Aggressive Progressives: May 29, 2018

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Ron Placone and Graham Elwood. Jimmy Dore in Norway for the Freedom Form. Keith Ellison says it is his preference that the DNC stay out of Primaries; The immigration bill deals with both DACA recipients and the border wall; Democrats help the Republicans sell an awful idea; Walmart and Amazon are getting tax breaks while their employees are struggling to put food on the table; The US government’s SNAP program is helping a significant percentage of both company’s employees; Amazon and Palantir are actively contributing to the power of police in America by selling facial recognition software and creating predictive crime software systems; Facebook is using artificial intelligence to predict and change your future purchasing decisions; Hillary said she is going to try to run Facebook; Roger Goodell released a response to player protests saying that players that don’t stand for the anthem must stay in the locker room; There is a relationship between racism and denying climate change?; Elon Musk is creating a website to rank journalists; Poor People’s Campaign.

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  2. This episode makes me feel like I’m at an old school Baptist Black Church and wouldn’t ya know it, I’ve caught the Holy Gosh Darn Ghost! (Insert speaking in tongues, jumping, twirling, fainting, an singing) Wish ya’ll were putting on a show in Okinawa. I’d pay a hefty fee to laugh an cry with ya’ll on stage some Saturday night.

  4. First of all, Jimmy went into hostile territory with the HRF. Look on their website. My God, other countries are all fucked up. Cuba is still carrying on a prolongation of Fidel’s bloody reign, Venezuela is bad to their citizens, Nigeria is bad, Russia is jailing protestors to Putin. You Americans should be proud that they did not spotlight one bad thing in your country. Yeah, America is good. No wonder Kasparov spouted off on our AP Putin Puppets, Jaime y Steph. Amnesty International is a sponsor. I don’t trust them ever since Zbignew Zbrinsky was director. Mika’s dad was a big artisan of getting the Trilateral Commission’s evil plan into place in 1974. And I have tried to find some papers and books he had written from that time, and it seems the list has been scrubbed. Can anyone find a copy of a 1974 paper “The Paths To Power” or something like that. He outlined a blueprint of American presidencies that was spookishly accurate, down to the personalities of the presidents and the crises that would lead them to put into place their takeover of the American government. They took us up until Clinton (the husband of “I’m With Her”. That is when the PNAC took over, and I have a suspicion that the two groups are not on best of terms. In any case, the Arms Merchants have taken over our governments.
    I really liked the show, you guys were the Cat’s Meow. Oh, shit, I am dating myself. Jeepers, you play well off of each other. Would you be willing to do a European tour and come to Bulle, Switzerland? Ebullition wants to book you, it is a good venue for Indie bands.
    I listened to the show in two parts, and so many of my thoughts are mixed up. I am still waiting for the June 7 show, and it is Saturday June 9. Maybe the AP editing machine is numeric?
    Good talking about Jeff Bezos, but don’t give him too much credit. He is on the financial scene only since about 20 years. In Switzerland and Europe they have honed the craft of international banking. Jeff is a member of the 3-Comma Club. Have you ever heard of the 4-Comma Club?
    You guys have to update your outrage against the War Machine. They don’t spend 7 or 8 hundred billion. They are spending over $6 Trillion each year, most of it off the books. And yes, the contracts are unlimited money for contractors. But the Swiss and Germans are heavily invested. I am fucking sick of the Swiss government recently. They decided to not ban Glyphosate, to not ban plastic bags, and to not support electrical vehicles. They want the industry to let it play out and see what will happen.
    I am going to do a channel with my amateurish methods and maybe you can watch it, see if you like it. I will try to inspire people to take matters into their own hands and work collectively to try to kickstart the Green Revolution. And to help Back Pain.

  5. Wonderful, no AP but Old School was posted. I don’t like fleshlight and the voice, they contribute nearly nothing and when you couple either with Cenk. They kiss so much Cenk ass they must use Kennedy shipments of chapstick to remedy themselves. Ben is the only one who is good with Cenk cause he doesn’t pucker up every few minutes and will reign in his ego. Subscribed because I enjoy your stuff Cenk, but seriously. Is this how a multimillion dollar business should be managed? Post the show and quit playing grab ass with the investors. You have subscribers… For now.

  6. It’s some really fishy stuff happening at TYT. It seems as though the sponsors are pulling more weight than the loyal members. What happened? I thought this company was beholden to their members first. It started with the no cursing rule, increased advertisement breaks for this predominantly members only show, taking multiple days to upload the video of AP although it takes moments to upload the main show (even though this is the most popular show on the network, in addition to a random live time), the tyt app roll out for ios could’ve been postponed to support Android users as well, and this new YTTV deal that has me wondering what the point is for me investing my hard earned money each month. I believed in this company, I believed that they would not be compromised..I am now starting to question that belief. I’m about one more move away from cancelling my membership and finding a new progressive home!

    1. I have to agree. Ever since they made the announcement last year (or was it the year before?) of the $10 million “investors” put in AFTER the end of the members fund drive there has been a slow spiral toward corporate modeling. I too believed in this company and was happy to support them, but they seem willing to sacrifice their base of supporters in order to draw in “moderate” viewers. We’ve seen this model implemented by the democrats over the last 25 years; how’d that work out again? C’mon TYT, this is getting corporate and very disappointing

      1. Unfortunately it’s actually $20 million & you’re right they announced the deal back in August 2017. The $20 million came from four venture capital firms:
        3L Capital led the group & as part of the deal its co-founder/managing partner Shawn Colo also became a TYT board member.
        Greycroft whose founder & managing director Alan Paricof is an old Wall Street tycoon & worked with the Clinton, Bush & Obama administrations
        Jeffrey Katzenberg’s WndrCo, Jeffrey is a big investor for corporate dems(described as a Democrat kingmaker in a variety article)
        E.ventures whom just seems to throw money at random companies

        Also, keep in mind that shortly after this deal was announced Jordan Chariton was accused of sexual misconduct & misuse of TYT funds then quickly fired without an investigation(Cenk actually said it wasn’t for TYT to Investigate – WTF?????)

      2. I just watched the interview Jimmy had on the Progressive Soapbox (I forget the name if the interviewer). Jimmy stated that he doesn’t believe anyone at TYT has sold out, but it all looks to suspicious to me. This looks like a corporate capture to me, so unfortunate.

        2. Thanks for the heads up! I will check out that interview.
          I agree, it really does look like a corporate capture. Unfortunate & disappointing.

  7. Was sad to see no AP this week. Love Ron and Graham on the show, but last week’s was alittle too much Comedy Tour Infomercial for my taste.

    Had a thought with the past few weeks of missing Jimmy, Steve & Stef as hosts and with all the recent backlash on YTTV, has TYT considered having AP on more than once a week, perhaps 2 a week with rotating hosts and content creators? What about having 2 weekly shows, one with the regular West Coast studio crew (Jimmy/Steve/Stef) & then an additional AP show with East Coast hosts (Nomiki/Emma/Katie H) out of NYC studio.

    There’s a reason why AP was voted #1 by the members, we want this type of programming as an alternative to constant stories on how Trump is horrible, wondering what other members think?

    1. I think you have a great idea Rory1972! But we should email your idea to rebelhq@tytnetwork.com (if someone knows a better email post it but i’ve had good luck with that one- thanks Gina Kim!) & I encourage any other member who thinks this is a great idea to do the same. I think tyt will listen if it’s pushed outside of these comments sections which very few of them pay attention to.

  8. Yesterday Steve Oh sent out this tweet: We had an unbelievable episode of #AgressiveProgressives scheduled for today with @jimmy_dore @miserablelib @AbbyMartin and me. Alas, Jimmy is too sick to do the show. Please wish him well! AP will be back next week. ( https://twitter.com/stevenoh88/status/1004027786988802049 )
    Replied asking how Jimmy can be too sick for AP but well enough to do his own videos & to go to Norway, pointing out that Jimmy hasn’t been well enough to do AP since the BS youtube tv deal was announced.
    No reply as of typing this. Very disappointing TYT.

    1. This is what I’ve been saying since the day they dropped the announcement. I have been out-and-out ridiculed several times for speculating that Jimmy will not come back. I get that he is unwell, but yeah… he’s making his own videos and he traveled internationally … which seems like it might be a lot more taxing than going to LA. I still think it’s funny the way people have reacted to my speculation. One person even said to me “So now that TYT has sold out as you say, Jimmy won’t be on the network anymore right?” – this commenter was obviously being sarcastic but … um…. ….. ….. where’s the lie?

      2. I cannot watch the main show anymore. I looked on a blurb for one show and saw that they were discussing Russia, and I am so sick of that. In Europe they are pushing this lie like it is the god-awful truth. I have read many news articles and they do not report on anything of substance since they want to paint Putin as an evil election manipulator. And there is no mention of all the election fraud going on in LA, NY, etc.
        I was writing to our local paper, but they have refused to print anything since I don’t toe the Swiss Sheeple line. I wrote a letter about Gaza that they did print over a month ago, but since then it has only been Pro-Israeli letters. And one very creepy scary veiled threat about some guy wanting to find out where someone lived since she wrote somthing about the Palestinian Cause! All the more creepy since Switzerland is the home to the Gun trade.
        And their is a vote this weekend to give Swiss banks the right to print money. The Sheeple will agree to everything the banks want. When it goes into place, the bank bubble can be allowed to happen and the Elite will steal all of the money in the world.

        I am now waiting three days for the June 7 show. The Pony Express was faster.

  9. I loved him several times and didn’t see it. Last week I emailed and tweeted to TYT Steve and Cenk to ask why was taking so long to load the video and got no response. I love the show. They put the main show up five seconds after it’s over and it takes 2+ days to put up this one?

  11. Message to those poor slobs that work at Walmart or Amazon… GO FIND ANOTHER JOB! Eventually they will just import cheap labor anyway.. so.. what are you waiting for?

    1. Um, they are waiting for more jobs to actually be available, not the one’s that are hypothetical like your suggesting. People don’t work at these places because they want to, they have no other choice

  13. Everyone is using analytics to predict future actions of everyone they can. It’s not shocking or surprising and you shouldn’t act like it is.

    Also, there is no such thing as AI (yet).

  15. Amazon and Walmart pay their employees crap wages, less than subsistence wages. Meanwhile, in Australia, there is discussion of raising the minimum wage, I believe these figures are correct or very close to it, to $18.73 per hour – a 3.5% increase over the current minimum wage.

    Serfing in the U.S.A.!!

    Make America Grate Again!

  16. Now that we have tariffs on Canadian products also, we’re going to build a STEEL wall along the Canadian border! The best U.S. steel ever made!! It will be a SUPER STEEL wall to keep Canadians and their products out (and to keep dissatisfied U.S. citizens from moving to Canada)!!! A GREAT, SHINY, SUPER STEEL WALL!!!!

    Make America Grate Again.

  18. What a impressive show. If this is any indication of how the Progressive Comedy Tour is like I don’t know why tickets aren’t sold out!!

  20. By the way, I wrote an article about BYPASSING/BOYCOTTING both Walmart and Amazon. Much easier for most of us than you would think, and SOOOO satisfying knowing that our money goes to OTHERS, whether a chain or a mom and pop or direct to a manufacturer. Many other online sellers, including for BOOKS, that can even be lower priced than Amazon. And of course avoiding Walmart (and THEIR online place, Jet dotcom) is just as satisfying.
    https://whatifitoldyouthis.blogspot.com/2018/01/lets-kill-walmartand-amazon-too.html

    1. I have bought one item on Amazon in the last 8 years. You are right. Sadly, the youth today are one-click shoppers. BTW, I also have not flown for 8 years. Commercially, at least. Occasional spins in my private jet, though. Ha, Ha.

  21. Great show guys! Also, I love that Batman starry night shirt. I have the same one. :)

  22. Ellison is such a frikken SHILL for the establishment. Pile of crap. All talk, nice LIES, no real action.

  23. Fantastic show! You two work very well together. It’s nice to laugh in between stories on our depressing reality. I’m sure your comedy tour will be tubular.

  27. Recognition : two words, Minority Report. Phillip K Dick is the dystopian sybil of Murika.

  29. But if Jeff Bezos paid every one of his workers a living wage, how is he going to afford to set up colonies for manufacturing on the moon ? Even if he uses his deal with the US government to get NASA to go halves with him he’s only going to have $100 billion left. With that little money left he might need to go on SNAP ?

  31. There’s some heavy duty anti Russia/Putin stuff going on in Scandinavia now and remember, Sweden and Finland aren’t members of NATO and the US wants really badly to put military bases there to help surround Russia. ( they already have in Norway since they are NATO member for long time!) Heavy duty fear-mongering going on.

    1. And I have read that Australia is heavy into ‘anti-China’ crap. This is ALL because of the BRICS coalition, and Russia and China are the most powerful members. Our greedy sociopaths are having TANTRUMS about countries avoiding our greedy grasp of imperialism, plundering, sanctions, destruction and heartless loansharking. The BRICS coalition has been forming for about TEN YEARS – last week a Congressional panel was all about fearmongering re China (Lee Camp did an episode about it). It is DISGUSTING what our sociopaths have done for decades, and their dysfunction is now SO BIZARRE that they will kill us all AND destroy the planet as they go after their next ‘money fix’ and go insane over not controlling EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE.

      And, of course, war actions of ANY TYPE are for the profits of the owners of our many DOZENS of privatized war companies. And privatization is NOT what they have told us it is. People running a privatized system get to BILL THE FEDERAL GOVT ANY AMOUNT, providing massive exec salaries and millions/BILLIONS in profits. That is why they want EVERYTHING privatized, and why they took the scam of privatization GLOBAL back in the 70s and 80s (after we went off the gold standard in 1971, and the greedy salivated at the federal govt being able to issue ANY AMOUNT OF MONEY for anything that was physically possible).
      https://whatifitoldyouthis.blogspot.com/2018/02/privatization-biggest-scam-web-of-lies.html

      1. America does not have the monopoly on Arms Merchants. The Swiss Central Bank is where all of the other Central Banks go to for their money. And the Swiss are voting to let the banks control more money this weekend. That means that they have everything in place, since the Donald put in place the Tax Cuts. They just want to have it ALL.

        1. This has always been a problem & no one at TYT has ever explained why their most popular show on the network gets such low priority. I am sure Youtube tv subscribers got AP right away. that seems to be the direction TYT is heading anyways. Disappointing

          1. I sent TYT an email, nobody replied.

            I sent a tweet to Ron, Steve Oh, Jimmy, Cenk and Graham asking why it takes so long. Nobody replied.

            WTF?

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