Dave Smith and Robbie Bernstein condemn NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio's December 27th vaccine mandates for children aged five to eleven as authoritarian overreach, labeling the city an apartheid state. They critique Elon Musk for identifying the government's monopoly on violence without donating $100 million to libertarian causes like the Mises Institute, while also debunking Amazon abuse myths and rejecting Rep. Dan Crenshaw's dismissal of Freedom Caucus members as mere performance artists. Ultimately, the hosts argue that true liberty requires radical abolition of the IRS, public schools, and the Federal Reserve rather than incremental reform. [Automatically generated summary]
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What's up, everybody?
Welcome to a brand new episode of Part of the Problem.
I'm Dave Smith.
He is Robbie Bernstein.
He is the fire.
He is the king of the caulks.
He is COVID Jesus.
What's up, my brother?
I'm even more excited than you are for this episode, Dave.
Are you?
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Super fire energy today.
Oh, Red Bull is so gross.
Oh, really?
No, come on, man.
Do you like them?
I love Vodka Red Bull.
That's the drink of assholes, and I fit the description.
Oh, man, that really is a fucking, I'm going to date rape you and get away with it because my dad's rich type of drink.
I mean, I don't have any of those other things, but the drink, I'm all for it.
No, you won't.
You're too much of a pussy to date rape anyone.
If you did, you wouldn't get away with it.
And your dad is scraping by.
He's not at all rich.
Vodka Red Bulls are for when you're like, no, I'm healthy, so I'm not going to do Coke, but I'm going to have six of these have some Adderalls and still enjoy my night of drinking.
All right, there you go.
That's a good solution.
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Well, what's new?
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We're coming to the home stretch of running the end of year thing.
I got Atlanta this Thursday, Mexico with peddling fiction, Sunday in Denver.
Then I'm back in the city, Old Man Hustle, taping in New Hampshire, and then I retire from comedy.
Well, there you go.
Listen, we all knew it was coming.
So better sooner than later.
So I like that you just threw Mexico out there.
Like it was just another sit at you go, Atlanta, Mexico for this.
That's a pretty cool one.
And Peddling Fiction, who is another great libertarian podcast.
And I believe Mark Clare is going to be there as well.
The Lions of Liberty.
Oh, is Clint?
Is Clinton Russell going to be there as well?
This is ON Buck.
Okay.
Well, wow, that's incredible.
That's going to be a real Liberty Movement event.
All right.
Yes, I'm terrified of being in Mexico, though.
Like since the day I agreed to this, I'm terrified.
It's going to be fun once I'm there, but I'm convinced I'm going to get PCR to get back into the country and get stuck in Mexico.
Yeah, I'll be honest, the way things are going, you might get stuck in a freer country than the one that we're in right now.
You might be like, thank God they didn't let me back in America because things are getting pretty crazy.
And things are getting pretty crazy.
Our top story, our top story for today's show is New York City, my hometown, the city that me and you met each other in and fell in love and started this whole journey together and this podcast relationship that we have.
The city that you are currently standing in the middle of right now as a second-class citizen has gone even more bonkers than they've already gone.
And of course, Bill de Blasio, who is a mayor who is on his way out, who is, how do I put this kindly, intensely hated.
I don't know if you saw, there was a poll that they ran recently where, and now this was a small sample size, so I don't know exactly what it, you know, take it with a grain of salt, but it was a small sample size, but it was a scientific poll.
And they found out of Democrats, something, he was below 30% of people who said he was doing a good or very good job.
So about 70% of Democrats felt he wasn't doing a very good job.
But so he's an unpopular mayor.
He's on his way out.
He is in what they would call the lame duck portion of his rule.
He's, which is when the election's over.
Your next, you know your replacement has already been picked and the reason why people call that the lame duck session is because you know, if you believe in this idea of democracy and there's already been an election and people have picked someone else, typically the feeling is like, well, I I don't know whatever the mythology of government is or government under democracy is it's like, well, we derive our power from the consent of the governed, or something like that.
Right well, once the governed have consented for someone else to be in power, and you're just kind of pull draconian, this is your opportunity you get to let all your friends off and pass laws that you would never be able to pass.
It's just a little window where you're a dictator, but but what they typically do, typically under a more healthy country not a healthy one, but a more healthy country that's what they do, what you just said, they let their friends off.
But it's usually like that.
It's usually remove all the w's from the computers, they break the heat and they steal some silverware yeah, that.
But exactly things like that.
You do things like a.
You take a few office supplies.
Hey, you let a few of your cronies out.
We're gonna, we're gonna let this guy off.
But you don't necessarily pass new totalitarian, draconian policies and if you do, you usually don't do them, you know, by decree rather than through any legislative process.
But that would not be Bill De Blasio, that would not be the uh, you know, I don't even know what to call him.
I really um, I don't like to call like.
I think so many of these terms like limousine, liberal or like any of this shit are too kind for him.
I think the term mayor is too kind for him.
The same way I feel about all these governors who are the lockdown governors.
I don't think we should call them governors.
They are dictators, they have appointed themselves dictators.
If you, if you can just dictate without any legislative process what some private business has to do or what private people have to do as, as they've been doing for the last almost two years now, that is by like definitionally, that is a dictator.
Um, and so Bill De Blasio came out uh, the other day and uh added some fairly you know, some pretty unbelievable sweeping new rules for New York City, which he's already turned into an apartheid, uh state.
This is really quite something.
Uh I, I don't think I can overstate, Overstate this.
The mayor, or the person who was elected mayor of the biggest city in the United States of America, this is the biggest city in the most powerful country in the history of the world, has transformed this city into a two-tiered system with enforced discrimination under the law.
But he took it a step further.
So let's just go right to the video.
Here is Bill de Blasio on Morning Joe, where you go to speak to the people on Morning Joe on MSNBC talking about his new policies.
We've got Omicron as a new factor.
We've got the colder weather, which is going to really create additional challenges with the Delta variant.
We've got holiday gatherings.
We in New York City have decided to use a preemptive strike to really do something bold to stop the further growth of COVID and the danger.
Let's pause them already right there.
So as of today, don't you, God damn it.
It just drives me crazy how they, when they even say, we in New York City have decided, like, no, who's the we?
Who's the we who decided anything here?
Oh, you decided.
We almost need that rapist Cuomo to come back and tell this dummy to shut his fat mouth because that was the one thing Cuomo was good at was that every time de Blasio was like, hey, we're going to shut down, Cuomo's like, now I'm in charge here and I'm in charge and I'm good at telling people to quit talking because I'm going to have my way.
But he would do that to him.
And it was fun when he bitched out de Blasio.
It was great.
He goes, no, we shut down when I say we shut down.
And I just grabbed your wife's ass last night.
So how do you feel about that?
Ah, goddamn, missed that, Ginzo.
Anyway, yeah, so he, so we've decided, you know, dealing with the Omnicron and the winter and family gatherings or whatever, that we've decided, we've decided we have.
Meaning, I'm telling you, this is how it's going to be.
Who's we?
Is there, like I just said, he's an incredibly unpopular political figure.
Who's we?
Anyway, all right, let's keep playing.
To all of us.
So as of today, we're going to announce a first in the nation measure.
Our health commissioner will announce a vaccine mandate for private sector employers across the board.
All private sector employers in New York City will be covered by this vaccine mandate as of December 27th.
Yep.
We're going to have some.
I will say I respect his tonality that he's pitching this like you should be excited about it, where he's like, isn't this great?
If you're not vaccinated, you're not going to be able to work.
How awesome is that?
You're not going to be able to earn a living or show up.
Isn't this so cool?
What a great policy we did.
So imagine this, right?
Like you're, okay, so try to try to think this through, right?
So first of all, let's talk a bit about this before we even play the rest of this.
The Omicron Omnicron variant.
From what is being reported so far, there are a lot of doctors, epidemiologists, virologists who are very excited about the case for optimism with this new variant.
And this is, I'm sure you've read about this too, Rob, because I know you're up on this stuff.
But they are saying, now, I don't know if this is true or not, but they are saying that there is a lot of reason to be optimistic because it seems like this variant is far less severe than the others.
It seems like it's far less deadly and potentially more contagious.
And the people, I know a bunch of doctors in South Africa who have been like, oh, you know, this is really replacing Delta very quickly.
Like it's pushing Delta out of the way, and people aren't getting as sick with this one.
So the situation you have, just to be clear here, the situation that you have right now is that we have a new variant.
It seems like it's very likely that it is less deadly and more contagious.
This is, again, this is, if you want to follow the science, this is what like scientists are saying.
It seems very likely that it is more contagious and less deadly.
And there is strong reason to believe that it will be more resistant to the vaccines than even Delta was.
Right.
And do you remember how, even according to the big pharmaceutical companies who started off being like, you know, this gives you 94% protection.
And then by the time Delta came out, it fell down to like, this gives you like 54% protection and all that.
And then even those numbers are kind of questionable.
Well, because this new variant has mutated so much more than Delta did from alpha, they are saying odds are the vaccine is going to give you even less protection against this variant.
So the vaccine isn't going to work as well against it, but it's going to be less deadly and more contagious.
That's what a lot of scientists are betting on right now.
Okay.
We don't know for sure that that's true, but that seems very plausible.
So in the face of evidence that suggests, hey, there could be another variant coming in where a lot of people are going to get it, but far less people are going to die.
And the vaccines aren't going to do much to protect against it.
Of course, the response to that has to be: let's become hysterical and insist everyone get the vaccine.
So just to start off with, scientifically, this is insane.
They got stockpiles to push, dude.
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Okay, so let's just pull it up.
And before you even play it, I just want up the video so we can see it.
Okay, so notice that he's talking about this first bullet point here, but he doesn't seem to get to the second bullet point.
But anyway, all right, let's play it.
27th.
We're going to have some other measures as well to really focus on maximizing vaccination quickly so we can get ahead of Omicron and all the other challenges we're supposed to do.
So he says there'll be some other measures.
Let's pull that video, pull just the image of it back up and see what that second one says.
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Vaccine proof for indoor dining and fitness and entertainment required for children five to 11 years old.
Hey, we got to kill some kids if we're going to end this virus.
So he is now extended the vaccine passport to five-year-olds.
Five-year-olds.
Now we know, right?
We know that five-year-olds, if there's one thing we know throughout the COVID, you know, virus, throughout the last, you know, two years where COVID has existed, that five-year-olds, yeah, that, yeah, that's it.
Five-year-olds are not at risk for negative outcomes from COVID.
Now, I'm not saying there's never once been a five-year-old who's had a negative outcome.
That five-year-old was so fat and unlucky.
I mean, but there's never, there's never three times, but like it's so low that it statistically doesn't exist.
Okay.
And we also know that children are not good vectors for the virus.
You're not at high risk of them spreading it to you.
So why on earth would getting serious about any of this shit be vaccinating five-year-olds?
This is like some like out of a novel level evil, like out of out of like the villain in a novel level evil, some biblical level evil shit that you would insist that people vaccinate their five-year-olds for something that isn't a threat to them in order to participate in, you know, regular things in the city.
It's just horrible.
And he's doing it by fiat, just by executive decree, because he's a dictator.
This is not, and I don't believe for a second that him or anyone in his office thinks this is.
This is not about health or safety or preventing the virus.
This is very clearly on his way out, his attempt to punish the people who disobeyed the regime.
And by punishing their children, for them not sacrificing their children for some experimental vaccine that they don't feel comfortable giving to their children.
He is going to punish them for that.
Whew.
I mean, Bill de Blasio, you better hope that there is not a hell in the afterlife.
You better hope.
Bill de Blasio is not a young man.
He's going to go at some point, like we all will.
If you care about Bill de Blasio, you better hope.
You better be an atheist.
You better hope that there is not a hell that he will have to spend eternity in.
The idea.
That you would?
You would uh um, enforce punishments against little children who are in no way a threat to anybody else, just to like what to I don't know help big pharmaceutical companies and and to punish the, the people who didn't obey you.
Isn't this like something out of the bible?
Like you were unwilling to sacrifice your child, so therefore you must be punished by this.
I mean, it's just god.
I can't explain how creepy it is, how creepy.
I don't mean that as an insult to the bible.
I think in the bible, God actually stops Abraham from hurting his kid.
He's, he's the bad guy in the bible.
Is the point i'm making?
I uh, just a creepier thought is that Deblasio doesn't have to run for reelection, so he's the right guy to coordinate with to see how authoritarian you can go.
Yeah, because you know he's uh biggest city in the country.
Hey let's let's let's uh, let's do a test for him on this.
Uh, the good news is, all these mandates keep getting struck and down.
So just, it's a bluff by them and you know, don't fall for it.
Yeah yeah, that's right, and I do.
It is very encouraging to see that, and I think this one will get struck down too.
I think this is just too insane.
And there's a new mayor coming in and I think there'll be a lot of pressure on him, and I especially, I think, when this new variant uh sweeps through and it's just not as bad and people are starting to realize I I think this is actually what's going to save us, far more than our podcast or something else like that.
Just like you know, ranting against this all the time, I think what's going to save us is that the as the, the virus gets less and less deadly, people are just going to feel it and they're going to be honest.
How civil our country is, that a mayor can threaten a lot of people's jobs with no reason whatsoever and everyone's just kind of calm about it.
Yeah well, it is.
I don't know if that's a positive or a negative, but yeah, there is.
I I do think I will say I was talking about this.
I was recording with uh Michael Malice for his show the other day and I was talking about how um, I don't know if I made this point as well as i'd like to, but I was talking about the uh, the declaration of independence, which to me, is the greatest document of any uh, like anything in American history, particularly like anything related to government, and it's not um.
It's better than the Bill Of Rights and it's way better than the constitution is just the declaration of independence, which isn't really Technically, I don't think a governing document.
Like, I think it's just kind of like that's something that was written.
Just bars by George Washington.
Yeah, I think it's in it.
It was TJ.
But I think that it was really just a declaration of war against the British Empire.
And then it was like, okay, well, after we won, it's like, okay, well, now we got to figure some shit out.
So we went to the Articles of Confederation and then they fucking had a coup to overthrow that.
We got the Constitution.
But the Declaration of Independence is fucking beautiful.
And in that, they basically just say, fuck you and your T.
Well, kind of.
I mean, yeah, basically.
But what do they say?
You fucking queefs.
A bunch of people in Boston.
But they say that, look, we find it self-evident that man is endowed by his creators with inalienable rights.
And if, by the way, I'm putting this into my own words now, but they go, and if government starts violating that shit, we say you're illegitimate and we have a right to form our own government.
And that is, I was saying this to Malice.
I go, I think if you take that to its logical conclusion, it's basically anarchism.
I mean, if a group of people can say that about one government, why can't an individual say that about the government he lives under?
But whatever, that aside, it's like there's no real argument logically.
It's just like we're just declaring this.
Like, we're declaring that this is self-evident.
How is it self-evident?
I don't know.
Fuck you.
That's how.
Because we say so.
So the point I'm making is that when America seceded from the British Empire, they didn't say, hey, listen, here's this document under British law.
And this document says that what you're doing is illegitimate.
And that's why we have the right to invoke Article 1, Clause 12.
And you know what I'm saying?
Like, they didn't say any of that.
They were like, we're appealing to a bigger power.
We're claiming something bigger than what you're even talking about here.
We're saying that by what is morally just, men have rights.
And you have no right to impose your will on us because we say so, because we say it's self-evident.
And that's why.
And so we're not a part of your thing anymore.
I think there's something powerful about that.
And I think that when I look at something like this with Bill de Blasio, I just go, that's what I think we need.
I think we need a whole bunch of people who go, whatever authority you're operating on under, I appeal to a higher authority that says, no, you have no right to do this.
And in fact, and I'll say this right now: I think Bill de Blasio, by anyone who has the force to do so, should be, I mean, yesterday, removed from office, arrested.
He should face charges and a trial for crimes against humanity.
He should be convicted and spend the rest of his life in prison.
That is my honest opinion about what I think should happen to Bill de Blasio.
You have no right to do this to other human beings.
You have no right to tell businesses that they have to fire people who are unvaccinated.
You have no right to tell five-year-olds where they can and can't go on other people's property.
Screw you because I say so, because I say it's self-evident that you don't have the right to do that.
That's the beginning and the end of my argument.
It is self-evident that you do not have the right to do that because we are free people.
And we're free people because I fucking say so.
Man, I really like, I don't know what else to say about this.
You just get to a certain point where it's like, look, we have been, we've been, what has this pandemic been going on for, or the at least here in America?
How long has it been since March of 2020?
What are we?
20, 21 months into this thing?
Okay.
Well, for 19 months, it's been obvious that this, there's no scientific justification for this.
Okay.
So the scientific justification has gone out the window long ago.
This is all just fucking totalitarian executive fiat.
So, okay, you want to say that like, well, as the mayor, I'm saying that we decide this.
Well, as a podcaster, I'm saying that we decide that it is self-evident that you're a fucking dictator and you should burn in hell.
And you have no right to do any of this to anyone.
What a fucking like, oof.
I mean, there's been a lot of mayors that I have not liked in New York City's history, but my God, the fact that this guy is doing this on his way out, that he's saying, like, literally, think about this, Rob, that he's saying that five-year-olds can't go into a restaurant.
So he's saying, right?
Now, think about it this way, right?
If you have two parents who are unvaccinated, and assuming their kid, their five-year-old's unvaccinated, they already know they can't go into the restaurant, right?
But now you're telling, he's going further and saying, hey, you two parents who are vaccinated, but you weren't willing to vaccinate your five-year-old, you can't bring him into the restaurant with you.
Think about how fucked up that is.
Now, I'm not saying it's the, it's the most important thing ever that you can bring your kid into a restaurant.
You know, I mean, I guess it wasn't the most important thing ever that everyone could drink out of the same water fountain.
But there's something about it that's pretty like, I don't know, pretty appalling to tell.
But he's even telling those people.
It's really, in many ways, I think this is more of a message to the people who like, you know, because I know you, you've come across this before, Rob, right?
Like you've seen whether meeting people, like, you know, people you know in real life or just stuff you've seen on the internet or stuff like that.
But there's a lot of people who, well, they took the vaccine like right away.
They're not like me and you.
Like right away, they fucking got vaccinated.
Like, oh, and come, look, understandably, they don't follow this shit as much as we do.
They went, yeah, there's a pandemic.
There's a cure.
Okay, I'll take the cure, you know, because that's what they said.
You take the vaccine, you get back to normal life, right?
And then they take it and then they're like, oh, no, actually, it turns out you can still get it and still give it and all this shit.
But he's talking to those people because a lot of those people, they started getting a little bit bitter, didn't they?
They started going, hey, what the fuck?
You told me I get these shots and then I get my life back.
And now I got the shots and I have nothing.
It's the same as it was before.
So he's talking to those people and saying, yeah, yeah, but you weren't willing to get your five-year-old vaccinated.
So I want to punish you now too.
Oof.
As I've said before on this show, I feel uncomfortable on our public channels saying exactly what I think should happen to Bill de Blasio.
I guess the only good news is that that puts more people that might have thought I was crazy because I thought that the government was making bad policies.
Maybe there'll be more of them now.
Maybe all these people that this whole time thought that government had their best interests in mind will actually wake up to the situation.
So I'm sure there's a lot of reasonable people that are not in that got the vaccine, are not interested in these boosters and are not interested in vaccinating their kids.
And I bet your restaurants who are actually willing to be compliant really don't want to have to be busting parents' balls about whether or not they got their papers for their five-year-olds.
That's a real hassle.
It's one thing with like in a bar when you're just dealing with adults to just, you know, be, but try dealing with one of those fucking, you know, middle, upper class white ladies coming from the gym, all full of energy, had one coffee.
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So I'm almost hesitant to tell this.
Now you got to tell it.
All right.
All right.
I'll tell it.
So when my terrible under interrogation, by the way, yeah, I really would.
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When your baby's having, you know, my baby was having open heart surgery.
And, oh man, whatever.
It's, I don't want to, you know, turn this too fucking emotional.
But, you know, you give your baby, your little newborn over to these doctors and they're like going to open his chest up and operate on his heart.
It's just, you know, awful.
And it's a long, it was a real long surgery.
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And so I don't know.
It was like three, four hours into it.
And I'm just trying to be strong for my wife and, you know, hold it together, even though I'm falling apart inside.
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And I was like, look, we got to get, I, I, you got to eat something.
I was like, you're not going to be any good to anyone if you don't eat something.
So like, we got to take care of ourselves here, right?
We can't do anything.
We're just sitting here in the hospital.
And I was like, listen, let me, let me just, let's go get something to eat.
And, and, you know, we had eaten the hospital food.
So goddamn awful.
And I was like, all right, let's just go out.
Let's go get something.
And she was like, no, I'm not leaving the building.
She just insisted she's not leaving the building.
And eventually, over the course of like an hour, I kind of convinced her.
I was like, look, I understand.
I feel the same way, but there's nothing logical about that.
Like, there's nothing staying in the building doesn't do anything.
Like, I know how you feel.
I feel the same way, but like, let's just go get something to eat so we feel better.
You know, like, so like, it's just, it doesn't make any sense, you know?
So, so let's just walk.
There's, there's a, you know, I look up on my phone.
They go, okay, there's like this diner with very high reviews, like a block up.
Let's just go to the diner.
We'll get you something to eat.
We'll come back.
We're going to be here.
Nothing's happening in the next hour anyway.
So we go up the block.
Now, all this shit going on, I just completely forgot.
This is like a million other things on my mind.
I just was not at all thinking about the fact that when we were doing this, the fucking passport had just gone into effect.
Because it was literally, this was like three days after the enforcement of it had just started.
So it was like, I, you know, just the furthest thing from my mind.
And we walk into this diner, me and my wife, just a wreck.
And this little Spanish dude comes up to us as we walk in and he goes, Do you have your vaccine cards?
And I remember just hearing him say that.
And it just all came back to me.
And I realized that we were living in this crazy world.
And I'm, I'm, you know, I'm going through it.
And I go, Are you fucking kidding me right now to this guy?
And he goes, And no, that's part me like bringing my whole situation to it.
And he's just some guys.
And he goes, I'm so sorry, but we have to ask.
You know, he's like, Do you have your vaccine card?
I go, listen, man, just fucking, we're here to eat.
Sit me and my wife at the table.
And he goes, and he was so apologetic.
And he goes, I'm so sorry, you know, but we can't if you don't have the vaccine passport.
And I really snapped.
I really snapped at him.
And I go, you're fucking kidding.
Like, oh, God, I was, I was, maybe I was wrong for it.
And I was like, you're fucking kidding me, right, dude?
You're fucking kidding me right now.
You're actually going to turn us away.
You're going to turn me and my wife away.
And he did.
He just, and I, and I cursed him out and left.
And anyway, I'll just tell you that after leaving, I did kind of have this mixed reaction.
And I'm just, oh my God, it was so fierce.
I've never been so fucking angry.
I actually convinced her to fucking go get something to eat because we're just nervous wrecks right now.
And then they turned us away from their thing.
It's like a fucking, like, I wanted to throw a fucking Molotov cocktail through that goddamn diner in the moment.
Um, but as you know, time went on and I was looking back at it, I did kind of notice that, like, you know, look, there was a gun to that guy's head as well.
Like, you could tell this guy was not faking it, he genuinely did not want to do this.
And I know that that guy's had to do it a lot.
Like, you could see it.
He's had to do it a lot, and he did not want to do that.
Now, he didn't know any of the backstory of what was going on with us at the moment.
But I wonder for some of these people in restaurants, how do they feel when they go and check the husband and wife and they have it, and then they check the five-year-old and they go, No, my five-year-old doesn't have it.
Like, are they going to turn you away because the kid doesn't have it?
I don't know.
I just wonder at what level someone would just go like, you know what?
No, no, I'm just going to set you.
I don't know.
I don't know.
The cops in TSA are compensated for the fact that they have to enforce stuff and be dicks.
And I think some people enjoy that, but I think for some people, you got to pay a little bit better if I have to be at a job all day confronting people and being dicks.
You know how much that sucks if you have your restaurant and all of a sudden you got to enforce, like, where's the compensation for that?
Do I like, is the government going to send me a check that I'm now enforcing their policies?
When did that become my job?
Like, when was when was when did it become my?
I'm not a cop.
Yeah.
Well, they're not going to send you a check, but they will fine you if you don't do it, right?
So, I guess that's that's where it is.
Uh, did you end up getting any food?
I'm invested in that story.
Oh, I, yeah, I think what did we?
I think we just went back and got food at the hospital.
No, I was so disgusted by that.
I was like, I, I, I was gonna lose my fucking shit.
So, it just, I think we just went right back to the hospital.
It was just after all that, it was like, God damn, motherfucker.
And then we went back and I don't even remember, to be honest, I think we probably just got food at the hospital, but yeah, but that was quite a moment.
It's also something like fucking like, I just, I guess I just forgot I had other shit going on, but there's something like kind of humiliating about being turned away at a fucking restaurant.
Like, you're like, are you kidding me?
You shabby little diner?
You don't want my fucking money?
Like, but again, the thing is, this guy was so, you could just tell, you know, like, like you said, there are some people who get into the authoritarianism of it and there's some people who don't.
And this guy was like, dude, this is just not my job.
And it's not what I want to be doing right now.
Like, it's, it's just not.
Um, so I don't even hate that guy, but I did hate that situation.
Um, anyway, yeah, we'll, uh, we'll see how far people are willing to go and uh how much pressure is is needed to make them go that far.
Yeah, we'll also see how quickly it gets to court.
I saw a post from uh Alex Berenson today, wasn't able to read the uh, the whole article, uh, but uh, the federal mandate in New York City just got overturned.
Whatever was for like federal workers, and this one's way more aggressive than that.
And every one of Biden's mandates thus far, I believe, everyone, everyone that's gone into court has kind of gotten thrown away.
So, the likelihood that this is legal or that they can do it is unlikely.
But then, part of the question is, well, how long does it get to a court before the court goes, yeah, you can't do that?
And then, I've also said this before, but the insanity that you're allowed to make these laws and then there's no penalty for like restricting freedoms and being wrong.
You're allowed to make laws that restrict freedoms and then just be wrong, and there's no penalty for that.
That's a major flaw in the system.
Well, listen, you're certainly right about that.
And the system is incredibly flawed.
But there are some aspects to the American system of government that still have some merit to them.
And it's a very weird situation where, you know, we are like, you know, obviously, if you just read the Constitution of the United States of America, forget the Declaration of Independence, but just read the Constitution.
It does not exactly resemble the government that we have in front of us right now in many ways.
About 90% of what the federal government does is not authorized in the Constitution.
However, what you have is almost like this government that's built by the system written in the Constitution and then expands outward and outward and outward based on precedent and whatever's done lately and whatever the people put up with.
It's not, it's not at all perfect and it's very bad in many ways.
However, it's not the perfect vehicle for absolute tyrannical dictatorship either.
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And that is something that may, you know, we've already seen several victories in that department.
And I think that this might be their out in a way, especially if it does turn out that Omicron is what we think it might be.
Like, you know, less deadly, more contagious.
And it just gets to a point where it's like, yeah, COVID is kind of naturally resolving itself.
Anyway, okay.
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What was the next video that I had set up here, Brian?
What did it?
I had a couple more, right?
Oh, yeah, Elon Musk.
Elon Musk shook the libertarian world on fire in some interview that he was doing.
Let's see what old Elon had to say.
Then, you know, at a certain point, really, what you're doing is capital allocation.
So you're not, it's not money for personal expenditures.
It's what you're doing is capital allocation.
And it does not make sense to take the job of capital allocation away from people who have demonstrated great skill in capital allocation and give it to an entity that has demonstrated very poor skill in capital allocation, which is the government.
I mean, you can think of the government essentially as a corporation in the limit.
The government is simply the biggest corporation with a monopoly on violence and with and where you have no recourse.
I mean, that's pretty great.
First off, Elon Musk, just pull up the picture of him real quick.
Here we go.
It is a fine line between meth addict and richest man in the world.
It's like a digital recreation.
Like he's already uploaded himself into a computer and like they somehow are showing us like a 3D projection of him.
I mean, just replace the word government with Jews and give him a tiki torch.
And this guy fits in perfectly.
Okay.
Anyway, I'm sorry.
I don't mean to rip out of him because he actually said something really great there.
But that was a really powerful moment.
And it's pretty incredible to see someone with such a high profile, with so much wealth and influence, saying, I don't know, something that sounds like you might hear on part of the problem, perhaps.
Yeah, that's right.
That's exactly right.
Who could argue with that?
And I love statements like that that are just statements, like it's just statements of fact.
He didn't say, there's really, if you think about it, there was almost no editorializing in that comment.
He just said, look, what we're dealing with here is allocating resources.
And who would you like to allocate resources?
Someone who's got a proven track record of doing a very good job with that?
Or someone who's got a track record of doing a very poor job with that?
And he said, what is government other than the biggest corporation with a monopoly on violence?
Right?
Were those his exact words?
A monopoly on violence?
No.
Play that again, the very last part of it.
Did he say monopoly on violence?
Did he give Pete Quinones' documentary a shout out?
I mean, you can think of the government essentially as a corporation in the limit.
The government is simply the biggest corporation with a monopoly on violence.
All right.
So let me say this.
I'd say, if I wanted to nitpick a monopoly on violence is not exactly correct.
Okay.
Because if you want to say a monopoly is the sole provider of a good or service, then no, okay, the government does not have a monopoly on violence.
Other people can be violent.
And, you know, there's a, I mean, hey, Kyle Rittenhouse was violent and he got off, right?
Because his violence was deemed correctly to be in self-defense.
And other people, even if they don't get off, commit violence, like criminals commit violence, right?
And so you could say that, oh, well, the government has some competition there.
I mean, sure, the government can tax people, but there's also muggers.
And so they, you know, there's their competition.
Other people are also in the same industry of committing violence, even not self-defense, right?
Like even like aggressive violence, the initiation of violence.
But the government does, if you want to be technical here, have a monopoly on the legal initiation of violence against peaceful people.
That's really, to be just a little bit more precise than my rich friend Elon Musk.
That's really what the government is.
The government is, if you want to call it a corporation, I would just call it an organization with the legal monopoly on the initiation of violence.
So no one else can initiate violence against peaceful people legally, but the government can.
And so it's very powerful for someone like Elon Musk to say that.
But I will say that when I see something like this, and I don't know about you, Rob, but when I see something like this, and this has been blowing up, particularly across my Twitter world, the algorithm's been showing it to me a lot and people have been tagging me on this all day long.
But I have mixed feelings when I see someone like Elon Musk say this.
Now, on one hand, it's, I'm pleased because, you know, you think, hey, this is Elon Musk.
This is, if not, you know, the wealthiest up there with, I think he goes back and forth with whether or not he's the wealthiest person, but up there, top few wealthiest people in the world, a very powerful, very influential person saying a very powerful truth.
And that's great.
I think it's important for people to speak the truth.
So I think that's really great that he would say that.
But then on the other hand, when someone like Elon Musk says some shit like that, do you get what I'm saying with this?
Where you're like, well, come on, dude.
Then fucking, like, help out a little bit.
Do something, you know?
Like, if you get this, you didn't just figure this out on your own.
So, you know, I'm just saying, Elon, like, then really lean into it if that's the case.
Then, then, you know, the Mises Institute or the Mises Caucus or one of us, like, I'm just saying, like, just a measly $100 million could really go a long way.
That's all I'm saying, Mr. Musk.
100 mil.
That's all I'm asking for.
That wouldn't even, you wouldn't even notice it if you gave that up.
Just donate a cool 100 mil to the Mises Institute or the Mises Caucus.
50-50, 50 mil to them, 50 mil to the caucus.
That'd be fine with me.
And we could really let a lot of people know about that truth that you just, you know, dropped on whatever interview this was.
So there's my message to Elon Musk.
You're right.
You're not quite precise enough, but you know what?
You're getting there.
And we want $100 million.
You're a Koch brothers.
Yeah.
Yeah, but they got corrupted along the way.
So we're going to.
I mean, I'll preach electric.
I fucking hate gas cars.
We got to go to Mars tomorrow.
Upload our intelligence into computers.
You know, put things into pigs.
Microchip everybody.
I'm on board.
Elon, more, more, more things up in space.
I'll tell you, I thought I was trying to make a sale, but you really leaned in.
Okay, Rob will shill for you.
And this is all, this is included in your $100 million donation.
That's all we're at.
But only if he acts now.
It's a limited time only.
Well, there you go.
Okay.
So that's right.
You kind of get what I'm saying with this, right?
It's like, you're a powerful person.
There's something that, like, did you see when Jack Dorsey just tweeted Anatomy of the State?
That's pretty cool.
Yeah, he just tweeted the link.
He didn't say anything.
He just tweeted the link to the article, Anatomy of the State, at the Mises, at the Mises Institute.
Just tweeted it out.
Like, you know, whatever the link at MisesOrg.com.
Did he really?
Yeah.
That's pretty wild.
And everyone's like, oh, the libertarians are like, holy shit, what's going on?
And then he just like kind of moved on with his life and kept going.
And then got out of Twitter and now he doesn't run it anymore or whatever.
But you're like, dude, he's going all in on Bitcoin.
But you're like, dude, come on.
Like, if you know this, then fucking help out a little bit.
Jesus Christ, do something.
This is why it almost makes my spidey senses go off a little bit.
It's like, are you fucking with me?
Is this like a fucking, is this a trap?
I actually think these guys have big jobs, big positions, and partly is they don't want to ruin their lifestyles and their money.
But I also think that they have their ideas of how they can advance.
Like for Elon, I think he actually is trying to get people to Mars.
Now, I'm not saying Elon's the most honest actor, but you know, we're pitching him here.
So full support for me, Elon.
No, but he wants, he wants this guy's about to give me $100 million, Rob.
No, he's a pure capitalist.
And so he's working on his inventions and he doesn't want to get anything in the way of him being able to do his inventions and investing in us would not do that.
And Dorsey also, I think he's trying to advance crypto.
So, you know, they're trying to do what they can.
But they should be giving us more money.
I agree with you.
I want to do that much.
I just want a measly $100 million.
And by the way, I'm not even going to do anything selfish with the money.
I mean, maybe a couple mil, but I'm not even going to do anything that selfish.
I'm going to promote the message.
No, they'll be able to live more freely with their point of view because we're going to make it more popular.
So in the current environment, they can't walk around and just enjoy their libertarian perspectives without people thinking that they're crazy.
Now, you're going to give us money.
We're going to get out there.
We're going to educate people.
We're going to make this whole liberty thing cool.
And then you guys can be the heads of it and everyone will like you.
You give me 100 mil.
I promise you we will make a major dent in the culture in terms of people being willing to identify as libertarian for whatever that's worth.
But I do think there is something to what you're saying that, and this is kind of like a Randian objectivist perspective, I suppose, but I do have some of this where I think that these giant corporations are poisoned by government.
And don't get me wrong, many of them, there's lots of them who themselves do the poisoning of government, but a lot of them become these evil crony capitalists.
But it's not because they necessarily want to.
It's because the government creates this system where they're just almost strong-armed into it.
You know, and I think about this with the social media companies where this really, I don't think was like the goal of a lot of these guys.
I don't think this is what they were trying to be.
I mean, I remember back in 2015, 2016, you could say anything you wanted to on social media.
No one was worried about getting banned or censored or any of this stuff.
It wasn't until they started getting hauled in front of Congress and pressured and all of this that they started going, okay, fine, we'll do all of this.
It wasn't until the woke culture was completely shoved down their throats that they were like, okay, yes, we'll make sure no one's being transphobic or whatever on social media, you know?
And so I do think that a lot of these guys had actual like ambitious dreams about doing something positive.
And once they have all their money and they're kind of cashed out in a way, and they look at how like not what they wanted it to be their project has become, they get a little bit resentful.
And if those people happen to be intellectually curious and happen to start maybe reading some Rothbard or something like that, I think a lot of them are like, we want to shoot out a little signal or something like that.
And that doesn't mean they have the courage to actually follow through on that and do the right thing, but that is my guess is that that's what that's what's going on.
This is an incredibly nerdy reference.
Lord of the Rings, I didn't read the books because I don't read, but when I saw the movies, Brian, you might have to help me out here because you're better with names.
I think the evil guy was Sauron or something, but there's this great scene with Gandalf when he's telling the other wizard that he made a mistake because Sauron shares no power because there was the better wizard than Gandalf.
There's like the white wizard, and Gandalf goes to visit him to try and figure out how he can, you know, basically fight back against Sarin.
And then it turns out that he switched because he realized that Sarin was too powerful.
And so he's building an army for him.
That's what these corporations are.
Like they think that they can't oppose government.
So they just kind of like follow the agenda, but government doesn't really share power.
Then you just become a tool for it.
Wow.
I can't believe you've ever gotten laid.
But it doesn't happen often.
And I agree.
But I agree with you.
There's two points that I can't believe you've ever gotten laid, and evidently with attractive women.
And I know, but that you're absolutely right.
You're absolutely right.
That's what it is.
And that's the problem there.
It sucks.
It sucks these guys in.
You know, there's that, you know, Microsoft when they, in, I think it was around the year 2000, 1999, 2000, something like that, where the federal government really came after Microsoft under antitrust legislation for being a monopoly, you know, and they spent like almost nothing on lobbying before then.
They were just, well, why would you be lobbying?
You're making, you know, computer software.
And then after that, they spent a ton of money on lobbying, like tens of billions of dollars a year on lobbying.
And they've never had a problem again with the federal government.
And they, and so that's what you get, right?
That's what you get.
It's like this, this awful system where even when people want to just produce something of value in the market, they realize, well, it's just practically speaking.
It's like, well, no, that's not actually the right business play.
They pro they make they create these perverse incentives where you're like, well, actually, the practical thing to do here is to spend a whole bunch of money to keep the government off me.
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And so that's just one example.
But in these other examples, it's like it makes more sense.
It's almost the social version of that perverse incentive is to, you know, accept and endorse all of the approved social positions.
And so it's always like, I'm not saying any of these guys are good guys.
That is not my case here.
But I am saying that I think even if they appear to not be good guys, a lot of times that stuff might just be because that's what's these are the incentives that have been forced upon them.
Again, not an excuse, just saying, let's try to understand this stuff.
By the way, this just dawned on me, but I have gotten since the last episode me and you did, Rob, I have gotten so many messages.
I mean, probably dozens at least of messages of people who work for Amazon who have been like, listen, this shit that these lefties are saying is absolute nonsense.
Now, I don't know if this is true or not.
I want to get down to the bottom of this.
Okay.
I want to learn more about this.
So, anyone, send me any articles or pieces or evidence that you have.
But all of these left-wingers who are like, Do you know the conditions at Amazon?
These people are peeing in diapers and blah, blah, blah.
I've gotten all of these emails and messages and all the stuff from people who work for Amazon who are like, Listen, nobody's peeing in a diaper at Amazon.
Like, what?
They do a good job.
He's like, people just like, I don't know.
I mean, I get like 25, 26 bucks an hour.
It's not the best ever, but it's like, there's, there's an opportunity to move up the ranks and all of this.
And they're pretty consistent.
I got a lot of time off.
And I get, and there's people being like, the nightmare stories are not true.
And I don't know.
I don't know what it is, but I should, I should have probably researched this years ago, but I'm just now getting interested in this question.
And I will say that, like, yeah, this seems, it just seems to me like it's probably not true that people are wearing diapers at their job in America in 2021.
Maybe I'm wrong about that.
But so someone said something, fuck, goddamn it.
I'm blanking on it.
But someone said one thing to me when they messaged me where they were like, well, listen, here's the thing.
Amazon limits the number of hours that truckers are allowed to like work.
So it's possible that people who have like gone over their hours don't want to take a bathroom break.
So they're like pissing in a bottle to like make sure they can clock as much money as they can.
But that's why it's not because the working conditions are so terrible or something like that.
So anyway, I'd be curious.
Someone send me an article.
Let me know what the hell is going on with all of that, but I don't know.
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Anyway, okay.
Where are we here on time?
All right.
We got another video.
We got one more video.
Let's play the next video.
What do we got here, Brian?
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Okay.
Dan Crenshaw.
He was at some weird Dan Crenshaw thing of neocon freaks with someone smoking a cigar in the corner.
All right, let's play.
Supporting these two.
There's actually other veterans in Morgan's race.
There's other frontrunners.
So why support these two?
Well, because I've been in Congress for almost three years now.
There's two types of members of Congress: there's performance artists and there's legislators.
Now, the performance artists are the ones that get all the attention.
They're the ones you think are more conservative because they know how to say slogans real well.
They know how to recite the lines that they know that our voters want to hear.
Let me tell you guys something.
In the first two years of Trump's presidency, when Republicans were in control, when every single time we were voting on Donald Trump's agenda, who do you think was at the top of that list voting with Trump?
And who do you think was at the bottom?
All right, let's pause it right here.
I apologize, the audio isn't that great.
I watched this earlier on Twitter, and as I'm listening to it in my headphones now, I realize the audio isn't that great.
But he's saying that, listen, there's two types of Republicans, says Dan Crenshaw.
There are the performance artists and there are the legislators.
Okay.
Now I could kind of understand that argument.
He's saying, listen, some people just look good in front of the camera and other people get down to brass tacks and write the laws that are going to make a difference.
Okay.
And all right.
That's where, that's where he'll start with this.
But then he says, you know, what I see from that is that you go like, oh, okay.
So there are people, you know, if you ask me, there are people who actually have principles and tell people about those principles.
And then there are the ones who completely compromise on everything that they claim to believe.
But he says, look, there are the legislators and these are the people who actually get down to business.
And then he goes, look, in Trump's first two years, we had control of everything.
Now, who do you think was at the top of this list?
And who do you think was at the bottom?
So that's where he's going.
All right, let's keep playing.
A lot of names you would recognize are at the bottom of that list.
A lot of names you would recognize are at the top of that list.
Number two, it's probably going to make you cringe a little bit.
It's Adam Kinsinger.
Voted with Trump almost 99%.
He was number two.
But it was at the bottom.
Everybody in the Freedom Caucus.
All of them.
What you hear so often is not true.
It's not true.
We have thrifters in our midst.
Not here, not like in this room.
That's not what I mean.
I mean in the conservative movement.
Lie after lie after lie because they know something psychologically about the conservative part.
We're worried about what people are going to do to us, what they're going to infringe upon us.
Okay.
So can I tell you, first of all, what I kind of love about that is how uninterested the audience seems to be.
Like, can you imagine, Rob, if me and you were saying something at one of our live shows and the audience gave us that reaction, we'd both, we'd get back to our hotel that night and be like, fuck, that show sucked.
We were saying something we really believed in and no one gave a shit.
But anyway, so he's going, listen, there were these people when Trump was in and the Republicans had, and he's right, the Republicans at the House and the Senate and the presidency.
And they're like, now's the time.
Let's get some shit done.
He goes, there were those people who were down to legislate.
And then there were the people who just wanted to like talk shit.
And he goes, you know, who was down at the bottom who was not voting with us?
Was the Freedom Caucus?
And he says, all of them.
And by that, he means the Liberty Republicans.
That's what they're known as.
Now, I am not a Liberty Republican, as some may know.
I am a member of the Libertarian Party.
But Tom Massey is fucking awesome.
Yeah.
Like, if we're going to talk about what he's talking about, many people here, but he's talking about Rand Paul and Thomas Massey and at the time, Justin Amash.
And okay, he's going to say that, well, these guys weren't always voting with Trump.
But the real legislators were always voting with Trump at least 99% of the time.
They were voting with Trump.
But then you go, like, voting for what?
For what?
What the fuck are you even talking about?
So you're telling me that the Freedom Caucus, most of whom got elected on the wave of the Tea Party, which was, you know, which was swept in with the idea that we were going to cut government spending, that we were going to rein the federal government's control of our lives in, which, you know, maybe now after COVID and all of this, you guys might think that, you know,
the government not having so much control of your life is fairly important.
Okay.
So those people wouldn't just support Trump blindly.
I mean, maybe that's not because they're just trying to be like, you know, stars on TV.
Maybe that's because Donald Trump wasn't supporting any of the things that they had run and won election on.
You know, for all those people who there was like, hey, here was the time, here are the people who really got behind Donald Trump and voted with him 99% of the time.
And what exactly did you guys get for that?
What was it?
This is the thing that's so infuriating about just supporting the Republican establishment.
What do you get for that?
Like you, actually, what did you get for that?
Like, okay, I know there were like a few decent things.
By the way, the few decent things that Donald Trump did, the Freedom Caucus did support.
Like the tax cuts, the Freedom Caucus supported that.
But even those tax cuts fucking sucked.
Why is it that we have to?
Why is it that like, if, you know, like, if you're a libertarian who's trying to pitch someone on being in the Republican Party or something like that, why is it that you have to buy into this?
Like, well, we just have to, you know, whatever we can, whatever we can muster up, you got to support that thing.
Whereas that, when, when the left-wingers like get in and when the Democrats take control, they march forward.
Why am I even like, I don't want, this is why I'm not a Republican.
I don't want to be a part of a party who's saying, hey, we think we should cut top corporate marginal tax rates by 15%.
And then the other side flips out and they go, oh my God, this is so draconian.
I want to get in there.
I want to have a party who says, whether they get it done or not, I want to have a party who says, abolish the IRS, abolish them, because they're an abomination.
That's what I want to have.
And then let's, then maybe we meet in the middle after that.
Okay, fine.
That's my starting point.
Maybe we meet in the middle and I don't get that completely done, but like I'll meet in the middle after that.
Abolish the IRS because they're evil.
Abolish public schools, abolish the Federal Reserve, abolish the war on drugs, like whatever it might be.
You know what I mean?
And then let's see.
I'll vote for that.
Who wants to line up and vote?
I'll vote.
Okay.
But the idea that this guy, Dan Crenshaw, this war hawk who supports the war in Afghanistan or supports the wars in everywhere, right?
It says that it's really, we really never should have pulled back on any of these things.
That he's going to go, well, there are these people who didn't vote with Trump 99% of the time.
Well, yeah, Trump's a war criminal.
Trump was a bigger spender than Obama was.
Trump, like, yeah, exactly.
So they won't vote with him.
There's no badge of honor to voting with him 99% of the time.
Screw that.
I don't know.
Anything to add, Rob?
Yeah, screw that guy.
Yeah, there we go.
All right.
Well, that's our episode for today.
Screw that guy.
Screw Dan Crenshaw.
All right.
Well, you know, you shouldn't screw.
Well, you can if you can screw me if you're a lady, but if you're a dude, don't screw me.
But you can go to robbythefire.com/slash shows, pick up some tickets.
And then also, great Soho Forum coming up with the Angela McArdle debating vaccine policies.
Oh, shit.
Yeah.
I don't know when this is going to be out, but that's tomorrow night.
That debate.
But if you missed it, go check it out.
Go check it out.
It might be out in the afternoon.
And then if not, they put out the podcast.
So people should still check it out.
Yes.
Listen, thesohoforum.org.
And yes, Angela McArdle is going to go rep all of us, the next chair of the Libertarian Party.
And she'll be on our show real soon.
We're trying to work out a date.
Oh, yeah.
To get her on.
Yeah.
So absolutely right.
And also, if you are a guy and you go to one of Rob's shows, you can screw him.