiracy that gets crazier every night because you have no evidence.
So you have to keep coming up with more explanations for the absence of any evidence and keep doubling down and going into things like saying that Russia is going to turn off everyone's heat.
And by the way, it speaks to what Russia Gate is all about.
Under the guise of resisting, resisting Trump, it really was a privilege protection racket.
So instead of looking at American dysfunctions, American oligarchs, the ones who cause our problems, the ones who created the failed system that allowed Donald Trump's presidency to even exist in the first place, instead of focusing on that, we're talking about Russian oligarchs and we're inventing fantasies about Russia turning off our power during winter or Russia even being responsible for or infiltrating Trump's pandemic response.
It's such a such a joke.
Trump takes up so much space in Rachel Maddow's brain.
He's thinking of building a golf course in there.
You know, she won't, she doesn't, I don't know if this is true, but I was, I learned this week from the intelligence community that Rachel Maddow boycotted the Big Lebowski because he liked to drink white Russians.
That's what I learned.
I learned that.
So it's a fact because I learned it.
Someone said it and then I heard it.
That means learning.
According to Rachel Maddow, that's learning.
When someone says something and I hear it and then I repeat it, that's learning.
You mean you don't apply any critical thought to it?
No, that's not learning.
Learning isn't thinking about what you're being told.
That's something else.
Here is, and by the way, Rachel Maddow uses photos of immigrant children held in cages during Obama administration while blaming Trump for it.
Because when you make $30,000 a day and work for one of the most powerful companies in the world, who's got time to fact check a Google image?
Who's got that kind of time?
Fact is, she knew it was fake and did it anyway.
Because I knew it was fake when they did it.
And I was high.
So you think that her and all her producers didn't know those pictures were the wrong ones?
They knew it.
What kind of a person do you actually think?
Do you actually think she's a good person?
That's what we had that Republican, Richard Martin said.
Oh, you liberals, you think because someone's a homosexual that they're moral.
I don't think I've laughed that hard since.
But that is true.
It's the same thing with Chris Hayes.
Oh, you liberals.
You think because someone is a nerd that they wouldn't lie to you.
That is what you think.
Right?
You know, that fucking nerd, he's a nerd.
He's not going to lie to me.
Yes, he would.
And by the way, so Rachel Maddow, watch this space because they're going to start knocking on doors, right?
And where have I heard that before?
When did I hear that?
Because Trump and Russia and Donald Trump's done.
He's done.
There's no question about that.
He's done.
Breaking news.
A bombshell.
Today is a turning point.
Today was historically bad for President Trump.
Today was a turning point.
A turning point.
We're at a turning point here.
The beginning of the end for the Trump presidency.
The beginning of the end.
And breaking news.
We have another bombshell.
Mike Pence might have to assume the office of the presidency.
The call for impeachment.
Rumblings of the word impeachment.
Breaking news.
Another bombshell out of the White House.
I believe this is the beginning of the end.
I do too.
It's really the beginning of the end.
The beginning of the end.
He may be feeling the walls closing in on him.
All the walls closing in on him.
The walls closing in on him.
Breaking news.
A new bombshell.
One astrologer says this means the beginning of the end for President Donald Trump.
The beginning of the end of the Trump presidency.
Trump will resign.
Trump is going to resign.
Is this the tipping point?
I know we've said it over and over.
You think this is a tipping point?
And over and over.
This is a tipping point.
And over and over.
Breaking news.
President Trump off the rails.
There's the beginning of the end today.
The beginning of the end.
It reminds me a lot of the last days of Nixon.
Breaking news tonight.
New bombshell.
This is the beginning of the end.
The beginning of the end.
The walls are closing in.
The walls closing in.
The walls closing in.
Breaking overnight bombshell.
This is a very dramatic day and I think it might be near a tipping point.
Do you think this is a tipping point?
This is unbelievable.
This is remarkable.
Have you ever seen anything like this?
His presidency is crippled.
December 1st, 2017.
You can mark it down.
This is the day that everything changed.
We begin with the bombshell.
The beginning of the end.
In fact, if this were a football game, we're in the third quarter.
It may even be the beginning of the end.
We begin tonight with the bombshell.
Donald Trump is in a lot of trouble.
Trump is in trouble.
The president will resign.
Another hour, another bombshell.
This is a tipping point.
Trump's going down.
This president could be impeached.
I do not think the president will serve out his term.
Resignation.
Resignation.
I don't think this president is going to serve out his term.
Mr. Trump will not serve out his term.
He will not serve out his term.
No way, no how.
Breaking news.
Absolute bombshell.
I think Donald Trump is in trouble.
Donald Trump is not.
He's done.
And it's over.
It's over.
The wall's closing in.
The wall's closing in.
This is going to be the Achilles heel.
Breaking news tonight.
I expect Trump to depart.
This week will be the watershed week.
Trump is in big trouble.
Trump's in a lot of trouble.
It's a sign of a terrified old man who feels the walls closing in.
The walls are increasingly closing in on him.
Tonight, the walls are closing in.
Today changed everything.
This is the beginning of the end.
Today, the biggest tipping point for the Trump administration.
What a historic day.
The bombshells, they fell.
It's entropy and it's crumbling internally.
He's underwater.
He feels the walls closing in.
Could his testimony be a turning point?
We may be at a tipping point.
It's the beginning of the end.
The beginning of the end.
Another bombshell.
Bombshell.
This is a bombshell.
It is a bombshell.
I am beginning to resent the word bombshell.
Oh, my God.
Can you imagine, Aaron, not being able to laugh at that like we are able to laugh at that?
Can you imagine being one of the assholes actually saying those things and pushing those things?
Can you imagine having a YouTube show and being that stupid as fucking regular media?
Could you imagine that?
That's what the Young Turks are.
And how many of those people have taken any responsibility?
None.
None.
Zero.
And that's what blows my mind every time I see clips like this.
Like in any other field, including in politics, there would be some level of accountability.
There would be something.
I'm sure probably a politician would maybe, you know, as was the case with Adam Schiff and all those other people who pushed this.
They're still in their jobs.
But at least they were somewhat embarrassed.
But in this case, in the media, it's like if you fail, you get promoted.
You move up.
There's nothing.
And, you know, again, going back to what we were talking about before with even Democracy Now!
ignoring the OPCW Syria cover-up.
The fact that Amy Goodman is in that reel is just speaks to how sad the state of our media is today, where even what was once the exception to the rulers, that's what Democracy Now!
really was for a long time, is now right there in lockstep with them.
And no reckoning at all for this four-year embarrassment from anybody.
It speaks to the – it speaks to what an insular elite bubble our media is.
And that's not what media should be.
It should be about giving voice to real people and their concerns.
Instead, they're living in this fantasy world where fucking the walls are closing in every day for four years.
And no matter how many times all these bombshells turned into duds, it didn't stop any of them.
It didn't lead to any accountability.
It's like – it's mind-blowing to see it every time.
Okay.
All right, Aaron.
Well, we'll say thank you for coming on today.
I hope you enjoyed it.
Everybody check out Aaron Matei's work at the Gray Zone, Pushback.
Anywhere else people should look for you?
As I said before, look inside yourself.
Look inside yourself.
You know, he who looks outward dreams.
He who looks inward awakens.
That's right.
That's right.
That's what we're doing here.
We're doing the woke news.
We're awakening.
That's right.
We're awakening, but to the neoliberal nightmare that we're living in.
Now, are you going to have kids, Aaron?
Do you think you should have kids in this world?
I'd like to.
I'd like to.
Are you fucking kidding me?
You're going to have put kids into this world?
Yeah.
I mean, you know, I haven't yet, so you never know.
But I'd like to.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And now your dad did all the research.
So if you fuck your kids up, there's no excuse for it.
It's my fault.
Oh, my God.
Yes.
A lot of pressure on me.
Your kids have.
A lot of pressure on me there.
I got to get this one right.
Yes.
Yeah.
There's no room.
We all know.
Yeah.
Boy, that's got to be tough.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's a recipe for a real healthy child as a neurotic parent.
Avoiding, trying to avoid any trauma whatsoever.
That's going to turn out great.
Yeah.
Oh, I bet.
I bet.
Yeah.
And, you know, you got to have adversity.
You got to have something.
You have to be in a position of where you want to get the fuck out of it.
Right.
That's how you find out who you are, what you're made of, what you're willing to fight for.
That's how you discover who you are.
If you grow up comfortable and well-fed, you become boring.
Right.
I mean, I grew up well-fed.
i mean that's not like i can see and so that's the boring part uh i believe that you know every experience helps us become a better person i i truly do believe that no matter how difficult i do too and uh listen i'll see you at the drum circle layland it's a plan okay it's a plan now muste okay namaste all right aaron mate everybody.
Hello.
Hello, everybody.
It's Joe.
Joe Biden.
I'm your thing.
Great to see you all here.
And I'm going to make a brief statement and go eat a muffin.
Is that all right?
Yeah, sure.
When I became president a month ago, I believed I could, and I still believe I will make a difference.
I spent Presidency Day weekend down at Camp Davidian, including some people who kept telling me they're my family.
Even got an arcade there for kids.
The whack-a-mole game is broken, so I let them hit my shins with a mallet.
You should come visit me next time.
I'm there, and I don't realize it.
Mr. President.
Don't tell me what to do, fat.
Joe's here.
Hey, why don't you at least cancel $50,000 in student debt?
Simple.
That will not make that happen.
There's a light at the end of the tunnel.
Are you confused?
Yeah, you seem to be sending us mixed messages, Joe.
That's me.
Mixed message, Joe.
Ask me anything.
How can you send teachers back to school if they're not vaccinated?
First, our teachers are a nation's heroes.
Second, that's why vaccinating them is not a priority.
Yeah.
A mixed message, Joe.
Hey, you know, there's a lot more to that phone call, but we don't have time in today's podcast.
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you be the best you can be and I'll keep being me.
Don't freak out.
I'm not kidding.
Don't freak out.
Do not freak.
Do not freak.
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