Jimmy Dore
It's all signals, but there's no substance. We're signaling that we want to help the minority community, but we're not actually helping them. So that's what identity politics is. It's a big diversion.Collection: Politics
That's what Bernie Sanders has turned into, a late night talk show host who's completely ineffective as a Senator, and tweets out platitudes and will not use the power of his movement to get anything done.
I do not believe COVID-19 restrictions are a conspiracy.
Liberals believe a lot of things that are not true.
It's funny to see how ridiculous the fourth estate is and how horrible the media is.
I think it was such shame that Jon Stewart wasted his moment of having the country's ear and pretending that if everybody just calms down a little bit, everything is going to be OK.
When I grew up, being a nerd was a bad thing. You didn't want to be one. Now everybody calls themselves that.
Rachel Maddow calls herself a nerd. You're not a nerd. You're smart, you have your own TV show and you're a lesbian. That's everything I want to be!
Comedy should speak truth to power. It should always be aimed upward. When it's aimed downward, it's called bullying.
My concern about lockdowns are shared with the World Health Organization about the effects of lockdowns on working people and economically vulnerable people.
Lockdowns are not tyrannical - closing down people's businesses as a matter of policy without providing workers financial relief is.
We should always be willing to talk to those who disagree with us.
The idea that we have progressives inside the Democratic Party - it's actually more deleterious to the progressive movement to have them there because it gives people the false impression that there's somebody in government fighting for you, that there's one of the parties that are kind of on your side and they aren't.
The establishment has learned how to co-opt identity politics to put the brakes on economic progress and justice. So I would say if you want to help Black people, nothing would help them more than a free college student loan relief and Medicare for all and a living wage.
I wouldn't ask Chuck Schumer directions to the freeway.
Why do you think it is that Mitch McConnell and Chuck Schumer are the leaders in the Senate and Nancy is the leader in the House? Because they're not leaders. Those people have negative charisma.
You know, one thing John Kerry is right about is Trump's foreign policy is kind of incoherent but Joe Biden, his entire career has been nothing but imperialism.
Joe Biden not only voted for the Iraq war, he shamed Democrats who weren't supporting it. He was a vocal supporter of it.
The one piece of policy it seemed that everybody agreed on was that the Iraq war was a good idea, that's what it seemed like.
Biden told America that if we voted for Ossoff and Warnock, we're going to get $2,000 checks the next day. That is misinformation because we did not get it.
Other countries are not doing to their people what we are doing to our people during COVID. Every other country is making sure their workers, if they shut their business down, get their wages paid.
If you put a special prosecutor on anybody in Washington D.C., they're going to find crimes.
There's already an IRS - why didn't the IRS get him for tax fraud? There's already an SEC and whoever else, why didn't they get Manafort for his bank fraud or the FBI? We already have agencies who are supposed to investigate this stuff. Why do we need a special prosecutor to investigate tax fraud? We don't.
They tell us we're broke all the time, but apparently we have endless money when we need to bomb somebody in the Middle East.
When you're elected to congress, they tell you that you're going to spend 4-hours a day talking to rich people to get more money for your next election. Then you wonder why their policies and laws reflect the interests of rich people, because that's who they're talking to all day.
The difference between Al Jazeera and CNN is that CNN likes to show the bombs taking off. Al Jazeera likes to show when they land.
If you listen to the newsmen who are bought and paid for by defense contractors, they'll tell you that Edward Snowden is nothing more than a narcissitic creep who's an anti-American.
People are hungry for the truth and they're constantly being gaslit by the corporate media. Let's remember what the corporate media is there to do. They're there to manufacture consent. And consent for who? Consent for the billionaire establishment class that run everything.
My crowd is very much like the George Carlin crowd. When I used to go see George Carlin, I always remarked at how his crowd was everybody. There were hippies, there were guys in business suits, there were kids, there were elderly people, everybody in between: men, women, Black, white, Mexican, Asian, everybody. And that's my crowd.
I don't preach division. I preach unity.
If you're using comedy to shame people for getting informed and questioning authority, you're not doing comedy, you're doing propaganda, 'cause comedy is supposed to poke holes in the status quo and challenge authority and question authority.
The thing about stand-up is that it's so easy. You just show up and talk. But you can get lazy doing that.
I watch C-SPAN for fun.
Comedy's pretty delicate - more delicate than people realize.
I actually have a following because people are hungry for the truth. I'm giving people something they can't get anywhere else.
I'm very popular with people who are actual progressives, and ironically I'm popular with people on the right because they like that I tell the truth about the Democrats. But I'm not actually popular with the Democrats, which suits me just fine.
I knew a lot of men who were brick-layers. They were 50 years old and looked 70. That job ages you.
I watched comics the way other people watch magicians. 'How do they do that?' It was always mesmerizing to me, but I didn't think I could do it myself.
I would be a vegetarian if the food was better.Collection: Would Be
I am not the sharpest knife in the knife-thingCollection: Stupid
Turn off the AM Radio and get invited to your own life.Collection: Radio