Dave Smith and Robbie Bernstein condemn Kamala Harris as a disastrous, polarizing choice driven by establishment interests rather than voter demand. They critique Biden's weakness while exposing what they call a deep state hoax regarding the FBI's Russia investigation, specifically detailing how lawyer Kevin Kleinsmith altered emails to hide Carter Page's status as a CIA asset. The hosts argue this manipulation, alongside policies like defunding police, empowers Trump and alienates suburban voters. Ultimately, they suggest these political maneuvers and skepticism toward government intervention reveal a system prioritizing internal power struggles over genuine public solutions. [Automatically generated summary]
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I am, of course, the most consistent motherfucker you know, Dave Smith, and I'm thrilled, overjoyed to be joined by my partner in crime, the fire, the king of the cocks, Robbie Bernstein, standing up, looking down at all you peons once again, with the sweet smell of Domino's pizza drifting through his window.
What's up, my brother?
I'm doing pretty good.
Good.
Excited to podcast.
Good.
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I'm happy to hear it.
That's how I like you when you're in your excited mode.
It's only about 10% of the time that Rob's excited to podcast.
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But this is Robbiana's game.
Excited, Robbie.
I mean, look how excited I look.
Oh, you're listening.
I'm beaming.
That's right.
And you've been, I mean, you've been pulling for Kamala Harris for years now.
And you got your wish.
Finally, I like a tough lady in a suit.
Yeah, you sure do.
I hate a tough lady in a suit.
Let me go on record right now.
Nothing bothers me more.
So, of course, I have not spoken with you since this big news, this big news Brzezinski, that Kamala Harris is Joe Biden's running mate.
I guess not really a surprise.
She's certainly, even, you know, it's funny, even before she was floated out there as a name, everybody thought she was like probably top three.
It was just, you could just kind of tell that she would be the type that Biden would pick.
I remember briefly, people thought when she basically attacked Joe Biden and called him racist at the first debate, they go, oh, maybe that's a little bit too much.
She'll work with him, though.
I mean, he's a racist, but not if they want to join sides, then he's not a racist.
Isn't that just hilarious?
You are a racist.
You supported, you know, you were against busing.
There was a little girl who needed bussing, and that little girl was me.
And then he's like, would you like to be my vice president?
She's like, oh, my God, yes.
Of course I would.
Yeah.
Screw those little girls.
Prosecutors, like you can go to that level of this man needs to be behind bars and then you lose the case and then it's like, yeah, I'll hang out with him.
What do I care?
That was just, that was in there.
That was for show.
Well, what are your, what are your thoughts on that pick?
How do you think it affects the race?
All right.
I mean, there's a lot of elements here, but first, a question I got for you.
Biden really sounds like he's running to hand this thing off.
I mean, it sounds like he's like channeling it.
Like, I need someone who's ready to lead from day one.
He, I, I saw, he gave a speech yesterday, and it was like, man, it just, it reeked of, I don't want to be here.
Like, I'm just not.
It's like, he just seemed down and like very like, he seemed sleepy, if I do say so.
I mean, he just seemed, he seemed like a sleepy old guy who was like, what the fuck am I doing?
And there is something, you know, it's amazing because there's so many kind of unprecedented things happening in the country and in politics.
And that's been the case basically since Donald Trump came down the escalator.
Things that would have seemed like, you know, I remember talking back in 2016 about how like the fact that Hillary Clinton was being investigated by the FBI would be like the biggest story ever.
I mean, the fact that one of the presidential candidates is being investigated, you're like, guys, it looks like there's a chance that she could like go to jail.
So what happens here?
What happens if she wins?
And then she's, you know, like indicted.
And then, you know, like, what?
But because Trump was there, that almost seemed like not even that big of a deal.
It's like, no, the really big story is this fucking guy.
You know, like it, so it's almost like lost in all this, even though it's something we talk about.
But it's like Joe Biden's age.
Joe Biden is really, really old.
He is 77 years old.
This is older than anybody who's ever been running for president.
I think Ronald Reagan was 73 when he ran to be for his second term.
So this is like, and of course, Trump is also the oldest president ever.
So you kind of forget about that and all these other things.
Hillary Clinton was also very old, but that was kind of overshadowed by the fact that Trump was old and Bernie Sanders was really old.
And so you almost don't notice these things.
But campaigning.
Now, obviously, Biden isn't campaigning in the, you know, the traditional way because of the COVID shit.
But this whole thing takes a lot of energy.
It takes a lot of energy.
It's not really made for fucking older people to do.
Now, Trump happens to have the energy of God for whatever reason because he's driven.
Yeah, he's just fucking driven on Adderall and narcissism.
And he fucking loves a big crowd and he's ready to do it.
But it's like, you know, I remember even, you know, Ron Paul when he was running and stuff like that and him just talking.
And he was in very good shape and he was able to do it.
But he'd talk about how he spent like, you know, I forget what it was, but it was something like almost 200 days sleeping in hotel rooms in like within a couple years.
And you're like, that's a lot.
That's, that's a lot for anyone.
That's a lot for someone in their 30s or 40s.
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Like that'll fuck you up.
That'll throw you out of your game.
And if you're not up for it and you don't have the energy of God, even just doing what Joe Biden's doing now can be challenging.
I don't remember words in front of a computer.
Yeah, no, seriously.
That's, it looks like a lot of work, a lot of work for Joe Biden to do that.
And he's, and he's not remembering too many.
And so I don't know.
I mean, you know, but there's certainly, I know what you're talking about.
And I did feel this energy in the speech that he gave yesterday that was like, this is very, you know, this is not somebody who's like dying to be there.
And, you know, isn't there also, I can't quite, I guess, articulate why I think this is so funny.
But to me, there's something like, if I was a black person, I'm going to almost be offended by this choice of Kamala Harris because you're telling me that we're going to get a very qualified black lady up here.
That was your promise was that everyone is equal and we want to promote the fact that there's of every single, whatever the fucking claim is, they go, it's important that we have a black lady here.
And then the black lady that you pull out is fucking the trash lady.
We all rejected her.
You put her forward and she pulled it a fucking zero after you tried to sell us to her because we all we all certifiedly said we don't like this one.
And then after doing a search of the whole America saying, I'm going to come forward with this, you brought us back the trash.
Yeah.
It's, you know, it's this, I was talking about this a little bit on the last episode with Scott Horton, but there's something about it that's, you know, it's, it's like, I'd be offended.
This is the inspirational model.
There's no college professor out there that the system has managed to overlook that would have been an incredible individual.
Right.
It has to be someone within these three choices and it has to be establishment banker approved, you know, candidate.
But it's fun.
So there's definitely a percentage of the population who are on board with this kind of like woke, silly symbolic gesture type thing, like that say, yeah, it has to be a black woman.
And then like there's a percentage of the population who would, who would be like, yes, I agree with that.
That's good.
But you do start to ask yourself, like, what percentage of the population is that?
What evidence is there?
that this is, there's actually a large demand for a black woman, particularly when that black woman ran.
And even amongst the Democratic base could not get support.
Like even in the Democratic Party, obviously the Republicans reject this woke bullshit.
But even within the Democratic Party, it's not as if they went, well, she's a black woman, so we got to go with her.
I mean, the thing, and I'll say this almost in some way as a compliment to the average Democratic voter, is that when like they really seem to kind of not make decisions based on this woke token bullshit the way that a lot of a lot of their leaders and a lot of people at like Wesleyan would like them to.
I mean, when Barack Obama was clearly the most talented politician, they went with the black guy.
When Hillary Clinton, you know, whatever they thought was the most likely to get elected, they went with her.
She did rig the system, but whatever.
So they went with a woman, they went with the black guy.
And this time around, they had black, they had a black guy in, what's his name, Corey Booker.
They had a black woman in Kamala Harris.
And they just didn't think they were the people.
So they went with Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden as their front runners.
So it doesn't seem like there's really any evidence that the majority or anything even approaching the majority of Democratic voters really care about identity first and then the person second.
Yet Joe Biden still comes out and goes, I care about identity first and the candidate second.
I'm just, I'm not seeing any evidence that this is a politically wise decision.
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It also seems like whenever they're describing, oh, it's symbolic, you have something that's unquantifiable.
And so you're just speaking to, you're speaking to fucking nonsense.
It's bullshit.
Like, if no one, have you polled people to see who cares about the symbolism?
All right.
So then it's nonsense figures.
My point is that, in a sense, you have.
In a sense, in the Democratic primary, you did kind of poll people through their voting to say how many people care.
And the evidence seems to suggest they didn't really care about it.
That there was one half of the Democratic primary base that was basically like, we like Bernie Sanders for his, you know, redistribution policies.
And the other half was like, we like Joe Biden because he was the vice president of the last Democratic administration and seems like the most likely one to be able to win.
None of them, I mean, it was like, you know, if you took all of Kamala Harris's support, all of Corey Booker's support, all of, you know, like, I don't know what other candidates of color were there.
I think there was a couple others.
There was that guy, the Castro guy, who's a Latino.
You took all of their support and combined it.
It didn't equal 10%.
So again, it's just like there kind of has been this poll and the polling is in that this isn't, and that's within the Democratic base, let alone the whole country.
You got to assume that the entire, you know, middle kind of independent, undecided voters and all of the Republicans just flat out reject this idea.
So it's very, it's very we're going to accomplish this historic symbolism with this person y'all said you didn't like.
And by the way, good reason not to like her.
She sounds like a whiny Jew mom.
She's totally unlikable.
She went into those debates and it's clear that like, I don't know why she's so insecure with herself, but she feels like she needs to bully attack everybody.
I mean, you could easily have watched that and just been like, I don't, this seems like a nasty lady who's just trying to serve herself.
Like she doesn't sell herself well as being within this political, hey, I'm going to help you.
Yeah.
And it's really not like a much deeper than that.
I mean, sometimes, you know, like I had a bit on my hour special about this, by the way, up for free on YouTube.
If you want to check out my debut comedy special, Libertas from 2017, you can go, it's on my YouTube channel.
Go check that out.
But I talked about how, you know, I had a whole bit about how important being likable is.
And it was, you know, basically a dig on Hillary Clinton.
And it's quite hilarious and brilliant, if I do say so myself.
But that is, look, Elizabeth Warren's policies weren't really that far off from Bernie Sanders.
But people just, she's just intensely unlikable.
And Kamala Harris is substantially worse than her.
Kamala Harris has the Hillary Clinton thing.
It's this very like, like she does not come off as a human being.
She bursts out laughing at things that aren't even mildly funny.
It's very, it's like very strange and she's very combative and just, you know, she just comes off as like an asshole.
It's like an insecurity about, I guess, in my opinion, it's an insecurity about being a lady and that something's been taken from you that you feel like you need to be overly aggressive.
And it's not, it's just not good tactics.
But then the other thing that's interesting with Kamala is, I guess, why are the powers at B so in love with this lady?
I mean, you remember the way that they really tried to push her at the beginning?
It was basically her and Beto were like the chosen people that as much as the media tried to sell it, wasn't going to happen.
And then you could tell that behind party lines, the conversation must have been for a long time of like, all right, we need to make sure Kamala's in there.
Yeah, well, there's no question that the establishment loves her.
The establishment absolutely loves her.
The big banks are very comfortable with her.
They're like, they just, I mean, I think it's as simple as for whatever reason, they are convinced that she will play ball and do their bidding.
You know, there's a lot of kind of just funny dynamics with all of this.
I mean, she's just, she's just getting torn apart online.
And just the memes are just, you know, fucking everywhere and ranging from, you know, kind of stupid and crude to really, really funny ones.
And it's also just, you know, it's, it's almost in many ways, like the major dynamic that gets missed with the current state of politics in America is that the, like I've, I've been saying this for a few years now, that I think the real, like, you know, you can get, you know, focus, you can focus on the distractions.
And sometimes they're important.
I mean, like, but you could focus on like the like psychotic social justice warriors on a college campus or something like that, who are saying things that, you know, you even as left-wing as college campuses were 10, 20 years ago, you could never have imagined that they'd actually be saying, you know, some of this shit right now.
Like, all, you know, we need to have basically segregated days on schools and, you know, all sex is rape.
And, you know, there's 72 genders and all this like crazy shit.
And it's like, okay, there is something there.
It's worth kind of paying attention to the fact that this is what our universities are producing.
Or you could see some right-wing extremism online or the rise of like white nationalism or something like that.
You can focus on like the extremes of political discourse and how crazy they are.
But what I've been saying for years is that the real story is what's going on with the ruling elite in this country.
And really, the real story is that the center became the extremists and this is destroying the whole system and everyone's spiraling out.
And I'm not saying it's not worth paying attention to all of those different groups, but the real story is that Hillary Clinton couldn't consolidate power.
Like that she had to rig the primary against Bernie Sanders and then she lost to Donald Trump.
The fact that Donald Trump took out the Bush family and the Clinton family, like that's the real story.
And again, in this past election, the real story is how much trouble Joe Biden had sewing up the Democratic nomination and how, you know, all of these people who you were talking about has when the media tries to put them forward, like, this is our next guy.
Beto's the guy.
He's got the it factor.
You know, Kamala Harris is the woman.
She's, she's, you know, she crushed in that debate.
And they're just not able to sell these people in the same way that they used to be.
They, they, like, they can't do it anymore.
And there's something really profoundly interesting about that.
And I got to say, I think part like that, that's almost what's been on my mind as you see, you know, just these memes and these people just destroying Joe Biden and Kamala Harris online.
There is no more, or there's certainly much less reverence for public servants and people who have spent a life in public service and the corporate press.
And it's like they just are not able to roll out the red carpet the way they used to be.
And so it's really changed the dynamic.
And now, even when there's some journalist who's like, you know, Kamala Harris is an excellent pick and this is a great job.
Right underneath her, you just see all of these people like, shut up, you're a cunt.
You know, and it's like, and it really undermines the whole fucking system.
I mean, I understand it's not great for like, you know, like it says something bad about our society that we were so shitty to each other, but there's also a positive in the fact that it just undermines the establishment's narrative and they're not able to control the conversation the way they used to be.
There's also just something really funny about the fact that with all of these Black Lives Matter protests and all of these shit, the team is a fucking lifelong drug warrior and a fucking cop.
That's who the Democrats have put up.
And it's just, it's almost hard to believe.
Yeah, it's going to be interesting.
I don't know.
You're more, uh, you probably have more information on this than I do of Kamala Harris's drug record.
And also, the other thing that's interesting is I think Biden's going to hurt himself to the point that he goes, Hey, she can lead from day one.
It's pretty easy to point to what's going on in California right now and going, Is this really the policies and government you're looking for for the entire country?
Sure.
Well, there's definitely that.
That's definitely a good point.
And also, just the fact that Joe Biden is like, I feel like more and more people are realizing Joe Biden isn't going to be president.
And I don't mean that in the sense that he can't win.
I mean that if he wins, he's not going to be president.
Like he cannot form a coherent sentence.
He's not going to be running the show.
So now it becomes almost like Kamala Harris is running for president.
And we already saw what people thought when Kamala Harris ran for president.
You know, the more I'm thinking about this in many ways, I think that this was a disastrous pick.
And I think this might have shaken up the election and it might give it to Donald Trump.
Like, I'm not convinced of that yet, but I think there's a very good chance.
I think that, you know, again, like to the point that you said before, right?
Which I didn't really have a great answer for.
Like, you were like, you know, why is it that the establishment loves Kamala Harris so much?
And my answer was just like, well, the fact that they love her is evidence that they're convinced she'll play ball.
That's pretty much all I can say about that.
But obviously, right, I mean, there's no question about this.
A lot more Democrats would have been happy with Bernie Sanders being the VP, right?
Like Kamala Harris and Bernie Sanders both ran for president, and way, way, way more people wanted Bernie Sanders.
So that will get, there's no question that would get the progressive base more fired up than she will.
So it's not clear that it's a particularly good pick on those grounds.
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And so it's just, it becomes this thing like, you know, and by the way, it also should be mentioned, you know, that she was nuked out of the presidential campaign by Tulsi Gabbard, and that footage is still out there.
And so I think in a weird way, they're caught in this strange position where, so progressives are going to have even the type of people who like the woke lefties who do think, oh, there should just be more women of color in positions of power, even they're going to have a tough time with Kamala Harris being the one for them.
That's why they didn't go for her in the primary because, I mean, the issue of the day is, you know, like defund the police, Black Lives Matter, all this shit.
And this is somebody who's got a track record of locking black people up that you can't ignore.
Now, so that's that's the thing that makes libertarians hate her.
And it's the thing that makes the left-wingers hate her.
But then they're also in this weird position, right?
Where so she basically was like a real tough prosecutor, locked up thousands of people for nonviolent crimes.
But then when she starts running for president, of course, she starts talking that woke lefty shit.
So now she's talking about legalizing pot nationwide and criminal justice reform and all this shit.
But so now you kind of almost get the worst of both worlds politically because no one really believes this bullshit.
But then the people who are like pro-police, anti-pot, they look at you and you're running on the opposite.
So they're like, fuck you.
So I just wonder if this isn't potentially a disaster that hands Trump a huge, huge advantage, maybe even hands him the election.
Yeah, it could be like Sarah Palin.
I think Sarah Palin definitely cost whatever the fuck that Warhawk's name was.
I can't even remember his name.
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You know, usually I think the VPs don't matter that much, but if you get someone who's loony enough, they just even question almost your ability to make good leadership decisions that you've picked this other dumbass.
And Kamala is so unlikable that that could happen.
But I think, I mean, you and I said, hey, if the economy is bad, people will just boot Trump on account of that.
I think people are really, really unhappy with what's going on.
And sometimes they just like to flip leadership for no other reason than outing them.
I think if there's anyone, like, I think in this situation, basically anyone could have beaten Trump just because people are fucking livid with what's going on.
And it's always easier if you're the person that's not there because you can claim, hey, I can be better and no one fucking knows.
I know what's going on with Trump right now and it's not all that good.
You just have to make paint a picture that there might be something that you can do that he can do without any evidence to back it up with the promise that government spending can, you know what I mean?
You can claim whatever.
You're not here and there's the unknown.
If there's one person that might fumble that, it's Biden.
Well, even, yeah, here's the thing, right?
So there's no question there's a lot of truth to what you're saying.
The idea that if things are bad, the buck stops with the president and hey, things are bad here.
So we don't like that.
What's unique about this situation, what makes it particularly difficult to analyze, is that while that is true, there is a very reasonable argument that Trump can say it's all these Democratic governors who did this to you.
And I'm the one trying to open the economy, especially when people are desperate to open the economy.
He was never here.
Here's why that doesn't work.
He was never clear enough in going, hey, the governors can't do this.
And I think part of no, that's true.
Listen, you're absolutely right about that.
Trump fucked up by declaring the national emergency to begin with by doing all if Trump should have positioned himself against the lockdowns and should really strongly take the position that we should never have had them and we should end them today.
That would be much better politics, I think, just the right position.
Yeah, he would have been fighting the media the whole time saying that you know the president Trump is out there killing people, but that gamble might have they're gonna do it anyway, they're gonna do it anyway.
Gamble would have paid off when we got to month now seven, and people are like, Oh, these governors aren't helping me and they're taking away my freedom.
So, he would have had to have gotten hammered for a long time until we got to here.
But I think part of what people want to see from a strong president, and this is against what you know, what we would want, but uh, you almost want someone who has the policies that you that you also have, who's then going to impose it on the other people, even at the cost of like erosions of freedom.
And what I mean by that is telling governors, like, I'm pulling your support, or you have to do like all things that you and I would go, this is against freedom, and this is bad, and I don't want government to do it.
If people want to see that from a strong president, and so when you got what's currently is just chaos of the guy being weak and being like, I don't know that I agree with them, but I'm not going to do anything about it, everyone hates that.
Yeah, yeah.
Well, I'll say though, I really wonder, and I don't, you know, I don't know, um, but in a lot of ways, you got to think that there's quite possibly, you know, Joe Biden in his speech the other day, he said that if he were president, he would, I forget if he said he would mandate it or he said he would, he would, you know, make all the governors mandate it or something like that.
Um, that he was saying that we mandate that every American has to wear a mask outdoors for the next three months.
That was stupid.
Three months, you have to wear a mask.
And that all right, first off, right, it's just, I wonder, like, you know, okay, if you're in big cities, right?
Like, what I know is in New York City, you look around, almost everybody's wearing a mask when they walk down the street.
This is not the situation in most of America.
And most people in America don't want to wear a mask all the time.
The other thing is that it's really stupid.
It does, the idea of forcing masks when you're outside, there's really no science to back that up.
Oh, no, no, I'm sorry.
I'm wrong in what I was about to say.
Oh, no problem.
That's the quickest you've ever caught yourself being wrong.
So I'm impressed.
You're on your game today.
I was excited.
Well, so like, look, like, I think that, you know, from what I've read, there seems to be a pretty solid scientific argument that if you're going to be in close quarters with people in enclosed spaces, wearing a mask cuts down on viral transmissions.
So that's, you know, if you're around a lot of people inside, it certainly makes sense to wear a mask.
If you're around a lot of people outside, like in very dense areas, perhaps.
If you're just walking down the street on a not very crowded street or you're taking a drive or like something, the idea, it's really just kind of silly.
It's there's no science to it at all.
It's just kind of making you feel better and in many cases, making people feel superior.
And so him coming out for that.
So now you have, you know, you have these riots across the country that are, you know, pretty, pretty bad.
And there's a lot of footage of them being very bad.
And I think most people start looking at that and are turned off by it.
And there is some data to back this up that like the popularity of Black Lives Matter has been going down since the riots.
And the more imagery of that that people see, I think the more it will go down.
And you have this group, Kamala Harris and Joe Biden, even though they're drug warrior cops, that's not what they're running as.
They're running as apologists for this whole movement.
And so the mix of that, plus saying I would shut down more and I would make everybody wear masks and all of this stuff.
I just wonder if they might be really pushing a lot of that old mythical silent majority toward coming out for Donald Trump.
And I certainly, look, man, like I can't, I can't support Trump.
I just, I have my limits and he's pushed way past all of them.
It's like, first off, I can't, I can't support anybody who's continued to prosecute the war in Yemen the way he has.
I just.
that that in itself is is too much for me.
I can't support anybody who's added as much spending in one year as he has.
Like, I legitimately think this shit's going to destroy the country and I'm not going to support someone who would do that.
Definitely not going to support Joe Biden or Kamala Harris.
But I got to say there is part of me that would like to see a resounding message sent by the American people saying we are over the mask insanity.
We're over the lockdowns and we're over the fucking riots and the crime.
And the other part of it that's really, I think the more that this gets publicized, the more it's going to really drive normal people away.
And I don't know.
Like I could be wrong about this.
Part of this might be wishful thinking on my part.
But I really, I mean, if you look at some of their policies that they're pushing, it is, this is not like any of the democratic policies of the past.
They're pushing this thing about low-income housing in suburbs, you know, because like it's racist that they only have them in the city.
And so we need to take nice suburbs and make sure that there's low-income housing there too.
I mean, like, how is it?
How are any of these like suburban soccer moms going to be on board with that?
Have you seen what they're doing in the Upper West Side where I lived until very recently?
They're literally, they have three hotels that the city has paid.
They're paying them like 200 bucks a night to basically turn into homeless shelters.
So just flooding the neighborhood with homeless filters.
And there's been a number of them who are like on the sex offenders list.
Also, just to speak to that point.
So at the same time, you got Cuomo saying, hey, I need the rich people to come back to New York City and spend money here.
And they're also depreciating most people's primary asset, which is if you own a home, if you own a home, that's the major, for most people, that's a major investment that you made in your lifetime.
If you're a person that lives on the Upper West Side and you own an apartment, it means you've probably been there for 40 years.
You probably invested about a million in it.
Now it's probably worth like two or three.
That is your fucking investment.
There is absolutely nothing worse that the government can do than start letting homeless people run rampant in your neighborhood and depreciate your property value.
I mean, what could government possibly do to you that could be worse than creating policies that depreciate your investment?
Like, well, I'll tell you, Rob.
I mean, look, I agree with what you're saying, but I think what's worse than that is just that these, a lot of these people have kids.
Like you have kids who are going around.
Yeah, but if your kid gets diddled and your house value is going up, I mean, there's an equation here.
But you know what I'm saying?
I mean, it's really like, this is no joke.
Like, and I know a lot of people who still live in the Upper West Side, they all say they've seen like homeless people shooting up, jerking off, peeing on the streets, like all this stuff.
Yeah, no, they said it's awesome.
They're like, dude, you got to come back.
No, but I mean, look, man, when you got kids, I just, I just wonder, I go like, is there a, there must be a still a decent percentage of reasonably normal people who are like, we don't want this.
Like, no, I'm sorry.
Like, you know, it's just not, and it doesn't mean that you don't have some like humanity.
It doesn't mean that you don't feel bad for homeless people and mentally ill people and drug addicts and things like that.
But no, I don't want them living near my children.
That's like more important to me.
I think I speak for the vast majority of parents when I say that.
I mean, maybe I'm that removed from reality, but I gotta say, you start looking at this stuff, you look at the crime rates in the cities.
And this is another big part of why people are leaving New York City.
The shootings for July from this year to last year, they were up almost 200%.
I think it was 170-something percent.
I mean, now, okay, most of this is still happening in the fucking, you know, in the hood.
And so nobody cares about it because evidently those black lives don't matter.
But still, there's something fairly creepy about this.
And there are these incidents that like you were not, there was just a stabbing on 72nd Street.
It was right in the Upper West Side the other day.
I think there were actually two stabbings there.
This is like a new thing that I just, the irony, I guess, that I'm getting at is that even though Kamala Harris and Joe Biden have what you could call a law and a law and order, tough on crime, you know, kind of track record, they're not running on that shit.
And it kind of opens the door for Donald Trump to really run on a law, a law and order platform.
And you wonder if this doesn't have, you know, like 1968 Richard Nixon election style shit written all over it.
Like there's these riots, there's this political chaos, and someone could just come in and say, hey, no more of this shit.
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And I just think it's possible that that could be a big opening.
We should start a new movement called All Black Lives Matter.
And we shame Black Lives Matter because apparently they only care about some Black lives.
And we're trying to make sure that the world cares about all Black Lives.
Yeah, there you go.
We should start it up.
All Black Lives Matter.
Now I can't even get it out of my mouth.
It just doesn't feel right.
As a note, All Lives Matter.
It's a very small percentage of lives matter.
We all know that.
Very small percentage.
Most of them, you're just here to drink Bud Light and hump.
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So, again, it's going to be interesting to see how all of this plays out, but there is something to the fact that he picked somebody who is polarizing, who is intensely unlikable, and who's got something for everybody to hate.
And you got to look at this like, you know, again, they'll have these forecasts like Nate Silver and those type of people who will be like, okay, these are the odds.
And they're saying it's like 71% chance or whatever that Joe Biden gets elected.
But that's what they're saying about Hillary Clinton, too.
And you just wonder.
You wonder as things get closer here, how is this all going to play out?
And if, you know, the shift in a single debate and when is that debate going to happen?
I mean, you saw what happened to Bloomberg.
He got eaten within three minutes of a debate.
You just need one good debate from Trump, which is his strongest asset and Biden's weakest asset.
So we just need one good fumble fest.
And that's the end of Biden.
Well, it is a pretty important point.
I mean, traditionally, when I say traditionally, I mean every other election, like every election since 1960 to 2016, the debates, the televised broadcast debates have been the most important thing.
And Biden and Kamala Harris are both terrible.
I mean, they're both just awful at debates.
They, you know, Biden just survived the debates, you know?
He would like kind of collapse into.
But that was also the only reason he survived him was because there were 15 people up at the same time.
And so he can mostly sit in the background.
And when he did come forward, he said stupid, dumb shit because he's Joe Biden.
And also when he got attacked, it was kind of evenly spread out.
Even in those debates, if you were really thrown, well, I forgot what was the most like, I don't think he was ever on a one-on-one or, you know, well, he had one, he had one one-on-one with Bernie Sanders, but it was kind of after he had pretty much sewed up.
And weren't they playing nice, if I remember?
They did play pretty nice.
It was right after the beginning of the COVID thing had hit.
And it was, you know, it was a weird environment.
And Bernie Sanders had basically already conceded the nomination without technically conceding it.
But you're right that he, but I mean, if you remember, he would do these things where he would flub up every other answer.
He would just collapse in the middle of them and start not physically, but mentally and emotionally, and just go and just cut out before his time was up and just go, well, that's all right.
I shouldn't have.
Here's the way to beat Biden.
You just go, no, actually, I don't know, man.
Would you mind clarifying?
That's fucking hilarious.
That's the whole key to taking Biden out.
Do you know, man?
No.
No, I don't know, man.
What the hell do you mean?
And then he just goes, I shouldn't be here.
I'm sorry.
Well, that's, I mean, Trump, you know, Trump might just, if Biden does end up debating him, which is a big if, Trump might really just have some crazy moments, even without that.
It's possible just in giving interviews and speeches, there's some moment that Biden creates.
And Kamala Harris is just the more people see of her, the less they like her.
Yeah, yeah, I think so.
And so I don't know.
I'm just thinking about it.
And truthfully speaking, I don't even know, you know, I don't know.
I don't know what, you know, if elected, what type of how many of these policies they would actually implement or whether they care to implement any of them.
But it does seem like there is like a really major push.
And in the same sense of the thing that's been out of control with the Democrats, right, is that they do seem to be kind of like I was indicating with the just picking Kamala Harris, like just going with the, we want black woman, and so we'll pick her.
And you're like, well, what are really the, like, where's the evidence that people want this?
It does seem like they're pulled by these forces where they're almost like they're pandering to the rhetoric that like a certain woke crowd on Twitter wants and the policies that some ruling elite bankers want.
But you're like, where is the evidence that this is actually popular?
It's like, you know, like there are these forces that pull them in these directions, but it kind of like reminds you, you know, it's so weird because we're people like me and you, we kind of live in like, you know, philosophy and what we think is right.
And so, and we're just podcasters and comics.
We can just say whatever the fuck we want to say.
I'll just tell you the truth.
Like, I'll just give you my opinion.
I don't have to fucking worry about, you know, like, oh my God, what, how's this going to poll or be perceived or any of that shit?
But they're politicians.
They don't fucking live in that world.
They go with what's going to win votes and all of this.
But there'd be this weird dynamic in the Democratic primaries where like, you know, they'd ask these questions like, do you think illegal immigrants should get free health care?
And they're like, yes.
And you're like, I mean, you guys have to know that this is wildly unpopular.
You're for illegals getting free health care.
You're for reparations for slavery.
You're for late-term abortion.
You're for like all of these issues are losing issues with the public.
And it's just, it's weird.
Like, how many of these do you think you can take before the public who doesn't like these ideas will reject them?
And by the way, it's not a rhetorical question.
I don't really know the answer either.
It's maybe they can get away with all of it, but maybe not.
Just maybe.
All right.
So we will see.
It's fucking interesting time to be alive.
All right.
So one other story that I wanted to just quickly talk about, and then we could wrap up in a couple minutes here.
And the story is about this guy, Kevin Kleinsmith, who was an FBI lawyer.
And it's being reported as of today that he is expected to plead guilty for making false statements in the first criminal case stemming from U.S. Attorney John Derman's investigation into the probe of ties between Russia and the Trump campaign in 2016.
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And basically, this is the guy who, I guess, altered the emails between the CIA and the FBI or altered the emails that they presented to the FISA court.
And he basically cut out the thing about Carter Page being a fucking CIA asset.
So more or less, for people who don't remember, I mean, we've done a ton of podcasts on this.
CNN still hasn't apologized, by the way.
Two years of being wrong.
No.
Oh, I haven't checked today.
I was thinking maybe we got to.
You'd think after this, it would certainly come out.
Yeah, yeah.
No, I'm starting to think it's never going to come, Rob.
No, no, I'll get it.
But, you know, I've been saying, and you've been saying for years now that this entire Russian Trump conspiracy thing was a big fat hoax orchestrated by members of the deep state to take down Donald Trump.
And even like, as you say, even after knowing all the stuff we know, when you say something like that, I know it kind of sounds like tinfoil hatty shit, but that is what happened here.
And this little bit, this is very interesting because it's the first person actually facing some repercussions from all of this.
I'm not confident that they're going to get the people at the top.
It's very clear that this went all the way up to the top, especially with the new stuff that was released at the end of that Flynn situation before he got exonerated.
But this went all the way up.
It's not just that it was like, you know, Clapper and Comey and Brennan.
We're talking Biden, Obama, Susan Rice, the very top of the administration was all implicated in this.
And anyway, this is the first person that's paid.
That's paying for it.
I'm not optimistic that the big guys are ever going to go down.
I think this is what happens.
Someone becomes the fallman.
But what this guy did is a really crucial, revealing, and fascinating detail of the whole hoax.
So basically what happened was the FBI had communication back and forth with the CIA that said that they have evidence that the Russians turn Carter Page.
They tried to convince Carter Page to become a Russian asset and work for the Russians.
And the CIA goes, no, Carter Page is a CIA asset.
And we know that the Russians made him this offer because when they made him the offer, he came right back to us at the CIA and told us that the Russians made him this offer and asked us what we wanted him to do.
Because it turns out Carter Page was more of a patriot.
And I don't mean that even in the good sense of the word, but he was more of a patriot than he was a traitor.
And so this right there, if this whole thing wasn't a bullshit hoax, would be where the FBI that you're taught about in school or that the general public is supposed to believe in, the Noble FBI, their response there is, oh, shit.
So we had this wrong.
So we fucking, we had this wrong.
And it doesn't, you know, it turns out that none of this is true.
Now, this motherfucker cut that part out of the email that they showed to the FISA courts.
And in fact, what he left in the email, if I remember correctly, kind of indicated, like, and this is the most dishonest shit that they do, is it kind of indicated that the CIA confirmed what they were accusing them of.
Like, in other words, it's kind of going like, and this is why, you know, when you testify in a court of law, when you swear an oath, you say, I swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
Because if you just leave out, like lies by omission can be every bit as damning as an explicit lie.
So if you go to a FISA court, say that's the situation, right?
You go, oh, we think this guy's a Russian asset because we know the Russians approached him.
And the CIA goes, well, no, no, no.
He's our asset.
And we know the Russians approached him because he came to us and told us that the Russians approached him.
Now you take that information and you present it to a FISA court and they go, we believe that the Russians approached him to be a Russian asset.
And the CIA has confirmed that the Russians did approach him to be a CIA asset.
Now, technically, there's no lie there.
There's no lie.
It's just a lie of omission.
But there's no, literally, you like, that's where you say you're factual, but not truthful, right?
So you like factually told them what happened.
So that's more or less what this guy did.
And now it looks like through this investigation, he's actually going to plead guilty to this because, yeah, this is a crime.
And so it'll be interesting to see like what sentence he gets or anything.
But if nothing else, it's interesting because it's one more excuse to tell that little part of this story.
And there's so many parts of the story, but that little part is a real juicy one.
Like there's like probably like nine or 10 little parts of the story that itself, if you just know that, just take the whole thing down.
Just take the, you go, oh shit, what the fuck was going on here?
So argue to me that this wasn't a deep state conspiracy to bring down the president when you, just with that one little piece of information.
Anyhow.
Excellent recap.
Nothing there.
All right.
All right.
Well, you know, we just mentioned the United Arab Emirates thing because after 100 years of war with Israel, they finally resolved their conflict.
We know that the conflict in the region has always been, did you not think that was just fucking a lit, like that they went out.
They're like, we got this fucking peace in the Middle East.
And I was like, oh, shit, what the fuck did they accomplish?
They actually get something done on paper.
And then you're like, they're parading Israel United Arab Emirates.
Now we'll officially get along.
And you're like, how the fuck is that news?
Dude, I still remember.
I think I've told this on the podcast.
They've been dating for years.
They're finally coming out.
Or it's like, they got, they're like married with kids.
I mean, they've been living with kids and now they're getting married.
You're like, this is a bullshit wedding.
Well, I remember when I was a kid, I was like, you know, I don't know, maybe like 11 or something like that, when Bill Clinton brought Yasser Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin, who is the Palestinian leader and the prime minister of Israel.
And he brought him to the White House and they signed a peace deal and they shook him.
Yeah.
Well, it's, but I remember like, I was like 10 or something like that at the time.
And I remember just thinking to myself, being like, huh, Bill Clinton did it, man.
Look at that.
Peace in the Middle East.
That's pretty cool.
And yeah, then like a couple of years later, I was like, oh, I don't think that was a real thing at all.
Like, I don't, that was one of my first introductions.
You're like, maybe they're all liars.
Maybe all of these people are liars.
But I did have a real moment where I went, well, look at that.
All right.
So that problem solved.
Next problem.
All right.
Israel-Palestine, best of friends at this point.
And then you're like, I don't think this is going to be solved anytime soon.
And that's more or less my take on this one.
I'm not convinced this is going to be solved anytime soon.
But there you go.
That's the truth for most political problems.
Am I right?
All right.
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Dude, I don't know.
I don't have a porcher anymore.
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Yeah, but I'm completely porchless at the minute at the moment.