#1156 - Jimmy Dore

Joe Rogan (0:03)

In four, three, two, one. Hey, Jimmy!

What's up?

Jimmy Dore (0:10)

Hi, Joe, how are you doing, buddy?

Joe Rogan (0:12)

I've been doing good, now we're on the radio.

Jimmy Dore (0:14)

Fantastic, it's 3.31, 29 minutes before 4 o'clock.

SPEAKER_3 (0:18)

Here's Val with the weather.

SPEAKER_4 (0:19)

Hot, hot as fuck.

Joe Rogan (0:21)

Back to you, Jimmy.

Jimmy Dore (0:22)

Wow, so we got a car fire in the breakdown lane.

Joe Rogan (0:25)

So you were getting emotional in the green room listening to Henry Rollins talk about Putin. You were about to quote Chomsky.

SPEAKER_5 (0:32)

Yes, so he was...

Jimmy Dore (0:34)

I just caught the end of it. I went in the green room, and everybody loves Henry Rollins, right?

Joe Rogan (0:38)

Except Henry.

SPEAKER_5 (0:39)

This is why he's so good.

Joe Rogan (0:43)

He's constantly grinding.

Jimmy Dore (0:45)

Yeah, but he was doing that thing about... Oh, Putin, you know, there was a journalist who wrote a book about him, ended up dead.

SPEAKER_5 (0:51)

Putin's a bad guy.

Jimmy Dore (0:52)

He's a bad guy. As opposed to who?

Joe Rogan (0:55)

Well, no, but you mean he's definitely a bad guy, right? We all agree with that.

Jimmy Dore (0:59)

Of course.

Joe Rogan (1:00)

But, I mean, just because other people are also bad guys doesn't negate his point of Putin being a bad guy. What he was saying is just that it's very bizarre that the Republicans, these people that were, you know, at the forefront of the Cold War, these ones who, you know, I mean, these are the people that remember Khrushchev banging on the desk, you know, saying, we'll bury you with Kennedy.

These people are now, like, they're whitewashing Putin. They're essentially like trying to paint out Putin to be a good guy because Trump is in this position where he's trying to be friends with this guy.

Jimmy Dore (1:34)

So well, here's the quote I wanted to send you, right? So that whole thing, if if Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged since, says Noam Chomsky.

Putin kills journalists, we just torture ours.

I mean, Chelsea Manning is a whistleblower. We took Barack Obama torture. So we have our president, we have presidents and vice presidents who are legit war criminals that walk around today. They had a torture program, OK? So you know, Barack Obama got a Peace Prize and then he had a kill list. A Peace Prize winner with a kill list, a drone kill list. Would you keep the kill list next to the Peace Prize? Where do you keep those two things? Are they?

Joe Rogan (2:19)

Anyway, some of the people that were killed were American citizens with no due process.

Jimmy Dore (2:23)

With no due process. And so nobody has a problem with Trump being buddy buddies with Benjamin Netanyahu, who is a psychopathic maniac who shoots with precision medics who are trying to help people in nurses and journalists, by the way.

Some Israeli troops do that.

Joe Rogan (2:43)

That's a really depressing thing.

You know, I had Abby Martin on, and she sort of illuminated that whole situation. I mean, I really didn't know how bad it was, nor did she until she went over there.

Jimmy Dore (2:53)

Right.

Joe Rogan (2:54)

And, you know, just experiencing what it's like. It's crazy that people that went through the Holocaust, that realized the cost of dehumanizing an entire race of people, now are capable, at least some of them are capable of doing that to the Palestinians.

Jimmy Dore (3:10)

Yeah, it's kind of mind blowing. So I want to hear and I have friends who do that, everyone's doing this, right? Everyone's getting caught up in this hysteria. That's why there's a word called hysteria, because it happens and we're in one.

And you know, what I like is what Noam Chomsky said about this Russia hysteria that's happening. He said, if you care about effects on our pristine elections, which he said very sarcastically, he said, if you care about what's affecting our pristine elections, the Russia gate is the last place I would look.

In the first place, he would look, if you go read about foreign control or influence on our government, he said he would look to Israel. They're the ones. Benjamin Netanyahu came here and addressed the joint session of Congress without the permission or invitation of the president. Remember when Obama was president, he did that? He did that. That's a guy coming here to tell our guys how to vote in direct defiance of our president, and everyone embraced him. Can you imagine if Putin did that? Putin came to America and addressed a joint session of Congress against the will of the president. So, this idea that somehow because Putin is a bad guy, Trump shouldn't have a good friendship with him is BS. The guys who are really influencing our government here are Benjamin Netanyahu, Saudi Arabia. Trump opened eight businesses in Saudi Arabia during the election, and no one gives a crap about any of that stuff because they're our friends. Saudi Arabia, by the way, just bombed a school today. School bus, 29 kids dead. So, yeah. Why did they do that? I just retweeted that from Sir Abdullah. So why would they do that? Because they're in Yemen.