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April 1, 2021 - Jimmy Dore Show
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The Jimmy Dore Show.
Hey, this is Jimmy.
Who's this?
Jimmy Baby, it's Double V. Oh, hi, Hollywood conservative Vince Vaughan.
How are you?
You know what, Jimmy?
Actually, I'm a libertarian who lives in Chicago.
So maybe that would be a way to refer to me.
Is that an idea I could possibly submit to you, you insufferable Democrat elitist?
I'm not a Democrat, Vince.
Wow.
It's like we don't even know each other after all these years.
What's on your mind, Vince?
Well, I just want to say I'm very happy about who is in the White House now.
I think there has been a vast improvement as far as who is in the White House.
And by that, I mean those two dogs who are going around biting every motherfucker they see and just leaving hot piles all over the place.
Who's a good boy?
They are right.
Is that what you call to talk about, Vince?
No.
I called to give a shout out to my insane baby boy, Matt Gates.
He's kicking off white boy sucker right by going completely insane.
Absolute cake.
We stand alleged.
Really?
Did you see about Tucker Carlson, your boy Tucker?
Yes, I did.
Absolutely magisterial.
Did everything right.
How so?
Well, first of all, hauled off with some 17-year-old beautiful bandy wanted absolute player.
That is exactly what you're supposed to do with power.
You think Genghis Khan respected H could set laws?
No, he thundered across the steps just scooping up giggling teens like Led Zeppelin on tour.
Okay.
But yeah, okay.
Now he's in trouble or whatever.
But what did he do?
Did he go on TV and apologize?
Did he say he has a sex addiction and janitory rehab?
No.
He made up a lie so complicated that it tore a hole in the space-time continuum.
Tucker Carlson was seeing double.
Is that good?
It's your best play in that situation.
Create a force field of confusion around you.
Here's my explanation for what's actually going on.
It's basically the plot to the Big Lebowski.
Yeah, Vince, I don't think it's going to work.
Oh, you bet your ass it's the best part about this.
It's going to work.
He's going to get away with it and come out stronger than ever.
You won't even deny it.
His walk-on music at political events from now on will be 17 by Winger, and people are going to go bonkers.
It's a...
Vince, I can't believe you are defending this guy.
I mean, he's accused of sex trafficking.
Honestly, I don't even know what that means.
What is that?
Wouldn't you create a long line of cars because you parked and started boning in the back seat?
Well, then take me to jail, baby.
No, no.
It's when you...
All I know is that when you're accused of it, you go on TV and yell, my dad had to wear a wire.
My dad, of all people, a wire.
Can you believe it?
And then you'll have people on your side.
Americans hate wires.
They see them in movies and they look itchy.
Okay.
Okay.
And the FBI turned my mom into a robot like that woman in Superman 3.
Do you see how this works, baby?
It makes no sense that it doesn't have to.
This is the post-Trump era.
This is the era of QAnon.
The crazier the shit sounds, the more people believe it.
I'm starting to see your point.
You got to get into this shit, baby.
This conspiracy shit.
People eat it up like Hagen-Daz.
Actually, Vince, I like to try and tell the truth on my show, despite what my critics might say.
Well, okay, suit yourself.
I'm trying to get you to God level, but, you know, each their own.
Just remember, though, if you want to get out of trouble in 2021, you got to go full on that shit.
Don't hold back.
You want to get out of a speeding ticket?
Tell the cop that the reanimated head of J. Edgar Hoover told you you have to get to Malibu as fast as you can to stop a mass alien abduction of children.
They'll let you go.
Cops are insane, too.
Okay, thanks, Vince.
Anything for you, honey smacks?
Honey smacks.
It's always good to have on our next guest.
He's a progressive activist.
He has a new YouTube channel called The Takeover, and he's doing great work over there.
He also happens to be the top running back with the Los Angeles Chargers, and I can't wait until he runs for office and really shakes things up.
It's our good friend Justin Jackson is here.
Hey, Justin.
What's up, Jimmy?
That's a big stipulation.
I don't know if that'll happen, but maybe one day.
You're young.
Maybe one day.
Our system hasn't collapsed by that point.
So Pete Buttigieg is now the Secretary of Transportation because he made a deal to throw his support behind Joe Biden for president.
And so he gets to be Secretary of Transportation, a guy who has absolutely no accomplishments.
He was a shitty mayor of South Bend, Indiana.
South Bend, Indiana.
Here he is talking about how he's going to get his infrastructure bill done.
Ready?
You want to hear how you're going to fund his infrastructure bill?
What about a mileage-based tax?
So I think that shows a lot of promise.
If we believe in that so-called user-pays principle, the idea that part of how we pay for roads is you pay based on how much you drive.
The gas tax used to be the obvious way to do it.
It's not anymore.
So a so-called vehicle miles travel tax or mileage tax, whatever you want to call it, could be a way to do it.
Now, Justin, can you tell people what's wrong with that plan?
Because I can tell people what's wrong with that plan.
Yeah, I mean, of course.
Well, I mean, let's just talk about teachers, right?
A lot of teachers can't even live where they work because it's too expensive.
So they have to commute.
So most poor people have to commute.
And I don't hear him talking about an actual progressive tax, right?
not only is he just saying like vehicles or miles traveled so is it equivalent someone traveling one mile who makes 15 000 versus someone who makes 15 million also we're not talking about a private jet tax we're not talking about a helicopter tax we're not Talking about any actual tax that's going to be a redistributive policy that's going to take money from the extreme wealthy and distribute it to the people that need it the most.
No, what are we going to do?
We're actually going to do the complete opposite of that.
We're going to do a regressive tax that's going to hurt poor people the most.
And why is he going to do that?
Because Pete Buttigieg, like Joe Biden, like Hillary Clinton, like all these people in the Democratic Party, are conservatives.
And so these are their solutions.
So these problems are conservative solutions.
And then we act like we're surprised.
I don't know why.
That's so well put.
Why does he come up with this idea?
Because it's a conservative solution to a problem, and he's a conservative.
What there's nothing wrong with being a conservative, but when you're supposed to be in the lefty Democratic Party, then it's a problem because then there isn't an opposition party to the establishment.
So you just get, you get rid of the corporatists from the Trump administration, you replace them with corporatists from the Biden administration, and they have the exact same policy ideas.
Let's tax workers to pay for our infrastructure.
What the fuck?
Let's pay the, that's the people who can least afford it.
You know, the people who generate the wealth when they get in their car to go to work, they're going to generate wealth for the establishment.
And you want to make them pay for the road that serves the establishment.
If that road wasn't there, they couldn't fucking drive to the Amazon place and go pack boxes.
That road is there in service of Amazon.
He doesn't want to tax Amazon.
He wants to tax the worker at Amazon.
That's who he wants.
Just, by the way, just like Andrew Yang pays for his UBI.
It's you tax the worker.
That's the wrong way to do it.
Yeah, you're going to see ultra super wealthy people being like, vehicle mileage tax.
Fuck that.
Let me just get my helicopter and we'll fly over that.
Right, that's right.
Avoid that tax.
I'm surprised he just didn't say, well, how are you going to pay for your infrastructure plan?
I'm surprised he didn't say, we're going to give out more speeding tickets.
Why not just say that?
We're going to give out more tickets to people.
They're going to pay for it.
Pete Budegig's dad was an actual socialist Marxist.
His dad wanted workers to control the means of production.
Pete wants workers to pay for production.
Good job.
His answer came right out of a wine cave focus group.
I don't know if you know that.
When he heard the, you ever heard that Beatles song, the tax man?
Pete heard it and he thought it was celebrating that guy.
Yeah, the tax man's here.
Pete Budegig is if like free checking account promotion was allowed to make laws.
That's what Pete Budegig is like.
Anyway, there's some more tweets I have.
Ah, yes, tax the workers so we can funnel money back to the 1%, an A-plus plan.
That's Lauren Ashcraft.
She's been on the show.
Another Lauren says, taxing the rich, hard.
Squeezing even more dough out of the workers who don't get to work remotely, easy peasy.
That's another thing.
That's another thing.
Yeah, that's another thing.
Yep.
So we've learned that the upper 20% of wage earners can all work remotely.
Unlike Amazon workers, UPS truck drivers, FedEx people, teacher, everybody can work remotely.
Most people are in the service industry, got to drive to work.
I mean, this is a neoliberal party, right?
Supplying neoliberal solutions.
And with the wealth inequality that we have in this country, and it's just ballooning, ballooning, you know, all these trillion, trillion dollar bills, like you had Max Kaiser on your show.
They're just printing more and more money.
And guess what's going to get more expensive?
Gas.
Guess what's going to get more expensive?
Housing.
Guess what's going to get more expensive?
Food, right?
And a 20-30% increase in food prices for someone who's an ultramillionaire.
You know, it doesn't really mean much.
But for someone who's making $10 an hour because the Democrats won't give them an actual living wage, it's going to mean a lot.
And so until we actually start getting some real redistributive policies that are going to take wealth from, you know, the 1%, top 10%, whatever, and actually redistribute it, this country is going to keep going down the drain because workers are going to have a harder and harder time just surviving.
And just to remind Pete Budegig, taxing by the mile is already happening in the form of a tax on gas, you stupid mother.
Yeah.
We're taxed for everything in this country.
Pete Buddy.
And you get literally nothing out of it.
Pete Buttigieg is like if an unexpected toll was a person.
Ha!
Pete Budegig is an innovator and thinker.
Policy wonks like him and like him are coming up with ideas and plans for fucking over poor people that previous generations of technocrats could only dream of.
Let's tax Pete's billionaire donors instead.
I'm all for that.
This is how the yellow vest movement got started in France.
That is exactly, they did a gas tax.
They taxed people.
That's right.
And that was, they said, that's it.
While they gave a tax cut to the millionaires, they put a gas tax on fucking workers, and that was it.
Unfortunate, here it is.
Massive direct action taking place today by farmers in France as they demand fair prices for their produce.
Hundreds of tractors roll up on government buildings to dump shit all over them.
No manners, but brilliant critics.
That's March 25th of this year.
They're fucking doing that in France.
They have health care.
They have college.
They have a minimum wage.
They have a fucking working society that functions for people.
And guess what they're doing?
They're protesting the shit out of their government on a daily basis.
And in America, they're going to make you feel like you're a bad person if you do that.
Yeah, if you want to protest, all of a sudden now it's like, especially if you want to protest at the Capitol, now it's like, oh, you want to do some type of insurrection?
Like that's what people, that's what people say now.
Yes.
That's right.
You can't even protest at your nation's capital anymore.
So the COVID relief bill passed, the progressives did nothing to get anything in it, meaning the Justice Democrats, the squad, whatever.
Here's what Professor Zenkis tweets out.
He said there's no $15 minimum wage.
There's no public option.
There's no student debt cancellation.
And there are no $2,000 checks.
All of these things were inadequate given the moment we are in.
But the Democrats ran on them, controlled both houses of Congress, and they didn't do any of them.
Now's not the time, Professor.
This is violence.
You know what they say, though?
Zero out of four ain't bad.
Am I right?
Isn't that what they say?
I mean, zero out of four, you're going to get in the Hall of Fame.
Question.
So here's a question for Bernie Sanders.
So Bernie Sanders did an interview with the New York Times.
I'm here with Justin Jackson, by the way.
I don't know if I introduced him.
And this is what the question was to Bernie Sanders.
Let's say I'm someone on the left who supported you in 2020.
I'm looking at the American Rescue Plan, and I see that $15 minimum wage got dropped.
Paid family leave got dropped.
The child tax credit, which is my favorite part of the bill, is only temporary.
Convince me that I should be excited about this.
Damn, actual good question.
That's weird, right?
A real question from the New York Times to Bernie Sanders.
And here's Bernie's.
You ready?
Do you know what his answer is, Justin?
It's going to be painful.
Here it comes.
I have not seen this.
He says, I don't have to convince you.
We already convinced 75% of the American people that this is a good piece of legislation.
Oh, no, Bernie.
That's bad.
Bernie Sanders says, and I think the progressives out there understand that given a fairly conservative Congress, it is hard to do everything that we want to do.
He should say, he should have said anything, like not everything.
That's what he said.
That implies that we got one or two things.
Anything, which is what Professor Zankis is saying, which is zero out of four.
We didn't get anything.
For everybody keeping score at home, he called a Democratically controlled House and Senate conservative.
That's actually true.
He actually was right about that.
We can do so much with the Democratic majority.
Just kidding.
Right.
Just that's the part, right?
Don't lie to don't lie to people.
That was bad.
It's almost like the lie that they told people.
Yes.
No, no, no.
The Democrats are a conservative party.
It's almost like we have two right-wing parties and people are always screwed, huh, Bernie?
It's almost like that.
Here's what Representative Claude Jim Clyborne says.
He says, Democrats are going to run in 2022 on the COVID-19 relief bill.
Hey, if you give us a bigger majority, we'll deliver on that thing we promised with the majority you already gave us.
So the Democrats promised $2,000 and a $15 minimum wage in case you forgot, in case you forgot.
We didn't forget, but let's be honest, Joe Biden probably did because it was longer than two hours ago.
But we didn't.
But we didn't forget.
I love, laughed my ass off.
No one will remember anything about that then, except that they received less money from the Democrats than they did from the Republicans.
That's exactly right.
Here's another one.
All the evictions have not started yet.
People are going to remember something.
So they keep kicking the can down the road on evictions.
So now they've kicked it down to September.
But when September comes, people aren't going to magically have a year and a half of back rent to pay their landlords or a year and a half of mortgage payments, which, by the way, is designed that way.
Just like in 2010, 2009, and 2010, if you read Dave Dayon's reporting in Matt Taibbi's, it will reveal that when they had their mortgage relief bill with Tim Geithner and Barack Obama giving you mortgage relief during the financial meltdown, what it really was was a trick to get you to default on your mortgage so you would lose your house and they could give your house to their creditor, which was Wall Street.
That wasn't a bug.
That was a feature of their plan.
And nobody paid a price for that.
There was no scandal because the corporate news wouldn't report it.
So here they are again.
And why won't they give people COVID relief like the rest of the world is doing?
Why won't they do that?
Why won't they give people money when they close their business down?
Why won't they do that?
Why won't they give people a living wage?
Why won't they do that?
Because they want you to default on your rent and your mortgage so they can give those properties to their creditors, which is who Wall Street.
That's coming.
And Bernie Sanders doesn't have to convince you that this is a good bill.
That's what Bernie Sanders said.
What do you say to Bernie Sanders, Justin?
I mean, it's upsetting for me, honestly, because Bernie was the reason, a huge reason why I came into this movement.
And then now hearing him cap for the Democrats like this honestly kind of makes you want to vomit.
Like, for real.
And yeah, I mean, I actually remember on Bernie's, you know, he had like a little picture he sent out on Twitter after the package passed.
And I know he said in there, he said, like, money for housing or something.
Like, it just said money for housing, but it didn't say if it was sufficient.
It didn't say, you know, like, was it actually going to save people from eviction?
Like, it didn't say anything.
It's just money for housing.
Like, so I feel like Bernie is, I mean, he's been completely co-opted into the Democratic Party.
He just is a Democrat at this point.
Like, and if it hurts your feelings that that's the case, I'm sorry, but reality sucks sometimes.
And Bernie is capping for the Democrats and he's not.
Even if he can say he wants a 50-year-old wage and he's ran on it, but if it comes down to it, Joe Biden's going to vote against the package until he gets what he wants.
And Bernie Sanders won't.
He's just not going to do it.
Sorry.
That's just the reality.
I'm sorry.
Sorry.
I'm with you.
Again, a lot of people got mad at me when I was telling them the truth about Bernie Sanders' involvement in the CARES Act and what was happening in his campaign and what and people didn't want to hear it.
And I understand.
I didn't want to have to say it.
And I'm sure it tapped into my daddy issues.
I felt let down by my dad again.
I'm sure.
You're telling me if Bernie Sanders went on TV and said, Joe Biden, this was the only thing you promised me to get my coalition to vote for you.
I would need this in this bill or I'm not supporting it.
Of course he could have gotten it.
That's it.
That's it.
Of course.
That's it.
But that was too tall a task, I guess.
Or if I would have said, if he would have said, hey, I have all my followers, my 30 million followers, whatever it is, and I'm going to tell them to shut shit down.
Right.
And I'm going to tell them to come to the White House.
I'm going to tell them to protest you specifically, Joe.
That would work.
It'll never happen.
They'll never ask.
AOC will never use her 12 million Twitter followers to tell people to get in the streets to shut shit down.
Neither will Bernie Sanders.
They just won't do it.
That's just not in their makeup.
They're just, that's not how the gears work in their brains.
So sorry to everyone who's going to die between now and 2022 midterms just for the Democrats to lose.
That's what that's talking about them touting the COVID relief plan because he said, hey, hey, we're going to run on it.
And he says, I'm sorry everyone's going to, who's going to die between now and the 2022 midterms just for the Democrats to lose because they're going to lose if they run on that.
LOL, I already thought that they were going to lose.
Now it's only a question of how badly.
$15 wage, $2,000 relief check and public options should have been put in the reconciliation bill.
Student debt cancellation can happen by executive order.
They just don't want to do these things.
And remember this, the next time they throw that, oh, you're being purist.
You're being a petulant child.
You're being, you don't know how to compromise.
This is their thing.
They fucking ran out.
They won't do.
They won't do the bare minimum.
Any last words on Bernie Sanders completely selling out the progressive movement?
Almost leaves you speechless, man.
Hey, renowned linguist and cognitive scientist and eminent philosopher Noam Chomsky's on the line.
Hello, Noam.
Call me No Me.
And thank you for having me on your show again.
I'm speaking to you directly from my office in self-isolation.
No, me.
No me, what's your assessment of Joe Biden's performance so far?
Well, the stimulus bill has its flaws, but considering the circumstances, Biden's first two months as president signify an impressive achievement.
How so?
What?
How so?
Wow, that sounds really cool.
What does when you say how so over and over and over again, like that, like we're in a big cave or something to that effect?
Do you hear it?
I really don't get what you're saying.
I'm saying the appointment to the EPA of Michael Reagan represents a good start to addressing the growing threat of global warming and devastating wildfires.
A threat that now prevents me from hiking into the woods to rip solar bowls during my weed time.
Noam, what's a solar?
No me, what's a solar bowl?
That's where you concentrate a magnifying glass on a packed bowl of dried herbs.
The combustion requires no butane making for a nice smooth hit.
Oh, I didn't know that.
It comes in handy when you're matchless and got some extra chiba that you'd like to get burnt.
Climate change has really cramped Nomi's style.
I guess that's especially the case in Arizona where you live, right?
As I told Croatian philosopher Srechkohorvat at the International Conference of Applied Linguistics in Dubrovnik, all knowledge, including language, comes from external stimuli.
I thought B.F. Skinner said that in one of his papers, no?
Speaking of papers, have you seen my papers?
No, I have not seen your papers, Noam.
No me.
You've argued your whole career that humans have the innate ability to acquire language.
I didn't expect you to say that all knowledge comes from external stimuli.
And I didn't expect to get bouldered tonight, but that push really got me.
Speaking of external stimuli, do you know what a bluntisserie is?
A rotisserie for blunts?
It's a rotisserie for blunts.
Hey, Jimmy.
Yes.
Ask me who my favorite dualist philosopher is.
Okay.
Okay.
Who's your favorite dualist philosopher?
Blaise Pascal.
Now you should probably ask me why.
Why?
Because his first name is Blaise and he liked to get blazed.
Blaise.
Blazed Pascal.
So stupid.
it.
Okay, I thought it might have been because of the groundbreaking work on projective geometry.
What?
Nothing.
Jimmy, did you know I like Alaska?
No, I didn't.
You should probably ask me why I like Alaska.
No, I don't want to ask you any more questions about pot, Noam.
Please.
Okay, but do it.
Why do you like Alaska?
Because that's where people like people go to get baked.
Alaska.
Baked Alaska.
Jesus Christ.
Noam, before we go, what's your advice to struggling Americans during this great time of crisis?
For best results, consult your local bud tender.
Keep your bong cherried and don't be shy about sharing.
Bake you later, Gator.
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MSNBC Mehdi Hassan, by the way, who has me blocked.
Yeah, that's what I hear.
Asking Ilhan Omar about the squad not pushing Biden hard enough on issues like the $15 minimum wage.
So here we go.
Here it is.
Ready?
Here we go.
Just to shift to the big picture.
It was reported by Politico that you were part of a Congressional Progressive Caucus delegation that recently met with White House Chief of Staff Ron Clain.
What asks did you make?
And what did you say?
What do you say to your critics on the left who say progressives in Congress, like yourself, the squad, the CPC, haven't pushed Biden hard enough on issues like the $15 minimum wage, universal health care, the filibuster?
Okay, now I'll say that's actually a good question from Mehdi Hassan.
Yeah.
What was your ask?
You got to meet with the chief of staff of the president of the United States, which you all just helped get elected, and you all have the complete control of the federal government.
What was your ask?
Okay, she never tells us.
So I'm going to play this.
So just so you know, I'm going to spoiler alert.
There was no ask.
This is going to be a word salad.
And then he says, and what do you say to your critics on the left who say you're not pushing hard enough for things like $15 minimum wage and Medicare for all?
Again, she doesn't have anything to say.
So I'm just going to, here comes a word salad and enjoy.
I mean, it is because that we have been pushing really that the American Rescue Plan is deemed to be the most progressive policy in decades.
Did you know that?
That's bullshit.
Did you know that, Justin?
Don't forget this package was more progressive than the pandemic packages from last decade.
What the there's never been another pack and pandemic package.
This is a unique situation.
This has never fucking happened before.
You're shutting down a third of the economy as a matter of policy to only Understand that there was a failed strategy, not by the progressives in Congress, because we put $15 in the package.
That's not a strategy.
Putting $15 minimum wage in the COVID bill in the House is not a strategy to get it passed into law.
That's just you did something.
That's not your strategy yet.
Now, you know, you're going to meet resistance from fucking Joe Manchin.
Now, what is your strategy to get past that?
And your strategy should have been to withhold your vote as a block, voting block, so that that bill couldn't pass without it.
And why could you do that?
Because Joe Biden ran on it.
So did Kamala Harris.
And it's overwhelmingly popular.
It's, yeah, the crazy thing is that that shows me that their standard, the standard at which they operate and they're okay.
Like they feel like they're doing their job is just getting it in the bill initially.
Yes, that's it.
That's it.
Okay, but if it doesn't pass, what are you going to go tell voters in Wisconsin and Michigan and Ohio that, you know, vote for us.
We might, we'll get in the bill.
It won't get passed, but we'll get in the bill.
Yeah, vote.
Like, that's not a very good selling point.
Vote for me and I'll introduce things that you like, but I will never fight for them if it looks like it won't pass.
Vote for me.
That's not a good question.
I'll dangle it.
I'll dangle it in front of your face.
We certainly understand that there was a failed strategy, not by the progressives in Congress, because we put $15 in the package by the administration.
I think their early signaling that that could be negotiated out and it might not stick as part of the final package really, I think, endangered the ability for us to pass $15.
Okay, this is a word salad.
We put the $15 minimum wage in the package and then we listened to somebody with no actual power, the parliamentarian.
Our strategy was to put it in the bill and then let the parliamentarian kill it.
That was our strategy.
That's your strategy.
Does anybody remember what the question was, by the way, by the time she gets to this part?
A meeting, we pushed for a strategy to get $15 minimum wage.
We pushed for a strategy to pass the.
We pushed for someone else to come up with a strategy?
What was your strategy?
What was your strategy?
Person with power?
The 0.01% of the 1% of powerful people in the country?
What was your strategy?
The agenda that the administration ran on, that the Democrats agree on, whether it is, you know, passing sensible gun laws, dealing with our immigration crisis and all of the things that we all care about.
What we walked away from that conversation with is an understanding that there is a limited window of opportunity for us to push these pieces of legislation.
There are members in the Senate within the Democratic Party that are certainly not there yet on the priority pieces of legislation that we have.
And it's going to be up to the administration to come up with a strategy to push them because progressives in the House are constantly told to get in line and to push policies that are going to have an impact on people's lives.
That's what those Democrats in the Senate need to be told.
And that's what's going to take.
So the best follow-up question to that would have been to just ask that question over again.
And the question was, what did you ask for?
And what do you say to your critics who say you aren't pushing hard enough and fighting for the $15 minimum wage?
That would be the exact same because what she's saying is, hey, there are some of the members of the Democratic Party who aren't there yet.
Yeah, they're not there yet in the middle of a pandemic.
So what is your strategy?
We have to sit around and wait for them to get there yet.
So she's saying it's not up to us.
It's up to Joe Biden.
And if you guys are upset that you don't have stuff, go get mad at Joe Biden.
Well, what was the point of voting for you then?
Go ahead, Justin.
Yeah, and I think this is reflected.
You know, I mentioned Bad Faith Podcast a lot because I think they do great interviews and they interviewed Rokana and they were, and, you know, Brean Joy Gray was asking him, you know, why do you think some of you, why aren't they there, right?
Essentially, why aren't these senators there?
Why aren't these people in the House there, especially on something like Medicare for All?
Minimum wage works too.
Why aren't they there?
And it's like that, there's this refusal for them to just be like, well, they're not there because they're corrupted.
They take a lot of cash from these industries and they don't want to pass these things.
Like they won't say that.
But if it's the Republicans, they'll say it.
But if it's the Democrats who vote the same as the Republicans, they won't say it.
It's like they're completely handcuffed.
And she said, well, you know, progressives are, I always expect it to fall in line.
And that's exactly what y'all do every single time.
Yeah.
Well, she asks.
That's exactly what you do every single time.
She acts like she's upset about it, but you fall in line.
You don't fight.
And, you know, I get that question to RoCanna.
It can be helpful, that question.
I don't think it's very like why everyone fucking knows why they won't do it.
The question is, why won't RoConna fight them?
That's the real question.
The real question, I don't know, I didn't see that interview, but I stuck it to Rokana when he came on our show and about his stupid vote for the CARES Act and how it was bullshit and how it was the largest upward transfer of wealth in the history of humanity.
And they did fucking nothing to fight back.
And he gave that bullshit excuse.
Well, well, we had to get the unemployment out to people as fast as possible, which is why they put it in the bill so they could people could say that.
And I said, that's what you're doing.
You're just giving a bullshit excuse.
And aren't you glad that the only person who's going to hold your feet to the fire on that is a Jagoff pothead comedian?
Aren't you elite?
Because no one else held anybody's feet.
Nobody even knows what's in the CARES Act.
No one ever said people were saying good shit was in there.
Bernie Sanders saved us.
He got us unemployed.
He did not.
So that's, I was way ahead of the crowd on that because I knew what was in the CARES Act and I knew how we got deceived by Bernie Sanders and squad and how they lied about their vote.
AOC did not vote against the CARES Act.
That's a lie that was forwarded by the Intercept with absolutely zero evidence.
And we debunked the Intercept's bullshit reporting at this show, just like we debunked her lie.
Well, here's what this person says about Ilan Omar.
That's a word salad.
That's exactly what that is.
She sounded like a teenager who just got caught drinking.
It's a politician's answer.
And that's what sucked.
And it's frustrating because the reason we were so excited about the progressives is because we felt like they were a representation of us in Congress.
Now they just literally sound like all the other politicians where they get asked a question and they don't want to directly answer it because they don't have a good answer.
And so they're going to give you some bullshit word salad that sounds nice.
But at the end of the day, we still don't have $15 minimum wage.
That's what it comes down to.
I like what happy Gwilmore Says this is crazy because Ilhan Omar is clearly stating that she is falling in line, which is her duty.
And Manchin, Sonema, and Biden are the real problems because they are predictably using their leverage as the fraud squad refuses to do.
That's right.
Omar's response is stereotypical Democrat having to explain why the bare minimum isn't possible.
They risked nothing and lost.
Shame.
They risked nothing and lost.
That's perfectly, wow, that's perfectly put.
Listen to this interview and tell me if that is someone that sounds like a fighter.
Hashtag fraud squad.
Laughing again, progressives lied about the rescue plan being the most progressive thing ever, which made it harder for them, strategy-wise, according to Omar, to push for actual beneficial policies without appearing divisive and against the most progressive plan ever.
So do you see how they tied their own hands on that?
So when they came out and did that propaganda for the Democratic Party and Joe Biden and corporate America, that this was the most progressive piece of legislation ever.
Now if you actually fight to get shit in there that helps people, you're going to be looked at as being divisive because you already said it's great.
Right.
Yeah.
And who and she said it's been deemed the most progressive legislation ever.
Deemed by who?
Yes, right?
Corporate media, Joe Biden.
That's right.
The Democratic establishment.
No, Rachel Meadow.
There's a legitimate argument to be made that for certain individuals, for certain individuals, they got more relief from Trump's plan than this plan.
So like, but the problem is they expect everyone, even if their life hasn't tangibly been made better, they expect them to like be like, oh, I'm so glad about the child credit.
Like, I'm so glad about someone else getting help.
Well, what about me?
What if I'm in need and I need help?
And this plan, if I'm a central worker, I didn't get a $15 minimum wage.
I didn't get a raise.
I got a one-time check.
And it's like they always expect everyone in the Democratic Party to care about someone else, even if they're not being helped.
And that's not a winning strategy.
That's how you lose in midterms.
That's exactly right.
Well, I love what Tamanisha said.
She said, essentially, they lied to the people about how helpful the rescue plan would actually be, only for this Democratic representatives to turn around and be like, the people don't need anything else since this plan is so progressive.
And the progressives elected just accepted that.
That's exactly what they're doing.
They did kind of fuck themselves up because now they can't really criticize it.
No, now they can.
These folks are way too incompetent to be just an accident.
I don't know.
I agree.
This isn't an accident that they're that incompetent.
They're not fighting for progressive values.
That's not an accident or an oversight, or they just have Washington brain or they don't get it.
Or they've been gas.
I saw Jenk Uger say that they've been gaslighted.
Somebody gaslit the squad.
They don't understand that they're supposed to be fighting because someone all tricked them.
That's what Jake Uger's latest pathetic fucking thing is.
I'm not making that up.
So here's how you use your leverage.
Joe Manchin says he will absolutely not support $2,000 stimulus checks.
That's how you do it.
Biden tapped Senator Manchin's wife to co-chair Appalachian board.
Do you see what's going on?
So they're never going to fight.
So just get ready for it.
Wow, President Joe Biden's calling.
Hello.
Hey, man, stop it.
Cut the malarkey, you malarkey peddling beef bellet.
What are you talking about, Joe?
Dead airport, one thing.
Got it?
Look, here's the thing on the thing, on the stairs.
I didn't fall down those stairs, all right?
I fell up.
I've been falling upwards for most of my career.
Yep.
It's a lot harder to fall up something.
And I did it twice.
Why?
Because it was there.
Donald Trump fell down a ramp.
It was pathetic.
What I did takes years of practice.
Falling down is easy.
The Bidens are known for falling upward.
Look at my son, Blunder.
Blunder?
That's right, Blunterbite.
He failed upward.
He was born my son.
You mean Hunter Biden, not Blunner?
Will you stop it, man?
Tell me who your pusher is.
I can get help for you and your family.
Start a new life.
Change your name.
We'll find your new place to live in Arizona where you can start over.
Get off the pot and get off the pot.
But why, Joe?
Because listen to me, man.
The pot is bad for you.
Your kids have to listen to me.
It's very unhealthy.
It's a gateway drug.
Come on, Joe.
That's a myth.
There's no medical proof that marijuana is a gateway drug to anything.
Oh, yeah.
You ever try to go through a gateway on that shit?
Impossible.
You're bumping into shit.
Does it open towards me or away from me?
And you're filling with the latch for 30 minutes.
I mean, it's a big fucking deal, man.
Big fucking bad deal.
Get with it.
You'll do bad things to your body.
Like what?
Like what?
For starters, you could develop a serious demotion.
You might even contract a resignation or become expired.
And we're a max, for God's sake.
We're a max.
Kamala Harris smoke pot, Joe.
Who?
Your vice president.
She smoked pot.
No kidding.
I could tell by that creepy laugh.
It must have been some bad weed, man.
Are you going to humiliate and demote her?
I made her vice president, didn't I?
Besides, Jill and I sat down with her and had a hard heart.
I said, come on.
Don't give me any of your pothead jazz, see?
Give me the name of your pusher and you can keep your job, whatever the fuck it is.
Just standing around nodding your head in agreement with everything.
Running through hallways, wearing sneakers.
And did she turn in her pusher?
Yeah, my son, Blunder.
Don't knock blunder, you monsters.
That was years ago.
Way past the statue of imitations, right?
He's done his time.
But those damn fool kids in my White House had to go.
But why?
Because they did something that's legal in almost every state.
You can't almost every the law, my friend.
Pot will kill you, man.
What if I smoke the pots?
You can't have people with jumbles speech patterns mixing up their thoughts in the house white.
My father had an expression.
Who's your pusher?
See you later, Fat.
Mark my words.
You know the thing at the place.
So AOC, which Justin Jackson, which you had a interaction with her over Force of Vote, she did an interview with the Democratic left, the Democratic Socialists of America.
So this got published on March 19th, but she did the interview like in January 25th or something like that.
So they sat on it for a while.
And, well, I think maybe you're going to find out why.
I wonder why.
I don't know why.
I can only speculate why.
But here's what was in it, and it wasn't good.
The question was, some on the left have looked at Biden's record and his differences with the Bernie wing of the party and concluded no progress Is going to come out of the Biden administration.
What's your view?
Okay, ready?
Hold on.
Hold on to your hats.
She says, well, I think it's really, it's a really privileged critique.
We're going to have to focus on solidarity with one another, developing our senses for good faith critique and bad faith critique.
It's like blaming the people who point out that the living room is on fire for pointing out that the living room is on fire.
That seems like what she's that's a bad faith.
We have to develop our senses of good faith critiques and bad.
We need solidarity.
We need solidarity with each other on class.
We don't need solidarity with a president.
She's talking solidarity with a political party.
That's the kind of solidarity she's not talking about class solidarity or solidarity of workers or solidarity of progressives.
She's talking about solidarity with the Democratic pro-war corporatist enemy of the worker party.
That's what that is.
Am I wrong about that, Justin?
No, I mean, 100%.
Like, we don't need solidarity, you know, just with the Democratic Party just because it's the Democratic Party and it's not the Republican Party.
And I think she's kind of fell into this, you know, this idea, oh, it's privileged to criticize and say, you know, it's the, she's relating everything to Trump, right?
And it's like, oh, it's, it's, it's privileged if you criticize Biden and you criticize the American Rescue Plan, et cetera, et cetera.
No, it's privileged if you think that that bill and that the things that Joe Biden has done in the past, what, two months is some type of huge progress and huge step towards a better society and us actually catching up to the rest of the world.
Yes.
Right.
Like that's privileged to me.
That's a privilege taken.
If you're not actually on the ground seeing all the suffering and seeing, you know, there's mass evictions coming.
They keep pushing off the moratorium, but they're not giving people money.
You know, I see people tweet me all the time and they're just going through real hard times.
And you're trying to tell me if I'm advocating for those people to get more, I'm operating in bad faith.
Right?
Like, and that's, that's where this really rubbed me the wrong way.
So there's more, let me, there's a little bit more to it.
So let's get into it.
She then goes on and says, we do not have time or the luxury to entertain bad faith actors in our movement, in our movement.
So she's all, so this is decided.
This is like her saying my critique of her not doing forced to vote was violence.
So she wants to silence critics of her and silence critics of the Democratic Party.
That's what this is.
She's doing it under the guise of some kind of solidarity.
She's using woke language to protect corporate garbage.
And that's despicable.
And we're going to call that out here because this is a bad faith answer.
This is not in good faith what she's doing.
The bad faith actor here, AOC.
For anyone who brings that up, we really have to ask ourselves, what is the message that you are sending to your black and brown and undocumented members of your community to your friends when you say nothing has changed?
Well, the message you're sending when you criticize Joe Biden, what the message you're sending to black and brown people and undocumented people is that you're going to be fighting for them and holding Joe Biden accountable.
That's what it says.
And what does this say about you?
That you're willing to use woke language and hide behind your identity to run cover for corporatist warmongering enemy of the people who aren't even fulfilling their own campaign promises.
That's what that says.
And then let's not even talk about all the deportations that have been happening, the crisis that's happening at the border.
And of course, neither party actually has a solution to that because neither party wants to talk about imperialism in South America and the reason why people are coming from Honduras.
And it must have nothing to do with the fact that Joe Biden supported a coup in Honduras less than a decade ago.
And then we're not going to talk about Medicare for all, which would disproportionately help black people, black and brown people, $15 minimum wage, which would pull a lot of black and brown people out of poverty.
But we're not seeing any of these things.
We're not seeing any of these things.
So how are you going to tell me I'm a bad faith actor when I'm advocating for those people in my own community, in your community, to actually have, I don't know, to get treated like a human being and to actually get taken care of in the midst of a crisis?
That's what I'm fighting for.
Please tell me what you're fighting for.
Please.
Please tell me the tangible things you're using your coalition in the House to actually get.
Because if you're telling me that the $15 minimum wage was the only promise, the only singular promise, which to me, one, I heard on Bad Faith Podcast, I heard Amazon workers talking about how $15 an hour, they're still barely scraping by.
And we're talking about this is by 2026, and we can't even get that.
We can't even get that.
So let me get your reaction to this tweet by Tamanisha John.
She says that she would weaponize black people, immigrants, and immigrants this way is disgusting.
For anyone who brings that up, i.e.
opposition to the Biden administration, we really have to ask ourselves, what is the message that you are sending to the black and brown undocumented members of your society?
Well, when someone shows you who they are, believe them.
And AOC so far have only moved in ways to bring people rightfully angry at both corporate parties deeper into the Democratic Party.
This without any substantive material changes.
So do you feel like she's doing that?
Like, how would you, that she weaponizes black people and immigrants this way?
What's your response to that?
Yeah, I mean, that's the, that is the Democratic Party, right?
That's exactly what the Democratic Party has been doing for decades is weaponizing not only the GO, the GOP being, you know, a neo-fascist party at this point to say, oh, we're marginally better, so you have to vote for us or else, like Joe Biden said, you ain't black, right?
She's kind of taken that language and kind of the ethos of that argument, and now she's taking it and pushing it onto her critics and the squad's critics and House Progressives critics because all of this is excusing inaction.
That's all this is.
This whole interview is an excuse for inaction and saying, oh, anyone who's talking bad about us or criticizing us must be acting in bad faith because they don't agree with the strategy that we're employing, even though the strategy that we're employing has, I mean, you haven't seen any fruits of that strategy.
None.
Not even the one, like I said, the one singular promise we got from Joe Biden, which he did pretty much everything to make sure it didn't happen, but yet y'all still voted for the bill.
And I just want to remind people that being in Congress, as RoConna said on this show, puts you in the 0.1% of the 0.1% of privilege, of privilege and power.
But it's privileged if, but I'm being privileged if I point out the awful thing that Biden is doing.
I'm not a powerful person.
I'm not the 0.01% of the powerful in this country.
You are.
I'm just a jag off in my garage saying things that need to be said because people like you are selling people out and gaslighting us and using identity politics to hide to shield corporatism from criticism.
Go ahead, Justin.
That's right.
I mean, what more can you say?
Okay, so here's another.
Let me do another tweet then.
Glory Jones says, AOC's DSA interview is filled with sheepdogging for a failed system, scapegoating black and brown people in order to gaslight for Biden and some more gaslighting and gatekeeping.
If the DSA weren't so up her ass, there undoubtedly would have been more pushback to this narrative managing.
But no, there wasn't.
And here's another from that interview.
She says, they know that we are a threat, particularly because of the fact that I'm a movement candidate.
When you never engage your movement to do anything, especially direct action or to ask for your support when you're going to oppose the establishment, then you're not doing anything with your movement.
Just like Bernie threw his movement under the bus when he endorsed Joe Biden and extracted zero policy concessions for doing so, including the minimum wage, which Bernie won't even make sure is in this bill, or the squad.
Yeah.
And actually, or the public option, by the way.
No one's even bringing up the public option.
No one.
And let me just, before I throw it to you, let me just say, AOC didn't force the vote on Medicare for all back in December in order to keep the powder dry so she could fail again to force the vote on the $15 minimum wage.
Go ahead, Justin.
Yeah, and just the fact that, you know, someone like Joe Manchin or Kirsten Sinema understands that, you know, as being in that part of 0.001% of privilege, they can actually use their power to get shit that they want.
But somehow, those 23 people, you know, that sent that wrote letter that Rokana led to Joe Biden asking very nicely if he could put the $15 minimum wage in the bill.
They don't have any power.
They have no power.
Those 20-some individuals have no power.
It's just frustrating at this point because look, I'm looking at the empirical evidence, right?
What evidence do you have that Joe Biden's going to fight for a public option?
Because all the evidence I see is that he's going to pour more and more and more cash, taxpayer money, into Obamacare, into ACA subsidies that are going to like, I know you covered this, that costs way more, way more than just expanding Medicare.
This is a sick, gross thing that's happening, and y'all aren't saying shit about it.
In fact, you're going on Instagram and telling people that Cobra subsidies are good.
And that's something we should be doing.
So Cobra Center.
So you can't be a movement candidate, a movement candidate for Medicare for all if you're cheerleading for a program that's going to pour billions and billions of our dollars into Cobra just for just till September.
Remember, it's just till September.
I didn't hear anything about them re-upping that in the next infrastructure in the next bill.
So people, all of a sudden, in September, they're going to have money to cover an $800, $900, just a premium, not to mention a deductible, co-pays, et cetera, et cetera.
So at this point, I'm just, I'm just tired of it.
And there's no evidence to say that Joe Biden is going to actually go out there and fight for any of these things.
In fact, the evidence shows that he's going to fight against it.
And y'all aren't saying nothing about it.
And so you're saying that when you hear someone like AOC doing interview with the DSA and she says that people should not criticize Joe Biden, we need solidarity.
Does that make you angry?
Does that make you outraged?
How does that make you feel?
I mean, yes, it's all those things because I know that Joe Biden is not, you know, he might tell you he's middle-class Joe, but I mean, there's nothing in any of these bills that is actually going to lift people out of, truly lift people out of poverty, truly actually strengthen the middle class that's completely disappeared.
And so, yeah, I mean, I want to, I want you to tell me what substantive thing that y'all have fought for that's actually going to is a transformational policy that's going to last more than to just till September or just till January.
So this huge $2 trillion bill, what did we get out of this $2 trillion bill, most of which is going to go right into people's banks and then go right to the banks and to the creditors?
What did y'all put?
What's in this bill that actually I should be celebrating as a progressive, as a left, a leftist person in this country?
Please tell me what I should be celebrating because I don't see anything.
There's an Easter egg.
Didn't you see the Easter egg that's in that bill?
There's an Easter egg in it.
So if you get student debt relief, which you're not getting, it won't be taxed.
So we're not going to tax that thing you're not getting.
Right.
And that's a, and that's another thing with framing.
It shouldn't be taxed in the first place.
So that's not some type of gain or advantage, right?
We're operating, you know, if we want to use football terms, you're operating behind the line of scrimmage, right?
Like the line of scrimmage is should be the fact that you're just getting unemployment, right?
Now we're talking about $300 unemployment.
Oh, don't worry, it's not taxed.
Well, the unemployment money is tax money that I pay to my government so I get it back and then I'm taxed again.
Yeah, I know.
And we're celebrating that.
So if we can't criticize the president, who the hell can we criticize?
But remember, the idea was vote for Joe Biden, then we push him left after the election.
Well, now it's like vote for Joe Biden, then shut up after the election.
And then when we get another Trump, then we can all pretend that's the problem instead of actually the neoliberal corporate.
But I have to keep explaining to people that Joe Biden is further to the right than the most right-wing European politician.
There's no right-wing politics.
Boris Johnson is not against Medicare for all.
He's for it.
Joe Biden would be an extremist in any other Western democracy.
Joe Biden is a crazy right-wing extremist.
And that's what she doesn't want us to criticize.
Wouldn't it be way worse to pretend like Biden is the solution and then everybody goes back to sleep?
Wouldn't that be the worst thing to do?
Anyway, let me get through this.
Here she says, I am Spartacus says, I agree.
However, the world failed.
The word fail implies that she tried.
If she tried to do anything, it was to avoid forcing those votes.
Here's some more.
I'm glad AOC and the squad didn't waste political capital on Medicare for all.
Using it on not getting a $15 minimum wage or $17 million less people getting a stimulus, $100 less on unemployment, and getting a one-time $1,400 when we were promised $2,000 was really worth it.
Here's another one.
Here's AOC.
She says, here is the profound danger of what we just did in Syria.
Now, this is when Trump bombed Syria.
She said a mad king president with a majority disapproval of Americans just decided to bomb a nation without the constitutional requirement of a congressional approval.
Democrats who take war money pass the laws allowing that.
Well, that's Joe Biden.
And now she's not going to say that about Joe Biden bombing Syria in the exact same situation without congressional authorization.
She's not going to call him a mad king who's breaking all the norms.
Now you're not allowed to criticize.
So she's just a blatant partisan now, which is, I think, what's wrong with the country.
AOC said With a straight face, Biden and corporate Democrats are totally reinventing themselves in a far more progressive direction.
You can't lead a political revolution while telling everyone how great the establishment is.
She has picked a side.
Yeah, remember, I mean, that thing said unemployment was $100 less is actually $300 less than what Trump was giving people.
Yep.
And remember what she told us to do to the Democratic Party.
And then we walk away.
We're not going to get anything done.
Nothing's going to happen.
The Democratic Party does not do more unless it is pushed.
So we need to push them.
And they don't like it.
I think I annoy them, but in that, but that is our job.
That's our job.
No, that's a bad faith attack.
You can't ever credit.
What are you talking about?
Remember what she said this?
You know, in what you said earlier, too, I wanted to go back to what you said about our left party.
We don't have a left party in the United States.
The Democratic Party is not a left party.
The Democratic Party is a center or center conservative party.
We do not advocate for, we do not.
We can't even get a floor vote on Medicare for All.
Not even a floor vote that gets voted down.
We can't even get a vote on it.
So this is not.
And now, if you want to do that thing, she just complained about you're considered violent and performative, and you don't know how politics works, and you don't have a strategy.
But I'm just repeating, but no one said that about her when she said it.
Isn't that weird?
Here's what Ryan Knight says: AOC in 2020.
The Democratic Party is not a left party.
It's a center conservative party.
We can't even get a floor vote on Medicare for All.
AOC in 2021 refuses to force a vote on Medicare for All and calls socialists who criticize Biden bad faith actors.
Biden's first military action with Syria strike.
There you go.
Hey, AOC never really said a word about Biden illegally bombing Syria.
That's right, Jackson Inkel.
So, you know, I can only find the silver lining is that more people are waking up to it now because it's so blatant.
So the DSA, who she's a member of, that's the movement she's a part of.
She says she's a movement candidate, and that's who interviewed her when she said that the bad faith attacks are coming against Joe Biden.
Here they are.
She said, if you attack Joe Biden, you're bad faith.
Here's the DSA tweeting out.
Tell President Biden and Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas to stop criminalizing, deporting, and tearing apart immigrant communities.
That's the DSA saying that Joe Biden's administration is criminalizing, deporting, and tearing apart immigrant communities.
That's the DSA saying that.
And what I said is, hey, hey, I hope AOC calls out the Democratic Socialists for their bad faith attacks on Joe Biden.
This is violence.
So I don't know what else people need to see that AOC is not what she claims to be.
And in many situations, she's using what she claims to be to give cover for the thing we're all fighting against, which is corporatism.
And she's giving her cover for corporatism.
As Chris Hedges said, they've all the squad, all the Justice Democrats, all the progressives elected to Congress have been emasculated and they've willingly given it up for their career.
So this idea that you can't be a sellout because you don't take corporate money is bullshit.
As I've explained time and time again on this show, you can sell people out for anything for any reason.
I don't care if you didn't do the right thing for your own self or for your career or for the party or for the corporate donor or for whatever it is.
If you don't do the right thing, I don't give a fuck why you didn't.
You sold me out.
And that's what the Justice Democrats did with force the vote.
That's what they did with the $15 minimum wage.
That's what they're doing with the COVID-19 relief.
That's what they're doing with the public option.
They're not even bringing it up.
They're selling you out at every chance they get.
There are sellouts, sellouts.
And what you should do is stop donating to them.
That's your power to hold them accountable.
I want to see other YouTube hosts tell their audiences to stop donating to the people who are selling you out every time they get a chance.
And until they do that, they're not serious about holding politicians accountable because you can scream and yell all you want, but until you fucking put a hurt on them, then you're just a bloviator.
So when I hear you tell your audience to stop donating to your precious fucking Justice Democrats until they start doing the right thing and then we can start donating again.
I'll know you're serious.
But anybody who fucking talks about the Justice Democrats and they're pissed off that the squad won't do the right thing, but doesn't tell you to stop donating to them is not being candid and they're not serious.
Would you agree with that?
How about, yeah, how about we stop donating to them until they can tell us their strategy of getting a $15 minimum wage?
That's all I want to know.
There you go.
If you need resources and help to do that, which you don't because you're already in Congress and you could force it on the bill.
But if you need that, okay, I'm going to need to know what's your plan to get $15 minimum wage.
Because if it wasn't in the last reconciliation bill, it damn sure ain't going to be in the next one because it's not going to be one that's as popular and more people are, as many people are paying attention to.
If you tell me it's that you're going to get rid of the filibuster and do it as a standalone bill, well, you just had eight Democrats vote against it.
So it's not going to get through that way.
So tell me, what is your strategy of getting a $15 minimum wage?
I don't know, before 2030, please.
Because it's already popular.
It polls really well.
Everyone is for it, especially if they're not making $15 right now.
So please tell me another issue that's more popular, that's going to affect more people more directly.
And if you can't fight on the $15 minimum wage, something that's going to affect people's pockets right now and has approval on both sides of the aisle, then tell me how you're going to get something like Medicare for All or something like a public option or something like, I don't know, anything else.
That's probably going to be an even harder fight.
It ain't happening.
That's all.
That's all I'm asking for.
That's it.
A game plan.
They don't have a strategy to fight for progressive policies.
They have a strategy to gaslight progressives to let them off the hook for not fighting for progressive policies.
Hey, George Clooney's on the line.
I hope he doesn't ask me how I've been hanging lately and if I'm taking it easy.
Hey, Sport.
How have we been hanging lately?
Taking it easy?
Hi, George.
What's up?
Guess who this is?
It's George Clooney.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Not just George Clooney.
How does the world's most accomplished leading man, Academy Award-winning actor, producer, director, and screenwriter grab you?
Jim Chiminy chum chum.
I'm sure being cooped up during the pandemic doesn't help, though, right?
Don't need to tell you, right?
You're just like me, right in the sick of it on top of it all.
But you don't know the real stress this year is causing.
I am in so much trouble, my man.
Before I go on, I just want to say that marriage gave me more than anything my acting career ever could have.
Got to get that off my chest, right?
But Amal, who, by the way, is like a flamingo and walks like a frigging gazelle.
Amal, my wife, she is so pissed at Doug Ross.
You know Doug, right?
I mean, how could you not?
Doug Ross.
I do not know who Doug Ross is.
Are you kidding me, bro?
I played Doug Ross on the yard.
The wife decided I'd start watching reruns, and Doug Ross is getting me into a lot of bad brews.
She hates him.
COVID did this.
But that's when I turn on the charm.
And do what?
Stroke my salt and pepper beard and go, let's not fight in front of the wine wall, honey.
That's when she slaps my face with a very large grilled salmon.
Cut to the chase.
We're both very lucky to have each other.
Hey, you know, there's a lot more to that phone call, but we don't have time in today's podcast.
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Today's show was written by Ron Placone, Mark Van Landuit, Steph Zamarano, Jim Earl, Mike McRae, and Roger Rittenhouse.
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That's it for this week.
you be the best you can be and I'll keep being me.
Don't freak out.
I'm not kidding.
Don't freak out.
Don't freak out.
Do not freak out.
Don't freak out.
Do not freak out.
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