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March 13, 2024 - Jimmy Dore Show
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So Robert De Niro was out in Los Angeles and did the Bill Maher show.
And he wanted to let you know that he hates Trump again.
Now, the reason why he hates Donald Trump is because Donald Trump is in him.
That's why he's able to play all those characters that he thinks are Trump-like because he's in his shadow.
And so instead of his conscious mind being aware that that's in him, De Niro projects that onto Donald Trump.
Every ugly thing that's inside of his unconscious and his shadow, as Carl Jung would call it, he projects it onto Donald Trump.
And so the people who are the most triggered, I'm not triggered by Donald Trump.
I'm triggered by a system that would elevate Donald Trump, meaning the Clintons.
They're the ones who told him to run for president.
They're the ones who encouraged him.
And the capitalistic media that gave him $2 billion in free media.
$2 billion.
And why?
Well, the president, Les Mundas, the president of CBS said, hey, Donald Trump is good for CBS.
He might be bad for America, but he's good for CBS.
Run, baby, run.
And everybody cheered.
That sums up, by the way, the actual problem is that.
Yes.
There's influencers right now showing off their new Lambo that hate Donald Trump, that don't understand.
That's exactly what it is that Trump does.
Oh, look at my wealth.
So I'm upset at a system that hollows out the middle class, exports our manufacturing base, so we have nothing but service jobs and a shit economy, and then blames people for being desperate enough to vote for a billionaire game show host, real estate agent.
They blame the people.
They blame him.
They don't blame the system that gave us him.
If he's such a maniac, why did NBC give him a TV show for like, what is it, 13, 17 years?
They gave him Emmy nominations.
Every Hollywood star would come and kneel and call him Mr. Donald, Mr. Trump.
He was invited on every Saturday Night Live Edimon.
He guest hosted their show.
But all of a sudden, and before I play this, I'm just going to recommend that Robert De Niro has Martin Scorsese write all of his dialogue from now on.
Not in movies, but in real life.
And you'll find out why.
Bottom line is, it's Biden versus Trump.
We want to live in a world that we want to live and enjoy living in or live in a nightmare.
Vote for Trump and you'll get the nightmare.
Vote for Biden.
So this isn't a nightmare that we're living in right now.
Where senior citizens can only take half their medicine.
People are spending 30 to 50% of their income on rent.
People are living in the streets everywhere.
90% of Americans have medical debt.
Half of America can't afford a $1,000 emergency.
50% of all wage earners earn $30,000 or less.
This is not, this is the great world you're talking about.
Yes.
Somehow a nightmare will come.
GDP is up, Jimmy.
We just went through unbelievable fascism where people were whole 41% of black businesses wiped out because of big pharma fascism and the lockdowns.
Mandated experimental medical treatments.
Somehow it's going to get worse.
The economy, here we go.
He knows about that.
He knows about that.
He knows about that because he had a film festival that talked about vax injuries.
And they made him pull it from his own film festival, even though he knows that there's something to it.
Here we go.
And we'll be back to normalcy.
Be back to normalcy.
Well, he's been president for three years.
I thought we were supposed to be back to normal.
That was the, hey, back to normalcy.
The adults are back in the room.
If by normal, you mean they have to keep our president on a toddler tether harness until they can find someone until they can find someone who doesn't actually shit himself while they're talking.
So, So why is Trump winning?
I mean, the New York Times poll this week came out, and maybe this will change it with the State of the Union during his.
So why is Trump winning?
They're asking the least informed guy in America, next to Chris Cuomo, is Robert De Niro.
I don't know if you remember.
I should have that video.
I don't.
But I showed it to you before.
He was on with Brian Steltler on CNN, and he said, oh, Trump's the worst thing in the world.
I hate him.
He's the worst thing.
And Brian Stelter actually asked a real question.
He goes, what is it specifically about Trump don't you like?
He said, I don't know.
It's just a feeling.
He goes, I just don't like him.
No, you say he has a feeling.
It's just feelings that I have.
His feelings.
His feelings.
Don't want to feel.
Here we go.
But Trump was beating him rather soundly.
It was quite a warning light, 48 to 43, also winning way more among women, women, than he had before, winning outright Latinos.
What do you attribute that to?
He's got more Latino voters voting for him.
He's got women.
What do you say to that?
What do you say?
It's not like, huh, maybe I'm missing something.
Do you think that goes through either of these idiots' heads?
So close to the answer.
So close.
Maybe it's us.
Maybe it's the system that has let these people down.
I don't know.
I just don't.
I don't know.
I think they're all jerks.
I just don't want to feel the way I did.
And many of us don't.
What do you want?
Don't want it to feel the way you did.
Did Donald kill your harvest mood?
He doesn't know.
He just doesn't want to feel the way.
That's amazing to be that impassioned.
Here we go.
And by the way, Bill Maher, it's not Hispanics.
It's Latinx.
Okay.
Come on, Latinos.
Latinx.
So they don't know.
He has no idea.
After the election in 2016, where we couldn't believe that it happened.
The guy is a total monster.
And anybody, I don't understand it.
I guess they.
He just keeps saying, I don't understand it.
I don't get it.
I don't understand.
Why would half the country be okay with this?
Why would the majority of Hispanics be okay with it?
Why would women be okay with this?
I'm not asking.
And I'm going to spend, I'm not going to ask them.
And I'm going to spend zero minutes trying to figure it out.
But I will strongly complain.
So you're saying that Donald Trump is a monster.
You mean a bigger monster than George Bush and Dick Cheney?
A bigger monster than Barack Obama, who kicked 5.1 million families out of their houses during the banking crisis while he made sure the bankers got their bonuses, while he gave us a right-wing health care plan was nothing but a giveaway to big insurance and big pharma.
I don't know.
While he let it play out at Dapple when the protesters were protesting oil pipes underneath their land to pollute their water, when Barack Obama went on to drop more bombs than George W. Bush?
I don't know.
I feel it.
It's just a feeling.
I couldn't.
This is projection.
I couldn't tell you why women would vote for Trump.
Behind that kind of logic, they want to fuck with people, screw them, because they're unhappy about something.
He's such a mean, nasty, hateful person.
And you know what?
So when Joe Biden crushed a railroad strike, that was him doing it with shits and giggles.
It was all about, oh, fairy tales and chocolate chips.
He just means his friends.
What are you talking about?
He's talking about people who knows personally.
You know, the reason why black and brown people are locked up at way higher rates than their population?
You think that's because of Donald Trump?
That's because of Joe Biden.
Who's the bigger monster to black and brown people who are in prisons?
That would be Joe Biden.
Donald Trump actually passed the Step Act, which let a lot of those people out of prison.
So this is just a fiction that Robert De Niro invents because he is Donald Trump, just like Jenk Uger is Donald Trump, just like Keith Oberman is Donald Trump.
They're ego fucking maniacs who project that onto Donald Trump because they can't hate themselves, but they can hate that thing.
In fairness, Trump does seem to know a few more things than De Niro.
He certainly does.
So here we go.
I'd never play him as an actor.
What?
Because I can't see any good in him.
He just played a guy that killed natives with poison.
He's been a guy that slowly poisoned natives to death to steal their oil money.
But I guess there was something good inside that guy.
And El Capone, by the way.
Yeah, he was played by me, so that was good.
Trump will never be played by me, so there's nothing good in him.
Nothing at all.
Nothing redeemable in him.
And we have to.
No Trump coupons.
And whoever the people are who want to vote for him, and they look like intelligent people around there.
For some reason, it can't be.
It cannot be.
If he wins the election, you won't be on the show anymore.
He'll come look.
So if he was, he already won an election and Donald Trump did not go after his people who were his political enemies.
He's going to come after De Niro.
He's going to come after Bill Maher's show on HBO.
He won't be hosting this show.
What do you think is going to happen?
And why didn't Donald Trump do it the first time?
Donald Trump was already president.
He couldn't even get his own vice president to go along with half his shit.
For me, he's serious.
There are things that happen that none of us could imagine.
Why didn't any of those things happen in his first term?
Well, he can't imagine.
None of those things.
The things that none of us can imagine, why didn't they happen in his first term?
What happens in that kind of a dictatorship, which is what he says?
Let's believe it.
I didn't know that.
I thought we had a system called checks and balances.
We have a constitution and we have co-equal branches of government so that you can never have a dictator.
So at any moment, Joe Biden could just declare himself a dictator?
Really?
So Bill Clinton could have declared himself a dictator, but he decided to let himself be impeached anyway, just for kicks.
So Nixon could have just declared himself a dictator, but he let himself get kicked out of office?
These are moronic, fantastical delusions of people who are Donald Trump.
If you're looking at a guy, you want to know who he is in his unconscious, in his shadow.
He is Donald Trump.
He is the thing that he projects onto Donald Trump, just like Keith Oberman, just like Jenk Uger.
The people who are most triggered by him, you can learn a lot about yourself, not only by the things you love, but by the things you hate, because all that stuff is inside you.
And take him at his word.
I did from the beginning.
Yeah.
I mean, I said from the very beginning, this guy is never going to be.
Yeah, you got to take him at his word that he's going to.
He's a liar, and he doesn't tell the truth.
What are you talking about?
But now I take him at his word.
And I always did.
No, you didn't.
Why would you have done that?
Going to concede power.
And he still hasn't.
He said he's not going to concede power.
I didn't know.
Is Donald Trump still president?
Oh, wait.
He walked out of the White House like he was supposed to after he lost the election.
That's what happened.
Donald Trump didn't try to, he didn't order the military down to the Capitol to stop the counting of the ballots or the certification of the election.
He didn't do any of that.
That's why they didn't have a real trial for that.
That's why they didn't.
Congress did for show on TV.
That's why they're not a legal trial.
That's exactly right.
That's why they had the January 6th show trial instead of a real trial where they tried Donald Trump for insurrection.
Why?
Because he didn't do anything.
There wasn't an insurrection.
Oh, maybe he crossed the side.
There was a bunch of unarmed people who showed up at the Capitol to protest, and half of them who went into the Capitol got pushed in by the FBI plants in the crowd, and the other half got let in by the cops who were taking selfies with them and leading them around the Capitol.
So this, you love to hear this.
Oh, he'll never leave office.
He'll never concede power.
He already did.
He already left.
He's not president right now.
I don't know if you noticed.
No.
He still hasn't admitted he lost the last election.
And he advertises that he will go on.
He says he's been cheated out of one term.
So maybe we should get rid of the only president who only gets two terms thing.
He's a sociopathic, psychopathic, malignant narcissist.
That is exactly what Robert De Niro actually happens to be.
Well, if you were smart.
That's exactly what Robert De Niro is, and that's called projection.
And if Trump is such a sociopathic psychopath, then why were the Clintons and him such good friends?
Right.
They were golf buddies.
They all went to each other's, they went to Trump's third and wedding.
Their daughters are best friends.
In fact, the Clintons called up Donald Trump and encouraged him to run for president.
So if he's such a sociopathic, malignant, narcissist, psychopath, why were Bill and Hillary Clinton such buddies with him?
Why did NBC give him a hit television show for over a decade?
Why did the people in Hollywood give him Emmy nominations?
Why did all the stars from Hollywood go and call him Mr. Trump and go on his television show?
Why was he invited on every late night talk show host for my entire lifetime?
Why was he allowed to guest host the SNL on NBC?
If he's such a sociopathic, psychopathic, narcissistic, malignant, you tell me, why were the Clintons such good friends with him?
Why does half the country want to vote for him?
Actually, more than half the country, which is what makes you guys afraid because you know he'll win the election because nobody wants to vote for Demented Weekend at Bernie's.
Yeah.
All those years we were hanging out with Donald Trump, all those 50 years we were hanging out with Donald Trump.
We had no idea he was crazy.
Now we do.
Why?
Because of the way he governed like a regular Republican?
What did Donald Trump do though?
You know what he did do?
He didn't start another war.
Do actors think they're not sociopaths like famous actors?
Like a psychopath is you're born as that.
A sociopath is when you follow certain rules, but just not like, you know, the general rules of society, like a mobster, like the character who play as in Goodfellas.
Joe Pesci was a psychopath.
He and the other guys are sociopaths.
Yeah.
To be an actor, I mean, first of all, Harvey Weinstein, how many of you are giving a kiss, peck on the chest?
That's right.
what are you talking about *laughter* Again, that's pretending that Joe Biden isn't a sociopathic, narcissistic psychopath.
Who would be president who isn't?
How would you ever become president without being that?
I agree with that assessment.
Also, who do you think has a bigger kill list?
Joe Biden or Donald Trump?
Who do you think screwed over workers more?
Joe Biden or Donald Trump?
Who do you think screwed over black and brown people more?
Joe Biden or Donald Trump?
That's quick question, Obama.
The answer to all those questions are Joe Biden.
Who do you think screwed over students?
Joe Biden.
Joe Biden has a 40, 50-year record of screwing over working-class people, screwing over minorities, screwing over students, screwing over the elderly, screwing over everybody.
He has got a track record.
In fact, he's such a sociopathic liar that he wasn't allowed to run for president.
He had to drop out from running for president the first time because he kept caught lying so many times over and over and plagiarizing other politicians' speeches that he got humiliated out of the first time he ran for president.
President.
Good for word.
Thank you.
He is a dangerous person.
Did we have to really, people rely a lot of people in this audience, but the people who somehow think he's going to be the answer to their prayers, whatever those are.
Did you know how to know for you to explode, dude?
I don't know of anybody who thinks Donald Trump is the answer to their prayers.
I certainly don't.
They want to watch him cry.
I think we have, when it comes to Gaza and Israel, we have the option of the lesser of two genociders because they share the exact same policy.
We're going to let Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel do whatever they want.
The only thing is, Donald Trump has pledged to end the war in Ukraine.
Whether he will or not, I don't know.
Hey, why are women voting for him?
All you've told him they don't exist for the last four years.
Women don't, we don't even know what they are.
Yeah, that's how.
How did they ever turn?
Yeah.
Yeah, that's a great point.
Well, we told women that there's no such thing as a woman.
Maybe that's why.
Maybe that's why.
It's like being a citizen, whoever just says it.
As fellow New Yorkers.
I never wanted to know.
Never wanted to know.
You must have crossed.
He's an idiot.
He was a clown.
He was a clown in New York.
What do you mean, clown?
Look at funny like a clown?
Is that what you mean?
He amused you.
This validates my theory that Trump has been enacting biblical level revenge on the ones in high society who treated him like he was Joe Pesci and Goodfellas.
100%.
Obama made a wise crack about, no, I don't think Trump could run.
And Trump was in the audience.
I fully believe Trump took that personally.
And that's why I called from the Clintons.
Hey, you should run.
Probably really got him to run.
Because he's a winner, whether you like him or not, because in his head, he's one of those guys like, I always win.
He went all the way and you didn't think he would.
And now you're upset.
Kind of like COVID.
Joe Biden is to America what Leonardo DiCaprio's character was to Oklahoma.
He was the one who had to do all the actual killing.
That's who Joe Biden is.
Oh, I think they say closeted gay guy.
And by the way, the film Killers of the Harvest Moon was so long, I call it Enter Detainment.
So I think he's got some more stupid shit to say.
By the way, is Robert Ze Niro, is he suffering from lead poisoning?
Because that's what it seems like.
Yeah, paint chips.
Why would New York say, you know, why is Bill Maher asking someone who knows even less than him?
That's really amazing.
Just to keep track of where we're at, Kurt, Bill Maher and Kid Rock both have the same basic understanding of world events.
And both of them are geniuses compared to Robert De Niro.
This makes no sense.
Some would go with him, of course, people who work in what he does, some of them.
But it's just, he's a classic bully.
If you had a schoolyard and he walked in and he had his bully friends around, the other people decide whether they want to oppose him or they want to let him just tell him what to do and own that the schoolyard or the basketball court or whatever it is.
He's got to be stopped.
Wow, he's NATO.
He literally is NATO.
He's NATO.
A bully.
Describe geopolitical events in that movie being there, like that slow guy.
Yes, we just watched that movie.
What Robert Zeniro just described was NATO and the United States military for the last 50 years.
That's great.
That's exactly what he just described.
No one has been honest with Robert De Niro for the last 50 years.
Yeah.
Not one person ever tells him, Robert, come on.
Everyone has sucked up to him for so long that this poor fucker doesn't know anything about anything.
That's what happens.
He's like a really pretty girl, but he's an old man.
Talking to Robert Ze Niro is like talking to my old roommate.
It's like talking to anybody who watches MSNBC and CNN and thinks that they're getting the news from them.
You lived with a very old man.
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We're going to bring in Keaton Weiss and Russell Dobular, the host of Do Dissidence.
That's dissidents with an ENCE on YouTube, Rumble, and Substack.
Please welcome back to the show, Keaton and Russell.
How are you doing?
How are you both doing?
Good.
How are you doing, Jimmy?
I'm doing better.
I was a little depressed last week.
I'm a little less depressed.
I can tell.
So this was on Twitter, this video.
And a lot of people have a lot of funny names for breaking points.
Broken points, breaking joints.
Just those two mostly.
Shitty.
That's another one.
But now I say that they've gone full blown MSNBC.
So before It's the anecdote.
No, they're not.
It's a little shocking.
This clip's a little shocking.
They're the new mainstream.
That was their tag for a while.
And then they realized how stupid that sounded and they stopped.
They used to say, we're the new mainstream.
Yes, Kurt.
I had no idea.
Yes.
And then we made fun of it at this show, and then they stopped saying it.
Right, guys.
Right, guys?
Okay, guys.
So guys, we were guys the other day, watching the guys over at the guys show.
Come on, you guys.
And come on, guys, guys.
And the guys were talking about the guys and the economy guys.
And guys, well, let's listen to the guys say it in their own guys' voice, guys.
It is an incredible tragedy because, you know, before, I was out there saying, listen, it's not just a lesser two evils vote if you look just in antitrust and you look just at labor.
You know, if you look just behind his ear, Chris Christie looks skinny.
If you look just over here.
I mean, he looks fat.
It looks like he's really got his, he's got, he's got abs behind his ear.
But other than that, so she was, so she was saying the only reason not to vote for Joe Biden is because of Gaza.
That's what she's saying right now.
Well, if you just don't look at any other thing.
Yeah.
That affects you on any level.
Watch this.
It is an incredible tragedy because, you know, before, I was out there saying, listen, it's not just a lesser two evils vote if you look just in antitrust and you look just at labor.
Just at wages, like wages now are.
First of all, if you look just at antitrust and labor, okay.
Joe Biden crushed a railroad strike.
I don't know.
That would have set the tenor for the entire country and would have inspired a lot more union activity and workers taking control and the workers rising up and knowing their power.
So that's why Joe Biden and the Democrats and Republicans had to crush that strike.
And they crushed it.
They crushed a union and they crushed a strike.
And what were those people going to go on strike for?
They were going to go on strike because they didn't have sick pays.
The people who run our railroads, the glue that holds capitalism together, they don't take care of those people.
And they were going to go on strike just so they could get sick days.
And they crushed it.
Who did Joe Biden?
By the way, look what they're doing for the people in East Palestine.
Fantastic.
But just getting back to that, they crushed that railroad strike.
The fact that you can overlook that because they made some appointments on the NLRB that are somehow better is an act of deceit.
And that's what she's doing here, right?
And then immediately, Mr. Cut Your Own Hair pivots to somehow wages are much higher.
But I'll start it from the beginning and I won't stop it.
It's a very short clip.
I've already stopped it 14 times.
Here we go.
It is an incredible tragedy because, you know, before, I was out there saying, listen, it's not just a lesser two evils vote.
If you look just at antitrust and you look just at labor, just at wages, like wages now are growing faster than prices, and they have been if you care about checking corporate power, the people he put in place in key, you know, positions have done a great job and they've been aggressive and it's been groundbreaking.
And it's been a real break from the Clinton Obama Democratic Party and obviously wildly better than Trump had a bunch of union busters in at that.
So if you care about checking corporate power, you should vote for Joe Biden, the biggest corporate whore in the history of politics.
You should go, you should, you should vote for Joe Biden.
His words.
If you want to, that was, he taught.
I wish, oh, I don't know.
I have that.
I should have that video here.
So there was a video of him on public television saying, when I started my career, I was ready to prostitute myself to the big money guys.
He sends that.
That's older.
That's a direct quote.
Yep.
And so he went on to do just that.
He's prostituted himself to the credit card industry, to the banking industry, to the prison industrial complex, to the military-industrial complex, to big pharma.
There isn't a to oil.
There isn't a corporate sector in America that Joe Biden hasn't prostituted himself for and then squashed regular workers and seniors and students and black and brown people.
Remember, black and brown people are locked up at much higher rates than their population, not because of Donald Trump, but because of Joe Biden.
So also, why can't students get rid of their debt in bankruptcy court?
Because of Joe Biden, not Donald Trump.
Why can you have 35% interest on your credit cards?
Joe Biden.
So let me play one more clip and then, well, let me bring in Russell and Keaton.
What do you have to say about this?
Well, first, on the railroad strike, the Railway Labor Act allows the government to impose terms on those contracts, which means Joe Biden, if he were a friend to labor, could have imposed terms that labor wanted.
In other words, he could have just given them the six days, but instead he imposed terms that were favorable to management.
Second, the idea that wages are keeping up with prices, if wages are keeping up with prices, and that's a little bit of a vague term, because if you talk about prices in terms of consumer goods, inflation, groceries, you got to figure gas, rent.
If wages are actually keeping up with prices, why is credit card debt so high?
Why is that credit card debt so high?
The reason Biden had to cap late fees at $8 a month as opposed to like $40 a month is because people are late on their credit card payments.
I've been late on many a credit card payment in my day.
I wasn't late on them because I forgot to pay it.
I was late on them because I didn't have the money to keep up with the interest.
So the fact that so many people are late.
It's expensive to be poor.
It's expensive to be poor.
It costs a couple hundred dollars a month in interest alone.
And so the fact that he had to cut the late fee, he's saving people, what, 30 bucks a month in late fees because they're already paying hundreds of dollars a month in interest.
And the reason they are behind on their credit card debt is because it's too expensive to live.
So whatever gains labor has made as a result of these NLRB appointments, which I understand they've made it more difficult for management to post anti-union propaganda as a union vote comes up or something like that.
Whatever gains have been made there have obviously not been anywhere near enough to keep up with the cost of being alive.
I don't know a single person, not one, not a single person who has like the same job now that they had five, six years ago who think it's easier to live now than it was five, six years ago.
Not one.
Not a single one.
It's a little easier for me to live now because I have perfected this right-wing grift called YouTube Podcasting.
So you make a little money on the show now.
But if I was still doing what I did five or six years ago, it would be way harder.
It was until just last year.
It was really hard.
I used to have to get in the car and drive DoorDash, you know, when my wife got home from work to make rent.
Like it's fucking harder now than it was five, six years ago.
So the gaslighting on this is incredible.
Look, if Bidenomics were so great, he wouldn't be polling at 35 to 40%.
His favorability would be higher.
Most people don't think about politics that often.
Most people's politics are: if I'm doing all right, I'll vote for the president.
If I'm not, well, swap him out for someone else.
Like if people felt good about their economic situation, he'd be polling at least in the high 40s, if not the mid-50s.
The reason he's polling 35 to 40% is because for the average person, the economy sucks.
I could not have had a more New York return to New York if I had planned it for a fake reality show.
So I get in a cab with a Lebanese cab driver who immediately starts bitching about everything that's gone wrong in his life under Joe Biden.
Immediately.
Immediately.
I get in the cab.
I didn't open up a conversation.
I didn't ask him any questions.
He just, you know, you got to be making, you got to be making less than not $27,000 to get the healthcare.
You know how much this cost?
He takes out a bottle of pills, $500 a month.
He probably had Ryan Grimm in the cab earlier that day.
And then he started talking about Trump.
He's like, under Trump, things were much better.
People say to me, I don't like Trump.
I say, you're going to have dinner with him?
You are going to meet Donald Trump.
The only thing you're going to meet Joe Biden, it doesn't matter.
You like them, don't like them.
It's policy.
And with Trump, I was much better.
Everything much better.
Money much better.
This guy's from Lebanon.
He's from Lebanon.
He's Arab.
I'm assuming Muslim.
And he was very much feeling like under Joe Biden, my life has been destroyed.
I'm not making the money I did under Donald Trump.
I don't know what his status was.
He was legal in the country, but I'm not sure if he's a citizen allowed to vote.
But that guy would definitely have voted for Trump.
So he's what he talks.
Yeah.
So you talk to the average working person.
That's what I hear everywhere.
You talk to those people.
They are not for Joe Biden.
The only people I hear who are for Joe Biden are people who were doing well before Biden, and they'll be doing well after Biden.
So this, I mean, if they're not getting, if these people aren't getting money from some kind of DNC donor to do the kind of coverage they're doing, along with Kyle Kalinsky, I'll eat my fedora because, and I'm sure they've gotten some kind of special algorithm treatment also.
Just so, but the point is, she's a 40 millionaire, right?
Or she was worth $40 million before she divorced her husband.
And so now she's, I don't know, whether she worth $20 million, right?
She found gold called Kyle Kalinsky.
And this guy used to take a check from at least three billionaires.
Now I think it might be down to two or one.
And he gets hundreds and hundreds of thousands of dollars to say garbage like this in favor of the Democratic Party and the establishment, which is why he'll never tell you the truth about Russia Gate or the Syrian war or what's going on in Ukraine.
You know, they're all, and while he'll tell you garbage like this about Joe Biden.
And he lied about a healthcare activist.
That's what, remember that he lied about healthcare activists several times, not only about forced a vote, and he defended politicians.
That's what this show is officially MSNBC.
It's like they're constantly auditioning to be on MSNBC.
It's like they're little Medi Hassans now at this show.
They're not little, by the way.
They're gigantic.
And they're all trying to get spot on MSNBC.
That's what this seems like to me.
And why else would you say these things?
Crystal Ball, I can point to you saying the exact opposite of all this stuff before.
But go ahead.
You want to say something, Russell?
Well, I think this is something that is becoming increasingly clear.
The logic in the kind of alternative media space, I think a lot of consumers of alternative media have always assumed that these people made a sacrifice by going into alternative media, that it was a principled decision not to go the corporate media route.
And really, if you understand the business, in actuality, that was their main chance because that's a very crowded space trying to climb the corporate ladder at MSNBC.
To go and place yourself nominally to the left, well, that opens up a whole new market for you, and you can bypass that corporate ladder.
It's being an entrepreneur.
It's being a media entrepreneur.
You're going to hang out your shingle and start your own shop like they did with Breaking Points or with Ryan Grimm.
You build up your profile by being this pseudo-alternative journalist, but being paid by these billionaires who are funding you.
And it allows you to bypass that very, very crowded corporate media space.
But in the end, their hearts are in corporate media.
If MSNBC didn't fire her, Crystal would be, you know, gladly taking over the Madhouse slot.
And I'll tell you one more thing about Ryan Grimm is that he lied about the railroad strike that I'm talking about.
He did.
He lied to defend Joe Biden and the Democrats and the squad and the squad.
And specifically because he happened was, if I could just interject, because he cited the same railroad worker who, oddly enough, we had interviewed right as that was all going down.
His name is Devin Nance.
Nice guy.
But Devin Nance was under the opinion that the squad had tried to help him out by passing either the amendment to the bill or a separate bill.
I forget the exact details.
But Ryan Grimm made it sound like the squad did what the railroad workers wanted them to do by passing two versions of the TA, which was the good version and the bad version, just like they did with the Build Back Better.
They passed the Build Back Better bill alongside the shitty bill, knowing that the shitty bill would pass and the good bill would fail.
And Ryan Grimm made it sound like the squad was going to bat for the railroad workers for passing both of those side by side.
He made it sound like the railroad workers asked them to do that.
Well, what Devin Nance told us on our show is that it was Corey Bush's office that called him and said, we have good news.
We're going to pass the sick day version of this alongside the non-sick day version of this.
And so they called him and he said, I guess, okay, give it a shot because it was the best shot that they had since they knew they were going to get crushed anyway.
But Ryan Grimm made it sound like he asked the squad to do that.
In reality, what Devin told us is that the squad called him and ran that idea past him because the squad needed to make it look like they were doing something for him.
And he fell for it Because I guess he's too nice a guy to be in politics.
That's why he works the railroads.
But it was not as Ryan Grimm said it was.
It was the complete opposite.
And it led Shama Sawant to say to Ryan Grimm, What in the actual fuck are you talking about when he said that they were the squad was doing the bidding of the railroad workers?
She said, What in the actual fuck are you talking about?
That's a real worker's advocate, Shama Sawan.
There's one more piece of video here I want to play you.
Let's watch this.
Higher legacy of economic populism, which, as Kyle was saying, like before, you know, before the speech, he would be defending.
I would be defending, you know, there, there's so much that you can say about it.
The fact that prices jumped and are still high, and rent is still a huge problem, is itself kind of a cloud over everything else that he's done.
But everything else he's done is not nothing.
Like low unemployment rate, labor militancy, cash in people's pockets.
Like the economy overall, the last like three years as a result of cash in people's pockets.
Pushing for years.
Wow.
Just run up credit cards for fun.
Okay, go ahead.
They don't run up credit card debt for fun.
The reason why we, sorry, go ahead.
Not one of us could stop, wait for the end of the clip to start talking.
Each one of us said something.
Well, first we started laughing and mockery.
So go ahead, Keaton.
Go ahead.
What do you want to say about that?
Well, the cash in people's pockets.
Why is credit card debt so high if people have cash in their pockets?
I mean, it's, I mean, it's just ludicrous.
I just went to the grocery store.
I just got back.
I bought a couple boxes of cereal, some sugar, some eggs.
$75.
$75, man.
Remember how prices were temporarily up because of supply chain?
Remember that?
Snags and they were going to come back down.
They never came back down and they never will come back down.
But nobody's buying this, even on Twitter.
Literally everyone I talk to say that it's impossible to find work right now.
What the F are they talking about?
What planet do these space cadets come from?
They're so obviously in a rich bubble because groceries alone are outrageous.
Cash in people's pockets, LOL.
Who are these people?
Entitled white people in their ivory towers, nothing new.
Here's one more.
How do these people have extra cash in their pockets when household debt is at an all-time high?
They leave out so much on purpose.
And let me show you something about the unemployment rate is garbage.
You can't believe the unemployment rate because it's coming from the establishment that changed the way they count unemployment in about since the 1980s.
They don't count it the same way they used to.
So, for instance, if I have to work three jobs, whereas 20 years ago, I had to work one job, they count that as two extra jobs in the economy.
Uniquely American.
So instead of doing it by house, there's a household survey.
So if you call, that's they don't use that.
The household surveys, you call households, how many people are working, how many people aren't.
They count the number of jobs employed, which again is a way to count them that favors the establishment.
And I remember I had on two people talking about economics just a month ago on my show, and we were talking about the real unemployment rate.
So if you see this blue line here, that's what the unemployment rate would be if they counted it the way it used to be.
This is where it is now.
The red line is where it is now because that's how they count it now.
And let's listen to a little bit of that.
That's the one they're putting to you today.
So this is the one they report in the news, the government reports.
And then the news said, look, what a great job we're doing.
Unemployment is down.
It's only by this, it's under 3%.
It peaked at 15%, but now it's down here, but it's actually really here.
So I remember during the Great Depression, they said the unemployment during the Great Depression was 25%.
So that's actually what we're experiencing right now if they counted it the way they did in 1980, but they don't.
So now they're saying, because I always think like there's no way there's only 3% unemployment, right?
Yeah.
And can I kick in just this one?
And so, and so I'm not saying it is 25%.
I'm saying it's way higher than the 3%.
It's somewhere in between there and 25%.
Okay.
It is not 3%.
So the way they're counting it is bullshit.
And what is this?
What is this?
Oh, and every time they give the job figures, they have to then revise.
So they come out with the headline.
The headline is, oh, we have 500,000 new jobs.
Then they have to scale that back.
Well, the headline always gets reported, but the scaling back doesn't, right?
So here we are, January 2023, initial reading, 517,000 new jobs.
Then they had to revise it down to 504.
Then they revise it down to 472.
Most recently, in January of 2024, it was 353,000 jobs.
Then it went down to 229,000 jobs, a difference of 124,000 jobs.
Oh, we just, ah.
Did people quit one of their three jobs?
So, and they also cashed in.
So it's a lot more part-time jobs, right?
And so they're getting rid of good full-time jobs to part-time jobs.
That's also, they count that as not unemployed.
There's all kinds of crazy shit the way they count the unemployment rate, which is why you can't, you can't rely on that, which they do.
They tout all that stuff non-skeptically, uncritically.
They repeat all those stupid.
They're getting talking points from the Democratic Party and the Center for American Progress.
That's where their information is coming from.
Go ahead.
Do you want to say add anything to this?
Well, then you also have to think about like, I don't know how they would count gig work, you know, like people who drive Uber and Lyft because they're not employees.
They're independent contractors.
So depending on how many hours they drive, how do you register that?
But the bottom line is, as someone who always worked for pretty close to the minimum wage, until we started getting YouTube super chats, I always earned pretty close to minimum wage.
And I always thought that for that reason, the unemployment rate was kind of a meaningless stat because the bottom line is, how much do the jobs pay?
Like if the wages suck, who cares what the unemployment rate is?
And the wages do suck, especially now compared to the cost of living.
Like I said, if they were actually keeping up with cost of living, why are people living so close to the wall to the point where credit card debt is up, homeowner debt up?
It's almost impossible to buy a car now.
I mean, cars are just absolutely through the roof because the interest rates.
And so like, even if unemployment is low, bottom line is the bottom line.
Like, the bottom line is the bottom line.
You have to factor everything in.
It's not about what the NLRB board says that, you know, FedEx can or cannot post above the urinal.
You know, do you need to join a union, you know, whatever.
Like, the bottom line is when you put everything together, it's harder to live now.
Obviously, if it weren't harder to live now, Joe Biden would not be losing in every poll to Donald Trump.
In a good economy, the president wins.
So, why is the president losing so much?
Racism.
It's because the economy sucks.
And just watching people who built their career.
Look, Crystal, and I think a lot of people did.
I don't know about y'all.
I thought she used to do really good work.
So, I don't know why there's definitely been a pivot.
She didn't always talk this way.
She used to, you know, put together some pretty solid.
She could both sides.
She could do good attacks.
She could tell the truth.
And then she also did the ball.
You know, she both sided Russia Gate.
She did.
She did.
Yes, she did.
And she, so she would say, she would say things that were useful.
But this, this, I mean, coming out, I'm a little shocked, honestly, because so what's your business model here?
Because that's what they seem to be concerned about.
Investment.
They talk about their business and they have a small business.
Okay, so if you're just going to be MSNBC light, I mean, that's a crowded space.
You got, you got the majority report doing that.
You got TYT doing that.
Why do people need to hear that?
You got David Ass Pac-Man doing that?
You got Pac-Man.
You have Bosch, although he's in a little trouble.
Horse Lord?
It's because they're more palatable than TYT or the Horse Lord or any other people.
So a private investor looking to invest in entrepreneurs, you called it, they're going to go to them.
You can tell when they switch from what the consumer would like reflects to like, no, you guys are wrong.
It turns out the people in charge were right.
You're being an idiot.
Yeah.
You have to tell you that.
But you know what it is.
Capital investment from someone rich.
Yeah, if you're trying to appeal to people, that pivot doesn't make any sense.
If you're looking to get some of that Katzenberg money, then sure.
And of course, they say, oh, it would have been great.
I love Joe Biden, except for Gaza, which makes them look like they have integrity.
But they completely leave out Ukraine because they don't have a critique of U-Tank because they went right along with it.
They're all for Joe Biden sending arms and missiles and money to Ukraine to fight Putin, even though they all know in their heart that that's bullshit and wrong.
Kyle Kalinsky spent five years debunking Russia Gate, and then he goes right along with the result of Russia Gate, which is a war in Ukraine is a proxy war with Russia.
So he knows better than that.
These people are on the take somewhere because they're not stupid.
These are dishonest.
These people are dishonest actors.
They're doing it.
These are dishonest actors.
Absolutely.
We did, you know, I mean, it's trivial now.
I notice none of them.
And correct me if I'm wrong, Keith, and you keep a closer eye than I do.
They basically ignored Marianne re-entering the race, right?
Oh, I don't know.
I don't know.
I think Kyle did something saying it was a bad idea.
Did he really?
Yeah, that's that's that's the save yourself mode of journalism.
Yeah, they've had it with her.
But yeah, I did a whole video breaking down Kyle lying to his audience about Mary Ann.
Clearly lying, like no interpretation involved.
He was breaking down an article, telling his audience it said one thing, it said another.
And to that end, unlike what you're doing right now as we speak, or anytime you show an article or talk about an article, you throw it on the screen.
You always throw it on the screen.
He didn't throw it on the screen because the text contradicted what he was telling his audience they were saying.
So at that point, you are comfortable literally, literally, just going on air and lying to your audience.
I just don't really understand why because you lose audience that way.
I mean, people don't want to watch you unless you're trying to get, like Kurt said.
That's exactly right.
That's exactly.
That's it.
And they're on the take in some ways.
They don't have to be told.
They're auditioning for all the time.
They're showing class and demonstrating they're worth it for potential new investors.
So the skill is, how can I lie without seeming like a complete piece of shit like the MSNBC people?
Yeah.
Where like maybe someone, a rich guy is like, oh, yeah, the peasants will believe that.
And you don't have to be told, like Johnson said, they don't have to be told.
They'd have to be told.
They don't know what to do.
They know what to do.
They have to maintain a relationship with power.
Public power.
And Kyle Kalinske flat out lied not only about that article, but Kyle Kalinsky flat out lied about what the definition of the word corruption was.
He told people, you just can't invent your own meanings.
Well, I showed the goddamn definition of it, and he's never spoken about that since because it outed him as a baldface liar.
He was doing that and to protect the, he was saying that there's no way that the squad was corrupt.
He went from criticizing them over forced to vote to boom, defending them with bullshit definitions of words.
He was like a big pharma redefining what vaccine meant.
He tried to redefine what corruption meant.
And we all know what corruption meant, but he tried to redefine it in a way that didn't include the squad.
And I called him out on it.
And he's never brought that up again.
So anyway, and his children.
He didn't say Dickie McGeezak's about it.
And his channel went from dead for two years after he lied about me and that sexual harassment me too, after he lied about me and he got ratioed on two videos in a row.
His channel went dead.
Nobody watched this.
Still, almost nobody watches the show, but he couldn't gain one subscriber.
And now all of a sudden, he's gaining 30,000 subscribers a month.
How does he doing that off the shit views he's getting?
And it's because somewhere along the line, they found a DNC donor who's in with Google and YouTube, and they got something to get on that corporate algorithm.
Because you and I both know that for every three subscribers you get, they unsubscribe two people.
That's what they do to people in the independent news space to keep us suppressed, right?
And so that doesn't happen to the young Turks.
That doesn't happen to people who are in with DNC donors, and it's no longer happening to Kyle Kalinsky.
So they made some deal.
There's no way these are bad faith, bald-faced liars that we've caught Kyle Kalinsky lying repeatedly.
These are bad faith actors, and so they're obviously on the take and they're saying things that they don't believe.
How can you go from debunking Russia Gate for four straight years to then going along with the Coleman issue?
And he will say also that Russia Gate is going to lead to a war with Russia.
It definitely did.
And then he was on board for the war with Russia.
So Adam Schiff won the primary to be.
So in California, they do it differently.
Republicans and Democrats all run in the same primary.
This is true.
And so now it's going to be Steve Garvey, who is the ex-LA Dodger and Padre first baseman.
He's going to be going against Adam Schiff.
Adam Schiff tries to give a victory speech, and he gets interrupted several times by people.
What?
People upset that he's funding a genocide in Gaza.
Let's watch.
What is that?
I. Oh.
I. I want to thank you all.
Thank you.
It's good.
Together!
Boy, here we see Adam Schiff's re-election event.
And boy, are they celebrating?
That's right.
Those inconsiderate protesters and their concerns for Palestinian children.
How dare you interrupt a speech that Adam Schiff wrote months ago?
It's almost like his victory was guaranteed.
Don't bring your purity test, basic human conscience bullshit in here.
This is a victory party.
This is how we celebrate a guy who's not thinking for himself and doing the bidding of his donors.
This is about Adam Schiff.
It's not about politics.
And it's not about religion.
It's about one guy, and it's all just be about him, you selfish motherfuckers.
I mean, did they expect better from Adam Schiff?
Let's want to watch the rest of it.
Let's watch the rest of it.
Someone came up and said to Adam Schiff, who was reading off a prompture, who was trying to stick to the prompter to wrap it up, he went and finished it up.
These were people who came in about five or six to start with and said, ceasefire now, ceasefire now.
Security ushered them out.
And then another couple popped up, let Gaza live, let Gaza live.
And then some more came in the middle.
The security could not get them out, that they were scattered through the world here at the Avalon Theater and the nightclub.
Look at this guy.
And you see that it looks like Larry Melvin is upset at the people, and they're holding up those Palestinian scarfs.
What are they called?
I don't know.
I don't know.
There's a name for them.
Yeah.
Somebody in the chat tell me.
A lot of disagreement.
Again, they were chanting, "Free Gaza now, let Gaza live, cease fire now, let Gaza live." And the protesters remained here in the center of this forum.
So what was supposed to be a victory celebration and a scripted speech that Adam Schiff was reading off prompter, one no doubt he had carefully cracked him a long time ago, was cut dramatically short, and he was now taken off the stage.
Kafiya.
It's called the Kafiya.
Doesn't he have the most, I call it a terrorist scarf.
Kafiya.
Doesn't Schiff have the most lollipop-esque head that you've ever seen on a human man?
The biggest conspiracy theorist ever in my lifetime is Adam Schiff.
The guy who said he had secret, he just like McCarthy.
I have seen secret information that ties Trump to Russia.
I can't give it to you now.
It's classified.
Did he remember that?
Never showed it to us.
That's exactly what McCarthy said.
So I like that there were several groups of people.
So once they got one group out, another one started.
Once they got that group out, and so he had to just stop his speech.
He has the most like rich dickhead.
Did he always have this?
Like, well, if we don't fight them here, so we don't fight them there.
Look at his stupid head, dude.
He kind of reminds me of Kiff the Alien from Futurama.
They called me a couple of years ago to do a fundraiser for Adam Schrödinger.
I remember.
I was just thinking about that.
Did I know you then when they called me?
You mentioned it way back when I first came on.
And I thought you said you did want to.
They go, Paul Reiser's going to be there.
That's how they tried to entice me.
Because he's still going to be there.
They go, Paul Reiser is going to be there.
And I was like, you know what?
I should have did.
I should have went.
Yes, and ruined it.
And ruined it.
And ruined it.
So here.
Michael Tracy says it's so repulsive that Adam Schiff is the likely next senator of California.
Prove positive that the best way to advance in California Democratic politics is to be a lying scum.
Yeah, it's California.
What did you think it was?
I don't know.
Why you got to use the term scumbag?
I'm literally triggered now and I'm figuratively shaking.
I'm trinkled.
That's the Keith Oberman one where you cried Pizz.
So this reminds me of this.
Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed by the masses.
Okay.
So Plato said that, but here's the one that applies here more.
The prisoner grows to love his chains.
So that's why Californians voted for Adam Schiff, because the prisoner grows to love his chains.
That's all this is.
Adam Schiff isn't going to advocate for you.
He's going to advocate for the military industrial complex and Wall Street and big pharma and big oil.
And that's that.
He's not advocating for you.
Does he care about you?
But he does hate Trump because his donors hate him.
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