Dave Smith and Robbie the Fire Bernstein condemn government overreach, citing mass surveillance and illegal military strikes in Syria and Iraq that violate the Constitution. They dismiss Delta variant severity claims as propaganda while criticizing Fauci and Biden for manufacturing fear to push vaccines. The hosts argue CRT teaches damaging race essentialism to children, rejecting incrementalism for revolution against systemic racism. Ultimately, they assert endless wars and social engineering stem from an overgrown state serving the military-industrial complex rather than protecting citizens. [Automatically generated summary]
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Pork Fest Fun and Roughing It00:03:02
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What's up, everybody?
Welcome to a brand new episode of Part of the Problem.
I am Dave Smith.
He is Robbie the Fire Bernstein, looking a little bit more pixelated and creepier than usual, but we've been dealing with some...
We're testing new angels.
It's the creep cram where I look into your soul.
I like it.
That's a good spin.
That's a good spin on it.
We've had some tech issues today, but we wanted to make sure we got you guys in episode.
So we're dealing with what life throws at us.
I think some of our fans are secret status, and I'm just going to stare at them and burn it out of them.
Ooh, you want to support the government?
Well, you got to deal with Robbie the Creep.
We are, of course, back from New Hampshire, where we were at Pork Fest last week and really had a great time.
Thank you very much to everybody who came out.
Pork Fest was a lot of fun, huh?
Dude, that's the biggest.
I don't think I've ever played to a crowd that big for stand-up.
That was a big show.
That was awesome.
Yeah, we must have had in the neighborhood five, six hundred people out for the estimate 700.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
It was packed, man.
Like everyone who was there.
Last time we went to Porkfest, which was two years ago, and I remember thinking, like, man, this was really good.
This was a really good time, but this like blew it away.
Like, it was, that place was packed, man.
There was, uh, there was, I don't know if there was any ground open to camp on, but I mean, we didn't camp.
We stayed in the, in the hotel, which was like camping.
That's pretty close.
It was camping.
I think it was more roughing it than camping would have been.
I was pulling ticks off myself in the middle of the night.
That's camping, dude.
I was more concerned about wild animals in the hotel than I was outside.
It was an interesting dynamic, but a lot of fun.
Thanks to everybody who puts that together, and thanks to all the people who came out.
Okay.
And if you want to do something more low-key, summer porch tour, July 3rd, we're going to be in Philly.
July 4th, we're going to be in Maryland and come out July 17th, Boston.
There you go.
If you're looking for Pork Fest without all the pomp and frills, you come right out to the Summer Porch tour.
And of course, Freedom Fest tickets are still available to Freedom Fest.
I'm hosting the whole thing.
So that should be good.
A lot of fun stuff coming up.
But I do want to talk about a few things that are going on in the world that seem rather important.
The one that I'll open with, and it's basically, I guess, today's show, the primary focus will be on the two things that I think are the most important issues because there's new developments in both.
The Deadlier Delta 8 Variant00:15:21
And I've for years always maintained that the most important issue is war and the question of war and peace, which I think is probably always been the most important issue for human beings going back to the dawn of civilization.
Like any other issues that you may have, the worst thing that can happen is a war breaks out.
You know, it's just kind of this thing.
Like we have a word for it, but it's just when different groups of human beings go on killing sprees on a massive level.
So that one's really, really bad, particularly for anyone who's into like non-aggression or civilization or peace, prosperity, anything like that.
War is really, really bad.
And I never thought there would be anything that could even challenge war for being my number one issue.
But I got to say, the COVID regime has come really, really close.
I would still probably put war and peace as the number one issue.
But man, you know, when the government just goes full totalitarian and locks people in their homes and takes away every ounce of basic liberty from their people, oof, that one is pretty damn close.
And it certainly is much more the truth, the sad truth of it, not saying this is right, but just the reality is that the COVID regime affected the average American a lot more than the wars do.
And of course, that's not true for the people who are affected by the wars, but in general, most of them.
Just wait till we actually pay for them.
Well, that's a good point.
That's a good point.
No, it certainly affects us in other ways and has economic effects on us, but so does the COVID restrictions.
And also, plus, you know, it like destroys children's development and ruins people's livelihoods and families and all this stuff.
So anyway, let's start with the COVID stuff.
The drums are beating again.
And it's all over this Delta variant that's getting a lot of discussion out there.
The Delta 8 THC variant of COVID is on our show.
I'll just get you high.
You don't have to be concerned about that.
That's a good variant.
It turns out that's all it does.
That's all it does.
But we're freaking out anyway.
So the Delta 8 variant is here.
It's in America.
The Delta variant is here in America.
And they are really trying to beat the drums about this.
And I just want to get out ahead of this and be on record.
Like, we are already against the next lockdowns.
We're already against the next restrictions.
We're already against the mandatory vaccines or vaccine passports or whatever they're going to attempt to use this.
And it felt like this feels like a dangerous moment to me because it did feel like they lost control of the COVID narrative a bit and that they had to almost like give into the like, okay, we're not going to really push forward with the passports.
We're not going to be able to stop states from opening up.
They're real into herd immunity now.
Yeah, right.
Real into it.
All of a sudden, that's not a dirty word.
But this seems to be their next play now, a scary new variant.
And I'm just going to get out ahead of it.
It's all bullshit.
It's all bullshit.
And of course, the people who are all telling you this have all been proven liars.
And thank God, I think people are skeptical, more skeptical this time around.
And so that's what we have going for us.
That's what's on our side.
So what do you make of what happened in India?
Well, let me just start building this piece by piece because I think that, and to be clear, that's what this is, right?
This is the Indian variant.
Okay.
But there's lots of factors that are different in India compared to, say, first world countries.
And there's lots of different dynamics of why people were dying in India.
But I just want to start here because let's just get Fauci's perspective on this whole thing.
Before we play the video, I just want to read.
So Biden tweeted, when was this?
He tweeted yesterday.
Here's the deal.
You always know Joe Biden's going to give it to you straight when he starts with, here's the deal.
The Delta variant is more contagious.
It's deadlier, and it's spreading quickly around the world, leaving young, unvaccinated people more vulnerable than ever.
Please get vaccinated if you haven't already.
Let's head off this strand before it's too late.
Doesn't it just sound like a preview for Godzilla 2?
He's coming back bigger.
More firepower.
Look, I'll tell you what for anyone who knows just like the very basics about viruses, which I'd assume a lot of us have kind of figured out over the last 18 months or so because it's been kind of the thing that's going to happen.
Fauci makes them up.
Fauci creates them.
He funds the people who make them.
So the idea of saying that a variant is more contagious and deadlier should already set off a little bell in your head.
That's almost never the way viruses evolve.
It's almost always one or the other.
It's almost always that they're more contagious or they're deadlier.
It's incredibly rare that viruses mutate to be both more contagious and deadlier.
Usually the viruses that evolve to be more contagious, it's because they don't kill the host.
And the ones that evolve to be more deadly are less contagious because they do kill the hosts.
So it's very, very rare that you're going to see a variant develop that is both deadlier and more contagious.
And actually, when you start to look into the evidence, there's very little evidence that either of these claims are true.
So in the UK, the Delta variant has become the dominant form of COVID.
And basically what's happened, I don't have the charts in front of me to pull up, but you can go look them up.
There's all government charts that put this stuff out.
At this point, I think it's over 90% of the COVID cases in the UK are the Delta variant.
And it's been creeping up for the last basically like the last month and a half.
That like the cases when it came in, it was about 5% of the cases were Delta variant, and it's gone all the way up to 95%.
And over this time, as it's been getting more and more dominant in the form of the, right, so that was a chart of the Delta variant, right?
So it's come in, right?
So if you pull that back up real quick, right?
So the Delta variant is in the orange, as you can see, basically going from May all the way to June 13th here.
So about 10 days, 13 days behind where we are.
It's been going up and up.
Now, during this time where the Delta variant has been taking off, hospitalization rates have been going down.
Okay.
They've been going down.
Now, there was a slight uptick recently, and this is what they're using to go, oh, look, there's an uptick in the hospital rates.
But the Delta variant has been taking over for months now as hospitalization rates have been going down.
So there is absolutely no concrete evidence.
In fact, this seems like almost a proof that it is not a more serious virus in the real world.
Why they allow any travel from India?
I don't get it.
If I had to shut down, I'm not like a world traveler.
It does nothing for me.
If government's going to step in and tell people that they can and can't do things, including operate their business, why the hell were there flights between India and here for this whatever duration of time they were saying, hey, there might be a worse version of this thing and it's over there.
Like, why was that allowed to come here?
I don't get it.
I think there's a fair point there.
Like, even if you are a pure, you know, complete libertarian against any type of travel restrictions, you go, okay, but if you're so like willy-nilly to say someone can't go to church, why is it that we can't be, you know, anyway, that's a fair question.
I don't have an answer for it.
But I do just want to say that what they're doing with this little recent uptick in hospitalizations in the UK is just like, it's what they've been doing this whole time.
It's complete BS propaganda.
They're just using this.
The data actually proves the opposite of what they're claiming, which is that there is no indication that this new variant leads to real world problems, more hospitalizations, more deaths, anything like that.
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Anyway, now you're also getting all of these mixed messages, like always, with this stuff, which is so funny that the World Health Organization came out and said even vaccinated people should wear their masks again because of this variant.
But then they're also using this.
Biden and Fauci are also using this as proof that you need to get the vaccination.
While the World Health Organization is telling you that the vaccine may not be good enough to combat this variant.
So it's all very, very bizarre.
But I wanted to play this video of Fauci and listen to him talk about this and just pay attention to just the now that this guy's been exposed is such a fraud and a liar.
Just listen to it and hear how he's trying to lie to the American people one more time.
Greetings, everyone.
My name is Dr. Tony Fauci and I'm the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health.
And I'm here to talk to you guys.
Pause it real quick.
Well, I've heard of that organization before.
You guys do a lot of funding, right?
You guys do a lot of medical research funding, right?
Fund anything cool?
Fund anything cool lately?
Sorry, just making conversation.
I like how he still needs to state his title.
Like, yeah, we've seen a lot of you in the news.
Just tell us your fucking point, dude.
About the realtor variant that causes COVID-19.
Well, the Delta variant, compared to, for example, the original virus that had been circulating very early on last year, the comparison is that it is transmitted much more efficiently, which means the chances of getting infected upon exposure is greater to the dominant variant that we have now in the United States.
Okay, just to pause.
The question was just that was put on the screen for those just listening: is who is most at risk?
And I want you to pay attention to Fauci's answer here and what a dishonest piece of shit he is for answering this way.
Here's the question: who is most at risk?
Who's not vaccinated is most at risk.
Younger people are less likely to be vaccinated.
That puts the entire cohort of younger people at greater risk.
Okay, so pause it right there.
So did you catch what he just did, Rob?
What a dishonest piece of shit this guy is, right?
Everybody knows from the very beginning of COVID who is at the greatest risk.
Old fat people.
Oh, yes.
It is older people and people with underlying major underlying health conditions.
And by the way, the reason it's older people is because there's a Venn diagram there.
Older people tend to have more health issues.
The people who are at the absolute least risk of COVID are young, healthy people.
But how does he spin it?
Well, the people who aren't vaccinated, I guess that's who I'd say was at the highest risk.
And you know, the kids haven't been vaccinated.
That is so dishonest.
The reason why kids have not been vaccinated, aside from the fact that parents won't give it to them, but the reason parents won't give it to them, even the ones that have been approved, is because they're at zero risk.
They're at statistically speaking zero risk from this virus.
So he's going to then spin it.
If he was being honest, listen, I could have accepted there unvaccinated people with underlying health conditions or unvaccinated old people.
But to try to pretend this is our head guy, right, in the COVID fight.
And he's going to try to create the impression through this trickery of language that actually it's the kids.
That's who's at risk.
They are trying in one last ditch effort to drum up fear about this variant coming over here.
This is all nonsense.
I'm trying to get ahead of this and be on the right side as early as possible.
This is bullshit.
Absolute bullshit.
And whatever their proposed thing after this is going to be, that's going to be bullshit too.
Here's what's happening right now is that demand has basically disappeared for the vaccine.
And I believe coming up in the next couple weeks, they're going to have to be dumping a whole bunch of it.
People don't want it anymore.
Do you ever, you look into the numbers of people who only got one dose, Scrub?
You ever see that?
Well, it's probably pretty high.
Yeah.
There's a lot of people who got the first dose and then just decided they didn't want to come back.
I would just guess 30% based off of nothing, 30 or 40%.
I don't know.
I don't have the numbers right in front of me, but it's something really high.
Like when you look at it, you're like, oh, wow, there's a lot.
Like there's millions of people who have only gotten one dose.
But the truth is at this point, the people who want it have kind of gotten it.
And the other people are like, yep, either they don't trust the vaccine, they're not that worried about the virus.
They're not, you know, whatever.
But we just know at this point so much more about COVID.
And this is, and if you listen to the Fauci video, he did not say what Joe Biden tweeted.
He didn't say that it's deadlier.
He said that it's easier, it's more transmissible.
I don't even know if that's true.
I haven't seen, again, like when Rand Paul would grill Fauci, he says things often and doesn't feel the need to like present the science.
It's just kind of like, okay, you say.
Well, he is the science, so he doesn't have to.
Bombing Iraq vs Herd Immunity00:13:27
Right.
That's right.
He is Doctor of Truth Science.
But so he'll just say that and it's like, okay, but if you're not claiming it's more deadly, then what we're talking about is something that was already well over a 99% chance of surviving.
And that really, if you're, once you, you know, account for being like healthy, you know, not having underlying conditions, not being over 80 years old, stuff like this, it goes up to like a 99.9% chance.
You are drumming up all of this fear over a freaking flu coming over here.
It's really just insane to watch it happen.
And so we'll see what the push is going to come from this.
Maybe they're going to make another run at vaccine passports.
Maybe they're going to make a run at mandatory vaccines.
And I don't know.
You know, even pushing the mask thing again, I really don't know how possible it would be to get people back to where they were.
After like 18 months of living like this and people finally just start to get a little bit of freedom, would they go back?
I don't know.
It was pretty shocking that they were willing to do it the first time around.
So I guess we'll see.
But keep your eye on this.
They're full of shit.
I'll tell you that right now.
They are completely full of shit.
Any thoughts, Rob?
You worried about the variant?
I mean, you're standing Fauci's full of shit.
You're not going to get much of an argument from me.
I've been talking about the variant for two months.
They just lied so much about the last one that I didn't really care to do that much research on this.
Obviously, the footage out of India seems pretty horrifying, and the reports out of there seem pretty horrifying.
But at this point, I got to see it to believe it.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I would just much rather go with like a country like the UK and judge off that because again, India is like a third world country with lots of other factors, you know, at play.
England is a much more similar country to ours.
And to see that hospitalizations were going down while this variant was spreading widely is just, I'm sorry.
To me, that's enough evidence to go like, yeah, yeah, don't buy these fearmongers for one second.
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All right, switching gears to the other topic that I wanted to get to today, which is, of course, the war stuff that's been going on.
So Joe Biden authorized a couple of strikes, one in Syria and one in Iraq.
The official Pentagon response was that these were authorized in self-defense because Iranian-backed militias were a threat to U.S. persons in Iraq and Syria.
And so Joe Biden authorized a strike in Syria.
So he declared war in two countries?
That's pretty cool.
That's neat.
Oh, yeah.
No, he didn't declare war.
Oh.
Yeah, no, just bombed him because that's just completely...
What was it?
The guy I'm blinking on his name, but the Daily Beast war correspondent, who's actually very good.
And he said, when it comes to the war on terrorism, we left legality years ago.
The idea of even making an argument.
No one's even making an argument that there's a legal case for this.
They just kind of keep saying we acted in self-defense, which is really absurd if you look at the world from a normal person's perspective.
Of course, if you look at the world from the American Empire perspective, that's how it makes sense to them.
Like if you look at the...
Even if it isn't self-defense, why is that any different in terms of Congress needing to make the declaration of war?
Oh, yeah, no, it really isn't.
But no, there's no argument.
I mean, the only way, but this is what I mean by.
I mean, even like the framework of the Constitution, I thought they weren't that into offensive wars as it was.
So I would have thought that it was more, even if we're going to make the decision that there is some sort of a defensive task that we have to take, it would have to be done, you know, not just by the president going, hey, we're going to war.
Right.
Well, so the empire mentality is basically that we own the entire world.
And so who the hell does Iram think they are coming into our country?
It's almost treating it like an invasion.
But of course, you would have to treat Syria and Iraq as colonies, which is why people, honest people on the left and right, both think of this in terms of imperialism.
It's like neo-imperialism, but that's basically what it is.
It's suggesting that, well, this is, we were attacked.
So we're just using self-defense here.
But no, look, the original AUMF agreement for the war in Iraq was pretty specific.
And it was against Saddam Hussein's government, which I don't know if you've checked, but has been gone for quite a while.
So there's just no legal justification for any of this.
And there's never been a legal justification for the military actions in Syria under Obama, under Trump, and now under Biden.
This was the second time Biden authorized a strike on Syria in his presidency.
It was the first time he authorized a strike on Iraq.
Although, from what I understand, there have been other strikes.
They just weren't authorized by the president, because that's also part of the deal here, is that the president doesn't have to authorize every one of these strikes.
Like JSOC and some of these other groups can kind of.
It's not that easy to catch Biden between naps.
You know, if you're the CIA and you're trying to get this shit done, you need it done urgently.
Yeah, you're like, hey, we got to authorize this strike.
And you're like, he's sleeping.
Don't wake him.
Don't wake him up for it.
We'll just, we'll bomb him.
I got to say, the thing that first jumps out at me about this is with Biden authorizing the strike in Iraq that he is now, right?
Okay, so I was born in 1983 and Ronald Reagan was the president.
Reagan was president until 88.
Okay.
So in 1988, when I was five, George Herbert Walker Bush became president.
And since George Herbert Walker Bush, every single U.S. president has bombed Iraq.
Every one of them.
And we claim it's defense.
Just imagine that.
That every single George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, and now Joe Biden, six consecutive presidents, they've all bombed this puny, poor third world country.
And to various degrees.
I mean, you know, they've, I mean, just killed.
I mean, I don't know what the total number of people in Iraq who have been killed, either directly or, you know, as a result of U.S. policy there, but it's staggering.
You know, you got to be at least over 1.5 million in that time of Iraqis who have died.
Either, you know, some of this is through direct U.S. bombs.
Some of it is through, you know, the civil war that proceeds after we take out their leader and things like that.
But the amount of Iraqis displaced is in the tens of millions.
It's truly just like sickening.
But to see, just imagine this.
And we get to claim that it's self-defense.
It is so laughable.
So laughable.
The idea that like, yes, Iraq was some type of threat to us.
You know, like if you if you were to like punch a three-year-old in the face, right?
There's no reasonable self-defense argument you could make because there's no way that that three-year-old is a threat to you.
There is more of a power difference between Iraq and the United States of America than there is between you and a three-year-old.
Like, it's the idea that they're a threat to us and that every single president, minus one, in my entire life, has bombed Iraq at one point or another.
Like, that's just a thing we accept.
Now, we're going to bomb Iraq again.
It's really something to wrap your head around.
And that we just like put up with this.
It's just, whew.
Anyway, so, yeah, so, so, um, so we bombed Iraq again, bombed Syria.
Um, what exactly was strategically gained by doing this?
No, none of that's exactly clear.
Uh, we did it because there were what they call Iran-backed militias, um, which basically means, uh, as Scott Horton always says, it means a Shiite with a rifle.
You know, that makes that you are an Iran-backed militia.
Um, you know, the funny thing is that we've also backed the Shiites in Iraq.
Um, we've also backed many of the- Is that when they were the moderates?
No, no, that's, um, that's when we were backing the Sunnis in Syria.
Uh, then they were the moderates.
That was like ISIS and Al-Qaeda.
These were the ultra-moderates, the superpeace clan.
No, we fought the original war in Iraq on behalf of the Shiites.
I mean, we took out Saddam Hussein and put the Shiites into power.
So we fought a war for them, gave them Iraq.
The same people who will claim now are Iran-backed militias.
You could also just as easily call them U.S.-backed militias.
In fact, many of us, many of the American forces in Iraq, we're working with them.
We're working with these militias, fighting arm in arm with them.
So these U.S.-backed militias that Joe Biden is now bombing.
And the funny thing is that now we're back to the position because we're still working on this redirect, which started in like 2006, 2007, where now we've got to worry about Iran and containing them.
So we're fighting against the Shiites who we fought a war in Iraq for.
So now we're essentially serving as the air force of ISIS by taking out their biggest enemies, which is exactly what we've been doing.
And by the way, Trump was doing the exact same thing.
He was a little bit better on it.
I mean, he ended the CIA's program to arm the moderate rebels, which is quite an oxymoron of a term, but the ones you were referring to.
So he stopped arming all the anti-Assad people.
But he was still taking out Soleimani and taking out some of these guys in the Shiite militias who are the ISIS killers.
They're the guys who kill ISIS and al-Qaeda, you know, the ones who actually attacked us.
So now we're serving as their air force to continue these wars, even though the troops don't want to fight them anymore.
The American people don't want to fight them anymore.
And it's really something to see everything this country's gone through.
You know, as concerned as Joe Biden is about the Delta variant, he's still got time to bomb Iraq because that's just something every president has to do.
Even though under no conceivable way, in no conceivable way, could anybody with a straight face argue that Iraq has ever posed even the slightest threat to the United States of America?
Every president since George H.W. Bush has still bombed him.
Man.
If God ever judges this country, we're going to have a lot of splaining to do.
In terms of fighting COVID, bombing Iraq might work just about as well as wearing a mask.
So, you know, you might as well try everything we can.
Yeah.
Yeah.
No, bombing Iraq into acting the way we want them to seem just as likely as eradicating a variant.
Which is, by the way, the other thing with the whole back to that thing.
The other thing is that what like nobody wants to freaking admit is that you just can't eradicate variants.
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There does seem to be more of an awareness about just how transparently corrupt these whole bombing campaigns are.
And I do think that maybe the anti-war sentiment isn't what it was under George W. Bush for sure, but I think it's a lot better than it was under Obama.
And in some ways, it's better than it was under Trump because Trump kind of confused the issue by presenting himself as the one against the wars while he was conducting them, whereas Joe Biden is more like has to wear it.
He has to own this position.
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And yeah, as we said before, I mean, it's just so the legality of it, even if you just focus on that and not all the other issues, is so obvious.
It's so obvious that like this is just Article 1, Section 8 is as clear as day that Congress has the only Congress has the authority to make war.
And this was not something like, this wasn't just like some detail in the Constitution.
This was like a central pillar of the government that the founders were trying to set up.
That, no, we're not going to have kings with war-making ability.
That Congress has to declare the war.
What are they trying to claim that strategic strikes are not considered acts of war?
Actually, for this one, they have not made any claims to legality.
All they've done is basically say, yeah, yeah, it was self-defense.
That's it.
They haven't even tried to stretch anything.
There were basically like two authorizations that Congress voted on after 9-11.
And one was to go get the people who did 9-11 in Afghanistan.
And the other was to go get Saddam Hussein's government.
And so that's like what people are referring to when they say who voted for the war in Iraq versus who didn't.
It wasn't even technically a declaration of war.
It was like an authorization of military force type deal.
So still not constitutional at all, but something at least that you could claim was like Congress gave you this authority.
But there's been nothing since that.
And there's no way you can spin fighting in Syria on the side of the guys who did 9-11.
So you're not fighting Saddam Hussein's government because that's been gone for a whole long time.
And you're not fighting al-Qaeda because you're actually fighting the enemies of al-Qaeda in a different country.
There is no possible justification.
But the truth is that this was true for Obama, Trump, and now Biden.
It's been true for all of them.
And so they just, they got away with it.
So I guess they just feel like we can keep getting away with it now.
But it's nothing but naked aggression, and it does nothing good for anyone.
It does nothing good for anyone.
Not for them, and definitely not for this country.
But, you know, there are some people, I guess, who it helps out.
And that's, you know, the weapons manufacturers, the whole military-industrial complex.
They win, and the American people lose.
And man, do the Syrian and Iraqis lose.
They lose big time.
So it's, I don't know, man.
It's a whole mess.
We knew we were going to get more stuff like this as soon as Joe Biden was elected or whatever happened in the election.
We knew we were going to get more stuff like this.
And so we'll see what comes of it.
But it's nothing good.
That's for sure.
Nothing good.
Okay, I got to run in a few minutes.
I know, sorry, there's going to be a little bit of a shorter episode, but I know you wanted to talk a little bit about the whole uprisings of parents, which we played one video recently, but this has been going on more and more and particularly of note in places like California, which are not exactly, you know, like Trump country, where there have been these uprisings of parents flipping out at school board meetings about critical race theory being taught to children.
So I know you had seen some stuff about that.
Yeah, so there seems to be a weird, weasel walkback from the left where they're claiming that critical race theory is actually not taught in schools, which by the way, if you thought it was critical, why wouldn't you teach it to kids?
So you either got to stand by this one or not.
But their new thing is that critical race theory is just a legal theory and it's taught in law school.
And like no one was ever teaching this to kids.
And the fact that the conservative right is calling attention to this and trying to say that there's some major conspiracy about anti-American or socialist values being taught to kids is just not true and it's just them creating hysteria.
But what's just interesting to me is that the left is now trying to disown critical race theory and they're trying to claim that it's not being taught in schools.
And they're probably right that there is some more legal version of critical race theory.
I think what the claim was was that you had a bad school of thought with some bad ideas and you're taking some of those ideas and you're presenting them to kids and even minorities are like, what the fuck are you doing?
Like this is this is terrible.
But they seem to be trying to walk it back aggressively and just claim that this is a right conspiracy theory to drum up hate or other ill will towards good education.
Right.
So a couple things on that.
Like number one, like the video we played, it has been particularly heartening to see that, yeah, a lot of black people, a lot of black parents really are pissed off about this shit.
And they are like, what the hell are you doing teaching my kid that they're oppressed?
This is an outrage.
And they should be.
They should be every bit as much outraged as anyone else.
As like we said in the previous episode when we talked about it, their kids are receiving possibly the biggest disservice out of anybody by being told that they are oppressed victims.
The incredibly damaging thing to do to a child.
But so this is the game, and it's very intentional, and they're very good at it.
This is part of the reason why wokeism has been so effective.
They really think through this part of the PR battle.
So they have this thing.
Now they're right in a sense.
Critical race theory is a legal theory that started in law schools.
But the theory itself, it's almost like you have to dive so deep into the literature before you start figuring out what the theory is.
And then the ideas from critical race theory have spawned into all of these different departments.
And yes, they have absolutely spawned into elementary, middle, and high schools.
There's no question about it, that the ideas have.
However, then when you call it, when you give it a name and say, which the conservatives have been doing now, they go, this is our strategy.
We are going to name this thing and demonize it.
So people push back against it.
But then when you call it that, they go, what are you talking about?
Critical race theory?
That's off in some legal department somewhere.
That has nothing to do with this.
And then once you start to get, if you criticize any of the more, let's say, controversial and destructive and insane ideas of critical race theory, then they go, no, what are you talking about?
It's just like racial awareness.
It's diversity training.
Don't you know that?
It's, you know, what did they call it?
Like tolerance training or something like that.
Now, what was the word that they used?
Shit, I'm blanking on it.
But so they always, they go, all critical race theory is, is taking a critical look at the way law intersects with race.
That's all it is?
What are you talking about?
This is like a legal theory.
You don't even need to waste your time.
Like, this is complex law school stuff that you wouldn't even understand.
That's kind of how they play it.
But so I think since they're almost half right in what they're saying, I really don't even think it makes sense to brand critical race theory and oppose that being in schools.
You've already seen their tactic now.
They're going to be, they're going to say, well, it's not critical race theory.
Yeah, what is this idea?
So what is it?
What is it that you're teaching?
And then just challenge what's being taught.
Purely, I think what you need to say is that children should not be taught race essentialism, racialism, any type of racism in schools.
Period.
They shouldn't be taught any of that.
And they shouldn't be taught, you know, like that it is a given truth that America is a racist country or any of this stuff.
I think that should be the push, just simply.
I think you have to attack something that they won't successfully be able to deny.
I think that's the only way to really attack it.
You're more educated and smartly than I am.
What would you say is actually the core tenant of critical race theory?
So the core tenant of critical race theory is basically that the legal system perpetuates racism even when it's not explicitly racist.
So that's where it starts.
It starts with the idea.
I mean, look, Essentially, it's neo-Marxism with the original Marxist ideas applied to race rather than class.
So race essentialism rather than class essentialism.
And then there's different critical theories.
There's like queer theory, like all these different theories that do the same thing, but with sexual orientation or whatever, like instead of class.
But if you actually dig into the literature of the people who like really were like the major pushers of it, it's a rejection of liberalism and incrementalism.
So it's a rejection of the civil rights movement.
It's a rejection of all of the kind of incremental benefits that have been made over the years since then.
Now, this is like a fancy way for James Lindsay was just talking about this on the Tom Woods show, which is a great way to put it.
But he goes, this is a really subtle and really intelligent, from like a propaganda point of view, way to push Marxism because you're saying, well, I reject incrementalism.
So what are you left with?
Well, you're not supporting the status quo, right?
Because that's white supremacy.
And you reject incrementalism.
So what's the other option?
Revolution.
But you know what?
It's interesting.
It's interesting.
So it's interesting, like if we were just having a board meeting and I was like, hey, we got two options here.
We got this one system, which has made some pretty incredible improvements over the last hundred years.
They brought people out of slavery and look at all the opportunities it's given to people and it continues to get better.
Or we got these other guys that want to, you know, overturn the whole thing and they think it might be better.
Which one would you like to choose?
Incrementalism doesn't sound like that bad of a pitch.
They got a decent track record of proven results.
I mean, that is the definition of incrementalism.
But not according to critical race theory.
According to critical race theory, it hasn't been an improvement.
And that all of these changes have only been made so that white people can maintain their dominance on society.
And as proof of this, they use the disparate outcomes.
So look, as proof of this, white people still have more and more of this power.
And if black people are getting more power than they previously had, well, then that's only to suit white people's ego or something like that.
They reject liberalism.
They reject meritocracy.
They reject like everything about like everything that anyone who believes in liberty would stand for, they are against.
And these ideas have spread all throughout academia and now even into schools.
So you can argue over whether or not critical race theory is being taught in schools.
But now you're just getting into an argument on their turf.
It's like, yeah, they are technically right that like the legal theory isn't being taught in schools.
However, what is being taught in schools, undeniably, is racialism, race essentialism, the idea of oppressor versus oppressed, the idea that we are a systemically racist country.
All of those ideas are being taught in schools.
So I think that the only way to fight back against it is you have to attack that and leave them in a position where if they try to deny that that's being taught in schools, it's going to be a very hard, a very hard sell.
There's also, there's an element to this thing, which is the selling snake oil, where they put themselves into a position where they're like, there's this thing that only we can see and only we can fix.
So in this case, it's only critical race, only trained, you know, diversity training, you know, critical race theory people can be the ones to come in and fix this.
And by the way, the problem is everywhere.
And the problem is everything.
But no one else can detect it.
It's like a ghost hunter that comes into your home.
I'm the only one who can detect if the ghosts are here and I'm going to be the only one that can get rid of it.
Yeah.
No, that's right.
That's right.
It's quite a nice scam that they have worked out.
But it is, it's nice at least to see people pushing back and fighting against this.
I mean, like, man.
Well, because in this point, it's pretty evident that it's hurting the exact people that they're claiming they can help.
And also hurting the people that they're claiming to hurt.
You know, that's the, it's hurting all of them.
And so it's like, this is, this is something's gotta stop here.
Or it's like the idea of teaching children that race is this very important thing that they need to be hyper-focused on and that different people of different races fall into different categories in life.
That one is oppressor, one is oppressed, like all this stuff.
It is like, I mean, if we, we've, we've let this go on for a while, but it's, it's really ramped up in the last few years drastically.
And like, we do not want to live through seeing what the results of a generation of kids who were taught that shit is going to be.
I'm willing to bet, I would place this bet that if you interviewed kids after being exposed to their first lesson of that, any kid in a minority group probably walks out with some feeling of shame that was just instilled in them.
Yeah.
Yeah, I'd be almost certain of that.
Because you're telling someone that they're different and that society thinks less of them and is working against them.
How can that possibly be helpful to a young brain?
Like, there's just, I don't even see it.
No, it's not, it's not going to be helpful.
And I also, you know, you also think about what it does to like the white kid to be told that like you're, you know, like responsible for all of these evils in the world to some kid who's never done anything to anyone.
It's just the whole thing is awful.
It's, it's really, you know, like we said before.
If anything, you're almost giving people roles to play.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Very, very unhealthy.
And in many cases, flipping those roles within your micro dynamic, which is also equally unhealthy.
You know, now the black kid gets to be angry at the white kid and blame him for all of this.
And the white kid has to be apologizing to the black.
It's just all of this is sick.
It's child abuse.
It's like absolutely horrible.
So at least it's good to see some people are pushing back on that.