Dave Smith and Robbie the Fire Bernstein dissect RFK Jr.'s House hearing where Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz allegedly weaponized anti-Semitic claims to censor his Nazi comparisons, while simultaneously addressing Kevin McCarthy's allegations that the FBI withheld credible evidence of Hunter Biden's $18M Burisma bribes. They argue this "soft corruption" and potential IRS bias constitute impeachable offenses, suggesting Democrats aim to keep Biden in office until after the primaries to avoid an open race against RFK Jr., ultimately framing these events as part of a broader government censorship effort suppressing free speech on vaccine injuries and foreign interference. [Automatically generated summary]
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Government Overreach and Spectacle00:07:02
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Hell yeah, dude.
Hell yeah.
All right.
Well, glad we're back together and getting ready to dig into the craziness of the world.
So since we have last chatted, RFK made a trip down over there to Congress, and it was quite a spectacle.
I got to say, this is at a certain point, I think you start to realize, and this is kind of why I am enjoying RFK running for president and why I just appreciate the moment he's creating, is that presidential campaigns, probably the most tangible thing about them is just the moments that they create and how they shift how the American people are thinking about politics.
You know, it's like, do we really have a fair, honest democratic process?
Well, you don't have to be a wild conspiracy theorist to just kind of read the DNC leaked emails about the Bernie Sanders campaign.
You can read the Time magazine piece about how they did Trump dirty right out in the open.
You can look at all these other things.
No, it's not exactly a fair democratic process.
Does the president really get in there and get to enact his agenda?
Well, if it's counter to the interests of, say, the deep state, probably not.
But what they can do in this weird system that we have is they can still make a spectacle.
They can still call people out.
They can still change the way people think about things.
And I think this is so much of right at what's at the heart of the RFK campaign and what's so attractive to him is that he just, he seems to be a walking repudiation of the establishment and he's making them look bad at every turn.
And I really do love that.
I think there's a lot of value in it.
And this was no different.
And it's particularly fun because he is a Democrat.
Yeah.
Yeah, it does.
Makes it particularly interesting.
That's, by the way, one of the things that I was, I was trying to express that when I was talking to Liz Wolf the other day.
Maybe I didn't do the best job of that.
Some people weren't very happy with the way I conducted that interview.
And they might, maybe they're fair.
Maybe some fair points on that.
But one of the points I was trying to make is that.
Hover back on.
Be like Liz.
I didn't do a good enough trash to you for my audience, so if he can come back on it, I could be more hostile.
Maybe Liz, we had a wonderful conversation turns out my audience wants blood and I must give the people what they want um, but i'm just trying to make the point that I think you know like, as i've said, with Rfk a lot, I think uh, sometimes libertarians are, they're missing the, the forest for the trees, and it's not.
It's not even necessarily that they're wrong and there are things to criticize about Rfk.
I mean, i've got, you know look, neither me or you are going to say his take on affirmative action wasn't god awful.
You know what I mean.
Like he's got some bad takes.
But the thing is that just trying to look at the forest rather than just the trees, you it's not people the American people are not getting on board with Rfk, because there was this widespread belief that the Mmr vaccine causes autism and finally someone got up there and said it.
You know what I mean.
That's not like what it is.
Just look at the rates by which people give these vaccines to their kids.
That's not what the appeal was.
It's not that.
The appeal is that he's telling you the entire establishment are a bunch of liars with blood on their hands.
That's the appeal.
It's a repudiation of the whole thing and anyway.
So there's this moment.
Now the um, the Republicans uh, uh in Congress were having a hearing about uh, censorship and they call Rfk.
Now is this um opportunist?
Uh, opportunistic by the Republicans, of course.
Of course they're having this guy in because he's Joe Biden's biggest competitor and they want to elevate him because he's damaging them.
Of course it's naked politics.
But they're having this hearing about censorship and the Democrats actually vote to censor Rfk in the middle of it and the vote fails, so they don't even get him censored.
It's unbelievable that they don't even just have like the common sense to go like this is gonna make us terrible, like let's not do this um, but they somehow they're, they're just, they're too removed from that to even like notice.
But it was quite just.
That alone was like such a spectacle that you're like yes, thank you, that was so worth it, just to show what like, what lying, corrupt hypocrites these, these rulers of ours what, how they really are.
That's Monty Python.
At that point we got to censor the censorship conversation, because if people see the conversation about whether or not we're censoring things.
Uh, they won't trust us.
Yeah, there was um.
There was one uh, um exchange that was particularly uh uh wonderful, I mean, they were all good.
You were actually the one who sent me this.
I was thinking of uh, of playing a um, a different exchange, but then Rob sent me this one and I was like yeah, this is, this is really the one is one with uh, Debbie Waserman Schultz, who is just the worst.
I mean, I don't even know how to do it.
She's, she's every bit, she's every bit as much of a corrupt establishment politician as you could be.
Crowdfunding for Health Care00:02:14
But she also like, don't you feel like the one thing you can count on from these, these blood-soaked monsters, is that they'll be kind of like charming?
You know what I mean?
That they'll at least be like, I know it's going to be phony with a phony smile and a phony suit, but they'll at least like, I don't know, kind of be good at schmoozing or something like that.
That's kind of what you expect out of it, but she is just grading and annoying.
And so anyway, she's very easy to do.
This is like growing up, whoever's my friend's mom that we all hated the most.
That's who this lady is.
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Anti-Semitism and Historical Revisionism00:15:51
All right, let's get back on the show.
All right, let's here.
Let's play this clip.
We're going to have to stop it and comment a bit, but let's play this clip.
Here is Debbie Watserman Schultz chastising RFK from the House floor.
Quest.
Young lady from California is recognized for you.
Ms. Stevenson.
My majority counterparts have repeatedly cited a district court opinion from Louisiana, and I would like to introduce for the record the Fifth Circuit order staying that opinion almost as soon as it was issued.
Objection.
The chair now recognizes the gentleman.
Point of order, Mr. Chairman.
Gentleman from New York is recognized.
The distinguished gentlelady from New York mentioned a poll.
I would just ask that she identify what poll that is and if we could enter it into the record.
I'm sure she'll be happy to.
We will submit it for the record.
Can you identify what it is?
Sure, I will submit it for the record and you'll be able to review it.
We'll get it.
The chair now recognizes the gentlelady from Florida, Ms. Wasserman Schultz.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Mr. Chairman, we respectfully requested that you rescind Mr. Kennedy's invitation to appear here due to his repeated and very recent statements that spread dangerous anti-Semitic and anti-Asian conspiracy theories and attempted to move into executive session because House rules prohibit public testimony that degrades or defames people.
His reckless rhetoric helped fuel anti-Semitic incidents, which for the record are at the highest level in the United States since 1970.
They have nearly tripled in the last six years.
Since you gave Mr. Kennedy a megaphone, give him a chance to correct his statements.
All right, let's just pause it already.
I mean, just the level of dishonesty.
It's like it's hard.
It's hard to look at somebody.
And look, I think one of the things that people like about this show, I think one of the bonds that we have with our audience, when we go out on the road, I meet people who listen to the show all the time.
And it's like I get into conversations with people.
And like, it's one of the things that I think kind of draws our types of people together.
And it's that we're just, you kind of want to tell the truth.
It's not to say we all, we all get it right 100% of the time.
Lord knows I'm only 99.9.
But it's like you just kind of drawn to people who tell the truth or want to find out the truth or seeking the truth.
And you just like, there's something about a person like this that you almost look at him like, at points you're like, oh, are we a different species?
Like, I don't even think we are the same thing.
Like you are just so full of it and you know it.
You know it.
Now, look, I thought RFK, first of all, this was not like a campaign speech that he gave.
It was like a leaked clip of him talking to some people.
But it did seem like a little bit sloppy.
It was kind of like, you know, theorizing about how there was this one study that seemed to demonstrate that some of these there are some viruses that target certain ethnicities more than others and that the Chinese have been experimenting with this and America's been experimenting with this.
And hey, there is some evidence that shows that COVID had was, you know, had a higher death rate for these groups than those groups.
Okay, maybe it was a little bit sloppy for him to be, you know, kind of like putting this out there when he, it's very unsure that there's anything, there's any there there.
But it was not an anti-Semitic or anti-Chinese attack.
It wasn't attacking any group of people.
And then so for her to first make that claim that these were like anti-Semitic remarks, that's dumb enough.
But to then say, what did she say?
He helped fueled anti-Semitic violence.
Like, what?
I'm sorry.
You're going to need to show me a shred of evidence that those offhanded comments by RFK, like what, there were people out there just like ready to attack Jews.
And then they heard that RFK comment and they were like, all right, that's my green flag.
I'm a Manchurian candidate who's just been activated by RFK speculating about the discrepancy in death rates between different racial groups.
Like, what?
Just how like absurd on its face is that claim, Rob?
I hate the whiny Jew shit where it's, look, we paid for studies saying that there's more anti-Semitism.
And so now it's just a vehicle for censorship.
Now we all have to be ultra careful because otherwise you're responsible for the damages happening.
We probably have it the best here that we've ever had it.
This is like in trying to censor people on the basis of being anti-Semitism.
It's annoying to everybody.
People can see through it.
And if anything, that will lead to dangerous anti-Semitism.
So if I have to decide between activities that might lead to anti-Semitism, it's coming up with phony studies to pretend like we're more in danger than we are and trying to censor people on account of it.
100%, dude.
I just couldn't.
Yes.
Amen.
Couldn't agree more.
I know we've talked about this a lot.
It's one of my, one of, one of my gripes with our people is that I do think Jews fall into this tendency way too much.
Like stop playing the victim.
Stop like trying to make it out.
Like we're up against it.
Jews are not objectively, we are very successful as a people in the United States of America in modern times.
There's just no reason.
I don't know if you remember this, Rob.
I think you were right there with me.
You may not have been, but it was at Porkfest several years ago.
So you were definitely there on the trip with me, but I don't know if you were there for this conversation, but it was like right after our stand-up show.
And I was taking pictures with some people.
And there was this woman who was like, I don't know, a little bit older than us.
And she asked me at one point, like we were just like hanging out bullshitting with people.
And she asked me what I thought about the rise of anti-Semitism on college campuses.
This is like, I want to say like 2017 or something like that, maybe 2018.
And I remember almost just being taken aback by the question.
Like I was like, what do I think about anti-Semitism on college campuses?
And I was like, I think it's not a problem at all.
And stop like that.
If for some reason you're running into a problem where you're being overwhelmed by anti-Semitism, you're probably acting too Jewie.
Well, I was just like, look, I mean, I don't know.
I was like, my family has come from lots of countries and lots of different times where anti-Semitism was a major problem.
You know, we are not in one of those countries right now.
We're just not.
I mean, I suppose everything's relative, you know, like I'm not saying there is an absolute zero level of people who don't like Jews.
I'm just saying compared to anything where it's a substantial problem, no, it's not a problem.
There is nothing.
There is not going to be any barrier in your way for being a Jewish person in America today.
Stop complaining about this stuff.
It's just ridiculous.
And I said to her, I said, if you want to like actually talk about a culture of it being accepted to be prejudiced toward a group of people on college campuses today, I would say there's an argument that straight white men have a real culture of being demonized on college campuses.
It certainly was the unvaxx last year or two years ago.
Yes.
Again, like I'm not opposed to these, like the idea that like, hey, there is this group that is really prejudged, you know, based on whatever these characteristics are.
I'm open to it, but just like, tell me what it is and let's think about this.
Okay.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Well, the unvaccinated are like totally demonized.
And they're like, many cases were fired from their employment or not allowed in certain, you know, venues or whatever, restaurants.
Or so, okay.
All right.
You got an argument there.
Are they teaching lectures in every single, you know, like college campus across the country about the evils of straight white men?
Yeah.
Okay.
They sure are.
Where's any of that happening with Jews?
Just show it to me.
Show me the examples of it.
Like I'm not even against it.
I don't even have a dog in this fight.
Like if you show me examples of it, fine.
But what do you have?
And then she started talking about how like I was like, I asked her, I remember, I was like, so what examples do you have of this?
And she was like, well, there was an incident at a college recently where a professor said something insensitive.
And I was just like, yeah, but now you're going to like, what?
A guy was a jerk somewhere?
Like, I don't know.
Like, yeah, you're in an oven.
There's some, some story like that somewhere.
It just doesn't do anyway.
So this, but this, but then to your point, there, there's like, that's kind of like the setup.
But then there's this even more pernicious angle that they take that's really the one that you're talking about, which is a threat to free speech.
And I cannot stand this, where then the next level is you go, oh, so now if you say something that I determine based on the loosest possible connection, like that I determine that could lead to someone doing something bad.
Well, now you're kind of responsible for saying this, right?
Like if it, which is insane, because you could, you could play this game with any belief.
And one of the things that I think progressives kind of capitalize on is that almost no one else is willing to stoop to their level of disingenuousness.
So this is kind of like the point I was making about like, we're almost different species, is that no one else is really doing this because they like everybody else has to look themselves in the mirror and just like their skin would crawl off their own body if they were ever this dishonest.
So they don't do this, you know, like, but we could in a sense, but we don't tend to go, you know, what you see those videos of like the insane climate activists like destroying artwork or like blocking roads or doing shit like that.
But you don't, the next time, if you had some like, you know, I don't know, liberal you heard making an argument for why climate change is such an emergency, your brain doesn't even go to be like, this is inspiring, like this type of stuff.
And so you have to shut up.
We have to censor you because otherwise people are going to be doing these things over there because you're just not such a liar that you'd go like, well, I mean, you can still make your argument about climate change.
You weren't actually calling on these people to do that.
So you're not responsible for what those people did.
But they don't play that game the other way, you know?
So if anything, any, any point that you want to make, if you say, hey, I think we have to get like illegal immigration under control and there was someone out there who beat up a Hispanic kid last week, then they go, see, your rhetoric is fueling this violence, which is of course just like an insane standard.
We couldn't talk about anything if you always have to be concerned over the fact that some violent person might hear this, hear you not calling on them to commit violence, not inciting violence, just giving your point.
Some crazy person might hear you and then go do something violent.
It's just an absurd standard that no one genuinely believes in.
So anyway, so that's how she starts.
Her first three sentences are just, hey, I'm the scummiest liar in the world.
Now let's get into it.
I'm the scummiest liar in the world and I support censorship.
Now, my first question.
So let's continue.
You simply labeled Jews and Chinese people as a race.
And you also said that somehow they managed to avoid a deadly illness that targets other groups for death.
You don't see that?
You're trying to rewrite history here.
A few months ago, Mr. Kennedy, you compared COVID public health policies to barbaric murderous tactics of Nazi Germany, saying that Jewish people in Nazi Germany had more freedom than Americans facing COVID health restrictions.
In hindsight, Mr. Kennedy, do you reject this absurd and deeply hurtful and harmful comparison?
Or do you still stand by it?
Congressman, what you are saying is a lie.
You said it.
Oh, I did not.
I never can tell you.
Okay, I never, ever.
Mr. Chairman, I'm happy to miss the record when Mr. Kennedy said that.
I reclaim my time.
In discussing COVID public health measures, you made light of the genocide against Jewish people by saying, and I quote, even Hitler's Germany, you could cross the Alps to Switzerland.
You could hide in an attic like Anne Frank did.
Mr. Kennedy, do you think it was easy for Jewish people to escape systematic slaughter of Nazis?
Yes or no?
Absolutely not.
Okay, good.
Mr. Kennedy, do you think it was just as hard to wear a mask during COVID as it was to hide under floorboards or false walls so you weren't murdered or dragged to a concentration camp?
Yes or no?
Excuse me?
That's a question.
Yes or no?
I didn't hear your question.
Okay.
I said, do you think it was just as hard to wear a mask during COVID as it was to hide under floorboards or false walls so you weren't murdered or dragged to a concentration camp?
Of course not.
That's ridiculous.
But that's a comparison that you made.
Were the measures taken to contain the spread and fatalities related to COVID in any way at all comparable to the murder of 6 million Jews?
Yes or no?
Absolutely not.
Okay.
Let's be very clear here.
There's no legitimate comparison to the Holocaust.
It doesn't matter if you're talking about AI vaccine mandates or anything else.
There is no comparison.
And if this were a slip of the tongue, Mr. Kennedy, or a one-off comment, we would all move on.
But there's a deeply disturbing pattern.
In 2015, you apologized to all those, quote, whom I offended by my use of the word Holocaust to describe the autism epidemic.
When discussing efforts to encourage others to get vaccinated for COVID-19, you said Nazis did that in the camps in World War II.
They tested vaccines on gypsies and Jews.
That was a quote.
Like before, you apologized for invoking the Holocaust, saying, quote, to the extent my remarks caused hurt, I am truly and deeply sorry.
These are not real statements of contrition or remorse.
They are passive-aggressive non-apologies that blame the listener for reacting to the lie you just spread.
I'm deeply saddened that this is a conversation we're having today.
I have deep respect for what Mr. Kennedy's family did and still does to make life better for all Americans.
But what you are doing now, Mr. Kennedy, and the forces you aligned yourself are reckless, dangerous, and disturbing by echoing dangerous claims such as, quote, Jews don't really suffer as much as we do, which you said, your rhetoric creates a climate of mistrust, antagonism, and even hatred or violence against Jewish people.
My own children have been the targets of brutal anti-Semitism on social media.
You fan those flames and jeopardize their safety.
You've marginalized other groups too, like Asian Americans and the LGBT plus community.
And worse, you don't seem to care or brush it all off to misquotes and misunderstanding.
Frankly, it's disgusting.
Thank you for your indulgence, Mr. Chairman.
I yield back the balance.
Mr. Chairman, have unanimous consent.
All right.
So Debbie Wasserman-Schultz just really showing you what a terrible person she is.
It's just these tactics are despicable.
It is just like, I think, I don't know if people understand just how despicable they are.
First off, just using the Holocaust to score the cheapest of political points, claiming your children, using your children.
Put anything up there.
Nothing you won't use.
My children, by the way, if you caught what she said, have been the victim of anti-Semitic harassment on social media.
Brutal.
It was brutal.
Brutal anti-Semitic harassment on social media.
Is there anyone out here who has not had something horrific said about them on social media?
Anyone amongst us.
No, but that's the indicator of just how much worse anti-Semitism is in the world, is that there's more of it on social media.
I mean, sure, it's not in your actual life.
The fact that there's more.
Comparing Policies to Nazis00:05:30
You know, there's something to, first of all, there's this dirty, there's another dirty trick that's played here that gets played quite often.
By the way, teach yourself to look for this trick because it's one of the dirtiest tricks and it's so dishonest.
Is where you're, if you make a comparison to anything, if you make a comparison to anything, that's now that's like viewed as equating it.
You know what I'm saying?
Like, so if you, if you compare to something, they go, oh, so you're saying they're the exact same thing?
So, oh, now you're totally downplaying how evil this evil thing was because you're comparing the two things.
So for the example that always pops out into my mind was that the Libertarian Party of Kentucky, their state affiliate chapter there, they had that tweet about the yellow stars that went super viral.
It was during the COVID passports when they tweeted something to the effect of like, oh, why don't we just put a yellow star on the unvaccinated?
And immediately everyone goes, you're saying this is the same as the Holocaust.
How dare you say that?
And it's like, well, no, they're making a comparison between a society that started marking one group of people and saying they had limited rights that ultimately led to very bad situation.
And it is totally reasonable to like say about a policy that go, eh, you know, like it's almost like they treat it as if you were saying the Nazis were good, but clearly what they're saying here is objecting to anything that's even similar to a Nazi policy.
So what, what would it, there's, there's nothing to be offended about here.
And it's completely legitimate to like make a comparison.
It's completely legitimate to just say if the government came in tomorrow and said, we are going to set the price of wheat and someone went, oh, what are we, you know, what are we going to be mouse a tongue here and just collectivize all the farms or something like that?
And if you go, so you're equating, you're saying it's the same thing to just set the price of wheat than it is to collectivize all the farmland?
Like, no, it's not the same.
There are similarities here.
And I'm making a comparison.
I'm intentionally comparing it to something really horrible so that you see, hey, there's a little bit of horrible in this policy.
There's nothing wrong with that.
There's nothing offensive about that.
And in fact, ironically, almost every time when people pull this bullshit tactic where they go, you compared a thing to a worse thing.
Therefore, I'm outraged.
They end up doing the same thing.
They end up doing the same thing and taking it totally for granted.
Like, just for example, did, did Wasserman Schultz here, did she or did she not kind of lump in anti-Semitic tweets with the Holocaust?
Right?
I mean, she did kind of talk about them all in one thing.
Oh, you're leading to all of that.
You know, you're minimizing the Holocaust.
You're leading to violence.
And even my children had tweets sent to them.
Maybe that, is that not insulting?
Is that not insulting to actual victims of the Holocaust to in the same few sentences mention what they had to go through, you know, ducking the Nazis and also what your kids have to go through, you know, having to mute some people on Twitter.
Like it's just unbelievable.
So again, it's just, it's these tactics they use that they benefit from the fact that people who are not like them would never use these tactics because you would literally feel nauseous about who you are as a human being.
Go ahead.
I was going to say it's also just rich and it's all that Trump is Hitler.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
No, it's so, it's so funny.
It's so funny how many of them, dude, it was this really came out when the Libertarian Party of Kentucky made that tweet that all they, because they got like, it went super viral and like all these people like Seth Rogan and all these people were like, this is outrageous.
All these like blue checks at the time when blue checks meant you were, you know, famous or whatever.
All these, all these blue checks were so fair.
And then everyone just started producing receipts on them comparing Trump to Hitler.
And I'm like, oh, yeah, exactly.
So, right.
It's okay.
You have no problem doing it when it suits you.
And then when it's, when it's, when it's not your politics, not only do you have a problem with it, but all of a sudden you have this moral outrage about how terrible it is to compare anything to the Nazis.
It's just ridiculous.
And like, I don't know the exact comments that RFK made.
I'm not sure exactly what she's referring to.
But it's something along the lines of him being like, look, they were testing vaccines on people.
Like, that's what the Nazis did.
They were testing vaccines on people.
In other words, the moral being, we don't want to do anything that's similar to what the Nazis did.
There's nothing offensive in saying that.
Now, what RFK does a great job at here, and I'll tell you, these are the type of moments that are the best.
The best moments are when, and this is what Ron Paul was able to create with Rudy Giuliani, is the best moment is when you get somebody who is just transparently an awful human being trying to stand on their moral high horse using ridiculous arguments.
And they demand you apologize.
Ron Paul's Moral High Ground00:03:28
And you say, absolutely not.
That's just the best.
Because that was the thing when, if you remember, Rob, when Ron Paul was, you know, saying like, oh, they don't attack us because we're rich and we're free.
They attack us because we're over there and they don't like what we're doing in their, in the Muslim world.
And Rudy Giuliani is like, that's appalling.
I've never heard anything like that.
And I demand you apologize.
And Ron Paul's just like, look, here's how it works.
The CIA coined the term blowback.
This is what it means.
Blah, blah, blah.
And just let him have it.
And right here, I thought it was a great moment by RFK.
I don't know if you caught that one moment there where he's, she demanded he apologize or she said, I'll give you a chance to apologize.
And he said, Mr. Congressman or something.
He said, Congressman, you're a liar.
It was just a great response.
And it was just even better that he called her Congressman.
I just thought that was just perfect.
Just perfect.
Like, you're a liar.
Nope.
I don't have to retract anything because you're a liar.
And like, this is why it's like, whether RFK is right about every scientific argument he's making or not, this is just why people are rooting for him.
Because look at this.
Look at what he's up against and how just blatantly dishonest it is.
Say what you will about RFK.
It seems like he believes what he's saying.
This lady doesn't.
She knows she's full of shit.
Yeah, it's really something.
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Powerful Interests Protecting Biden00:15:19
All right, let's get back into the show.
All right, any other thoughts on this one, Rob?
Uh, nope.
Okay, let's move on.
Um, all right, so another big story that is blowing up and is on a theme, obviously, that we've been talking about for a while, but it has not been a good few days for Joe Biden.
Um, it seems like the temperature on this, the Hunter Biden scandals and their connection to Joe Biden has just been getting turned up and up and up for weeks now.
Um, uh, you know, we've speculated in the past that it's possible that there are some powerful interests who have been protecting Joe Biden for a long time, who maybe aren't so interested in protecting him anymore.
It is when you just take a step back and look at the situation.
You know, I was I was watching videos from Joe Biden in 2019 the other day.
And it's at the time, I remember when we were doing our podcast and we were talking about how much Joe Biden had aged since he was vice president.
So like from 2015, say to 2019 and being like, whoa, it was really apparent how much this guy had lost a step, how much he struggled to speak, quite frankly.
But man, go look at videos from Joe Biden in 2019 and now look at videos in 2023.
And it's like at least equally as drastic of a change.
And I do, I'm just saying, and this is speculating here, but just looking at him, it is very, it's very hard to see Joe Biden at any time, like any press conference he gives, any event he's at, anything, and to go, wait, how exactly is this going to work?
How exactly is it going to work when he has to run a campaign and can't just hide in his basement?
How does that work?
And it's just, it's hard to not at least speculate that like a lot, a lot of fucking powerful people in the Democratic Party must be trying to figure out what their options are.
And so if nothing else, it just seems a little bit coincidental that you have these kind of these well-placed leaks and all of a sudden this information, which by the way, nothing here is really new.
This is all going back to stuff that happened when Joe Biden was vice president or shortly after.
But now all of a sudden, it's like the media has very noticeably, the corporate press has very noticeably pivoted from there's absolutely nothing to talk about Hunter Biden.
You're insane if you think that you're also probably a Russian spy to like, oh yeah, no, obviously we always acknowledge there's a real scandal here and it's quite possible Joe Biden's involved.
It's been a drastic change.
And I'm sure you've noticed that.
Yeah.
I mean, it's, it's wild how much he's fallen off.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So there was a New York Post story.
The New York Post, of course, has been on top of the Hunter Biden stuff for at least a few years now.
They were the ones who were originally censored for publishing the laptop.
The title of the story, Hunter Biden put then VP Dad Joe on the phone with business associates at least two dozen times, ex-partner Devin Archer to testify.
So Devin Archer, who is facing jail time in his role in a $60 million bond fraud, is scheduled to testify to the House Oversight Committee about meetings he witnessed that were attended by Joe Biden, either in person or via speakerphone with Hunter Biden.
So we now have one more damning piece of information that Joe Biden not, well, the lowest hanging fruit is that he was lying when he repeatedly said that he had no knowledge of his son's business.
But the much more devastating implication is that Joe Biden was taking bribes from foreign countries while he was vice president of the United States of America.
This is pretty damning.
Well, it seems like he got written correspondence at this point of the actual company being like, hey, we're spending a lot of money with you.
Where's the influence coming from?
How are you guys handling this?
What's Joe doing about this?
It's just there seems to be enough in writing that, I mean, I guess you could say that Hunter's really good at lying to people.
And so he kept pretending like he was peddling influence.
And so that's just the company who's reporting, hey, where's this supposed influence and getting upset with him?
But I mean, it's pretty clear that that's what they were paying for.
And then within the backdrop of them getting exactly what they were looking for, which was Joe Biden saying, I will withhold aid.
It seems pretty apparent what happened here.
Now, to give a little bit of credit to the, it's like there's a bit of a distinction between kind of what I view as soft and hard corruption.
Like hard corruption would be, hey, China, here's the, here's military secrets that we're looking for or here's a favorable agreement.
In this case, you could have had that in other countries, they do dirty business and you'll get prosecutors who are dirty who will ruin your business until you pay them off.
And so now you had to hire bigger muscle to chase off those people from that shakedown, which could be that that's actually what, like, in other words, Joe Biden wasn't working against our strategic national interests, which to me would be more hard corruption and that this is more soft corruption where he bought a bigger bully to chase away that bully.
But on the same note, even if that's the case, it does seem dead to rights that Joe Biden is both bribable and was paid by a corporate.
Like it just, there's too many things lining up here.
The guy got up on television, or at least we have TV footage of him saying, I told him I will withhold this unless you get that guy fired.
And they fired it.
And so I gave them their whatever, the military aid, I think was what he was holding up.
Well, just to be clear here, right?
So this is so what happened here, and this is the story, which is, it really is quite interesting, is that, so you have this company, Burisma, who is like a crony capitalist company.
They're like totally in bed with the Yanukovych government.
Which, by the way, is probably the only way to do business in Ukraine.
I assume.
Sure.
Yeah.
The Yanukovych government, by all accounts, was a very corrupt government, as was the Prushenko government, as is the Zelensky government.
Ukraine's a very corrupt country.
But no question, the Yanukovych government was very corrupt.
And so you have this company that's very in with the government.
And in 2014, there is a coup that overthrows the democratically elected government that's backed by the West.
So this is in Obama's administration.
Now, Joe Biden, as the vice president, was the point man on Ukrainian policy.
This is one of his major tasks that he was given as vice president.
And in fact, in the Victoria Newland leaked phone call, when she talks about how, you know, we're in play and we need to glue this thing.
She goes, we need to get Biden on the phone to glue this thing, to give all of the, you know, the resistance, you know, an ada boy, I think were her words or whatever.
It's bizarre phone call.
And of course, when illegally, they overthrew the Yanukovych government.
The next day, the Obama administration recognized them as the legitimate government of Ukraine.
This is at the time, just to be clear, Yanukovych fled the country for his life, but he was still claiming to be the president.
Like he was on TV a couple of days later from Russia and he was going, no, I'm the democratically elected president of this country.
I'm coming back to like take.
control of my government.
And by the way, he was democratically elected.
The elections were verified by the EU.
And but the Obama administration recognized the new government and he was basically boxed out and never allowed to come back in.
So now you have there was like a little interim government and then Porzhenko became the next the next president.
So now you have this company, Burisma, who's sitting there and they're like, whoa, the government that I was in bed with has just been overthrown and now there's a new government involved.
And so this is when they go and they hire Hunter Biden.
So instead of even just bribing the Prushenko government, they just went right to the source and hired the vice president's son.
So it's like, okay, so we'll give millions of dollars to the son of the guy who's basically running, you know, who's instead of just going to the puppet government, we'll go right to the point man in America on Ukraine.
So then there was because there were some tensions between this new government, the Prushenko government and Burisma, there's a prosecutor now who's cracking down on Burisma, who's investigating him.
And this is the one that Joe Biden famously brags that he got that prosecutor fired and he threatened to withhold aid if they wouldn't get him fired.
And then they did.
This was him bragging about how they could push him around.
Now, one of the things that's pretty interesting there is that it just makes it look like, oh, it was a really smart investment by Burisma.
So it certainly seems like here, okay, they're paying Hunter Biden, someone who does not speak the language, does not have any experience in the sector.
They're paying him and they certainly do get what they want out of it from Joe Biden.
Is that foolproof?
I don't know, but circumstantially certainly doesn't look very good.
But there's so many interesting elements of it because it really does demonstrate how when it, you know, like Rob, when like there'll be like whatever it'll be, there'll be like opinion polls or something, or there'll be like presidential polls, but then you could look at like how Wall Street's betting.
And you're like, in a lot of ways, that's more interesting because these are people actually putting their money on the line.
So like this really gives you some information.
In the same sense, it's like, look at like how companies bribe governments.
That really tells you where like the power is.
And so they're admitting the power is in DC.
The power is not in, you know, Kiev.
But also just look, I mean, you have Joe Biden here getting paid off by Ukraine, the country who he's now pledged well over $100 billion in American support saying we're going to like back you till the end of time in this war.
That's just such a conflict of interest.
And then there's the fact that he lied about it on the campaign to the American people and then continued to lie over and over about it.
I mean, that is, if not criminal, certainly impeachable.
And anyway, on that thought, here was Kevin McCarthy, who was just talking about this stuff the other day.
Let's play that clip from the Speaker of the House.
That they bribed the Bidens.
Okay.
This was given to the FBI.
When Bill Barr finally found out about it, he sent it to his office in Philadelphia.
They actually said that this was very credible.
The FBI kept this from the IRS individuals for them ever to see it.
So not only do they claim that they were bribed, we now find information that 16 out of 17 payments from Romania were provided to the Biden shell companies while he was vice president.
When President Biden was running for office, he told the American public that he's never talked about business.
He said his family has never received a dollar from China, which we now prove is not true.
We now have some of the most credible whistleblowers, these 10-year IRS agents who have come forward, said that the Biden family has been treated differently, that what Weiss has told us is different than what Garland and Weiss has told the public.
And you're sitting here today where now you have found millions of foreign money, just what the 1023 alleges they did to Biden's family.
Now we found that it has funneled through shell companies.
If you're sitting in our position today, we would know none of this if Republicans had not taken the majority.
We've only followed where the information has taken us.
But Hannibal is rising to the level of impeachment inquiry, which provides Congress the strongest power to get the rest of the knowledge and information needed.
Because this president has also used something we have not seen since Richard Nixon, use the weaponization of government to benefit his family and deny Congress the ability to have the oversight.
If we are talking about millions of dollars coming from our top geopolitical foes and that the Biden family has been corrupted and took in all of this money and he was complicit in that, wouldn't that mean that we have a criminal enterprise as president of the United States that had to be on every level compromised by countries that are not particularly fond of us?
Well, it's interesting that the Biden family runs, if they say, a company but never had an office and shell companies to be able to pay through.
But if they really ran it for foreign countries, why didn't you get money from France, from Germany, from UK?
Why does it have to be from China, Romania, these countries that have real challenges and had problems going through?
I believe we will follow this all the way to the end, and this is going to rise to an impeachment inquiry the way the Constitution tells us to do this.
And we have to get the answers to these questions.
All right.
So I guess the big story here is that, look, you got the Speaker of the House bringing up impeachment for the first time.
Now, whether this will actually happen, I do not share McCarthy's view that we will get to the bottom of this.
Probably not.
What's more interesting to me is almost, you're like, hey, look, if they're going to get Joe Biden out of the way and get some other nominee in here, this does have to start happening pretty soon.
Like there's still time.
You know what I mean?
There's still a decent amount of time before the primaries start.
There's still a lot of time before the general election.
But there's not that much time if you're trying to get this guy out of the way.
And it seems like if that's the plan, then this is the beginning of that.
Shifting Political Dynamics00:02:55
This is the beginning of putting that pressure on Biden.
I heard a good theory.
I did the Meatcock podcast recently.
I don't remember the exact title of it, but they got a good podcast going.
Yeah, go check them out.
What is it?
Take Human Action.
Uh podcast, is that what they call it?
Uh, the?
It's a website to sign up.
I don't know well yeah, it's one of those.
Go if, if you uh, if you go on youtube and Youtube Mises Caucus, their page will uh pop up, but those guys are, of course, our guys and they're all great.
So I did, I did that podcast recently, and this was the first I had heard of this or thought of this, but it sounded uh like a plausible play by the Democratic Party is to keep Biden in the game long enough that they don't have to do primaries and then, once they're past that process, swapping him out for News.
Interesting Interesting, which I think I guess would be a play to box out Rfk, or uh.
Well, that's the difficult matters, that's the difficult situation they're in now.
Right, because they've got look, they've got Kamala Harris waiting in the wings.
If so, if Biden is uh deposed before the elections, then shit, you got president Kamala Harris who's gonna want to run, and that's tough and the thing is like it this, this transition would probably be a little bit easier if you didn't have this Rfk guy sitting at 20, who's quite likely to inherit a lot of that.
You know what I mean.
Like I don't know who knows like, like if tomorrow it were announced that Joe Biden's out and it's like an open primary, now well, Joe Biden can get away with saying i'm not going to debate Rfk, i'm not going to have a real primary against Rfk, i'm the president, or whatever.
But Gavin Newsom can't.
You know, you can't just come in and say, you want it, the guy who's been campaigning for you longer.
What would Gavin Newsom be polling at?
Would it be any higher than than Rfk, possibly?
But I don't know.
And so then now you're going to have yourselves a real tight race.
And there there does seem to be something different about Rfk compared to say, like Bernie Sanders.
He's not like Bernie Sanders in the sense that, like it just always kind of felt like Bernie Sanders was just there to write a book and and collect a check, make millions of dollars, but I don't die, that's mine, I owned it because it's not a billion.
If you write a book, you can get a million dollars.
Remember when you said that yeah anyway uh, but so it feels like this is a little bit more personal with Rfk.
Rfk has a lot more um uh, substance to him than Bernie Sanders had, and so like, I don't think this guy's just going away um, I don't think he put this all on the line to do this, just to like back out.
I, I don't, I don't think so.
I guess I could be wrong.
I don't think so.
Um, and so you've got a tricky situation.
So maybe that is the goal is to try to maneuver in some way, like that where they draw it out to the end and then throw it uh uh, throw it to someone else.
I, I don't know, but it is.
Learning Languages with Babel00:02:00
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It is amazing.
It's amazing how quickly it turns.
You know how quickly.
It's like, oh, if you're asking about Hunter Biden, what are you, some type of conspiracy theorist to just being like no obviously, I mean, this is a completely legitimate thing to talk about.
It's like you know, it's a lab leak.
You know all these things that are just like it's, it's totally crazy.
Now it's like, oh no obviously, we all know, we all know we joke around about this.
Yeah, it's open secret really, really just nuts.
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Vaccine Speculation and Correlation00:08:45
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All right, let's get back into the show.
All right, before we get out of here, I did want, I feel like we almost have to address this because it's just one of those things that you kind of know is going to be here with us for a little while.
And it's an interesting dynamic.
So what evidently, very sad story, but evidently LeBron James' son, who is a basketball standout himself, evidently suffered a cardiac arrest during basketball practice either earlier today or yesterday.
It's just being reported today.
He was rushed to the hospital.
It's not clear what his condition is right now.
I will, you know, obviously you hope he's all right.
That's a horrible thing for such a young kid to go through that.
I've my, you know, I'm a father of a son who's had some major cardiac problems.
So I certainly can relate to some degree or whatever.
And yeah, so anyway, it's just horrible.
And of course, there's just wild speculation on social media right now, as is just always going to be the case with these type of things, that it has something to do with the vax.
We've talked about it before when there was that football player who had that cardiac event.
And I think we'll probably say a similar type thing on today's episode, right?
We don't know.
We have no idea what caused this, but it does seem like, I don't know, you're just, I would be lying if I said I wasn't in my own head, like certainly considering that as a possibility.
And I think what's more important than what goes on in my head is just that you see this kind of like widespread speculation about this.
And I don't think that's going anywhere.
You know, I've talked to several people who have taken the vaccine, in some cases, even taken boosters, who are like really concerned about this.
I talk to a lot more people now who, again, this is not scientific evidence.
I'm just saying that this is the mood of the country, at least as I'm experiencing it, that a lot of people know people who have been vaccine injured at this point.
They're starting to get really concerned about it.
I don't know.
What do you think about this when you just see like you were someone who was really on top of the vaccine stuff during COVID?
What do you think when you see these kind of like seemingly abnormal events and the wild speculation about the vax?
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I think, I mean, we did more COVID covers than anyone.
I think it's the tip of the iceberg that just last week, you know, the Biden administration finally said they're going to stop sending money to the Wuhan lab.
And, you know, they retracted.
And what's his name?
Cauci got busted right-handed for perjury.
I don't know if they're going to move forward with that in any capacity, but I'd like to see a unwinding of all the lies that we spoke about and a full investigation.
And hopefully it will take something other than widespread injuries for people to be so alarmed about what happens when we restrict free speech that we actually investigate what took place.
In terms of these single incidents, I don't know.
To me, it's like, you know, we got El Niño going on, which is a weathering pattern.
Everyone's screaming, oh, look, look at what global warming did to the weather.
So until like things are actually, in my opinion, verified, which will probably be in larger mortality tables.
And I still hope such an incident doesn't happen.
Yeah, I mean, listen, it's nice being right.
You know what I mean?
And when there's like little things that go like, look, we warned you, like that, it feels good and you kind of get excited for it.
But one, it's not what I'm rooting for.
And two, is just any scattered incident doesn't really prove anything until they actually come, like until the doctor tomorrow comes forward and goes, yeah, this was because of that, which maybe they would suppress for good reason.
But like, until that happens, it's just kind of, you know, it's just, it's almost, it's almost celebrating something to me that we probably shouldn't jump on and celebrate because it's not, it's not really the outcome we're looking for is for the government to turn around and go, for a different reason, here's why we need to reinstate free speech.
Yeah.
Well, you definitely don't want to celebrate it because it's a tragic thing, no matter what.
But, you know, this is, this is one of the difficult things about vaccine injuries in general.
Everybody knows there's a certain degree of them.
Exactly how prevalent they are is somewhat up for debate.
But what happens in so many of these cases is that you don't really know what caused these situations.
It's not always so easy to just determine clearly, oh, this is what happened.
You know, like I know someone who's a totally healthy woman in her 30s.
And she just developed a heart problem and she was double vaccinated and boosted.
And I got right away in my mind, I'm like, I bet this is what it is.
Now, I don't know that.
She doesn't know that.
She's concerned that that's what it is, but her doctors don't know.
Nobody knows exactly.
But it's also like, I don't know, it's like a perfectly healthy person in their 30s who just developed a heart condition.
Like what?
Give me something else here.
Like what else explains why this is that?
This just now, okay, you can certainly look at that and go, while it's incredibly rare that that happens, it does happen.
You know, can you really prove one way or the other?
Deep down in my mind, I'm like, yeah, that's what I think it is.
I don't know.
You know what I mean?
I don't, I can't really say for sure.
And this is what happens in a lot of these debates, even with other vaccines that RFK is always talking about.
He's like, well, look, there's a correlation here, you know?
And then he's got more of a deep argument than that too.
But they'll be like, look, there's a correlation here.
The people who take this vaccine are more likely to get this.
And they're like, aha, but correlation doesn't equal causation.
Like, okay, fair enough.
But how exactly would we even determine this?
You know what I mean?
And so that's one of the things.
But when you create an environment where you have immunity protections for pharmaceutical companies, immunity protections from these vaccines, when the vaccines are mandated or coerced in other ways onto people who should not be taking them, like for example, you know, the example I always give the college or the grad student who was double vaccinated and had COVID, and then they made him get a booster a couple months later.
You're forcing people who shouldn't take the vaccine to take it.
They're shielded from immunity.
You're lying your ass off every step of the way through this.
And then you're silencing and demonizing people who talk about vaccine injury.
And you're also like have a complete blackout of reporting that this is even a thing at all.
Well, that formula, when we start seeing an unusual amount of people having heart problems, that formula is going to lead toward conspiracy theories about this.
And of course, the response from the establishment has been to just kind of blame those conspiracists, you know, oh, you're, you're, you're a conspiracy theorist or something.
It's like, yeah, well, that's what you're going to get in this situation.
Maybe you guys.
Fox story has been fucking weird.
Yeah, that's been pretty weird too.
There's just, there's a lot of them.
And again, this doesn't prove anything, but it is like, you know, when you guys have been so dishonest and you've been silencing dissent and you, you know, you've lied every step of the way, this is what, where people's minds are going to go.
So again, like me and you, it's nice to be right, but boy, you would not want to be right this way.