Is Trump Impeachment Just a Distraction? w/Jimmy Dore | Joe Rogan

That's kind of like the mission of my show, is to remind people how we got Trump. People want to pretend that corruption and lying started in January 2017. The Afghanistan papers just came out, Joe, that revealed that three administrations in a row lied completely, 100% about Afghanistan from the day they took over to the day they left. Stuff like Donald Rumsfeld saying, we don't even know who the bad guys are. We have no idea who they are. Well, why are we there? Well, maybe because of the couple trillion dollars in rare earth minerals. I don't know. Do you really think that? Maybe it's... We would go to war for minerals? Come on. That's crazy. We would try to steal somebody's natural resources. Do we use upset at what a small story it was? I'm upset what... That those papers came out and then no one really even talked about it. Barely got it. Nothing. Nothing. It justifies everything Tulsi Gabbard has been saying. These wars are a lie and bullshit and we got to get out of them. And that she's not the one lying about them. The one that's been lying about them has been our government, including Barack Obama. That's what the Afghanistan papers prove that we've been lied to forever. Tell people what the papers say. So what happened was they did a study, just like the Pentagon papers, right? They do their own study that reveals that they're lying. So they interviewed 400 people that were in the generals, in the military and contractors, and all these kind of people to find out so they can know what would happen in Afghanistan. So they revealed all this. The people who they were interviewing revealed all this that at the beginning of the war, they didn't know who the... They still don't know who's the bad guys who were killing. They were lying about... They would lie that it's going well and then their personal writings would be revealing that they didn't know what the hell they were doing. And so it's worse than you think. But we can still just keep sending $4 billion a month there. Just keep sending it. Just keep sending it. For what? No one knows. We're not leaving. Trump didn't take us out. He's up for reelection in a couple more months. We're still in Afghanistan. He didn't do what he said he was going to do. Nobody does. That's the problem. And that's why we got Trump in the first place. Because Barack Obama comes in as an anti-war guy, immediately gets rolled by the military industrial complex, just like Trump did. I believe that. I did believe that Trump, his druthers would get the hell out of the Middle East, right? But he doesn't really have any druthers. He's like, okay, I'm done doing that because they've rolled me hard enough. Three years of Russiagate, I'm going to do what they want. Well, you saw the conversation that he had with one reporter. We talked about the military industrial complex and about how they want to go to war. Yes. I mean, Trump, like actively while in office, this is like an Eisenhower thing, like as he's leaving, while in office, is talking about the military barely got mentioned. I know. And so I think that's why the establishment wants to get rid of Trump, even though he does their bidding and gives them their trillion dollar tax cuts. Nobody asks how we're going to pay for it. He gives them, he tries to go into Venezuela. He tried to do what, you know, he's doing Iran. He didn't come out. We didn't get out of Syria. We're not out of Afghanistan. He's sending more people back to Iraq. It's amazing what's happened, the exact opposite of what he ran on is happening. So why do I think this happens? It's because just what Eisenhower said is he left. He says the undo influence of the military industrial complex. And Joe mentioned they just invented a hundred and thirty one billion dollars more worth of work for Ray Theon and Boeing and Albert. How much money does the recording music business make a year? Eighty billion. I mean, how much does it we've just invented a whole nother economy just since Trump got elected. A hundred and thirty one extra billion. I mean, just think what you could do with that. You could build a hundred and thirty one Yankee stadiums. Do you think every year? Non cynically, do you think that a lot of this impeachment stuff and a lot of the scandal stuff is really a distraction for a lot of these things they're pushing through? Yes, it's a hundred percent distraction. And just like I told you, because if they really believe that he was doing all these things and he was why would they keep giving him extra money to go bomb people at his own? Because they they don't try to put handcuffs on him. So that's how you know, they're full of shit. And the reason why they're coming at Trump in the way there's there's ways to. So now they're starting to oppose him because of this Iran thing. So now you turn on CNN and Chris Cuomo goes, hey, why doesn't Congress do its job and take back the war powers that they gave him to the president under this AUM? So now, which is what I predicted what happened when Trump, the silver lining of a Trump presidency was all the shit that the Democrats and Republicans have been agreeing on, which is war fracking, opening the Arctic to drilling, all that stuff, gassing immigrants at the board. Now we're all going to become aware of it. Well, the Democrats spent three years doing freaking Russiagate. So they didn't ever oppose him on that stuff and they let him keep doing it. And so now people are starting to become aware of what's happening. And so now Chris Cuomo is going, hey, why don't why don't we? Why doesn't Congress do their job? Why are you letting crazy President Trump? Well, they just gave him 131. They they gave him his spying powers again through the Patriot Act. This guy who's working for Putin, you're going to give him spying powers. You fucking bullshit her. They're all fucking bullshitters. Argh. It's a weird scam. Yeah, Joe, if you thought a guy was working for Putin, would you give him an extra hundred and thirty one billion dollars to go bomb anybody at his own pay? By the way, that's also intelligence. Is that a rhetorical question? Yes. So so that's why and, you know, people people give me a hard time about supporting Tulsi. Right. Like why use but I think it's really important to have an anti-war voice that has, you know, speaks from experience. She's actually in the military right now. She actually volunteered to go serve in their illegal wars and then they smear for it. It's kind of amazing.