Here’s Why Elon QUIT DOGE & Left Washington D.C.!
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Welcome to the Jimmy Dore Show, everybody. Keaton and Kurt here in for Jimmy while he is on the road this week. All right, this was a fast-developing story, everyone. A very fast-developing story. I don't even remember which show I did this on, if it was Jimmy's or mine. But Elon Musk expressed his dissatisfaction with the big, beautiful bill just a couple days ago, saying a bill cannot be both big and beautiful. That is a contradiction in turn. So, you know, I was like...

disappointed to see the massive spending bill frankly which increases the budget deficit not just decrease it and it reminds the work that the doge team is doing i actually thought that when this big beautiful bill came along i mean like everything he's done on doge gets wiped out in the first year i think i think a bill can be can be can be big or it can be beautiful but i don't know if it could be both

Kyle does him very funny too. Oh, yeah. He's tough to nail. That Dutch accent is kind of hard. Yeah.

It's not quite that, but it's very... Dude, you could tell that he was disappointed because he's, again, don't forget, a hardcore Asperger guy. Oh, yeah. And so you could see his disappointment because as soon as this happened, and we reported a while ago about it, I'm sure you guys did too, about how Doge wasn't cutting anything. Bannon came on the show and told us, if you don't go to the Pentagon, it's worthless. Oh, yeah. So...

People are crashing their fat scooters into trucks and all this for nothing. But I think he didn't know because as soon as he realized the big, beautiful bill, all of a sudden I started seeing a lot more. We got to go to Mars. Like, I think he got so disillusioned that he's like, oh, no, let's just go to Mars. He's going to occupy Mars shirt. Yep. Oh, no, it's very much a get me the hell out of here kind of thing. And that is what he's doing. So the Trump war room posts Elon Musk. I look forward to continuing to be a friend.

an advisor of the president, continuing to support the Doge team. And we are relentlessly pursuing $1 trillion in waste and fraud reductions, which will benefit the American taxpayer. But of course, he is

out at i will continue to visit i will continue to visit the white house oh will you bring you a drink from the minibar i will continue with the robot name i'll continue to sleep in the guest house at mar-a-lago yes because that is what i am owed uh but i will not have an official position here uh any longer here's elon musk bidding a bittersweet farewell

So I look forward to continuing to be a friend and advisor to the President, continuing to support the Doge team. And we are relentlessly pursuing $8 trillion in waste and fraud reductions, which will benefit the American taxpayer.

That's it really. Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. There's a cart for your bags if you need it. Outside the kitchen. We'll show you out. Show you out. Yes. Disillusioned Musk, distance from Trump, says he is exiting Washington. I wish we had some violence for this. Yeah, exactly.

Elon Musk took a swipe at President Trump's signature domestic policy legislation, saying it would add to the national deficit. Well, it's not signature anything yet because it hasn't passed. I mean, it still has to get through the Senate, which is going to be hard. He complained to administration officials about a lucrative deal that went to a rival company to build an artificial intelligence data center in the Middle East. God damn it.

And he has yet to make good on a $100 million pledge to Trump's political operation. Want to hear something else? I know, because I do a show called News for Women I produce with Chloe. Right. Chloe LaBanche.

She has a buddy who's from Abu Dhabi who's an arms dealer, and they poach Elon's talent. And guess what country doesn't have no tariffs on nothing? Abu Dhabi. So he's getting his stuff poached. It has to be through Trump's people setting that up. He's probably upset in many ways. Yes, yes. He seems pretty upset. He seems pretty bitter. Mr. Musk, who once called himself the president's first buddy. Oh, that's sweet. Yeah.

He's my best friend. You were my best friend is now operating with some distance from Mr. Trump as he says he is ending his government work to spend more time on his companies. Mr. Musk remains on good terms with Mr. Trump, according to White House officials. But he has also made it clear that he is disillusioned with Washington and frustrated with the obstacles he encountered as he upended the federal bureaucracy, raising questions about the strength of the alliance between the president

And the world's richest man. Do people think he's the world's richest man? I just want to ask, is everybody this fucking dumb that they really believe the richest man is Elon Musk? Do you think you would get to know the name of the richest man? Well, he's the world's richest mammalian man. No, he's not. No, he's not the richest man. Not by a long shot.

Not by a long shot. So you don't think the people richer than him are like the reptiles, like the shape-shifting lizards? You think there are one-blooded vertebrate mammals who are richer than him? Is that what you're saying? You ever hear of the von Merkensteins? No.

Yeah. I promise they're richer. All right. Well, maybe Trump should hire him next. Von Merkenstein should come. He should take over Doge. Look, he's a disillusioned. I see this with everyone. It's like once I hit my 40s in comedy, the same disillusionment of the business, I watch all these other people go through it. And he's a guy who's a little bit spurgy, to say the least. And he really was excited that he's, oh, we've had a lot of waste. Right.

And he's just some dumb nerd. The whole media made out like he's the power behind every stupid liberal, especially in New York. Oh, Elon controls Trump. Did you really do people think that that that nerd was in charge? No, he's yet another nerd that is being taken advantage of while he's there. Can you watch Barbenheimer?

This is how it works. Well, the thing about Elon is because he donated so much money, you notice Trump doesn't go after him the way he goes after the other people when he pushes back.

Right. He remains very diplomatic. Trump was the. Yeah, exactly. Mr. Musk was the biggest known political spender in the 2024 election. And he told Mr. Trump's advisers this year that he would give one hundred million dollars to groups controlled by the president's team before the 2026 midterms. As of this week, the money hasn't come in yet, according to multiple people familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe the behind the scenes dynamic.

The billionaire's imprint is still firmly felt in official Washington through that effort, an initiative to drastically cut spending that has deployed staff across the government. But Mr. Musk has said in recent days that he spent too much time focused on politics and has lamented the reputational damage he and his companies have suffered because of his work in the Trump administration.

Well, I say he earned it. I think I probably did spend a bit too much time on politics, Mr. Musk said in an interview this week with Ars Technica, a tech news outlet. He added it was just relative time allocation that probably was a little too high on the government side. And I've reduced that significantly in recent weeks. I've tweaked the dials in my back.

In February, Mr. Musk leaped on stage at the conservative. Yes, this just seemed like just yesterday at CPAC with a chainsaw and remarked how easy it was to save billions of dollars sometimes in an hour. Yeah, like it's wild. He said Mr. Musk's Doge team has repeatedly inflated its cost saving efforts at times posting erroneous claims about ending federal contracts that they later deleted. Oh, yeah.

No, that was definitely move fast, break things. Most of what they said that you're doing was absolute bullshit. Yeah. Right. But like, it's just like Kash Patel and all these people think they're going to do what it would not ban Gino. I think he was rotten from the start, but.

Maybe Kash Patel, but they all are like the young, oh, knock down the house, AOC. Remember that documentary on Netflix? Right, right, yeah. And then all of a sudden, Jimmy saying force the vote. AOC slogan. Right. Now Jimmy's violent for saying the slogan she came up with. Right. How long is everyone going to fall for this stuff? You know, and what I'm amazed at, especially now that, you know, I don't know if you know, but Joe Rogan's club is the seat of Western power now. Right.

But people come in. I can't believe I meet. I meet all these Intel people. I blurred out MK Monarch right in their face immediately to see how they react. I meet all these people. And what I'm blown away by the most is there's a bunch of people that when you see it, you go, oh, you didn't know? And that's worse than them being in on it from the start. That's when you realize how screwed this is because they compartmentalize all the way up the pyramid.

And all these people have power over, you know, people are lying their way up the chain. So besides spying on you, they're really not getting good information at the top. And now you're seeing it like kind of break apart, like Michael Malice's book, White Pill, that collapses under its own weight eventually because it gets absurd. Like we're well into clown world now, you know? Certainly, yes.

This week, Mr. Musk told the Washington Post that it was an uphill battle trying to improve things in D.C. The cuts he wanted to enact were far more difficult than he expected. Oh, that's right. And a lack of interest in learning more about the bureaucracy he considered toxic impeded his efforts.

particularly on Capitol Hill, according to people familiar with his efforts who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe internal discussions. Well, the reason that is the case is because, you know, the the cuts that they were making were largely symbolic cuts.

Yeah. In nature and very, very small, obviously, as a percentage of the overall budgets, which it was obvious from day one. If you weren't going to touch the Pentagon, there was no point in doing this at all. And, yeah, they said they were going to. They say a lot of shit. I mean, Donald Trump says a lot of shit. They didn't cut those things either. No. The Biden thing got funded in the continuing resolution. Thomas Massey always. That guy's always honest with it.

So back then we knew Biden's horseshit still funded. Do you think there's two teams anymore? Everyone? Does everyone still think that? Yeah, no. Well, USAID just got folded into the.

Department of State under Rubio. Like this is what they want to do. They want to consolidate power as much as possible within the jurisdiction of the executive branch, both as a technical matter and even in more abstract ways as a cultural matter. Don't forget.

Trump defunds Harvard. Trump expected Harvard to bend the knee like Columbia did. So that's why he didn't want to disempower Harvard. He wanted to bring it under the

practical virtual control of the executive branch. Do this, this and this control where these students come from, what they think you have to pass an ideological audit and you'll get the money. Now, Harvard told him to go fuck himself. And so he told it right back to them. But the plan was to bend them to his will, which he had good reason to think he could do.

Columbia did it. So the whole project of Doge so far has been to the extent that they have made cuts. It's no, they have tried to consolidate operations as much as they can within this small group of people so that they can dictate day to day operations more than they could control some bureaucrat who is under some other authority.

jurisdiction. And that was what USAID was, pardon me. And as far as the Pentagon cuts, yeah, they were not going to go there. Obviously, the budget calls for Pentagon increases. When it comes to his efforts to upend the bureaucracy, Mr. Musk insisted last month that it is possible to meet his goal of slashing $1 trillion of federal spending. But it's a long road to go. And you know, it's really difficult. It's sort of how much pain is, you know, are the cabinet

And is Congress willing to take

Okay, or are like ordinary people who need like Medicaid. He's talking about that. He's talking about Social Security and Medicaid. Yeah, exactly. Like that's what you're talking about. I guess my mother will just not get her Social Security she paid into and that's fine. Right, right. The reason that's a tough vote for Congress is not because it inflicts pain on them. It's because it inflicts pain on ordinary people who they need to vote for them. And the fact that you didn't see that coming is indicative of the idea of the sort of ideological bent

And sort of like philosophical persuasion of a lot of these big tech people. They just don't think shit. It's moving. Yeah. They are autistic right now. I don't know how anybody thinks they didn't make these people on purpose because when you think about them, they're the perfect consumer. You can tell them what gender to be randomly online. Like they're good with tech.

They're great employees, right? They don't, they're weird with personal relationships. You don't have to worry about that at the office. You tell me that's not an intentional thing they were hoping to come up with. Oh, of course. Of course. They look Disney crap, no matter how bad it is. Oh, the whole, the whole creation of that economic sector is so that people like Elon can get rich in their gym shorts. They never have to go outside. They never have to deal with anybody else. They just, right.

And they don't understand why you would. Zuckerberg's like, oh, people don't have friends. We'll make them computer friends. We'll make them computer friends. Problem solved. Right. Isn't that right? The solution is not how do we make people more socialized. It's no. We'll create a friend for you. Exactly. How can we make a more realistic vagina? Yeah.

Because it can be done, but it requires dealing with a lot of complaints. Yes, a lot of complaints from people who need medicine, who won't be able to afford it if you did what you wanted to do. An AI will tell them to go fuck themselves. Right, go fuck themselves, exactly. He said it remained to be seen whether there was sufficient political will in Congress and elsewhere to actually do that.

So, newswire, White House to seek just $9 billion in spending cuts from Congress out of the $175 billion in claimed savings found by Musk's doge. So remember when they said it was going to be $4 trillion, and then they said it was going to be $2 trillion, and then they said, well, now it's going to be $150, now they're claiming $175. White House to seek just $9 billion at the end of the day for all that. That can't even keep Ukraine going for three hours. Yeah, right, exactly.

Arnaud Bertrand says they went from the original promise of cutting $2 trillion, 28% of the budget, down to $9 billion, 0.1% of the budget, one-tenth of 1%.

More perfect union. The richest man on earth who has cost hundreds of thousands of people their jobs wants to play the victim. He's not the richest, and that's why he couldn't cut anything. If he were the richest man on earth, they'd have to do what he said. But he's not. I know people love saying it, but you can't see that he's not just from this alone. Interesting point.

Arnold Bertrand says,

Ding, ding, ding. Prize for our code. A breakaway civilization. That's what it is. It's not out in outer space. It's right here in front of your dumb face. Oh, yeah. It's all around us. It's all around us. Absolutely. The people who can afford to fix their brakes when they go.

are in what is essentially a breakaway civilization. That's essentially what it is. The rumors are they have a whole Star Trek that they just didn't tell you. Remember Star Trek where they're traveling the galaxy? So the conspiracy is that people, just to tell you where everybody's at psychologically, is that they've secretly just had one, but they just, imagine that in Star Trek, they just didn't tell Earth. Nobody on Earth got to know there was a Star Trek. Right, exactly.

And given Trump and Republicans agenda of a stronger military stuff like solving the border crisis, deporting illegals, et cetera, they're likely to very much increase jobs in those areas, not decrease. That's right. Hard to see the U S ending up with a much smaller army under a Trump administration. The bill, the big, beautiful bill calls for 45 billion with a B dollars in new immigrant jails. That is five times the doge savings.

that they are putting in the bill. Again, when you have a police, this is exactly it. This is exactly it. I mean, it's a kind of a relief, honestly, that they're building them here. I guess, I guess they can't get seat caught 2.0 built so fast. So at least people will be here where they can maybe someday get some due process. If we ever have any semblance of like, you know, democracy ever again, that'd be nice. We can, we can hope, can't we? But yeah, that's $45 billion. That's 45, but that's five times the Doge savings right there.

And this is a very important point. That's why it's a very important thing that he said. You can't have a police state and a gutted government. You can have one or the other. You want to dismantle the establishment, you have to disassemble the police state infrastructure immediately.

Not military, notwithstanding just the police state alone, just the police state. You can't enforce that while ushering in this libertarian dream. It's a contradiction. I always thought like the the the libertarians who were, you know, hyper excited about Trump and Doge. I'm like, but but the other part of this.

is building a deportation machine, which is a police state. You can't build a deportation machine without assembling a police state. That costs money, money, even whatever. Philosophical differences aside, that requires a major investment, major investment that far transcends. If you look at a distribution of resources, that far surpasses what you're going to save by firing the blue haired lady at USAID. It's always going to end up this way.

It sounds a lot to me like venture capital, like America's a shell company. Okay. So the real country of these people, whatever this 1% is,

Put their investment in and they're getting their investment back. If the doors fall off the plane, F you. If anything goes wrong, this is a shell company. It's not a real country. Right. Okay. That's all. It's real simple. If you look at it that way, you can tell, you can see what it is. It doesn't add up the numbers. You're right. So why would they be? It's not a mistake. No. They're like, oh, it's just greed. Yeah, no, it is. But also they know what they're doing. That's why they're getting rich from it.

So the people invested, they're getting their investment back and they're pulling out this loser of a company. Right. Right. It's impossible. It's impossible. What the, what the, the vision of Doge was impossible to implement on these terms. So he finishes. So if 80% is what we're talking about. If 80% of the government is essentially out of bounds for Doge right from the get go, it's largely pointless initiative from the standpoint of broad government efficiency. Exactly. Exactly.

Mars has less gravity, so it'll probably work better there. It's just there's too much gravity here. Right. Exactly. Exactly. But that's it. And they're not even talking about leaving that 80% alone. It's not only that it's out of bounds. They want to increase resources for that. They want to build more immigration jails. They want to increase the Pentagon budget. So it's not just that that's out of bounds. No, they want to add to that. Bernie Madoff could not stop. He had to keep the government until he was caught. He could never stop it. He could never disclose it.

He never stopped it. He had to keep it going. No choice. That's where we're at. They have to keep the scam going. It's just that simple, dude. They're going to run it. And hopefully a war starts. Why are they trying for war so hard? Because what gets us out of this when they do this? You know, two trillions missing from the pen where we can't account for it. Oh, no. 9-11. So it's like a fire in California. It's all the same thing. You burn it down for the insurance.

Yep, exactly. It's like the sporting goods store that got busted out by Tony and Paulie there. Our system of government is Greek lightning. Yeah, yeah. What was the name of that store in the show? I forget. But anyway, they did scam people all right. Look at the impressions on this one. Remember when this was very exciting news? The Pentagon just failed its seventh audit in a row. And Elon quote tweets, it sounds like a job.

for doge 45.9 million views 243 000 likes there was an appetite they don't have one they're not allowed to give them one this is a little ink in inaccuracy there it's something we don't know if they could pass an audit they will not have one like it's so much worse than they failed it oh yeah they'll have one

Trump, February 19th, 2025, says Glenn Greenwald. We're cutting the Pentagon budget by 8%. Trump yesterday during his White House meeting with Netanyahu. We're so excited. We're increasing military spending by $150 billion to create the first ever trillion dollar annual Pentagon budget. That's right. That was from Netanyahu's visit. Play Village People while we dance to this great news. In April. No.

Michael Tracy's always got the deadpan sarcasm. Elon's tweet here from two months ago. I know Defense Department procurement better than I know any part of the government before Doge. Major reform is needed and it will happen. Narrator.

It didn't happen. Nicely done. And I love this one too. One thing's for sure. We are all indebted to Elon Musk for making good on his pledge to smash the deep state by going hard at the National Park Service and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau while ignoring the Pentagon and intelligence agencies. Well said, Michael Tracy. So, so ends the saga of Doge.

He's a front. He's a front to like all your leaders and Jake Tapper. These people are just forward facing parts of a thing to keep you occupied all they're waiting for. And I didn't get this or anything top secret. They say it, these tech freaks.

All those bunkers that they built, you know, Zuckerberg and all them, you know, they're openly saying why they did it. Because they think AGI, artificial general intelligence, is about to come out any minute and destroy breaking points, even reporting about it. They're going to destroy all the jobs and people are going to get real mad because of the social upheaval. And that's what the bunkers are for. That's their words. That's not what I came up with. So buckle up for that.

I guess you get ready. You're right. You know, Chris Hedges described the election as a contest between the corporatists and the oligarchs, with the Democrats being the corporatists and the Republicans being the oligarchs. And I think that's a very smart way.

of looking at it. Corporatists rely on cooperation with other countries and other bureaucrats. They have conferences, they have cocktail parties, whereas the oligarchs, it's just like rentier capitalism. It's tollbooth capitalism. Oh, we own the roads. You want to drive on the roads? You got to pay us. We own the phones. You want to talk on the phone? You got to pay us, right? That's this crew. This is the sort of maverick oligarchs versus the entrenched

But the result is still a funneling of wealth and power to them at the expense of everyone else. When you look at this budget and you look at the deregulation of AI, you look at the increased investment in prisons, you look at all of the red tape they're trying to create to make it harder for people to get Medicaid and Social Security and housing benefits.

This is essentially own nothing and be happy, except when the Democrats are in control, it's own nothing and be happy. MAGA seems to be own nothing and be angry. Own nothing and be aggrieved. Own nothing and be grateful the immigrants own less. That's basically what this is. Oh, yeah. It's the eternal battle of fascist versus pervert and

And there's a lot of revolving door action in that. You know, obviously, clearly a lot of crossover. Eagle versus snake. You could fight priest versus king. It's an age-old thing, but you are never going to get out of that stupid, what do you call it, Freemason duality. Like, you're never getting out of that. You're never going to have another choice. Your only choice besides those two things or the same thing are you can pick a new gender. You can have...

A limitless gender. You don't get to say what party you're out to. You're right wing, just so you know. I don't know what you think you are, but I'm labeling you right wing. That's how that works. That'll be assigned to you at birth. But you can pick nonsense things for yourself. We've clearly moved into that. Most people are not following this. I'm going to see my friends tonight. They don't know any of this shit, just so you know. They're following what's happening. Some of them are following Blake Lively. What's going on with that?

Okay. Just so whenever, whenever I blather about mind control, do you think it's not happening? This is more stupid than I even remember back when we were stupid. When I was young, I leveled stupid now and distracted cow is like mind blowing. I mean, it really is something else and it ain't normal. And you go to other countries, even like compromise ones like England, they're a little bit more literate. Well, that's the key word is distracted. You know, that's what, uh,

George Carlin said, he said, Americans are made to feel free through the exercise of meaningless choices, right? They give you the illusion of choice because the exercise of meaningless choices makes you feel like you have some agency and some power within the group. So he said, yeah, if you, if you want to vote, there are only two major parties you can vote for. And there's very little daylight between them. But if you want ice cream, there's 28 flavors, right? You can pick as many flavors of ice cream as you want. Yeah. Yeah.

There you go. Well, now there's more genders. The more ice cream, the better.

Well, this is what I mean. I mean, that is, that's fine. I mean, it's, it's funny, but, but it's also speaks to a point, right? Increasing the availability of meaningless choices that don't affect politics. Some race bullshit too. We're going to have a new story about white versus black violence that everybody's going to take it. You know, though you can rely on Jeremy from the quartering to report on four times a day. Exactly. Yeah. Because the guy's coffee business is failing.

everyone's a shell though like really why like Jimmy is he's such like has an inability which I have any ability to do like I can't right go along to get along with certain things once I know it and so all you gotta do is not be a shell but that's at every level what are you gonna do keep all my friends go I just might keep my head down and do my job because I'm relentless with them you know so I make them say it out loud before I stop

Well, this is the thing, man. The thing about that is, you know, look, I wrestle with this. One of the reasons I'm really excited to talk to Gabber Mate on Monday is that, you know, I have kids like I have. I have two six year olds. I have a one year old and my one year old doesn't know nothing now. But my six year olds are like starting to learn about.

the world have they picked the gender yet yeah they did not they're starting to learn about things and this is where like and this is a preview of monday what our conversation is going to be some of it is like your conscience as a person that like wants to teach your kid to be a good person and a civic-minded person and a kind person is if i'm being totally honest it is at odds with the parental instinct which is to protect your child right

Like, I don't want my kid to know. I don't want my kid to know about fucking Israel. I don't want them to know. I don't even want to know who the president is. Like, I want to protect them from that because those are very dark things to know about now. That's why they tell people about God when they're young. But at the same time, that clashes with

Not only what I do for a living, but it clashes with the kind of person I'd like them to be. Right. And so like your friends who want to tune out, like at a certain point, it's not going to be reconcilable anymore. Like you're people are just going to have to get engaged because the forces of evil are on the march and they're not stopping unless we stop them. So like you don't really have you're not going to have the luxury of being able to just, oh, out of sight, out of mind anymore. I'm not usually that far ahead of people either. It's funny. I'm watching like Black Panther. I did eat like.

Back when Russell was. So I'm not that far ahead of the class like that, but I'm watching it. It's very encouraging to see people see through it now.

Even in those Christian spaces where that prosperity gospel crap and all that other stuff, all that Hal Lindsey, Lake Great, Planet Earth, Christian Zionist, that's all falling apart. And I'm glad to see it because that is a really bad philosophy, probably a psyop. They don't want you to be devoted to any kind of religion. That's a problem. It's like Slavov Zizek that

But he used to say in Slovenia, they didn't want you to be too much of a true believer in communism. They wanted you to be that kind of breaking points, crystal ball type of, I want to maintain a relationship with power. If you believed in it too much, you're a problem as much as a guy that doesn't believe in it. And Gabor Mate, same thing. They knew in Hungary it was propaganda. That's the difference. Here, they're doing a better job than North Korea by far, propagandizing people. ♪

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May 30th, Joe Biden surfaces for his first comments since the cancer diagnosis. This is him at a Memorial Day event in Delaware. Colin Rugg tweets, CNN cuts away as Joe Biden says he's not

mentally unstable, suggests he would have won the election and says he could beat the hell out of Jake Tapper. That's right. Go Joe. Biden is out swinging today. Biden was also seen getting up close and personal with a young reporter. He says he's feeling great despite his cancer diagnosis. Let's take a look at Joe Biden's first public words since we got the news. This is good. You know, we're working on everything. It's moving along.

So I feel good. Have you decided on your treatment options? Yeah, we have. And we're underway. I've been getting treatment for six years. Oh, was I not supposed to say? I'm actually healing up. I'm in remission. All the folks are very optimistic.

And so you've started treatment? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. 2018. Would you be willing to share what exactly that entails? Yeah. It's all a matter of taking a pill, one particular pill. That's it? They got pills for cancer? I didn't know that.

Reminds me of that scene in the Royal Tenenbaums. You ever see that movie? Yeah. Where the patriarchy fakes a stomach cancer so he can reunite with his family who hates him. You know, this patriarchy. And he hires his friends to pose as his doctors. And the family asks, how's he doing? And they say, is he a fighter? He said, yeah, well, that's the best we got. So what do we do? He says, well, we just have to continue on with the stomach cancer medication.

That's the only thing he knows how to say. It reminds me. This reminds me of that. Yeah, just I take a pill. I take a pill once a day and knock it right out. President pills. I take it with my donkey pill. I take eight pills. Yeah, that's what I take for metastasized prostate cancer in my bones. Yeah, you take a pill once a day. You're good.

-That entails? -Yeah, it's all a matter of taking a pill, one particular pill. And for the next six weeks, and then another one. -You know, we have to cure it. -The expectation is we're gonna be able to beat this. -You know, there's a cure for cancer. -No, it's not in any organ. It's -- My bones are strong. I haven't penetrated, so I'm feeling good. -Sir, why was it important to call -- -I feel like everybody expects --

I've done it all because I'm loyal. I do it every damn year. Now he's going to fight this guy. Oh, my God. You'll never forget what I came for. Fucking crazy. The guy's fucking crazy. Like, it's so nuts. Like, when you look at... So, okay, so now in retro... I mean, it was crazy at the time. But you look at this in retrospect, and you think, this is who the Democrats told you until that debate. Oh, yeah, he can serve another four years, no problem. Well, you know what? This guy is like...

I said this before. Yeah, I'm trying to figure it out. And I was like, they know he's like that. They're like, oh, good. Blinken, probably Obama's secretly the president still. And that's good. Yeah. And then Sam Harris, Sam, quiet power out loud Harris said it. That is exactly what they think. They don't care. I just hate Trump so much. But, you know, maybe he could be Jake Tapper because why would Jake if if he can't beat up Jake Tapper? Why did Jake Tapper hide it for so long? Right.

Right. Yeah, that's a good point. He is taller. He's got some inches on him, that's for sure. I feel like everybody didn't know what to expect of you today, and then you get here and you're speaking powerfully, you look good, you're confident. What do you say to all those people? Don't count you out. Well...

I said lots of luck in the senior year. What has this been like for your family? Obviously, this is also an emotional time. This is the 10-year anniversary of your son, Beau's passing. You received this diagnosis just two weeks before that. Well, we're all optimistic about the diagnosis. Matter of fact, one of the leading surgeons in the world was working with me, and he had diagnosed with the same exact thing 32 years ago. He's alive and well and doing very well.

So we're optimistic. I feel great. You know, my wife tells me I was actually president. I just found that out. She told me I was the president for a while there. I was doing great. They should have stuck a flashlight to that auto sign machine and told him it's his wife. Optimistic.

And there's also been a lot of discussion recently about your mental and physical capabilities while you were in office. You can see that. I'm mentally incompetent, and I can't walk, and I can beat the hell out of both of them. I can beat the hell out of both of them. So that is about Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson, the co-authors of the new original Sin book. I can

Beat the hell. Yeah, you look great. You know, you sound totally fine. You sound totally normal. Getting in people's faces, threatening to beat the hell out of the people. How tall are you feeling? Wrote the book saying, yeah, bone cancer. No problem. Take a pill once a day. We're good to go. I'm optimistic. Be here for 32 more years. Nice. Sounds sounds totally normal. Sounds like this guy could have totally been the president now. I can't walk. You know what? Beat the hell.

We had the video of Trump not knowing that the MS-13 diagram was written on it. Oh, yeah. And I didn't believe it. I'm like, no, he's saying... Because there's a legitimate... That could have been a code for that. Right. And the reporter you could see is like, holy shit. Like...

He ain't going to tell him, dude. I have never been that shocked at a video in my life that he actually believes that those letters and numbers were on there. Michael Malice came out on my birthday. I was telling him, he said, what I say went, no, no. That's why we, if you watch, we made a YouTube short of me reacting to it. I was literally recoiling. It's brutal, dude. It's brutal. It's absolutely brutal.

Absolutely brutal. By the way, I heard that those numbers mean smoke weed to get high. Praise God till you die. That's just some tattoo artists. Sounds like a gang thing. But that actually makes more sense because the marijuana smile, that, okay, MS, but the cross and the skull never made sense that it was 1-3. But the praise God till you die, that makes sense. What you said, that's a philosophy I have, but I didn't throw it on my knuckles for no reason because I'm not in a gang. Right.

I just live that life. Both of them. Do you want to reply to any of those reports and also to the fact that there are some Democrats who are now questioning whether you should have run for reelection in the first place? Why do you run against me then?

i'm sorry i i'm sorry i i'm sorry i what is he what is he what is he humoring me now is the audience are humoring me now is the audience are humoring me now is the audience are you are you as you as you are you as you are you as you as i am i make a lot of times i make the i am i make a lot of times i make the i am i make a lot of times i make the same the debate with him i made the same same the debate with him i made the same same the debate with him i made the same face as biden was making while i was face as biden was making while i was face as biden was making while i was watching watching

Yeah. Yes. We look at some Democrats who are now questioning whether you should have run for reelection in the first place. Why didn't they run against me then? Because I'd have beaten them. Do you have any regrets? No, I don't have any regrets. Well,

You said no primary. You said no primary. Right. You're leaving up the Clooney who runs. But, you know, he does have a point. And I've said this, too. Like, the Democratic primary voters are the dumbest and most useless people politically in America. Like, if MSNBC tells them to vote for somebody, they will. That's how Biden won the nomination in the first place. His birdie was about to win, and then Obama cleared the field. And MSNBC said, all right, it's got to be Biden. And that's how he got there in the first place. So he does have a point. How do you know left and right? We have a...

There's a lot going on. Oh yeah, we know. I think we're in a really difficult moment, not only in American history, but in world history. I think we're in one of those inflection points in history where the decisions we make in the next little bit are going to determine what things look like in the next 20 years. I've been talking about that for a long time. And...

I'm very proud. I put my record as president against any president at all. You notice that 12 of the 10 leading presidential historians rated me pretty good up on that list. And the guy I ran against really didn't last. So, let's see. Watch me. Oh, did they historian rank you pretty high? Well, it feels good. Look, that's my son Bo's son.

and both started coming here with me about the same age. And so it's, you know, he wanted to be where his dad had been and what he's doing. He just graduated from high school, he's gone off to college in the fall and I'm really proud of him. He is the son of a father.

Do you have anything to say to the press secretary? Okay, that's enough. For the first time there from former President Biden? Okay, that's enough of that. You know, why bother bash? Why even show up anymore? I mean, it is...

It really is a hopeless situation. It really is. I mean, it is just incredible. Like they cannot let that guy on TV. Like that guy just has to stay home forever. It's unbelievable. Bill Maher will have a comment about how great it was to see Biden. Well, where was this Biden?

Where was this Biden? Because that thing like now, you know, now that the president presidency of America is like a world's greatest grandpa contest. Like, right. Who do you want to be your grandpa more? Your fake grandpa that is not doing anything for you. That's all it is. And then you're supposed to fixate on a personality and nothing else. If you tell people about the things they actually do, that is a conspiracy theory.

Right. When I go, dude, I was telling Rogan about hate and Rogan's a guy who's open to a lot of stuff. I was talking about Haiti like a couple times ago. I did it. And he was like, oh man, you know, he's conspiracy. We've forgotten my crazy book conspiracy. I didn't forget to say them because normal news people think is fake. Right.

Yeah, no, I mean, this is just like this is just otherworldly bizarre. Like they're never going to be no matter how bad the Republicans fuck shit up and the Republicans are fucking shit up left and right. I grant that all day long. They're not going to be taken seriously as an organization for as long as the stain of this is with them. The fact that they were vouching for this guy.

It's just incredible. And then when you watch him now, he has cancer and you come out and you watch and the reporter says, yeah, you seem fine. Now, what are you, are you out of your mind? Are you out of your mind? It's just, it's unbelievable. It's unbelievable. Now, well, where was that during? Uh,

the debate, I was like, was he on something? And then, uh, Tony told Hinchcliffe told me, and he's, I bet he's right. They stopped giving him his stuff for the debate because they want it, you know, whatever was propping him up like that. They weren't giving, they didn't give it to him that night. Well, what I've heard is that actually, um, the hormone therapy that they give you for prostate cancer can cause things like decreased balance, mental fog,

Cognitive impairment Oh, he might have got the brain fog So that's what I'm thinking Is that he had cancer Because I do not, I don't care what they say I do not care what they say I do not believe that they just discovered this brain cancer A few weeks ago I do not believe that Sorry, brain fog No, I fucked up, sorry Sorry, I fucked that up I do not believe that they just found The prostate cancer a few weeks ago

i i don't care what they say dan bongino can say he has video of the diagnosis i don't care what they say i do not believe that i i just why would you believe that who would believe that who would believe checking his health right non-stop right

The president of the United States goes for routine medical screenings all the time. He's an old man. Don't you get prostate exams from like 40 now? Is that what they're recommending? You know, you get prostate exams. It's really preventable. Takes a long time to become a problem kind of cancer. Right. So they ignored it for that. I don't buy that. I do not buy that for one second. I think he had this.

from before he became president at all. And I think the treatments are part of what fucked him up. Because look, my mother has Parkinson's. And with her, it was years of...

subtle things you notice that are wrong, like having to repeat yourself a bunch of times for her to understand something. Right. And, you know, just her having trouble with basic comprehension. It doesn't go from the way we saw him in 2016 to when he's on the campaign trail in 2019. I'm not saying that's impossible because he's an old man and things can deteriorate quickly as an old man. That's possible. Possible.

But I don't buy it. And I don't buy that they just discovered the cancer when he left office. That's just way too convenient to believe. And given the fact that the hormone therapy for this cancer can cause the exact kind of symptoms that we're seeing, pretty rapid onset version of them. Yeah, man, they covered this up for a very long time. I think throughout his entire time in office. I think he was sick the entire time. That's probably the least thing wrong with him the time he's in office.

I now I don't know if it's true or not, but it came from pretty connected people. But he had something called frequent frequent aneurysm syndrome. Some people have said I've never heard of that. I looked it up. I can find it. But it's what it says. So maybe like three or four aneurysms that we know about.

That sounds pretty dangerous. If you've had that many, it's not like those leaks aren't going to keep springing, you know? Welcome to the Jimmy Dore Show, everybody. Keaton and Kurt in for Jimmy this week. Israel announces major expansion of settlements in the occupied West Bank. The BBC has the report. That's right. That's right. They're finally moving on in. Why would you hold them back? Okay.

Hold them back for so long. Party's over. That's right. Well, Grok, here's what Grok has to say for some background about these West Bank settlements.

Fourth Geneva Convention, Article 49 prohibits an occupying power from transferring its civilian population into occupied territory. The International Court of Justice in its 2004 advisory opinion on the Israeli separation barrier stated that the settlements violate this provision as they involve the transfer of Israeli civilians into the West Bank, considered occupied territory post-1967 Six-Day War.

The ICJ's 2024 opinion reiterated this, declaring the settlements unlawful and calling for their cessation. You could tell Elon's out of the White House because this is a surprisingly based take on this from Grok. I guess this is how you know he's packed his bags and left. Yes. Grok dropped the Berg off its name. Exactly. Yes.

Grokstein, no more. UN resolutions. The UN Security Council in resolutions like 446 and 2334 has consistently declared the settlements illegal, citing violations of international humanitarian law and obstacles to peace. These resolutions are politically influential, but not legally binding in the same way as treaties. And of course, the Rome Statute, the International Criminal Court, consents.

considers the transfer of civilians into occupied territory a potential war crime. In 2021, the ICC opened an investigation into alleged Israeli war crimes, including settlement activities, though this is contested and ongoing. You know, even if you think they're far-left commies in charge, like, let me be the, I don't know, the Tim Pool side of this. Let's say they're just far-leftists and they... I knew you were bald. I knew it.

I thought about wearing a beanie as a toupee, but I would break out. Okay, so let's say that the ICC and all of them are wrong. You don't believe in those. They're anti-Semitic probably. They're communists, whatever. But then they'll turn around. The next day, I'm going to hear how Putin is wanted.

Right. Or whoever. So there is no inherent logical coherence. Like none of this ever makes sense if you can remember a thing more than a month ago. Right. Right. Exactly.

Exactly. Israeli ministers say 22 new Jewish settlements have been approved in the occupied West Bank, the biggest expansion in decades. Several already exist as outposts built without government authorization, but will now be made legal under Israeli law. Blimey. Yeah. Yeah. Well, this is I mean, this is why.

they were excited about Donald Trump because, you know, Trump lifted the sanctions on the settlers and made it very made it easier for them to expand here in a quicker period of time. Unlike that pain in the ass, Joe Biden, that Palestinian Joe Biden, as they call them. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Which one, though? The taller one. Yeah. Right. The taller one. Yeah.

That's right. Others are completely new, according to Defense Minister Israel Katz and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich. Settlements, which are widely seen as illegal under international law, though Israel disputes this, are one of the most consensuous issues between Israel and the Palestinians. Yeah, of course. I was just asking the other day, why do you have settlers still?

Right. Why is that even a word that goes around? Oh, there's something with the settlers. Like, why do you still have that? Yeah. Oh, they call themselves settlers. And then they will say this is not a colonial project. But if it's not a colonial project, why do you literally call yourself settlers? They don't really dispute that term. I mean, I've never heard an Israeli say, no, I'm not a settler. No, they are settlers. My ex was Israeli. We were together a long time. And I didn't, until this conflict, I didn't realize how she slowly pushed me out of my room onto the couch. Yeah.

Yeah, that's right. Yeah, little by little, right? It was little by little. A lot of peace treaties. Right. Then she wouldn't let you eat out there either. She would control the food. She would move the fridge into the bedroom. And I paid for all of it. Yeah, and you paid for all of it. That's right. Katz said the move prevents the establishment of a Palestinian state that would endanger Israel, while the Palestinian presidency called it a dangerous escalation. The Israeli anti-settlement watchdog P.

Peace Now called it the most extensive move of its kind in more than 30 years and warned that it would dramatically reshape the West Bank and entrench the occupation even further. Israel has built about 160 settlements housing some 700,000 Jews since it occupied the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

land Palestinians want along with Gaza for their hoped-for future state in the 1967 Middle East war. An estimated 3.3 million Palestinians live alongside them. So there you could see a map of Palestinian areas, Israeli areas, and then the little house logos are the planned new settlements that Israel is looking to build. Yeah, Western-style democracy. No constitution. No constitution.

And, you know, kind of a South African. I can't remember the name of it, but, you know, there's one that I remember from Lethal Weapon, too. Right. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. Yes. So how do Israelis treat the Palestinians in the West Bank? Israeli settlers torch wheat fields near Israel.

Nablus, this is just a snapshot here. That movie No Other Land, great film, won the Oscar last year. That gives you a very, very up-close look at the day-to-day reality living in these Palestinian villages in the West Bank and the interactions with both the

Rank and file settlers and, of course, the IDF. War is a tragedy. Yeah. Keeping it sad, you know? War. War. That's right. That's right. Israeli settlers torch wheat fields near Nablus. Settlers from the illegal Shavai Shamran settlement and a nearby outpost set fire to about 10 acres of wheat fields in Sebastia this week.

In the illegally occupied West Bank, according to Wafa, the blaze destroyed an entire crop of two Palestinian farmers, roughly seven and a half football fields. Mayor Mohamed Azem says attacks are escalating to displace farmers and seize land.

Officials report settlers also used sheep to graze on the Palestinian farmland, further destroying crops. Escalating settler violence, at least 938 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces or settlers in the West Bank since October 7th, according to the UN. The Palestine Information Center documented over 900 settler attacks.

This year, between January 1st and May 24th, 900 separate incidents. Incidents include arson, assaults, home invasions, and property destruction, often under military protection. Rights groups warn these attacks are part of a broader effort to displace Palestinians with near total impunity. You have Israel derangement syndrome. That's right.

That's the real thing that I thought meant what the settlers were doing, but no, it means what you're saying. Right, it means saying it. That's what it means. Right, exactly.

On Thursday, Israel Katz and Bezalel Shmotrich, an ultra-nationalist leader and settler who has control over planning in the West Bank, officially confirmed a decision that is believed to have been taken by the government two weeks ago. Katz said the decision was a strategic move that prevents the establishment of a Palestinian state that would endanger Israel and serves as a buffer against our enemies.

This is a Zionist security and national response and a clear decision on the future of the country, he added. Smotrich called it a once-in-a-generation decision and declared, next step,

sovereignty. That's right. Their goal is total annexation. We are, I'm a high director of peace. Now said the Israeli government no longer pretends otherwise. The annexation of the occupied territories and expansion of settlements is its central goal. Alicia Ben Kim on an Israeli journalist with the popular wine at news site who covers the West bank and settlements told the BBC news hour program that 70 to 80% of ministers wanted the

to declare the formal annexation of the West Bank. Yes, this is a very popular political project within Israel, of course. So here is one of very few dissenting Israelis named Gideon Levy, who warns in response to this that the price of this violence and conquest, both in Gaza and the West Bank, is going to be that Israel becomes a pariah state akin to, as Kurt, you mentioned a few minutes ago, South Africa. So let's take a look.

on the other side of politics that wants to move them. This is true, but we can only hope to change the mindset of Israelis about it because the price that Israel is going to pay both morally, domestically and above all internationally is going to be a very heavy price. A pariah state like South Africa. And we know from the example of South Africa that this cannot last forever.

You mentioned action, rhetoric, condemnation doesn't do anything. What does action look like to try and change the mind of those within the Israeli government who are following this course of action? Look at South Africa and look what international pressure did to South Africa.

Look at the reaction of the world toward the invasion of Russia to Ukraine. Within weeks there were sanctions. Israel invaded Gaza 20 months ago and the word sanction is almost criminal to be mentioned in the context of Israel.

Do you think that that's a way to reach any kind of political goals? If the world wants to stop this war, and I think it's nothing more urgent than this, including obviously releasing the hostages,

The world must intervene, not by condemnations, but by actions. And the world knows very well, especially the United States and also the EU, they know very well how to bring an end to the war. But this must include measures, very unpleasant measures, sure.

Now, of course, the difference between Israel and South Africa is not that one was an apartheid state and the other isn't. Obviously, they are both apartheid states in the context. Well, that's not fair, Keaton. First of all, South Africa used their own money to do that. They didn't use our money.

Well, this is the thing. South Africa is not in the Middle East. South Africa was not our aircraft carrier. Right now, there's too many black people. That's racist. That is the big difference there. And that is what, of course, makes this situation a lot different.

where it's not as simple as this because this conflict is framed as a clash of civilizations. Remember the movie Syriana? Remember in 2005 when they used to make movies that were about things, right, back then? With George Clooney in them. Yeah, George Clooney-based movie starring George Clooney. There's the one guy who has that big monologue.

uh, about corruption. And he says, corruption is why we win. Corruption is what keeps us safe and warm. That is what they want to tell everybody about Israel, that Israel is Western presence. It's not even so much about Jewish presence. It's about Western presence in the Eastern world. And if we're not there because it's an oil and resource rich part of the world, uh,

these scary people who hate us are going to get rich and expand economically and then expand militarily. And then they're going to take over the world. And Israel is the only thing that stands between the West and that. And that sticking point that applies here in a way that it did not apply in South Africa. And that's the main difference. Well, yeah, they just have the commie line for that one, but the West, what that means is the UK's interests. Well,

which is why iran happened how it did right if you look at the balfour declaration and people make a big deal about uh what's his name d roth i don't remember which one to roth child that he it's that declaration he has it and if you read it though israel ain't supposed to be doing what they're doing right now in the balfour declaration which some people would say was creepy that's actually quite humane compared to how they act now it's shocking

Yeah. Yeah. UK formed out colonialism to Israel because they were colonizing the Arabs. So that's what that's really all about. How that started was they'll it's not even our aircraft carrier. This was for the for the UK originally. But then, you know, once we got brought back in after, I guess, World War One, I guess it's the West now.

Yeah. Yeah. As I understand it, as I remember this, and I'm admittedly rusty on this history, so I don't think I'm getting this wrong, but basically Ottoman Empire days, there were limits on land purchases by private landowners and the Brits lifted that. And a lot of very wealthy Jews like the Rothschilds bought that

that land. And so this is about property. It's about a Western presence in that part of the world. That is the motivation for Zionism by Western powers. It's not love of Jews or even subservience to Jews. It's that

hey, they're sellers, they need a buyer, we need a presence in this part of the world to maintain this clash of civilizations narrative. And there are probably a lot of people who sincerely believe what the character in the movie said, which is, hey, if we're not there, they're going to organize against us and they're going to conquer the world and we're all going to be dead. There are probably people who are that paranoid to think that that's going to happen and that vicious, so vicious as to think that all of this bloodshed is justified in order to prevent that.

Well, Keaton, do you want Iran to have a Samson option? Yeah, right. Exactly. Well, yeah, we will see how that how that goes, how those negotiations go. That is that is another sort of part of this that we're going to have to wait and see. But within the borders of Palestine.

The Greater Israel Project is, of course, alive and well. They gave South Africa nukes, by the way. Just a fun fact about Israel. And then, like, tepidly condemned them for apartheid to try to look better. But South Africa got nukes from Israel. After they got, I think they stole them from France. Am I correct about that? They still have a guy in house arrest to this day. Oh, really? Because he revealed it. Yeah, Jewish guy. They're not that good to Jews. I don't know who's telling people Israel's good to Jews, but that doesn't really dive into anything I've seen.

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