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Hey, come see us doing a live stand-up show. We'll be in Burbank, California, Oxnard, California, Venice, California, Palmdale, California. Then we're going to Omaha, Des Moines, Milwaukee, Lansing, Bend, Oregon, Portland, Oregon, Seattle, and Boston, Massachusetts. Go to JimmyDore.com for a link for all those tickets. Hey, this is Jimmy. Who's this? Jimmy's President Joe Biden. Oh, how you doing today, Mr. President?
Jimmy, current mood, optimistic. And why is that? Jimmy, today we're meeting with the president of China face-to-face for the first time in over a year. We're going to finally settle our differences, put conflicts to rest. Today, all of the family's business will be settled. But, Jimmy, I am also nervous. Nervous about what? Getting this dude's name wrong. I see. I see.
Jimmy, as you know, I have dementia pretty bad. And one way the old shaky D hits me is messing up names.
Of course, normally it's not a big deal. If I say, oh, I met with Tony Flappenham or something like that, no one gets too worked up. But if you mess up an Asian guy's name, it sounds super racist. Right. I don't even say the name. That's how afraid I am.
What are you two going to be discussing?
All sorts of stuff, Jimmy. You name it. For starters, the conflict in Ukraine and the Middle East. We want China to use its influence over Iran to get them to stay out of the war in Israel. And likewise, their influence over North Korea to stop them selling weapons to Russia. China has diplomatic leverage where we have none. And we're going to ask them to use it. Do you think China's going to honor your request? No, absolutely not. But at least I can say I asked.
Hey, look, don't blame me. I invited Mr. China here to have a powwow. And it's not my fault. If you didn't do what I asked. I mean, let's be real. It's not in China's interest to do either one of those things. Yeah.
Hey, can you do me a favor and help us preserve Western hegemony? Well, kind of a big joke, really. You know, speaking of trying to make a safer world, will you be addressing the disturbing ramp up of nuclear armament by both countries aimed at each other? No, but I can do you one better. Oh, really? AI. That's right, Jimmy.
artificial intellect. There has been widespread concern on both sides about AI infiltrating our automated missile defense systems and inadvertently causing World War III. So Mr. China and I are committed to inaugurating rigorous protocols to prevent this from being possible so that both countries can maintain their massive nuclear arsenals while being secure in the knowledge that if one does launch
It's because a dude pressed a button on purpose. Well, that's very comforting. As you should be. Yeah. I was made aware of this 21st century threat when something very grave came to my attention a few months ago. Were you breathed by the Defense Department on something?
No, I watched Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning Part One. What? I am not making this up. Have you seen it? No, I haven't seen it.
The one with Superman in it? Yeah, he's not nearly as good as Fallout. Even Cruise seems to be tiring in the franchise. The train sequence at the end is pretty badass, though. Hailey Atwell is hot as shit. But the enemy in the movie is AI, doing AI stuff against governments and controlling submarines and shit. What? I was like, can this happen? Ha!
And some guy in the White House screening room was like, probably. How do we prevent this from happening in real life, though? We're not totally sure, Jimmy. And unfortunately, Dead Reckoning Part 2 won't come out until 2025.
Thanks, SAG-AFTRA. I guess your streaming residuals are more important than a literal nuclear war. Okay, anything else on the docket? Trade, intellectual property theft, Taiwan?
No, no, and no fucking way. But we have another big win. China has agreed to help us stem the flow of fentanyl to the United States. Mr. President, it's pronounced fentanyl. Seems like you know a little too much about this good time, Charlie. You show your contempt for a drug by mispronouncing it. Ha!
Charlie, this meeting is being held in San Francisco. The president of Asia can see with his own two eyes the devastating effect that this drug is having on our cities. All these homeless people now because of fentanyl.
They are homeless because housing is unaffordable, Mr. President. And they're clearing them out so he won't see them. This will not address the homelessness problem in the United States. Don't point out flaws in my sketch. And Jimmy knows, stupid, they're homeless because the fentanyl is outside. And they want to stay where the fentanyl is because they're addicted. Probably because they tried marijuana once. Oh, brother.
Also, what this drug is doing to our poor police force. There are reports of cops getting one tiny amount of this powder on them and their heads exploding like in scanners. We can't have that in our cities, man. Those poor cops. It's not like that. Defunded now this. Tragic.
I have to go. I'm meeting with the world leader. So I have to get pumped full of awake pills and have my face skin tautened with this little tourniquet thingy. It takes about an hour. Don't give me enough time to memorize his name.
No matter what happens, at least dinner tonight is being catered by P.F. Chang's. I got my shrimp and lobster sauce to look forward to at least. Goodbye and go to hell.
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I wanted to talk to you about this speech I saw. The new Speaker of the House. Now, I had high hopes for the new Speaker of the House. You did? Because I'm a jerk. And I saw him stand up kind of against censorship. And I thought, hey, maybe, of course, what am I? I'm so stupid. But here he is. Let's listen. He talks about a ceasefire. Let's listen to this. The calls for a ceasefire are outrageous. Ha!
And then they start. And then, so I don't know if you heard what Republican House Speaker Harry Potter just said, but the calls for a ceasefire are outrageous. Can you imagine how bad an actual ceasefire would be? Glenn, it would be like a war crime. Yeah.
It would rise to the level of a war. I know. I mean, look at how animated that crowd is. It's like you're sitting there watching for 36 straight days a densely populated, tiny little strip of land of 2.2 million people, half of whom are children, who haven't been able to leave that area in over 25 years because they're trapped there, mostly by Israel, a little bit by Egypt.
getting relentlessly bombed. There are over 10,000 of them who have been killed. Close to 5,000 children confirmed dead, which is more than the number of US soldiers who died during the entire Iraq war, all those years.
When we were in Iraq and then imagine just sitting there chanting as though it's your primary political passion. No ceasefire, no ceasefire, meaning keep killing them, keep killing them, keep bombing them, keep destroying their hospitals and mosque. And, you know, I had Mike Johnson on my show, I think maybe three months ago, and I also was kind of impressed with him. He had just...
kind of grilled Christopher Wray, the FBI director. He had also done the same thing with Homeland Security, Secretary of Homeland Security, in part over the security state's effort to censor the internet. I was impressed with him. I thought he was smart. I thought he was very committed to these causes. And then he gets elected Speaker Jimmy and
and you know it's kind of this important ritual it's only happened fifty six times an american political history that we have a new speaker he's the fifty six and when a speaker gets elected at the house the people's house they have sent to this tribune this tribune and they say here's my speech where i'm going to reveal to you the priorities of my speakership what i'm going to do for you the american people and the american people are like what are you going to do for us you're going to like give
Give us healthcare or solve the fentanyl crisis or giving us a living wage or reindustrialize our towns. And he said, and the very first thing I'm going to do is pass a bill to help our friend Israel. And at that rally that you just showed, he was literally holding hands. They were hand in hand with Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries and Joni Erst. That was the pro-Israel anti-Semitism rally in Washington rally.
And there's always these attempts to try and claim, oh, the two parties are so at each other's throat. There's a lot of Republicans and conservatives who try to pretend that Democrats are anti-Israel and pro-Hamas, when in reality, Joe Biden and Chuck Schumer are two of the most pro-Hamas.
Israel politicians ever to exist in American history. And you can obviously add Mike Johnson to that list. Now they're completely indistinguishable time after time after time on the most consequential issues on the war in Ukraine. They were the same way and now they're this way on the war for Israel that we decided to make our war as well.
Hold on. I know this looks bad, that scene over there, but isn't it kind of nice how it reminds you of Forrest Gump when he gets reunited with Jenny? Okay, I just want to play this one more time because this is truly stunning. This to me reminds me of Hitler. And I'm not saying that lightly, but let's play it. The calls for a ceasefire are outrageous. Jeez. Ceasefire! Ceasefire! Ceasefire!
- No change in life!
And so what I said after watching that was, this sounds like Hitler getting people worked up into a pro-war frenzy to go kill Jews and establish the master race, except it's Jews doing the genociding to establish their superiority of their own ethnicity and ethnostate. The parallels are striking and undeniable. Well, except those people were more sincere back then. A lot of this has been put together by...
Like your J Streets and such. Yeah, a lot of this was actually funded. They were paying people. It's a counter protest. $250 to go to this. Am I over the top in that, Glenn? Because that's really what it feels like to me. And is not Israel an ethno-state?
Israel is definitely an ethno-state. It's a state of the Jews. They have 20% of their population composed of non-Jews, of Israeli Arabs. But according to even top Israeli officials, including the former head of the Mossad, chosen by Benjamin Netanyahu in 2015,
He in September said, we are now essentially an apartheid nation because we are ruling over millions and millions of people who have no political rights, not just in the West Bank, but also in Gaza. Israel is brutally and illegally occupying the West Bank and has been for many years. And...
although Israel withdrew its troops in 2005, continues to control the sea lanes and the airspace and the land boundaries of Gaza with the exception of one crossing in Egypt, which is controlled by the US-supported Egyptian dictator. So the thing that, you know, in terms of the framing of your tweet that I would hasten to add is you have people there like Joni Ernst and Hakeem Jeffries and Mike Johnson. None of them is Jewish, and Joe Biden, for that matter, isn't either, and they've made this their war
And in part, that's because there's a large evangelical population in the United States that is at least pro-Israel, as most American Jews are, for religious reasons and for other reasons. You have national security hawks and militarists who see Israel as this crucial partner whose wars we should regard as our wars. It's this kind of unholy alliance in the United States that has given Israel more money than any other country by far over many decades.
And they have had many U.S. generals and people who work inside the U.S. security state and the intelligence agencies who have said that our support for Israel harms the U.S. national security in all sorts of ways because it increases anti-American sentiment in that region. People who are looking at these bombs dropping on Israel.
hospitals and apartment buildings and killing children, Muslim children, know that these are American bombs, American bombs. They're not Israeli bombs. They're American bombs being paid for with American money and all the hatred that's being fomented in that region and all around the world for this war. I mean, the United States and Israel are increasingly isolated as just two countries fighting
always gets directed to the United States because most people understand that these are American wars. Remember when we were attacked on 9-11, the worst attack on the American homeland since Pearl Harbor and since, Al-Qaeda had three grievances, one of which was that we...
enable and empower the Israelis to dominate the Palestinians. The other was the sanctions regime on Iraq, which killed hundreds of thousands of Muslim children, and the desecration of sacred land in Saudi Arabia by putting our bases there. So the more we keep involving ourselves in this region... Do you know, Jimmy, I traveled outside Brazil, outside the United States, twice in the last five weeks, and each time I did, I traveled under a State Department advisory that said that because of this war in Israel...
there is a significantly increased risk of terrorist attacks and anti-American attacks for any American traveling in the world. I thought the purpose of our foreign policy was to increase
the security of Americans, but this is yet another war that is endangering the security of Americans. And yet, when you put it up for a vote, it passes by something like 413 to eight. And everybody knows that the reason why a pack today announced $100 million campaign $100 million to unseat six or seven of the members of the house who aren't fully supportive of Israel.
They can't stand that the votes are 413 to 7. They want to eliminate every single conceivable no vote. So it's a very widespread coalition, not just American Jews who are ensuring this war. And yes, there is, of course, a religious component to the war itself, but I think even more so it's a war over land. It's a war over the fact that the Israeli government no longer accepts the international community's view
the legal finding that Israel is the 1967 borders. They see the West Bank and Gaza and even parts of Jordan and other Middle Eastern countries as part of greater Israel. They intend to seize that land. They intend to ethnically cleanse Palestinians from Gaza and from the West Bank to take it over and annex it. And this is what we're supporting. It's pure aggression and pure violence. And...
It seems like the same old game. It's people just like we invented, you know, Al Qaeda, ISIS, and then we funded them. Israel does the same thing with Hamas and ISIS.
People don't know that, that they were funding them. And why do you think they were funding them? And it was because they wanted to have a radical terrorist organization that would every once in a while fight back against the occupation. So then they could use their fighting back against the occupation as a pretext to go in and mow these people down. They used to call it mowing the lawn. And so and now they're just blowing the lawn out to bits. Right.
And so that's so people don't realize that's the game that's being played. And then I just found out yesterday and I'd like to get if you're on the inside on this, I'm sure you must know about this, that they found all this oil and gas under Gaza and right off the coast. And so it's like at least worth a half a trillion, if not more dollars. And so, again, at the same time that the United States is blowing up the Nord Stream pipeline.
putting sanctions on other Iran and the Beirut just happened to blow up accidentally and we're occupying Syria's oil fields illegally.
Now the plan is to make Israel an exporter of fossil fuels. And so that seems to be actually like this perfect coalescing of interests, right? So they've always wanted that land. Now we know why they really, really want that land. And then they also had a plan to build a canal and they were going to use nuclear bombs to do it. This is all real. I'm not making up any of this. And I'd just like to get your comment on it.
Yeah, I mean, look, you can go and obviously everything we've done in the Middle East over the past six decades,
that has caused so much harm to the United States, things like overthrowing the democratically elected government of Iran and replacing it with the Shah of Iran. And now there's a movement again to reinstate the Shah of Iran's son. I was on Pierce Morgan's show the other day, and right before I went on, he had the Shah of Iran's son, who he treated like a kind of dignitary or some member of a royal family. He even said to him, if...
If the country, your country, wanted you to return to ruling them, would you be willing to do so? You have to be so completely out of touch to think that the people of Iran want a return of the Shah of Iran, who was one of the 20th century's worst butchers that the United States imposed, that everyone in Iran knows that that happened. And so you just go around the region, in Iraq, in Syria, in...
What we did in Yemen, the, you know, dependence on Saudi Arabia. And yes, obviously with Israel as well. And our entire Middle Eastern policy bombing, warring, cooing has, of course, always been about oil. And the thing is, I mean, this is what I want to say is, you know, I've been on your show many times, more times than I even like to remember. And, you know, there used to be a time when I would come on early on.
And we would spend a lot of time criticizing the American right and conservatives and whatever. And then for the last, you know, say four or five years, our focus is critical focus has been on the liberal establishment and even what calls itself the American left, the part of the left that is captive to the Democratic Party because of the authoritarian measures they embraced in the name of stopping Donald Trump. They sort of became everything they claimed he was and they became very dangerous because
But now I have to say, you know, when I look at the conservative movement, they need all sorts of serious criticism. I don't mean all of them. There's a division in the conservative movement, thankfully, on these questions. But what you're seeing, you know, I've heard nothing from conservatives over the last six or seven years since Trump was president.
elected other than, oh, we're the anti-war party, we believe in non-interventionism, we want to stop spending all this money overseas on militarism and wars so that we can spend it finally to make our country great again and build our own country and improve the lives of America. Really? Because it seems to me like conservatives are very eager to fight and make Israel's war our war.
They want a military confrontation with Iran. They're very eager to have a military confrontation with China. This does not seem like an anti-interventionist movement to me at all.
And then on top of that, of course, you add all the repulsive hypocrisy that Tucker Carlson has been talking about, that Candace Owens has been talking about, that Beck has been talking about, where conservatives suddenly decided a lot of them did after spending eight years saying free speech is the sacred value on which our entire country depends. Suddenly now they're cheering for the banning of pro-Palestinian protests all throughout the West. Ron DeSantis banning a pro-Palestinian group.
in the University of Florida system, people getting mass fired, not a single person fired in the last five weeks in the United States for expressing their political opinions, who expressed a political opinion that was too pro-Israel. You can say, I want Gaza destroyed, I want it erased, I want every one of them dead, I want it off the map. As many have, you will not use your job. Every single person in the United States who has gotten fired in the last five weeks for expressing their view on the war has expressed a view that is pro-Palestinian,
And you have not all, but many conservatives cheering that, cheering victimhood narratives from American Jews that American Jews are as endangered as a lot of white progressives try to claim black people are endangered in the United States. And so all of these principles and values and agenda that the American right has been claiming for the last seven or eight years since Trump was elected that they so wholeheartedly and passionately support, it all disappeared.
The minute this foreign country for which they have such obvious and intense affinity became at center stage again. And obviously they can't do it alone. They're hand in hand with Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton and Chuck Schumer and the entire establishment Democratic Party that's every bit as pro-Israel as they are.
But we are yet again isolating ourselves, driving the world into China's arms, which they say is our main enemy. China is our main enemy. We're driving the world into China's arms because everybody sees that we are a country of endless war. And for what? For what? How is this benefiting? How is this war? How is sending billions of dollars in weapons to Israel to destroy Gaza in any way improving the lives of American citizens? Obviously, it is not no more than the war in Ukraine did.
Well, Bobby Kennedy has said that even though he positions himself as a peace candidate, Bobby Kennedy has said that Israel is like our own aircraft carrier in the Middle East. And unfortunately, that aircraft carrier has a concentration camp on it that they like to bomb.
Also, he also then coupled Russia, China, Iran, and the regime in Venezuela. He used John Bolton's words. And he said they will control 90% of the world's oil and we can't allow that. So this idea that Bobby Kennedy was some kind of a peace candidate seemed to be just a rouge.
and he is going along with the wars for oil just like everybody else, and he's speaking out of both sides of his mouth. And to me, that goes back to what you're saying is that, oh, we have to go back to criticizing the conservatives, but...
My point is that it's it's a uniparty. Right. And so they will let they will let some Republicans be antiwar when it doesn't matter, just like they used to let some Democrats be antiwar when it didn't matter. But when they need them to come together, they fall in line and come together. And so this project of, you know, the establishment for.
funding liberal institutions and getting them to go against everything that liberalism is supposed to be against. Now they've kind of created this monster that, you know, to decolonize your mind and all that stuff that they've been preaching to them. And so now those people are going against the war in Israel and Palestine. And so now there's people now...
we're not going to vote for Joe Biden anymore. Even, even people at the young Turks, right. Who are just the most pro-war maniacs you've ever seen. Even they now, uh, are going against. So, um, uh, how, how does this, how does this end up, uh, for the, it doesn't matter if it's DeSantis or Joe Biden, it doesn't really matter to them. Right. And, or,
Or Nikki Haley. Or Nikki Haley. Or Nikki Haley. You know what? Let me just show you this because I always thought that there was a left in Israel and I thought J Street might be it. But I was reading this article in the Ukraine about the pro-Israel. In the Guardian. In the Guardian about the anti-Semitism march. Many of those present acknowledged unease at the rising death toll in Gaza but said they pinned the blame squarely on Hamas.
Judah Klausner, a composer who had traveled from New York, cited a recent threat from Ghazi Hamad, a senior member of Hamas's political bureau, to repeat the October 7th attacks a second, third and fourth time as good reason for ruling out a ceasefire.
Paul Stewart, 67, a former engineer and retired attorney who had traveled from Vermont, said, I don't think there should be a ceasefire because Israel has given the Palestinians options to leave. But obviously, Hamas has some influence over them and are telling them to stay. You know, we probably would really hate the people not wanting a ceasefire. All the Israeli hostages that are still in Gaza. Well, I guess it's on them since they were warned to move south. Right. Right.
So one more. Most of the... This is from that article. Most of the Israeli left supports the war against Hamas so it can be eliminated and allow a return to the two-state solution. That's the hope. Oh, my God. So...
So this idea that we're going to wipe out Hamas and then we won't have any more resistance or terror, the whole idea, exactly what you explained at the beginning of this segment, is that what created 9-11 was our intervention in trying to wipe out terrorism. Well, what we actually do is you create, every time you drop a bomb on a wedding, every time you drop a bomb on Gaza, you're creating terror.
Dozens, if not hundreds of more people dedicated to the demise of the West, Israel and the United States. Correct? Yeah. You know, there's first of all, there's so many historical examples to look to when. And let me just say about like this unity in Israel over Israel.
I do want to point out that when the United States was attacked on September 11th in 2001, a similar unity emerged where something like 90% of Americans wanted to go to war in Afghanistan in the name of destroying the Taliban.
When there was a vote to authorize military force for going to war in Afghanistan, there was a single member of Congress out of 535, Barbara Lee, who stood up and voted no. Every single member of Congress except for she voted yes.
There was a unity around George W. Bush, who just eight months before, liberals were accusing of having stolen the 2000 election through the Supreme Court ruling. Now he had an 85% or 90% approval rating. So on one level, I understand the reaction in Israel. What I don't understand is why so many Americans are so obsessed with this foreign country on the other side of the world. Yeah.
Why is this dominating our politics? Why, you know, I saw there's like, again, I want to say like there are conservatives in the United States are not a monolith. There are some who are standing up and saying, why are we supporting this? How is this in our in our interests? The same way they were doing with Ukraine. And one of them is Candace Owens.
And they're out for her blood. They want her fired. They're digging up old stuff about her. They hate her. They want her. Anybody, Israel is the litmus test. Do you know how many emails I've gotten, Jimmy, over the past five weeks from conservatives?
saying, oh, you know, I really used to respect you. I loved so much your work that you were doing on the civil liberties of American citizens, on the abuses of the U.S. security state when it came to American politics, on the defense of free speech for Americans. But now that you criticize this foreign country, which seems to be the country they value more than even their own,
including people who march under the banner of America first and yet see this country, this tiny little country on the other side of the world and obviously venerate it. And then they say, I just can't respect you any longer. I can't support your work any longer because it's one thing for me to support the work you're doing for American citizens. But Israel, that's where no disagreement can be tolerated. Not most, not many, but some like a non-trivial number.
And, you know, I think that this is one of the things that we have to be honest about. You know, Stephen Wald and John Mearsheimer wrote that book in 2006 called The Israel Lobby that described how there are a lot of really powerful lobbies in Washington. You have the pharmaceutical lobby, the Wall Street lobby, the NRA, Planned Parenthood. But one of the most powerful, if not the most powerful, is the Israel lobby, the existing activist groups that aren't breaking the law.
but that are extremely powerful and well financed to ensure that American support for Israel, military support, financial support, even though many Israelis have a higher quality of life than many Americans do, every year under an agreement signed by President Obama on the way out with Netanyahu, we send $4 billion to Israel. And then on top of that, we give them all these extras constantly, whatever they want, like Biden is getting now another $14 billion to send to Israel for their war.
And they make sure that there is complete bipartisan unity. You can vote for Republicans. You can vote for Democrats. It makes not the slightest difference. The U.S. will continue to treat Israel as the 51st state. We'll finance its military. We'll send all this money to it. We'll make its wars our wars. We'll never once say, look, something you're doing is harming our national security. And if you don't stop...
We're going to cut out the aid. The last president who tried that was George Bush 41. Under James Baker, his secretary of state, he said, you're allowing these settlement expansions in the West Bank, which prevent a peace agreement from being reached. That is harming our national security. We, the United States. And if you don't stop, we're going to cut off our loan guarantees that you need. And you'll never guess what James Baker was vilified as. That's right. An anti-Semite.
And it really didn't get anywhere. And ever since then, no president has been willing to confront Israel because there is an extremely powerful lobby, not just American Jews, but evangelicals, the arms industry, the national security state that revere Israel and protect it more than even the United States and its interests, more than American interests. And that's why every bill that comes up in Congress that's pro-Israel passes by a lopsided margin of like 416 to 7%.
And now, AIPAC announced today a $100 million campaign to unseat from Congress even those six or seven people who occasionally are insufficiently supportive of Israel because they want it to be unanimous, not 417 to seven. And that's the political culture in which we're living. That's the reality. - I mean, it becomes kind of obvious the goal is to make sure we don't have national security because all good things come out of that. Jobs are created, we get new surveillance,
We got that great Patriot act that never went away. So what is the downside here? So what is the downside? That's this is this exactly. So I've also said, I've also tweeted recently. Well, we're going to talk about it when I show Nikki Haley's a clip. Uh, but, uh,
A terrorist attack. The billionaires who, again, if you go. It's not a bug. It's a feature. Exactly. So if you go back to that movie Network from 1974 and Ned Beatty said famously, there are no countries. There are only companies in the international flow of dollars.
And so the billionaires who run this country are the same billionaires who run the world. And they don't give a shit if we lose all our liberty, freedoms. That's the goal. Yes, that's the goal. And even if there's a civil war inside the United States, chaos always favors the establishment. And they don't care. And they still want you to fixate on Donald Trump taking away our democracy somehow. You know what? Chaos is a ceiling. It's not a ladder. It's a ceiling. It's a ceiling.
So that's what I've come to understand. And again, this idea that the Congress and the president works for the United States people, they don't. They work, again, for a handful of billionaires who run the entire planet. And this is... Well, Jimmy, you see... I'm sure you've seen the polling data. I presume you've covered it on your show. Majorities of Americans want a ceasefire. Yes. In favor of a ceasefire in Israel. Yeah.
And this is a view that early on, there were like three people in Congress advocating at a time when 60% of Americans favored it. You had three members of Congress willing to express a view that 60% of Americans favor. And when the Biden White House was asked about that,
They said that's reprehensible or despicable for those members of Congress to advocate for a ceasefire. And when you look at that, that is a broken democracy. You see issue after issue after issue. You've covered it many times on your show, health care being one, many others, where you have a majority of Americans who believe in a certain policy.
But because Washington doesn't work based on democratic principles, but based on the principles of lobbyists and money and corporate financing that is designed, as Kurt said, to make sure that there is no democratic input. That is the purpose of why this system in Washington works.
functions this way. It's not broken. It works perfectly by design to ensure that there's no such thing as democratic will. And so the American people get screwed over and over and over. Why, if you wake up, let me ask you this question. If you wake up in the morning and you are trying to send your kids to school, struggling with two jobs, don't have any benefits, all the panoply of things that we've been over, your neighborhood's racked with fentanyl, why would you want the government, unless you're one of these people who, for religious reasons or cultural reasons,
has an extreme affinity for Israel, which is not a majority of people in the United States. But unless you're one of those people, why would it be in your interest? Why would you want your government to just send massive amounts of money to fuel Israel's war any more than you would want them to do with Ukraine? And that's why we finally got to the point where majorities of Americans said, I don't want any more money going to Ukraine, notwithstanding how intense the propaganda was that led them to support it in the first place.
But there's just this disconnect because everybody knows that Washington does not function as a byproduct of what people want in the United States by what the powerful people want. And it's not usually the case, but essentially by definition true, that there's a big breach between what the ordinary people in the country want and need and what the most powerful people want and need. ♪
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It's the oldest story in the book. It's about natural gas. It's about oil and gas. You ready? Watch this.
Gaza is rich, gas rich, at least 1.4 trillion cubic feet rich to be precise. But there's a catch. Geologists and natural resources economists have confirmed that the occupied Palestinian territory lies above sizable reservoirs of oil and natural gas wealth in Area C of the occupied West Bank and the Mediterranean coast off the Gaza Strip.
To date, the real and opportunity costs of the occupation exclusively in the area of oil and natural gas have accumulated to tens, if not hundreds of billions of dollars. Back in 1999, the pilot... And now you know the rest of the story. I mean, you don't even have to finish the story because I know exactly how this goes. That's right. Because it goes the same way every single time.
So, so wait, this means it's not about religion. No, I mean, sure. It's about religion for suckers who have to fight and die for the energy business. Right. And Bill Maher and Bill Maher. I just mean, it's not about religion for any of the people in charge making the decisions about the war in Gaza.
Boy, why does God always leave incredible wealth underneath bad people? I know. It's such a hassle having to wipe them out to get our energy-related gifts from our God. I mean, since I was a boy, listen to my Bible story book, Dabes. The bad people been on top of the stuff God said we could have.
Do I really need to play the rest of this video? I don't think I do. I'll sign. I'll sit play a little bit, but that's it. You got the story. That's it. You don't have to. That's it. I went, I did start go looking it up cause it's a B the BG group, which is a British, uh, exploration company who found it. BP or BG, BGG. Oh really? Yeah. And, I don't think I'd split off or something, but, uh,
It's just like...
A lot of these natural gas things are very similar. You pretend you're going to have a peaceful thing while you build up whatever you're going to do to go get... That's what the Mix of Peace Accords were about. Yeah, if you look at... I noticed some similarities is all I'm saying.
So there, I mean, I'll play a little bit more, but that's really... Union authorities signed a deal with British Gas. Just off the Gaza coast, they struck it lucky and two wells were drilled. That's Gaza Marine 1 and 2. It was a multi-billion dollar gift from God, an economic boon both home and abroad.
This is one of the key messages here today. There will be gas available for export. And from my conversations with Palestinian officials, including President Arafat, it is clear that they have no interest in just sitting on a gas surplus.
Fast forward to 2007. Hamas comes to power and Israel launches an offensive on the Gaza Strip, leaving behind four. So let's remember why Israel's funding Hamas. Yeah, that's the thing no one talks about. Israel's funding Hamas. Why do you think they're funding Hamas? Why do you so they can then use their terrorism?
They're fighting back against the occupation and the blockade as a pretext to go in and take that land. That's why they're telling everybody, get the hell out of there. We're going to flatten it. We're dropping leaflets. Get the hell out of there. We're going to flatten the land, and then we're going to take all the gas and oil.
That's what this is all about, of course. I think they already took it way back then, didn't they? Here we go. 1,500 dead Palestinians, but taking with it the gas fields. Now, within the year, Israel announced the discovery of the Leviathan natural gas field, which did include Gaza's riches. All in all, valued at $453 billion. Wow, that's almost as much money as Jeff Bezos has.
That's a lot of money. How much does he have? I don't know. I thought he was a trillionaire almost. Wasn't he close? No. Is he? Am I wrong? We're going to look it up. Here we go.
Maybe I'm wrong. I thought he was close to being a trillionaire. Sam Garson's haven't seen a shekel or to be more accurate, they have been denied around $47 billion in revenue. So they're not giving any of the money to the Palestinians. They did take it and they didn't give them their share. They already took it. Yeah. Okay. As for Tel Aviv, well, it's gunning to become a new hub.
This is a historical moment in which the small country of Israel becomes a significant player in the global energy market. The Memorandum of Understanding will enable Israel for the first time to export Israeli natural gas to Europe. And it is even more impressive looking at the significant set of agreements we signed over the last year, which position Israel and the Israeli energy and water sectors as a key global player.
Let's just run through this then. At that moment in time, so we're talking 2022, Russian oil and gas were sanctioned. Iranian oil was sanctioned. Syrian oil fields were, and still are, illegally occupied by US forces. Now, the key port of Latakia was being bombed by Israel. And the port of Beirut, the gateway to the Middle East, lay in ruins.
There was just that crazy ammonia explosion or something. Remember that? Remember that big explosion? Oh, it was a whoops. Just a quinky dink. Is that a greenhouse gas? A quinky dink.
Enter this small country of Israel right here with its seas of gas, its working ports, an answer to Europe's problems and perhaps most critically the U.S. blessing. Because in case you didn't know, U.S. Congress has decided that Israeli energy is in the highest national security interests of
Washington. So DC was only too happy for Tel Aviv to become a key global player. After all, it had itself previously mulled over ways in which to make its 51st state a window onto Europe.
Another interesting application of nuclear excavation would be a sea-level canal 160 miles long across Israel connecting the Mediterranean with the Gulf of Aqaba and thus the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean. Such a canal would be a strategically valuable alternate to the present Suez Canal. The Suez Canal is a gold mine. It connects the Mediterranean Sea to the Indian Ocean via the Red Sea. It is the link between Asia and Europe.
Every day, almost 3 million barrels of oil, 8% of global energy, 50 ships, $9 billion worth of cargo, 12% of global trade all pass along this right here single canal. Remember in 2021 how a container ship ran aground in the Suez? Global trade was brought to its knees. The alternative route via the Cape of Good Hope adds around 5%.
nine days and 7,000 kilometers to the journey. There is no replacement for the Suez Canal, except perhaps for the Ben-Gurion Canal. Now what the US had been thinking about back in the 60s was dropping 520 nukes on parts of Israel, or to build a 260 kilometer long canal that would start at the Red Sea down there in the port city of Eilat, run through the Negev Desert,
and pour out into the Mediterranean. Where exactly? Right next to Northern Gaza, the same Northern Gaza that is currently being bombarded and depopulated. Egypt and its money-making Suez Canal would just be sidelined. The same Egypt that rumor has it is now considering taking in refugees in exchange for debt relief by the US.
And if you think it's crude of me to talk business during times of an existential war, think again. The winning companies have committed to unprecedented investment in natural gas exploration over the next three years, which would hopefully result in the discovery of new natural gas reservoirs.
In recent weeks, Tel Aviv has handed out 12 new licenses to six companies, on top of the plan to tap more of the Gaza marine resources. This area is a strategic gold mine. The Israelis have their largest foreign base down the Red Sea, just off Eritrea. And here, a bit farther down, Beijing has a naval base in Djibouti, a key piece in its enormous global infrastructure project, the Belt and Road, hated by London, Brussels and Washington.
alike, always ask yourself, qui bono, who benefits? Because war is horror and war is hell. But never forget that war, above all else, is a racket. It's a big business. It's a racket.
War is a wreck. It's all about business and natural and fossil fuels, baby. It's always been. And once again, we are killing each other over a substance made of the last big stupid animals that dominated the face of the earth. Does anyone really think this was about religion, Kurt? The Suez Canal and the immeasurable profits is more important than human life. We're not dealing with religious leaders. We're dealing with shareholders.
They only have one deity, and the places of worship all have ATMs installed. Okay? Pragmatic evil is the curse of the modern world. It's like technocrat stuff. Yes. Well, it would just be better if the people were not in the way. First of all, I know it was the 60s, but to even try to calculate that you would dig a canal with nuclear bombs. With nuclear bombs? What? Whoa. Whoa. I don't got to live there.
They had already done Hiroshima and Nagasaki at that point, so you would think that might leave some problems. So either human life will win or greed will win. They both cannot succeed simultaneously. What about some really greedy lives that will sacrifice all the other lives and then they will win? That is amazing!
This is, and this, I'm going to guarantee you, Rachel Maddow is not going to tell you this. Sean Hannity is not going to tell you this. Anderson Cooper, not going to tell you this. I've never heard of this until just now. Me neither. I had no idea. I always be like, does he not have gas or anything? Like, I always wondered about it. Never heard a thing. And apparently 1999, this was like a top secret released file.
I mean, the nuclear bomb thing was, but the natural gas being there wasn't really reported. Nuclear bombs. They're going to use nuclear bombs to build a canal. Wow. How did they build the Panama Canal? They didn't use nukes back then. They got it done. I know. They didn't have the technology. Right. So I guess just because it would take too long? I want my gas now. I want it now. So when do you send the workers into the nuclear blast zone to get that canal moving?
That is amazing. Yeah. Okay, so... So that's why we had to blow up the pipeline. That's why we had to blow up that Nord Stream pipeline. No, it's not. You create the guy that they arrested. And that's why we got to stand with Israel. This is why we're standing with Israel. Because of all... This is why. Of course. And that's what Bobby Kennedy was talking about in that speech that we...
tore apart you know or not a speech with that thing he was saying when he talked about uh he said israel is like a aircraft carrier in the middle east unfortunately has a concentration camp on it yeah and uh but also that russia's oil he said yeah protects oil russia china iran saudi arabia and the venezuela regime could control 90 of the oil and
It's just amazing. This is it. And so the guy who launched his candidacy as a peace candidate said,
quickly turned into using the same rhetoric that has gotten us into every war ever. Today he was a president. That's what he knew. Yes, that's what you knew he was serious about. That's when the Fareed Zakaria in me really came out. I said, today he is a president. He is a president. It's a heartbreaker. Okay, there it is. This is what it's all about, dummies.
Hey, this is Jimmy. Who's this? Jimmy, this is Senator Bernie Sanders. Oh, Mr. Hi, Senator. Haven't heard from you in a while. Well, you're always trashing me on your show, so why would I call? Sorry, not sorry. Hey, while I have you on the phone, can I ask you about yesterday? What about yesterday? How we were talking about labor issues in our Senate committee hearing? Well, not exactly. Specifically, how a fight almost broke out and you stopped it. Did you see this video? Yeah.
Gentlemen, you're a senator. You're a senator. Come on, Jimmy, for crying out loud. Everybody and their brother is asking me about this. When there are real issues to discuss out there. Jimmy, like I told Anderson Cooper, this country faces so many crises. We have massive income and wealth inequality. We have a housing crisis. Our health care system is almost collapsing. It's broken. It's dysfunctional.
We pay the highest prices for prescription drugs. Climate change is threatening the entire existence of the planet. Right. I'm not finished. The Marvel Cinematic Universe is rudderless and in shambles, and no one seems to know what to do. Bridges are collapsing. Subscribing to an OnlyFans account that is just feet, just foot content, is almost unaffordable for a family of four.
Horses are getting loose on airplanes. I'm sorry, what? Literal news story from last week. I can't seem to find a decent chicken salad sandwich anywhere in this town. And this is what goes on in a Senate hearing. It's pathetic. So you don't want to tell us what happened? All right, fine. So I'm doing the Senate hearing with my Republican colleague from Oklahoma, Mark Wayne Mullen. Wait, it's not Mark Wayne Mullen? No.
It's Mark Wayne. One word. Idea. I know. It's retarded. What? You can't say that, Senator. Is there a better word for it? Is there a more accurate descriptor? Yeah.
Anyway, so we have this O'Brien on the stand, the head of the Teamsters Union. So and we're trying to get the pro act passed here. And instead of focusing on the issues, these two bozos decide to make it about personal beef, a Twitter beef. This redneck next to me starts reading tweets. And O'Brien is sitting there, you know, yeah, fuck you. What about it? Yeah. And then this big dumb okie stands up like he's going to fight the guy. Jesus Christ.
I know. Unbelievable, right? So I said, sit down. You're a senator, for Christ's sakes. And he did. Well, I'm glad you stopped it. I know. It was tough trying to stop. Would have been easily the most objectively funny thing to happen in a long time. Yeah. But you know how these things are. Walt Walk. This jabroni wasn't going to do shit. I don't know. He's a pretty big guy. Yes, correct. He is. And he's a mixed martial arts fighter. Oh. But one thing about MMA, there are rules.
This other guy, his name is O'Brien, he's a teamster, and he didn't break a beat of sweat. I'm from Brooklyn, Jimmy. I guarantee the way O'Brien fights, there are no rules. It would have been a bloodbath. Okay, I got you. It would have been a good fight. And my friend Mark Wayne, despite being the only senator without a bachelor's degree, was probably smart enough to know that. But that wasn't the only thing that happened yesterday. What do you mean?
Kevin McCarthy elbowed another congressman that he had a beef with in the kidney. Ouch. And a fellow Republican, another congressman called a colleague a smurf during a hearing. The wheels are coming off the fucking bus, Jimmy. It doesn't seem like the civil order. It does seem like the civil order is unraveling.
Let them?
Nothing works. No one listens. No one else cares. Why should I? I might as well get to enjoy a spectacle every now and again. I say bring on the full-fledged brawls like you see in Malaysia or wherever. Hell, I might even jump in there myself. I still got a few swings left in me. You continue to disappoint, Senator. Oh, yeah? How about I fight you? Me?
Yeah, you little shit talker. Hey, you are a United States Senator. We're settling everything now with fighting. Haven't you heard? Yeah. Better get with the program. I'll give you a month to train. I'm not fighting you, Senator Sanders. Yeah, that's what I thought. What did you say? Nothing, nothing. Sorry, maybe I took this too far. Just got a little worked up from yesterday.
Uh, coming home.
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