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March 17, 2023 - Jimmy Dore Show
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*Bell rings*
Hey, this is Jimmy.
Who's this?
Jimmy, this is former New York Governor Andrew.
Hello, or should I say Shalom?
Oh, my God.
I know what this is about.
Hi, Governor.
Good to hear from you.
What are you up to these days?
Even though I know what it is, you are totally sucking up to Israel in a way that you're trying to rehabilitate.
I have humbled myself and I'm currently trying to achieve a great mitzvah.
Why are you talking like this, Governor?
Jimmy, I am speaking Jewish.
Because I have decided to turn my political efforts to helping and supporting my dear friends in the Jewish community.
Yeah.
In light of this shocking rise in anti-Semitism, I have decided to form my own advocacy group, Progressives for Israel.
Progressives for Israel.
Progressives for Israel.
Jesus.
It's all there in the name.
Yeah.
Lately, I've noticed a disturbing lack of support for Israel within the Democratic Party.
And I find that unacceptable.
There is no middle road.
You're either with Israel or against Israel.
I heard you say that.
Yeah, is that so?
Yes, Jimmy.
What about you?
Are you with Israel?
I'm with the Palestinians' right to exist and not be subject to a vicious apartheid regime.
Okay, that's against Israel.
That's what that is.
I wouldn't say so.
Well, I would.
So expect to receive a public condemnation from my advocacy group, Progressives for Israel.
Jimmy Dore of the Jimmy Dore Show receives one out of five stars of David.
Oh, I forgot to mention we have a rating system and everything.
This all seems very cynical and pandering, Mr. Governor.
What?
What do you mean?
You know what I mean.
I swear I don't, Mr. Israel hater.
This smacks.
Like I said earlier in the sketch, this smacks of a desperate attempt at a political comeback.
Jimmy, this has nothing to do with politics.
Bah!
Ah!
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
This is solely about my lifelong love of Israel and the Jewish people.
Yeah.
It is time for us Gentiles to stand up and say enough is enough.
Israel isn't a political issue.
It shouldn't be.
But unfortunately, some people have politicized Israel for their own political gain.
Like who?
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand.
Oh, I see.
I'll get back to that.
But first, Representative Jerry Nadler has scoffed at your advocacy group, saying there are already plenty of progressive pro-Jewish organizations such as the New York Jewish Agenda who do not need your help.
Oh, give me a break.
The New York Jewish agenda.
What a shonda.
That kingborne organization won't do one-tenth of what progressives for Israel will do to combat anti-Semitism.
Critics are saying that this is a move designed to position you to challenge Senator Gillibrand in 2024.
Oh, what a bunch of schucks.
That's nonsense.
Although, I must say, now that you mention it, I suppose it couldn't hurt.
Oh, no?
Well, I mean, now that you mention it, if someone were to challenge Senator Gillibrand in 2024, they would have to take into account the massive support that she has among the Jewish community of New York State.
Right.
She is a darling of the APAC lobby, after all.
I think you may be right about that.
Yeah, a few years ago, she sponsored a ridiculous bill that would essentially criminalize boycotting Israel for its human rights violation.
That's right.
She was willing to subvert the Constitution itself to demonstrate her desire to protect Israel.
Anyone going up against her would have to go above and beyond that, which won't be easy.
How would you go about that?
Well, I suppose I would force the Jewish community to ask itself: who do you want as your fierce defender of Israel?
A dainty little Irish girl from Albany?
Or a fucking Italian bull from Man Adam?
Hold on, I'm getting another call.
Hello, this is Jimmy Door show.
Jimmy, this is Chuck Schumer.
Oh, hi, Chuck.
Don't hide, Chuck me, you grifter.
Everyone can see exactly what you're doing here, this pathetic attempt at a comeback.
You ought to be ashamed of yourself.
Why?
You know exactly what, Buster.
You're exploiting the Jewish community, not supporting us.
How dare you?
No one cares what a disgrace Johnny Cum lately thinks about Israel.
Now, come on, Chuck.
That's not fair.
I'll tell you what's not fair.
I co-sponsored that bill with Kirsten.
She and I were putting our political necks on the line for APAC back when all you cared about was playing grab-ass up in Albany.
I'm perfectly capable of multitasking.
I'll help you know.
From the river to the sea, from the waist to the knee.
Both are the promised land.
Oh, you disgust me.
Doesn't he disgust you, Jimmy?
Leave me out of this, Chuck.
You can't turn a bull against another bull, Chucky.
Don't even try.
No, you and your whole I'm a bullshtick.
The only bull you resemble is the Golden Bull, the one put forth to mislead and deceive the Hebrews.
Gentlemen, I gotta ask you to keep it civil, please.
No, nuts to that.
I can't talk to this man any longer.
Goodbye.
But know that I will be vociferously criticizing your hijinks, mister.
Good day, sirs.
Wow, what got into him?
Oh, maybe he sees through you.
You ever think of that?
Well, we'll see who sees through who when the high holidays come and I'm making public appearances wearing a yama.
Jesus.
Or when I visit Israel and personally go to the wailing wall.
Oh, God.
We'll see who sees through me then.
I will see through you.
I promise I will.
Goodbye, Governor.
Goodbye.
Or should I say, Shalom?
Shalom also means goodbye.
I just found that out like two days ago.
Isn't that weird?
Yeah.
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We have a special guest with us today.
He's an environmental lawyer, law professor, best-selling author.
It's Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and he's here with us today.
Welcome to the show again.
Good to see you.
Thanks for coming back.
Good to see you again.
Thank you for all you've done over the past two years to wake people up.
I'll take the compliment.
Thanks.
We're right back at you.
Now, I noticed this, that you are doing an exploratory search to see if you should run for president.
And what I liked about it is you said that your top priority will be to end the corrupt merger between state and corporate power that has ruined our economy, shattered the middle class, polluted our landscapes, waters, poisoned our children, and robbed us of our values and freedoms.
Together, we can restore America's democracy.
So that's great news to hear you say that.
It's good to hear it come from a Kennedy.
And so why do you think those same powers, which they rigged the 2016 Democratic election against the progressive Bernie Sanders, they were just ready to do to him what they did to Trump after he won.
And then they did it again in 2020, all the powers coalesce.
What makes you think that you can do this?
Well, I mean, I can run.
I, you know, and hopefully, and, you know, I'm looking at that now.
But I don't know, you know, the reason that I'd be running is precisely to answer that question.
You know, why does it seem like our election system is fixed and rigged?
And, you know, one of the things I wrote to DNC and I said, because President Biden and DNC are trying to move the, you know, get rid of New Hampshire as the first primary.
And New Hampshire has been, you know, running that primary for 100 years.
It is the gold standard for election integrity.
Nobody ever questions New Hampshire's results.
And it also has served kind of as a vetting to state for the rest of the states, because if you're campaigning in one of the other states, you know, you can be a billionaire and you can go down and aerial bombard that state with advertising.
You never need to answer questions.
You never need to meet people.
But in New Hampshire, you've got 40% of the electric is independent, and they don't make up their minds to the last minute.
And they really take seriously this responsibility to interview people.
And they subject these national candidates to the kind of vetting that they would get if they were running for his school board.
And you'll have like an 80-year-old lady in New Hampshire who reads The Economist once a week in the Financial Times every day.
And she'll start grilling these people with questions and follow-up questions that they never get from the New York Times or CNN, and they're not satisfied with soundbites.
So it's this wonderful process that exists.
But President Biden did very badly in New Hampshire.
He came in, you know, last.
He got only 8% of the vote.
So now what they're trying to do is move South Carolina, which is a state that's much easier to control to the front of the line.
I sent a letter to them saying, and then they've also announced they're not going to have debates.
And I was like, okay, well, what happened to democracy?
You know, we're supposed to be the party of the New Deal, not the rig deal.
And we're at a time in our history when everybody is questioning electoral integrity.
It's become the kind of the fulcrum of this terrible polarization that's occurring in our country.
And it's so disturbing to people that literally, you know, there was an insurgency against the United States governments because people were angry about this issue, justified or not.
It is a very important issue.
People at this point sort of confirm what everybody's saying by trying to resolve rather than saying, rather than, you know, rather than proving to people we have a democracy that's actually functioning, that we're not frightened of that.
But you know we don't have a democracy that's functioning.
No, I mean, we don't have, we no longer have a functioning democracy in this country.
And that is the truth.
We have a, we have what is really a merger of state and corporate power.
And what's the word for that?
There's a word for that, right?
Oh, there is a word.
It's called fascism.
That's right.
And so don't you, doesn't it drive you crazy?
Because it drives me crazy to hear the corporate media, which is now and the establishment media, which now favors a Democratic Party, pretend like only one party is fascist when we know that Joe Biden, after he told people, vote for Democrats in the midterms and you'll be voting to save democracy, the first act that the Democrats did was crush a railroad union strike, which is the definition of fascism.
So does it bother you as much as me that we pretend that only one party's fascist in America when obviously the Democrats are just as fascist?
I think both parties and, you know, I think the tribalism is just so toxic because people, when they're in that tribal mode, they cannot, there's no kind of self-awareness.
And they're, you know, they're completely targeted on all the bad things about the other person and they're blind to the stuff that they're doing.
I mean, Democrats at this point are very worried about January 6th, which is, you know, an obsession, which was bad.
It was an attack on our capital.
And the people who did it, who broke the law, should go to jail.
If you didn't break the law, you shouldn't.
But to me, it's much more serious if we're starting to censor free speech.
You can rebuild a capital.
You know, if you eliminate the Constitution, there's really nothing left in America.
And free speech is the bedrock of our Constitution.
And it's my party that is censoring speech more aggressively than, you know, it's happening on both sides.
But it's systematic that if you complain about government policies on COVID, about masking, about anything about Ukraine, you'll get censored.
You'll get thrown off the internet.
If you're a doctor or a scientist who is showing, you know, scientific studies or even people like I've been censored for posting screenshots of CDC website as misinformation, which is very bizarre.
That to me is the most disturbing.
Once you start sensing with the First Amendment, that really is an attack on American democracy.
You can't have a democracy without the free flow of information.
You just can't.
Nobody can argue.
I mean, if you're scared, if you feel like you have the censor speech to protect the public from bad thoughts, then you have lost faith in the public and the demos, and you can no longer call yourself a democracy.
Well, I don't mind.
So you called the Democratic Party your party.
What has the Democratic Party done in the last 40 years that has anything to resemble anything resembling your ideals?
You know, listen, I go, first of all, the answer to your question is the Democratic Party has been much better traditionally on the environment than the Republican Party.
So that's one answer.
There are others too on other issues as well, on civil rights and many other issues.
So you can argue that, but you know what?
I don't want to argue.
What I've tried to avoid is creating a binary dispute between Republicans and Democrats, because I think that just feeds the polarization.
And what I really would rather talk about is the things that we can all agree on and not the things that are driving us apart.
And by the way, Jimmy, you know, the United States of America has let me down in many ways, I feel, during my lifetime.
You know, the way that our government behaves, I still love my country.
The Catholic Church did a lot of things that let me down, I feel.
But I still love my church.
So, you know, you can love an institution and you can recognize that it's not doing what it promised to do.
And our obligation is to, you know, to me, the obligation is not to abandon it, but to try to fix it.
And, you know, I think, you know, so anyway, that's the answer.
That's a short question.
I got you.
So the reason why there's the hyper focus in this division in the country, this is my theory.
And the reason why the corporate media and the Democratic Party are just set on dividing this country and treating their neighbor as if it's your enemy.
And it's because the Democratic Party about 30 years ago or longer abandoned the workers in America.
Bill Clinton did it.
He was not the lesser of two evil.
He did things that George Bush I could never get accomplished, like NAFTA, which cut the legs out from underneath unions ever since.
And Barack Obama was not a, he was a continuation of George W. Bush.
So I don't want to go over this again, but that's what's happening.
And so do you think that you can repair somehow a political party to then care about the workers again?
Because as Chuck Schumer admitted, that they don't even care.
The Democratic Party isn't even trying to get workers, blue-collar workers to vote for them anymore.
That for every blue-collar worker they'll lose, they're going to pick up two white-collar workers in the suburbs.
And he said, you could repeat that over and over and over again.
And that's what the Democratic guy, and that's why we're living where nobody wants to vote and they can only vote out of hate.
And do you really think that you can get the Democratic Party to get off the corporate spigot of money and actually represent workers again?
Because that's the problem with the Democratic Party.
They don't represent workers, which makes them vulnerable to demagogues like Trump.
And we all know this, right?
Yeah.
And I agree with you.
We got to, you know, returning to the union roots is critical to the Democratic Party.
But let me answer that question kind of in another way, which is the fulcrum of what you just said is that the Democratic Party has sold its soul to the corporations and it doesn't care about workers anymore.
It is basically a creature of this merger of corporate and government power.
And the place where that occurs is inside the agencies.
Oh, I've spent 40 years suing these agencies.
I've sued, you know, not only in, you know, you've seen my suits in recent years against FDA, CDC, NIH, because they got HHS is captured by the pharmaceutical industry.
I just came from East Palestine, Ohio, where we're representing, you know, 600 clients whose lives have been upturned by this train wreck.
And that train wreck is a function of agency capture.
DOT does not work for the American people anymore.
It works for the railroad companies and some clause, the airline companies.
I've spent many years suing USDA, Department of Agriculture, and the agencies that have captured or the companies that have captured the big food processors, the big ag company, Monsanto.
We are as part of the trial team, the biggest case, you know, in history, $13 billion victory, ultimately a settlement with Monsanto.
But I've sued dozens of times, Smithfield Food, Tysons, Pilgrim, all of the big food companies and agricultural companies that have captured that agents or that department.
EPA is captured by the oil industry and the pesticide industry.
When we sued on Santo, we found out during discovery that the head of the pesticide division had EPA was actually secretly working for Monsanto for decades.
And they were corresponding with each other.
And he was sending, you know, he was sending these emails to Monsanto saying, I'm about to kill this study for you.
And you better give me a medal for this one.
You know, so he was just so that's happening in all these agencies.
Now, these government officials like presidential candidates, whether it's Obama or President Trump or Biden, come into office saying, I'm going to get rid of the swamp.
I'm going to get rid of the corruption.
But then they get in there and something happens.
Trump got in there saying, I'm going to get rid of the swamp.
He asked me to be on a vaccine safety commission.
And that news got out.
Pfizer gave him a million dollars for the inauguration.
And then for his inaugural party, And then he appointed two of Pfizer's lobbyists, Scott Godlieve and Alex Azar, to run HHS, and they killed the Vaccine Safety Commission.
And then Godly went to serve on Pfizer's board.
That is the swamp.
And, you know, when these guys get in there, what happens to them, they either get co-opted because all the money and because all the congressional chairs are captured by those agencies, so they can't do anything unless they do what they're told, or they just get overwhelmed because these agencies are so huge and the corruption is so entrenched in them that they don't know how to fix it.
They don't know how they're not going to go in the weeds and fix it.
So they appoint somebody safe to run that agency, you know, somebody like Pete Budice, who's not going to fix it, who's going to basically make sure that he doesn't embarrass the presidency over the next four years.
And he's safe and he doesn't know how to run that agency or fix it.
He relies on the guys who've been there for 20 years and make sure nothing bad happens that's going to embarrass the president.
And they also have all these different capacities for committing civil disobediences.
If he does something they don't like, they know how to kind of bring the economy down, bring the country down, bring, you know, they're the guys who make the railroads run on time.
And if they, if you do something they don't like, they can stop the railroads from running on time and cause, you know, a lot of embarrassment.
Nothing ever changed.
Well, the thing, you know, that I feel like I have, Jimmy, is that I've sued those agencies for 40 years.
I know how they work.
I've written books about them.
I've studied them.
I know the people in them who are causing the problems.
I know how to fix them.
I said to Ron DeSantis, you know, what are you going to do about NIH?
And he said, I'm going to burn it to the ground.
And that is one way of handling it.
But there are a lot of people at NIH who are actually doing their jobs and they're idealistic and they're committed.
But it's usually the people who are the branch heads and department heads who make sure that nothing ever happens at those agencies that interferes with corporate profit taking.
You know, I just, I know how to fix those things.
So, okay, there's many things I've got Russian.
I thought I could do something and that's the answer.
So we all agree on that problem.
We all agree on corporate capture.
Electoral politics is not going to solve this.
So what do you think will solve?
Because you're going to run inside the Democratic Party.
They're just going to squash you.
It's a foregone conclusion that they're going to do that.
They're not even going to have debates now, which would be the best thing that could come from your candidacy would be you on stage embarrassing these people because they're so bought and corrupted in both parties.
And now they won't even do that.
So I don't want to spend, I just, that's not the solution.
You're right.
I think you could fix those things.
You do know how to fix those things.
They will never let you get grab power that way.
It won't even let you get close.
So the real, you know, we've been talking with Shama Sawant recently, and she's starting a new organization outside of politics.
And we, and so what we've come to the conclusion that, you know, the road for real progressives inside the Democratic Party is a graveyard, and it certainly is.
And so we have to move outside of politics and we have to get people in the streets and shut things down and what stuff like what Christian Smalls did on Staten Island when he organized with Trump voters against the oligarchy, against Jeff Bezos and Amazon.
We have to organize along class lines.
And electoral politics is a big dead end right now because it's got, there's a stranglehold on it, but the corporations completely have control of the media.
There's only six companies.
And that's because of a Democrat, Bill Clinton, the Telecommunications Act in 1996.
And that's why people don't even know that they're propagandized.
You know, the good thing about the Soviet Union was the people when they lived there, they knew they were being propagandized.
Let me be fair about Clinton.
You're right about the Telecommunications Act, but that consolidation of the media can be equally blamed on Ronald Reagan because he was the one who abolished the fairness doctor.
So I'm not, you know, I don't want to point figures Republican Democrats.
We don't want to be doing that, but I don't want you to be doing it either when it's not, you know, completely, it's not binary.
It's a unit party.
We have a unit party.
And of course, right?
And that's why if it was Trump or Joe Biden, they would have both crushed that railroad strike.
And you know that.
It doesn't didn't matter who's in power.
Joe Biden's not making the anyway.
So I mean, Bernie Bernie would have would not have crushed it.
That's why they didn't let Bernie become president.
Why do you think Barack Obama was allowed to become president?
Because he served those people and they knew it.
He got more money from Wall Street than his Republican opponents.
The point is, how do we really fight back?
And we have to get in the street, correct?
Yeah, let me just say this.
That Trump, I don't want to really use Donald Trump as an exemplar, but Trump was in the same position in the Republican Party that I am in the Democratic Party.
Nobody in the party structure wanted him, but he was able to create a populist uprising that allowed him not only to take the presidency, but also to take control of the Republican Party.
So that is, you know, there is a template for how it might be possible with a bottom-up populism.
It might be possible.
Anyway, I think it's worth trying.
Okay.
Well, good luck to you because I know if you did grab power, you would fix things.
And, you know, you already showed you're not afraid and you're a fighter.
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So everyone wonders what the definition of woke is.
So this lady, she is a conservative writer and mother of two.
She wrote a book.
She's the author of Stolen Youth, How Radicals Are Erasing Innocence and Indoctrinating a Generation.
She's also a Never Trumper.
Also, they already done did that.
How they're doing it.
How they're doing it.
All these millennial punks that are in all these offices.
So she was asked, Kurt, what her definition of woke is.
Oh, I got things.
I got it.
Ready?
And here we go.
Anti-Americans consider themselves very liberal.
And probably fewer of them consider themselves to be woke.
And so, you know, when you do, would you mind defining Woke?
Because it's come up a couple of times.
I just want to make sure we're on the same page.
So, I mean, woke is sort of the idea that this is going to be one of those moments that goes viral.
I mean, woke is something that's very hard to define, and we've spent an entire chapter defining it.
It is sort of the understanding that we need to totally reimagine and redo society in order to create hierarchies of oppression.
Sorry, it's hard to explain in a 15-second soundbite.
Boy, you didn't think she asked her to define what a woman was.
That kind of a head, that kind of a straitjacket.
How hard is it, Jimmy, to say it's the getting jiggy with it of my generation?
How hard is it?
That's all you have to say.
It's it for some reason lasted twice as long.
Shouldn't have.
Did they say anything else?
Let's see.
No, that's it.
That's all they said.
Well, Burano, who I like, Aaron, also who I like, they sincerely will make a case for woke, like, well, it was a black thing, and it wasn't.
And I would say, no, I don't think it was.
I think that they're really overhyping.
Whatever she just said about the number of black people call themselves woke now, it's probably been always about the same.
Because previously, woke was like conspiracy theory stuff.
They call you a hotep, you don't even know what a hotep is?
Guys, like, you know, they hid the truth about Egypt and we didn't go to the moon.
Like conspiracies were what was in woke.
They've all been sanitized out of it now.
9-11 was done by possibly the Jews, that kind of stuff.
Really?
All this stuff.
That was the fringe because you like 5%er stuff.
Remember the 5%ers?
No.
Okay, live rappers in the middle.
All this stuff is, I don't know anything about this.
Chicago was segregated as hell.
5%ers was that religion that's like the gods and earths, like Erica Badu is where I first heard the term woke.
I never heard anybody black say woke once before Erica Badu, and then somebody latched onto it and took off.
You could say it describes a thing if you want, but that thing included a lot of conspiracies that you would not be woke for a saying now.
Like the government invented AIDS, that kind of stuff.
Really?
Okay, I didn't.
Okay, so let's let me watch this one more time just because it's fun.
At Americans consider themselves very liberal.
And probably fewer of them consider themselves to be woke.
And so, you know, when would you mind defining woke?
Because it's come up a couple times.
I just want to make sure we're on the same page.
Look out, here it comes.
So, I mean, woke is sort of the idea that this is going to be one of those moments that goes viral.
Yes.
Woke is something that's very hard to define.
And we've spent an entire chapter defining it.
It is sort of the understanding that we need to totally reimagine and redo society in order to create hierarchies of oppression.
Sorry, it's hard to explain in a 15-second soundbite.
It is hard to explain.
It is hard to explain.
I couldn't have done better.
When I first saw this on the internet, I thought she was a lefty woke person who couldn't define it, which would make it funnier than this.
I mean, think of every garbage thing you've heard in the last 10 years that is now completely corporate-friendly.
Yeah.
And I think actually, yeah, so let's go into what.
So this guy, Jonathan Chait, says, I find the pylon about this clip kind of gross.
She may be wrong, but she's not an idiot.
She just froze up on TV.
It happens.
And then this guy said, LOL, she's promoting a book on this topic, my dude.
So she should have been a little bit.
Should have been woke is an adjective.
This is what I got from Wikipedia.
Right.
It says, woke is an adjective derived from African-American vernacular English, meaning alert to racial prejudice and discrimination.
I think that's mighty how when it started.
But they're really.
And then the next one is: what is another?
This is from the dictionary.com.
What is another word for being woke?
Woke is also sometimes just used to characterize someone as hip or open-minded.
No, it is not.
And also, no, it is not.
I looked it up.
It was like, because you never see what that, like, the etymology, you know, where to come from.
There's a book from like 1962 where a guy, I can't remember the guy's name, but wrote, but one of the aspects of it was woke is the opposite of cool in many ways.
So the people that would have been like, like your Erica Badu kind of all that like social conscious kind of hip-hop back in the 90s, like PM Dawn and common and all that, it was gangster rap was cool and hip, right?
The like kind of earth, everybody's gods and earth shit.
That wasn't, that was kind of, like I said, a fringe.
The guy in the dashiki is like, no, my brother, we must not do this.
The majority of people were not that.
So now they made it hip.
Like it became hip because it got co-opted like every other, you know, it's the natural made woke, you mean, got hip, became hip?
Yeah, they started, as soon as it started selling t-shirts, and as soon as like white people pick up on it, that's the natural ecosystem.
And once you make important issues into hip trends, Kurt, then you make them cheap and eventually worthless.
Yeah, then they're not cool.
You don't want to make like equality not cool, which is what you do when you make it a Nike thing.
Yes.
So I just want to remind people, the hyper focus right now in the culture on whatever you consider what woke is, what I would consider like everything is about racism.
Everything is about white supremacy.
Everything is about somehow LGBTQ and it involves a phobe somewhere.
And that's all anybody seems to be talking about these days.
And it means blinders is what it kind of means now.
But why are those issues always front and center in our culture?
Because the corporate media pushes those things.
Why?
Because they're a good way to divide the country.
And that's all the establishment has.
And also, they'd rather have you talking about that than talking about the fact that both political parties don't represent workers.
That's why this, that's why they're talking about this.
That's why corporations embrace identity politics and all this kind of focus and hyper-focus on these kind of cultural issues.
Why do corporations embrace it?
Because it doesn't cost them anything to do it.
And they know they're screwing their own workers.
And so it makes them look woke.
It makes them look lefty.
It makes them look virtuous.
And that's why the Democrats are so, they put the kente cloths around their necks and they take a knee and then they go and vote for another goddamn police department and they fund it to $2 billion to go crush down more black people.
So that's, do you see why they do?
It's all symbolism and they want to keep us fighting over that stuff.
They want us, the Democrats want to keep us fighting over Black Lives Matter, even though they just invented a new goddamn police thing and funded it to $2 billion.
They don't give a shit.
You would think that's something Trump would have done after a summer of Black Lives Matter's writing.
No, that's what the Democrats did.
So that's why we're all talking about all this stuff.
And you should always keep that in mind.
The reason why we're talking about all this stuff is because the Democratic Party and the Republicans, but the Democratic Party decided to turn their backs on workers.
And now all they have left, you remember when Chuck Schumer said, for every blue-collar worker we lose in cities, we're going to gain two and three white-collar voters in the suburb.
And that's what their party is about.
Their party is about college-educated white-collar voters who are conservative.
We have two conservative right-wing parties in America.
The Democratic Party is nothing, is not left.
And so that's why we, that's why this is every day people are talking about this because AOC, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, they all would rather talk about identity politics than talk about how they're screwing over the people of East Palestine, screwing over the railroad workers, not giving you a $15 minimum wage, not giving you health care, and they're sending $100 billion to in the most corrupt country in Europe while people sleep under every bridge in America.
So that's why they'd rather talk about woke stuff and identity politics, just so you know.
That's the whole point of that.
Have you ever heard the moronic phrase, you're being a class reductionist, Jimmy?
As if class is the smaller microcosm and identity is the bigger thing.
I don't know what that means when people say that.
It's an absolutely imbecilic thing.
Number one, class is above your little skin color identity.
Class is a bigger thing.
You're switching the macro view and trying to pretend it's the micro view with that.
So they go, oh, don't reduce race and stuff just to class, which is 100% class transcends that.
That's why Kamala Harris.
Yes, class does transcend that.
Yeah, but now in the new, I guess that's part of woke, if the girl needs definitions for her thing.
So that's why class, that's why black men, brown, and white Trump voters can organize together in the Amazon union because class, it supersedes that.
Yeah, the same dim bulbs that brought you the term Bernie bro also brought you that.
Don't be a class reductionist.
Identity politics.
That's what's real important.
This guy says the definition of all these people.
So I'm going to give you all these different people's ideas of what woke means because everybody has their own idea.
Nobody has, it started out, it might have started out as an adjective derived from African-American vernacular English, meaning alert to racial prejudice and discrimination, but that is not what it means now.
It certainly, I never thought that's what it meant until I looked it up today, and that's what Wikipedia said.
I'm like, that's what it means.
By the way, I had no idea that's what it means.
By that definition, the Klan is woke, just so you know.
They're very alert to discriminate.
That's right.
They are very alert.
It's nonsense.
They are very alert to it.
This guy says it's a woke means being bullshit identity politics that have usurped and replaced the substance of class warfare rhetoric on the left.
I agree.
It has usurped.
Not that that stuff isn't important to talk about.
We need to talk, of course, racism and discrimination of LGBTQ.
Those aren't not important issues, but they have now usurped and replaced the class warfare rhetoric on the left.
And that's a well, that's a big lose for everybody.
You know what would help LGBTQ people more than anything?
Medicare for all, a living wage, education that doesn't bankrupt them, healthcare that doesn't bankrupt them when they get sick, infrastructure.
That's what would, how about that?
Same thing with all minorities that want to help them, give them health care, give them an education, give them a living wage.
And how about give them housing that's affordable?
Excessive, shallow, and myopic focus on social justice.
These are what people are saying on the internets.
And then a friend of the show, Viva Fry, says, woke is the ideology of insincere fabrication of victims and victimhood through manufactured oppression, discrimination for the ultimate purpose of acquiring power through such victimhood and attaining undeserved social standing through faux outrage and virtue signaling.
Now, I agree that there that is often the case.
He's not getting the corporate.
The only reason this crap could keep going on is because these companies have completely, you know, they got an ESG fund.
Yes.
What does ESG mean?
Environmental social governance.
Okay.
So the scumbag from BlackRock, Larry Fink.
I always used to laugh that the inventor of woke really is Larry Fink, a guy named Larry Think.
And so they have thing you could, that's why this stuff is not even consumerist.
It's like the movies nobody wants and the TV shows nobody wants.
They're just getting money from these massive shadow banks.
And that's so that it doesn't matter what you at the bottom end vote for or pay for or do whatever.
It doesn't matter.
They're getting venture capital to keep pushing this crap.
So that's like the iron, like the sucker end of it is like, yeah, there's people that do that, but that's not, they wouldn't be able to power this.
These people don't have sense.
That's right.
No one likes them.
That's right.
The companies like companies.
Because they don't have to do anything real.
They can just stoke these morons up.
That's right.
And then you can fight that.
I mean, I don't like them either, the blue hairs, but it ain't, they're not enough to keep it going.
That's what I'm saying.
It's been embraced by the establishment.
And the establishment now favors the Democratic Party.
And the Democratic Party turned their backs on workers.
And that's why all they have to run on is this stuff.
And they'd rather do the Kentay cloth and the kneeling, which is, to me, woke politics, virtue signaling.
That's all that is, because they went and then and then funded a brand new police department, police organization to screw over more black and brown people.
So this guy says, dude, the word has been used to describe anything from interracial couple in Cheerios ads to gay people in cartoons to vegan sausage.
It's not a descriptor of a philosophy so much as a pejorative of all progressive culture and social change.
It is now.
It is now.
Many people have similarly abused the term Nazi, racist, bigot, far-right for the exact same reasons.
Because people abuse a term because people's abuse of a term or use it improperly doesn't mean it doesn't have a proper definition.
Yeah, that's true.
What does cool mean?
Right?
It's a slang that they took and made it like it's a philosophy.
How would you even define that?
It's everything and nothing like MAGA.
No one else is trying to define it, including the state of Florida defines it like this.
No one else that is trying to define it, including the state of Florida, defines it like this, meaning of how Viva Fry does.
Is everybody else trying to define it wrong or are you wrong?
Or could it be that the word doesn't have any meaning and can be applied to anything conservatives don't like?
I don't know.
That bugs me, dude, because they're Pretending now that I didn't invent that stupid word.
Okay, the whole media put that out.
They sold t-shirts of it.
I know.
Okay, and now people don't like it.
Oh, what is everything you don't like?
You brought that stupid word into my head, people that said that.
Don't try to blame it on conservatives for pointing out that it sucks.
I like this.
When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean, neither more nor less, says Humpty Dumpty.
I thought that was Dr. Fauci.
Get this.
In Florida, a focus group's Florida swing voters are confused by the term woke.
What does mojo mean too?
Oh, I forgot.
Reminder that when GOP lawyers working for DeSantis were forced to define woke in court in a court of law under oath, their definition boiled down to the belief discrimination exists in America and should be addressed.
Who boiled that down for you?
Did you do that?
I'd like to hear the pre-boiled definition, not just the way you decided to summarize it there, Patrick.
That guy's a moron, by the way.
In general, that guy's one of the worst.
Oh, this guy?
You know him?
He's like one of the people like, no, woke's actually a great thing.
It doesn't even exist.
What are you even talking about?
And also, it's good.
One of those kinds of people?
That's awful.
So the controversy will continue over what woke means.
Will a country ever decide and come together on a definition of what woke means?
Hey, wake me when it's over.
I don't know what it's going on my list of things.
I don't know what they mean.
Let's see.
woke woman.
No.
No.
This is Jimmy.
Who's this?
This is Vince Vaughn calling for Jimmy Door.
Vince!
Jimmy, did you watch the Oscars?
No, I absolutely did not.
That's my boy.
Well, you know, my friend, you sound as if you ripe for another edition of Vince Vaughn's Tinsel Town Show Pinions.
Vince, I could not be more ready.
All right, here we go.
Everything everywhere all at once.
It sounds like what happens at 8 a.m. after a night out at the bars in a late night stop the taco bell, but no.
It's the title of the movie that swept the Oscars in 2023, taking home a huge number of awards that I couldn't be bothered to actually count how many there were for this sketch.
Really?
Yes.
This movie, which I have not seen and appears to be about a time-traveling Asian family, but who the fuck knows, was this year's Academy Award darling with best pitcher, best director, best actress, and best supporting actress going to Jamie Lee Curtis.
Jamie Lee Curtis?
The one and the same.
And I'm happy to report that her Oscar is not a boy, but is non-binary, and she's referring to her Oscar using they them pronouns.
All right, Vince, come on.
Pronoun jokes are a little hack at this point, don't you think?
Oh, I completely agree.
That's why what I just said wasn't a joke.
It's a 100% true thing, and she said it on Good Morning America.
No, yeah.
Oh, okay.
Yeah, I threw you a bit of a curveball there.
In fact, I'm working on a stand-up set that I'm going to perform at Joe Rogan's anti-woke comedy club in Austin, Texas, where I just say actual things that people have said in real life.
Sounds good.
Best actor, however, went to everybody's favorite comeback kid who gets a little weepy too often, Brendan Fraser, for his performance in The Whale.
Is that so?
Yes.
Now, if you recall, there was a little bit of controversy about his nomination because plus-size activists were mad at his casting, saying the titular role of a morbidly obese man should have gone to an actual morbidly obese man instead of a regular size man in a fat suit.
Yeah, right.
Well, apparently, the Academy did not take Hyland to that criticism.
Do you know why?
No, Vince.
Because the Oscar for Best Makeup went to the whale for transforming regular size B-phase into a morbidly obese man.
Ain't that both the positive movement?
We're celebrating the Hollywood body con aligned colonizers themselves.
See, I can't even talk in this language.
That's quite a slap in the face, isn't it?
It sure is, Jimmy.
A hard enough slap to make a bunch of prosthetic fat chits jiggle in unison.
Moving on, the always controversial in memoriam segment.
Right.
They can't list everybody who died.
It's impossible.
So some people get snubbed by the Academy, even in death.
So, of course, Jimmy Khan was mentioned, the baddest motherfucker to ever do it.
And Raquel Welsh, the hottest woman who ever hotted.
But no, Paul Sorvino.
What?
A veteran of Goodfellas.
No, they didn't.
Good question.
And don't tell me the TV doesn't count.
Michelle Nichols was included.
Uhuru from Star Trek and God Love Her, but that's all she ever did.
Sure, she was in the Star Trek movies, too, but she never got off the ship.
They needed to stay put with a little communicator thingy.
I'm sorry, but if you never beam off the Enterprise, you're barely in the fucking Star Trek movie.
I agree.
And QST Alley, famous for cheers.
They didn't mention her.
She was included.
What was she in the Look Who's Talking series?
Yeah.
Those Oscar-winning masterpieces.
Who got her in there?
Travolta?
He was presenting the memoriam section.
Is this a fucking Scientology thing?
You sound mad, Vince.
In Memoriam always gets me heated up, Jimmy.
Burt Bacharok.
Anyway.
Burt Bacharach's huge.
It wouldn't have been in the.
Oh, come on.
Okay.
It wouldn't have been the Oscars without a seemingly sedated Jimmy Kimmel delivering his milk-to-sticks.
I love Jimmy, but they don't want any heat for anything he says, and you can tell.
They don't want heat, Vince.
So, yeah, I know.
That's what I just fucking said.
So he's reduced to doing bits with reluctant famous people in the audience, including Malala, who wasn't having it.
She was like, I would gladly get shot in the head by the Taliban again if this Chabroni would just get away from me.
Jesus God, yikes.
But the best part of the Oscars this year is what didn't happen.
Supposedly, Vladimir Zelensky requested to be beamed into the Academy ceremony to talk about his country's invasion to his main supporters, Hollywood.
But the Academy said no.
Really?
Yes, really.
After last year's Will Smith slap, I guess they're taking a break from allowing unhinged egomaniacs let loose on their stage in order to drum a support for themselves using violence.
Oh, step.
Zelensky burn.
Well, that'll do it for me.
Can't wait for next year's Oscars with a bunch of jackoffs that I'm glad to be rid of celebrate themselves and the movies they made that I did not see because they all look stupid and or boring.
Sayonara, suckers!
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