The gigantic red flag when watching Leftist political commentary for me, is the unabashed emotionally charged Jimmy Dore hate, regardless of the context, his position or the subject matter. If it were simply "I don't agree with Jimmy, and here's why", I could respect that.
But it's quite clear that when it comes to Dore SPECIFICALLY, there is a growing number of content creators that otherwise stick to the issues, and rarely break frame. Unless the story they're covering has literally anything to do with Jimmy. In those cases, and those alone, they're at least 75% more animated and angry than they are any other time.
It's so predictable and consistent, that it makes me seriously consider that anyone that engages in that sketchy behavior has been assimilated by the propaganda machine.
100%
In all situations, Sam Seder/The Majority Report, TYT, Hasan, Vaush, Thought Slime, The Serfs TV, The Humanist Report, David Pakman, Nomiki Konst, Emma Vigeland, Dylan Burns etc. have ALL at one point or more lost their goddamned shit on stream or video about how Dore "obviously" takes money from Assad/Russia, and/or is secretly a right wing grifter that is damaging the left in ways their viewers couldn't possibly comprehend, and any discussion to the contrary automatically earns one the label "Dore-Knob" and the tsunami of name calling, personal attacks and over-the-top ridicule topples on top of them until they ultimately tire of the rampant cognitive dissonance and show themselves out.
When I started watching Dore, I stumbled on the Seder beef. These things happen, I thought. Then Cenk and Ana made cunty little comments here and there after Dore left TYT and started just doing his own thing. Maybe there's more history there than I'm aware of?
Who knows.
When I stopped paying for TJDS Premium, I just needed a breather. Dude gets intense, and by then, I had expanded my daily viewing to Kyle, Krystal/Saagar, Philosophy Tube, and Vaush.
Vaush was/is the Zoomer version of Jimmy with a flawless grasp on current social issues, a sociology degree, and with his smooth, soft spoken baritone, and eloquent delivery, I found I could listen to him longer without getting a headache. On top of that, he's a superhuman debate machine. He knows what he's talking about and exactly how to explain it.... Largely without coming off like a conceited twat. Definitely to the left of any other YouTube personality I had encountered to that point.
One day, during a Vaush stream, someone in chat casually mentioned Jimmy Dore, and how they should collaborate or have a discussion, and Vaush quickly dismissed the suggestion... Saying something to the effect of "don't even get me started on Dore", which I found kinda weird. No explanation.
Fast forward a month or so, and I hear Vaush yelling for the first time in the months I had been watching his content. Visibly angry and sounding like he wanted to kick a puppy.
The subject?
Jimmy Fucking Dore.
Up until the TYT Meltdown, the only times I have seen my dude explode. is when Jimmy comes up. As if he triggers some deep pain he's been avoiding his whole life.
And little by little, starting with #NeverBiden and Force The Vote, the list of creators with an irrational, deep disgust for the guy that will shout it from the rooftops at every possible opportunity continues to steadily grow. Even faster if he issues valid criticism towards The Squad. It's quite the phenomenon.
Just yesterday, I watched a clip from mid-covid where Nomiki Konst was on The Majority Report, and her, Sam and Emma were commiserating about Jimmy's appearance with Katie Halper and others... where he got somewhat loud, rude and disruptive with another guest who was defending The Squad's overall inaction. An hour plus of claiming he's not really a lefty, and chastising him about politics and the art of patience.
"We need to wait until the time is right, and Jimmy is an irresponsible sex pest with no idea how things actually get done."
In December of last year.
It was pathetic.
People have no money. NOW.
People are going to be evicted in droves.
NOW (or very soon).
600,000 people have died.
Millions are about to be homeless, and without work, a stimmy, and the premature end of unemployment benefits, Shit's about to rise to the surface And what are these "progressives" doing?
Taking a stand on the floor? Flexing whatever power they have for immediate results?
No.
They're "forming committees" that "aren't being made public yet".
Back in the day? We called that a classic case of "kicking the can down the road".
The current situation is far more urgent than I think they realize.
Maybe they're out of touch with what's going on with "the poors", up there in their New York fucking studio, but we're fucking drowning down here. And TMR etc. give Dore endless shit.
If it's not for what a creep he is, or his general demeanor, they'll always find something.
I see more vitriol spit at Jimmy Dore from The Left when they should be focused on the colossal failure of ALL (progressive and otherwise) Democrats in D.C.
And you know what?
Maybe they're right.
But, to his credit, while every lefty talking head on YouTube is doing laps to make sure everyone knows what a piece of shit he is, and how he's some right wing grifter in disguise, leading people toward the dark side with his rhetoric?
He's asking the correct questions and making the right demands. And he cuts through the bullshit to aim HIS vitriol at the people who deserve it.
I find it beyond disturbing that any and all blame needs to be aimed at Republicans.
That, when Jimmy correctly points out how conveniently impotent the congressional fucking majority is, that's irrefutable evidence that he's "funneling his audience to the right"
Please.
He's led me further left than I'd ever been.
I discovered Sam, Nomi, Michael Brooks, Hasan Piker, Vaush, The SerfsTV, Thought Slime, Chris Hedges, Richard Wolff, Slavoj Zizek, Kyle Kulinski, The Convo Couch, Jackson Hinkle, Vadim and many, many more THROUGH Dore.
He was my "gateway drug" TO ALL OF THEM, and the vast majority of the folks I just listed just tear the guy down, because he's not lock step with the rest of them.
Does his shit get old?
Is he a huge bag of cringe most of the time?
Sure.
But to suggest HE'S the fucking problem, or somehow personally inhibiting left leaning policy, while they give actual policy makers a pass, despite their ambitious campaign promises to "be a one term Congressperson if that's what it takes to get shit done IMMEDIATELY"
All they're really doing is making themselves look like some petty, disingenuous out-of-touch high school clique full of cunts.
And they're steadily destroying their own credibility.
The second they start that shit, they sound like Dim Tool, Ben Shibibo or Dave Rubin intentionally missing the point.
And that bums me out, because otherwise? I have tremendous respect for all of them.
Dore's one of very few that seem to fully understand the gravity of OUR situation down here in the gutter. Now isn't the time to "play shit smart with a five year plan".
Jimmy knows.
He's on OUR side.
The broke fucks on the other end of your feeds.
You may not like him, or his methods, and apparently he's clearly the only one trying to make a buck in this space (seriously, you should hear them talk about the $2M house he just bought, as if talking to a camera hasn't bumped them up a tax bracket or two) but Jimmy Dore isn't trying to make HIS audience think that "the long game" is how we fix the shit that's gonna kill us tomorrow.
This is why the right wins the overall online discourse.
They don't gang up on their own. They stay in their own lanes, speak to their audience, and they don't cannibalize other right wing pundits for having a fouler mouth, or strategic differences.
Dore could be wrong, but you have to consider the possibility that AOC was a waitress 5 years ago, and when you've lived that life? 180k a year to be Nancy Pelosi's lap dog doesn't need to be that tragic, and they're playing us like fucking fiddles.
Read some Chris Hedges and wake the fuck up.
Jimmy may be a reactionary creep, but he's closer to the bullseye than those cucks are.
And?
HE didn't shame me into voting for Tara Reade's rapist.
