Part Of The Problem - Dave Smith - "Democracy Is At Stake" Aired: 2023-08-17 Duration: 54:50 === Rolling Back The Gold Standard (13:11) === [00:00:00] Fill her up. [00:00:02] You're listening to the Gas Digital Network. [00:00:09] We need to roll back the state. [00:00:11] We spy on all of our own citizens. [00:00:13] Our prisons are flooded with nonviolent drug offenders. [00:00:17] If you want to know who America's next enemy is, look at who we're funding right now. [00:00:22] Every single one of these problems are a result of government being way too big. [00:00:27] You're listening to part of the problem on the Gas Digital Network. [00:00:31] Here's your host, James Smith. [00:00:34] What's up, everybody? [00:00:35] Welcome to a brand new episode of Part of the Problem. [00:00:38] I'm Dave Smith. [00:00:38] He is Robbie the Fire Bernstein. [00:00:40] What's up, brother? [00:00:41] How are you? [00:00:42] Oh, dude, I had a sick week in a porch tour. [00:00:45] This thing's going. [00:00:46] Oh, yeah. [00:00:46] I'm having fun. [00:00:47] That's great. [00:00:48] I'm very glad to hear that. [00:00:49] Got to come out to the summer porch tour, everybody. [00:00:51] Go to robbythefire.com. [00:00:53] It is porch tour season right now. [00:00:55] I am obviously out of the out of the studio. [00:00:59] I've been on a little vacation with the family. [00:01:02] So having a nice time ahead of my comedy special being released August 22nd right here on my YouTube channel. [00:01:13] It's for free. [00:01:15] Come check it out. [00:01:16] I'm really excited for everybody to see it. [00:01:19] Don't do like a live watch party or something. [00:01:24] I'm not going to be in town when you do it digitally. [00:01:29] You tell everyone you're going to be there in the comment section, hanging out with them. [00:01:32] I'll be there in the comment section hanging out with you, which is a great idea, Rob. [00:01:35] God damn, I have no business sense at all. [00:01:37] I go, no, Rob, I can't do a watch party. [00:01:39] I'm not going to be in town. [00:01:41] I'd have to find a venue for it. [00:01:43] You're like, oh, yeah. [00:01:44] You mean on the internet? [00:01:45] Yes. [00:01:45] Well, I will be in the comments on YouTube. [00:01:49] Say nice things. [00:01:50] Don't be a dick. [00:01:53] This special is undeniably incredible. [00:01:55] People are going to love it. [00:01:56] Well, thank you. [00:01:56] I appreciate that. [00:01:57] You know, it's a weird thing. [00:01:58] Like, and you know this, Rob, like you, you haven't put out a specialty. [00:02:01] I'm sure you will, like at some point, not too far in the future. [00:02:04] But like, just like when you do stand up for a while, and like I've had moments with you like this, I know other people have where you come out and someone goes like, they're like, dude, you're fucking like your hour is like fucking really killer, dude. [00:02:15] It's really coming together. [00:02:16] And you're like, oh, thank you, because I've lost total perspective on it. [00:02:19] Like, I know that at one point I liked all of these jokes, but you know, it's very hard to like kind of keep perspective on your own stuff. [00:02:26] But enough people whose opinion of comedy I very much respect, yourself included, have told me it's really killer. [00:02:33] And so I'm going to, I'm going to ride with you guys on that one. [00:02:36] But August 22nd, it'll be out. [00:02:38] I'm going to be doing some fun shows to promote it and stuff. [00:02:42] So a lot of very cool stuff to look forward to in the next week, week and a half or so. [00:02:48] So check that out. [00:02:51] And then I'm really excited about this. [00:02:53] Me and you, buddy, and Louis Jay Gomez and Zach Amiko, the four of us are going on a fucking Europe tour, a little mini Europe tour. [00:03:06] London, Belfast, Glasgow, and Amsterdam, doing shows all across these cool cities. [00:03:14] This is going to be really fun. [00:03:15] Me and you and Lewis and Zach have been boys in comedy for many, many years. [00:03:20] And we've never done like a tour outside the country like this, all four of us together before. [00:03:24] So this is going to be really, really fun. [00:03:26] Really looking forward to that. [00:03:27] The tickets are, as of right now, they're not up on my website yet. [00:03:31] They should be up tomorrow, but they're up on Lewis's site, Lewisofskanks.com. [00:03:35] And they should be up at my site, comicdave Smith.com. [00:03:38] Also just added governors to the books. [00:03:41] Rob won't be able to join me for that one, but Chris Vega will be coming out opening for me out there. [00:03:46] So that should be fun. [00:03:47] A lot of cool stuff coming up. [00:03:48] Of course, Skank Fest, all these other things. [00:03:50] And so we got a lot. [00:03:52] And now also at Gas Digital Network, by the way, if you want to really support the show, go subscribe at gasdigital.com. [00:03:58] Now they're doing for a special time, instead of a seven-day free trial, a 30-day free trial when you use the promo code P-O-T-P30. [00:04:06] So if you really want to support the show, that's what you got to go do. [00:04:09] You get access to the entire archive on demand of all the episodes we've ever done, plus all the shows on the network. [00:04:15] You get a discounted price. [00:04:16] So go check it out over there. [00:04:19] All right. [00:04:21] Hey, before we even get into the news the day. [00:04:26] No. [00:04:28] This isn't selfish. [00:04:29] But before we get into the current events news, I literally just saw that today, on this day, maybe not the day you're listening to this, but the day that me and Rob are recording this, on this day, 42 years ago. [00:04:44] Do you know what happened, Rob? [00:04:46] Someone sailed the ocean blue? [00:04:48] It was, no, you're way off. [00:04:50] 42 years ago. [00:04:51] That was 1492. [00:04:53] Jesus. [00:04:53] That's the only 42 thing I know. [00:04:55] Oh, okay. [00:04:56] I got it. [00:04:56] Yeah, yeah. [00:04:57] I mean, it's not 42. [00:04:58] It's 1492. [00:05:00] Well, I'm sure someone sailed the ocean blue. [00:05:01] So I'm technically accurate. [00:05:02] Burn on you. [00:05:04] Wow, dude, you just fucking smokes me, bro. [00:05:08] You should shove that shit right in my face. [00:05:11] You're telling me someone didn't sell the ocean blue. [00:05:14] Is that what you're trying to say, Dave? [00:05:15] There were no sailboats in all of the water, which accounts for two-thirds of the Earth's landmass. [00:05:21] You're saying there wasn't one sailboat. [00:05:23] No, okay. [00:05:24] So I'll give you one more hint. [00:05:26] It was 1971. [00:05:30] What was a big event that happened in 1971 that has to do with something me and you care about? [00:05:36] Okay, I'll give you one more hint. [00:05:38] It was a decoupling of... [00:05:43] Oh, they got rid of the wall in Germany? [00:05:47] Damn now. [00:05:48] That kind of does make decoupled. [00:05:49] Okay, let's say something wasn't backed by something anymore. [00:05:54] Oh, they took us off the gold. [00:05:56] Took us off the gold standard. [00:05:58] Nixon took us off the gold standard. [00:06:00] Yeah, by the way, it is a good point that the Berlin Wall coming down was not 42 years ago, Rob. [00:06:05] I mean, it's not even clip, but whatever. [00:06:07] Anyway. [00:06:07] Listen, if you want to ask me trivia questions, you can really show off how uneducated I realize. [00:06:11] By the way, am I retarded? [00:06:13] Oh, dude, I'm retarded. [00:06:15] It's 52 years ago, isn't it? [00:06:18] 90. [00:06:19] Is it 52? [00:06:20] Ah, whatever. [00:06:20] It was in 1971. [00:06:21] You can just restart the episode and not let me know that we're retarded. [00:06:25] This is just all bad. [00:06:26] Anyway, but yeah. [00:06:27] So on this day in 1971, Richard Nixon took the country off the gold standard. [00:06:32] And when he announced that he was, he just announced that he was temporarily suspending the convertibility of dollars into gold. [00:06:41] And I just find this to be so interesting. [00:06:44] Like I'm a real nerd for all this shit. [00:06:46] Not like the type of nerd who can do math, but the type of nerd who cares about these random things. [00:06:53] But so this is actually what inspired Ron Paul to run for Congress because he had studied enough Austrian economics that he knew that like this would usher in the age of big government. [00:07:05] Because when you basically, when you don't have a reserve standard for your money, There's nothing to check government from printing as much money as they can. [00:07:15] And of course, all of the incentives are for politicians to do so. [00:07:20] Like, why wouldn't they? [00:07:22] You know, why wouldn't they want to buy up votes and not have to raise taxes and be able to just kick it off into the future? [00:07:33] It allows them to do deficit financing. [00:07:35] It allows them to fight wars that they wouldn't have otherwise been able to get away with if they had to tax people. [00:07:41] You know what I mean? [00:07:42] And of course, we've talked about so many times on the show that the kind of the evil thing from our human perspective, but the beautiful thing from like the, you know, political classes perspective is that when you print new money, it really does seem like free wealth at first. [00:08:00] It really does, because almost, it almost is like that is the immediate effect. [00:08:04] But then that, of course, has consequences down the road. [00:08:07] But anyway, it's just so interesting to me that like that, that's what inspired Ron Paul to get into politics and that he was so completely right about all of that. [00:08:16] And just it's a real, it's a real interesting moment in history. [00:08:20] Whenever people say that, you know, like every year when there's the debt ceiling negotiations, everyone always goes, America doesn't default on their promises. [00:08:31] Like never in the history of this country have we defaulted on our promises. [00:08:35] But of course, in 1971, we had like the biggest default on our promise. [00:08:39] We literally just told everybody, we are not going to pay you what we owed you. [00:08:44] Cause this was the agreement after World War II when we had the Bretton Woods agreement was basically that, and this is how America kind of tricked the world into becoming the global reserve currency was that we said, well, look, we have so much more of the gold. [00:09:01] Now that we've fucking bombed the shit out of Europe and Asia and we're the kind of like most powerful country left standing that didn't take tremendous loss on our own soil. [00:09:12] Hey, we got so much more of the gold. [00:09:14] We're in such better shape. [00:09:16] Here's the deal. [00:09:17] You make, you know, you peg your currency to the dollar and we promise you the dollar is convertible into gold. [00:09:23] And so just make us the reserve currency. [00:09:24] It's like you're all on the gold standard, basically. [00:09:27] Then everyone went, all right, that's reasonable enough. [00:09:29] And America had enough of a good reputation, you know, and enough of a strong military that they were like, all right, we, we should go along with this. [00:09:37] But then when it came down to it, then when we just started cheating and printing a ton of money and they went, all right, we're going to call you on that. [00:09:43] We'd like our gold. [00:09:45] We just went, no, you're trying to manipulate markets, you know, like you're trying to attack the value of the dollar. [00:09:51] We can't stand for this. [00:09:53] It was so funny is that that's literally what Nixon said. [00:09:56] It was like, basically like, these French are trying to manipulate markets and they're trying to attack the sanctity of the dollar when they were just literally going, we're holding you to your word. [00:10:06] Like we're, we want the gold. [00:10:08] You said it's convertible into gold. [00:10:10] And we were like, well, not anymore. [00:10:12] It's really a crazy story. [00:10:14] And then of course, also tying into that story is that we then kind of moved over to the petro dollar. [00:10:19] This leads to the kind of like permanent, you know, warfare state focused on the Middle East and Northern Africa and stuff. [00:10:27] So it's all just like kind of interesting to me. [00:10:29] But man, that's, it's amazing. [00:10:31] Like, I know like monetary policy at times can seem like kind of like a compartmentalized little thing over here for nerds to focus on. [00:10:42] But really, it is like, it's so much at the heart of everything. [00:10:48] Like it's, it's at the heart. [00:10:50] It's not just at the heart of the entire economy, but it's at the, it's at the heart of the entire society, the entire culture. [00:10:58] Like it's, it's, you know, like so much of even like our cultural rot has to do with the fact that we have this monetary rot. [00:11:08] And I know it's like, sometimes people don't see it that way, but it's really true. [00:11:11] It's really true that like this is, this is so much of what like destroys families, destroys communities, the fact that you're constantly losing value in your currency and you have to constantly work harder and harder. [00:11:25] Now both parents have to work harder and harder and now you don't get all of the gains that kind of naturally would be coming in. [00:11:31] Like with technological improvements, you would typically see massive deflation. [00:11:36] And in other words, things getting more affordable. [00:11:40] That's typically how things work, right? [00:11:43] Like if you, if you have technological improvements, things are cheaper now. [00:11:49] It doesn't require as much work to make things. [00:11:51] So you can make them for cheaper. [00:11:54] It's, you know, obviously like if I, whatever, if I'm, if I'm making anything you want to, you know, name a thing, if I'm making tables and it takes me a day to make a table, then I have to charge you a day's work for a table. [00:12:12] But if I get a machine and now I can make 100 tables in a day, I don't have to charge you a day's work anymore for a table. [00:12:19] I can charge you far less than that, you know? [00:12:21] And so like that's kind of the natural way an economy grows that we should be all getting richer and richer and richer. [00:12:27] We should be in situations where parents can stay together. [00:12:30] You know, the number one reason for divorce is like financial struggles. [00:12:34] And like, so I'm just making the point that like these things like undermining your currencies have other effects that are like so profound and so removed from what most people would think of as even being related to monetary policy. [00:12:48] It's like, oh yeah, there's some like 12 year old boy who's like angry and depressed and he's on like SSRIs because there's no like father in the house and a single mother doesn't really know what to do. [00:13:00] And like, believe it or not, that has a lot to do with Richard Nixon getting us off the gold standard. [00:13:06] I don't know why if like, I don't know if like people hear that, but to me, that's like really fucking fascinating how it all kind of ties together. === Breaking Bad Habits With Fume (02:06) === [00:13:12] So anyway, that happened in 1971 on this day. [00:13:15] So there's your little on this day. [00:13:16] Maybe that's a new segment we'll start on the show. [00:13:18] A little on this day. [00:13:19] On this day, a bunch of evil people fucked up the United States of America. [00:13:23] We'll find different examples of that. [00:13:25] All right, guys, let's take a moment and thank our sponsor for today's show, which is Fume. [00:13:30] Cold turkey might be great on sandwiches, but there's a better way to break your bad habits. [00:13:34] We're not talking about some weird mind voodoo you heard from your crazy neighbor. [00:13:38] You don't have to travel into the woods and go take illicit drugs with a shaman. [00:13:42] We're talking about fume. 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[00:15:22] Getting into more current events. [00:15:25] So Donald Trump, believe it or not, was indicted. [00:15:29] If you haven't been keeping up, Donald Trump was indicted. [00:15:32] And then Donald Trump was indicted. [00:15:34] And then Donald Trump was indicted. [00:15:36] And just recently, Donald Trump was indicted. [00:15:39] They are day of his election. [00:15:42] They indicted him again. [00:15:46] It is really fucking something to see how this whole thing is playing out. [00:15:50] By the way, as I've recommended many times before, Tom Elliott is a fucking great Twitter follow. [00:15:58] You got to follow Tom Elliott. [00:16:00] This is how I describe him. [00:16:02] He's the libs of TikTok, but for the corporate press, which is even more important than libs of TikTok. [00:16:11] I mean, you know, whatever. [00:16:12] I guess they're all important, but it's a, but it's even like he, he basically, for the most part, he'll make a commentary every now and then. [00:16:20] He'll make a comment, just like libs of TikTok. [00:16:22] But most of the time, he's just showing you them and being like, yo, you make up your mind. [00:16:27] And he does these super cut things, and they're just so great. [00:16:30] So that's what I want to start with right now. [00:16:32] I want to play Tom Elliott's super cut. [00:16:34] And he's given us so much content for the show. [00:16:35] So if you enjoy the show, return the favor by going and giving him a follow on Twitter. [00:16:40] But let's play this. [00:16:41] It's just so great and kind of sums the whole thing up. [00:16:44] Right, Attorney General in position to do it. [00:16:46] We now know they really have been trying to gin up criminal prosecutions and criminal investigations into the president's perceived enemies, politically motivated persecution, right? [00:16:56] Courtesy of Bill Barr, I'll roll in the FBI on you. [00:17:00] That's how banana republics work, right? [00:17:02] The home of the 45th president of the United States has been raided by the FBI. [00:17:07] Mr. Trump is using the Justice Department to go after his perceived enemies. [00:17:12] I feel worried about the prospect of the Justice Department being used as a tool of this president or any. [00:17:18] In our little banana republic, any capable prosecutor can get a grand jury to hand down an indictment of something as innocent as a ham sandwich. [00:17:28] An indictment was unsealed, charging Donald J. Trump. [00:17:32] Breaking news on former President Trump. [00:17:33] He's been indicted for the fourth time in five months. [00:17:36] Bill Barr on the president's behalf is weaponizing the Justice Department to go after the president's enemies. [00:17:42] When you win an election, you don't seek to just prosecute the losing side. [00:17:46] President using the Justice Department as a weapon to get what he wants. [00:17:49] Department of Justice is totally politicized. [00:17:52] Seeking the Department of Justice on political opponents, threatening to imprison his political rival, Banana Republic style. [00:17:59] Trying to exact revenge against all of his enemies. [00:18:02] Tim Pop dictator in a banana republic is acting more like a banana republic dictator. [00:18:07] He's using government resources to go after his political opponent. [00:18:12] Essentially, we are a banana republic that we are seeking to have a bogus and criminal investigation into a political opponent. [00:18:22] And that's using the Department of Justice to also target Trump's political opponent for nefarious reasons. [00:18:28] This is a massive abuse of power and a betrayal of our values. [00:18:32] The president of the United States is targeting a family member of a political opponent. [00:18:36] This is a type of thing that happens in a banana republic and trying to take out a political rival in Joe Biden, criminally investigating an American political rival, someone the president's worried about losing to in the next election. [00:18:48] To investigate my principal opponent or a principal opponent in the upcoming election. [00:18:53] Justin, we have a problem. [00:18:55] Don't you think that's something that should be investigated when the incumbent political party opens a counterintelligence investigation on the candidate of the opposing party? [00:19:05] No, Trump is itching to politicize the Justice Department, and the Attorney General has been super shady. [00:19:10] The president is weaponizing the Department of Justice to bring cases against his enemies. [00:19:15] The Department of Justice is in an existential crisis. [00:19:18] Again, it's yet another example of the Justice Department basically losing all of its independence in this administration. [00:19:25] This is now about corrupting the next election. [00:19:27] And for me, this was crossing the red line. [00:19:29] A president who is actively trying to potentially steal the upcoming election, but to try to take out a political rival. [00:19:37] The end goal being 2020. [00:19:39] Donald Trump and his attorney general are using the Justice Department. [00:19:43] The only difference between this and a banana republic is that Trump does not eat fruit. [00:19:47] The 2020 election is really the last chance we have to stop our system from fully sliding into a corrupt banana republic. [00:19:53] Bill Barr has done everything that Donald Trump has wanted him to do. [00:19:57] We're living in a banana republic right now. [00:19:59] When you start using the Justice Department to go after your enemies, that's very, very dangerous. [00:20:05] Donald Trump is using the Department of Justice to go after his enemies in any way that he can. [00:20:10] Having the head of the chief federal law enforcement agency essentially working on his behalf to investigate a political rival. [00:20:17] To investigate the family of a political opponent. [00:20:23] Basically, banana republic behavior. [00:20:25] We're no better than some, you know, some banana republic. [00:20:30] And is using the abuse of power and every element of the presidency to try to do something to smear me. [00:20:40] We just have to demonstrate that he will not take power by if we if he does run what can you even say, Rob? [00:20:51] What can you even say? [00:20:52] It's so funny. [00:20:53] It's a banana republic if the incumbent party uses their Justice Department to prosecute their rivals or their rivals' family or their rivals, you know, whatever. [00:21:08] I mean, it's the funny thing about it is that it's just, and I don't say this just to like, look, obviously, if I point out that the establishment or the corporate press are hypocrites, I think everybody's well past getting that point. [00:21:24] You know what I mean? [00:21:25] It's just the more like salient point is that they accuse you of what they're guilty of. [00:21:34] It's like some Sala Lin, some Sololinsky like fucking rules for radical shit. [00:21:38] Like whatever you're doing, you just accuse the other person of doing. [00:21:42] You punch someone in the nose and then you go, yo, you just punched me in the nose. [00:21:46] And it's so baffling that it kind of throws everyone off because they're sitting here saying that Trump, you know, Bill Barr will just do whatever Trump wants. [00:21:55] And the Justice Department has been weaponized by Donald Trump. [00:21:59] And yet, who were these charges? [00:22:02] They're talking about Trump having his fans chant lock her up, but there were never any actual moves made to lock Hillary Clinton up. [00:22:10] She wasn't indicted with anything. [00:22:12] She was only investigated before Trump was even president. [00:22:15] She was actually more heavily investigated under Obama than under Trump. [00:22:19] There's no evidence. [00:22:20] And that was just to clear her. [00:22:21] There's no evidence at all that he ever had control of his Justice Department. [00:22:26] His Justice Department spent more time investigating him than they did any of his political opponents. [00:22:31] Yet they're trying to spin this thing. [00:22:33] But now, right? [00:22:34] Back then, it's, oh, you can indict a ham sandwich. [00:22:38] So an indictment proves nothing. [00:22:39] But now it's like, oh, well, look, he's being indicted so much. [00:22:44] So obviously this demonstrates, you know, that he's, he must be guilty if he's being indicted of so many things. [00:22:51] Pretty goddamn crazy. [00:22:52] I don't know. [00:22:52] What are your thoughts? [00:22:54] Well, I think that that video does kind of showcase the lunacy of this whole thing. [00:22:59] And, you know, what the Democrats will yell about. [00:23:01] And back then, what they were yelling about, I believe, with the Bill Barr thing was that they were going to open up the Durham investigation, which was actually the cover-up for the deep state working against Donald Trump. [00:23:12] And what's interesting about the Georgia case, all the other cases are complete. [00:23:18] This is the new indictment. [00:23:19] Yeah, the new indictment. [00:23:20] Yes. [00:23:21] The previous indictments, they're all nonsense. [00:23:24] I mean, even just the fact that they have to use novel legal theories is proof of the fact that they're not just following the letter of the law and applying it. [00:23:31] That it's literally those two things are contradictory. [00:23:34] Like their claims that they were trying to make of, well, we're just going to follow the law wherever it leads. [00:23:38] And this is, you know, we would prosecute anyone like this. [00:23:41] Well, no, if you're using novel legal theories, that's by definition not what you're doing. [00:23:45] Right. [00:23:46] All the other cases are complete and total nonsense. [00:23:49] The Georgia case just happened today. [00:23:50] I don't have every single detail on this. [00:23:53] This one's actually interesting because it's looking into whether or not they really did engage in some dirty tactics to actually undermine the last election. [00:24:03] The problem is, is even with the least charitable view of what Donald Trump did, let's say there was zero election shenanigans in the last go-around, which now you get all these stories going on right now of this pipe burst and we saw all the counts that happened on election night. [00:24:19] There was, I watched a hundreds, or not, I watched a lot of time of certification videos of people giving report after report of shady information and then them going certified and then on the next day on the news going, well, this county was certified. [00:24:33] It was Bugs Bunny tricks that I talked about. [00:24:35] People going out for lunch and then all of a sudden they're locked out of the building. [00:24:38] But let's just say there was zero shadiness whatsoever. [00:24:43] Zero. [00:24:44] I don't know how you possibly prove illegal behavior because you had to change, like if Donald Trump actually sat around and thought, okay, there's this legal loophole here of the way that our elections are done. [00:24:55] And I can, if I can just, you know, drum up enough court cases to say that this was fraudulent, well, then I might be able to change the electors and just win. [00:25:03] Let's just say, but what illegal behavior did he engage in if he actually had a bad loophole on the books? [00:25:09] And that's the least charitable definition. [00:25:10] I'm saying if you just delete all the fraud that existed, and then when he's calling down to Georgia to inspect equipment, like what did they do? [00:25:19] Are you trying to say that they were actually changing the votes on the equipment? [00:25:22] Like what legal sanctity did they violate if they had suspicions of a machine? [00:25:27] Or what did they violate if they go, hey, I actually think that there's a lot of fraud here, but I only need you to find this much fraud. [00:25:33] I don't need you to find all the fraud. [00:25:35] Like I just see a hard time. [00:25:38] And I'm not saying that a jury can't be convinced otherwise, but it just seems to me that once you're backdooring, you know, racketeering or whatever the fuck else, it's like, what specifically do you think he did that was actually illegal? [00:25:51] And I don't think there's anything that you're going to be able to prove. [00:25:55] Yeah, I think me and you have both said from the beginning. [00:25:59] And this is, we're just speaking like in this way, from a legal perspective, and look, full disclosure, like this is not our expertise. [00:26:08] Like we're not lawyers. [00:26:09] We're not like any type of legal experts here. [00:26:12] But I always felt, and I know you did too, that of all the kind of like potential charges, because basically, let's get real, we all knew they were going to move towards charging Donald Trump for something. [00:26:26] And it was like a question of what are they going to go after him for? [00:26:29] And by the way, the answer was everything that you can. [00:26:33] But we always felt like this was his biggest vulnerability. [00:26:36] From a legal perspective, the Georgia case, he definitely, he tiptoed up to the line. [00:26:44] You know, now, can you actually prove this? [00:26:47] Again, like you said, it's what you can convince a jury of. [00:26:49] But there's definitely what Donald Trump did, particularly when he was talking to the Secretary of State there in Georgia, was Look, I will say it's comparable to what the government did when reaching out to social media companies. [00:27:09] When they can say, wait, hey, we never technically told you you have to censor this guy. [00:27:15] We just asked, what's Alex Berenson still doing on your platform? [00:27:19] You know, it's kind of like that type of like mob shit. [00:27:22] He definitely called this guy and is like, I need you to find me these votes. [00:27:26] There was fraud. [00:27:27] And I'm going to need you to find where the fraud was. [00:27:30] And the guy's telling him there wasn't any fraud. [00:27:32] I see no evidence of this. [00:27:34] And he's like, yeah, but there was. [00:27:36] And I'm the president. [00:27:37] And I'm going to really need you to find me this. [00:27:40] It's a gray area. [00:27:42] I don't know enough about the law to go like, is that really, is there a compelling case there that that is actually illegal for the president to say that? [00:27:51] A lot of a lot of other things pop into my mind. [00:27:53] They're like, well, okay, it wouldn't be illegal, obviously, if there was fraud, right? [00:27:58] Like if there was fraud there and he was like specifically like, I think everyone could agree that if it was clear that there was fraud, then that's not illegal. [00:28:10] And if he goes, no, no, no, here's the precinct where there's the fraud. [00:28:14] Go look at that. [00:28:14] And I'm telling you, you will find this. [00:28:16] And then they looked at it and they did find it. [00:28:18] That's definitely not illegal. [00:28:20] So the question becomes, again, kind of like in the last indictment, do you have to prove that Trump actually knew there wasn't fraud? [00:28:30] You know what I'm saying? [00:28:30] Like it's kind of a weird gray area, but I still thought this was his biggest vulnerability in the realm of legal charges against him. [00:28:38] Of course, by the way, this is when I say this, I just want to make the caveat very clear. [00:28:42] Not including the real crimes that all presidents commit. [00:28:46] I'm saying in the realm of like what was unique about Donald Trump. [00:28:49] Well, I think that this court case is actually valid and interesting because it seems to get to the heart of was Donald Trump engaging in absolute pure nonsense to try and steal an election through a loophole or was there actually some fraud and how did the go if there was fraud, how did the government manage to ignore it or at least suspicion of fraud? [00:29:06] How is that not looked into? [00:29:08] So this seems to me to be a very valid court case of inspecting, did Donald Trump really aggressively try and make false claims so that he could use a loophole or what isn't a loophole to steal the election? [00:29:21] Or was there actually shady activity? [00:29:23] And this sounds like a court case that is very important and we should have, but two years ago, it seems like two years ago, this would have been, if people were actually interested in truth, extremely interesting to explore and very important to the American public to explore, was that a valid election or was Donald Trump just a complete lying, you know, sore loser scumbag two years ago? [00:29:46] Now what we have is they've decided Donald Trump cannot win the next election. [00:29:51] And so they're opening every single possible lawsuit that they can so that he can't run a campaign. [00:29:57] And I guess he's got to, you know, fight charges in nine different states and seven different, you know, pretty obvious what's happening here. [00:30:04] Exactly. [00:30:05] I mean, you literally like kind of stole the words right out of my mouth. [00:30:08] I couldn't agree with you more. [00:30:09] It's that even though this might be the one that is the most interesting of all of the charges against Donald Trump so far, it's look, and this is kind of why I wanted to play Tom's supercut there, because even if that's all true, even these people have to admit that you see there's a real problem when it's when a Justice Department is weaponized against a political opponent, right? [00:30:39] They just only feel that way when it's the guys they like. [00:30:42] But the issue here is that it's just so beyond obvious that all of these indictments coming out right now, as it's clear that Donald Trump is the all but foregone conclusion to be the Republican nominee, === Overwhelmingly Obvious Indictments (02:11) === [00:31:01] it's just so obvious that it's like, oh yeah, they're throwing everything at him that they can to try to like bog him down in all of these fucking court cases and to bog him down with all of these charges. [00:31:14] And that's really where the problem comes in. [00:31:17] It's not that in any one of these indictments, there's not one where it's just overwhelmingly obvious that he broke the law. [00:31:26] And you would think that would have to be the standard in order to kind of like interfere in the political process like this and break the precedent of the like we don't go after former administrations legally because that is banana republic type territory. [00:31:42] Like that whole norm, however you feel about it, that's being broken. [00:31:47] And in all of these indictments, there's not one, including this Georgia one, where it's like obvious that he committed a crime. [00:31:54] You still kind of have to go like, even in their strongest one, it's a bit of a gray area. [00:31:59] And in the other, all the other ones, it's just like, this is ridiculous. [00:32:03] This is just, it's just absolutely ridiculous how much they have to bend over backward to pretend whether it was Bragg's completely changing like the use of the statute in order to charge him or the novel legal theory that the feds are pushing or this, any of them, or even like the fucking 20-year-old fucking weird sexual assault civil suit. [00:32:25] All of this stuff is like just, it's goofy. [00:32:28] And when you see it all coming together like that, I mean, for anybody who's not just kind of like possessed by Trump derangement syndrome, I think everybody else can kind of see, even if you don't like Donald Trump, you can admit, you know, as two people here who don't particularly like Donald Trump can admit that it's like, yes, but also I don't like him. [00:32:51] And also the CIA doesn't like him. [00:32:54] And not for the same reasons, you know? [00:32:56] And like, they don't like him. [00:32:58] And clearly the Justice Department doesn't like him either. [00:33:01] And the whole legal system is being weaponized against him. [00:33:05] And I don't think you can possibly prove that there wasn't reasonable suspicion of fraud in this election. === Democracy And Institutional Trust (14:42) === [00:33:12] Only because I've watched elections. [00:33:14] I don't remember another election where someone was winning and they said, hey, we got to wait till tomorrow morning. [00:33:20] I don't remember another election where people mostly weren't voting and they were encouraging people to do vote by mail. [00:33:25] I don't remember other elections that seemed to have as much voter turnout, which was led by the fact that people were voting by mail. [00:33:32] There's enough, and I've never watched another election for sure where people were saying, hey, I went to take a lunch break and then all of a sudden I was locked out of the building and they put up curtains so I couldn't see what was happening in the room. [00:33:43] So I mean, just the idea that like there wasn't at least, you know what I mean? [00:33:46] If everything went 100% smoothly and it was like a Donald Trump thing where you're showing me the footage of, you know, the amount of people that showed up for his first election speech and then you're showing me Donald Trump going, it was the most amount of people that ever showed up for a speech ever. [00:34:00] Then you go, all right, look at this guy. [00:34:01] He's clearly lying. [00:34:02] But when you have things that are just really weird and there's at least enough of a suspicion of fraud, which is all he really needs for all of these other things to be reasonable. [00:34:12] Not saying that he wasn't sitting down there and completely lying and being a sore loser and trying to steal an election, but I'm just saying there was enough shit going on that at least gives him cover. [00:34:23] Yeah. [00:34:24] Yeah. [00:34:24] No, 100%. 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[00:36:04] Like they're like, Donald Trump is the most horrific person ever and he cannot be allowed to be president again. [00:36:09] And that's why we have to do all of this. [00:36:10] You know what I mean? [00:36:11] Like it's just like the two go hand in hand. [00:36:13] Here, there's a clip from a Morning Joe that we have. [00:36:16] Let's play that real quick. [00:36:18] What happened in Tennessee, Donnie, where they kick out two black members for protesting. [00:36:25] You look at what's happening all over the country. [00:36:29] You look even at Ohio, where they try to go from 50% to 60%. [00:36:35] You look at what's happening in Florida, where Juan DeSantis kicks out an elected official that got 67% of the vote because he doesn't like her politics. [00:36:46] And she got 67% of the vote campaigning on those political positions. [00:36:52] And like I said yesterday, this is why they don't get about Republicans. [00:36:56] So maybe she's a little too progressive on crime issues for maybe my taste or your taste or the Revs taste or something. [00:37:04] I don't know. [00:37:04] Maybe she is, but that's irrelevant. [00:37:07] That's what she campaigned on, got 67%. [00:37:10] What makes these people think that there's not going to be a Democrat or an Independent in the future that fires people who are conservative because they don't like their politics? [00:37:22] The fact that these Republicans think they can do all of these things that damage constitutional norms and political norms, and it's not going to come back and haunt them later really shows how ignorant they are. [00:37:32] The ignorance comes down to a simple thought. [00:37:34] And I think the vice president's answer about what she wakes up about, what she wakes up in the morning, thinks about democracy is the thing we all should be thinking about. [00:37:41] And by the way, that wasn't supposed to be a big issue in 22. [00:37:44] It ended up being a big issue in 22. [00:37:46] Make no mistake about it. [00:37:47] And this is why I get so enraged with not the far-right fringe, but the Republican, the establishment Republicans. [00:37:55] Do you not understand that if Donald Trump wins, nothing else matters because it's over? [00:38:00] Morning Joe might act. [00:38:02] Just to take a little example, Morning Joe might not exist anymore because Donald Trump has said, as all autocrats say, what they will do. [00:38:09] And he said, if I'm elected, I want the FCC reporting directly into me. [00:38:13] And he will cancel this show. [00:38:14] I mean, you need to think that extreme. [00:38:19] It's over. [00:38:20] Freedom is over if Donald Trump gets elected. [00:38:23] It's that simple. [00:38:24] No other issue matters. [00:38:25] Every other issue sprinkles down from that. [00:38:27] However you feel about the economy, however you feel about whatever issue you're dealing with, we turn into an autocracy. [00:38:33] What our forefathers fought for 250 years ago is over. [00:38:37] That's what's at stake at this election. [00:38:38] Everything else is a subtext to that. [00:38:41] Well, I mean, you look at what's happening in Hungary. [00:38:43] You look at what's happened with Orban. [00:38:45] Orban didn't take broadcasters out. [00:38:49] So you get the point I'm making here, right? [00:38:52] That it's like this type of rhetoric coupled with the way they're covering these charges almost lets you know what's really going on here. [00:39:00] I mean, like, think about that. [00:39:02] This is the type. [00:39:02] This is how like unhinged these guys are. [00:39:04] First of all, by the way. [00:39:06] Could you imagine if the point you're trying to prove is Donald Trump takes over and it's over. [00:39:13] If Donald Trump's president again, it's over. [00:39:16] Democracy is over. [00:39:17] The country's over. [00:39:18] The sky is falling if Donald Trump takes over. [00:39:21] And the example you go to is this show will be canceled is just so out of touch with reality. [00:39:30] Like that's how you'll win your audience over. [00:39:32] Like by being like, this show would be canceled if not, which by the way, it's all so preposterous because like Donald Trump was president for four years. [00:39:43] And if you want to make an argument that Donald Trump being president led to like the sky falling, I think there actually is a fair argument to that, but it's more just like that the opposition freaked out so much and you know that he basically caved on COVID and let them fucking wreck the whole goddamn country in 2020. [00:40:02] But regardless, it's like this is the attitude they have. [00:40:06] And you kind of you see this. [00:40:08] And you've seen this basically throughout the entire corporate media class since Donald Trump was elected. [00:40:20] That they basically have all decided that they believe what was just said there very blatantly that it's over. [00:40:28] The country is over if Donald Trump wins. [00:40:30] This is the worst thing that can ever happen. [00:40:32] And therefore, it is our job to make sure that doesn't happen. [00:40:39] We're not in the business of like reporting news. [00:40:41] We're not in the business of bringing truth to our viewers. [00:40:45] We're in the business of making sure this guy doesn't win. [00:40:48] And if that's like, if that's your mentality, which it is so clearly their mentality, if that's your mentality, then you're not in the game of figuring out whether these charges are actually legitimate or whether they're actually like backed up by sound legal theory or whether these indictments are politicized or any of that. [00:41:09] You're in the business of making sure Donald Trump doesn't win again. [00:41:12] And if you're in the business of making sure Donald Trump doesn't win again, which by the way, if what this guy said is true, then you should be in that business, right? [00:41:20] If the sky's going to fall if Donald Trump wins, then you should be in the business of making sure the sky doesn't fall. [00:41:25] But so if that's thing, then you don't care whether these charges are politicized or not. [00:41:30] You're trying to achieve an end. [00:41:33] And in that, if that's your goal, then you should support all of these charges, if that makes sense. [00:41:39] All right, any thoughts on that? [00:41:40] No, well, I was amused by the contradiction of what he was saying was I believe he's referring to the prosecutor that DeSantis fired who had been put in place. [00:41:51] He's one of the prosecutors that was put in place by that billionaire guy. [00:41:55] I always forget his name, but Soros. [00:41:58] I think it was like one of those Soros-initiated prosecutor who just hasn't been prosecuting anyone. [00:42:03] But what he says there is she was democratically elected. [00:42:07] And so we can't have people removing democratically elected people because that undermines the whole system and that could happen to anybody. [00:42:14] And then he turns to the guy for his thoughts on that. [00:42:16] He goes, well, we just have to make sure that Donald Trump doesn't get in because even if he's democratically elected, then we don't have... [00:42:24] But you're literally saying exactly what that guy just said you can't have in a democracy, which is some higher power removing the democratically elected officials. [00:42:36] Yep. [00:42:36] Yep. [00:42:37] And the whole thing is such nonsense too, where they're like, they're like, well, I mean, how are the Republicans so stupid that they don't see that? [00:42:44] Like, then if a Democrat gets in, they could maybe do this to them. [00:42:47] I think their point is that they're doing it to us. [00:42:50] You know what I mean? [00:42:51] They're going to. [00:42:52] They're actively doing it right now. [00:42:54] And, you know, the truth is that, again, this is punching someone in the nose and then screaming, you just punched me in the nose to the person you just punched in the nose. [00:43:02] It's like, yeah, no, the truth is, I remember when, you know, when Donald Trump was impeached both times, that there would be Republicans who would say, hey, do you really want to get into this thing where you're impeaching them? [00:43:17] Because then we're just going to impeach you no matter who you put in there. [00:43:21] And then they just don't. [00:43:22] They don't do that. [00:43:23] It's only one side who's really playing like that. [00:43:26] So, you know, I think they understand that they played dirty. [00:43:31] And their feeling is that if Donald Trump comes back in, he'll actually flip the machine on them and he won't play as nice. [00:43:37] Because even the last time, he really, he was dumb at wielding power. [00:43:42] He played into them where he's like, I got to put their people in because they're yelling so loud. [00:43:46] And so he didn't, he didn't wield power in the same way the Democrats did, which was basically ignoring the noise, putting in his people and just enacting his agenda. [00:43:56] I think there's something to that. [00:43:59] I think there might be something. [00:44:00] I don't know. [00:44:01] I think there might be something to the idea that they're worried that Donald Trump will actually wield power this time. [00:44:05] But I don't think that's actually that burnt. [00:44:07] No, I don't either. [00:44:07] But I'm not even so sure that that's the concern. [00:44:10] I think it's more a thing like they think it would be such a repudiation of them for Donald Trump to win again after they've told you he's not allowed to win again. [00:44:23] It's like they were repudiated once in 2016 and then they're only out from that is like, yeah, but see, we were right because it was so terrible. [00:44:31] And then he lost to Joe Biden. [00:44:33] But if he comes back in again, then it's just like, it's a devastating blow to kind of their whole system. [00:44:41] I think what I think that a lot of people on the progressive side, like progressive people, and I don't know so much about the establishment types. [00:44:50] I mean, maybe they kind of do know what they're playing with. [00:44:52] But I think a lot of people in general don't know what they're playing with, where, again, whether or not if you actually cared about keeping the country together at all, and if you actually cared about what they claim to care about, not necessarily what I care about or what you care about, but if you care about what all these people claim to care about, which would be like, you know, like Sam Harris said the other day, like institutions that you can trust, democracy, you know, the country, [00:45:22] the trust in experts, all of these things. [00:45:25] If you cared about any of that, it's like, then you would probably go, look, even if it's kind of a gray area in Georgia, we can't charge this guy because, or you shouldn't charge this guy because we have a national referendum on this coming up next year. [00:45:47] And the only thing to do, if you really care about believing in institutions and believing in the country, believing in democracy is to let the American people decide. [00:45:55] Because what they've done now, whatever the true legal answer in the situation in Georgia is, is they've made it clear that there, no, we decided this guy is unacceptable. [00:46:11] And so we are weaponizing the legal system against him so that you don't have a chance to vote for him in the goal that you don't have a chance to vote for this. [00:46:21] He can't run a real campaign and you can't have the choice of voting for him. [00:46:26] Who else would you like? [00:46:27] You know, this guy's not okay. [00:46:30] Can we interest you in some Ron DeSantis? [00:46:32] Can we interest you in whatever, some Chris Christie, whoever the other guys who they think would be acceptable are. [00:46:38] And that is, I mean, look, I think, I, I think truthfully, and by the way, I, I don't care about a lot of those things the way they do. [00:46:47] I don't really care about trust in institutions and democracy or any of those things. [00:46:52] But I think we're past the point of no return on those issues. [00:46:55] I think it's like, I just, I think we have at least a generation. of the right half of America knowing that the entire establishment is full of shit. [00:47:07] And personally, I think that's a good thing. [00:47:10] I actually think that's one of the best things that's coming out of these, like kind of this, this legal witch hunt against Donald Trump. [00:47:18] I'm not a guy who believes that like, well, the most important thing is democracy or the most important thing is we have faith in these institutions. [00:47:25] I think that's, I think all that's kind of bullshit. [00:47:27] I think democracy is essentially mob rule and these institutions are all corrupt right down to their core inherently. [00:47:34] Like it's built into the DNA of these institutions to be corrupt. [00:47:38] So I'm fine with not trusting these corrupt institutions and I'm fine with everyone not believing in, you know, the fucking right of the majority to tyrannize the minority. [00:47:49] Like I'm fine with all of that. [00:47:51] But that I think that's where we are. [00:47:53] And in some ways, I think that's the silver lining. === Special Prosecutor Credibility Crisis (05:35) === [00:47:55] All right, guys, let's take a moment and thank our sponsor for today's show, which is Babel. [00:47:59] This summer, you can start speaking a new language with Babel. [00:48:03] Why Babel? [00:48:04] Because it works. 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[00:48:59] Get 55% off your Babel subscription, but only for our listeners at babel.com slash problem. [00:49:06] 55% off at babel.com slash problem. [00:49:10] That's B-A-B-B-E-L dot com slash problem. [00:49:14] Rules and restrictions may apply. [00:49:16] 55% off at babel.com slash problem. [00:49:21] All right, let's get back into the show. [00:49:22] By the way, we, okay, we got to wrap up soon, but I did want to just play very quickly because this kind of ties in to tie this whole episode together. [00:49:30] One of the things, I mean, you mentioned that one of the things they were talking about was the Durham report in Tom's video. [00:49:39] But one of the things they were also talking about there, there were a few. [00:49:41] One was about, they were talking about the locker-up chance, the Durham report, and then they were also talking about his demands to Zelensky to investigate or his request to Zelensky to investigate Hunter Biden and Joe Biden. [00:49:56] This was, it's really quite unbelievable that this was not too long ago, you know, like a ridiculous conspiracy theory, Russian disinformation, right? [00:50:09] It's really just that kind of like whatever, as quickly as it's like, you're not allowed to go outside unless you're protesting racism and you're not allowed to talk about the lab leak, but Jon Stewart was hilarious when he did it. [00:50:22] Like one of the, where they just flipped. [00:50:23] But now, by the way, there has been a special prosecutor appointed to Hunter Biden. [00:50:29] So whatever you want to think about this, now they're at least at this stage where they're actually moving forward on that. [00:50:36] Now, again, just like Durham, just like Mueller, just like any of these things, all these fucking things are, they're all show trial bullshit. [00:50:45] What we now know is that David Weiss, the Trump-appointed U.S. attorney in Delaware, was right all along that he did have ultimate authority. [00:50:53] And when he requested special counsel status because the plea agreement has broken down and he may have to charge Hunter Biden outside of his own district, which he requires additional authority to do, he got it. [00:51:08] And this is just another reflection of the true independence of this Department of Justice. [00:51:14] A Trump-appointed U.S. attorney is investigating the president's son. [00:51:18] That is pretty remarkable. [00:51:19] And you don't hear from the other side a respect for the fact that Joe Biden has stayed out of this investigation. [00:51:28] And so I defer to Merrick Garland and David Weiss. [00:51:33] If Hunter Biden has committed crimes, he should be charged with them. [00:51:37] I'm a Democrat saying that. [00:51:38] You don't hear any currently elected Republicans saying that if Donald Trump committed crimes, he should be charged with them and held accountable. [00:51:47] And that's a critical distinction that the public needs to understand. [00:51:50] We are investigating Hunter Biden. [00:51:53] I guess that's not such a crazy thing anymore. [00:51:55] I guess Donald Trump trying to use the Justice Department against the family of his political opponents. [00:52:00] It's like, oh, no, all right. [00:52:02] Even his father's Justice Department even had to admit there's something there. [00:52:07] But of course, the other thing that I always throw out with these, and we'll see, I could be wrong about this, but I've been talking about this for months now. [00:52:13] But the more heat you start seeing coming down on Hunter Biden and Joe Biden, the more you got to ask yourself, are they making their move finally? [00:52:22] Are they finally making their move to try to get him out? [00:52:24] I don't know, but you have to think about that. [00:52:28] I'll keep it real short, but the special counsel seems to be the cover-up and that they had a plea deal worked out that included other charges, him not being able to be prosecuted for other charges. [00:52:40] The judge basically looked at him and said, is that even legal? [00:52:43] Like, how do you get rid of other charges that have nothing to do with this? [00:52:46] And so that fell apart after three hours. [00:52:48] Now, suddenly the Justice Department goes, oh, we're going to do a special prosecutor instead. [00:52:53] And from all of the reports from the whistleblowers, I can't speak to this specific special prosecutor, but the reports from the whistleblower was essentially the prosecutors in the Justice Department undermining their investigation of even giving them tips about warrants that would be on properties and otherwise. [00:53:11] So it would seem to me like suddenly this special prosecutor is to basically go, oh, yeah, well, that's an ongoing investigation. [00:53:19] So it's something that can't be discussed during the election cycle because they weren't able to actually put a button on it and wrap it up and go, oh, look, that was, you know, that went away and it was just a tax, whatever event. === Wrapping Up The Election Cycle (01:19) === [00:53:30] Yeah. [00:53:31] Well, just to be clear, if my conspiracy speculation is correct, which by the way, you raise a very good point, but the goal would never be to prosecute Hunter Biden and Joe Biden. [00:53:46] That's not the way they would ever want to do this. [00:53:49] They don't want to destroy their own credibility by humiliating and admitting criminality of the person they've been championing for the last few years. [00:53:59] What they want to do is have that dirt there, let them know that they could get them and then get them to concede everything that they want. [00:54:07] You know what I mean? [00:54:08] So anyway, we got to wrap up the show. [00:54:10] We'll see where all of this goes. [00:54:12] And we'll be back with a brand new episode real soon. [00:54:15] Cut plug locations. [00:54:16] I got Portland, Standpoint, Idaho, Seattle, Reno, Salt Lake City, Colorado, and the farm out of Michigan. [00:54:26] That's it for now. [00:54:27] So come hang out. [00:54:28] Porch store glory, baby. [00:54:29] Fuck yeah, guys. [00:54:30] Make sure you go out there, support Robbie the Fire Bernstein, and check out Run Your Mouth, Rob's other podcast. [00:54:35] All right, that's it for us today. [00:54:37] Catch you next time. [00:54:38] My special will be available on August 22nd right here on my YouTube channel. [00:54:42] Please watch it, share it, comment on it, like it. [00:54:45] Do all the things that make the algorithm love you. [00:54:48] I don't know what they are, but do them. [00:54:49] All right.