DC Police Have Been LYING About Drop In Violent Crime!

Summary

Summary of "DC Police Have Been LYING About Drop In Violent Crime!" from The Jimmy Dore Show

Podcast Information:

• Title: The Jimmy Dore Show
• Host: Jimmy Dore
• Episode: DC Police Have Been LYING About Drop In Violent Crime!
• Release Date: August 15, 2025
• Description: “Jimmy Dore is outrageous and outraged, bothersome and bothered, a crucial, profane, passionate voice for progressives and freethinkers in 21st century America.” -Patton Oswalt

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1. Trump’s Takeover of the DC Police Department

(01:01 – 02:50)

Jimmy Dore opens the discussion by announcing that former President Donald Trump has taken control of the Washington D.C. Police Department. He suggests that Trump intends to make this takeover permanent and expand similar moves to other cities.

Notable Quotes:

• Jimmy Dore [01:01]:
  "Now Donald Trump has taken over the D.C. police Department. He's going to try and make it permanent, from what I understand. And he's going to try to extend that to other cities."

• Police Commander [04:14]:
  "Management officials are directing officers to take reports for felony assault… felony assault is not a category of crime that's listed on the department's daily crime stats."

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2. Manipulation of Crime Statistics in D.C.

(02:05 – 05:15)

Dore and co-host Kurt Metzger delve into allegations that the DC Police Department has been manipulating crime statistics to portray a misleadingly positive trend in violent crime rates. They discuss how definitions of crimes like murder and violent offenses have been altered to reduce reported crime numbers.

Notable Quotes:

• Jimmy Dore [02:07]:
  "Why would those things be separated?"

• Greg Pemberton [04:14]:
  "Union is putting its allegations on the record tonight, claiming police supervisors in the department are manipulating crime data to make it appear violent crime has fallen considerably when compared to last year."

• Police Commander [04:50]:
  "By changing criminal offenses from, for example, ADW bat or ADW gun to felony assault, that would avoid both the MPD and the FBI from reporting that as a part one or a felony offense."

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3. Defunding of Police and Rising Homelessness

(05:47 – 09:43)

The conversation shifts to the broader implications of defunding the police, highlighting how reduced police presence has led to increased crime rates in areas dealt with by Trump. They discuss homelessness, arguing that instead of investing in mental health and affordable housing, funds have been diverted to build more prisons.

Notable Quotes:

• Kurt Metzger [08:15]:
  "Public protection from the police is what they took away."

• Jimmy Dore [09:12]:
  "If you just lock up the homeless people, it costs $130,000 a year in California to put somebody in prison. I bet you could find him an apartment or a hotel room for a lot less."

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4. National Debt Crisis and Fiscal Mismanagement

(10:55 – 51:34)

Dore transitions to a critique of the United States' burgeoning national debt, which has surpassed $37 trillion. He criticizes the Trump administration’s fiscal policies, particularly the increased Pentagon budget and ineffective strategies to reduce the deficit. The discussion highlights the lack of genuine spending cuts and the misallocation of funds, exacerbating the debt crisis.

Notable Quotes:

• Jimmy Dore [44:11]:
  "We did not cut the spending. They did not cut the spending. They, in fact, increased the spending."

• Kurt Metzger [47:13]:
  "Doge's savings calculator claims to have axed 202 billion… They actually just took that spending and folded it into the Pentagon…"

• Jimmy Dore [50:55]:
  "Why don't you just allow affordable housing… that's what I'm saying. We built nothing because the money spents goes straight to the military industrial complex and Wall Street, big pharma."

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5. Netanyahu and the Greater Israel Project

(26:19 – 37:32)

The hosts discuss Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's remarks that indicate support for the Greater Israel Project. They interpret his statements as evidence of Israel's expansionist ambitions beyond its current borders, aiming to annex territories like Gaza, the West Bank, and potentially parts of neighboring countries.

Notable Quotes:

• Kurt Metzger [30:25]:
  "Netanyahu admits that his goals are to further the Greater Israel Project, which is a big misstep because he told the truth."

• Jimmy Dore [33:24]:
  "Greater Israel could refer to Israel taking complete control of Gaza, the West bank, and the Golan Heights, and even more."

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6. European Union’s Free Speech Hypocrisy

(56:56 – 60:15)

In the latter part of the episode, Dore and Metzger critique European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen's stance on free speech. They highlight the irony of her statements about free speech being curtailed in Russia while simultaneously witnessing a protester being arrested in a purportedly free country like Finland.

Notable Quotes:

• Jimmy Dore [57:37]:
  "They lie, cheat and steal right in your face as they're arresting someone. She's saying, good thing you're here because you'd be arrested in Russia as they're arresting them right in your face."

• Kurt Metzger [59:56]:
  "People voted and they voted for a guy we didn't like. So that means we don't have democracy."

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7. Final Remarks and Closing

(60:05 – End)

The episode concludes with Dore and Metzger lamenting the state of American politics and governance. They express skepticism about the possibility of meaningful reform, citing continued fiscal mismanagement and systemic corruption. The hosts emphasize the need for accountability and transparency in government actions.

Notable Quotes:

• Jimmy Dore [60:22]:
  "Don't freak out… I'm not giving…"

• Kurt Metzger [60:10]:
  "You are living in the two-lie system… Republicans and Democrats… you still progress to you getting fucked no matter what."

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Conclusion:

In this episode, Jimmy Dore and Kurt Metzger critically examine the manipulation of crime statistics in Washington D.C., the detrimental effects of defunding police on public safety and homelessness, the escalating national debt due to fiscal mismanagement, and perceived expansionist policies of Israel under Netanyahu. They also critique the European Union's approach to free speech, highlighting inconsistencies and hypocrisy. Throughout the discussion, the hosts advocate for greater governmental transparency, responsible fiscal policies, and accountability to address the systemic issues plaguing American society.

Transcript

[Jimmy Dore]

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[Kurt Metzger]

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[Kurt Metzger]

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[Jimmy Dore]

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[Kurt Metzger]

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[Jimmy Dore]

It's the chimney door show. So Kurt had a lot of suspicion. Now Donald Trump has taken over the D.C. police Department. He's going to try and make it permanent, from what I understand. And he's going to try to extend that to other cities. And I was making the point that the crime statistics are way down. Crimes way down, Kurt. Crimes way down in D.C. according to the. But then guess what I found. Kurt was like, I don't. I don't trust those statistics, Jimmy. Effectively cutting the legs out from underneath that segment I was doing. And I was like, welcome.

[Kurt Metzger]

All of you are welcome.

[Jimmy Dore]

But guess what? It turns out Kurt was right.

[Kurt Metzger]

Did they change the definition of, like, murder?

[Jimmy Dore]

Yes.

[Kurt Metzger]

It'S like, woman. It could be with a dick.

[Jimmy Dore]

Well, it's worse. It's. What's weird is that murder is up, but violent crimes are down. That's what they're trying to say. What? That sounds so much better.

[Kurt Metzger]

So why would those things be separated?

[Jimmy Dore]

Here's a. Here's a headline that says D.C. right. Why would that be? D.C. police commander suspended accused of changing crime statistics. So that's the headline from Channel 4 in Washington D.C. and they give you this. Crime statistics murder. The murder rate in D.C. is higher than that in Bogota, Mexico City, Islamabad. Look how slow it is in Paris, London, Madrid. Washington, D.C. is the red. So they try to tell you that, yeah, murder rates are up, but violent crime is down. I thought those had the same thing.

[Kurt Metzger]

What is. Yeah, I. I'm sorry, what is? I don't even understand how you can parse that.

[Jimmy Dore]

If there's one thing we know, Kurt, it's that Washington D.C. is the home of the truth. I mean, it's where honesty is made. Much in the same way that Disneyland is the happiest place on Earth because there's a sign that says, so yo. Yeah. So here. Here's a channel. NBC News in D.C. did this report. Let's watch.

[Greg Pemberton]

Union is putting its allegations on the record tonight, claiming police supervisors in the department are manipulating crime data to make it appear violent crime has fallen considerably when compared to last year.

[Police Commander]

When our members respond to the scene of a felony offense where there is a victim reporting that a felony occurred, inevitably there will be a lieutenant or a captain that will show up on that scene and direct those members to take a report for a lesser offense. So instead of taking a report for a shooting or a stabbing or a carjacking, they will order that officer to take a report for a theft or an injured person to the hospital or a felony assault, which is not the same type of classification.

[Greg Pemberton]

Greg Pemberton says the police department's command staff is focusing on two categories in order to get the numbers to fall. They are armed with a dangerous weapon, an injured person to the hospital when.

[Police Commander]

Management officials are directing officers to take reports for felony assault, or if they're going back into police databases and changing offenses to felony assault. Felony assault is not a category of crime that's listed on the department's daily crime stats. It's also not something that's a requirement of the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program. So by changing criminal offenses from, for example, ADW bat or ADW gun to felony assault, that would. That would avoid both the MPD and the FBI from reporting that as a part one or a felony offense.

[Greg Pemberton]

Pemberton says the union has been gathering evidence for some time now by looking at reports and talking with officers all over the city.

[Police Commander]

What we've heard through our members and through members of management that are willing to talk with the union is that this is a directive from the command staff, is that they want to make sure that these classifications of these reports are adjusted over time to make sure that the overall crime stats stay down.

[Greg Pemberton]

As of last Monday, when we spoke with Pemberton, D.C. crime data shows violent crime was down 28%.

[Kurt Metzger]

Today.

[Greg Pemberton]

The department's website says violent crime is down 25% when compared to the same time last year, and Overall crime is down 8%.

[Police Commander]

That's preposterous. There's absolutely no way crime could be down 28%. Last year, they suggested that it went down 34%.

[Greg Pemberton]

As for the claims made by the.

[Kurt Metzger]

Shit, if you live in a city.

[Jimmy Dore]

You know, so there's a little bit more to this.

[Greg Pemberton]

And as for the claims made by the union, Chief Smith released this statement. It says the Metropolitan Police Department is committed to upholding the trust and the confidence of the public. Any irregularity in crime data brought to my attention will be addressed immediately. I do not condone any official reclassifying criminal offenses outside the guidelines set in the MPD policy. Any allegation of this behavior will be dealt with through our internal processes, which will ensure those members are held accountable. I have the utmost confidence in the command staff leadership currently in place across the Metropolitan Police Department. And one other note. We did reach out to Chief Andre Wright, and he declined to comment.

[Jimmy Dore]

Oh, really? He declined to comment? Really? Well, here I'll come up with a comment for him. My comment is, we're proud of our police force and their ability to de. Escalate problems. For instance, if a woman says she was sexually assaulted in Washington, D.C. we can now downsize it to just some guy was hitting on her.

[Kurt Metzger]

Yeah. It's a separate thing.

[Jimmy Dore]

Yeah. Especially if it's one of our newly arrived immigrants. So Kurt was right. So I just wanted to update that story because I watched Glenn Greenwald coverage of, you know, Trump's takeover of the D.C. police, and he made a good point. He goes, let's say crime is down 26%. You still got carjacked. You don't care what that.

[Kurt Metzger]

Yeah, that's true.

[Jimmy Dore]

You don't care.

[Kurt Metzger]

It went up 100% for me. Car jackings. That's funny.

[Jimmy Dore]

And that a lot of D.C. staffers, I guess, according to Glenn Greenwald, have been, you know, have complained about this, about the. The crime. And, you know, I go to D.C. at least it seems like at least once a year. And I guess I'm always in the nice parts. Whatever. I'm only in the parts that you go if you're a tourist, you know.

[Kurt Metzger]

Well, I would say New York. I bet you the crime's way higher in touristy parts more than, like, where, like, Russell lives, you know?

[Jimmy Dore]

Huh. Yeah.

[Kurt Metzger]

Because he was like, it was not bad by me. Like. Nah, they're all concentrating the touristy parts that the cops used to have online when I used to be there. The cops, you know, because you're dealing with drug addicts and drunks all weekend. Looks like Armageddon there. And. But now they don't have the police presence because they got rid. They defunded.

[Jimmy Dore]

They. That. That did not happen, Kurt. They did not defund the cops.

[Kurt Metzger]

Whatever. Whatever. That stupid sucks. Tw.

[Jimmy Dore]

That was all. That was all a lip service that the Democrats were giving about. We wanted to fund the police to Black Lives Matter. And when it came to defund the police, they said, hey, you know what? Let's do the opposite. Let's invent another police force and fund it to the $2 billion.

[Kurt Metzger]

Public protection from the police is what they took away. I'm sure they added more police, but the cops on the beat, they're supposed to be there. They're not there now. So that got defunded because they're not there. And here, where I live, in Sorostown Austin, they did that. The police force left because their union, you could only. You couldn't pay them less. So all the experience officers quit when that bullshit was going on, and now they have people for a lot cheaper, and they can't bring back the experienced ones because the rules with the union or whatever. So that was a little trick. The money didn't go in the pockets of officers and whatever, it went to whatever these, like, I don't know what the hell it goes to. So it's like homelessness goes in and there's more homelessness.

[Jimmy Dore]

So it looks like, again, it's. It doesn't feel good. That Donald Trump is, you know, his answer to everything is, let's lock him up. Right? And he's. He says that we're going to evict. We're going to get rid of the homeless. We're going to kick them out like that. The reason why they're on the street is because they've already been kicked out. They got kicked out of there. He's like, we're gonna evict them. They're on the street because they've been evicted. You can't evict someone twice to housing. You're gonna.

[Kurt Metzger]

Yeah. Where would you. Are you gonna live outside?

[Jimmy Dore]

My joke was, why don't you just pretend like they're immigrants and give them. Put them in hotels?

[Kurt Metzger]

I don't know. I honestly don't understand that. Like, how is there all these hotels for people coming in illegally off an app? Well, I guess I don't even know if it was legal, actually. I mean, they might have said they're asylum seekers and we're changing it so you could just come in. And I knew New York almost went bankrupt, right, From. From putting them up in fancy hotels for way more money than a hotel with.

[Jimmy Dore]

Right.

[Kurt Metzger]

Hotels got paid way more to put NGO brought in mass migration. So I don't understand why they can't do that for Americans.

[Jimmy Dore]

The fact is they can. There's like $45 billion in the big beautiful bill to build more prisons for I. And so what do you think they're going to do when they can't fill those beds? They're going to put Americans in there. Right. And I wonder if they put on. I've made this point before. So if they took that $45 billion and just built housing for people, that, that would be a start.

[Kurt Metzger]

It would ruin the market, wouldn't it? Because all the foreign investment, say New York and here and all the major cities where the rent never goes down, they wanted to encourage that global investment.

[Jimmy Dore]

Yeah.

[Kurt Metzger]

So how about you just want affordable housing? It'll bring down the market.

[Jimmy Dore]

Yeah.

[Kurt Metzger]

Real estate.

[Jimmy Dore]

How about we just, just, we do. How about we don't allow Chinese billionaires to buy property in America? How about we stop that kind of stuff? You know why we don't. You know, you know why? It's because real estate, the real estate lobby wants that money here because they want real estate to be as expensive as possible, because they make more money. So that's what's happening. You, there's ways to, to, to help out. One of them is I, I, again, I haven't looked 100% into this, but it seems nuts that there's all these empty properties being bought by wealthy people who don't, who aren't American, and then they sit dormant and empty. And I know that's a problem. And I, it would be great if they got rid of the foreigners being able to buy real estate in America. They could, they could just stop it.

[Kurt Metzger]

Or why don't you, like, instead of rent control, which was the way to keep that up without doing what they should, don't you build more housing? You don't have foreign nationals buying up all of your real estate. What country does that?

[Jimmy Dore]

Well, we're going to talk about that in a sec. You're right. What are, I wonder if what other country allows that to happen? But anyway, let's just, we're going to talk about that in a second about the rent control in New York. But turns out Kurt was right. It looks like that they've been fudging the numbers on the crime statistics in Washington, D.C. to the point where the head of the police union is accusing the, the police administration of fudging the numbers.

[Kurt Metzger]

Yeah, the police chief.

[Jimmy Dore]

Yeah, Pamela something.

[Kurt Metzger]

She's from Arkansas, of course.

[Jimmy Dore]

So they asked her, now that Trump was taking over the police and D.C. some reporter asked her what, what's the chain of Command now. And she says, what does that mean? Yeah, Now, I didn't. I just saw, like a meme of that. I didn't see the video of her saying that. So I can't vouch for the veracity that she actually said that. But.

[Kurt Metzger]

Well, it's easy to believe after I saw the guy, Biden's Fed guy, not know why we borrow money that we.

[Jimmy Dore]

That's right. Yeah. Yeah.

[Kurt Metzger]

So it seems at every level, there's been some imbecile that doesn't know anything about what they're supposed to do. Why is that?

[Jimmy Dore]

So it's going to be interesting to see how this all works out, and I really want to see what he does with the homeless people. Because if you just lock up the homeless people, it costs $130,000 a year in California to put somebody prison. I bet you could find him an apartment or a hotel room for a lot less, you know, and of course, these people need drug treatment programs. These people need mental health facilities. Why not take some of that 45 billion and build mental health facilities that the United States got rid of starting in the 50s? What didn't start with Reagan? That's what a lot of people thought. I thought that. And then turns out, no, that started in the 50s, the deinstitutionalization of the.

[Kurt Metzger]

Mentally ill. Well, he did that in LA, in the. In the 50s, I believe, didn't he? In California, when we see governor of California. He was doing that in California.

[Jimmy Dore]

I think he was Governor of California. Was in the 70s, maybe.

[Kurt Metzger]

Oh, was it?

[Jimmy Dore]

I'm not sure, but they've been doing that nationwide. It wasn't just the Ronald Reagan thing. They were doing that nationwide de institutionalizing the mentally ill. We don't have the capacity to take care of these people, but looks like Trump's going to build the prisons and instead of taking care of them with, you know, drug treatment or mental health care or, you know, just creating jobs and affordable housing, they're going to create unaffordable prisons and put people in prison.

[Kurt Metzger]

Well, they make the CIA pay restitution because they're the ones that brought them drugs in that created that massive problem that we've never recovered from. And we know they did. Everybody knows they did. There's no punishment for them. Where Scott Adams, I guess, will encourage us to just acknowledge that they're just gonna lie to you. That's your lot in life.

[Jimmy Dore]

So tip of the hat to Kurt for getting this one right and made me.

[Kurt Metzger]

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[Jimmy Dore]

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11 Pro for well qualified credits end and balance due if you pay off early or cancel contact T Mobile. So we've been talking about Trump's takeover of D.C. and the left's hair is on fire over it. Right? And we got to see how this shakes out. We've been talking about like, what is he going to do with homeless people? 25% of homeless people are children. Are you just going to take the homeless people and put them in prison? So we've been, we've been talking a lot about it, but guess an unlikely ally in Trump's idea to take over the police departments of Democrat cities. Msnbc. You think I'm kidding? Yes.

[Kurt Metzger]

Morning Joe.

[Jimmy Dore]

Here's Morning Joe. Listen to what Morning Joe Ball says.

[Joe Scarborough]

As long as the President focuses, the FBI focuses and the National Guard focuses on safety and security and not being an ominous force in that city, but just providing support in a partnership role to the D.C. police, that'll be a great thing if they step over that line. Obviously, that's something that, you know, we can do two things at once. And if they move into a more ominous role, that is something that we need to, obviously, and everybody needs to bring up with real concerns. But I will, you know, I will just go back to the fact that, you know, the people that are cheering this on privately are not like right wing Republicans, are not MAGA people. A lot of our friends are in the media and also Democrats that worked on Joe Biden's campaign, that worked on other campaigns that are saying, yeah, I'd like to feel safe walking around this city if the federal.

[Jimmy Dore]

So there is Joe Scarborough telling you that the people who are quietly cheering on Donald Trump's takeover of the D.C. police and his crackdown, authoritative crackdown, the people who are cheering that on aren't maga. He's saying the people are cheering that are people in the media, people who worked for Joe Biden, Democrats who worked in the Joe Biden White House. That's what he's saying, that the people cheering this on are quietly, not publicly, the people quietly cheering this on. That's what he just said.

[Kurt Metzger]

Why aren't they loudly cheering it on if they're so afraid? Are you that much of a. Yeah.

[Jimmy Dore]

They don't want to. They don't. They can't be seen being on the side of Trump, Kurt.

[Kurt Metzger]

Well, I mean, that's more than your safety. This is what some people are so loud.

[Jimmy Dore]

Just why they all went along with the, with the, with the completely manufactured trans crisis in this country. There never was a trans crisis. And it was manufactured by J.B. pritzker's family by, this, by, you know, by the intelligence community. And it's another way to keep people divided.

[Kurt Metzger]

And it worked like a thing, too.

[Jimmy Dore]

It didn't cut, it didn't write. So, no, it's a big pharma thing. And it, it came from BlackRock, it came from the top of the three companies that own everything. So. And here he is telling you that the people who are cheering this on are Democrats who worked for Joe Biden, people in the media, maybe because Joe.

[Kurt Metzger]

Scarborough is hoping Trump's police will find the real killers of his mistress. That time.

[Joe Scarborough]

Government can be a positive partner in keeping the street safe while again, forming a partnership with the D.C. police and not taking over. Then I, at least the people I've spoken with that live in D.C. day in, day out, see this.

[Jimmy Dore]

So there he is. And Here, here is Mr. Hardball himself, Chris Hardball. They brought him back on to talk about this and he's going to tell you that Trump has got the Democrats in a pickle because they're out there defending crime. Watch. Watch this. And the murder rate, you can't keep saying violent crime is down, but the murder rate's up to the average person.

[Greg Pemberton]

The murder ups about life and death.

[Jimmy Dore]

You don't brag about a rising murder rate.

[Greg Pemberton]

And the Democrats are, I agree with you, Maka.

[Jimmy Dore]

They're falling into the trap of defending what's indefensible. It's a trap. Yes, it's a trap. I mean, if it's not a winner politically to say, oh, you're wrong, look at the data. Because, you know, if one violent crime happens in a very heavily populated part of the city, people hear about it and it's visceral. They don't want it. And they want to, they'll gravitate to the person who appears to be doing something about it.

[Kurt Metzger]

To the average. Do you hear what he said? He said the average person, murder is life and death. I think to all the persons, Chris, Murder is life and death to all the persons. Unless you guys have some secret technology, I don't.

[Jimmy Dore]

So they're, they're saying that this is bad for the Democrats. They're seen as defending the indefensible, saying, sure, the murder rate's gone up, but rest of the crimes out. Like that doesn't, that doesn't cut it. Like the worst one. Yeah, the worst one's up.

[Kurt Metzger]

That's way up, though. But everything else.

[Jimmy Dore]

Everything else. So let me play Joe Scarborough one more time for you.

[Joe Scarborough]

As long as the president focuses, the FBI focuses and the National Guard focuses on safety and security and not being an ominous force in that city. But, but just providing support in a partnership role to the D.C. police, that'll be a great thing. If they step over that line, obviously that's something that, you know, we can do two things at once. And if they move into a more ominous role, that is something that we need to obviously and everybody needs to bring up with real concerns. But I will just go back to the fact that, you know, the people that are cheering this on privately are not like right wing Republicans, are not MAGA people. A lot of our friends are in the media and also Democrats that worked on Joe Biden's campaign, that worked on other campaigns that are saying, yeah, I'd like to feel safe walking around this city. If the federal government can be a positive partner in keeping the street safe. While again forming a partnership with the D.C. police and not taking over. Then I, at least the people I've spoken with that live in D.C. day in, day out, see this as, as.

[Jimmy Dore]

A, I'm going to guess he's going to say as a positive, but that's where the clip ends. I got that from Carlin.

[Kurt Metzger]

Remember he went and kissed Trump's hand, the ring, right away. Because Trump used to talk about so much. Look into Joe, Joe's mistress, so sad as she was killed, very suspicious. Remember he throwing that out back in 2016 and they were furious at him and all of a sudden they're kissing his ring because now that new daddy controls that file, I guess. So the Democrats are done. I don't know why people think there's hope for them at all. There's not.

[Jimmy Dore]

Well, the only hope, these people, the only hope for the Democrats is Trump. I mean, that's. They don't have to do anything. They don't have to be good. Kamala Harris didn't have to have a campaign that made sense. She didn't have to appear to believe in anything. Because if you don't vote for me, Trump. Yeah, it's the greatest get out of jail free card. It's the greatest get out of jail free card in the history of politics. And the Democrats have been playing that since 2016. Yeah, I know I'm horrible. But Trump, I know I'm demented. But Trump, I know I'm lying to you. I know I'm lying to you about being, being demented. But Trump, I know I'm lying to you about giving you a public option. But Trump, I'm lying to you about a minimum wage. But Trump, they've been playing that card. That's the only card they have to play because the Democrats are horrible. And just as we had Dylan Ratigan say, the worst thing that could come of this is people thinking that the Democrats are an alternative. Then that's when the. And that's been, that, that's been the message of this show is that you're a fool if you fall back into this. Democrats are better than Republicans or Republicans are better than Democrats, because here we are.

[Kurt Metzger]

You live in the two lie system, okay? Two lies are Republicans and Democrats. And they switch back and forth every few years. Remember the Reagan Democrats get ready in the future for the Trump Democrats. The Democrats, like Joe Scarborough is going to be a proto Trump Democrat where they're like, hey, this is craziness. We should have some rules. We need police. They'll all be United by their love of Israel, though, I can promise you that. Don't worry about that.

[Jimmy Dore]

Yeah, they're all joined by their love of Israel.

[Kurt Metzger]

We have more in common than we have.

[Jimmy Dore]

How wild that Joe Scarborough spills the beans and that the people quietly cheering on Trump's takeover of the D.C. police are Democrats, powerful Democrats who worked, and powerful people in the media. That's pretty interesting.

[Kurt Metzger]

I think it's a great. Well, actually, it was Chris Hardball that. Chris Hardball said this, but I think it's amazing that these elites have figured out that to the average person, murderer is life and death. Were you from your ivory tower above death itself, you finally realized, what the hell? What was that?

[Jimmy Dore]

So Netanyahu said the quiet part out loud. So, you know, I've been telling you about. There's a thing called the Greater Israel Project, meaning they just don't want to stay where they are in Israel. They want to take over Gaza. They want to take over the West Bank. Oh, you already knew that. Did you know they want to take over parts of Jordan, Syria, Iraq, Egypt. Did you know all this? Yes, it's called the Greater Israel Project, and they've been doing so. They've been doing this. They've been doing this. Netanyahu finally said the quiet part out loud today. He admits that his goals are to further the Greater Israel Project, which. So. So it's not about Hamas. It's. It's not about Netanyahu. It's not about Saddam Hussein, it's not about Assad. It's about the Greater Israel Project. It's about them wanting to expand Israel. And they have to come up with excuses that you can buy, and one of them is the hostages. Release the hostages. It was never about that.

[Kurt Metzger]

Well, I knew when they didn't release the hostages and Israel started killing their own hostages. That's why I put it together, Jimmy.

[Jimmy Dore]

This genocide was never about Israel's right to defend itself. It was about setting the stage for global domination, says duopoly destroyer, Nico House, friend of the show. And he's right because there's the headline from this is a Jewish newspaper from Israel. Netanyahu says he's on a historic and spiritual mission, feels a connection to the vision of Greater Israel.

[Kurt Metzger]

Oh, does he? Is it connection that he has to do? Whatever those terrorists tell him he has to do is that the connection is a criminal connection.

[Jimmy Dore]

It's the same way that a drunk at the bar feels a deep connection to the woman who's trying to avoid him. That kind of connection there it is antiwar.com Netanyahu says he's very much attached to the vision of Greater Israel. And listen, here, I'll play it for you. So he was being interviewed. This is from Middle Eastern Eye I24 news. And it's what are we doing here? So he says, you got to ask the question, what are we doing here? And here's what he says. I'll read it to you. We are on a mission. For generations. There are generations of Jews who dreamed and their generations of Jews who will come after us. So you ask if I feel like I am on a mission historically and spiritually, and the answer is yes. The guy says, I don't want to complicate things for you at the end up with the 6000 case, but. And then what is this? This is my vision. It's one of the things I dreamed about. And he's handing him an amulet that has the. The Greater Israel on it. And he says, the time has come. It's called Jerusalem. I'm not giving this to you. I'm giving this to you to give to your wife, Sarah. So he says, thank you very much. Do you connect with the vision, the vision of Greater Israel? And Netanyahu says, very much. Really very much. This is the Greater Israel. So that's what this is all about. And it will be important to remember this when Netanyahu is at the Hague. That's all. I think it'd be good to bring this point up.

[Kurt Metzger]

He will never be at the Hague. And what's. But they already did. So that. You know how Mike Johnson smuggled in a red heifer using.

[Jimmy Dore]

Yeah, I don't know why you're not.

[Kurt Metzger]

Supposed to export beef to Israel or something, but he brought one in under some pet law. And they did a rehearsal sacrifice of the red heifer. And then they came out and said, no, we did the real sacrifice of the red heifer. So that craziness that I just said, which sounds insane, that's Bible beater dispensational. For the last 30 years, they've been talking about. So these maniacs are going to try to reenact some kind of like, revelation thing. They're all together. It's not just the Christian maniacs. It's those Jewish ones about Gog and Magog and all that. They're all together on it and they're. It's a cult and they really believe in what they're doing.

[Jimmy Dore]

And so he let the cat out of the bag there. So that's him saying, yeah, it's yeah, it's about the Greater Israel Project, which is a big misstep because he told the truth. That's what a gaffe is. A gaffe in politics is when you accidentally tell the truth. He forgot to tell the lie. The lie is like, no, no, we don't, we don't want to expand. We just want to fight terrorism.

[Kurt Metzger]

We want a two state solution.

[Jimmy Dore]

Yeah. So in modern political context, Greater Israel could refer to Israel taking complete control of Gaza, the West bank and the Golan Heights. There's even more to that. But for more ideological Zionists, including members of Netanyahu's government, Greater Israel means Israel expansion into Jordan, into Syria, into Lebanon, Iraq and Saudi Arabia, based on biblical interpretations. I'm going to think there's got to be Egypt in there too. And so here's a, here's a map of it. So this is Greater Israel. So there's Jordan, there's Syria, because they want to go all the way to Damascus. There's Iraq, that's Baghdad. There's parts of Egypt, there's Cairo. Looks like parts of Saudi Arabia too.

[Kurt Metzger]

I don't know why Saudi Arabia cool with that? Because they're in on it with Israel.

[Jimmy Dore]

Why they must be.

[Kurt Metzger]

Well, what they did to the Houthis and the Saudi Arabia has been in on it for a while. And a lot of Zionists like Saudi Arabia now because that prince is in.

[Jimmy Dore]

So Israel's. Israel's like a cancer that just keeps spreading.

[Kurt Metzger]

This sounds like what they say about Putin, that Putin wants to keep spreading, but which they don't. But guess who does the most moral army.

[Jimmy Dore]

Netanyahu made the comments I just showed you in that interview. According to the Times of Israel, the amulet was not shown on camera, so it's unclear how far it depicts Israel's territory extending. But the Israel lead Israeli leader was asked if he felt a connection to the expansionist vision, and he answered very much. Netanyahu has previously displayed maps that show the west bank and Gaza as part of Israel, including when addressing the UN just weeks before October 7th. Israeli Finance Minister Bazal El Smotrich caused controversy in 2023 when he spoke at an event that displayed a map of Greater Israel that included Jordan. Wow. Smotrich, who has significant power in the current Israeli government, said in an interview for a documentary produced by Arte, a European public service channel, that Israel would take territory in Arab countries little by little, and said that it is written that the future of Jerusalem is to expand to Damascus.

[Kurt Metzger]

Where's that? Raiden.

[Jimmy Dore]

Just. It's exactly the same way they took Gaza. A little bit at a time, huh? An actual pig would know where to draw a line, because pigs are smart. Netanyahu was also asked in the interview if he felt that he was on a mission for the Jewish people. And he said he was on a mission of generations. There are generations of Jews that dreamt of coming here and generations of Jews who will come after us. So if you're asking if I have a sense of mission historically and spiritually, the answer is yes.

[Kurt Metzger]

Yeah. So most of the Jews are in Cyprus, out of Israel now. And then the only ones left are the crazies. So it's that cult that's a Chabad. People think Trump converted to that just because his daughter did.

[Jimmy Dore]

Glenn Deason says Netanyahu speaks of Greater Israel while his defenders still pretend this is all about releasing hostages. Yeah. And drop site says breaking Israel in talks to resettle Palestinians in South Sudan.

[Kurt Metzger]

Oh.

[Jimmy Dore]

The Associated Press reports that Israeli officials have held talks with South Sudan about moving Palestinians from Gaza to the East African state, a country still recovering from civil war and facing acute food shortages. Sources familiar with the discussion say Israel has approached other nations with similar proposals as part of Prime Minister Netanyahu's push for what he calls a voluntary migration.

[Kurt Metzger]

Hey, how about Israel moves to Ukraine, where they're from?

[Jimmy Dore]

How about that? Here someone put this together about the Greater Zionist Project, and they. They talked about it 60, 70 years ago. Watch this.

[F]

Particularly. We're against anything that is to be done. If they couldn't have the whole of Palestine and everything handed to them on a silver plate so they wouldn't have to do anything, it couldn't be done. We had to take it in small doses. You can't move 5 or 6 million people out of a country and fill it up with 5 or 6 million more.

[Jimmy Dore]

5 or 6 million people out of a country. So it wasn't really a land without people, for people without land.

[Kurt Metzger]

Absolutely not. Absolutely not.

[F]

We had to take it in small doses.

[Jimmy Dore]

We had to take it in small doses.

[F]

We had to take it in small doses. You can't move 5 or 6 million people out of a country and fill it up with 5 or 6 million more and expect both sets.

[Jimmy Dore]

We're conducting expansionist policy of Israel and.

[F]

Everybody'S afraid to say it. The Zionists particularly were against anything that is to be done. If they couldn't have the whole of Palestine and everything handed to them on a silver plate so they wouldn't have to do anything, it couldn't be done. We had to take it in small doses. You can't move 5 or 6 million people. People out of a country and fill it up with 5 or 6 million more.

[Jimmy Dore]

So I'm pretty sure that's a former president of the United States telling you what the Zionist plan was for Palestine. And if you want to see what Palestine used to million people out of a country. So it wasn't really a land without people for people without land. Absolutely not. Absolutely not.

[F]

We had to take it in small doses.

[Jimmy Dore]

We had to take it in small. So this is. So that's what Palestine looked like. So the Palestinians are in green, right? And they controlled all of Palestine. And then. And then Here comes the Zionists. 46.

[F]

Take it in small doses.

[Jimmy Dore]

And then here they. 1947. Wasn't that when the Belfort Declaration went into move? And look, boom. Look at all of them. 19. Whoa. So that's when they had to do the Nakba. And look. So now look how they're taking it.

[F]

Six million people out.

[Jimmy Dore]

That's in 60s. Look how bad it was in 66. Well, look how it is now.

[F]

Five or six million more and expect both.

[Jimmy Dore]

20, 23.

[Kurt Metzger]

Working.

[Jimmy Dore]

It's almost all gone. So what's that, Kurt?

[Kurt Metzger]

Everything's working?

[Jimmy Dore]

Yeah, it's working according to plan.

[Kurt Metzger]

So all the stupid TV preacher type Christianity that you saw for years and years. Yeah, those are the Christian Zionists that are working off the Scofield Bible from early Zionism back in the day when they basically all the American evangelical horseshit came from England through Zionists. That's a fact. And so the Scofield Bible is the one. So, you know these wacky Christians that think the. Those Jewish terrorists that support Netanyahu are right. They've. They've groomed them for years and years and years. Now if you watch people doing Christian stuff, because I watch everybody's stuff, they're all talking about this Bible translation made by a con man on behalf of some weird Zionist in New York named Untermeyer. And that's what all this is about. These are. They were calling it Dominionism a few years ago. The bad evangelicals were called Dominionism. If you're a liberal, that's what this is part of. And they're gonna act out, just like Bill Maher warned in his religious religionless movie, religious nuts are acting out stuff from the Bible and they're gonna make them happen on their own. So that's why they don't care about nukes or anything that happens to you is because they think they are Personally responsible to fulfill the prophecy of Revelation, which if you actually read the Bible, you would know you're not. But they're scumbags, all of them. They're all part of some weird cult. And. And it breaks off in a lot of little cults. And that's what they're. They're gonna do this stuff whether you like it or not.

[Jimmy Dore]

We should do a segment on the Schofield Bible. And.

[Kurt Metzger]

Well, and so I didn't know about it for a long time because when I was a kid as a little Jehovah and my little friend that I had was a born again, his dad was a Marine and he was all about Zionism, which made no sense to me. And they used to talk about the red heifer, which is not a thing that I remember from the Bible being any kind of thing.

[Jimmy Dore]

But it's. But this is in the Scofield Bible.

[Kurt Metzger]

Well, okay, there's a Bible scripture referring to some ceremony. I think it's in Jude. But to take it and make it in this thing that comes out of the Talmud, and that was. You can see the entire operation now. It's like psyop Christianity. And there's a lot of people that were in that a lot. And just now, I don't know why people started figuring it out. I have no idea why.

[Jimmy Dore]

So Netanyahu let. He slit. Let it slip. And so now this tells you that everybody in power in Congress and the media, they know about the greater. I mean, this guy Trafficant was talking about this 25 years ago.

[Kurt Metzger]

They know the crime rates high, but.

[Jimmy Dore]

They'Re not saying Pat Buchanan was talking about it 35 years ago. So everybody knows what the Greater Israel Project is. They know that Netanyahu doing a genocide right now has nothing to do with hostages or the October 7th attack. This is all a plan.

[Kurt Metzger]

What does the word Holocaust mean? It means a burnt offering. So the scumbag Zionists who are called the Zionist fascist party, don't ever forget that that's how they originated. They will sacrifice Jews to make what they want happen. They will use actual Jews as a sacrifice. Netanyahu did it with the COVID vaccine. He gave it to them first. So that's mangle the shit out of the gate and he doesn't. The Hannibal directive is where they shoot their own hostages. The idea that Israel keeps Jews safe is so insane and makes no sense on any level, because it doesn't. It has caused nothing but problems for Jews, actually. And religious Jews knew it when they did it.

[Jimmy Dore]

Yep, we did it. The national debt cracked 37 trillion. We did it. So I don't know why Trump doesn't cheer this on like he cheers on a trillion dollar defense budget. We did it. You're going to love it. We got a trillion dollar defense budget. Yeah, that's a failure. Thanks to the Thomas Massie says thanks to the one big beautiful bill act, the debt just officially passed the $37 trillion mark. In Trump's year of cost cutting and efficiency, the national debt soars past 37 trillion. President Trump has plenty of ideas about how he'll address national debt. He'll pay it down through tariffs or offset some of the borrowing thanks to proceeds from his Golden Visa program. He's also said he'll rebalance the debt to GDP ratio by growing the economy and would reduce the need for as much borrowing thanks to initiatives like the Department of Government Efficiency. And while no economist will expect the White House to turn around national debt overnight, they also might not have hoped for some more robust. They might have hoped for some more robust policies on the issue. This is from Fortune magazine. It's from Fortune magazine saying this. This month America's national debt surpassed 37 trillion. A record milestone that the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget had previously believed would be hit by 2030. So we did it even sooner. Yay. We did it. We came in under. We came in under the timeframe. They said this wouldn't happen until 2030. We did it in 2025. But one pandemic later, the gargantuan spending the government undertook to steer the economy through the crisis is making its mark. Uncle Sam is adding a trillion more dollars to the debt burden every five months. During a time of economic growth, it is highly irresponsible to run deficits this large. At this pace, we will run through the recent 5 trillion debt limit increase, the largest in history in just two years. We are no longer in a great recession or a global pandemic. But our fiscal policy keeps acting like we are set a smarty pants guy. As our debt continues to rise, at some point the financial markets will lose confidence in our ability to to overcome the politics to solve this problem. International lenders are watching and all three rating agencies have now downgraded to the United States credit. The question is how many more trillions will we add before we decide to stop? Despite today's unfortunate milestone, it is not too late to act. We should reform our budget before the damage is made even worse. Policymakers have many well known options to stabilize our debt and put us on a stronger Path for the Next Generation. One of them would be, you got to cut the Pentagon budget by at least half so that, that would, that would get you $5 trillion in savings in 10 years. $5 trillion would be cut from our budget deficit if all we had to do was cut the. The Pentagon budget in half.

[Kurt Metzger]

Yeah, we don't want that. What we want is to crash the country. I told you, America should be a podcast. It shouldn't be a country. The goal is to. The New World Order was about a one world government. I don't know why people think when they show you Star Trek, what is it? Earth is a government. They want that. And we're going, we're going to that no matter what. And they've been saying it to you over and over again 20 different ways.

[Jimmy Dore]

The White House press deputy press secretary countered Fortune magazine by saying America's debt to GDP ratio has actually declined since President Trump took office. And as the administration's pro growth policies of tax cuts, rapid deregulation, more efficient government spending, and fair trade deals continue taking effect and America's economic resurgence accelerates, the ratio will continue trending in the right direction. That's on top of the record revenue that President Trump's tariff policies are bringing in for the federal government. Peterson isn't alone in his concern. Over the past few years, alarm bells are increasingly being rung by some. I mean, it's just, I get that this guy has to do this. He's a press secretary. He has to say that stuff. He has to say, no, it's actually good. Everything's great.

[Kurt Metzger]

I know it's great. The goth genocide's good.

[Jimmy Dore]

That's like telling a carjacking victim, no, crime is down.

[Kurt Metzger]

How much can they do this to you in front of your dumb face before you understand where you live?

[Jimmy Dore]

So over the past few years, alarm bells are increasingly being rung by some of the most notable names in finance and economics. JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon believes it's the most predictable crisis in history. Ray Dalio believes it will trigger an economic heart attack. And the usually neutral Jerome Powell says it's past time for an adult conversation about the issue. Thus far, the White House cost cutting and revenue raising initiatives haven't been without success. At the time of writing, Doge's savings calculator claims to have axed 202 billion from the government's bottom line. Yeah, but they didn't actually cut that money from the government's spending. They actually just took that spending and folded it into the Pentagon and exploded the pentagon budget by $200 billion. So there's no savings from Doge. This bullshit story that I keep bumping into, people say, no, there were Doge cuts. They didn't cut the actual spending. They just took that money that they were spending through USAID and they folded it into the Pentagon or the government. They didn't cut the spending. I hope people understand this. They did not cut the spending. They, in fact, increased the spending. We went from an $800 billion or a $7000-000000-00000 defense budget to a trillion dollar defense budget. Does that sound like a cut? That's not a cut.

[Kurt Metzger]

Medicaid's getting cut, though.

[Jimmy Dore]

However, given the fact that debt per capita at the time of writing sits at a little over $108,000 per person in America. So if you divvied up the $37 trillion debt by 330 million people, I guess it comes out to $108,000 per person. Likewise, President Trump's tariffs have generated significant returns in the past few months. This week, the CRFB reported tariff revenue into the US has more than tripled from approximately 7 billion last year to 25 billion this year. Such figures are not to be sniffed at. Wherever you come down on the debate about whether American consumers or foreign counterparts will be paying the price, the revenues are expected to continue rising. Hey, I'm willing to cut Trump slack on his tariff program. Turns out he, he got a great deal with the European Union. Turns out, turns out I'm willing to let him do all these things. But you, you then have to cut the deficit. You have to cut the Pentagon spending. And they're not, they're, they're raising extra money and then spending more, which is why the deficit is exploding. So it's good that he's raising revenues. That said, $25 billion still equates to less than 0.07% of the national debt. If the US continued to plow every penny of its current tariff revenue into national debt as it stands, it would still take 120 years to pay it off. And of course, that figure and its respective interest payment is going up by the minute. All of the above comes ahead of the issue of President Trump's One big Beautiful Bill act, which the Congressional Budget Office estimates will add 3 trillion to the federal deficit between 2025 and 2034. But that's on top of that. That's 3 trillion on top of the trillions of debt already predicted. Okay, so that's 3 trillion on top. That's not just 3 trillion. We're adding a trillion to the deficit every five months.

[Kurt Metzger]

Yeah, I better switch that global digital currency when it comes out. Right.

[Jimmy Dore]

So that's 3 trillion on top. So Fortune magazine is giving a very generous article to Donald Trump here. This is very generous. The White House counters that the act will rebalance the all important debt to GDP ratio, which is the fundamental concern economists. The ratio is key because it signals to foreign investors whether the growth and size of America's economy is enough to balance its debts. If the ratio falls too out of balance, foreign buyers of American debt may fear they won't receive their returns or demand higher interest rates to offset the risk. The government can take action on either side of the ratio to rebalance the books. It can either increase growth to bring down the disparity or cut spending to reduce the debt. Never going to cut spending.

[Kurt Metzger]

Yeah, as long as global trade is not interrupted. Right?

[Jimmy Dore]

Yes. The current ratio is at 121%. The St. Louis Fed reported. That's down from the fourth quarter of 2024. It was at 122%. And the White House insists this will fall further to 94% because of the Big Beautiful Bill will generate economic activity. President Trump is is supersizing hardworking Americans paychecks and restoring fiscal sanity, helping solve our debt crisis for the long run. I don't know about that. Supersizing people's paychecks. I like to see where that's happening.

[Kurt Metzger]

So as compared to before, they always do the same thing. Yeah, it's an outrage that they walk back. Not all the way, but we still progress to you getting fucked no matter what.

[Jimmy Dore]

The US total debt has officially crossed 37 trillion for the first time in history. That puts the total debt US debt up plus $780 billion since the debt ceiling was raised following the signing of the Big Beautiful bill act on July 4th. So they've already added almost a trillion dollars since they signed the bill to the debt. Yeah, they've added three quarters of a trillion dollars to the debt since they signed the big beautiful bill.

[Kurt Metzger]

Wonderful. Well, we're going to have to conquer space to pay this debt.

[Jimmy Dore]

This, this equates to an average rise of $22 billion per day in the debt. Last week alone, the government sold $724 billion in treasuries through 10 auctions. The US debt crisis is worse than ever. Breaking national debt just hit 37 trillion. Not just a number, but a bill our kids can't afford to pay. That's from Representative Nancy Mace. And then she got community noted. Representative Mace voted aye on house resolution number one, which is estimated to increase the national debt by 4.5 trillion.

[Kurt Metzger]

Yeah, you know, they're phony, like Krav Maga Mamadoumi. They're all phonies. They're all going to do the thing and tell you something different. Except for, ironically, Marjorie Taylor Greene.

[Jimmy Dore]

Yes.

[Kurt Metzger]

Thomas Massie.

[Jimmy Dore]

Isn't that funny? Melanie Durago says, fun fact. Donald Trump is responsible for 21.4% of the national debt. Grok, is this correct accusation? Based on U.S. treasury data, the national debt rose from $19.95 trillion on January 20, 2017, which is when Trump became president, to 27.775 trillion on January 20, 2021, when he left. So that's an increase of $7.8 trillion under Trump in his first term. And then as of August 7, 2025, it's to $37 trillion. So his share is about 21.1%. The 21.4% claim is a close approximation, though. Responsibility involves Congress, too.

[Kurt Metzger]

Yeah. So my guess, Jimmy, is they're going to run it into the ground, and when everybody's at their lowest point, they're going to come out and go, hey, we just invented unlimited energy or some.

[Jimmy Dore]

Yeah.

[Kurt Metzger]

Going to bust out some shit they already had. But first they're going to do the dialectic. They're going to lower you to as low as you can get, and then they're going to be your savior. The way they got Jordan Peterson, for example. He went to his lowest point and then they come and be your savior.

[Jimmy Dore]

It would be one thing if they were spent. Like if Trump's, when he's, he's spending that extra 200 or something billion dollars on the military. It'd be one thing if they took that money that we're spending on debt, a trillion dollars every five months and put it into our country. Like, it would be one thing if we, like, hey, look, we built, we built a trillion dollars in affordable housing in the last five months. Hey, we built a trillion dollars in schools and parks and high speed rails. A trillion dollars worth in the last five months invested in our infrastructure. That's what I'm saying. Hey, we, hey, we built drug treatment programs for people and we built mental health facilities for the mentally ill on our. Hey, we did in the last five months. We spent a trillion dollars, man. It'd be one thing if we had something to show for it. Yeah, but we don't have anything to show for it because the money that the government is spending goes right into the pocket of the military industrial complex and Wall street, big pharma. It doesn't go into the pockets of working Americans, which is what FDR did. When FDR exploded the. The deficit, he took the money he was spending and gave it to people. He put money in their pockets. So then they went and spent that money and that reinvigorated the economy. That's, that's the story I've been told by history.

[Kurt Metzger]

Well, that and a war false flagged us into that. Is that they're all part of the globe.

[Jimmy Dore]

But it'd be one thing if they were spending this money on our country. They're not. They're spending this money and putting it in the pockets of a handful of billionaires.

[Kurt Metzger]

Well, the only reason FDR was able to get away with doing that at all was because a collection of actual fascists tried to overthrow the government.

[Jimmy Dore]

Yeah, okay.

[Kurt Metzger]

That's what Smedley Butler reported on. And so fdr, much like Trump, instead of exposing them all and putting them in a wood chipper like he shoulda, he used it as a power move to do that thing so you can remember him as a good guy. But they're all part of the top. You are a cow. You could maybe be a dog, but you're not a pig like them. And so every president's like, I'm gonna go in and be the hero and do the good thing. They'll allow you or they won't. Or you'll catch them making a big mistake like trying to overthrow the company country for fascism. And then you'll be allowed to do some liberal things. That's how it works.

[Jimmy Dore]

Here's something funny. This is Ursula Vanderlei. She is the head of the European Union. Right. What's, what's her official title? Can you. And so she's. This is from 2024. I just found this video. So there's someone who's protesting her at a speech and she. President of the European Commission. She's president of the European Union Commission. Okay. And she says in Russia you would be arrested. She tells, she tells the person who's heckling her or protesting her in Russia, you'd be arrested. The irony is, while she's saying that to the guy, the guy's being arrested. There's the woo. This is, this is Ursula Vanderlade, and she sees Senior with her backup singers doing her latest cover of Alanis Morissettes. Isn't it ironic?

[Kurt Metzger]

Well, yeah. Better than the song, actually. It was very ironic.

[Jimmy Dore]

Yes. Here we go. It was ironic that most of the stuff in that songs weren't irony.

[Kurt Metzger]

Yeah, but this is. This is a better version.

[Jimmy Dore]

This is great. Let's watch. They can be happy that they are in a free country like Finland, where the free speech is a right, where they have not any restrictions. If they would be in Moscow, they would be in jail in two minutes as they're arresting him. What she said. We have free speech. Of course. No, you don't have free speech. Because people in the European Union are constantly being arrested and put in prison for speech.

[Kurt Metzger]

No, not free hate, Jimmy. Free speech.

[Jimmy Dore]

Oh, free speech. You can't have free hate. Yeah.

[Kurt Metzger]

You can't have all your own thoughts and feelings about a thing.

[Jimmy Dore]

You can have free speech for the speech that we approve of, but the speech we don't approve of. Then it's not free. Then you have to go to jail. But the irony is, as she's saying this, they're arresting that guy. And that wasn't just some guy. That was not just any protester. He was a candidate running for the European Parliament election in 2024. In opposition. This took place in the middle of elections with total silence from so called free media. Monday, we'll be sitting in court in Helsinki for a peaceful protest. In Russia, you'd be arrested, says von der Leyen as the protester is arrested. The EU now does tyranny with better branding and gender balanced police. Balanced riot police. The branding isn't that great either, by the way. To be honest. That's like. This is like a Monty Python sketch, for f sake. They couldn't have done any better. Want to watch it again? Watch this. Watch. They can be happy that they are in a free country like Finland, where the free speech is a right, where they have not any restrictions. If they would be in Moscow, they would be in jail in two minutes. I just wanted let Ursula know that your wef masters are using you like that inflated arm flapper in front of a car dealership. It's to distract everybody from the collapse of the elites. You don't belong on the world scene. You belong in an Austin Powers sequel.

[Kurt Metzger]

I mean, she knows that.

[Jimmy Dore]

She knows all that and she knows.

[Kurt Metzger]

That she's doing it willingly.

[Jimmy Dore]

They lie, cheat and steal right in your face as they're arresting someone. She's saying, good thing you're here because you'd be arrested in Russia as they're arresting them right in your face. It's like Robert Reich in the last segment telling people that we got to get big money out of. We got to bring democracy back to the United States.

[Kurt Metzger]

We have to hope for democracy.

[Jimmy Dore]

We have to hope.

[Kurt Metzger]

The thing that I thought I lived in, dipshit. And by the way, because they lost an election, they don't have democracy. What are they talking about?

[Jimmy Dore]

People voted and they voted for a guy we didn't like. So that means we don't have democracy.

[Kurt Metzger]

That Colbert goes. Most of the country didn't see it that way. Oh, you mean democracy.

[Jimmy Dore]

You mean democracy?

[Kurt Metzger]

Yeah, Colbert's an actor. They believe what they have to believe for the job. Right? That's how you get the job.

[Jimmy Dore]

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