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Aug. 12, 2021 - Jimmy Dore Show
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Hi, this is Jimmy.
Who's this?
This is Harrison Ford.
Oh, hi, Harrison.
Thanks for calling in, buddy.
Don't thank me yet.
You don't know what I'm calling about.
Okay, what are you calling about?
How the hell am I supposed to know?
Trying to underscore the importance of film editing and how it, more than anything else, determines whether the movie itself works or not.
Okay, I see.
So I read some old studio notes from early screenings of Blade Runner, where they said it didn't make sense.
Blade Runner is a movie I was in.
Right, right, right.
I have others.
Would you like to hear them?
After seeing an early cut of the fugitive, one studio exec said this.
Why does the main character change from the guy with the beard to the other guy who doesn't have a beard?
And why is the guy without the beard running all the time?
That isn't explained.
Okay.
Okay.
You see, the editor had accidentally cut out the scene where I shaved my beard off.
I got it.
Okay.
Someone at Paramount saw an early cut of Raiders of the Lost Ark and said he was confused as to how Nazis had regained control of Germany.
That would have to be explained somehow in the movie.
We fixed that by adding 1936 on the screen in the very first scene.
Movie magic.
This is all very interesting.
No, it's not.
After reviewing an early cut of regarding Henry, one studio exec was very confused.
He didn't understand how an animal was the main character or how cartoons and humans could interact.
Turns out he saw a cut of who framed Roger Rabbit by accident.
So we fixed that by showing him regarding Henry, but, you know, for real this time.
Hey, Harrison, these stories beggar belief.
No, they don't.
How can people who make movies be so dense?
Jimmy, this is Hollywood.
We are very stoned and confused all the time.
How does anything get done in Hollywood if everybody's so hopped up on the goofballs?
I have no idea, man.
I show up terminally baked and other absolutely charred people.
Point where I need to stand and tell me what I need to say.
And then they take all the film and give it to smart, sober women to add it together into something that makes sense.
That's pretty amazing, Harrison.
Yeah.
Then tragically hammered studio execs sit down with Martinis and watch what we've done and give notes that they think make sense.
The only one of my films they didn't do that for was Hollywood Homicide.
They said, my God, this is perfect.
The perfect piece of art.
Well, what are you working on next?
Well, as you may have heard, I'm starting pre-production on the fifth Indiana Jones movie.
I'm looking forward to the notes we're going to get on that.
I bet you are.
I bet.
There's going to be a fuck ton of notes.
Uh-huh.
Yes, there is.
What the fuck is going on?
Why did you make this?
Why is that thing so important?
It's going to be a fucking disaster.
Anyway, I got to go.
I got to get more stoned.
Stoneder.
Establishment media sets of August fighting.
So good luck.
Watch and see as a jack-you're comedian who speeds and jumps comedium and hits him head-on.
It's the chimney tore show.
Oh, Joe Biden.
Now, they said, you know, if you care, Noam Chomsky said famously, if you care about the environment, if you don't want your grandchildren underwater.
Do you want your grandchildren to be living underwater?
That's what he said.
So meaning that you have to, if you don't vote for Joe Biden, there will be a catastrophe.
As if voting for Joe Biden isn't a catastrophe.
That's just hilarious.
As if Joe Biden is going to stop climate change.
That's what's just nuts.
Because guess what?
He's not stopping climate change.
Joe Biden is accelerating climate change.
Does that help?
Does that help clear things up?
U.S. drilling approvals increase despite Biden climate pledge.
His real pledge was, I'm not banning fracking.
That was, he said it over and over and over again.
And then Josh Fox, the guy who did the anti-fracking movies, told you he had to vote for Joe Biden.
That's how twisted people are in America.
Approvals for companies to drill for oil and gas on the U.S. public lands are on pace this year to reach their highest level since George W. Bush was president.
George, the days, you know, when George W. Bush was president, those are the days that Nancy Pelosi yearns for it.
You know that?
Remember when she said that?
Oh, I missed the days of George Bush.
Remember when she said that?
I remember when she said that.
The Interior Department approved over 2,500 permits to drill on public and tribal lands.
Oh, my God.
in the first six months of the year.
Thank you.
They did something about the Keystone, but they've been silent on line three.
So keep that in mind.
Biden can.
Ron, what is line three?
Tell people what that is.
Line three is the pipeline.
It goes through Minneapolis or well, Minnesota, and goes through a lot of tribal lands in the Minnesota area.
And then there's a couple organizations committed to stopping it.
But it goes through about, I want to say about 20% of the water supply to that entire area.
And, you know, of course, it's like shoddily put together.
And the corporate media has been completely silent on it.
And, you know, the government's not talking about it either.
So Biden campaigned on pledges to end new drilling on federal lands and terrain and climate-changing emissions.
And he also has some bold plans to get people off gasoline cars by 2090.
He did.
He did campaign on ending drilling on federal lands.
And what did he just do?
Over 2,500 permits to drill on public lands.
Isn't that amazing, Rod?
That's amazing.
That includes more than 2,100 drilling approvals since Biden took Office January 20th.
Increased amount of permits underscore President Joe Biden's reluctance to curb petroleum production in the face of industry and Republican resistance.
Wow, $2,100.
That's more than the $2,000 check they were supposed to get you.
His pick to oversee those lands, Interior Secretary Deb Holland, opposed drilling on federal lands and co-sponsored the liberal Green New Deal while she was in Congress.
If the recent trend continues, the Interior Department could issue close to 6,000 permits by the end of the year.
So isn't that amazing when she's in Congress?
She co-sponsors the Green New Deal.
She co-sponsors it, knowing that doesn't have a chance of ever passing.
But when she does have power and actually can do something to help the environment, she doesn't do anything.
Isn't that wild, Ron?
It's wild.
It's wild that fracking happens.
It's just amazing to me that it still happens, that Joe Biden will scream at the top of his lungs, I won't ban fracking.
Fracking, it is completely disastrous.
It causes earthquakes.
It poisoned water wells.
The proper homework was not done on the safety of it and still hasn't been.
The entire scientific community is against it.
All environmentalists are against it.
It's not solving, quote unquote, solving our energy needs.
Solving our energy needs would be getting off of fossil fuels, investing in alternatives.
Most of the energy isn't even kept domestic.
So it's just patting the pockets of a couple CEOs.
And as far as a process, it's absolutely ridiculous.
A guy I know Stephen Merchant described it the best.
It's like exploding a human being to try to get them to fart.
That's what fracking is.
It is beyond pointless, and it just makes a couple oil CEOs even richer.
And it's at the behest of Wall Street.
It is a scam of a scam of a scam, and it's poisoning our freaking planet.
So if the recent trends continue, the Interior Department could issue close to 6,000 permits by the end of the year.
God damn it.
The last time so many were issued was fiscal year 2008 amid an oil boom driven by crude prices that reached an all-time high.
It's amazing how government can work lickety split fast when it comes to oil.
Isn't that amazing?
It's incredible.
And then for other things, they just missed the deadline all of a sudden.
Whoopsie.
Whoopsie, something that would help people, we missed the deadline.
Something that would ruin the planet and put money in the pockets of CEOs that are our donors.
We got it.
We're on it.
We're going to do it.
Google Calendars prompt for that one.
Every indication is Biden has no plans of actually fulfilling their campaign promise, said policy director for the environmental group, Food and Water Watch.
The result of that will be increasing drilling and fossil fuels on public lands, which means more climate change.
Broken promise by Joe Biden.
I can't believe it.
I can't believe it.
He's making Trump look like a truth teller.
Brought to you by the party that believes in science, said Walker Bragman.
That's right.
That's right.
Wow.
They believe in science.
They just ignore the parts that are inconvenient for their donors.
The administration's defenders say it's being pragmatic in the face of a Senate split between Democrats and Republicans.
There's nothing pragmatic about accelerating climate change.
There's nothing pragmatic, nothing pragmatic about not doing anything about climate change.
There's nothing pragmatic about approving drilling wells on public lands.
There's nothing pragmatic.
Hey, you want to vote Democrat?
Here we go.
We'll promise you this time it's better.
Promise.
So when they say something like this, the administration defenders say it's being pragmatic in the face of the Senate split between Democrats and Republicans.
So just remember that.
So when our kids and grandkids witness complete climate collapse, because they are going to, they are going to.
When there's no ice left and the North Pole and there's just deserts in Europe, which is coming, because you don't think the Gulf Stream is what makes it anyway.
The Gulf Stream brings warm water up the Atlantic coast and over to Europe, which gives them weather so they can have farms.
And once the ocean warms up a little, that's not going to happen anymore.
They're not going to have those currents because there's not going to be cold water and warm water.
It's all going to be warm.
So when our kids and grandkids, so just think about this.
The administration defenders say it's being pragmatic in the face of a Senate split between Democrats and Republicans.
So when our kids and grandkids witness complete climate collapse, we can tell them, hey, at least the Republicans and the Democrats got along.
It wasn't all for nothing.
No.
We had to make sure everybody was polite and we tone-policed everybody.
Biden is harm reduction for those of us who don't require non-toxic air or water.
When you think about it, harm reduction is a strange concept.
It means we're going to harm you, but we're going to harm you less.
If I had my drothers, I'd vote for harm elimination.
It's a campaign slogan I'd get behind.
Yeah.
Someone, harm elimination.
On a Zoom town hall earlier tonight, AOC praised Biden and said that he has definitely exceeded expectations and claimed that the actual conduct of the administration has absolutely been in good faith.
And there are YouTube hosts who tell you you can't be rude to them.
You can't, you got to be nice to her so she still likes you.
That's what they say.
You think I'm kidding?
You have to be nice to them.
I'm pretty sure that's Kyle Kalinsky's message, is that you have to be nice to politicians so they don't get mad at us and they'll still listen to us, even though they don't listen to us.
I say we should scare the shit out of every politician who isn't doing what they promised us to.
We should go to their offices.
We should go to their homes because people are dying.
I know people who say we have to be nice to them aren't dying and are rich and have gold-plated health care, millions of dollars.
I know that.
But I'm going to say we need to scare the shit out of politicians and make them fear us, at least as much as they fear Nancy Pelosi and the establishment.
Doesn't that sound right, Ron?
I think that sounds fair.
Yeah.
I think that's a fair trade-off.
And we also need to pretty much ignore or just say no whenever they're talking about how good their colleagues are doing.
Yeah.
I find that to be so, that is the most pointless conversation ever in the history of ever.
Just being like, hey, that colleague who like you're in the party with them, how are they doing?
That's like asking a car salesman if the car that they're trying to sell you is good or not.
It's like, hey, you work for the Honda dealership.
You sell Hondas.
Is that a good car?
What do you think they're going to say?
What do you think they're going to say?
Representative J. Paul says President Biden has risen to the moment.
Yeah, for his donors.
How do people take this kind of lying?
So I would say to Kyle Kalinsky, does it when she lies like this?
Isn't that burning a bridge with us?
Isn't that when they don't do a goddamn thing that they said they would?
Isn't that burning a bridge with us?
What is your mechanism to hold them accountable when she's obviously just pissing in your face right now?
Because that's what this is.
And you're just like, oh, it's good.
She's my friend.
I like you.
Come on my show.
I like you.
We're good people.
I certainly won't raise my voice like Jimmy Dore.
She says, President Biden has risen to the moment like a true justice Democrat, isn't she?
Like a true justice Democrat.
But I really do give him an A in what he's done so far.
It's been bold.
It's been progressive.
It's been what the country needs.
Tell that to the millions of people about to get kicked out of their house tomorrow.
Tell that to the millions of people living under fucking bridges.
Tell that to the 100,000 people who died from COVID because they didn't have Medicare for all.
Because 100,000 people would have been saved if there was Medicare for all.
So this is a liar.
This is someone who's a liar, who's a gaslighter, and who is not fighting for you.
And this is someone who we should make afraid.
This is someone who every YouTube host should say, stop voting for her and stop giving her money and then see how she handles it.
That's how you hold people accountable.
You don't hold them accountable by being nice to them.
And if you think that you're the chump of all chumps and cucks of all cucks, and now I get it.
I get it why you weren't at those marches last Saturday giving a speech.
I get it.
Because you're a nutless coward and you're protecting people like this.
And until you tell your viewers to stop voting for them and stop donating to them, you're part of the problem.
You're now bolstering the establishment.
There's no doubt about it.
And if you say we have to be nice to them, you're bolstering the establishment and you're hurting the movement.
What the movement needs now is to put the fear of God in these motherfuckers.
And when YouTube hosts coddle them and protect them, that's deleterious to the movement that you're supposed to give a shit about.
Have some fucking balls.
Stop pretending you don't know how politics works and fight for something.
Actually, fight for something.
Ruffle some feathers, you fucking nutless wonder.
Fight for something, but you won't.
That's why I'm doing it.
That's why those people were doing it on Monday at AOC's office.
That's why those people were out there last Saturday.
And that's why you weren't because you're nutless and you'll never fight for shit.
Here's another person who grew up in a corporate lawyer family.
Never fought for anything, never needed anything.
She reads a book.
He's not where he needs to be.
I get it.
But climate change alone should be enough of a reason to vote for Biden over Trump.
Oh, really?
See, these are the sheepdogs of the Democratic Party.
They'll find any reason to keep you voting against your own interest.
And they'll tell you, they'll never mention what Lawrence O'Donnell tells you.
You got to stop voting for them.
You got to stop voting for them because they'll never going to listen to you.
Joe Biden doesn't give a shit.
You want to look this stupid?
Keep voting for Democrats.
Nick is a Fred Hampton left.
Hey, how's that going for you?
How's that working out?
Anything you want to add to this, Ron?
Joe Biden.
We need to ban fracking now.
We need to ban it now.
We need to ban it a long time ago.
There is no, absolutely no reason for it at all.
It is a scam of a scam.
And anybody who sugarcoats it or says, like, oh, economy, this or that, no, it's bullshit.
It's just patting the pockets of rich people.
It should be banned.
And you should not vote for any politician who supports fracking.
Ever.
Ever.
And fuck anybody who tells you to vote for a politician who supports it.
And, Ron, what do you think?
Why do you think people who consider themselves progressive leaders, progressive YouTube hosts, why do you think they weren't at the Medicare for All rallies?
You were at the rally.
I was at the rally.
I was there.
What about all those shit libs who host YouTube shows who claim to be progressives who weren't there?
Why do you think they weren't there?
Your guess is as good as mine, man.
I mean, I guess it's about access.
Like you said, like they're trying to be, you know, friends with politicians and stuff like that.
And I don't care about that.
I mean, if we're being honest, like the few peeks under the hood I've had where I've been around politicians, it's been an unpleasant experience 90-some percent of the time.
I come off, you know, feeling even more cynical than I was before.
It's a system that I don't have any respect for whatsoever.
And I feel like if everybody had the peek under the hood that I've had in the past five years, they would have the same lack of any respect for our system that I have.
Well said.
I don't think we've covered this story.
But again, we pretend that Trump was the enemy of the press, and it's the United States government that is the enemy of the press, meaning Joe Biden, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump.
Turns out that Donald Trump was the least of the enemies.
Turns out.
Isn't that wild?
So here's the story.
Read drone and whistleblower Daniel Hale's riveting letter to judge describing why he came to violate the Espionage Act.
So, well, here it is.
He was the one who informed.
It's in here.
He was the one who informed everybody about, did you know that the drone program when they use drones, which everyone thinks, you know, Barack Obama has a kill list and they're going to go, remember that I talk and do those jokes?
The drone program kills 90% innocent people.
And this is the guy who told you, and this is the guy who exposed that.
So what did they do?
They put him in jail.
They put him in jail.
They tortured Chelsea Manning.
Edward Snowden has to leave the country.
And of course, Julian Assange is being tortured at Belmarsh Prison.
That's what we do to whistleblowers in the United States.
Now, Jim Acosta will never get that kind of treatment because Jim Acosta is never going to challenge power in a real way.
As Joe Biden winds down the U.S. 20-year military involvement in Afghanistan, the U.S. Justice Department seeks the harshest sentence ever for the unauthorized disclosure of information in a case against an Afghan war veteran.
By the way, they're prosecuting him using the Espionage Act, just so you know.
The Espionage Act, that's that thing that came about when we were in a world war.
And that it for sure doesn't need to be revisited.
They came up with that in the freaking First World War when they were trying to get people gung-ho about a world war.
Okay.
So Joe Biden, as Joe Biden winds down the U.S. 20-year military involvement in Afghanistan, he's not, by the way.
That's all lip service.
Okay.
Daniel Hale was part of the drone program in the U.S. Air Force and later worked at the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency.
He was charged with violating the Espionage Act for providing documents to intercept co-founder Jeremy Scahill.
He was taken into custody and sent to detention center in Alexandria, Virginia in April.
Federal prosecutors urged Judge Liam O'Grady to issue a maximum sentence, arguing that Hale has shown insufficient remorse for his actions.
Daniel Hale submitted a letter to Judge Liam O'Grady, a judge for the district court in the Eastern District of Virginia.
It could be construed as a plea for mercy, but more than anything, it outlines a defense of his actions that the U.S. government and the U.S. court would never have allowed him to present before a jury.
So here is his letter.
I'm going to read it to you, okay?
So here we go.
I am here because I stole something that was never mine to take.
Precious human life.
Oh, you thought he, you see, he had, you thought he was going to say, mm-hmm.
For that, I was compensated with a medal.
So if you kill someone, you get compensated with a medal.
He said, I couldn't keep living in a world in which people pretended that things weren't happening that were.
Your Honor, forgive me for taking papers instead of taking human lives.
See, it's okay to take human lives.
They're rewarded for it, but taking papers.
The first time that I witnessed a drone strike came within days of my arrival to Afghanistan.
Early that morning before dawn, a group of men had gathered together in the mountain ranges around a campfire carrying weapons and brewing tea.
Despite having peacefully assembled, posing no threat, the fate of the now tea-drinking men had all but been fulfilled.
I could only look on as I sat by and watched through a computer monitor when a sudden, terrifying flurry of hellfire missiles came crashing down, splattering purple-colored crystal guts onto the sides of the mountain.
Since that time and to this day, I continue to recall several such scenes of graphic violence carried out from the cold comfort of a computer chair.
Not a day goes by that I don't question the justification for my actions.
Hey, good thing we do a lot for PTSD when the soldiers get back, huh?
With drone warfare, nine out of ten people killed are innocent.
Sounds like terrorism.
That sounds like terrorism.
You have to kill a part of your conscience to do your job.
And that's a job that shouldn't even exist.
Never mind how dishonorable.
How could any thinking person continue to believe that it was necessary for the protection of the United States to be killing people in Afghanistan, not one of whom was responsible for the September 11th attacks?
Your Honor, the truest truism that I've come to understand about the nature of war is that war is trauma.
I believe that any person either called upon or coerced to participate in war against their fellow man is promised to be exposed to some form of trauma.
In that way, no soldier blessed to have returned home from war does so uninjured.
My conscience, once held at bay, came roaring back to life.
At first, I tried to ignore it, left to decide whether to act.
I could only do that which I ought to do before God and my own conscience.
The answer came to me that to stop the cycle of violence, I ought to sacrifice my own life and not that of another person.
That's heavy duty.
My only regret is that I have but one life to give for my country, whether here or in prison.
So he's going to give his life not to kill other people.
He's going to give his life to stop the killing of other people for his country.
And this is from the Daniel Hale support team.
Our friend Daniel Hale is a deeply courageous, honorable man.
Join us in calling on President Biden to immediately pardon Daniel Hale, who said on July 27th, it is wrong to kill the defenseless with no due process.
Ellen McLeod says, on the left, he pointed this out.
This is a good catch.
He said, the Washington Post illustrates an article on courageous whistleblower Daniel Hale, who exposed U.S. war crimes with a mugshot.
So they use a mugshot for him.
On the right, over here, the Washington Post illustrates article on Michael Behenna, a war criminal who murdered Iraqis in cold blood with a touching family pic.
So you see how here's the guy who's the actual hero, and here's a war criminal.
They give you the mugshot for the guy who exposes war crimes.
They give you this loving family photo for the guy who commits the war crimes.
And I don't, I can't sit and judge this guy in the orange because I haven't been put in that situation and nobody should be put in those situations.
We shouldn't be there in the first place.
It was an illegal, murderous terrorist act to go to Iraq in the first place.
And anyway.
When exposing a crime is treated as committing a crime, you are being ruled by criminals, said Edward Snowden.
But that's U.S. foreign policy for you.
When exposing a crime is treated as committing a crime, you are being ruled by criminals.
And that's exactly right.
Why do you think that Daniel Hales has gotten so little press, Ron?
Oh, jeez.
We all know the answer to that.
I mean, this has to do with foreign policy, and this guy is a whistleblower.
They are constantly suppressed by the corporate media.
That's been going on from Snowden to Assange to Manning and now here and to everything in between.
And I also wanted to mention: you know, you touched upon the Espionage Act.
That is the same act that's being used against Assange as well.
And this goes back to 1917, and it was passed two months after the United States went into World War I. And this is from iowaculture.gov.
It was an act to punish acts of interference with foreign relations, the neutrality in the foreign commerce of the United States to punish espionage and better to enforce the criminal laws of the United States and for other purposes.
End quote.
So that could be more broad and vague if they tried, but it would be quite a task if they managed it.
And keep in mind, this was in the context of a World War, World War I, and then later in a second world war, World War II.
So now it's just used against whistleblowers.
I mean, you read that thing, and it's like, when else would they apply it, really?
Yeah, what else would they apply it?
They're only going to apply it to whistleblowers, and that's exactly what they're using it for.
Barack Obama prosecuted more whistleblowers than any other president.
I mean, the people who support Democrats and vote for Joe Biden and pat themselves on the back for it don't know fucking anything about anything what's going on.
And if they do and they still do that, shame on them.
God damn it.
How you got you guys are outraged at Susan Sarandon, but you're not outraged that we're doing this to whistleblowers?
Unbelievable.
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So you know that the Young Turks are now their biggest investors is Jeffrey Katzenberg, right, who's one of the biggest DNC donors, one of the most powerful richest guys in all of media.
And he gave them $20 million after right-ringer buddy Romer gave them $4 million.
Primo Radical says, fun fact for the day, TYT owner Jeffrey Katzenberg is pals with former CIA official Henry Crumpton.
Among other high-level positions, Crumpton was also head of the CIA's National Resource Division, a domestic intel operation that is tasked with turning people into CIA assets.
That's who's hanging out with the guy who just gave the Young Turks $20 million.
And of course, that's my response.
And all of a sudden, the Young Turks are pushing, they're smearing Julian Assange, which is the CIA line, and they're also pushing the CIA line in Syria.
Why?
They also pushed it in Venezuela.
Where else?
Oh, of course, the CIA line on Russia Gate at the top of their lungs every day.
So that's not the point, but the story is here.
Jeffrey Katzenberg, LA wants to make areas off limits to homeless encampments.
Activists say it will further punish homeless people in a deeply unequal city where more than 41,000 restaurants, 41,000 people in this city don't have a house.
Wow.
Wow.
Richest city in the richest country on the face of the earth.
LA backs new camping restrictions amid warnings that homelessness will be criminalized.
Hollywood mogul Jeffrey Katzenberg emerges as a figure in LA homelessness debate.
Oh, really?
I wonder, is he advocating for the homeless?
I wonder.
Los Angeles is rocked by a humanitarian crisis on its streets.
One of the city's richest residents, Hollywood executive Jeffrey Katzenberg, has begun meeting with local officials to offer ideas.
I wonder what those ideas are.
In recent weeks, Katzenberg has discussed the issue with several members of the Los Angeles City Council, as well as aides to Mayor Eric Garcetti, raising questions about how he might influence homelessness policy and whether he intends to bankroll efforts to get people off the streets.
Several of Katzenberg's meetings have taken place during the run-up to the council's recent decision to impose new anti-camping rules.
So Jeffrey Katzenberg's meeting with the LA City Council in the mayor's office.
And then the next thing you know, they come out with these new rules against homelessness.
Isn't that interesting?
He's worth $900 million.
He's worth $900 billion.
Which would allow the city to remove encampments that are near key public facilities, such as libraries and homeless shelters, once offers of housing have been made.
In some meetings, Katzenberg urged city council members to act quickly on enacting limits on where people can sleep, according to two sources with knowledge of those conversations.
He wanted to be helpful on homelessness, and then it quickly turned to tense down, said one elected official who met with Katzenberg and asked to remain anonymous in order to speak candidly about the that's because Jeffrey Katzenberg's got a lot of money.
He's really powerful.
So even elected officials are afraid of him.
That's the guy who's running the Young Turks.
Katzenberg has been power broker in Hollywood for decades.
The former chairman of Walt Disney Studios, he co-founded DreamWorks, later selling it to NBC Universal for $3.8 billion.
In recent decades, Katzenberg was a top donor and bundler for both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns.
He gave heavily to the campaign of President Biden, raising more than $700,000 at just one fundraiser.
Adam Connor says, let me get this straight.
Billionaire Jeffrey Katzenberg has a one-on-one meeting with LA City Council members and demands they criminalize homelessness.
Within days, they ram through a bill doing just that.
Is the council straight up admitting that they take orders from billionaires?
Yes.
Yes.
Imagine leaving establishment MSNBC to 10 years later take Katzenberg Money and prop up the establishment.
By the way, where did all those crowdsource millions for field reporters go?
That's someone talking to TYT.
So there's Jeffrey Katzenberg.
And now you know why the media company he sponsors, the Young Turks, have moved towards the center, have turned on Julian Assange and anti-war journalists, have pushed the CIA narrative on a million things, and aren't going to cover that story.
Jimmy, will you just tell them really quickly what happened to you the other day while you were walking your dog?
So I'm walking my dog and wearing a mask.
And Brownie's walking behind me.
And I got my earphones in, right?
And I'm looking ahead.
And I see a lady about a half a block up on the other side of the street and she goes like this.
And I thought she's just waving to me.
And I go, hey, how you doing?
And she goes, she does this again, like kind of like that.
And I'm like, what?
And I, so I'm like, what is she?
And I look, so I turn to see what's behind me.
And about this far away from Brownie, my dog, is a coyote getting ready to eat him.
A coyote's right there, like a cartoon, getting ready to eat my dog, my six-pound dog.
And so Brownie wears a harness, not a collar, not a chain, so a harness.
So I can, so I whipped him up by the harness and I go, and I just yelled no at the same time.
I go, no.
And the coyote just looked at me like, I could kill you, but I won't.
But I wasn't afraid for some reason.
I guess adrenaline gets in you or whatever.
I wasn't, I didn't, I was just like, no, and I was like, I started walking at it, like, I'll fucking kick you.
Yeah, I'm a human.
I'll think this through.
He could probably kill me.
But I wasn't scared until after.
And so then he finally kind of walked away.
Like, I didn't have anything to throw at him.
I normally have, I used to carry mace for this very reason in case a couple of coyotes decided to get smart with my dog.
I would just, I would, but I didn't, I know, I stopped carrying it.
And so I didn't have anything.
So I just pick up my dog and I walk around.
So he starts to walk away.
A construction worker who's working on a house across the street came out and he's laughing, right?
He's like, oh, he wants his lunch.
I'm like, yeah, it's hilarious.
And so I turned the corner and I'm like, yeah, I know there's always more than one.
There's never just one coyote.
There's always another one somewhere because they hunt in packs or and in pairs.
And sure enough, I see him coming around the corner, both of them.
And then they're like moving.
They're like fucking fast, right?
And they're coming at me.
They're like, hey, I'm like, uh-oh, they're going to come at me.
They're going to like teach me a lesson.
Like, we're going to show you how this works, asshole.
My buddy's going to get your ankle and then I'm going to grab your dog.
That's what I think is going to happen because that's what they do.
And so I picked up some rocks, right?
A handful of rocks.
They're pretty good sized rocks off someone's lawn.
And I threw it in their direction.
And then actually, that actually scared them.
And they ran away.
Or they picked up their trot and went.
They were like, then they were, whoa, and they kept going.
I didn't hit them with the rocks.
And could have been a real horrible day.
Could have been a horrible day.
Could have been a real horrible day.
And that woman, our masked woman on the street somewhere saved ourselves.
And then she turned around and went the other way.
She didn't keep coming because she didn't want to walk towards that coyote.
Yeah.
So she turned around and went the other way.
So I didn't even get a chance to thank her, but I'm sure I'll see her again and I'll thank her then.
Another somebody who tweeted out something he thought would be embarrassing to me.
So that's that Matthew Dimitri guy who Aaron is convinced is not a guy, but a group of people.
He says, Dora launches a violent misogynist attack on Emma Diglund and Anna Kasparian.
If they ever got, so here's what they think is embarrassing to me.
Ready?
Emma Vickland says this.
She goes, There's no, I know.
When you grow up rich in a cul-de-sac, you find pretty words to shit on people who are actually fighting for things.
When you grow up super rich in a cul-de-sac and your parents are corporate lawyers, shit lips, and you've had every advantage handed to you your whole fucking life.
You're never, wouldn't she ever fight for anything?
Never.
Again, people who are sitting at home on their fucking millionaire asses, never doing fucking anything.
Anything.
And it is period sitting in her $24 million studio, telling, wagging her finger at other people who are actually out there pressuring politicians.
She says there's no understanding of how goals are achieved historically because these folks are being misled by Red Brown Alliance media figures, sapping them of energy and cash.
Progress.
So what she's doing is undermining activists in the middle of a big 50 different cities for Medicare for all.
Hey, why don't you ask to speak at that and go out and give your opinion?
Why don't you go out there and interview some of those people and tell them about the Red Brown Alliance that you're so worried about that you have no fucking idea what you're talking about?
And by the way, these are the kind of people like to quote Marx as if they're smart because they went to good colleges that got paid for by their corporate lawyer parents.
But if they ever got within five feet of a worker, they'd get punched in the fucking face.
Kevin Bittlin ever got even near a fucking worker.
They tell her to get the fuck out of here.
Go back to your cul-de-sac and your corporate lawyer parents and tell me how good Elizabeth Warren is and she calls Bernie a sexist.
Elizabeth is a family friend.
Family friend.
Elizabeth's a family friend.
So they thought that I would be embarrassed of that.
Like, I'm proud of that rant because it made a groomful of people cheer for me just now.
Thank you.
Guess who disagrees with you?
Guess who disagrees with you?
Keith Oberman.
Keith Oberman disagrees with you.
keith olberman says time to ban this feral succubus jimmy door from twitter and other platforms So I just wanted to let you know a succubus is a demon assuming female form to have sexual intercourse with men in their sleep.
And I guess I could get him deplatformed because he just misgendered me.
Keith Oberman meant to call me an incubus, but he got in front of his red baiting, Russia gaiting, bullshit, virtue signaling face and he said succubus, which makes him look like a fuckubus.
And so I retweeted it, and I'm like, I'm nailing it at this clip.
3,900 likes.
Every single video that the Dimitri guy tweets out is like a tribute to me.
He doesn't realize it, but it's helping.
Jimmy, he's your unpaid intern.
He is.
Yeah, he's very helpful.
Yeah.
He says some weird shit on top of the video, but the video clip is great.
Yes.
People are like, oh, I can't wait to watch this clip of Jimmy Door being, wow, that makes sense.
Oh, fuck.
That's what happens.
But here's the guy who wants me kicked off all social media.
By the way, can you imagine being a grown-up person?
I can't imagine being a grown-up person wanting other people to be too banned from a social media plug.
What is wrong with you?
Well, here we're going to see what's wrong with Keith Olman.
Here we go.
We are at war with Russia.
Or perhaps more correctly, we have lost a war with Russia without a battle.
We are no longer a sovereign nation.
We are no longer a democracy.
We are no longer a free people.
We are the victims of a bloodless coup, so far a bloodless coup engineered by Russia, which if we did it to another country, would be described as an act of war.
And in this country, we have conceded defeat.
The nation and all of our freedoms hang by a thread.
And the military apparatus of this country is about to be handed over to scum who are beholden to scum.
Russian scum.
Did he come up with that poetry before or after he denounced his Russian heritage?
That's my question.
Wow.
Here, there's more.
So he says, why are we wasting vaccinations on Texas if Texas has decided to join the side of the virus?
So this is the governor saying that he's going to lift the mask mandate.
And Keith Oberman's response was to say we shouldn't give them vaccinations.
He loves his country so much, he hates everyone in one of the biggest states.
Isn't that amazing?
That's him.
Pat the Berner says, there's no excuse for not understanding the concept that non-Republicans live in red states regardless.
We should care about people, period.
All the libs liking and sharing this tweet should be embarrassed.
Exactly.
So when I advocate for Medicare for all, that doesn't mean just lefty, progressive, liberals, whatever.
That means even the shit liberals.
I want Medicare for all for an asshole like Keith Oberman and Rachel Maddow.
And I want it for right-wingers.
I want it for Trump voters.
I want Medicare for all for fucking all.
Thank you.
How does that Medicare for All work in Canada?
Does it work all right?
You got to wait a little long sometimes, but on the other hand, you can take comfort knowing that no one's going to die because they don't have health care.
Yeah, you know how long?
It's worth it.
It's worth it.
You know how long Americans have to wait until they fulfill their $10,000 deductible, which is quite a fucking waste, which means most people don't ever go to the fucking doctor, which means most people wait their whole life for fucking health care.
So saying that Canadians have to wait a week or two or whatever means they're getting health care.
Thank you.
Because right now, I'm waiting, we're waiting our entire life for health care.
I have Blue Cross Blue Shield Healthcare, and they made me wait forever for a CT scan, for an MRI, for a fucking invasive.
Everything I had to, oh, we're not going to pay that.
So go fuck yourself.
Hey, by the way, they don't even cover my medicine, by the way, for my thing that I have.
They don't even cover that.
I have to pay that.
They're like, no, that's not a thing that we don't cover.
They just don't fucking cover it.
So I take phosphorus.
They're like, no, that's just a supplement.
I'm like the supplement that saved my fucking life.
Anyway, so we need more war, obviously.
How many people here have what they consider good health insurance?
How many people here have what they consider good elders?
Oh, look at that.
A couple people.
How many people here would like single-payer health care like their grandparents had?
*applauds*
So would I. I would like to go to people, go, Jimmy, why do you want the government running your health care?
The government's not running the fucking health care.
The government does, there's nothing.
When my grandma goes to see a doctor, she doesn't go see a government.
She's like seeing a G-Man.
She's not seeing a G-Man.
She's going to see her regular fucking doctor.
And guess what?
The government sends her doctor a check.
That's it.
That's all it has.
how it fucking works.
Thank you.
Thank you.
And they're not even fighting for their public options.
So they won't give a single payer.
But then they said the public option.
But what happened to that?
Yeah, so Joe Biden said, all right, I'm not going to give you Medicare for all, but if you have your own money, you can buy into the Medicare for all program with the public option.
That's what Barack Obama promised in 2008.
We ain't still fucking got it.
Here we are 13 years later.
Is that 13?
I think that's 13.
So here's Keith Oberman.
And this is why we have to act.
And we have to act brutally against Trump and his supporters in office and out.
Round up Trump and the cult now.
No restoration, just eternal damnation.
So Keith Oberman's big idea is he doesn't want to be divisive.
He just wants to round up half the country and put them somewhere.
Can you build a prison big enough for half the country?
So that's what guys like that, so those are people who pretend to be progressive lefties who are actually shit lib right-wing authorofuckitarians who want to censor anybody who has another fucking idea.
That's not even right-wing.
That's just fucking authoritarian.
That's just nuts.
Because the right-wingers I know are against censorship.
But these motherfuckers who consider themselves on the left, they can't get enough.
They are thirsty for censoring their opponents.
He wants to ban me from every fucking platform.
What is that about?
And that guy considers himself on the left.
He is further right than fucking Glenn Beck ever was.
This guy.
He's further right than Alex Jones.
That's for sure.
And you know what, Jimmy?
got stripes and the moon's the balloon suck it up or shut up well that's great news joe i know test me how many fingers am i holding up right now i don't know correct hey you know there's a lot more to that phone call but we don't have time in today's podcast how do you hear the entire phone call you got to become a premium member go to jimmydorkomedy.com sign up it's the most affordable premium program
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