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April 19, 2024 - Jimmy Dore Show
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Come see us on tour.
Hey, this is Jimmy.
Who's this?
Oh, Jimmy, you're back.
Oh, this is Joe Biden.
I missed you, buddy.
I missed you so much.
Yeah, well, we're back.
And that's great news.
Great news, man.
I'm so happy.
I missed you so much.
All right, let's not get mushy.
I know, I know.
I just wish I could nuzzle your hair right now.
All right.
That's what he does.
I'll tell you what, I'm getting sick and tired of all this crap.
He's looking to see him alluring though.
Like, what kind of crap?
Israel.
Israel's wild and out, man.
Yeah.
Acting the fool.
They're trying to drag us into it.
Jimmy, get this.
They want us to go to war with Iran with them.
Are you gonna go?
Hell no.
That's World War III right there.
That's how it begins.
Yep.
I may be senile, but I'm not retarded.
I don't think you can say that word, Mr. President.
Fine.
I have dementia.
Whatever.
The point is, I let Netanyahu know that we will help defend Israel, but if he wants to invade Iran, he's on his own.
How did he take it?
He didn't take that at all.
He's as stubborn as a mule, that one.
He thinks he's an absolute ruler in Israel and somehow in charge of the U.S. government, too.
It's really annoying.
I would imagine so.
Hey, actually, hold on.
I'm getting another call here.
Hey, this is Jimmy Dor.
Jimmy Dore speaking.
Jimmy.
Bibi.
Hello, Mr. Netanyahu.
Oh, for Christ's sake.
May I please speak to President Joe Biden?
I'm right here, Benjamin.
What do you want now?
You know what I want.
Yeah, well, you can't have it.
Launch your own stupid invasion of Iran.
All I want is a timeline.
That's all.
Timeline for what?
For our joint invasion of Iran.
Because you and I both know that is going to happen.
It is inevitable.
I told you no.
Do you not fucking listen, man?
What the fuck is the matter with you?
Okay, gentlemen, let's be civil here.
Mr. Netanyahu, in all fairness, I think President Biden has made it very clear that he does not want to invade Iran with you.
I don't think Joe really knows what he wants.
I don't think he's ever been honest with himself.
Enough with his condescending shit.
But I know him well enough to know that at the end of the day, he will always do the right thing.
And starting World War III is the right thing to do.
No, I don't.
I don't think it is.
Jimmy, you either stand with Israel or you stand against Israel.
Don't try that shit on us.
We're Americans.
We literally invented that shit.
Yes, Israel is our ally, but there's a little thing called the rest of the world that we need to think about.
Why do you care so much about the rest of the world?
We're part of the rest of the world.
Joe, do you realize how anti-Semitic you sound right now?
Oh, don't give me that.
All right.
Usually that works and people backpedal.
But it's time to talk tough.
Enough playing around.
I want to invade Iran, and I can't do it without the United States, so you have to do it.
You're our ally.
You have no choice.
Mr. Netanyahu, do you realize what you sound like an unhinged madman right now?
Silence!
World leaders are talking.
Joe, do you realize that the last time Israel started a regional conflict and America just sat by, we fired on the USS Liberty, killing 34 Americans?
I thought that was an accident.
Oh, okay.
Sure, it was an accident, of course.
Just like firing on aid workers four times was an accident.
Our military makes mistakes all the time.
Lots of accidents.
We have very clumsy armed forces.
Our commander-in-chief is Mr. Beans.
All right.
Okay.
Message received.
I'll think about it.
Mr. No, Mr. President, don't think about it.
It's a foreign leader, and he just threatened you and the United States live on my show.
Yeah, but it's BB.
It's different.
Oh, man.
What am I supposed to do here?
Part of me feels like agreeing to evade Iran just so I don't have to deal with the headache and awkwardness of not invading.
It's like staying in a bad relationship just because you don't want to go through a breakup.
Oh, this is not good.
That's not a good reason for World War III, sir.
Yes, it is.
Be quiet.
I gotta go, man.
I can't take this shit anymore.
BB, quit calling me.
You have your answer.
Now go discuss it with your therapist or whatever it takes for you to process, but leave me alone.
Joe, don't do this to me.
We were going to be allies forever, remember?
You know what we have is real.
Okay, this is making me sick.
We got to move on.
I'm going to hang up on the two of you warmongers right now.
Goodbye, okay?
Okay, bye.
Wait, how about the friends with benefits type thing?
Okay.
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Comedium speeds and jumps the medium and hits him head on.
It's the chimney tour show.
This is a story from a week ago, but there's an update on it.
So there's this guy over at the uh from NPR, and he's worked there forever.
And he wrote this.
he wrote this article at Barry Weiss's Substack about how effed up the NPR is.
And the headline here is: NPR journalists blows whistle on networks' obsession with DEI and progressive dictates.
That's how they speak.
Diktats.
What's a diktat?
I thought, is that a tattoo you get on your anyway?
And reveals how stories like Hunter Biden left.
So here's, let's get into it.
Wait a minute.
So a veteran NPR editor has blown the whistle on how the publicly funded broadcaster has become an activist organization obsessed with pushing progressive ideals.
Uri Berliner, boy, oh boy.
That's quite a name, huh?
Boy, a business editor at NPR for 25 years has offered a glimpse into his belief that NPR has gone from a respected information source to one that can't be trusted to honestly cover the news.
I don't know if you listen to NPR.
It is horrible to conservatives, it's horrible to the left if you're an actual lefty on social.
It's paid programming from a establishment liberal claptrap.
Yeah, right.
And I don't consider liberals left.
Just so you know, liberals are authoritarians and there's very things they're corporatists and they're pro-war.
There's very busy fascism on every level.
So they're pretty super government.
I would say.
So he says NPR editors were quick to jump on claims that Donald Trump was a Russian asset.
They did.
They pushed Russia Gate.
I'm sure they still do.
But far more reticent to cover their subsequent debunking.
Yeah, I know that.
Yeah.
They didn't cover the debunking.
Very few places did.
It was, by the way, we were the first to debunk that story, RussiaGate.
We were the first ones to debunk it here at the Jimmy Dore show.
Okay.
We had Bill Binney on to let you know that there was no way Russia hacked into the DNC server.
That was all garbage.
We did that here, right?
Does the Washington Post give me credit for it?
No, the WikiLeaks still calls me a crazy conspiracy story.
Well, I choose to forget about the whole episode and move on to the next thing I'm upset about, which is still Trump.
Yeah, still Trump.
It was a similar story with the COVID lab leak theory.
Yep, that's right, which NPR continued to discredit.
Continues, as in right now.
Oh, continues.
It still does.
As well as Hunter Biden and masking, which bosses declined to cover, Berliner says.
Today, those who listen to NPR or read its coverage online find something different.
The distilled worldview of very small segment of the U.S. population, Berliner writes.
He tracks the last days of the old NPR to 2011, when he says it still had a leftist tilt, but still bore a resemblance to America at large and an audience that described themselves as 26% conservative, 23% moderate, and 37% liberal.
I remember that.
They were always kind of left, but it wasn't like how in the paper you used to say paid advertisement.
You would get like the onion back in the day, and somebody would pay for ad space and try to pretend they have an article in it.
Yeah, yes.
And they would put paid advertisement all around.
They're like, this is not ours.
There's no such thing as anymore.
No.
Now they don't have to put paid advertisement and it's whatever the billionaire that paid them wants it to be.
Berliner explained that the Trump's 2016 candidacy for presidency changed how NPR covered politics, writing, what began as tough, straightforward coverage of a belligerent truth-impaired president veered towards efforts to damage or topple Trump's presidency.
NPR, Berliner writes, became obsessed with rumors about Trump colluding with Russia to defeat Hillary Clinton, repeatedly covering Representative Adam Schiff as he led the fight against Trump.
Schiff, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, was interviewed by NPR as many as 25 times about Trump and Russia, says Berliner.
According to Berliner, Schiff would often allude to alleged evidence.
Oh, it's not according to Berliner.
He would always go, I have secret evidence.
He would do like what McCarthy did.
I have the secret list.
I can't share it with you.
That's what Schiff was.
He was the classic at that.
And he said he had evidence that he had seen with his eyes that would, but we've never seen that evidence.
He purses his lips together and wiggles balloons.
Yes.
According to, yeah, Schiff would often allude.
However, when special counsel Robert Moeller's report found no credible evidence of collusion between Trump and Russia, RussiaGate quietly faded for our programming from our programming.
It's bad to blow a big story.
What's worse is to pretend it never happened, to move on with no maya couples.
That's exactly what happened with RussiaGate.
That's what happened with COVID.
That's what's going to happen with the Ukrainian people.
That's how we left Afghanistan.
That's how we left the government.
They're never going to tell you the truth about Ukraine, by the way.
They're never going to tell you the truth.
We lost two wars and it doesn't even come up no more.
And if you bring it up, nobody remembers.
Nobody even knows why.
Why would they admit wrongdoing if two disaster satanic wars failed in a row in 2019?
It's 20 years.
A 20-year discussion.
I remember Vietnam, they couldn't stop talking about Vietnam until about five minutes ago.
Yeah, fixed that problem.
But yeah, now they never talk.
Well, they got the media consolidated down to just six companies owned by a handful of billionaires.
So now you don't have to talk about Vietnam.
You don't have to talk about our modern-day Vietnam, which was Afghanistan, which was Iraq, which was Libya, Syria, now Ukraine.
But communism has never worked, Jimmy, except in Vietnam, and they beat us.
Yes, that's right.
Berliner also slams NPR for ignoring the New York Post report on Hunter Biden's abandoned laptop and its sorted contents in October of 2020 as the presidential election approached.
The journalist cites NPR's former managing editor for news, Terrence Samuels, who explained the decision by saying, quote, we don't want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories.
And we don't want to waste the listeners and readers' time on stories that are just pure distractions.
Okay, that's as good.
So if you're that bad at journalism, you get a good job at NPR.
As Berlinder writes, we now know that the laptop did belong to Hunter Biden and the device revealed concerns about influence peddling by the president's son.
Yet Berliner recalls hearing a colleague say, it was good that we weren't following the laptop story because it could help Trump.
Yeah, let me guess they're a millennial age.
And that's happened to a lot of, and that's what people got mad at me.
My old, what?
Oh, I don't know where.
Oh, okay.
Yeah, that's all.
That's all when millennials came that when they rose up through the blogging ranks into huff your huffpose and daily beasts, then they moved on into real news, and that's how they all think, like that.
It don't matter if it's true, it might help the bad guy.
That's well, that's what I got in a lot of my ex people who pretended to be my friend in Hollywood in comedy, they did the same thing.
So when I wouldn't stop telling people that Hillary Clinton was a warmonger and an enemy of workers, and she cheated Bernie Sanders in the primary, they got mad at me.
Yeah, right.
They're like, you're helping Trump.
That really, that was it.
Yeah.
They would throw themselves in the volcano if it gets updroped.
It really goes like what cows you knew.
And look at Joe Biden.
I mean, look, look, so this, so everything's going, and they're the ones who pretend that everything's going great under Joe Biden.
They know he's CNIL too.
They're just like.
It's not that even thought of being CNIL.
It's just about look at the world around you, right?
He's funding a genocide.
He's trying to start World War III with our nuclear power in Russia.
And that's a bullshit war, just as bullshit as Iraq was, just as bullshit as Afghanistan was, just as bullshit as Libya and Syria were.
But they're all too stupid to actually get informed and know that those are bullshit wars.
If it were sports and we're talking about just the moral record, they'd put it together.
They would put it together.
This one, no, we start over with a clean slate after every new fresh defeat.
So he says he heard a colleague said it was good that we weren't helping the laptop story because it could help Trump.
NPR also refused to fully report on the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic, with editors deeming the lab league theory racist or right-wing conspiracy theories.
Of course.
Berliner writes, we became fervent members of Team Natural Origin, even declaring that the lab leak had been debunked by scientists.
Really?
What scientists?
Some experts say.
Yeah.
But think about it.
If you're an operative for some alphabet agency and you need to see which publicly funded institutions might need your positive influence to keep a lid on things, do you really think they would miss NPR?
Right?
They'll be the first one.
Okay.
It's already got three letters, so they're halfway there.
They don't even have to fill anybody in.
These are ding bat Brooklyn progressives that are just going to programmable life forms is what they are.
And they're just going to say the thing, just like Dachomsky.
They don't got to be told.
They just instinctively know to circle their wagons around establishment.
Brooklyn, the theater in Brooklyn, won't even return our emails anymore that we played.
We sold that place out three or four times.
And the one guy who was the manager there said, hey, could you sign a book for my dad?
He's a big fan of yours.
They won't have me back.
They won't even admit they know me anymore.
That's how bad Brooklyn is.
Yeah, they're getting big trouble for having you.
That's right.
No, I don't.
No.
Really fucked Brooklyn.
I remember the things that protect Brooklyn.
It was like AKR, these shirts people were wearing.
Oh, yeah.
Defend Brooklyn.
He said, attack Brooklyn.
That's my motto.
By the way, I think Brooklyn's highly overrated.
I mean, this has a place to live.
It's not half as walkable as Manhattan.
It depends where you are.
It was certain to friendly.
It does depend.
It does depend where you are.
Berliner mentions a colleague who compared the lab league theory to the Bush administration's unfounded argument the Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction.
But these two events were not even remotely related.
Again, politics were blotting out the curiosity and independence that ought to have been driving our work, Berliner says, of the comparison.
Again, I hate that people call NPR left-wing.
It's liberal.
And it's much less progressive.
It's like calling Ted Nugent a hippie because he's got long hair.
Okay.
Look, the eagle has two wings controlled by the brain of the eagle at the top.
Berliner puts much of the blame for NPR's shift to the ultra-left on former CEO John Lansing, who he says became a more visible figure after the 2020 killing of George Floyd by a police officer.
The journalist explains Floyd's murder, captured on video, changed both the conversation and the daily operations at NP, excuse me, at NPR.
Instead of exploring the question of systemic racism in America, Berliner writes that the message from the top was clear.
America's infestation with systemic racism was declared loud and clear.
It was a given.
Our mission was to change it.
Lansing then reported, reportedly declared that diversity would now be NPR's North Star.
Diversity would be not news.
Not North Star?
Not truth.
Not journalism, but diversity would be NPR's North Star, an initiative bolstered by a $1 million grant from the NPR Foundation.
Oh, it's hey, truth is downstream from diversity, Jimmy.
That's what we used to say at the old Do Better Center.
That is exactly.
Wow.
Notice that none of these things are initiated because it would be the right thing to do, but only because of how it would appear.
Oh, grow up.
These people are so shallow.
If they were a whiskey bottle, there wouldn't be enough to drown a rumor.
Journalists would now be required to ask everyone they interviewed about their race, gender, and ethnicity before entering their answers into a centralized tracking system.
You're joking.
No.
Why are we just now hearing about this from these punk-ass journalists?
Just now?
Just now, he says a growing DEI staff offered regular meetings imploring us to start talking about race.
Everybody that kept their job through that, you deserve all this.
You didn't say nothing.
You just said that.
Well, he is.
Well, there's a story.
Well, spoiler alert, he got fired for this.
Well, good.
I like him though.
Monthly segregated dialogues were offered for women of color and men of color.
Non-binary people of color were included too.
I don't know two for each binary.
They're just trying to make what sells over there at NPR.
If this was 1980, everyone would have to wear a cowboy hat like Don Imus and go live out of Mickey Gillies.
It doesn't sell.
But here's the thing.
It doesn't sell.
Imus did sell to him.
This is someone paying them to do it, and everyone hates it.
That's right.
Unless they're a moral cow.
Of course, NPR is infiltrated with the, I mean, as all newsrooms are with the intelligence community, right?
And so that's what the intelligence community doesn't work for the president.
The intelligence community, the FBI and CIA doesn't work for the president, and they don't certainly don't work for citizens.
So who do they work for?
They work for the international billionaire class that runs everything.
The same, right?
And there's a lot of people who still think it's a joke that the CIA had something to do with Kennedy's assassination or if they had something to do, or the or DARPA had something to do with the COVID.
They were funding.
They were funding the research at the Wuhan lab.
It's funny the way that the people.
At this point, there's only deliberately, I don't want to know anything.
Yes.
And then the only people that don't know that they deliberately made a choice to not know anything.
It's been too long and it's too absurd now to not notice.
So they're making a conscious decision to not know things now.
Several employee resource groups based on identity.
There's a lot of this.
So this, he goes into the pockets.
Do you want to see this?
He goes, several employee resource groups based on identity emerged, including MIGPOC, which is marginalized genders and intersex people of color mentorship programs.
You got to be kidding me.
Me Genti, Latinx, Latinx employees at NPR, and NPR Noir.
That's like Baywatchman Nights.
The group became so important to NPR's union, SAG AFTRA, that a current DEI section in the contract requires the company to, quote, keep up to date with current language and style guidance from journalism's affinity groups and to inform employees with the language with the language diverts from the diktats of the group.
You ever heard an affinity scam?
That's what they do on affinity groups.
Like you get scammed based on your identity.
That's what all this is: an affinity scam.
You think if they were looking for equity, diktats would be dick twats.
Oh, it's just a thought.
It's just a thought.
I think they mean dictates, but they're saying it like real politiques.
Is that how they say it in England or something?
Dictates?
Probably.
Who cares?
So if it does, Berliner writes, the dispute could go before a DEI accountability committee.
Yay!
Berliner sums it up as: in essence, this means that the NPR union, of which I am a dues-paying member, has ensured that advocacy groups are given a seat at the table in determining the terms and vocabulary of our news coverage.
That should help the pay.
Of Berliner, however, the most damaging development at NPR is the absence of viewpoint diversity.
Of course, they have all the superficial diversity, except real diversity.
So they have diversity of color, diversity of gender, diversity of sex, diversity of race, ethnicity.
What they don't have is diversity of thought.
Right.
That's a dog whistle, Jimmy.
is a dog whistle.
That's a dog whistle.
Why is it?
The journal, just Just like the view.
Anyway, the journalistic shares that shares that stupid women.
There's an unspoken consensus about the stories we should pursue and how they should be framed.
Well, that's in every news organization.
The stories usually cover instances of supposed racism, transphobia, signs of the climate apocalypse, Israel doing something bad, and that dire threat of Republican policies.
It's almost like an assembly line, he writes.
Berlin writes about the documented document called the Transgender Coverage Guidance.
What in the?
Yeah, they used to call it a style book at magazines where they go, this is how we're going to say.
Yes.
I remember when they rejected saying homophobia, the guy from, I want to say New York Times, because it's not a mental disorder.
We're going to say anti-gay.
This is years ago.
Because, by the way, it's a stupid term to make it a phobia.
But now they have it for everyone.
In that transgender guidance that said that journalists should avoid the term biological sex.
I should avoid it.
Avoid it.
Okay, how do I describe if I'm looking to date a woman who doesn't have a cock and balls?
Is there any term I can use to specify my preference?
Obviously, they're all women, but I'm just saying, what term could I use to indicate you have a vagina that wasn't made by a scientist?
You're being anti-trans.
That's why I got fired from NPR.
He goes on to cite the bizarre stories that have stemmed from NPR's DEI obsession.
One story claims the Beatles and bird names are racially problematic.
They are.
Others justify looting and suggest fears about crimes are racist.
What's the problem?
Boy, Anna, the Cameltoe enthusiast over at TYT is getting a piece of that.
Anna Camelsparian.
Yeah, she found out crime is bad, and now she's a bad lefty.
Oh, man.
Don't look into the CIA, Anna.
You're going to get really.
Please don't look into the CIA, and it'll hurt your fears.
Stay gold.
Berliner shares that after finding there were zero Republicans in editorial positions in his DC newsroom, he presented the information in an editorial meeting and suggested there was a diversity problem.
The journalist says he has been persistent writing emails to top bosses when he thinks the coverage has gone off the rails.
He has flagged NPR's use of the term Latinx, asking why they use it if most Hispanics hate it.
It's not up to them.
It's not up to them.
Berliner says bosses have been respectful of his concerns, but nothing changes.
I've become a visible wrong thinker at a place I love.
It's uncomfortable, sometimes heartbreaking.
He ends his essay by wishing good luck to NPR's new CEO, Catherine Mauer, which we're going to show you in just a second how crazy she is.
Declaring, I'll be rooting for her.
It's a tough job.
Her first rule could be simple enough.
Don't tell people how to think.
It could even be the new North Star.
So he resigned because he got suspended for that.
And so this is from today, April 17th.
He said my resignation letter to NPR CEO, that woman.
He says, I'm resigning from NPR, a great American institution where I have worked for 25 years.
I don't support calls to defund NPR.
I respect the integrity of my colleagues and wish for NPR to thrive and do important journalism.
But I cannot work in a newsroom where I am discouraged by a new CEO whose divisive views confirm the very problems at NPR I cite in my free press essay.
Oh, she is hardcore deep state, that check.
I'm looking at her right now.
After interns at the Council on Foreign Relations and Eurasia Group, she worked at HSBC in London.
So I thought it was going to turn out she's just some idiot that took like gender queef studies.
No, she's a little with this new lady.
Yeah.
She's only 40.
Yeah.
Well, then we're going to talk about it.
It's a whole lot of information.
So that's the end of that story.
And I knew it was bad at NPR.
I didn't know it was that bad.
And it's so bad they suspended him for saying that stuff.
And now he's, well, I guess he resigned, but I heard he got fired.
But either way, he got suspended for it.
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So they're on their way to trying to get rid of Mike Johnson as speaker, the same way they did with Kevin McCarthy.
And Mike Johnson is doing things going completely against what he said his entire life.
Like he was against the government spying on you.
And now he's for the government spying on you.
Mike Johnson?
All it took was one meeting with the CIA.
That's all it took.
And he got his mind right because I guess they showed him, hey, I don't know if you saw the book of all the shit we have on you because we've been spying on you.
Let me show him a really good question.
And so we've got all this shit on you.
So now you have to come around to our point of view.
And he did like that.
All it took was one meeting.
And Mike Johnson went from a staunch defender of the Fourth Amendment and the right to privacy to, hey, the government has to spy on you.
And here, now this is how he justifies all the stuff he's doing now, becoming just a war.
He doesn't care about the United States people at all.
All he cares about is funding war and spying on the American people.
And here's what he says.
Look, we are in unprecedented times.
Okay.
We're in dangerous times.
These are very, by the way, these are very precedented.
These times are very precedented.
You mean when the somewhat repetitive, I would say.
Yes.
Jesus Christ.
Okay.
Been articulated here around the world and here at home.
We need steady leadership.
We need steady hands at the wheel.
Look, I regard myself as a wartime speaker.
In a literal sense, we are.
He regards himself as a wartime speaker.
Why?
Is Voldemort back?
Mike Johnson proclaims that he's a wartime speaker, but what war is America in?
America does not need to be in any wars unless fools in Washington make it a self-fulfilling prophecy.
What war are we in right now?
We're not supposed to be into war.
He considers himself a wartime speaker.
An information war.
That when I took the gavel, I didn't anticipate that this would be an easy path.
Former Speaker Newt Gingrich posted a couple days ago on his social media that this is the hardest challenge that's faced a speaker probably in the history of the country, in the moment we're in right now.
And if there's anybody who's a more credible source on stuff, it's former Speaker Newt Gingrich.
Okay.
So he wants you to know that what he's saying, why he's, here's why he's saying that.
Because he's doing things that the actual base voting base of the Republican Party hates.
Yeah.
He's doing things that they hate.
Are you suggesting it's blackmail?
And so I think it is.
He's trying to say, give me a break, everybody.
Yeah, I'm suggesting he got black minds by the CIA.
What explanation is there for this turnaround on a thing at the drop of a hat?
Or they promised him something.
But so what he's saying is, hey, I don't want to do this, but we're in war.
So the normal order of things, and by the way, we're not.
Ukraine's doing it, so we don't have to.
We're not so great about sending our money to Ukraine.
We're not in war.
So here's Thomas Massey.
He's jumped on this.
By the way, this is leading.
I'm going to tell you how they're getting rid of him.
He says, I regard myself as a wartime speaker.
Get a grip.
We are not at war.
You can't use that as an excuse to justify passage of warrantless spying, a bloated omnibus, or $100 billion in foreign aid.
And that's what he's doing.
And Thomas Massey, who you could disagree with his politics, but he actually has, it seems to be, seems to me, he's on the right side of a lot of constitutional issues.
And he's not a bullshitter like the rest of them.
And he doesn't mind going against his party.
And this is him going against the establishment, the donor class.
He also answers questions when approached by actual journalists.
That's right.
And he just says the thing out loud that's true.
He doesn't run off and you being loud and violent.
And he doesn't accuse you of being a Russian, Thomas Massey, which is what he did to which is what Rokana did to Max Blumenthal over Ukraine.
So I think he means war on the citizens of America.
Maybe that's he's a war.
Clearly.
Clearly, that's.
There's nothing about the border, right?
In this amazing omnipotent room.
No, of course.
No.
So here is what's happened.
So now they're going to get rid of him.
They're going to try and get rid of him anyway.
Like they got rid of Kevin McCarthy because he's going against everything that they're supposed to be for.
It's just like when the just like when the squad and Bernie Sanders and the Democrats vote to crush a union strike.
Like, what's the point of having you there?
Just like when they don't extract anything for their vote from Nancy Pelosi's speaker, they just vote for their enemy without getting anything for it, without ever pushing Medicare for all, without anything.
Okay, here we go.
In March, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Incensed that Johnson at Johnson for collaborating with Democrats to push through a $1.2 trillion spending package over the objections of conservatives seeking spending cuts, filed a motion to vacate the chair, which would initiate a vote by House members on whether to fire Johnson from the job of speaker.
Massey says it's only a matter of time before the House votes on Green's motion to vacate.
I mean, get rid of him.
The motion's going to get called, okay?
Does anybody doubt it?
The motion will get called, Massey told reporters after Tuesday's meeting.
And then he's going to lose more votes than Kevin McCarthy did.
Remember, it took like 13 rounds of votes?
By the way, Kevin McCarthy, the worst thing, the worst case scenario that could have happened, according to everybody he used to work with, every Democrat I saw on every program, Kevin McCarthy will become speaker.
And then all of a sudden, they're like, don't take Kevin McCarthy out.
But what Marjorie Taylor Green and Massey failed to realize is that the money transfer from the U.S. Treasury to the international security state is bigger than any individual government or nation.
It'll be done by the time they get him out of there.
Is that the thing?
Yes.
Yeah.
Okay.
And I have told him this in private, like weeks ago.
He's saying he told Johnson that you're going to lose more votes than Kevin McCarthy.
And he told him.
And Johnson doesn't give a shit.
So what does that tell you?
And Johnson, look, they have pictures of me with horses and Japanese anime kids.
That's right.
So Massey has asked Johnson to first allow the party to select a successor and then voluntarily step down.
On Tuesday, Johnson was defined.
He's not going to.
So Massey's telling him, hey, you can choose, handpick your successor and then step down because we're done with you.
He says, I'm not resigning.
And it is, in my view, an absurd notion that someone would bring a vacate motion when we are simply trying to do our job.
Oh, he must have been at a Diddy party.
Yes.
Massey's announcement in the closed door meeting ruffled feathers.
Ohio Representative Jim Jordan voiced his discomfort with the idea saying, we don't need that.
No way.
We don't want that.
We shouldn't go through that again.
That's a bad idea.
I think you should go through it again.
That sounds very much what he said.
He blackmailed him.
That sounds very much like when Bill Gates told President Trump when President Trump was going to have a vaccine commission on the safety of vaccines.
And Bill Gates says, no, that's bad, bad thing.
That's what that sounds like.
No, bad thing.
On Monday night, Johnson compounded conservatives' anger when he announced he would bring four separate measures to a vote: aid to Ukraine, aid to Israel, aid to Taiwan, and banning TikTok.
Thanks.
Thanks, Mike.
None of those things have anything to do with helping the American people.
None of those things have anything to do with helping the American people.
None of them.
And you know why they want to ban TikTok?
To help Israel?
They want to ban TikTok, A, to help Israel.
You're 100% right.
TikTok censors people a lot.
But TikTok, a third of Americans watch TikToks.
100 million Americans watch TikTok for at least 20 minutes a day, and they're getting their news there.
And so they have to stop that.
So they have to stop that.
Even though TikTok censors more than Facebook and Instagram combined.
It's better news.
So what that means is TikTok, the moron platform, is better news than all of the regular news.
That's correct.
You're getting better news on TikTok.
You are.
So look at his, this is his priorities.
His priorities is aid to Ukraine, aid to a fake war that doesn't have any interest of the United States unless you, or aid to Israel or aid to Taiwan or TikTok ban.
So not one thing that helps anyone in the United States unless you're a transnational corporation or Israel.
Oh, it probably helps him those pictures not coming out that they have on him, is my guess.
Here's what he tweeted this.
He said, I have just spoken with the House GOP conference on my plan to address national security supplemental legislation on the growing security crisis.
The security crisis.
This week, we will consider some.
Really, are we in danger of somebody invading us?
The answer is no.
There is no security crisis in the United States.
There is with the untracked illegal mass immigration, though.
Right, that's right.
There's that one part that he's not handling.
But he's not, there is one part that actually is a threat, and that's it.
Like what?
Our open border, which he seems to be for.
This week, we will consider separate bills with a structured and germane amendment process to fund our ally Israel, support Ukraine, strengthen our allies in the Indo-Pacific, pass additional measures to counter our adversaries and strengthen our national security.
I mean, spying on you.
Yeah, it's not true.
All the spying you're already doing ain't enough.
You need to strengthen that?
I thought it was crazy overreaching, and there's no more ABS corpus, et cetera, et cetera.
This was not a very popular tweet, by the way.
So it got 6,000 likes, and it got 15,000 responses.
That's called being ratioed.
He got ratioed almost three to one, but at least two to one.
Better than those pictures coming out.
Better than whatever they have on the street.
So he's not serving the people, and he knows he's not doing it.
What did he do, I wonder?
And so I actually tweeted underneath this.
I said, maybe you should get a job working for America and the people who live here.
You're a regular tool of the military industrial complex and Western billionaires, like all the rest of the good-for-nothings.
At least most principled people on the right see through you now.
Nice ratio.
I almost got as many likes on that tweet underneath his that he got, the speaker of the goddamn house.
Man, if it turns out he's just secretly gay, I'm going to really look down on him for being able to do it.
If that's it, you were just gay.
And all this because of that, it better be something.
It better be something bad.
You better have drank a baby.
We're steering towards everything Chuck Schumer wants, said Massey.
Decoupling the proposals also saps conservatives' leverage to force more spending on border security.
Green called the plan a scam, Marjorie Taylor Greene, And added, he's definitely not going to be speaker next Congress if we're lucky enough to have a majority.
Hey, why is that one supposed crazy lady doing the right thing on this?
Is that what crazy means?
Yeah, that's what crazy means.
If you're representing the people and you're not representing the establishment, and they don't have anything to blackmail her with to stop her from this other than Jewish space lasers, they always try to bring that.
Yeah, yeah.
She never said that, by the way.
I know.
Rand Paul supports Massey.
So here's another guy who I have lots of disagreements with politically, but he seems to stand up to tell the truth about things that nobody else is willing to do.
And here he is.
I think Thomas Massey is doing the right thing.
And I think that the Republicans need real leadership.
We need to use our power.
Our people are frustrated.
Why don't we use the power of the purse?
Why does the debt keep getting bigger, even when Republicans are in charge of the house?
So I think we need somebody that has some courage and some intestinal fortitude.
I agree.
Michael Tracy says Thomas Massey and Marjorie Taylor Greene may not succeed in ousting Mike Johnson, but at least they're willing to challenge their party's leadership, unlike Democrats who almost universally operate as compliant, leader-obeying robots.
100%, he's right.
Look, blackmail is a hell of a thing.
And somebody tweeted this out.
I like this.
It said, corporate needs you to find the difference in these two pictures.
They're the same picture.
Yeah.
They serve the exact same people.
These two people serve the exact same people.
And guess who those people aren't?
Those people are not the American people.
So your government is your enemy.
And I've been saying it for a long time.
Your government is your enemy.
Your government is your enemy.
And the only thing that can save us at this time is a real revolution.
I thought it could come electorally.
I thought I had high hopes.
I'm such an idiot.
I had high hopes for Bernie Sanders in 2016.
I didn't know what a cuck to power he really was and what a head fake he is.
He's just there to make sure that real revolutionaries stay inside the two-party system and supporting the establishment.
That's what Bernie Sanders says.
I had to keep my wife out of prison.
That's right.
That's right.
That got to him too.
Anything you want to say, Kurt, before we move on?
I never believed in any of this shit, but now I can't believe how much I don't believe in it.
I never believed in any of this shit.
you you Guess what?
So this is from Twitter.
This is Twitter's news.
WNBA top pick, Caitlin Clark, signs underwhelming rookie contract.
Who posted that?
The selection, this selection of Caitlin Clark as the number one pick in the WNBA draft by the Indiana Fever.
That's a team.
Did you know that?
I didn't.
Has ignited a heated debate on social media about the salary disparity between the WNBA and the NBA.
Okay.
President Biden calls for female athletes to be paid what they deserved.
And it sparked discussions on the revenue gap.
With Clark set to make just $76,000 in 2024 compared to the NBA's number one pick, $55 million.
For the record, I'd like Joe Biden to be paid what he deserves.
Not sure what that exact figure is.
I know it's way less than a WNBA player.
It should be underwhelming.
It should be.
It should not be overwhelming.
Yeah, what reporters neglected to ask Joe Biden was what he thinks they deserve to be paid.
Yeah, I bet you he has no thoughts on it.
I bet you they handed him a face.
Yeah, of course.
Why they're that.
So the debate highlights the WNBA's $60 million revenue against the NBA's $10 billion.
They only make $60 million a year, the whole WNBA.
Cat Williams was offered more than that to just do some gay stuff.
Three times he was offered.
That is, wow, the whole thing, not like one person's contract.
So this debate, there's a debate, I guess, and it has arguments for and against higher WNBA salaries based on revenue generation, fan engagement, and broader issues like gender equality in professional sports.
Oh, you have Bill Bird doing his joke?
Yeah, I joke on this.
Yeah, I do.
Yes.
Maybe the M in 60 million just starts identifying as a B. Problem solved.
How about that?
I'd say it's once, once and for all, it's time, Kurt, for women to be paid the absurdly amount of money that professional male athletes are paid and don't deserve.
No, they deserve it more than the women.
They're slain Duncan.
I'm just saying, Kurt, that I think it's about time that a female athlete beats the shit out of her boyfriend on video and then has to go through all the same shit afterwards.
How about that?
You know, the ultimate, the ultimate matchup for a high-end female athlete?
A man of average strength.
Okay, so here's the tweet that Joe Biden put out about this.
Women in sports continue to push new boundaries and inspire us all.
Especially in the locker room with a dick.
Which women are the, does that he means penis women or bonus hole women?
Bonus hole women are starting to do it, but I, these penis women.
So, but right now we're seeing that even if you're the best, women are not paid their fair share.
What is their fair share?
The WNBA is not the best.
That's what they're saying.
Fair share of 60 million?
What are you talking about?
It sounds like they're getting it.
Those guys, with their 50 million, they're getting a fraction of what the owners are getting.
They're just getting a yes.
We think they would give them that much money if it was like not nothing to them.
It's expensive to go to a basketball game.
I'll tell you.
So I went in with two other guys to get season tickets for the Clippers.
I never did anything like that.
And I wanted to, so I did.
I never did anything.
I'm like, oh, let's do that before I die.
And it's funny.
It was fun.
It was a fun season.
And now they're in the playoffs.
They said, hey, do you want to buy playoff tickets?
You know how much playoff tickets are?
One ticket for where my seat is $1,200.
And then that's the first round.
If they make it to the next round, it goes up to like $2,200.
I'm like, I can't.
I expect to see you two live singing Alexi Navalney over and over, like real, real shit for that money.
It's crazy.
It's time that we give our daughters the same opportunities as our sons and ensure women are paid what they deserve.
And I just have to say, tip of the head, whoever wrote that for Joe Biden.
It's time we give our sons the same opportunity as girls in their sports.
By the way, there's no point.
Tip of the head, whoever wrote that for him, there's no point in trying to sound like him because Joe Biden doesn't sound like anything anymore.
My boy Hunchies are.
But here is, look at this: $10 billion, $60 million.
That's the difference.
Average salary in the NBA, $9 million.
Average salary in the WNBA, $100,000, which is still pretty good for the WNBA.
They're being overpaid.
They don't dunk.
You ever go to a fucking woman's.
They don't dunk.
Look, you're supposed to get a piece of revenue that you generate.
Okay?
Like, viewers, how many people are paying tickets to see your goddamn show?
Nobody.
So I don't want to take over Bill's joke because he nails it.
Well, here's Bill's joke.
So a woman a couple months back, professional soccer player, right?
She goes on to ESPN or one of these sports channels and she starts bitching, going like, I don't understand.
How come female athletes don't make as much as male professional athletes?
And all of these men had to sit there and act like they didn't know what the answer was.
They had to sit there like dumbfounded.
Like, oh, why is that?
Literally, I'm sitting at home screaming at the TV because you don't sell any fucking tickets.
Nobody is going to women's soccer games.
You're playing in a 20,000-seat arena.
1,500 people show up.
That's not a good night.
The promoter lost his fucking ass on that kick.
I'm not saying no professional female athlete, Serena Williams, the women in the UFC, you know, but nobody's watching your fucking sport.
And then you're going to come and you're going to get mad at fucking men.
They keep doing that shit.
Why are you yelling at us?
It's not our fucking job.
It's not my fucking job to give a fuck about women's soccer, okay?
I have men's sport to pay attention to.
This is your bullshit, right?
Dude, look at the WNBA.
Nobody in the WNBA got COVID.
Nobody.
They've been playing in front of 3 to 400 people a night for a quarter of a century.
Not to mention, it's a male subsidized league.
We gave you a fucking league.
None of you showed up.
Where are all the feminists?
None of you, none of you went to the fucking games.
None of you.
You all, you failed them.
Not me.
Not men.
Women failed the WNBA.
Ladies, ladies, name your top five all-time WNBA players of all time.
Come on.
That's it.
Name five WNBA teams.
Name the WNBTA team in your fucking city.
You can't do it.
You don't give a fuck about them.
They play night in and night out in front of nobody.
It's a fucking tragedy.
Right?
And then meanwhile, you look at the Kardashians.
They're making billions.
You go to those real housewife shows, they're making money hand over fists because that's what women are watching.
And the money listens.
You don't want to watch this shit?
You watch this shit.
They just shoot it over there, drowning these whores in money.
Purses and shoes and Botox.
It's just raining.
It's raining money.
Yeah.
So the money listens.
You'd rather watch that shit.
Real housewives.
Bunch of women just tearing each other down.
And maybe that's why your husband left you.
Maybe that's why your husband left.
That's why you can't have kids, bitch.
That's why your ass is as flat as your titties, bitch, right?
That's the message you sent.
We would rather watch that than see a bunch of women come together as a team to try to achieve a common goal.
You're rather a bunch of them actually fucking destroy each other.
No, no, no.
And then in the end, you come back and you fucking yell at guys.
And it's like, all right, so let me get this straight.
I have to buy you a drink, stop the axe murderer from coming through the fucking window.
And I have to watch WNBA games for you.
Like, when are you going to pick up your end of the couch?
Yeah.
I don't have, no, I don't have any sympathy for women when it comes to shit like that.
Okay.
So there got better since I heard it.
That's a good bit.
Yeah, I heard that bit a while ago, too.
Because it is like every stupid, like the Kardashians, by the way, they go through basketball players like they're nothing.
Yeah.
Because they're richer than them from like pornography and fake makeup.
It's great.
At Lumpus Point, it's like, ladies, we gave you a league and none of you show up to support the women playing basketball.
I don't like sports at all, but I don't even watch men play sports.
I don't want to watch you.
Why wouldn't you want to buy a ticket to go see a slower, inferior form of basketball where the people playing can't jump?
And that's not a slam at women.
Maybe it is.
But women can't jump.
Why?
Because their center of gravity is different.
Men's center of gravity is in their shoulders.
Women's center of gravity is in their hips.
So their body doesn't lend itself to jumping and basketball.
And that's really key to basketball.
Well, they're also not eight feet tall typically.
Although, I guess Brittany Grinder's pretty tall, right?
It's got to do with the jumping.
Yeah.
The jumping.
Spud Webb was five foot five or whatever.
He could dunk because he could jump.
Pistol Beat just would do some great passes.
So it's anyway, I can't.
Why don't they transition to man and then go dominate the men's sports?
Come on, jump camera.
Oh, you're being funny.
Hey, this is Jimmy.
Who's this?
Jimmy, it's Al Pacito.
Ah, friend of the show, Al Pacino, Godfather and Godfather 2 fame.
How are you?
How am I?
I'm fit to be tired, brother.
Tie me down.
And tie your mother down.
Okay.
Queen.
What?
What's wrong, Al?
I got a new enemy.
Who's that?
Donald fucking Trump.
What?
As you know, I normally ignore politics.
Didn't really know much about the guy.
Heard he was president.
Honestly, seemed like a nice guy who's going through a lot right now.
But he just crossed a line.
How so, buddy?
He got me mixed up with Jimmy fucking Kimmel.
Oh, who I got no beef with.
But I don't want to be confused with that mook neither.
I understand.
Yeah.
So Kimmel hosted the Oscars, right?
Yeah.
And I'm the one who announced Best Picture.
Right.
And if you recall, since I didn't phrase the winner according to Hoyle, everybody thought I fucked up.
Yeah.
But I didn't fuck up.
I concluded the Academy Awards Pacino style.
And I do it again.
Okay, go on.
So Trump and Kimmel got in some sort of beef, and Trump started taking pot shots at Kimmel.
And he thought it was Kimmel who fucked up the ending, not Pacino.
This is unacceptable.
Okay.
This is bullshit.
That fucking child.
I will talk to Mitch and Murray.
I will talk to fucking Limpkin.
Wow, Limpkin.
You must be furious.
Jimmy, I can't even sit down or sit still.
I'm pacing around yelling at furniture.
I gotta get this motherfucker.
I don't understand why this makes you so angry, though.
Me neither, but this is a situation that has presented itself.
On one hand, I got confused with Jimmy Kimmel.
Do I host Jimmy Kimmel live?
Was I on the man show?
Was I the sidekick on Wynn Ben Stein's money?
Well, was I?
No, I don't believe so.
Okay, I didn't think so.
We don't look alike.
He's not an actor.
What the fuck?
And Trump inadvertently revived the vile lie that I fucked up the Oscars, which I did not.
Okay, so what are you gonna do?
I'll tell you what I'm gonna do.
I'm gonna bring out the big guns.
I'm gonna take a page from my buddy Bobby De Niro.
Next time I'm interviewed on TV, I'm gonna call Trump stupid.
Take that.
Okay, what will that do?
Trump can't recover from that.
He'll never come back.
He survived him and De Niro calling him stupid barely.
But De Niro and Pacino, he'll never survive.
Nobody's image can take a hit like that.
I don't know.
He seems to survive pretty much everything.
Not this two beloved thespians saying he's stupid.
He'd have to drop out of the race.
I think you might be overestimating the stock that the public puts in your opinions.
Oh, hold on.
Jimmy, do you realize you're talking to a legend?
Yes.
A Hollywood legend.
Yeah.
I was in sea of love.
I put your maddest more than anyone.
Yeah, sorry, but I really don't think so, Al.
Oh, yeah.
Well, watch this, wise guy.
You brought this on yourself.
Jimmy, you're stupid.
Okay, I can't see what's going on.
Is Jimmy still sitting in his chair?
Did he fall back?
I'm still sitting here, Al.
Fine.
What?
How is this possible?
Al Pacino just call you stupid publicly.
Steph should be running over to you with smelling salts right about now.
I guess I just don't care.
Oh, man.
This is really making me recalibrate my influence on the public.
Maybe people don't care what I think.
Yeah, maybe neither you nor Robert De Niro.
You shut your mouth.
If De Niro called you stupid, you'd shit your pants.
No, I wouldn't.
This is fucking insane.
Yeah.
What do I do?
How do I get revenge on Trump?
I can't let him get away with throwing shade in my direction.
Wait, I got it.
Well, what's that?
I'm gonna do this thing that I'm told is super powerful.
Vote.
Yeah.
I will vote against him in the election, and then he will lose.
Again, I don't think it's that simple, Al.
I'm getting a little sick and tired of you continuing to sit upright in your chair and poo-pooing all my schemes.
I'm just being honest.
Well, that's the last thing I need to fucking hear.
Gonna have to nurse my shattered ego back to health thanks to you.
I've got a lot to think about when my girlfriend comes over and changes the baby's diaper and then mine.
Anyway, good to talk to you, my old friend.
I hope you have a delightful computer show today.
I hope you have a good one.
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