John Iadarola, Jimmy Dore, and Ron Placone. The Governor’s race in Virginia had a Democratic victory, leading to much speculation by media figures from the right. Redistricting played a role in the election as well in Virginia and New Jersey. Maine’s Medicaid expansion and it’s staunch opposition. Trump give a speech and antagonizes North Korea.
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How did LePage get elected? Why do you think we, the voters of Maine, passed ranked choice voting last year? LePage won with less than 38% of the vote in 2010!! He did better in 2014 riding a wave of midterm momentum by the Republicans but it still didn’t win by a majority.
Oh Jimmy Dore, you crack me up!
Anyone else think Trump’s NK statements were presidential? Calmly letting them know to back off sounds like a good negotiation attempt to me. We know NK gets leaked content so, while in SK, saying that their regime is not what they think wanted… I give Trump a cookie.
Everything Jimmy predicted is coming to pass.
The reason I joined TyT= The Jimmy Dore.
It’s clear why he had his own show now. He can go inside a topic and explain it in a way that someone who doesn’t no A THING about politics will understand. Oh, and on top of that he uses facts. Jimmy should always be on the panel.
We haven’t met but I swear we would make great friends. Is that enough to get on the show? I’d consider it a personal favor.
The Jon hour! Jimmy + Ron = Jon.
Or maybe the Jon-John hour.
I enjoyed Jimmy’s rant about guns and liberty.
Specific attire will be is required. In the Jon-John Long John Sing-Along hour.
Thank you for having John and Jimmy on together for hour 1. Viewers stand to benefit the most from having multiple perspectives so that hosts have their opinions challenged. It is one of the many ways we stay strong. I do not see any merit in the member comments that are judgmental of particular hosts that don’t agree with them. We need multiple perspectives to create balanced panels. Keep up the good work TYT!
Great perspective @Templeofthedoge! I totally agree!
++ I wish there was to up-vote ideas/comments. Seeing John and Jimmy discuss could propel the main show into prime-time. Especially since Real Time has been crap and other shows go offline for the winter.
Dam mellow I like the way you think. John could bring more facts and arguments if they were given more time and space.
Bannon as a mixture of playdoh and gin. Ron is hilarious. What a quick wit!
That was hilarious.
Would love to see/have a clip of JImmy’s “that’s not Russia” when he says voters want___, but we ain’t getting it. Would be awesome to use on Twitter, send to Congress, etc.
Jimmy and Ron add so much to John’s panel. I miss Cenk and Ana, but this trio was refreshing. So, more Jimmy Dore! Fun hearing Stef laugh in the background, too. She is always a great panelist — anywhere.
I have a lot more in common with John’s opinion compared to Jimmy. But I still look forward to watching Aggressive Progressives every week. Frankly, John should get his own show. But I posted to say I agree with you. Jimmy adds a lot to John. I wish we saw them discussing topics, like Russia, together more often.
Deficit spending is the only way a sovereign issuer spends, it literally must be spent before it can be ultimately and fractionally taxed. The remainder is the fluid volume of the economy. The money supply is not inflationary full employment or more accurately when demand out paces productive capacity as in a sector labor is fully utilized to its available limits is inflationary so in this regard even living wage benefited and taxed foreign workers are neutral to or preventative of inflation. But funding war subsidizes weapons manufacturers/swords into plowshares any one, Financial bailouts or QE are just dormant assets siting on central bank ledger sheets, free money at best to buy over valued or disstressed assets but is only vertuous to the speculative financial markets and doesn’t reach the human economy i.e. Producer/consumer spending a full seventy percent of the market, oil and gas subsidies just prevent transitional market forces to a green new deal. “Deficit” spending is by definition federal spending and when viewed sectoraly it is not large enough.. Fed ‘deficit’ is =/to the gross fluid economy’s volume; but as it is fiat it is not revenue dependant that would be the states county and municipal governments. are deficit effected. National “Debt” on another hand is deposited cash asset swap for low interest term treasury notes. Fully fungible on demand at maturity, no outstanding or uncolateralised debt. So I hate to sound flippant and irresponsible or like a moron like bush but (balancing) the ill defined “the deficit” is a murderous falacy of the highest order and justifies republican austerity and is literally shirking due responsibility to the general well fair and the public purpose. It’s not that “deficits don’t matter” the “deficit” matters imesurably in that “it is the economy” Remember it was the republican depression before egalitarianism made it distributivly ‘great’ but it was Clintons neolib/con recession by letting all the money shift to the pure hubris speculative nature of the financial markets up there in the fake vertuous circle jerk away from the real virtuous and working productive consumer markets as said representing a full seventy percent of the working fluid productive and profitable economies. Look this stuff is so often and incessantly misstated to such egregious ends it literal qualifies as ‘hidden’ probably because it’s counter intuitive but people who actually know Exogenic theory or source eminence of fiat like Ryan or McConnell and then manipulate and leverage the full faith and credit of the US Government against you and the national interest are by definition Occultists, owls that would keep hidden and unspoken the national benefit as they view you to be a subordinate inferior, less fit evolutionarily to their religiously held mystic dogmatic economic spiritism of prosperous preference ethno centric white nationalism. Cesar should I quell the masses as they become quite raucous? No, they call for blood, they are Romans!
Shout-out to the great Jimmy Dore – keep preaching! Because apparently we live in an era where jag-off comedians tell the truth, while network pundits lie or are just too stupid.
“Do not assume because I am frivolous that I am shallow, any more than I assume because you are grave you are profound.” ~Rev. Sydney Smith (19th C.)
Ever watch some Bill Hicks? Or George Carlin? I’m sure you’ve seen some Carlin. It’s a rare case, and I’m not saying Jimmy is in the same league as those men, but comedy has major purpose that is sticking a finger in the eye of the powerful and Jimmy is good at that. I want him and John I. to debate topics more.
Am I the only one who thinks that telling crazy right wing terrorists to attack people and the Government is a bad idea? It seems kind of risky to me legally-speaking, too. Jimmy Dore doesn’t know when to shut up. And Russia isn’t bad, and North Korea isn’t bad – Tell us more, Jimmy, does Iran love us, too? Really and ISIS loves us, too? That’s awesome!
The fact that you included Iran in your little rant shows just how uninformed you are. I suggest you listen to this podcast to learn the truth – namely that Iran has no nuclear weapons program, never had and never will. http://www.wideasleepinamerica.com/2017/11/citations-needed-episode-14-iran-deal-protection-racket.html
As for Russia, that is another country that is being unjustly and irrationally demonised. There is still no hard evidence that they hacked ANYTHING. And as far as “meddling” in US elections are concerned, this is done by all countries with an international agenda, including the US (we basically installed Yeltsin as Russian Pres. in the 90’s, and don’t even get me started with Mosaddegh in Iran). It is nothing new AT ALL. The only thing that’s new is a craven and corrupt political party trying to blame Russia for their own abject failure.
Euroyankee – I am calling you out for having a great damn post every time you show up. Thank you, my friend.
He’s called to a Christianist nationalism state approved purpose, what a tool!
Nice to see that already having TWO shows to bitch about Hillary isn’t good enough for Jimmy Dore, he has to bring it here, too, STILL – a year after the elections of LAST YEAR who is lost in the woods anyway. I’m out.
Maybe if the “Clinton wing of the Democratic Party” wasn’t still in use everywhere and all the time, you might have a point. But Cenk and others have covered the fact that the “Clinton” Democrats were the ones who sabotaged Keith Ellison and installed Perez – a “Clinton Democrat” who recently purged all Progressives from the DNC to overwhelmingly favour and give power to what EVERY news and commentary source unanimously calls “the Clinton Wing.”
Hillary Clinton is still very much active and very much pulling the strings among corporate Dems. And don’t count her out for 2020. I suggest you check out the relative hashtags on Twitter and all the Facebook pages dedicated to bringing her back in 3 years.
Not to mention all the pro-Clinton shilling and attacking being done by the likes of Peter Daou and David Brock.
Hillary Clinton is NOT irrelevant. Quite the contrary: she is still the talisman, the embodiment and the standard bearer for the corporate wing of the Democratic Party – and if you think the Corp Dems are no loner “relevant” you have another think coming!
Agreed!
The only people who claim Hillary is irrelevant now are people who think they can fool Progressives into voting for DNC-Clintoncrats and “Business as Usual.”
Gee, I’m sorry, I thought I could trust Cenk when HE said that “Hillary is irrelevant now” and “She’s lost in the woods” or “She’s in a cave!” etc etc. As to Ellison or Perez, “progressives” et. al., again Bernie and his friends don’t identify as “Democrats” they put themselves out there as “Independents” or “Justice Democrats” or “Alt-Left” or what have you, so to me it makes perfect sense that the “traditional” Democrats who vote party leaders into their positions would vote to install people like them rather than insurgents. As to Twitter, I don’t use it, never really have- and with Donald Trump as President, who wants to? Not people I want to hear from to be sure.
You are kidding, right? Cenk himself has contradicted himself on this when he covered the great purge of Progressives from the DNC.
But maybe you are being facetious? I mean, how can you “trust Cenk” when he is one of the FOUNDERS of those Justice Democrats that you hold in such contempt.
And of course you are 100% wrong about “Bernie and his friends” not being Democrats. 92% of Democrats have a favourable opinion of Bernie Sanders. Many Democrats voted for Bernie. I am sure that Jimmy Carter would take issue with your describing him as a non-Democrat, as would Keith Ellison.
And latest polls show that Bernie is more popular among Democrats than Hillary; even those who voted for Hillary prefer Bernie now.
Lastly, thank you for putting “traditional” in quotes because the people you are describing are not traditional Democrats – they would not support an FDR, a Truman, an LBJ and especially not an RFK. They are DLC driven Reagan Democrats who have been steeped in the values and the philosophy of neoliberalism.
Bernie is the true *traditional* Democrat. He is an unrepentant, die-hard “New Deal” Democrat. That means he supports those cohorts and those policies which were promoted by FDR, Truman, JFK and LBJ; those policies which Bill Clinton dedicated his Presidency to destroying and undoing, and which the Clinton/Obama wing still solidly reject today.
Maybe you and I BOTH have issues, some facts, some opinions. We shouldn’t be Identitarians here, either of us, and I’m certainly willing to admit I am wrong on some things and to apologize if I offended you – if you will do the same.
“Identitarian” is an interesting word, and not one with which I am familiar. I would assume however that it means one who engages in identity politics and/or cultish hero worship of a single political figure – and in both cases does so instead of engaging on policies and issues. If this is true, and you ever find me doing either of those things, please feel free to challenge me on it and I will certainly check myself.
For what it’s worth, I think dratheart and euroyank are both right to a point. Hilary needs to go back into the woods, since the more she’s in the news the longer people who voted for Trump focus on why they did, rather than the poor job he’s doing. That said, with the midterms only a year away, if the different factions of the Dems aren’t able to unify under at least an anti-trump agenda there’s a good chance you guys might be making it harder to take back the house and/or senate. REDMAP already puts Dems at a disadvantage. They’re aren’t enough progressives spread across the states to take the house, nor is there enough clintonites. If you can’t find some kind of compromise, I don’t see how you can avoid disenfranchising the other side. Ride or die politics is only going to make it harder for any lasting changes to be made. This is just the opinion of an observer from north of your border though, so take it as you will.
I understand your point, but you seem to have fallen for some Corp Dem propaganda. This whole narrative about a “divided Democratic Party” is a giant truckload of industrial grade codswallop.
The fact is that 92% of Democrats have a favorable opinion of Bernie Sanders. And while I am not subscribing to nor preaching the politics of personality, to support Bernie Sanders is to support those policies which he is constantly promoting: Medicare for All, free public college, $15 min. wage, paid family leave, and so on. In poll after poll, these issues are proven to have strong majoritarian support among Americans in general and *overwhelming* support among Democrats.
Another main issue for the “Berniecrats” is getting money out of politics. This is where the powerful 8% of Democrats who oppose Bernie Sanders part ways with the other 92% of their Party. Corporate Dems rely on big money donations, lobbyists, etc. and see them as necessary. Indeed, under the current constellation of the Democratic Party, they are necessary because the Party has become one big money machine serving high paid consultants and other parasites who have been sucking the DNC dry for the past 10 years.
So when you read about how the Democrats are “divided” just remember that the division falls so that 9 out 10 Democrats are on one side, and 1 out of 10 are on the other. The fact that the “hateful 8%” wield so much power within the Party structure (witness the installation of Tom Perez and the subsequent Purge of Progressives) is a major problem which, for the time, seems almost insurmountable.
But PLEASE do not mistake the so-called “division” to mean that the Democratic rank and file are not united. No, the vast majority of Democratic voters are behind the progressive program pushed by the Berniecrats, and will vote that ay if they are given a chance. If, however, the 8% who are pulling the levers ensure that only Corp. Dem candidates run, then the Democrats risk not taking back the house.
Which, for that 8%, would perfectly OK. Everyone will keep their job, the money will still flow, and nothing will change. That is the reality we need to overcome.
Finally, I disagree with your assessment that “They’re aren’t enough progressives spread across the states to take the house” – this is simply not true. In any district where the gerrymandering does not guarantee a GOP win, progressives can be mobilised to come out and vote, and they will win. As I mentioned above, the polling on populist economic platform shows that a message similar to the of Bernie Sanders is a clear winner in the majority of cases.
Apparently you weren’t out, as you commented again.
You know who is still talking about Hillary and the election a year later?
Hillary & her pet DNC-Clintoncrats.
Waaaaaahhhhhh! We lost because of (fill in the blank w/anyone not in HRC’s immediate family)!
Jimmy & Ron on TYT Main is a refreshing change from the usual establishment-leaning co-hosts such as Michael Shure or Ben. The anti-Dem progressives are almost NEVER on panel, and certainly are never in the majority.
John is using Marathon runner amounts of energy holding in his smug dismissiveness towards Jimmy.
Someone get that boy some carbs quick! Don’t want him to faint on camera.
I suggest you watch this excellent video from Mike Figueroa of The Humanist Report
https://youtu.be/_LzFj0rx5uw
Perez is using the exact same words as Robby Mook. IOW – THEY ARE STILL COLLUDING.
Fun panel. Jimmy did make a great point with the house analogy about taxing the wealthy. He also did not miss an opportunity to kick Obama and Hillary in the dick. Yes, they could have done better. And I bet the media can report on Russia and other issues at the same time. Again, good panel.
More righteous indignation about Russia again (Jon excluded), as if people can’t hold two ideas at once. Shockingly, some of us are capable of agreeing that Democrats need to focus primarily on policy (healthcare, taxes, etc.) while also addressing the need to properly investigate cyber security threats, potential violation of campaign finance laws, and money laundering operations connected with the Russian government. It’s dishonest to frame the issue as if people mentioning or acknowledging problems related to Russia are doing so to repudiate the importance of policy matters in favor of nailing themselves to the cross for Hillary Clinton. That kind of BS black and white mentality approaches wilfull ignorance at this point, and it’s amazing to see people chaining themselves to their positions on this issue despite publicly available evidence of legitimate causes for concern. You people are really starting to sound like Sean Hannity.
Did Russia’s hacking and leaking cause Clinton to lose? It’s impossible to say, and frankly debating that point IS a waste of time – we’ll never know, and the fact that it was a close race to begin with even against a degenerate like Trump is shameful. That being said, it is NOT a ‘distraction’ to be concerned about known attempts by Russian hackers to access voting machines and voter registration databases – that type of cyber security risk can and should should be thoroughly investigated to ensure proper safety mechanisms are in place for elections. It is NOT a ‘distraction’ to be concerned about the amount of Russian money funneled into US digital media companies as a means of spreading misinformation to disadvantage one political party – that’s precisely the same reason why people get concerned about the influence of big donors on traditional media. It is NOT a distraction to report legitimately newsworthy events like Trump’s campaign head facing money laundering and conspiracy charges, or the U.S. attorney general lying under oath about undisclosed meetings with foreign officials in the course of a presidential campaign, or the Commerce Secretary knowingly concealing Russian business ties in his financial disclosures.
Apparently it’s all well and good to talk about corruption unless it involves any mention of the Russian government in the course of discussion. Jimmy acts like any and all coverage of Russia is indicative of some ill-concealed McCarthy-esque animus instead of basic fact reporting about the entities engaged in the money laundering and hacking attempts at issue. Small wonder he rails against news coverage on Russia, since they have to mention it by necessity in reporting the facts about a lot of stories coming out lately. Should we pretend it was Germany churning out professional troll farms and trying to hack into voter databases? I’m sure that’ll be a great deal of help with the efforts to stem the damage of ‘fake news’ and implementing adequate security safeguards for our personal and voting information.
The attempts to deflect concern from Trump’s significant conflict of interest issues by immediately jumping to equivocate him with Obama and Clinton are also getting ridiculous. “Nothing new that Trump is using his position this way!” – really? There’s nothing novel about Trump’s overwhelmingly obvious and uniquely wide-ranging actual and potential conflicts of interest? Please. You can object to money in politics without desperately reaching for excuses to minimize the problems of Trump’s staggeringly unethical behavior in furtherance of his own self-enrichment.
Clinton is irrelevant and Obama is not the President. Move on already, for Christ’s sake. I don’t give a single shit what kind of money Obama is pulling in POST-office when Republicans are banning whole countries of people from entry for unjustified and bigoted purposes, setting new records for the number of murdered civilians abroad, suffocating what little healthcare Americans still have available under the ACA, lighting the match for yet another devastating market crash, taking away CHIP for 9 million kids, curbing the endangered species act, gutting medicaid, legalizing discrimination, squeezing the poor and middle class dry to give trillions to the top 1%, etc. etc. etc. It’s like bitching about the folks next door leaving their trash all over the sidewalk when the guy across the street is busy setting fire to every house in the neighborhood. Jimmy and other Clinton obsessors might be willing to make the trade-off, because other people will call the firefighters to stop the worst of the spread before it hits their house, but what about the rest of the block who meanwhile has to deal with the fallout of their homes turning to dust? I’m sure they’ll rest easy knowing you were willing to make that sacrifice – your principled stance on littering helped them loads. Now, instead of cleaning up the neighborhood and adding improvements, you have to reconstruct from scratch with half the money and materials, lots of pain and suffering along the way, and irreparable damage to the environment. Good one.
I appreciate that Cenk & the Justice Dems creators understand the seriousness of the harm caused to people by Republican policies, and don’t start and end the fight by complaining about Democrats 24/7 or making shifty excuses for Trump “because Hillary!!1!!”….they actively seek out qualified people and put their platforms to effective use to help these candidates have a fighting chance. Backing up your principles with this sort of action genuinely helps change the system, though if you’re after what gets the most clicks with the least effort I suppose it’s better to fantasize that Hillary Clinton is President and act accordingly.
Anyway, to end on a positive note – Jon, good job keeping the discussions on track and hitting all the stories.
Wow, that was long. Sorry everyone – it looks shorter in the comment box, and TYT doesn’t have a preview/edit function before posting.
My experience of the last year has been that, no, on a political level people are not able to walk and chew bubblegum at the same time. No other issue has taken up as much air as the whole Russia hysteria bullshit has, an issue with no evidence but potential to lead to world war III. No one pushing this idiocy can actually say what “collusion” means in a practical sense or how Russia actually did influence the elections, yet a new McCarthyism has taken hold where everybody who opposes this nonsense is smeared as a Russian agent.
Amen my friend! Nice to see I’m not the only person sick of the way TYT has been beating a horse that died over a year ago anyway!
Thank you! Glad I’m not alone.
“publicly available evidence of legitimate causes for concern” – just what is this “publicly available evidence”???
I remind you that the opinion of an agency or person who has been known to lie does not count as “evidence”.
“Clinton is irrelevant and Obama is not the President” – so I guess the fact that Obama installed Perez over Ellison, and the DNC has been purged in order to heavily favour what every news source calls “Clinton Democrats” means nothing to you?
I am going to guess that you are anObama fan, and you supported his decision not to investigate or prosecute the war crimes of the Bush Administration, or go after the Wall Street bankers who ruined out economy, because, hey, we need to “move on.”
Well, some of us disagree, A crime is a crime, and it needs to be called out and punished – or at least be examined and proclaimed enough to serve as a deterrent for future potential bad actors.
Clinton and Obama are running the Democratic Party and they are the ones who will make sure that the neoliberal Corp Dems continue to run roughshod over the Progressives. They are clearly the enemy or progressivism, and they need to be called out and criticised.
And if you don’t think this is necessary, just look at GW Bush. He is a war criminal who is responsible for 100’s of thousands, if not MILLIONS of deaths of innocent people around the world. He is responsible for the rise of ISIS, and he ruined America’s reputation in the world long before Trump came along. But because Barack Obama decided to give him and Cheney a pass on their crimes, and to “look forward, not backward”, a MAJORITY of Democrats now have a favourable view of him. If that doesn’t disgust you, then you need to check yourself.
No – Clinton and Obama are fair game, and they need to be called out and criticised as often as possible, just to remind people of how corrupt and how duplicitous the neoliberal Democrats were – and are still.
Loved this group, more Ron please! I believe that it’s possible that Russia and Trump colluded to win the election AND ALSO that the establishment Dems are using the Russia story as a distraction. It’s obvious that Trump, his family, and his swampy circle are guilty of myriad crimes and should be aggressively investigated, but that doesn’t give the Dems a free pass to perpetuate the same broken corporatist system that gave us Trump in the first place. “Look how corrupt Trump is”, isn’t a political platform.
I miss the days that Jimmy was on the show more often! It’s great to see him again! :D
Do you guys not share the topics with the other panelists? Seems odd that people constantly ask, “Hey, are we going to talk about _______?” Seems like it would be better if people could read up and bring more to the table before commenting.
Really enjoyed these three hosting together. Definitely more Ron, please! Always has some new insight and jokes I dig.
Read The Federalist Paper number 46 about gun control
Gun control? Discussions? You don’t want Discussions you want to dictate your own agenda. http://www.justfacts.com/guncontrol.asp
Love Jimmy.
Jimmy: Russia isnt the one screwing you over, your politicians are corrupt.
John: We disagree (a.k.a. Russia Russia Russia)
I will trust the smartest liberals like Glen Greenwald and ex-Cia whistleblowers more than all the TYT Russia nonsense bred from overblown EMOTION.
Cenk & Jimmy are opposites when it comes to the whole Russia topic. Only one will be right. We will see soon enough as the investigation finishes. I bet TYT is 100% wrong in supporting this MSM narrative & we will see proof when Trump ISNT impeached.
Jimmy, Glen, Ron, and every other progressive are right because they have a solid BS detector or relies on facts/logic over emotion/trump-hate blinding rational thought.
All you libs blabbering about russia are so naive. Such intense denial of just how corrupt US govt is and just how much you fell for obvious MSM propaganda.
We’ll see how everything shakes down in the end. But you have to admit, considering Trump said this whole Russia narrative was invented from whole cloth, there sure are a lot of connections between his people and Russia coming out of the woodwork that they did not disclose when they were supposed to. Why didn’t they disclose it at the time? Greenwald et al might be correct specifically regarding the e-mail hack not being Russians’ doing, but you can’t tell me with a straight face you don’t believe that there is a lot of fishy stuff going on.
Of course there is a lot of fishy stuff going on. But a LOT of people had fishy dealings with Russia That was the whole point of our putting Yeltsin in charge after the fall of the USSR. He opened Russia up to the most corrupt oligarchic cray capitalism – and US “players” were there to show the Russians how to do it. Before Putin started to make Russia strong again, everyone who was anyone dealing internationally had fishy deals going on in Russia.
This is why the Uranium One scandal is so important. It’s not to necessarily go after the Clintons for corruption, but to show that dealing with Russian oligarchs IS NOT ABNORMAL.
If you started really going after everyone who had dealings with Russians, then you would have to jail about half the rich people in America. And seriously, the Cold War ended a long time ago, and we are unfairly demonising Putin for doing just 1/10th of the bad shit we do. He had a MUCH more legitimate case for what he did in the Ukraine – but Americans only et half the story (as usual) and so Russia ends up getting conflated with the old USSR, and Paul Begala goes on CNN to call on Trump to “bomb the KGB building” while Donna Brazile complains “the Communists are making policy now.” Madness.
My view on that is the same as my view on the Paradise Papers. It is not a shock or a surprise that this shit is going on, but the people doing it need to be held accountable. If that means throwing both Trump and Clinton up the river, so be it. The person who is in the White House carries the most weight, like it our not. If Trump’s deplorableness happens to be the catalyst that makes people concerned about this, great! We shouldn’t ignore things just because they have been ignored before.
AMEN!
Jimmy would wipe the floor with Sam Seder. Jimmy is smarter than he comes off, and Sam Seder is significantly dumber than he looks. Facts & Logic favor Jimmy. Sam Seder has cognitive bias amd logical fallacy.
Sam Seder is a joke compared to the Jimmy Dore show.
Nah sorry.
I’m gonna have to agree with natalieg!
;)
Agreed. Jimmy is the smart one.
“Do not assume because I am frivolous that I am shallow, any more than I assume because you are grave you are profound.” ~Rev. Sydney Smith (19th C.)
Great group tonight guys!
Hey, good question Jimmy. How did Paul LePage win 2 elections in Maine? It’s from our old friend, the split vote. Because when people are fed up with the real choices they have, and they don’t want to do any work to correct that, they do nothing until it’s time to vote, and then pretend that just by spending a minute “voting your conscience” they did something. The vote was split between an independent, a democrat and Paul LePage. In 2010, it was the democrat who was the vote splitter. Cutler was only a couple points away from Page. In 2014, though, it was Cutler who split the vote. People want change, and then just think they can cast a vote for it and that means something. The people who just won last night did not do that. They actually had people on the ground working for things, and that’s the difference.
I love you gathly =)
Trump & KimJong -un should work out deal open T & KJ golf courses life would be ok.
I’m from Philly and was SO HAPPY that Krasner won – thank you for singing his praises, Jimmy! He’s going to be a fantastic PROGRESSIVE D.A.
More Jimmy Dore,! Always a pleasure to see him behind the desk.
That’s for sure! He’s always making me laugh!
I typically dont like Jimmy for being a bit to extreme for my lefty liberal ass, but he was on pointe tonight. I might have to give AP another shot.
If that’s how you feel I’d advise against it. With both Stef and him on, and with no Steve Oh to regulate, he’s gone a little too conspiratorial, not bringing enough backing evidence.
Do agree his appearance on the main show was refreshing and on point except for 1 or 2 instances.
Jimmy Durr with the same stale talking points… once again. They left as a whole did phenomenal yesterday, don’t subscribe to the dumb dumb left. Also, why won’t Jimmy bring Sam on his show for a spirited debate?
Another way to describe Jimmy’s “same stale talking points” is… the truth, which does not change.
Bernie used “the same stale talking points” about economic inequality and a rigged system for 40 years before people finally were ready to listen and understand.
Right on Deb!
Thanks for posting this – you saved me the trouble! :-)
I’d love to be able to cast this to my roku… but JW player doesn’t have that. Can we get some work around or an update?
Jimmy knows that he would lose badly in a debate with Sam Seder.
I miss Cenk and Ana, but this panel was awesome.
Cenk and Ana, come back! I’m having withdrawals!
Love Jimmy Dore’s take!