Jimmy Dore is a comedian, YouTuber, and political commentator. In this episode, Jimmy talks about the culture war, vaccines, and why the establishment doesn t want the great unwashed to have a voice in politics.
00:01:18.040Listen, one of the things we've been talking about a lot on the show is how the polarization we saw politically in the last few years has now made its way into the COVID conversation.
00:01:28.260I know that you and I and Francis have all found that in our case, we recently had COVID and some people thought that even talking about having COVID is like selling out and we're sponsored by Pfizer now, which is, of course, you know, nonsense.
00:01:43.620It's Moderna. But with you, it was even weirder because you got the jab, you got double jabbed and people were like, well, you trust the government now?
00:01:53.920And you were like, no, I trust my doctor.
00:01:55.440And then you had some side effects from the vaccine, which were quite serious, I understand.
00:02:00.280And when you talked about it, people like you were anti-vax for talking about.
00:02:04.800So so what do you make of this whole place that we find ourselves in?
00:02:09.580Yeah, it's remarkable how they can turn everything into the culture wars in the United States.
00:02:15.920And right now, there's a big interest in the United States in keeping America fighting each other.
00:02:22.940And there is the problem wasn't Trump.
00:02:26.660The problem was that the Trump supporters flex their muscle, just like the people did in Britain when they passed Brexit.
00:02:36.020And so they can't let the great unwashed have a voice in politics.
00:02:42.080And that's so that's why these culture wars in the United States have been ramped up like crazy.
00:02:48.100And everything is a culture war. And they're afraid of people like Joe Rogan and me who actually speaks to a broad audience.
00:02:58.360So they've tried to make the fact that I appeal, you know, I'm a populist.
00:03:05.400And the fact that I try to work with people who wouldn't wouldn't be considered lefty because we agree on issues like ending wars,
00:03:16.420getting health care to people, police brutality, stuff like that, you know, student debt, marijuana, all kinds of stuff that we agree on across the aisle, as they used to say.
00:03:30.420And that used to be a good thing. But now that actually scares the shit out of the establishment.
00:03:35.180So anybody in the United States who tries to actually force change against the establishment by working together on ideas instead of politics, that scares them.
00:03:53.420So when I had a thing to get them to vote on, it was called forced to vote here in the United States.
00:04:02.080And I was going to get them to try to get them to flex their muscle to force a vote in the Congress to bring Medicare for all to everybody in the United States.
00:04:13.340You know, we don't have that because our our government is run by corporations.
00:04:18.040We live in an oligarchy. And that's not hyperbole. Those are facts.
00:04:22.100Those have been proven by a Princeton study. We live in an oligarchy.
00:04:26.120We don't have a democracy. Our democracy was stolen from us a long time ago.
00:04:30.320And now they want to pretend that what happened on January 6th was a threat to our democracy.
00:04:37.560We don't have a democracy. That was a threat to our oligarchy.
00:04:40.860But it wasn't really a threat at all. But so everything is happening in the United States.
00:04:46.620It's to keep us divided, because once the people wake up to who the real enemy is, which is the establishment, meaning Joe Biden, Donald Trump, the Republicans and the Democrats.
00:04:58.980And as soon as they wake up to that, that's when the establishment's in trouble.
00:05:02.940So they have to keep us fighting. And everything now is a culture war and including the vaccines.
00:05:08.240Right. And everybody on the left decided to be uncritical of the vaccines, the vaccine mandate, of Pfizer, of Dr. Fauci, of anything that has to do with covid policy.
00:05:25.980If you have a critique of it, you're immediately slammed as an anti-vaxxer.
00:05:30.780Look what happened to Eric Clapton. Eric Clapton got the vaccine, got injured by the vaccine.
00:05:37.620And immediately he's the worst person in the world because he told people about his reaction to the vaccine.
00:05:45.860That's not how science is supposed to work. It happened to me, too.
00:05:48.840So when I got injured by the vaccine, I was still sick about five weeks after my second jab.
00:05:55.280And so I tweeted it out. I said, hey, I'm still having all these symptoms.
00:05:59.900And people started calling me anti-vax and a liar.
00:06:03.900And, you know, that's not how science works.
00:06:07.080We know that there are adverse reactions to vaccines.
00:06:11.720That's why there's a thing called VAERS. And so you're supposed to go report them.
00:06:16.040Everybody knows. And what helps make science better is people telling you their reactions to medicines and vaccines.
00:06:23.800And so you can make them better. But that's not what this is about.
00:06:27.360This is about you shutting up and going along with the corporate narrative.
00:06:31.780And if you don't, you're going to get in trouble. You're going to get it's a cult.
00:06:34.920What has happened in the United States is the Democratic Party became a cult under Donald Trump.
00:06:41.120And they pushed an evidence free conspiracy theory called Russiagate for four straight years.
00:06:46.260They didn't accept the results of the 2016 election.
00:06:49.780They said Donald Trump was a traitor to our country.
00:06:52.200He was working for Russia and the election was rigged.
00:06:57.100And there was a coup that happened in our country and Russia committed it along with Donald Trump.
00:07:02.180So as soon as Donald Trump loses his election, he starts saying the same thing.
00:07:07.620And that's illegal. You can't do that.
00:07:10.880The Democrats and the establishment did it for four straight years.
00:07:14.160But as soon as Donald Trump and the Republicans do the exact same thing, that's illegal.
00:07:19.800You can't do that. You can't you can't mention it on YouTube.
00:07:22.700You can't you're considered a conspiracy nut and you'll have your channel taken down.
00:07:26.480In fact, Primo Nutmeg, he did have a video taken down and or Primo Radical, he calls himself now, because he just took a question about January 6th and about voter fraud.
00:07:42.160And anyway, so that's how so when they have to censor like that, that tells me they're afraid.
00:07:48.320And they don't censor people who are actually crazy and don't give it and don't have anything to say.
00:07:54.900I remember when they started censoring, it was just going to be Alex Jones and everybody was for it on the left.
00:08:00.440And I'm like, you fucking morons. You're an independent news space on YouTube.
00:08:05.980Don't you think this is going to you don't see how this works?
00:09:08.460Because he's against universal health care.
00:09:10.720If anybody in any other country is against universal health care, I'm pretty sure they're considered an extreme right winger.
00:09:17.260So this is the world we're living in now, where everything is politicized in the United States.
00:09:21.760And then the people who voted for Joe Biden repeat the establishment narrative that fuels this culture war.
00:09:27.680Kyle Rittenhouse is a perfect example.
00:09:29.720Kyle Rittenhouse, they shot three people in Kenosha, Wisconsin, during a riot where they were setting buildings on fire and people were attacking him.
00:12:36.900Well, it happened to me when I wouldn't vote for Hillary Clinton.
00:12:39.220The Democratic Party and the DNC, the Democratic National Committee, and Hillary Clinton were revealed through WikiLeaks to be completely corrupt.
00:12:47.300And they rigged the 2016 primary, which is why three people had to step down from the DNC, including the chair, when it was revealed.
00:12:55.840And I was like, I'm not voting for this.
00:13:01.960And, you know, eight years of Barack Obama, so that there's Barack Obama governed exactly like Ronald Reagan would have or or John McCain or Mitt Romney.
00:13:14.920There was no difference between Barack Obama and a Republican.
00:13:44.520Joe Biden is just Donald Trump, but demented.
00:13:50.460I think we will lead with that quote for this interview, Jimmy.
00:13:53.540Listen, you're making some very interesting points, and I almost regret having asked you about COVID because I'm tired of talking about it and the points you're making are far more interesting to me.
00:14:03.620So let's delve more into that, because you talked about how America is not a democracy.
00:14:08.560You talked about a Princeton study to the people that already are aware of you and your positions that that will make sense.
00:14:15.620But to a lot of our audience, I don't think they've ever heard that.
00:14:18.280So what the hell are you talking about when America is the beacon of democracy and everyone in the world looks up to America?
00:14:25.000Like what what's wrong with American democracy, Jimmy?
00:14:28.300Well, American democracy runs on cash and the cash comes from corporations and billionaires.
00:14:35.800So if you remember, Noam Chomsky wrote a book called Manufacturing Consent, taught you how the establishment news actually just manufactures consent for the people who own them.
00:14:46.360And that's the same thing for the politicians.
00:15:40.040I did a segment one time where a billionaire was on MSNBC complaining and warning Nancy Pelosi that if she doesn't stop demonizing billionaires, he's going to take their money away from the Democratic Party.
00:15:54.760And so they give orders to politicians who does the billionaire class, Wall Street.
00:16:00.900Those are the people who run our country, which is why 80 percent of workers live paycheck to paycheck in the United States.
00:16:08.340Thirty 50 percent of all wage earners earn less than thirty thousand dollars a year.
00:16:13.340And 50 percent of Americans can't afford a four hundred dollar emergency.
00:16:20.360So I always try to tell people, what what do you call a system that takes the richest country the face of the earth has ever seen and deems half of it people poor or low income?
00:16:35.800They did a study in Princeton and it revealed that the if you are in the bottom 90 percent of wage earners, if your desires is never reflected in legislation.
00:16:50.540But let's say if you're in the upper 10 percent of the wealthy in the United States and let's say so there's a direct correlation.
00:16:58.620If they want something, it becomes legislation.
00:17:01.320The bottom 90 percent, it doesn't become legislation.
00:17:04.160They have no no representation, basically.
00:17:07.360And so that's why I say we live in an oligarchy.
00:17:37.960And what's interesting to me is obviously the reason people accuse you of being right wing is you're happy to go on a show like Tucker Carlson or talk to people who are who you agree with on certain issues.
00:17:52.160And I'm curious because I'm not making this accusation, but I'm curious whether you don't worry about working with people on whom with whom you might disagree on some other very profound issues.
00:18:07.500If anybody's against war, I'll work with them to end war.
00:18:10.560If anybody is for Julian Assange and press freedom, I'll work with them.
00:18:14.620And if half the country needs to hear that message, I'll go on a show that speaks to half the country to give my message to them.
00:18:21.340Tucker Carlson said when I the one of the last times I was on a show, he said that I changed his mind on Julian Assange through the power of my arguments.
00:18:30.260And that's exactly what used to be the gold standard as a lefty is that you're supposed to have a message for people.
00:18:37.140You're supposed to have a message for people who are disaffected and being oppressed by the establishment.
00:18:42.020You're supposed to have a message for him.
00:18:43.600But in the United States now, like when I brought on that guy who was a boogaloo boy, that was the end because that was the left populist left and the populist right coming together.
00:18:51.920And that's the thing that scares them the most.
00:19:14.980Everybody goes on Fox News because they speak to half the country.
00:19:18.000But as soon as you go on Fox News to actually bring an anti-establishment message to half the country, that's when it's right wing and you're a bad person and you're supporting all the bad things in the world.
00:19:29.260And people like to make Tucker Carlson out to be worse than Nancy, than Rachel Maddow.
00:20:54.600I take – I don't take any corporate money.
00:20:56.460I take my money from my donors and they can't stand – so that's how – so because I have broad appeal and people on the populist right share the ideas that I'm actually pushing for and I'll work with them, that's a threat.
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00:23:55.000Why is it that I look at people on the left, they don't talk about this.
00:24:00.040They talk about identity politics ad nauseam and to the point where what they talk about has got no relevance to the vast majority of people either who live in America or in the UK.
00:24:14.880The people outside the big cities, the average person struggling month on month just to make it to the end of the month.
00:24:22.840Why is it they don't talk on that and why is it they focus on these ridiculous subjects that nobody cares about or only a tiny percentage of people care about?
00:24:31.880Oh, because they've. So the establishment, again, in lieu of actually doing something to improve your life, what they do is they distract you by putting someone in power who looks like you to also suppress you and oppress you.
00:24:47.600Right. So for the joke I do, if it was 1860, the Democrats would be bragging about their first transgendered slave owner.
00:24:57.920And so that's what they do. And so the establishment is co-opted identity politics and they use it against people.
00:25:10.620They use it to keep people from doing anything for them that would help their economics or their financial anything that would help.
00:25:17.300So we're not going to give you health care, but we'll have we'll have a gay black person to keep it from you. Right.
00:25:23.920Just that's what Barack Obama was. Barack Obama was the black guy to come do the bidding of Wall Street.
00:25:29.600And so everybody got fooled because because it's a black guy.
00:25:32.700You wouldn't think that he would be a tool of Wall Street, the military industrial complex, big pharma.
00:25:39.180And by the way, Barack Obama said he wouldn't sign a health care bill that didn't have a public option.
00:25:42.760He signed a health care bill that didn't have a public option that he never gave us.
00:25:46.140But he gave us a right wing health care plan that is for profit.
00:25:49.500And the minute that Barack Obama passed that health care plan, the stock prices of health insurance companies, a big pharma went through the roof because they knew that was a giveaway to them, not to people.
00:25:59.080People still go bankrupt. I went bankrupt. I got sick. And I in the United States, I had a bone problem.
00:26:04.780I went I had his health insurance. I went fucking bankrupt. Everybody goes bankrupt.
00:26:08.880Everybody knows it. And that's why everybody wants to have universal health care, Medicare for all the United States.
00:26:16.260Now, and I just I want to make this point before I go any further until Lawrence O'Donnell hosts a show here on MSNBC.
00:26:25.480And he used to work for a guy who ran the Senate for a while. Right.
00:26:30.520So he knows politics and he knows Democratic politics. And Lawrence O'Donnell said one time before he had a show, he said that you'll never get the Democratic Party to come to your point of view.
00:26:42.640You can't pull them left until you're willing to show you're not going to vote for them.
00:26:47.760And so that's the thing that they're not willing to do. So people who voted for Bernie Sanders voted for Hillary Clinton.
00:26:54.120People who voted for Bernie Sanders voted for Joe Biden. And I tried to tell them until you're willing to not vote for Democrats and stop donating to them, you'll never have a change in government.
00:27:05.020You're going to keep getting this. And so that's what I've been trying to start another major party.
00:27:10.500Well, I've been helped. I'm not trying. Other people are doing it. I'm just trying to help them.
00:27:15.700And that's in Ralph Nader made the same point in 2000. So 21 years ago, Ralph Nader said what we need to get is 10 to 15 million people.
00:27:24.280Not that we can win the national election, but we can we are the kingmakers because nobody can get elected without us.
00:27:31.260And that's what we should have did. We did it. Bernie Sanders is a charlatan because he preached revolution.
00:27:38.700But what he did was he took all that revolutionary energy from the progressives and he funneled it right back into the pro Wall Street, pro war, anti worker party where it dies.
00:27:48.920And that's exactly. So that's what Shama Sawan, who's an elected socialist in Seattle on my show.
00:27:54.240She said that the road, the the the the road inside the Democratic Party for progressives leads to a graveyard.
00:28:03.060So there's no there's no future in the. So if I want fifteen dollar minimum wage, I'm going to have to fight the Democrats.
00:28:09.340If I want health care, I'm going to have to fight the Democrats. If I want to end the wars, going to have to fight the Democrats.
00:28:15.180If I want immigration reform, going to have to fight the Democrats.
00:28:18.460If I want prison reform, going to have to fight the Democrats.
00:28:21.220No matter what you want to get done, there's a Democrat standing in your way.
00:28:25.720And that's the problem. And one more thing I'd like to say about mandates is they don't make sense from a worker perspective. I had on a Marxist economist, Richard Wolff, on my show that said it's ridiculous that the left is pushing for mandates and ostracizing anybody who's any workers who are against them.
00:28:44.220You're just pushing them into the hands of the right wing. We should be using those people who are against, who are anti-authority as in our political process and our political goal. But they're letting them go. That's one.
00:28:57.140The second reason why I'm against mandates is because they've been lying to us about the effects of vaccines since they started.
00:29:04.400First, they said that vaccine stopped the virus and they stopped you from transmitting it or getting it. Well, they don't do that. And they always knew that, but they lied to us.
00:29:14.900And I just saw a headline today, the fact that from Australia, the fact that half the patients in the ICU are vaccinated proves that the vaccine is working. That's a real headline. I just tweeted out. That's a real headline.
00:29:27.340Yeah. So if you can transmit the virus and you can contract the virus if you're vaccinated and every, by the way, here's another thing. People don't know. Everyone's going to get coronavirus.
00:29:39.520There's no getting out of this. The virus is never going away and it's always going to be here.
00:29:44.380They never tell you that on the news and they never tell you no matter how many fucking masks you wear or how many vaccines you take, you are still going to get that fucking virus.
00:29:53.080And no matter how many quarantines or how many vaccine passports, you are still getting fucking coronavirus.
00:30:00.140That is a bullshit tactic. And so if you're going to get the coronavirus, who the fuck do you and if and you can still spread it if you're vaccinated and you can still contract it if you're vaccinated.
00:30:12.020Who the fuck do you care if you get it from someone who's vaccinated or unvaccinated?
00:30:15.860That doesn't make logical sense. And when people, when I ask people that question, they start to do circular logic.
00:30:22.260They talk in circles and there's, it doesn't make sense. So you're going to get coronavirus.
00:30:27.600Who do you care if you get it from? What you should be doing is being prepared to get it.
00:30:32.020And they never tell you that. How do you prepare to get it, Jimmy?
00:30:35.200Well, you get your vitamin D3 way up. You get your vitamin K2 way up. You get your zinc up.
00:30:40.900You get, you can find out where you can get monoclonal antibodies when you get sick.
00:30:46.360They don't talk about or fluvoxamine, which has been proven to be.
00:30:49.660And then they also suppress the early treatments.
00:30:52.500They also, I urge everyone to go to the NIH's own website and look up ivermectin and the studies they did with COVID.
00:31:01.260The best you can get is the CDC will say, well, there's not enough evidence to recommend for ivermectin or against it.
00:31:08.520But they did tell everybody it was a horse medicine.
00:31:11.740They did lie to everybody and tell everybody that a medicine that was on the WHO's list of essential medicines is somehow poison.
00:31:19.240And you're a crazy person if you take it, even though it's one of the safest drugs in history.
00:31:23.400And it's been prescribed over 3 billion times.
00:31:26.560That's the power of big pharma's spring hold on the media in the United States.
00:31:30.960And those are the same people who control our politicians.
00:50:44.280And the people who vote Democrat pretend that they're they're they're fighting fascism and authoritarianism, that Trump is some kind of crazy fascist.
00:50:56.400No, you guys are actually voting for it and you're for it.
00:51:12.140Robert Malone, when he came on my show, said this.
00:51:14.900He said what you want to have the virus do is you want to vaccinate the people who are at risk.
00:51:20.980You want to vaccinate the elderly and people with comorbidities and the obese.
00:51:25.080You want to make sure you vaccinate them.
00:51:27.220But you let the virus circulate in healthy people.
00:51:29.440Then it will mutate to become more infectious and less deadly.
00:51:33.520If you over vaccinate everybody, this is what Robert Malone said, if you over vaccinate healthy people, it's just like when you use too many antibiotics on farm animals and then it becomes resistant to the antibiotics.
00:51:46.380And that's what will happen to a virus.
00:51:59.500The WHO is strongly against first world countries using boosters.
00:52:04.480It's on their website because they haven't gotten the vaccines to poor countries yet.
00:52:08.480And why haven't they gotten the vaccines to poor countries if they think vaccines will end the pandemic is because there's no money to be made in giving the vaccine to poor countries.
00:53:05.920Jimmy, before we go on, I should explain that here in the United Kingdom, we have very different libel laws to the ones you have over there in America.
00:53:14.700So I am going to add the word allegedly in front of the words you said about Bill Gates.
01:01:05.980And because right now they can take away someone's YouTube channel or someone's Twitter account or someone's Facebook account.
01:01:11.540And what I try to explain to people that, you know, 20 years ago, everybody knew if you were going to open a business or be a public person, you have to have a phone, right?
01:01:20.720You have to have a phone to be able to do business in the United States.
01:01:23.620And that's why it's considered a public utility and it's regulated, right?
01:01:27.520So AT&T can't take away your phone if they listen in on your conversations and they don't like the shit you're saying.
01:01:33.940Oh, you're saying, Auntie, you're saying misinformation over the phone.
01:01:37.020So we're going to take your phone away.
01:01:38.940Nobody thinks that that should happen.
01:01:41.500But they'll let them take away your Facebook or your Twitter or your YouTube because they don't like what you're saying.
01:01:48.120Well, you can't run a business today without having a Facebook or a Twitter account and, in my case, YouTube.
01:01:54.700All those things should be public utilities.
01:01:57.180Because you can't function in today's society without them.
01:02:00.400And so you shouldn't let a corporation dictate who gets to be in society and who doesn't.
01:02:05.520If it's really a public square, which it is, social media is the new town square, you should be able to say whatever you want under the First Amendment protections in the United States.
01:02:15.480But it turns out, you know, there's a quote that the price of liberty is eternal vigilance.
01:02:21.920And we are not vigilant in the United States because I had no idea half the country or even more of it would be yearning for censorship.
01:03:07.980They fired 72,000 health care workers in the middle of a deadly pandemic in New York because they wouldn't get vaccinated.
01:03:14.400Does that sound like they care about people's health care when they're firing 72,000 health care workers, people who just worked through a COVID pandemic when there was no vaccine and they were heroes?
01:03:25.120And now you're firing those same people, 72,000 of them in the middle of a deadly pandemic.
01:03:30.180I don't think this is about people's health because they don't give us health care in the United States.