The Jimmy Dore Show

Episode: You WON'T BELIEVE How Much Money We're REALLY Sending To Israel!
Date: November 10, 2025
Host: Jimmy Dore
Co-host: Kurt

Episode Overview

In this episode, Jimmy Dore exposes the staggering amount of U.S. funds sent to Israel, challenging the mainstream narrative that grossly understates these numbers. The discussion centers on how this spending affects American citizens, delves into the mechanics of U.S.-Israel financial relationships, critiques bipartisan support for these policies, and reflects on the broader foreign policy implications, including the related expenditures in Ukraine. Throughout, Dore maintains his signature blend of outrage, humor, and biting social commentary, occasionally shifting to pop culture and podcast industry commentary, and ends with satirical impersonation sketches.

Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The True Scale of U.S. Aid to Israel

• Misleading Figures in Media

  • The mainstream claim is "$3 billion a year," but Dore asserts this is an extreme understatement.
  • Quote: "Since 1973, Israel has cost the United States about $1.6 trillion. If divided by today's population, that’s more than $5,700 per person." – Jimmy Dore [00:33]

• Recent Expenditures

  • In just two years (Gaza war context), the U.S. spent $33 billion on Israel, equating to $45 million per day.
  • Quote: "That’s more. That’s more than 3 billion that they tell me was only 3 billion. That’s what Ben Shapiro will tell you." – Jimmy Dore [02:12]

• Military and Wider Operational Aid

  • Outlines direct military aid—missiles, jets, tanks, Iron Dome—and extra billions for U.S. military operations in the region.
  • Quote: "[Aid includes] warships in the Red Sea, drone strikes in Yemen, expanded bases... billions moved without the usual long congressional process." – Narrator/Reporter [02:29]

• Financial Mechanisms

  • State and county employee pension funds are used to purchase high-risk, low-rated Israeli bonds; billions at stake.
  • Quote: "State employee pension funds have been used to buy high-risk Israel bonds. Israel anti-boycott laws keep us subservient..." – Jimmy Dore [06:41]
  • A cumulative total, by some estimates, of up to $3 trillion since 1973.

• Consequences for Americans

  • Domestic programs like SNAP, Medicare, Medicaid are cut, while billions are sent overseas.
  • Quote: "People are literally in food lines because the government shutdown, people can’t get their food stamped..." – Jimmy Dore [03:38]

2. Political and Media Complicity

• Politicians’ Rhetoric vs. Reality

  • Clips and criticisms of politicians (Ted Cruz) demanding public gratitude for U.S. aid to Israel.
  • Quote: "[Ted Cruz] is demanding that Americans thank the Israeli regime for the privilege of giving them $32 billion." – Narrator/Commentator [11:41]

• Exposing Lobbying and Narrative Management

  • References to Israeli state spending on PR and influence campaigns, including using AI platforms.
  • Quote: "Israel to spend over half a billion shekels turning ChatGPT into public diplomacy tool... to shape pro-Israel narratives online." – Jimmy Dore [05:37]

• Media Manipulation and Distraction

  • Dore highlights distractions with left-right wedge issues while real policy (war funding, economic destitution) transcends party boundaries.
  • Quote: "These aren’t left right issues, These are us against them. And they keep us distracted with the left right issues." – Jimmy Dore [14:08]

3. Ukraine: Parallel Spending and Hypocrisy

• Magnitude of U.S. Aid

  • $180 billion sent to Ukraine since Russia’s full-scale invasion, with both military and social spending covered by U.S. taxpayers.
  • Quote: "We’re paying for people in Ukraine, we’re paying their health care and we’re paying their Social Security and we’re paying their teachers." – Jimmy Dore [04:25]

• Who Truly Benefits

  • Dore questions the narrative that ordinary Ukrainians benefit, suggesting oligarchs and corrupt elites are the main recipients.

• Sabotaged Peace

  • Dore and guests walk through claims—supported by footage and News accounts—that Western leaders (U.S., UK, EU) repeatedly undermined peace deals to prolong the conflict and weaken Russia.
  • Quote: "There are those in the west who don’t mind a long war because it would mean exhausting Russia, even if this means the demise of Ukraine and comes at the Cost of Ukraine lives." — Paraphrasing Zelensky via Glenn Deason [35:55]

• The Military-Industrial Complex

  • War perpetuated for profit, not peace or actual security.
  • Quote: "That’s Lindsey Graham being a salesman for the military industrial complex because the military industrial complex wants this war." – Jimmy Dore [40:08]

4. Critique of Domestic Policy and Political Culture

• American Decline and Priorities

  • Dore repeatedly contrasts crumbling American infrastructure, food insecurity, and social program cuts with vast, unquestioned foreign expenditures.
  • Quote: "When you don’t have enough money to pay your mortgage... Just know where your tax money is going. It’s not going back in America." – Jimmy Dore [13:38]

• Institutional Loyalty and Cowardice

  • Critiques both Democrats and Republicans, but especially Democratic Party enforcers and progressives who won’t challenge their own side or the Israel lobby.
  • Praises figures (Candace Owens, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Thomas Massie) for having the courage to break party lines.

5. Podcast and Media Landscape Commentary

• Candace Owens’ Podcast Success

  • Owens overtakes podcasts like Joe Rogan’s; Dore expresses admiration for her willingness to speak out, even when ostracized from the conservative mainstream.
  • Quote: "That’s what peak performance looks like. Well said. Well said again. I can’t. I have grown to have deep affection for Candace Owens." – Jimmy Dore [23:06]

• Podcast as a Free Speech Frontier

  • The show becomes a hub for honest discussion, attracting a diverse but like-minded audience who feel alienated by mainstream media.
  • Quote: "It’s a place where people can come and not be afraid to have different opinions is my show." – Jimmy Dore [26:10]

6. Satirical Sketches & Impersonations

(Segments from 48:42 onward)

• Jimmy and co-host perform impersonations (Andrew Cuomo, Zoran Mamdani) mocking New York politics and the narcissism of fallen politicians.
• While comedic, the sketches lampoon failures of political leadership and the disconnect from ordinary citizens.

Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments (with Timestamps)

• On U.S. Military Spending:
  • "Since 1973, Israel has cost the United States about $1.6 trillion. If divided by today’s population, that’s more than $5,700 per person." – Jimmy Dore [00:33]
• On Politicians Demanding Thanks:
  • "Senator... Ted Cruz says that Americans should be thanking the Israeli regime for accepting billions of our money." – Narrator/Commentator [11:41]
• On American Decline:
  • "We have a crumbling infrastructure... we've gotten rid of our middle class. It's rich and poor. These aren't left right issues. These are us against them." – Jimmy Dore [14:08]
• On Media’s Role:
  • "That's why I have a show. Because you're never going to see Zelensky telling the truth. You're only going to see him when he's lying." – Jimmy Dore [35:07]
• On Candace Owens:
  • "I have loved his videos and he has made me laugh in his coverage of the absurd things that we are being told by the Charlie Kirk assassination." – Candace Owens [29:53]
• On U.S. Foreign Policy:
  • "The west aim is not the victory of Ukraine. It's the defeat of Russia. There it is right there. The problem is that nobody cares about Ukraine." – Quoting Jacques Baud (via Jimmy Dore) [41:00]

Important Segments & Timestamps

| Timestamp | Segment Description | |-----------|-----------------------------------------| | 00:33 | Opening statistics on U.S.-Israel aid | | 02:03 – 03:38 | Breakdown of recent spending, $45M/day | | 05:34 – 06:41 | Israel's spending on influence campaigns | | 07:26 – 09:59 | State pension funds buying Israel bonds | | 11:15 – 13:06| Ted Cruz, media/lobby critique | | 35:54 – 41:21| Zelensky’s peace offer & sabotage, NATO commentary | | 44:00 – 46:28| RAND Corporation, intentional prolonging of Ukraine war | | 47:29 – 49:06| Rant on public gullibility, war propaganda | | 48:42 – 57:57| Satirical Cuomo/Mamdani skits | | 29:44 – 33:11| Candace Owens on coalition-building, praise for Dore |

Tone & Language

The episode blends incredulous outrage, sarcasm, and humor throughout, with Dore’s profanity-laced style and unsparing critique directed at political, media, and financial elites, regardless of party. The show’s approach makes complex fiscal and policy issues accessible—and viscerally infuriating—an intended counterpoint to what Dore deems as mainstream media gaslighting.

Takeaway

Jimmy Dore’s central thesis: U.S. elites, through bipartisan consensus and media complicity, are transferring dreams, prosperity, and tax dollars away from Americans to fund militarism and foreign client states—most notably Israel—while the domestic population faces declining living standards, infrastructure, and security. Dore argues these choices aren’t just about foreign policy or ideology, but about a systemic looting of America by its own leadership class.

Memorable Closing:

"You can’t be angry enough at our politicians for being cucks to Israel. Imagine what we could do with that $3 trillion." – Jimmy Dore [16:13]

For listeners and fans of political skepticism, anti-war critique, and media deconstruction, this episode of The Jimmy Dore Show is a dense, provocative, and at times bleakly hilarious deconstruction of America’s real spending priorities—and who profits from them.