
President Joe Biden endorsed a ban on congressional stock trading in an interview that’s being released this week, belatedly weighing in on an issue that has been debated on Capitol Hill for years. “Nobody in the Congress should be able to make...
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Jimmy Dore
Hey, come see us do live shows January 3rd in Los Angeles, Honolulu. After that, Baltimore, Maryland, Atlantic City co host, New York and Providence, Rhode Island. Go to Jimmy Dore.com for a link for tickets. Hey, this is Jimmy. Who's this?
Mitt Romney
Hello, Jimmy. This is Senator mitt Romney.
Jimmy Dore
Hey Mr. Hey Senator. But you're not going to be Senator much longer, right?
Mitt Romney
You are, Jimmy. I only have about a month left in office as Senator from Utah, and after that I will be hanging up my senatorial mantle. Actually, we don't really wear anything special, but between now and then, I will be trying to solidify my legacy as the conscience of the Republican Party.
Jimmy Dore
Yeah, the conscience of the Republican Party.
Mitt Romney
Yes. That's a little thing I made up for myself. I'm trying to get it to stick by dropping it casually into conversation a la. But that's just how I rol. Conscience of the Republican Party. So far, it's not working, Jimmy.
Jimmy Dore
Yeah, I'm sorry to hear that.
Mitt Romney
Oh, no worries. I'm still undaunted. I'm almost wholly immune to daunts, and as such, I will continue to provide moral leadership to my fellow Republicans even after I leave office.
Jimmy Dore
Is that so?
Mitt Romney
Oh, absolutely, Jimmy. Jimmy I recently sat down with CNN's Jake Tapper for a lengthy interview about my long and storied political career.
Jimmy Dore
Jake Tapper, Friends of the show oh.
Mitt Romney
Oh, yes. I've always found him to be most respectful and respectable gentleman. I enjoyed our conversation greatly, but the main takeaway was about the future of the Republican Party.
Jimmy Dore
And what are your thoughts on that?
Mitt Romney
Well, As I told Mr. Tapper, Jake, the lay of the land is this.
Jimmy Dore
What the.
Mitt Romney
MAGA is, the Republican Party now? The Republican Party is Donald Trump. That's just the way it is. Now, I don't care much for Donald Trump personally, and I never made much of a secret about that, except when I was captured in a photo next to him with a shitting grin on my face. But he is the president, and we have to respect that situation.
Jimmy Dore
So that's your moral leadership? You just accept the status quo at all costs?
Mitt Romney
Oh, absolutely, Jimmy. I've always been a big status quo guy. I got really into quo in college, and I've been a huge fan ever since. Once you establish the status quo itself as having inherent moral value, you have laid a foundation for a life where you never really have to think about things too much.
Jimmy Dore
And that's a very nice feeling, I bet. Interesting.
Mitt Romney
It really is the way to be. Ironically, I came to this conclusion while a young Mormon missionary in France. I rode around on a bicycle for a year trying to convince French people to give up coffee, wine, and fornication. Not only did I not get a single solitary convert, but I was told to go pissing my own mouth so often that eventually I started to say it along with them. These frogs were committed to the status quo, but they were happy. They never had to think about new ideas because they had their insufferable Frenchness.
Jimmy Dore
Okay, but what's your point?
Mitt Romney
My point is that's how we as individuals should see the world and how political parties should operate. That's why we'll never really overhaul health care, because it would be too much of a change for too many people. Medicare for all. How about you go piss in your own mouth?
Jimmy Dore
Wow. Okay.
Mitt Romney
And since we have Donald Trump in office for a second term, he is the status quo, which means he is good. I don't like him, but he's good. Does that make sense?
Jimmy Dore
Not really.
Mitt Romney
Yeah, probably not to you. You're more of a I like to change things kind of guy. That's the kind of guy you are.
Jimmy Dore
I am let's fix our broken system kind of guy, Matt.
Mitt Romney
Okay, but fixing broken things is technically still change.
Jimmy Dore
Yes.
Mitt Romney
After a while, a leaky faucet can be part of the ambiance of a household, and one might forestall fixing it for that reason.
Jimmy Dore
Are you comparing millions of Americans dying without health care to a leaky faucet?
Mitt Romney
Yes, in the sense that I don't have to deal with either one.
Jimmy Dore
Well, good for you, Senator.
Mitt Romney
Thank you. I've worked very hard. And since we're on the topic of the status quo, there's a long standing tradition that I enjoy that qualifies as quo.
Jimmy Dore
Yeah, and what's that, Jimmy?
Mitt Romney
Remember when I used to end our little chats with hurling a string of obscenities at you?
Jimmy Dore
I certainly do.
Mitt Romney
You know, I'd call you a filthy cockbag or a shameless dog fucker or some such filth.
Jimmy Dore
I remember.
Mitt Romney
Well, I tell you to go get fucked by a pack of monkeys who just escaped from a lab infected with God knows what or get spit roasted by two killer whales at Sea world while children watch and laugh and clap. You know, some sort of bestiality thing nearly every time.
Jimmy Dore
Yep.
Mitt Romney
Well, traditions are part of the status quo and they should be continued thoughtlessly. For that sole reason, and for that reason, this blessed holiday season, I would like to say Jimmy Dore, go fuck yourself, you hobo blowing herpes spreading salad bar sneeze shield licking teen prostitute murdering piece of fucking shit. And Merry Christmas from the Romney family.
Jimmy Dore
I have. Merry Christmas to you and yours. Establishment media sucks, August lighting, so good luck bullshit we can't afford. While he's fomenting this watch and see as his jack off the medium speeds and jumps the medium and hits them head on. It's the chimney door show, everybody. We have special guests with us. Carol Roth, she's the author of this book, you will own nothing. Well, it actually is. You will own a house, a car. No, none of those things. You'll own nothing. It's your war with the new financial world order and how to fight back. It's Carol Roth, she's back with us. Hey, Carol, how are you?
Carol Roth
Hey, Jimmy. So great to be back with you.
Jimmy Dore
Great to see you again. Also our main man, Paul Stone, the co founder and CEO of Colonial Metals Group, Florida based precious metals supplier that helps clients leverage gold and silver to develop secure retirement plans. And he also has a substack, thepaulstone.substack.com welcome back to the show, Paul. How are you?
Paul Stone
I'm great, Jimmy. Thank you so much for having me.
Jimmy Dore
So I wanted to get your opinion on this. So I just want to show so Matt Gaetz, we showed this on the show before, but I want to show it to you again because Biden is doing something on his way out the door. So Matt Gaetz went around Congress and he was showing all the corruption that's happening there. Let's watch A little bit.
Paul Stone
Congressman Gates offered to take us on a tour.
Unnamed Guest
So one of the committees where people have a lot of information is the Appropriations Committee, because they can view almost any vector of government funding. And so, you know, this is Mr. Rutherford's office. He's on the Ethics Committee and the Appropriations Committee. 152 stock trades. Stocks go through the roof. And actually bought Raytheon stock the day that Russia invaded Ukraine.
Jimmy Dore
Yeah.
Paul Stone
That's a big one.
Jimmy Dore
Yeah.
Unnamed Guest
I mean, imagine if every American could make money off of war.
Jimmy Dore
Yeah.
Paul Stone
Setting aside the whole shame and ethics questions, how many more on our hit list here?
Unnamed Guest
There are a few more. I wish there were fewer on the hit list. I wish we could only stop at one or two offices, but as it turns out. So energy is a sector that sees a lot of Congressional stock trading. And we have members who are on the Energy Subcommittee of Appropriations, like Michael Guest, chairman of the Ethics Committee. And he's traded somewhere between tens and hundreds of thousands of dollars in energy stocks. He's been buying online gaming stocks and just making a killing on them. So you would think that the people that were on the Ethics Committee would be your best allies in this fight. But indeed, they're some of the most prolific traders. And not only trading, but in the case of Mr. Guest, trading in an area where he has access to energy information more so than almost any other American, and no.
Paul Stone
Indication that he wants to maybe slow down, pump the brakes, recognize that there.
Jimmy Dore
Might be some appearance of impropriety here.
Unnamed Guest
It seems as though the pace is only accelerating.
Mitt Romney
Right.
Jimmy Dore
So it goes on, but you get the point. And so now, on his way out of office, guess what Joe Biden's doing. Justin? President Biden calls for a ban on Congressional stock trading. Nobody in Congress should be able to make money in stock market while they're in Congress. Is that his way of saying thanks for kicking him out before his term was done? Is that what he's doing? Is he trying to stick it back to Nancy Pelosi and all the people who made him? Is that. Let me send it to you, Carol. What do you think?
Carol Roth
You took the words right out of my mouth. This is a direct dig at Nancy Pelosi, who is one of the most prolific traders. There's this great account on X called Unusual Whales. And one of the things they do on a regular basis is they track the trading to see who the best traders are in Congress. And Pelosi is always near the top of the list. So this is definitely a dig right at her. But I have to also say, Jimmy, going back to that video, amazing to me that every single one of these people that he was talking about were on the Ethics Committee. Like, you couldn't write. This is like, if you were trying to write this as, like a sitcom, it couldn't be more on the nose than that, that the guys who are in charge of the Ethics Committee are engaging in, you know, this, this insider trading, taking the knowledge that they're influencing and that they have before everyone else. And so I think it's pretty hilarious. We've, we've actually had people in Congress put forth bills, many bills about this. But I think it's pretty funny that this is the last dig of Biden. And it just goes to my theory that, like, I'm almost one, that him and Jill voted for Trump.
Jimmy Dore
Now, Paul, do you. Is this what it looks like to you, too? Do you think that this is Joe Biden trying to get back at the people who forced him out and not. And had to give up his presidency? Is that. Or does he really care about how it looks?
Paul Stone
Well, it's Joe Biden or, I mean, he thinks there's one drone flying over New Jersey when he was quoted the other day. So we always got to remember it's the regime running about. It's the regime that's running him.
Jimmy Dore
Okay.
Paul Stone
Those who would have been attached to continue with power had he been remained in place as the candidate seeking reelection. They're bitter. Yeah, I'm sure that's what it is.
Jimmy Dore
I'm sure that's what it is. Well, here a little bit more. Professor Zenkis says there was a congressional stock ban bill before Congress in 2022, when Democrats had majorities in both the House and the Senate and could have passed it. Biden did nothing. And most importantly, Nancy Pelosi as Speaker made sure it was tabled until the Republicans took over. So, of course, Biden waits until a month before he leaves office and Trump is President Elect and the GOP is about to control both chambers of Congress to come out strongly for this. This is how Democrats operate and why we can't stand them. They don't use their power to do the right thing when they have the power. Instead, they wait until Republicans have power and then say, oh, look, we are backing the right thing. Why aren't they doing something? They're all frauds, right? So that is pretty fraudulent behavior. One more. This is what Pelosi portfolio update. Our Nancy Pelosi trading Strategy has risen 54% so far this year. Representative Pelosi has made almost 100 times her annual congressional salary off of her portfolio. Last year, Pelosi held up efforts to ban congressional trading. That's Nancy Pelosi. And Nancy Pelosi made $3 million in three hours insider training. That's 17 times her annual salary. She's also made $4 million on a single trade. That's 20 times her salary. She owns a $200,000 Porsche 911 multiple mansions worth over 5 million apiece. Nancy Pelosi stock portfolio has hit an all time high as + 93%. Here's one more breaking Pelosi wins again after Broadcom crushes earnings. She's now made an estimated $1,800,000 on her AVGO buy. That's 10 times her yearly salary on just one trade. So, you know, Carol, there was a time when Barack Obama signed a ban on this stuff and then the next year he repealed it. Do you remember that?
Carol Roth
I do. I am old enough to remember that. And as you've noted in some of these posts, there have been on a bipartisan basis actually many bills that have been introduced. Because I think that most people understand this doesn't make a lot of things, but Nancy Pelosi is the Gordon Gecko of Congress. I mean, she is the absolute Wall street legend. And this is how her and her husband make lots of money. She was actually interviewed about this. I did a piece about congressional insider trading a couple of years ago and she was interviewed and she said, oh, you know, it's not insider trading, it's capitalism. And I just thought that that was just so amazing that she was throwing that out there. But I do think the tides are changing and we're seeing it now how people are speaking up and their voices are being heard, especially with, with X. And I think that this is something that could get through perhaps the next Congress if you get enough people talking about it and putting that pressure. Because there definitely is some support from Congress just not at the very top levels from the people who are making all the money like Nancy Pelosi.
Jimmy Dore
Well, don't you think that this would lower confidence, Paul, in people's just in general investing in the stock market if they see are the people running government manipulating it like this?
Paul Stone
I think you broaden out just a little and you look at how it's just another very powerful example that those in Washington have no cares for us out on Main Street. They're never thinking about us, they're always thinking about themselves. And when they see, you know, people becoming extraordinarily wealthy over the last 10, 15 years from all the money printing to save our economy from the devastation of 08. They want a part of that. You know, they probably think like peons. And those are the lobbyists whispering in their ears. From Monday through Friday, American citizens aren't camped out in D.C. whispering in their ears for what we need, because we're at work out here in the real world. And so it's just another really, really strong example that as people sit back in their Lazy Boys and they watch the news and they're angry about the headlines they see or they're confused, just recognize nothing inside Washington will change Washington. And it's not a swamp. A long time ago, it was a swamp. And they drain that. Concrete and steel is what makes up Washington today. It will take a wrecking ball, not pulling a plug. There's nothing that's liquid in Washington. It's all hardened steel and concrete. That regime, that beast of a bureaucracy, cares only for itself. It feeds on itself, and it thinks we're the enemy.
Carol Roth
And I think it's a different set of rules is really what's frustrating to people, because if people on Main street, if you worked in a company and you knew what was going on and you were able to trade with the same level of information, I don't think people would have so many issues with it. But the fact of the matter is, this is something that is illegal for everybody else. Everyone on Wall street, everyone on Main street. And somehow Congress is exempt, just like they're exempt from everything else. They're supposed to be representatives, they're supposed to be public servants, but the only thing they're serving is their own interests.
Jimmy Dore
Yep. Well, here it is. Hawley introduces the Pelosi Act. Hey, congratulations, Nancy. You finally have a bill named after you. Congratulations. It bans lawmakers from trading stocks. That was introduced way back in January 23rd. And here's what our good friend Glenn with two ends Greenwald has to say about it. It's a textbook example of Washington theater. Let's hear what he says.
Glenn Greenwald
What's more interesting than the fact that the amendment failed? And it doesn't mean the bill is never going to pass. It still could pass as a standalone bill is exactly what happened, which in particular, the Democrats, every Democrat except one on the Senate Judiciary Committee voted no. The Democrats are a majority as a result. The fact that they all voted no, except for Senator John Ossoff of Georgia, who voted yes, voted in favor of Senator Hawley's proposed ban, meant that as long as they got one or Two Republican no votes. The amendment from Senator Hawley was going to fail. So here you see every Democrat, Senator Durbin, Feinstein, Whitehouse, Klobuchar, Blumenthal, Hirono, Cory Booker, all of them just voting no. And then John Cornyn and Thom Tillis, the Republican from Texas, the Republican from North Carolina, joined those Democrats in voting no. And that right there, you see it on the screen, that formed a majority of no votes. That ensured that Senator Hawley's amendment was going to fail. As soon as it became obvious that there were enough no votes to ensure failure. That was when all these brave Republicans stepped up to vote yes, knowing that there was no chance that it could actually succeed. So you hear of Lindsey Graham, Chuck Grassley, Mike Lee, Ted Cruz, Senator Hawley, Senator Cotton Kennedy, Marsha Blackburn, and then joined by Jon Ossoff. Now, some of these people are actual, genuine supporters of this band. That obviously includes Senator Hawley. It includes Senator Ossoff. But what so often is done is so much of this is theater, where you get very safe senators, very safe blue states who are never going to be primary challenged by the Democratic Party. They don't primary challenge anybody. And who are in states where their seats are very safe. So they can vote no on anything, including something as popular as banning members of Congress from profiteering off stock trading. And then once it's safely defeated, other people who aren't quite as safe in their seats can come up and pretend to vote yes, pretend to support it, knowing that in reality, its failure is already guaranteed. That's exactly what happened here.
Jimmy Dore
So it's all theater. And, you know, I try to say that we're really run by a cabal of billionaires in the West. And people say, oh, really, Jim? You think they have secret meetings? And I'm like, no, it's called the session of Congress.
Paul Stone
Yeah.
Jimmy Dore
When they have a. When they have a session in Congress, do you really think they're in there doing the bidding of workers and students and the retired people and the infirmed and sick? No, they're in there doing the bidding for themselves and their corporate masters. Right. So do you, Carol, do you think this will ever get. You think we'll ever go back to that one brief shining moment when this was outlawed and that we could have some. Some integrity Back to the stock trading in America.
Carol Roth
Well, it's funny that you said that about Congress. I always call Congress a place where they legally launder money and perform political theater. And that's what they've been doing for a long time. I think the way that this maybe turns around is if we can somehow get some blind voting where people have to go on the record, but you don't know what everybody else is doing in place. I think that would be the way to do it. I don't know that the people who are in charge are going to do that. But maybe if you get a switcheroo, you get somebody who is the speaker, who's from outside of Congress, you know, gets nominated or something like that. But that would really be the way you kind of like they elect the Pope, where everybody puts down the piece of paper and then they put out the, you know, the smoke. Yes. You know, now you can no longer. Insider trade. But there are some people who are, who think this is a big deal. And I do think that we're at a point where people are very fed up with the status quo, that they want to change, that they are not happy with what Congress has done and how it has completely obliterated Main Street. And so if it is going to happen soon, I think now is the moment to seize on that and let people use their voices and basically shame these members of Congress into doing the right thing. Because I think we've seen that be effective recently. And if we can get more of that, you now is probably the time to seize that moment.
Jimmy Dore
When you say recently, you're talking about the CR bill, the continuing.
Carol Roth
Yeah, yeah. I mean, I think with the election, with the CR bill, with some of these appointments that Trump has floated, you know, the flip flopping that we're seeing in terms of that, it's because there has been this free speech backlash from people who are using their voices and saying, this is what we want of you. And that is getting out in a very meaningful way. It's no longer that the corporate press is the gatekeepers. We have folks like you, Jimmy, we have folks on Twitter who are able to now spread messages in a different way. And that is meaningful and that is getting to people. So I think that we're starting to just see the beginning of that. And so now is really the time to put the pedal to the metal on that.
Jimmy Dore
Do you, you, you know, since you brought up the continuing resolution. How, how, how did that. What, what, what were people objecting to the most? And has it changed? Is it, what, what's going on? Can you tell me what's going on with that?
Carol Roth
The latest, is that back to me? Yeah, well, first of all, the bill had some ozempic. It went from 1500 pages to like, you know, 8, 118 and 24 hours. So that was pretty amazing. I still not exactly sure what is in it. I was just on another network talking and it looks like it has enough votes that it is cleared the House in its current form and now that is going to go to the Senate and we'll see if the Senate approves it. And it sounds like, you know, it's got some pieces in it, but not, you know, obviously the whole pork boodle that was in there the last time. And I think the objection, I think what people really wanted was to see single issue bills. Right? We want to, we want to vote on these things individually. We want you to go on record and tell us where you stand on this issue. Not, oh, well, I had to vote for it because I needed to get this important thing attached over here. But, you know, as a first step, that's a pretty impressive turnaround in 24 hours that we have not seen before. I don't think we have a precedent for that. So if that could be done and Trump hasn't taken office, the new Congress hasn't taken session yet, that maybe that type of model can really be accelerated where people are using their voices and saying no business and as usual is not going to fly.
Jimmy Dore
So there were so many things in that continuing resolution that even I became aware of. Like, they had stuff in there. I don't know if it's still in there. It went from 1500 pages down to 100. They, they, they had stuff in there that would block Trump's Department of Justice from investigating crimes that were being committed by members of Congress because they knew he was going to go after the crimes. That was, I was clear to me that happened on the January 6th committee. And they wanted to insulate those people from that. And that was included in a funding bill. What is that? You're right. So people want to vote on that. Why don't you have a vote on that? Don't stick it into a funding bill right before Christmas, which is exactly what that Massie said was gonna happen. And that's exactly. It's amazing you could predict the corruption. And Mike Johnson doesn't seem to be any different than anybody on any of this. And you've been following this at all, Paul?
Paul Stone
Yeah, absolutely. You know, to me, and I grew up outside Northern Virginia, so I have a little bit of a sense of what that city seems to, you know, how it seems to operate. It's like juggling chainsaws. And these funding bills are a game of extortion. That's all they Are you wanna fund the government, you wanna fund the military, great. You're gonna have to sign all these things that no one else would really want. And let's just. And they plan to load up the bill with so many things. I mean, how long would you read your service agreement with your cellular carrier? You just click, I agree, you're not gonna read it. Cause it's 180 pages long, it's 100 pages long, it's 50 pages long. And that's part of it. And Carol made a great point earlier when she said we could shame the politicians into passing a law that restricts them from bad behavior. But deeper than that is all of the people, not every single one of them, but overwhelming majority of the people are already bad people. You're not gonna wag the badness out of their characters. We would have to look at how we re engineer the election process. We would have to look at what we can change as people, ourselves. You know, I've said just for a perspective, what if no one voted two years from now? Right? You had no. You'd lose what, a third of the House? Half the House and a third of the Senate. And two years later no one voted. And six years later, no one voted and we had none of this. You know, it's just for perspective, to understand that the choices that come to us on the ballot are rarely ever good because they're the same kind of people they're replacing. And I don't mean to assault anyone's character, but if we just look plainly at the track record of what we've been getting for 20, 30, 40 years, it's the same thing. It's all hooey. And none of it represents the interests of you and me. And the reason I feel fine coming down hard on them is they actually have. I didn't have to swear anything when I became CEO of a company or a sales guy at some company. They swear an oath, an oath. So they have to be held to a higher standard. We get to hold them to a higher standard. And if they're not going to defend the interests of American Americans and individuals that are already here, then I've got a lot of curse words to describe their character.
Jimmy Dore
I certainly do too. Well, good for Joe Biden. He's given so many fingers on his way out the door. I didn't know he had so many. We should just kind of compliment him for having the physical acuity to hold up a finger, I guess. Hey, you know, here's another great way you can help support the show is you become a premium member. We give you a couple of hours of premium bonus content every week and it's a great way to help support the show. You can do it by going to jimmy door comedy.com Clicking on join Premium. It's the most affordable premium program in the business and it's a great way to help put your thumb back in the eye of the bastards. Thanks for everybody who was already a premium member and if you haven't, you're missing out. We give you lots of bonus content. Thanks for your support.
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Jimmy Dore
Gave the final middle finger to the working class on his way out. That's right after he gave the middle finger by pardoning Hunter to the American. Middle finger to the American people by pardoning Hunter. Then he gave his middle finger to all the child victims of the judge who was taking millions of dollars to put children in jail. He pardoned him. How many middle fingers does this guy have left?
Unnamed Co-Host
I count three. So that's one that's short Biden. So both Bidens now have. There's one last middle finger, by my count.
Jimmy Dore
So what did he. What was the middle finger he gave to truckers? He may be on his way out of office, but the administration has used his final weeks in office to give one last kick in the pants to working class Americans, as Landline magazine revealed. Landline magazine. That's the journal of record for people who still have landlines. Is that what that is? I think it's from the same publisher as Cassette Player Geographic and Hand Crank Power Car Window Enthusiast. Can't even get a smile out of Misha Nothing. As Landline magazine revealed Last week, the Department of Homeland Security has made an additional 70,000 H2B visas available for next year, doubling the number of the previous year when 1500 were given to transportation occupations like trucking. So they're bringing in people to drive trucks in America and drive wages down. That's what Joe Biden's doing on his way out of office. That's his big gift. Wow.
Unnamed Co-Host
Truckers didn't even do a trucker thing like Canada, and he did that to them.
Jimmy Dore
I. I should, I should. You know what? I should be giving Joe Biden credit just for being able to raise his middle finger to begin with. 130,000 visas might not sound like a lot in the country as populous as the United States and 1500 given to truckers even less so. But when you consider market conditions and just how bad the trucking industry has gotten, you start to see how much of a middle finger to truck drivers that this really is.
Unnamed Co-Host
Well, they got to compete with Amazon, right?
Jimmy Dore
How bad have things gotten for trucking? Well, the online trucking industry magazine Freight Waves has an entire section of their website dedicated to nothing but trucking company bankruptcies and truck driver layoffs. No kidding. A quick scan through the most recent dozen of 82 articles for 2024 alone show that over 4,000 truckers in the United States were laid off in October and November. And thousands more are at risk of being laid off as the companies they work for seek bankruptcy protection. This number doesn't even include many self employed truckers whose business closures are much more difficult to track. Given this fact, what on earth would cause the Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to push for more visas for foreign truckers? He gave us a window into his thinking recently in a November press release. There are employers across the country that would suffer greatly with employers.
Unnamed Co-Host
Yeah.
Jimmy Dore
Did you not? Not employees, not truckers, not workers. But employers would suffer greatly if they had to pay a living wage to their truckers.
Unnamed Co-Host
Wait, the number one illegal immigrant human trafficker in America thinks that. You don't say.
Jimmy Dore
You don't say. He really does care about the average working American as much as the joker cares about his makeup being uneven. Authorizing this is. According to Mayorkas, authorizing these supplemental visas helps US employers fill those positions. It helps fuel our economy and reduce irregular migration while also providing a safe and lawful pathway to the United States for non citizens who are prepared to work. Because, you know, there's nobody in America who wants to work. They're prepared to work for less and not for long.
Unnamed Co-Host
They get Sick of it. Real quicker and quicker. As a matter of fact, it ain't like the old days. They start to realize they're getting screwed and then they hate the next batch of illegals you just brought in. It's accelerating now.
Jimmy Dore
Perhaps Mayorkas still believes in the debunked driver shortage narrative that corporate lobbying groups like the American Trucking association have been pushing for decades in an effort to extract taxpayer subsidies for their in house CDL schools. Yes, perhaps he does believe that. More than likely he always knew it was a lie and this was all on purpose. Of course there's a driver shortage. It's probably caused by climate change, alien invasions and cholesterol.
Unnamed Co-Host
Oh, I hate Mayorkas's face.
Jimmy Dore
Dude, just look.
Unnamed Co-Host
It looks like Dove Davidoff's joke, like he just smelled cookies.
Jimmy Dore
There isn't a trucker shortage, just like there isn't a worker shortage in America. This, that, this is all a lie. Don't believe people when they say this. Don't believe Bill Clinton when he says we have to have open borders because we're not making enough babies. The reason why people aren't making enough maybes in America is because they don't feel financially secure enough to afford a family. But what people like Bill Clinton want to do is flood the country with more cheap labor to drive your wages down even further.
Unnamed Co-Host
Yeah, think about all the racism of like designing. Oh, they just keep having babies. Those are citizens. You see the trick?
Jimmy Dore
Yeah.
Unnamed Co-Host
Rich people go, well, all these irresponsible babies, and then they bring in people from other countries and pay them slave wages and they can provide the babies while you're sterile.
Jimmy Dore
But there isn't a trucker shortage. There's a retention crisis, the result of plummeting wages. Plummeting wages for truckers that can be traced back to the deregulation of the business brought to us by another Democrat, Jimmy Carter, and his motor carrier act in 1980. People forget that Jimmy Carter deregulated the trucking industry. And it's been on a downward spiral spiral ever since.
Unnamed Co-Host
Wow, thank you. That open arms thing too, to the Marielle boat lift, which was a huge disaster. And not in terms of drug smuggling, of course, that up, that way up. But that's on a national scale.
Jimmy Dore
Now Jimmy Carter is one of those rare instances where you have a home builder who doesn't rely on truckers. Thanks to Carter, the average truck driver today's salary is half of what it was in 1980 when he deregulated the industry. Just so you know, I'm sure he.
Unnamed Co-Host
Can'T take all the credit. And I'm sure a lot of the geniuses behind that are still in power in some fashion to this very day.
Jimmy Dore
The Biden administration's latest slap in the face is exactly the kind of policy that kept has kept truckers salaries in the toilet. Like so much else under the Democrats, when greeted with bad working conditions, their answer is let's bring in more immigrants who won't complain. The trucking industry in America has come to rely on migrant labor instead of improving pay and conditions for American workers.
Unnamed Co-Host
It's cheaper.
Jimmy Dore
That's right. That's the context in which to understand Majorca's visa gambit. It's designed to make it easier for American companies to bypass their fellow citizens for jobs, following a pattern that sees exploiting migrants as a more profitable alternative to offering jobs with decent pay and conditions. It's almost like the this administration has one function and that's to destroy America from the inside out. Seems like that's what they're doing a lot of the.
Unnamed Co-Host
It's called globalism. Yeah, Global market. There has to be one global country and it better be us. So we got to do whatever we can to you, the citizens. And if you're collateral damage, like a common Iraqi that you didn't think about at the time, you're one of them and fuck you. And that's our message to all the all Americans from the top.
Jimmy Dore
It should come as no surprise that drivers from other countries are often poorly trained and many do not communicate in English, which you would think would be a requirement for a safety sensitive job like trunking. And it is. Meanwhile, corrupt DMVs have been found to be giving out truck driving licenses without even testing the drivers with predictable negative results on highway safety. No kidding.
Unnamed Co-Host
Wow. Looks like Kirk Mexican's gonna get some side work.
Jimmy Dore
So you mean I had to learn to hand signal, parallel park and load the speed limits everywhere for nothing? All I had to do was hop over the border and then come back again.
Unnamed Co-Host
So they use New York City's taxi driver policy is basically saying Yep.
Jimmy Dore
A piece of legislation has been languishing in committees since it was introduced in 2022 by former Democratic Congressman Andy Levin that would have massively helped America's truckers. The Guaranteeing Overtime for Truckers Act. Though Democrats lost control of Congress in the midterms later in 2022, President Biden could have demanded that this piece of legislation be prioritized. What truckers got instead was not nothing but the government throwing yet more money at the retention problem. Which helps to keep truckers wages frozen. The reelection of Donald Trump to the presidency has been welcomed by many of America's truckers and we hope, yeah, you better hope that President Trump does not repeat the same policy mistake. It's not a mistake. This is not a policy mistake.
Unnamed Co-Host
It is not incompetent.
Jimmy Dore
This is not incompetence. It's not an oopsie. This is part of the plan.
Unnamed Co-Host
Then we get your speech rights. We disarm you, we do all the things so that you are and then make you like all the kids in college can go take a day to color in coloring books because Trump got in. We turn you into a five year old forever and then decide how much slop you'll get to have like you live in Gaza.
Jimmy Dore
I and now it's going to be up to MAGA to care about stuff like this and we see if we'll see if I don't have any hope that Trump a billionaire and you already know that Elon Musk is anti union for his own workers who build his cars. You think he's going to want to help prop up the truckers? No, he wants to bring in cheap labor. Trump has signaled that he will prioritize American workers. Well, he signaled a nice symbolic gesture to start out this second term would be to cancel the visas issued by Mayorkas and Biden. Well, we'll see. Maybe he will do that. I'm going to guess he won't. I have hope. I don't have faith. There are plenty of American truckers out of work who could fill those positions right now. Yes, there are. So don't believe them when they say that people aren't making enough babies in America. People are making the reason why is because the economy sucks so bad for them. When the economy is good, people make lots of babies.
Unnamed Co-Host
Yeah, poor people are. Don't worry. It's all the middle class people that thought they went to college and they were a good boy and girl and did the thing and they believe in the establishment. That's who's fucked because they got debt from their dumb college they went to. Which you're not getting a break on because it interferes with our recruitment. Military requested them never to do that.
Jimmy Dore
Come see us on tour in Los Angeles, Honolulu, Dallas, Texas, Baltimore, Atlantic City, Cohos, New York and Providence, Rhode Island. Go to Jimmy Dore.com for a link for tickets and only there. So Trudeau is going through some hot water. So this guy Wright Blend said he confronted Justin Trudeau and asked him what gives him the right to continue as Prime Minister of Canada. He's a public figure, not the king. And he has failed. It's time for him to go. It's time. So the rats are leaving the sinking ship up there. Christopher Freeland, his finance minister left Said and everybody's leaving him. In fact, today, the big op, the person who's supposed to be supporting him has told him to resign. I'll show you this. But some. This guy confronts him and there's a couple interesting things I'm going to point out here. Watch this.
Justin Trudeau
King Trudeau, what gives you the right to continue? What gives you the right to stay in office? You failed Canada. You've ruined our country. You're done.
Jimmy Dore
Walk away.
Justin Trudeau
You don't have an ounce of your father's integrity. At least he walked in the snow. You've ruined this country. Everyone around you is running from you. They're abandoning you. Christia Freeland, Sean Frazier, they've all left you. It's time for you to go. It's time for Canada to have an election. You're not the king.
Jimmy Dore
Wow. So I just want to show you that the guy who screams about climate change drives around in the biggest SUV I've ever seen. And it's not just his. It's not. He's got a whole string of them with him everywhere he goes.
Justin Trudeau
Just like you're not the king of this country.
Jimmy Dore
They're behind him, they're in front of them. This is Mr. Climate Change Everywhere they go.
Unnamed Co-Host
Do you know how hard it is to fail Canada? I mean, that's really an achievement.
Jimmy Dore
So that was pretty epic. This epic heckle comes one day after Trudeau's trusted deputy Finance minister Christian Freeland went scorched earth in a Monday resignation letter that left Trudeau in an even more precarious position.
Unnamed Co-Host
Wait, Jimmy, he fired her and then she did that. You know that. That's her. You can't fire me. I quit.
Jimmy Dore
Oh, no kidding.
Unnamed Co-Host
Her? Yup.
Jimmy Dore
Oh, is that what happened?
Unnamed Co-Host
Freeland has put it is a botched firing she had. That's why she's doing it.
Jimmy Dore
So that's why she did it. Oh, okay.
Unnamed Co-Host
It's like a Nazi scumbag from the wef.
Jimmy Dore
It's like when Joe Biden endorsed Kamala Harris to stick it back in Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats face because they kicked him out. Right. And they. Okay, so Freeland has publicly opposed a plan by Trudeau for short term spending on voter pleasing measures such as tax breaks that will worsen the country's Budget deficit short term.
Unnamed Co-Host
So the tax breaks, you know, they're insane. Taxes they have there that are not just like normal taxes. They're like, just to get liquor.
Jimmy Dore
Yeah. But they do have health care.
Unnamed Co-Host
Their health care stinks. They've gutted that. The health care, what they have, they are wrecking it. Suicide. They literally are paying.
Jimmy Dore
I know. So our country. This is from his deputy who he fired and she quit. Our deputy today faces a grave Challenge. Freeland, 56, wrote in her letter, referring to the United States President elect Donald Trump's threat of tariffs. That means keeping our fiscal powder dry today so we have the reserves we may need for a coming tariff war.
Unnamed Co-Host
He wants a tariff war with America. And he's like, no, we got to knuckle under. And he's right, by the way. Knuckle under Canada.
Jimmy Dore
That means eschewing costly political gimmicks which we can ill afford and which make Canadians doubt that we recognize the gravity of the moment.
Unnamed Co-Host
Gimmicks. How great is that? Gimmicks like easing off the population a little bit.
Jimmy Dore
So here she says, see my letter to the Prime Minister below? And then salty Canuck says, $61 billion deficit. No wonder you resigned. You just screwed Canadians over hard. How do you look your kids and people in. In your writing, in the faces when you tell them they will never own a home?
Unnamed Co-Host
It's easy. She's a Nazi. She's an Azov.
Jimmy Dore
That's right. That's easy.
Unnamed Co-Host
As a close family friend.
Jimmy Dore
That's right. Trump tweeted about it on his True Social. He said, the great state of Canada A is stunned as the Finance Minister resigns or was fired, as Kurt says, from her position by Governor Justin Trudeau. Her behavior was totally toxic and not at all conducive to making deals which are good for the very unhappy citizens of Canada A. She will not be missed. So is that because. Was she. So what? What? I wonder what the riff was there. We got to get that guy. Who's that guy of vive. Who's our guy?
Unnamed Co-Host
I mean, it said. I think it is what it says. She wanted to go, yeah, let's have a tariff war. Because she's a Ukraine simp.
Jimmy Dore
She wanted to have a tariff war.
Unnamed Co-Host
Yeah. She.
Jimmy Dore
Yeah. Mistake.
Unnamed Co-Host
And. And Trudeau, who's a punk, knows they can't do that. And so that's what that 51st state talk was. Remember, they went to dinner, well, maybe Canada should be a state.
Jimmy Dore
Right.
Unnamed Co-Host
So she was like, no, we're going to fight, because I don't know if you know, there's a lot of Ukrainian Nazis in Canada. They still have the statues to that guy out there.
Jimmy Dore
That's right. So this is the guy who he. Without his support, Trudeau can't remain. He can't. So they called for an election. So this guy says Justin Trudeau failed in the biggest job. A prime minister has to work for people and not for the powerful. Yes, he did fail that. The NDP vote to bring this government down. This NDP will vote to. So this NDP will vote to bring this government down and give Canadians a chance to vote for a government who will work for them. So when Parliament comes back on the 27th of January, they're going to have a vote. And I think Trudeau's on the way out because without this Jagmeet Singh, the.
Unnamed Co-Host
Guy that was holding the mitt. Now, I've publicly stated that I think Jagmeet Singh is Trudeau in his Arabian Nights outfit from those controversial pictures, but I might be wrong. It might be a separate guy.
Jimmy Dore
It's funny, this guy, I wish I had a bigger picture of him.
Unnamed Co-Host
He's grew up, too.
Jimmy Dore
I'm sure he is. He waited till the day he made sure he has his retirement before he did this.
Unnamed Co-Host
Yeah, he doesn't he like a rat. He went out. But he was part of the reason Trudeau was even propped up.
Jimmy Dore
So he was the guy. Right. Without his guy propping him up, Trudeau couldn't be a minority party ruler. Right.
Unnamed Co-Host
Right.
Jimmy Dore
So he's pulling the rug out from underneath Trudeau now, so it looks like. It looks like Trudeau's gone. So here's Chris Pavlowski. He's the CEO of Rumble A and he says Canada is about to be great again. NDP is bringing the government down. Trudeau will be out. Pierre Paulvier. How do you say his name? Paula.
Unnamed Co-Host
Will be. He's an Israel simp who thought it was great what happened in Syria.
Jimmy Dore
Yeah, he's another. I don't. I don't have my hopes up.
Unnamed Co-Host
Chris Pavloski, I didn't know you had hopes about Canada.
Jimmy Dore
Couldn't. Couldn't be better day for platforms like Rumble and Twitter in the north.
Unnamed Co-Host
Well, don't say anything about Israel, because it might not be.
Jimmy Dore
Yeah. So this isn't the first time people have confronted Justin Trudeau. Here's a lady confronting him. Watch this.
Carol Roth
You've sold us out to globalism. Okay, you are not working for Canada. You are working for your globalist partners. I wonder how much they're paying you to betray Canada. What do we do with traders in Canada, Mr. Trudeau? We used to hang them. Hang them for treason. And you're doing the very same thing to us now.
Jimmy Dore
And she. Look at that. Look at a mo, boy. Lady don't like me.
Unnamed Co-Host
Yeah, I don't know. I mean, Zelinsky is holding it to be better together than him on blow.
Jimmy Dore
Let's listen to that again.
Carol Roth
You've sold us out to globalism.
Jimmy Dore
Okay?
Carol Roth
You are not working for Canada. You are working for your globalist partners. I wonder how much they're paying you to betray Canada. What do we do with traders in Canada, Mr. Trudeau? We used to hang them. Hang them for treason. And you're doing that very same thing to us now.
Jimmy Dore
So it's fun to see people confront him. Now, last time I showed a video of someone confronting Justin Trudeau, YouTube demonetized it. They said it was harassment. Harassment of the leader of Canada. You got to be kidding me. But that's what YouTube said.
Unnamed Co-Host
Stop bullying him.
Jimmy Dore
Stop bullying the most powerful guy in the country. Eh?
Unnamed Co-Host
But it's of Canada. So that you literally can bully the Prime Minister of Canada.
Jimmy Dore
Here's this.
Justin Trudeau
King Trudeau, what gives you the right to continue? What gives you the right to stay in office? You failed Canada. You've ruined our country. You're done.
Jimmy Dore
Walk away.
Justin Trudeau
You don't have an ounce of your father's integrity. At least he walked in the snow. You've ruined this country. Everyone around you is running from you. They're abandoning you. Chrissy Freeland, Shawn Frazier, they've all left you. It's time for you to go. It's time for Canada to have an election. You're not the king.
Jimmy Dore
You're not the king. Come again?
Justin Trudeau
You're not the king of this country. You are not our king. You are a public servant, and you have failed.
Unnamed Co-Host
You know why that's Charlie stings extra? Because his dad did not have integrity. He's one of the worst club of Rome New World Order freaks that ever existed. His mom was a Stepford wife. That's why he's probably what's his name's Kid, because the dad would whore her out.
Jimmy Dore
Oh, Castro's kid.
Unnamed Co-Host
Yeah, and I. I thought it was like. Well, I don't know, maybe it is, maybe it isn't. But they're. They're regular public things about her. Oh, she was very free sexually, which I've never heard about a First lady, but she's a Stepford wife. His dad. I mean, the stuff his dad did is unbelievably. Bad but publicly Club of Rome guy. So he, he was a big phony and a scumbag and. And probably, if I had to guess, was very Justin Trudeau. Went through some crazy Menendez style upbringing with that guy is my guess.
Jimmy Dore
You remember when the guy who hosts Weekend Update said he was voting for Joe Biden because he was voting for decent Colin.
Unnamed Co-Host
Colin. Joe's.
Jimmy Dore
Yeah, there's. There couldn't be a less decent human being in the country than Joe Biden.
Unnamed Co-Host
But Kojo and Scarjo said he's decent.
Jimmy Dore
A heartbroken mother confronted the court. So what he did, I'll just go let you know. There was this judge who was taking payoffs from private prisons to put kids, juveniles in prison. That shouldn't be there. He was taking payoffs. They caught him and they put that judge in prison. Joe Biden, who is in the pocket of private prisons, just pardoned that guy.
Unnamed Co-Host
That's trafficking. When you do that, when you send.
Jimmy Dore
Kids to somebody for money for money.
Unnamed Co-Host
That'S called human trafficking.
Jimmy Dore
That's called human trafficking. So a heartbroken mother confronted the corrupt judge. Judge Michael Conahan was sentenced to 17 years in prison for his role in the infamous Kids for Cash scandal. Joe Biden just pardoned him.
Unnamed Co-Host
That's a weird pardon. Why would he have to pardon that.
Jimmy Dore
Guy he sent juveniles for? Because he. Because Joe Biden owes favors to the for profit prisons. And the for profit prisons are paying other judges. That's what that means. And they don't want other judges. They don't want other judges to get scared and stop sending people to prison for money.
Unnamed Co-Host
Wow.
Jimmy Dore
He got paid millions of dollars to send kids to prison and watch a mother confronts this guy. Actions you need to be. Do you remember me?
Carol Roth
Do you remember me?
Jimmy Dore
Do you remember my son? An all star wrestler. He's good. He shot his thumb in the heart. This gunbag. A heartbroken.
Unnamed Co-Host
Really?
Jimmy Dore
An outraged mother lashing out at former judge Mark Ciarella. Now her son, an all star wrestler killed himself after being sent to a juvenile detention facility for a minor drug offense. Now it turns out that Chiverella was accepting money to do that. Send kids away for cash. A former judge was convicted yesterday of 12 counts, including racketeering and money laundering. The judge remains free while he awaits sentencing.
Unnamed Co-Host
Yeah. Is Don Lemon going to report on the pardon?
Jimmy Dore
Victims of Kids for Cash Judge outraged by Biden's clemency. What about all of us? He was convicted. He took $2.8 million for jailing more than 2,300 kids. So he trafficked human trafficked 3,300 children, some as young as 8 years old.
Unnamed Co-Host
The number I heard was 4,000.
Jimmy Dore
Joe Biden just pardoned that guy. That's the guy you voted for decency. What's that fucking asshole's name who said he voted for Jost? What is his name?
Unnamed Co-Host
Colin. Colin Jost.
Jimmy Dore
How? It's his last name. You keep saying it too fast.
Unnamed Co-Host
A O S T Colin Jost, the.
Jimmy Dore
Host of Weekend Update said he was voting for decency. And now you know. Well, now you know what Colin jost is worth.0. Here's the story. Victims of former Pennsylvania judge convicted in the so called Kids for Cash scandal are outraged by Joe Biden's decision to grant him clemency. In 2011, he was sentenced to more than 17 years in prison after he and another judge, Mark Ciavella, were found guilty of accepting $2.8 million in illegal payments in exchange for sending 2,300 kids to to jail, including some as young as 8 years old to private juvenile detention centers.
Unnamed Co-Host
How are they going to learn?
Jimmy Dore
Conahan was released from prison in 2020 due to COVID 19 and he was placed on house arrest, which has been scheduled to end in 2026. Conahan's sentence was one of about 1500 the US president commuted or shortened on Thursday, while also pardoning 39Americans who had been convicted of nonviolent crimes. But not Julian Assange. But not, not that Dozel. What's that guy's name? Not Steve Dozinger or January 6th, which.
Unnamed Co-Host
Don'T even compare to the level of this evil on any level.
Jimmy Dore
In response to Conahan's pardon, the mother of a boy sent to jail at age 17 before later dying by suicide told the Citizen's Voice, I am shocked and I am hurt because she probably voted for Joe Biden. Conahan's actions destroyed families, including mine. And my son's death is a tragic reminder of the consequences of his abuse of power. Sandy Fonzo said to the outlet, this pardon feels like an injustice for all of us who still suffer. Right now I am processing and doing the best I can to cope with the pain that this has brought back, but I hope that this judge doesn't run into a Luigi. Yeah, somebody who was put in jail by him who kind of has an axe to grind. I hope that doesn't, I hope that doesn't happen.
Unnamed Co-Host
You know, probably won't.
Jimmy Dore
Our bios probably won't happen. I'm saying. That's why I'm saying I hope it doesn't. Similarly, Amanda Laura, who at age 14 was wrongfully imprisoned as part of the scheme, told WBRE, It's a big slap in the face for us once again. We had time taken away from us. We had no one to talk to. But now we're talking about the President of the United States to do this. What about all of us? President Joe Biden doesn't give a shit about you. He never did. And fuck all those people who said that Joe Biden was decent. Fuck all those people. They're all stupid assholes. They're the same people who told you, don't do your own research doing Covid and that you should take a mandatory unexperimental medical treatment and shut up. Fuck those assholes.
Unnamed Co-Host
Did you see Martin Short making fun of Colin Jost on some promo? He was getting gifts for everybody and it was a book. Charisma on command for Colin Jost. And he goes. Cocaine. Calls him the challenge.
Jimmy Dore
The Pennsylvania governor, Josh Shapiro, also condemned Biden's decision, telling reporters that his fellow Democrat got it absolutely wrong. He didn't get it wrong. He did something evil because Joe Biden is evil.
Unnamed Co-Host
Was it a whoopsie doodle?
Jimmy Dore
I'll offer these thoughts as an outsider not privy to all the information he looked at, but I do feel strong that President Biden got it absolutely wrong and created a lot of pain here in northeastern Pennsylvania. Biden's actions Thursday marked the largest instance of presidential clemency carried out in a single day. Describing the move, the White House said the president is commuting the sentences of close to 1500 people who were placed on home confinement during the COVID 19 pandemic and who have successfully reintegrated and. Oh, thank God, that judge has successfully reintegrated.
Unnamed Co-Host
No, Biden. Beau Biden. His son that died. That Biden lied and said he got a tumor. Yeah, burn pits and all that.
Jimmy Dore
No, he said he got killed in Iraq.
Unnamed Co-Host
No, he didn't get killed in Iraq.
Jimmy Dore
That was the lie he said.
Unnamed Co-Host
Yeah, yeah, Biden's. I mean, Biden's an idiot, but his son busted the. The worst pedophile, I think, in American history. Some doctor. Then he prosecuted a Dupont, who the judge then gave clemency to.
Jimmy Dore
And then he got brain cancer.
Unnamed Co-Host
Then he died of a brain tumor. So the good son, who was a good guy, Biden, by contrast, and his shitbag son, Hunter, That's. That's.
Jimmy Dore
Those are the people who live. So back to this. Zayd Saleem says Biden's clemency of Judge Michael Conahan has to rank pretty high on the list of the most unconscionable actions ever taken by a President. Former Governor Baba Baba convicted in 2011 Kids for Cash scandal where he took kickbacks from for profit detention centers in exchange for wrongly, wrongly, wrongly sending juveniles to their. That is, I can't even. That is more evil than, than anything Alex Jones, Donald Trump, you name it, put to put together have done. Joe Biden did that. Just like that. Michael Conahan took $2,800,000 in bribes from a private prison in exchange for locking up 2300 kids, one of whom committed suicide. Biden commuted his sentence. Steve Donsinger won a $9 billion lawsuit against Chevron and he got locked up for 3.5 years in retaliation for winning a lawsuit against Chevron. By the way, same judge who locked up Don Singer is the one who convicted Trump in the Jean Carroll rape case.
Unnamed Co-Host
Yeah.
Jimmy Dore
So Steve Doninger not pardoned. So your friend Joe Biden is the scum of the earth. Like I've always said, he's not a decent guy, he's not a great politician. He got to where he is because he was willing to serve evil. That's how he got there. Hey, Become a premium member. Go to jimmy door comedy.com sign up. It's the most affordable premium program in the business. Freak out. Don't freak out. All the voices performed today are by the one and only, the inimitable Mike McRae. He can be found at mikemcrae.com that's it for this week. You be the best you can be and I'll keep being me. Don't freak out. Don't freak out. Don't freak out. Don't freak out. Do not freak out.
Unnamed Co-Host
I'm not kidding.
Jimmy Dore
Do not.
Unnamed Co-Host
Do not. I'm not.
Jimmy Dore
I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not.
Unnamed Co-Host
I'm not.
Jimmy Dore
Don't freak out. Do not freak out.
Detailed Summary of "The Jimmy Dore Show" Episode: "Biden Sticks It To Pelosi On His Way Out!"
Release Date: December 23, 2024
Overview
In this contentious episode of The Jimmy Dore Show, host Jimmy Dore delves into the tumultuous political landscape as President Joe Biden approaches the end of his term. The discussion centers around Biden's latest political maneuvers aimed at congressional figures, particularly Nancy Pelosi, amidst allegations of insider trading and ethical misconduct within Congress. The episode features provocative interviews, incisive analysis, and impassioned critiques of both Democratic and Republican political figures.
Jimmy Dore opens the episode with a surprising and candid interview with Senator Mitt Romney, discussing Romney's impending departure from the Senate and his role as the "conscience of the Republican Party."
Romney on His Legacy:
Romney's Stance on the Republican Party:
Critique of Status Quo:
Romney's Dismissive Remarks:
Jimmy introduces two guests, Carol Roth, author of "You Will Own Nothing," and Paul Stone, CEO of Colonial Metals Group, to discuss rampant corruption and unethical stock trading within Congress.
Exposing Corruption with Matt Gaetz:
Pelosi's Insider Trading Accusations:
Failure of the Pelosi Act:
Impact on Public Trust:
Dore and his co-host analyze President Biden's recent decisions affecting the trucking industry, arguing that these policies undermine American workers by favoring foreign labor.
H2B Visas and Trucking Wages:
Economic Impact on Truck Drivers:
Historical Context of Trucking Deregulation:
Critique of Biden Administration's Strategy:
The episode shifts focus to international politics, featuring confrontational segments where Canadians publicly challenge Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's leadership and policies.
Confrontation Highlights:
Public Backlash Against Trudeau:
Impact of Ministerial Resignations:
Political Implications:
A significant portion of the episode is dedicated to critiquing President Biden's controversial pardon of Judge Michael Conahan, involved in the infamous "Kids for Cash" scandal.
Overview of the Kids for Cash Scandal:
Biden's Clemency Criticized:
Emotional Testimonies:
Jimmy Dore's Personal Connection:
Media and Public Response:
Jimmy Dore concludes the episode by reiterating his disdain for the current political climate, urging listeners to support the show through premium memberships and remain vigilant against ongoing government corruption.
Call for Support:
Final Provocative Statements:
Key Takeaways
Political Corruption: The episode underscores widespread allegations of unethical behavior within Congress, particularly relating to stock trading and insider information, with a spotlight on Nancy Pelosi.
Biden Administration's Policies: Critiques are levied against President Biden's approach to labor with the trucking industry and immigration policies, suggesting these undermine American workers and economic stability.
International Political Tensions: The confrontations with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau highlight international dissatisfaction with globalist policies and leadership failures.
Justice System Failures: The controversial pardon of Judge Michael Conahan exemplifies perceived systemic injustices and favoritism within the U.S. legal and political systems.
Call to Action: Dore encourages listeners to engage more deeply with political issues and support independent media as a means of combating entrenched political corruption.
Notable Quotes
"[02:48] Mitt Romney: MAGA is, the Republican Party now? The Republican Party is Donald Trump."
"[14:11] Carol Roth: ...Nancy Pelosi is the Gordon Gecko of Congress. I mean, she is the absolute Wall Street legend."
"[52:45] Jimmy Dore: Victims of Kids for Cash Judge outraged by Biden's clemency. What about all of us?"
"[49:02] Carol Roth: You've sold us out to globalism. You are not working for Canada. You are working for your globalist partners."
"[17:52] Glenn Greenwald: ...Senator Hawley's amendment was going to fail."
Conclusion
In "Biden Sticks It To Pelosi On His Way Out!", Jimmy Dore delivers a scathing critique of current political dynamics, highlighting issues of corruption, unethical governance, and misguided policies. Through interviews and passionate discourse, the episode calls for increased public awareness and accountability within political institutions, urging listeners to challenge the status quo and advocate for genuine systemic reform.