Dave Smith and his co-hosts on "Part of the Problem" argue that General Michael Flynn's prosecution reveals a deep state coup by the CIA, NSA, and FBI to remove a president opposing foreign wars. They claim the Russia investigation was fabricated, citing altered notes and Logan Act violations as proof of FBI overreach, while criticizing Adam Schiff and mainstream media for hypocrisy regarding sexual misconduct allegations against Joe Biden versus Brett Kavanaugh. The segment concludes by dismissing the Me Too movement as a power grab and satirically suggesting a COVID vaccine derived from malaria and garlic tested on their cat. [Automatically generated summary]
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Government Too Big00:01:53
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Hey, what's up, everybody?
Welcome to a brand new episode of Part of the Problem, back-to-back fireside chats.
Just like I told you, when I tell you something's going to happen, it always happens during a pandemic.
There is an asterisk next to that, but that's during the pandemic.
I come through.
What's up, Robbie the Fire Bernstein?
How are you, sir?
I did such a good job yesterday.
You're having me back-to-back days.
I feel honored.
It's a big, big deal for you, a big bump in pay, in just notoriety.
And I'm even going to let you roast some marshmallows on that fire after the podcast is over.
You know what?
That's not a bad idea.
I should get some marshmallows.
I like marshmallows.
I love a good s'mores, like on a campfire s'mores, the best.
So rare that you ever have those.
And there's no other time to eat a s'more.
If you're eating a s'more in any other environment, like you're pushing it.
If you're microwaving a s'mores for yourself, that's just get your life together.
I don't know what to tell you.
That's either a sad level of fat fuckery or you're trying to pull some hipster shit and it's not going to work.
Yeah.
I'll take the fat guy over the hipster, though.
Like the hipster who's like, whatever, my dad set up a trust fund, but I just eat s'mores.
Like, I don't need that guy.
I don't need that, my wife.
Yeah.
All right, sir.
Smoking Gun Evidence00:08:30
The reason we wanted to hit you with another back-to-back episode is because we didn't get to discuss a couple things that were in the news that were really worth mentioning that should be covered here on part of the problem.
So the first one was the new revelations in regards to the targeting and prosecution of General Michael Flynn.
And it's, let me just say, you know, now that there's this whole, you know, global pandemic and national lockdown, it's almost like this, this whole thing is fading from people's memories, which is really, maybe I'm, it's just my age or my perspective, but it seems like that happens more these days than ever before.
Like such a big story last year becomes something that you're not even thinking about.
But this was the biggest story, quite possibly of the last decade before this.
People, because the consequences have already played out, people kind of forget like, oh, so what was the big deal?
The news got a news story wrong.
No, you shut down the country for two whole years.
You didn't let the incumbent president move forward.
You changed the house or the senate, whichever one of those two flipped.
The house, yeah.
But not just that.
We didn't.
So firstly, the guy who was elected didn't get to really do his job or try and push the forward country or represent the people that voted him in because you undermined him and got rid of all of his political capital and got the guy basically stuck dealing with the fake news story.
And on the same note, we didn't address any of the country's actual problems because you invented a fake problem.
And so for two full years, we were talking about bullshit and CNN still hasn't apologized.
Yes, that's right.
And it's not as if, you know, we were just talking about bullshit in like everything you said is right, but it's not as if you were just talking about bullshit because they focused on an issue that doesn't matter.
What they claimed was an issue that would have been the biggest scandal in the history of the country.
They claimed that the president was in bed with a hostile foreign power who he was colluding with in their efforts to undermine the election.
He basically stole the presidency and was in effect a Russian agent in occupying the Oval Office.
I mean, that's like, holy shit, this is the biggest story ever.
And the real story also seems to be kind of the biggest story ever, but it's not exactly what CNN told you.
And, you know, we've been saying, you know, I saw a lot of people who are saying the newest revelations are the smoking gun.
And I mean, they're a smoking gun, but they're really like the 65th smoking gun.
I mean, this is so obvious what this whole thing was from the very beginning.
And we knew it at the time, but now that all the evidence has come out, it's really, it's still just remarkable to look at in its totality.
I mean, this was a deep state, particularly, I mean, really, it was all run by the CIA, the NSA, and the FBI in coordination with the intended goal of removing a duly elected president or at least handcuffing a duly elected president for the crime of having the wrong policies.
This is what Donald Trump did that pissed everyone off so much is that he, what he, you know, was arguing to the American people that we shouldn't fight these wars.
We shouldn't be in these global governance alliances.
We should pull back our money from other parts of the world.
And this is beyond the pale.
This was reason enough to try to unseat the president of the United States of America.
This was nothing less than an attempted deep state coup, as I've been saying for years at this point.
But I mean, you know, when people say this is the smoking gun, I mean, it's like we already have the Andrew McCabe interview.
It's not as if they're holding back on this stuff.
I mean, they said they were trying to remove the president.
That was the goal.
But we got some more details about exactly how they targeted Flynn.
And it seems like what, so there's, you know, there's a lot of like kind of legalities to all of this, but basically they, the prosecutors are supposed to, if they have any evidence that is helpful to the defense, if they come across evidence that, you know, points toward whoever the defendant is not being guilty, they're obligated by law to share that evidence with the defense.
And we're just now getting this evidence after Flynn has already been prosecuted and found guilty and all of this stuff.
Obviously, this would have been evidence that would have been very helpful for his defense, but we're just getting this stuff out now.
It seems to be related to Barr's investigation, but it's not exactly clear.
It's not exactly clear why we got this stuff.
But what we got were a bunch of notes from the FBI.
And it pretty clearly spells out that they were targeting Flynn with the goal of getting him fired, which really says something.
That may sound like maybe not that big of a deal, but the FBI does not, in theory, should not have an interest in whether somebody is fired or hired or promoted or demoted.
They would only care about whether you've committed a crime, right?
Isn't that what the Federal Bureau of Investigations would care about?
So why is it that they wanted to get somebody fired?
Hmm.
Interesting, Robbie Burns.
Well, they must be playing for a team and that guy must be on a different team.
So like taking out, you know, pieces on a chessboard, they got to get that player out.
Yes.
And it must, and it must be because that player, well, actually, I'm more curious to hear your take on it.
I think it was just that they knew that the whole Russia thing was made up and that the Obamas were kind of in on it.
And Flynn being there, I mean, maybe wouldn't mind it.
But why, I mean, Flynn's like a longtime government person.
So why do the whole system dislike Flynn so much?
All right.
So here's my take on it.
And it's not just that Flynn's a longtime government person.
Flynn is a longtime military person.
And that's important to note.
Now, I've heard a few different, very good journalists who have said that if Michael Flynn was in there, he would have blown the whistle.
Like he basically would have halted the entire Russia investigation, the entire special prosecution, and they would never have been able to get away with Ukraine gate and all of this crazy impeachment stuff.
I don't really know if that's true or not, but possibly it is.
But that's not what I think this was really all about.
And in the same way that I said from the very beginning, right?
Like, and I'm sorry if I'm repeating myself from all the Russia gate, you know, coverage that we did, but just to quickly establish.
Months of being right.
I mean, just months upon months upon months of us being right.
Well, all of the, you know, experts are completely wrong.
And if nothing else, just like with the war in Iraq and a million other things, if nothing else for you, the person who's listening to this, okay, we can accept begrudgingly that there are never ramifications for these people who get it completely wrong.
They still have their cushy journalist jobs and they still make millions of dollars a year and all this stuff.
But at least you know who to trust and who not to trust going forward.
Because there were the journalists who were really great on this whole thing.
But look, Donald Trump was not despised by the CIA because he tweets too much at three in the morning or because he said mean things about Mexican culture or said shithole countries or something like this.
This is not the reason why the CIA hates Donald Trump.
You have to ask yourself, it might be why your left-wing friend hates Donald Trump, but it's not why the CIA hates him.
So ask yourself, why would the CIA hate Donald Trump?
What is the most reasonable answer to that?
Well, the CIA lied us into war in Iraq.
Why CIA Hates Trump00:15:38
And what did Donald Trump say on the campaign trailer?
Remember, this is back in 2016.
What is Donald Trump saying?
He's saying they lied us into war in Iraq.
The CIA armed and funded al-Qaeda in Iraq, what ultimately became ISIS.
What did Donald Trump say?
He said they created ISIS.
So Donald Trump is going, all of these wars have been bullshit.
We've spent trillions of dollars.
We've killed all these people.
Let's end them all.
This was Donald Trump's plan.
Okay.
This was the kind of Bannon Trump, this kind of new America first movement in 2016.
This was right at the center of their most important issues.
Okay.
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Now, who comes on board as part of this campaign?
He not only worked in the campaign, he worked in the transition and ultimately was Trump's first national security advisor.
This is a high, high, high-level position.
This is your guy who's going to run your foreign policy.
You know what I mean?
Like he's going to be your top guy that you talk to about foreign policy.
Now, who comes on board with this program?
Flynn.
He's the guy.
He's the guy, the guy with the high-level military experience, Mr. General, sitting next to the president saying, sir, yes, sir, I'm on board with ending these wars.
Now, this was a guy who worked in the Obama administration and then left the Obama administration on very bad terms, on very bad terms.
I don't know the exact details of what happened there, but I do know that there were outrageous crimes committed during the Obama administration.
I mean, targeting of American citizens, murdering of American citizens, arming terrorists, aka treason, arming enemies of the country, starting about, you know, how many wars did Obama start?
Well, you know, he continued Iraq and Afghanistan.
He started a war in Libya, Yemen, Syria, Niger.
I mean, he was bombing places all over.
And Flynn had a falling out with these guys and left and then got on board with Donald Trump's program.
Okay.
And he wasn't just like saying, like, he was out giving speeches saying, but chanting lock her up about Hillary Clinton.
Like, he wasn't just like, oh, I used to play for Team Clinton.
Now I play for Team Bush.
Like, there's been a lot of those.
He was like, I used to be on Obama's administration and now I'm saying lock Hillary Clinton in a cage.
Like she, and this is somebody who knew about the high-level crimes that had gone on during the Obama administration and was like chanting lock her up.
So this is the guy who comes in to be the sir, yes, sir.
I am your national security advisor.
Serious, decorated general.
Why do you think they would want to get that guy fired?
Like you're watching.
Oh, sorry.
So in other words, like if we were watching the episode of 24 or Homeland, this is that general who's been in the rooms the whole time opposing the CIA people, saying what you're doing is wrong, and then all of a sudden coming to power with the next party.
And so they got to go behind his back and take him out.
And now you start laying out these puzzle pieces and you're like, fuck, this is fascinating.
And then you think the news might actually cover it because it's that interesting.
And by the way, just going off that point, you were talking about how they were just trying to get him fired.
But in the notes, the guy said, so what are we going to try and do?
Catch him in a lie, which that's the whole thing.
There never was an underlying crime.
They played him so dirty.
And then the worst thing that they did was they altered the notes to make the lies look worse than they actually were.
And I'll let you, you know, I'm sure you got more on that, but that's like.
No, that's all very interesting.
So first of all, there was no underlying crime.
There was no suspicion or reason to be investigating a crime.
So the fact that they were targeting him at all is suspicious, to say the least.
They had no, they don't even have a justification for why they were targeting him.
This hasn't even been presented.
And like I said, this isn't like an ongoing investigation.
There's this is over.
The trials happened.
The convictions happened.
And hopefully a pardon will happen.
You know, I met that text.
It came from the seventh floor.
It was supposed to go away, but then the seventh floor said, nope, you got to pursue this one.
I mean, they did him so dirty.
I even think his law firm must have been in on it.
I really think like it's got to be that big.
But just to give people the whole picture, I mean, it's weird that Flynn fell for it.
Basically, they don't announce that they're meeting with him and they meet with him and say, listen, you're not under investigation.
You've done nothing wrong.
We're just trying to figure out like this Russia stuff a little bit if you can help us out.
And then I guess usually, firstly, I've read that typically speaking, you don't actually get in trouble for lying to prosecutors.
That's like usually a crime that gets thrown out.
They also threatened the guy with the Logan Act, which is the most ridiculous law in the books ever.
It basically says that nobody can talk to a foreign country about anything ever.
If you really observe the Logan Act from what I've read, there is no reason why you can ever talk to a person in another government without violating the Logan Act.
It's a thing on the books just so that you could decide, hey, we're going to accuse this guy of something.
And then also they usually will allow you to refresh your memory, I guess, on the evidence, like if they know the evidence that they're providing, such as a phone conversation.
Like, and then he, so I think, and then the lies that he told were not even that crazy.
We're just like kind of remembering the exact conversation.
Yes.
And he even, here's the thing, right?
So the conversation he had with a Russian diplomat or something like that was more or less, he basically, Obama was, you know, doing shit that the Russians didn't like.
Obama was like kicking some Russians out of the country and all that shit.
And Flynn was basically like, yeah, yeah, listen, just like, hold your horses.
We're going to be taking over soon.
So we'll figure this all out.
That was more or less what he said.
And here's the crazy part about it.
As the FBI is interviewing Flynn, Flynn knows that the NSA has this conversation.
So he knows they have a recording of this conversation.
And he says that to them.
He's like, yeah, look, I mean, like, I don't know.
I think I said something like this.
You guys have the conversation.
So just go check because he doesn't think he's being interrogated.
He thinks they're trying to figure out information.
So he's like, yeah, I don't know.
You guys have that.
So just think this through.
Why would he lie about a conversation that he knows they have the recording to?
It's like if somebody was talking to me about my last podcast and I would start lying about what was said on it.
It's like, it's out.
I know you have it.
So there's no, there's literally, it makes no sense at all.
And then on top of using, invoking the Logan Act, they also threatened his family.
So they started threatening to go after his son, which is also against protocol.
Now, of course, we covered way back, months and months ago, that the IG report found that basically in like 17 different examples, they completely broke with FBI protocol through this whole thing.
It's probably more than that of what they found.
But so as you start to put this whole thing together, it's very obvious how dirty they did him.
They used bullshit rules, bullshit laws that are on the books, but they never use to prosecute people.
And they went after essentially what is one of their own.
I mean, this was like a member of the complex.
You know what I mean?
And they went after him because of his crime, which was getting on board with the program to roll back the warfare state.
That's what this whole thing is.
And by the way, just quickly to tie this into our episode last week, as you start to learn more about this, and even me, even though I talked about this ad nauseum for years, really, as I'm, you know, like reading these new stories that come out and thinking about the whole thing more and more, you realize how much of a problem it is that Justin Amash, who wants to be the libertarian presidential nominee, sided with the deep state when this whole thing went down.
That after the Mueller report, his reaction to that was, yeah, you know, I think Trump obstructed justice.
Like talk about, talk about either being corrupt or just being hopelessly, hopelessly blue pilled and not seeing the real nature of what's going on around you.
Yeah.
Well, I mean, we said it a hundred times, but it's just the ultimate in corruption where they can turn the machine on any given individual for any reason.
They'll find something.
And what's so weird about this one is you think Flynn was in the game long enough that he wouldn't have talked to them without a lawyer.
And then they somehow managed to change the record of his conversation, which by the way, sounds so unbelievably flagrant.
I think it was the guy struck that did it.
And they have the evidence on that because I think he texted his girlfriend like because the girlfriend was the one reading it over and was like, why is this thing so backwards?
And he's like, well, you should have seen it before I edited it.
Like I had to, this is the best I could come up with, but basically what he was saying.
So firstly, there's fraud in government that it takes so long to unwind these things.
And it's like, this always happens that by the time you see justice, we've all moved past it.
It's like when they finally make the report about that we shouldn't have tortured people back in the last war.
And all right, well, is anyone going to jail for that?
Like it's 10 years ago.
It's the same thing here.
How are we first finding this dude now?
Yes.
And they do these things where they have these fucking liars.
And oftentimes it's not a blatant lie.
It'll be either a lie of omission or just something that's presented in a very misleading way.
So they'll be like, well, you know, we got the information about where Osama bin Laden was out of a guy who we tortured.
And that's what happens at the time.
So people are like, yeah, man, I mean, torture seems kind of wrong, but we also got a guy who like murdered all these thousands of people.
So I don't know.
Jack Fowler's so good at it.
When Jack Fower does it, it seems so reasonable.
Yeah, but then five years later, you find out that we got that information before we tortured that guy.
It's like, oh, that guy didn't actually lie.
He said, we got this information out of this guy who we tortured.
Like, he didn't technically lie, but we got the information and then tortured him to see if we could get any more information and got nothing else useful out of him.
So you find this stuff out years later.
And then you're like, oh, my God.
So, I mean, like, by the letter of the law, that guy isn't a liar, but by the spirit of the idea of a liar, that guy is a fucking liar.
You know what I mean?
So there's things like this that happen all the time.
And yeah, you nailed it.
By the time it comes out, we're in a global pandemic.
Who the fuck is even thinking about, you know, Flynn?
Like, who, you know, who even cares except us and hopefully our listeners.
But this whole thing, and I'll tell you the other thing that it makes me kind of rethink too, like two points.
Number one, to what you were saying, how could Flynn be so naive is an interesting question.
Especially that he took the fucking plea deal.
I mean, not that he took the plea deal.
He like, so he said he admitted to being guilty.
He changed his legal team.
And then some new evidence came up and he tried to attract that so he could go fight.
And they're like, too, too late.
You already put in the guilty plea.
We're not taking that back.
But that's the most shocking thing.
So he talks to them without a lawyer.
They somehow tricked him into that.
Then they come forward and they say, all right, you're in trouble for lying to us.
And then for some reason, he takes a guilty plea when seemingly I don't get why he didn't fight it.
That's the weirdest part is that he took the guilty plea.
Well, from what I understand, and this is, shit, I almost want to read to fucking refresh my memory here.
But his family had been threatened.
Not like some conspiracy theory or something like this is this has all been released that they had threatened to go after his son at one point, also over some like fucking laws that you could get anyone on.
I can't remember what it was.
There was something about lobbying.
Or yeah, it's like they threatened his son with possible lobbying transgressions.
And, you know, this was Mueller's team.
So by the time the special prosecutor got going, they were threatening to go after his son for these type of lobbying laws that like you could get almost everyone in the District of Columbia for.
Like you, you know what I mean?
Like, oh, you didn't register properly to lobby here, but it's another one of those laws that like, if they really want to be dicks about it, they could fucking put your son in a cage for five years over this shit.
And he saw, I think, the way Mueller was going after the people who they were targeting.
And so my guess is that might have had something to do with it.
I don't know.
But if I'm just speculating as to how somebody who's so decorated and in this system could be naive like in this way and be like, yeah, don't talk to the FBI or why would you have your guard down low enough to just assume they're not coming after you?
I really do think that a lot of these career military people believe the propaganda and they believe in the red, white and blue and God bless America and we're here to protect and all this shit and we're dying for the Constitution.
And even if they know that there's these crimes going on, they're like, well, they're kind of done because people think this is the best case and this must be done in order to save the great America, you know, whatever.
And I think that it's possible that, look, this was a situation that was really different than anything else.
I mean, this isn't like just, there's really no other example in modern American history to point to.
Donald Trump had won the presidency.
I mean, he had run on this to the American people and they elected him.
Military Believe Propaganda00:05:02
And I think it is possible that Flynn was just like, did not think they would have the gall to do this to just be like, well, yeah, I mean, look, I know you guys don't like the guy or you're investigating whatever, but I don't know.
That's the commander in chief right there.
And so I'm working for him.
So I'm feeling pretty comfortable.
I'd imagine when you're in a position of that much power, I mean, again, this is the national security advisor.
This isn't like some staffer.
This is a guy who's like, I was chosen by the president of the United States of America.
This is a general.
His mindset is like, the commander-in-chief selected me.
So who are you?
The FBI?
What are they going to do to me?
And that's my guess that he was just, he was wrong.
And there should be a burden of proof that you have to prove that someone was intentionally lying and not just misremembering.
So like, especially if you confront some guy and you're like, listen, this is not, you're not under investigation.
We just want to like, this has nothing to do with you.
We're just trying to like figure out some facts on this other thing.
Do you mind giving us a little bit of insight here?
That's a very different pretense than, hey, man, you're on the record.
Want to let you know you're on the record here and just make sure that whatever you're saying is like 100%.
And then to go back and go, oh, well, the piece of information he gave us is inconsistent with, you know, the transcript over here.
Well, maybe just misremembered it.
You got to like, in other words, if there's no underlying crime, how do you, you got to prove that then the crime is lying, but lying is a function of intention.
If I didn't intend to lie to you, but I misremembered, you know what I mean? have to actually prove that I committed the crime of lying.
Lying is a function of intention is how we all think of lying in the regular world.
But this is not how the FBI thinks of lying.
To the FBI getting anything wrong, they will assume that you were lying.
I'll go further than you on that.
I agree with the spirit of what you're saying.
I don't think lying to the government should be a crime.
And if it is, then the same standard should apply to the government lying to us.
Like, I don't care if you, even if you just misremembered something or you claim that you just got it wrong.
I don't care.
You lie to the American people, you go to jail.
Same rule for the corporate press.
You lie to us, you go to jail.
There's something amazing that you can sit down and go, all right, listen, I'm just here to chat, which is a lie, and then prosecute someone for lying to you because this foundation of society is that we don't lie to each other.
So you've done this absolutely, but the conversation kickstarts with you doing a lie.
That's insanity.
Yeah, that's, I mean, that's the whole deal.
And by the way, I don't think I don't want to prosecute the press for lying to people because I know how that would end up being used if the government were the ones prosecuting them.
They wouldn't be prosecuting CNN for lying to us for two straight years.
They'd go after the fake news or whatever.
But we should be allowed to lie to the government for sure.
That should not be a crime.
It should be covered under freedom of speech and the Fifth Amendment, your right to not incriminate yourself.
Anyway, that maybe perjury at a trial should be something different, but just lying to the government, you should absolutely be allowed to do that.
So the other thing that I was thinking about was it kind of made me look at the whole Jeff Sessions situation in a different light.
And Jeff Sessions bowing out and recusing himself of the whole Russia investigation.
I wonder, because that happened after he saw what happened with Flynn.
And I wonder if maybe Jeff Sessions just saw the handwriting on the wall and was like, you know what?
Sorry, I know what's going on here, but I'm just going to end up like Flynn or Roger Stone or Paul Manafort or one of these guys.
I'd rather not have a SWAT raid traumatizing my children at night.
So I'll fucking, I'm going to bow out of this one.
100%.
But also, I don't think Trump did a good enough job of rallying behind his own team.
He kind of, to a certain extent, you know, because that's what's going on here.
It's like these guys played on my team and now the deep state's going against them.
And he kind of like his, even though Cohen eventually turned on him, you know, Trump didn't really go to bed for Cohen up front.
Flynn, he somehow went to bad for him, but it's not like he pardoned him immediately.
He didn't, so he kind of, he played his own team a little bit dirty.
And so I'm not so surprised that those guys ran and scattered because they saw that he was just going to hold on to his presidency.
He wasn't going to, you know, go to bed for them.
Yeah, no, there's, you've got a point there.
You know, I, I, I'd imagine that the advisors Trump had around him were saying you can't go around pardoning people because then it's going to seem like you're guilty and you're covering up and you're pardoning people who were found guilty in a court of law.
And I think there's a chance that after reelection, if he gets re-elected, there'll be a big round of pardons.
Flynn Plays Team Dirty00:03:03
I don't know.
Or it's possible that Trump's just dirty like that.
And it's just like, yeah, fuck those guys.
They can't do anything for me anymore.
But it is, that is a fair point.
And it would have been a whole different way to play it if he had just like, as soon as people were convicted, just start handing out pardons.
Like, sorry, this isn't happening.
It makes you wonder with the whole Flynn thing how the world would have looked if he had been in there.
Like what ends up happening?
Perhaps Flynn really is the guy who he needed there to actually implement the foreign policy that he ran on.
And maybe not.
Maybe there would still be other ways that they would make it not happen, or maybe Trump just wasn't that committed to it to begin with.
But if he was, you know, running on this policy of like, we're ending the wars.
We're ending the war in Iraq, in Syria, in Afghanistan.
We are pulling all of these troops out.
And they're all still there.
They're all still there.
And it just, it's interesting, interesting thought experiment.
I don't really have an answer for any of us, but it'd be pretty interesting to see what would have happened if he had been in.
If we could rewind time and play it forward from there.
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Biden Silence on Kavanaugh00:13:39
All right, let's get back into the show.
One more thing that needs to be mentioned is: so these notes are first coming out of a transcript, and Adam Schiff is refusing to hand over any of his materials for his part in the investigation and like the jury questionings or whatever that they did.
He's like just kind of keeping his notes under lock and key, won't hand them over.
Barr's got to do a full investigation here, man.
This thing needs to be like this thing, we need to know what happened here.
Who is the DACIA people?
Who are the players?
How do they manipulate this entire thing?
Like, it needs to come to light.
Yeah, amen.
And amen.
And don't hold your breath.
But I hope so.
I really hope so because this was a different level of criminal organization than even the stuff we're used to seeing.
This was true, true, blatant crimes against the Constitution, crimes against the government.
I mean, the idea that you would try to overthrow a regime.
I mean, it's a, you know, I'm used to the idea of us attempting and succeeding in staging coups in other countries, but to try one right here, certainly it's the only one in our lifetime where there's evidence like this.
And perhaps the Kennedy administration and the Nixon administration, but not in our lifetime.
And Schiff and Comey are just so arrogant.
I'd love to see them burn at the stake.
Yeah.
Well, Comey's FBI.
I mean, it really, from everything that we've learned about this now, I mean, I think everyone that they put in jail should be let out of jail.
I mean, just unlike this, you can't trust anything that these guys did.
If they would do this going after the president, what were they doing when they were just going after lower-level people?
Well, you think just all of a sudden, because it was the president, they, you know, ditched this sense of ethics that they had had all along?
I doubt it.
Right.
They got a whole tool of tricks.
And if you put probably any of these things under this kind of a microscope, they're always doing people dirty.
Yeah.
That would be my guess.
So, anyway, I guess let's move on to Biden, which is the other thing that we wanted to talk about.
This has been you put your finger in, you take your finger out, you put your finger in, and then you deny you ever did it.
You don't remember things anyways.
And I don't listen.
I don't know.
I don't know if I believe Biden did this or not.
I never know what these things, but if Biden did it, you know, he must have done it in the creepiest way possible.
Like, I'm sure he was sniffing her hair the whole time he was doing it, real nuzzle humping, real in there.
I believe two things.
One is I believe that he wouldn't remember if he did do it.
And second is because, like you said, he was probably snitch, like, you don't just go right to grabbing a skirt and putting a finger in there, especially if you're him.
So he probably heard a lot of no's.
You know what I mean?
It wasn't just like one no, it was like probably a Siri of 10 to 15.
Oh, man.
It's um, did you see his interview on Morning Joe with Mika Brzezinski?
No, what did he say?
Come on, man.
That's that's malarkey talk.
Well, he uh categorically denied it, and then he stumbled and fumbled around as Joe Biden always does.
And uh, Mika did a half-decent job of pushing him and grilling him about this stuff.
And the best part of it to me was just when she pulls up what Joe Biden said during the Kavanaugh hearings, which was just, I believe Christine Blasey Ford, I believe women, you know, blah, blah, blah.
And he goes, she goes, so how does this believe women square with now that this Tara Reed woman is accusing you of sexually assaulting her?
How does this square with that?
And he goes, it's still the same as what I said there.
Women have the presumption of belief, but then you have to look at the facts and you have to look at it.
And you're like, they're going to try to actually mind fuck you that you can't understand what the sentence believe all women means.
Like, I'm sorry.
I was, because when it happens to a Republican, it means believe the women.
It means believe them.
Like, if they say this happened, this happened.
But when it happens to a Democrat, it means like, well, yeah, look at all the facts and see what actually happened.
And there's just no, there's no answer for this.
There's, um, I was talking about this with Malice the other day, but it really is quite a red pill moment to see all of the people who were so gung-ho about Kavanaugh either be silent or straight up support Joe Biden despite all of this stuff.
And it's not one or two.
This is a whole lot of people.
I mean, do you remember, again, like with the Flynn thing, talking about Kavanaugh, it's like, who even remembers this?
But if you do, it was a really big deal at the time.
It was a huge, huge story that we put a sexual predator on the Supreme Court.
And everyone from the entire Democrat apparatus, the entire mainstream media, all of Hollywood.
You remember Amy Schumer getting arrested and all this shit, and Alyssa Milano and all these people, they're all going to support Biden.
And the reason why this is such a red pill moment is that you realize not only do they not believe all women, not only do they not care about women, you realize that shit was a power grab.
That's a real red pill moment to realize that they use this veil of I care about women who are sexually assaulted, but they just use it to seize power.
And then if they can seize power by disregarding those women, that'll be exactly what they do.
So that's a real eye-opening moment about exactly how these people, you know, how they truly are.
Well, it's great with the Kavanaugh thing.
It hasn't come up again.
It was basically they tried it once.
They went balls out.
This is a thing.
And then when it didn't push through, when it comes to Biden, I think we got a problem in this country that people can come out of the woodworks from 20 years later and make claims without evidence and that can ruin somebody's career.
However, I've already seen footage of Biden grabbing little kids' side titties.
That's enough to make this guy ineligible.
Forget this lady's claims.
Biden's already visual proof.
And then after they gave him a firm speaking to, a week later, he's by kids being fucking creepy.
That guy's ineligible already, regardless of this lady.
Well, yeah.
And look, I mean, I guess it's hard.
Maybe I'm too like deep in my own moral outlook of the world to even understand some of this shit.
But it's like, yeah, if you can get past the fact that he was an enthusiastic supporter of the Iraq war, then I don't know.
Yeah, I guess you can get past him forcibly fingering a chick or grabbing little kids.
I don't know.
I mean, he fucking is responsible for incinerating, you know, like hundreds of thousands of kids.
So or slaughtering, I don't know, however you want to put it.
But yeah, I agree.
The groping women and children in public thing isn't good.
This is different.
This is a different type of thing to accuse someone of.
And I agree with you.
It's a real problem that you make these accusations and it's like, what am I supposed to do with this information?
I have no way of knowing whether this happened or not.
You're not presenting any evidence.
This isn't going through any type of process.
It's just an accusation.
I will say I have a lot of problems with the way these things get reported on and the fact that like they'll be like, well, there is evidence because she told her friends and she told her mom or something like that.
But I mean, is that really evidence?
First off, I'm taking your friend's word or your mom's word for it.
You know, they'll say, well, there is evidence that she told her mom back then because there's this phone call into Larry King.
And it's like, yeah, but her mom doesn't exactly say that Joe Biden forcibly fingered her.
She doesn't even name Joe Biden.
She doesn't say what happened.
She basically says it was inappropriate and it was a senator.
So again, I'm just like, no, this really isn't evidence.
It's not evidence in a true sense of the word.
Like this is, I don't even think it rises to meet circumstantial evidence.
And that's, it's like with Blazy Ford, where they'd be like, well, there's evidence.
I mean, she told her husband.
Like, so I'm just taking her husband's word that she told him.
This is not evidence.
Like, I'm sorry.
So I don't know what to do with any of this stuff.
My thing is that even though I understand it's not a court of law, you're not locking someone in a cage.
Maybe it's not true that you have to prove it beyond a reasonable doubt.
But if you're asking us to do something, my thing is like you have to have at least a little bit of real evidence.
Otherwise, you just have to say, hey, look, I'm terribly sorry if this happened to you, but we have no way of knowing.
And that's life and it sucks.
But again, the hypocrisy is outrageous.
I mean, there is no two ways about it.
Everything about this claim is worse than Kavanaugh.
It wasn't as long ago.
It's a much worse assault that he's accused of doing.
This isn't an 18-year-old.
There are no beers involved.
That's what made the Kavanaugh one okay.
They're just we don't know that for sure.
There's no solid evidence that Joe Biden has, like a calendar.
He doesn't have a friend named Squid, whatever.
No, but look, the accusation, let's just say the accusations are both true, right?
An 18-year-old throwing a girl down on a bed and kind of jumping on it, like being a shithead 18-year-old, you know, inexcusable behavior, but it's not nearly, nearly as bad as forcefully fingering someone.
And Joe Biden was an 18 when he's accused of doing this.
This was Joe Biden in the 90s.
This was a grown man in like around the age of 50 who's a senator doing this.
That is very, very different than an 18-year-old doing something at a party.
I mean, I'm sorry.
That's just, that's just true.
Come on, man.
She brought her vagina to my party.
Well, and also there was never even definitive proof that Christine Ford and Brett Kavanaugh had ever met.
Like she had nothing.
She had no proof that there was any contact between the two of them.
This woman did work for Joe Biden.
I mean, they certainly did come in contact.
So just saying on every level, the crime is worse, the allegation is more credible.
And it was more recent.
There was actually some type of business relationship between the two of them.
So anybody who was ready to throw Kavanaugh to the wolves has to, if they want to not be a hypocrite, also do the same with Biden.
And now you get to watch them all shut up and not give a shit.
And this is really shows you some of the dark side of the Me Too movement, that it's never, it was never about fucking really caring about women who have been abused or assaulted or harassed or any of that shit.
And it was always about power.
And that's, you know, that's really ugly.
Like, if you're going to, you know, make a power grab, just make a power grab.
I at least respect that more.
But anyway, Joe Biden, you know, we'll see.
I guess the real tell will be if more women start coming out.
I know there's been other women who have accused him of like inappropriately touching them, like basically the stuff we've seen on camera.
But if there's more that come out with like sexual, you know, assault claims, that'll be interesting to see how they handle this.
Because it's not just like, oh, they went after some Republican who did this and now they're looking the other way about some Democrat who did this.
It's like we had a whole years long thing, this hashtag MeToo, this time's up, all this shit, where this was all people wanted to talk about.
It was Trump-Russia collusion and me too.
Those were like the only things that people wanted to talk about for years.
And, you know, that's the theme of this podcast, I guess.
It all seems like it was bullshit.
It wasn't really what they were telling us.
I don't know.
Any other thoughts, Rob?
I hope more women come forward with details of Biden accusing them.
Yeah, we're just there's our position on this.
We are hoping more women were assaulted.
That is what that is what we are rooting for, just for the entertainment value of it.
Come on, come on, ladies, take one for the team.
We need content here on the show.
I mean, it'd be particularly great if it's like an emperor with no clothes situation where like they just keep coming forward and the media keeps having to try and spin it.
And then finally gets to the point where either they can't turn back or they just have to finally be like, all right, the guy's a fucking creep.
Wrap Up and Content00:01:05
Yeah, we'll see.
Maybe, maybe that'll happen.
Maybe that'll be the excuse to get him out of there and go with some other candidate.
They need something.
All right.
I think we're going to wrap it there.
I got to go back to working on this vaccine for the COVID.
I think it's coming up pretty far.
It's a mix of, you know, some malaria stuff, some viral stuff, a little bit of garlic.
And I've been trying it out on the cat.
Doesn't seem to be working.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah, Brian.
Clorox.
That'll do.
Well, or if you can't get the vaccine in time, just chug a whole bunch of Clorox and you'll be fine.
Will it help the AIDS and the other stuff I have going on on my wiener?
Rob, please, one thing at a time here.
I'm trying, as soon as I'm done with the COVID vaccine, I'm going to get you.
I'm going to get your AIDS taken care of.
I promise.
Go put your wiener on the floor palms.
Can we take care of that first?
Just throw it in that fire you got on the back there.