access to discounted or free food also the u.s. department of agriculture can save the government $5500000000.00 over 5 years or roughly a little over a $1000000000.00 a year meanwhile the business of politics my friends is booming the wall street journal is reporting that spending on political advertisements is projected to hit a new high in 2020 surging 3600000000 above the most recent presidential campaign year and how high you ask 9900000000 according to group m. the world's largest advertising media company so are close to 700000 americans will soon be without food assistance just to save the federal government a buck or 2 political parties and their gilded corporate sponsors are more than happy to waste close to $10000000000.00 on campaign commercials that works out to a little over $14000.00 per person who is now without food stamps but guess what that $9900000000.00 might be on the low end of estimates group global president of

business intelligence brian weezer told the media that quote our understanding is that in the typical campaign 60 percent of funds raised may be deployed in the media spending consequently we recognize that the current political cycle could lead to higher levels of spending than we currently incorporate into our forecast that means that by tuesday nov 3rd our illustrious political parties could spend well over $12000000000.00 just to get themselves elected do you really do you really think they spend numbers like that because they really really really really really want to be humble public servants. not a chance and that is why my friends we are always watching all this. like you know that i got. this.

well demoted watching the hawks i am i robot joining me today is award winning journalist chris hedges to talk about our political leaders are spending so much money just to get themselves elected and the other battlefronts on the war in the pork thank you so much for joining us. according to the federal elections commission total federal election fund raising was approximately 2000000000 in just the 1st half of 2013 and we haven't even started the primaries yet what do those numbers tell you about the state of our federal election spending over support groups it's more about what it says about the state of politics what it's what benjamin demat called junk politics if you look closely at how this money is spent it is not about the dissemination of ideas it's about the

dissemination of emotions about manufactured political personalities. about making people confuse knowledge with how they are made to feel and i think what's so interesting about the 2016 election is that trump for all of his deficiencies is it least good at that reality television show in a way that jeb bush or hillary clinton is not and so it is about conforming to a particular model that is anti political anti thought and and really corrosive to. politics itself and it affects the media so c.n.n. where is this money going it's going to networks like c.n.n. who perpetuate the. the. kind of moral

and intellectual deterioration masquerading as politics because they turn it into really just 2 sports teams fighting each other and that's conscious you know that zucker quite consciously model out of e.s.p.n. is that is that dry. $12000000000.00 just to really at the end of the kind of like you said you know shrink what actually is being talked about really it's just spending to get recognition for the name recognition and to impart the way advertisers are quite skillful at doing an emotional response to elicit an emotional response we see it with bloomberg. you know what are the commercials are there content less like all of them bloomberg you know surrounded by children holding you know whatever it is but that's so it's it's politics has just become another species or another arm of the advertising industry which of course.

corporate advertisers have flooded the airwaves with lies and then this is just another lie i mean if you look back at hillary clinton campaign in 2016 there was almost no policy discussed of the more policy discussed by trump ironically but it is about. focusing everything around these manufactured political personalities and how you how you are made to feel about them and the media is. essentially complicit in perpetuating these narratives which are which have been so corrosive to the political system. her name is laid it out and you know what's fascinating go read back and read his book propaganda it's he's a they're quite up front about it they're quite do you go back to wall to lippmann i mean. public opinion that if they know what they're doing they know how to

do it and it's just part of part of the spin and there's that. playing off of each other is one giant. big brother shell it is it really is in interesting lee you also came out with a fascinating article recently entitled the new black codes which which delves into how you know and i think it's going to extension even of what we're talking about here of the kind of control by the powerful you go into how law enforcement agencies across the united states are centrally being used as. for a lot richer brutal tools of social control over the poor and the minorities in this country how how does that manifest itself through the police department well let's begin with the fact that both of the political parties were complicit in carrying out deindustrialization in the liberal ism and austerity which affected certainly most severely poor people of color in these d.m. just realized urban centers what malcolm x.

called internal colonies so how do you then keep these people under control they don't have meaningful work they're forced into the illegal economy it's through omnipotent police powers including carrying assault style weapons this kind of stuff and the ability to use them a 1000 people a year almost all unarmed are killed in the united states by police that's one every 8 hours and mass incarceration these are the 2 mechanisms by which you keep the underclass so that this kind of propaganda it doesn't work to people live there they're just never going to feel good about you know hillary clinton or joe biden because they get it they're living under such severe economic and you know i would even argue political oppression and so you have you know these these pockets in essence are stateless they've been stripped of their rights 94 percent of the people in our prison population never had a jury trial. and that's what hannah arendt called the stateless people with and

she said when you have a segment of any society that is stripped of their rights rights become privileges but the real danger is you set up both the legal and the physical mechanisms should this unrest or potential unrest spread to the rest of the population it can be used against them and so this is part of this creeping. kind of road to american tyranny that's call minator in a figure like trump disregard for the rule of law which hardly began with a trump administrator in fact many of the far more agreed. impeachable offenses that trump committed including i think it's 11 illegal wars that never been declared by congress and. reinterpretation of the authorization authorization use military force act under obama as giving them the right to assassinate american citizens which they did. 2 weeks later the 16 year old son the the wholesale surveillance and so it is about the breakdown of the rule of law and the

kind of imposition of far more draconian tactics which the poor in this country already suffer from. for control it's interesting too because one of the things that really jumped out at me in that article that you wrote which i again i highly recommend people going take a look at and also matt taibbi book on the death of eric garner it's a great it's a great day for a very good book it's a very good book you write that more training body cameras community policing the hiring of minority members police officers a better probation service equitable fines and special events to investigate police abuse are really public relations gimmicks and i think it's important for people to realize that and. explain how are these gimmicks because i remember you've got you know n.b.c. c.n.n. all of these political leaders and politicians saying oh this is the answer this will make police better in america quote unquote more professional in fact has a done historically it has swelled the power in the arsenals of police as well as

the ability of police to carry out agree just assaults especially against people of color and we're talking about. heavily armed swat teams with kevlar vests and long barreled weapons kicking down doors and terrorizing people in apartments for nonviolent drug. arrests are not going to change just because they have a camera on there but well you know how that works is they got the guy in the camera the back and they and the they're beating the hell. out of whoever it is they want and someone is yelling stop resisting stop resisting look all of these all of these are gimmicks you know you well you were read your miranda rights i mean i'm going to be in court next week in camden new jersey for one of my teach in a prison one of my students arrested at the age of 14 put in a room with 3 detectives all night long forced to sign a confession that he committed a murder that he didn't commit because the detective told him it would take 10

years off a sense he goes in at 14 tried as an adult he's not eligible for parole until he's 70 years old this is a recent thing hearing we're trying to push through but this is common and so but the argument is you're read your miranda rights you know you were read your miranda rights you were alone in the room 20 minutes before the tape went on the confession you were told what to say and you said this is the experience of being a person of color poor person of color in this country and one of my frustrations with the media is that that reality and even the reality of the white working class which i come out of in maine is just not reflected at all it's and that gets back to where we started it's all a big carnival act it's burlesque it's vaudeville it's a show and that's why the impeachment hearings have not moved a segment in fact they've probably helped donald trump because however distasteful trump may be. the law is that he told you no are nothing compared to the lies

the democratic party in the liberal elites told that created this oligarchy ecstacy vast social inequality and forms of pressure and let's never forget that it was joe biden and bill clinton who doubled the size of our prison population in the 1994 was crime bill. tripled and quadrupled senses including the 3 strikes you're out law so for 3 nonviolent offenses usually drug offenses we're talking about low you can go to prison for the rest of your life this was the democratic party that is the democratic party and we're not going to clear it was biden who. brad about how because there was a 10 year decade period we didn't execute anybody in this country how it is we went from one crime that the death penalty to 50 and he bragged about that on the campaign trail are going to say thank you so much chris always a pleasure having you on great words of wisdom to assault thank you all right as we go to break cork watchers don't forget to let us know what you think the top 3 cover of our social media be sure to check out watching the podcast which is now available on spotify apple music and everywhere you look in the podcast coming up

the one and only jimmy door joins us to discuss the new york times new 2020 presidential campaign reality show no that's not hyperbole there really is going to be a new york times the watching t.v. show coming for us all to watch for the whole. market which i think is a great market to give an indication of where prices are where they're heading the fact that fine art of something and other auction houses has gone up dramatically over the past 10 or 1520 years spectacularly so it's not reflected in the price of bread and sold it and now it's starting to be that way so that inflation that we saw in the high end products is down going to end up being in the staples like

wheat bread food chicken i just saw somebody post an image of a chicken for sale somewhere that price was up 100 percent. has changed. the pharmaceutical companies have the rescue the solution. based drugs the people who are chronic pain patients believe that their prescription is working for them and the remedy. to. price at the. close or dependency and addiction to opiates is the long term use that really is and scientifically just another study actually suggests that. the long term effects may not just be absence of benefit but actually that they might be causing long to .

you. welcome back well just when you thought the american idol extravaganza that is the u.s. to 2020 presidential campaign season couldn't get any more well what reality show bubble gum grim you know what the annie leibovitz vanity fair covers to the m.s.m. b.c. tell about sorry sorry debates the new york times just said to hold my beer and what's left of my integrity because it is now being reported that the once highly regarded and revered times editorial board and opinion section will open up its presidential endorsement process to television and online audiences yes politico is reporting that in a pitch to unnamed presidential campaigns deputy editorial page editor kathleen ken's worry wrote for the 1st time interviews with the editorial board will be

filmed and portions may be broadcast as part of a special episode for the times new documentary series the weekly and that the show will also feature the. tauriel board deliberations and the final decision on whom the board chooses to endorse will be revealed on television just 2 weeks 2 weeks before the iowa caucus and it gets even better because not only will hulu and f.x. audiences where the weekly currently plays be subjected to the riveting television that are the corporate steps that make up the times editorial board but politico is also reporting that some editors and writers from the opinion section will be invited to canada interviews because nothing's the must see t.v. than watching barry weiss the lena dunham of politics throw gooey softball dippy buthe judge at a new club which are well joining me now to discuss the new york times new 2020 election reality show and the rest of the game show that is our presidential

election process the host of the jimmy darcy show the aptly named jimmy door thank you for coming on jimmy hey thanks for having me that was hilarious and it's very well done. thank you thank you means a lot well i want to ask you what what are you most looking forward to with this new new york times democratic presidential nomination reality game show that we're about to be subjected to. well i'm looking forward to seeing if barry weiss looked up the word toady and she knows what that means yet because she famously won i joe rogan show and she was asked about her feelings until she gathered and she said oh she's an assad toady and when joe rogan asked her what is tony maine she didn't know what it meant couldn't give a definition and then they had to look it up on the air of what the word she just called the presidential candidate what that's an editorial writer for the new york times so i'm really looking forward to some more ridiculousness from barry white's

and i feel like it's one of those things that's only going to give us more nuggets of just in fan of the you know as we see these people kind of parade their intellectual with someone on reality t.v. on hulu and facts in her letter to the campaigns deputy editorial page editor kathleen kingsbury as i mentioned before defended the times' decision to televise their process writing saying putting the she's interviews on the record is a public service to our readers and this show gives voters insight into the criteria experience character knowledge of issues that inform our endorsements as well as allow us to showcase the research and reporting that will direct this indorsement process i mean look we've been in this game a long time i've been to cynical jimmy is this open process actually what the times after is really more about ratings clicks and kind of pushing the times of political agenda. yeah this is the times is pivot to digital right that's what they're trying to do and if people want to watch their reporters interview someone

they would be on t.v. already nobody wants to see that's why there are print reporters and not t.v. journalists right or t.v. talking it now but i think in the sense that really this probably will backfire on them because the only. time they will probably make news or one of their clips will become newsworthy is one a gaffe happened. what is their reporters or interviewers or will be used to show how bad their interviews are or if you know they also. when they interviewed bernie remember right so it would be good to actually see the raw footage of them interviewing bernie as opposed to how they write what happened in the interview so actually in a sense this probably will backfire on them will reveal their own biases in that sense because people can see the raw footage now and then they'll see the story they wrote and it probably won't match up. so i have you know i'm open to see the new york times shoot themselves in the boat again i think it's going to be fun but

it puts the other the thing that makes me sad those at the end of the day is what television political news reporting has i think really you know the what it what it has become has really destroyed our electoral process or helped kind of bring it down it's been one of the many you know coals in the fire and now saying you know like you said print journalists kind of jumping into the bandwagon just for the clicks and for their their you know online i think that's a dangerous element to going to bring into the system of like ok now now our newspapers are going to be competing now online print journalists are going to be competing for those all important clicks. yeah i mean i don't know how it could get much worse at the new york times the washington post or c.n.n. or m.s.n. b.c. they're all. they've gone beyond being establishment guard dogs and now they've turned into stablished which meant attack dogs right so i'll just get back to go back to the barry weiss example right or how about the person who even covers who's assigned by the new york times to cover bernie sanders. comes right from the

establishment pharmaceutical and wall street yeah right so this is someone that's who they put on sent to cover bernie that so. it can't get worse is what i'm saying and it can only being an energy entertaining show so right now we have this shift we have to shift show last week and that congress. and they just keep it's all the circuits all circuits because they stablish mint parties the republicans and democrats neither of them are offering anything to the people to come out and get off the coach and vote college and vote for and the establishment media is just their mouthpiece right so they attack anybody who has an actual message like bernie sanders are told see gabbert and they prop up anybody who's doing the establishment bidding like elizabeth warren or how about pete who gets over joe biden so those people wouldn't be anything without the mainstream media and if the mainstream

media actually did their job they would have been taken care of a long time ago so i yeah i mean i don't i don't lose all only read the new york times by the way you had a gentleman on earlier who used to work for the new york times and then he was disinvited from working for the new york times which is a nice way to say it because he was he did not agree to stop telling the truth about the iraq war so chris hedges pulitzer prize winning journalist war reporter for the day york times tells the truth about a war and they tell me to shut up or you gotta leave so that's how the new york times it right right i want to ask and this might be impossible to answer given how much we've had to dig through and how much how many lies and scams have been thrown out us but what do you feel is been the biggest liar scam perpetrated so far on us voters in the race up to this point. well of course if you watch my show or if you read aaron matea in the nation magazine or read glenn greenwald you

know that the biggest lie so far in the trump presidency has been the evidence free russia gate hoax that was perpetrated by the democratic party the intelligence community and the establishment media so the to me that was the biggest lie that was happening right now the 2nd one would be this impeachment show trial also which is just another show to. ryle right which 'd is this is not an impeachable not an impeachable offense and does not rise to the level of that impeachable offense in fact if you want to ukraine actually did interfere in our lections and it was at the behest of the clinton campaign that's according to politico is reporting that's not mine so again it's this is just a show this is and again it's because the if the democrats want to actually opposed trump they actually have to oppose the establishment will the democratic party is the establishment which is why they can oppose him on the things they're supposed to they can oppose him on the regulating wall street because they want democrats go

along and vote for it they can oppose him on his judges because they want democrats go vote for it so if they opposed trump on substantial issues they would have to throw some of their democratic colleagues under the bus and their donors which is why they don't do it which is why they spent 3 years talking about russia again and why they're now doing a show trials in pietschmann it's really incredible and i think jim we've got a little bit of time left but it what's interesting is i think they're kind of failing because it seems like there are attacks that they do on the candidates that they don't like like a bernie sanders or tulsa gabbert that actually does more to kind of eliminate what those candidates stand for than their own you know pam selected candidates because when you think of when i think of bernie i think ok free college free health care when i think it's healthy no regime change was when i think of lizabeth warn against little more shaky i guess free college and free health care kind of that same thing but then when you think about like better jobs or quotes or anyone else it's like i don't really know what they ultimately stand for i mean malarkey i think was on the side of his boss. i gotta say and it's

a pleasure watching you and i am doing great work out there and keep up that great work on your show the jimmy doors show you're getting a lot of people you definitely open a lot of eyes out there and thank you for the comedy during a season an election season that we most definitely need to laugh at the times. well right back atcha and let me just say it's not that i'm some kind of a genius news person far from it. it's just that the news people are so bought they're not allowed to tell the truth so that leaves the big lane 3 people like that it definitely does thank you so much sir. finally today let us bring you this preview of the newest episode of redacted tonight speaking of good political comedy news were redacted contributor naomi carol bonnie delves into what really was responsible for the recent chemical plant explosions in texas. the disaster at the. facility took place in the trump administration rollback safety rules meant to protect workers and people who live

near chemical plants that's like one of venice council rejected climate change measures and moments later discovered it or when officials declared pompei a burning hot lava free zone or when they removed the ban on smoking in the hidden burg and then soon after well there was a lot of smoking not until 2 days later were people within a 4 mile radius of the chemical plant able to return to their homes important matches and they were thankful that the company the t.p.c. group took care of them this holiday season and blew out their windows you can feel the gratitude in the air which they say you're going to bring despite the fact that it looks and tastes like burning used. after the residents return no one comes by another tower of the plant falling down and a warning not to touch the debris because it might contain. according to an

official statement the black stuff floating don't touch it this was said by troy monk who is the director of health safety and security for the t.p.c. group. and he really dances around that word as specified which is cancer causing a washout for those odds and ends that get in your. texas rich in petroleum and natural gas is also rich in chemical plants that have exploded several times just this year we had fires and. petrochemical plants in exxon mobil plant in baytown and fires broke out at the k.m.c. 0 chemical plant and. this puts a lot of pressure on the. news anchors to stand outside and pretend the air is safe to smoke i mean great. mr dodge of the night which was friday is on our to american

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