Dave Smith and Robbie Bernstein dissect the "Omicron Hype," labeling media panic as hysteria given only one death among 12,000 NYC cases. They critique Joe Biden's failing approval ratings and Kamala Harris's defensive response to Charlamagne the Great regarding whether she or Joe Manchin is the "real president." While mocking Trump's unsupported vaccine claims and the administration's border policies, they argue that political desperation drives mandates, ultimately suggesting current leadership relies on fear rather than logic. [Automatically generated summary]
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Here's your host, Dave Smith.
What's up, everybody?
Welcome to a brand new episode of Part of the Problem.
I am Dave Smith, and I am as happy as a clam.
Is that the saying?
Happy as a clam.
I like it.
Is it?
Are clams happy?
Till they get it.
I don't remember.
Yeah, till they get it.
I wouldn't be happy if I was a clam, but I am happy because I've got my partner in crime back with me for this episode.
The one and only king of the caulks, COVID Jesus, Robbie the Fire, Bernstein, fresh off tour.
How are you doing, my brother?
I got it out.
My friend Gus Cantervo directed it.
I don't know if you pronounce his last name right.
Man, I got to do a better job with names, especially when he's your director.
Pretty big thing for you.
No, no, no.
He did a great job.
He came out.
We got it.
It's up.
The grand misinformation spectacular.
Catch it before YouTube takes it down.
They just struck my channel once again, so it's not going to last.
Well, congratulations, dude.
It was so good.
I'm really proud of you.
And yeah, I highly recommend people check it out.
Do you have it backed up somewhere else?
I will be putting it up on my website and probably other places, but at the moment, YouTube.
All right.
We got to fucking get on our game.
We got to get over on Odyssey or one of these other fucking platforms where we're not going to get taken down.
But yeah, that's hot in our tails, Dave.
Huh?
They're hot in our tails.
Yeah.
No, they are.
It's a matter of time.
Anyway, yeah, hey, before we get into this episode, I also wanted to mention that I am tomorrow, not tomorrow, the day after tomorrow.
So what is it?
Thursday night.
Got another debate.
I got another debate.
Man, you're debating everybody.
By the way, I'm back into debates, bro.
I'm in the debating mood.
This one I'm really looking forward to.
I'm debating Spike Cohen on immigration.
And Spike is fantastic.
He was the vice presidential candidate for the Libertarian Party.
He's been on the show a couple of times.
He's, I believe, I don't actually even know for sure, but I believe he's an open borders advocate.
I'll be advocating not for open borders and for some common sense immigration restrictions and from the libertarian perspective.
And I'm really excited about this because Spike's really smart and has a lot of integrity is a really good dude.
And it'll be a really, I think this will be a good opportunity for me to kind of like present my libertarian case on why libertarians should not support open borders while getting pushback from like a really smart, really good libertarian.
And anyway, Spike stepped up when that Alex guy from Cato bailed after we had all that money raised.
So good for him for coming in and doing this.
We'll be doing that on the Lines of Liberty show where I like to do my debates.
It'll be available, I believe, live for patreons of Mark Claire's.
And then it'll be up for everyone like within a couple of weeks.
But yeah, go check that out and support the Lines of Liberty because they're a great show.
You were just doing some stuff with Mark in Mexico.
Probably not legal in the States.
What?
Probably not legal in the States, what you were doing.
No, that guy parties.
He's a good time.
Yeah, Mark's a great dude.
And yeah, and he has a great show.
So anyway, so looking forward to that.
Yeah, I got another debate coming up.
We haven't set the date yet, but I'm going to be debating Scott Greer, who's like a right-winger.
And I'm going to be debating him on the police.
I don't know exactly what the resolution is, but I'll be on the I don't like them side of that resolution, whatever that is.
I'll be on the not a fan side of the police debate.
And yeah, I'm down to do a couple more of these.
I really, as I have said, I really like doing these debates, even when they just become more kind of like, you know, contentious discussions.
And I mean contentious in like the sense of like, you know, being nasty, just like disagreeing kind of like with these discussions.
I want to do a few more of them.
I put out today that I'm down to do.
If there's like critics of the Libertarian Party Mises caucus within the LP, I'd like to do one more of those, but not a loser brigade type, you know, not like an insane, like, I think you're, you're Hitler, like, but like a real, so if there's someone of substance who wants to debate that, I think I have a couple leads on that, so not sure yet.
And then I'm down just to do some more.
I want to get a few more of those lined up.
I'm in the mood.
I got to ask that debate you just did.
Wait, what's the name?
I already forget his name.
Nick Fuentes.
I just debated.
Yes.
I have to go watch that in its entirety.
The clips that I caught were great.
How did you keep your cool for 25 minutes of the nonsense that they had you on for before it started?
Well, it wasn't quite 25 minutes.
I would have lost my damn mind.
I was, I'll tell you, I was getting a little annoyed with it.
I was, I will be honest with that, where it was like racist Christmas songs while you're just sitting there.
Yeah, you're like, all right, dude, like, what are we doing here?
Are you, you know, but evidently it was like that Nick was having like fucking internet issues with getting the stream on his channel or whatever.
So, but at first, I was like, I helped you.
I helped you practice for keeping your cool and mitz-tech issues before you got into an episode.
You're welcome, David.
Boy, boy, did you.
You made me a pro at it.
But yeah, but I'll tell you, though, I did.
I thought that was a worthwhile thing and I enjoyed the experience.
I've gotten a really positive response from that.
So I think that was worth it.
Nationalists love you, Dave.
We know that already.
Yes.
Yeah, they do.
As they should.
I am their Jewish savior.
So I'll get in trouble no matter what happens there.
But I did, I did find it interesting and somewhat enlightening on the kind of where we differ from the kind of more hard right-wing types.
Anyway, so there's a few things that are on my mind today.
It's almost Christmas.
We are just a few days away from the choice.
Of course, it is.
It's every Jew's favorite holiday.
You return everything out for Hanukkah, get yourself one good Christmas gift.
That's right.
Cash it in for a Chinese food dinner.
But it is a big deal, not only to the Christian religion, but also to just America.
It's a big part of American culture.
And we're in this very interesting place once again with the COVID insanity.
So, okay, two things that are just on my mind.
Nationalism And Capitalism00:03:25
And I'm not even sure exactly how I'm going to relate these to everything, but they're just two stories.
One that I lived through, one that's a historical story that, I mean, I was alive, but I didn't live through it.
They're not Christmas.
No, they're not.
Neither of them had to do with Christmas, although one has to do with Christianity, Catholicism, more specifically.
So in 1989, I believe, correct me if I'm wrong on the year, fucking kill me on Twitter for this.
But the Pope visited the Soviet Union.
I believe it was definitely the late 80s and shortly before the collapse of the Soviet Union.
And I don't know how much you know about the history of the communists, Rob, but they were not big fans.
Yeah, there you go.
Well, the communists were not big fans of religion.
They really squashed it.
And at a point, I mean, at the height of Soviet power or at their worst, you know, Stalinist point, like you had to have like pictures of Stalin in your house.
And basically, the state became the religion, you know.
And a lot of these kind of like, you know, the popular opinion, or at least the opinion that was put out there by a lot of powerful people, was that the communists had kind of like recreated this communist man that was, it wasn't like the capitalist man.
Like they didn't care about incentives and they didn't care about, you know, who got paid more or paid less.
Yes, it was 89.
Got it right.
And they that, you know, nationalism and capitalism and all these evil forces had been kind of rooted out of them because they were about communism.
They were about, you know, serving the greater purpose of the Soviet Union, of the revolution.
And the Pope came to visit.
This is finally as the Soviet Union was getting very weakened toward the end of their reign, and they allowed the Pope to come visit.
And hundreds of thousands of people came out to see the Pope.
And they say there were a bunch of people who basically lived there who claimed that this was a big turning point in the history of the Soviet Union, where it's not just that the Pope came, but it's that people came out to see him.
And then they saw how many people were there to see them.
And they kind of realized that it's like, oh no, it's not just me.
I'm not the only one who secretly had these beliefs, but is afraid to say them because they don't want to get squashed by the authoritarian state.
They realize there was a lot of people who still had these human impulses, these like very basic desires.
And of course, after they claimed that all this nationalism, you know, and kind of like identity separate from Pravda, like this identity separate from the Soviet Union and the Marxist global revolution, you know, when the Soviet Union collapsed, right away people started identifying as, you know, Ukrainians and, you know, Estonians and like all of these forces came right back.
Fireworks Everywhere00:04:43
They hadn't been crushed at all.
They were always there.
They were just kind of driven underground, you know.
And it's easy to, you know, you see, even today with the internet and all that, it's a lot harder.
But you can imagine when you had none of this type of like power to communicate, it's very easy to give this impression that no, this isn't how people are.
People have completely accepted the narrative, but that's not necessarily the case.
You know what I mean?
Like, there's actually, people are different in real life than the way they're portrayed on a screen or on, you know, a radio broadcast or whatever.
So that's just one story.
The other story I was just thinking about recently, July 4th, 2020.
And I know I told this story on the podcast before, but I was just thinking about it the other day.
So I don't know if you remember, Rob, but so the 4th of July, 2020, you know, the COVID insanity starts in March.
This is now a few months out.
If you remember, they had said this was getting to the summer.
We had already kind of figured out what COVID was.
We had kind of figured out, at least me and you had.
I don't know if everybody had, but there was, you know, this was still a time where the insanity, I guess it's just as high right now in different ways, but at least the insanity of the time looking back at it now is very blatant for everyone.
But if you remember, they were writing these like freak out pieces like, oh my God, these kids are doing, you know, like beach activities.
Like there's like, oh my God, there's 19-year-olds going down to Miami and partying at the beach.
Everyone's going to die.
You know, like we were still living in that.
It was still a time.
Son and leave the house.
Yes, exactly, which is the worst thing you can do for COVID, of course.
This is still a time when an MSNBC reporter would be pointing out some guy and being like, look at this guy.
He doesn't have a mask outside.
And then that guy would be like, your cameraman doesn't have a mask.
Like, you know, it was that world.
And they came out and they banned in the tri-state area, they banned fireworks.
So you weren't allowed to have any fireworks, no, no firework shows on the 4th of July.
And we were talking about it at the time, how just kind of like vindictive it seemed.
You know what I mean?
Like you're like, I mean, fireworks, like, come on.
I mean, you can easily be socially distanced and outside and do fireworks.
Like, there's of all the things you're taking away from people.
And if you can remember in 2020, you know, from March, April, you know, May, June, July, what they had taken away from people was everything.
And you're like, you can't let them have this.
So they took it away.
And there were, and I'll tell you from my home where you can see, like, you can kind of see the water and you can see the whole like skyline and like everything.
And there were fireworks everywhere.
It was your dog's worst nightmare, which, by the way, sucks for the dog.
Not that actually is pretty fucked up.
I was also a little bit like my at the time, you know, daughter was pretty young.
She was trying to sleep.
Luckily, slept through it somehow, but I was pretty sure she was going to wake.
But I'm talking about like every neighbor's backyard.
It wasn't one big firework show like it usually is.
It was everyone like doing their own little fireworks.
But if you looked over Staten Island, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, it was just fireworks everywhere, like little puny ones.
You know what I mean?
Not like the big shows because all of those were shut down, but it was all.
And it was this beautiful moment of like American rebellion.
And I just loved it.
It was like one of my, like, I don't know.
I almost get choked up thinking about it.
It was like one of the most beautiful moments.
Was truly the spirit of a free people just being like, no, we don't buy this.
And it was, it was, it reminded me of the Pope visiting the Soviet Union.
Like you're seeing this on the TV every day and you're seeing this come down from the officials every day, but then you look around and you're like, no, no, no, no.
Everyone here is giving the middle finger to this whole thing in their own way.
Different people, you know, different religions, different traditions, different, you know, like backgrounds, different, you know, politics, different professions, everything.
But all of them were like, you know what?
We like to blow shit up in the sky on the 4th of July.
The Middle Finger Reality00:17:39
That's a thing that we're into.
So we're going to do it.
And you won't stop us from doing that.
And I don't know.
There was just something about that that kind of gave me some hope.
I really liked it.
Okay.
I'll try to make a connection from these stories into the moment we're in right now.
I just, both of them were on my mind and I felt like telling them.
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All right, let's get back into the show.
So let's get into what's happening right now.
Omicron.
It's taking over everything and everyone's flipping out and they're telling you, oh my God, I mean, Biden gave a speech the other day about a lot of people are wondering whether they can have Christmas or not.
You know, Fauci was like, yeah, I really don't know about celebrating Christmas.
I mean, unless you're triple vaxxed and quadruple masked and all of this.
And you're like, dude, this is, it is December of 2021.
And you're telling, we're still, we're still going to have this conversation.
But I guess the connection from that story, those two stories that I was telling is that this isn't real.
This isn't real life.
And what is real life is that Americans are going to celebrate Christmas.
And that's happening.
And that kind of gives me some hope.
That's a white pill to me.
I also, I got a hot take here that if you're blinking, it's because you don't really want to live your life.
I saw outside the bars said, hey, not that I ever went in there because I got a COVID sign up, but they said that like because of Omnicron, we're closing.
If you're a business and you're closing because of Omni, you don't really want to be open.
You're not really in the game.
You know why?
You stay open so you don't lose your customers to the bar down the street that will stay open.
All of a sudden you lose a regular.
You tell your staff, hey, who does want to show up?
You find a way to stay open.
If you're still spooked by this thing and you're closing your business, you're not making your family plans, like you got to take a look in the mirror.
You don't want to live life.
You don't actually want to run a business.
You don't actually want to see your family.
You're looking for any excuse to shell up.
It's got nothing to do with this Corona anymore.
Yeah.
No, I think, I think there's, I think that's absolutely right.
It's absolutely right.
And people have, but I'll tell you, there is, it's like, there's, look, it's, it's kind of like a mental illness that's swept across the country and the world.
And I suppose that those two things aren't unrelated, right?
Like it could be a mental illness, and the people who don't want to live their lives or who already didn't want to do it might be more prone to it.
But I saw Tom Woods, I just saw this because Tom Woods retweeted it, but it was so funny to me.
A bunch of people were dunking on this guy on Twitter, but it was some journalist or whatever.
And he said he was, he had plans to get on a plane with his baby to go see his family for Christmas, but because his baby's unvaxed, he just couldn't risk it.
And so he decided to drive 10 hours instead.
And he was like, give me some good podcast recommendations because I'm just going to drive 10 hours instead of getting on this plane.
And then all of these people were just posting like the stats of how much more risky it is to take a baby on a 10-hour drive than expose him to, you know, even if he got COVID, like it's more risky to take a 10-hour drive.
And it was just, I don't know, it was a fun time, but it just kind of was a great little, you know, just an anecdotal demonstration of the mental illness that has swept over people.
Like it's like, dude, this is you're, you're a crazy person right now.
You're behaving like a crazy person.
Where you get to show off how careful you are.
Like, think about punk rock versus an adult showing off how fucking careful he is because of a government mandate or government perception of some fucking virus.
Move on.
Well, it's, it's funny because I think that, you know, like, if you watch like a really good boxer, or if you watch, or it's true in MMA too, but particularly really good boxers, like one of the things that's impressive about them, like if you're a real amateur style fighter, what people tend to do, like if someone throws punches at you, is you kind of like lean back.
You know what I mean?
Like, it says, and that's, that's a lot of times if you watch just like street fight videos on on YouTube or on World Star Hip Hop or something like that, a lot of times when people, they get knocked out like that because they're just like leaning back because that's your instinct, you know, is like, get the hell out of there.
But that's actually leaves you wide open.
And we see really good boxers, they kind of stay right in the pocket.
They're just kind of like, know how to like just handle punches being, it's like Floyd Mayweather, right?
Like just knows how to stay right in there.
And people throw these crazy flurries at him and he just does little things and little and protects himself.
And there's something about being in the middle of the storm and staying right in the pocket.
And we, I've just been through these moments a lot with where there's this kind of like government-led, media-led hysteria.
But I've just been through this so many times that you're like, okay, let me just stay in the pocket and see exactly what's going on here.
Like I'm not freaking out over this.
I'm not like, oh my God, punches are coming at my face.
Like, all right, let's, let's talk.
I remember being on, it was one of the clips that there were a few, but one of the clips that went like super viral when I was on Essie Cup show was like, it was like right after there were several clips in this moment.
So it may not be the one you're thinking of.
It wasn't the biggest one, but it was one of the other ones right after Assad gassed his own people.
And she's just grilling me to bend the knee on this.
And she's like, come on, if Assad gassed his own people here, I mean, Dave, you got, then we got to go to war with Assad.
Like we have to.
And I just said that.
And everyone in the media was freaking out so much.
And I'm like, yeah, but Essie, you know, Donald Trump announced he's leaving Syria two weeks ago.
And then Assad does the one thing that will guarantee that we don't leave.
Like, I just, this doesn't seem like it happened, you know?
And she's like, oh, what do you mean it didn't happen?
All the experts are saying it happened.
And like, even if it didn't happen, well, let's just say it did happen.
Then you have to admit that we go to war with them.
Right.
And I was like, well, I mean, even if it did happen, what's the difference between gassing your own people and just shooting your own people?
You know, you know what I mean?
Like, just like, let me stay right here and I'm going to think this through logically.
I'm not going to fall into this hysteria.
And I try to do this with all of like every little point.
And there's no question right now we're in the middle of one of these hysterical moments.
You know, so Omnicron, Omicron, Omicron, this new, like, let's get into the details of it, right?
Let's just be completely brutally honest here.
There, no one's dying of it.
Like as of now.
I'm not saying no.
When I say no one, very few deaths.
So there's been hysteria over, say, New York, right?
Which is they'd already, you know, weeks ago declared a state of emergency.
They're shutting things down left and right.
Everyone's going nuts.
I mean, look, and look, cases are skyrocketing.
Just the other day, New York City was up 12,293 cases in a single day, Rob.
Okay.
12,293 new cases.
Deaths, one.
Okay.
Now, okay, deaths lag behind a little bit, new cases.
So expect that number to be a little bit higher in the next couple of weeks.
But man, I mean, there is really no evidence that this thing is much worse than the cold right now.
It's just not.
And in fact, there's a lot of evidence that this is kind of under the best case scenario, which we've been saying is quite possible with this new variant, you would expect this thing to be more contagious, less deadly, right?
So what we've seen so far is evidence that's very, very contagious.
Let's see.
People have, we have not had deaths in large numbers over this new variant.
That's, to me, the appropriate way to look at this right now.
Oh, this might actually be things getting substantially better.
But of course, the response right now is absolute hysteria.
Absolute hysteria.
We need to shut things down again.
And we need to, what do we need to insist on?
That everybody gets vaccinated.
Well, now we need to get vaccinated, even though all of the evidence seems to point to the fact that probably the vaccines aren't going to do too much for this new cold.
You notice, or at least I've noticed they've stopped stating numbers.
Their newest claim is: well, we just need you to be as protected as possible, as much immunity as possible, without any criteria for, well, how much protection is this going to offer me?
What are my risks?
Like, at least before they were lying about your numbers because they weren't telling you the absolute risk, they were telling you the relative risk.
But now they won't even lie about numbers.
Like, they don't even have a specific claim.
It's just, well, we need everyone to be, which doesn't that sound religious?
You just got to put in as much effort as possible.
You just got to take as much vaccine as possible.
Yes.
No, that's that's just the given that it's like, okay, well, look, fear, so vaccine.
Now, we don't need to make a logical argument for why this much as you can.
That's right.
And it is, it is really something.
And you watch it kind of, you know, like how it unfolds and how it kind of like goes from the like, you know, boosters are kind of just floated out there.
And then as soon as there's the big moment where they scare you, well, of course, we got to do this.
But it's funny because it's never, it's like people are hysterical and they're not thinking.
Like that guy who took his baby on a 10-hour drive instead of taking the flight, that guy's being, you know, like he's, he's just insane.
He's in a moment of insanity.
But his baby probably sucks, so he spared the other passengers.
I don't even think they should have baby flight.
Like it's like smoking, non-smoking.
They should have specific baby flights where you can deal with other babies and everyone can cry their asses off or give me a cheaper ticket because I'll ride the baby flight and I'll deal with your stupid baby.
Yeah, you're still, Rob, you're still going to end up on the baby flight.
I know you.
You're a cheap Jew.
You're going to end up on the baby flight anyway.
And I'll tell you.
And I'll sit on the seat the whole time complaining, what the fuck is with all these babies?
And like, well, you could have bought the non-baby flight.
You know, Rob, it was 15 bucks more for the non-baby flight.
And you're like, yeah, but 15 bucks.
I mean, that might come in handy.
That's fucking two drinks at the airport.
Yeah, that's two.
That's one drink at the airport, buddy.
So I don't know when you, I don't know if you're going to an airport in the 80s, but that's one drink at the airport.
Look, I'm just saying that guy's being crazy.
But the people promoting this stuff in the corporate press and in the, you know, in our government, they're not.
I mean, they're being crazy, but they're being crazy in a very specific way.
You know, it's like the same thing.
It's like, well, oh my God, we're scared of terrorism.
So then, oh my God, we're so crazy that we got to go to war with the person who we wanted to go to war with before the terrorists attack.
You know, it's like, oh, my God, we're so scared of this new variant that we need you to do the thing we were trying to get you to do right before this new variant.
It's not as if there isn't clearly an underlying like motivation, an underlying agenda here.
And so, yes, that's where they're going that we need, you just need to get more vaccines.
But look, this is the truth is that we don't know.
We just don't know.
We don't know exactly what this new variant is going to end up being.
And we really don't know if the vaccines are going to do almost anything to help against them.
They're claiming that they think Moderna will do a little bit.
It's funny how they're even bailing off that.
Like they're even, even the powers that be are like, yeah, Johnson and Johnson probably won't do anything.
And Pfizer, no, no, no, no, but Moderna will still like kind of give you something.
You know what I mean?
Like they're, but we, we really don't even know if that's true.
We don't know how deadly this thing is going to be.
We just have no way of knowing.
And so in the moment of having no way of knowing, the reaction is, well, let's panic.
It's really, there's something sad about it.
And it's like this thing that they're projecting onto the American people is that we ought have no courage.
You know, we ought to just panic at the first sight that things might go bad and give up life.
You know, these things that they can downplay and act like it doesn't mean anything.
But like, I don't know, especially, I think it's like the older I get and having kids and, you know, it just like it makes you realize.
I don't know.
I look at things a little bit differently.
And it's like the idea of like giving up these things, giving up a Christmas with your family.
That's like, that's not nothing.
That's everything.
That's everything that you'd be willing to give that up.
You don't know this might, you know, like life is not without risks.
We are all going to die.
I tell you, that's something.
That is one thing you get very intimately familiar with when you have kids.
You get very like in touch with that reality.
It's one of the first things I remember thinking about when I had my daughter and when I had my son.
And it's something that stays in your mind when you have kids that you're like, it's like you kind of like realize all the time.
Like it's when I first had both of them, it was right at the front of my mind, but it's always kind of a little bit closer.
Like the idea that you're going to die, I think is always in the back of your mind.
But when you have kids, it like moves up toward the front.
And when you first have them, it's right at the front and then it just stays a little bit closer to the front of your mind.
But you realize that it's like, yeah, I'm going to die.
I'm going to not be here at some point and they'll be here still.
And that's my goal is to make sure they're okay then.
Like I have to take care of them while I'm still here.
But ultimately, my goal is to make sure that even without me, they could still be taken care of.
Like that's, and you hope that's not for a while, but like we're going to die.
There's no risk-free life.
Bad things are going to happen.
We're going to be hurt.
We're going to be sick.
We're going to die.
All of these things are going to happen.
But you have to be able to face that with some amount of courage.
And like, okay, that's going to happen, but I still want to enjoy the time that I have here.
And sacrificing a Christmas with your family is like, dude, you don't know what the fuck's going to happen.
You could, even if you're so scared of the COVID, then maybe that's the reason why you can't sacrifice a Christmas with your family.
Maybe this is your last.
Maybe like, that's not something unimportant.
That's the most important thing ever.
And it's, it's, it's painful to see that the people who are supposed to be at the top of the like hierarchy of leadership in our country are the ones telling you, oh, no, no, no, just sacrifice that because you might be a little bit safer.
And they're even telling old people, they're telling some 90-year-old, 90-year-old, don't see your family for Christmas this year, even though there's a very good chance you'll never have another Christmas with them.
It's like profoundly evil to give off that message.
But as I was saying at the beginning, the white pill in all of this is that that's not real life.
That's just, that's the fucking, you know, that's not what's going on behind the curtain.
That's the, you know, pay no attention to the man behind the curtain shit that's like on the screen.
That's not real life.
In the same way that like, you know, we've, I know we've mentioned this, but like how you could go, you could go like on a YouTube journey and you could watch a bunch of videos of like social justice warriors in on college campuses, like being like, this is a space for minorities and people of color and the white oppressors need to leave and you're white privilege, blah, blah, blah.
And then you listen to politicians like demagogue this shit all day long and all of that.
And then you could listen to like some alt-right guy talking about like a white ethno-state and all of this.
And you watch these videos and you're like, holy shit, this country's on the verge of a race war.
Battle The Propaganda00:03:08
And then you're like, fuck, I got to go to the supermarket.
And then you go to the supermarket and there's like some black dude there and he's like, you know, like, I don't know, he's like, goes to reach for the OJ when you go to reach for it.
And he's like, oh, sorry, you go first.
And you're like, oh, no problem.
No, you go ahead.
And you're like, okay, all right, have a good one.
And then you're really like, okay, maybe not.
Maybe we're not actually on the verge of a race war.
Like maybe none of that's real.
This is all kind of an illusion.
Just like the Pope in the Soviet Union or the fireworks on 4th of July.
I mean, none of this is real.
This is just what they're trying to convince you.
Like, this is just the shadows in the cave.
This isn't real life.
Like, then you step outside and you're in real life and you're like, oh, yeah, you know what?
This is all fucking, this is, this is way better.
And so all I'll say at this point, I really almost think that like the best way that you can just kind of like battle the propaganda is it's just kind of like, go do what you're going to do anyway and live your life and enjoy your life.
Don't let them, don't let them for a second convince you that you, you should sacrifice any of this shit.
It's unbelievable how profound a sacrifice they're asking for Americans.
It's like, oh, you know, we just, we're just asking you to give up yet another, you know, important holiday to you.
And I don't think it's just sacrificing a single holiday.
I can just talk to my personal experience.
I think there's like death to stopping.
And what I mean by, like, dude, if I don't have work, I sit at home, I eat cake, I jerk off all day.
Like, I need to get out of the house.
I need to keep moving.
And like, sometimes it's not that easy to establish good habits.
And once you kind of let bad habits take root, so it's like, you got to get out there.
You got to work.
Like, that to me is life.
And then even with family, I mean, there's some people that I stop seeing as often over Corona.
Like, I still like, I used to go to my sister's house most Sundays, try and play with her kids.
I never do that anymore because they got weird about Corona.
Now they're not as weird, but like, I just don't do that.
You know what I mean?
So it's like, if you stop celebrating family with your holidays with your family, like, don't just assume it's a one-off.
Like, sometimes you break things and then that's the end of it.
Like, you just don't really return to it.
So, you know, I don't think it's like as simple as, hey, you're just giving up a Christmas.
You're going to have a lifestyle, which is that you live life.
No, that's a really, that's a really excellent point.
It's a profound point.
I'm sure everybody knows that like has had a situation kind of like that, like something like, you know, a friendship that maybe you guys like got in a stupid fight over and stopped talking for a little bit.
And then you go like, okay, this was stupid.
Let's bury the hatchet, but you never quite get back to like where you were before that.
It's like, yeah, it's very hard when you break habits.
And that's, that's one of the really tragic things over the last, uh, what's good, you know, almost two years now.
That there are so many people who like tremendously altered their life to the point that it's like, I don't know if you'll ever exactly get back to where what you would have been or where you could have been if it wasn't for all this shit.
It's also a sucking cost fallacy.
You got to walk away from bad investments.
Some people are like, you know, there's some people that like took this hook on and sinker and they've stayed in their house, they listened, and like they so desperately, it's like having an investment on the table.
Breaking Bad Habits00:02:23
They so desperately want people like me to be punished for not listening and they want some type of an amazing reward for having been compliant because in their vision of life, like government's kind of God.
And so they've done good.
I've done evil.
I need to be punished.
They need to be rewarded.
And it's never happening.
It's not, it's not going to happen.
You're listening to people that don't have your best interests in mind and there is no reward for compliance.
I know you think there is because we all grew up like we went through school and it's got to listen to people and it's listen to the teacher and that's the importance.
And religion also, it's so much like you just got to listen.
You got to just got to like, whatever it says, you just got to do it.
And that's not the reality we live in.
Compliance does not give you rewards.
Yeah.
No, that's right.
Absolutely.
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Joe Biden Approval Ratings00:15:18
So I guess the other thing that's kind of going on here that I find to be a very interesting dynamic is that the Democrats and Biden particularly, the administration, is, I mean, they are drowning.
Like they're doing terrible.
And this is something that I find if you kind of zoom out and look at the bigger picture, this is really interesting.
Almost even beyond COVID or any of that, there's something just very interesting about what's going on right now with the current regime.
You know, Donald Trump was elected president because enough of the American people were just so fed up with the corruption of the status quo that they were like, give me the guy.
Okay, this guy who's just up there, just roasting everybody, just slamming all of them, give me that guy.
I'll support that guy because he's just like telling them all the fuck off.
I like that.
He's pissing off all he's pissing off all of the fucking like, you know, like yappy elitists and all these academics and the fucking like the journalists and the politicians.
They all hate him.
And he's like, yeah, you hate me.
Well, I fucking hate you too.
And they're like, give me that guy.
You know, like they were so pissed off at the Bushes and Clintons and Obama's.
And then the establishment, the corporate press was like, well, I think we should run another Clinton versus another Bush.
And they're like, are you fucking kidding me?
Well, I'll take Donald Trump, you know?
And then Donald Trump being in there, it's just like insanity every day, partly because he's insane and partly because the reaction to him is so insane.
And then 2020 is just the, you know, the most disastrous year in modern American history, despite what Nick Fuentez thinks it is, the most disastrous year in modern American history.
And then also they overhaul the way we do voting and there's vote by mail and it's a whole new system and all of this.
And so Joe Biden, almost like the embodiment of the establishment career politician, is able to be elected president, somebody who would never be president outside of those crazy circumstances.
But it's not as if it was like a real true like desire to return to the establishment status quo.
It was kind of just like, well, we're sick of this and this is insane.
So let's, I guess, the other guy, you know?
And now he's in there and Trump's gone.
And the establishment almost just has to stand before the American people again as nakedly the same.
Yes, another 40-year career politician, the guy who gave you all of this.
Not that Joe Biden is exactly that, but he embodies that in a lot of ways.
And it's kind of something to watch it.
I mean, his approval ratings are just terrible.
And he's just, it's just kind of everyone's looking around.
And whether it's the price inflation or the COVID policies or COVID itself or all of this stuff, everybody's just looking at it.
And it's like, man, these people are just, they're a disaster.
There was one poll that just came out.
Tucker Carlson was talking about this.
There was one poll that just came out that showed that Hispanic support for Joe Biden is in the 30s.
That's like, usually that'd be like, you know, the Republican dream would be to get like in the 30s for the Democrats to get 30s.
That's death.
That's like, you know, there's no way you could get elected with something like that.
They're really, I mean, this is a very bad situation and it's ripe for someone who's challenging the establishment to really rise up and like have an incredible moment.
So that's, you know, something to think about.
But anyway, I guess there's just a few things off of that premise that I'm thinking about.
Is that you?
You were mentioning this Kamala Harris video, which I hadn't seen.
But what was this?
We got to see the real Kamala, dude.
So, so Joe Manchin, he came out and said he's voting against this Biden spending package.
Yeah, which is a real blow to the Biden administration.
I'm sure they're furious about it because, man, they really need something.
At this point, they're really desperate to be like, can we hand out some checks?
Can we please hand out some checks?
Because we are drowning and everyone thinks this is bad.
And of course, this is what government knows.
It's like all they're capable of doing after they cause all of these problems is like, well, we got all this money that we can print up.
So can we give you a little bit of it to like, so you like us a little bit more?
Which, of course, is not a Democrat or Republican thing.
Trump was happy to do this in 2020 as well.
But so Manchin came out and voted against that.
And in many ways, he's kind of like the guy who they really need to get on their team to get be able to have the majority to get things passed.
But yeah, okay.
So tell me.
So that's that's the lead in.
So what this was on Charlemagne's podcast?
I mean, the finest journalist in all of America.
I mean, by the way, by the standard of journalists, he is up there.
He is.
I don't even know.
Dude, when was the last time you checked our Comedy Central?
I even realized the guy had a, I guess he's got a nightly show or something.
I don't even know.
I didn't know that either, but I know he does the, or he's done the morning show at a what is it?
The breakfast club or whatever.
He's done that.
And he's done the show with Schultz for a while.
I've met him a few times.
He's a nice enough guy.
And he's had some fun moments online.
But here, let's play the clip because I haven't seen this, but let's play the clip.
I want to know who's the real president of this country.
Is it Joe Biden or Joe Manchin?
I'm sorry.
I didn't want.
I interrupted.
I don't think the vice president can hear you.
It's the mom.
I'm so sorry, Charlamagne.
We have to.
She can hear me.
Can you hear me now?
Can you hear me, Madam Vice President?
You got to wrap.
So I'm sorry to interrupt.
They're acting like they can't hear me.
I can hear you.
I can hear you.
Who's the real president?
Wouldn't it be great if she can hear?
She could hear him that whole time.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Because this is what works with Biden.
Biden's not allowed to respond to questions.
But you know, like they always talk about the lizard people or the person in the room who's really running the show.
Wouldn't it be great if it was whoever that lady was?
Like that was actually the top lizard.
She goes, we're going to go.
We're going to rap.
Wow, that's so awkward.
Okay.
Oh, it gets better, dude.
Oh, I haven't seen any of this.
President of this country, is it Joe Manchin or Joe Biden?
Madam Vice President.
Come on, Charlemagne.
I really don't.
No, It's Joe Biden.
And don't start talking like a Republican about asking whether or not he's president.
Do you think Joe Manchin is a problem?
And it's Joe Biden.
And I'm vice president.
My name is Kamala Harris.
And the reality is because we are in office, we do the things like the child tax credit, which is going to reduce black child poverty by 50% on the fact to do that.
We do things that are about saying that our Department of Justice is going to do these investigations and require that we end chokeholes and have body cameras.
It is the work of saying we're going to get led out of pipes and paint.
Babies are.
So, first, I love her response of: hey, we're supposed to be playing for teams here.
Why are you talking like a Republican?
That shouldn't be her criticism.
It should be like, hey, what's going on?
I thought we're supposed to be filming propaganda together.
You're not supposed to be.
Yeah, really.
Why would you say something like that?
Which, obviously, from Charlemagne's perspective, it's not even a literal question.
It's kind of like a question of being like, ah, doesn't Joe Manchin kind of have the position where he's like in power now?
Like, it's so, it would be so easy to be like, if you were a somewhat charming person, it would be really easy to charm your way out of that.
It's really not that difficult of a thing.
Man, she is profoundly bad at this.
That she gets so clearly.
I don't know.
I don't think it's how, what could I say that's better than Donald Trump said?
Such a nasty woman.
Nasty woman.
You just saw the real her.
I'm sure every single time behind closed doors.
That's why the that's why she comes off so phony when she's putting on that smile and the slow talk.
Well, we just love kids.
And isn't the moon so beautiful, kids?
Don't you just wish you could go to the moon and walk around?
That's the real her.
The way that she just snapped on him, I'm sure behind closed doors, that's literally her tonality every time she opens her mouth.
Yeah.
Yeah.
All right.
Let's play the rest of it.
Wow.
Have body cameras.
It is the work of saying we're going to get led out of pipes and paint because our babies are suffering because of that.
It is the work of saying people who ride public transit deserve the same kind of dignity that anybody else does.
So let's improve the system.
Well, she's doing the now.
I'm going to be a liberal and make you feel guilty for having criticized me because you're on the side of evil if you would even ask me a question.
Look at all the good we're trying to do these days.
All the good.
All the good we're doing.
Okay.
We'll just play the last few seconds.
We have got to bring down prescription drug costs because folks who have diabetes should not be dying because they don't have enough money in their pocket.
It's about saying black maternal mortality is a real issue that must be treated by everybody, including the White House, as a serious issue.
I hear the frustration, but let's not deny the impact that we've had and agree also that there is a whole lot more work to be done.
And it is not easy to do, but we will not give up.
And I will not give up.
I just want you to know that Madam Vice President, that well, that's it.
That's the end of the clip.
Yeah, he starts getting real complimentary.
He moves around.
She goes, I like that fiery shit.
Good for you.
Thank you.
That's the real vice president.
I like it.
Jesus, really?
Wow.
Yeah, that's just so bizarre.
And of course, they all have this thing that politicians always do.
It's like, no matter how much they're obviously failing, they all have this kind of like list that they run down of the things they do.
It's, it's always so, well, we're, and we are actually making it so that people who ride public transportation have dignity.
It's like, what the fuck?
Like, what?
What does that even mean?
What do you, the hell are you talking about?
But they always have this kind of like, you know, this like bullet point list of what they're doing.
But look, there's just this is the problem.
And when I see that, what I see is like true weakness.
And I don't even mean this in some like, I'm not being an ideologue when I say this.
I'm not saying like, oh, look, look, I don't like governments and I don't like state authority and all of that.
Obviously, you know, people who listen to this show know that about me, right?
But that's really not what I'm saying.
What I'm saying is that even amongst people who wield state authority, this is not how you do that effectively.
This is not good.
People can see, you can't hide that this administration is doing very poorly.
By the way, I talked about how terrible Joe Biden's approval ratings are.
Hers are like substantially worse than his.
And this is, I think it's pretty obvious why.
I don't know.
Anything else you got on this, Rob?
Oh, no, I just like being able to see the real Kamala there.
Yeah, there you go.
All right.
Is there a, what else should we talk about?
Is there anything else about the significance you thought about Joe Manchin voting against this spending bill?
Well, I mean, the big thing is just it's crazy to support it.
And then it's crazy that they all are looking at him like, how dare you block our agenda?
And he's really, I mean, seems kind of reasonable to just go, I think we got to take a look at how we're trying to pay for this.
I think we're kind of above loony land in terms of what we're pretending to be able to afford.
And I guess it's almost incredible that more Democrats haven't stood with him or that I haven't really seen like a real pouring of support.
It seems like the Republicans only like it because now Biden's not moving forward with an agenda.
Like it seems like they actually don't care about the spending as much as that Biden just doesn't really look good.
And I would actually think that this might be a better opportunity to kind of really get out there and educate people on government overspending.
Well, that's not, you know, most of the Republicans are not really in a position to do that.
And as you said, they don't really care about that.
I mean, look, look what they did in 2020.
But it is something to say that I think even for, you know, even for your average, you know, Washington, D.C. congressional politician, even they might have to realize that like, look, spending levels have been insane for a very long time.
And in 2020, you kind of had this justification in their dumb minds, not a real justification that, like, well, I mean, I guess right now we just got to go nuts because, hey, this is so crazy.
But after you're going on like the second year of doing this, you're like, ooh, we really may not be able to keep this up.
And like, you know, you, you wonder sometimes we're like, there's half, you know, essentially the nature of politicians to a society is that they are a parasitic class.
And I mean, it's like, like literally, I mean, they get paid off of, you know, extracting the wealth of the society.
But in general, they do pretty well.
Like they're, they're successful parasites.
They're fat parasites, you know, who are eating pretty good.
But you would think if parasites have a brain like these ones do, they would go at a certain point.
You're like, you know, we don't want to kill the host.
That's not good for a parasite.
No, parasite doesn't want to kill the host because then, shit, parasite's in trouble too.
And so maybe there is some degree of that going on.
Successful Parasites00:12:45
I don't know.
I think you're probably right that most of this is just politics, but it is what becomes interesting is that, okay, so now you're in this position of where, you know, okay, the Democrats are just, this isn't like even when the corporate press would try to convince you the Trump administration wasn't going that good.
This is different.
This is like, this is an absolute disaster.
And we still kind of have no clue as to who the challenger is going to be or even who the Democratic nominee is going to be.
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And then here was one thing that I also found interesting.
So here's a video of Donald Trump from just the other day.
But look, we did something that was historic.
We saved tens of millions of lives worldwide.
We, together, all of us, not me, we.
We got a vaccine done, three vaccines done, and tremendous therapeutics like Regeneron and other things that have saved a lot of lives.
We got a vaccine done in less than nine months.
It was supposed to take from five to 12 years.
Because of that vaccine, because of that vaccine, millions and millions of people, I think this would have been the Spanish flu of 1917, where up to 100 million people died.
This was going to ravage the country far beyond what it is right now.
Take credit for it.
Take credit for it.
It's a great what we've done is historic.
Don't let them take it away.
Don't take it away from ourselves.
You're playing that, you're playing right into their hands when you sort of like, oh, the vaccine, if you don't want to take it, you shouldn't be forced to take it.
No mandates, but take credit because we saved tens of millions of lives.
Take credit.
Don't let them take that away from you.
Okay, so the president made new agree with that, right?
Both the president and I are vax and did you get the booster?
Yes.
I got it too.
Okay, so don't, no, no, no.
That's our very tiny group of us.
Okay, so I'm agreeing.
Yes.
It was a very, listen, I don't know if he's lying, but it was a weird pause for Trump before he said yes and then kind of go, yeah, I did, and then gets greeted with some booze.
And I just, look, I saw this as a very interesting moment.
Forget even how you feel about the vaccine or any of that.
I'm just telling you, I looked at this and I saw this as weak, like politically weak.
This is not a good thing, this doesn't work.
This doesn't work as like, yeah, no, that's a winning message.
That's a winning campaign.
I don't know if you remember.
And look, I'll be honest, at the time, I was wrong.
And I still, I thought Donald Trump was going to get reelected.
I don't know if you remember, Rob.
We were at the studio in the studio across the hall from you there.
This was back in 2019.
We did an episode on Donald Trump's first commercial for his presidential reelection campaign.
And if you remember, His campaign slogan was keep America great.
And I remember saying, I saw real weakness in this.
And I said that, you know, make America great again was a powerful slogan that was very powerful.
There's a lot of information, a lot conveyed in just a few words, four words, and it tells you so much, right?
It's four words, but it says in those four words, we, I, I love my country.
I believe it was a great country.
I believe it's not as great as it once was.
And I believe I can make it what it was great again.
You know, like so much information in four words, and it's powerful.
It speaks to anybody who is not happy with where things are going and has some sense of nostalgia.
That speaks to you.
And I remember saying to you, I go, keep America great.
See, the real problem with that is now if there's anyone who's not so happy with the way things are going, it's like, oh, keep it.
Well, okay.
And then I was saying, you better really hope that by election day, people are really happy with the way things are going.
And now, of course, this was before 2020.
I never would have, you know, imagined what happened after COVID and all of this shit.
But I just look at this and I go, so this is Trump's angle.
While the Democrats are in just complete peril, Donald Trump, who is at this point the frontrunner for being the Republican nominee, this is his message that I'm going to embrace how great the vaccines are.
And that, and I'm just going to do the COVID hysteria thing.
100 million people would have died if it wasn't for the vaccines.
Oh, what are we basing that off?
Well, nothing, off absolutely nothing.
In fact, more people have died since the vaccines have been out than before the vaccines were out.
Like this is just, this all sucks, just based off nothing.
But I don't know.
I mean, I'll let you get the last thought on this in there, but there was something about that between him bragging about the vaccines, saying that he's got the booster, getting booed there, even the applause line that Trump got, it was like a thing he had to force.
He goes, and are you guys going to clap for that or what?
And it just seemed like, ooh, I don't think this guy has, I don't think he's got his magic touch on this one.
No, I think part of his magic touch was that he was willing to absolutely oppose everybody and say, fuck you.
And when it came to the coronavirus, he got bullied into caring about it.
I think he's actually, in this regard, I'm not saying I'm a support, I'm a Trump supporter, but I think initially with Corona, he was kind of had a true American attitude of like, hey, man, we're going to be okay.
We're going to remain open and we're going to continue working.
And he lost like the media battle about, no, no, no, people are going to die and you're going to be responsible.
And he blinked and like that situation just got worse and worse.
You know what I mean?
Like it was quite a blink.
Like a strong Trump would have been like, nope, this America, we're staying open.
And he would have rallied with Florida, Texas, and all the conservative states.
And then you would have seen how they were fine while the Northeast and other areas were freaking out and those policies didn't work.
But that's not the way it played out.
Well, I think, I think he was, honestly, I think Trump is, he was a coward.
Yeah, no, I think he's always been.
No, I agree 100%.
And so like you're seeing that vision of him the first time he campaigned of that he was going to actually oppose these other forces and he was going to stand for your, like, we know that that's not true.
And this would be the biggest time that he kind of lost that battle.
And so now he's still playing into this crowd of that corona is a giant risk and that you need to be, or here at least he's not saying mandated, but that the vaccines vaccines did not save a ton of lives.
We were not going to have the Spanish flu.
We should have remained open.
And all in all, getting these vaccines approved quickly probably wasn't a win because they were able to pretend like this was the perfect solution, which it wasn't, and then move forward with me.
So it still plays into half of the reality of the importance of the vaccines and the risk of the virus.
I agree with you.
And I guess what I just see there is I see this like, I see this opportunity for some right-wing Republican to be like, you know, be like, they shut down your churches and your kids' schools, and they're masking your kids up, and they're trying to get you fired from your jobs, and they're poisoning your children with this ideology to make them hate you.
And they're doing all this corrupt shit.
And now, blah, blah, blah, blah.
And these bastards did this to all of you.
And blah, I just see this opening.
If you were going to be a right-wing populist, like this is where the opening is.
And then he's coming over here in this other lane that you're like, dude, that's not even like what happened.
And look, this is part of what happens when you're just like an old fat narcissist who just doesn't really, you know, had his moment, had his finger on the pulse in 2016.
But you know, in your late 70s, 2024 is a real different time than 2016.
And I'm just looking at it now and I go, yeah, that's not having your finger on the pulse.
He's even sitting there with Bill O'Reilly, just the most boomery feeling ever, them both bragging about being vaxxed and boostered up and all.
I was just like, this is missing it, man.
This is not, I'm not, forget even like how you feel about what he said.
I'm saying politically, this ain't it.
This is not the winning ticket.
Like this is not.
And so that was interesting to me, how weak the Democrats are.
And then this guy's there.
That seems like an opening.
Perhaps there's a third party.
Perhaps a third party will emerge.
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I think there's one thing that we've gotten better at as a country, and that's recruiting people to come over the border so we can put them into cages.
It's almost starting to look like Obama built the cages so that Biden could fill them.
In fact, the only thing climbing higher than inflation is border crossings.
And at what point does it get bad enough that even the Democrats are like, shit, I think we need a wall?
And now, obviously, they can't say that, but I'm thinking they're sex positive.
So maybe they can sell it as like a giant object of protection.
And we can get like a planned statehood where instead of deporting people, we abort them.
And now here's the problem: right, Biden, he promised us a fair and over fair and humane immigration overall, and then we got this.
And that's just terrible.
You'd think they could at least let these people finish making their deliveries.
That's terrible.
I understand throwing people out, but honest Americans going without dinner.
And then they also got really upset with Kamala for not going down to the border.
And I feel like obviously she didn't go down to the border.
We can't have our vice president going down to the border laughing at kids in cages.
That's not going to work.
Now, I don't want to make it seem like it's that bad of a situation at the border.
You know, it's not like people are falling from the sky.
Which happened in Afghanistan.
And, you know, people are getting mad at Biden for Afghanistan.
I don't think we can hold Biden at fault.
I mean, it's been 18 years.
That's so old.
Biden wouldn't even want to sniff it anymore.
If you sent an 18-year-old to Hunter's hotel room, he'd be calling his pimp for a ra-