News Analyst (9:59)

Over 50,000 U.S. troops are now deployed across the Middle east, the largest buildup since the 2003 Iraq invasion. But experts warn even this massive show of force may not be enough for a decisive victory inside Iran.

Jimmy Dore (10:16)

May not It. Definitely not. It's a country of 92 million people. It's a civilization that's been around for over 2,500 years.

News Analyst (10:30)

Despite claims of preparation and talks underway, the reality on the ground tells a different story. The force includes 2500 Marines and 2500 sailors from the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit aboard the USS Tripoli, hundreds of special operations troops, and thousands of paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division. Combined with air and naval assets, it's a powerful presence. But many of these troops are at sea or in support roles, not positioned for a major ground invasion. Experts note that Iran is vastly larger than Iraq or Gaza, with a population of 93 million, rugged terrain, and a formidable military, including the Revolutionary Guard Corps and missile networks. Historical parallels show that even smaller campaigns required hundreds of thousands of troops, far more than the current 50,000. Analysts warn that any ground incursion could lead to heavy casualties, political backlash in the US And a prolonged conflict. Iranian officials have vowed to defend their territory fiercely, claiming to monitor U.S. troop movements in real time.

Jimmy Dore (11:47)

So, you know, one thought that I have about this is that, of course, Benjamin Netanyahu wants the United States military to do this to Try to take car guy land, try to put boots on the ground, because that would extend the war. And then a bunch of American soldiers would get slaughtered and then people would want revenge. You know, Americans would want to go get revenge for these slaughtering. And that's how they think, that's how Benjamin Netanyahu thinks. And he's like, oh good, you know, anything he can do to instigate more, more war, he'll do. And as we know, Trump just does what Benjamin Netanyahu says. Not that Putin, as Rachel Maddow will tell you. And so, and he, and he is, it seems, completely unable to rein in Benjamin Netanyahu at all. And a lot of people say, no, this, that's just an excuse. Well, Jeffrey Sachs was just on there and he didn't, he doesn't agree with that. He doesn't agree that. He agrees that it's Israel dragging us into these wars, which, and is there a big neocon contingent inside the United States that also wants these wars? Yes, of course. And has always wanted these wars. Yes, of course. But let's get back to this. Okay.

News Analyst (13:03)

Even with technological superiority, the US Faces a resilient opponent determined to repel invaders. So while the US military buildup projects power and pressure, critics argue that 50,000 troops are simply not enough to guarantee a decisive victory. The question remains, can Trump achieve his goals or is he overestimating America's ability to win on the ground? Yeah, one thing is clear. Without far greater forces, the odds are stacked against him.

Jimmy Dore (13:39)

The, the odds are stacked. So again, as just to let you know, Iran winning the war, they've got the Strait of Hormuz. They didn't have it before, now they're charging tolls now. They, they weren't doing that before. They're, they're the ones controlling the war. They're the ones controlling. And Donald Trump, lots of people are saying he's desperate to end the war. I, I wouldn't doubt that. But I don't know if he knows what he's doing. I don't think he knows anything. He's, you know, famously in curious. His, his security briefings last two minutes. He's, he gets, he gets most of his information about how the war is going, it seems from tb, meaning Fox News or Mark Levin. I mean he, he's telling, he just told people yesterday. Watch Mark Levin. So. It looks like they're doing this. I mean this looks like it's happening. Pentagon said prepping weeks long ground operation in Iran and two unnamed US Officials told the Washington Post On Saturday, the Defense Department is gearing up for trying to take over Carg Island. Now, every again, everybody who's credible says that's going to be a bloodbath for the American soldiers. That won't be good, that they'll, Iran will be able to target them without targeting their own oil infrastructure. We'll see. But let's, let's say they can't. Let's say that the United States or Israel knocks out their oil infrastructure on Carg Island. Let's say they do that. Well, guess what Iran is going to do? They're going to knock out the oil infrastructure of all the other Arab states because they're all in bed with the United States. And those are legitimate targets. They all have military bases. Saudi, United States military bases, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates. They, they all, they all, so that's their legitimate targets. And so Iran will destroy the Middle East's ability to produce and export oil, which will catapult the world into a depression worldwide depression. Economically, people will lose their jobs. People will die because of it. People will go hungry. It's not only energy, it's also food supply. There's no fertilizer. It's way worse than people think. And if, if they try to do this, which it looks like they're going to, it is not going to turn out how anybody in this country hopes, I'll tell you that. Hey, you know, here's another great way you can help support the show is you become a premium member. We give you a couple of hours of premium bonus content every week and it's a great way to help support the show. You can do it by going to jimmy dork.com clicking on join premium. It's the most affordable premium program in the business and it's a great way to help put your thumb back in the eye of the bastards. Thanks for everybody who was already a premium member. And if you haven't, you're missing out. We give you lots of bonus content. Thanks for your support. Let's bring in our guest, special guest today, Jeffrey Sachs. Economist, academic public policy analyst, director, former director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, where he holds the title of University Professor. He's president of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network and served as Special advisor to UN Secretaries General Kofi Annan and Ban Ki Moon. He's also authored and edited, edited numerous books, including multiple New York Times bestsellers. Welcome back to the show, Professor Jeffrey Sachs. Hello, professor, with you. Thank you for making time for our little show. I always appreciate it. I Just want to. Let me just play this clip from Marco Rubio. He's talking about the straight of Hormuz, and he says a couple of interesting things. Let me play it now.

Marco Rubio (18:08)

They are making threats about controlling the Hormu Straits in perpetuity, creating a tolling system and the like. That's not going to be allowed to happen. They and the President has a number of options available to him if he so chooses, to prevent that from happening. Happening. Obviously, I'm not going to discuss what those options are. We're not going to discuss military tactics. The Department of War would be in charge of those things. I refer you to them. But obviously I'm not going to discuss it with you either. But there is a way forward here to achieve our objectives. We are going to achieve our objectives in a matter of weeks.

Jimmy Dore (18:28)

So he says they're going to achieve their objectives in a matter of weeks. First of all, what are their objectives?

Jeffrey Sachs (18:36)

You know, the objective is to open the Strait of Hormuz, which, as everybody points out, was opened before this stupid war. It's so obscene and absurd what these idiots have done, which was to take a situation where there was no crisis and make it into one of the world's great crises. And we're actually heading to an economic calamity right now because they did something for no reason at all, except that Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu decided to do it.

Jimmy Dore (19:17)

So how, you know, when you say an economic. You know something about that. When you say an economic calamity, what do you mean exactly? Is that. Is. Is the sky falling really, or is this overhyped?

Jeffrey Sachs (19:31)

This is a big deal, because what's happening now is the place where about a third of the world's petroleum is and is produced and is shipped, is going up in flames. The way we're going. We're not quite there yet. What's happened so far is that the transit of the oil and gas has stopped, and there has been no small amount of physical destruction of the oil and the gas fields and some refineries and some pumping stations and so forth. And we have. The price of oil, as a result, has increased from about $60 a barrel to about $115 a barrel as we speak. That's enough to put the world into a crisis. But they seem determined to blow the whole damn thing up, because we're on an escalating path. Every day or two, Israel does something so obnoxious, so shocking, so destabilizing, you can't quite believe it. Blowing up some new facility of Iran, some gas field or something else. Iran retaliates. They're fighting for their very survival. The Gulf region, where we're talking about, doesn't have defenses for its oil fields and its gas fields and its refineries. You're not supposed to have a war here. But they made a war because Netanyahu and Trump are delusional megalomaniacs. So they said, why don't we run Iran? And that's what they thought they would do. Why don't we just kill the top people in the government, then we'll run Iran. And you can remember Donald Trump saying at the start of this, I'll pick the next leader. This is crazy stuff. And that was a month ago. And since that time, we've headed towards the destruction of the Middle east. And we're step by step going there. Thousands of people being killed. I don't know the count, but it's claimed. Well, certainly tens of thousands of bombing, bombed sites in Iran itself. And Iranian missiles are raining down on the countries of the region. Bahrain, Qatar, the Emirates, Saudi Arabia, and of course, Israel, which started all of this. And Israel, in the meantime, is invading Lebanon. And Hezbollah, which was formed already 40 years ago to defend against Israeli repeated invasions of Lebanon, is fighting back and sending missiles into Israel. And in Yemen, the group in control, the Houthi, are also sending missiles into Israel. It's just a jolly party. And it all started a month ago at a moment when the negotiator of Oman, another country in the region that was mediating between the United States and Iran, said, wonderful breakthroughs in the diplomacy. We'll be meeting the next week in Vienna because there are such breakthroughs. And Jimmy, what happened was that the leadership of Iran met together to discuss the breakthroughs in Mossad, called the CIA, said, we have them in our sights. Let's bomb the hell out of them. And here we are. These are maniacs, absolute maniacs, out of control that he happens to have the job title of President of the United States.

Jimmy Dore (23:27)

Here, let me play this. I found this interesting. Same topic, the Strait of Hormuz with Rubio. And watch what he says at the end about how it's not our problem. Let's watch.

Marco Rubio (23:38)

There are some in the Iranian regime that are going around saying that they want to make the Strait of Hormuz tolling thing. They want to make it permanent. That's on its own, acceptable. The whole world should be outraged by it. We're impacted by it a little bit, but the rest of the world is impacted by it. A lot more, including many of the countries represented today here at the G7. And so if those countries are deeply impacted by it, all we've said is, you guys need to do something about it. We'll help you, but you guys are going to need to be ready to do something about it. Because when this conflict and when this operation ends that the Iranians decide, well, now we control the Straits of Hormuz, and you can only go through here, we pay us and we allow you to.

Jimmy Dore (24:14)

That's.

Marco Rubio (24:14)

Not only is it illegal under international law and maritime law, it's unacceptable. And that can't be allowed to exist. And so what we've said is that the countries that are most impacted by that should be willing to do something about it, and we'll help them.

Jimmy Dore (24:26)

So there's two things there that I don't think he even realized. What he said, because he's such a genius, is that he's admitting that when this war is over, Iran's going to control the Strait of Hormuz. He's saying that. That's what he just said, and he's saying that we're not gonna do anything to open it, and that's up to the European countries and whoever else needs their oil. And what do you make of him saying that?

Jeffrey Sachs (24:49)

Well, I was actually bemused about his reference to international law.

Jimmy Dore (24:53)

Oh, of course. When the United States invokes international law.

Jeffrey Sachs (24:59)

Come on, this was really sweet. We should savor this. International law, isn't that great, Mr. Marco Rubio? How about your damn war of aggression? That is the most fundamental violation of international law. And maybe, Mr. Rubio, you should check out two documents. One is the UN Charter, Article 2, paragraph 4, which says that no country that includes us, Mr. Rubio, can use force or the threat of force against the territorial integrity or political sovereignty of another state. Check that out. And then take out the US Constitution, which says that treaties, like the treaty by which the Senate ratified the UN Charter, are the law of the land. So I'm happy, Mr. Rubio, that you referred to international law. Your colleague Stephen Miller a few weeks ago, the Deputy Chief of staff, and our. I can't even describe how awful this person is. Said international law. That's a nicety. We're in the world of power. Power. Come on. So, anyway, thank you, Marco. I really appreciate that guidance. It's nice to know where your heart is. I don't know where your head is, but it's nice to know where your heart.

Jimmy Dore (26:30)

But he did admit that. Did you not hear that? Like I heard it, that he's admitting Iran is going to control the straight of Hormuz. And so isn't he kind of. Is that another, like, gaffe? Is he told the truth? And is that what you think is going to how this is going to end up? Because that's how I think it's going to end up.

Jeffrey Sachs (26:46)

I think what it is is the complete total improvisation that these guys are engaged in right now. There's no plans, no ideas, nobody thought through the next moment of anything. There is no process. There's no National Security Council. That's his job, by the way. No review, no interagency process, nothing. This is this a group of boys in the locker room or whatever it is, playing games with the world that do not have the interest or the capacity or the decency to think ahead five minutes. So when he says what's going to happen afterwards, it actually is because no one there has thought for two minutes about what's going to happen in the future. They don't think about that. Well, anyway, it was all going to be over and in five minutes. That's what they thought.

Jimmy Dore (27:54)

Well, you know, speaking to your point, how nobody knows what they're talking about doing, here's Donald Trump being asked, the

Jeffrey Sachs (28:01)

Strait of Hormuz and Iran, control of it, charging tolls.

Jimmy Dore (28:04)

What do you think about that?

Jeffrey Sachs (28:04)

We'll have to find out if it's true.

Jimmy Dore (28:06)

You know, they're gonna do whatever they have to do. We could close that up in two minutes.

Jeffrey Sachs (28:09)

We could close that up so fast your head would spend.

Jimmy Dore (28:12)

So first of all, he said we have to look in to see if they're charging. So we know that they already have. How does he not know that? And secondly, he said we could close it up. It's already closed. I know he wants.

Jeffrey Sachs (28:23)

What's he going to close?

Jimmy Dore (28:25)

It's already closed. We want it opened. What he. You got to double close it. So does. What does that tell you about, like, is he demented like Joe Biden was, or is he just that incurious that he doesn't care?

Jeffrey Sachs (28:42)

You know, it's a very good question and a very serious one, by the way, of course. And you ask it in a serious way. We had a President Biden who was incapacitated for at least two years that should not have been president. And yet the White House ran this as a PR operation telling us everything is fine and it's all narrative control. We have a president right now that shows absolutely dangerous signs of delusion and mental instability. And I listen to a lot of trained forensic psychiatrists and psychologists who say that there's evidence here of frontotemporal dementia, that there's certainly evidence of very serious mental instability. But everything is a game in our country right now in our politics. No one has any sense of responsibility to look to find out, to question. The one that should question this, of course, is Congress. First and foremost, it is the CO that happens to be assigned by the Constitution with the authority to declare war. And so it should be more than curious right now. But in this, just to say, in the circumstances that we're in, where days can really matter, not only is this a. A nuclear risk, which it is, and many, many things can happen because this is an extraordinarily dangerous area, and Israel and the United States have committed a horrifically dangerous destabilizing war of aggression. But even just in my neck of the woods, which is the economics, things can go so bad so fast. With the destruction of the oil fields and the refineries and the pipelines and the ports within days, within maybe two or three weeks. When they talk about, oh, these operations are going to last for, you know, eight weeks. This is not a normal situation where nothing's normal about a war. But in a war, okay, maybe, you know, you have a war for eight weeks. This is the center of the world's energy system, and it's all exposed and it's all being attacked, and the. And Israel goes out of its way to show how completely rogue and vulgar and disgusting it is because it attacks the core of the energy system of Iran to provoke, I suppose, Iran to destroy the oil and the gas of its neighbors. It's a crazy situation. So that's why, you know, I don't feel a moment of calm in this, that we just sit back and watch, you know, this thing unfold. This is absolutely the most dangerous situation we've been in, certainly since the Cuban missile crisis worldwide. But from an economic point of view, the potential calamity of blowing up a large part of the world's energy overnight. And by the way, you know, what is energy? It's not just the price you pay at the gas pump. If there is gas, it's the fertilizer to feed people. It's, it's the fuel that keeps industry going. It's. It's the helium that the tech industry needs for production. There are a thousand parts of the petrochemical industry that are profoundly threatened and destabilized the world's food supply, the transport systems, you name it, we're just playing games with these people who know nothing and have no sense of responsibility. But what alarms me, Jimmy, is there's no process in our government right now. This is not. Oh, the Joint Chiefs are meeting, and we have the executive committee in. We have careful deliberations, and we have six open channels. You know, with the other countries, this is a shit show. This is just improv war improv. Let's see how it goes with the next lie. That's what we're dealing with right now.

Jimmy Dore (33:50)

So, yeah, people don't realize it doesn't only affect energy, but it affects food. And then it could cause a worldwide

Jeffrey Sachs (33:59)

depression potentially, because you get an economic calamity, and then that turns into a financial calamity. Oh, there goes the stock market. Well, we've seen that we're entering correction zone after a big rise, so we're not in the dire straits right now. But just wait. And the way we're going, wait two weeks, wait four weeks, you know, we're just inviting this kind of calamity. And every day that Trump spews nonsense, and it's nonsense, it's unintelligible nonsense. And nobody stands up. No single Republican senator, maybe Rand Paul, who I really respect, by the way, because he thinks he's independent. He's just a straightforward, decent person. But what other senator stands up and says, we got a problem. We better vote this War Powers act so that we have our responsibility to make sure that we don't go into complete disaster. That's what they need to do today. And I'm sure the Senate's listening to us, and they're gonna go vote this War Powers act now. I mean, honestly, this is how it should work in this country, but nothing works like this right now.

Jimmy Dore (35:26)

Hey, here's a crazy development. Bullet used to kill Charlie Kirk did not match the rifle allegedly used by the suspect, Tyler Robinson. New court filing claims. What? Huh? No kidding? You mean. You mean some straight A student who never committed a crime in his life, didn't take a rifle apart and then put it in his backpack and then climb up on a roof through an open stairwell that should not have been open, Got up to the roof, nobody saw him, put the gun together, put the scope on it, lined up, took the shot, took the gun apart again, changed his clothes again, nobody saw him. No cops get to that stairwell, nobody gets nothing nobody could get to. That's what you're supposed to believe happened. And of course, now the bullet doesn't match the gun they said he used. By the way, they couldn't find that gun. The gun sniffing dogs who can smell that stuff couldn't find it until the FBI showed up and then immediately they found the gun. Does that mean it was planted by the FBI, Jimmy? Yes, that's what that means. The bullet that killed conservative commentator Charlie Kirk did not match the rifle used by suspected killer Tyler Robinson. A bombshell new court filing states. I should have Baron Coleman on for this. I wish I did. Robinson, 22, is facing capital murder charges and a potential death sentence for Kirk's murder at Utah University on September 10th. But his defense attorneys now argue that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and Explosives was unable to identify the bullet recovered at autopsy to the rifle allegedly tied to Mr. Robinson. The defense team may now offer the ATF firearm analyst testimony as exculpatory evidence. They set in a motion filed on Friday to push the preliminary hearing back at least six months, Fox News reports. And here's something else you, you need to know about this. His defense attorneys are related to that Terrell Farnsworth guy who was in char. He's the guy who took the, the, the SD cards out of the cameras that behind Charlie Kirk, that guy and lied about it. Got it. He got caught lying about it. Why he did it twice. That guy's related to his defense attorney. Now. We already had somebody on a couple, maybe a month or two ago who said that it was the defense attorneys are all, they're corrupted and it looks like they might be because they haven't called. You think they would have called Candace Owens and said, hey, what do you got? What's this information? They didn't. You think they would have called Baron Coleman? They didn't. They haven't called. They haven't done anything. It also notes that DNA reports filed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and ATF will take time for the defense team to analyze because reports indicated that several different DNA were found on some items of evidence. As these cases indicate. Determining the number of contributors to a DNA mixture and determining whether the FBI and the ATF reliably applied validated and correct scientific procedures is a complicated process which requires the assistance of various types of experts, including forensic biologists, geneticists, system engineers and statisticians, all of whom must review and evaluate several different categories, the filing states, according to Desert Deseret News. Is that what that is? I almost said Desert News. Robinson's attorneys added that they have received about 20,000 electronic audio files, videos and written documents that prosecutors have presented as evidence in the case. What is known at present is that Mr. Robinson has not yet received the forensic case files and data necessary to investigate. They already paved over the crime scene. They already completely contaminated the crime scene, which is what they wanted to do. They wanted to make it impossible for the defense attorneys to do their own investigation, and they did. What is known at present is that Mr. Robinson has not yet received the forensic case files and data necessary to investigate through the use of qualified experts, the scientific reports the state intends to introduce at the preliminary hearing, the attorneys continued. Defense attorneys and prosecutors had previously met on March 12th. Based on that meeting, the defense said in the motion it believes prosecutors will introduce discrete buckets of evidence through three identified law enforcement witnesses at the preliminary hearing. This includes a conclusory forensic, DNA and ballistic reports authored by the FBI and the atf. So you know they're legit social media data. Testimony by law enforcement officers about the crime scene and search locations, and testimony by Mr. Robinson's parents and roommates, as well as significant amounts of hearsay from non testifying peace officers. I wonder if they're going to talk about that. Was his name George Zinn? The guy who dropped it looked like Ed Asner who dropped his pants and said, I did it, I did it. He said that he had foreknowledge of this and was offered money to do that, to distract people. Prosecutors have alleged that Robinson drove three hours from his home to a university campus to kill Kirk. Okay, so I don't have any confidence in his defense team, I'll tell you that. It looks like he's being railroaded and we were wondering why. Where are his parents? Where are his parents? Where. Where's his lover? Where's his trans lover? I know there's a gag order, so maybe his parents aren't allowed to talk, but we'll see. I don't know what that means exactly, but he did not confess. People keep saying he confessed. He didn't confess. He did not confess. He turned himself in. They go, no. His parents turned himself. Turned him in. No. What happened was he was told that the police were going to do a SWAT on his house and so to avoid that, he. They went and turned himself in. That's what happened. And then they go, no, he confessed to his lover through those texts. Okay, if you think that he actually did that again, a straight A student is going to text exactly what he did to his lover. No reason for him to do that because he's going to go see his lover in just a few hours. I know I'm a straight A student, but I Just figured I'd completely give away the game to the FBI when they come to look for my texts. So. He did not. That's not a confession. That's a made up piece of evidence by the FBI. That's not real. The text message that he supposedly confessed to his lover, that's not real. And, and now it looks like they can't even match the bullet to the gun. There's no way. 30:06 bullet shot by Tyler Robinson hit Charlie in the neck. And by the way, that, that wound, remember when the blood was spurting, that looked like an exit. That didn't look like an entrance. That looked like an exit, doesn't it? But there was no entrance in the back of his head. So what was that? But if it was a 30 06, it definitely would have left an exit wound. It would have left a drive through window in his neck and his head would have felt almost fallen off. But that didn't happen. And credible reports that he was still alive in the car. That was not a 30 out 6. And that's why they can't match up that bullet. Anyway, that's. I've got plenty of jokes about Erica Kirk and this whole situation. Everybody at TP USA the liars and you know, are they complicit? They're certainly complicit in the COVID up. They're certainly covering this up as hard as they can. And they're. And they're lying left and right. All of them are lying left and right. From the head of his security to the Mikey McCoys. Amazing Mikey McCoys. So guess what? Israel is not going to send soldiers to Iran. Just like they didn't send soldiers to Iraq. Just like they didn't send soldiers to Libya. They're not sending soldiers to Iran. Israel says its soldiers won't join any US ground operation in Iran. Channel 12 reports the IDF is sitting this one out. If boots hit the ground, Israel will reportedly keep bombing from the air but won't send troops a thousand miles into Iranian territory. The logic is straightforward. Israel doesn't have the logistics to sustain ground forces that far from home. And plus we already know that their military is on the verge of collapse. Israel's. Because they're overextended. And there's lots of soldiers don't want to fight anymore. Look what they're doing. Look what they're in Palestine, they're in Lebanon, they're. Now they're getting their own countries getting bombed to smithereens in Israel. So here is so Mario Nefal says so the country that pressured the United States into this war, that struck South Pars without permission, that keeps bombing through peace talks and whose intelligence helped justify the entire operation. War won't be sending a single soldier if the mission gets dangerous enough to require ground troops. Well, we already know that US officials have told the Washington Post they're getting ready for weeks long ground invasion. So it, so I hope that those reports are wrong. Imagine being a US troop reading this. And, and the he he points to this UK report says new Channel 12 says in case that in case of a US ground operation in Iran, Israeli soldiers will not participate on the ground. Imagine being a US troop reading that. I mean obviously there they're too busy getting chased out of every other country where they sit down to have a meal. They've got a full agenda. They're busy. Here. Israel says its soldiers won't join in the ground operation Iran. This is from the islander. The country that dragged America into this war, that kept bombing through peace talks, that fed Washington the bullshit intelligence that justified the whole suicide operation won't be sending a single soldier when the dying starts in earnest. Logistics in this chicken shit excuse. Logistics is the chicken shit excuse. Not that it's wrong or that it's illegal. Not that American mothers will be burying their sons for a war Netanyahu designed and ordered apprentice Trump to sign off on. The apprentice sends American boys a thousand miles into Iranian territory while the architects of the war watch from their bunkers. Tel Aviv, same as Iraq, same as Afghanistan. Same chicken shit cowardice, same bill paid in American blood. Very well said. I was told they were our greatest ally. Yeah, okay, so when do we change the name of our country to Amalek America? Because we've had the same freedom of choice afforded to a beef cattle herd. Really the only difference is that we can do something about it. And if we don't. I was wrong about there being a difference. This is the, this is a 1775 moment right now. So. We've never had a worse ally in our life than Israel. And ironically Iran is doing us more good than the other nation that starts with the letter I. And they're so selfish that they really put the eye in Israel. You know what I'm talking about. Everyone is reading the Talmud now and realizing what we are up against. Everyone is the Masonic overlords have dumped Israel for committing the worst crime of all. Failing. It's like a Bond movie that way. And they are sitting in the electrical hot seat. So they're not sending, they won't send troops, we're going to do it for them again. And you know, CPAC was sparsely attended this year. Only the hard chords showed up. So, you know, maybe CNN could do another bullshit pose poll where it says that 100% of Maga supports Trump, which is like North Korea stuff. That's. You know, when they do one of those, it's like, here's how they do the poll. Hi. Do you consider yourself maga? Which is another way of saying, hey, do you support president Trump? And if they say no, then they consider them not maga and they say, hey, are you maga? Yes. Do you support the president? Yes. Well, that's the same question twice because the people who don't support the president have already left maga. So that's that garbage poll that CNN did because now they're owned by the Zionists who. Well, they've always been a zionist occupied network. They've always been pro zionist and anti truth. But that's how they do those polls. They'll call someone and say, are you Maga? Yes. Do you support the Donald Trump? Yes. Oh, 100%. You're asking the same question twice. They didn't say 100% of Republicans, 100% of conservatives. They state they. They didn't say 100% Of Trump's coalition that got him elected. They say a hundred percent of maga and so that's how they're lying to you. Anyway, I. It looks. This looks like this is happening. So it looks like they're going to try and take Karg and you. Someone said in the chat that John Kiriakou said they're going to take a different island. Is that what he said? Okay, yeah, well, I have to look into it to see what he said, but it's. Iran is ready. Iran is ready. And it. They will. They have the ability to plunge the world into an economic depression by wiping out the energy supply of the world which comes from the middle East. And they can do it. And they will do it. They will do it. Hey. Antibiotic resistant bacteria, aka superbugs. They're killing 1600 Australians a year more than road accidents. So click here to understand the consequences of antibiotics and how to protect yourself. Hey, this is Jimmy. Who's this?

J.D. Vance (52:21)

What's up, man? It's J.D. vance.

Jimmy Dore (52:23)

Oh, hello, Mr. Vice President.

J.D. Vance (52:26)

Uh, don't remind me.

Jimmy Dore (52:30)

What do you mean?

J.D. Vance (52:32)

Well, Jimmy, as you may have heard, we have started a war with Iran. And needless to say, it is a giant disaster. And additionally, no one seems to have any idea of what victory would even look like.

Jeffrey Sachs (52:45)

Right?

Jimmy Dore (52:45)

Right.

J.D. Vance (52:47)

I mean, I'm pretty sure Pete Hegseth's endgame is to keep fighting until Jesus shows up. Like a 2000 foot tall Jesus. Jesus. I guess. But the President himself clearly has no idea. And my whole deal was just to stay the hell out of it. You know, they started the circus. Doesn't mean I need to be in the tent, you know? Okay, but now these Iranian fuckers have come forward and said if there are peace negotiations, they want me to be the American guy. Not Jared Kushner, not Lee Remick or whatever his name is. Me. And I don't want that. I hate that.

Jimmy Dore (53:28)

Why do you hate having the opportunity to achieve peace?

J.D. Vance (53:33)

Because I don't want to. That shouldn't be my job. My job is used to be pissing people off by saying dumb or mean shitty stuff, which is sort of the opposite of being a peacemaker. I'll tell you one thing, when I'm President, I'm going to have an explicit list of duties and non duties for the vp. I'm tired of this we'll feel it out mentality. It's very unprofessional.

Jimmy Dore (54:00)

Why do you think Iran chose you, man?

J.D. Vance (54:03)

I don't know. I guess I seem like the least crazy person in America to them. Also maybe the fact that I'm married to a brown woman, like I probably don't hate brown people as much as Pete Hegseth most absolutely obviously does. Probably jokes on them though being married to Usha has made me even more racist towards brown people, which Usha does not find charming at all.

Jimmy Dore (54:31)

I would imagine not.

J.D. Vance (54:34)

Also, the mediator here is Pakistan. Like what? I'm sorry, but I did some research. Pakistan is further away than Iran. Hello? Not make sense much. Pretty sure any country that is going to mediate talks would have to be halfway in between us and Iran. Like Greece.

Jimmy Dore (54:54)

Greece?

J.D. Vance (54:56)

Yeah, dude. I mean, if I'm going to be forced to go do this, I want to be somewhere with like vacation vibes, you know, islands and seafood and stuff. Pakistan. In no way do I not associate that country with nightmares. Okay, yeah, that's it. I'm straight up calling Greece on this one. I want to end this dumb war, get full credit for it, then go out into the Aegean on a boat, have my ties and pastitio. I also want to cheat on Ushu with a Greek woman.

Jimmy Dore (55:33)

Mr. Vice President, I'm sorry, but ever

J.D. Vance (55:37)

since I saw Counselor Troy from Star Trek the Next Generation when I was a kid, I was like, I want one Marina Sirtis. Holy shit, dude. Also, that outfit of hers didn't hide nothing.

Jimmy Dore (55:53)

Alright, as long as you manage to make peace, I suppose we'll allow it.

J.D. Vance (55:58)

Exactly. First peace, then my topless Minoan snake goddess.

Jimmy Dore (56:02)

What sort of deal do you think you'd manage to make in such negotiations?

J.D. Vance (56:07)

I don't know. I'd have to think about it. I mean, for sure I'd see what Trump wants. But at the end of the day, it would be my deal, my name would be on it, I'm responsible. So we'd have to be not insane. And, you know, this all comes down to their nuclear program. Of course.

Jimmy Dore (56:24)

Of course.

J.D. Vance (56:26)

So I think I'd come up with an angle that no one has ever thought of before. Like, okay, Iran. You can have a nuclear program only if you pronounce it nuclear. So you all just seem really stupid. I mean, you know, they probably think twice.

Jimmy Dore (56:44)

How clever.

J.D. Vance (56:47)

Thank you. Or you can have a nuclear program where you work on getting a nuclear weapon but never actually obtain one.

Jimmy Dore (56:54)

I don't. I don't get it. I don't understand.

J.D. Vance (56:57)

I mean, what they really want is to have the program itself, right? Not even necessarily the bomb. Well, this allows them to do that. They just can't ever actually finish the program. But what if they do, but they're not allowed to? Like, if they get super close, like, oh my God, we just need to solve this one equation and then it's adios Tel Aviv. Then someone has to like, unplug the computer and accidentally delete all the files. Look, okay, I just started thinking about this. I will obviously have this all figured out by the time we get to Greece, so calm down. You know what? I've actually talked myself into this now. I'm looking forward to it.

Jimmy Dore (57:46)

Well, that's good news.

J.D. Vance (57:48)

Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Peacemaker Vance JD stands for Just disarm or Jews Desist, meaning Israel, of course. Oh, they're gonna be a problem. I didn't even think about that. Well, I'll figure that out too. Gonna have a lot of questions for AI tonight. Also, remind me to change my bumble locations to Athens. Might as well get started on that aspect of the trip too. Hope those girls wax over there anyway. Later, Jimmy.

Jeffrey Sachs (58:23)

Thanks for everything.

J.D. Vance (58:25)

Have a great summer.

Jimmy Dore (58:28)

Thank you, Vice President. Hey, become a premium member. Go to jimmy door comedy.com sign up. It's the most affordable premium program in the business. All the voices performed today are by the one and only, the inimitable Mike McRae. He can be found@mikemcrae.com. that's it for this week. You be the best you can be, and I'll keep being me,

J.D. Vance (59:20)

Not freak out. I'm not kidding. Do not. Do not.

Jimmy Dore (59:25)

I'm not. I'm not.

J.D. Vance (59:25)

I'm not. I'm not. I'm not.

Jimmy Dore (59:31)

Do not freak out.