Part Of The Problem - Dave Smith - Joe Biden: Day One
Aired: 2021-01-23
Duration: 51:02


=== Ideology Over Business (13:10) ===

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[00:00:32]  What's up, everybody?
[00:00:33]  Welcome to a brand new episode of Part of the Problem.
[00:00:36]  It is our first episode with our new president, our new president, Joe Biden.
[00:00:44]  Of course, I'm Dave Smith.
[00:00:45]  I'm joined by my partner in crime, the king of the cocks, Robbie the Fire Bernstein.
[00:00:50]  What's up, my brother?
[00:00:51]  I'm doing good.
[00:00:52]  How are you, Davey Smith?
[00:00:53]  Very good.
[00:00:53]  Very good.
[00:00:54]  Can't complain.
[00:00:55]  Can't complain.
[00:00:56]  Been enjoying in a very perverse way watching Joe Biden's first couple days as president.
[00:01:05]  It is a, it's just kind of surreal to me, which is, you know, when Donald Trump first became president, it was so surreal.
[00:01:14]  Like, there's no way, what?
[00:01:16]  Donald Trump is the president?
[00:01:18]  I mean, as fun as the whole campaign was and as crazy and the spectacle, when you actually saw him in there, it was like, wait, there's no way this is real.
[00:01:27]  And then after just the craziest four years that feel like 20 years, it was so weird to see him go.
[00:01:36]  And now to watch Joe Biden in there as president, it's just, I don't know exactly how to describe it.
[00:01:41]  It's just so bizarre to me.
[00:01:42]  It feels surreal.
[00:01:45]  I don't know.
[00:01:45]  Do you, are you feeling any of that?
[00:01:47]  Well, I think the reason why you say it's surreal is because as two years back, we said, man, that guy's just too stupid.
[00:01:54]  And now he's old and stupid.
[00:01:56]  And luckily for him, he didn't really have to campaign.
[00:01:59]  He got to hang out in his basement.
[00:02:00]  And there's a little bit of a honeymoon period right now, where at least some of the bigger media companies are trying to be like, we're back to normal.
[00:02:08]  The dignity of office is back.
[00:02:10]  Everyone's included.
[00:02:11]  It's feel good.
[00:02:12]  And it's only a matter of time before we get the Mr. Magoo we were looking for.
[00:02:17]  Something even more entertaining than Trump, dumber and blunderer.
[00:02:21]  It's going to be great.
[00:02:22]  Well, it's, I'll tell you, even already, he is just so incredibly weak.
[00:02:31]  I mean, he looks befuddled every time you see a picture of him.
[00:02:36]  I've seen even when he was like signing the executive orders and he stands up, like the way he stands up, he looks so physically weak.
[00:02:43]  Every time he's walking around with his wife, it looks like she's kind of leading him.
[00:02:49]  You know what I mean?
[00:02:50]  Like he never looks like he knows which way he's going or what he's doing.
[00:02:54]  It's really bizarre.
[00:02:56]  And you start to wonder how much this guy is actually up to the job, like the day-to-day tasks of being president.
[00:03:06]  I mean, we can argue back and forth about how much power a president really has.
[00:03:10]  And you know what I mean?
[00:03:11]  Like what there's no question that our government is so big and so complex and so, you know, that it's not as if the president is just running the show, but there's still lots of just stuff to do.
[00:03:22]  You've always got something and you've always got some photo op and some, you know, and just that, I just, I really wonder, like, you know, the fact is that the way this whole system has come together and work, which to work, which is a very weird system, you know, which is just like a giant bureaucratic mess with all types of different departments and agencies and branches of government.
[00:03:50]  And there's all these different things.
[00:03:52]  But the president has a crazy job.
[00:03:55]  I mean, the president is like, you know, every minute of the day is mapped out for something else.
[00:04:00]  Now, much of it is just stupid shit, like photo ops and, you know, whatever, signing, you know, bills into law that some fucking congressman voted on who they themselves have never read that was written by some fucking lobbyist or something, you know, but there's stuff.
[00:04:15]  You got to work all day long.
[00:04:17]  And usually in some sense, the vetting process for that is that there's a campaign where you have to work all the time.
[00:04:23]  You're out on the road and sleeping in hotels and giving five speeches a day.
[00:04:28]  But Biden did none of that.
[00:04:30]  We really have no idea how up to the job Joe Biden is.
[00:04:34]  And just that in itself is going to be fascinating to see, like how, how much longer they can convince the American people that the emperor has clothes.
[00:04:42]  And every time you see him, you know, it's like, it's pretty obvious.
[00:04:46]  It's not like, I'm not trying to overstate the point.
[00:04:49]  It's not like the guy is completely senile, but it's not completely not senile either.
[00:04:56]  You know, he's not exactly strong or sharp.
[00:05:00]  And he's, he's just, he looks like a frail old man.
[00:05:05]  Come on, man.
[00:05:06]  I just used all my energy signing the thing.
[00:05:08]  I can't now answer your questions too.
[00:05:11]  He goes, oh, man, I just did my cardio for the day.
[00:05:14]  Now I got to take the, but he does, he kind of has that thing.
[00:05:18]  Like, look, say whatever you will about Trump.
[00:05:20]  And there's no question, like, Trump was an ignoramus.
[00:05:23]  And there'd be lots of issues that, you know, Trump doesn't understand the depth of anything.
[00:05:30]  But he just had that kind of whatever, that salesy kind of tough pit bull attitude where like it didn't matter if someone knew more about trade deals.
[00:05:39]  He'd just be like, no, you're wrong.
[00:05:40]  And here's why this one's tremendous.
[00:05:42]  You know, just go, Joe Biden has this, huh?
[00:05:46]  What?
[00:05:48]  Come on, man.
[00:05:50]  Nah.
[00:05:50]  You know, it's just, it's so bizarre to watch.
[00:05:53]  It also, I must say, it's really, it's, it's been interesting to watch the like snap of the finger switch by the corporate press, which, you know, I mean, we all knew was coming, but still actually watching it is really quite remarkable.
[00:06:10]  It really reminds me of over the summer when they were like, COVID, COVID, COVID, everyone has to stay in their house.
[00:06:17]  Oh my God, look at this guy.
[00:06:19]  He's not wearing a mask.
[00:06:20]  Look at these people.
[00:06:20]  They're out on the beach.
[00:06:22]  And then the Black Lives Matter, you know, rally started.
[00:06:24]  And it was like, no, this, it doesn't matter.
[00:06:26]  All of a sudden, everything we said yesterday is over.
[00:06:29]  It's just like to watch the press go from like the adversarial press who's so hostile to the president.
[00:06:36]  And then like the next day, it's just like raving about how wonderful Joe Biden is and everything he represents is unity and greatness and all of this.
[00:06:46]  It's, you know, it's a good moment to kind of red pill a lot of people and wake them up to because it's even if you are like favorable to Biden, even if you liked Biden more than Trump, there's got to be some people who are somewhat reasonable who see that and go, oh, wow, this is like, you know, you realize it's not just like, oh, there's one journalist with an agenda here.
[00:07:07]  You realize this whole thing, all of them have this agenda, and that's not really what they're supposed to be or what they claim to be.
[00:07:14]  So that to me is interesting as well.
[00:07:20]  All right.
[00:07:21]  So Joe Biden has, he's, he's actually done a lot for a president who's been in for two days.
[00:07:28]  He signed a lot of executive orders and they're not good.
[00:07:34]  So maybe we'd talk a little bit about that.
[00:07:38]  You know, one of the things that was really, you know, preferable to me about Trump over someone like Joe Biden.
[00:07:50]  And, you know, of course, look, I'm a hardcore libertarian.
[00:07:54]  I don't like any of these people.
[00:07:55]  I don't like any president, you know.
[00:08:00]  And they've all got, they all do a lot of bad shit.
[00:08:02]  And the truth is that the president doesn't have nearly as much power as we all pretend that he does in America.
[00:08:10]  That's, you know, it's like we like to think of the president as the guy who's running the country.
[00:08:15]  I mean, not that we like to think of that, but in general, we implied Americans like to think that, but it's not really true.
[00:08:23]  But Trump, it seemed to me at least one of his silver linings, one of his saving graces was that he kind of had this sense of like, he came from business.
[00:08:35]  He didn't come from politics.
[00:08:37]  He kind of wanted to do what was going to be good for business.
[00:08:40]  That was kind of at least what drove his impulse.
[00:08:42]  Now, that drove him to do some really dumb things, like and really evil things like Saudi weapons deals and all types of other shit.
[00:08:49]  And he was completely like wrong on trade.
[00:08:54]  Like he just didn't understand free trade or trade deficits or anything like that.
[00:08:58]  But he at least kind of had an impulse of like, well, what's good for business?
[00:09:03]  What's good for the economy?
[00:09:04]  What's going to, that's what we want, you know?
[00:09:07]  Joe Biden is very different.
[00:09:09]  Joe Biden serves an ideology and it doesn't matter what's good for business.
[00:09:16]  And everything that Joe Biden has done so far is indicating an actual hostility or at best indifference to what's good for the economy and what helps Americans the most.
[00:09:28]  It's like, no, this is about ideology.
[00:09:30]  So we are getting back into the Paris Climate Agreement.
[00:09:33]  I'm not thinking about what's good for business here or what's going to help the economy or anything like that.
[00:09:38]  This is an ideological position.
[00:09:39]  I want to let you know that we saved the soul of the American people.
[00:09:43]  So we're back in this wonderful agreement because we care about the earth or whatever, right?
[00:09:48]  This is the same thing as like, you know, federal, you know, minimum wage increase.
[00:09:53]  It's the same kind of idea that it's not about what's good for business.
[00:09:56]  It's about ideology.
[00:09:59]  And I'd say also, you know, the stuff on this pipeline stuff, it's the same thing.
[00:10:06]  It's not about like, yeah, is it going to put like a few thousand people out of job out of work?
[00:10:10]  Yeah, sure.
[00:10:11]  But this is a greater ideology.
[00:10:13]  It's about this climate change thing.
[00:10:14]  It's this bigger kind of thing.
[00:10:16]  And that is bad.
[00:10:20]  Ideology is really, really bad if you don't have the correct ideology.
[00:10:25]  And that's, as Milton Friedman said once, or he was talking about the difference between Mussolini and Hitler.
[00:10:34]  And he was like, Hitler really believed in what he was saying.
[00:10:37]  And Mussolini didn't.
[00:10:39]  And that's why Mussolini was a socialist before he was a fascist, before, you know, like he was like, okay, well, whatever.
[00:10:44]  He's just looking for power.
[00:10:45]  Like, you know, whatever.
[00:10:46]  Oh, this is the flavor that's working now.
[00:10:48]  Okay, we'll go with that.
[00:10:49]  Hitler really, really believed in what he was saying.
[00:10:52]  And that's why he was far more evil than Mussolini.
[00:10:54]  Mussolini just didn't commit to the bit.
[00:10:56]  He went up there and he half-assed it.
[00:10:58]  And so it didn't go, it didn't go as far.
[00:11:01]  I mean, it wasn't great, you know, like it's not, it's not, your choice isn't between great and bad, but it's like between bad really bad.
[00:11:09]  Kind of.
[00:11:10]  Yeah.
[00:11:10]  You know, but so the problem is Trump really didn't believe in anything.
[00:11:16]  Joe Biden, you know, is swept up in this ideology.
[00:11:20]  I mean, I don't know that he actually really is a true believer of it, but it's, he's, he's acting as if he is.
[00:11:26]  And that is in many ways worse.
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[00:12:45]  The thing about the climate Paris Agreement or the Paris climate agreement, I think it really speaks to the disconnect that we've talked about a lot between the ruling elite and the average person and how they just have no sense, no empathy.
[00:13:09]  They don't even acknowledge it.

=== Symbolic Climate Gestures (07:09) ===

[00:13:11]  But it's like, you get it.
[00:13:13]  Look, do you remember what first sparked the yellow jacket protests in your gas prices?
[00:13:20]  Yes.
[00:13:20]  It was a similar type thing where they go, look, we're going to put a tax on gasoline in the name of fighting climate change.
[00:13:28]  Right.
[00:13:29]  Now, to a lot of these kind of climate activists, they really applauded that.
[00:13:34]  They like that, right?
[00:13:35]  Because if you tax something, you're going to get less of it.
[00:13:39]  And we want less gasoline usage, right?
[00:13:42]  Because in their eyes, that's bad for the environment.
[00:13:47]  It's worth noting that leftists understand that if you tax something, you're going to get less of it when it comes to environmental policy.
[00:13:58]  That rule of economics, they have no problem with when it suits them.
[00:14:02]  However, if me or you pointed out, hey, you know, we tax working, maybe we're going to get less of that than we otherwise would.
[00:14:11]  All of a sudden, they look at you like they could, this is ridiculous, you know, like just taking your same principle and applying it over here.
[00:14:18]  It's like, okay, well, if we subsidize not working and tax working, maybe we'll get more people not working and less people working than we otherwise would have seems pretty straightforward, but whatever.
[00:14:29]  But so that's what they wanted.
[00:14:31]  But what they don't really think through, right?
[00:14:33]  And this is one of the great disconnects between the modern mainstream liberal left and regular people is that regular people, it makes a big difference if you got to pay a few bucks more at the pump.
[00:14:50]  That like really means something.
[00:14:52]  They have no other choice.
[00:14:53]  They have to get to work.
[00:14:54]  They have to drive around.
[00:14:56]  And to pay a few more dollars is like, that's they're making really tough decisions when you have to do that.
[00:15:01]  It's like, okay, I guess we got to pull, you know, Susie out of dance class now because we can't afford this and her to have like shit that sucks.
[00:15:10]  You know, like they're in a position where they're like, shit, where I'm already behind on my bills and now I got another extra bill.
[00:15:16]  And people, the left liberal establishment elite loves gestures.
[00:15:24]  They love gestures that let you know that they're a good person.
[00:15:28]  This is, you see it constantly.
[00:15:29]  This is, by the way, the main beef, the main reason why people make fun of people who have their gender pronouns in their bios because it's just an empty gesture to make you feel like a good person.
[00:15:41]  It doesn't actually do anything to help trans people.
[00:15:44]  You know what I mean?
[00:15:44]  I'm talking about like, you know, not trans people who have their pronouns in their bios, but just like regular Regular, traditional gendered people.
[00:15:55]  So it'll just be like a guy like you.
[00:15:57]  And then you'll have he/him in his bio.
[00:16:00]  And it's like, yeah, you're a dude.
[00:16:02]  You're balding.
[00:16:03]  I know you're a guy.
[00:16:04]  I know what to call you.
[00:16:05]  But it's just letting everybody else know, of course, I have superior empathy and care.
[00:16:10]  And this turns people off.
[00:16:12]  By the way, there's a few people who have pronouns in their bios who are, you know, good people, but I'm just saying this is what turns people off.
[00:16:18]  It's a very, whether you realize it or not, elitist, removed way of thinking about things.
[00:16:24]  If you want to help somebody else, if you're a good person who really cares about them, go help them.
[00:16:29]  And you don't have to brag about it publicly.
[00:16:32]  Just do it.
[00:16:33]  You don't have to, you know, you don't have to tell everybody what charity you contribute to.
[00:16:38]  You don't have to tell everybody what you do on the weekends to help out your community.
[00:16:41]  Just do it.
[00:16:42]  Just be the good person.
[00:16:45]  So, anyway, this is what's rampant in kind of like college social justice warrior circles, right?
[00:16:53]  All these token gestures, not really doing anything, but just letting everybody know how much you oppose evil and all this shit.
[00:17:00]  So, for those types, they really like to let everybody know that they're for this, you know, gas tax or this climate agreement or whatever it is, you know?
[00:17:13]  But that's really removed from what the people who pay this tax actually go through and what they actually are objecting to.
[00:17:24]  And this is what sparked the whole yellow jacket movement in France.
[00:17:27]  Now, there was a lot more to it, but this was like the spark.
[00:17:33]  So, what you're actually telling this, you know, average working class person in France, for using this example, is that, look, we are going to do something that is symbolic, that lets you know we're serious about climate change.
[00:17:53]  It's going to make all of those elite kids at universities feel really good about what we're doing.
[00:17:58]  And the guy's freaking out, like, oh my God, but I don't know what I'm going to do.
[00:18:02]  How am I going to afford this?
[00:18:03]  And then it's like, well, we have climate change.
[00:18:08]  The world's going to end.
[00:18:09]  So we have to do this.
[00:18:10]  And you go, okay, so how will this prevent climate change?
[00:18:12]  You're like, oh, well, it won't.
[00:18:15]  There's no chance that it could possibly make a difference.
[00:18:17]  I mean, even if all of France just stopped using gasoline tomorrow, the dent that it makes in climate change is nothing.
[00:18:27]  I mean, literally nothing.
[00:18:29]  If France went carbon neutral tomorrow, it makes no change in climate change.
[00:18:35]  Even if all of Europe went carbon neutral, really doesn't change the numbers drastically.
[00:18:41]  Because really, you have to deal with China.
[00:18:42]  You have to deal with India.
[00:18:44]  You have to deal with the United States Defense Department.
[00:18:47]  You have to deal with the major contributors.
[00:18:49]  And so, unless everybody's going to do this, which they're obviously not, it doesn't do anything.
[00:18:54]  So you're asking, what you're telling these regular people is we are going to fuck over your life for a gesture.
[00:19:03]  Can you understand where enough of that might push somebody to be fucking white hot mad?
[00:19:10]  That's more or less what all of this is.
[00:19:12]  It's gestures that make the privileged feel better about themselves while actually causing real damage to working class people.
[00:19:23]  And this is the thing that's just so awful about it.
[00:19:27]  You're asking people to sacrifice for nothing.
[00:19:30]  Now, the Paris climate agreement is purely just, I mean, it's nothing.
[00:19:38]  It's not even like a binding agreement or anything like that, but it is the symbolism of it is in that direction.
[00:19:44]  And to speak to what you're saying, from where I remember the heavy criticism of the climate change was that it did make people like, you know, maybe America make some sacrifices voluntarily while getting nothing or that would make a difference back from China.
[00:20:01]  So, what the hell was the point of it?
[00:20:03]  Right, exactly.
[00:20:05]  Exactly.
[00:20:06]  And, and of course, the whole climate change thing is also, I mean, there's lots of other problems with the ideology, but that's it.
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[00:21:30]  You know, I remember once there was this Dinesh D'Souza video that went viral where he was arguing with social justice warriors on campuses.
[00:21:41]  It was like in that time period that that was really the thing that was blowing up, you know, like around 2017, 2016 or something like that, where, you know, there was like Ben Shapiro and Jordan Peterson and Dinesh D'Souza and a lot of these guys would go to college campuses and just take on social justice warriors and destroy their arguments.
[00:21:57]  And, you know, I'm not a Dinesh D'Souza guy, but this one really did stick with me.
[00:22:05]  It was like a viral video.
[00:22:07]  And he goes, and everyone, you know, of the on the left was like, this is such an unfair point, but I actually thought he was making a really good point.
[00:22:14]  But so this he was speaking at some elite university and there was this kid, like a 20-year-old or something, a bright young 20-year-old who was arguing with him.
[00:22:25]  And he was going through this whole argument about how basically white privilege was something that all white people had.
[00:22:34]  And that basically the wealth that white people have was ill-gotten gains, you know, from years of essentially robbing it from minorities and how terrible the Native Americans and black people were treated in this country and how, you know, how much wealth was stolen from them and all of this and that.
[00:22:52]  And that there should be, you know, high taxes and, you know, like white people kind of owe money back or something.
[00:22:57]  I don't remember.
[00:22:58]  It's years ago I saw this, but this was the argument more or less.
[00:23:00]  And Dinesh D'Souza just says to him pretty calmly, he goes, all right, well, you have a seat here at an elite university.
[00:23:10]  Why don't you give it up to a person of color?
[00:23:12]  Like leave school.
[00:23:14]  Give it up, you know?
[00:23:17]  And the kid's like, well, no, I, but I'm not going to do that, but I do, I do tutoring and I do other things.
[00:23:24]  And he's like, oh, oh, okay.
[00:23:25]  So you do tutor.
[00:23:26]  Okay.
[00:23:27]  No, give up what you have.
[00:23:28]  Give it up.
[00:23:30]  Like, you really believe this?
[00:23:31]  You give it up, you know?
[00:23:32]  And that's something in general that obviously this kid wasn't going to do it.
[00:23:37]  And I'm not saying he should do it, you know, obviously, but it was a, I thought that was a really fair point that it's like, okay, look, if you're going to call for, make this call for sacrifice from all of these other people, you ought to lead in that sacrifice because anyone can just call for others to sacrifice.

=== Proof Of Lack Sacrifice (06:20) ===

[00:23:57]  There's nothing and then feel noble about it.
[00:23:59]  I mean, what is that bullshit?
[00:24:00]  Of course, you could, yeah, oh, I think everybody else should give up all of their wealth, but I'll keep all of mine.
[00:24:05]  I mean, that's that's obviously not, you know, noble.
[00:24:11]  But I think that's a point that really can, you know, address a lot of this, these tendencies.
[00:24:17]  And so what people sniff out is that the ruling elite who are like, hey, look, you got to tighten your belt because of climate change, you know, none of them are planning on tightening their belt.
[00:24:30]  It's the same people who fly private, which is like the worst thing you can do for a carbon footprint, are sitting there telling you you got to pay more for gasoline.
[00:24:41]  So that's another thing that I think just drives people nuts.
[00:24:44]  It's the same thing as when Nancy Pelosi is getting her hair cut without a mask on.
[00:24:49]  It's the same exact thing.
[00:24:51]  You are demanding sacrifices from the plebs and you have no intention of sacrificing anything.
[00:24:57]  And understand that they, you know, for them to sacrifice would mean much less because they have so much more than the average person and they're still not willing to sacrifice shit.
[00:25:09]  So that's what really gets people.
[00:25:11]  And that note with the sacrificing, the whole inauguration, they were wearing masks, but there was no social distancing.
[00:25:17]  They were all congregating right afterwards, talking to each other.
[00:25:20]  Maybe they've all been back vaccinated because they really believe in that vaccine.
[00:25:24]  Oh, yeah, but you're still not supposed to.
[00:25:25]  Well, even if you've been vaccinated, what I'm being told by Dr. Fauci, by the doctor God, is that even after the vaccine, you're not supposed to be, you know, with you're still supposed to social distance and wear the mask and all that.
[00:25:38]  Yeah.
[00:25:39]  Yeah, but just proof of fact, they're not willing to make those same sacrifices.
[00:25:43]  You know, they told us not to vacation.
[00:25:45]  Obama was in Hawaii for Christmas.
[00:25:47]  No, that's exactly right.
[00:25:48]  That's that's exactly what the whole thing is.
[00:25:51]  And so, you know, they're really pushing people in this direction.
[00:26:01]  And people smell this.
[00:26:02]  They sniff it out.
[00:26:03]  Did you see, by the way, that they asked Joe Biden's press secretary, I'm blanking on her name.
[00:26:07]  Sorry, she's new.
[00:26:09]  I'll get it soon.
[00:26:10]  But they asked her about how him and his family weren't wearing masks.
[00:26:13]  Well, they were just celebrating one of the impactful events that are going to make all of our lives so much better.
[00:26:20]  But it really was unbelievable to say, you know, so much of the way, look, the way the government has dealt with COVID has been atrocious.
[00:26:32]  Okay.
[00:26:32]  It's just been a nightmare from the very beginning.
[00:26:35]  But it really has very little to do with who the president is.
[00:26:40]  It's just at this point that this system has become such a bureaucratic mess that no matter who you put in there, they're all going to do the exact same thing.
[00:26:51]  Oh, we should have a task force and we should do this and that, but it's just going to be a mess.
[00:26:57]  And we all kind of knew this going in.
[00:26:59]  That's why Biden, they'd be like, we're going to get serious about COVID.
[00:27:01]  Like, what are you going to do?
[00:27:02]  It's like, well, we're going to have mask mandates and we're going to have a task force and we're going to have this.
[00:27:06]  And you're like, this is everything that's being done already.
[00:27:08]  There's no, you know what I mean?
[00:27:10]  It's like, so it's just so funny that they get in there.
[00:27:13]  And then you saw this line of questioning since you just kind of quoted from it.
[00:27:17]  But so they're asking him and they're like, well, but you, you know, Biden just signed this mask mandate on federal ground.
[00:27:23]  I'll lead by example.
[00:27:24]  He's he's on a federal ground.
[00:27:26]  So shouldn't he have a mask on at all times?
[00:27:28]  And they're like, well, listen, we take lots of precautions.
[00:27:32]  Like, oh, this really could be uh Kaylee McKenney, uh, McKenney, whatever her name is, saying this.
[00:27:38]  Like, this is the same exact thing that they used to say when they grilled them about people not wearing masks.
[00:27:43]  It's like the same, well, but you know, we had people tested and stuff, and like we do what we can, and we got a lot of things to think about, so it can't all be about masks.
[00:27:51]  Like, this is kind of stupid, and you're like, Yeah, it is, it kind of is all of a sudden.
[00:27:56]  You're you're you realize that, yeah, this is actually kind of stupid.
[00:28:00]  That's what a lot of us have been saying for a while.
[00:28:03]  It's so ridiculous, the idea that first off, there's no evidence that mask mandates have done anything, have had any effect on the curve whatsoever.
[00:28:12]  Um, there's no evidence that the lockdowns have done anything.
[00:28:16]  I mean, you see examples of this all over the place, but you look at Florida, which is like a wide open state right now, and California is like fucking mostly shut down.
[00:28:25]  And Florida has a much older population, you think, and they're doing better by every metric than California is.
[00:28:31]  This virus is weird and it just kind of runs its course.
[00:28:34]  We haven't fully committed to masks, just wait till there's 100 days of masks and they glue it to our faces.
[00:28:39]  But then, by the end of that, then we'll be fine.
[00:28:41]  Everyone's wearing masks, man, or at least as much as they're going to.
[00:28:46]  Whether you mandate it more, the federal mandate, every store, every restaurant, everything, they're making people wear masks, except when you're eating and drinking, which you know kind of seems like you're not going to be able to wear a mask when you're doing that.
[00:29:00]  I don't quite know how that'd work.
[00:29:01]  Um, so it's just this, all this shit is just complete make-believe pretend.
[00:29:07]  You know, none of it's uh real, but it is interesting to just see the snap all of a sudden.
[00:29:12]  Oh shit, everything's different, and now you realize, yeah, when you're in there, what are you gonna do?
[00:29:17]  The um, the other thing I found interesting about the uh, all of Biden's executive order, what was there, there were like 12 or 13 of them, something along those lines, even more.
[00:29:26]  Some of them seem minute, where it's like, we're gonna uh form a committee for keeping your school open, we're gonna form a committee for reviewing this.
[00:29:36]  But what they're not telling you is, okay, well, what does that mean?
[00:29:40]  Does that now mean there's like a new EPA that's going to exist over some branch of our lives that didn't exist before?
[00:29:47]  And that all of a sudden it's going to be like the health department where somebody's getting fines because you know, they're not there just ridiculous rules on the book that you just get fined for.
[00:29:58]  It's um too preliminary to know, I guess, to what extent that's just, hey, here's a piece of paper, and now the executive branch has this power, or does that mean that there's going to be massive budget allocated to these random things we haven't voted on, which isn't clear yet to me, but I did think was an interesting aspect of the executive orders.

=== Betting On Huge Fights (03:16) ===

[00:30:17]  Yeah, for sure, and I think that's exactly right.
[00:30:19]  You never know what these things, the devil's always kind of in the details, um, and and in how it ends up actually getting, you know, how it plays out, because that's basically what all of these things do.
[00:30:30]  Well, we'll form a committee to do this, an oversight agency to do this, and that.
[00:30:34]  And then you're like, okay, but what are you actually going to do?
[00:30:36]  Well, we'll see.
[00:30:37]  And the truth is, I highly doubt Joe Biden knows.
[00:30:40]  It's just like, I don't know, this sounds good.
[00:30:43]  Now I can say I took bold action.
[00:30:45]  You know, that seems to be what this is all about, what it's always all about.
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[00:33:08]  So we already mentioned, I think you mentioned Keystone Pipeline.
[00:33:12]  You mentioned the Paris Accord, but the other one is they're making big moves in terms of immigration.
[00:33:19]  Yes.
[00:33:19]  So the one that was reported, at least in these executive orders, was just DACA.
[00:33:23]  But I think they're also, I've seen articles where they're trying to create a path to citizenship, which obviously would drastically change what voting looks like.
[00:33:32]  Yeah.
[00:33:32]  Yeah.

=== Immigration And Racists (14:56) ===

[00:33:33]  And I got to say, and I know this is an issue that is hotly contested amongst libertarians and has been for a long time.
[00:33:42]  And I know that there are libertarians who have accused me of being un-libertarian in the area of immigration, which I do not think is accurate.
[00:33:56]  I don't support open borders under current circumstances.
[00:34:02]  That is, I don't think inconsistent with libertarianism.
[00:34:07]  I think it's just not insane, to be honest.
[00:34:11]  And I think that, you know, as we've talked about this, you know, to death, but I think that in the same sense, my favorite example ever, and I always fuck, I always forget his name, but he's such a great guy.
[00:34:21]  But he made a video on this.
[00:34:23]  And he made the point that he was like, you know, if you had, I think his example was like, if you had, if you were like a country like England, who's been completely disarmed and there's no guns, guns haven't been allowed for decades and the population doesn't have guns.
[00:34:39]  And there were, you know, angry militias that hated England all around, like in Ireland and other countries, like all surrounding them that were ready to attack England.
[00:34:48]  And you went, we're going to disband the military.
[00:34:52]  And you're like, that's the libertarian thing to do, right?
[00:34:54]  Private defense rather than government defense.
[00:34:57]  And they were like, we're going to disband the military, but we're going to continue to have a ban on guns.
[00:35:03]  Now, I don't think it makes you a bad libertarian to say, no, First, we have to allow people to own guns.
[00:35:11]  And then we could talk about disbanding the military.
[00:35:14]  But you can't just disband them.
[00:35:15]  Like, you can't just leave them sitting ducks.
[00:35:16]  So having an order of preference of how things get abolished, I don't think makes is un-libertarian.
[00:35:22]  And to me, borders would probably be the last thing that you'd want to be abolished if you were abolishing the government completely.
[00:35:30]  Anyway, aside from that, done lots of podcasts where we've talked about immigration all the way through.
[00:35:34]  But just on a practical level, right?
[00:35:36]  If you go, if you look at America right now as a country and you see the fact that, look, there are, I mean, we're at a pretty volatile moment in American history.
[00:35:49]  And we take in about a million legal immigrants a year.
[00:35:54]  On top of that, God knows how many illegal immigrants, you know?
[00:36:00]  And now you have a system where you're going to really just invite a ton more people in.
[00:36:06]  And even just in the pragmatic level, like if you were like, let's say a left libertarian or a leftist or anybody like that, who just doesn't want the government doing anything to immigrants, which I can certainly empathize with.
[00:36:21]  Like this is me.
[00:36:22]  We're talking about, I don't want the government doing anything to anyone.
[00:36:25]  You know, I hate the idea that there's like armed government agents stopping anyone from doing anything, you know, short of something violent.
[00:36:34]  So, but even if you're coming at it from that perspective and you realize that there's this guy, Donald Trump, who was just president for four years and 74 million Americans voted for him.
[00:36:45]  And his central issue when he ran, I mean, okay, 63 or whatever million voted for him the first time, but his central issue was immigration.
[00:36:53]  There's a lot of people who really want tighter immigration controls.
[00:36:57]  And if you just realize that it's like, okay, well, what is the likely result of just throwing the doors open right now?
[00:37:08]  Don't you think it's probably when we're already in this crazy, you know, volatile time in the country?
[00:37:16]  Like, don't you just think this is going to lead to more right-wing reactionary movements?
[00:37:22]  How does this work smoothly?
[00:37:24]  I think it's worth at least being skeptical about that.
[00:37:28]  And for this to be Joe Biden's first move, it shows a lot about like where his priorities are.
[00:37:33]  In the same sense that I was saying at the beginning, it's like this commitment to ideology and no sense of just like, but what's good for the average American?
[00:37:42]  Like, what's good for the country?
[00:37:44]  What's good for like, what makes life better for the average person here who you supposedly claim to represent?
[00:37:52]  That so to me, it just all kind of goes in that direction.
[00:37:58]  But I guess this is the way this is the way to squash the movements like, well, we're importing voters.
[00:38:04]  So get, you know, you can have your little movement, but we're going to make sure we have the majority.
[00:38:09]  So perhaps there's some wisdom to what they're doing.
[00:38:12]  Makes it easier.
[00:38:13]  You don't have to rig the next election.
[00:38:15]  Yeah, we don't even have to cheat this time.
[00:38:18]  Okay.
[00:38:19]  So the other thing that I wanted to talk about that I couldn't, we couldn't do today's episode without talking about was that we, me and you and a lot of our friends, we got a shout out.
[00:38:30]  We got a nice shout out from our old friend.
[00:38:34]  Brian, let's run this clip.
[00:38:36]  I'm not even going to preface anything else.
[00:38:39]  Let's run it.
[00:38:39]  A shout out from our old friend.
[00:38:41]  I was thinking today that this is the most relaxed I've been in the course of many inaugurations I've watched because I'm not responsible for it.
[00:38:47]  But I can tell you that when I was in the government, I was white knuckles because of the nature of the threats.
[00:38:53]  But it's so much more difficult today because of what we have seen, not just over the last two weeks, for that certainly has riveted our attention, but because of this growth and polarization in the United States and domestic violence and white supremacist groups.
[00:39:07]  So I know looking forward that the members of the Biden team who have been nominated or have been appointed are now moving in laser-like fashion to try to uncover as much as they can about what looks very similar to insurgency movements that we've seen overseas,
[00:39:25]  where they germinate in different parts of a country and they gain strength and it brings together an unholy alliance frequently of religious religious extremists, authoritarians, fascists, bigots, racists, nativists, even libertarians.
[00:39:40]  And unfortunately, I think that there is momentum that has been generated as a result of, unfortunately, the demagogic rhetoric of people that's just departed government, but also those who continue in the halls of Congress.
[00:39:52]  And so I really do think that the law enforcement, Homeland Security, intelligence, and even the defense officials are doing everything possible to root out what seems to be a very, very serious and insidious threat to our democracy in our republic.
[00:40:08]  I want to read you.
[00:40:09]  All right.
[00:40:10]  So there is old Johnny Brenny boy.
[00:40:14]  I got to say, Rob, it's nice to be included.
[00:40:18]  It's just, it just kind of feels good to be, you know, that's the thanks.
[00:40:23]  And we were, to be fair, we were kind of an afterthought.
[00:40:27]  Like it was kind of like he listed all the things and he was like, and who's I know I'm forgetting somebody.
[00:40:32]  Ah, libertarians.
[00:40:33]  Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:40:33]  There you go.
[00:40:34]  Okay, libertarians also.
[00:40:35]  We're also in the list of enemies.
[00:40:38]  So John Brennan, the CIA director under Barack Obama and Joe Biden, who is now president, of course, committed treason in Syria by knowingly arming al-Qaeda.
[00:40:54]  And, you know, he also, you know, was covered up torture and spied on the Senate Intelligence Committee.
[00:41:00]  And, you know, it was just an all-around criminal.
[00:41:04]  He's concerned about libertarians.
[00:41:06]  He's concerned that we got it really is something to listen to the guy who's responsible for torture and arming terrorists talk about how these people who like individual liberty are a real threat.
[00:41:18]  We really got to keep our eye on these guys.
[00:41:20]  I mean, you know, if it gets out of hand, they could increase the total level of freedom within our society.
[00:41:27]  That don't work.
[00:41:28]  Where am I going to get my money to arm terrorists from?
[00:41:31]  But anyway, to the bigger picture of this, it is something that's really chilling and scary.
[00:41:39]  And that this is a theme that's really been running throughout the corporate press.
[00:41:44]  It was in Joe Biden's inauguration speech.
[00:41:48]  This is like the direction that the Democrats want to go is that they want to label everybody who disagrees with them politically as domestic terrorists, threats to democracy, yada, yada, yada.
[00:42:04]  And we, and not just that, but that we want the power of government to target these people.
[00:42:09]  It's very clearly saying that.
[00:42:12]  These are not random people who are making these points.
[00:42:16]  This is a person who was one of the most powerful human beings in the world.
[00:42:22]  And this was under Barack Obama and Joe Biden's administration.
[00:42:26]  So now, you know, he's kind of back in that world.
[00:42:29]  And this is something that we should take pretty seriously.
[00:42:33]  Joe Biden said in his inauguration speech, I don't know if you watched it, Rob, but he said something along the lines of the divide in America is between, you know, the racists and the people who reject racism, the people who are bigots and the people who reject bigotry.
[00:42:50]  And the truth is, right, that there's not really much of a divide in America between racists and non-racists.
[00:42:59]  There's really not.
[00:43:00]  Most Americans don't like the idea of racism.
[00:43:05]  And most Americans, the vast majority are together and they're against this shit.
[00:43:09]  But there is a real divide in this country between those who would label anyone who disagrees with them politically as racists and those who don't like being called racists.
[00:43:21]  That's more accurate.
[00:43:22]  And it's really something to see basically, you know, okay, we had how many people stormed the Capitol?
[00:43:30]  Do you know offhand, Rob?
[00:43:31]  A few hundred?
[00:43:33]  I mean, it's not, we're not talking about a million people.
[00:43:35]  We're not talking about 100,000.
[00:43:37]  Maybe, I mean, how many people even fit inside that building?
[00:43:40]  It wasn't like cramped to the fact that you couldn't walk.
[00:43:42]  So let's say it's a thousand.
[00:43:44]  You know what I mean?
[00:43:45]  Donald Trump got 74 million people to vote for him.
[00:43:49]  So to just tarnish like everybody, like 74 million people by the actions of a few hundred of them, I believe would meet the textbook definition of a stereotype, right?
[00:44:06]  I mean, like an unfair stereotype, like not even an accurate one.
[00:44:10]  It is, it, it is prejudice.
[00:44:13]  It's bigotry.
[00:44:14]  It's all of these things that he's claiming to oppose.
[00:44:17]  And to say all of a sudden, it's like, oh, religious fundamentalists.
[00:44:20]  Like, yes, these are the problems.
[00:44:21]  Religious people, you know, whatever the other, you know, terms that he used, like all of this stuff, it's like, now you're just going to basically use the actions of a few people to cast a shadow over, you know, half the country.
[00:44:38]  I mean, what type of numbers are we talking about here?
[00:44:40]  I mean, he talks about, you know, if you're talking about libertarians, you know, so what?
[00:44:46]  Trump got 74 million votes.
[00:44:49]  Add another million on there for Jorgensen.
[00:44:51]  Now we're at 75 million.
[00:44:53]  Another 2 million libertarians probably who didn't vote at all.
[00:44:55]  Throw them on there.
[00:44:57]  What are we up to?
[00:44:57]  I mean, you're coming up to a number that this is a huge amount of people who you're just casting this wide net around.
[00:45:04]  And then of the people who stormed the Capitol, how many of them were really violent?
[00:45:08]  It's a very small percentage of them.
[00:45:10]  A lot of them were just taking selfies and wandering around, you know?
[00:45:13]  So it's just like, this is, it's just like complete dishonest bullshit being spewed from a truly evil person who belongs in prison.
[00:45:25]  Like he's talking about other people who need the power of government to, you know, crack down on them.
[00:45:29]  This is like, I don't know how many people actually belong in prison, but he's one of them, you know?
[00:45:35]  Like violent criminals.
[00:45:37]  That's that's what you're dealing with here.
[00:45:39]  And for him to be speaking like this is, you know, it's funny that like so many people who dislike Trump will talk about his dangerous rhetoric, you know what I mean?
[00:45:50]  And stuff like that.
[00:45:51]  Like, oh, he says these things that are so dangerous.
[00:45:53]  Well, how dangerous is this?
[00:45:55]  How dangerous is it to just throw all of these groups together and be like, oh, yeah, they all pose a threat to democracy or our institutions or blah, blah, blah, whatever the fuck he's saying.
[00:46:08]  So, you know, read between the lines here and see what he's obviously saying.
[00:46:14]  This is the strategy.
[00:46:15]  And out of one side of their mouth, they call for unity.
[00:46:19]  And out of the other side of their mouth, they say that anybody who disagrees with them politically is a domestic terrorist.
[00:46:27]  Buckle up, America.
[00:46:28]  It's going to be a fucking interesting, interesting next month of Joe Biden being president.
[00:46:35]  And then we get Kamala in there.
[00:46:37]  So that'll be there.
[00:46:39]  Anything you want to say, Rob?
[00:46:40]  You want to pick a fight with the former CIA chief?
[00:46:43]  Yeah, personally, I want him to know that I'm, no, I want to stay off Mr. Brennan's radar when he starts rounding us up.
[00:46:51]  And I love how he keeps saying that there is no deep state and this is the most deep state talk he could ever deep state.
[00:46:56]  Hey, listen, everyone who's not part of our group, we're going to make sure to purge you.
[00:46:59]  We can't have you walking around Congress, even if you're elected.
[00:47:03]  Like the libertarians, he's talking about actual elected people.
[00:47:06]  Hey, we can't have you in here.
[00:47:07]  It might take away the fabric of this whole thing we're trying to unify.
[00:47:11]  Yeah, yeah, it's uh, that's that's interesting.
[00:47:13]  I mean, it's easy to unify if you want to kill all of your enemies.
[00:47:17]  It's like, oh, okay, that's not exactly the unity that most people thought Joe Biden was talking about.
[00:47:23]  Um, so yeah, this is um, again, it's not just a one-off, it's not just that Brennan said this.
[00:47:29]  There's this is this is very consistent with the themes that get repeated over and over and over again, um, by a lot of powerful people, and it's something we'd be really stupid not to pay attention to it.
[00:47:41]  And I'll also say this kind of goes to a point that we have been making for a while.
[00:47:47]  Uh, Michael Heiss, of course, the great Michael Heiss, who is the founder of the Mises Caucus, got a belt still coming from that belt, Mike Heiss.
[00:47:55]  Well, listen, but give him his respect, he's the second most powerful person in the Mises caucus, right?
[00:48:00]  Right after once I have that belt, I'll be uh confirmed.
[00:48:03]  All the belts, oh, that's right, all the belts.
[00:48:06]  Um, so, but uh, but he had a post about this the other day, and I think he was spot on.
[00:48:11]  That he's like, you know, basically making the point that he's like, oh, even, you know, having your candidate go out there and talk about how we're anti-racists and congratulating Joe Biden for picking a woman and all of this kind of begging to be accepted by the cathedral didn't keep us off of this terrorist list, did it?

=== Virtue Signaling Begging (02:32) ===

[00:48:29]  Something to think about, you know.
[00:48:31]  Um, and that's that's not to say that you shouldn't have whatever views you have, or you know, be, you know, I'm not saying, you know, for the very dim libertarians out there, I'm not saying like, oh, you can't be against racism.
[00:48:44]  I'm just saying that the constant, you know, like what we were talking about in the beginning of the show, the constant virtue signaling, the constant kind of like begging to be accepted as this moral, you know, person, this isn't going to do anything if they see you as a threat.
[00:48:59]  And that's something libertarians got to really fucking understand is that, look, truthfully speaking, right now, we're not a threat to power.
[00:49:07]  Unfortunately, we're just not.
[00:49:08]  But if we got what we want, we would be a threat to power.
[00:49:13]  And if we ever, if we were ever in a situation, you know, through peaceful means, of course, but if we were ever in a situation where we really could abolish the CIA or we really could roll back the most entrenched power in human history, which is what we want to do, if we were ever anywhere close to that, this is nothing.
[00:49:32]  This is small potatoes.
[00:49:33]  We will be demonized in, you know, the likes of which you couldn't imagine.
[00:49:37]  And so don't bother spending any of your time begging for the approval of your enemies.
[00:49:43]  That's that's the message I take out of all of this.
[00:49:46]  It's not, it's not going to get you anywhere.
[00:49:48]  You know, libertarians in large numbers have, you know, called out Donald Trump every time he's done something non-libertarian.
[00:50:01]  I mean, maybe not every single one, but even like Rand Paul and Thomas Massey and guys like that who did support Donald Trump initially.
[00:50:08]  And I believe Ron Paul supported him all throughout.
[00:50:11]  But he'd call out Donald Trump when he did something that he thought was wrong.
[00:50:14]  You know, doesn't matter.
[00:50:17]  Doesn't matter.
[00:50:19]  And so many libertarians were just like hardcore anti-Trump.
[00:50:22]  Some of them had Trump derangement syndrome.
[00:50:23]  You know, none of that stops.
[00:50:25]  None of that stops from John Brennan looking at you as the enemy.
[00:50:29]  Just something to keep in mind.
[00:50:30]  Little, a little life lesson there for you.
[00:50:33]  John Brennan ain't your friend, and you shouldn't be looking for him to be your friend anyway, because you know, he committed treason and covered up torture and spied on the Senate Intelligence Committee.
[00:50:45]  He's a bad guy.
[00:50:46]  So remember that.
[00:50:48]  John Brennan's a bad guy.
[00:50:49]  That's my parting words for today's show.
[00:50:51]  All right.
[00:50:52]  That's our episode for today.
[00:50:53]  We'll be back on Monday with a brand new one.
[00:50:55]  Thank you for listening.
[00:50:55]  Go check out Rob's podcast.
[00:50:57]  Run your mouth.
[00:50:58]  Go follow Rob on Twitter at Robbie the Fire.
[00:51:01]  All right.
[00:51:01]  Peace.