Shapiro & Hannity BEG Government To Shut Down PEACEFUL PROTEST Of Israel!

Summary

The Jimmy Dore Show – Episode Summary

Episode Title: Shapiro & Hannity BEG Government To Shut Down PEACEFUL PROTEST Of Israel!
Date: June 3, 2026
Host: Jimmy Dore
Guest Panel: Garland Nixon, Jamal Thomas, International Affairs Expert (unnamed), Mike McCrae (voices), James Talarico (call-in, impersonation)

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Main Theme & Purpose

Jimmy Dore and his guests discuss the recent surge of high-profile conservative voices (notably Ben Shapiro and Sean Hannity) who are calling for censorship or government action to shut down peaceful pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses. The show explores how this mirrors earlier progressive calls for "safe spaces" and exposes a perceived hypocrisy: right-wing figures who previously derided campus "snowflakes" now demand protection from hurt feelings when it involves pro-Israel or anti-Zionist speech. The broader discussion connects this to U.S. foreign policy, elite political consensus on Israel, the "Greater Israel" project, and corporate control over democracy.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Conservative Flip-Flop on "Safe Spaces" and Free Speech

[00:53 – 13:51]

• Fox News & Campus Protests: Dore highlights a clip where Jewish students on U.S. campuses claim not to "feel safe" due to peaceful pro-Palestinian rallies, with Fox News figures like Sean Hannity advocating for bans on such protests.
• Peak Irony: Jimmy points out the irony, given that Ben Shapiro and others built careers deriding the left's "safe space" culture but now demand institutional protection when protests offend them.
• Principle vs. Partisan Interest: The hosts argue there's no real principle at stake—just shifting standards to suit political interests.

"Remember Ben Shapiro used to go on tirades about… you’re not entitled to a safe space in college… Well, now they’re all the wokies of the woke."
— Jimmy Dore [01:20]

2. The "Peak Wokeness" Video Segment

[02:41 – 13:31]

• Student Speeches & 'Victimhood': Clips reviewed involve students and commentators framing pro-Palestinian rallies as existential threats to Jews, calling for increased administrative intervention.
• Garland Nixon's Critique: Garland compares their reactions to theatrical "flopping," mocking the overdramatization.

"That flop was worthy of LeBron James... these viral videos where somebody crosses LeBron and he flies up… so she’s flopping to a flag."
— Garland Nixon [07:09]

• Historical Revisionism: The panel references viral campus incidents—e.g., a flag “brushing” a Jewish student's face turned into media narratives of eye stabbing—calling out exaggerations and media manipulation.

3. How "Woke" Rhetoric Is Used Across the Political Spectrum

[08:39 – 10:55]

• Term “Woke” Hijacked: Garland traces “wokeness” as a legitimate grassroots concept that’s been weaponized both by the left and now the right, particularly for pro-Zionist arguments.
• Cultural Appropriation: The origin and weaponization of “woke” is likened to a cycle of establishment co-opting language for political goals.

4. U.S. Policy and the Greater Israel Project

[16:44 – 25:54]

• Jonathan Pollard & Israeli Militarism: New concerns are raised with ex-spy Jonathan Pollard discussing potential Israeli conflict with Turkey and the concept of a “Greater Israel.”
• Map Symbolism: Brief video segment shows an IDF patch depicting “Greater Israel,” fueling discussion that Israel’s goals extend beyond defense to regional hegemony.
• Why Perpetual War: The US’s financial and military support is seen as critical; Israel “can’t do any of this without the United States military and money.”
• American Political Subservience: Both Democrats and Republicans are described as beholden to Zionist policies. Garland: “the Israeli Zionist faction in politics has domination over Congress… media… tech sector.”

5. U.S. “Democracy” as Illusion & Corporate Rule

[40:40 – 51:31]

• Dore and the International Affairs Expert compare the U.S. to a “late Roman Empire”—a “veneer of democracy” masking oligarchic rule.
• Trump and Biden are both critiqued for perpetuating elite-driven foreign wars; Democrats are said to collaborate in enabling authoritarian executive power.
• Panel reflects on how media (especially MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, Stephen Colbert, and others) function to herd dissenting voices back into the bipartisan consensus.

"The only thing that people can do now… is that we need workers… to cripple the oligarchs’ revenue stream… There’s no such thing as a protest without a demand. My demand would be public financing of elections."
— Jimmy Dore [44:47]

• The only potential remedy, they argue, is disruptive collective action by workers and the public, akin to the Canadian trucker protests.

6. Political Satire & Call-Ins

[53:45 – 59:31]

• James Talarico Segment: Comedic call-in (performed by Mike McCrae) with Texas State Rep. James Talarico satirizes the self-defeating nature of Democratic campaigns in conservative states.
• Barack Obama Call-In: An impersonated Obama confronts “Talarico” over campaign stunts clearly designed to lose in Texas, lampooning the Democratic Party’s detachment from local culture.

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Notable Quotes by Timestamp

• "[Ben Shapiro] made a whole career off this... college is supposed to be a place where you're challenged... But now, when it's him... It's rules for thee, but not for them."
  — Jimmy Dore [08:39]

• "Can you imagine if someone would put up something from, I don't know, Nazi Germany... [Hannity] would go bananas... But his whole spiel was the exact opposite..."
  — Garland Nixon [09:47]

• "They have to destroy these [neighboring] states, but they don't have the power to do it ... so they have to get the United States to do it, which they did in Iraq."
  — International Affairs Expert [22:38]

• "There is such domination right now [by Israel] over all sectors of our society that to say any given day is Israeli day, as opposed to the other, I don't know..."
  — Garland Nixon [30:48]

• "We need workers... to cripple the oligarchs’ revenue stream... There’s no such thing as a protest without a demand."
  — Jimmy Dore [44:47]

• “Everything now, even our formerly democratic institutions, serve the interests of capital... That is what's happened.”
  — International Affairs Expert [47:42]

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Notable Moments/Timestamps

• [03:19]: Jimmy pauses a Fox News clip, emphasizing hypocrisy regarding campus protests.
• [09:47]: Garland Nixon highlights Hannity’s past defense of Confederate flags to show inconsistency.
• [19:18]: Narrator explains the symbolism of the "Greater Israel" patch.
• [25:54]: Garland Nixon opens a new segment, introducing Jamal Thomas.
• [32:37]: Discussion shifts to proposals to integrate the Israeli and U.S. militaries.
• [44:47]: Dore articulates a call for disruptive protests with actionable demands.
• [53:45 – 59:31]: Satirical call-ins with impersonated James Talarico and Barack Obama.

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Episode Tone & Atmosphere

• Outrage & Sarcasm: The tone is polemical, irreverent, and heavily sarcastic—especially when exposing perceived hypocrisy and establishment failings.
• Cynicism towards media and politicians: Both left and right media narratives are ridiculed for manipulation and inconsistency.
• Radical Skepticism: Frequent assertions that American democracy is a sham, with elite interests (corporate, Zionist, etc.) overriding public will.
• Comedic Absurdism: The Talarico and Obama call-ins provide comic relief and biting satire of political incoherence.

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Useful for Listeners Who Haven’t Heard This Episode

This episode is a blistering critique of both conservative and liberal hypocrisy regarding protest, censorship, and U.S. foreign policy. The central case study—the right’s call to curtail peaceful pro-Palestinian demonstrations—serves as a springboard to discuss American oligarchy, the bipartisan consensus on Israel, and the systemic commodification of democracy. Listeners can expect comedic mockery, serious criticism of political and media elites, and a call to real, disruptive collective action for systemic change.

Transcript

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[Garland Nixon]

Establishment media sucks all gas lighting so good luck.

[Jamal Thomas]

Bullshit we can't afford why he's fomenting this.

[Garland Nixon]

Watch and see as his jack off the medium speeds and jumps the medium and hits them head on. It's the Chimmy tour show everybody come

[Jimmy Dore]

see me on tour. I'll be in Spokane, Tacoma, Los Angeles, special video panel show with celebrities. And then we'll be in Levittown, New York, Rosemont, Illinois and Chicago. Go to Jimmy Dore.com for a link for tickets. Okay. Guess what? End wokeness, which I I follow. End wokeness. Look at that. I follow. Says what? What's a video that defines peak woke? It might not be the video you think. What's the video that defines peak woke? Well, let's watch. Here's Glenn Greenwald. He tweets out a video from the Sean Hannity show. Sean Hannity, world renowned deep thinker. He said it's hard to pick one incident as peak wokeness. But a leading candidate is at the University of Washington, adult Jewish students wept and begged for a peaceful pro Palestinian rally to be stopped because their fifis were getting hurt. And Fox Hannity's demanded all colleges ban such protests because it creates discomfort. This is real. Remember Ben Shapiro was used to go on tirades about you're not, you're not entitled to a safe space in college. College is supposed to, it's supposed to offend you. You're supposed to be challenged with ideas and if you don't like it, stay in your dorm room. Remember all that stuff. Well, now they're all the wokies of the woke. That's why the woke, right, is such a bogus term. They're actually the woke, right? The people who want to censor Palestinian protesters, right? Because their feelings are getting hurt. They don't feel safe. Let's watch this video.

[Jewish Student/Activist]

These colleges and universities, their silence is deafening as they do nothing to despite the pleas from fearful students that are in a state of shock over the hatred and the rabid and virulent anti Semitism.

[Garland Nixon]

They want our people dead.

[Jimmy Dore]

They want us killed.

[Garland Nixon]

They want us dead.

[James Talarico]

Please.

[Garland Nixon]

I did police

[Jewish Student/Activist]

every university I Want you to pause. All of you people on these big school boards.

[Jimmy Dore]

I want to pause. I will pause. Sean. So now Sean Hannity is doing exactly what they hated about the quote unquote left that you're protecting people's feet. Let's just pretend that this was an anti Muslim rally. Do you think that Sean Hanny would care? You think he would care about their feelings? No, he'd be cheering it on. But let's see why he wanted us to pause.

[Jewish Student/Activist]

I want you to pause. Every president of every university where this is taking place. Did you just hear that girl? They want us dead and you're doing nothing to stop it. Who is the victim here? Why when you. When you refuse to let conservatives on your campuses to speak, it's okay to support all openly terrorism.

[Garland Nixon]

Who.

[Jimmy Dore]

Who are the victims here? As we all know, the Zionist Jews are the biggest victims. We know that. Right? So some. Someday though, I think the Zionist Jews, they will. They will finally get a president that supports them. Someday. It's going to happen someday. And just to keep this going. What? Remember this guy? This is another very strong incident for the peak Woke title. This guy's name is El Jacobi's. Every damn day I'm seeing Eyal Yakobi's blatant lies show up on my feed and I only just learned he's the same kid in the infamous I do not feel safe speech used to shut down U.S. campus protests. He's just a non stop fountain of lies. He's discussing. Let's listen to him. I do not feel safe. Let me be clear.

[Garland Nixon]

I do not feel safe.

[Jimmy Dore]

So he doesn't feel safe. Be funny if a shoe was thrown at him at that point. Yeah, I know. And I think we should start deporting people who write op eds. Peaceful protests. Makes them feel unsafe. I remember how Mike Johnson managed to embellish a Jewish female student having a flag brush with her face into. Jews get their eyes poked out at universities. You remember that? Good thing they don't try to. They don't lose touch with reality or anything when it comes to crying on behalf of the Zionist occupied government. That was a free press Barry Weiss hoax. Yes. They made it seem like someone took the pointy part of the Palestinian flag and stabbed her eye out. When she was on TV the next day. Her eye was perfect and she said she had to take an Advil. The video showed a flag brushing against her. Here's the Jewish Yale student journalist stabbed in the eye with a protest. You want to see it? Here it is. Watch her get stabbed. Oh,

[Garland Nixon]

You.

[Jimmy Dore]

You stabbed me. So that's the ultimate irony. Just like has Trump has become everything that he used to rail against. He used to be against censorship, he used to be against foreign wars, he used to be for workers, used to be for ending the US Debt and money printing. He did everything. He was. He's the exact opposite. Same thing with these conservatives who were against the snowflakes on campuses who didn't want to have conservatives speak. Well, now they're the snowflakes. Let me throw it over to Garland Nixon. Go ahead, Garland.

[Garland Nixon]

Well, you know, the whole thing's a fraud, Jimmy. We see this girl doing like that, like that flop was worthy of like LeBron James. You know, those viral videos where like somebody shadow crosses LeBron James and he flies up in the air like he was hit by a Mack truck, so she's flopping to a flag. And of course, the girl that was supposedly crying kind of, you know, reminiscent of Erica Kirk, that was like a really, really fake cry, you know. And then ultimately, ultimately what we see is this whole thing of wokeness. You know, initially it was real. Like it actually kind of came from the black community. You know, like, stay woke, you should be awake. You should know what the government's up to and things like that. And then it got usurped and, and then the CIA is putting out these woke things and it became race or gender or LGBTQ plus or that kind of stuff. And now that, you know, okay, we've got the white version of Obama in now, a guy who's going to be a totally total fraud, he comes in and now they just switch it. They're like, well, all right, it worked like that for the left. Let's go with Zionism. And so it's just so obvious that they take something in the streets, something that originally has some substance to it, and they just convert it to the social called left and the so called right. And people buy into it, but it's all, it's just an entire absolute fraud. And it shows that Zionism, really, there's no substance. There's nothing for them to really complain about. And so they have to make something up.

[Jimmy Dore]

I just can't get over Ben Shapiro. He made a whole career off this that you can't. I mean, I wish I had the videos loaded into this segment to show him that, you know, college is supposed to be a place where you're challenged and you're, you're supposed to feel uncomfortable as whole. That's was Holtz Field. That's how he became popular. And I agreed with him, by the way. I don't agree we should, we shouldn't censor anybody. We could. Certain. We shouldn't censor. You know, who were they trying to censor? Milo or. Anyway, it was conservative speakers that they would. Oh, we shouldn't let them speak because it hurts our. But they were wrong, the people who wanted to. And Ben Shapiro was right. But now again, when it's him. So that's, that shows you that they don't have a principle. There's no guiding principle because they're inconsistent. It's. It's rules for the. But not for them. Right. It's for you to abide by the. Let us have free speech, but when it hurts their feelings, they're the biggest snowflakes in the world. It's, it's quite a. And that's a. That's one of the best videos I've seen on it.

[Garland Nixon]

You know, Jimmy, I remember Sean Hannity had this big segment and it was on the Confederate flag and it was on the, you know, Confederate statues. And he was complaining that people were offended by this stuff and it's okay if you're offended. You know, he just like made the exact argument, the opposite argument when it came to Confederate flags and things like that. And now that, I mean, can you imag. Imagine if someone would put up some. Something from, I don't know, Nazi Germany, from anything that he felt that the Zionist could be outraged about, he'd go bananas. But his whole spiel was the exact opposite. Making First Amendment arguments and things like that. Which just goes to show you're right. Actually, you would argue there is some level of consistency and that is whatever they can do to maintain control of the political class and the ruling elite, no matter how much they have to do flip flops, changes and contradictions. It doesn't matter what it is, no matter how obvious it is, they'll do it.

[Jimmy Dore]

It's remarkable and I've got lots of jokes about it. By the way, the good news is Ben Shapiro has agreed that his eyebrows are going to go back to their 1967 borders, which is. I didn't see that coming. But good. Good for him. I think this is the video I was thinking of. Let's play it now.

[Conservative Commentator]

He's been seeing these massive marches all over the United States in favor of Hamas. If that doesn't scare the hell out of Jews, I'm not sure exactly what will. These campuses which are supposed places of safety and openness and diversity. But when it comes to Jewish students feeling, you know, just a little threatened by people who are now defending mass murder of Jews, then of course, there's nothing to be done. Are these people who. Who are marching in favor of Hamas that you would want working for your company on campuses across the nation? Jews have been surrounded. Jews are being threatened all over the world. But we got to make sure that the people who join the threats, those are the people who are protected. If they are not citizens and they support Hamas, they should be deported. These folks don't think like you. They don't think like you. In the United Kingdom, Jewish students are now afraid to go to class. I know. I know. You are in your dorm and you're ensconced there, and you feel so comfortable with all your friends who tell you that you're just a great person and all your beliefs are exactly right. The last thing you want is somebody invading your campus and saying things that you disagree with, because that's just tyrannical and awful. You shouldn't have to feel like you're wrong ever. You should always feel like you're right. Well, toughen up, sweetheart. Bottom line is that it's time for you to learn that there are lots of differing opinions. Discussion is good for you. It makes your views stronger. It makes your views more durable. It is that exchange of ideas that actually makes an intellectual community worth having. If you're not willing to engage in that intellectual community, you're in the wrong place. If you want a safe space, we can find a padded cell for you somewhere. If you want life to just be a giant teddy bear, go back to being a child. But if you want to be an adult in the United States of America, you're going to have to deal with the fact that there are people who disagree. And that's a good thing to discuss. There are only one group of people that want safe spaces so that they never have to hear from anybody of a different ideology or political persuasion. Those people are called fascists.

[Jimmy Dore]

Okay?

[Conservative Commentator]

And you've got a bunch of fascists, damn fascists on this campus who are trying to shut down political debate and trying to cloister themselves in this little cocoon of stupidity so they don't have to debate anyone or think about issues outside their kin so that they can feel comfortable. Guess what? Life isn't about feeling comfortable. Life is about bettering yourself. Get off your ass, you stupid pansies.

[Garland Nixon]

You got knocked the fuck out, man.

[Jimmy Dore]

So that is crying. The car. That is exactly the turncoat. Don, put that together. Nice job. By turncoat Don. That's exactly what I'm talking about. So you see how they all flipped immediately, and Ben Shapiro being the biggest hypocrite there possibly could be, right? What do you think when you see that video? Have you seen that before, Garland?

[Garland Nixon]

Yeah, I've seen it. The first thing I think about is. I don't know why. The first thing that popped into my mind was Donald Trump saying, I'm going to cast out the warmongers and not start any new wars. Right. There's a. There's a. An odd consistency here with the Zionist where, you know, when it comes to something that benefits them or something they want to achieve, they say one thing, and when there's other people, they say the exact opposite. So that's, you know, this. We just see such a consistent pattern of contradictions, and they don't care. It's almost like they should put up a little notice at the bottom of the screen. Notice does not apply to nothing, ever, ever applies to Zionism. That's a whole different category. And I'll just say something different.

[Jimmy Dore]

Yeah. All right. Thanks for getting that. Misha. Misha, is there anything you can't do? No, nothing. I don't says nothing. Nothing she can't do. I can't even. No. Can you parachute. You can even what? I can even pee standing up. Oh, my God. Well, I didn't want to know. Chris wants to see that. Oh, come on now. Come on. You know, pictures or it didn't happen. That's what I say. That's what I say. All right, let's thank our guests, Garland Nixon for sitting in. That was great, everybody. Check out his show. News views on WPFW 89.3. You don't have. You don't have a YouTube show, Garland?

[Garland Nixon]

Yes, I do have a YouTube show, Jimmy, and I'm just a couple of hundred subscribers away from 100,000 right now.

[Jimmy Dore]

Oh, fantastic.

[Garland Nixon]

Yes. Hopefully this show, 100 people. Well, probably it'll take about 500 people to go over by the time YouTube, you know, weeds some of them out.

[Jimmy Dore]

That's right.

[Garland Nixon]

I'll get there.

[Jimmy Dore]

And what's that. What's your channel called?

[Garland Nixon]

It's just my name. Garland Nixon.

[Jimmy Dore]

Garland Nixon on YouTube. All right. Hey, you know, here's another great way you can help support the show is you become a premium member. We give you a couple of hours of premium bonus content every week, and it's a great way to help support the show. You can do it by going to jimmy dork.com, clicking on join Premium. It's the most affordable premium program in the business and it's a great way to help put your thumb back in the eye of the bastards. Thanks for everybody who was already a premium member. And if you haven't, you're missing out. We give you lots of bonus content. Thanks for your support. Naftali Bennett, we showed on this show, he gave a speech where he said that they have to turn their, Israel has to turn their attention towards Turkey. And now here's a new video of that is, you know, that is released by Jonathan Pollard, who Trump released. Here's what he said that. Then what's up next for Israel? Listen to this.

[Jonathan Pollard (voice in video)]

I'm not so sure that we will have as easy a time with the Turks as we've had with the Iranians. I, I've been following Turkish military doctrine

[Jamal Thomas]

and the strongest army in the Middle East.

[Jonathan Pollard (voice in video)]

The storm is coming.

[Jamal Thomas]

Yes, of course.

[International Affairs Expert]

I'm, I, and then I'm not.

[Jonathan Pollard (voice in video)]

And even worse, they're a member of NATO. So I look at Iran as a problem. We absolutely have to finish. And I'll explain what I mean by that. Gaza, same thing. And the Hezbollah, why, why am I fixated on this now? Because we have to be prepared for the next war, which will be probably against Turkey and Egypt.

[International Affairs Expert]

Right. So let me just, Jimmy, before you start, explain who Jonathan Pollard was. He gave the Israelis all of the intelligence information on our assets, including human assets in the Soviet Union. And the Israelis traded that information for the release of Jews, but they shut down the US Intelligence. He shut down the US Intelligence in the Soviet Union and did tremendous damage to the American ability to understand what was happening. And that is why he wasn't released for so long. And, and so, you know, I just want to be clear that he wasn't, he wasn't, he wasn't in, he was spying for Israel. But it was, it was an effort by him and by Israel to do tremendous damage to the intelligence networks of the United States.

[Jimmy Dore]

Yeah, and he did it. And, and he did it.

[International Affairs Expert]

And he's, he's a nut, by the way, of course.

[Jimmy Dore]

Well, they, the, anyone in power now is over in Israel. But what he's talking about, which I think more people are starting to realize, what he's talking about is the, well, if you see this is what's on the armband of the IDF soldiers. Can you take. There you go. So you see this? And then there's this in Hebrew next to it. And so this is the map of what they call the Greater Israel here. I'll Just play this very quick. This will explain what this is, which

[Narrator of Greater Israel Video]

that was seen on the uniform of an Israeli soldier. Look closely. What do you see? You see Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Egypt, and a small part of Turkey. And next to it is written the Promised Land. What does this mean? Are Israel only fighting a defensive war, or do they have a hidden agenda to continue to expand their land by taking over the countries around them?

[Jimmy Dore]

So this is why Israel is in perpetual war and why they allowed October 7th to happen. In fact, they funded it, made sure it happened, and told their army military to stand down so it could happen. So they could use that as a pretext, just like we used 9, 11 as a pretext to go in and do all those other wars for Israel, Iraq and Libya and all that stuff. And so this is the Greater Israel Project. Right. So that's why they're in Lebanon. That's why they're talking about going into Turkey, which is, he says, a NATO member. Now, you realize Trump wants to pull us out of NATO. Maybe that's one of the reasons why, because Israel doesn't want us to have to abide by Article 5, which says that we have to defend anybody in NATO who's attacked. So this is. So more people are becoming aware of what this actually is. This is the Greater Israel Project. Israel is. And the United States are the world's terrorists by far. It's not Iran, it's not ISIS or Al Qaeda, which we just installed the chief head chopper of Al Qaeda as the head of Syria, and he's welcomed at the White House and on Downing Street. Right. So even though we still have Guantanamo, it's this guy. So this, this, that's what people. And people are now waking up to this thing called the Greater Israel Project, which I didn't know about until October 7th, and now I know everything about it. And I didn't know about the knock, but I didn't know anything. But like most people now, now I do because of this, and it's horribly backfired. And so do you think that we can stop this Greater Israel? I mean, they're a country of what, 9 million? Even less Jews. I mean, they're such a tiny country with such a small population. They can't do any of this without the United States military and money. Take it wherever you want, Chris.

[International Affairs Expert]

Yeah, I mean, as soon as we pull the plug on Israel, then, you know they're in serious trouble. Yeah, the Greater Israel Project, which, you know, it's not just physically occupying southern Lebanon, which they've tried before. It's not just, I mean, you know, Netanyahu just announced he's going to take 70% of Gaza. Most poor Gazans, Palestinians in Gaza are now trapped in these fetid, you know, living under tents in the ruins, etc. And actually somebody in the audience when he announced this said, well, you should take all of it. And he said, well, we're just going to start with 70%. The way that they project power throughout the region is to destroy the states around them. That is why Israel pushed so heavily for the war in Iraq and succeeded in getting the Americans to pound Iraq. I worked in Iraq under Saddam Hussein,

[Jimmy Dore]

who was awful, quit bragging.

[International Affairs Expert]

But the infrastructure was modern, highly educated, of course, a wealthy state, education system was very good, etc. And Israel had to destroy it and they did that. By that now Iraq is kind of divided, especially, you know, with the Kurdish zone in the north. So they have to destroy these states, but they don't have the power to do it for the reasons you pointed out. So they have to get the United States to do it, which they did in Iraq. They did in, you know, it's why as soon as Assad was overthrown, Israeli jets were in there bombing everything that potentially could sustain the new state militarily. And that's what they want to do in Iran. They want to destroy. They can't occupy Iran, but they can destroy Iran through saturation bombing continuing. It's why they want to bomb power stations, desalination plants, oil facilities, anything that can sustain the country because it's the destruction of those countries by turning so they did in Libya, by turning these countries into failed states. And Libya is just chaos incorporated. Then de facto you have Israeli hegemony and the projection of military power which goes beyond the actual areas in Lebanon, in Gaza. We haven't even spoken about the West Bank. That is a real reign of terrorists in the West Bank. They would like to push the Palestinians in the west bank into Jordan. They would like to push what's the Palestinians in Gaza into Egypt. But both Egypt and Jordan have moved their militaries up to the border to try and prevent it. So yes, Greater Israel is. It's always been on the agenda, but that's how it works. It works by occupying land around it and making sure neighboring states or states like Iran that pose a potential threat are destroyed. Or Iraq. But I think after the war in Iran, it's not only not worked, but it's going to be very counterproductive to Israel's interests.

[Jimmy Dore]

Yeah, but they all think it's full speed ahead with the Greater Israel Project. As Jonathan Pollard, Naftali Bennett has said that who people say will be the next prime minister, possibly they seem to not think that there's any stopping them, but maybe there isn't because the American politicians are so, you know, bought by the Israelis. They're so subservient to them, to the Zionist project. So I don't again, I hope. But I think the thing is the American people, it's only Republicans over 50 years old, the same people who voted for Thomas Massie's opponent, those are the only people who still are on the side of the Zionists in this country. So everybody has woken up. Hopefully it will end.

[Garland Nixon]

I know you're thinking to yourself, what the hell happened to Jimmy Dore? He looks weird today. Well, Jimmy Dore is not here. My name is Garland Nixon. I am a podcaster, just kind of all around YouTube kind of guy. And I am standing in for Jimmy Dore today. And just in case I have problems, I have a software engineer. He's also. Hey, people don't know that he is a software engineer, but his name is Jamal Thomas. He's a political analyst, media personality based in Richmond, Virginia who currently hosts the Jamal to Thomas morning show on YouTube and previously hosted Fault Lines on Radio Sputnik. He's known for his left leaning commentary on international domestic politics and also an accomplished chess player and a published author. Jamal Thomas, welcome to the Jimmy Dore Show.

[Jamal Thomas]

What's going on, man? How you doing today?

[Garland Nixon]

Let us next go to New York City. Eli Koas tweets. Everyone spent the week furious that Madani skipped the parade. Then Israel sent Smotrich Amikai Elayu and Yitzhak Waserloff to lead it. The annexation minister, the one who suggested to nuke Gaza, and another kahanist from Atsma Yehuda. If the goal was repairing Israel's image in New York, these are the last people you put at the front. So these people, let's see. I think we have, we've got video if you give me a second on that. Yep, we do. Here we go.

[Jimmy Dore]

I'm.

[Garland Nixon]

Yes. Roel Guy.

[Jimmy Dore]

The biggest people Israel live.

[Garland Nixon]

You know, Jamar, I remember Nancy Pelosi saying, if the capital crumbles, if all falls, as long as Israel stands, screw you and America and everything else. And when we look and we see people who, I mean, say things that make the skin crawl and do things that make the spirit crawl, killed millions, hundreds of thousands, they, they're proponents of it and then they act on that. And here they are in New York. And you wonder why the demo, why we say the things we can we we say about the Democratic Party. And there is Chuck Schumer. Way to go, Spotrix. Kill them all. I'm elect every last one of them. Jamal Thomas Smotrich.

[Jamal Thomas]

I mean, granted the issue is not any one individual person or Israeli. It's the lot of them. I mean, you get 80, 90 that agree with the policy of the Netanyahu government is a moderate for all intents and purposes. Meaning getting rid of him doesn't necessarily change the problem or the kind or the character of the nation itself. There's that the idea that a genocide is taking place and they move that genocide from Gaza into Lebanon where they've gone on a murder spree also. And to make it even worse, again, I keep pointing out the UN systemic rape thing because Israelis thought it was a big thing to bring up with it in the context of Hamas on October 7th. Okay, well, they've been added to the list in real terms for systemic sexual violence against men, women, etc. So let's put this in context. They are right now, you get them screaming, hey, we're going to take 70% of Gaza now that we've already taken 60% of Gaza and we're going to bomb Beirut. Meaning they're saying all of this stuff at the exact same time that they're having this particular parade. And the idea that anybody is supporting them on this, that tells you something. It's illustrative of something and not necessarily something good. It's amazing to me that you could get a population of the United States that changed its point of view regarding Israel and the Palestinians. Especially from standpoint of the left and even from the standpoint of the right, when you're talking about people who are effectively under the age of, let's say 50 non boomers, for lack of a better term. And yet they would have that hate rally. And on top of having that hate rally, this kind of beacon of hate and psychopathy to the world, and you're going to get some Democrats coming there to celebrate it. It tells you everything you need to know. It's illustrative of something he's seen marching

[Garland Nixon]

with fellow war criminals and even Democrat Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on an Israel Day parade in New York City. There shouldn't be an Israel Day. Why is America host hosting parades for a foreign apartheid state? Mom, Donnie had enough integrity to not attend, which he is somehow being attacked for. And Again, I think America is at a place where, let's be frank, every day is Israel day. You know what I mean? I mean, in that the Israeli Zionist faction in politics has domination over Congress. They have domination over the media, they have domination over the tech, the tech sector. They have, you know what I'm saying? There is such domination right now over all sectors of our society that to say any given day is Israeli day as opposed to the other. I don't know if you've been following this, but we have members of Congress now who are literally trying to integrate the Israeli military into the U. S. Military. They want to pay them the, you know, retirement they want to handle. And my perspective is this, here's what they're going to do. They know that Americans are mad and Americans are going to say, we don't want to keep giving money to Israel. So what do they do? Number one, you double the defense budget. Number two, you move the IDF under the Pentagon and then you say, ha, we cut all the money away from going to Israel. But what you really did was you just moved the, all of that IDF stuff under the Pentagon. You put everything under the Pentagon. What do you need to send them money for? Instead of sending them 3.8, however many billion it was, you just gave him a couple of extra hundred billion dollars. And I think that's the game.

[Jamal Thomas]

Well, yeah, I think part of it is that they see the anger that is effectively being leveled at Israel and questions about, watch, are we sending them 3, 4 billion dollars a year? And of course, you know, you get coming out saying, yeah, you know, we don't really need the money, whatever. Israel doesn't exist without the United States allowing it to exist. Meaning our protection form in the UN Security Council, our protection in the UN General assembly when we're out there making arguments to the, the International Court of Justice where we're effectively saying that Israel has the right to starve a million human beings. Like, this is the stuff that we effectively provide to them beyond the money itself. And now we're like, let's just couch that into our own military. Military budgets.

[International Affairs Expert]

Yeah.

[Jamal Thomas]

This is, I mean, obviously this is outrageous. What is it? The one from Washington state and I think what Mike Rogers I believe, and I think the other one decided that this was a great idea to integrate the US Military with the Israeli military. This kind of sly, sneaky maneuver that they're trying to effectively pull off. And then there's other questions. Like people will make the argument that we're already fighting Israeli wars. Right? I mean, you can make an argument that we don't get anything out of attack on Iran. And even now with this kind of standoff, Yes, a lot of this is presidential hubris. The President has stepped into something the President doesn't necessarily want to own. The fact that he failed miserably in what is a historic incompetent attack on a country that is going to have negative consequences for the US he doesn't want to own it. But there's a real question as to why would he do it in the first place considering Iran has no capability of hitting the United States. Right. So, you know, you would make, you would get certain people who would make the argument that the Iraq war was an Israeli war, the US Destroying nations in the Middle east were Israeli wars. I don't entirely believe that's true. From my point of view, it's a mad dog. But that mad dog is on a leash and mad dog may have a mind of its own.

[Garland Nixon]

Yeah, I'll add this too. You know, I think there everybody benefits in that. Clearly the US Sees the Middle east as a way to control the oil and to choke out China. So the U. S Neocon, the Blinkens et al look at it and say, okay, we can get a grip of on the oil in Venezuela, then we can get a grip on the oil in the Middle east and then we can help control the Straits of Hormuz. We can do exactly what we're saying that we don't want Iran to do, which is control the Straits of Hormuz and cut off the people that we don't like.

[Jamal Thomas]

Right.

[Garland Nixon]

That's what we want to do. We're mad because Iran's doing it. Right. But so they look at it and they say, okay, we get benefit out of this. Meanwhile Israel gets to run the entire Middle East. They get to control everything and they'll be happy because they get. So everybody wins. And of course, since we're so called allied with Israel, we'll all work together, we'll provide them with the bombs and all of that stuff, you know, and everybody wins. So it's not to, in my opinion only, well, we're doing it for Israel. But that is a factor and it is particularly a factor when we get back to this. When we get back, doesn't it always come back to the Tony Blinken in 1987 writing, regardless of the economic pain that will have to be paid by the people of Europe and the United States, we don't care. They don't care. And the Israelis right now are saying even Going one further, they're saying, we want you to attack the infrastructure of Iran and they'll attack the infrastructure of the whole Middle east and that'll all be wiped out and the world economy will go, well, what do we care about, we Israelis? They're the goyim, they're the cattle. You know what I mean? Let's. Cattle. What are cattle for? They're to be slaughtered. Right. So the Israeli perspective is a genocidal, homicidal perspective, but it's not just against the Palestinians. It's not like directed only towards the Palestinians. It can be just as easily directed towards anyone else. In fact, we have some people recently who were nabbed by the Israelis in one of these freedom flotillas and there are allegations that some of them were raped. Yes, Western citizens. Now, I don't foresee that their Western governments are going to step in and say there's anything wrong with that, are we opposed to it or anything else. But I'm just saying when you look at the Barbary of the Israeli government and then you see people who are absolutely at the forefront at the razor's edge of this Barbary, and they are marching around Washington D. I mean, excuse me, marching around Israel like they're superstars, like it's Michael Jackson and Elvis. When you look at Chuck Schumer, you look at it and you say, if we ever had the Congress or any of these parties, which we probably didn't, they are completely gone. And now we are just people who are in the way. And how do they. The only question is how does our government deal with its citizens when its citizens are in the way of things that they want to do? And I think that's what we're finding out.

[Jamal Thomas]

Yeah, I mean, up to this point, the citizenry haven't necessarily asserted itself all that much. I would say that two, because citizenry hasn't necessarily asserted itself all that much. The government, for all intents purposes, has grown an attitude of just not caring. Yeah, they don't care. They don't care about us. They don't care about, you know, like meaning they have their own concerns. Their concerns are different than our concerns. In the case of trying to live a life and provide for family and pay your bills and etc. Etc. Basically living a decent life. That's not what they care about. They care about different things. And yeah, they will take some level of assertion, some level of movement, some level of something. Maybe it all needs to collapse before any of it effectively changes. I'm one of those people who believe in mechanical processes. Not necessarily just kind of, yes, human will, but human will in the context of a mechanical process of changing things. But yeah, it's, it's outrageous. I mean, whether it's the parade, which is, from my point of view, looks like a hate rally, whether it's the dimmer. Well, it does, right? It looks like a different type of rally, just different flags.

[Garland Nixon]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Jamal Thomas]

Whether it's the way the Democratic Party slavishly is devoted to this hateful entity, whether it's the plans that the US Effectively had that preceded Trump and, yeah, let's be honest, preceded Blinken also. All of these guys are war plans, right? Yeah. This stuff is rather outrageous. And I guess the operative question is, how does it change?

[Garland Nixon]

What do the American people do? That's the question. When it. Because it comes back to the people, we'll end to this. What do the American people do when they realize that the illusion of democracy, the illusion of control of the masses, the illusion that they even have any input evaporates? What did the people do? Do they just sit on their laurels and take it? Or will there be some kind of push back? Jamal Thomas, tell everybody where they can find you online.

[Jamal Thomas]

Well, thanks, man. Jamal Thomas Morning show. I'm on Jamal Thomas, that's my channel. I appear 7am to 9am I also have shows over the course of the day, so definitely check me out.

[Garland Nixon]

All right, thank you very much. Jamal Thomas, everybody.

[Jimmy Dore]

Come see me on tour. I'll be in Spokane, Tacoma, Los Angeles, special video panel show with special celebrities. And then we'll be in Levittown, New York, Rosemont, Illinois and Chicago. Go to Jimmy Dore.com for a link for tickets. So it seems like the American people have woken up to what has actually been the game since 9 11.

[International Affairs Expert]

Yeah.

[Jimmy Dore]

And. And a lot of people actually voted for Donald Trump because he said that he was with the American people. No more foreign wars. We're wasting all billions of dollars in American blood and treasure. And it's, you know, crazy and stupid. That's what got him elected the first time and the second time, I would say. But of course, the Democrats are for Trump's agenda in Gaza. They're for his keeping the Ukraine war going. They keep voting down Congress, the War Powers act, to take control. And so even though, like you said, the American people are overwhelmingly against, it's just another signal that we literally don't live in any semblance of a democracy whatsoever.

[International Affairs Expert]

Right, yeah, no, that's been true for a long time. It's the veneer of democracy. It's like the late Roman Empire or republic. The end of the republic with the rise of Augustus and the imperial powers that take over. I mean, Trump functions in. As a dictator. There's no. The Constitution doesn't work. I mean, Congress is supposed to declare war. You know, there's just egregious violations. The emoluments clause. I mean, it's endless. The, the transformation of the Department of Justice into a Trump vengeance machine. You know, the, the slush fund.

[Jimmy Dore]

Yeah.

[International Affairs Expert]

That he's set up, which is going to go to all these proto fascists and fascists and the proud boys and everywhere else. Yeah. No, but I mean, I've long argued, I mean, that we've undergone as John Ralston. Saul wrote a corporate coup d' etat on slow motion. But that ended a long time ago. And that's what's so frightening because people are sick of the system which has been gamed against them. I mean, the tax cuts and the reconfigure, the permission of Silicon Valley type monopolies and all this stuff, which is a democratic project as well. People are sick of it. And that's. I, There's a core kind of cult like following to Trump. I'm guessing 30 million. He got 77 million votes. I would say arrest a lot of. I know, because my family comes from Maine, so I have a very, you know, I am close to it. They're just sick of being gamed, conned and fleeced by both parties, including the Democratic Party.

[Jimmy Dore]

That's the thing. The Democrats actually could take control. And the problem is, you know, you have Chuck Schumer in the Senate and you have Hakeem Jeffries, who's a puppet of Zionists. And so there's, so that's the, you know, the fact that Trump is, you know, you say he's acting as a dictator, it's because he's been given the ability to do so by the Democrats. They could actually do something and they won't. And that just goes to, you know, it's the uni party. What we've been talking about here for a long time. What, you know, what do you think I say at this show, and I'd like to hear what you say about it, that the only thing that people can do now is, you know, because there's a chance if Trump doesn't end this war, that gas prices could go to $10 a barrel.

[International Affairs Expert]

Yeah.

[Jimmy Dore]

I mean, $10 a gallon. That could happen. And we already, 70% of farmers in America Say they don't have the fertilizer or the money to grow the winter food. And so things are going to get even, even worse. And so what I say is that the only thing we can do is that, you know, the truckers in Canada during COVID kind of set a template for it and is, is that we, we need workers. Like let's say the, the railroad workers don't show up for work or the port workers don't show up for work or the, the grocery store where you know, we need the truckers in America. They, we could, we have the power to, we have to cripple, you know, the oligarchs revenue stream and then you have to have a demand. Unlike you know, the no Kings rallies or the women's march though those were just psyops because there's no such thing as a protest without a demand. And so they had no demands. And so that was just to keep funneling people's revolutionary energy back into this two party system. And so with demand that my demand would be that you have to have public financing of elections and you get all corporate money out of it. And that would be the first step. Do you think that that's a possibility or do you see another way for Americans to take control of our government?

[International Affairs Expert]

No, that's the only way left. But you know, the oligarchs and the billionaire class done a pretty good job of eviscerating all organizations, in particular labor unions that act as resistance. That was a blowback from the 1970s where all the rich people got frightened by the women's movement, the anti war movement and the civil rights movement and everything else. But yes, you're exactly right. I mean I just came from Mexico, I just from my new book and the teachers are on strike and they said either you give us what we want, you accept our demands or we will shut down FIFA. Well, that's, that's how the game is played. And the Mexican government's kind of freaking out. I think they have six FIFA games or something down there. So that's how the game is played. And that's the only hope left. I think at this point. Investing energy into the electoral system is, which is just what they want you to do. An utter waste of time. And I have supported third parties. I mean I was Ralph Nader's speechwriter, going all the way back to2020. But it was never because Ralph thought he was going to win. He just was trying to pull significant numbers, 15, 10, 20 million voters away from the Democratic Party. To create pressure on it. But the campaign which was waged by the Democrats to eviscerate or destroy Nader's campaign was really, really fierce. I know, I was there. And so, yeah, you're right. Whether it's going to happen or not, I don't know. But that's the only thing that will save us at this point. You disrupt the business or the machinery of commerce and government, that's it. Outside of that, we're finished.

[Jimmy Dore]

So just as you pointed out, the decay of America and America, the farewell story, what that really, you know, what I took from that and what I've been talking about here on the show is that the reason why we're in such a decline and say China is on a rise is because in, in the United States, capital sits above the government and in China, the government is above capital. And there's no way to fix that, is there?

[International Affairs Expert]

Yeah. I mean, so we are subservient to capital. Everything now within, you know, even our formerly democratic institutions serve the interests of capital. I mean, that's why they destroy, they want to privatize everything, including education. And I begin America the farewell tour in Scranton, Pennsylvania, which was city that at the time was going into bankruptcy and they had to sell off all their assets, their sewer system, their electrical light system, their parking system, everything. Well, these, this capital, the capital didn't build these systems. This was taxpayer dollars. But then they seize them and they jack up the price. This is why they want to privatize the post office. And if you want to look at what a privatized post office is like, look at the UK where, you know, if it's not, if capital doesn't, if it's, it's a remote rural area where capital isn't going to make money delivering mail. There's no delivery of mail. So that is what's happened. I mean, the insane healthcare system that we have, I mean, I think it's a million people a year go bankrupt for medical bills. And they had insurance. And this is Obama. I mean, you know, Obama threw us under the bus by blocking the private option and forcing us to buy into his defective corporate profit. It was a big bonanza for the pharmaceutical. Every time I hear the Democrats talk about how wonderful Obamacare is, they should talk to somebody who is struggling on low wages to pay for Obamacare. I mean, it's better than no care, but it's not much better.

[Jimmy Dore]

So.

[International Affairs Expert]

Yeah, that's right. Everything is in the service of capital. These wars are in the service of capital. I think you've been very good at pointing this out. Ukraine, you know, they once we were defeated, let's use the right word in Afghanistan and carried out a humiliating withdrawal. The stock prices of Raytheon and Halliburton and Northrop went down. Well, you know, so they needed Ukraine to make them go back up. They need perpetual endless war in the Middle east with Iran to make them go up in all of these shills. You know, the. Robert Kagan's. Actually Kagan came out against the war in Iran, which was kind of remarkable. But I dealt with Kagan back in the 80s in when I was covering the wars in Central America. He was Elliott Abrams deputy. These people have been wrong about everything. But they are perpetuated. All these think tanks, Heritage foundation and they're all funded by the war industry and that's. And then they pop up along with the retired generals and on. On CNN and all these cable shows. MSNBC is no better. I don't know what's it. I don't watch it was. It changed its name now to something.

[Jimmy Dore]

I think it's called the multiple sclerosis now.

[International Affairs Expert]

Is it Rachel Maddow? There she goes. There's a journalist for you. Anybody who makes. Well, I know a few Rhodes scholars. Anybody who makes $10 million a year is not a journalist. I can tell you that. I haven't been one.

[Jimmy Dore]

So her Last contract was 35 million.

[International Affairs Expert]

35.

[Jimmy Dore]

Really? That was. That was reward for her Russia gating. That which got us into the. That you know, which primed the pump for Americans to be on board for a Ukraine war, not knowing anything about what happened and what led up to that war. So that's how they get people. And she was a big key player in that because you got to get the quote unquote left on board for the war. And they certainly were.

[International Affairs Expert]

And yeah, well, Chomsky, I think, you know, we won't go into Gnomes relationship with Epstein, but I know it's kind of sad, but anyway, which I still. Chomsky is amazing. So. But he writes about that. You know, what's the role of quote unquote liberals like Rachel Maddow? It's to essentially discredit people like you and me. That's why they exist, that's why the establishment rewards them. So at the inception of the invasion of Iraq, I was on Terry Gross's show the last time, of course, her being an ardent Zionist with Michael Ignatiev, who I know and I argued against the invasion. And then they had Michael, but the way he did it was. I protested the Vietnam War. You know, is all these kind of. But we have to liberate the people of Iraq. And that's. That is the role of the quote, unquote, liberal class. It's why it's tolerated, because it's used to destroy critics of empire. You can never critique the virtues of empire. What'd you just tell me before the show that Stephen Colbert said.

[Jimmy Dore]

What was it that Tulsi Gabbard, when she was opposing the Syrian war, he said, well, I see America as a force for good in the world.

[International Affairs Expert]

There you go. Well, okay, that's. That's why Stephen Colbert had a show. I mean, you know, he went after Trump. So now it's become all personalized. But that's why the liberal. That liberal class is tolerated. As long as they don't question the virtues. They can question the excesses, but not the virtues. And so, yeah, that's why Rachel Maddow makes insane amounts of money, because she is a way to discredit people like us, but more importantly, to herd people back into the embrace of the Democratic Party. And you have been really, really good on this for a really long time.

[Jimmy Dore]

Yeah, it gets me lots of accolades from my friends in Hollywood.

[International Affairs Expert]

I don't like Hollywood, Jimm, neither, but I like celebrities.

[Jimmy Dore]

I haven't been invited to a party for. Since 2016. So there you go. That'll tell you something. Hey, this jimmy. Who's this?

[James Talarico]

Hi, jimmy. This is texas state representative james taller.

[Jimmy Dore]

Ah, Representative Talarico. Thanks for calling. Very nice to meet you.

[James Talarico]

Thank you. And likewise, I'm glad I can be on your show. And hopefully my appearance on your show will help lead us to a positive outcome this November.

[Jimmy Dore]

Sounds great. And even though you were not part of the Texas primary runoff last night, I'm almost compelled to tell you congratulations for the results.

[James Talarico]

Yeah, a lot of people have been saying that, but as I've been replying, we have a long way to go until November, and I will have a lot more things publicly to say before we can have the outcome that we want.

[Jimmy Dore]

Okay. Well, it appears that Ken Paxton is preparing a campaign of nothing but low blow. Jabs at you. Pretty disgraceful stuff.

[James Talarico]

Oh. Oh, no, absolutely. He is clearly. So his. His campaign against me just transparently will absolutely be that I'm a wimp and faggy, basically. There's no other way to put it. I'm sorry? Whether he's using coded language or explicit language.

[Jimmy Dore]

And that doesn't bother you?

[James Talarico]

No. Not one bit, no.

[Jimmy Dore]

Seems to me that type of tactic might actually work in Texas, unfortunately.

[James Talarico]

Oh, absolutely, it might. Yes.

[Jimmy Dore]

Like, he calls you James Talafrico. He says you're a vegan, but you're not. Right. You eat meat.

[James Talarico]

Yes, I do eat meat and other animal products like eggs and cheese in my breakfast tacos now, rather famously.

[Jimmy Dore]

Oh, well, okay. Well, then I don't.

[James Talarico]

But I would like to point out that there is a video of me announcing that my campaign is going vegan for moral and climate change reasons and that we had just ordered a nice big vegan pizza for my staff. Also, I want to point out in this video, I'm wearing a mask.

[Jimmy Dore]

Oh, my God.

[James Talarico]

Yeah, but.

[Jimmy Dore]

But you aren't vegan yourself.

[James Talarico]

No, and neither is my staff, for that matter.

[Jimmy Dore]

Well, why would you do this?

[James Talarico]

Jimmy, I'm not sure you understand what I've been alluding to this entire phone call. I do not want to win this election. I do not want to be the senator from Texas, and I'm doing everything in my power to lose. That video is, like, from 2020, but I want people to see it now.

[Jimmy Dore]

Oh, wow.

[James Talarico]

Jimmy, have you ever had vegan pizza? If not, let me assure you, that is something you give to someone you hate. Half my staff quit that day, and that was my goal.

[Jimmy Dore]

What in the world, Jimmy?

[James Talarico]

Look at literally everything I say. It's almost designed to discuss the average Texan. A vegan political campaign in the state perhaps most associated with beef. Jimmy, I said God was non binary.

[Jimmy Dore]

Jesus.

[James Talarico]

Yeah, God is non binary now. Vote for me. Do I seem like someone who wants to win in Texas?

[Jimmy Dore]

No.

[James Talarico]

I should certainly hope not. Not if you're wearing your thinking cap, no. Is your thinking cap on?

[Jimmy Dore]

Yep.

[James Talarico]

If so, you will know I am trying to throw this whole fucking thing.

[Jimmy Dore]

But why? What possible motivation would you have to run for office this long but not want to win?

[James Talarico]

Jimmy, I don't really know. I haven't thought that through, to be honest with you. This is only the first Talarico call. I just simply haven't fleshed out the character that much.

[Jimmy Dore]

Wait, hold on. I'm getting another call as Jimmy Dore. Jimmy Dore show. Who is this?

[James Talarico]

Jimmy, it's Barack Obama.

[Jimmy Dore]

Oh, hello, Mr. President, it's.

[James Talarico]

Shut the fuck up, man. James. James, why the fuck you saying this shit? Saying what shit? Mr. President, I'm simply doing what I've always been trying to do, which is not win an election in the state of Texas. Where did this start? You seemed all gung ho about the fight when I came down there to Austin. And you and I campaigned together. Oh, Mr. President, do you hear yourself? Listen to yourself. Do you even hear yourself? I hear myself fine. God damn it. What the hell is your damn fool ass doing on about? I. Whoops. I stood next to former president Barack Obama and ordered a breakfast taco with no meat in it. Who does that image appeal to? Nobody in Texas, I can tell you that much. The only reason I didn't order vegan pizza with you is that I would worry that you'd catch on to what I was doing. You son of a bitch. If I wanted to win in Texas, I would have ordered a brisket and motor oil taco standing next to Joe Rogan and Dog the Bounty Hunter. Wolfed it down in one bite and then shot a cat with a gun. I know my home state, Mr. President. I know what I'm doing. Thanks for coming down. Well, I'll be a son of a bitch. You played me. You pull. Punk ass. Peckerwood. I flew Coach. Player. I'm out. Later, bitches. Well, that was fun.

[Jimmy Dore]

Wow, Mr. Tallerico, I must say that you are quite a different character than the one represented in the media.

[James Talarico]

I sure am, Jimmy. And you can get used to hearing a lot more of that. Plan on me calling into your show even more. Doing whatever I can to tank this whole thing. But I have to go. For now, I have a campaign stop in Amarillo where I'm going to talk about my plan to put puberty blockers into the drinking water. So people have no choice but to really think about their gender identity and make a choice before their body begins to change. Because that's what Texas really Texans really want. Choices. Wish me luck, Jimmy. Toodaloo.

[Jimmy Dore]

Oh, my God. 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.

[Jamal Thomas]

Out.

[Garland Nixon]

Don't freak out.

[Jimmy Dore]

Don't freak out. Don't freak out.

[Garland Nixon]

Don't freak out.

[Jimmy Dore]

Don't freak out. Do not freak out.

[Garland Nixon]

I'm not in it.

[Jimmy Dore]

Do not.

[Garland Nixon]

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

[James Talarico]

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

[Jimmy Dore]

Freak out.

[Garland Nixon]

Don't freak out.

[Jimmy Dore]

Do not freak out.