Dave Smith and Robbie Bernstein dissect NFL player DeMar Hamlin's cardiac arrest, rejecting vaccine conspiracy theories in favor of criticizing government authoritarianism. They analyze Kevin McCarthy's failed Speaker bid against Matt Gaetz, condemn MSNBC's Nicole Wallace for conflating terrorists with anti-vaxxers, and question if a Republican Congress will investigate January 6th or Fauci's funding. The episode concludes by examining Jordan Peterson's Ontario license revocation threat over his gender identity comments, framing it as Orwellian re-education that exposes systemic overreach regardless of political control. [Automatically generated summary]
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Editing for the New Year00:03:40
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What's up, everybody?
What's up?
Welcome to a brand new episode of Part of the Problem, our first episode together of 2023.
I, of course, am the most consistent motherfucker you know, Dave Smith.
He is the king of the caulks.
COVID Jesus, Robbie the Fire Bernstein.
What's up, brother?
Happy New Year.
Happy New Year, bud.
How's the store?
Oh, it was great.
Just fantastic.
Yeah, yeah, excellent.
That's fucking filled it up and a lot of fun.
Just, you know, I love our LA people are fucking awesome.
So it was a good time.
And I haven't been to the comedy store in, it was three years.
Wow.
It's 2019.
New Year's was the last time I was there.
So it was great to be back.
And yeah, that's great.
Great, fun time ringing in the new year.
How about yourself?
How was the end of the year special?
It went great.
Shows were fun.
Not the smoothest of taping.
So editing makes me want to die, but I'm going to be getting some clips out shortly.
All right.
Yeah, that's that's that's the least fun part of being a comedian.
Yeah, that editing process.
Yeah, I was just talking to Jay the other day about that.
He's going through that doing his hour, just going through the edits.
So brutal.
I remember doing that for Libertas.
I mean, it's like, man, talk about something that'll make you hate yourself is just, I mean, like, down to like little details, because you know, you shoot it and you're like, okay, I want this to be an hour and it's like an hour, 20 minutes.
So you have to like cut out 20 minutes of stuff.
And then you have to go through what shit you want to cut out.
But then, you know, you have to like find every little detail of like, okay, well, if we cut, can we cut this tag out?
And then how does we do it?
And you have to sit there.
You have to sit there with the person editing because you don't, there's some, you don't want anyone taking liberty with your editing because comedy is very nuanced and you can't just like let someone else do it.
It's like, no, no, no, I know how this joke works.
It has to like, I know whether this will work or not with this part missing.
But then the actual editing process is like me watching myself on stage going like, and then I said, and then I said, and then, and then, and it's just like every little detail.
And it's just, oh, so painful.
So fucking painful.
What's killing me is I move around on stage a lot.
Like I'm in a fidgety way.
Like it's not, it's not like I'm performing.
I'm just fucking fidgety and I walk forwards, backwards.
Like I just, I'm fucking fidgety, which means you can't really cut from two different shows because there's zero continuity.
It's like if you were, if you're cutting an audio CD, I'm almost, this might be too, I'm almost like a metronome.
Like, I mean, you can cut one joke to that, like my timing doesn't change.
Like it, you know what I mean?
It's pretty even, but my God, do I move around?
So it's, you can't really blend shows, which I just learned.
Well, if you guys want to come see me and Rob the fidgety weirdo Bernstein in St. Louis, go get tickets now.
The tickets are selling fast, but there's still a few left.
ComicdaveSmith.com.
I got the links up there.
We'll be at the Funnybone in St. Louis on January 20th and 21st.
We will also be in, what's the name of the town in Maryland?
Fair.
Perryville.
Perryville.
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There it is.
Perryville, Maryland, one night only.
Doing a live stand-up show and a live part of the problem podcast down there.
I think the ticket links just went live.
I will have those added to my website by tomorrow.
So comicdave Smith.com.
We'll throw those in the episode.
Very cool venue.
Amazing fresh beers.
They got like a wall of beers.
You can even just like open up a tab and pour them right in.
Kitchen's good.
Apparently, they got some like weird thing going on that afternoon.
Like there's a battle royales amongst people on horses, like that, that shit, like knife fights, you know, the whole, the whole ordeal.
So I've always wanted to incorporate knife fights into my comedy routine.
And so this is a real opportunity to take one more step in that direction.
So anyway, yes, come check us out on all that stuff.
Anything else you want to plug before we get into it?
At the moment, all the dates are Davy Smith dates.
So I got what you got.
Dallas.
Yeah, we got a bunch more stuff coming up.
It's all up on my website.
But yeah, we got the Dallas, Detroit.
Yeah, a few others.
So yeah, go check out Tampa.
I think we're coming to Tampa at one point.
Yeah.
So it should be a real good time.
All right.
So a couple big things that I want to get into.
But the thing I want to talk about first, because I find this to be a really interesting story for several reasons.
Although, of course, this is a horrific story.
So this past weekend, DeMar Hamlin, who's defensive, I think he's a safety NFL player.
He, as I'm sure many of you know, he was involved in what was a very routine football play, tackled a guy, not a particularly like hard tackle.
I'm sure like many of you, I wasn't watching the game live.
And when I heard about it and went to watch it, I was expecting like some type of brutal, you know, collision.
And it wasn't that.
It was like a routine tackle.
And he got up from the tackle, took two like labored steps backward and collapsed.
And evidently his heart was not beating.
And they were performing CPR on him on the field.
He was taken to the hospital.
He's still fighting for his life right now.
I did see a report this morning that his situation had improved a little bit.
I think he was in an induced coma for a while.
So really horrific story.
And they stopped the game.
I've never seen anything like this in the NFL before.
I've watched the NFL.
I don't watch too much anymore.
I'm just busy with little kids and stuff.
It's harder to, you know, just when you got two little kids and, you know, you got a career, it's very hard in your spare little time of free time you get to want to do anything except, you know, maybe spend some time with your wife.
So anyway, but I watched, you know, the NFL pretty religiously my entire life.
I've never seen anything like that before.
I mean, I've seen very bad concussions.
I've seen people even like, you know, temporarily paralyzed and stuff like that, where they're wheeled off, but it's always from like a crazy head-to-head hit.
There's no big like mystery of what happened here.
You know what I mean?
You're like, oh, yeah, okay, this guy's a severe concussion.
This was totally different.
I do, I remember there's one story.
I think I was a little kid when it happened.
This might have been the very early 90s.
There was a college basketball player who did have cardiac arrest and like collapsed in the middle of a game.
So, you know, it's not, it's not like, you know, these things as rare as they are, I suppose, do happen.
But one of the things that I thought was really interesting was that there seemed to me to be, and it's hard exactly to gauge these things, but it seemed like there was more of a conversation, even amongst normies about whether this was related to the vaccine or not.
And however you feel about that, we can get into this.
You know, I'm quite comfortable saying we don't know.
We don't know what happened to this guy.
And I don't, I don't like to pretend I know something that I don't.
But I did think as I was watching that, I was like, this is, this is a big moment.
Like there's something here that's really important that it's just like there's almost like, look, we're in this situation, even if you take the position that I'm taking, which I assume you're taking too.
We don't know.
We don't know what happened here.
But the official establishment position is there is no way you're allowed to entertain that this could have been related to the vaccine.
No, I don't know.
I don't even know if the guy's vaccinated.
I assume he is if he's playing in the NFL, but I don't fucking know for sure.
I have no idea.
But there's like this very, you know, like quick knee-jerk reaction to be like, you're not even allowed to consider this possibility, which that is, that is insane.
It's insane to not consider that possibility when such a freak thing happens.
And we can get into that a little bit more.
But I just thought like, wow, it's really interesting that there is this kind of like awakening amongst a lot of people to at least consider the possibility of a of major negative health outcomes as a result of this vaccine that was pushed through the biggest propaganda campaign in human history.
That just seemed like a big deal to me.
I'm reluctant to jump on this one.
And the reason being that obviously, I mean, I've been, you and I both, we've been very outspoken and it feels really, really good to be right.
And it also seems like there's going to be no way to be proven right or to see change unless there is some negative things that actually come to light that, you know, people get a bit of a reality check of, oh, here's what happens when you don't allow for dissenting voices.
At the same time, I feel like jumping on random instances to go, hey, this proves my side without like really good factual information is kind of the mistake that other people make that we tend to, we tend to criticize for good reason.
And like, I don't know, to me, like the better ideal would be if there was some sort of another way that we could just realize like, hey, even if the vaccine doesn't turn out to be harmful, we still shouldn't be restricting people's freedoms when there isn't good evidence to say that something is good, which was always kind of our perspective.
You know what I mean?
Like, I still don't want to like root for injury or like, you know what I mean?
Cause there's a part of you like, fuck, yeah, look, I'm right.
But then it's also like, everyone I know or most of the loved ones in my life got vaccinated.
So it's like, it's still, you know what I mean?
So I'm not, I'm not like too quick to go, yeah, victory.
Oh, no, I mean, look.
I'm not saying that you were saying that, but no, no, no.
No, I get your point.
I get your point.
It's very hard to like, it's a tough thing when you're warning against something and that something, you're warning against it because you believe it's going to be a disaster and it turns into a disaster to not feel some sense of like, yeah, see, this is what I was telling you.
And this is, I'm not just thinking about the vaccine, I'm thinking about, you know, like a million different policies that we could, we could, you know, run down.
But yeah, I mean, when you do, you think, oh, man, I really hope that's not the case.
I really, really hope that it's not the case that like, you know, there are, I'd say at this point, it's not really debatable whether or not there are negative health outcomes as a result of the vaccine.
The question is just how prevalent they are.
Then let's really hope they're not, especially because, I mean, look, I think billions of people around the world have taken this vaccine.
And let us not forget that many of them were coerced into doing so.
Many were propagandized into doing so.
Many were, you know, I mean, I like, I don't, I don't have any animosity toward people who took the vaccine.
I could completely understand if you're not living in this world the way we are, then you're just kind of like, I don't know.
Yeah, the scientists figured out a cure for this thing.
I'm going to take it.
And then lots of other people who didn't even really want to take it, but were like, I'm going to lose my fucking job.
We're in very difficult situations.
I empathize with those people.
So yeah, you certainly wouldn't want that to be the case.
I also agree with the point you made before.
And I can't stress this enough.
I've talked to people.
In fact, I went back and forth to someone on Twitter the other day about this.
People in our camp, there's kind of this divide where some people are like, well, you know what?
Fuck it.
People are using these tactics on us.
We got to use these tactics now.
I'm saying it was the vax, whether we know this for sure or not.
I just want, you know, almost like I want to spread my own propaganda to counter the official propaganda.
I disagree with this twofold.
Number one, I disagree with it.
Like it's not right.
It's not the right thing to do.
And I believe in being righteous, or at least doing your best to try to be righteous.
I think it's like, you know, I saw people Dave Benner, who's on the libertarian like social media committee, who I love.
He's great.
And he tweeted the other day that I saw, and I thought it was a fine tweet.
He said something like, he goes, yeah, something along the lines of like, he goes, you know, it's pretty rich having the people who use every school shooting to jump on advocating gun control, tell me that I'm politicizing a tragedy or something like that.
And like, fair enough, like call out their hypocrisy.
My point is just like, don't in addition to that, be that hypocrite yourself too.
You know, so like there's just, but then also, it's not just that it's not the right thing to do.
It's that I also don't find it to be particularly good strategy.
Like, you know, the, if we're going to like counter the propaganda and wake people up, the force, the best force that we have on our side is that we have the truth on our side.
And as soon as you're exposed as being like, oh, well, you're full of shit too, then you're going to lose all of that energy.
So I don't think it's like good strategy and it's not the right thing to do.
However, like all of these things being said in that order, I also do think it would be crazy to not consider the possibility that this was related to the vaccine.
And I also think that like there have been some studies on this.
I don't have the numbers in front of me right now, but it does seem like there has been a rise in cardiac episodes amongst athletes.
And this is kind of an interesting dynamic.
Is that related to the vaccine?
I mean, I guess I don't know.
It seems like it's the most plausible explanation.
You know, I just, I don't know.
There has been no question that there is increased risk of certain cardio problems due to the vaccine, you know, myocarditis and stuff like that.
I don't know.
But man, it is one of the things that's interesting about this.
And of course, keeping everything you said in mind, we're never rooting for this to be the case, but you could really understand where it is just downright unlike it cannot be allowed to even be considered by the establishment that perhaps these jabs that they forced such a huge percentage of the population into getting may have not only, you know, not only like, oh, they didn't do the job.
You sold them as not only that, but maybe you're actually responsible for like ruining people's lives, destroying their health.
That is something that they simply cannot allow you to even ponder.
So I don't know.
I find it encouraging that more people are pondering that.
I think it's bad shit crazy for them to not think it.
And if this was because of that, I mean, it'll be interesting to see how they react to if there's future occurrences.
So if you look at this as some sort of just a one-off within the NFL, I mean, if people are colliding into each other all the time, the idea that someone's helmet can hit someone's heart at the exact right time seems weird, but I mean, there's been, I mean, do the math on how many times in an NFL game, how many NFL games have transpired and the odds of that happening during an NFL game.
It's plausible.
Might be one in a million.
How many hits have taken place in the NFL and the duration of the NFL?
Is it more likely that, you know, the guy had some sort of other health episode?
Like, in other words, if this started happening like four or five times in a season, you'd be like, well, something new is here.
Did they change the helmets?
You got denser helmets?
Do you change the padding in these guys' chest pads?
Like something's different here.
At the moment, it's just a one-off.
So it's interesting in that I guess it does when people actually see alarming things, it breaks through, wakes people up, and they go, oh, shit, is something going on here?
But at the same time, it's so anecdotal.
It's just, you know.
No, I completely agree.
Yeah, absolutely.
And there's no need to like pretend that we know what happened.
And it's also like, it's the wrong thing to wake people up on.
Like they were, in other words, none of the policies made sense because the vaccine doesn't even work.
We shouldn't need horrible instances to take place for people to realize that government shouldn't be able to institutionalize authoritarian power, particularly when there's not an emergency and they don't even actually have a cure for the emergency.
If anything, Corona is a really good proof for why government shouldn't have that power.
Yeah.
So like we almost need to figure out how to educate people in a way where people don't need to start dropping dead because of bad technology pushed by pharmacies.
You know what I mean?
Like there's just a better way here to kind of get the story across.
It's unbelievable.
And I mean, I know we've said this, you know, countless times over the last, it's almost three years now since COVID started or since, you know, I guess it's three years since it started, but almost three years since, you know, the world went crazy over it.
But it's unbelievable that just, you know, the logic on its face for the idea of the vaccine mandates was always so ridiculous.
Like even if it could even if the vaccines stopped the spread and the transmission, you know, like even if the craziest claims of the vaccine salesmen that we call politicians, even if they were all correct, like saying, let's say, what were the claims?
Okay, there was that you won't, you can't get very sick or die if you have the vaccine.
There was the claim that you can't spread it if you have the vaccine.
Okay, if all of that was true, it would be insane to mandate it.
It makes absolutely no sense.
So why do you have to mandate it for other people?
Like I heard that crazy Australian broad just recently.
She was saying, again, defending the decision that she goes, well, you know, vaccinated people want to feel comfortable and confident that when they go somewhere, they're amongst vaccinated people.
But if the vaccine does everything you claimed it does, then why would you worry about that?
Like, wouldn't the idea of a vaccine that's really great?
Let's say it was all of the things you promised that it was.
Isn't the idea of that that then I shouldn't be worried about other people having it around me?
Because I'm vaccinated.
Like I'm immune.
Isn't that the idea?
It was always so ridiculous that they'd be like, well, we can't let an unvaccinated person into a restaurant because they could spread it.
To what?
To who?
To all the vaccinated people?
Like, what does this even mean?
Like it's it's it's always like just the pure logic of it.
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And then, of course, you know, the fact that that's not enough for it to fall apart is, you know, you know, revealing and alarming and in its own right.
So anyway, I did.
Sorry, go ahead.
No, I was going to say the other thing just I think listeners should be aware of is the most recent development is it does.
There was an article in the Wall Street Journal yesterday, in addition to the fact Alex Berenson's been doing some reporting on this, but there is some evidence that the vaccine has been causing weird mutations, which that's kind of the doomsday scenario is that this virus, because of the vaccine, it ends up like with mutations that are not the way that viruses would normally become less deadly.
And that also people that have been vaccinated, I think boosted are in some instances actually more likely to get sick, which is something my resident non-scientist predicted like a long time ago that basically like what they're putting into you might end up working like receptors.
So it's not overwhelming.
It's not like people that have taken this are at amazingly higher risks, but there was never good evidence for it.
And it seems like the latest, the fact that they're not just totally pausing and shutting down the policy at this point, like I think the recommendation officially is still to get boosted and for your kids.
I mean, every time I see the mainstream.
Yeah.
So the fact that they're still sticking to their story is pretty remarkable.
Yeah, it really is.
And of course, by the way, it's not just your guy who predicted this.
It was actually Fauci himself.
Oh, yeah.
Remember, he predicted this back during the lockdown regime before the vaccine had been developed, just to, you know, let people know, like, oh, don't even hold that hope for this.
This has to be normal forever.
Cause even if we got a vaccine, it would take years of trial before we'd know whether it could actually make the thing worse than it is by, you know, and went through this, that it could essentially trick your body's immune system into fighting off the wrong thing.
And yeah, it's so, of course, he acted like he never said that.
And shortly after the lockdown regime fell and the vaccine regime rose up, it would have been what he said only a few months earlier would have been enough to ruin your career.
It's just been a crazy, been a crazy little run.
Anyway, I do think there's something like the positives of this situation, as we've been saying all throughout COVID, is that you, you know, there's, there's not a direct line that's so easy to draw between some of these policy failures and then the culture of skepticism that it produces, but they are a result of one another.
Like the war in Iraq is a big part of the reason why Donald Trump is elected.
Now, I'm not saying that's, there's anything super great there, but at least you go like, look, you, you can't just fail over and over again and lie your way to these awful policies without building up a culture of Americans just not believing you anymore.
And that was my biggest takeaway from this story was that it's just like, oh, it's kind of interesting, like how many people are going right away to this debate because it's almost impossible for anyone who's just not in this kind of corporate defensive position of like, we can never admit that there's a possibility of this.
It's again, I'm not saying we know anything about what happened to this football player, but if you're being honest with yourself, if you're an honest person, it at least enters your mind that this is a possibility, right?
Like, maybe it had something to do with that.
Well, this is kind of a new thing.
Well, what's a new thing that we've done?
Oh, yeah, we mass vaccinated with these brand new mRNA vaccines.
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And oh, yeah, they have been known to cause heart problems.
Like, okay, at least consider it.
And I think almost any honest person would say, yeah, you can't rule that out.
So that's just kind of interesting to see so many people going down that path.
Maybe they'll have to change football to leg tackles only.
It's going to be a totally different sport.
That'll be fun.
Yeah.
No, the chest will be considered like head-to-head combat.
Be like, remember back in the old day when you could just smash a guy?
It's not like that anymore.
Ever since those vaccines came along and people's chests spontaneously combusted.
Yeah, remember when you used to tackle people in football?
That was nuts.
Now we get to, now you just got to trip them, tie up legs.
Totally different game.
Thought it was a pass heavy league now.
Yeah, really.
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Okay, so next big thing, of course, that we got to talk about is the speaker of the house or lack thereof, at least as of now, as of us recording this show, there still is no speaker.
That might be resolved by the end of today.
So perhaps tomorrow, when you're listening to this, there might be a speaker of the house.
Either way, this was a kind of interesting little moment here.
I've never seen this happen before.
It's usually pretty quickly if a party takes over the house, they pick their speaker and then they get on to the business of being blood-soaked criminals.
But that's not what's happening here.
Kevin McCarthy has been denied, I believe, six times as of when we're recording this.
I think they're going in for the seventh vote now.
Pretty interesting.
I mean, what are your thoughts on this, Ben?
Well, at first, I was like, dude, the Republicans have been clamoring for some power.
Now you don't look all that good.
Like, get your shit together.
What does it help if you take over the house if you're just going to be infighting?
That doesn't really showcase your ability to, I guess, start challenging the Democrats and unraveling the authoritarian regime.
However, it seems like the concessions that they're pushing for in order to let McCarthy be the speaker don't seem all that outrageous.
So my guess is, so in other words, it seems like, what are they pushing for?
Like that bills are supposed to, like he has to bring bills to a vote and that earmarks need to be like approved by 75%.
Just none of the things that they're asking for seem all that crazy.
So if they get their concessions, I guess it's a win.
Yeah, it's interesting that he, you know, McCarthy, the thing is like, there's no real argument for why he should be the speaker of the house, other than he's just like, well, it's my turn and I'm next in line.
But other than that, there's really no good argument for him.
And I think that one of the things that's been interesting about this is that it's been a bit of a flex for the kind of dissident Republicans.
This effort's been led by Matt Gates, who certainly is much better.
Yeah, well, talk about an unlikable character.
You're like, I don't know what this guy's doing, but he seems like the guy I wouldn't like at a frat party.
I get your point, but I will tell you, he's a hell of a lot better than Kevin McCarthy.
And so it's just, it's an interesting flex on their part.
It's interesting, very interesting to watch the establishment reaction to this.
I sent you that video, Brian.
Let's play the video of, this was from Tucker Carlson's show last night, where he's responding to Dan Crenshaw and how he's been handling this whole situation.
It's really just remarkable to watch how vile these people are.
Yeah, let's check that out.
Yet today, Congressman Dan Crenshaw of Texas, a surrogate for Kevin McCarthy, did.
In fact, he did what neocons always do.
He labeled anyone who doesn't like a terrorist.
Those of us are saying, like, look, you pushed us into this corner.
So now we're saying we won't vote for anyone but McCarthy.
That's why we're saying it, because we cannot let the terrorists win.
Oh, they're terrorists now.
It's hard not to see the connection because over the past few years, pretty much every part of the war on terror has been turned against the domestic political enemies of the neocons.
So now they're just coming out and telling you what they told you about Iraq.
Either you're with us or you're against us.
You're on the side of light or darkness.
You're good or evil.
Dan Crenshaw went all the way, as neocons always do.
He proceeded to go to CNN to call his political opponents enemies of the state, looking for a little Soviet-style politics.
Watch this.
This handful of members is very clearly looking for notoriety over principle.
That's where it is.
And anyone who suggests differently is then some kind of make-believe fantasy reality.
But if you're a narcissist, if you're a narcissist and you believe that your opinion is so much more important than everyone else's and you'll keep going, then you'll threaten to tear down the TM4 for the benefit of the Democrats just because of your own sense of self-importance.
All right, we can we can pause it there.
It really is something though, dude.
Like this, you're a, he called him a terrorist, a narcissist, an enemy of the state, all for not voting the way you want them to vote, not support, not voting for the person who you like.
It really is something.
I can't overstate how despicable a person Dan Crenshaw is.
Like not none.
What you notice is like kind of absent from there is it's not, and this was the same thing.
And Tucker is absolutely right to lump him in with the neocons and the way they sold the war in Iraq and all this other stuff.
Like it's not as if his argument is like, oh, here's why Kevin McCarthy is a great guy for speaker.
Here's why you guys are wrong.
Let me persuade you or the listener of why this, you know, the way I'm voting is superior to yours.
No, there's not even an interest in that.
That's like, we were not even talking like that.
Just you're a terrorist.
That's it.
One of the guys on Fox News referred, and I thought this was a truly hilarious moment.
Now, he did catch himself right after he said it, but he referred to the people who were not voting for McCarthy as, quote, insurrectionists.
So just jump it, taking that word now, right?
So you're just going to take the MSNBC word and throw it at your own people for the crime of what?
Being dissidents, not supporting, not lining up behind the establishment guy.
It's interesting to see.
how when there's an establishment guy like Mitch McConnell, a guy who wears his Ukraine flag pin on his suit jacket to Congress every single day.
I'm sorry, McCarthy does.
Once there's that guy, oh, the whole establishment kind of snaps back if he's not being supported.
This is the, you know what I'm saying?
Like, this is how the Unit Party works.
It's like, oh, yeah, no, the Republicans can be allowed to have the majority under the speaker who they all are fine with.
Anyway, Dan Crenshaw responded to this piece by Tucker Carlson on Twitter.
He said, and I quote, unclutch your pearls.
It's a figure of speech.
You can't insult, slander, and hold everyone hostage with no way out and not expect me to punch back, grow thicker skin.
Like, okay, dude, it's a figure of speech.
I guess I'm just not familiar with that figure of speech.
You're a terrorist?
Like, like, fucking this, like, uh.
So the lawmaker speaks in unfactual terms.
What he's telling you is no matter what he says, don't worry about it because, you know, I'm just, it's figures of speech.
It's not, it's not traditional speech.
This guy who wears an eye patch and brags about his military service fighting in the war on terrorism just casually calls people terrorists.
Okay.
That's interesting to know.
It's just a figure of speech.
Yeah, it's been, it's really been something.
You should see the way they're covering it.
Like every now and then I pop back in to like MSNBC or these things to see how they're covering it.
Here's another clip that I thought was pretty hilarious.
So let's play that.
I, you know, what is it?
The nine stage, 11 stages of grief.
You know, I got past real grief at watching a party I had served and for many years helped build turn into a coalition that is exactly as David Jelly describes, one that makes room and space and holds space in its coalition for white nationalists, white supremacists.
Just pause it for a second.
This is Nicole Wallace speaking, who was George W. Bush's, was she his chief of staff?
Some big position as communications director, something like that.
But so that's what she's talking about.
You know, she's like, I've, you know, it's so hard for me watching this party that I helped build up, you know, back then in the good old days when we were just slaughtering Iraqis, when we were the good guys before they made room for white nationalists or whatever.
It's like, it's just so funny.
It's like these terms just mean nothing.
Anyway, just but just so you know, that's who's talking here.
Let's keep playing.
And the very same groups who are now targets of domestic violent extremism in this country, not to mention anti-vaxxers who have the deaths of thousands of Americans on their hands.
I mean, it has become awas in everything that is dark.
That said, I mean, pause it for a second.
I'm sorry.
I just got to pull it.
I thought you could pull it back a little bit before this.
Isn't this so funny?
Like, this is how they think about it.
Like, she even says herself, she goes, and everything that's dark.
Like, it's just white supremacists and anti-vaxxers and everything bad in the world.
That's what it is.
I mean, here, like, here, back in reality, you know, the, there's not a single white nationalist fucking Republican.
I don't know what the hell any of that even means.
There's just not true.
There's no white supremacist.
If any congressman, Republican, any Republican congressman even uttered somewhat, something somewhat sympathetic toward white supremacy.
You know what I mean?
Like ever said, you know, I think these white supremacists do make some fair points.
They'd be immediately ruined.
There's nothing more like, you know, there's nothing less allowed in our society than that.
You know, you could, you could be like, say, you could be caught on Jeffrey Epstein's plane, okay?
And that will not be nearly as damaging to your career as if you were to like utter a racist thought.
So this idea that there's this huge problem of white supremacy in the Republican Party is just stupid.
There's, there's lots of problems.
I mean, like maybe hanging out with Jeffrey Epstein or maybe, you know, being like a war hawk or something like that, which is actually quite a bit worse than being a racist.
Sort of, by the way, so weird that our system, like being a racist, again, as I've mentioned before, this term racism is so broad that it almost like, and I think it's intentionally that way, that like there's a term that could cover like lynching or an inappropriate joke or anything in between.
You know what I mean?
It's like just such, but this idea that being a racist, like say, like even being like a nasty racist, like really hating someone of another race, certainly an ugly thing to be.
I don't like it.
I wouldn't want to, I wouldn't want to be friends with anyone who I thought was like a legitimately racist person.
But the idea that that's the worst thing you can be is really important for how this system, you know, operates.
Like as if there's nothing worse that you could be than a racist.
Like, I don't know.
How about a pedophile?
That's worse.
That's worse than just not liking another group of people.
I just think it's a lot worse.
I also think being a war criminal, yeah, that's a lot worse.
Being a war hawk is a lot worse, you know?
Anyway, so the idea that Nicole Wallace is like judging other people is the idea that anyone who is like high up in the George W. Bush administration should ever like be able to show their face in public again, let alone start lecturing other people on how they've destroyed the party.
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It's unbelievable, by the way, that she sees no.
Like, wouldn't you feel like I always said with these George W. Bush people where they just like look at the state of the Republican Party and they're like, they're such horrible people.
It's so horrible.
I'm mourning it.
It's like, you don't take any responsibility for this.
You've never once like looked in the mirror and gone, oh yeah, that was the next Republican president after my guy was Donald Trump.
Maybe there's a connection there in some way.
It's kind of like if a parent, you know, like your child turned out to just be some really horrible person and you were just like, I'm just in disgust over how horrible they turned out.
And you're like, you're not even going to consider the possibility that it had something to do with what you did?
No, that's anyway.
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Republican Congress Priorities00:15:36
Everything bad.
The Republicans are everything bad now.
Anti-vax, white supremacists.
That said, I'm not sure that I could articulate the differences between these 19 and what Kevin McCarthy stands for.
What in your view was sort of the breakdown?
And again, I don't feel sorry for Kevin McCarthy, but I'm intrigued that even he didn't seem to see today coming.
So let's, okay, we could just, we can end it there.
So it's pretty funny to me that, so this is Nicole Wallace's almost admission of how out of touch she is and that she can't understand what's happening.
She goes, and I don't even see the difference between Kevin McCarthy and Matt Gates.
It's like, well, yeah, because your level of analysis of the situation is they're everything bad and dark and they're Nazi KKK anti-vaxxers.
So aren't they all the same?
It's like, oh, yeah, no, of course you can't analyze the differences between them because like you can't analyze the situation at all for what it is.
You're just like you're living in an imaginary land.
I don't know.
It's like, yeah, there's huge differences between Kevin McCarthy and Matt Gates.
How about like Matt Gates is completely against the war in Ukraine and sending all of this with these money and weapons to Ukraine.
And Kevin McCarthy is wearing a Ukrainian flag pen to Congress every day.
It's a pretty big difference.
It's like a pretty big major policy difference.
Like probably the biggest thing going on in the world right now, they're on complete opposite sides of.
He's with Mitch McConnell, who said Mitch McConnell in the Senate said that it's the number one priority of the U.S. Senate is that Ukraine wins.
That's not a lot of people's number one priority in America, thousands of miles away from Ukraine.
That's just not a lot of people's number one priority.
But again, I mean, they're all, you know, clownsmen, Nazi, anti-vaxxers.
So why don't they all just get along?
So anyway, that's the level of analysis going on at MSNBC.
It's like, really, it's just no matter how many years you spend just like, you know, watching how full of shit they are, it's hard to believe.
It's hard to believe.
It's not that they're liars.
It's hard to believe how unsophisticated of liars they are.
That's the level of shit you got going on there.
Anyway, we'll keep watching this situation.
The other thing that I thought just was like kind of interesting about it, and it's one of the things I like about this is that it reveals how much this doesn't matter.
None of this matters.
Even if Kevin McCarthy doesn't get in, there's no like, there's no one decent who might get in.
You know what I mean?
It's not like, it's just a choice between, it's like, it's going to be business as usual as usual, no matter who gets in there.
But there's, I love it.
It's the same reason I love when we get those random government shutdowns.
I just love how they reveal how much this is all just bullshit.
The whole thing's bullshit.
Everyone in the corporate press is freaking out like it's such a huge deal that we've gone a few days without having a speaker of the house.
And meanwhile, it's having absolutely no impact on real people's lives.
Just means nothing.
It's like when they, when they finally, I said like their game is to like, you know, with the shutdown, that their game is always to say like, well, we have to pass this huge spending bill because if we don't, in three days, we'll have a government shutdown.
And you're supposed to act like, oh my God, that'd be horrible.
So I guess we got to sign whatever we got to sign.
And then on the rare occasion that they can't get it together and there is a government shutdown, like everything's fine.
Life goes on as normal.
I mean, of course, they don't actually shut down the government, but even the parts that they do shut down, it's like, I don't know.
It just ruins some people's vacation.
That's all they really do is you were going to Washington.
You're like, I was going to go to the Smithsonian, but the gosh darn government had to shut down.
And look at the facilities I miss out.
Let me, I've been to those museums.
They fucking suck.
Yeah.
They're not fun.
Yeah.
I suppose there are some parks that are nice.
They close parks.
Yeah, I think there were some like government parks.
Grass is still there.
Yeah, I think there were some government parks that they like chained up or something.
I was like that.
Your great wildlife joke.
Oh, yeah.
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Second hour coming sometime soon.
TBD.
All right.
So anyway, I don't know.
Any final thoughts on this?
Where else?
All right.
Do you think the big things that are on the table are whether or not a Republican Congress is actually going to haul in people like Fauci?
They're going to haul in some of these individuals.
Are they going to haul in people from the FBI either for January 6 or over tech censorship?
Or are they going to make any sort of changes to bills that they can't just be passed as 4,000 pages without anyone reading it?
Or last one, are they going to exert pressure on the Biden administration to actually maybe take care of the border?
I would say those are kind of off the top of my head, the big things that a Republican Congress is probably claiming to work on and should work on.
Do you think any of those things come to fruition?
No, not in any meaningful way.
I mean, you know, I think my guess is that there will be a few show investigations.
I'm not confident at all that they'll actually be like have any teeth to them or actually really get any information out.
But yeah, look, if the I'd say that if you were trying to make the argument that the Republican Party deserves to exist, which is not an argument I'm making, but if you were to take the radical position saying that this, the Republican Party deserves to exist and shouldn't just be abolished, wouldn't you have to think that they would have to accomplish at least one of those?
Like just take one.
It's like, I don't know, get to the bottom of the FBI involvement in January 6th.
Get to the bottom of how much money pharmaceutical companies have paid Fauci.
You know, one of these things.
Do one of them.
You know, yeah, some type of, you know, hearings about Twitter or any of this stuff.
You know, the FBI and the CIA involvement in silencing Americans during the most important time, you know, for being right.
Let's let's see something.
But I don't know.
I mean, look, there's like all of the crimes of previous regimes have never have all gone unpunished, even when the Republicans have larger majorities than they have right now.
So I have, I just have no reason to suspect that that's going to happen.
I do think that like there's a handful, like usual, there's a handful of people in there who probably, if they had their way, you know, would want to do something serious.
But I see no reason to expect, you know, I'd love to be wrong.
I'd love to be proven wrong here, but I see no reason to expect that this is actually going to happen.
And then I don't know all that much about McCarthy other than he was definitely a big time Trump supporter.
Like, what else would you say is bad about him?
Or how would you categorize him?
He was, you know, he's been around since way before Donald Trump.
I mean, like, he was a big Mitt Romney supporter.
I think he basically fell in line with Donald Trump once there was no other option, as those, as the Republicans who stayed in the Republican Party ended up doing because it was just like, that's it.
You're never going to get reelected unless you support this guy who's overwhelmingly popular with the Republican base.
I think he's just been a career corporate Republican.
He's pretty much bad on everything.
He's bad on war.
He's bad on, you know, like just about every government policy.
And so he's not like a true like populist type.
He's, you know, he's a corporate Republican.
And that's why he's risen up in the House.
That's why he's, you know, rose up to be the GOP's number one guy there.
That's, that's the way it is.
I think he was the, I think he was the number two when Boehner was the speaker of the house under Obama.
You know, so he's, he's kind of always been at this in Republican leadership.
Leadership in the U.S. Congress is always made up of like the absolute worst people in Congress.
That's kind of a rule of thumb.
And last question for you.
Who's this the Florida guy?
Gates?
Yeah.
No, not Gates.
You got the other guy who seems to have as many votes as McCarthy.
Yeah.
What's his name here?
Let me check on the latest results, by the way, on this.
It might be Blackie McBlackenstein, something like that.
Yeah, something like that.
Yeah, you know, I don't know as much about him, but I don't know that he's actually got a chance to win.
And I just honestly, I don't know.
Jeffries is the guy you're talking about, I believe.
And yeah, okay.
Yeah, I guess there's still no update on the vote.
But yeah, six votes so far.
And still.
How long can this go on for?
Can this just be like a full year thing?
You know, I think at a certain point, if they can't get it, then Nancy Pelosi or like someone like that gets to like appoint somebody.
It's a really, yeah, it's, it's, this could get bad after a while.
But I think essentially the point here is that like it's you got to take a stand on something.
So I don't blame this minority faction who's doing this.
My guess is that ultimately McCarthy is going to become the speaker of the house.
That, you know, they'll hopefully, you know, they'll draw some concessions and then he'll.
And they'll get some cocaine to Gates, some cocaine and kids.
That's all he's after.
I don't know if that story was actually true or not.
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Anyway, let's move on with the little bit of time we have left.
I did want to briefly discuss this thing that you sent to me.
I had seen this on Twitter that Jordan Peterson had posted something about this.
Evidently, Jordan Peterson is being the, what is the name of the group here?
The Canadian, the college of psychologists of ontario um are insisting that they launched a legal challenge or he's launching a legal challenge against them because they're threatening to pull his practicing license if he doesn't uh complete social media re-education for comments he made on twitter and on uh the joe rogan podcast What a great class that is.
Wait, so I can't call that lady a cunt?
What do you think that training class looks like?
They play videos of, like, you never did Driver's Ed, but they would play these horrible videos of people getting into accidents.
So here they play horrible videos of people that were bullied and then killed themselves.
And this is what happens when you say not nice things on Twitter.
I mean, this is, this has got to be the most fucking Soviet, like creepy shit I've ever heard of, though.
The idea that they would pull this guy's license to practice psychology.
He's been a clinical psychologist for, I think, like 30 years or something like that.
You can't have dissenting experts.
If you're a dissenting expert, then look, that guy doesn't have a license.
He's not an expert.
And just, and even like the re-education, they call it, so they said they ordered Peterson to complete a mandatory specified continuing education or remedial program to, quote, review, reflect on his professionalism in public statements.
My thought is who's more who's more credentialed to be making these determinations than Jordan Peterson.
So I'd like to actually watch that class where he gets to ask questions.
Because if not, you're basically talking about Soviet style brainwashing or some sort of a compliance program.
But if you guys actually have better ideas for behavior online, why not a public discussion with Mr. Peterson?
Oh, yeah.
And the interesting thing about Jordan Peterson, however, you may feel about him, is that number one, he would do that in a second.
He would absolutely sit down and debate any of these guys.
Yeah.
He's a pretty formidable opponent.
And number two is that he will not comply with this.
There's first off, it's pretty clear from his personality throughout all of this stuff.
He's not going to just sit down and fucking take this.
Number two, he's a fucking rock star.
He's made tons of fucking money over the last few years.
He's huge.
He's one of the most influential people in the world.
You know what I mean?
Like, there's no, like, what would it really do to him to take away his license?
It's like, oh, it might hurt him personally.
Like, he may love doing what he does.
So, but if he can't be a clinical psychologist anymore, he can only what go fill humongous theaters for his live speeches and you know, get fucking, I'm sure he gets very handsomely paid for his work that he does online and stuff.
So like, I don't know.
It's like he's not going to, he, uh, Jordan Peterson, um, uh, his, he responded and said, quote, I'm not complying.
I'm not submitting to re-education.
I am not admitting that my viewpoints, many of which, by the way, many, many of which have, by the way, been entirely justified by the facts that have emerged since the complaints were levied were either wrong or unprofessional.
He went on to say, I'm going to say what I have to say and let the chips fall where they will.
Listen, if this lady's a fat bitch, I cannot call her out.
And it's not immediately clear to me that not calling her a fat bitch is going to be helpful in the long run.
And it's like, yeah, no.
She threw me too many fries.
Yeah.
So you sit here and you think to yourself, okay, well, if I don't call her a fat bitch, then that will be better for everybody to reconcile the differences that we have with society.
And it's like, yeah, no, now you're Pinocchio.
Now your nose gets longer.
You're Peter Pan.
And you have to live with a man who has a hook for a hand.
That's what happens.
Okay.
Anyway, Jordan Peterson actually went on to say, I'm going to say what I have to say and let the chips fall where they will.
I have done nothing to compromise those in my care.
Quite the contrary.
I have served all my clients and the millions of people I am communicating with to the best of my ability and in good faith.
And that's that.
Gender Transition Controversy00:04:18
Yeah, he also pledged that if it becomes necessary for him to attend these classes, he's going to make the details of what they're teaching public.
That would be kind of interesting too.
I guess this started from the Ellen Page, now goes by Elliot Page thing, where he was very harsh on her.
Jordan Peterson's been a guy who's never like shied away from this controversy and he's really kind of run toward it, which I admire.
And I don't know.
It'll be interesting to see.
I guess kind of the best case scenario here for me is that they make him go to this class and he actually airs out all the details and makes it all public.
That'd be pretty interesting to see.
But really just wild stuff to go in this, you know, distant third world country known as Canada, that this is actually something like, you know, government or, you know, governing bodies mandating re-education camps over wrong think.
I mean, it's truly like some really fucking Orwellian shit.
It's really just kind of can't overstate how creepy that is.
And how badly do you want, I would like, firstly, I'd love to know what those classes look like.
It's right for a good sketch, but where's the coverage of who's been assigned to go to these?
What are the repercussions if you don't go?
Like Jordan Peterson's a public figure.
That's why we know about this, but what statements did other individuals make online?
What is the penalty if they're not attending these classes?
And then what is going on at these classes?
I mean, how is that not fascinating to everybody?
Yeah.
And like the arguments that Jordan Peterson's been making, I mean, he's made a lot of them over the years, but the argument that he's making is like a completely legitimate argument from a psychological point of view.
He's like saying that we're like, we're encouraging gender reassignment surgery, which is like this, you know, it's kind of this experiment that we're running and we're encouraging young people to transition, whatever that means.
You know, there's, there's many different kind of phases of it from just like socially transitioning to taking hormone, you know, therapy and puberty blockers, doing this like irreversible damage to themselves.
And then in some cases, even having the sexual reassignment surgery.
And we're encouraging young people to do this.
We've kind of turned this into a fad.
And exactly how disastrous is this going to be for so many people?
And it's pretty interesting that a psychologist can't like step in and say, hey, I think this might be have like disastrous psychological effects without what being sent to re-education camp to, I guess, you know, presumably be told that he's not allowed to say that anymore.
So imagine you would, you would actually take someone's license away.
It's a really creepy thing where, so like you have psychologists.
It's an interesting thing to control.
These are like the doctors who people go to with all of their deepest like secrets and like pour their hearts out to them and what like what has to be said back to them is what I don't know, whatever the latest dogma is, which is so clearly like politically driven.
You know what I mean?
Like it's like it's just like this is not, you're not pushing transgenderism because of any like real science here.
You're pushing it because this is the like political fad.
The reason you eat too much is because you're actually supposed to be a girl.
You wouldn't be fat and unhappy anymore if you just tried out this vagina.
So let me make you an appointment with the local clinic and I'll solve it all up.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Anyway, that'll be interesting to follow as well.
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