Part Of The Problem - Dave Smith - Big Brother and the Woke Wars
Aired: 2021-04-13
Duration: 56:01


=== Leftist Justifications for War (10:45) ===

[00:00:00]  Fill her up.
[00:00:02]  You are listening to the Gas Digital Network.
[00:00:08]  We need to roll back the state.
[00:00:10]  We spy on all of our own citizens.
[00:00:12]  Our prisons are flooded with nonviolent drug offenders.
[00:00:15]  If you want to know who America's next enemy is, look at who we're funding right now.
[00:00:21]  Every single one of these problems are a result of government being way too big.
[00:00:26]  You're listening to part of the problem on the Gas Digital Network.
[00:00:30]  Here's your host, Dave Smith.
[00:00:33]  Hey, what's up, everybody?
[00:00:34]  Welcome to a brand new episode of Part of the Problem.
[00:00:38]  I am the Libertarian Tupac, most consistent motherfucker you know, Dave Smith.
[00:00:42]  And he is the king of the caulks, Robbie, the fire, Bernstein.
[00:00:47]  What's up, my brother?
[00:00:48]  How you doing?
[00:00:49]  Nothing much.
[00:00:49]  How was your Jersey weekend?
[00:00:51]  It was very good.
[00:00:52]  Very good.
[00:00:53]  Can't complain.
[00:00:54]  How about yourself?
[00:00:56]  I did nothing.
[00:00:57]  There you go.
[00:00:58]  Oh, you also can't complain.
[00:01:00]  Well, you know when you won't be doing nothing, this Sunset Pork Fest.
[00:01:04]  Hell yeah.
[00:01:05]  That's everyone doing something.
[00:01:06]  Last chance to get, they're actually selling out, which is pretty cool.
[00:01:10]  It's because the Meekawks have taken this thing over.
[00:01:12]  We've got everyone coming out in force.
[00:01:14]  And when the king of the caulks lays down his carpet, I don't know what the fuck I'm saying.
[00:01:19]  No, let's go with it.
[00:01:20]  I was like inspired.
[00:01:21]  I got goosebumps coming up.
[00:01:22]  No, but it is true that the event is about to sell out.
[00:01:27]  So if you want to come see us at Porkfest this summer, me and Rob will be doing a live stand-up show and a live podcast.
[00:01:34]  So make sure you get tickets now because you won't be able to if you don't get it.
[00:01:39]  And a lot of our crew of regulars are up there this year.
[00:01:42]  Gene Epstein's up there.
[00:01:43]  I think Tom Woods is up there.
[00:01:44]  I think Scott Horton's going to be up there.
[00:01:46]  So represent.
[00:01:48]  Yeah, a lot of good people.
[00:01:49]  It's going to be a real fun time.
[00:01:50]  Make sure you're a part of it.
[00:01:53]  And yeah, as you kind of alluded to, the Mises caucus has really taken over the New Hampshire Libertarian Party.
[00:02:00]  There's always been a lot of good libertarians in New Hampshire, of course.
[00:02:03]  And so it's a lot of excitement going on up there.
[00:02:06]  And I'm very much looking forward to meeting a lot of good people.
[00:02:11]  We had a great time last time we were at Porkfest.
[00:02:14]  So should be fun again.
[00:02:18]  And there's a lot of exciting things happening in the Libertarian Party with the Mises Caucus.
[00:02:23]  They've been having a lot of success at the state conventions that have been going on.
[00:02:27]  And I'm really pumped about it, really excited for some of the stuff.
[00:02:31]  Of course, I'm going to be speaking at their event in Pittsburgh, which is coming up on May 15th.
[00:02:40]  I'll be speaking there.
[00:02:42]  I know Jeff Dice is going to be speaking and Michael Rechtenwald.
[00:02:45]  It's going to be a real great event.
[00:02:47]  So make sure you come to that as well if you can.
[00:02:51]  Also, I'll be at Freedom Fest hosting the whole thing this summer.
[00:02:54]  So that's going to be a lot of fun.
[00:02:55]  We were supposed to do that last year, but the whole COVID regime decided it was illegal.
[00:03:00]  But this year, we will be doing Freedom Fest, and I'm really looking forward to that.
[00:03:06]  So yeah, there you go.
[00:03:08]  All right, look at that.
[00:03:08]  Plugs up top.
[00:03:09]  Very nice.
[00:03:10]  Okay, so there's a few things I wanted to talk about.
[00:03:14]  One story particularly that caught my eye and I know caught yours as well, Rob.
[00:03:19]  And, you know, I was thinking about it in the context of a lot of things.
[00:03:25]  Like one of the major themes of this show that I've just been kind of relentlessly obsessed with over the last year has been the kind of the corporate woke takeover of the left.
[00:03:40]  And that I've been arguing that this is essentially a neoliberal corporate plot to take over the left-wing movement in America rather than a left-wing plot, say, to take over the neoliberal corporate rule in this country.
[00:04:01]  And the last episode, I had Ben Burgess on, who just wrote a book with, you know, not exactly that thesis, but that... goes over a lot of the same things.
[00:04:11]  It's a critique of the left from the left, very critical of cancel culture and wokeism and things like that.
[00:04:18]  And I thought it was a really interesting conversation that we had.
[00:04:23]  And it's just interesting to hear the perspective of like a good leftist who sees all of this stuff happening and has to realize that so much of this stuff that's coming out of what's considered the left is just not actually helping your cause.
[00:04:43]  Like you're not actually getting closer.
[00:04:45]  You know, I think it's very easy for libertarians and right-wingers for both of us to see, say, like big government and go, well, big government means the leftists are winning because we don't like big government and they do.
[00:05:04]  Or to see anything that comes out of the left and go, see, look, the left is winning.
[00:05:09]  If there's any type of leftist thought, then if that's dominant, well, then obviously they're winning.
[00:05:16]  But in the same way that like, say there might be some people, there might be some people that consider me and you right-wingers, right?
[00:05:24]  Like to a hardcore socialist, they'd consider a free market type like you, Rob, you're a right-winger to them.
[00:05:31]  But they'd also consider, you know, I don't know, a neo-Nazi a right-winger, right?
[00:05:39]  So like, if a neo-Nazi starts getting his policies put into place, if that left-winger was like, see, Rob's winning, like, you'd be like, wait, what?
[00:05:51]  No, not at all.
[00:05:51]  Rob's like in serious danger.
[00:05:53]  He's a free market Jew.
[00:05:55]  They don't do too well in Nazi takeovers.
[00:05:58]  You know what I mean?
[00:05:59]  So even you have to kind of be precise about what strain of leftism is winning, what is actually happening, and who is actually winning and who's losing.
[00:06:09]  And it's not so clear that just broad brush, it's like, well, if you're for big government, then you're winning.
[00:06:14]  It's like, okay, but if the concern of a leftist was that there's so much corporate power and they want a bigger government to keep corporate power in check, I mean, are they winning over this last year?
[00:06:29]  What have they got?
[00:06:31]  They've got corporations with more power than they had before all of this extra layers of government have been added over the last year, right?
[00:06:41]  So it's important to recognize the distinction between what some people's goals are and whether or not they're actually getting what they want.
[00:06:50]  And a lot of these groups on the left are not getting what they want at all.
[00:06:54]  They're getting screwed over by this whole thing.
[00:06:57]  So anyway, this wasn't the story I was leading into before, but maybe I'll just bring this up first.
[00:07:04]  But I just thought it was so funny the day after I had Ben Burgess on the show, I see the CNN article that was, here, let me read the title of it.
[00:07:18]  But it was just perfect timing, literally the next day.
[00:07:21]  The CNN article says, concerns mount that U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan could risk progress on women's rights.
[00:07:31]  So there you go.
[00:07:32]  Is that the left winning?
[00:07:34]  Is that an anti-war leftist?
[00:07:38]  They didn't need a mask policy because they were already wearing burqas.
[00:07:42]  The women are actually fully safe in that country.
[00:07:45]  Yeah, there you go.
[00:07:46]  It's probably actually good for the spread of COVID, right?
[00:07:49]  But you see my point there where it's like, oh, okay, so in the same way that under, you know, George W. Bush, they might push the war in Afghanistan as, well, we need to take out Al-Qaeda's hideout and we need to fight the Taliban because they partnered up with al-Qaeda or whatever the justification that would make a George W. Bush voter satisfied with the war in Afghanistan.
[00:08:18]  Well, now they're just using a justification that will make a Democratic voter satisfied with that.
[00:08:23]  But it's the same corporate interests.
[00:08:25]  It's the same warfare state.
[00:08:28]  It's just now they're using a woke justification to keep their war going.
[00:08:32]  It's just new propaganda.
[00:08:34]  It's we need to liberate women in other countries.
[00:08:37]  Yeah, so right, exactly.
[00:08:39]  And so I'm just making the point that it's like, I think that far too many right-wingers almost take the woke shit at face value.
[00:08:50]  So they'll go like, oh my God, the left has so taken over our government that now we're trying to impose feminism across the world.
[00:08:58]  Or, you know, it was like there was that one thing in one of the COVID packages that had that money for like gender studies in Pakistan.
[00:09:08]  But then when you actually look into it, it was all just like CIA operations.
[00:09:12]  So my point is that it's not that you don't take it at face value.
[00:09:17]  It's the same old game.
[00:09:19]  This is just the latest excuse for the empire.
[00:09:22]  Oh, well, we're really there because of, you know, women's rights.
[00:09:26]  Which, by the way, the forces who are fighting against the Taliban do generally tend to be better on some issues of women's rights.
[00:09:35]  Like they're okay.
[00:09:36]  Like the Taliban doesn't let girls go to school and shit like that.
[00:09:40]  And they're real harsh on women.
[00:09:42]  But the forces countering the Taliban, you know, they have a real problem with raping little boys.
[00:09:49]  So it's not as if you can sit there and say like, oh, well, it's just about women's rights.
[00:09:53]  It's like, yeah, there's really no good guys in this fight.
[00:09:56]  And this is all just a bullshit excuse to keep troops there, which Biden is going to do.
[00:10:02]  He's not going to pull out of the war.
[00:10:03]  The truth is that the vast majority of the American people want us out of Afghanistan and we're not going to leave.
[00:10:11]  So here's their way of dealing with that.
[00:10:13]  Well, it's just because we're so woke.
[00:10:15]  Is not going to school really anti-like, what are you doing with your school education out there anyways?
[00:10:19]  They're just saving you the hassle of not getting a job.
[00:10:23]  You know, you can learn all of them.
[00:10:25]  I used to love a day off.
[00:10:26]  So really, the Taliban is giving these little girls just tons of days off.
[00:10:30]  Lots and lots of days off for these little girls.
[00:10:34]  But I'm sure if they want to remain in Afghanistan for this objective of women rights, they must have a pretty good plan for how the military is going to institute more women rights in Afghanistan.

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=== AOC and the Police Visit (15:35) ===

[00:13:14]  All right, let's get back into the show.
[00:13:16]  Okay, so let's to the other story that really did catch my eye.
[00:13:21]  And I do think this is all somewhat related.
[00:13:25]  But because it all kind of fits into this broader theme.
[00:13:31]  So, first of all, I'm instituting a new policy on this show.
[00:13:36]  No more criticizing AOC.
[00:13:39]  AOC is wonderful and she is great and she's doing the Lord's work.
[00:13:44]  And I do not want any police showing up at my door.
[00:13:47]  So keep up the good work, AOC.
[00:13:52]  All right.
[00:13:52]  Anyway.
[00:13:53]  She's a good dancer.
[00:13:54]  So, yeah, there you go.
[00:13:56]  Excellent.
[00:13:56]  Unbelievably talented.
[00:13:57]  Must have gone to school for it.
[00:13:59]  So AOC, I don't know if you heard about this story, but there was this podcaster in California who got the cops showed up to his door after he was critical of AOC.
[00:14:14]  Now, there's a lot of different threads to this story that make it terrifying and interesting.
[00:14:21]  But the one that I wanted to start with that kind of connects to all of the other stuff that we're saying here is that what this guy, this guy was not a libertarian or a right-winger or somebody who was like, AOC wants to spend $30 trillion or AOC wants to impose this green new deal on us or something like that.
[00:14:41]  That was not the line of critique that this guy was launching at her.
[00:14:47]  This was a left-winger who was upset that AOC did not speak out for Palestinian rights when she was asked a question about it recently.
[00:14:57]  I don't know if you saw the clip of her of what she said.
[00:15:01]  Did you see any of that?
[00:15:02]  It was just pure fluff and dumbness.
[00:15:07]  I mean, it was like, she got, it was an AOC type answer, but she got asked about the Israeli, the Israel-Palestinian conflict.
[00:15:18]  And you could understand where a lot of people who, you know, AOC was really built up as the champion of the left.
[00:15:25]  So a lot of people on the left would want her to take that opportunity to say something about the rights of Palestinians.
[00:15:32]  And instead, she just, she gave a real AOC, like just a complete nothing answer that makes it obvious to anybody.
[00:15:41]  Everybody should have the resources that they need for a good life everywhere.
[00:15:46]  I mean, I'm not, you're not far off.
[00:15:48]  Like, even though you didn't see the clip, the actual clip itself was something like, she goes, you know, I think too often we focus on the what and we don't focus on the how and the why.
[00:16:01]  And I think what's important is that everybody has the right to flourish and be happy.
[00:16:06]  And that's really what we need to.
[00:16:08]  But, you know, it was like to anyone with a brain listening to it, it was just like, oh, okay, you don't know anything.
[00:16:14]  You don't know anything about this situation.
[00:16:17]  That's what's going on here.
[00:16:19]  So, okay.
[00:16:21]  But if you're a lefty who was expecting AOC to be like your champion, you could understand being pretty disappointed with that.
[00:16:31]  I mean, AOC has, I mean, look, she's just one congresswoman, right?
[00:16:37]  But she has made herself, I mean, debatably the most famous person in Congress.
[00:16:44]  In terms of a platform, she has as big a platform as just about any political figure in America has today.
[00:16:54]  Like if AOC says something, it's going to be news.
[00:16:57]  And honestly, I think it's kind of, it's impressive.
[00:17:00]  It's impressive that she's gotten herself to that point.
[00:17:03]  Now, of course, she probably hasn't done it alone.
[00:17:05]  She's had help, but it's pretty goddamn remarkable.
[00:17:09]  I mean, the woman is younger than both of us.
[00:17:13]  She went from being a waitress to being a congresswoman and maybe the most famous congressperson in the country.
[00:17:19]  That's like unbelievable when you think about it.
[00:17:22]  But what she's had to deal with a lot over the last year is that there has been this group.
[00:17:29]  Now, don't get me wrong.
[00:17:30]  It's not as loud as the woke lefties.
[00:17:34]  It's not as loud as the anti-Trump lefties.
[00:17:37]  But there has been a group of left-leaning people, or not even left-leaning, like full, you know, very left people who have started to get pretty critical of her.
[00:17:49]  And I think that a lot of it, whether they're saying exactly the same things that I've been saying or not, a lot of it is that they're picking up on that scent.
[00:17:57]  That they're like, hey, but what here are we actually getting?
[00:18:01]  How are we winning?
[00:18:03]  Like what, you know, I know Jimmy Doer was super critical of her for not pushing Medicare for all and for not pushing for a higher minimum wage and all of these other policies.
[00:18:13]  And it's like, yeah, I could understand like if you're if you're on the left and you've got AOC there, you're like, well, what is the point of having her there if she's not fighting for these policies that we want to see?
[00:18:25]  Like that's kind of the whole thing.
[00:18:27]  And then you realize that she's basically just, you know, voting for all the corporate welfare and all this other stuff and falling in line.
[00:18:34]  And even she was out there.
[00:18:35]  I don't know.
[00:18:36]  Did you see when she was saying the thing about how like what Biden's doing at the border can't be compared to Trump?
[00:18:42]  It's like, oh, it's not nearly as bad as that.
[00:18:45]  I mean, you know, she's like, look, the whole immigration system has problems, but we can't compare what Biden's doing to children in facilities with Donald Trump's kids in cages.
[00:18:54]  It's nothing alike, you know, like, so she's carrying water for the Democrats.
[00:18:59]  Isn't the situation right now much worse for kids?
[00:19:02]  Yeah.
[00:19:03]  Oh, yeah.
[00:19:04]  Okay.
[00:19:04]  But yeah, that's, but not according to AOC.
[00:19:07]  So anyway, so this guy.
[00:19:11]  I was too busy fake crying down there to actually see what was going on.
[00:19:15]  Now, this guy was critical of her and the cops showed up to his door.
[00:19:21]  So just obviously, this is just one little example.
[00:19:24]  But just another thing, I mean, the CNN article about Afghanistan is not one little example.
[00:19:29]  That's a pretty major example.
[00:19:31]  Like we're keeping the longest war in American history going on woke, you know, justifications.
[00:19:38]  But here you have a real left-winger who is upset for a real, legitimate left-wing reason that your supposed progressive champion is not championing Palestinian rights.
[00:19:52]  Okay.
[00:19:53]  And for that, AOC has the government showing up at his door.
[00:19:59]  Now, AOC claims that they didn't, they had nothing to do with it, just full disclosure.
[00:20:05]  She said, you know, her people were like, we're looking into it or whatever.
[00:20:08]  But he was accused, or at least he claims by the cops of threatening AOC.
[00:20:14]  But the issue is that there's no evidence anywhere that he threatened her.
[00:20:18]  He just said, he just was criticizing her.
[00:20:21]  And that's in itself pretty creepy.
[00:20:25]  But there's more levels that are creepy to it.
[00:20:28]  Evidently, it was the Capitol police who sent the, I guess it was California, the cops in California.
[00:20:36]  So the Capitol Police had sent them to go harass this guy.
[00:20:41]  And what's even creepier than that is that he doesn't have any of his information posted on social media.
[00:20:49]  So there's this big looming question as to how they got his address.
[00:20:53]  And some people have speculated that Twitter was working with the authorities or something like that, that they gave him up.
[00:21:01]  So all of this shit comes down to be a very creepy, you know, situation.
[00:21:06]  But it's something that I think is worth, just for all of us, it's worth it.
[00:21:10]  Is this podcast audio only?
[00:21:12]  I don't know.
[00:21:13]  Because they got facial recognition software.
[00:21:15]  They might want to pretend like they're not using it, but to take us and put us up against our Facebook or Instagrams or Twitters or wherever we've been publicly and match the name is not that difficult.
[00:21:26]  And then you just got to go into your records and you don't drive because you're too old to do that.
[00:21:30]  But most people have licenses, so they can find your address pretty easy.
[00:21:33]  In my case, they're showing up at my parents' house, which is just fun.
[00:21:37]  Oh, yeah.
[00:21:38]  Screw them.
[00:21:40]  You're fine.
[00:21:41]  Go harass my parents all the way.
[00:21:43]  What were these?
[00:21:44]  Rob's Jewish parents.
[00:21:45]  Those cops will get more harassed than Rob's parents will.
[00:21:48]  Like, come on in.
[00:21:49]  Have a nush.
[00:21:50]  What were the exact orders?
[00:21:52]  I mean, you probably don't know this of the cops that showed up at that door because I would think if you're making the claim that there's a legitimate threat, I don't think you get to just visit the guy.
[00:22:00]  Don't you have to actually pull him in?
[00:22:02]  I don't know.
[00:22:04]  Honestly, I don't know those details about it, but what I know enough of, right, is that it's the Capitol police talking about a threat to AOC.
[00:22:14]  And the thing to notice here is that what they're doing, right, is connecting the January 6th thing to threats against a sitting member of Congress, blah, blah, blah.
[00:22:26]  But what's interesting is that here it is, and this is something, look, it's worthwhile just for us to all know this and recognize it.
[00:22:34]  And it's also worthwhile to at least try to explain this to some people on the left that look, here's how it's actually being used in practice.
[00:22:44]  It's not just like, oh, Trump supporters are demonized, so we're going to go after them.
[00:22:49]  The state doesn't, you know, the motivations aren't like, well, let me crush this one political group who's a threat to our power.
[00:23:04]  They're going to want to crush anybody who's a threat to their power.
[00:23:08]  So that's something for all those left-wing revolutionaries to keep in mind.
[00:23:14]  You will also be caught in the crosshairs of this stuff.
[00:23:18]  And I do have to say, just on a personal level, yeah, it's pretty damn creepy.
[00:23:23]  The idea that like, oh shit, like now they'll just be going after random podcasters who criticize politicians.
[00:23:29]  Our days are numbered, Rob.
[00:23:31]  This is uh, this is this is there's a this whole thing feels a little bit more dangerous than it used to.
[00:23:38]  You got to almost think how ballsy that is on the government side.
[00:23:41]  That if I haven't listened to the audio, but if the audio doesn't do anything that any reasonable person could say is a threat to AOC, because even if you were to say on a podcast, hey, I plan on doing blank violent actions to blank, like even that's words on a podcast, even that you'd have to show up in court and go, Hey, was this comedian being truthful?
[00:24:00]  Well, no, I mean, go look at Bill Hicks bits where he's describing doing violent things to people.
[00:24:05]  Like, that's not that that is not a call for violence.
[00:24:07]  But if you don't even have that, and then you're very far removed from a claim, it like it's almost a question of how do you present what your actions as not being harassment when you show up at someone's door and go, Hey, I'm here with the gun because I want to let you know I felt threatened by what you did there.
[00:24:24]  Yeah, and there's something, it's it's really, you know, the idea that this, um, a sitting congresswoman and the police are coming over here because they're concerned about your potential for violence or something like that is, is pretty, uh, I don't know, it's pretty hilarious.
[00:24:42]  It's just everything is so upside down in that equation.
[00:24:46]  Like, oh, you're the only ones here who are implicitly threatening violence are you guys.
[00:24:52]  Um, and and yeah, the whole thing is pretty creepy.
[00:24:57]  Um, anyway, it was, I've gotten a lot of really positive feedback from the podcast with uh with Ben Burgess, and I hope I hope people go out and buy his book.
[00:25:05]  I really enjoyed it.
[00:25:06]  Um, but uh, it's it's interesting to see how this all goes and how so much of it is like this whole apparatus is not only not serving the left, but in many cases being turned on the good parts of the left and um and certainly being turned on on the right as well.
[00:25:30]  And so it's uh it's a it's a creepy world that we're living in.
[00:25:33]  I mean, so many of the things that we're like just witnessing happening right now are if if it was over a year ago, you know, as we've said many times, this would just be the stuff of conspiracy theorists.
[00:25:45]  I mean, how you would be like, this is the most wild story ever.
[00:25:48]  This belongs on on this probably wouldn't even make it onto Alex Jones' show.
[00:25:54]  This is just too bizarre.
[00:25:56]  But it's all it's all happening.
[00:25:57]  Just wait till we go to war with Iran for gay rights.
[00:26:01]  Yeah, right.
[00:26:02]  We're not, we're not concerned about the nuclear bombs anymore, but we're really concerned about their gay population that has to be closeted.
[00:26:09]  Yeah, we have to drop bombs over microaggressions or something like that, right?
[00:26:13]  Yeah, it'll be, it'll be interesting to see.
[00:26:16]  So yeah, pretty pretty wild stuff.
[00:26:19]  I've also found it fun that, you know, I can have Ben Burgess on the show and have a really friendly conversation with him and really basically agree.
[00:26:33]  I mean, pretty much the whole time.
[00:26:35]  Like we battled it out before, but on this one, like we're pretty much on the same page for almost the whole thing.
[00:26:42]  Obviously, we have differences of opinion, but I don't get any heat for it.
[00:26:47]  There's nobody, no, no libertarians have criticized me for having a Democratic socialist on and being too chummy with him or whatever.
[00:26:55]  It's only the ones on the right who you have a problem with.
[00:26:59]  It's real interesting some of the hierarchy of values that many libertarians have, where they'll flip at, if you have someone on who they label as racist, that's a huge problem.
[00:27:12]  But if you have a Democratic socialist on, you're like, oh, yeah, no issue there.
[00:27:17]  No one's concerned that you're too friendly with him or that you're promoting the, you know, people who listened to Ben Burgess join the Libertarian Party or something like that.
[00:27:28]  It's just, nope, get none of it.
[00:27:30]  It only seems to go in one direction.
[00:27:33]  And that's pretty revealing.
[00:27:35]  Those people are really telling on themselves.
[00:27:38]  And they have their own justifications that it was like, well, at least he's not a racist.
[00:27:45]  How by any libertarian logic is being a democratic socialist not worse than being racist?
[00:27:53]  I mean, I'm sure you could think both of them are bad, but one involves the government, one involves violating the non-aggression principle, and the other one doesn't necessarily.
[00:28:04]  Anyway, it is, there's something really funny about like when you have the of the different schools on the left, it's really much more enjoyable to have a conversation with the kind of economic leftists, even like a commie.
[00:28:23]  If they're really concerned with economic issues, you can just at least, you can at least have a conversation with them.
[00:28:29]  Whereas the woke critical race theory types, it's just like impossible.
[00:28:34]  And I don't know, you know, I've seen some libertarians ask the question, like, who's truly more dangerous?
[00:28:41]  You know, like a critical race theory woke ster or a commie.
[00:28:47]  And it's debatable.

=== Critical Race Theory vs Class Struggle (06:29) ===

[00:28:50]  I mean, you know, it's really just a matter of how much power they have.
[00:28:55]  Right now, the woke guys have a lot more power because they're a lot more useful to the corporate power.
[00:29:03]  That's why commies are a little bit more of a threat to corporate power because they don't really think it should exist and they'd like to see it, you know, like to see that shit taken down.
[00:29:14]  Whereas the, you know, the kind of woke left is perfectly happy as long as you kind of spout the talking points.
[00:29:21]  And so that's, that, that's much easier to play ball with.
[00:29:26]  And that's kind of how it happens all the time.
[00:29:29]  Like there's a reason why like guys like Keynes or Rawls or some of these guys who are completely just completely backed by the establishment and everyone, you know, like everyone throughout the entire, you know, ruling elite cathedral will hold them up as these brilliant thinkers.
[00:29:50]  A lot of that is just because they justify them having more power.
[00:29:56]  They love that there's nothing that the establishment loves more than an intellectual who justifies their power.
[00:30:03]  They're like, oh, yeah, see?
[00:30:06]  It's not that, you know, we're robbing from the American people to just give all of this, you know, money to our corporate donors.
[00:30:14]  No, no, we just believe in Keynesian economics, right?
[00:30:18]  So it's, oh, no, it's just, look, we have this intellectual guy here who justified it.
[00:30:22]  Now, don't think for a second that there's any politicians out there who like sat down and read Mises, Hayek, and Keynes and just decided that Keynes made superior arguments.
[00:30:33]  They're Keynesians because Keynes gives them a justification to have more power.
[00:30:39]  And that's how it happens with all of these things.
[00:30:40]  And that's why they prefer the woke shit over the economic populist stuff.
[00:30:48]  But don't get it twisted.
[00:30:49]  I mean, I like Ben Burgess a lot.
[00:30:51]  He's a good dude.
[00:30:52]  And I enjoyed his book and I enjoyed the conversation.
[00:30:55]  But like, yeah, if a democratic socialist or a communist or something like that ever got control of our agriculture department, we might all starve to death.
[00:31:04]  So that's pretty bad.
[00:31:06]  You know, like it's, that's a threat.
[00:31:09]  Or at least they're starting to realize that Louis should be allowed to jerk off in front of people.
[00:31:13]  So they are getting better on Louis' right to jerk off.
[00:31:17]  There's no question about that.
[00:31:18]  You have to give them credit.
[00:31:20]  But look, right?
[00:31:21]  So if a commie gets control of your agricultural department, you're in a lot of trouble and like really, really serious trouble.
[00:31:28]  Like you will starve to death.
[00:31:30]  Okay.
[00:31:31]  And likewise, if a critical race theorist gets control of your justice department, you might be locked up for hate speech.
[00:31:42]  They're all real threats.
[00:31:44]  The only question really is how much power they have.
[00:31:48]  However, aside from that, in terms of just having a conversation, it is much more enjoyable to talk to a commie than a critical race theory woke dude.
[00:32:01]  Just much more enjoyable.
[00:32:03]  You can talk to them at least.
[00:32:05]  You can at least have a conversation.
[00:32:07]  Like the critical race theorist will just tell you conversations are racist.
[00:32:11]  You know, it's like they don't even feel the need to have arguments.
[00:32:14]  The Marxists at least have arguments, even if some of them suck.
[00:32:20]  Sorry, you were saying?
[00:32:21]  No, no, no, I was going to, I was about to say what you said, which is that the critical race theory don't actually have, they're not even interested in having an argument or having a conversation because it's already baked in that, like, I don't know, there's a propaganda element to what they're doing where they just want to push their agenda and they're shelving logic and reason under the basis that logic and reason only propagate the power of white people.
[00:32:47]  And they don't actually, I don't actually think they believe that to be true.
[00:32:50]  I just think that they see that they have an agenda for how they can forward their movement, which is let's not engage in discussions about logic or reasoning because that's how we're going to get power.
[00:33:01]  But like you said, or it doesn't really work because what happens when the other side does that back to you?
[00:33:07]  Well, it's one of the things that's really infuriating about postmodernism, critical theory, wokeism, all this shit, is that they just, like at least the Marxists will try to justify their contradictions, whereas the postmodernist woke critical race theorist type, they're just, they just have no problem with their performative contradictions.
[00:33:32]  They're just like...
[00:33:33]  Contradictions are only are a construct of white men.
[00:33:36]  Well, they will straight up say that there is no such thing as objective truth, which is in itself a contradiction.
[00:33:44]  Like it's a truth claim.
[00:33:46]  It's a claim that this is what's true.
[00:33:49]  There's no such thing as truth.
[00:33:51]  So if there's no such thing as truth, then you can't make the claim there's no such thing as truth because that's claiming that that's the truth, right?
[00:33:58]  And so they just don't care about any of this stuff.
[00:34:01]  So it's impossible to even engage with a lot of them in these type of conversations because, right, they just reject the idea that convert, you know, they reject the idea that conversation can even be anything or that arguments can be anything, yet they'll still make their own arguments.
[00:34:20]  They'll make, so, so in practice, it turns into, I'm allowed to make whatever arguments I want.
[00:34:26]  You can't counter any of my arguments because that's just racism.
[00:34:29]  And so it's, it's this really disgusting naked power play that makes it unfortunately makes it almost impossible, particularly when people are really deep into it, makes it almost impossible to engage with them.
[00:34:43]  Whereas Marxists have like a claim that relies on there being truth.
[00:34:52]  You know, they make lots of claims that rely on the idea that, yeah, there is objective reality and we are living in and there is objective truth.
[00:35:00]  And they're making these claims.
[00:35:01]  So you can at least argue with them that everything comes down to class struggle or whatever, you know, like all these different things.
[00:35:08]  Like you can argue that.
[00:35:10]  Whereas it's like impossible with the other guys.
[00:35:12]  So, you know, I don't really want any of them having power, but I know who I'd much rather do a podcast with.
[00:35:18]  So there's that.

=== Vaccine Propaganda Tactics (15:20) ===

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[00:36:30]  So switching gears a little bit, let's check in with our favorite little piggy who as we love to make fun of media propaganda.
[00:36:43]  This was something that I saw the other day.
[00:36:46]  This clip was going viral.
[00:36:47]  It was really something, really just fucking hilarious and worth sharing with you guys.
[00:36:53]  So let's check in with our favorite little piggy over at CNN, Brian Stelter.
[00:36:58]  It's really important to see all these TV anchors, personalities showing themselves getting the shot.
[00:37:03]  We've seen a lot of vaccine selfies from lots of folks at lots of different networks.
[00:37:09]  It's been really inspiring to see.
[00:37:10]  You know, the Today Show, even brought the co-host outside for a live group vaccination this week.
[00:37:17]  And Rachel Maddow on Friday on MSNBC talked about how she was really fearful of the needle, really worried about it, and yet it was important to get the shot.
[00:37:25]  And she did.
[00:37:26]  And there she is talking about it on air.
[00:37:28]  So, Brian, can you pause for one sec?
[00:37:31]  Where are Tucker and Sean Hannity?
[00:37:34]  Just bring it back a little bit.
[00:37:35]  And when we play again, go ahead, Rob.
[00:37:37]  He's basically just describing, hey, as the cable news network, we're in the business of propaganda.
[00:37:43]  And one of the projects right now is working for the pharmaceutical companies.
[00:37:47]  Dude, it's so funny.
[00:37:49]  And listen, I know that there are some people who give me shit sometimes because I just like harp on just the propaganda of the mainstream media or the corporate press.
[00:37:58]  But listen, man, this is why I think it's worth doing.
[00:38:01]  Number one, it's entertaining as shit to just fucking watch how it all works.
[00:38:05]  And I am first and foremost an entertainer.
[00:38:07]  But second of all, it's like you need, this is my counter propaganda that you need to be inundated with how full of shit these people are.
[00:38:17]  Dude, Brian Stelter is the guy who's in charge.
[00:38:22]  Like his role there is being the media watchdog.
[00:38:26]  That's his role is that he's supposed to critique the rest of them.
[00:38:30]  Like their job is to hold the politicians' feet to the fire and his job is to hold their feet to the fire.
[00:38:35]  And he just opens up with how great they are because they're doing this propaganda campaign for a government shot in your arm.
[00:38:43]  Or not a government shot in your arm, but for big, big pharma shot in your arm that, you know, all the government, basically.
[00:38:51]  No.
[00:38:51]  By the way, one of the funniest things of the first part that we saw is that he shows his own face on there because he goes, look at all these wonderful people in the media getting the shot.
[00:39:01]  And then it's just him up there.
[00:39:02]  He's like, yeah, that guy's fantastic.
[00:39:04]  I mean, like, holy shit.
[00:39:06]  Are these guys, the egos on these guys are just unbelievable.
[00:39:10]  Reporting on this might be, hey, why is it that a lot of the country is still reluctant to get it?
[00:39:16]  That would be a good journalist question.
[00:39:18]  What is it that's making people uncomfortable?
[00:39:21]  And then you could do some investigations into.
[00:39:23]  Yeah, man.
[00:39:24]  And this is what we were saying, which is funny because it's not even good propaganda, which is one of the funny and really creepy things about a lot of stuff over the last year is that it's like, oh, you guys aren't even really trying to propagandize everyone.
[00:39:41]  You're trying to propagandize the ones who you think you can reach against the rest of us.
[00:39:46]  Because, you know, like we said after the election, like, well, if you have tens of millions of people who don't believe the election was legitimate and you think that's objectively false and it was legitimate, what you'd want to do is say, well, hey, what are the reasons that you feel that way?
[00:40:04]  And let me try to demonstrate why your concerns are not founded, you know?
[00:40:10]  And here, don't worry, I can alleviate some of these concerns by demonstrating this to you.
[00:40:16]  Same with this vaccine.
[00:40:17]  I mean, if there's all these people who are hesitant, you'd want to, you know, kind of deal with that, deal with their concerns.
[00:40:23]  Well, why is it that they're so concerned?
[00:40:25]  What are the reasons why they shouldn't be so concerned?
[00:40:27]  Like, let's get into all of that.
[00:40:29]  That would be like an adult doing adult things.
[00:40:34]  This is quite different.
[00:40:36]  And it's really something, like I said, the unbelievable narcissism, you know, just to talk about how great you and your field is with your own face up there.
[00:40:48]  Also, by the way, the underlying assumption of this whole thing being that people just love the media so much that if they just see Brian Stelter and Rachel Maddow getting the shot, then they'll all be completely comfortable.
[00:41:02]  Like, oh, well, these great truth tellers are doing it.
[00:41:05]  So we should all go and get this shot as well.
[00:41:08]  And the other thing that's just really, it's unbelievable, like, that these, look, these are private companies.
[00:41:21]  You know, they're very in bed with government, but these are private companies.
[00:41:25]  These are big pharmaceutical companies who are raking in ungodly amounts of money off of these vaccines.
[00:41:33]  And here you have, like, on CNN just blatantly, with no even illusion of neutrality, just sitting here telling you our job is to do propaganda on behalf of these big pharmaceutical companies' products.
[00:41:51]  We are here to push these products.
[00:41:54]  But then it gets even nuttier, which is where we cut it off.
[00:41:58]  It's not just celebrating how great it is that we're all publicly on video taking the vaccines.
[00:42:06]  Here's the second part.
[00:42:09]  Where are Tucker and Sean Hannity and Laura Ingram?
[00:42:12]  Where is Ainsley Earhart and Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmead?
[00:42:15]  Where are the biggest stars on Fox getting vaccinated?
[00:42:18]  I get it's a personal choice.
[00:42:20]  I get that's between, you know, the hosts and their healthcare provider.
[00:42:24]  But everybody else is doing it, right, Matt?
[00:42:26]  I mean, all across television, all these anchors are rolling up their sleeves.
[00:42:30]  Why do you think we haven't seen the biggest stars on Fox News get vaccinated or show us their vaccine selfies?
[00:42:39]  So there you go.
[00:42:40]  It's not just, so he is being a media watchdog, right?
[00:42:45]  Except he's like, how come you guys aren't joining in on the propaganda?
[00:42:49]  I mean, what the hell?
[00:42:51]  With the little caveat, I mean, sure, it's personal medical information and it's your decision whether or not you want to do it, but still do it and do it on camera in front of everybody.
[00:43:03]  Why have we not seen the biggest stars at Fox News publicly vaccinate themselves in front of everybody?
[00:43:12]  I mean, what a like, I don't even know what to say.
[00:43:16]  Creepy, naked propaganda.
[00:43:19]  Could there be anything that was more creepy and more naked propaganda than what we just saw?
[00:43:25]  Not like, how come you're not talking about the vaccine or reporting on the vaccine?
[00:43:29]  Why are you not engaged in this performative ritual with the rest of us?
[00:43:35]  Everybody's doing it.
[00:43:38]  That was Brian Stelter's logic.
[00:43:40]  Yes, the logic of the popular eighth-grade girl.
[00:43:44]  Everybody's doing it.
[00:43:45]  Why aren't you?
[00:43:46]  Fox is holding out for better checks.
[00:43:50]  They haven't gotten their performance bonuses, so they're not going to do the extra mile of even taking pictures in their personal life.
[00:43:58]  They keep the propaganda on air.
[00:44:00]  Like, unbelievable.
[00:44:01]  What a weird thing.
[00:44:02]  If you think about it, to like be demanding that other people let you in on their private medical decisions and use that in order to push it on everyone else.
[00:44:15]  I mean, it's very strange.
[00:44:16]  Like, you know, there's tons of problems with Fox News, but man, I got to say, this is one of the things that I go like, oh, okay.
[00:44:25]  And of course, what they're getting criticized for is one of the few nice things about the network.
[00:44:31]  Like, yeah, they don't have their anchors out there shooting themselves in the arm for this.
[00:44:36]  Again, just like this is supposed to be all hands on board in terms of convincing the American people that they should be getting vaccinated so that we can move on from this virus.
[00:44:46]  Now let's take a, you got to take a step back and go, yeah, but that's the propaganda is that we needed to take all these drastic darkonian measures in order to fight this virus, or that without a lot of research or information, we're just supposed to take for granted that these shots are a good idea.
[00:45:05]  All of that is the, but it's like to them, it's such a given because they're being paid to go quick.
[00:45:12]  Our marching orders have been given by the government and big pharma.
[00:45:17]  And so this is what we're doing.
[00:45:19]  Why are you not on board with this?
[00:45:21]  But to anyone who would consider themselves a journalist, you would have to say like, well, look, I mean, this is the biggest mass vaccination program in our, in human history with incredibly short trial periods with a very new form of vaccine that has not been used on this scale before.
[00:45:43]  Do some goddamn reporting.
[00:45:45]  Don't line up for this fucking this ritual of theater to just show that we are all taking it, no questions asked because fucking Moderna tells us to.
[00:45:58]  Like, what the fuck is this?
[00:46:01]  That's just incredibly bizarre, incredibly bizarre thing to witness.
[00:46:07]  And, you know, at least one of the nice things is that Brian Stelter is appropriately being roasted online for all of this.
[00:46:16]  People are just tearing him up, which I must say, that part of it is pretty great.
[00:46:20]  Pretty great to watch these guys, these guys flip out.
[00:46:27]  Okay.
[00:46:29]  What else?
[00:46:29]  There were a couple other things that we wanted to talk about.
[00:46:32]  What else did you have for us, Rob?
[00:46:37]  I mean, there were a couple of the Biden stories, if you wanted to get into that.
[00:46:41]  Sure.
[00:46:42]  Yeah, we could get into some of the Biden stuff.
[00:46:45]  Biden's been talking a lot about gun control because, of course, he wants to unite the country.
[00:46:53]  So what is the issue that you would go after that just unites everybody?
[00:46:58]  Oh, we want to crack down on guns.
[00:47:01]  And of course, you would have to think, right?
[00:47:06]  Again, this is like if you were, even if they were just a little bit smarter about all of this shit, you would think they would go, well, you know, while we're all out there, you know, I mean, you think about like the conspiracy, the conspiratorial argument against gun control, which, by the way, I am unapologetically and always have been in favor of.
[00:47:31]  Like I, as I've always said, I believe a healthy amount of conspiratorial concern is a good thing.
[00:47:40]  You don't want to have too much of it, but you don't want to have none of it either.
[00:47:44]  And, you know, the idea of like, hey, you don't want to let a government disarm their people because if that government goes really bad, then you don't have an armed populace to resist them.
[00:47:58]  I am completely in support of that line of thinking.
[00:48:04]  But if ever there were a time where people would be convinced that, holy shit, I mean, the government is literally locking everyone in their homes for most of a year, at least in lots of parts of the country, and they're making everyone get these pricks in their arms with some government vaccine and yada, yada, yada, the other hundred things that have happened over the last year.
[00:48:26]  And now they're trying to take away the guns.
[00:48:29]  Man, if there was ever a time where you were going to meet, you know, huge resistance and divide the country for a guy who ran as his number one mission is to unite the country, just seems like the issue you wouldn't pick.
[00:48:43]  Yeah, it's also not great timing as he's trying to like pass some giant stimulus plans.
[00:48:49]  It just, it seems like he's really testing the waters on how much power he can grab.
[00:48:54]  He's got a commission that he's running to see if they can add justices to the Supreme Court or limit terms.
[00:49:00]  He's planning the infrastructure bill, which everything is infrastructure.
[00:49:05]  I'm sure you've seen all the analysis about that, but literally every, but on top of the infrastructure plan, he's got another giant plan for like health and education.
[00:49:15]  He's going for, he's looking to bash all spending records.
[00:49:18]  So on top of massive spending, trying to taking a look at the filibuster laws, passing more executive orders on one of the most charged topics, which is gun control.
[00:49:30]  He's also looking, I mean, who knows what of these he's going to win, but I'm telling you, he's really dipping his toe in water of like how much, you know, how much power can the president grab?
[00:49:41]  And by the way, it's not even him because he's half dead.
[00:49:43]  So it's whoever's, you know, puppin' mastering Joe Biden.
[00:49:48]  They're really testing the waters on what they can get away with.
[00:49:51]  Yeah.
[00:49:52]  And, you know, there's, I got to say, it's not just that with the gun issue, there's a couple different factors involved here.
[00:50:03]  But obviously to me, the biggest one is the fact that the governors all over this country have just shredded the Bill of Rights over the last year.
[00:50:13]  And to not be concerned about that at all and to think that that going hand in hand with disarming the population.
[00:50:21]  And I don't care, even if you're just talking about taking away their AR-15s or whatever, I don't care.
[00:50:26]  I mean, that's taking away a tool of meaningful resistance, you know?
[00:50:31]  So that's always first and foremost, like, man, this is, if ever there was a time when you wanted to make sure that the society was as well armed as possible, this would be the time.

=== Property Defense and Prosecution Risks (04:02) ===

[00:50:40]  But in addition to that, you know, there were also these huge riots over last summer.
[00:50:47]  And I don't know if you saw or you were keeping up with this, but there were just more riots that broke out in Minnesota because there was another shooting, another shooting of cops shooting some black guy.
[00:51:00]  I don't know the details of the shooting.
[00:51:03]  And I try not to comment on these things until a lot of details are out and we actually know what happened.
[00:51:08]  Because I think, frankly, a lot of people make asses out of themselves when they pick a narrative before we know what happened.
[00:51:15]  But, you know, we've seen all over the country where there's been these huge riots and the cops will back off and not do anything to protect people.
[00:51:26]  And they're probably your problem.
[00:51:28]  Right.
[00:51:29]  And so at the same time, now the government is going to be going in there and, you know, making it harder for people to get guns or limit what type of guns they can get.
[00:51:41]  This is this is a recipe for a real bad situation.
[00:51:44]  It is what I don't even know.
[00:51:46]  I can't remember who came up with the term, but it really is the anarcho-tyranny model where there are all of these rules for some groups of people and then absolute lawlessness for others.
[00:52:00]  And so, you know, and then it's also very easy to propagandize so much of this stuff.
[00:52:05]  So like in areas like I know in parts of California, I can't remember, was this was San Diego or San Francisco, but where they'd they'd have all of these type of like decriminalization of different things.
[00:52:19]  And some of it me and you would probably support.
[00:52:22]  Like the cops just aren't going to be as harsh on all of these petty crimes.
[00:52:27]  But then they'd also have crimes like if you shoplift something under $500, you're not going to be prosecuted for it.
[00:52:34]  Now, theoretically, you could still be arrested for it, but in practice, what ends up happening?
[00:52:40]  Are they really going to be making these arrests when they're just letting the guys go anyway?
[00:52:45]  However, like if you're a store owner and you have a gun and you use it to defend your property when someone comes in to shoplift from you and they deem that it wasn't in legitimate self-defense, you are going to be prosecuted.
[00:53:00]  So it's not, it's like, it's this perversion almost of the like kind of anarchist model of like, oh, well, we don't need to have the state regulating every single one of these things.
[00:53:11]  And instead, it's like, oh, no.
[00:53:13]  And this is what we saw all last year, right?
[00:53:16]  That these rioters will, for the most part, be completely allowed to do what they want to do.
[00:53:23]  But if you are a property owner and you come out with a gun to defend your property, ooh, you better, you know, you better cross your T's and dot your I's because if you do one little thing wrong, you are going to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
[00:53:40]  And that, the mix of that is just a recipe for a nightmare, just a disastrous society where things are going to get violent and really out of control.
[00:53:52]  I think since the left seems to feel that, you know, cops are racist, it's probably really important that, you know, everyone else has guns because why would we want the only people in society with guns to be these racists?
[00:54:04]  That's not a good plan.
[00:54:06]  Yeah.
[00:54:07]  Yeah, really.
[00:54:08]  Really?
[00:54:09]  I mean, it's like, but, you know, it's funny because this is the problem is that this is when your issue isn't police violence, when the issue isn't statism, but it's racism instead, you end up being able to, you know, to funnel these, the outrage into lots of unhelpful areas.
[00:54:30]  So yeah, it's, it's like, there seems to be no outrage, you know, like when there was that couple who came out on their property with their guns drawn.
[00:54:41]  What ended up happening to them?

=== The Recipe for Disaster (01:17) ===

[00:54:43]  I don't know.
[00:54:44]  I think, I mean, last I heard they were being prosecuted, but I, you know, I don't know.
[00:54:48]  But nobody, none of the anti-police crowd seemed concerned that like they were arrested by cops the next day or two days later.
[00:54:57]  No one seemed concerned about that, right?
[00:54:59]  Like, that's not an issue because they're like the rich guys with, and they're white, and they're, it's like, they don't fall, they don't fit the narrative.
[00:55:06]  But literally, all they did was walk out onto their property with guns, you know, like when an angry mob was storming their like little private gated community.
[00:55:17]  Um, so anyway, I mean, if nothing else, I would hope that people would see this as a real, it's a recipe for disaster.
[00:55:24]  This is going to be very bad.
[00:55:26]  It's not going to work out well.
[00:55:28]  So, you know, something to uh something to keep in mind.
[00:55:32]  Um, all right, is that it?
[00:55:38]  All right, I think we'll wrap there, brother.
[00:55:40]  That was uh, it was a good one.
[00:55:42]  I appreciate you.
[00:55:44]  Come see us at Porkfest.
[00:55:45]  Come see me in Pittsburgh.
[00:55:47]  Come see me at Freedom Fest.
[00:55:48]  Rob, you're going to do Childeberg still?
[00:55:50]  Hell yeah, Texas.
[00:55:52]  There you go, my brother.
[00:55:53]  And yeah, check out Rob's podcast, Run Your Mouth.
[00:55:56]  Follow him on Twitter at RobbieTheFire.
[00:55:58]  Thanks for listening.
[00:55:59]  See you soon.
[00:56:00]  Peace.