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This is Jimmy.
Who's this?
Jimmy is President Joe Boyden.
Oh, Mr. President, how are you doing?
Jimmy, I couldn't be better.
My very soul has been regenerated.
Yeah.
I have returned to where my heart truly lies.
Where's that?
You went back in time to segregation days?
No, silly goose.
I traveled across the ocean to the Emerald Isle, the homeland of my people, Ireland.
I got it.
Okay.
Jimmy, being of Irish descent has been fundamental to the very core of my identity.
Being Irish is something that permeates every aspect of one's essence.
To be of Irish heritage is to declare something about yourself to the world.
And what is that?
That you are an extremely white person.
Jimmy, you are a fellow son of Hibernia, aren't you?
Excuse me?
Irish, dummy, or Irish.
Yeah, yeah, but I honestly don't think about it very much.
Well, suit yourself, race traitor.
What are you?
What are you doing there exactly?
Well, Jimmy, among other things, I'm here to help mark the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Accords, which ended decades of violence, civil unrest in Northern Ireland.
Thanks to the intercession of the United States, the horrible sectarian violence that plagued this land has abated significantly.
That's nice.
Yeah, that is nice.
For years, Protestants were having parades that made Catholics mad, and then stuff would blow up.
It was a nightmare.
But now, with the troubles behind them, the Irish people can look to a bright future, thanks to America.
Yeah, ain't that just like America trying to achieve peace in a war-torn European nation?
That's exactly right.
It's what we do, damn it.
Every time we have the opportunity, that's what we do.
Darn Tooton.
You're not picking up on the sarcasm here, are you?
No, I am for sure.
I'm just not sure what you're getting at.
Ukraine, ring a bell?
All right, jackass.
That's totally different.
How?
How exactly?
Well, first of all, my ancestors didn't come from there.
Second of all, totally different situations.
Just is.
Okay, don't you think the U.S. could at least try and use its perceived role as peacemaker in that country, too?
Look, man, you can't be playing peacemaker all the damn time.
You gotta pick and choose.
Anyway, enough of that.
Jimmy, I've also had the pleasure of visiting some distant relatives while here.
Is that so?
Yes, up in County Donegal.
I visited a cousin named Mary O'Flaherty.
She's a 90-year-old widower who lives on her own, but she's a firecracker and doing just great.
I came to the door and she threw a Guinness in my face and she told me to piss off.
I love the people here.
So vibrant.
Sounds like it.
And next, I'm going to visit a cousin on my Finnegan side.
My ancestor, Owen Finnegan, was a shoemaker in County Loo who immigrated to the United States in 1849, and his childhood home is still standing.
Wow, it's fascinating.
Yes, I can't wait to walk in his footsteps and imagine what his life must have been like.
What kind of a man he was, who he might have been to his community?
Well, I wish you well in that endeavor, Mr. President.
I just think that...
I'm getting another phone call.
Oh, hey, this is Jimmy Door's show.
Who's calling, please?
Jimmy, this is Liam Neeson.
Liam Neeson, why are you calling me?
Well, Seamus, I was listening to your live feed, as me and my dox and Gerald do every Wednesday.
And I heard what your president just said.
What, that I'm Irish?
I'm Irish like you.
I know.
So cool.
Did you say you're a descendant from a County Lou shoemaker named Finnegan?
Owen Finnegan.
Yeah, did you know him?
How much do you know about this man?
Barely anything.
He was a shoemaker, like you said.
The only one for miles around.
Everyone depended on him for their shoes, man, woman, and child alike.
But he secretly charged Catholics twice as much for shoes as Protestants.
It took years for the scheme to be discovered.
And when it was, he was drummed out to the country, never to return.
But the damage had been done.
After years of this shoe price differential, so much wealth had been drained from the Catholics that they were reduced to poverty.
With Finnegan gone, all they could do was blame the Protestants.
Driven from their lands, the Catholics had to leave for Belfast to beg for work.
Defeated and humiliated, these men formed the Irish Republican Army, and the troubles began in earnest.
The civil war in Northern Ireland was your ancestors' fucking fault.
Well, that's a neat story.
No, it's not.
The name of Owen Finnegan is as much of a curse to Ireland as St. Patrick's is a blessing.
No descendant of this blackguard of a shoemonger is allowed to set foot on this island ever again.
If you value your life, Mr. President, do not mention your relation to this man and you search for your cousins in vain.
There are none left.
Okay, well, let's help with travel tips.
Thanks, Liam.
Always good to get a sense of the local culture.
I'm a big fan, by the way.
I really enjoyed Tuskbreaker 2, Rise of the Mastodons.
For the last time, that wasn't a real movie, goddammit!
You Americans, you love to talk about your Irish heritage, but make no effort to truly learn the history.
Shameful.
Allow me to school you in another one of our ancient ways.
Oh, Nate, I can't wait.
Is it like a Blarney Stone thing?
Mr. President, he just hung up.
I think he was teaching you about the Irish goodbye.
Oh, I heard of that.
I thought that's when you kissed a child on the lips in front of cameras.
No.
No, I'm afraid not.
Oh, Jimmy, I have to go.
My whirlwind tour is still going on.
I'm off to take my first Gaelic lesson.
Before long, hopefully, I can read the road signs here and talk to one of the eight remaining native speakers.
Aaron Gobr, Jimmy.
Erin Gobra, Mr. President.
Thanks for calling.
Bye.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Establishment media sets of all its fighting.
So good luck for bullshit.
We can't afford to miss the as a jack dog.
Comedium speeds and jumps comedium and hits him head-on.
It's the Jimmy Tor show.
George Galloway was the Labor Party representative in Parliament from the city of Glasgow beginning in 1987 till 2003 when he was expelled from the party by Tony Blair over the Iraq war.
He describes himself as Britain's most outstanding political figure and is currently a prominent columnist, author and host of the mother of all talk shows on YouTube.
Please welcome George Galloway.
Welcome to the show.
Thank you very much, Jimmy, and congratulations on those outstanding achievements.
I had a few after I got expelled myself.
I won twice as an independent against Tony Blair's Labour Party and spent almost 30 years in the British Parliament.
So I recognize a high achiever and you, man, are really, really breaking records.
A million subscribers on YouTube.
Thank you.
100,000 on Rumble.
Well done.
You deserve every one of them.
So I'm glad we have you here with us because Claire Daly, who's one of our faves, she gave a speech about the Iraq war.
And I wanted to play.
It's only about a minute long.
Let's play, Lloyd.
We have just passed the 20th anniversary of the Iraq war, a war where over a million people died, where people still grapple with the after effects of the use of depleted uranium, where nobody has been held to account for a country torn apart and a region plunged into chaos.
And we have a responsibility to look back and ask, how did it all happen?
Well, it happened because the people in power told us over and over things they knew were not true.
It happened because a compliant media failed to ask the questions and parroted those lies day after day, beating the drum for a war of aggression, dressed up as a battle of democracy against authoritarianism.
So now, as another country is torn apart, another region turns into chaos, at this uniquely dangerous phase in world history, we see the same people again, paying for blood, not their own, of course, seizing the moral high ground, condemning peace as appeasement, bellowing that the only option is escalation.
Well, you really have to ask yourself the question, why in God's name won't we believe these liars now?
We need peace and we need it now.
Now, I just wanted to, let's bring in George Galloway on that.
Now, why?
She reminds me of what you said to the Senate in the United States.
Now, why is it there's only a handful of people like you that it seems to be Pete, in the United States, there's only a handful of people that speak out like that?
Well, she is Joan of Arc.
She is La Passionaria Dolores Iberuri.
She is a fighter of the very first rank, and that speech ranks with any anti-war speech that I have heard.
And the reason is she's got courage.
She does not want anything from the power, and nothing that matters to her can be taken from her by the power.
And that's what's required.
Moral courage, moral fiber, as my old mother, nearly 90 years old, would call it.
The ability to say that there are some things greater than self and sacrifices that may need to be made.
They're not, after all, asking you to sacrifice your blood like other people.
They're maybe asking you if you're prepared to sacrifice high office for speaking the truth and standing up to power.
And that's what Claire Daly does.
It's what I tried to do in the U.S. Senate in 2005 in a speech, an occasion that has lived partly because, as you say, it's not often repeated.
We have the misfortune to live in a time of moral dwarfs, of pygmies in the international political arena, which means that those of us who are at least a little taller than a dwarf can stand out against the prevailing landscape.
But that time will pass, Jimmy.
Our children will have more courage than we, more knowledge than we, and they will change the world.
Of that, I am certain.
Well, I want to play that.
Your speech that you gave in 2005 in front of the U.S. Senate, they were investigating the UN's oil for food program in Iraq prior to the war, and you're speaking directly to Republican Senator Norm Coleman.
So this is pretty powerful.
Let's play it.
Now, Senator, I gave my heart and soul to oppose the policy that you promoted.
I gave my political life's blood to try to stop the mass killing of Iraqis by the sanctions on Iraq, which killed a million Iraqis, most of them children.
Most of them died before they even knew that they were Iraqis.
But they died for no other reason other than that they were Iraqis, with the misfortune to be born at that time.
I gave my heart and soul to stop you committing the disaster that you did commit in invading Iraq.
And I told the world that your case for the war was a pack of lies.
I told the world that Iraq, contrary to your claims, did not have weapons of mass destruction.
I told the world, contrary to your claims, that Iraq had no connection to al-Qaeda.
I told the world, contrary to your claims, that Iraq had no connection to the atrocity on 9-11, 2001.
I told the world, contrary to your claims, that the Iraqi people would resist a British and American invasion of their country and that the fall of Baghdad would not be the beginning of the end, but merely the end of the beginning.
Wow.
So that was 2005.
That was you then.
And you became, so you got kicked out of the party for being so vocal against the Iraq war.
That's what happened with Tony Blair.
Yes, and when I came to the Senate, I had just been elected as an independent candidate, defeating a pro-war Tony Blair Labour member of parliament.
And I did it again in another city called Bradford in 2012, which showed that we're not alone.
That if with the proper application of courage and having kissed the Blarney Stone in Ireland several times when I was a child, the ability to string a few sentences together, you can win the hearts and minds of people.
The liars don't always win.
And all the signs are, and I'm very optimistic about this, is that the liars are running out of steam.
Who anywhere is listening to the braggadoccio of Mike Pompeo right now, or the blinking stupidity of Anthony Blinken?
Who's listening to the drooling senility of Joe Biden in the world anymore?
People are jumping off the American train at quite a rate of knots, including passengers that we never imagined would, the kings of Saudi Arabia, for example, are only the latest to do so.
So the tide has turned.
Times are changing.
And the first one now will later be last of that, I'm sure.
Well, here's something.
This is from a guy named Richard Haas.
Now, he's an American diplomat.
He's been president of the Council on Foreign Relations since July 2003, prior to which he was director of policy planning for the United States Department of State and a close advisor to Secretary of State Colin Powell in the George Bush administration.
And he says this.
He says that he tweets this out.
The U.S. did not launch the Iraq war 20 years ago based on lies, nor did it go to war for oil or Israel.
What the 2003 Iraq war was an ill-advised war of choice, a bad decision, badly executed.
The U.S. and the world are still living with the costly consequences.
So what do you say to something like that when he said he doesn't actually tell us why we went to war?
We were supposed to believe that we actually went to war because we believed the lies about Saddam Hussein having, we all know those were lies.
We know how Dick Cheney would make up that lie and then he would feed it to a reporter named Judith Miller.
And then Judith Miller got, for some reason, was able to print whatever she wanted on the front page of the New York Times.
And then Dick Cheney would go on meet the press and say, hey, the New York Times is reporting that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction.
But he just planted that story and he knew it.
And so everybody knows.
So that's the game.
That was the game.
And we all know about the prospect for a new American century, right?
Which they had, well, at least General Wesley Clark admitted that they had all planned invading all these countries before 9-11.
They had a list of all the countries they wanted to invade, Iraq, Iran, Libya, the Sudan, Somalia, and Syria.
And so let me just throw it to you.
What do you make of when someone like this says that?
Well, I'm familiar with Dick, as I called him, back then, as now.
And whilst there's more rejoicing in heaven when a sinner doth repent than when those in no need of repentance, it leaves a bitter taste in the mouth because, of course, these were the very people and their counterparts in the war media who took us into that disaster, as Claire Daly just inimitably said.
So at least all of them now accept that it was a bad decision.
We told them it was at the time, if only they had listened to us.
But that's of interest now only to the historian.
Except in this regard, I'm wondering why so many people are ready to believe the same kind of lies, often from the same liars, always from the same platforms about every subsequent war, including the ones we're now in.
That's the point at which I despair about the human condition of some, if not many, that a man who now tells you that he was entirely wrong about something of such consequence,
which led to the deaths of millions, which cascaded fanatic hatred across the world, which gave birth to ISIS, which led to 10,000 beheadings, explosions, terrorism all over the world.
The people who got that wrong now tell you that they're getting Ukraine right.
Now tell you that they're getting Taiwan right.
They're getting the Persian Gulf right.
Well, you know, I know that the American dream, you had to be asleep to believe it, but you'd have to be crazy to believe these people who are now proven liars and admitting that they got this completely wrong.
Talleyrand was once famously quoted when a friend told him that one of his enemies had committed a terrible crime in invading a principality somewhere, said it's worse than a crime.
It's a blunder.
And this Iraq experience was both a crime and a blunder.
And that is unforgivable.
Well, I like what Tim Anderson tweeted out.
He said, right, a well-meaning war of aggression.
No lies were told.
And of course, he shows Colin Powell, of course, lying at the UN.
It was all pack of lies.
And we find out that, you know, nobody believed it.
And that's just how you sell a war.
And that was his job to sell a war.
And Colin Powell was a war seller.
And I don't know why a lot people gave that guy credit for nothing.
He was not a hero.
It took a lot of balls to tell that lie.
It took a lot of balls to do that.
So a million people got killed because of that.
And, you know, and I don't want to let off, it's the same stuff, right?
So now you see Ben Stiller and you see who's the other, the guy from Fast Times Original.
What's his name?
Sean Pennsylvania.
It's not just like the same.
Pete Jon Stewart.
You see all these.
Go ahead.
It's not just that.
Like they're kids too.
Yeah, like Cheney's kids.
Cheney's kids.
Right.
And so now I just want to remind people that just like the same thing now, you know, you turn on the view.
They're very pro-war.
They're very anti-they're very pro-censorship.
They're very, all that stuff.
So now we'll show you here is Margaret Kimberly reminds us that Oprah Winfrey was helping sell the war.
Even Oprah got in on the act, featuring in October 2002, New York Times reporter Judith Miller.
The U.S. intelligence community believes that Saddam Hussein has deadly stocks of anthrax, a botulinum toxin, which is one of the most virulent poisons known to man.
Liberal Hulk Kenneth Pollock.
And what we know for a fact from a number of defectors who've come out of Iraq over the years is that Saddam Hussein is absolutely determined to acquire nuclear weapons and is building them as fast as he can.
And the right-hand man to augment Chalibi.
And so do the Iraqi people want the American people to liberate them?
Absolutely.
I hope that hasn't a as if the people of Iraq want America to come bomb the shit out of our country.
No, they don't.
Didn't that guy Jalabi end up aligning with Iran in the end too, by the way?
I don't know.
I think he switched up.
Oh, did he?
So let's watch.
So somebody in the audience actually pushes back against Oprah and watch this.
When one guest dared to express doubt, Oprah would have none of it.
I just don't know what to believe with the media.
We're not trying to propaganda propaganda.
We're just showing you what is.
This is what it is.
Okay, you have a right to your opinion.
Wow.
We're not showing you.
This is just, this is the truth.
And how does Oprah know it's the truth?
She has no idea.
She has no idea that she's a pawn in a CIA plot to overtow to decapitate the Iraqi government and install a puppet regime and steal their natural resources and then go on to do that in Libya and Syria, 20 years in Afghanistan.
And she didn't know that she was just a pawn, just like Jon Stewart when he pins a medal on a Nazi at Disney Worlds, just like Sean Penn when he goes over there, just like Ben, what's his name?
Did I just say Ben Stiller, who I love Ben Stiller?
I love that guy.
But again, they don't, I don't understand how these people don't know it's the exact same thing.
It's the exact same playbook.
And they're all being used by the CIA and the military industrial complex to foment murder for profit.
Kurt, you want to say something?
Do you remember how hard she was on the guy that wrote the fake drunk book?
Yes.
And she couldn't believe the balls of him to lie about that.
To lie about the extent of his addiction.
I do remember that.
Yes.
George, so and now, before I bring George back in, I just want to show it's currently happening today.
Now, here's the news.
Here's a news reporter talking to a congressperson who's actually speaking truth and sanity about the Ukraine war.
What's what the news person does?
Now you're asking what happens if we just pull out of Ukraine.
Let me ask you a question back.
Why can't we push for a peace deal in Ukraine?
But then why is war the only answer?
Russians will be rewarded with territory for invading a country.
I'm sorry, I don't.
Ukraine is not the 51st state of the United States.
So there it is in the United States.
We have that's supposed to be our top news show, 60 Minutes.
And they're just full top of their lungs, full speed, 240 going for pro-war narrative and not a skeptical question about the pro-war narrative.
Do you think she would say that?
Yeah, why are we in Ukraine?
You think the reporter would say that?
That's the congressperson.
And then the reporter's like, we got to be in there.
We got to have war.
And so now you know why this is acceptable to Americans.
These are the American military bases all around the world.
That's how many military bases there are.
If you spin the globe, they're just everywhere.
Look at all the ones we have around China.
Look at all everywhere.
Every part of the globe.
You can't get away.
If they attack us.
Even in the middle.
What if we get attacked right there?
Look at all the ones in Central America.
Yeah, we got to do that.
Look at all the military.
They're spreading democracy.
It is unbelievable.
Look at this.
This is surrounding Russia.
The only Russia, Iran.
Look at this.
The only thing I've ever seen this thick pop up is if you go on the sex offender app.
It's about as many as there are military bases.
So let me bring back at George Galloway to comment on this crazy upside-down world we have where the entire media is on board for more war and people are okay with this kind of military expansion and imperialism.
That's just what it is by the United States.
And by the way, this is the way all empires end.
America's ending now.
George, like go ahead, take it away.
Yeah, I mean, to paraphrase Donald Rumsfeld, it's not America's fault that these countries have placed their land so close to your bases.
The reality is that the empire is overextended, just like the Roman Empire ended through overextension, through the debasing of its own currency, through its moral and societal degeneracy, through not being able to, in the end, pay enough to the local satrapies to keep them in the empire team and so on.
All of these things and more are actually being played out right now.
And the birth of this new world, this multipolar world, is taking place in front of our eyes with such rapidity that it's quite startling, even for someone like me who spent a long time, all of my life, fighting for this very outcome that has now hoved into view.
The old world is dying.
The new world is being born.
We do live in a time of monsters, yes, but the monsters are fading.
And the new world, the India, the BRICS, the Iran, the Latin America, the Africa that I've just been talking about on my own show this evening, a billion people with all these treasures underneath their soil, and they haven't even started looking in their waters yet properly.
All of these places will, in the lifetime of our children, be powerful, rich parts of a multipolar world, the era of Anglo-Saxon domination.
For that is what it is, Jimmy.
The West, as we loosely define it, including Australia and Japan, neither of which is remotely in the West, is only 13% of the population of the world.
And moreover, many of the people in the 13% wholly oppose the use.
And many more have not received a penny or a cent in benefit from the period of our domination.
But it is rapidly coming to an end because the emperor, to continue my Roman metaphor, has no clothes.
And more and more people can now see it.
And more and more people are ready to say it.
Well said.
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I'm here with special guests George Galloway from the mother of all talk shows is here.
And we're talking about the United States is losing its grip on Europe.
Europe is, well, here's Macron is telling the rest of Europe that it must resist pressure to become America's followers.
Europe must reduce its dependency on the United States and avoid getting dragged into confrontation between China and the U.S. over Taiwan.
That's what Macrone said in an interview on his plane back from a three-day state visit to China.
Is he just saying that because France is on fire?
After spending around six hours with Chinese President Xi Jinping during his trip, Macron emphasized his pet theory of strategic autonomy for Europe, presumably led by France to become the third superpower.
He said the great risk Europe faces is that it gets caught up in a crisis that are not ours, which prevents it from building its strategic autonomy.
He said that when flying home.
Okay, Xi Jinping and the Chinese Communist Party have enthusiastically endorsed Macron's concept of strategic autonomy, and Chinese officials constantly refer to it in their dealings with European countries.
Party leaders and theorists in Beijing are convinced the West is in decline and China is on the ascent, is on the ascendant, and that weakening the transatlantic relationship will help accelerate this trend.
The paradox would be that, overcome with panic, we believe we are just America's followers, Macron said.
The question Europeans need to answer: is it in our interest to accelerate a crisis on Taiwan?
No.
The worst thing would be to think that we Europeans must become followers on this topic and take our cue from the U.S. agenda and a Chinese overreaction.
Guess what?
It's catching on, too.
So there's another article, Charles Michael, Europe is warming up to Macron's strategic autonomy, pushing away from the United States.
European leaders are becoming increasingly favorable toward French President Macron's push for strategic autonomy away from the United States.
The European Council boss Charles Michael said, or Mitchell, I don't know how you say his name.
There has been a leap forward on strategic autonomy compared to several years ago, Michael told, or Mitchell told French television show La Fate in an interview set to air on Wednesday.
And then here is a member of the Euro, the Germans, this is Germans' parliament.
I think it's the Bundestag.
I don't know.
So she demands that America, this is her name is Seven Dagin.
I'm bad with names.
She's a well-known leftist politician in the German parliament.
She has spoken out in favor of Ukrainian neutrality and opposes sending German weapons to the Ukraine.
And so she gave us a button, so I'll read it to you.
So she says, and that is why we also say after 78 years, it's now time for U.S. soldiers to go home.
We still have military bases in Germany.
I've been to them.
I've been to the military.
They're nice.
Is this because we broke their gas?
I bet it is.
Are they mad about the gas?
Because we blew up their gas pipeline.
All other allies left Germany a long time ago.
These times are long gone.
We're still there since World War II.
But we stand by our position.
The United States nuclear weapons must go.
However, friendship with each other also means breaking with the existent relationship of extreme subservience by Germany on matters of U.S. foreign policy, one that is marked by war, breaches of international law, and support for coups.
The U.S. administration gives the impression that they don't actually want allies, just loyal vassals.
Yet fewer and fewer countries around the world are prepared to accept this.
And that is good news.
There was once a time when the Bundestag had more courage.
I remember the decision in 2010 for the United States nuclear weapons to be withdrawn, also on the initiative of the FDP foreign minister Westerwell, which has not been implemented to this date.
The U.S. military bases behave like extraterritorial areas in which the Constitution does not apply.
On German soil, assistance is provided in U.S. wars, lethal drone strikes, and torture flights in breach of international law.
And the U.S. hosts conference at Ramstein.
I've been there in Germany as if the occupation statute was still in force.
So let me bring in George Galloway.
So it seems this is good, actually.
This might be bad for the United States, but it's good because the war machine might be ramped down when Europe decides to turn its back and stop being a vassal of the United States.
Tell me, what's your reaction to this?
Well, you can take some comfort from the fact that no British government would ever talk like Macron and these German politicians you've been quoting.
You can count on the fact that we will be the tail of the American dog right up to the very last.
But that is an insufficient base of popular support and of state support for the United States to continue to rule the roost.
Because these ideas that you've just been showcasing are breaking out like spring flowers all over the continent, helped by the fact that our economy is now in ruins because of the sanctions that you ordered us to implement on Russia, which have backfired so spectacularly, no one even pretends to dispute it anymore.
We've lifted a huge stone and we've dropped it on our own feet.
Germany is deindustrializing.
The factories are being unscrewed from the floor and shipped to the United States.
Green cards are being given to highly skilled German workers, engineering workers are now moving to America with green cards.
Great for America, bad for Germany, and not likely to be popular in Germany.
Now, I don't know what the Chinese put in Macron's tea, some kind of ginseng, because he's come back.
He went there as a mouse.
He's come back roaring like a lion or perhaps not a lion, maybe a Xi'an.
But he is roaring nonetheless.
And as Michel, who's no friend of Macron, has just said, people are warming to it.
And of course, it helps put the fires out in France, which is one of the reasons why Macron did it and is doing it.
Because France is in flames.
Millions are on strike.
People are on demonstrations every day in every town, city, village, and hamlet in France.
So striking an anti-U.S.
tune, a Charles de Gaulle kind of tone, is popular in France and will dampen down the fires in France.
So of course, everyone's acting out of mixed motives, but everyone is concluding that vassalage is a very unattractive role in the world.
It doesn't play well with an educated public.
And that's what we have now.
Ignorance is a choice now, Jimmy.
Everyone in the world can, and one day soon will tune in to the Jimmy Dore show.
Tune in to the mother of all talk shows.
Find the truth.
Expose the liars.
We can all do it.
We've got the fingers to do the walking and listen to us doing the talking.
And then it will all be over for the empire.
Well, what is, I still don't get what is in it for Europe to go along with this Ukraine proxy war in the first place.
And especially after we blew up the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, which was going to supply energy to Europe and Germany.
And what is, I mean, everybody's paying higher prices now.
The United States is selling more.
I get why the United States wants to do this economic war against Russia.
What is in it for Europe?
Well, nothing.
And there never was any attempt to test whether we should do this with the public.
I mean, it's not as if they put it to a referendum.
Do you want to quadruple your energy prices?
Because my house is now literally four times dearer to heat than it was this time last year, quadrupled in one year.
And that's the case for everyone in Britain.
And it's the case for everyone in Germany plus some, because they were more dependent on cheap and reliable supply of Russian gas.
And the deindustrialization which it has caused is, of course, causing rocketing inflation.
People go to the store and everything's more expensive than it was last week, maybe even yesterday.
They go to the gas station to fill up with petrol or diesel.
It's all up.
So people have got less money to spend on goods which are more expensive to buy and the economic outlook is bleak.
And for what?
On whether a town called Kupiansk should be on one side of a line or another when it's been in four different countries in the last 100 years.
A town that we didn't know existed until 12 months ago that we can't spell, can't pronounce.
We're supposed to send our children to die in a nuclear war for Kopiansk.
We're supposed to bankrupt our economy for places as Marjorie Taylor Greene, I think it was, was making the point.
What does this have to do with us?
Until the Russian Revolution, most of these places in Ukraine were in Poland.
Some of them were in Romania.
Some of them were in Hungary.
Many of them were in Russia.
This is all nothing to do with us.
And if we hadn't decided to use this benighted little place that we now call Ukraine as a proxy for a NATO war against Russia, how many hundreds of thousands of people that are now dead would still be alive?
How many limbs that have been severed would still be attached?
How many damaged minds damaged forever would still be as they were?
How many husbands, sons, brothers, fathers would still be alive that are now dead?
It is a crime of unimaginable proportions and 20 years on from the previous crime that we were just discussing.
I mean, talk about Groundhog Day, the same liars telling the same lies to lead you into the same catastrophic wars.
And so from your expertise, you have a lot of experience.
You know a lot of things.
How do you see, because what's fascinating to me is that what is happening right now internationally is what they said Trump's bad stewardship was going to bring us, right?
That he was going to make other countries, even our friends, start to turn against us.
And well, that's what's happening right now.
So now there's bricks, right?
So there's new power centers, economic power centers that are rising up in opposition to the United States hegemony and imperialism.
And even our friends like Macron now in Germany.
And so that's what they said Trump was going to do.
He was going to do all that.
And now, of course, when Biden gets in and they have to, they're saber rattle.
They were like, well, you can't have Trump next to the nuclear button.
And well, first thing Joe Biden does is he saber rattles with two nuclear powers with Russia and China.
And then all the other countries are starting to turn against the United States from Russia, China.
Saudi Arabia is now selling China oil in their own currency.
The petrol dollar is going away.
Brazil, South Africa, they're all joining together against us.
South America is getting their own currency.
So there's a lot of things.
So go ahead, Corey.
You want to say something?
I've never heard something like that with like Europe strategic autonomy.
I never heard a phrase like that.
I never heard that either.
That sounds like I think we should see other people, like have like an open relationship.
Yes.
Let me bring it, George.
George, what do you say?
Yeah, exactly that.
And the ultimate irony, if Donald Trump being the leader of the anti-war movement in America is not irony enough, is that many of those that were marching against the Iraq war and even speaking in U.S. politics and on TV against it 20 years ago are now the biggest, most ravenous hawks for war.
They are the people demanding more censorship.
At least 20 years ago, I got on the television every night on the BBC because they had to.
They felt they had to.
At least give a glimpse of what one part of the country thought about things.
Now these liberals, pussy hats, peacemakers have become ravenous warmongers.
And it's the conservatives like Taylor Green and Donald Trump that are saying, hold on a minute, maybe a nuclear war is not the best idea.
Everything has changed.
Left and right are lines that no longer mean anything.
I mean, I spent my whole life thinking I was a leftist.
But if a leftist means you support NATO, you support war, you support censorship, you support blacklisting and shadow banning.
If that's left, I ain't left.
I'm more interested now in what's right and what's wrong.
And I think we can find people on both sides of the aisle who are ready to tune into that kind of politics.
And that's what I spend my time now trying to build.
Well said.
Let's end this segment there.
George Galloway has been our guest.
Been fantastic having you.
Everybody should check out his show.
It's called The Mother of All Talk Shows.
I'll be a guest on there Sunday.
So looking forward to my return visit to your show.
It's a great show.
George Galloway, thank you for coming on and thanks for all your wisdom and great words.
I appreciate it.
Hey, guess who's you know how the CIA brought crack into the inner city and so they can fund their dirty wars and wherever.
Yeah.
And it worked.
Those countries are destroyed.
And it works.
Yeah.
And so again, we're doing this is Our country does this to ourselves.
San Jose Police Union executive accused of smuggling drugs as wedding gifts and chocolate.
Boy, you got to admit, that's a great nest egg for a wedding gift.
Am I right?
Come on.
Come on.
The resale on that is high.
The top executive for San Jose's police union imported synthetic opioids over an eight-year period to orchestrate a national drug ring that disguised packages of pills as wedding gifts, makeup, and chocolate.
Federal officials said on Wednesday.
Joanne Marianne Segovia, the 64-year-old executive director of the San Jose Police Officers Association, used her home computer and police union equipment to facilitate the mailing of the synthetic opioids.
The drug smuggling allegedly took place from October 2015 to January 2023 with Segovia facilitating more than 60 shipments from Hong Kong, Hungary, India, and Singapore.
See, women can make a difference.
In a three and a half year period ending in January, officials allegedly intercepted five shipments to Segovia that contained thousands of pills, including synthetic opioids, Tramadol, and Tapantana.
I used to take Tramadol.
I hate that crap.
That's like when I couldn't find the one I liked.
And Oxy is really bad enough.
Yeah.
But that crap is like so much worse.
Is it why?
The synthetic one, they do weird things to you, man.
A lot of people can't take them.
I took Tramadol for a while.
What did you think of it?
I was in so much pain.
I didn't even really notice.
Yeah, I think they're like creepy.
I can't stand those.
Opioid overdoses, overdose deaths have reached epidemic levels, particularly in San Francisco.
Since 2019, more than 2,000 people in the city have died, often overdosing on the synthetic opioid fentanyl.
I didn't know there was synthetic.
Yeah, fentanyl is a...
That's weird.
Like it was healthier when I was popping OxyPills.
That was way healthier.
So that's what kills people is the fentanyl.
Even if you look up like the opioid.
Well, I had some, okay, that a friend gave me that.
It was patches.
It was like from when his mom died.
And I was like, and I was out of my usual Oxy and I was trying to look up how any way to take these safe.
I could not find a way.
You couldn't like, I'm like, all right, I guess got a kick.
I can't, I was too afraid to try it.
Really?
Yeah, and this was before you heard about fentanyl being a huge thing.
Like, it's, that used to be something only like pro wrestlers you'd hear about having.
So she used her WhatsApp to handle logistics and exchanging hundreds of messages with someone using a phone with an India country code.
The messages containing shipping and payment details, pictures and receipts, continued into this month.
Even after the federal investigators interviewed her in February.
Wow.
WhatsApp.
She still kept doing it.
Wow.
WhatsApp.
Everyone knows you don't use WhatsApp for that.
What a boomer.
Am I right?
Seriously, WhatsApp I thought was well known as a safe way to do that.
At least do Signal, but it turns out they got backdoors into Signal too.
That's how they got Tucker Carlson.
On March 13th, federal agents in Kentucky seized a package that contained valerial fentanyl and was addressed to Segovia officials said the package originated from China and the contents were listed as a clock.
Wow.
What time is it?
Time to get arrested.
The complaint against Segovia said that she told federal investigators she had nothing to do with the drug smuggling and blamed the shipments of pills on a woman she identified as a family friend and housekeeper.
She blamed it on her maid.
Not that close of a friend, I guess.
I guess not that close, if you get it right.
Segovia, right?
It's like the old cliché, the butler did it.
It's been a lie every time.
That's never been true.
It has never been the butler.
The butler took the fall for it.
Like a real light bulb moment.
Boom.
I'll blame the maid.
That's what she thought.
It's a real Segovia Leslie told investigators that after their February meeting, she realized like a light bulb that it must be this unnamed woman who smuggled the drug.
Boom!
It was the maid.
Wow.
The old Casey Anthony Eureka.
Yeah, the maid who's been running a drug smuggling read, but stays working as a maid.
The perfect cover.
No one would ever expect that you putting in eight-hour shifts cleaning toilets and scrubbing floors.
Pretend to be friends with this cop.
Yes.
Haeva, the complaint casts doubt on Segovia's statements and includes photos that she allegedly sent to a collaborator.
One image shows a computer with police union work materials in view, and another shows her signature on a packing slip sent from the police union address.
No kidding.
If convicted, Segovia could face up to 20 years in prison and a fine of up to 250 grand.
Well, I would do, I'll do the time, but I wouldn't pay that fine.
I'll have to owe you.
IOU, you guys take an IOU?
There she is, by the way.
The grandma.
The grandma of San Jose's powerful cop union tried to blame it on the housekeeper.
There she is.
She looks like, oh, just she looked like good people.
By the way, she used the pre-printed UPS shipping labels with the San Jose Police Officers Association account number on them to allegedly mail drugs to another drug trafficker.
Was she going to pay for her own UPS labels?
She has some right there.
This guy says, man, how does the story start with the head of the San Jose Police Union got caught trafficking fentanyl and then get funnier?
Here it is.
Here's this packing ship.
Here it is.
Wow.
And that's her name.
There's the address.
Wow.
A federal complaint against Segovia includes a picture she allegedly sent in WhatsApp conversation with the suspected collaborative drugs.
The packaging slip includes the address of the San Jose Police Union.
So that must be the address of the San Jose Police Union.
Wow.
Well, I mean, if she was smuggling Coke, she'd be less of a scumbag because fentanyl is like straight up.
You really are like, you care nothing about human life, putting that around.
That's what killed Mac Miller.
Yeah.
Well, yeah.
And the guy had bad, it was dressed up to look like Oxy's.
Yeah.
If that had been around when I was on that stuff, I definitely would have died.
Yeah.
I did a lot of Oxys.
Feds say San Jose Union Chief Joanne Segovia mixed police.
You know, when you're doing oxies, though, you feel good, right?
So it's like it does take your stress away.
So, like, I'm just saying, like, if you didn't have it, you'd be all stressed.
It'd be worse than that.
You'd have to diarrhea make you stress being hot and cold.
We had two officers that, oh, by the way, so this was fun.
Feds say San Jose Union Chief Segovia mixed police and drug business in messages, then tried to frame her housekeeper.
She said at one point, we had two officers that got shot.
I should be home tomorrow night, so I'll get them shipped out as soon as I can.
She's too busy because she got two cops got shot.
Okay, I'll get you the dope later.
It's so irritating when police business gets in the way of running your own real business.
You know what I mean?
How does the maid do it?
So there you go.
I wonder what her punishment will be.
I can't wait to see what they give her.
I wonder if they took it at McDonald's and get a burger on their way to jail.
Beep.
Hey, this is Jimmy.
Who is Jimmy?
This is Anna Swiss and A. Oh, my God.
Arnold, it has been a long time, buddy.
Jimmy, did you see my viral video?
Was it the one where you were feeding carrots to your pet burros that live inside?
No, this one has nothing to do with my little house donkeys.
In this video, I was fed up.
You're fed up with what?
Jimmy, listen to me.
Because of the strange weather we have been having in California, a massive pothole opened up in my neighborhood.
It was after three weeks and nobody came to fix it.
It was driving us crazy.
I decided to take matters into my own hands.
Oh, no, what did you do?
I fixed it myself and filmed it and put the video on the internet.
Wow.
Are you qualified to do street surface repair like that?
Absolutely not.
We got several bags of asphalt and dumped them in a hole, mashed it down with shovels.
But we too put we put too much in, so now where there was once a pothole there is now speed bump, which is equally annoying.
I see.
But what matters is the statement I was making.
This is not the California that I was a governor of.
This California is a failed state.
We cannot count on Sacramento anymore to solve our problems.
We must tackle them ourselves.
And I have the man to do it.
What?
Jimmy.
Jimmy.
What?
Are there any potholes in your neighborhood?
Not that I know of.
If you see any part of the fix them for you for charge.
Do you have any other governmental problems?
Well, our mail has been a little slow lately.
I will go down to your post office and terminate them.
It's not necessary.
I cannot have slow mail out in my California.
The mail is part of the federal government.
Arnold, what we cannot have only snow.
It's unacceptable.
I did not move here from halfway around the world to live in the Austrian Alps all over again.
I have to control the weather.
That's impossible.
And also, it's not your job.
Jimmy, I fixed the pothole.
I can do anything.
I can't fix California.
There are too many homeless shits out of control.
I agree.
I have a solution.
I don't think I want to hear it.
Provide affordable housing.
Oh, well, in that case.
Take the store that falls and we make igloos for these people.
They can live in there.
If I can't stop the snow, then I can put it to use to solve another problem.
Are you just making this up as you go along?
Yes.
What's going on with you right now?
I'm a famous person who basically retired, and then I went viral on Twitter, and I'm addicted to the fame again.
But my fame has to be about fixing California, so I'm going crazy personally, fixing all of my state's problems.
This sounds like you're out of mania.
It is mania, big manian, and I can't control it.
I'm manic.
Help me, Jimmy Dora.
Arnold, I would just suggest taking a social media break, pal.
I think that might help.
But they can't run down, Jimmy Door.
Why not?
Because I am, while I'm talking to you, I'm filming, also filming myself directing traffic at a busy intersection to post to TikTok later.
Are you a traffic light now?
Are the traffic lights out?
I mean, no, they're fine.
I've already caused three accidents and I hit time.
Okay.
All right, Arnold.
Hang up.
Turn off your phone for a few days and then just go home and play with your burrows.
House donkeys.
Okay, house donkeys.
But can you do that for me, please?
Yes, whoever so wise Jimmy Door.
I treasure your advice always.
I must back away from social media.
I think.
However, the next possible opportunity, I will find a flimsy reason to call you on your YouTube show.
Whenever I'm in the news, which I love so much.
No!
Ha ha ha ha ha!
Ha ha ha ha!
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