Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ Oh dear god please let this be the peak of Jimmy Dore Derangement Syndrome. Progressive commentator and journalist Nomiki Konst has a tweet out that honestly needs its own article to unpack, not because of its own intrinsic insanity but because of what it says about what's happening to left-wing punditry and the western left in general.
Most of what Dore does consists of taking quotes and past actions of the liberal class and casting it against their current words and deeds (or lack thereof). Naturally, shitlibs and faux warriors like AOC the Squad hate this.
Hypocrisy is a vein that comedians have mined for centuries, and it's actually what our evening news should be doing -- minus the dick jokes, of course.
Dore comes off like a gruff jagoff of the Chicago variety but he's obviously done some inner work and displays a marvelous degree of self depreciation.
The corporate press in this country have gone from worthless to dangerous, yelling the loudest for censorship and largely ideologically aligned with the DNC. With Dore gaining more viewership than most cable news shows, attempts to demonize him become more understandable.
Isn't it interesting that Jimmy Dore has become the icon of the "true left" -- whatever that is suppose to mean. I am sure it is a position he never wanted to attain, but he did it just by staying true to his values; standing strong in the face of slurs made against him; and being proactive when faced when threats to smear him as a sexual predator were made against him.
Joe Biden is the one who murdered #BelieveWomen and #MeToo.
The TYT network is financed by the Oligarchy.
Jimmy Dore (like Aaron Mate, Matt Taibbi, Michael Tracy, Peter B. Collins, Caitlin and others) is financed by you and me.
When the Squad (and the rest of the so-called progressives) finally stops faking opposition and fails to pass the $3.5T reconciliation bill while assisting the Oligarchy in stealing America's wealth through the so-called "bipartisan bill", I trust Jimmy Dore to be the one who will most clearly explain that betrayal to me.
First of all, as an Italian-American, they should all be smacked for butchering and spoofing Matt Orfalea's name. It reveals them as lightweight intellects.
Second, I'd suggest locking Konst, Seder, Vigeland et al., entitled crybabies all, in a room and forcing them to watch endless George Carlin videos. Perhaps they can be shamed into reality by a comedian with a better command of the language than any of these mediocre con artists —and a better grasp of the real pile of shit this country has become than any of their sorry half-witted asses. I despise these people almost as much as I do the con artists in the democratic party.
Dore is high-strung, temperamental, sometimes condescending, and can rub people the wrong way. He's also 100% authentic, a sharp critical thinker, and one of our few truth-tellers. We need thousands of Dores in order to break the US left out of its controlled-opposition slumber, while relegating all the Konsts, Seders and Vigelands to the ash-heap of political conversation. And his fans KNOW this apocalyptic tweet is going to turn up on his show soon . . . his best content tends to be contributed by those immersed in the sewage of shitlibbery!
Speaking of Jimmy Dore taking up oxygen in Nomiki's mind, as someone with a grand total of 18 followers, she blocked me on Twitter. I have never interacted with her or left comments on her threads, I don't follower her or even think about her. The only reason I think she went out of her way to banish some Twitter troll is because I like Jimmy Dore.
They're freaking out because Dore isn't flattering them and aiming vicious snark at the opposition, like SNL, late night hosts and hollywood generally does. Instead, he's calling them out, and doing it with verve and humor. Comedians used to occasionally do that. Remember George Carlin mocking America's warmongering spirit at the time of Gulf War I, ("playing with our toys in the sand"), and getting booed on his own stage.
Liberals are used to owning the talent, and the message -- especially when it comes to comedy. It became their safe space. They sneer whenever the right tries to put up any cultural opposition, with their shitty comedians and weird end-times movies and books. Someone with Dore's talent aiming his daggers at them? That's something they haven't had to deal with.
But I'd go further in giving Dore some credit as a part of the political conversation. His "Stop the Vote" advocacy was well timed, well aimed and well conceived. He attracts some very effective guests and allies (Greenwald, Mate and Rogan among them). I'd say the shitlibs should be worried about Dore.
Dore's direct challenges to the notion that there are vast differences between the two corporate parties is what painted a target on his back. People that fall for vilifying him either have a weak analysis or are being disingenuous. Either way, I ignore them.
The cartoon a good cartoonist could draw is a top-hatted corporation smiling with self-satisfaction at all the political groups' in-fighting and division; left against left, right against right, antivaxxer lefties against provaxxer lefties, covid and climate denying righties vs science believing righties, etc., ad infinitum.
The division serves only one group, the owners.
If they can keep everyone distracted by the smoke and mirrors people won't realize they have been murdered.
Well, Cait has her comments box up again, maybe for awhile this time, so I will do a comment. One thing about her, she gets into topics that are actually worth commenting about.
I am concerned with the last two paragraphs in this article. That is, about how any “left” movement always seems distracted; disrupted from outside by obvious secret police operations, and from within by all the mentally unstable nutcases whom people do not think they have the right to tell to shut up and get lost.
I am going to write much more fulsomely about this sometime soon. There is so much to write about now, I have limited energy and I have a lot of other stuff going on in my life at the moment. My thesis will be that all this problem with left movements is from the lack of a plot. People have no idea what they are trying to accomplish.
This is ultimately a problem with the revolutionary left, going back to the old time Marxists. They are totally focussed on overthrowing capitalism, but do not know what they are going to replace it with. This is the big error of Marxism; we just eliminate capitalism and we’ll wing it from there.
No, you have to have fully worked out what you are going to put in place of the old order. When you have this straight you will understand how to actually overthrow capitalism, permanently. I believe that most of the internal and external disruption will also disappear. Police infiltrators will immediately ‘out’ themselves and look ridiculous.
What is exciting about these times is that the ideas for a post capitalist world are now there. It just needs some people to put it together into a coherent program. This was what was missing back in the 1970s; will people grasp it now?
This is what interests me and repels me about Cait. She is like the 1970s over again. All that has to happen is that everybody becomes all beautiful and spiritual and mindful and so on, and everything will happen magically. It didn’t work.
People soon get tired of things that do not go anywhere. The forces of darkness regrouped and got part of the ‘flower powers’ to buy into neoliberalism. And so we got the 1980s and all that followed.
your description suggests that the effect of plurality voting and consequent 2-party duopoly on reporting (and consequently on the collective minditself) is even more powerful than described here: https://rangevoting.org/MediaLapdogs.html
I don't think Prof. Smith himself really appreciated the extent to which people like Seder become obsessed with *actively* enforcing party orthodoxy. Clearly it goes well beyond a focus on
Most of what Dore does consists of taking quotes and past actions of the liberal class and casting it against their current words and deeds (or lack thereof). Naturally, shitlibs and faux warriors like AOC the Squad hate this.
Hypocrisy is a vein that comedians have mined for centuries, and it's actually what our evening news should be doing -- minus the dick jokes, of course.
Dore comes off like a gruff jagoff of the Chicago variety but he's obviously done some inner work and displays a marvelous degree of self depreciation.
The corporate press in this country have gone from worthless to dangerous, yelling the loudest for censorship and largely ideologically aligned with the DNC. With Dore gaining more viewership than most cable news shows, attempts to demonize him become more understandable.
Isn't it interesting that Jimmy Dore has become the icon of the "true left" -- whatever that is suppose to mean. I am sure it is a position he never wanted to attain, but he did it just by staying true to his values; standing strong in the face of slurs made against him; and being proactive when faced when threats to smear him as a sexual predator were made against him.
Joe Biden is the one who murdered #BelieveWomen and #MeToo.
The TYT network is financed by the Oligarchy.
Jimmy Dore (like Aaron Mate, Matt Taibbi, Michael Tracy, Peter B. Collins, Caitlin and others) is financed by you and me.
When the Squad (and the rest of the so-called progressives) finally stops faking opposition and fails to pass the $3.5T reconciliation bill while assisting the Oligarchy in stealing America's wealth through the so-called "bipartisan bill", I trust Jimmy Dore to be the one who will most clearly explain that betrayal to me.
First of all, as an Italian-American, they should all be smacked for butchering and spoofing Matt Orfalea's name. It reveals them as lightweight intellects.
Second, I'd suggest locking Konst, Seder, Vigeland et al., entitled crybabies all, in a room and forcing them to watch endless George Carlin videos. Perhaps they can be shamed into reality by a comedian with a better command of the language than any of these mediocre con artists —and a better grasp of the real pile of shit this country has become than any of their sorry half-witted asses. I despise these people almost as much as I do the con artists in the democratic party.
Dore is high-strung, temperamental, sometimes condescending, and can rub people the wrong way. He's also 100% authentic, a sharp critical thinker, and one of our few truth-tellers. We need thousands of Dores in order to break the US left out of its controlled-opposition slumber, while relegating all the Konsts, Seders and Vigelands to the ash-heap of political conversation. And his fans KNOW this apocalyptic tweet is going to turn up on his show soon . . . his best content tends to be contributed by those immersed in the sewage of shitlibbery!
Speaking of Jimmy Dore taking up oxygen in Nomiki's mind, as someone with a grand total of 18 followers, she blocked me on Twitter. I have never interacted with her or left comments on her threads, I don't follower her or even think about her. The only reason I think she went out of her way to banish some Twitter troll is because I like Jimmy Dore.
OK, Team D controls the presidency and both houses of Congress.
Obviously, a YouTube comedian is responsible for the fact that we are not in Fully Automated Luxury Progressivism by now.
They're freaking out because Dore isn't flattering them and aiming vicious snark at the opposition, like SNL, late night hosts and hollywood generally does. Instead, he's calling them out, and doing it with verve and humor. Comedians used to occasionally do that. Remember George Carlin mocking America's warmongering spirit at the time of Gulf War I, ("playing with our toys in the sand"), and getting booed on his own stage.
Liberals are used to owning the talent, and the message -- especially when it comes to comedy. It became their safe space. They sneer whenever the right tries to put up any cultural opposition, with their shitty comedians and weird end-times movies and books. Someone with Dore's talent aiming his daggers at them? That's something they haven't had to deal with.
But I'd go further in giving Dore some credit as a part of the political conversation. His "Stop the Vote" advocacy was well timed, well aimed and well conceived. He attracts some very effective guests and allies (Greenwald, Mate and Rogan among them). I'd say the shitlibs should be worried about Dore.
Nomiki is a lost soul pretending to be a progressive. She is a Clinton Democrat pretending to be a Sanders Democrat.
Dore's direct challenges to the notion that there are vast differences between the two corporate parties is what painted a target on his back. People that fall for vilifying him either have a weak analysis or are being disingenuous. Either way, I ignore them.
The cartoon a good cartoonist could draw is a top-hatted corporation smiling with self-satisfaction at all the political groups' in-fighting and division; left against left, right against right, antivaxxer lefties against provaxxer lefties, covid and climate denying righties vs science believing righties, etc., ad infinitum.
The division serves only one group, the owners.
If they can keep everyone distracted by the smoke and mirrors people won't realize they have been murdered.
And yes, we're going extinct. Soon.
That's the real story no one wants to talk about.
First time I heard of Konst WAS WHEN SHE WAS A GUEST ON JIMMY DORE! LOL
She's just being click baity as far as I'm concerned.
Well, Cait has her comments box up again, maybe for awhile this time, so I will do a comment. One thing about her, she gets into topics that are actually worth commenting about.
I am concerned with the last two paragraphs in this article. That is, about how any “left” movement always seems distracted; disrupted from outside by obvious secret police operations, and from within by all the mentally unstable nutcases whom people do not think they have the right to tell to shut up and get lost.
I am going to write much more fulsomely about this sometime soon. There is so much to write about now, I have limited energy and I have a lot of other stuff going on in my life at the moment. My thesis will be that all this problem with left movements is from the lack of a plot. People have no idea what they are trying to accomplish.
This is ultimately a problem with the revolutionary left, going back to the old time Marxists. They are totally focussed on overthrowing capitalism, but do not know what they are going to replace it with. This is the big error of Marxism; we just eliminate capitalism and we’ll wing it from there.
No, you have to have fully worked out what you are going to put in place of the old order. When you have this straight you will understand how to actually overthrow capitalism, permanently. I believe that most of the internal and external disruption will also disappear. Police infiltrators will immediately ‘out’ themselves and look ridiculous.
What is exciting about these times is that the ideas for a post capitalist world are now there. It just needs some people to put it together into a coherent program. This was what was missing back in the 1970s; will people grasp it now?
This is what interests me and repels me about Cait. She is like the 1970s over again. All that has to happen is that everybody becomes all beautiful and spiritual and mindful and so on, and everything will happen magically. It didn’t work.
People soon get tired of things that do not go anywhere. The forces of darkness regrouped and got part of the ‘flower powers’ to buy into neoliberalism. And so we got the 1980s and all that followed.
Enough said. tr
What does it say when Caitlin writes about Israel and maybe five people posted something but the comments regarding Jimmy Dore go on for days?
However you slice it, that's fucked up.
She includes Jimmy Dore and manages to forget the legacy media, which is far bigger, better funded, and more powerful?
This just shows again that neoliberals would rather silence anyone to the left of them than actually work for change.
Please listen to Phil Ochs' "Love Me, I'm a Liberal" over and over again.
your description suggests that the effect of plurality voting and consequent 2-party duopoly on reporting (and consequently on the collective minditself) is even more powerful than described here: https://rangevoting.org/MediaLapdogs.html
I don't think Prof. Smith himself really appreciated the extent to which people like Seder become obsessed with *actively* enforcing party orthodoxy. Clearly it goes well beyond a focus on
the activities of electable parties.
Nomiki holds too left dogma that Dore mocks and punctures : yes?