Trump Flip-Flops! Calls For MASSIVE Increase In Defense Spending!
Great news! Remember how Donald Trump used to talk about cutting the U.S. military budget in half and making peace with China and Russia? Well, that's all over because Trump is now calling for a massive INCREASE in the Pentagon budget to $1.5 trillion. Guest host Chris Keene and Americans' Comedian Kurt Metzger argue that this dramatic flip-flop contradicts Trump's anti-war rhetoric on the campaign trail and primarily serves the interests of defense contractors, tech firms, and oligarchs rather than public safety. They criticize media and bipartisan political elites for normalizing endless militarization while homelessness, poverty, and social decay worsen at home. The discussion frames the spending surge as part of a broader drift toward global conflict and a clear example of how campaign promises collapse once power is secured. Plus segments on how recent out-of-control episodes involving ICE are all part of a larger plan for cracking down on Americans' civil rights and why Trump is taking the wrong approach to the unrest in Iran. Also featuring Keaton Weiss and Caleb Maupin!
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Welcome back to the Jimmy Dore Show.
I'm your guest host, Chris Keene, sitting in for Jimmy.
He's on tour in Hawaii right now.
I'm here with Kurt Medzker.
And good news, everybody.
We're upping the military budget.
Just what we need.
Yeah.
I'm afraid that we only spent $1 trillion.
It wasn't enough.
Trump sparks a surge in defense stocks by calling for a $1.5 trillion in military spending.
Why have I still not put money in defense stocks to this day?
Yeah, I know.
That's how it works.
Yeah, we got it.
I know how to make money.
You invest in military shit.
We're doing it wrong.
And I don't, and I yet I don't.
Why?
What is wrong with me?
$1.5 trillion budget.
A lot of anti-war activists are upset about this.
You can hear from one of them right now.
Send ice after him.
I say here.
At some point when things settle down, I'm going to meet with China and I'm going to meet with Russia in particular, those two.
And I'm going to say there's no reason for us to be spend almost a trillion dollars on military.
There's no reason for you to be spending $400 billion.
China's going to be at $400 billion.
We're at a trillion.
We're going to be at close to a trillion.
And I'm going to say we can spend this on other things.
We don't have to spend this on military.
This keeps happening to me on this show.
They keep loading the wrong clips.
They look like Donald Trump saying our military budget is too high.
That's weird.
All right.
Sorry.
But that's blue-tie Trump.
Yeah, that was Blue Tide Trump.
Sorry.
There's two Trumps.
I don't think that was the right clip.
There's no reason for us to be building brand new nuclear weapons.
We already have so many you could destroy the world 50 times over, 100 times over.
And here we are building new nuclear weapons and they're building nuclear weapons and China's building new nuclear weapons and China's trying to catch up because you know they're they're very substantially behind, but within five or six years they'll be even, and we're all spending a lot of money that we could be spending on other things that are actually hopefully much more productive.
Are these AI What?
Who is that guy?
I don't know.
Who is this piece niche?
I think you're being foolish for not understanding.
Your president is Larry Ellison, so you never should look.
This is the benefit of Trump.
We learned that the president is not in charge.
They'll say whatever.
Yeah okay, the real president are the venture capitalists and oligarchs behind the president.
So, Larry Ellison, who was an Obama supporter, who wanted us all spied on, is going to do it.
And the money isn't going to nukes.
Trump said we don't need more nukes, and he's right.
What we need is to give AI fucks all of our money.
And that's what he did.
And you can't make any laws in the states against it.
Well, I'm glad that this guy, whoever he is, let's show him again.
This is an anti-war protester right here.
You see that guy right there?
This guy hates military funding.
We go to another clip of this guy.
One of the first meetings I want to have is with President Xi of China, President Putin of Russia.
And I want to say, let's cut our military budget in half.
And we can do that.
And I think we'll be able to do it.
We're cutting it in half, Kurt.
Isn't that good news?
I remember this.
We reported on it when it first happened.
What happened?
I don't understand.
Is this your first day?
He's went back on everything that wasn't a promise to the Adelson.
Donald Trump?
What's happening?
Donald Trump did that?
I don't know why you're playing coy.
We're well into this now.
I don't know who that guy is.
I don't know who that guy is.
That guy really hates Trump.
There's two of them.
I said.
Spending $1.5 trillion on the Pentagon will make America weaker, says Forbes magazine.
What is that?
The left-wing Libtar was over at Forbes.
Why will it make us weaker again?
What is their reasoning for that?
This week, the president took to Truth Social to announce that he would seek a $1.5 trillion military budget for fiscal year 2027, an astounding number that would be 50% higher than current levels, a jump not seen since the mobilization for World War II.
World War III is coming.
Exactly.
That's right.
World War III does seem to be coming.
Albert Pike.
And we seem to be spearheading it between funding Israel, funding Ukraine, attacking Venezuela, Iran, Yemen.
I mean, it never ends.
Remember the Albert Pike statue that Trump is rebuilding that was torn down during the BLM times?
No, the stupid media, the moronic doesn't know shit about shit media goes, that could be claimed to me and Trump de Waitist.
But no, that's not why.
Albert Pike, Albert Pike was the Freemason who said we have to have three world wars in his letter to Manzini.
That's why Trump rebuilt that statue.
And we're going to have three world wars.
Buckle up.
Yeah, it's heading that way.
The president justified his call for an enormous plus-up for the Pentagon as follows.
After long and difficult negotiations with senators, congressmen, secretaries, and other political representatives, I have determined that for the good of our country, especially in these very troubled and dangerous times, our military budget for the year 2027 should not be $1 trillion, but rather $1.5 trillion.
This will allow us to build the dream military.
Oh, what I've always dreamt of.
One that wins a war once.
Yeah, that we have long been entitled to, and more importantly, that will keep us safe and secure regardless of folks.
You know, I pass by people living on my street every day that don't seem very safe and secure.
They're sleeping in a blanket.
They have a shopping cart.
They don't seem very safe and secure.
War on hunger, I guess he means.
We need $1.5 trillion so that the Army can combat the greatest enemy of all, hunger and homelessness.
Yeah, exactly.
That would be a good ad.
Neither the president nor his congressional allies have provided a coherent argument for such a huge increase.
The United States is already spending a near to record $1 trillion on the Pentagon, nearly three times China, which the Pentagon refers to as its pacing threat, spends annually for military purposes.
So we spend three times what China spends.
But of course, money is not a direct measure of military strength.
The key is to spend defense dollars wisely and in support of a realistic strategy.
The president's call for such a huge increase contradicts some of the rhetoric in the Pentagon's recent national security strategy document, which called for curbing endless wars and limiting U.S. military action to core interests.
So the Pentagon's document says we should curb endless wars and curb action, yet we're upping.
Trump is going to up the military budget.
He's bombing Venezuela.
He bombed Iran, Yemen.
We're funding Israel.
We're funding you.
Okay.
If that rhetoric were put into practice, the Pentagon budget could be reduced, but not increased by $500 billion.
There are also serious questions as to whether the U.S. arms industry could use such a huge injection of funds.
It's the tech industry.
It's not the arms.
It's for tech.
It's for the AI.
We're behind in AI.
So we've got to actually hire more Indian guys to fake being a robot in a room in a bad abode with cell phones.
Many arms facilities are already maxed out with little or no ability to produce beyond current levels.
And there have been shortages of skilled workers in areas like submarine production.
In addition, some of the systems the new funds may be invested in will do little to make America safer.
The president's proposal for a leak-proof golden dome missile defense system is a pipe dream.
Most scientists who don't work for the Pentagon or the arms industry have conveniently argued that a perfect missile shield is physically impossible.
And an analysis from the conservative American Enterprise Institute has estimated that a golden dome system could cost anywhere from $292 billion to $3.6 trillion.
It's not a missile defense system.
It's a cage for you.
So it'll work fine.
That's right.
Don't worry.
It'll work fine.
As Bill Burr said about the wall, we're going to be the ones wanting to go over it once they build that thing.
That's what this defense is because he went to Saudi Arabia.
You don't listen to him anymore?
Ever since he sold out by going to Riyadh.
And he took blood money.
Kurt's pissed.
Kurt is pissed.
Yo, that Riyadh thing, I mean, Jimmy's wrong on that, too, by the way.
Riyadh, I would go in a heartbeat, and I would apologize for how shitty America is.
I would love the chance to apologize.
I would go too, but only because I love the kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Kurt.
It's just, it's a big deal.
We have more slaves than them.
Just so you know, slavery was never.
Go look at the numbers.
The most slaves in the world are in America.
Did you know that?
Did you?
We legalized slavery with the 18th Amendment.
We imprison the most people of any country, more than China.
So that means we have the most slaves.
Slavery is not about a job.
It's about being owned.
That's true.
That's true.
Who knows anything?
The Pentagon is going full speed ahead with a new intercontinental ballistic missile that is already far over its original cost estimate, even as experts like former Secretary of Defense have said that ICBMs are the most dangerous weapon we have because the president would have only a matter of minutes to decide whether to launch them upon warning of attack, increasing the chances of an accidental nuclear war caused by a false alarm.
I'm glad we're spending way beyond that.
This is such nonsense.
This is what we're spending our money on.
Weapons that could easily trigger an accidental nuclear war.
That's great.
You don't worry about that.
We have stuff that causes earthquakes.
Do you understand that?
And we have weather weapons that we used on Iran.
We don't have snap benefits for people in New York, but we have that.
We have that.
Yes, because that's what's important.
Ruling the entire world unilaterally.
What's going to be left of it to rule, I don't know, but that's great.
Golden Dome and the new ICBM are just two of many systems that should be reconsidered as the Pentagon develops a more realistic strategy appropriate to a rapidly changing global security landscape.
The Pentagon doesn't need more spending.
It needs more spending discipline.
Even more importantly, we need a new strategy that doesn't involve a quest to be able to fight anywhere in the world on short notice.
Instead of cheering on the huge proposed increase for the Pentagon, Congress should be asking tough questions on exactly what the new spending is likely to achieve when it comes to making America and its allies secure.
It is highly likely that they will find that we can craft a better defense for less.
Money alone won't provide safety.
This is horseshit.
This article, because Forbes is a horseshit magazine.
You see, Forbes is a twat.
And this is some silly fake being against the program, which they're not against at all.
Okay?
I hear you.
They always do this token.
Oh, no, we're spending more.
Is everybody going to stop falling for this at any point?
Oh, we're going to fake complain now after the thing that he lied about.
None of them are against what's happening.
None of them.
Especially who wrote this?
I want to know the name of the writer.
The writer?
I can tell you.
It looks like his name is William William Hartung.
William Hartung.
Hartung?
Is that a friend of yours, Kurt?
Anyways, I don't understand.
What I don't understand is why MAGA would be on board for any of this.
It's not.
It's not really a thing.
It's not really a thing.
Well, Trump ran on being anti-interventionist, the anti-war candidate, anti-regime change war.
And when he first got into office, as we showed at the beginning, he was talking about cutting the budget in half.
Now, I don't know who believed that was actually going to happen.
By the way, 13th Amendment, not 18th.
I got corrected by somebody.
Oh, okay.
13th Amendment, legalized slavery again.
We're fact-checking Kurt in the comments.
Yeah, people are fact-checking me in this world.
Either way, I don't know why MAGA would be on board with this.
This is the opposite of what Trump ran on.
We already have a military budget that is astronomical.
Meanwhile, we have people sleeping on the street.
I see them every day when I leave my house.
We have 35 million people living in poverty.
We have a million homeless people.
Yet we have trillions of dollars for war.
And it seems like we're ramping up for World War III as Kurt just said.
That's what's happening.
That is exactly what is happening.
This is this thing.
And it's going to happen.
And you're being drafted.
Well, I don't know how old you are.
But if you're in your 20s, you're going to war.
So you and your gender blob friends better do some push-ups because you're going to die face down in Venezuela.
Look, I'm just happy Kurt thinks I'm in my 20s.
All right.
You're going before me.
That's all I know.
That made my day.
So anyways, I don't know how anyone can support this, especially if you're MAGA.
This is the opposite of what I thought was voted for.
Now, I didn't vote for Trump, but I thought I did appreciate the alleged anti-war sentiment during the campaign.
Yeah, this is too.
Yeah, this is the exact opposite of that.
Well, now you're ruled by Israel.
And Israeli billionaires or Zionist billionaires who would never themselves live in Israel unless they got caught as being PDF files.
It's certainly.
Yeah, it's certainly the oligarchy that benefits from all this, and they don't really care what happens to you or I or our country or anything as long as they're profiting and benefiting.
That's why we're going to be able to do that.
Once they cover them FC files with big black rectangles, that's all they care about.
Yeah, they could take over Greenland and Venezuela and all these places, and everyone can just be living in poverty as long as they stay in power and they stay rich.
That seems to be the attitude.
And then you'll show real gratitude.
See, once you've had your living situation lowered yet again, then you'll show real gratitude when they tell the wokies to go F themselves.
And you'll go, oh, I can say women don't have wieners now.
Thanks, Trump.
That is.
Before I didn't have the freedom to say, I don't think ladies have pee-pees, but now I can.
I'm so grateful.
That is how they divide.
That is how they get you.
Exactly.
I'm sure there's people that voted for Trump just for those reasons, just because they were sick of being told, don't say this.
Most people that vote, that actually vote, have problems that they think voting will help with.
Well, that's the other reason.
Saying, why would MAGA do this and that?
I don't believe MAGA was ever a thing.
I believe there's people with problems.
The MAGA part is the media construct, just like all of it.
And that's why they can flip on a dime and you go, is MAGA going to put up?
The people never were on board for this.
It's been a scam the whole time.
I mean, literally, America's democracy.
I don't mean just MAGA.
Well, this is evidence of that.
This is fully evidence of that.
I mean, Trump is doing everything he came, the opposite of everything he campaigned on, he's doing.
So I don't, if that's not as Dick Gregory claimed, Dick Gregory said there's two Trumps and tell me a better explanation.
To be fair, there's two of most politicians, most politicians, or maybe all of them, honestly, campaign saying one thing and then do another.
This is the same old story.
And a clone of Jamie Foxx on top of it.
And people thought, I think there were people that thought that Trump was different.
He's not.
He's just, but I didn't have faith because only a fool would have faith in a human secular government.
Only an imbecile would put their faith in the democratic process.
But I had hoped because he talked a good game, didn't he?
He did.
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Welcome back to the Jimmy Door Show.
I'm your guest host, Chris Keen, filling in for Jimmy.
He's on tour in Hawaii.
I'm here with Kurt Medzker.
And we got one more ICE story today.
We got some clips of ICE being very restrained and looking out for our best interest.
Breaking ICE, Border Patrol agents were caught on camera admitting that following and filming them is legal and then illegally threatening U.S. citizens with arrest anyways.
That's great.
We're not doing it.
How's it going?
You guys need to stop following.
It's not illegal.
I know, but it is illegal to impede it already.
We're not impeding.
Yes, we are.
In what way are we impeding?
Record on public roads.
A warning for what?
An illegal warning?
I'm not impeding.
No, this isn't an illegal warning.
Impeding is a violation of 18 USC 111.
18 USC 111 says you can publicly observe.
No, I'm not impeding.
I'm not impeding.
For what?
I'm recording with that front up here.
Tell us how we're impeding.
Tell us how, sir.
Tell us how we are impeding.
Tell us.
Tell us how we are impeding.
Tell us how we are impeding.
We are not impeding traffic.
We are following every traffic law.
That is illegal.
We are following every traffic law and we are not getting in your way.
We are just filming, which is our First Amendment right.
Get out of here.
Get on foot.
Get on foot.
So is that the First Amendment?
Yeah.
I hope they support it all the time.
Yeah, I mean, is that de-escalation?
Is that, I mean, it's like they want a conflict.
I agree.
Those guys are clearly Mexican.
They're with the masks on.
But again, I don't think of it.
Yeah, it is ironic, but if anything, that's even more of an argument against all the identity politics garbage, you know, that we were talking about earlier in the show, that your race doesn't define who you are as a person and all that.
But I mean, is this de-escalation?
Is this what you're supposed to do is this them looking out for first of all?
They stop their car and confront people following them and filming them.
Those people have the right to follow them and film them.
They're not getting in the way.
They're not impeding.
So these ICE agents stop and confront them when they have no right to be doing that.
And then they say, if you do, if you keep following us, you're going to be arrested.
That's not how the law works.
Here we have a tweet.
In the video, two agents approach the people filming and say, you need to stop following us.
This is your first and last warning.
The filmer responds correctly.
That's not illegal.
An agent then says the quiet part out loud.
I know, but immediately pivots to it's illegal to impede.
Well, they're not impeding, they say, which the agents themselves had already acknowledged.
Filming and following on a public roadway is legal.
The agents admit they understand this and still issue a warning, anyways.
When pressed to explain what law is being violated, the agents falsely cite 1811, which does not criminalize public observation of filming.
When challenged, they back off, walk away, and then escalate again.
One agent yells, next time I pull you over, you're going to get arrested.
For what?
Who knows?
There's no explanation.
Are what?
He can't say.
Only after repeated questioning, how they are impeding, does the agent suddenly claim impeding traffic?
The only people that look like they're impeding traffic in that clip are the ICE car that stopped in the middle of the road to confront these people for no reason.
Even though the citizens were only stopped because the agents unlawfully confronted them in the first place, that's the point.
This is the same pattern we saw when they murdered Renee Good.
Illegal stops, manufactured violations, escalation created by the agents themselves, threats, intimidation, and force justified after the fact.
They corner people, provoke a situation, then use the situation they created to claim authority, even when they admit no law was broken.
This isn't law enforcement, it's entrapment, intimidation, and a reckless abuse of power.
And we've already seen where the pattern leads.
That is correct.
Here we have caught on tape: a federal agent threatens a U.S. citizen and then smacks her phone out of her hand.
Have y'all not learned from the past couple of days?
He says, Never mind training.
They need mental evaluation, says this guy.
Shame on you.
Listen, have y'all not learned from the past couple of days?
Have you not learned?
Learned what?
What's our lesson here?
What do you want us to learn?
Following federal agents.
You can't do that.
How do you not know?
Is that de-escalation?
Is that what you're trained for?
Who trained you to assault somebody?
Do you not?
There's a lot more of these.
You're ready for a lot more.
Yeah, there's going to be a lot more.
And because the dumb leftists have valued their white lives at nothing, you're not going to get any BLM reactions.
You're not.
That's a fact.
It could be true.
For standing.
So the ICE border agent once again threatens to illegally arrest a U.S. citizen.
Again, these are citizens.
These aren't like illegal immigrants or dane or violent criminals that we're trying to.
Allegedly is the whole point of this.
They were impeding.
Don't I feel fat.
Don't put me on camera.
I don't feel safe.
You look great, Kurt.
I think you look great.
Here's your final warning.
All right.
So, the agent threatens to arrest a U.S. citizen for standing on a public sidewalk and filming them.
In the video, in Oregon, multiple agents swarm a man who is doing nothing more than observing and recording from a public sidewalk, something that is 100% legal and protected by the First Amendment.
An agent claims they know who he is and accuses him of driving erratically and being a danger to the public, which is rich coming from an agency with a long history of hitting people with vehicles, assaulting women and children, and accidentally firing or dropping loaded firearms.
But even so, they are not police and cannot arrest someone for a traffic violation.
Then the threats start.
We have your plate number, you're driving erratically, very dangerous to the public.
How are you doing?
Good, how are you doing?
Interfering with her operations.
You could be arrested.
Under 18 U.S.C. 111.
We will arrest you.
You've been interfering with her operations.
You were following us yesterday.
Numerous times.
Numerous times you've been interfering with her operations.
Not in the family.
Yes, you are.
No, I am not.
You continue.
You will be in handcuffs.
You will be arrested.
You will be crossing in U.S. Code 111.
Get that through your head, dude.
Good job.
I'm not breaking the law.
Yes, you are.
Not breaking the law.
And you fucking know it.
Never got in front of everyone.
Never.
One more time, and I will put you in handcuffs.
One more time.
Keep it up.
Get the fuck off.
No, no, I'll stand right here, pal.
Right in front.
I like this guy.
Why don't they?
Fuck you.
Ah, worthless.
Worthless.
Fuck you.
Fuck you.
Yeah, go on.
Hold your fucking dog.
Yeah, go work at Staples, motherfucker.
Go back to your job at Staples, bitch.
That's funny as shit that that pig thought.
I'm all for that when somebody knows the law and is well within it.
Now, see, that's great.
Yes.
Not like being a hysterical lesbian and slamming your gas.
Yes, that is not ideal.
But that guy was hilarious.
I mean, that was like an SNL sketch, but well, I mean, anybody knows the law, and a real cop probably knows the law as well.
But these are fake cops.
They were not right.
They're not trained.
I mean, that guy, especially, he just seems like somebody's angry grandpa.
They got off the street, put a mask on him, and told him, go round some people up.
If filming you is impeding you, how does anybody do their job since our country spies on all of us?
That's hilarious.
It's clearly not impeding them, but this is what I don't get.
They choose to create these altercations.
They know that we have the right to film them.
Well, mask cops deserve no respect.
The fact that they're wearing masks, that's what everyone should be talking about non-stop.
How is that allowed?
I have no idea.
Real cops, they have their name on their badge.
That's right.
They have a badge number so you can complain.
And these people work for us.
Do they not?
Do they not work for us?
Isn't that what it's supposed to be?
Well, I mean, I wouldn't throw that one out to any cop.
I don't think that's going to get you anywhere.
But the fact that the guy knew the law, that's great.
Dude, stay within the law and do what you can do.
Let him arrest you if they want.
It'll be a lawsuit on them.
That's the way you do it.
Here we go.
You're interfering with our operations.
You could be arrested.
We will arrest you.
Again, the man is standing on a sidewalk, not blocking anyone, not touching anyone, not saying anything beyond asserting his rights.
Another agent jumps in with, You were following us yesterday.
Cool story, still not illegal.
They repeatedly claim he has interfered with operations, yet the only behavior they can actually point to is observing them.
It's funny, they're acting like celebrities when TMZ follows them around.
You know what I mean?
That's how they're acting.
Exactly what they are.
This is like Kanye hitting the photographer or something.
I don't know why one of my lights went out and now I have film noir lighting.
Oh, you look good.
They repeatedly claim he has interfered with operations, yet the only behavior they can actually point to is observing them, existing near them, filming them.
When the man calmly says, I'm not interfering, the response is, if you continue, you will be in handcuffs.
Let's be crystal clear about what that means.
ICE agents are threatening to arrest a U.S. citizen for continuing to legally observe and film them in his own neighborhood.
You know, in Israel, they can tell you to stop filming and then put you in handcuffs.
We're going to be like Israel.
Israel has no First Amendment because they have no Constitution.
Yeah.
Get ready for more Israel, everyone.
You don't live like that now.
I'd like for that to not be the case.
Well, it's too late.
It's too late.
Is that true?
The IDF has even been training these guys.
Yeah.
Oh, I didn't even know that.
Okay.
Yeah.
What else would you get for this kind of stopping on your rights?
Remember Shlomo Kramer explaining we're going to have to not have our First Amendment?
Oh, that's right.
I forgot about that.
Yeah.
When the man states the obvious, I'm not breaking the law and you know it, the agent completely loses it.
He steps inches from the man's face, points at him, shoves into his shoulder or chest and screams one more time and I will put you in handcuffs.
This isn't law enforcement.
This is intimidation.
The man tells him to get off of him.
The agent responds, no, I'll stand right here, pal, right here all day while continuing to press into him.
That's great.
That's great that guy did that.
This is the kind of protest and cops that I really appreciate.
Yes, this is smart.
The citizen points out.
Because that cop's in the wrong.
If he does anything, he's in the wrong.
That's how you do it.
Yep.
The citizen points out the setup perfectly.
If I touch you, you're going to arrest me, right?
Exactly.
That's the game.
That's when the agent snaps completely, screaming that the man is worthless and has no honor, which feels like projection.
This video shows exactly what ICE and Border Patrol are doing across the country.
They are trying to scare people into not filming.
They are trying to bully citizens out of exercising their rights.
And when intimidation doesn't work, they escalate, which is the opposite of what they're supposed to be doing because they know that cameras expose them.
So here's the takeaway.
Always film, state your rights calmly, keep your hands visible and on your phone, narrate everything that's happening.
They want silence.
They want fear.
They want no witnesses.
Don't give it to them.
Yeah, don't create a scene within your rights and make them at fault.
MLK did this.
Overall, I just don't see how this is helping our immigration, us have a reasonable immigration reform in the country.
How is citizens fighting barely trained ICE officers in front of high schools and street corners?
Just eliminating political enemies.
And meanwhile, Trump's going to let in OnlyFans H-1B visas.
He's going to take those jobs.
It's all nothing.
Nothing is for you.
Everything is for other countries and oligarchs and venture capitalists and billionaires.
Yeah.
That's it.
It's true.
The only people this seems to benefit is oligarchs.
Exactly.
So breaking, warning, disturbing footage.
Yesterday in Minneapolis, ICE agents brutally beaten, illegally arrested a legal U.S. resident, all caught on camera.
Again, all of these have been citizens.
These aren't illegal immigrants.
I got messed up here.
Hold on a second.
Okay, that won't play.
In the video, five ICE agents are seen on top of a man who is face down on the concrete.
One agent repeatedly knees him in the face while the man does not resist.
He is motionless, in pain, and screaming in agony.
The assault only stops when the agent realizes a legal observer is filming.
This is not an allegation.
It is recorded violence, and it gets worse.
The man identified as Juan Carlos is currently unhoused and living out of his car.
So now we've got them fighting homeless people.
This is, we're fighting homeless people now.
This is great.
ICE agents unlawfully approached him, ripped him from his vehicle, violently beat him, arrested him, and transported him to the Whipple detention facility.
Well, at least he has a place to stay for the night.
Juan Carlos posed no threat.
He is a legal U.S. resident, yet he was assaulted and treated like a criminal.
While in custody, he began having difficulty breathing.
Only then did agents transport him to a hospital still in shackles.
He had blood in his ears from the beating, yet he was denied medical care until he was in medical distress.
Once at the hospital, ICE agents attempted to intimidate medical staff and interfere with care.
After approximately two hours, they finally issued Juan Carlos a ticket and left.
To be absolutely clear, ICE agents beat a legal U.S. resident.
They illegally arrested him.
They attempted to hold him in a detention facility.
They withheld medical care until his condition worsened.
They only backed down once they were witnesses, video evidence, and hospital staff present.
If Juan Carlos had not been taken to the hospital, a place with mandated witnesses and documentation, it is very possible a legal U.S. resident would still be sitting in an immigration detention center today.
And this is the part they don't want you to realize.
Immigration detention is a profit-driven system.
Private prison corporations make money by keeping beds full.
Every illegal arrest, every unlawful hold, every person thrown into a detention center without cause is revenue for a private company.
Mike Timpson is telling me a few stills before.
Okay.
I'm going to try to get that video to play one last time here.
Let's see if I can get it to play.
Oh, here we go.
Okay.
Here it is.
You got me with a pendulum on me?
Oh, oh. Oh, oh.
Jesus.
Hey. Hey. Ah.
Stop kneeing him in the face.
Kneeing him in the face on the ground with five guys on him.
Stop it.
That couple are going to be arrested for a beating.
I am back in the ICE.
Be careful.
Be careful.
When stuff like this happened in the 90s when I was a kid, like with Rodney King, it was national news, national outrage.
I feel like this happens every five seconds now.
Maybe it was then.
It just wasn't filmed.
Okay, so because the fervor of wanting, remember, they flooded illegals into the country on purpose to lower everyone's wage.
Everybody's sick of it who's not an imbecile.
So, and also the people that would care about it.
And by the way, this is crazy what they're doing right here on camera and threatening somebody.
But that's how the dialectic works to make it so everybody hates the other side.
And so that's why it's not going to be on the news.
Because all the news is going to do is going to be, we need to be more like Israel.
Poor Israel style policing and more like Israel and Israel.
And that's what you're looking at.
It's crazy.
And we got some more here.
Breaking border.
Border Patrol just illegally arrested a U.S. citizen, a teenager.
Now we're going after teenagers in Minnesota.
The teen was working at Target when agents tackled him and arrested him while his passport was in his pocket, fully identifying himself as a citizen.
None of that mattered.
How does that not matter?
He has his passport on him.
There's more to this story than this.
Maybe.
Yeah, there could be.
When a co-worker asked who to call, he said, my mom.
Think about that.
Your teenage son goes to work.
Border Patrol kidnaps him.
This isn't an isolated incident.
ICE and Border Patrol have repeatedly illegally arrested U.S. citizens, especially in Minnesota.
And after agents murdered a U.S. citizen who tried to drive away from illegal detention, this should outrage every single American.
And this was a back and forth I found interesting that was on an article about this.
This is two people commenting on an article about all this.
I'm all for deporting illegal criminals with no real job and are sponging off our government, but this is going way too far now.
Profiling people who are living productive lives, invading private property.
They are no longer helping.
They are occupying and destroying our society.
It's time to start knowing your rights and fighting back.
That's 100% true.
That's all these videos.
Is there any transparency of the protocols for why they would arrest someone?
Does anybody have that information?
Is it public in any way?
That's my question.
I don't know.
Because the thing of like, okay, what are they authorized to do?
You said before they're not authorized to go into a school or something, but somehow they're going to go to school.
And then if they are wrong, what is your recourse if they're wrong?
You know?
Yeah.
Does anybody know that?
I don't really trust any of these people posting anything because I feel like these are a lot of set up things that are to get you mad one way or the other.
And I'm trying to understand like, what is the actual written down law?
Because I didn't know until you showed me that that lady hit the gas.
Well, it turns out that guy was supposed to get out of the way according to what it says in this guy's wrong.
According to their own guidance, they're supposed to not be in front of a car.
They're supposed to get out of the way.
That's what's supposed to be concrete is that.
So I'm just curious.
I haven't seen what their rules of engagement are at all anywhere.
And then there's one more comment here.
Exactly.
Let's remove true criminals and people who take but don't contribute.
In my experience, most immigrants work pretty hard and raise their children to be responsible and hardworking.
Sure, there are bad cases and they should be dealt with, but treating normal people like dangerous criminals is a characteristic of a dictatorship or police state.
That's a stupid comment.
We're not talking about immigrants.
We're talking about illegal.
So the crime is being here illegally.
That makes you a criminal because there's a law that you can't do that.
Why does no one acknowledge there's a difference between immigrants and illegal immigrants?
Do you see them deliberately not mentioning the difference over and over?
Why?
I agree.
There is a difference between those two things.
A lot of this stuff is targeting citizens, though, at this point, or it's affecting citizens.
Why would they be able to target a citizen?
I don't understand that.
And both these comments look like they're not telling me part of the story.
You know what?
Mike Timpson has something to say here.
I would like to hear him.
No, they're saying I think it's all just a demoralization campaign.
You know what I mean?
Like, it doesn't matter that there are rules and their guidelines and everything.
They're breaking everything, doing it right in your face.
And they're getting used to it.
You know what I mean?
They're basically making this the new normal.
Yeah, that's a good point.
Yeah, this is like normal.
I got used to it when they told me women have dicks and I better say that or else.
I got used to it then.
So I don't know what this is doing.
Remember when they said that and we all argued about it for 12 years?
But you're right.
You should never look down on Muslims again after that.
Because one thing they didn't do is argue that, did they?
A lot of violence has been normalized, like Mike was just saying.
It's normal to see cops do this.
Now, when I was a kid in the 90s and the Rodney King thing happened, people were like, oh, my God.
Now you see videos of this every day.
You see kids dead in Gaza.
You see violence everywhere you look.
It's like this stuff has become more and more normalized.
And maybe that's why people.
It is normal.
Maybe that's why people so easily celebrate it when someone they disagree with gets murdered because they're used to it.
No shit.
I'm mad all day and I don't feel like I have power, but there's another group that I don't like.
And I'm not talking about We Kingdom and Russia and the weather.
I'm not talking about the three Ws.
These fucking people, again, they're going to execute white people and no one's going to give a shit because remember, we're not talking about all lives matter.
So guess what?
White lives don't matter.
Isn't that ironic, liberals?
So now the Gestapo police, some of whom, I promise you, were here illegally.
I promise you there's illegal ICE agents working, okay?
And they're going to shoot white lesbians and no one's going to give a fuck because everybody hates liberals now.
And that's called the dialectic.
And you're going through it again.
It's a cycle.
Kurt, if someone caps your white ass, I promise I will care.
I'll be on the front line.
No one's going to fucking look.
I'll be on the front lines protest.
And also, I don't do stupid shit where, like, I've seen your act.
I've seen your act.
Come on.
That's not provocative.
Provocative is this.
And tell me if you've heard this.
Somebody that I like says to me about like, if you have a gun, if somebody's, you know, attacking you, you have a gun, won't that provoke them more?
Have you ever heard someone say that?
Yeah, I've heard that.
What kind of an imbecile would say something that's stupid?
No, the gun means you settled the fuck down.
If you're provoked by me having a gun, then I should shoot you because you're a crazy maniac.
You see, the escalation is I'll kill you if you don't fucking stop.
That's called de-escalation, asshole.
And a bunch of imbeciles have been trained that they're going to get extra mad because you pull.
Well, that's not how guns work, stupid.
Okay?
They're illegal.
So that's the left wing.
That's what they fed people.
Moronic shit like that.
That's why Kyle Rittenhouse, who Jimmy correctly pointed out should be acquitted because we saw the video, imbecile liberals went, but if you have a gun, it might make the person angry.
Do you hear yourself?
You know?
Yeah, I see what you're saying.
I'm with you, Kurt.
Well, listen, maybe I will say something bad.
And you'll have to really.
However I die, I want everyone to know it's murder, even if it was my own fault, technically.
No one murder Kurt Metzger.
That is the synopsis of this.
This is murder no matter what.
Even if I, whatever.
Welcome to the Jimmy Door show, everybody.
Keaton Weiss here with special guest Caleb Maupin.
Trump is threatening Iran.
Trump is very concerned with the rights of Iranian protesters.
Man, talk about it.
I mean, I would like some more America first energy here because I feel like he respects Iranian protesters more than American protesters, just like he respects Argentinian cattle ranchers more than American cattle ranchers, right?
It seems like America, what is it?
So you got Iran, or what do you got?
Israel, Ukraine, Argentina, Iran.
So it's America first.
It feels more like America fifth.
That's what it feels like.
Maybe that's what he meant.
Maybe he meant America fifth, not America first.
But anyway, here he is essentially threatening Iran with harsh consequences if they abuse the rights of their protesters.
Probably better than anybody.
They're doing very poorly.
And as you know, probably better than anybody.
They're doing very poorly.
And I have let them know that if they start killing people, which they tend to do during their riots, they have lots of riots.
If they do it, we're going to hit them very hard.
Now, dozens have been killed.
I know you don't do red lines, but have you communicated to them what that limit of your patience is?
Well, some have been killed by, you know, problems of crowd control and other things.
We're watching it very closely.
The crowds are so large, there's been a stampede.
There's been three stampedes and people have been killed in that.
And I'm not sure I can necessarily hold somebody responsible for that.
But they know, and they've been told very strongly, even more strongly than I'm speaking to you right now, that if they do that, they're going to have to pay hell.
That's Hugh Hewitt getting old.
That guy hasn't had an erection since the first Gulf War.
So I understand why he's hungry for an Iran war, right?
Something's got to get you going in your old age.
Maybe that'll do the trick.
Here's President Trump's senior advisor for Arab and African Affairs, Mossad Boulos, saying the fate of Iran is up to its people.
But killing protesters is a red line.
Today, obviously, the taking out Maduro and bringing him to the United States to answer tough questions.
The president is clearly not opposed to regime change.
Do you see that happening in Iran?
The president has talked about that, and we are not involved in that kind of business, really.
This is up to the Iranian people.
But we are in the Western Hemisphere.
Yeah, but he gave a clear warning regarding the demonstrations that have been happening and killing of civilians.
So let's see what happens.
If I'm in Ayatollah, should I be worried that somebody's going to get me out of my house?
Well, I'm not sure about that, but the president gave a clear warning.
It's a red line, you know, killing of civilians that are exercising the right of free speech and demonstrating in the streets is a red line to President Trump.
And he gave a clear warning to that effect.
Yeah, I wish you would give ICE that same warning.
But I guess we'll wait and see about that.
Will hit them very hard.
Trump threatens Iran again as protest death toll rises.
President Donald Trump doubled down on his threats to attack Iran on Thursday in response to its government's increasingly violent crackdown on ongoing protests.
They start killing people, which they tend to do during their riots.
They have lots of riots.
If they do it, we're going to hit them very hard, he said.
Addressing the Iranian people, he added, you must stand up for your right to freedom.
There is nothing like freedom.
You are a brave people.
It's a shame what's happening to your country.
I feel like he's talking to us, but no such luck.
The Norway-based Iran human rights reported on Thursday that Iranian security forces have killed at least 45 protesters since demonstrations against the regime began in late December.
Wednesday was the bloodiest day yet, with 13 people reportedly killed.
On Thursday, Iranian authorities shut down internet access for the population, which has limited the flow of information in and out of the country.
The protests kicked off in response to the sudden collapse in the value of Iran's currency, the Rial, which exacerbated the country's already spiraling cost of living crisis, heightening inflation and putting many basic goods out of reach for many Iranians.
This economic crisis has been shifted into hyperdrive since Trump returned to office last year and re-implemented his maximum pressure strategy against Iran, including more severe economic sanctions and a 12-day war in June, during which U.S. struck several Iranian nuclear sites.
Over the past year, the average cost of food has increased by 70%, while the cost of medicine has increased by 50%.
On Tuesday, U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham, a leading proponent of regime change, warned Iran's leaders that if you keep killing your people who are demanding a better life, Donald J. Trump is going to kill you.
Let's take a look at that video.
Trump is not Barack Obama.
He has your back.
And to the Ayatollahs, you need to understand, if you keep killing your people who are demanding a better life, Donald J. Trump is going to kill you.
Change is coming to Iran.
It'll be the biggest change in the history of the Mideast to get rid of this Nazi regime.
To the people of Iran, help is on the way.
Yeah, help is on the way.
Help is on the way.
I'm sure they appreciate those words.
So, yeah, I mean, the winds of war seem to be a blowing.
And it seems to me, you know, one of the theories that I've heard that I think there's a lot to is that, you know, part of why we're so adamant about controlling Venezuela's oil is so that oil prices will be stabilized in the event of a war with Iran, which, of course, we know Israel wants very much.
So looking at all of this, to the extent that these issues connect or diverge, I mean, whatever context you view it through, do you think we're getting a war with Iran this year?
I don't.
You know, it would be a very stupid thing to do.
Iran is poised to defend itself, but more pressure on Iran, more hostility toward Iran is definitely what the Netanyahu government wants.
It's definitely what, you know, Wall Street and the oil companies want.
I've spent a lot of time in Iran.
I've actually made a film about being in Iran.
You can watch on the CPI website, Iranian Dream.
And I've been to Iran a number of times.
And there are two factors that we have to keep in mind here.
On the one hand, there are some internal contradictions in Iran, right?
When Iran had its revolution in 1979, it was not just an anti-imperialist and anti-Israeli revolution.
It was also an anti-capitalist revolution.
They said not capitalism, but Islam, neither East nor West, war of poverty against wealth.
And they were not Marxists.
They rejected Marxism as a secular, godless ideology, but they were against capitalism as not being consistent with Islam.
In the 90s, Iran very much pivoted into a pro-Western kind of position because of the fact that Saddam Hussein was America's main enemy.
And for a number of reasons, the Soviet Union had fallen.
And there were a number of reasons.
But then with the rise of Ahmadinejad, Iran, you know, looked like it was getting friendlier to the Bolivarian countries.
And, you know, Ahmadinejad had been a leftist and, you know, he implemented a lot of social programs that really kind of emphasized the anti-capitalist teachings of the Islamic Republic.
And now there's a lot of confusion in Iran about where to go economically speaking, right?
And that there are a lot of people in the country that love the revolution, that love the Islamic Republic, but feel like they have let the rich people get away with too much.
They've deregulated banking.
They're not providing for the people in the way that the Islamic Revolution's founders wanted, right?
And that's the hardliner movement.
I actually have interviewed Ibrahim Reyazi, one of the Iranian president who died.
I actually had the opportunity to interview him, and he was a hardliner.
And that was part of the hardliner position is we need to go back to the more socialistic aspects of our revolution.
Whereas the reformists and the moderates, you know, like Rouhani, they were saying, well, we need to just make friends with America and, you know, have market and privatizations, et cetera.
So Iran is adjusting its economy right now due to the new circumstances.
That's the one thing.
On the other hand, there's a layer of people in Iran that are just agents of the West, right?
You have the Mujahideen Kalk, a group of like weird terrorists, you know, that started out as communists and then became Israeli agents, worked with Mossad.
You've got a lot of very, very wealthy people that want the Shah back and are monarchists.
And there's a layer of people that when they get a call from America, they go out and riot and break windows and destroy property and do whatever they want, basically on command.
It's almost like they have a button in the White House.
And every so often they'll see that there's like a perfect storm.
There's a contradiction.
There's some problems in the Iranian economy.
And they, I'm exaggerating.
There's not literally a button, but it's almost like that.
They just push a button and certain people just go out and break shit because they want to overthrow the Islamic Republic.
And so there's a contradiction.
There's two stories there.
But at the end of the day, right now the internet is off in Iran, which they have the same thing in America.
Do you remember that?
The kill switch?
We have that here.
They can turn the internet off over here if we have a domestic emergency.
So, you know, I mean, if people are saying that Iran is bad because, and it's not everywhere, I believe it's in certain areas they've turned off the internet.
We have that here.
I believe Obama signed it into law that if they declare a national emergency, they can turn off the internet in America too.
Most countries at this point have such a policy.
It looks like in Iran that there's some anger about the economic situation.
And so forces that are aligned with the United States and aligned with Israel are going out and rioting and breaking things.
And so the Islamic Republic, seeing the bombing that they faced earlier and seeing what's happened and the assassination of prominent leaders, they're taking care of business.
And it's probably pretty ugly and it's probably pretty heavy-handed.
But it's because you look at Iran.
Iran, in terms of countries in that region, is a very stable, safe country, right?
Iran, the amount of terrorist attacks, the amount of killing, the rate of crime is particularly low.
But look at their border.
They've got Iraq.
Iraq's not a very safe place.
They got Afghanistan, not a very safe place.
They've got Syria, not a very safe place.
They've got instability all around them.
And the Islamic Republic, part of why they are loved and respected is they have kept the country relatively safe.
Every so often, something might happen, but it's very rare.
And they have provided stability.
And even people in the country, when I was in Iran, I walked around some of the wealthier neighborhoods where people don't like the Islamic Republic.
But even a lot of the wealthier people said, I don't want the instability that would come from bringing down the Islamic Republic.
I don't want to go through that.
And some of the older folks remembered how chaotic the 1979 revolution was and how scary it was and confusing when it wasn't clear who was going to come to power.
They don't want that to happen again.
The Islamic Republic, they have what are called basij councils in every neighborhood.
Basij means mobilized oppressed.
And they're the people that carry out the goals of the revolution on a community level.
That country is locked and loaded.
They are ready to fight and they've been ready to fight.
I mean, they repelled the Iraqi invasion in the 1980s.
They've got pictures of martyrs, of people who gave their lives fighting the Iraqi invaders in every neighborhood.
And, you know, it's interesting.
When I went to Venezuela, when I went to Iran and a lot of countries that are, you know, what you call anti-imperialist countries, you can almost divide the population.
It's kind of a new formula, right?
It wasn't like this in the time of the Cold War, but these countries are kind of a third, a third, a third.
You have a third of the people that are, they buy the idea that their problems are because of the government.
They buy into American propaganda or whatever.
They're anti-government.
And then you have a third of the people that are pro-government, but they're not very passionate about it.
They're like, hey, you know, the government gave us health care.
The government has built schools and hospitals.
Don't necessarily agree with their ideology, but, you know, hey, they're doing a good job, whatever, not my problem.
They're not, they're kind of indifferent, but they're pro.
And then you have a layer of people who are dedicated, who are ready to die for the revolution, right?
In Iran, you have the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
That is a paramilitary, a military organization that's actually accountable only to the supreme leader.
And you go to the neighborhoods where they run things and they are the biggest economic entity in Iran.
And they are ready to be martyrs.
They are ready to die.
They believe.
I went and saw the supreme leader speak in 2015 during the Iran negotiations.
And I mean, I was in a room full of people that they just started sobbing as soon as he came into the room.
All the men extend their hands and shout, the blood in my vessels belongs to the supreme leader.
There's a layer of people there that will go down fighting.
And, you know, Venezuela, not an Islamic country, they have the same thing.
I visited a commune in central Caracas, a collectivo, and I met people who talked about, you know, the fact that, you know, if it wasn't for Hugo Chavez, they wouldn't be able to speak Spanish.
They only spoke indigenous languages.
They talked about how it was Chavez that brought running water and brought health care into their neighborhoods.
And those folks, the Bolivarian militias, they call it, they are locked and loaded and they are ready to fight and die for socialism.
And they have those Bolivarian socialist Bolivarian circles in every neighborhood and they're ready to go.
And Venezuela is similar, where I'd say it's about a third, a third, a third, right?
You have a third of the people that are against, a third of the people that are pro, but kind of a different.
But then you have that solid core of people, that solid core of people that are like, this is my movement.
I am loyal to this revolution and I am against the imperialists and I'm ready to go.
And that is kind of a new formula, right?
During the Cold War, I think that, you know, the Soviet Union tried to make that very dedicated third everybody, right?
They tried to have everybody, you know, be that way.
And that's not going to work.
Some people are just not into it.
They want to start their own business.
They, whatever.
But, but these anti-imperialist states in our time, they've maintained a layer of the population that is very solid and very dedicated.
And that's what, that's why these governments are able to withstand all these attacks.
And look, at the end of the day, right, if you're concerned about human rights in Iran or in Venezuela or China or any of these countries, you should want America to trade with these countries.
Because when countries are under attack and they're isolated and they are, you know, preparing for a foreign invasion, they're locking down at that point.
They have to protect themselves and they have to have rigid discipline and all the authoritarianism people don't like about North Korea.
That wouldn't be there if there weren't thousands of U.S. troops in South Korea and U.S. nuclear submarines, you know, potentially loaded with nukes to attack them, right?
That countries that are locked out of the global economy, that are facing threats of invasion, they have to be authoritarian and rigid.
They have to.
It's the only way they can stand themselves.
But when countries are part and trading on the world economy and when they're more prosperous economically, then they can be more open.
So don't ever believe that U.S. attacks on Iran are done about concerns for human rights in Iran.
Don't ever believe that U.S. attacks on Venezuela are done out of concern for human rights, because the more you threaten and attack countries, the more they have to solidify and prepare to fight to the death to defend their homeland.
Yeah, it's funny.
I mean, that last piece about how, you know, you know, we demonize these countries as being very repressive, yet we impose upon them the threats of essentially, you know, overthrow.
Why wouldn't they be repressive?
There was a story about a comedian in China a few years back who got fined for making fun of the military.
And oh, you know, look at this country.
You know, look at how authoritarian they are.
They made him pay a fine for telling a joke.
If this country were surrounded by Chinese military bases, do you think we would be allowed to make fun of our military in the United States?
Of course not.
It's not even a question.
All right, Caleb, I got to run because we have another guest that we got to bring in.
But I always learn so much from talking to you.
The book is called The Siege Has Failed, Why Venezuela Stands Strong Against Globalism and Imperialism.
And you have an event coming up this Sunday.
You want to just plug that one last time before you go?
Sunday at the Holiday Inn near the Newark airport in New Jersey.
It's going to be a great event.
You know, doors open at 1:30.
See you there.
They have a great coffee machine in the lobby, too.
Wow, very good.
I used to get free coffee as a tour guide when I would go into hotels.
I knew all the hotels with free coffee machines.
So I would go in.
And if anybody asked me if I was a guest of the hotel, I would just say, no, I'm a tour guide picking up a guest here.
And then one time they busted me.
One time the guy said, what's the name of your guest?
What's your guest's name that you're picking up?
So I just looked at an old manifest and I picked the most common name off the list, you know, Smith, whatever.
It was the Hampton Inn on 8th Avenue.
I figured it's a thousand people here.
There's got to be some Smith here.
Sure enough, there was.
And he said, okay, yeah, all right, cool.
I said, yeah, I'm just waiting for him.
He says, yeah.
No, he says, I didn't mean to, I didn't mean to like put you on the spot.
It's just there are a lot of people who take advantage.
And I said, no, I understand.
Believe me.
Believe me.
I get it.
All right.
Thank you, Caleb.
Appreciate it.
Great to see you.
As always, we will talk to you again soon on one channel or another, wherever I end up on any given day.
Thank you, man.
Appreciate you.
Sure thing.
Always a pleasure.
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