Part Of The Problem - Dave Smith - The Media Melts Down Over Debate
Aired: 2024-07-06
Duration: 01:00:46


=== America's Next Enemy (13:11) ===

[00:00:00]  Fill her up!
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[00:00:08]  We need to roll back the state.
[00:00:10]  We spy on all of our own citizens.
[00:00:12]  Our prisons are flooded with nonviolent drug offenders.
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[00:00:26]  You're listening to part of the problem on the Gas Digital Network.
[00:00:33]  What's up, everybody?
[00:00:34]  Welcome to a brand new episode of Part of the Problem Road Road Edition.
[00:00:39]  Neither of us home.
[00:00:40]  I'm Dave Smith.
[00:00:41]  Of course, he is Robbie the Fire Bernstein on his way to another porch tour.
[00:00:46]  How are you, brother?
[00:00:47]  I'm enjoying being out on the open road, sitting in this Dr. Evil chair.
[00:00:51]  Life is treating me well, Mr. Smith.
[00:00:54]  What?
[00:00:54]  Are you in a hotel?
[00:00:55]  Where are you?
[00:00:57]  By my buddy Max's house.
[00:00:58]  He's the OG porch tour, and we didn't even porch.
[00:01:00]  We just stayed by him.
[00:01:02]  We're really imposing people now.
[00:01:04]  Are those action figures behind you?
[00:01:07]  Other side?
[00:01:09]  Other side?
[00:01:10]  Yeah, I think so.
[00:01:11]  I think you got an old school Transformer here.
[00:01:15]  Oh, nice.
[00:01:16]  That's very old school.
[00:01:17]  I'll pretend like I wasn't playing with that earlier and didn't know exactly what it was.
[00:01:21]  I didn't realize this guy you're staying with was cool.
[00:01:25]  All right.
[00:01:25]  But guys, now we're talking.
[00:01:27]  More porch tour action by the time you hear this.
[00:01:29]  We're going to be on the road to Texas.
[00:01:30]  I got Austin Thursday night, Friday night, Fort Worth area, and then Sunday, Rockport, Texas by the beach.
[00:01:37]  Gonna be a good time.
[00:01:38]  Hell yeah.
[00:01:39]  Sounds awesome.
[00:01:40]  Go check him out, guys.
[00:01:41]  And then, of course, me and Rob got a whole bunch of dates coming up throughout the rest of the year.
[00:01:45]  ComicdaveSmith.com for all those.
[00:01:48]  All right.
[00:01:48]  Let's get into some stuff.
[00:01:51]  Which, you know, by the way, this might be a theme throughout today's show, but however you feel about anything, Donald Trump, like the best part of Donald Trump is just that you get to watch the meltdowns from all the worst people.
[00:02:14]  It's just the best.
[00:02:16]  It's like the best part of Donald Trump's entire presidency can just be summed up by watching like MSNBC highlights of Election Day 2016.
[00:02:26]  Like that's just, that's it.
[00:02:28]  That's all you really get.
[00:02:28]  But man, was that great?
[00:02:30]  And this is the last few days.
[00:02:32]  I don't, I think not since Election Night 2016 has there been anything quite like the last week of just watching everybody like they're all coming to terms with the idea that like, oh, Donald Trump's going to be president again.
[00:02:49]  You know, like they've.
[00:02:51]  It's almost like watching some rich kid lose a tennis match and then he's like crying and freaking out in the corner and you know that like you can't stare at him, but like through the corner of your eye, you're like, ha ha, you fucking loser having a temper tantrum over a tennis match.
[00:03:05]  That's what this is like.
[00:03:06]  You just get to watch all these snotty elites have a temper tantrum.
[00:03:11]  Well, it's on and it's unbelievable, especially in the face of the fact that they're, they're realizing what we all knew all along, which is that like they don't have a candidate.
[00:03:21]  You know, it's not like there's no one there.
[00:03:24]  Dude, there's this, there's a, you know, they have the election betting sites.
[00:03:32]  So as of right now, at least on this one site, I'm trying to see.
[00:03:36]  I took a screen grab of it, but I can't find it.
[00:03:38]  I think John Stossel tweeted it out.
[00:03:41]  But they've got Joe Biden right now.
[00:03:44]  These are the odds that they're taking bets with.
[00:03:47]  Now, you know, I'm not saying this is perfect, but in some ways, betting sites are actually superior to polling.
[00:03:53]  There's something about people putting their money on the line.
[00:03:56]  You know what I mean?
[00:03:56]  That makes it valuable.
[00:03:59]  They say right now Donald Trump has a 57.8% chance of winning the presidency.
[00:04:06]  They have Kamala Harris at 18.7 and Joe Biden at 9.7.
[00:04:14]  They're taking betting odds.
[00:04:16]  Joe Biden has a less than 10% chance of getting a second term.
[00:04:21]  And obviously there's a lot of other factors that play into this.
[00:04:26]  Like, will there be free and fair elections?
[00:04:29]  Will Donald Trump be allowed to be president again?
[00:04:33]  They're all, I think, legitimate questions to be asked.
[00:04:37]  But as of right now, this betting site has Joe Biden as the president of the United States of America, the incumbent, who, if you know anything about, you know, American history, it tends to favor the incumbent.
[00:04:47]  We've got him at a less than 10% chance.
[00:04:50]  We've just entered territory where there's just, there's no comparison to this.
[00:04:55]  Like you can't look at history to be any guy because there's no precedent for this type of scenario.
[00:05:01]  But that's where we are.
[00:05:04]  Pretty wild that Kamala Harris is ranked ahead of Joe Biden for a win right now.
[00:05:12]  Yeah.
[00:05:12]  And, you know, it does actually make sense.
[00:05:16]  It does make sense that it's like, look, it's almost.
[00:05:19]  Oh, until you hear her talk, until you give her a chance.
[00:05:22]  And then let me tell you, she slides so far down those ratings, you would vote for Biden's corpse above her.
[00:05:27]  Yeah, look, probably there are some people, it's amazing that you're even in the situation of going like, what are the pros and cons of Kamala Harris versus Joe Biden?
[00:05:38]  And you're like, all right, she's not senile.
[00:05:43]  She's got that going for her.
[00:05:45]  Now, she's got intelligence.
[00:05:48]  Yes, that is the problem.
[00:05:51]  But there's, but look, I mean, it's as of right now, she's young.
[00:05:57]  She wants power.
[00:05:58]  She's the vice president.
[00:06:00]  He's literally an old man pooping his pants.
[00:06:04]  I don't know.
[00:06:05]  Like, yeah, she should be higher on the odds.
[00:06:08]  That's that.
[00:06:10]  Clearly, I mean, I guess like what's been updated since the last time we recorded is that Joe Biden is going, as of now, he's not stepping down.
[00:06:24]  He's like, no, I want to keep doing this, which is, by the way, you know, I tweeted something about this the other day.
[00:06:30]  And tell me what you thought, what you think of this, Rob.
[00:06:34]  But, you know, I was just, I was laying, I was laying in bed, like putting my son to sleep, laying in bed next to him.
[00:06:43]  And I just, you know, it's just like kind of on my phone while I'm waiting for him to fall asleep.
[00:06:49]  And I was just kind of thinking about this.
[00:06:50]  And I was like, you know, if you really think about this, the narrative from the corporate media for four years now, for four years has essentially been that like, yes, Hunter Biden was influence peddling.
[00:07:09]  You know, like they'll kind of acknowledge that you can't pretend that doesn't exist.
[00:07:14]  And obviously he's a drug addict and he does crazy things and there's, you know, all types of pictures of him, you know, like stuff like that.
[00:07:23]  But the narrative from the media has essentially been that, well, you can't, you can't directly connect Biden to this.
[00:07:33]  There's no smoking gun that Biden was involved in any of this influence peddling.
[00:07:38]  Now, again, I'm not saying, I'm not making the claim that that's the case.
[00:07:41]  I'm just saying this has been the narrative from the corporate media that essentially, yes, Hunter was doing some kind of shady things, but that's not connected to Joe Biden.
[00:07:51]  There's no evidence he was directly involved.
[00:07:53]  And he's a drug addict, which is very sad.
[00:07:57]  A lot of people have kids who are drug addicts.
[00:08:00]  And essentially, the narrative has been that you're really just going after a politician's kid.
[00:08:07]  So he's kind of off limits.
[00:08:09]  You really shouldn't be doing this.
[00:08:11]  It's kind of hitting below the belt.
[00:08:15]  The president has a troubled son, but you're going after someone for having a troubled son.
[00:08:20]  This has been the dominant narrative for four years now.
[00:08:24]  And then all of these corporate media outlets are all reporting that Hunter Biden has been Joe Biden's closest advisor on the most important topic, the most important decision of his presidency, of his, of his life, whether or not to seek a second term.
[00:08:41]  And none of them seem to even acknowledge that this does kind of shatter their narrative.
[00:08:47]  That like, okay, look, if you're telling me when it really matters, the closest person to the closest advisor to the president of the United States of America is an influence peddling crackhead, then that's news.
[00:09:05]  Like, then you can't tell me he's like beyond reproach.
[00:09:10]  Like, you can't say he's off limits.
[00:09:12]  It's like that is fucking crazy.
[00:09:16]  Now, you might have a kid, you know, look, I have very little kids.
[00:09:23]  I don't imagine that my kids are going to grow up and be drug addicts, but I don't know.
[00:09:30]  You know, I mean, I guess there are people out there who have kids who go down, you know, the wrong path as they get older.
[00:09:38]  But you can't have them as your closest advisor then.
[00:09:43]  You know what I mean?
[00:09:43]  Like you can't, you can't, if one of your kids is like a drug addict who's, you know, raking in money from corrupt companies and corrupt foreign governments and stuff like this, how can you all just report that he's the guy who Joe Biden's talking to about this decision?
[00:10:00]  I don't know.
[00:10:00]  That's wild to me.
[00:10:02]  Oh, it's also funny.
[00:10:03]  Hey, listen, I know that I look like I was too old to be out there and competent to be making good decisions, but I got my crack addict son advising me.
[00:10:11]  So nothing to be concerned about.
[00:10:12]  Yeah, it's really, this is, this is the counter to your worried about whether I'm competent to the job.
[00:10:18]  The other thing that's like, um, that stands out to me is just how evil Joe Biden's family is.
[00:10:29]  Like how fucking evil.
[00:10:31]  I mean, they said he was going after that debate to talk to Camp David to talk with his wife and his son about what he should do.
[00:10:39]  Like, in other words, if this reporting is correct, there was a conversation about whether or not he should drop out and his family is convincing him not to.
[00:10:53]  Like, think about that.
[00:10:54]  Sounds very backwards.
[00:10:56]  It sounds like there would be a Democratic deep state that still thought Joe Biden was their best chance to win.
[00:11:02]  And so they were pressuring him to stay in it.
[00:11:04]  And the family would step in and go, Joe, it's over.
[00:11:08]  It's time to stay home.
[00:11:09]  It's time to be with the kids, the grandkids, maybe not the one that Hunter had with the stripper, but the ones you like.
[00:11:15]  It's time to actually be.
[00:11:18]  Yeah.
[00:11:18]  Yeah.
[00:11:19]  Well, I mean, look, and I know you've kind of talked about your family going through this with your with your grandfather.
[00:11:28]  Lots of people have stories like this, you know, like, I mean, not being president of the United States, but where when you have, you know, somebody who's older in your family and their mind starts to go, there's usually like a series of very uncomfortable kind of interventions that you have to make, you know, when you got to convince them to stop driving, when you got to convince them they can't live on their own anymore.
[00:11:54]  When you get, you know there's just like a lot of of these and they're it's very uncomfortable, but because it's your family, someone you love, you kind of have to do it.
[00:12:04]  You know, you kind of have to like not put them in a situation that's hard.
[00:12:08]  This is I.
[00:12:09]  I mean it's like you know I don't know the term elder abuse has been used to death, but that's what it is.
[00:12:15]  They're abusing this guy.
[00:12:17]  If you know much about Joe Biden's long uh career he he, he does deserve it.
[00:12:23]  But again you would think his wife or his son would be pleading with him to get out.
[00:12:29]  They'd be like come on man, like listen, you just you can't anymore.
[00:12:33]  You can't do this, um and that.
[00:12:36]  And yet they're the ones convincing him to stay in the race.
[00:12:39]  If all of this reporting is correct is just it really does.
[00:12:42]  Let you know how evil the people around Joe Biden are like how, how up his family is.
[00:12:48]  It's really like you kind of can't overstate how profoundly evil that is to do to somebody you you supposedly love.
[00:12:57]  It's just horrible.
[00:12:59]  Yeah, the doctor's like, listen, I was only here with you with the status, so he ditched that job, i'm out of here, Joe.
[00:13:05]  Yeah there, you go well here look, there's someone else serving you ice cream there.
[00:13:09]  Well, there is some good news for uh, for Joe Biden.

=== The Evil Around Biden (03:33) ===

[00:13:12]  He did.
[00:13:12]  We got a uh a physician's report on him from the most honest uh scientist in America.
[00:13:20]  Um, so let's uh let's, roll the tape.
[00:13:23]  Here is uh dr Truth Science.
[00:13:25]  It just looked like a bad night because my interaction with him was what I describe in the book and what happened, even subsequent to what I described in the book after I got out.
[00:13:38]  Um, you know, he's very probing in his questions, very analytical uh, very calm about things.
[00:13:46]  When you go in to brief him major, you better really know your topic because he's going to ask you very relevant questions um, and he's very reflective on things and just doesn't jump out with conclusions or anything, but is very analytic.
[00:14:03]  So my interactions with him, I have to say, have been very, very positive.
[00:14:08]  Did you see the debate?
[00:14:10]  I did.
[00:14:11]  Did anything about that?
[00:14:14]  What you saw medically alarm you?
[00:14:17]  You know, I can't say I think it would be inappropriate to say that major, because when you're just looking at someone on a one-shot basis you, you just don't know what could happen.
[00:14:28]  Did he have a bad cold?
[00:14:29]  You know, did.
[00:14:30]  Did he take it in an antihistamine to make him, you know, groggy or what have you?
[00:14:35]  We don't know what went on and I think it would be unfair and inappropriate to try and diagnose something from just a 90-minute clip, not much of a clip.
[00:14:46]  90 minutes, a 90 minute clip.
[00:14:50]  And and again.
[00:14:51]  To diagnose this is like saying would it be fair to diagnose Chris Christie as overweight.
[00:15:01]  Would that be fair?
[00:15:02]  I mean, i'm not a doctor, I have no medical training.
[00:15:06]  Would it be fair for me to judge him just off of a clip?
[00:15:08]  It's like, yeah, no, it would be.
[00:15:10]  I only see his upper stomach when he's sitting in a chair.
[00:15:13]  I don't really fully understand what his lower stomach might be.
[00:15:15]  What's even going on?
[00:15:16]  What's going on under those folds and flaps?
[00:15:19]  We got no idea.
[00:15:20]  Sometimes very skinny people just have upper bellies.
[00:15:24]  They could have a healthy lower belly.
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[00:16:24]  But, you know, it's something this defense of Joe Biden, by the way, has been the standard defense from much of the Democratic establishment and the corporate media for the last four years.
[00:16:39]  It's what I'll call it.
[00:16:41]  It's the WB frog defense.

=== Stock Up On Food Kits (10:00) ===

[00:16:45]  It's it's listen, man, when you're not watching and there's no cameras on, boy, is this guy sharp.
[00:16:55]  Now, I know that from your perspective, it probably doesn't seem that way because every time you see him, he's not sharp.
[00:17:03]  But whoo, these probing questions.
[00:17:05]  Let me tell you, when you get in a meeting with Joe Biden, you better know your stuff.
[00:17:10]  This guy, he's, he's essentially a genius behind the scenes.
[00:17:15]  Just you can't even imagine.
[00:17:16]  He's like 25 years old.
[00:17:18]  He's doing push-ups when you enter the room and then just asking you, you know, just solving goodwill hunting math problems on a chalkboard that the most brilliant mathematicians can't solve.
[00:17:29]  But he's just, whenever it's on camera, he sure does look like a dead frog.
[00:17:36]  It's, it's so pathetic.
[00:17:39]  You can't even believe that they're going with this.
[00:17:42]  Like you guys couldn't sit down and brainstorm for a half hour and come up with a better, something better than that.
[00:17:47]  That's your answer that the president of the United States of America, who's been on video falling and stumbling and not knowing where to exit every goddamn stage that he gets off of, referring to himself being in the wrong city and the wrong state, not knowing dates and times and not knowing who the president is, all this stuff that we've just seen for years and years now.
[00:18:09]  And then after that debate performance, you're going, I think, I think it was an off night.
[00:18:14]  Maybe cold medicine.
[00:18:16]  Maybe that's the answer.
[00:18:18]  It's like, as if all of us haven't taken cold medicine before?
[00:18:23]  Like, I'm not saying cold medicine can't make you drowsy, but it doesn't do that to you.
[00:18:28]  You know, there's a certain level of, look, like me and you are stand-up comedians.
[00:18:34]  We've both been doing stand-up comedy for a long time.
[00:18:37]  And I know what an off night is.
[00:18:40]  Everybody has off nights.
[00:18:43]  There's something different here and everyone knows it.
[00:18:47]  And, you know, really just what's revealing here about Fauci, I mean, maybe it's not exactly revealing here.
[00:18:53]  This is something we've known about Fauci for a long time, but it's just like to understand these guys and understand what's going on.
[00:18:59]  They are, Look, again, not to take shots at him because I think I already did enough of that.
[00:19:06]  But I told you, this was my takeaway from the Chris Cuomo debate, that there's something, no matter how much you know this, and no matter how much like somebody like me has been hyper focused on this stuff for a long time,
[00:19:25]  it still is somewhat jarring to see how comfortable some people are lying, that they can just sit down and just lie right to your face.
[00:19:37]  And that's what you're seeing here from Fauci.
[00:19:40]  He's got an extremely high level of comfort with just telling boldface lies, just lying right to you.
[00:19:48]  There's not even, I mean, like, that was one of the things that I was taken back by.
[00:19:52]  And I think I did a decent job handling it, but I'll admit it was a challenge in the Cuomo debate is that can I just sit there and lie right to my face?
[00:20:01]  Like, you know, it's almost like I was like, how is he going to play this?
[00:20:05]  How's he going to respond if I bring this up?
[00:20:06]  And you're like, oh, that's the answer.
[00:20:08]  He'll just lie.
[00:20:09]  Oh, I hated when people shame Joe Rogan.
[00:20:11]  They shouldn't have done that.
[00:20:13]  Wait, really?
[00:20:15]  You're going to do that?
[00:20:16]  You know, and then same with Fauci's that same guy.
[00:20:18]  No, I never, I never recommended locking anything down.
[00:20:22]  No, never.
[00:20:24]  It's like, really?
[00:20:25]  Oh, really?
[00:20:26]  I'm going to sit here and say, yeah, no, look, Joe Biden, sharp as a tack.
[00:20:30]  Sharp as attack.
[00:20:31]  You're telling me that these moments only happen in public?
[00:20:36]  He's never, he's never had a private stumble.
[00:20:39]  It's only in public that he stumbles every single time.
[00:20:42]  I mean, look, there's a range for Joe Biden, which is, by the way, as I'm sure you're familiar, you know, with your grandfather there, this is how mental decline works.
[00:20:54]  Like there's a range.
[00:20:55]  People have good days and bad days.
[00:20:56]  They have good moments and bad moments, you know?
[00:20:59]  And there's a range of which Joe Biden you're going to get.
[00:21:02]  That debate the other day was obviously toward the bad end.
[00:21:07]  But even Joe Biden at his best, at his absolute best.
[00:21:11]  You get the best Joe Biden on the best day for Joe Biden, on the best meds for Joe Biden.
[00:21:18]  And it ain't impressive.
[00:21:20]  It's never good.
[00:21:21]  It's never, oh man, I was just in this meeting and he was asking probing questions about what, Fauci?
[00:21:28]  You're saying that the topic of virology came up and Joe Biden was asking the best probing questions?
[00:21:38]  Just what do you even say to this, Rob?
[00:21:41]  I think Joe Biden should go into business selling Uncle Joe's cough syrup.
[00:21:46]  Because if it makes me that stoned, I'll take it every weekend.
[00:21:49]  Let's go.
[00:21:50]  By the way, I don't even know why, but the Jean-Pierre lady, the press secretary there, they said he wasn't on cold medicine.
[00:21:59]  You're like, why are you guys even taking away the only excuse that you have here?
[00:22:02]  They're like, no, no, no, it wasn't that.
[00:22:04]  It wasn't that, by the way.
[00:22:06]  Well, they tried to play the excuse, which was so double stupid.
[00:22:10]  Hey, first, his first statement by Biden as to what happened was that firstly, he said, I was stupid and I didn't listen to my advisors.
[00:22:18]  All right, well, you're not winning me back over with that.
[00:22:20]  And then he said that he did too much traveling.
[00:22:23]  The problem with that excuse is he spent a full seven days at Camp David prior to the debate.
[00:22:28]  So the idea that, hey, I'm not an old man, but seven days of post-travel rest in one location wasn't enough to get over jet leg sounds like you're an old man.
[00:22:38]  Yeah, it sure does.
[00:22:39]  It sure does.
[00:22:40]  Also, just a cold knocking you on your ass to the point that you can't.
[00:22:44]  Again, not that he didn't have a great debate performance, but that he had a catastrophe, a catastrophe.
[00:22:50]  Here, let's play the clip.
[00:22:51]  Brian has, you said you have it from the presser.
[00:22:54]  I did want to follow up on what Songman brought up.
[00:22:57]  I think others as well.
[00:22:58]  You did get numerous questions yesterday about the president's debate performance.
[00:23:03]  You didn't mention travel, the jet lab, the foreign trip.
[00:23:07]  So I think you can understand why it was a little bit puzzling to hear the president mentioning that as his explanation for the first time last night.
[00:23:15]  I'm just, can you clarify whether when you took the podium yesterday, did you not know that that was a good idea?
[00:23:20]  And I would say that is my bad.
[00:23:21]  That is part of, that is part of definitely part of the explanation of what had occurred.
[00:23:30]  I did know that.
[00:23:31]  I did know that.
[00:23:32]  I did.
[00:23:33]  I did know that.
[00:23:34]  But we were so focused.
[00:23:35]  I was so focused on the cold.
[00:23:37]  And that's what I kind of leaned into and talked about.
[00:23:40]  But yes, his schedule did have something to do with it.
[00:23:42]  It was the schedule and the cold.
[00:23:44]  And I did, I was aware of that yesterday.
[00:23:46]  Jeez.
[00:23:48]  Jeez.
[00:23:49]  I mean, again, what you're trying to combat is the view that Joe Biden is too old for the job.
[00:23:59]  And you're talking about how the schedule was just really tough on him.
[00:24:03]  But it's like, yeah, but that's the job.
[00:24:05]  His job is to be president of the United States of America.
[00:24:07]  Look, man, it's really wild.
[00:24:10]  Okay.
[00:24:11]  But if you think about, say, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, all right?
[00:24:16]  So as everybody kind of famously knows, the story of the Cuban Missile Crisis is that the Soviets put some nuclear missiles in Cuba.
[00:24:25]  Jack Kennedy was like, no, that is the brightest of red lines.
[00:24:30]  We cannot tolerate this.
[00:24:32]  It's a knife against our throat and we will go to nuclear war over this.
[00:24:35]  We're treating this as a nuclear strike on the United States of America, meaning essentially we will blow up the world.
[00:24:44]  Then what actually happened was that Kennedy got on the phone with the Russians and they made a deal, a handshake deal, not a treaty.
[00:24:54]  This is, by the way, one of the things that's really interesting, like, you know, one of the one of the things that people who are supporting the war in Ukraine take issue with when people like me will talk about how we gave the Soviet Union assurances that if they allowed the reunification of Germany, that NATO would not move one inch to the east.
[00:25:16]  This was the phrase that was used over and over again by many people from Baker and Gates and a lot of the people who were the key players involved at the time.
[00:25:26]  Not one inch to the east.
[00:25:27]  NATO will not move east.
[00:25:29]  And their counter will be, well, it wasn't an official treaty.
[00:25:34]  It was just something we said.
[00:25:35]  But the thing is that that's how diplomacy is done all the time.
[00:25:38]  And in fact, no treaty was signed after the Cuban Missile Crisis.
[00:25:42]  However, Kennedy agreed to pull our nuclear missiles back from Turkey if they agreed to pull their nukes back from Cuba.
[00:25:50]  And that agreement held.
[00:25:52]  They both, and it saved the world.
[00:25:55]  It literally saved the world from going to nuclear war, a handshake agreement or just a verbal contract.
[00:26:03]  And you need that in international diplomacy.
[00:26:07]  You need to be able to like, if a diplomat comes and tells you, we'll do this if you do this.
[00:26:12]  And you say, I'll only do this under the condition that you'll do that.
[00:26:15]  And they say, yes, we'll do that.
[00:26:16]  You have to keep your word on that.
[00:26:19]  Anyway, the point is that the job that Joe Biden has might entail getting on the phone and handling a difficult situation to save the world.
[00:26:32]  You know what I'm saying?
[00:26:33]  You don't get to have excuses like, ah, my schedule.
[00:26:37]  I was traveling.
[00:26:39]  I had a cold.
[00:26:40]  Sorry, I couldn't.
[00:26:42]  There are certain jobs where there's no excuses like that.

=== Picking Not Hitler (16:21) ===

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[00:26:47]  And so this, how could this excuse possibly ever work with anybody?
[00:26:51]  It's insane.
[00:26:53]  Yeah, you can't play the, hey, I need to be in the most important job, but I have some bad days.
[00:26:59]  Yeah.
[00:27:00]  Yeah.
[00:27:00]  Oh, oops, that was a bad day.
[00:27:02]  So I guess we're going to nuclear war.
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[00:28:34]  Anyway, you know what?
[00:28:35]  Let's go to the Jory Reid video because as I said, it's kind of on theme that as I said, the best part of all of this of Joe Biden's debate performance has just been watching the meltdown amongst the worst people in the country.
[00:28:49]  And Jory Reid is right up there with the worst.
[00:28:51]  So here we played one of her delusional videos yesterday.
[00:28:55]  I genuinely want to know, does she wear a wig on air or does she just have my receding hairline?
[00:29:01]  I don't know what the hell she wears on air.
[00:29:04]  I don't know, but it's a rough scene when it's just talking into a cell phone.
[00:29:09]  Let's say that.
[00:29:10]  It's not great on TV, but it takes a nosedive when you're just looking at her video.
[00:29:16]  But here, here's her video, the latest unhinged rounds.
[00:29:22]  Y'all just tell me who the nominee is going to be.
[00:29:25]  Let me know when you guys are finished fighting amongst yourselves who I got to vote for in November to keep Hitler out the White House.
[00:29:31]  That's all I want to know.
[00:29:32]  Who I got to vote for to keep Hitler out the White House.
[00:29:35]  Y'all do your thing.
[00:29:37]  Play in traffic all you want in front of these Republicans, acting a fool in front of these people instead of privately declaring your stuff.
[00:29:44]  But don't text me no more because I'm not taking no more of these texts.
[00:29:48]  Just let me know when you guys are finished figuring it out, Democrats, because I know y'all the freak out people.
[00:29:52]  Go ahead and freak out.
[00:29:54]  Have your conversation and then let me know who I got to vote for to keep Hitler out the White House.
[00:29:59]  That's it.
[00:30:00]  I'm done.
[00:30:01]  Oh, and by the way, if it's Biden in a coma, I'm going to vote for Biden in a coma.
[00:30:05]  I don't even really particularly like the guy.
[00:30:07]  A lot of his policy, don't like him.
[00:30:09]  He's not Donald Trump, right?
[00:30:11]  Yeah, Hitler, White House.
[00:30:13]  We keeping him out, keeping Project 2025 out.
[00:30:15]  That's all I care about.
[00:30:16]  Up and down the ballot, from the root of the tutor, school board, all the way up to White House and everything in between.
[00:30:20]  Governors, members of Congress.
[00:30:22]  I'm just going to vote all the way down to keep these people out.
[00:30:25]  The Project 2025 thing is the whole Republican Party.
[00:30:29]  At this point, it's not about Biden.
[00:30:30]  It is not about him.
[00:30:31]  It's above me now.
[00:30:32]  There's a best western next door.
[00:30:34]  It is about keeping Donald Trump and his Project 2025 friends out of power.
[00:30:42]  That's it for me, y'all.
[00:30:44]  Y'all let me know what you think.
[00:30:45]  And another thing.
[00:30:46]  I've always got another thing.
[00:30:49]  You guys do know that in 2020, y'all Democrats had choices of young people.
[00:30:57]  You had a young LGBTQ guy, Mayor Pete.
[00:31:00]  You had a Latino.
[00:31:02]  You had Kamala Harris.
[00:31:04]  You had Liz Warren.
[00:31:05]  You had all these choices that were all younger than Biden, fresher and newer than Biden.
[00:31:12]  And you know who y'all picked to be the president and the nominee?
[00:31:15]  Joe Biden.
[00:31:17]  He beat all the young people.
[00:31:19]  So yes, we have a gerontocracy problem on the Democratic side.
[00:31:22]  Way too many of these oldie goldies that don't seem to want to sit down and retire.
[00:31:26]  But when given the choice between the young and fresh and Joe Biden, y'all picked Joe Biden.
[00:31:32]  That was what you picked.
[00:31:34]  So he's in there because Democrats actually picked him in the first place.
[00:31:38]  So just keep that in mind that you've been given options in the past and this is what you picked.
[00:31:42]  And nobody stepped up to choose to run against him in the primary.
[00:31:45]  So once again, Democrats went out and voted and picked.
[00:31:48]  If you try to undo that choice, like 57 million some odd Democrats voted in these primaries.
[00:31:53]  So what are you going to do?
[00:31:54]  You're going to just tell them, F off, we're going to pick somebody different.
[00:31:58]  That's not him or Kamala Harris, who was on that ticket too, on those ballots.
[00:32:02]  That's not democracy.
[00:32:04]  This choice has been made.
[00:32:06]  And so again, unless he decides to walk away, this is your choice.
[00:32:10]  It's like when you go to a wedding, you got chicken or fish.
[00:32:13]  You can eat chicken or fish or just be hungry.
[00:32:16]  Or like when I was growing up in my house, it's what mom made for dinner or go to bed.
[00:32:21]  Those are choices.
[00:32:22]  You don't always get choices in your love.
[00:32:24]  You get what mom made for dinner or take your ass to bed.
[00:32:27]  And in this case, it's either what mom made for dinner or Hitler.
[00:32:35]  I'm voting for whoever ain't Hitler and it ain't him.
[00:32:37]  And I'm going all the way down that ballot rooted to the Tudor school board up to the White House.
[00:32:41]  This is about power and about picking not Hitler.
[00:32:45]  That's it.
[00:32:45]  That's it.
[00:32:46]  That's me.
[00:32:46]  Okay, now I'm really done.
[00:32:47]  Bye.
[00:32:51]  Can you just imagine, Rob?
[00:32:53]  Like, you know, like anytime, like if you, if, you know, I mean, we do a regular podcast.
[00:32:59]  We're doing a show.
[00:33:00]  But, you know, sometimes you're just like, oh, I have a thought.
[00:33:02]  Maybe I'll tweet that out.
[00:33:03]  Maybe I'm going to make a video.
[00:33:05]  I'm going to put it.
[00:33:05]  Imagine like having the thought.
[00:33:08]  And Joy Reed, just like, maybe I should, maybe if I call him a Hitler, maybe that's, let's give that a shot.
[00:33:15]  It's like, it's first off, you got to be blown away just by like how dumb Joy Reed is.
[00:33:22]  It's just really stupid.
[00:33:24]  It's just like, what?
[00:33:26]  Yeah, it's just like my mom when she made dinner.
[00:33:29]  You either have that or you go to bed.
[00:33:31]  Like, okay, what?
[00:33:35]  It's almost as if she also doesn't seem to realize like she's there.
[00:33:39]  There's a beautiful thing with dumb people where they often don't realize that they're giving the game away.
[00:33:49]  Like they don't realize that what they're what they're saying because they're not smart enough to understand that other people will be able to perceive like the tricks that they're trying to use.
[00:34:01]  And so for her to sit there and say, Donald Trump's Hitler, call him Hitler a bunch of times, and then say, I'd vote for anyone except him.
[00:34:11]  I'd vote for Joe Biden in a coma.
[00:34:13]  I'd vote for a dead corpse over Donald Trump or something like that.
[00:34:17]  I understand that she's trying to convey the message that he's so dangerous that you should vote to anyone.
[00:34:23]  But for anyone with a functioning brain, you just hear that and you're like, oh yeah, that's the whole game.
[00:34:30]  You just gave the whole game away.
[00:34:31]  That Donald Trump is not allowed to be in power and will support anybody who's going to be a puppet of the powerful.
[00:34:38]  Doesn't matter who they are.
[00:34:40]  Doesn't matter if it's Joe.
[00:34:41]  You guys figure it out and then let me know, right?
[00:34:44]  Like that's what she's saying at the beginning.
[00:34:46]  Is it Joe Biden?
[00:34:46]  Is it going to be Kamala Harris?
[00:34:48]  Someone else?
[00:34:48]  Fine, just tell me and i'll vote for them.
[00:34:52]  Whoever isn't going to be a threat to power, i'll vote for.
[00:34:56]  That's the message here and it's very clear.
[00:34:59]  Like okay, that's that's what we've been saying the whole time.
[00:35:01]  Exactly, support the corpse 2024.
[00:35:04]  Make that bumper sticker.
[00:35:05]  That's the Democratic pivot at this point.
[00:35:07]  Hey listen, he might be half dead, but you can't have Hitler, we can't have Donald Trump getting back into office.
[00:35:13]  So yeah sure, Joe Biden's a corpse, but we all gotta rally behind the corpse.
[00:35:17]  Support the corpse 2024, and it's so.
[00:35:21]  It is pretty funny too, that she you know, I mean there's so much bullshit in what she said there like it's totally bullshit to say nobody else stepped up to run and everybody voted for, for Biden and Harris in this primary, when you're like okay look no, that's not right, that's not what happened.
[00:35:45]  Somebody else did step up, a few people stepped up, but obviously there's a.
[00:35:51]  There's one that was very noteworthy, which was, you know, a member of the royal family of Democratic politics who raised tens of millions of dollars, had millions and millions of people enthusiastically supporting him, who was attempting to run in the Democratic primary and left and went independent because you rigged the whole thing against him.
[00:36:16]  Like, come on, we're just going to pretend we don't know that and and and.
[00:36:20]  By the way, you know there was.
[00:36:23]  There was one name that was noticeably absent when she said, well, I guess two right, so there's Bobby Kennedy, which she doesn't mention in this primary, as if that just didn't happen and people aren't aware of that.
[00:36:37]  But when she was going back to the 2020 primaries and she was like, hey look, you guys chose the old guy, right?
[00:36:45]  I mean, you had Rob all of this young talent like Pete Butighi.
[00:36:52]  Young yeah, come on, guys.
[00:36:54]  Like, obviously Pete Buttigej was never going to be the nominee is ridiculous.
[00:36:58]  Um but, but she mentioned Pete Buttigej, she mentioned Elizabeth Warren, she mentioned Kamala Harris.
[00:37:08]  Who didn't she mention there?
[00:37:10]  It's Bernie Sanders.
[00:37:12]  Oh yeah, the guy who you rigged the Democratic primary against in 2016 and then again in 2020.
[00:37:19]  No, there was another candidate.
[00:37:21]  There was a Democratic candidate who broke all types of fundraising records, had real genuine, grassroots support at tens of millions of Americans who were behind him, was drawing enormous crowds everywhere he went to speak, but what?
[00:37:39]  But he was not acceptable to the powerful.
[00:37:43]  You know now, i'm not defending Bernie Sanders and I don't care much for Bernie Sanders policies and I I just don't think he's a very impressive person and I I don't think he's an honest person.
[00:37:56]  But there was this other option, that you guys decided to rig the system against him because he was not, you know, he was railing against big banks and billionaires.
[00:38:06]  Big banks and billionaires got a lot of influence in this town.
[00:38:09]  So you know, turns out, that wasn't a good strategy.
[00:38:12]  But the idea of just saying well, that's over, we picked, we picked the old guy.
[00:38:19]  So so what is it?
[00:38:21]  What is the implication here?
[00:38:22]  That that's it like, no matter what I mean, she says, even if he's in a coma, we got to run him.
[00:38:28]  She also doesn't seem, she seems to be kind of like missing the point.
[00:38:31]  Like, I think the depth, she's lost in the depth of this, that it's not a question.
[00:38:38]  Nobody was confused about whether Joy Reed likes Donald Trump or not.
[00:38:44]  Right?
[00:38:45]  Like, we know you're not for him.
[00:38:47]  The point is that this guy can't win.
[00:38:52]  That's why Democrats are freaking out about this.
[00:38:54]  No Republicans are freaking out about who the Democratic nominee should be.
[00:38:58]  They're like, good, keep Biden.
[00:39:01]  Great.
[00:39:02]  The point, the call is coming from inside the house.
[00:39:05]  And Joy Reid tries to make it out like this is just like, it's like the immature children.
[00:39:10]  You guys fight amongst yourselves and figure this out, but I'll be over here when you're done.
[00:39:14]  Like as if that's more mature.
[00:39:15]  No, the point, the reason why they're freaking out is fighting is because you're like, oh, there's, this guy just disqualified himself.
[00:39:21]  This guy just gave himself no chance for success.
[00:39:24]  That's why they're having the conversation.
[00:39:26]  Joy, it's a necessary one.
[00:39:30]  Even if you picked the old guy in 2020, well, guess what?
[00:39:34]  Now he's senile.
[00:39:36]  So you got to figure out somebody else.
[00:39:38]  That's the deal.
[00:39:39]  Anyway, it is fun to watch how unhinged they all are becoming recently.
[00:39:45]  Hopefully this keeps up.
[00:39:47]  Any thoughts, Rob?
[00:39:48]  Temper tantrums.
[00:39:49]  I enjoy it.
[00:39:50]  And you know what?
[00:39:50]  I think the last time the nation somewhat got suckered by it, that the reaction of all these people in the temper tantrums was Donald Trump's fault.
[00:39:58]  But now I think you can see through it and just see that a lot of these people who claim to be the smarter, elite, more dignified adults in the room are actually just a big old bunch of babies.
[00:40:11]  Amen.
[00:40:12]  All right.
[00:40:13]  Let's let's let's talk a little bit about these Supreme Court cases that we didn't get to on the last episode because that DT video that you had of him passing out some cash.
[00:40:25]  Oh, okay.
[00:40:26]  We could play that.
[00:40:26]  Here, let's go to the let's go to the Trump video.
[00:40:28]  Yeah, I forgot about that one.
[00:40:30]  How did I do with the Grouve Aid the other night?
[00:40:33]  That old broken down pile of crap.
[00:40:35]  Yeah, it's a bad guy.
[00:40:37]  He just quit.
[00:40:37]  You know, he's quitting the race.
[00:40:38]  Is that right?
[00:40:39]  Yep, I got him out of the race.
[00:40:41]  And that means we have Kamala.
[00:40:43]  I think she's going to be better.
[00:40:45]  She's so bad.
[00:40:47]  She's so pathetic.
[00:40:48]  It's so amazing.
[00:40:49]  She's just so fucking bad.
[00:40:50]  So I just can't imagine.
[00:40:52]  Can you imagine that guy dealing with Putin and the president of China who's a fierce person?
[00:40:57]  He's a fierce man.
[00:40:59]  A very tough guy.
[00:41:01]  And they see him.
[00:41:02]  They probably.
[00:41:04]  They just announced he's probably quitting.
[00:41:09]  They keep knocking him out, right?
[00:41:13]  How did I do with the Group Again?
[00:41:14]  So now this video has been put out there by several Democratic operatives as like a gotcha on Trump, which I just find hilarious.
[00:41:24]  It's just unbelievable, man, that after all these years, they still have not adjusted to how to deal with this guy.
[00:41:31]  You know, like they don't, so they're all putting out this video, like, look at him.
[00:41:34]  He's insulting Kamala Harris and he's insulting Joe Biden.
[00:41:37]  He's saying he knocked Joe Biden out and all this stuff.
[00:41:40]  But then when you actually look at it, what you see is a guy who seems to be generously tipping, who is mixing it up with regular people, being funny with them.
[00:41:53]  You know what I mean?
[00:41:54]  Like getting laughs out of them and then just telling the truth.
[00:41:57]  I mean, I don't think he's right about Joe Biden's out of the race or whatever, but just tell them, yeah, this guy's a disaster.
[00:42:02]  She's going to come in.
[00:42:02]  She's going to be a disaster too.
[00:42:04]  So what are we doing?
[00:42:05]  Imagine that guy you saw at that debate stage dealing with foreign leaders.
[00:42:08]  It's what everyone's thinking.
[00:42:10]  It's just the truth.
[00:42:11]  So it's just, I don't know.
[00:42:12]  It's funny to me that this is supposed to be some type of some gotcha for Donald Trump when it's what people like about Donald Trump is that he's authentic.
[00:42:25]  You know, however you feel about Donald Trump, that is him.
[00:42:29]  You know, that's really Trump.
[00:42:31]  And that's what this video just is like more evidence of that.
[00:42:35]  I don't know, your thoughts?
[00:42:37]  Yeah, no, he looks good there.
[00:42:38]  He's chilling with this kid.
[00:42:39]  He's coherent.
[00:42:41]  He's got winning attitude.
[00:42:42]  He's saying, I can address these other world leaders.
[00:42:45]  He actually seems to be concerned about not just winning, but at least in this clip, kind of the country.
[00:42:51]  I do wonder what's going on with the Bills, though.
[00:42:53]  That looks more like a lost bet than it does a tip.
[00:42:57]  But, you know, what do you know?
[00:42:58]  Maybe you're right.
[00:42:59]  Maybe you're right about that.
[00:43:00]  I just kind of assumed.
[00:43:01]  I didn't really put too much thought into that.
[00:43:03]  But yeah, anywhere, it's Trump being Trump one way or the other.

=== Legalizing Tech Censorship (15:18) ===

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[00:44:05]  All right, let's do, let's do the Supreme Court cases.
[00:44:08]  So let's, what do you want to do first, chevron or tech censorship?
[00:44:12]  I got tech censorship's more clear to me, the chevron.
[00:44:16]  I understand why everyone's all up about it, but I don't really have a firm or incredible understanding of it.
[00:44:23]  Okay.
[00:44:24]  All right.
[00:44:24]  Let's do.
[00:44:24]  So let's do the tech censorship one first.
[00:44:26]  What do you think?
[00:44:28]  Well, I think they had a real opportunity to correct what was going on with government, you know, suppressing free speech and pretty directly working and intimidating social media companies.
[00:44:40]  I think structurally we've got a huge problem with government that they're allowed to play intimidation tactics.
[00:44:46]  What Fauci's done with the, I never said that.
[00:44:48]  I never threatened.
[00:44:49]  I never did that.
[00:44:50]  They very clearly know how to intimidate to get their way and do it in a way that they can't be held accountable.
[00:44:56]  So in this case, I think all the justices admit to the fact that there clearly was tech censorship and it came from government.
[00:45:04]  It was thrown out because it lacked standing.
[00:45:06]  The reason it lacks standing, at least as far as I understand it, was that there were so many different characters and agencies in government.
[00:45:12]  There wasn't one single defendant.
[00:45:16]  But if this case lacks standing, it sounds to me like you've just legalized government tech censorship because as long as enough agencies reach out, I was saying I'll run your mouth and get a room, 100 salespeople, every 25 people, call it a different department, have them rotate through the phone calls.
[00:45:34]  And then I guess you never have standing to sue anyone because it's 25 different departments, each with 25 different people who threaten me.
[00:45:42]  They can even get more aggressive with their threats because I guess if there's not one single person or single entity, there's no standing.
[00:45:49]  So it sounds to me like the Supreme Court just gave the government a legal mechanism by which they can suppress speech on the internet and that they are allowed to intimidate and they're allowed to coerce.
[00:46:01]  They just have to be careful that it's not one single office or one single individual and then there's never standing to bring a suit.
[00:46:08]  Yeah, no, I think that's exactly right.
[00:46:10]  And, you know, it's so, it's one of these things where it's kind of almost like government's getting away with on a technicality.
[00:46:22]  You know what I'm saying?
[00:46:22]  Like it's like they're, it's like, oh, well, we have a technicality here where, yeah, we can't say it's one single person.
[00:46:28]  And technically speaking, they didn't, they didn't violate the First Amendment, but it's so obviously a violation of the spirit of it.
[00:46:38]  It's so obvious that like, how can you have any meaningful freedom of speech if the government, which is this, you know, this enormous, powerful institution that can ruin people's lives, if they're allowed to do this kind of like, this, this, you know, intimidation stuff, if they're allowed to sit there and say like, what, you know, even if they're not saying you have to censor this guy, they're saying,
[00:47:07]  why hasn't this guy been censored yet?
[00:47:09]  You know, it's, it's like, you just can't have any of that allowed if you want to have a free society.
[00:47:14]  And as we've seen over the last few years, it's been an enormously powerful tool for the regime.
[00:47:22]  And the fact that, you know, this got in front of the Supreme Court and there was a chance to like, goddamn, like ban this.
[00:47:32]  Like this is illegal.
[00:47:34]  You cannot do this is awful.
[00:47:38]  It's just awful.
[00:47:40]  And it's a guarantee that it will continue to happen.
[00:47:42]  Yeah, I guess as non-lawyers, I don't even understand the technicalities.
[00:47:46]  So sometimes I see something that's a clear problem and government is clearly breaking the spirit of, hey, there should be free speech and government's not allowed to restrict their speech.
[00:47:57]  And so they shouldn't be allowed to, you know, I mean, this is no different than old school calling up the newspaper.
[00:48:03]  Hey, I'd really not, I'd really like it if you didn't publish that article tomorrow.
[00:48:06]  It'd be really important to the president if you didn't publish this article that actually let people know the war numbers.
[00:48:13]  I guess so if enough different people make that phone call to a newspaper, it's not considered intimidating.
[00:48:18]  Hey, listen, it would be really bad if your tax standing got changed.
[00:48:22]  We'd hate to see that happen to you guys.
[00:48:24]  Remember how we gave you a favorable tax thing or we gave you that building over here or we never investigated this?
[00:48:30]  We would hate to see a change to that.
[00:48:32]  I mean, it's straight up mob tactics.
[00:48:34]  It actually got to the Supreme Court and that it was very clear what they did throughout COVID.
[00:48:39]  You had the incidents with Alex Berenson.
[00:48:41]  We saw Zuckerberg when he was on Rogan.
[00:48:46]  I mean, you could further investigate this.
[00:48:48]  We know that it happened.
[00:48:49]  And so what's the mechanism for fixing this now?
[00:48:52]  I get that the Supreme Court goes, hey, this lacks standing, but at least they should have the clarity of, hey, this lacks standing, but we would review the case if it was brought in this way.
[00:49:00]  Or here's the way that this case needs to be brought or shame on the administration for engaging these politics, but for this technical reason.
[00:49:07]  But the way that they did it, it almost serves to just protect the regime and go, hey, it's important that the White House has the ability to, I guess, censor speech on the internet.
[00:49:16]  So we're just like, no slap back, just throw out the case, essentially.
[00:49:22]  Yep.
[00:49:22]  And for all the people who on both sides, right, you have all the people who are Trump's supporters who are bragging about how great his Supreme Court justices are.
[00:49:31]  And then you have all the people on the Democratic side who are like, what a threat the Supreme Court is.
[00:49:37]  And when it comes down to it on such an important issue, debatably the most important issue, we get such a bad judgment.
[00:49:44]  And I mean, it does, again, like, I'm like you, I'm not a lawyer.
[00:49:48]  I'm not an expert in like, you know, the, in any of this, but you're essentially ruling that when the mob boss comes into the pizzeria place and goes, maybe you start buying your tomato sauce from us.
[00:50:03]  Sure would, sure would be a shame if this place burned to the ground.
[00:50:07]  And they've burned several other pizzerias to the ground, you know, and you're ruling that it's like, no, the guy just said it would be a shame.
[00:50:17]  And he sent different people.
[00:50:19]  It's not even clear who said it.
[00:50:20]  There were four different people who came in here.
[00:50:22]  Yeah, there's like four different families.
[00:50:24]  There's different heads of the families.
[00:50:25]  There's all these people.
[00:50:26]  And really all the guy did was say it would be a shame if this place burned.
[00:50:30]  It's like, I mean, come on.
[00:50:31]  This is obviously like this is not there's no such thing as like a non-coerced decision when that when the government's involved.
[00:50:47]  And the law of the land ought to be that they just can't even talk to these people.
[00:50:52]  You can't even talk to social media companies or newspapers or TV networks about who they are allowed to publish and who they're not allowed to publish, who they're allowed to platform and who they're not.
[00:51:03]  There should absolutely be like a clear line drawn that you can't cross it at all.
[00:51:09]  Unfortunately, that's not the world we live in.
[00:51:11]  And look, particularly, we're in a situation now where we're going into an election year.
[00:51:18]  The range of options range from a senile old man who's pooping his pants on national television to Kamala Harris, who sounds like she just ate the strongest edible in the world every time she talks and cackles, to some other candidate who, best case scenario for Democrats, is going to have to jump into the game in the fourth quarter and try to pull something off here.
[00:51:47]  My point is just that no matter what the in the entire range of possibilities, there's going to be a very weak Democratic candidate going up against Donald Trump.
[00:51:56]  And obviously they're going to rely on every trick in the book.
[00:52:00]  And the most important one to them is tech censorship.
[00:52:04]  And now they've basically been granted authority to do that by the Supreme Court.
[00:52:08]  So it's just, it's an absolute disaster.
[00:52:10]  I can tell you firsthand, YouTube's ramping up.
[00:52:13]  I got a strike on a channel two weeks ago for a conversation I had with a longtime practicing doctor who defended childhood vaccines, but they didn't like that conversation.
[00:52:25]  And then this my last episode got a strike.
[00:52:28]  There's this great video of Kamala Harris on BET being as cringe as she's ever been, letting people know I'm out in these streets.
[00:52:35]  I don't know if you've seen the video.
[00:52:36]  I don't recommend playing it here because your channel will get striked for having other people's content, even though I don't know why that wouldn't be parody law or otherwise.
[00:52:48]  It's newsworthy.
[00:52:48]  It's an actual incident.
[00:52:50]  It was propaganda that Kamala Harris tried to put together and was as cringe as ever with.
[00:52:55]  And I was giving commentary on it, but strike on the, it seems like some of the censorship we saw over COVID will probably be ramping up over the next couple of months.
[00:53:05]  I have no doubt.
[00:53:06]  I have no doubt in mind that it will.
[00:53:08]  We've kind of, you know, there was a huge wave of tech censorship after Donald Trump won the presidency and the Congress hauled the tech leaders in front of Congress and threatened them all.
[00:53:23]  And then they all started, you know, kind of kicking into gear of, you know, banning misinformation.
[00:53:28]  Then there was an enormous wave during COVID, the biggest wave that we've ever had.
[00:53:35]  And then an enormous wave during the rollout of the vaccines and the implementation of vaccine mandates.
[00:53:42]  We've been kind of in this calm for a little while since that, so really like it was like 2023.
[00:53:51]  It started to calm down a little bit and it's been kind of calm where you're, you feel it.
[00:53:56]  It's a weird thing when you're you know, when you do what we do and you're in the world of talking about this stuff online, but you can feel it in your bones, you know like you know you're like okay, we could talk about people being vaccine injured now and not be like really, what not be like hey, let's switch over to rumble and go talk about that right now.
[00:54:13]  You know what I mean.
[00:54:14]  Like we, we can talk about it right now.
[00:54:15]  But you also just can feel like another wave's coming, another wave's coming up soon and this Supreme Court case just gave license to for it.
[00:54:24]  I mean they would do it either way.
[00:54:25]  You know they would try to do it, even if it was illegal um, but now you've got the Supreme Court uh uh, rubber stamping it and it's just uh, it's a shame, it's a very uh, it's a very bad decision for the health care.
[00:54:37]  Well, even if even if it was illegal, you wouldn't be held personally accountable.
[00:54:40]  You can threaten the uh, you can threaten anyone at any time and hey, I thought it was part of my official duty for the safety of the country to make sure that this information that harmed me wasn't available to the public.
[00:54:52]  Yep yep, there you go.
[00:54:55]  But um, the Chevron case does uh does, earn a mention because it seems to uh, I don't know, it seems to be uh, better for the framework of freedom.
[00:55:04]  Um, but I I understand it on a limited basis, mostly from uh, what's his name's tweets.
[00:55:09]  What's his name did a good job with it.
[00:55:10]  The guy ran for vp last year for Libertarian Party.
[00:55:13]  I'm bad with Spike.
[00:55:15]  Yeah, Spike had right up on.
[00:55:16]  Yeah, he's great.
[00:55:17]  Yeah yeah, in.
[00:55:18]  In fact, I should go uh, I should go retweet that uh later.
[00:55:22]  Yeah no well look, I mean it's.
[00:55:24]  There's no question that the Chevron case was was, excellent.
[00:55:27]  It was a blow for um federal regulators, and that's who you want to see.
[00:55:32]  Take uh a blow.
[00:55:34]  Um, it's uh, it'll be interesting to see what the implications of this are and what how, how exactly this changes the, the dynamics of the country going forward.
[00:55:47]  There is something I will say that it it's funny to watch like these progressives freak out about uh, this stuff, because it is just kind of revealing about their actual worldview.
[00:56:00]  You know it's.
[00:56:01]  They all claim that they love democracy.
[00:56:05]  Of course like, democracy is always an illusion.
[00:56:08]  Um, it's a, it's a stupid system.
[00:56:10]  Even on paper it doesn't make any sense.
[00:56:14]  Um, it's there.
[00:56:15]  There's no connection to morality and democracy.
[00:56:19]  Like you know, it was.
[00:56:21]  It's the old uh G Edward Griffin quote where I think he said, uh, he goes if you really want to.
[00:56:26]  Uh, the perfect example of democracy is a lynch mob.
[00:56:29]  Like that's democracy.
[00:56:30]  There's only one dissenting vote.
[00:56:32]  You know it's.
[00:56:33]  It's all unanimous, except for the guy getting lynched.
[00:56:36]  Um but, of course, what democracy actually produces is this leviath state.
[00:56:43]  You know this gigantic state.
[00:56:45]  This is why Marks was a, was a proponent of democracy, because he's like, oh yeah, that'll be a great transition, that you know, on the way to communism um, but there is something, one of the things that's that's interesting about democracy, and it's because it doesn't really exist.
[00:57:00]  It's an illusion.
[00:57:01]  You know um, and one of the things that's funny is that the people who claim to love democracy are upset that federal regulators have been weakened.
[00:57:13]  But, like the, it's all completely outside of the democratic process.
[00:57:18]  You've got a system where people who were not elected, are appointed to jobs that they keep, for a full career oftentimes, and they get to just dictate laws and so many of like the regulations that we that anybody who runs a business knows about, so many regulations in this country they weren't like signed into law.
[00:57:43]  They weren't.
[00:57:43]  They weren't like voted on by the Congress and then signed into law by the president.
[00:57:47]  What was voted on and signed into law was like the creation of a regulatory agency and then they just write all the regulations and it's just it's.
[00:57:57]  It's kind of interesting in a way, because you're like I couldn't imagine anything more anti-democratic than that.
[00:58:02]  It's.
[00:58:02]  It's total like just tyrannical rule of the managerial class.
[00:58:06]  And tell me you feel comfortable with the relationship between regulators and uh private corporations after Covid or from any of the bailouts you've seen in the financial sector, if you think for one second, people going back and forth and uh making sure one specific rule in the books which maybe is a license for why your property developer gets to do whatever.

=== Anti-Democratic Regulations (02:19) ===

[00:58:26]  This is where the big profits is.
[00:58:28]  It's in carving out little regulations that ensure uh, you know your company has a slice of the pie that your way of doing business is ensured will continue to be used by.
[00:58:38]  Oh, there's only, we can only give a license to three towns in this uh community for marijuana licenses, and look, it's only the three biggest corporations.
[00:58:47]  It?
[00:58:48]  There's a reason?
[00:58:49]  Well right right, exactly.
[00:58:51]  And look, I mean, I don't care what your politics are.
[00:58:54]  Obviously we have.
[00:58:54]  We have people who listen to this show who have all different types of political leanings.
[00:58:58]  There's a lot of libertarians listening to the show, there's left leaning people, there's right leaning people.
[00:59:03]  Whatever, even if you don't, um say, if you're not convinced by like, the libertarian argument in abstract, you know, in theory, just I got to do is say this, right, what do you think?
[00:59:18]  What more accurately describes the problems that we have in 2024 in the United States Of America?
[00:59:26]  Is it that we have an absence of regulations and we have an unregulated economy, or is it regulatory capture?
[00:59:34]  Just be honest with yourself.
[00:59:36]  Which one of those two better describes the major problems we have in this country?
[00:59:40]  Right, and everybody knows it's the latter.
[00:59:43]  Everybody knows yeah, there's a gigantic managerial state, a gigantic regulatory state, and they're totally captured by private interests, and that's who they serve.
[00:59:52]  Don't serve the people.
[00:59:54]  It's a goddamn joke.
[00:59:56]  Is the idea that the SEC is motivated by just serving the people and making sure the big bankers can't rig the system on their behalf.
[01:00:05]  Is that what we're living under right now?
[01:00:09]  Or are they a tool of the big banks?
[01:00:12]  To ask the question is to answer the question.
[01:00:15]  All right, let's wrap up there.
[01:00:17]  I got to take these kids to the beach.
[01:00:20]  So we'll catch you guys next time.
[01:00:21]  Go check out Rob on the summer porch tour.
[01:00:25]  Where can they find tickets?
[01:00:26]  Go to porchdoor.com.
[01:00:28]  Like I said, Texas next weekend, Dallas-Forthworth area, Austin before your shows, Sunday, Rockport Beach.
[01:00:37]  And then the following weekend, I have a show.
[01:00:39]  I think it's Saturday in Philly.
[01:00:41]  Haven't played there in a while, so come hang out.
[01:00:43]  Hell yeah.
[01:00:44]  All right.
[01:00:44]  Catch you guys next time.
[01:00:45]  Peace.