Dave Smith and Rob Bernstein dissect Donald Trump's alleged FBI blackmail via the Steele dossier, contrasting it with Joe Biden's fabricated war hero narrative. They argue media double standards shield Democrats while attacking Trump, noting Kamala Harris's 7% polling and the press's panic over potential Supreme Court appointments. Ultimately, this hypocrisy alienates undecided voters, proving the establishment fights for power rather than truth. [Automatically generated summary]
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Soho Forum Debate Sold Out00:05:55
All right, let's start today's show.
We need to roll back the state.
We spy on all of our own citizens.
Our prisons are flooded with nonviolent drug offenders.
If you want to know who America's next enemy is, look at who we're funding right now.
Every single one of these problems are a result of government being way too big.
You're listening to part of the problem on the Gas Digital Network.
Here's your host, Dave Smith.
What's up, everybody?
Thank you for listening.
Welcome to a brand new episode of Part of the Problem.
I am Dave Smith.
Bless you.
As you already know, I'm the most consistent motherfucker you know.
And I'm joined as always by the fire, the king of the cocks, Rob Bernstein.
Good to have you back, sir.
What's up?
It was, I missed you on Wednesday.
You didn't renew my contract.
That was some bullshit.
Really make me step up my game with BK Chris just sliding right into that slot like there was nothing.
Yeah, it was seamless, the transition.
There was a player lockout here at Part of the Problem.
And we've reached an agreement, a temporary non-binding agreement.
Anyway, it's good to have you back here.
Oh, so I wanted to let people know if anyone didn't see it.
Wild news.
Yes.
Big, big news.
So basically, here, I'll tell you what happened.
All right.
So my Soho Forum debate is sold out.
You can't get a ticket.
Nick Sarwak can't get a ticket.
You're going to have to be hot and text me your number.
That's the only way you're getting in at this point.
Short of that, you're not getting it.
Short of that, you might have to, I don't know, buy one from a scalper, probably two, three thousand bucks a ticket.
I don't know.
The Soho Forum's never seen anything like it.
It's definitely not because of Nick Sarwak.
It's all me.
It's my star power.
Okay.
I brought that to the table.
I put the Soho Forum to a whole new level by stepping into the debate ring.
Now, I know what you're thinking, Dave, don't you perform at every single Soho Forum?
Sure.
But I'm still taking credit for that.
That's because you're usually just there warming the thing up.
Now the feature it act.
Now, well, exactly.
And it was sanctioned by the King of the Cawks.
I think that's what's dated.
I'm sure that helped.
Usually it's not sanctioned.
I mean, you are the different variable in this one, to be fair.
So maybe you get some of the credit.
But the part of the problem team, look, here's what happened, okay?
Andrew Yang, Never do business with the Chinese.
Okay.
Andrew Yang was supposed to debate at the Soho Forum.
And he pulled out.
He's the only person in the history.
He's the only guy in the history of the Soho Forum who's ever pulled out.
Is that the universal income guy?
Yeah.
That guy pulled out.
UBI Yang pulled out.
Thinks he's too big for everyone.
Ooh, Mr. I'm at 1%.
Too big for the Soho Forum.
So he pulled out.
So now me, out of respect and loyalty to the head of the New York family of libertarianism, Gene Epstein, the great Gene Epstein, I said, you know what?
I'll throw my star power behind a debate.
We'll get you back on the board.
We'll sell more tickets than that Yang jerk off ever could have sold anyway.
So I go in there.
It's a big success.
Biggest thing that's ever happened to the Soho Forum.
And then these bastards, these bastards at the Soho Forum.
They couldn't let you have your momentum.
Couldn't let me just have my moment.
A couple weeks before my debate, they book, and this didn't even need to be announced yet.
It's not till next May, I think.
But they booked something that I got to say.
It made me tingly inside like a schoolgirl when I heard that they have gotten Scott Horton, the great, the most incredible human being I know.
Scott Horton is coming out to New York City and he'll be debating regime change, U.S. foreign policy supporting regime change.
I forget the exact resolution against William Crystal.
Somehow they actually old Bill Crystal.
Is he going to sing?
Dance?
He's going to do some of his funny voices?
Tell jokes.
I don't know.
That's incredible.
I didn't realize he knew so much about foreign policy.
What it was like behind the scenes of Analyze This.
Yeah.
Bill Crystal, one of, if not the biggest living neocon, is going to come in and debate Scott Horton.
Holy shit.
I can't wait for this.
So I would say, if you're in the New York City area, go get to, if you're not in the New York City area, plan a goddamn trip.
But I would get tickets now because that motherfucker is going to sell out in record time.
Yeah, there he is.
Oh, that dude.
Yeah, that guy.
Big bassmouth guy.
Yeah, bassmouth.
Yeah, that's it.
Love war.
I can't wait to see this one.
I'm very surprised that Bill Crystal agreed to do it, to be honest.
But he's in for it.
So this is going to be a lot of fun.
I spoke to both Gene and Scott on the phone yesterday.
And this is going to be a fun one.
Can't wait to see.
Is that Bill Crystal dude a wealthy guy?
You know, I don't know.
I really don't know.
I know he was involved in founding the Project for a New America, and he's involved in a whole bunch of think tankery and bullshit like that.
So I'm sure he's made his money.
I'm sure he's made some good money.
You know, I hope he's made good money because, you know, he's going to burn in health.
So it's, yeah, hopefully you enjoy this life.
What do you say his kill counts at?
Well, I mean, personally, he hasn't killed anybody, but if the policies that he's supported are probably in the millions, you know?
And if you go like lives destroyed, if you don't just go pure direct death, but like lives destroyed, indirect death, things like that, oof, oof, it's getting rough.
It's getting rough for old Billy Christ.
But anyway, I can't wait for that.
Can't wait for that.
But they all, even if you can't make it to them live, they put them all out.
They put them out on Reason's podcast.
And I think Reason puts the videos out on their YouTube channel.
I'm not sure exactly, but it's going to be a hell of a time.
So I can't wait for that one.
All right.
Comedy and Woke Backlash00:15:30
So, you know, something I wanted to talk about that I mentioned the other day briefly when I was on Wednesday's podcast was Dave Chappelle's comedy special.
And I hadn't watched the whole thing on Wednesday.
I had watched the first 20 minutes or so, but I finished it.
And I wanted to talk about it briefly.
And the special itself and a little bit on the response to it.
So first off, like I said last time, I said after watching about 20 minutes of it, and I still feel that way after finishing it.
It was excellent, man.
Really, really, just a really great comedy special.
And I've always been a huge, huge Chappelle fan.
I think he's debatably the most talented comedian who's ever lived.
I mean, he's just incredible.
And his Netflix special, the latest one, was just, it was fucking excellent, man.
Just excellent.
Really, really funny.
I don't know.
I used to love stand-up comedy so much.
I was like such a stand-up comedy fan as a kid.
And that's true, I think, for a lot of people who become stand-up comedians.
Like you were kind of into it, I'd imagine.
But once you're in it for a while, it does, it's almost like you kind of have to sacrifice that a little bit.
Like you can't be as much of a fan of comedy once you've been through the grind.
And it's like, I don't know.
There's something about, well, part of it is that like...
I think a big part of it is you just know a lot of the tricks.
Well, that's a huge part of it.
So when you see something really brilliant, it does catch.
You're like, right, that's why I love this.
But you're very selective about what you actually can watch and appreciate.
It's like, I'd almost, it's not a direct comparison, but it's almost like becoming a magician.
And it's like, well, how much can you really enjoy a magician?
You know, you definitely can't enjoy it the same way just like some nine-year-old kid can look at a magician and be like, oh my God, how did he do that?
Because you're like, well, this is how he did it.
Now, you might still see some really good sleight of hand or something and be like, wow, he executed that well.
But it's not exactly the same as when you're just in this like wonder, like phase of like, oh my God, how the fuck did he do that?
Because now you're like, well, I know exactly what he did there.
And there's something to that aspect of it.
So it's like, you see through, there's, there's a lot of smoke and mirrors in comedy and how you present something to draw out a laugh.
And then there's also this sitting there with Roseenne, like, oh, fuck, I got a similar joke to what he just did.
And then 100%.
How's he getting away with this bullshit?
No, it almost like starts.
And that's part of it too.
Like that, that aspect makes it harder.
And then you also just can't watch comedy in the same way.
I try to not watch too much stand-up comedy because you just...
You get nervous about absorbing shit.
Yeah, it happens to me.
Yeah, it happens to everybody.
There's some people you just can't watch too much.
Like you, like, I'm that way with a tell.
I can't watch a tell that much.
I'll watch him like once or twice a year because he's just so infectious.
You start doing him.
Yeah.
And you're like, I don't want, I can't do that.
So I'm like, yeah, but it's just so hard.
It's not going, oh, yeah, really?
It's like you just like feel yourself wanting to do it.
It's a weird thing.
It's a worse feeling when you're on stage and you do something.
You're like, I just did that guy.
Yeah.
And it pops and you're like, I just did that thing.
Yeah.
No, it happens.
Sometimes it just like kind of comes out of you and it's not good.
And I have that with a few different people where I was like, I know I can't watch them too much.
And you just don't want to watch like, and also it's, I don't know.
It becomes a thing where it's also just like, you just, you see enough comedy, just where you're out working, you're doing this thing.
You see enough of it.
You're like, I just can't really do any more of this.
So it's, there was something really nice about watching Chappelle's special where there were like maybe five or six moments where I really laughed out loud, like really hard laughs out loud.
And that, that was a nice feeling.
There's really very few comedy specials that get that out of me.
When you do watch comedy in the limited time, when I do watch stand-up, I do a lot of, which I'm sure you can relate to too.
There's something about being a stand-up or doing it for years where it just starts to almost desensitize you.
So you start doing like, you go, oh, it's funny.
That's really, really funny.
But you're not actually like laughing and having a moment.
You're just going, okay, that's funny.
That's really fucked.
That's really funny.
You know, and that's like, what the fuck is that?
That's not how a human being is supposed to react to a very funny joke.
You're not supposed to go, ah, that's funny.
That's terrible.
You're supposed to gut laugh.
Because you're mad that they got that joke.
You're like, fuck, that was a good one.
I don't even know if that's part of it.
And part of it's just like you're just kind of desensitized to the whole structure of the format and how it's presented and everything that you just go, yes, excellent.
Well done.
You know, it's almost like I, you know, I see like, I don't know, but if you were like a, like a gymnast coached, you know, not one of the kiddie fuckers, but like just a good gymnast coach, and you were, and you're just like, it's like, yes, excellent form.
Very well.
But you're not like, yes, you know, you're just like, I don't know.
I've seen this a million times.
So it's like, yeah, excellent.
That was very good.
I'm recognizing it, but you don't have that same, but Chappelle fucking made me laugh and I appreciated it.
And I, um, I, I thought he did two specials, what was it, like a year ago, maybe a little more than a year ago, he did two.
Um, and uh, I thought this one was like substantially better than the last two.
I still think for my money, uh, for what it's worth, is the best comedy special I've ever seen.
Killing them softly, it's probably top five best comedy special.
He's got two of the best ever.
I know, by the way, most people disagree with me on that and think killing them softly was the better of the two.
I'm a for what it's worth guy, but anyway, um, but he's he's incredible, and I really enjoyed the special.
So, there was that, but I'll tell you, even before I uh, I saw the special, I saw some of the uh, you know, the responses to it, and you know, I don't even know what to say.
Uh, you know, Vice wrote a piece on how you should skip the Chappelle show.
I think the Young Turks did a thing on how it's not punching up, it's punching down.
There were several different kinds of left-wing news, you know, the woke patrol got on them.
I don't know what to say about that.
I feel almost hesitant to even add my two cents to it.
It's like, I don't know, it's really, really dumb.
We all know it's fucking retarded.
Uh, yeah, I don't know.
It's it's not like it, it'd be one thing for me if you're like a 20-year-old kid or something like that, and this is kind of the only adult world you've ever known.
But if you're in your mid-30s, like I am, it's like, I don't know, am I supposed to pretend that this was even like super like edgy or something like that?
It's like it was a it was a comedy special, it's what you expect an edgy comedian to do.
I mean, it was edgy, but it's like I don't know what you know, like I'm a 90s kid.
It was like Chris Rock and like fucking Chappelle and guys like that.
This is what they do.
They fucking push boundaries and they go balls out.
And it's like, I don't know, it's not, and even then, it wasn't really like, oh my God, I can't believe they're doing this.
I mean, Pryor and Carlin were fucking, were working for decades before them.
This is what edgy stand-up comedy is.
It's like none of this has changed.
The fucking culture changed.
So, I'm not pretending it's like, oh my God, I can't believe he made a joke about transgender people.
Like, you know, whatever.
Of course, he did.
Well, hopefully, we can expose the PC people for being the loud minority that they are.
That's what you need.
You need like more of these PC and woke people to continue losing money with content that sucks.
And then people that actually just step forward and go, oh, well, we're going to put the funny content on.
And then to have the funny content make a lot of money that people finally turn around and go, oh, the market doesn't really agree with this PC bullshit and it sucks.
Well, I agree with that, which is what's happening more or less.
So I agree.
By the way, the fucking Babylon Beat, just really fucking funny.
You ever read them?
They're like the onion, like a fake news, like satirical news.
Not fake news in the Trump sense, but they had an article.
It was really funny if you want to read it.
It's short.
But the title was Liberals Clarify.
They only want black voices to be heard when they're saying liberal things.
That's great.
Which is a great article, a great title.
But then I got to say, there was something that kind of bugged me about the response.
So the overwhelming response from the comedy community, if you want to, which I feel super gay even saying that term.
The only response, like the overwhelming response from the comedy community was like defending Chappelle and being like, oh, this is crazy that these articles are like writing these things about him.
And it's like, okay, I guess it caught me in a little bit of a weird, put me in a weird spot because I'm technically it's like, you're right.
And this is like the thing to say.
I do agree with you.
But there was something about it that just kind of left me with a bad taste in my mouth.
And, you know, I really am, I'm very removed from the comedy community.
I'm not like one of their people.
I don't really, I have like a few friends in comedy, but I don't really like hang out with comedians the way I used to.
And when I first started comedy, I was in my early 20s and I thought it was just so cool.
I thought the scene was just so awesome.
And I admired so many of the people who were in it.
But it was a different, it really was a different world.
Like it was so different, the comedy world.
Like there was the guys that we were all looking up to were like Dave Ital and Patrice O'Neill and Greg Giraldo and, you know, like fucking DiPaolo and all these guys.
And basically they all either died or became outcasts or they're David Tell and they're still doing great things.
But, you know, then it became like this whole new thing.
And I don't know, just not my deal.
Even when I do spots, I don't really like hang after I was partly, I got a kid and I'm married.
It's like I'm not really hanging as much.
I like do a spot and go home.
And, you know, I do skanks and stuff.
And Jay and Lewis are my brothers and like, you're my brother, but I don't really like hang with that many comedians anymore.
And there was something about it that just really bothered me where it was kind of like, and I know Lewis made this point once before.
I think it might have been on Skanks, or maybe it was just when me and him were talking.
I don't exactly remember.
But he was like, you know, sometimes you'll see a lot of the kind of left-leaning comedians all decide that, you know, this woke PC culture is going too far.
But it always seems to be when they're circling around one of their own.
Like, it's always when someone on the left gets in trouble.
They're like, oh, come on, man.
We're going after him now.
And it's kind of like there's something.
So Chappelle, it's like, it's a hilarious special.
I got nothing else to say about that, but it's not as if Chappelle's like, you know, he's pissing off the woke crowd, but anything pisses off that.
I mean, unless you're literally doing fucking Hannah Gatsby comedy, you're going to piss off that fucking crowd.
Or you're just doing comedy that has nothing to do with anything, like any issues.
You know, if you're Gaffigan or whatever, they won't have a problem with him.
But they're, so yeah, of course, if you're doing any type of edgy balls out comedy, it's like you're going to piss them off.
But Chappelle's like a very like pro-black kind of like call out white people.
You know, like that's his thing.
It's always been.
And whatever.
I don't fucking give a fuck.
I don't look for my comedians to be my fucking, you know, like influencers.
It's like, be funny.
That's your fucking job.
Now, I understand I happen to be the rare breed.
But the, you know, it's like, so you're circling around him, but I just saw all these people kind of defending Dave Chappelle.
And it's like, look, Dave Chappelle, to some degree, was getting, you know, he was getting some heat.
I mean, look, Vice magazine isn't some fucking blog.
Like that's a I mean, it is, but it's it's a big one.
And, you know, the other news sources, there were big news sources that were critical of him.
So I understand defending him.
But it just kind of, look, I guess what happened was, and I'm not going to name them, but there were a couple comedians.
Name them.
I'm not going to.
I want to know.
But I'll tell you later.
But there were a couple comedians who I saw who were defending Dave Chappelle, who I also saw were shitting on Nick DiPaulo after his last special.
And it's like, to me, that's the fucking test.
Not like if you'll defend somebody whose views you agree with from like the woke PC crowd.
It's if you'll defend someone whose views you don't agree with from that crowd and be like, hey, you know what?
That guy's got a right to make his jokes too.
It can't just be, because really, if you only defend people who have your views making jokes, you're basically just as bad as the woke PC people.
You're like, yeah, you guys go eat the opposition, but don't eat my side of it.
It's like, well, fuck you then.
And in addition to the two people who I saw who were critical of Nick DiPaolo, who were like defending Dave Chappelle, a lot of other people were just silent about that shit.
And I just wonder, it's like, how many of you guys like defended Nick DePaulo?
How many of you guys defended Owen Benjamin?
These are people who were actually threatened by this fucking, like actually being like, oh, you're losing gigs.
You're losing things.
Nick DePaulo was physically attacked.
Owen can't perform in like half the places he used to.
I feel however you feel about their views, they're both funny comics, man.
Like go watch their fucking stand-up.
Those are funny fucking comics.
I know funny.
You can't tell me they're not funny comedians.
Depaul's one of the greats.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Owen's funny as fuck, too.
Owen's fucking.
DePaul is one of the greats.
Yeah, no, I mean, I completely agree.
No, I mean, I've opened for Owen.
I've watched Owen do an hour.
Owen's a fucking strong comic, man.
He's got really, really funny shit.
He's an excellent comedian.
And DePaulo, yes, DePaulo is one of the best in the world.
I got to watch more Owen's stuff.
The only thing I really watched was that video you sent me where he was trying to do an hour in one week.
And what was that?
No, but what was scary about that was all that shit was solid.
Like most of those bits would be A and my act.
I'm just saying.
So like that shit was funny, even though it was all B and C that worked it for one week.
But one of the cool things about that movie was that it was like him.
It was the kind of, what's the word I'm looking for?
The vulnerability of him being like, well, I'm going to show you me failing with new material.
Like I'm going to show you me failing with the joke I came up with yesterday and trying to put an hour together in what is a ridiculously short amount of time.
But I mean, go watch Owen do like a headline set.
I mean, fucking strong comic.
And his turnover was like incredibly fast.
But yeah, that piece was that 60, what is it, 60 Minutes and 60 Days.
But there's a lot of funny in there.
There's a lot.
There's a lot of funny.
And it was also just a great, like, it was just excellent the way it was done.
Like, you really got a sense of him and his wife.
And just, it was great.
And Nick DePaulo, of course, like a GOAT.
Like, he's a king of the comedy world.
But I just feel like, you know, those guys were really, like, Nick DePaulo was physically assaulted.
Owen is, like, banned from like so many venues at this point.
Dave Chappelle's Political Stance00:02:54
And I don't see any of these people being like, hey, man, who cares if I agree with them politically?
Like, why can't you just say what I'm saying about Chappelle right now?
I don't give a fuck if I agree with him politically.
I'm certain I don't.
Quite certain me and Chappelle's politics do not line with.
He's Christian conservatives.
He's Muslim.
I mean, when it comes down to war, we're going to be fighting against each other.
He's probably born in Kenya.
I don't know.
When shit hits the fan.
But the point is, it doesn't matter.
It was a hilarious comedy special.
And when we fight in a civil war, we fight in a civil war.
But for now, let's all laugh together.
We're not there yet.
But it's like, I don't get where it's like, if I can say like, well, whatever, fuck you guys.
He's a right to be funny.
And who cares?
Who cares if I agree with him on his central point in a thing?
Like, it's either funny or it's not funny.
And if it is funny, it's probably making somewhat of a good point because that's usually, usually a really funny joke, especially in the style of Chappelle, but just in general.
Usually humor is somewhat attached to something resembling a valid point.
That doesn't mean it's literal, but it's like, oh, you're getting at something.
That's why we're laughing because we're like, you know, that's why when people laugh at a comedy club, you'll quite often hear people go, ha ha ha, that's so true.
Like, that's a line that comes out of many people's faces as they're laughing at a stand-up comedian because there's something about a truth, particularly an uncomfortable truth, particularly an absurd truth that really draws out ha ha ha from people.
It's a very weird thing.
But anyway.
But those guys kind of needed, you know what I mean, people to like stand up for them and back them up.
And Chappelle doesn't really.
You know, he's getting paid tens of millions of dollars to do these specials on Netflix.
He's fine.
You know, fucking Vice can write their article about him.
No one gives a shit.
He's Chappelle.
He's knighted and he'll be fine forever.
So it's just kind of like, it just seems to me like, I guess one of the things that kind of turned me off about the world of stand-up comedy was so many comedians just kind of, you know, the virtue signaling and the taking the easiest stance when it's the most convenient.
And I just, I just, to me, I never saw that as the role of the comedian.
The role of the comedian to me was always to like, it's like to make fun of everything and then to, you know, if you're going to take a stance, take the ballsiest stance.
That's the, to me, that's, that's what it's all about, but whatever.
Anyway, it's really great.
They were just, they have it on in the other room right now.
And I was re-watching a few minutes of it before.
Really, really funny shit, man.
Really, really good.
I highly recommend it.
Go watch Dave Chappelle's special on Netflix.
You already have it or you have your mom's or something like that.
It's time to get friends in your family.
All 12 people in your family have it.
You haven't networked enough to get a Netflix password from the guy who doesn't leave his house.
You got to get out there a little bit.
Yeah, really.
Yeah, it should probably only take three friends to get to a Netflix password.
Networking for Netflix Passwords00:03:04
You're allowed to get like seven people on that thing.
You should be able to get on Kevin Bacon's Netflix.
That's how easy it is to have a fucking Netflix password.
You have to know someone who knows somebody.
Homeless people should have a Netflix password if you live in a first place.
I see them when they're clicked into those public booths.
Oh, yeah.
Thank God.
Thank you, fucking Bloomberg or de Blasio or whoever the fuck is responsible for those fucking homeless shelters on every corner.
If you don't know what we're talking about, in New York City, they have little fucking like charging stations on like every other corner and they just became homeless dens after about a week.
There was probably like 48 hours where like actual functioning New Yorkers were like, oh, this is very convenient.
And then fucking went right to the right to homeless people jerking off.
It's brutal.
It'd be great, a homeless dude ordering pizza delivery to one of us.
Just because, you know, you could just walk in or eat a pizza.
Hey, I'm at 412 7th Avenue.
Well, outside 412 7th Avenue.
Bring me a pizza.
I know homeless jokes are a little low, but there's this dude on my street.
I just feel bad for him in Astoria, but he's got this giant push card of stuff.
And it's like, dude, if you just gave up your stuff, you know how free you could be?
You can go anywhere, do anything.
Yeah.
I mean, that's what, yeah.
But you want stuff.
People covet stuff.
You know, that is.
Become a security guard.
You're so good at just sitting down all day and guarding stuff.
Yeah, but you know, it's like there's something about that, right?
Like ownership.
I can't imagine there's gold inside of those cases.
No, but I think it's even like, I think in prison, if you're homeless, wherever you are, you kind of want your possessions.
There's something about that.
That's my plastic fork.
Yeah.
No, I mean, really, though.
I think, you know, I think there's something very wired in us to want to acquire things.
And since resources are scarce and we want to avoid conflict, we need private property rights.
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Okay.
So let's get into some shit.
Pretty big story.
Pretty big story that came out that caught my eye.
I'm sure caught a lot of yours as well.
If you pay attention to the news at all and you listen to this program, the inspector general of the Department of Justice issued a report, a pretty scathing, devastating condemnation of James Comey, former FBI director.
It was really, it was interesting to see.
And I got to say, I told you so.
There you go.
I mean, you know, I hate to say I told you so, but it feels really good when you say it.
So maybe I don't hate to say it.
But this was, you know, I've been telling you guys for years now, for years now.
And I've been, and I just, this was so easy to fucking call.
So easy to call.
So, so what happened more or less was that when Donald Trump, the first meeting between then FBI director James Comey and Donald Trump happened in January of 2017.
I think it was January 6th, if I'm not mistaken.
So it's right before Trump is sworn in.
So he is the president-elect at this point.
He hasn't been sworn in yet, but he's won the election.
He's going to be the president in a couple weeks.
So James Comey, and by the way, just delicious irony in the James Comey, who really, I mean, he was a national figure, but really became somebody who everyone knows when he came out and said, Hillary Clinton, you know, basically did, you know, did violate the law, but we're not going to prosecute her, more or less is what he said.
I mean, he didn't say it in those words, but he explained what she did, which is clearly a violation of the statute, and then said we're not going to prosecute her.
And more or less, that's what happened to him just now.
They were like, oh, yeah, he did leak classified information, but basically on a technicality, he's not going to be charged for anything because the information that he leaked wasn't made classified till shortly after he leaked it.
So at the time, he wasn't leaking classified information, but it's like, it's just whatever.
Anyway, there's something pretty funny about that.
That is just, that's how James, that's how James Comey burst onto the scene.
And now this is how he's, you know, his latest thing.
So anyway, so James Comey, this is what's known is that, and this has been known for a long time, is that James Comey is first time he meets Donald Trump, he presents him with the infamous Steele dossier, or at least tells him about it.
Maybe he didn't present it to him, but he lets him know about the Steele dossier.
What we know now, you know, from that whole Carter Page memo that was declassified, what the FBI was referring to as the salacious and unverified document.
Now, since that Carter Page memo was released, we've actually learned a lot more because we've had congressional hearings, we've had the Mueller report, we've had all of this stuff.
So we know now not only that it's unverified, but that straight up, there's huge parts of it that are false and things that would be very, very easy.
Like right away, this is why the whole Trump-Russia hoax was so easy to call.
And this is why I don't feel like I deserve a lot of credit or you deserve a lot of credit for getting this right because this was obvious.
Like when they say that Michael Cohen went to Prague to meet with Russian lawyers to work out the deal, like this is what was alleged in the Steele dossier, right?
So Trump is sending his right-hand man to Prague to meet with Russians to work out the fucking collusion, right?
Like to work out the fucking, they've got dirt on Donald Trump.
Okay, we'll give you this if you're quiet about the fucking hookers that Donald Trump's peeing on or getting peed on or whatever.
So just you don't, you don't need to be an expert.
Almost sometimes, sometimes I feel like they use intentionally like the facade of expertise.
So you feel like, well, I don't know.
I'm not an expert, but just think it through.
Unlike in anyone, if you have an IQ over 90, you can follow along with this.
Okay.
What would your first question be if we're going to get down to the bottom of figuring out if that's true?
Here's the thing.
Did Michael Cohen go to Prague at that time?
We can find that out, right?
Guy's got a passport.
There's a track record.
This didn't happen in 1850.
There's records of these things.
Oh, well, guess what?
He didn't.
He didn't go to Prague.
So right there, it all falls apart.
Right away when they go in the Steele dossier, there are these dates where Donald Trump was in Russia.
It's like, oh, let's just check if he was in Russia during that time.
Forget whether hookers were peeing on him.
We don't even need to get that far.
Was he in Russia?
You think nobody's keeping track of when Americans go to Russia and come back?
Of course they are.
But they never even get into that because they know that'll just disprove the whole thing.
But anyway, so the first time that the FBI director meets with the president-elect, he's like, hey, we got this fucking shit on you.
Now, what I said from the very beginning was that this was obvious.
If you know anything about the history of the FBI, just go watch.
You don't even need to read up on it.
Go watch the fucking J. Edgar Hoover movie.
Was it one with Leonardo DiCaprio?
The fucking go with Edgar, I think it's called.
Go watch that movie.
Watch anything about J. Edgar Hoover.
You already know what this was.
That's why it was so easy to call.
This is obvious.
This was a fucking blackmail.
This was the head of the FBI going, look, we got this fucking dirt on you.
What do you want to do?
Just so you know, we fucking got this on you.
You're now compromised by the deep state.
Like, we have this fucking debt.
Like, it was all about fucking working over the new guy who's coming in.
This is how it always works.
J. Edgar Hoover, when he first met with Bobby Kennedy, showed Bobby Kennedy pictures of Jack Kennedy with like all his side pieces.
It's like, look, they're all hot, so you know.
Yeah, but he still had a wife.
He had a hot wife.
He's got to fucking keep it.
So it's just, and also, you know, back then is a different time, you know.
Cheat all you want.
Well, no, you could, but it couldn't be known because that would be more like, you know, it was more like an American.
And he's a Catholic.
Like, you're not supposed to be doing that shit.
So, but, you know, it's just kind of like, you know, and then it's like, oh, look, we have all this dirt on you, but don't worry about it.
We'll keep it.
You know, I got it safeguarded.
And here's, here's your copy, but I got another copy.
How many side pieces did he have?
Bobby Comey?
Kennedy?
Yeah.
Not Bobby.
JFK.
Oh, my bad.
He had Bobby was the fat one who ended up in the Senate, right?
No, that's Ted.
Okay.
I got to go.
Bobby.
Bobby.
Who's one that found it?
Just like that's Ted also.
Oh, okay.
Bobby ended up just like his brother, JFK.
Shot dead.
Oh, okay.
Yes.
Someone really didn't like him.
Maybe it was the ghost of that lady.
He was like, I know what you did last summer.
Well, no, he's not the one who cheated.
Listen, you got to do it.
Did they ever track down the ghost of the lady that they killed in a lake?
Case is still open.
Maybe she did it.
No, before that happens.
Damn it, Rob.
Get your Kennedy.
It wasn't like a Liam Nason movie.
No, none of this is that way.
Although it could have been ghosts of Kennedy's fucking hookers.
I don't know.
They might travel back in time.
They do that in a lot of movies, too.
I mean, once we're dealing in the realm of ghosts, what's time travel at this point, really?
Can we go back to my initial question of how many side pieces he had?
JFK, lots.
Really?
Ooh, lots.
He was crushing the game in the 60s.
And he probably didn't have to do any maintenance.
He could just hit them up whenever.
You know, I really don't know.
I don't know what the person is.
Which is that biography.
That's the book I want to read.
You know, it might exist.
I don't know.
I've never read it, but it'd be great if it's called JFK's side pieces.
JFK's side pieces.
They had pictures.
Yeah.
Like he wrote it.
I was like, we found this in his vault somewhere.
So anyway, this FBI blackmailing, pushing around presidents, it's existed for a long time.
So I was saying this right away.
Now, what James Comey said, his public statement about their meeting was that he was just trying to warn Donald Trump.
He's like, I'm just letting you know this is out there.
I want to let you know to protect you.
My friend here.
My new boss.
You're a good guy.
Because, of course, so this is what he would say.
I'm serving the president right now.
I mean, this is my job.
He's the president-elect.
So what's come out now is that undeniably Comey was lying when he said that.
So James Comey, there was an investigation already going on of the president.
They, as they said, they knew this document was salacious and unverified.
And they also knew that Christopher Steele couldn't be trusted.
This is all, we know this all, that the FBI knew this from the get-go.
So they know all of this.
They tell Donald Trump none of this.
They don't tell him at all that he's being investigated.
They don't tell him that this was opposition research, which they knew at the time.
They don't tell him that, you know, any of it.
But what James Comey does is he's got an FBI secured computer waiting for him in his limo or whatever car he's in.
So he gets in his car and immediately start takes notes about all the details of what just happened in the meeting and how Donald Trump reacted.
And then he leaks them.
He gives them over to friends of his who are professors or journalists or whatever and has them all leaked.
Now later, these became classified in, you know, and so this is where people are like, well, this is really crazy that you're just leaking information.
But for political purposes and to damage the president, he's leaking shit and he's trying to fuck.
So none of, so this is all, it's so obvious now.
So Donald Trump fires James Comey, and this is what triggers the special counsel being appointed.
So that's the way this whole deep state game works.
You can either just sit there like a bitch while the FBI director, who's supposed to be working at the discretion of the president, is basically blackmailing the president with bullshit.
He's not even black.
It's not even like the Kennedys.
He's not even, he doesn't have the decency to blackmail you with your actual side piece.
He's blackmailing you with bullshit.
That didn't even happen.
Okay?
So he tries to blackmail the president.
The president ends up firing him later.
And this is what gets the special counsel on him.
So that's one, you know, I mean, we've known this for a while, but it's just that much more solidified, that much more confirmed.
And the other thing that it's shocking that it took this long because no one's, I think I said this at the time, and I didn't see anyone say it, but when he published his notes, I was like, wait a second, you're allowed to take these notes and just publish them.
And that's a big part of it.
Well, because technically he didn't publish them.
No, I thought he published when I thought when he got fired, he published what he said was his personal notes of having met with the president.
It was 20 pages.
Oh, I don't know if he was.
There was quite a bit of the hooker talk in there.
There was some of when he gave some of them to like some dude at Columbia and then he leaked them, but he may have like talked about them later.
Maybe he did publish some later.
I don't know.
But then apparently the FBI had come to his house twice after he got fired and said, hey, do you have any FBI documents?
And those are now being reclassified as being considered FBI documents and that they weren't things that he was either, I thought, published the press, but I guess or leaked to the press.
But he wasn't allowed to.
Either way, it's the same thing.
But it was shocking to me that when those either came out or I thought he had published it, but when that came out, no one in the press was saying like, hey, how does this guy have this information and how is he allowed to put it out?
That was just overlooked.
Look, I'll say this, man.
If you are anything other than like if you're anything other than a centrist by today's standards, which is the worst thing you can be.
Like I have, I have lots of problems with the like democratic socialist left.
I have lots of problems with the populist right.
You know, but there is nothing worse than the Lindsey Graham Hillary Clinton center of today's politics.
Like, oh, we just want to be corporatist warhawks.
That's, let's all meet in the middle and just be like, they have way more blood on their hands.
They've destroyed much more of the society.
If you're anything other than that, if you're anything other than somebody who believes that once every four years, we should have a choice between Mitt Romney and Hillary Clinton, you know, John McCain or Barack Obama, whoever it may be, Jeb Bush or fucking, you know, Kirsten Gillebrand.
Like if you, if you're outside of that at all, they're either a libertarian, a hard right-wing guy, a hard left-wing guy, anything like that, or even just somewhat of an honest leftist or an honest rightist, either one.
You should have a real problem with this story.
You should be outraged by what the deep state did to Donald Trump here because you go, wow, if anybody who's outside of your power structure tries to come in and assume power when they're democratically elected, they're going to just be relentlessly targeted.
And it's that simple.
I mean, if they could, look, man, I thought from the beginning that I was like, they're going to, I always said, and this is why I wasn't even right about my prediction about the special counsel.
What I said from the very beginning of the Robert Mueller special counsel was that there is nothing about Russian collusion.
This is all bullshit.
That James Comey was trying to blackmail Donald Trump and it didn't work because Donald Trump's too fucking Trumpian.
But I said they'll sick a special counsel on him.
And like a pit bull, he will go through everything he has and he'll find some crime that Donald Trump's committed.
He'll find some dirt in the same way that Ken Starr never found anything with Whitewater, but he did find that Bill Clinton perjured himself.
The same thing is going to happen to Trump.
Okay, nothing with Russia collusion.
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Oh, but here's this criminal real estate deal that you did back in the day.
That was how I saw it going.
And they certainly pitbulled him.
They pulled out everything.
They got everyone who's fucking associated with him who maybe cheated on his taxes 20 years ago.
Anyone who lied to the FBI, anyone who didn't register as a foreign lobbyist when they were a foreign lobbyist, you know, the type of infractions that happened all over that anyone could go down for.
And they still got nothing on Trump.
They got fucking nothing on him.
So the point is not whether you like Donald Trump or not.
The point is that with nothing, they were able to do all this.
With nothing.
So you think, if you're an honest anti-war leftist or you're a small government conservative or anything like that, anything like that, you got to be outraged that this happened.
Because you don't want to set this precedent.
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You know, it's like I was talking about with Chris the other day and this guy, fucking, what's his name?
God damn it, what's his fucking name?
I don't know why I keep blanking on him, but Joe Walsh.
That guy said, and I thought it was such a revealing thing when he was being interviewed by CBS.
And he said that, you know, he's like primarying Trump.
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You know, he'll go nowhere, but he goes, you know, I just, Donald Trump is not fit to be president and saying that whole, you know, kind of like Democrat neocon talking point.
And be like, when did you first realize Donald Trump was unfit to be?
And he goes, it's when he went to Helsinki and sided with Vladimir Putin over his own people.
He was disloyal to his own people.
And oh, by the way, by own people, you mean intelligence community, right?
So that's, that's how you look at this, that he was disloyal to the CIA because the president is supposed to be loyal to the CIA.
Excuse me, what?
Wait, what?
The same intelligence community that was investigating him during the elections that was.
He was supposed to be loyal.
So while they're drumming up this bullshit on you, you got to be loyal to them.
Like, I'm sorry.
I thought this whole thing about democracy was that the like the government derived its rights from the consent of the people.
And that's why the democratically elected president has a CIA that's loyal to him.
You're telling me the president has to be loyal to unelected spies.
So explain to me again how this isn't all a criminal organization.
Explain to me how this isn't just our rulers ruling over us.
You know, there's anyway, there's something about all of that.
That's fine.
I kind of love it.
Really, I wish.
I mean, look, I wish the fucking state was abolished tomorrow.
But short of that, a more reasonable wish, I wish he would just say, instead of being like he showed disloyalty to his own people, be like, he needs to be loyal to the CIA.
That's a president's job.
Just say what you're saying.
You work for them.
Anyway, so anybody should have a major, major problem with that.
The other thing that's interesting to me about this is that for two years, Donald Trump basically didn't have control of the AG, which was because he had Rod Ratface Rosenstein.
And you had, what's his name?
Who was the other guy who was in charge until they replaced him?
Fucking Southern son of a bitch.
Oh, yeah, he really had a weasel face.
Yeah, the guy who recused himself.
Sessions.
Sessions, Jeff Sessions.
Yeah, creepy old Jeff Sessions.
So, yeah, but basically they threatened Sessions to play ball with them and said, hey, you got to recuse yourself because you can't, you know, and that was the whole power grab that, yeah, these agencies are supposed to work for the president.
And when they don't work for the president, you end up with the FBI basically able to run this whole fake investigation.
But now Trump, at the end of his first, you know, run his first term in office, he's able to re-wrangle control of his Justice Department.
And now we're starting to get some of the information, even though I don't think they're going to go that deep into the UK.
Well, look, you saw it right here.
This is what they're going to do.
Oh, it's a scathing report of James Comey, but we're not pressing any charges.
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This is what you're going to see over and over again is people getting off.
We'll give you just enough information so you feel like we're doing something.
We're, quote, exposing them, but you never get the justice.
It's all about who's actually got control over these agencies.
That's the internal power because it's all the appeal to authority.
Well, this agency said that.
Well, it's who actually has control over this agency.
So now he finally has enough control of this agency that at least Comey is going to have to kind of disappear for a little bit and can't pretend to be this white angel.
But it'd be interesting if Trump does get a second term, if he has more political capital and he really has control over shit.
And maybe they do actually hold some people accountable.
Well, it's interesting, and that's a good transition when you say if Trump gets a second term.
Because, man, the frontrunner of the Democrats, the Democratic primaries right now, who's the guy who's supposed to be challenging Donald Trump, Mr. Joe Biden.
Who is this guy having a tough run of it?
It has been something.
I mean, goddammit, 2019, you, I tip my hat to you.
It's just like everything just gets funnier and funnier and more ridiculous and more.
There's never been a time where you would question more whether or not you are living in a simulation with seriousness.
Joe Biden, it seems like every day there's a new thing that Joe Biden's doing.
A new, you know, a gaff or a lie or just what seems to be a man slipping.
A guy who's not quite the man he used to be.
And the man he used to be isn't quite as great as he thinks the man he used to be was.
Or maybe he misremembers it and he was a war hero or whatever, a coal mine or whatever he's claiming to be this day.
I mean, it's just one after the other after the other.
Whether he's like, you know, sniffing a kid or just, you know, stumbling, getting decades wrong, getting names wrong, getting stories wrong, struggling to remember Obama's name, seemingly, at one point.
Did you see that one?
No, I didn't see that one.
Can you YouTube that real quick, Brian?
I didn't have this one pulled up, but say Joe Biden forgets Obama.
It should come up right after that here.
Let me see the screen as you're YouTubing it.
It should be a real quick one.
But this was Joe Biden just the other day.
Really?
Here, let's see.
Here, pull it up so I can see it.
I actually don't.
I don't know what to say about this.
I'm not actually sure what it was.
Yeah, the second one.
There's more and more attention being able to skip to the part where it's Joe Biden.
I don't need to hear this guy talk.
Isn't it amazing with this stuff?
You can never find the original phone.
It's so annoying.
So annoying.
By the way, we are contributing.
They invaded another country and annexed a significant portion of it called Crimea.
He's saying that it was President my boss.
It's his fault.
Now, I get that.
Come on, I want to see the stumbling over the word.
No, but that was what he did.
He goes, you're saying it was President my boss.
And you're like, are you Obama?
I thought he was your best friend.
Now, I wasn't sure exactly what that was, but it's every day there's a new thing.
There's like a new.
Okay, so this is something that, look, people are starting to realize slowly, and you see this in the mainstream media, realize what we were saying at the beginning of this campaign.
You go, I don't know if you're kind of.
We at least thought he was a half-atar.
Now it seemed like he's like, oh, yeah, no, that's.
But I'm just saying, like, what they're starting to realize is that they're like, Joe Biden can't come out of this thing.
It's not going to happen.
This is a paper tiger, if ever there's been one.
There's no strength behind Joe Biden.
He doesn't have anything to electrify the Democratic base today.
And he's just a goof.
He's, yeah.
He can't snap out of it.
He can't stop doing this, whatever this is.
He's not nearly as clever as he thinks he is.
He has none of the socialist support, no intersectionality street cred, you know, just a straight white rich guy.
And this is going to go bad.
This is going to go really bad for him.
And then you realize that the next two candidates right now are Bernie and Warren.
And there's something interesting where, okay, so technically, I don't know exactly what the average is, but it's probably something around Biden at 30%, Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders at around 15 to 20% each.
So you've got like, you know, that's about, and then the rest are just splitting crumbs.
But when you look at it, you realize, oh, Bernie and Elizabeth Warren together are beating Biden.
And Biden's a paper tiger who could fall at any point, right?
So you go, oh, okay.
So really, the progressive wing of the party actually has a bigger chunk than Joe Biden does.
It's just being divided between these two people.
But if either Bernie or Elizabeth Warren fall out, where's their support going to go?
It's not going to Biden.
It's going to the other one of those two, right?
Right.
Probably already with the numbers as they are, either one of them are in a better situation as long as they could get the other guy out or get Biden out, you know?
So it's just a tough situation.
And then you realize there's like these moderates.
You know, and when I say moderates, I just mean corporatist hack tools of the military-industrial complex.
But that's who the media is trying to push, and that's who the Democrats are trying to push.
And they're all falling flat on their face.
It's like Kamala Harris falls flat on her face.
Fucking Beto O'Rourke, flat on his face.
Mayor Pete Butt stuff, flat on his butt.
They're all having a lot of trouble.
Mayor Pete Butt stuff, flat on his mouth.
All of them are just, they're failing.
And this is who's left standing right now.
Anyway, it seems to me like there's some concern is starting to sweep over the corporate press.
This is what I've been noticing lately.
And they're trying to figure out how we deal with this.
They don't have a good answer.
They don't have a good answer to it.
Basically, Elizabeth Warren's their only hope because they feel like she's one of them.
And maybe she can be the one to do it.
But I think they're very concerned over the fact that they know she'll lose to Trump.
It's just you pretended to be an Indian.
He fucking trolled you into taking a DNA test, which you failed, and then bragged as if you had succeeded.
Remember, she put out that video.
I know what I am.
She goes, she has the fucking geneticist or whatever on the phone.
And she's like, she's like, Donald Trump likes to say I don't have any Native American blood in me.
Is that true?
And he's like, no, that's not true that you don't have any.
And she's like, ha, gotcha.
So you're one 1024th Native American, and you're bragging when you've been listing yourself as a woman of color.
And you're bragging.
Holy shit, did he do a job on you?
So they're starting to get nervous because I'll tell you, and this is why things are going to get ugly.
It's actually kind of scary to me because if you think that the entire media telling you it's over, Hillary Clinton's won, Trump can't possibly win, and then Trump winning.
And you see how crazy everybody's gotten since then.
Because it's you either have to go to a crazy place or admit that you're a complete fraud and have been a fraud for decades.
That's a difficult position to be in.
So they go to the, you know, there's Ku Klux Klansmen behind every rock in America, or Russia interfered in the election, or there was collusion between Russia and Trump.
So now they got nothing out of the Mueller hearing.
You see them freaking out.
Trump getting re-elected is going to be who?
I mean, if you think the left is wacky now, wait till Trump gets re-elected.
It's going to be a shit show.
Okay.
And little by little, they're starting to realize, oh, fuck.
Everybody you talk to kind of knows this.
I remember the first time around, people would be like, there's no way Trump's getting elected.
This time you talk to people, they're like, oh, yeah, I bet he gets elected.
Even people who hate Trump are like, I bet he gets fucking re-elected.
I've talked to a lot of people who feel that way.
So this is what they're trying to do.
Now, they don't want to just throw Joe Biden to the wolves quite yet because it's like we still think he might be the best shot we've got, but they're getting worried.
So they're in spin mode.
And that's what's been interesting.
So I guess the latest thing is that Joe Biden told a story about a war hero that he had met and the war hero's story.
And it's just completely bullshit.
He's just telling a story that has nothing to do with this guy.
Is just making up details, claiming that it's, I think, his defense is that it was from several different stories and he pieced it together.
But this is, you know, something truly bizarre.
Anyway, let's play the video.
And Rob, you sent me this video.
Let's play the first video and watch the media deal with this situation.
That is raising questions.
Moments ago, the vice president responding to criticism that he was conflating three different true stories by trying to tell a moving story about a war hero in Afghanistan.
Here's what he told the Washington Post.
Pause it already.
Isn't it really unbelievable the way they go?
He's responding to criticism that he conflated three different true stories while another way of saying that is that he fucking lied.
But no one will use the L word with Joe Biden.
Even though if you go to CNN, and we do this all the time, every goddamn day there's a new story about Trump's lies.
But this is, well, he conflated three true stories.
Well, that's kind of the same as making up a story.
You know?
Isn't that kind of the same thing as like lying?
All right, let's play.
I've been fact-checking Biden's claims.
What is the gaff when I said there was a young man I tried to pin a medal on?
He said, I don't want it, sir.
He died.
And it was a young man, my recollection was, that in fact pulled a colleague of his out of a burning Humvee, and he risked his life doing it.
And the young man died that he tried to save.
That is not entirely the story he told.
Here is part of the story Biden told last year.
Let's hear it already.
Yeah, I'm getting confused.
Young Navy captain, Navy, Navy, up in the mountains in the Konar Valley in Afghanistan.
One of his buddies got shot, fell down a ravine about 60 feet.
This guy climbed down a ravine, carried this guy up on his back under fire.
And the general wanted me to pin the silver star on him.
I got up there and stand and said, God's truth.
My word is a Biden.
He stood at attention.
I went to pin him.
I said, sir, I don't want to deal.
God is a true word as a Biden.
Yeah, if you, to the trained eye, there's a few subtle tells when Joe Biden is making up a story.
Number one, he goes, he was in the Navy, Navy, Navy.
Like, there was no need to give that to us three times.
Then he goes, just in the middle of his bullshit story, he goes, God's honest truth, this happened.
You're like, Joe, we never, we weren't really questioning whether this happened or not until you kept swearing as a Biden.
Oh, my word is a Biden.
What could be more noble or accurate than the word of a Biden?
I'll tell you, even the bucket people are starting to get suspicious of Joe Biden.
Even his key demo are starting to turn on him.
Let's keep playing.
Dang.
Do not turn it on me, sir.
Please, sir.
Do not do that.
He died.
He died.
Outfront now, one of the reporters that fact-checked Biden's story, Matt Pfizer of the Washington Post.
Matt, you heard Biden's response to the questions about the story.
What's your reaction?
Yeah, I mean, the reaction is he's emphasizing today in an interview with my colleague Jonathan Cape Hart the story of Chad Workman, which is a very compelling story involving an incident in Wardak province in Afghanistan that happened at which he got a medal, a bronze medal in 2011.
And it does, the incident does occur as Biden has described it and as Workman, who we spoke with, describes it.
The problem is that that's not the story that Biden told last week.
It's also not the story that he was telling in 2016 on two occasions.
So he's been telling a different story that has at the core of it, this emotional story about workman, Sergeant Workman, but in a different context.
So what did he get right?
So who gives a fuck if you're telling a different story?
Listen, who cares about truth or context when you're emotionally manipulating people?
Who cares?
What's the goal of this story?
Like, what does he get at at the end of it?
They're at least giving credible.
He's trying to tell this compelling story.
Well, what's the point of it?
And you say, listen, I've heard people talk about this before.
This is what it is, right?
This is what old school politics is.
Okay.
You work out these lies, these stories that never happened.
Okay.
And you go around and you tell them to a whole bunch of people.
It's usually some crazy story, some great thing, some thing you overcame in your childhood, some hero who you were cool with.
You get them emotional.
You get them kind of like on the verge of tears.
And then you were there and you really care.
And now we made an emotional connection.
This is how you win votes.
And what they'd always count on is that the media will never fucking put them on blast for this shit.
But now we live in a different age where there's the internet and these journalists will be swarmed by people on Twitter who do all of this fucking research themselves and all these fucking stuff.
So they have to cover it now.
So I've heard people talk about this before.
Scarborough mentioned, I remember years ago, and this stuck with me, but he just said it like as an aside.
But he was like, oh, all us politicians have these stories that never happened that we go around and we tell.
It's part of campaigning.
He just said it like, you know, that's what we're talking about.
But that's what it is.
So Joe Biden's like probably lost track of the real story and what his bullshit lie is.
He doesn't fucking even remember.
He's like, I don't know.
I think Kennedy died in 79.
Politicians' Fabricated War Stories00:15:12
What the fuck do I know about what happened with this?
He just wants some power and to sniff some kids.
But it's right, exactly.
And by the way, he's got plenty of both.
Plenty of power, plenty of kids to sniff, but he's not going to be president.
Anyway, let's keep playing.
What crucial details did he get wrong?
So on Friday, he got wrong several elements talking about going to the Kunar province, which is in a different area than the one that Workman was in.
In Kunar, he went as a senator, not as a vice president, as he stated the other night.
There was not a Navy captain involved, as he said the other night.
It's an army sergeant in Workman's case.
He's not pinning a medal on anybody in Kunar province.
He's pinning a medal on somebody later in Wardock province.
And then the other element is that he's describing this ravine and somebody falling down a ravine and going to retrieve a fallen colleague.
That is an incident that did occur in Wardock province.
And the military member involved with that, Kyle White, got the Medal of Honor, which was given by Barack Obama at the White House.
So he's using, there's several different stories that are true that are told in a way.
He's refused the medal because he wanted it from Obama.
Is that what happened?
The emotional core, again, involving one of the soldiers, it did in fact happen.
And that climax that you That's really funny.
Zoo's just like, I want this medal from a bomb.
I don't want this weirdo sniffing my kids and wife.
Trying to fuck.
Oh, come on, man.
Get off me.
I earned that.
I almost died out there.
Get away.
I don't want it.
Stop it.
Stop it.
Don't put that on me.
Honey, get the car.
Start the car.
Vice president's giving it to us.
I bailed.
I said before we got here, I would not take anything from him.
Yeah.
Anyway, so this is their coverage of Biden.
Excuse me.
I made the same mistake Biden made.
This is their coverage of Biden just inventing things, getting details completely wrong, just for his own, you know, fucking, just to boost up his own story and legacy, just making things up, putting the wrong branch of the military in the wrong place in the wrong province, in the wrong country.
Give him the stamp of the Biden name.
Yeah, exactly.
So, right.
And giving his, giving the very, you know, meaningful Biden stamp of, I swear to God, this happened.
He invoked the Lord.
That's why I'm covering this.
You don't invoke the Lord and not tell the truth.
All right, let's just play the rest of this.
His emotional is one that occurred, just not in the context at which he's been describing it.
Matt Pfizer, thanks very much.
Out front now, April Ryan, White House correspondent for American Urban Radio Networks, and Lisa Lehrer.
She's national political correspondent for the New York Times.
April, are these significant differences in the story he's telling here?
Yes, there are significant differences.
But, Jim, what you have to look at, we are in a climate of lies being thrown at us from the president of the United States.
And we're so hypersensitive about issues of lies.
People who are prone to gaffes, we are now holding them to the same standard, putting that bright spotlight on, looking at it as a lie like this president tells, versus saying, oh, that's Joe Biden.
He is prone to gaffing.
At issue is the staff sergeant.
Okay, so that the concept that we should be okay with the president who's prone to gaffing.
Oh, he's just a gaffer.
No, he's a fucking retard.
That should be an issue for your president.
Excuse my language.
Like, by this standard, you know, you're going to lose that debate.
You can bring back Johnson.
There's no issue with gaffing.
Hey, it doesn't matter what information you don't know.
Hey, the only reason there's an issue about what you don't know is because we got a president that's lying.
So now all of a sudden, if you're gaffing, people think you're lying.
Well, no, no.
The problem is either the guy's lying or he's really, really stupid.
And we always said, hey, Biden can't run because he's really stupid.
And now you're left with nobody.
And it's pretty obvious, oh, he's as dumb as we thought.
And what is exactly, like, how do you determine what's a gaffe versus a lie?
That seems to me to basically come down to who's on your side of the aisle.
I mean, like, to me, a gaffe is kind of like forgetting something.
Like, I think when he said the uh, and this is just me, I don't know if this is the official definition or whatever, but to me, when he said Kennedy got killed in the 70s, I'm kind of like, that's kind of a gaffe.
Like, no, it was the 60s.
Yeah.
You know, I don't even know the Kennedys were.
Am I going to tell this guy?
Sure.
There were worse gaffes on this podcast today.
But that's kind of a gaffe.
But if you're just making up a story, I mean, and with nuanced details, swearing to God it happened when it didn't, that's not a lie.
And it's so weird that April Ryan, this hack, she'll just immediately go to like, well, you know what the problem with Joe Biden?
You know the problem?
Why every single day there's a new story about how fucking like horrible a candidate Joe Biden is and how he can't get through a speech without sniffing a kid or just blurting something out that that makes you go, this person is insane.
Like I wouldn't trust this person to have a middle management position at an important company, but we're supposed to hand over the military to this guy.
You know what?
The problem with that is that it's Trump's a liar.
And nobody's even used the L-word in this whole segment against Biden.
But right away, it's like, well, Trump's a liar, and that's why we're getting focused on Biden.
But Biden's just a gaffer.
You see, Trump's a liar.
Biden's a gaffer.
Big difference.
You can't, there's nothing wrong with a gaffer.
Gaff, gaff, great time at a party, a gaffer, but a liar.
A liar's a Nazi.
And, you know, it's like, what the fuck are you talking?
So why doesn't Trump ever get the benefit of the doubt for a gaff?
You know, if Trump goes, oh, hey, my, uh, the, the crowds at my inauguration were the biggest in history.
They go, actually, you're a liar.
It's every day you go to CNN.com.
Here's 12 lies Donald Trump told at the G7 summit or whatever it is.
Why not gaffes?
Well, maybe there was a gaff.
Maybe he forgot that his crowd wasn't as big as Obama's.
I mean, I don't really think so.
I think Trump's a fucking liar, but you know what?
So's Biden.
Like, they're all fucking liars.
Hey, there you go.
They're all liars.
That's how this whole thing works.
When you're the mafia pretending to be a human rights organization, you don't fucking put people in the front of the mafia who tell the truth because then they'd go, hey, we're the mafia.
So you need liars.
Biden's a goofy gaffer.
Yeah.
You know that song?
No.
No, it's from the Spongebob movie.
But it's goofy goober.
Oh, okay.
But it's not about Biden, isn't it?
Were these SpongeBob writers geniuses?
Let's get that out there.
All right.
Let's keep playing.
Workman did say, you know, he died.
Do not pin the metal on me.
All the other stuff is important, but was it something that it's been so long and he just couldn't get the story right?
Or was it an out-and-out lie?
That's the question.
And we have someone in the White House who we know is a liar, point blank.
And now this person who's running for president is known to gaff.
He needs to get it right if he tells a story.
But was it intentional?
That's the question.
And I don't think it was.
Lisa, let's play more of what Biden just told the Washington Post about the story.
Have a listen.
I want to get your reaction.
I was making the point how courageous these people are, how incredible they are.
This generation of warriors, these fallen angels we've lost.
And so that, I don't know what the problem is.
I mean, what is it that I should say?
All right.
As your Christian conservative leader, I should probably know this better, but is it really a compliment to call someone a fallen angel?
Why not?
Wasn't the devil a fallen angel?
I don't know about that.
Yeah.
Okay.
Anyway, sorry.
Small thing there, but it doesn't matter if I told a lie.
My point was how great these people are, what heroes they are.
It's like another unbelievable thing about how these fucking corporatist warhawks are able to get away with what they are.
I always thought it was amazing.
I remember at Hillary Clinton's Democratic National Convention in 2016.
Do you remember when she had those Muslims come in whose son served in the army and died in Iraq?
And they lectured Donald Trump over his Muslim ban.
And they were like, you know, and he pulled out the Constitution.
And by the way, his wife didn't talk like a good Muslim wife.
She stayed there and shut the fuck up through the whole speech.
And he fucking pulls out a pocket constitution.
He goes, this is the Constitution.
Donald Trump, you should read it.
And they got like a big applause.
And I was talking about this on the podcast.
I was going crazy.
I was like, holy shit, Donald Trump, this is the biggest opening.
And it took him a few days, but eventually he fucking got there.
But he was like, he was like, yeah, we shouldn't have fought the war in Iraq.
Your son would still be alive if I was in charge.
It's like someone like Hillary Clinton, who voted for the war in Iraq, doesn't even think twice before she brings a fucking, like the family of somebody who died in that war, which is pretty universally accepted.
We shouldn't have fought.
I mean, it's not like, like, the war was sold off bullshit.
The war was sold on gaffes, if you will.
George W. Bush had a gaffe when he said that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction and that he was working with al-Qaeda.
You know, it was a really big gaff.
A million people died over that gaffe.
So I would never call him a liar, but, you know, he was a big gaffer, that George W. Bush.
So, but you, it's always amazing to me.
These people, like, who support all these wars can then invoke the fallen angels, these amazing people who die in these wars, and just use it for political points.
And they don't even, like, they're so drunk on their own bullshit that they don't even go like, oh, wow.
I mean, if these people are so courageous and, you know, I sent them to these wars that we didn't need to fight and they died.
Maybe I shouldn't talk about this.
I mean, I got the most courageous amongst us killed.
I probably shouldn't bring this up.
But they're like, oh, no, I'll bring it up every single, you know, event.
This is how you work the fucking, you know, so you tug on the heartstrings.
Strange system, this, this whole government thing.
All right, let's keep playing.
I mean, Matt Weiser, Lisa was making a point about the location in Afghanistan, different provinces, et cetera.
Does that fundamentally change the meaning of the story he was trying to tell?
Well, I think, you know, the emotional core is there, as Matt pointed out earlier in the show.
But I think the question for Joe Biden is whether this becomes part of a larger narrative about his gas and not only about his guests, but about his readiness and his ability to go head-to-head with Donald Trump.
You know, you have this very risk-adverse Democratic Party electorate that just wants to find somebody more than anything else that they feel is the strongest candidate to beat Donald Trump.
And Biden has positioned himself as the most electable.
And if he starts looking like a riskier choice, you know, through getting details and stories like this wrong, through offhand comments that he would argue are misinterpreted, and just little mistakes like last week when he was in New Hampshire and said he loved Vermont, things like that.
He starts looking like someone who's more risky to Democrats.
You could see this race start to turn.
And there is a possibility that he could lose his commanding position in this primary.
And that's really where I think the real risk comes in for him.
April, to your point there.
I love that.
It's not about truth.
The emotional core.
The emotional core is right.
Just notice the tone of which they cover Biden, how much they're trying to cover up for his just what any normal person would be like, oh my, I mean, this guy is just like a shell of his former self that wasn't that great to begin with.
All right, let's keep playing.
I got a dummy on the loose.
Sure did.
We do have a sitting president who deliberately propagates falsehoods personally every day.
Deliberately.
Have the metrics of a campaign.
This is straight journalism.
In the past, a gaffe, a mistold story might have been consequential.
I mean, are the standards different now when you have someone who deliberately lies every day?
Yeah, the standards are different.
Everything has changed.
I swear to God, this guy in the middle is biting his lip just because he's like, man, that didn't sound like something a journalist would say.
Like, even he's just uncomfortable with that.
He goes, you know, who is deliberately speaking mistruths and someone who deliberately lies every day.
I mean, this goes back to when you're being a little kid, two wrongs don't make a right.
It's like if the other party's murdering people and then you rape a couple, it's not, well, we've changed the standards here.
Right.
The other party murders all the time.
We just got a couple rapes over here.
Well, you right.
So you can't even do a segment about Joe Biden making bullshit up.
Like telling a story that's not real, swearing to God that it's real and telling a bullshit story.
And your story has to go, well, Donald Trump's a liar.
I mean, that's the story here, is that Donald Trump's a liar.
So is it a problem for him when you know Donald Trump's a liar?
That's the question.
And the answer is, well, Donald lies so much.
We've changed the standard where we don't even need an honest candidate.
We just need someone who lies a little bit less.
As long as we're doing that, we're more moral.
Absolutely.
That's the standard.
All right, let's play April Ryan's response.
And then I have another video I want to go to in a sec.
Player who changes the whole game of spades, I declare war, whatever you want to play.
Well, monopoly, be it that.
What happens is now we are very hypersensitive at anything anyone says because we're holding this president at such an account with fact checking.
That's one of the big things.
I mean, for us to watch a president deliver a speech and in real time fact check, that is saying something.
We have never had to really do that before.
Oh my God, pause it right now.
What an admission.
We've never had to do that before.
We've never been fact-checking a president before because they've never told any lies.
Donald Trump is the first one, the first president to tell lies.
It's not like Obama said, if you like your health care, you can keep your health care.
It's not like Obama fucking denied the drone program for the first couple years of his presidency.
Straight up, they wouldn't talk about it.
So it's just lightning strikes?
I don't know what you're saying.
Been a lot of lightning over Yemen recently.
I don't know.
The desert's due for a nice lightning storm.
These houses should stop spontaneously combusting?
But are we supposed to pretend that Bush didn't lie us into war?
Excuse me, gaff us into war?
I mean, Ronald Reagan, George H.W., we're going to pretend they didn't lie.
But we've never, isn't that quite an admission, though, right?
Trump as First Lying President00:15:55
And this is the thing.
It's not, Trump does lie.
Trump lies all the fucking time.
Probably daily.
But the idea that somebody in the media who's, by the way, she's a White House correspondent.
She's a journalist.
This April Ryan is for some reason respected in these circles.
The idea that she would actually say, for the first time ever, we have to worry about the president lying.
I mean, before then, we all just took them at their word.
We were all like, well, this guy's such a great guy.
He would never lie.
Of course not.
If it was Hillary Clinton or Jeb Bush in there, we would just be like, yeah, whatever they say, that's the story.
That's how journalism used to work.
And now we got this guy.
We got to think.
Is this even true?
We got to research.
Holy shit, man, in real time.
Like, she's so into this real-time thing.
As he's giving the speech, we have to do work to see if it's true.
Wow.
What a crazy situation to be in as a journalist.
This lady's going to have a problem with the concept of technological developments that, like, you know, as something new comes along, it's like, oh, and now we use this new technology.
It is a fucking, I thought that was quite a stunning admission.
Unintentional on her part.
Hey, look, we're running up against the end of time.
So I want to just switch over to the other video.
And I just want to show this because I thought it would be interesting, like an interesting juxtaposition to show this is how they cover Joe Biden lying.
And here is Donald Trump and how he gets covered on the same network.
Harvard, by the way, says 90% of the news coverage of the president is negative.
Not my words.
Harvard said.
That's not what Harvard said.
Harvard said 90% of the coverage is negative.
They didn't say why.
Pause it already.
Take it back and listen to how hostile they are.
Listen to what she says and listen to what Chris Cuomo.
Oh, this is Fredo, by the way, grilling.
What's her name?
Fuck.
I'm blanking on her name.
Does it say it in the description?
No, it doesn't.
I know her.
I feel fucking bad that I don't remember her name.
She's nice.
I've met her a few times.
Anyway, just listen to the difference in tona.
Listen to what she says and what he calls her on.
Just right there in that statement, right there.
This is why Harvard, by the way, says 90% of the news coverage of the president is negative.
Not my words.
Harvard said.
That's not what Harvard said.
Harvard said 90% of the coverage is negative.
They didn't say why.
The why is.
Exactly what she just said.
It's literally exactly what she said.
No, no, no.
That's not what they said.
They said what you just said.
Yeah.
Yes.
That's not the why.
90% of the news coverage is negative.
It's like, okay, but it's justified.
And his actions.
If he didn't lie, if he didn't take things out of context, if he didn't demonize people for being different, if he didn't make it okay to be bigoted, then he would not get the same kind of criticism.
He doesn't lie.
But the press lies.
Don't look at Fox News and call it state TV, and people aren't going to call you out for being unfair to him.
He doesn't lie.
Guess who lies?
The press lies and doesn't have to be a living.
You don't think this president has ever lied?
Take it from Jim Comey, who literally called out.
I don't think this president has lied to the American people.
I have to answer that question first.
He has never lied to the American people.
No, I don't believe that.
Kaylee McAnini, your credibility will be shot with my audience if you don't.
He has never lied to the American people.
I think MSNBC has lied to the American people.
I think the fake news has lied to the American people.
Has the president lied to the American people?
Chris, I'm going to ask you this one more time.
Kaylee McAnini, do you believe this president has ever lied to the American people?
No, I don't believe the president has lied.
I believe the fake news media.
Do you believe the fake news media has to be?
Interview's over, Kaylee.
Please, if you can't admit that this president has lied to the American people, you will not have credibility with the audience.
You've got a long way to go, Kaylee.
Look, listen, when a president is telling the American people every day not to believe in a free press, that they're the enemy of the state, and he lies about the allies at G7 saying what we really want to know is why your media hates the country.
He is to blame for sowing the seeds of debate.
30-minute press events.
90-degree weather.
So what?
The president gives access and you lie about everything he says and take him out of college.
I have lied about this president in my life.
You may not like what I say.
That doesn't make it a lie.
He lies all the time, and you know it.
Go watch the last hour.
They won't listen to you with it.
You can push him out of context and putting one story with another person.
Show me what I lied about, Kaylee.
It seems as if the president lied and Stephanie lied in him.
And I'll give you a prize.
Pause it right now.
He lied about the president in that rant.
He said that Donald Trump says on a daily basis, a free press is the enemy of the people.
It's not what Donald Trump says.
What Donald Trump says is that the fake news is the enemy of the people.
Now, maybe that was just a gaffe.
I'm sorry, maybe you don't lie.
You just gaffe.
But look, I'm not a Trump supporter.
I hate saying this and people give me shit for disclaiming it all the time.
But I know it comes off like Am.
I'm not.
I'd love to see the guy impeached and tried for war crimes.
I really would.
But let's just be fair about this.
Do you think there's a little bit of a double standard in the way they cover Biden to Trump?
Where they have three people on a panel, all just apologists for Biden making up a story.
Just making up a story.
The wrong branch of the military, the wrong country, the wrong facts.
None of this happened.
And they're like, well, it's gaffes, you know, gaffes.
But Trump's a liar.
So let's make the story really about how Trump's a liar.
And these are gaffes.
And you know, it's because if Trump were a little bit more sad, we wouldn't even be paying attention to this shit.
You know, we wouldn't even be there.
We'd let them tell their bullshit stories.
But now, because of Trump, we're kind of like, is this story bullshit?
So Trump's such a liar, but you know, Biden's gaff prone and being gaff-prone could maybe turn out to be a problem for him.
So we really got to watch these gaffs.
And then she comes on, Trump's a liar.
Can you tell me that Trump's never lied?
Now, first of all, I do sympathize with Kaylee a little bit here because I, you know, I've met her a few times.
She's, she's fairly nice.
We've done panels on Kennedy before a couple times.
And look, when you work for a president, you're in an impossible situation.
So of course she has to be, you know, she's completely full of shit.
Where she has to get asked a question like, Has Donald Trump ever lied?
Can you imagine?
No, he's Donald Trumping for Donald Trump and being asked the question, Has he ever lied?
And you got to go, has the media ever lied?
Yeah, it's like, okay, obviously, Donald Trump is a lie.
Donald Trump's lied while they were doing this interview.
All right.
Yes, obviously Donald Trump has lied.
But it's still hard to not look at the outrageously unfair coverage.
I mean, would they, could you imagine ever an Obama rep coming on CNN and then going, let me ask you a question.
Here's my first question off the bat.
Has Obama ever lied?
Ever.
First off, what person can you say no to about that?
This is just the nature of politics: you have to pretend these people are fucking saints.
Is that true?
Every one of them, by the way, if you ask one of Obama's reps or Biden's reps or Trump's reps, they all go, Has he ever lied?
They will have to look you in the face and go, No.
He's never lied.
Perfect.
Like, they don't get to just be people like the rest of us.
Like, if I just asked you, Rob, have you ever lied?
You'd be like, Of course.
I mean, I'm human.
Like, I've lied.
And I don't have a lot of skills, so I gotta lie a lot.
I gotta lie.
Like, yeah, we've all lied before in our lives.
Like, it's just so ridiculous.
It's like, I don't know.
Like, have you ever lied?
Have you ever had a job where you never told a lie?
You were never like, oh, you know, I can't make it in tomorrow for so-and-so reason, but it wasn't really for so-and-so reason.
You've really, never?
Like, okay.
I mean, most of us try to be honest most of the time, but like, I can tell you that I've never lied about an opinion that I have on this show that I could stand by, but like, never lied.
Like, anyway, it's just a ridiculous standard.
But could you imagine them asking that of anyone else?
Of any other politician who wasn't Trump or a Trump supporter, I sure as fuck can't.
And the hostility that they treat her with.
The unbelievable hostility.
I got to cut the interview short.
This is it.
You're out of here.
You either, here's your thing.
You either admit Trump's a liar or get the hell off my show.
That's how we treat them.
And then juxtapose that with the Biden coverage.
Well, what do you think about these gaffes?
I mean, they were based off three different stories.
There was a kernel of truth in each one of these.
This is, let me tell you something.
And I don't just play this all to just have some fun.
And, you know, I mean, well, okay, I do.
We're entertaining.
You know, this is content.
You guys want to enjoy this.
But what this is, is desperation.
That's what this is.
This is not a sound, you know, press.
Look, obviously the press is in the tank for the Democrats.
They're anti-Trump.
But this is not like a fucking sound press on solid footing who is prosecuting the case against Donald Trump.
This is desperation.
This is, listen, man.
Donald Trump wins re-election.
You think things have gotten crazy?
They're going to get a lot crazier.
They're going to get a lot crazy.
Let me tell you something.
That fucking crazy old bitch, Ruth Gator Ginsburg.
She croaks or finally has to resign because she gets cancer for the 17th time, or whatever the fuck it is.
You you think the Kavanaugh thing was crazy.
Wait till Trump's going to get to appoint another Supreme Court justice.
Wait till the country is going to be shaped over the next 30, 40 years by Donald Trump.
You're going to see.
You remember?
You remember how we have a sexual predator on the Supreme Court?
When was the last time you heard about that?
We still got a sexual predator on the Supreme Court, right?
I mean, nothing changed, right?
Kavanaugh's still in there.
Doesn't matter.
There was a fight for power.
There was a fight for power.
And that's why they were throwing that shit out.
They lost the power now.
There's no point in fighting anymore.
These fucking Supreme Court justice picks are, you know, their lifetime appointments.
But if there's another fight for power after this and even more power, this is the ugly thing.
That guy will have raped so many people.
Dude, it's like a wounded animal.
It's like when you are actually scraping for power and you're losing it, that's when you just go all out and start fucking freaking out.
And let me tell you something.
The whole this whole corporatist, corporate press, Democrat establishment, and the Republican establishment for that matter, too.
They're all power brokers.
Their whole thing is based off authority and power.
And if they start losing it, they'll do anything they can to keep it the same way me or you would do anything we could to keep oxygen if we were losing it.
That's what's going on here.
It's interesting to fucking watch.
Check this shit out.
Let me tell you something.
Here's what's happening, right?
Joe Biden has got a debate coming up.
And now he's got to go in with Bernie and Elizabeth Warren next to him.
This is a tough position for Joe Biden.
There's three frontrunners.
Every poll has made this clear at this point.
I know they wanted Kamala Harris to be in there, but 7% doesn't make you a fucking frontrunner.
Sorry.
You ain't a frontrunner at 7%.
You're not a frontrunner at 2%, Beta Warke.
It's not happening.
Okay?
There's three frontrunners right now.
It's Biden, Warren, and fucking Sanders.
And Warren and Sanders, their whole identity is this progressive ideology.
It ain't the fucking crime bills of the 90s.
It's not the fucking corporateist shit that Joe Biden supports.
So he's got to go deal with these guys.
Now, luckily for him, one of them is a fucking, you know, a weird breadline socialist.
The other one's a 70-year-old fake Indian.
And even that, he might have some trouble with.
You got to come off impressive against these two.
And I don't know if he has it in him.
But what's waiting for you after that is a killer in Donald Trump.
Feel however you feel about Donald Trump.
This guy fucking plays for keeps.
He's got knockout power.
And things are about to get a little bit roof for Joe Biden.
I think the next debate is in the beginning of September.
I think it's in the first couple weeks of September.
Oh, man.
It's going to be interesting to see how this all plays out.
Can I want to clarify my technology comment?
I feel like there have been a lot of gaffes today, but they don't have to come from me.
They should be coming from Biden.
You had a little bit of a gaffe.
Yep, but I want to explain it because actually I think I was making a valid point is that it's kind of like a correlation doesn't prove causation thing that she's saying that now that we can fact check, it's very clear that it's because he's so faulty.
But that's like if you had airbags that were now invented for the backseat of a car and you went, oh, these cars must be so much more dangerous now.
So to say that like a new technology coming along is then proving the fact that it's necessary because something's worse.
Well, it's just not an accurate analysis.
Now, you're right that she just spilled the beans on the fact because that technology did exist.
But I'm just pointing out that to look at new technology and to go, oh, it's very clear that this needed to be here because it was more dangerous is just not.
Right.
I mean, you could just as easily make the draw the conclusion that you're like, oh my God, maybe every president before us was lying to us because now we have the ability to check and there's these lies.
I mean, they're just, and neither one is completely sound.
It's like, maybe, maybe not.
But the idea, it's the same thing as when people go.
You know, Obama's administration was scandal-free.
I just, anybody who's actually paying attention to this shit.
And again, I don't care if you're on the right or the left or anything in between or libertarian, whatever.
The idea that Obama didn't lie.
Like, if you're just honest on the left or honest on the right.
I mean, come on, man.
He would say lies all the time.
They're just gaffing goobers.
All the time.
Yeah, he would gaff a lot.
I'll say that.
He would gaff a lot.
I mean, he said at one point, I remember in his last year in office, he said, you know, women get paid 77 cents on the dollar to men for the same work.
I mean, that's a lie.
It's objectively a lie.
It's not for the same work.
What are you talking about?
It's not even for the same hours.
Like it was at different work.
You only get that number with no controls.
But of course, like the most notable one was, you know, I mean, that he looked the American people in their eyes and said, if, you know, if you like your insurance, you can keep your insurance.
If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.
I mean, but forget that if you want to say like candidate Obama.
I mean, he told all types of lies about what he would do.
So it's really just, it's pretty amazing to see the double standard in the coverage.
And I got to say, what's unraveling about this whole thing is that they're hurting themselves with this because it's so transparent.
It's so transparent that anybody, what you care about, what these elections are always about, are the people, are the undecided voters.
You have like the red camp, the blue camp who are immovable, and then you have the people you can move.
And I just, I don't think this is going to move anybody who could be moved.
Maybe I'm wrong.
As always, I could be wrong.
I could be gaffing, but I sure ain't lying.
All right.
That's our show for today.
Thanks for listening.
We will be back on Monday with a brand new episode.