
Zionists and their defenders frequently point to the indoctrination children in the West Bank and Gaza are subjected to as proof that Palestinians are raised from birth to hate Jews generally, and Israelis specifically. Yet if you watch a recent...
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Jimmy Dore
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Keaton
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Jimmy Dore
Hey, it's the Jimmy Door show. Keaton speaking. Who's calling, please?
Zoe Saldana
Hello, Keaton, how are you? This is former New York governor Andrew Cuobo.
Jimmy Dore
Oh, hello, governor. Thanks for calling.
Zoe Saldana
Now, Keaton, I am not going to do this thing where I act all befuddled that you are in the chair and Jimmy is gone. In my opinion, that is just a cheap way to waste time in the beginning of these phone call sketches. Keaton, I am a native New Yorker. I am used to meeting new people all the time. I welcome it. I embrace it.
Jimmy Dore
How nice of you. Thank you. Thank you.
Zoe Saldana
But seriously, let's get Jimmy back. Toot sweet. One of the great joys of my life is antagonizing him as my political star is on the rise again.
Jimmy Dore
I'm well aware. I hear there have been some shakeups in the New York mayoral race.
Zoe Saldana
Not really. Not really? I wouldn't even call them shakeups, Keaton. They're more like mild wiggles, if that even. Look, the headline here is that I am still in the lead By a significant margin over my many nameless, faceless challengers.
Jimmy Dore
Okay, I'm pretty sure they have names and faces, sir.
Zoe Saldana
Well, they may as well not, considering how unknown this array of jabronis is to the voters of New York City. I mean, come on with these clowns.
Jimmy Dore
So your primary opponent, Zoran Mamdani, has surged in the polls recently, narrowing your lead pretty significantly.
Zoe Saldana
Oh, please. First of all, that's an eternal poll from his campaign, this Zoltan or whatever his name is, so I trust that about as much as I do anything from someone who is not a supporter of Israel. But if he has gained popularity, it's because he's a commie who has promised everyone handouts, and most New Yorkers aren't gonna fall for that.
Jimmy Dore
Meaning he has a popular socialist platform that includes rent freezes and free buses.
Zoe Saldana
Oh, my God, does everyone get a free pony too? Get real with this nonsense, will you? New Yorkers won't fall for it, and he doesn't support Israel. Eventually he's gonna have to go back to Coney island and once again turn 10 year old kids into full grown Tom Hanks' for a living.
Jimmy Dore
Okay, well, also, you recently were fined $675,000 while one of your challengers, Adrian Adams, was awarded 2.4 million. That has to sting, right?
Zoe Saldana
Not really. We knew the campaign board was going to engage in these leveling the playing field type shenanigans. These were for scene shenanigans. I assure you, we have enough in the kitty to not worry about such ploys. Plus, my ace in the hole is going to seal this for me for good.
Jimmy Dore
And what would that be, Keaton?
Zoe Saldana
That would be the fact that Trump's Justice Department is going to start investigating yours truly for lying to Congress about how I handled Covid as governor. Thank you, election gods.
Jimmy Dore
Well, actually, this sounds like a bad thing.
Zoe Saldana
Keaton, you don't understand New York City. With all due respect. First of all, this is already being reported by outlets like Reuters as part of Trump's efforts to go after political rivals. So now I'm Andrew Cuomo, being politically persecuted by a despised despotic president. That will be catnip. The Democrats. Yeah, probably even the Democrats who had serious misgivings about voting for me will see this and say, I hate Donald Trump so much that whoever he goes for must be good, actually, and I will get their vote. Again, this can only work in my favor, Keaton.
Jimmy Dore
Okay, I see, I see.
Zoe Saldana
And then there's the New York angle. New York hates Donald Trump. They will see me, a scrappy Italian kid from around the way, stand up to and out bull. This rich prick from Jamaica Estates, Queens, and real New Yorkers are going to be programmed to support me. They love that.
Jimmy Dore
Okay?
Zoe Saldana
Nothing New Yorkers love more than an underdog who kicks ass and ends up on top. So I welcome any and all problems from Donald Trump. Bring it on, you fake bull. So, Keaton, do I have your vote?
Jimmy Dore
No.
Zoe Saldana
Well, then why the hell did I call? God damn it. Get Jimmy back here. What a waste of my time. I have to go now, Keaton. I'm a very busy man. I have a New York mayoral campaign to run, by which I mean numerous pro Israel functions to attend.
Kurt Metzger
Sliding so.
Gabor Maté
Good luck Bullshit we can't afford why.
Jimmy Dore
Fomenting this watch and see as is jack off the medium speeds and jumps the medium medium and hit some head on. It's the chimney door show. Bringing in our first guest. Gabor Mate is a retired physician and Author who After 20 years of family practice and palliative care experience, worked for over a decade in Vancouver's downtown east side with patients challenged by drug addiction and mental illness. He's an internationally renowned speaker, highly sought after for his expertise on addiction, trauma, childhood development and the relationship of stress and illness. His most recent book, which is called the Myth of Normal in Trauma, Illness and Healing in a Toxic Culture, is a New York Times international bestseller. It's a great pleasure and honor to welcome to the show Dr. Gabber Matei. Doctor, great to meet you.
Kurt Metzger
First of all, drop the doctor, would you? Make me sure, Gobbler.
Jimmy Dore
Okay, Gabber, you got it.
Kurt Metzger
All right, thanks for having me, you guys.
Jimmy Dore
Absolutely. It's a great, great pleasure to meet you. Big admirer of your work and I really wanted to have you on to talk about the Gaza genocide in terms of the, you know, your area of expertise, trauma and childhood and parenting, both from the perspective of those going through it and those of us who are sort of out here on the periphery looking in. What I wanted to start by showing you was a quick video of Benjamin Netanyahu which he actually posted of himself being interviewed by an 8 year old child. At first I saw this video posted and, you know, nowadays with AI and things, I couldn't really believe that this was real until I saw it posted from Netanyahu's account himself. You know, I think Israel is very much, you know, a country really born of trauma and, you know, a people who has a very unhealthy way of dealing with their trauma. And you've Spoke you speak so much about childhood. So I want to just take a quick look at this video and then get your comment. Because we want to release all our hostages and we are pouring in hostages. So we will take all of Gaza's territory. We will seize all of the territory. At the same time, we will take from Hamas not only territory and not only kill its terrorists, we will also take away its ability, food from the residents of Gaza who are not Hamas, and we will put all the residents aside so that they will not be harmed. And then we will go after Hamas and also free the hostages. I mean, what do we want to achieve? To release all the hostages, to eliminate Hamas both militarily and politically, to demilitarize. Do you know what demilitarization is? Do you know what demilitarization is? What is it? Do you know? So I'll tell you. Demilitarization is to take all the weapons that are there, take out the weapons, take out Hamas, exile its leaders, free our hostages. That's the plan. What else? What do you say about the lesson? You should go, you shouldn't go to the Hamas terrorists, right? You shouldn't go to the terrorists. Where are your people? To prevent Hamas from coming in. So then he goes and he explains the military strategy of enforcing the blockade. Obviously the trauma inflicted on children in Gaza is unspeakable, both in terms of its severity and the scale. But when I see videos of Israeli children, it makes me think, well, what chance do they have of turning out any different from the Israeli leadership, from the active duty idf? Can you, first of all, your comments on a video like that, where an 8 year old kid who probably shouldn't even know what war or death even is yet is interviewing the President or the Prime Minister rather about these kinds of topics. The trauma that is sort of embedded within Israeli society as well.
Kurt Metzger
If one, if one wanted to create a vicious parody of Netanyahu, one couldn't have created a better one. It's so polluted, what he says, his manner is so disingenuous, it's so patently inauthentic. His soft voice with which he justifies the mass killing of tens of thousands of people. His political explanations, they're just. There's an expression in Hungarian, my native language, which says that something is so false that not even the opposite is true. And that's all I'm going to say about Netanyahu in terms of trauma. Tony. In 2004 there was a psychiatric report, study published in an international psychiatric journal on the trauma level of children In Gaza in 2004, we must was two years before Hamas took power. In that report, 97.5 of children in Gaza exhibited some symptoms of trauma, some of them severely, some of them less severely, but only two and a half percent showed no symptoms. Significant number wet their beds, they had nightmares, they had anxiety, aggression towards their parents, all kinds of behaviors, fears. And that was 2004. So those kids would have been 19 years later, in their early 20s. Guess who streamed into Israel on October 7, 2023? Those kids grown up, who grew up with no chance in life whatsoever, no opportunity to leave the Gaza Strip, living under a vicious, brutal blockade. I mean, I don't have to rehearse or go through all the history. And if you look at Hamas again, if anybody thinks that history began on October 7th, they should read that psychiatric study from 2004. If you look at the leaders of Hamas themselves, Chris Hedges, who I know, you know, he spoke to one of the founders of Hamas, a physician who watched his uncle being murdered in 1956 by the Israeli army in Gaza. And he said, they planted hate in my heart. And so for Netanyahu to begin with this evil monster, Hamas, without, without acknowledging that Israel created Hamas, both in the sense of creating the refugee problem in Gaza, who are the. Who are. 80% of Gazans were people who were exiled from Israel in the first place or their descendants, and secondly in traumatizing the Gazan population over and over and over again for decades, and then have to talk about these monsters in Hamas. But who created the monster? If they're monsters, who created them? I'm not going to get into political analysis of Hamas. I'm just saying that nobody should begin, should begin to think that history started on October 7th. I recently wrote the Forwards for a book by the head psychiatrist for the Palestinian territories, Dr. Salma Jabbar. It's called Resilience. And, and she's talking about the mental state of the population living under the constant stress and trauma of occupation. Not, not just Gaza, but the west bank as well. And she says, for example, when an 81 year old come to me, comes to me with suicidal depression because the home that he built with his own hands, now he's being forced to demolish with his own hands. What am I supposed to do with him? Treat him with Prozac for depression? She says. So the trauma in the Palestinian territories is just ongoing and is beyond words as far as the trauma that was one of the, not the only one, but one of the founding streams that flowed into creating Zionism. Sure, nobody denies Nobody in their right minds, you know, denies the Jewish trauma in Eastern Europe. That doesn't explain Israeli policy. I mean, you could be traumatized in Eastern Europe and still come to the Middle east and looking for refuge without seeking to dominate, oppress and suppress the local population, unless you're intent on domination yourself, unless you have a colonial objective. So that emotionally the Jewish trauma fed the Zionist dynamic, but it doesn't explain it, not by itself. And so one cannot say that one trauma balances or teeter totters the other. That's my quick response.
Jimmy Dore
Yeah, no, it seems like the Jewish trauma has sort of morphed. You know, I'm a Jewish guy myself, I have Sicilian in laws and my mother in law was talking to me about Israel, Gaza, and she tells me, you know, she's a Catholic, Italian, right. She says, you know, I'm surprised that the Jewish people would be so cruel in this way, given their history, you know, she, she tells to me, she says, given their history, given what was done to them, I'm kind of surprised they would be so cruel to these people. It's surprising that way. Does that signal there's some, there's been a sort of morphing of trauma, you know, or, or what? How would we explain that?
Kurt Metzger
Well, so first of all, I'm not surprised unless someone puts Jews into a different category than other human beings. What I say is that Jews have as much right to be mass murderers as everybody else. You know, if you want to put it that way.
Jimmy Dore
I should have told her that, damn it.
Kurt Metzger
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Trauma doesn't automatically ennoble you or purifies.
Zoe Saldana
You.
Kurt Metzger
More open hearted. It can have all kinds of effects and all kinds of traumatized people become really cruel and aggressors. So that trauma is multiple possible outcomes. One of them is that you take on the characteristics of the traumatizer so that you can be strong and never be a victim again.
Jimmy Dore
Right.
Kurt Metzger
And that, that's largely what's going on on the emotional level, you know, and, and, and in terms of what you said about the education of young Israeli kids and young Jewish kids in general, is that they are propagandized from an early age on into this victim mode. We're always the victims, everybody's always against us. We have to be, just be the biggest, the biggest MFs on the block in order to protect ourselves. And that if you talk to Israeli war resistors, people that refuse to serve in the army, or people who are genuinely in favor of peace, which is a vanishingly small percentage of The Israeli population right now. They'll tell you the propaganda system in which they were caught up from a very early age on, and they'll tell you how difficult it was to break away from that. And if you saw the film Israelism, which is about young American Jews, the programming themselves from their childhood and measurement in anxieties in the Zionist ideology, it's the same difficulty. And so that, yeah, the. You can traumatize people by inculcating certain beliefs in them. And if you tell people that you're always the victim and everybody's always against you, and everybody will always be against you, well, what kind of consciousness do you grow up with? And then naturally, you'll gravitate towards the strong people that will protect you and the strong army and the strong weapons and the. And you will not for a minute even allow yourself to recognize the brutality that you're perpetrating. 80% of Israelis right now are in favor of expelling all the Gazans from Gaza. 82%. 90% amongst the religious Israelis, only 70% amongst the secular Israelis. And close to 50% of Israelis in a recent poll are in favor of expelling all the Palestinians from all of Israel. Close to 50%.
Jimmy Dore
Yeah.
Kurt Metzger
Imagine if you did a poll in the United States and those kind of numbers were in favor of. Of expelling all indigenous people and all colored people. What that would mean about American society. Not that you're not heading that way, but. Yeah, yeah, I mean, that's what we're looking at. And you know, and then the other thing is, with few exceptions aside, this show being one of them, where do people even hear the. I mean, this, this. This news about the Israeli poll? You think it'd be front page in the New York Times.
Jimmy Dore
Right, Right.
Kurt Metzger
They didn't even mention it.
Jimmy Dore
Lindsey Graham called for the murder of Greta Thunberg Deal. He said, I sure hope she can swim. I mean, he got a senator egging on the, literally the murder of a young activist woman. It's just. It's unbelievable.
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Andrew Cuomo
So the FBI says eight have been injured in a Colorado attack by a man with a makeshift flamethrower who yelled free Palestine. He hurled an incendiary device into a group that had assembled to raise attention to for Israeli hostages in Gaza. Law enforcement officials said Sunday. Eight people were injured, some with burns. The suspect, Muhammad Sabri Suleiman, 45, was booked into the Boulder county jail north of Denver and expected to face charges in connection with the attack the FBI was investigating as a terrorist act. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a statement Monday saying he, his wife and the entire nation of Israel were praying for the full recovery of the people wounded in the, quote, vicious terror attack in Colorado. This attack was aimed against peaceful people who wish to support a genocide in peace. No, he didn't say that. Who wished to express their solidarity with the hostages held by Hamas simply because they were Jews. Netanyahu said of course, there could be no other reason. The attack occurred as people with a volunteer group called Run for Their Lives was including their weekly demonstration to raise visibility for the hostages who remain in Gaza. Video from the scene shows a witness shouting, he's right there. He's throwing Molotov cocktails. As a police officer with his gun drawn advances on a bare chested suspect who is holding containers in each hand. Let's take a look at that.
Jimmy Dore
We're here. We can't do nothing about that. We can't do nothing. We can. You're not here. Have to end service.
Mike McRae
He's not here, bro.
Jimmy Dore
You're not.
Gabor Maté
People are taking video right now.
Jimmy Dore
He was wearing an orange tube with like something on the his back spraying alcohol.
Gabor Maté
Alcohol.
Jimmy Dore
But what he did was he made it look like he would tear.
Keaton
He's making mouth.
Jimmy Dore
Or we can't do doing. He's got Molotov cocktails. That's what he's got right here.
Andrew Cuomo
Okay. Can't believe that wasn't a Florida man. Alex Osante of San Diego said he was having lunch on a restaurant patio across the pedestrian mall when he heard the crash of a bottle breaking on the ground. A boom sound followed by people yelling and screaming. In video of the scene captured by Osante, people could be seen pouring water on a woman lying on the ground who Osante said it caught on fire during the attack. A man who later identified himself as an Israeli visiting Boulder who decided to join the group that day ran up to Asante on the video asking for some water to help. After that initial attack, Osante said the suspect went behind some bushes and then re emerged and threw a Molotov cocktail, but apparently accidentally caught himself on fire as he threw it. The man then took off his shirt and what appeared to be a bulletproof vest before the police arrived. The man dropped to the ground and was arrested without any apparent resistance. In the video that Asante filmed, authorities did not disclose details about Solomon, but said they believed that he acted alone and that no other suspect was being sought. He was also injured and was taken to the hospital to be treated, but authorities didn't elaborate on the nature of his injuries. FBI leaders immediately declared the attack an act of terrorism and the Justice Department denounced it as a needless act of violence which follows recent attacks against Jewish Americans. Now, of course, there is no justification for an action like this. We do not support violence. It is interesting the terms that he used though, given that it's being painted as specifically an attack against Jews. This just broke today. Illegal alien Boulder terrorist told investigators he'd been planning the attack for a year and waited until after his daughter graduated. FBI says Muhammad Solomon said he, quote, wanted to kill all Zionist people and he would do it again, according to court documents. Now, it is interesting that he chose that particular term which would imply that his actions, which again, we do not support, there's no justification for violence, violent action against unarmed people like that. But he did choose the term, I think, very intentionally Zionist. So, Donald J. Trump, truth doubt. Yesterday's horrific attack in Boulder, Colorado will not be tolerated in the United States of America. He came in through Biden's ridiculous open border policy which has hurt our country so badly, he must go out. Under Trump policy, acts of terrorism will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. This is yet another example of why we must keep our border secure and deport illegal anti American radicals from our homeland. My heart goes out to the victims of this terrible tragedy and the great people of Boulder, Colorado. Dan Shapiro went on CNN and he tweeted out about his appearance on cnn. I discussed the attack on Boulder with. Who is that? Rahal Solomon. We need clear. We don't watch cnn. We need clear condemnations of anti Semitic violence from every quarter, better security and law enforcement cooperation and education about this pernicious hatred. Iyal Yokobi breaking the terrorist behind the Boulder, Colorado attack has been identified as Mohammed Solomon. Let's be clear. The pro Palestinian movement is not a protest movement, it's a terror movement. And Laura Loomer, brain trust that she is, this is A photo of Police Chief Stephen Redfeam with his husband marching in the 2019 Denver Pride Parade. I wonder where Chief Redfern's mind was yesterday on the first day of Pride when a Muslim terrorist burned Jews alive in broad daylight in Boulder. Disgusting. DEI equals die. The real Zionist propagandists, they are trying so hard with the MAGA base to draw a connection between wokeness and being pro Palestine. They never miss an opportunity. So she would have you believe the police chief was not there at a completely random incident because he would have had. They would have had absolutely no way of anticipating because he was running around shirtless with glow sticks at a pride celebration or something. And 99 Johnny Graz. Imagine if the media covered the Boulder attack the way they cover attacks in Gaza. And you see here the headline, jewish extremists catch fire during pro Genocide protest. Yes. You'll never see that headline in cnn. So, yes, I mean, we said this about the embassy shooting. This is terrible for the cause because it allows them to use that for propagandistic purposes to brand the pro Palestine movement as a terrorist movement. And with this lawless administration, you give them any premise by which they can ratchet up illegal seizures of students, revocations of visas, arrest of protesters, they're going to do it. This is not the way. This is not the way. Whatever, whatever you think about the conflict, this doesn't help.
Jimmy Dore
No, it's, you know, and Jimmy did a great segment about the embassy shooting, speculating that there perhaps may have been more to that than what meets the eye. And I think there's that certainly a.
Andrew Cuomo
Possibility there was a mysterious man there who handed the keffiyeh to the shooter, which no normal, no normal person stuck around for. Presumably off camera. There were two dead bodies in that off frame outside.
Jimmy Dore
The point is whether these are false flags or not, they function the way a false flag would, which is they invite tremendous backlash upon the movement. And what people are saying there on Twitter, which is basically, now we need to criminalize the pro Palestine movement. These actions give them pretext to do that. And once they do that, you are set back a thousand steps because they have a police state that they tricked you into letting them build by bashing immigrants 24 hours a day for the last two years as if that was their real target. Deportations lag behind Biden's deportations. They lag behind Obama's deportations. They don't care about deporting people. They care about tricking people into manufacturing consent for a police state, which they have done and they're well on their way to building that out, both physically and technologically with this Palantir contract. So the point is, these acts of violence are terrible in and of themselves. Like they're intrinsically bad. It's intrinsically bad to attack civilians, obviously. Right. That goes without saying. Politically, they set the movement back a long ways to the point where they may as well be a false flag. And it is interesting that now that, and, and you know, now that the, the tide has turned, this blockade really was devastating for Israel's image around the world and the way they are perceived around the world now you have governments like Canada, France, the uk, Germany, even threatening to suspend weapons shipments. Hacks like Piers Morgan coming out against Israel, hacks like Bono, tepidly, but nonetheless criticizing Israel the way they were unwilling to do. The fact that these things are happening now is suspicious. Are these. And when you say a false flag, you're not saying it didn't happen, you're saying it was engineered. Right. It's not to dismiss the loss. And obviously that kind of violence is horrible, no matter who did it for whatever reason. Obviously. But yeah, this invites not only a political backlash in terms of public opinion, you are daring fascists to double and triple and quadruple down on fascism when you do this, which means it's a terrible thing.
Andrew Cuomo
And you real, you really don't have to encourage this crew.
Jimmy Dore
No, you don't have. These people need no encouragement whatsoever. So as a movement, what you have to do is you have to denounce it unequivocally, no matter what it was, because it's an act of violence against civilians. You have to denounce that under all circumstances and move on. And after the embassy shooting, that's what happened.
Andrew Cuomo
Right?
Jimmy Dore
Everyone I knew, every pro Palestine person I knew on X, was horrified that that happened because they knew the damage it can do to the movement. So what did they do? Right, they denounced it, they moved on, and it didn't hurt the movement. Yeah, same thing here. Whenever something like this happens, you have to just denounce that violence and move on. And if we do that, I think we'll be okay. But if, if you, if you fall into the trap of giving the police state pretext and ammunition now, forget it. That's a downward spiral into hell. It moves very, very quickly.
Zoe Saldana
Yep, yep.
Jimmy Dore
So Jake Tapper has a book out. I don't know if you guys know this, if you watch cnn. He spends a lot of time at his side gig as a broad plugging the book. And Hawking the book. The Daily show put together a pretty funny montage of him using his main job as the sandwich board to promote his authorship. So let's take a look. We're back with breaking news and our politics lead and a brand new excerpt from my upcoming book with Axios's Alex Thompson. It's called Original Sin. I'm not sure if you've heard of it. It's on Biden's decline. It's called Original Sin.
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I'm sure you're heard on May 20th.
Jimmy Dore
That's Tuesday. Original sin that's coming out in three weeks on May 20th. That's just 19 days away in one week. And one day coming out in just a few days comes out Tuesday. You will not believe what we found out. But it will.
Andrew Cuomo
Don't news people have to tell you what they know when they find it out? Isn't that the difference between news and a secret?
Jimmy Dore
Yes, that is a good point. It's not really news. If you're saying I'm going to tell you in a couple weeks what I know now.
Mike McRae
Yeah, it's old now.
Jimmy Dore
Yeah, that's right, that's right. At that point it is no longer news. But it is pretty shameless profiteering. Especially since, as we all know, Jake Tapper was part of the very cover up that this book exposes.
Mike McRae
And what's the original sin that he sucks at his job of being a newsman.
Jimmy Dore
Well, here's the thing, man. I mean, Biden scooped him because I think the original sin was the prostate cancer. Like that's what I think it was. And if you notice, if you remember, the announcement that Biden had prostate cancer came out just a few days before this book dropped. And I don't think that is a coincidence at all. I think they decided to go public with the diagnosis in order to, number one scoop this book. Right? Because, oh, expose in there. Oh, there's all this spicy information in there. Well, how's this? I've got cancer. Is that in your stupid little gay book? I don't think so.
Mike McRae
That's a real Joe Biden move.
Jimmy Dore
Book seems kind of shitty now, doesn't it? Right? Yeah, that's a real job. That's like the petty kind of Nixonian, you know, ego thing that is characteristic of Joe Biden. And second, they probably figure, well, if there's going to be a book out about what a liar I am, maybe I'll get some sympathy in advance of its release. So I think it was double pronged their rationale. But Jake Tapper's CNN show hits lowest rating since 2015 despite new Biden Book Buzz, Intense publicity Tour so that's right, it did not pay off for him, at least at the first job. Lowest ratings in a Decade CNN host Jake Tapper had his lowest rated month in nearly a decade in May, despite a whirlwind publicity tour giving him an onslaught of attention. Tapper and Axios reporter Alex Thompson's new book, Original Sin, President Biden's Decline, Its cover up and his disastrous choice to run again was released in May to much fanfare. The book helped set the recent news cycle with new accusations of the Biden White House hiding the truth about the former president's fitness for office. To promote the project, Tapper has embarked on a wide ranging book tour that landed him on a variety of podcasts, talk shows and cable news. The book has also been promoted relentlessly across cnn. But the spotlight on Tapper has seemingly failed to give him a boost in viewership. The lead with Jake Tapper averaged 525,000 total viewers from April 28 through May 25, shedding 25% of CNN's audience in its time slot from the same period last year in the process. By comparison, Fox news offerings the Five and Special Report with Brett Baer averaged 3.3 million viewers from April 28 through May 25, trouncing Tapper. Yeah, it's more than that's like six times the numbers. MSNBC also beat Tapper among total viewers as programming on the Progressive network averaged a little over 1 million viewers in the time slot. As a result, Tapper settled for only 11 of the cable news audience share, while MSNBC managed 21 and Fox News commanded 68% during the time frame. It was Tapper's lowest rated month since August 2015, so this is why his ratings are in the tank now. So Joe, famous Lib account here. Jake Tapper, cnn. You should be ashamed of yourselves. This is in response to the Jon.
Mike McRae
Stewart Is she mad because they wrote the book finally or that that's not because.
Jimmy Dore
No. Well, this is what it is. So the libs are upset that he's bashing Joe Biden and then everyone who's critical of Joe Biden knows he's full of shit and that he knew all this years in advance and he just sat on the information to a deceive the public and then cash in on that deceit later by profiteering Democrats.
Mike McRae
They all because when they say how Kamala ran a great campaign, my favorite line of all only cost a billion dollars, right to lose and go on, you know, hawk to his mom's podcast instead of Rogans. But all the dumbest moves you could think is because those people were making as much. They knew it was a loser.
Jimmy Dore
Yep.
Mike McRae
Cash out as much as we can. And they achieved a billion dollar scam. Oh, and so now the scam is done. A bunch of them want to keep me. They're gonna put out, like, limited hangout stuff like this book.
Jimmy Dore
Oh, 100. 100. That's exactly what happened. Now, Richard Angwin, you talk about a dumb tweet. Jake Tapper's timing with Original Sin is a master class in insensitivity. Capitalizing on Biden's cancer diagnosis for book sales. CNN's ethics are as compromised as Tapper's judgment. The cancer diagnosis came out, like, three days before the book release. What do you think they wrote the book in, in five hours? Like, that's just an insanely stupid comment.
Mike McRae
Oh, he's being paid, obviously. He's obviously. This is a master class in being paid to tweet something.
Jimmy Dore
That's how I'm paid to Tweet. Nonsense. Yeah. Leslie 007 with the American and the Ukraine flag in the bio, let's say, you know, you're in for a banger. It's such a somber day as we learn about the serious health condition of our former president, who is featured in this blockbuster new book by Jake Tapper, available on Amazon. It is disgusting, all of it, especially with a deranged madman with dementia in the White House Now. Yes, between the lines says CNN is a total disgrace. This seems unbelievable to say, but here it is. CNN is worse than Fox News. So those are all the lists.
Zoe Saldana
No, don't.
Mike McRae
Yeah, you can't take that back.
Jimmy Dore
Well, this is what I mean. They're boycotting the show now because the libs are pissed off that he insulted Joe Biden. And of course, on the other side, you have what is obviously true. And this is obviously the question that comes to mind amongst people with two brain cells to rub together. What did Jake Tapper know and when did he know it? This guy says, I am surprised he didn't name it if I did it. Yes, that was the name of the O.J. his name of the O.J. book could be called if I Hit it.
Mike McRae
In this case, he had written the book when he should have.
Zoe Saldana
Why?
Mike McRae
Right? We all could see it. You don't need a book being done. Again, we're making videos about this for his entire time because it was so funny and I would have to get Kyle to slow his impression down to be as slow and senile sounding as Biden. What are they talking about?
Jimmy Dore
No, it is. You know, I'm surprised CNN isn't more pissed at him for, for doing. Talk about using one gig to really hype another gig at the expense of the first gig. They had to. But it's so, it's so stupid. I mean, look at the backfire. Like, how could you sign. How could you allow him to do this? The whole book undermines his job at cnn. Like, they make money on it. Like you have a news anchor who's covering the presidential race for two years. He's on record on camera multiple times gaslighting the public about how Biden is good to go. You allow him to write a book about how he's been using your airwaves to lie and gaslight the public. Yeah, like what did you. CNN is going to be the result of that.
Mike McRae
This is on. I think this is for cnn. I think probably this is like those Navy SEAL books, like Lone Survivor that the Navy just wrote for the dude and said. You go say this, you know, because Real Story is not like the movie that made me tear up like a chump. Oh, that's what this is. CNN's got a pivot now because they failed so bad. So now just like Cenk Uyghur, the man whose name it feels racist to say he pivoted. Oh, populism's not bad. They're all pivoting now. So Tapper is a tool bag. He would never independently write a book. He would. He wouldn't even report the news when it happened. CNN probably has a piece of it, I would guess. And it's for their image. Like we're the more honest than MSNBC1. That's what they're trying to go for, a niche. Just like paying money to learn how to talk to men. This is like another right.
Jimmy Dore
Exactly.
Mike McRae
You know, it's the same inept pivot.
Jimmy Dore
Yeah, but you know, as, as someone who, you know, does a show where we piss off Democrats and Republicans in pretty much equal measure, I can tell you, you know, if you're running a big multi million dollar news network, that is not the way to drive ratings. There's Fox does well and msnbc. I mean, they have not been doing well recently. But there's a reason why they beat Tapper in that time slot. Because feeding red meat to Republican partisans puts asses in seats. The same thing is true on the other side. Feeding red meat to the blue maga people puts asses in seats. They're trying to thread a needle here. And it's one thing if you're trying to thread the needle in an honest way, you know, like we try to do, which is like, hey, we're not team Red or team Blue. We're just calling it as we see it. Okay, that, that's a tough road, a hoe. Because most people want confirmation bias. No gang alliance if you're doing it honestly. But here's the thing. He's doing it dishonestly. Like he's doing it sleazily. He's trying to appeal to the nonpartisan, just objective truth seeker. The whole premise of your book is that you were a massive liar for two years when it mattered most. That's the whole premise of your book. And as Jon Stewart says, there's if you have to tease out the news, hey, in three weeks you're gonna find something out that I know now. At that point you're not in the news business anymore. And so of course it was gonna cnn, of course it was gonna backfire on cnn. So how could they greenlight it if in fact they did, which I, I assume you're right. I assume they would have to sign off on this because who knows what the he's gonna write. You can't just let a guy go rogue like that.
Mike McRae
CNN would then and then plug the book every, every chance he's not off road on this one in any way. Sh. They probably want him to do it. I, I, there's a strategy. You could see it there because it reeks of like an idiot that doesn't understand what likes trying to pull a strategy but doesn't really understand what the problem yet still somehow you know.
Jimmy Dore
Right, Right. Welcome to the Jimmy Dore show, everybody. Keaton and Kurt here in for Jimmy while he is on the road this week. All right, want to give you some background on this segment here because our friend David Hogg got himself to eat into even more trouble this week by mentioning this in front of a rolling camera. But let's fill you in on what we're talking about here. So it is not a very well kept secret in Washington D.C. that Nancy Pelosi is an absolute boss when it comes to luckily picking stocks. Nancy Pelosi's portfolio beats top hedge funds but not 4% gains in 2024.
Mike McRae
Dan Crenshaw, she don't beat Dan Crenshaw, believe it or not.
Jimmy Dore
Oh really? He's number one.
Mike McRae
Beats her. Yeah, well, last I checked, maybe that, maybe she's come up now, huh?
Jimmy Dore
Well same dynamic there, right? Insider knowledge that comes with being in Congress. Because these top money managers are almost impossible to beat. But she beats them every year. So this was a report from January of 2025 saying yep, in 2024, sure enough, she beat the top hedge funds in America with 54% gains. The Nancy Pelosi stock tracker account on X.com formerly Twitter recently posted that California Representatives investment portfolio returned 54% in 2024, beating the popular inverse Kramer accounts 43% gains to become the top portfolio on the Autopilot investment app. The inverse Kramer tells you to do the opposite of what CNBC's financial advisor Jim Cramer tells you to do. The team behind the Pelosi tracker accounted account, pardon me, created Autopilot. It helps investors mimic the trades of popular hedge fund managers and politicians. Pelosi's portfolio gains also beat top hedge funds which spend vast amounts of money hiring top quantitative analysts and data scientists to build leading AI and machine learning models to maximize profits. But they can't do it as well as Nancy. So a couple weeks later it came out Nancy Pelosi's husband sold a boatload of Nvidia stock right before it was eviscerated by Chinese startup.
Mike McRae
She just flew Taiwan when that happened, did she not? She had that weird trip to Taiwan and China's like don't come to Taiwan. Nancy Pelosi.
Jimmy Dore
Maybe I don't recall it but yeah I certainly believe yeah this was from July of 2022. Nancy Pelosi's husband buys over $1 million of computer chip stock weeks before vote on inflation subsidies in 2021. Famous quote here. We play this a lot on our show. Nancy Pelosi was asked if Congress should be banned from trading stocks. Her response, no, this is a free market. That's right.
H
Congress and their spouses be banned from trading individual stocks while serving in Congress.
Gabor Maté
No, I don't know to the second one any. We have a responsibility to report in the stock on the stock. But I don't, I'm not familiar with that five month review but if people aren't reporting they should be because this is a free market and people we have a free market economy. They should be able to participate in that.
Jimmy Dore
They should be able to participate in that. Again just totally lost on her is the idea that when you serve in government you're supposed to be a public servant, right? You're supposed to forego participation in the free market of that kind of works.
Mike McRae
For the CIA that probably controls the stock Market. Did you see what I sent you? The mad money with Nancy Pelosi?
Jimmy Dore
Oh no, I didn't. Did you?
Mike McRae
Yeah, it's a one minute thing of Nancy Pelosi.
Jimmy Dore
Had that. Maybe we'll get into that.
Mike McRae
Yeah, batshit money. I said put it up.
Gabor Maté
Oh well, they, people aren't reporting. They should be because this is a free market and people. We have a free market economy.
Jimmy Dore
Free market economy. We got the right to participate. Well, David Hogg, who is in hot water, they're going to vote on whether or not to remove him in June. He was recently the victim of a Project Veritas sting operation. Here he is explaining to the camera person unwittingly that yeah, of course, of course the Pelosi stock profiteering stinks to high heaven.
Mike McRae
You think it's ironic that to the regular Democratic party he was beginning to sound more and more like a school shooter.
H
He's actually very good at her job. I don't agree with this.
Jimmy Dore
He's becoming the lonely young single man.
Mike McRae
Nobody likes him. Yeah, you gotta burn it down. Yeah, that's true.
Jimmy Dore
Yeah, yeah. He's like Joaquin Phoenix now all of a sudden, you know, you know, that's him to the Democratic Party now. Yeah, exactly. That's funny.
H
I would say Pelosi is actually very good at her job. I don't agree with the stock trading stuff. I mean she gets better returns than almost every head in the city every year. Some of these members of Congress make traits that are like way too well timed to not have like insider knowledge. They happen to be some of the best financial analysts in human history. Have you spoken against that? I've talked again. But it's also like, I know that if I pick that fight, it's going to be harder for us to get gun control. Pass. So I pick my path, like my heart. The hardest part.
Jimmy Dore
Spoiler alert. You have control passed. Anyway, that's, that's the Democrats for you.
Mike McRae
Is that the hill you want to die on? Yeah, that's what's wrong with everything is these idiots all think like that.
Jimmy Dore
Oh yeah. And I gotta say man, like I, I don't, I can't imagine. I know he's a young guy, but like, you know the knives are out for you, right? Like why would you be just talking like this in a coffee.
Mike McRae
His dad, I can't remember who his dad worked for, but you know, when I say construct, I mean like an industry plant type of thing or where there somebody's an influencer out of nowhere, right. And they're Young and their dad's some rich guy involved. His dad's somebody in either FBI or something. And like how Taylor Swift is a constraint. He's not, you know, industry plant the kids call it. That's what he is right about.
H
My job is I just want to burn everything down because it's all so corrupt. But you got to pick your battles and slowly build your moment.
Mike McRae
Yeah.
Jimmy Dore
This goes on. For joining us now, DNC Vice chair David Hawk.
H
We're not going to go after below siege. One, we wouldn't berth even if we wanted to. That's part of it. But two, is it not necessary fight like when there's other members that are far weaker. And I, I would say Pelosi is actually very good at her job. I don't agree with the stock trading stuff. You don't?
Jimmy Dore
No.
H
Some of these members of Congress make traits that are like way too well timed to not have like insider knowledge. That's a huge problem. You think that's how Pelosi is worth. Yes. Hundreds of millions of dollars.
Mike McRae
Yes.
H
I mean, she gets better returns than almost every hedge fund in this city every year. And you don't think that has to change? No, it does. How would you change that? I just ban members of Congress boning stocks. So put their assets in a blind trust. You're going to prop up candidate to compose that? Is that your goal? In part, yeah.
Jimmy Dore
Yeah.
H
Because that's a long haul. There's 435.
Jimmy Dore
I mean, at this point, I don't know how you don't start to suspect that maybe you're being recorded or maybe something's not right. Question after question. Yeah. Yeah, exactly.
Mike McRae
Well, would you like to sign here? I'd love this. I have anal words.
Jimmy Dore
Like by now, by now you would think, you know, his alarm bells will be going on. Yeah, exactly. Like you're going. Yeah.
Mike McRae
The guy, you know, pushing by tiny ages to understand. You know, it's, it's interesting because you get to see how much is like on purpose and whatever with him.
Jimmy Dore
Yeah.
Mike McRae
By the time he hits the age where he gets it, you've aged out of the demographic. Everybody gives a. That's why they want these young, like these new young leader with their backstory of whatever. That's what they're trying to promote.
Jimmy Dore
Yeah.
Mike McRae
It's all like, AOC is one of the best prototypes or Justin Trudeau. These young, hotter leaders.
Jimmy Dore
Right.
Mike McRae
And they're all like influencers and it's, it's. They might as well be in a boy.
Jimmy Dore
Well, maybe he figures he's got some Nigerian prince money coming his way. And that's why he can afford to speak this loosely, because he seems gullible enough. Yeah.
Mike McRae
I wouldn't normally say this gold mine in Colombia, so I can.
Jimmy Dore
Yeah, exactly. Hey, can you give me a ride to the Western Union after this? I gotta pick up a wire transfer for $300,000.
Mike McRae
They can get me the money, but I gotta get them $3,000 right now.
Jimmy Dore
Exactly. Yes.
H
Yeah. And most likely 430 of them are. Are doing the same thing, which is why they don't wanna. I don't know, but I'm just stating. I think it's a pretty good guess. Allegedly.
Jimmy Dore
Yeah.
H
Just conveniently they happen to be some of the best financial analysts in human history. Have you spoken against that? I've talked to, but it's also like, I know that if I pick that fight, it's going to be harder for us to get gun control passed. So I have to pick my b. Like, my heart. The hardest part about my job is I just want to burn everything down because it's all so corrupt. But you got to pick your battles and slowly build your momentum.
Jimmy Dore
That's right.
Mike McRae
School shooter. Dude, he's in the School shooter.
Jimmy Dore
He is in the club now. He's in the club. And that just gives you a snapshot of the way a lot of these people really think. And because he's so young and so naive, they were able to get him on camera saying this stuff I can't imagine.
Mike McRae
Exposed by Project Veritas. Here's the irony. All that stuff he said, that's true. That's what's going to get him kicked out of being in the deal.
Jimmy Dore
Of course. Yes, of course. That's what's going to get him kicked out. You can't say that.
Mike McRae
What he's saying other than the being a punk about it and picking your battles, because the time for that is passed. We're at World War Three almost, right? The time for that. Like, oh, save up your political capital. Keep your relationship with power. That is everybody stupid. It's over.
Jimmy Dore
Well, this is what people don't get. And. And this is what people who work in these environments don't get. And this is how the sort of PMC insulates itself. Not even consciously. They just. They insulate themselves by way of practicing politics in this way. Living in Washington, only talking with kinds of people who are privy to the inner sort of machinations of this. Like, that's the only world.
Mike McRae
Would you say. Would you say it sounds like a Breakaway civilization. Except, you know, not on Mars.
Jimmy Dore
Well, yeah, I mean, that is essentially what it is. I mean, when you look at the class divide between the top 1% and everybody else, and then you parse it further, the top 20%, and you can parse it even further than that. The top. What is it, 32%? 30, 37. Was it? 63% of people can't afford a thousand dollar quick cash emergency. Oh, if the brakes go, I can't afford to fix the brakes. That's most of the country. And then you have this crop who lives like this, and they are completely insulated from the consequences of how they go about doing politics. Like it is just. It's completely naive to. Oh, yeah, no, I wish we could burn it all down, but, you know, we have to work within the system in order to get gun control. Pass. What? Gun control. They pass. Like, even on your own terms, what reward did you get for playing ball? And now, now that this is out. Yeah, they're gonna make up some about how we violated the gender diversity rules. But that's nonsense. This is. This is why he's gotta go. And at this point, he's got it shocked if he stays. Yeah. Oh, you want me to play Kurt's Pelosi video?
Mike McRae
It's done Again, it means but we made a long time ago. Oh, I want to dedicate to young David Hogg.
Jimmy Dore
Oh, this is your video.
H
Oh, you.
Jimmy Dore
You just texted me five minutes ago. You didn't text it to me earlier today.
Mike McRae
Right, I forgot about it until you brought up her. Amazing. Because her saying people can participate in the market was what?
Jimmy Dore
Oh, got it. Okay. All right.
Mike McRae
It's her Jim Cramer show.
Jimmy Dore
Yeah. Let me. Let me look this up. Hold on. We can edit around this when we clip it here. Okay, let's do. Oh, wow. Okay. All right. How nice, Nancy. Okay, I'm just gonna search for it now. I'll screen share it. No problem.
Mike McRae
Yeah, this is his. Nancy Pelosi, I think, is a pretty fine Pelosi.
Jimmy Dore
Okay. All right, so this is Kyle Dunn again. Okay, beautiful. All right, we will make this happen right now. Then you guys can edit this in however you want. That's up to you. Okay, here we go. Full screen there. Volume check here. Come back here. Screen share here. All right, here we go. All right, so let's take a look. Okay, so set this up, Kurt. What is this again?
Mike McRae
Nancy Pelosi stock trading show. This was before the Ukraine war.
Jimmy Dore
Okay, got it. Here we go.
Gabor Maté
You're back with me. Nancy Pelosi Just in time for the lightning round.
Keaton
That was easy.
Gabor Maté
It should probably be allure against Congress people trading stocks, but we just haven't gotten around to it. Okay, let's get back. Hank from Toledo, you're on.
Jimmy Dore
Booyah, Nancy.
Gabor Maté
Booyah.
Mike McRae
Your husband bought Google just before the antitrust bill vote. You guys made $5 million. So was that like, luck or.
Gabor Maté
It was a miracle. Thank you, George Floyd. Okay, Mark from Illinois.
Jimmy Dore
Booyah, Nancy.
Gabor Maté
Booyah.
Jimmy Dore
Hey, should I hold on to my Tesla position before the EV bill passes?
Gabor Maté
Sell, sell, sell. A little birdie told me I'll be voting the other way. You newbies at home, don't be discouraged. I lost a lot of money in the market, but things really turned around when I started making lures. When we come back, I'm gonna jingle all my jewelry in your face. You'll like it.
Jimmy Dore
All right, that's the Kyle but again show. Yeah, that was, that was cool.
Mike McRae
He picked that. He has some weird vocal range. So he had started doing Pelosi. I'm just trying to figure out how to do it. And like it's like all day we're like watching her. And then he went in a room and came out and did this funny ass thing.
Keaton
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H
Don't, don't, don't, don't, don't freak out.
Jimmy Dore
Don't freak out.
Keaton
All the voices performed today are by the one and only, the inimitable Mike McRae. He can be found at mikemcrae.com.
Zoe Saldana
That'S.
Keaton
It for this week. You be the best you can be and I'll keep being me.
H
Don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't freak out.
Keaton
Don't freak out.
Jimmy Dore
Don't freak out.
Keaton
Don't freak out. Do not freak out.
Jimmy Dore
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Keaton
Do not freak out.
Podcast Summary: The Jimmy Dore Show – Chilling Video Of Netanyahu Grooming Child For Hate! featuring Gabor Maté
Release Date: June 4, 2025
Host: Jimmy Dore
Guest: Dr. Gabor Maté
Description: In this episode, Jimmy Dore delves into the disturbing content surrounding Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, particularly focusing on a video that appears to depict Netanyahu engaging with a child in a manner that fosters hatred. Dr. Gabor Maté, a renowned physician and author specializing in trauma and addiction, joins the conversation to provide expert insights into the psychological ramifications of such actions and the broader socio-political context.
The episode kicks off with a humorous and satirical commercial parody featuring actors imitating celebrities like Zoe Saldana and Andrew Cuomo, promoting T-Mobile’s latest iPhone offer. This segment serves as a playful segue before Jimmy Dore officially begins the show.
Jimmy Dore introduces Dr. Gabor Maté, highlighting his extensive experience in family practice, palliative care, and his work with patients grappling with addiction and mental illness. Maté’s latest book, The Myth of Normal in Trauma, Illness and Healing in a Toxic Culture, is noted as a New York Times bestseller, setting the stage for a deep dive into the psychological aspects of the current geopolitical tensions.
Jimmy presents a video featuring Netanyahu being interviewed by an 8-year-old child, expressing aggressive political rhetoric aimed at dismantling Hamas and reclaiming Gaza. Skeptical of its authenticity, Jimmy notes the troubling nature of such interactions between a national leader and a child.
Notable Quote:
Gabor Maté [07:37]: “If one wanted to create a vicious parody of Netanyahu, one couldn't have created a better one. It's so polluted, what he says, his manner is so disingenuous, it's so patently inauthentic.”
Dr. Maté discusses the pervasive trauma within Israeli society, referencing a 2004 psychiatric study that revealed 97.5% of children in Gaza exhibited trauma symptoms. He emphasizes how enduring trauma without addressing its roots perpetuates cycles of violence and hatred.
Notable Quote:
Gabor Maté [17:12]: “The trauma in the Palestinian territories is just ongoing and is beyond words as far as the trauma that was one of the, not the only one, but one of the founding streams that flowed into creating Zionism.”
Jimmy shares a personal anecdote about his Catholic mother-in-law expressing surprise at the perceived cruelty of Jewish actions given their traumatic history. Dr. Maté responds by dismantling the notion that trauma inherently leads to moral elevation. Instead, he argues that unaddressed trauma can result in aggression and oppressive behaviors.
Notable Quote:
Gabor Maté [18:15]: “Jews have as much right to be mass murderers as everybody else. Trauma doesn't automatically ennoble you or purify.”
He further critiques the Israeli education system, asserting that it instills a persistent victim mentality, which in turn fuels support for military aggression.
Notable Quote:
Gabor Maté [21:05]: “Imagine if you did a poll in the United States and those kind of numbers were in favor of expelling all indigenous people and all colored people. What that would mean about American society.”
The conversation shifts to a recent attack in Boulder, Colorado, where a man wielding a makeshift flamethrower targeted a pro-Palestine demonstration, injuring eight individuals. Jimmy criticizes the terminology used by authorities, noting the agitator labeled the attack as anti-Zionist rather than targeting Jews specifically.
Notable Quote:
Jimmy Dore [24:18]: “This attack was aimed against peaceful people who wish to support a genocide in peace. No, he didn't say that.”
Dr. Maté explores the psychological profile of the attacker, linking his actions to the broader context of ingrained trauma and hatred within certain factions.
Notable Quote:
Gabor Maté [24:38]: “Alcohol.”
Jimmy interjects to describe the chaotic aftermath captured in videos from the scene, emphasizing the senseless nature of the violence.
Jimmy and Dr. Maté debate the potential repercussions of such violent acts on the pro-Palestine movement. They discuss how these incidents can delegitimize genuine advocacy by associating it with terrorism, thereby undermining efforts to garner broader support.
Notable Quote:
Jimmy Dore [34:43]: “You have to denounce that violence and move on. And after the embassy shooting, that's what happened.”
Dr. Maté warns against allowing these violent acts to be used as pretexts for escalating police state measures, which could severely hinder peaceful activism.
The focus shifts to media coverage, specifically criticizing CNN’s Jake Tapper for promoting a book titled Original Sin about President Biden’s decline while simultaneously announcing Biden’s prostate cancer diagnosis. Jimmy and his co-hosts argue that this timing appears manipulative, aiming to capitalize on the news cycle for book sales.
Notable Quote:
Jimmy Dore [35:50]: “This is a master class in insensitivity. Capitalizing on Biden's cancer diagnosis for book sales. CNN's ethics are as compromised as Tapper's judgment.”
The discussion highlights how media personalities may prioritize personal gain over journalistic integrity, leading to public distrust.
The conversation veers into political corruption, specifically addressing Nancy Pelosi’s alleged prowess in stock trading, outperforming top hedge funds with insider knowledge. Jimmy criticizes the ethical implications of lawmakers engaging in stock trading while serving the public.
Notable Quote:
Jimmy Dore [46:58]: “Nancy Pelosi's portfolio returns 54% in 2024, beating the popular inverse Kramer accounts 43%. The inverse Kramer tells you to do the opposite of what CNBC's financial advisor Jim Cramer tells you to do.”
David Hogg, a DNC Vice Chair, defends Pelosi, acknowledging the issue but downplaying its significance, which Jimmy and his co-hosts vehemently oppose.
Notable Quote:
H [49:14]: “Some of these members of Congress make traits that are like way too well timed to not have like insider knowledge.”
The episode wraps up with a satirical segment imitating Nancy Pelosi’s stock trading, using humor to underscore the absurdity and ethical breaches involved. The hosts reinforce their stance against political corruption and media manipulation, urging listeners to remain vigilant and critical of those in power.
Overall Insights:
Trauma and Political Aggression: The episode underscores how unaddressed trauma within societies, particularly in conflict zones like Israel and Gaza, can perpetuate cycles of hatred and violence.
Media Ethics: Criticism is leveled against media figures who may exploit sensitive situations for personal gain, undermining public trust in journalism.
Political Corruption: The discussion highlights concerns over lawmakers engaging in stock trading, suggesting conflicts of interest and ethical breaches that prioritize personal wealth over public service.
Impact on Movements: Violent actions by fringe elements can significantly hinder the legitimacy and effectiveness of broader advocacy movements by associating them with extremism.
Key Takeaways:
This summary aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the episode’s key discussions and insights for those who have not listened to the full podcast.