The Joe Rogan ExperienceJoe Rogan Experience #1156 - Jimmy Dore
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In this episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, featuring Joe Rogan and Jimmy Dore, Joe Rogan Experience #1156 - Jimmy Dore explores jimmy Dore Slams U.S. War Machine, Media Censorship, and Democrats’ Failures Joe Rogan and Jimmy Dore spend the episode attacking U.S. foreign policy, corporate media, and the bipartisan political establishment. Dore argues that Putin is not uniquely evil compared to American leaders, highlighting U.S. war crimes, torture, and support for regimes like Saudi Arabia and Israel. They criticize media censorship, especially Big Tech’s deplatforming of Alex Jones, as a dangerous alliance between corporations, government, and intelligence agencies that threatens free speech. The conversation also covers third-party politics, Bernie Sanders, identity-driven partisan thinking, and Dore’s own rise as an independent political comedian.
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WHAT IT’S REALLY ABOUT
Jimmy Dore Slams U.S. War Machine, Media Censorship, and Democrats’ Failures
- Joe Rogan and Jimmy Dore spend the episode attacking U.S. foreign policy, corporate media, and the bipartisan political establishment. Dore argues that Putin is not uniquely evil compared to American leaders, highlighting U.S. war crimes, torture, and support for regimes like Saudi Arabia and Israel. They criticize media censorship, especially Big Tech’s deplatforming of Alex Jones, as a dangerous alliance between corporations, government, and intelligence agencies that threatens free speech. The conversation also covers third-party politics, Bernie Sanders, identity-driven partisan thinking, and Dore’s own rise as an independent political comedian.
IDEAS WORTH REMEMBERING
7 ideasU.S. leaders are not morally superior to Putin in terms of violence and repression.
Dore cites Noam Chomsky’s claim that if Nuremberg standards applied, every postwar U.S. president would be hanged, pointing to drone kill lists, torture, extrajudicial killings of citizens, and support for brutal allies like Saudi Arabia and Israel.
Media and political hysteria over ‘Russia’ distracts from more powerful foreign influences.
He argues that Israel and Saudi Arabia wield far more direct influence on U.S. policy—citing Netanyahu’s defiance of Obama before Congress and Saudi arms deals—while ‘Russiagate’ is used to deflect from systemic corruption and policy failures at home.
Corporate media systematically sidelines anti-war and anti-establishment voices.
Examples like Phil Donahue, Ed Schultz, Cenk Uygur, Abby Martin, and Chris Hedges are used to show that TV networks fire or marginalize hosts who oppose wars or challenge Democratic Party and corporate narratives.
Big Tech platforms function as monopolistic gatekeepers and should be regulated like public utilities.
Because YouTube, Facebook, and similar platforms dominate information flow, Dore and Rogan argue it’s dangerous that unelected tech executives, often pressured by government and groups like the Atlantic Council, can deplatform people without transparent due process.
Deplatforming Alex Jones sets a precedent that will expand beyond fringe right-wing figures.
They emphasize that once the power to censor is normalized on a hated figure, it can be turned on leftists, Black Lives Matter, Palestinians, or anyone the establishment deems ‘extremist,’ and that the remedy for bad speech should be more speech and rebuttal, not bans.
The U.S. party duopoly uses fear and shame to block third-party growth and real reform.
Dore criticizes Democrats for ‘voter shaming’ and ‘democracy shaming’ Greens and progressives instead of winning over the half of the country that doesn’t vote, and touts rank-choice voting and a new progressive party as ways to break corporate capture of both parties.
Whistleblowers expose systemic abuses but are punished while perpetrators go free.
Stories of Bill Binney, John Kiriakou, Chelsea Manning, Edward Snowden, and Julian Assange illustrate that those who reveal illegal surveillance and war crimes are prosecuted or exiled, while officials who ordered torture, illegal spying, or disastrous wars avoid accountability.
WORDS WORTH SAVING
5 quotes“If Nuremberg laws were applied, then every postwar American president would have been hanged.”
— Jimmy Dore (quoting Noam Chomsky)
“The antidote to bad speech is not censorship. The antidote to bad speech is more speech.”
— Jimmy Dore
“We’re living in this farce. We have legit war criminals just one presidency away.”
— Jimmy Dore
“These de facto private media regulators have secret algorithmic processes that push down some news organizations in favor of others.”
— Jimmy Dore (quoting Matt Taibbi)
“Whether you agree with him or disagree with him, you can’t point to him and say he’s just a left-wing hack… You just say what you think.”
— Joe Rogan on Jimmy Dore
QUESTIONS ANSWERED IN THIS EPISODE
5 questionsIf U.S. presidents and allies commit comparable or worse abuses than Putin, what does that imply about American exceptionalism and how we teach recent history?
Joe Rogan and Jimmy Dore spend the episode attacking U.S. foreign policy, corporate media, and the bipartisan political establishment. Dore argues that Putin is not uniquely evil compared to American leaders, highlighting U.S. war crimes, torture, and support for regimes like Saudi Arabia and Israel. They criticize media censorship, especially Big Tech’s deplatforming of Alex Jones, as a dangerous alliance between corporations, government, and intelligence agencies that threatens free speech. The conversation also covers third-party politics, Bernie Sanders, identity-driven partisan thinking, and Dore’s own rise as an independent political comedian.
How can societies balance the genuine harms of online disinformation and harassment with the equally serious danger of corporate–state censorship?
What concrete steps would be needed to regulate platforms like Facebook and YouTube as public utilities without crushing innovation or entrenching current players?
Why do so many voters and media figures cling to the idea that one major party is ‘the good side’ despite extensive evidence of systemic corruption in both?
What would it practically take for a viable progressive third party to emerge in the U.S., and is Bernie Sanders’ continued alignment with Democrats helping or blocking that possibility?
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