Senate Republicans on Wednesday passed a measure to allow payment apps like Venmo and PayPal to return to ideological debanking—repealing a rule implemented in December by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Repeal of the rule would leave users of the apps in limbo, as the laws protecting consumers would still be in place, but the rule enforcing the law—and the bureau with the capacity to enforce it—would not. Jimmy and Americans’ Comedian Kurt Metzger discuss the bill, which has not yet p...
Mar 10, 2025•1 hr 2 min•Transcript available on Metacast In what can only be described as a stunning reversal on a key political issues, Republicans have now siezed the mantle of supporting free speech away from Democrats — mostly owing to Democrats’ support for efforts to counter what they call “misinformation” and “hate speech” online. But now Donald Trump appears to be willing to crack down on speech he doesn’t like as well, in particular criticisms of Israel and support for Palestinians. Jimmy and investigative journalist Matt Taibbi discuss just ...
Mar 07, 2025•58 min•Transcript available on Metacast In 2019 historian and Russia expert Stephen F. Cohen sat down with journalist Aaron Maté to discuss Ukraine’s newly elected President, Volodymyr Zelensky, and the threats he faced from neo-Nazi militants in his own country who were pressing to escalate the civil war in the east of Ukraine despite Zelensky running on a peace platform. Zelensky, of course, caved to the pressure from these ultranationalist elements, as well as NATO, both of whom wanted Ukraine to go to war with Russia, and now we f...
Mar 05, 2025•1 hr•Transcript available on Metacast In 2022, shortly after Russian troops rolled across the border into the Donbas region of Ukraine, negotiators for both sides met and hammered out an agreement to end the fighting — a deal that would have maintained the Donbas as a semi-autonomous region of Ukraine and let Ukraine proceed with plans to join the EU. Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelensky turned down the deal, however, at the behest of NATO, and now the Ukrainian people are dealing with the fallout of this terrible decision. Jimmy ...
Mar 03, 2025•1 hr 4 min•Transcript available on Metacast Glenn Greenwald recently responded to an article by Chris Hedges titled “The Purge of the Deep State and the Road to Dictatorship” describing Donald Trump’s dismantling of longstanding government institutions as a portent of worse to come. Greenwald disagreed with Hedges’ assessment, crediting Trump with positive steps like defunding USAID and firing thousands of civilian employees at the Pentagon. Hedges returns to The Jimmy Dore Show to address Greenwald’s response and explain what Glenn got w...
Feb 28, 2025•58 min•Transcript available on Metacast Political commentator and television host Joy Reid has been fired from her position at MSNBC, where she anchors her show The ReidOut. The move comes as the network is restructuring its programming. Among other changes at the network, Symone Sanders Townsend, Michael Steele, and Alicia Menendez, who currently co-host The Weekend, will move to a new weekday program. And Jen Psaki, a former White House press secretary under the Biden administration, was moved to a primetime weekday slot. Guest host...
Feb 26, 2025•1 hr•Transcript available on Metacast According to Bernie Sanders, we are “witnessing a very sad moment in American history.” Why? Because, he says, “the United States is aligning with the dictator of Russia, Vladimir Putin, to undermine the independence of Ukraine and its democracy.” Guest host Aaron Maté and Americans’ Comedian Kurt Metzger discuss Bernie’s wholesale embrace of the anti-Russia propaganda that has helped kill hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians and Russians. Plus segments on new FBI Director Kash Patel’s plans to i...
Feb 24, 2025•1 hr•Transcript available on Metacast The Biden administration treated Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky as a near deity, a heroic figure inspiring his underdog nation to repel the invading Russian hordes. Now that Trump has assumed power, the dynamic has changed and Zelensky is being described by the U.S. President in very different terms — as a “loser” and a dictator who refuses to hold elections that might challenge his position. Jimmy and Col. Macgregor discuss the reality of Zelensky that Americans have been denied by the ...
Feb 21, 2025•1 hr•Transcript available on Metacast Among all the crazed crackdowns on speech in Europe, the Germans may be taking matters to the most insane levels. German authorities today brag about breaking into people’s homes and laugh about seizing their personal devices like laptops and phones — all for the “offense” of insulting someone, sometimes a politician. Imagine not being allowed to insult a politician? Jimmy and Americans’ Comedian Kurt Metzger discuss the transformation in Germany from liberal democracy to authoritarianism over j...
Feb 19, 2025•1 hr•Transcript available on Metacast Christian Parenti is an investigative journalist, academic, and the author of several books, including "Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis" and "Radical Hamilton: Economic Lessons from a Misunderstood Founder.” He has reported from various locations such as Afghanistan, Iraq, Venezuela, and China. He is currently a professor of economics at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City. In this wide-ranging conversation, Jimmy and Parenti discuss why progressives s...
Feb 17, 2025•1 hr 2 min•Transcript available on Metacast Steve Bannon pleaded guilty on Tuesday to defrauding donors to a private effort to build a wall on the U.S. southern border, ending a case the conservative strategist decried as a "political persecution." Bannon, a longtime ally of President Donald Trump, pleaded guilty in state court in Manhattan to one count of scheme to defraud, a low-level felony. Spared from jail as part of a plea deal, he left court saying he "felt like a million bucks." In this conversation with Jimmy, Bannon insists the ...
Feb 14, 2025•1 hr 1 min•Transcript available on Metacast On a recent episode of The Daily Show, Jon Stewart advised Democrats that if they want to regain office, they need to chill a little on the fascist talk and actually offer an alternative. The late-night host showed clips of news anchors and Democratic voices talking about the “late Friday night purge,” where President Donald Trump fired at least 17 inspectors general. Reacting to the news, Stewart pulled out a prop axe and screamed, “Trump has ushered in the purge!” “I, for one, will take full a...
Feb 12, 2025•59 min•Transcript available on Metacast Since the moment the oath of office left his lips, Donald Trump has been employing a “flood the zone” approach to governance, overwhelming the opposition, the media, the courts and the public with a head-spinning array of executive orders and executive actions. Jimmy and Americans’ Comedian Kurt Metzger discuss how this approach not only puts all Trump’s critics on the defensive, practically knocking them off their feet, but also disrupts the narrative driving channels embedded withing the Deep ...
Feb 10, 2025•1 hr 3 min•Transcript available on Metacast President Trump floated two bombshell ideas Tuesday about Gaza that has Palestinians, Israelis and the wider Middle East scrambling. The first: that the U.S. would take over the territory. "The U.S. will take over the Gaza Strip," Trump said in a White House press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. "We'll own it ... We have an opportunity to do something that could be phenomenal ... the Riviera of the Middle East." Secondly, Trump said that the entire 1.8 million plus pop...
Feb 07, 2025•58 min•Transcript available on Metacast The Trump administration and billionaire ally Elon Musk moved to shutter USAID, an agency supporters say provides crucial aid to fund education and fight starvation overseas but critics argue is little more than a front for the CIA, sparking a showdown with congressional Democrats who blasted the effort as illegal and vowed a court fight. Jimmy and Americans’ Comedian Kurt Metzger discuss USAID’s history and how its application of “soft power” serves to prop up pro-US elements in foreign countri...
Feb 05, 2025•59 min•Transcript available on Metacast During her confirmation hearing to become Director of National Intelligence in the Trump administration, former Democratic Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard exposed some of the most egregious lies and failures of the intelligence community — information the vast majority of Americans have never been exposed to before. Jimmy and Americans’ Comedian Kurt Metzger discuss the shocking revelations contained just in Tulsi’s opening statement. Plus segments on Tulsi’s refusal to accede to Dem Senators’ deman...
Feb 03, 2025•1 hr•Transcript available on Metacast Not surprisingly, it has been primarily Democratic Senators asking tough questions of Robert Kennedy Jr. during his confirmation hearings to become Secretary of Health and Human Services under Trump. What may be surprising, however, is how poorly this questioning is going for the Senators, including Senator Lujan of New Mexico, who apparently didn’t understand that the HHS director has no control over Medicaid spending levels, and Nevada’s Senator Cortez Musto, who was lectured by RFK about the ...
Jan 31, 2025•1 hr•Transcript available on Metacast Even as Palestinians are beginning to return to their bombed-out homes in northern Gaza, President Donald Trump has said he wants to take those Palestinians out of Gaza and resettle them in Egypt and Jordan. Trump said he had made this request to Jordan's King Abdullah and planned to ask Egypt's president on Sunday, too. Describing Gaza as a "demolition site", Trump said: "You're talking about probably a million and a half people, and we just clean out that whole thing". He added that the move "...
Jan 29, 2025•1 hr 1 min•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Scott Gottlieb is a poster child for the revolving door between government and industry, having served as head of the FDA under Trump before taking a high-paying gig on the board of Pfizer. Asked recently during a segment on CNN whether the COVID vaccine might be responsible for the dramatic spike in cancers in the past few years, Gottlieb predictably hemmed and hawed and sought to deflect blame away from vaccines. Jimmy and Americans’ Comedian Kurt Metzger discuss the rank corruption of the...
Jan 27, 2025•1 hr 1 min•Transcript available on Metacast After a bishop at the National Cathedral prayer service for the inauguration on Tuesday implored Donald Trump to “have mercy upon” immigrants and LGBTQ+ people, many have spoken out about the remarks – including Trump himself. In a lengthy social media post early on Wednesday, Trump called the Right Rev Mariann Edgar Budde a “Radical Left hard line Trump hater” adding that “she brought her church into the World of politics in a very ungracious way” and criticized her tone as “nasty”. Later on in...
Jan 24, 2025•58 min•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Anthony Fauci, former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), told The Hill on Monday that he intends to accept the pardon preemptively offered to him by President Biden. Fauci said in an email that the White House approached him about the pardon about a month ago and that he did not ask for one. Jimmy and Americans’ Comedian Kurt Metzger discuss Fauci’s myriad crimes and whether accepting the pardon necessitates Fauci’s acknowledgement of guilt for cri...
Jan 22, 2025•1 hr 3 min•Transcript available on Metacast New users have piled in to Chinese social media app RedNote just days before a proposed U.S. ban on the popular social media app TikTok is scheduled to go into effect. The lesser-known RedNote is rushing to capitalize on the sudden influx while walking a delicate line of moderating English-language content. Meanwhile, Americans flocking to RedNote are expressing shock at what they’re learning about Chinese culture and the surprisingly comfortable conditions the Chinese people live in. Jimmy and ...
Jan 20, 2025•1 hr•Transcript available on Metacast A ceasefire agreement has been reached between the Israeli government and Hamas after untold devastation to Gaza and tens of thousands of deaths. While Palestinians across Gaza have been cheering the deal, Israelis poured into the streets to register their objection to any agreement, insisting that Netanyahu keep the genocidal assault going. Guest hosts Russell Dobular and Keaton Weiss of the Due Dissidence podcast, along with guest Jimmy Dore, discuss whether the Palestinians or Israelis are mo...
Jan 17, 2025•1 hr 3 min•Transcript available on Metacast One area of contention within the MAGA movement is over the question of Israel. Many Trump supporters are adamantly anti-Israel and wish to sever the close ties between the US and the Jewish state. Within the Trump camp, however, there is near unanimity in offering unconditional support for Israel in its genocidal assault on Gaza and aspirations for expansion into what’s termed “Greater Israel.” Guest hosts Russell Dobular and Keaton Weiss of the Due Dissidence podcast talk with Black Conservati...
Jan 15, 2025•59 min•Transcript available on Metacast California Gov. Gavin Newsom was confronted by a mother in Los Angeles County who said her daughter's school burned down as several fires have devastated the region this week. In a video aired by SkyNews, the woman approached Gov. Newsom in the middle of a street surrounded by burned-down buildings. "I live here, governor. That was my daughter's school. Governor, please tell me what you're going to do," she pleaded with Newsom. The governor responded, "I'm literally talking to the president righ...
Jan 13, 2025•59 min•Transcript available on Metacast Meta will get rid of fact-checkers, “dramatically reduce the amount of censorship” and recommend more political content on its platforms, including Facebook, Instagram and Threads, founder Mark Zuckerberg has announced. In a video message, Zuckerberg vowed to prioritize free speech after the return of Donald Trump to the White House and said that, starting in the US, he would “get rid of fact-checkers and replace them with community notes similar to X”. Zuckerberg said Meta’s “fact-checkers have...
Jan 10, 2025•1 hr 1 min•Transcript available on Metacast According to authorities, the recent New Year’s attacks in New Orleans and Las Vegas are likely the work of ISIS and Al Qaeda, who are determined to initiate attacks on the U.S. homeland and terrorize the American populace. According to investigative journalist and author Whitney Webb, however, these incidents actually have the hallmarks of U.S. and Israel-based intelligence operations, although the objective — terrifying the American people — remains the same. Guest hosts Russell Dobular and Ke...
Jan 08, 2025•1 hr 2 min•Transcript available on Metacast Popular comedian Whitney Cummings caused quite a stir during the recent CNN New Year’s Eve broadcast with Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen as she hilariously gored sacred cows left and right, alternately skewering Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and the Democrats over the massive coverup of Biden’s dementia, Pfizer for pushing a vaccine of dubious efficacy on the whole country and even CNN itself for plummeting ratings. Whitney joins Jimmy and Americans’ Comedian Kurt Metzger to discuss her now-legendary...
Jan 06, 2025•59 min•Transcript available on Metacast The number of homeless in the United States has grown by a third during the Biden years despite steady economic growth since the end of the pandemic. So how did this happen? Why did a rising tide not only fail to lift all boats, but now threatens to drown an even greater number of Americans living on the margins -- and under bridges, on sidewalks and in their cars? Jimmy speaks with Food Not Bombs founder Keith McHenry about the history of homelessness, why the problem remains so entrenched in t...
Jan 03, 2025•59 min•Transcript available on Metacast A new year is upon us, and nearly everyone wants to know what’s going to happen — whether with the economy, the stock market, the Trump administration and all the other important arenas that affect our lives. Cue expert trend analyst Gerald Celente, who speaks with Jimmy about which direction the political, economic and social winds are blowing, and what to expect from the coming months. Plus segments on Donald Trump’s pledge to pull the United States out of the World Health Organization, effort...
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