Russell Dobbler (2:35)

No, no.

Jimmy Dore (2:36)

So that's that. This is. This is what's. This is what's aptly so. He's a globalist. That. That's what Alex Soros is. And so let me just show you that. Someone asked Grok, hey, what is. Can you explain the irony in this photo? In this photo? Right. So here's the irony. The irony, my dear fellow, manifests in the splendid tableau of a billionaire's heir ensconced in penthouse grandeur, embracing a democratic socialist whose platform vociferously demands the expropriation of such fortunes. Even Grok knows. Even Grok knows how stupid this is and how stupid you have to be to fall for this again. We fell for this with Barack Obama. Barack Obama was a tool of Wall street, which is why he didn't break up the banks, which is what the left wing and the right wing were calling for Occupy Wall street and the Tea Party. In fact, he made sure the bankers got their bonuses while he kicked 5.1 million families out of their houses. Okay, then what did he do? Then he gave us a giveaway health care plan. He didn't give us a left wing health care plan. He didn't give us a public option or Medicare for all. He gave us a giveaway to Big Pharma and Big insurance, which is why your health care premiums are skyrocketing, which is why people still go bankrupt when they get sick, which is why people's health care premiums are more than their mortgage payments. And he also took us from two wars to seven. So this idea that Barack Obama was a lefty, he's not. But he plays the role of a lefty. And Republicans pretend he's lefty so they can pretend to be different so they could get people to vote for them. It's this pretend two party system. The same thing's happening with this guy. Believe me. I'll just give you a couple of these and then I'll bring Russ in. So our friend Nick Cruz. This is Nick Cruz says, I want you guys. I warned you guys about the Working Families Party and George Soros. The New York left is completely cooked. Friend of the show, Viva Fry says, a billionaire supporting a socialist. Congrats, New York. You effed yourself hard this time. Syrian girl says, not a good sign. Walt says, I mean, if this doesn't scream grassroots campaign, I don't know what does. On the backs of the poor. Indeed. Salty cracker. Says the billionaire hugging the dude who promised to get rid of billionaires. Exactly. And here's friend of the show, Fiorella Isabella. She gives a great breakdown of it. She says the Mamdani psyop hinges on convincing the gullible right that he's a radical communist jihadist who will impose Sharia law and the shit liberals and to convince the shit libs that he's a social Democrat who will bring feel good changes for yuppies and underpaid millennials in New York City. The truth is he's neither, but simply there to keep the two sides fighting over a character that doesn't exist. He's not going to better the lives of New Yorkers. He's not going to take on Zionism. He's talking about antisemitism, for F's sake. He's certainly no communist, nor is he even remotely a threat to the establishment. His election is a sign of zero significance to the Palestinians or US imperialism. To which he will simply add a better flavor for you. You. I don't know what that is. Using.

Russell Dobbler (6:02)

Yeah. U.S. asians.

Jimmy Dore (6:04)

U.S. asians, okay.

Russell Dobbler (6:05)

Is what that.

Jimmy Dore (6:06)

Well, let's be real. That's all 80% of Americans care about anyway. They don't really give an F about the world beyond their slogans. And here's what Glenn Greenwald says.

Glenn Greenwald (6:16)

The discourse that is emerged around Zorhan is just completely mad. And I say that as somebody who expects very little from him now, who's not particularly excited by his candidacy.

Jimmy Dore (6:24)

I don't even know if I would.

Glenn Greenwald (6:25)

Get off the couch to go vote in this election. But I just think he's going to be a standard Democrat who's there to trap young people and deceive young people and to believe the Democratic Party still has something to offer them that is not the party of Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries, but cool leftists like AOC and Bernie and so on. I think that's going to be their mission, their function.

Jimmy Dore (6:49)

So let me ask Russ. Russ, what is your take on it as a New Yorker Now? Glenn's given us that take from Brazil, I guess, but you know, he knows everything about the U.S. what do you say?

Russell Dobbler (7:00)

I think you got a lot of different things going on here. I think first you have to start with this question. Does Mamdani actually want to institute policies like this or is he just lying? Is it just a complete facade? I don't think that is the case. I also believe that he is presenting himself as politicians will tend to do, of all political stripes. Like he can do more than he can. And he's going to accomplish more than he will in terms of. I actually had this conversation with Shama Sawant. She was in New York and we kind of had a dinner interview thing. And I said to her, you know, you absolutely, you know, do not mess with the Democratic Party. You don't get involved in anything like that. And, you know, she was able to win a city council seat. There's absolutely no way an independent is winning the mayoralty of New York City. Not at this time. Maybe at some point in the future. There's absolutely no way. I think for people who have no chance of winning, it's easy to take principled stand. What if you're gonna win? That was what I asked her. Like, what if you had a chance of winning? What, what do you do? Like, do. Do you tell Jamie Dimon to go fuck himself? Like, do you do that knowing what these people can do in response, or do you try to neutralize the opposition? Now in terms of the things that he's promising, some of them are completely feasible, like freezing the rent. That is absolutely within the power of the mayor because we have a very unique system in New York of rent stabilization where you have a board that votes on how much you can increase the rent on rent stabilized apartments each year. 25% of New Yorkers live in rent stabilized apartments. De Blasio did it twice and certainly he was no great political talent.

Jimmy Dore (9:16)

Three times.

Russell Dobbler (9:18)

Do you do it three times?

Jimmy Dore (9:19)

That's what I looked at. That's what I read today on Grok.

Russell Dobbler (9:22)

Okay. Oh, okay. So there, so there you go. If to blah. Because the mayor appoints the members of the rent board, like over half of the members of the rent board. So what's all of the conflict about? What's all the sturm and drang about? You know, my interpretation? I don't think that these people are having a complete meltdown about Mamdani are putting on an act. But as you point out, the things that he's going to do are far from being these incredibly radical things. If you get a few government run grocery stores, is that really going to bring down the consumer porn version of New York that it took 30 years to build? You know. So what's bothering them so much? Well, you know, when you've got an oligarchic class that is used to having its own way in every detail. I don't think they wanted Mamdani. And I think that's enough. I think that's enough. I think they know that they've been robbing the public blind for decades. And they fear even the slightest intimation of a conversation that actually shines a spotlight on them. Curtis Lewa, you know, hard not to like that guy, Even though his politics are not mine. He pointed out, as did many other people, why was Elon Musk coming out at the 11th hour against Mamdani? Well, you know, Cuomo gave him a billion dollar boondoggle in New York state, most of which the state ended up having to write down that didn't fulfill its promises, which pretty typical of Elon, frankly. And where they didn't produce the jobs they said they were going to produce. And one of the first things they did was fire everybody who tried to unionize. So, yes, while we might look at it being. Coming at it from the left like this guy's already sold us out before he's even in office. And that's valid. At the same time, if you want to understand why these people are so upset about it, it's because they have that level of aristocratic arrogance. They don't believe that. They don't fundamentally believe in democracy. And that's not just oligarchs, that's the Democrats. Look at all these democrats that did not want to endorse him. You know, it's vote blue no matter who, as long as it's somebody they approve of. These people hate democracy. They will use democracy very much like they did in the, in the imperial Roman empire. They kept calling it a republic for centuries after. It was clearly an empire with no republican element to it because it was good branding. People like to think of themselves as a republic. That's what you get now. They talk about democracy, but where you see even the smallest rebellion, which I do think this represents, very small and far less than a lot of people might think it's going to be. That's too much for them. That's too much for them. That's why Bill Ackman went berserk. Do any of these people actually believe that Mamdadi is going to burn down the city? Well, you know, go by Bill Ackman's own tweet. I'm here to talk anytime that you. As soon as the drama was over, all of a sudden the hysteria went away. Something else worth pointing out here too is all of the mayors of the latter half of the. Of the 20th century into the 21st century were either products of the old Ellis island immigration wave, Italian, Irish, Jews, or the one exception was David Dinkins, who is a product of the southern migration and the large black community. That has always been in New York. Mamdani is something that was inevitable, a passing of the torch to the new immigrants. You know, somebody from Flushing, from Queens. When I grew up, we were all grandchildren of Ellis Island. My whole neighborhood was Jewish, Irish, and Italian. And it was very much that melting pot where a New York culture that fused all those things together developed. Today, Awkwafina, she had a show called Nora from Queens. And I looked at that, and being from Queens, I was like, all right, so back in the day, it would have been Teresa from Queens. Or if you had Nora from Queens, she would have been Italian or she would have been Irish. Like, you would not. That would not have been about Asian people. The city has changed. Cuomo, Koch, de Blasio, they are all heirs to this older New York City that is rapidly evaporating. Eventually, these new rising immigrant groups were gonna flex their muscle electorally because they constitute a majority. This is an old demographic in New York that has clung to power because they've been very entrenched in that power. And I think that's part of the hysteria about him being a Muslim. It's partly that older immigrant group not wanting to pass that torch.

Jimmy Dore (14:51)

So 33% of Jews voted for Mamdani. 50% of Jewish people under 50. So that whole smear campaign of trying to say he's, you know, he's a Muslim terrorist, it didn't seem to work. So. So what do you expect out of my. I like to call him Zoloft Mondame. But what. What do you. What do you expect out of him? So here's what I've been telling people. I've been telling people that you. You might get a rent freeze. You had three rent freezes under Bill de Blasio. One in 2015, one in 2016, and I think one in 2019. And so you got three of them under him. And the city didn't fall apart. The city's still a city, and rents are still sky high. People still can't afford to live there. So, yeah, he might do a rent freeze, but again, that's nothing new to the city. A mainstream Democrat, Bill de Blasio, did the same thing. The same guy offering you a bag of French fries to go get a big pharma product, a vaccine shot in your arm, an experimental medical treatment. That. That's the kind of guy who was also doing rent freezes. So. So. So you get a rent freeze. You might get a store in Harlem that's run by the city. Anything. Do you. Do you really Expect anything else from him. He's already. He's already knuckled under for the police union. Right.

Russell Dobbler (16:21)

He has with Tish. He has with Tish. Although we'll see how that plays out. Because again, you're trying in the most Zionist city outside of Israel to win on a platform where you're saying you'll have Netanyahu arrested if he shows up in New York and refused to back down on the idea that Israel has a right to exist as a state with equal rights, which everybody knows what that means. No, not as a Jewish state.

Jimmy Dore (16:55)

Yeah.

Russell Dobbler (16:56)

Now in reality, does he keep Tish, you know, Keaton threw out, you know.

Jimmy Dore (17:02)

In theory, Tish is the police chief.

Russell Dobbler (17:04)

Yes, yes. To explain. All right, so if you go to NYU Drama school, it's the Tisch School of the Arts. There was a kind of aristocratic group of old money Jews around the turn of the century. She comes from those. She got the Oaks is the Guggenheim's, the Salzburgers. The Tish's were one of those families that were like these leading Jewish families at the turn of the 20th century. So she is the police commissioner. She's an ADL maniac. Absolutely despicable in her attitudes about student protesters and their right to protest. Just, just as bad as you could imagine. And when he was asked if he would keep her, he said yes. Now does he figure that she's gonna quit? Does he figure she's gonna give him. He's gonna give her an order to let people protest that she's gonna about. And I'll give him a pretext. Who knows? Who knows?

Jimmy Dore (18:12)

So what do you. So what, so what do you overall expect out of Mandami?

Russell Dobbler (18:16)

I think the rent freeze will probably happen. I think the city run grocery stores are a harder lift. I think raising taxes on millionaires has to go through the state. It doesn't have the power to do that. And Hokul has emphatically said that she will not do that. But I think part of what you're seeing here is the end of a cycle. But as I think you're getting at, and I think you're right, the Democratic Party as it exists is in no position to usher in what comes next. The New Deal lasted really from the 30s, the New Deal defining politics really from the 30s into the Reagan era, into the 80s. That's why you go back now. You look at Nixon, you look at his policies, he's to the left of most of the Democratic Party today.

Jimmy Dore (19:11)

That's right.

Russell Dobbler (19:12)

But now. But now you look at Democrats today and Perhaps one day people will look back and say, wow, I can't believe they were that right wing. Because we have really lived since the 80s in this Reaganomics era and no place has that been more true than in New York City. The, the, the election of Mamdani in terms of whatever he ends up doing, whether he's a disappoint, I think you're probably right. I think he will be. For anyone who thinks he's really going to be this radical bomb thrower, he's probably going to be more like a squad member. Rhetorically fiery, politically cowardly. I think that's probably what you're looking at. But what does it represent in terms of the fact that he was able to overcome, and I will grant you, Cuomo was a particularly odious pig. I still believe if he had run against a generic Democrat, he probably wouldn't have won the primary, much less to have won the mayoralty. So he had a kind of perfect setup at the same time. Even with that setup, you're a 34 year old assemblyman Muslim that nobody's ever heard of, taking on this old Tammany hall inflected political dynasty. He does have obviously a lot of political talent, but this is coming to the end of a cycle. These guys, this is what always amazes me when they talk about how we can't change direction. Setting aside the reality of Bondani, just the theory of what they were talking about, we can't turn towards socialism, we can't turn towards communism. What the fuck have you delivered for people?

Jimmy Dore (20:49)

Nothing.

Russell Dobbler (20:50)

What have, what have you given people? Of course they're not listening to you anymore. You've been screaming about socialism since the fucking Cold War. And now we live in a country where we have a lot of the things that you said communism was going to bring right down to the bread lines. You got the bread lines, you've got the consolidation of power. It's just not consolidation of power under the state, it's consolidation of power under private corporations working hand in hand with.

Jimmy Dore (21:20)

The state, which is fascism.

Russell Dobbler (21:23)

It's fascism. So what, what is it you're arguing people should stick with New York, the wealthiest city in the wealthiest country on earth? One in seven school children are homeless and these guys talk like they just hit a home run, like, why would you get rid of us? What, you haven't had your turn at bat? Essentially, politicians in that vein and that Cuomo vein and that Bloomberg vein have been in charge of New York City since 1992. Even de Blasio, as you point out. He was not really a deviation from that overall drift. You know, probably you want to, you want to look at what Mamdani will probably do. He'll probably be similar to Bloomberg in that respect. He'll be a little better than what you had, but not nearly what people thought they were going to get.

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Contact us if you want any better proof that Zoloft Mandami is a fake and he is. He is a fake. He just like Barack Obama as, as Thomas Frank said and listen liberal, he knows the. Or maybe it's another book, I don't know. Maybe it's Chris Hedges. He knows the words. He knows the words of the lefty but he gonna do the exact opposite, believe me. And here. Well here's can I'll show you exactly what I'm talking about.

Russell Dobbler (23:47)

Okay.

Jimmy Dore (23:48)

So you know my one of my pet peeves. One of my big issues is the is Covid and the vaccine mandates and how we were lied to about all that and what an anti worker thing the vaccine mandates were there that was. That was Nazism on steroids. That's forcing people to take an experimental medical treatment with no long term studies or they can't go to work and feed their family. That's Nazi stuff. And so that's fascism. And he was asked about because they fired a bunch of city workers who refused to including firemen, people who worked firemen and EMTs that worked without a vaccine, treating people on the front lines for a year, and then they rejected, and then they went from heroes to getting fired. And he was asked, here he's being asked if he's going to rehire those people and listen to what he says.

Glenn Greenwald (24:44)

We have someone on the chat. Mal and Bethel, right, Like yourself. First generation immigrant, NYPD police officer, rose to the rank of intelligence detective, terminated by the Eric Adams administration without due process, without a department trial, without ever being charged criminally or civilly for failure to take a vaccine. What are your thoughts on that, on your administration? Would you hire Marlon Bethel back?

Yifat Tomer Yerushalmi (25:13)

You know, I struggle on this in that I think it is, on the one hand, can totally, can absolutely understand the frustration of someone who has lost their job in a time when the city is tearing apart so much of the same policies that were made at the height of COVID and has arbitrarily decided which ones to keep and which ones to take. I mean, I'm right now in the state legislature pushing back against the governor's attempt to ban masks, which would sound ridiculous if I told you that a few years ago when it was illegal to not wear a mask and to have all of this at the same time. I understand where that frustration comes from. On the other hand, I also do deeply feel the importance of following public health mandates in a pandemic emergency, especially when you're a public worker. So I think ultimately, if you ask me today, would I be hiring Marlon back? I think I would fall on the side of no because of the concerns around the necessity of upholding that public health mandate. And yet I also don't want to pretend that this is simple or straightforward because there are so many contradictions. And I think that one of the contradictions that I can. That really stuck with me was how we had a different set of rules for workers and we did for celebrities. And I think what New Yorkers want is consistency. So that's where I am today. But I understand it's not simple, it's not straightforward.

Glenn Greenwald (26:36)

But.

Jimmy Dore (26:36)

But so just to let everybody know who's watching, that is a hundred percent anti worker platform. That is an anti worker position. That is the opposite of socialism. That is the opposite. That is corporatism on steroids, which is married with the government, then becomes fascism. So what? He's literally so, you know, you hear a lot of talk about fascism. What he's advocating here is fascism. He's advocating to fire people, make them lose their jobs for not taking a product from a corporation. And that's why they did the mandate and that's what that was all about. Because the big pharma controls our politicians and had nothing. We all know now that the vaccine had nothing to do with stopping the spread of COVID Nothing. In fact, the more vaccines you take, the more likely you are to get sick from COVID We know that now. We know that the only people that were vulnerable to Covid were the elderly, just like the flu. Who said that? Bill Gates. And then it had a low, it had a low fatality rate. Covid. Everything was overblown. We all know we were lied to about everything. And yet here he is, still going along with the big pharma's position and the anti worker position. So that's what, that's who he is at his core. That's who he is. If he had a shred of fight in him for a worker, he would immediately reinstall those people. He doesn't have a shred of fight in him for workers. And if you think he does, you're a fucking chump. He is Barack Obama on steroids. He is a, he is a willing tool of the oligarchy and so now these guys actually push back on him. Watch this again.

Glenn Greenwald (28:22)

This is not really a vaccine issue in my opinion. This is a civil rights issue. This is a worker rights issue. This is someone that worked for two years prior to this mandate during a pandemic when most New Yorkers were in there and was previously infected and had natural provable antibodies which the CDC said were, were acceptable as to had the same level of protection that the vaccine did. This is more of a worker rights issue. So, you know, sitting there and saying, oh, I care about homelessness, I care about worker rights, I care about the middle class. When we see a completely totalitarian dictate come down from a government that made absolutely no sense. Because like you just said it yourself, Kyrie Irving could play basketball, but Marlon Bethel couldn't go to work two years later. I mean, to me I, you know, it's kind of a hypocritical stance in my opinion. How you know, because to me this is not a vaccine issue at all. This is a civil rights worker right issue. This set honestly, New York City back labor rights back probably 100 years.

Yifat Tomer Yerushalmi (29:26)

I mean, I hear you and I understand the contradictions at the core of it. I think my concern comes from the likelihood of, you know, that we could be in a new pandemic and the necessity of following the public health guidance that we put forward in that pandemic to the places where I absolutely hear.

Jimmy Dore (29:46)

So what he just said was, hey, I'm willing to do this again. We're going to, we might have to do this again. We might have to do the exact wrong thing again. And I'm going to do it at the behest of Big Pharma because that's what my party wants me to do and I'm not going to cross my party. What do you. So that's there it is, 100%. He's not only is he, is he anti worker and he's not going to stand up for the worker against actual fascism and corporatism. But, but he already signaled I'm, I got to do it again. I'm going to do it again. So go ahead, take it wherever you want.

Russell Dobbler (30:20)

Okay, so I, so I went out and I covered. We live streamed one of the Tesla protests back and I think it was April and he was there and he was very easy to interview. He was only at I think 5% in the polls then. So I asked him a couple of questions and one of the questions I asked him was, you know, a lot of people got burned by the Sanders campaign. How do you persuade people to get involved in a Democratic campaign? And he gave me the most word salad, dodgy answer. And after that, when we, when we did the replay and we covered it on the show, I said my gut instinct, meeting this guy, seeing how he handled that question. He's a politician. He's a politician. He's slick. This guy is slick. And he was, he was slick. And it doesn't surprise me. This was something else last week and I saw this at that time we had ends with his campaign and his campaign was very small then and I hadn't, you know, I had asked him a real question, but I didn't ask him a nasty question. Wasn't like a Rapaport interview kind of situation. And we could not get an interview with him. But it wasn't just us. Nobody could. Nobody could. Nobody from that. This world, our world. Yeah, nobody could get an interview with him. He didn't make the rounds even when he was nowhere in the polls and even last week his campaign made a big deal out of the fact that they had invited a lot of content creator new media, but they made a point of saying they weren't. Politics Channel. Yeah, so what, so why you bring in people with like Mr. Lifestyle brands and good.

Jimmy Dore (32:15)

This kind of thing, makeup channels and cooking channels that would.

Russell Dobbler (32:18)

Yeah, exactly. And we, we know someone, Blakely, who finally did they did another one where they gave you, like a minute with him on a. In front of a backdrop for the campaign, and that was it. And she was actually kind of surprised not to get an invite. They don't want to deal with that shit. They don't want to deal with that shit. They know where we come from. We're going to ask them a question like, why are you keeping the Zionist police commissioner? He doesn't want to deal with that. If he's going to get a question like that. He wants it to come from Al Sharpton, like dealing with us. They felt from the beginning, even when they were at 5%, they did not want to talk to people like us. Maybe it's partly because of interviews like this that they did not want to.

Jimmy Dore (33:06)

Nobody wants to be challenged from their left. Bernie Sanders wouldn't come on shows like this. Bernie Sanders made Kyle Kalinsky sit in the corner. And why, as he banged his girlfriend.

Russell Dobbler (33:16)

So, like, he'll. He'll talk to Hassan because he's big enough. They felt like the juice was worth the squeeze.

Jimmy Dore (33:22)

Yeah, but Hassan's not gonna. But San did not confront them or challenge them at all. While that's another softball. That's what they'll go anywhere where there's. There's going to be a softball interview. Hassan is not to the left of anybody. Is that when.

Russell Dobbler (33:34)

When he was. When he was at 5% of the polls, he wouldn't talk to anybody?

Jimmy Dore (33:38)

That's right.

Russell Dobbler (33:38)

He wouldn't talk to. He wouldn't talk to anybody from that world. No, you're abs. You're absolutely right. But in terms of what you're bringing up now, that, that's, that's just scratching the surface. If they had not been so obsessed with painting him as a radical jihadist Muslim, there was a treasure trove of policies on his website that they could have gone after. AS woke pretty effectively, in my opinion. Much more effectively than painting the guy who released an ad with a singing drag queen as somebody who's going to bring Sharia law to the city. But they. I look, whatever you think of Mom, Donnie, whatever we might think, that is the most fucking racist campaign I've ever seen in my life.

Jimmy Dore (34:31)

Oh, what That's.

Russell Dobbler (34:32)

I have never seen.

Jimmy Dore (34:34)

So you're 100% right about that. The Democrats. Because the Democrats actually don't have any policies to offer people. So they have to play identity politics. They have to play.

Russell Dobbler (34:44)

Yeah, Cuomo can't go after him on the trans stuff on his website because he's. He's running as a de facto Democrat. Right. But all of these Sid Rosenberg maniacs, they could have gone after him on that. They did. In fact, I didn't use this clip in my montage. I went up to Sid Rosenberg and I said. Because he said he only wants to answer questions about Montani, nothing about Cuomo. So I said, all right, well, here's one. What do you think about his policy of youth gender medicine? He did not want to talk about it. He was just like, normally a right winger. That, that's red meat for these guys. It, it complicated their narrative that he's this crazy jihadist. He just said to me, yeah, that's another thing. And he walked away. He didn't.

Jimmy Dore (35:32)

So you can't get into it. You can't be a jihadist. And pro gay rights. That's a, that's, that's, that's how they try to get you to hate Palestinians. Palestinians, they, they hate gay people. Aren't that, shouldn't you be for slaughtering them? And let me just show you. Here's my. I just want to show you this last part. Power to the people. Proud socialist says, in a capitalist society, the rich use elections to bribe and install politicians to preserve the status quo. Even candidates that present themselves as socialists get swept up in the corruption. The people's main tools for change are strikes, protests, and revolution. Let's use them.

Russell Dobbler (36:06)

So 100% right.

Jimmy Dore (36:07)

You're not going to vote again. There's no voting your way out of this. Even the people who voted for Donald Trump. You're not getting what you, what you were promised.

Russell Dobbler (36:17)

Mom. Donnie had a guy from McKinsey going around talking to all of the heads of the corporations and the banks. Don't worry, it's going to be okay. Yeah, so, yeah, no, no, the, the fix is in. I think part of what's most interesting here, though, is the fact that people elected him like that does represent, particularly in New York City, a major sea change. And sure, Mamdani is not going to want to do what people want, but if you keep deferring it, you're just pushing the country closer to civil war. In terms of, overall, what I think all of this is about is you got two different types of trap for two different kinds of mice. When the Democrats or the left or the liberals are culturally ascendant, they do shit that's going to make people run in the other direction. They drive them absolutely insane with their blue hair stuff and having slave catching exercises in the public school, as they did in Virginia, which now did an Enormous swing back towards the Democrats after flipping to the Republicans because of things like this. And now the Republicans have just gone absolutely insane, locking up gardeners and sending them to torture dungeons in foreign countries. And that's we saw last night, not just in New York City, in New Jersey and Virginia, two deeply untalented candidates. That one blowout victories, because everyone now is just running back in the other direction. Meanwhile, each time they're in power, each party is bringing us closer and closer to that World Economic Forum, New world Order. They're bringing us closer and closer to a total surveillance state where you have very little means of doing anything to break out of the cage that they put you in. And people have learned to settle for less. And they are so surveilled and policed, they don't really have a means of getting more. Okay, Under Kamala, you couldn't get ice, right? Because the kind of people who support Trump would have gone nuts. They would have immediately said they're building a national police force to crack down on the public. They would have immediately said that you need Trump to do it. Now, once Trump does it, what happened with the Patriot Act? What? The Democrats got in. They dismantled that. No, they didn't dismantle that. They kept voting for it. What, you think after Trump builds this fascist national police force, the Democrats are going to come in and get rid of it? No, they're going to use it. They're going to. They're going to use it. That's it. They keep you running back and forth from one to the other, arguing this culture war bullshit. Meanwhile, they're tightening and tightening and tightening the bars of your cage until finally the end game is they're not going to need us anymore. If you see Scott Besant, if you see Pigman, Howard Lutnick, whenever they ask them, well, where do you think all these workers are going to come from? They forget themselves. They forget themselves for a minute and they get giddy. Oh, well, I think with technology, these are going to be smart factories. They're going to be automated. They forget the game. They forget. They forget to lie about it. They are salivating. They're salivating at the technology coming down the line because what power has labor always had? They need you. They are. They are salivating about the day they don't need you anymore. While the pigs are down in the mud fighting about trans and fighting about tampons in the bathroom, they're building your cage. Jesus Christ. Peter Thiel named his company after the evil surveillance crystal ball in Lord of the Rings like, how much more out in the open could you put the plan than to call your company Palantir?

Jimmy Dore (40:17)

So that's why I think it's funny when people like Matt Walsh, who, he made a couple of really great movies but he, like most of the people, the right wing commentators are, they're missing, they're, they're, they're in over inflating what Mondami is. He says they're right.

Russell Dobbler (40:34)

They're an op. Most of these guys are an op.

Jimmy Dore (40:36)

They're paid an op. You're saying they're paid.

Russell Dobbler (40:40)

They're paid. Just like corporate media, they all put out the same message at the same time. How does that happen? They're paid.

Jimmy Dore (40:47)

There's been a lot of cope among conservatives about how the extremists and radicals on the left have driven left into ruination and defeat. In reality, the left just put their most radical and extreme guy in charge of the most important city in our country. The left is not ruined, it's not defeated. They lost precisely one election, but they have not moderated. In fact, they are leaning into their radicalism even more. They just elected an attorney. So this whole pretend that Mondami is a radical just like the pretend that AOC or Barack Obama is a radical. They are corporatists and party loyalists and the party. We have two corporate parties in America. So that's where I would. Matt Walsh, you're just completely 100% wrong about this. That this is not, this is not a radical takeover of the New York City. This is. The only radical thing he's even halfway proposing is a rent freeze which they had three of them under Bill de Blasio, who's a fastball down the middle New York Democrat. So this is just maddening to see people on the left think that he's a socialist and a savior and people on the right think he's a radical. He's not. He's a regular go along, get along Democrat who's welcomed by the of the establishment. I don't know. I don't know. Can I show you this again? This. This is who he is. That's him with George Soros. That's him with George Soros. His kid, the heir to the billionaire fortune. That's. That's who. Small smiles all around, nothing to worry about. That'd be a hell of a thing of us if he was actually a socialist and he was actually going to go after the billionaires. That'd be a hell of a picture. But it's not. That picture shows you the opposite. And so that's what Matt. So, you know.

Russell Dobbler (42:32)

Well, because they push his buttons, man. Matt. Matt Walsh. As soon as Charlie Kirk was murdered, the White House and the people around the White House made it very clear they wanted to push a narrative about crazy trans people. And it was very obvious after those text messages came out and even before that sounded like, you know, Raymond Chandler on acid wrote that. And he was still pushing it. He was still pushing it, man. And he's not a dumb guy. Some of these people are really dumb.

Jimmy Dore (43:05)

Yeah. No, back to smart guys.

Russell Dobbler (43:07)

So at that point, somebody's pulling your strings. Look, as soon they saw that the SNAP thing was going to create some very damning images of, of families without food, all of these people start saying the same exact stuff about how people don't need SNAP and they're abusing it. Somebody told them they don't. All we say that about the corporate media. Right. It's very obvious to us. The corporate media all hit the same point on the same day. What? There's no coordination.

Jimmy Dore (43:41)

Right.

Russell Dobbler (43:42)

All these people are pushing the same exact talking points about snap. Now, a lot of them could not go along with the Tyler Robinson thing. Matt did.

Jimmy Dore (43:53)

Yeah, he did. He did. He did. All right, well, we got to move on. I could talk about this because this, this is the important thing. This was the thing that shows you that you're being hoodwinked into a left right paradigm in the United States. It doesn't exist. It doesn't exist. It's. It's corporate against corporate. Sure, it's corporate against corporate. And that's that.

Russell Dobbler (44:18)

Yeah, the only. You're. I think the, the, the great question of our time is a. How do you completely take down this system and what do you replace it with if you do this is really the question. You're not voting your way out of this anymore.

Jimmy Dore (44:39)

Yeah, I don't know. I think you have to. If you can get corporate money out of politics from coast to coast, if that's a. That's the thing. So you have to find a way to do that. And the only way to do that is to shut down the economy like the truckers did, like the truckers did in Canada. If you can figure out a way to do that, or if you can get UPS and Amazon and to go on strike on the same day, that, that, that would do it, too. But that's not going to happen because, you know, UPS jobs are pretty good jobs, you know, in the. Relatively speaking, in this economy. And so what you need is, you Know, European style workers rebellion. You know, your workers in France and Italy, they're going on strike all the time. All the time.

Russell Dobbler (45:28)

And, and this is why they're doing everything possible to keep you fighting each other, distracted. You got it? You got a certain kind of person where you say all those white people are racist, all right, that's the kind of trap that they like. And you turn them against that group. And then you got a certain kind of person who says, oh, they hate all the white workers and they're gonna destroy your culture. That's a certain kind of mouse. And now you got that person trapped. And if you can keep those people fighting each other while you're building an automated world where you don't need any of them, that's, that's the end game, I believe.

Jimmy Dore (46:08)

Israel media airs footage showing alleged sex abuse of Palestinian detainee. So this is from Thursday, August 8, 2024. And we've showed you this. Where they assault sexually in a prison. Palestinian prisoners. We've showed you this. I'll show you a little bit more. You see how they're all laying face down. These guys come in, shows the Israeli soldiers taking away a blindfolded detainee and allegedly abusing him sexually. So they do. They do. Soldiers can be seen taking the detainee out of sight of the surveillance cameras and then using their riot shields to cover when they looks like they're graping him. So that's what they're doing. Spokesperson for the embassy in Washington did not. Immediately following the incident, Israel arrested nine soldiers and ordered its own investigation. The arrest of the Israeli soldiers triggered protests by right wing Israelis. They didn't want those guys who were arrested for graping prisoners to have to stand trial, so they went and protested this. So they stormed the facilities demanding that they released the nine soldiers accused of graping on. On video. It is acceptable, they said. They say it's acceptable to do that. A spokesman for the US State Department said the reports were horrific.

Glenn Greenwald (47:49)

So we have seen the video. And reports of sexual abuse of detainees are horrific.

Russell Dobbler (47:56)

They ought to be investigated fully by.

Glenn Greenwald (47:59)

The government of Israel, by the idf. Prisoners need to be treated. Prisoners, human rights need to be respected in all cases. And when there are alleged violations, the.

Russell Dobbler (48:13)

Government of Israel needs to take steps to investigate those who are alleged to.

Glenn Greenwald (48:17)

Have committed abuses and if appropriate, hold them accountable.

Jimmy Dore (48:20)

And so why am I showing you this? Because Israel just arrested the woman who released that video. Oh, good. Israel's top military lawyer, their top military lawyer was arrested after she admitted Leaking video of soldiers abuse. Yeah, okay. Police in Israel have arrested and detained the military's top legal officer after she admitted leaking footage of soldiers allegedly attacking a Palestinian detainee and then in fact lying about her actions to Israeli's High Court. The military Advocate General Yifat Tomer Yerasham Shalomi said in a resignation letter last week that she had authorized publication of the video to defuse attacks on military investigators and prosecutors working on the case. So they were investigating these nine soldiers for graping these prisoners. So they're investigating the people from the Israeli military, are investigating other people in the Israeli military and they're being attacked for it. They're attacking the investigators and the prosecutors. So what she did was she released a video thinking that would calm people down because they would see the video of them doing it and they'd be like, oh, I didn't know they actually did it. So now we can't. So that's why she did that, because people were attacking the investigators and the prosecutors who were looking into this. That's the Vatican over there, huh? Right wing politicians and pundits, champion soldiers detained over the case as heroes, attacked military investigators as traitors and called for the case against the soldiers to be dropped. Tomer Yerushalami has now been arrested on suspicion of fraud and breach of trust, abuse of office, obstruction of justice and disclosure of official information by a public servant. Israeli media reported. Her arrest and detention raises serious questions about the rule of law in Israel. Accountability for abuse and killing of Palestinians during what a UN commission has called a genocidal war, and the country's ability to defend itself in international courts. In July of 2024, prosecutors raided the SDE Tieman Military Detention center, which has become notorious for torture and detained 11 soldiers for interrogation. They were suspects in a violent assault on Palestinian from Gaza, including anal grape. The victim was hospitalized with injuries including broken ribs, a punctured lung and rectal damage. According to the indictment, the government and far right politicians and pundits have accused her of damaging Israel's global standing. Not the soldiers who did it, not the soldiers who did it who rape male detainees. Not those ones who graped male detainees. Not they're not the ones. That is permissible. So when reporting racist to me, when reporting a crime is treated as a crime, you know you're ruled by criminals. I think that's the quote. Go something like that. The government and far damaging Israel's global standing by pursuing the case and releasing the video. In effect casting her efforts to prosecute extreme Violence as a project to undermine the Israeli state. So if you do your job, that's like the, that's like the school bully accusing you of running into his fist. The incident in SDE caused immense damage to the image of state of Israel and the idf, the Israeli Prime Minister. So Netanyahu said that this incident caused immense damage to the image of Israel. Yeah, it should. It should. This is perhaps the most severe public relations attack that the State of Israel has experienced since its establishment. So these calling this a public relations attack instead of a fact finding mission that got revealed, you'd think it would.

Russell Dobbler (52:33)

Be Bibi, you think it would be the worst.

Jimmy Dore (52:35)

But I mean, where do you find.

Russell Dobbler (52:36)

The bottom when it comes to Israel?

Jimmy Dore (52:38)

Right. So this is, this is him deflecting. This is him trying to make you think something else is outrageous, not the thing that's actually outrageous. So reporting on a crime is the outrageous thing, not the crime. That's what Benjamin Daniel. And remember, deflection gives Bibi an erection. Okay, this is the COVID story for the outrage towards the atrocities of the apartheid state. After the first detentions. Wait a minute. After the first detentions of soldiers in the case in summer of 2024, far right mob gathered outside they the prison place called SDE Tieman, calling for the investigation to be dropped. Some of the protesters, including a minister and two members of the Knesset broke into the base. Tomer Yerushalami leaked the video in August 2024 after the protest, saying in her resignation letter that it was an attempt to debunk false propaganda against army law enforcement bodies. Days later, five soldiers were charged with aggravated abuse and causing serious bodily harm. They have not been named and are currently not in custody or under any legal restrictions. That's according to the Israeli media. Tomayir Shlami subsequently refused to open or advance investigations into other cases of possible war crimes by the Israeli military because of the pressure of public attacks over the case. And by the way, those five soldiers are going to be punished by being sent back to Queens, New York where they will have to serve out the rest of their sentences with their mothers. There has been only one conviction of an Israeli soldier for assaulting Palestinians in detention during the war. Although widespread torture and abuse have been documented in Israeli's jail system and dozens of Palestinians have died in captivity, no soldiers have been charged for killing civilians in Gaza. Even high profile attacks that prompted international outrage, including the killing of paramedics and strikes on a team from the World Central Kitchen charity. Tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians in Gaza have been killed in attacks and airstrikes over two years. Attacks on Tomer Yerushalami over the SD teamman affair intensified in recent days amid reports that she was responsible for leaking the video. There were official demands for her to step down and personal threats online even after she announced her resignation. The campaign briefly halted on Sunday afternoon amid fears for her life after her partner reported her missing to the police and her car was found empty at a beach in Tel Aviv area with a note inside. Then she was found and within minutes the attacks resumed. The far right commentator Union Magal posted on Twitter, we can proceed with the lynching. Soon after protesters had gathered outside her house, Israeli media reported shouting slogans including we will give you no peace. The defense minister, Israel Katz, later accused her of spreading blood libels. No, that would be what the IDF soldiers did with their dicks. You Traditionally Israeli government and military have considered the existence of an independent judiciary a crucial barrier to international legal tribunals investigating Israel for alleged abuses against Palestinians. IDF's chief military advocate, Major General Yifat Tomer Yerushalami, the very official responsible for prosecuting violations of international law within the Israeli army, reportedly told the IDF chief of staff this morning in her resignation letter that she had personally approved the release of the video showing Israeli soldiers graping a Palestinian detainee last year, according to reports. She explained that the decision came after relentless interference when investigators tried to enter SDE Teaman military prison following the conditions there and the latest grape incident that came into their knowledge. Interference led by Israeli ministers, journalists and political figures who launched a vicious campaign against the military prosecution office and even stormed the base. Let's be clear. Major general Tomer Yaroslamy has never done her basic job to investigate the genocide unfolding under her watch. She approved it. She turned a blind eye again and again. But when confronted with evidence of mass grape against Palestine detainees at Cesdi E Tirman, she seems to have realized just how deep the moral collapse of Israel had gone and tried at the very last moment to do something not out of empathy for the victims or concern over the violations themselves. She didn't care about that, but because she was trying to shield IDF soldiers by symbolic discipline and limit Israel's exposure to international accountability, potential arrest warrants, sanctions, war crimes investigations and legal isolations for the tiniest act of doing.00001% of the job she's appointed to do today. The IDF chief of staff kicked her out because she did a modicum of what she's supposed to do. Because in today's Israel. Even the faintest move toward fake accountability from within the IDF is treated as treason. So she wasn't really bringing accountability, she was bringing kind of a fake accountability, actually trying to shield them. But even doing that is seen as treason inside Israel. No, you have to be an absolutely.

Russell Dobbler (58:30)

Beyond the pale absurd liar and not like, yes, she's trying to do a.

Jimmy Dore (58:35)

Reasonable lie to maybe try to, you know, because in today there, there is no law in the idf, no moral code, just propaganda carefully repackaged and sold by some western mainstream outlets to sanitize what's happening. So that's, that's what Israel's doing. They're arresting their own prosecutors, investigators, generals in their own army for telling a 0.0001% of the truth about what's happening in Israel. Okay, just let you know if you, you didn't think Israel could sleep sink any further. Well, they just did. They stormed the military prison to demand that they released the soldiers accused of graping Palestinians. They did it because we got it on video. They fought for the right, for grape. The most moral army, the most moral army. On the sins of the most moral army, the most moral army in the world. Hey, become a premium member. Go to jimmy door comedy.com sign up. It's the most affordable premium program in the business. All the voices performed today are by the one and only, the inimitable Mike McCray. He can be found at mikemcrae.com that's it for this week. You be the best you can be and I'll keep being me.

Russell Dobbler (60:13)

Out.

Glenn Greenwald (60:13)

Don't freak out.

Jimmy Dore (60:18)

Don't freak out. Don't freak out. Don't freak out. Don't freak out. Do not freak out. I'm not in it. Do not. Do not.

Russell Dobbler (60:31)

I'm not.

Jimmy Dore (60:32)

I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. Freak out. Do not freak out.