Ask Dr. Drew - Dave Smith: If Biden Is Unfit To Campaign, How Is He Fit To Stay President? – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 384

Episode Date: July 27, 2024

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they're like what when is he gonna come back how are we gonna do so craziness uh all right let me give you a little more particular on dave smith he of course is a friend he's been here before comic dave smith.com x comic dave smith uh it's uh he's got a book, Libertas, released three weeks ago at number one on iTunes. Comedy chart, not a book. It's a comedy special. I beg your pardon. Book. Dave is the host of Part of the Problem.

It's a libertarian podcast about current events. And the evils of government and corporate media, nothing I like more than that. Again, it is comicdavesmith.com. Dave, welcome back. Good to be with you, Dr. Drew. So there is a lot for us to get into today. We first met at the Libertarian Conference in Rapid City. Is that what it is?

South Dakota. South Dakota, that's right. And you were hosting that whole thing. Yeah. You were hosting the whole thing, and little did we know what the world was going to look like. That was, what, four years ago or something? At the time, we were bristling against so much of the COVID nonsense

and questioning it and wondering it. My God, things have gotten only worse since then. So let's start with the topic that we promoted a little bit, which was we've got a president of the most powerful country in the world who seems to have such impairment in functioning that he can't rerun for office, which I would agree. He is too old. He's had neurodegenerative disorder.

He is clearly Parkinsonian, which is just a description of what we all see. That's just a fact. And he had a recent illness of some type. Think about people with neurodegenerative disorders at advanced age when they get a serious illness. Not even a serious illness, even a mild illness. They will step down. And now he's out of the picture, so to speak. We don't see him anywhere.

I'm wondering what you're thinking i mean there's so much there and i'm just kind of interested in in your like take on it being a doctor because obviously i have well even just hearing what you just said there is kind of interesting because it's to me as just a regular guy i look at it in the same way that you know i'm not a doctor but like i could tell you Chris Christie is obese. You know what I mean? I feel I'm fairly comfortable making that. Exactly.

And if you had a rash on your face, I could describe the rash. And by describing it, I could call it a certain kind of rash. You know, same thing with neurological illnesses. Look, when we in medical school are learning about these things, guess how we learn about it? We watch videos of people with gates like President Biden, with waxen expressionless faces like President Biden. And if the students didn't catch on that that's Parkinsonism, as I heard one surgeon say or one neurologist say, they would be remediated. They would be counseled because it's so basic. It's so simple.

Right. And look, as someone who pays attention to politics a lot, it was very easy for me to say that, say, from 2016 Joe Biden to 2020 Joe Biden, there had been a major fall off. And now, if you go back and look at the videos of 2020, it's like the same feeling as when you looked at the videos in 2016, like, oh my God, the fall off since then has been so drastic. And so of course we were living through this emperor's new clothes reality for the last four years where the entire media, it's amazing how much they have to like walk this back now. But if you remember, if you can go back way back a month ago,

there was, they rolled out this new propaganda term. I think it's the most short-lived propaganda campaign I've ever seen, where they came up with this term called cheap fakes. And what they- Yes, cheap fakes. So it rhymes with, or at at least has continents with d or assonance with deep fake so it calls it calls up to in your mind deep fake but it's a cheap fake because it's not a deep fake it's not even a fake it's what it's cheap it's a cheap shot yeah they're so

it's a it's a cheap fake now uh i know when you think deep fake you're like that's something that's not real now this is real but don't let that mess with you. It's still just as dishonest as a deep fake. And this is when they showed videos of Joe Biden looking really old and senile. But it's totally misleading, you understand, because behind closed doors, he's as sharp as a tack. If you had watched that video in the full context. And then, of course after that debate performance all of this vanishes and now you're you're at a place where they've all

admitted it they there was this very weird something like a coup like on a spectrum of something kind of like a coup up to maybe a real deal coup. Like we may have seen a real deal coup there. Look, there has still been no proof that Joe Biden actually decided to pull out of the race. It is so bizarre. You cannot overstate how bizarre it is because everything's so crazy now that I feel like this is lost on people. Like there was just an assassination attempt

on Donald Trump and all of this. But for the sitting president of the United States of America to decide four and a half weeks out from the convention that he's withdrawing from his reelection campaign, and for that to not warrant a national address to the American people is bananas. I don't care if he has COVID, don't give me any of that. You can make a three-minute video. You can even edit it. It doesn't have to be live, but he didn't do any of that. We got a written resignation on personal stationary.

Stationary. Yeah. With a new signature too, by the way, a new signature, a brand new signature, like not his usual signature. And then he endorses Kamala Harris in a tweet, not even within that letter, in a tweet. And we still haven't heard from him. He's saying he's going to speak tomorrow. But look, even if he did decide to resign and he was just very sick or something like that, look, he made his decision and his decision was to stay in. And then the donors and the corporate media and the political elites forced him out. That's very close to a coup. So just a lot going on. Well, did you hear what Pelosi said? Did you hear what Pelosi said? There's the signatures up there. What Pelosi said, she goes, well, he can either go the easy way or the hard way, but he's going to go that to me i i what is that except a

takeover but but you know what's interesting to me is why didn't they use see if i'm trying to think like people inside there and to me it seems like one of the things you would want is to really coronate kamala harris you'd want her to be cleopatra and one of the ways to do that is to make her presidential for a while, actually make her a president for a little while and show her with world leaders and all this stuff. It makes it harder for them to dislodge her from an easier to compete, I would think, with Trump. But I have two thoughts. One is maybe they really don't want her. That's one thought. And the other is my god why not use constitutional means the 25th amendment only takes the vice president and one cabinet member are you aware of that

that's all it takes to invoke the 25th amendment well you certainly got the vice president on board and it seems pretty easy to bring a cabinet member on board too. No? Yeah, look, and again, to your point that you tweeted out earlier and that you alluded to just now, I mean, look at it. Obviously, someone can argue if they're being disingenuous and say, well, he stepped down because he can't do another four years. But we all know the answer is that he stepped down because he can't get through the next four months. He can't do another four years. But we all know the answer is that he stepped down because he can't get through the next four months. He can't run against Donald Trump. And everyone saw that in the debate. He can't do a debate. He can't, they threw him out there and he can't

get through an interview. I mean, he can't do one interview without a monumentally embarrassing moment. And if that's the case, then how can he continue for the next five months to be president of the United States of America? The whole thing is well- Isn't that weird? Your point is well taken. I mean, look, Barack Obama went out of his way not to endorse Harris. And he's kind of de facto the leader of the party. And I think what we're seeing right now is that essentially she's auditioning for the role. And that's why the entire media is trying to get her over. We're going to find out whether she gets the part or not.

I think there's still a good chance she doesn't. Gets the part. Oh, my God. Wow. To think about it that way is sort of striking. But I think President Obama is playing a really interesting game in that his field was constitutional law. And if you look at his language, he's very careful with what he says.

He says, this is uncharted waters. I'm sure leadership will come up with a procedure where this is okay. I mean, he's saying, you can't do this. We don't know how to do it. Good luck figuring it out, and maybe I'll come on board. Yeah, that's right. That seems to be it. And so now, look, I mean, the Democrats are in a very difficult position.

Politically, this is just, it's very hard. Obviously, Joe Biden was done after that debate. And, and especially after all the questions about whether, you know, like it's like, as soon as, you know, sometimes there are certain questions that to ask the question is to answer the question. Like if you were to, if you were to question whether you really want to be with your wife or not, that's already an answer. Yes, I do. Yes, I do. Don't ask me that. Just ask me that question. How dare you? Yes, in your case, you're not able to leave. She will use violence against you. But in general, it's not a good... Once you're asking that

question, once you're asking the question, can the president be the nominee? The answer is already no. And likewise, the fact that we've all been speculating for months over Gavin Newsom just shows you how weak a candidate Kamala Harris is. Because why would we even be talking about that unless that she was such an unpopular vice president who's just so bad at this game? So I don't know how this works out, but it's not going good for the Democrats. And yet I want to put as positive a spin as possible on this because I certainly don't want Kevin Newsom in this race. Jesus Christ. Oh, my God.

We have to run away to New York as often as possible to get away from his state because he just ruined the great state of California. But not all him. Believe me, the assembly there is, you know, the Congress is just, oh my God. But anyway, he's certainly not done anything to help us. That I know so, I've heard nothing from her almost ever. You know what I mean? I don't know what she really, people say she is so progressive. Is she more progressive than Biden? Is Biden that progressive or just the

people running Biden's presidency so progressive? And maybe she's not as progressive as those people. I don't know. I'm going to listen very carefully. What do you think? I think sometimes these terms are a little bit misleading. And I don't think, in the way that Mussolini, he was a communist and then he was a fascist and Fidel Castro rejected communism, then embraced communism. I think these people are power brokers. I don't think ideology is really what drives them. And for me, I think that wokeism in general is all, for the most part, a distraction technique. It's a tactic. It's not as if any of these big corporations really are thinking about transgender teenagers or something like that and the struggle that they go through. They're thinking about profits. They're thinking about markets. They're thinking about financial incentives, like where they're going to get more capital

if they meet all of the DEI points that they're supposed to meet. I think Kamala Harris is a power broker, and I think that's always what's been motivating her. And same with Joe Biden. I mean, I don't think of the... They're not like leftists. They're not like some hardcore committed to workers co-ops or something like that. You know what I mean? These are people who like having power, like having wealth, and they're going to

do, and they will slit your throat to achieve and maintain that. Wow. So there was at one point, talk of you running for office under the Libertarian banner. Is that anything that could happen or is being a lot of people who wanted me to do it in the Libertarian Party, and I was considering it for a while. Ultimately, I think I'm more comfortable being a stand-up comic and talking about this stuff. That's really what I love to do. And I think it's certainly a better life for me and my family. So I think I'm going to stay here for a while. You're the only person other than me that can navigate in all these different waters.

You know, and I actually, I'm uncomfortable doing all this stuff, but I admire the ease with which you move through these different worlds. And you do it. I'm not sure the different worlds know about each other or know that you exist in these other worlds necessarily when i think about the skank crowd you know they may not know you're you have some other some other uh skills well they they know but a lot of people who know about the other skills don't know about the skanks world and i'm okay with that they'll find it when they're ready enough i i love those guys by the way i just think they're, and, you know, that is, say what you will about the skanks world. Those are, you guys are a smart group of guys. And it is difficult.

When you go in there to be with you guys, you have to concentrate because you've got to keep up, man. That is a, there's a lot going on and how they do it particularly how lewis soaks spoke so much weed and is able to still function like that i like full respect wow yeah lewis is uh like even if you like if you and a team of doctors which is really what lewis requires but if you if you and a team of doctors, which is really what Lewis requires, but if you and a team of experts were like working on him, you'd have to be like, listen, whatever you learned in the textbook, throw that out.

We're not dealing with anything human. Yeah, this is a different force. No, this is some special thing going on. Yeah. Yeah, he's a force of nature. And of course, Jay... Sorry, sorry, go ahead. Jay.

Yeah, Jay also is a force of nature, but a different human being. Yes. Ever, everay is just one of the funniest human beings yes he's he's ever one of the quickest funniest people you'll ever ever hear yes and and that speed of processing and coming out with something extraordinary is what just if you're in with in the mix it's so incredible and last time i was there ari schaefer was there and uh that was another level of not so human behavior but very different very different reason if you remember that yeah yeah no ari uh yeah he's different he's a different type of beast also a great guy an incredible talent but he is a he's a monster very very, very, very, very much so. So what do you think?

You said you had some questions for me before you go to break about Biden's health. What do you want to know? Because I can see what's going on. I take care of probably now certainly many, many hundreds of elderly men like him. And it's just glaringly obvious what is happening you know the only thing i can't tell you well go ahead ask your questions well no so i was curious because you mentioned parkinson's earlier and i had seen those reports about how i said parkinsonism i said parkinsonism right parkinsonism yeah so there are there were those reports that there was a uh

there was a parkinson's uh specialist who had been going to the white house and one of the things that i always wondered was that the the stiffness in his like movement was one of the things that at least to me was like hey what's going on with that so what what does that say to you yes so that is a feature of parkinsonism which is the the freezing you notice how he freezes like this with his hands in front of him there's motoric slowing you don't have to have tremor for parkinson's he's slow and he has a a narrow festinating gait that is also sort of unstable all that stuff is parkinsonism and then the hypophonia he can't produce vocal volume and then the wax and facies without expression.

And here's the thing about the Parkinsonian neurologist that came and visit. My question is, Dave, I think you'll appreciate this. If that doctor is not treating Joe Biden, why the hell not? What is going on that they're making this older man suffer with a treatable condition? What the F is going on that they're not treating his Parkinsonism? What the hell? That is unconscionable. It runs contrary to our interest as American public.

Now, you'd have to watch it very carefully because those medications that help with the— and by the way, now he's being treated. You can see he has facial expressions now at times, can he starts to move with a little bit more ease so something is going on but the problem with those medicines are is they can cause mental status changes they can get a little wonky and so i'm guessing they're trying to balance those two things which is fine but treat this poor man for god's sakes it's and to say oh no no he's not seen a parkinsonian specialist really why the hell not why the hell not yeah i remember i was reading uh i think it was i can't remember i want to say jamie diamond but it could have been somebody else but it was

a ceo of like a major company and they were talking about like he had some minor cancer and had to have surgery on it and how he had to disclose that to the shareholders because if you're in charge of a big powerful company, you got to let them know like, look, I have this thing. I'm dealing with it. Should be fine, but heads up, I got this big surgery that I got to have or whatever. And the idea that being the commander in chief of the US military, you would not have to disclose this information is just wild. Well, I'll go back around in a minute and tell you about what I'm thinking or the possibilities of what's causing this. But it reminds me to ask you also about the Secret Service director,

who in another, I don't know, in an ordinary time, the director of the Secret Service, when there's been a major failure and a near assassination of a president or presidential candidate, or even a former president only, there would be daily press conferences giving you what they know, what they don't know, what they're working on, updating. Now, I understand they don't know everything and they want to get their ducks in a row before they disclose the entire story. But at least tell us what you can't tell us. At least tell us.

The fact that they closed everything down, we're not going to tell you anything. By the way, Cheadle did resign over this, so it did happen after yesterday's. I felt bad for her yesterday. She was just getting beaten up so ridiculously. But my question is not what's wrong with her. My question is what is wrong with the press?

Why weren't they demanding that somebody come out and give there a regular briefing? Yeah, well, I mean, the thing is, it looks so bad. And I'm not suggesting jump to conclusions about what happened here. I'm really not like a big conspiracy guy. In fact, I was arguing with some conspiracy people over the last few days who were jumping to conclusions that I thought they didn't have evidence to back up. But we are, human beings are pattern recognizing creatures. You know, like that's how we understand the world. And it is almost impossible to see like Donald Trump getting framed for treason, being involved in this conspiracy

with the Russians, getting impeached twice, getting accused of inciting an insurrection, getting all of these very petty charges brought against him that never would have been brought against anyone else. And then to see a situation where a guy tries to blow his brains out. And all of the indications seem to be that this was allowed to happen. And I mean that very literally. I'm not saying necessarily there's a bigger conspiracy there. But then also when you see the media

not asking the obvious questions, it is almost impossible to not kind of wonder and go, tell me I'm not looking at what I think I'm looking at here. Because it is just so, it's not just a failure. It's like inconceivable that you would have a roof less than 200 yards away from where the former president is speaking. You get a guy, he's on videotape, he's scoping the area out for at least like an hour before he got up there. Multiple people warning local police and the Secret Service. I mean, there is something about this that really stinks.

And the fact that she just went and testified and had no answers for any of it, and then said yesterday that she wasn't going to resign, that she was still the best person to lead the secret service. I mean, look, at least today, at least we learned you can't push it that far. We learned the limits. Yes, that even she did have to ultimately step down. But man, I hope we get to the bottom of this at some point because there's clearly a very big story here that we don't have yet yeah it feels like there is you know not to quote hamlet but but something rotten in the state of denmark something is not right and it feels like the press is a part of that and for me it goes back to covid because i really thought i i was shocked at how much the government was involved in the censorship around COVID. I really thought the whole thing was a press-generated failure, hysteria, eye grab, trying to get more viewers.

That's what I was screaming about at the beginning. It felt like that to me. Did something happen to the press around that time, or was it already adulterated in such ways we just didn't know it until there was extraordinary totalitarian instincts by our government that the press seemed to not just question but to grab onto and endorse i so i think that essentially it's been like this for a very long time i think that the corporate press is essentially the mouthpiece of the government. We might as well have state media.

In effect, that's what they are. And not just in effect, but also, I think in actuality, there are probably many intelligence people who are embedded within the corporate media. I think essentially what happened is that the underlying government policy was so much more egregious during COVID that it was so appalling that the corporate media was carrying water for the regime. But look, I mean, I'm old enough to remember quite vividly when it was just like a certainty amongst the corporate press. It was just like, hey, look, we know Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass destruction, and he was in on 9-11.

So like, hey, are you a homosexual, or do you want to go bomb the hell out of Iraq? Those are the questions that we have for you. And anybody who pointed out the lies was immediately attacked, demonized as un-American or pro-terrorist or something like that. You see the same stuff. They still do the same stuff with foreign policy. It's like, I can't tell you because I've been a big critic of the policy of fighting a proxy war on Russia's border against them because it's

insane. And it's amazing how much everyone's first response is always, you know, Putin talking points, you know, like you're, because that's the answer, right? I'm, I'm sworn loyal to Vladimir Putin. You got me. That's a major problem we have in America with so many Putin loyalists or whatever, you know, but it's like, but with COVID the major difference was, you know, it wasn't just something like, Hey, we're going to go start a war with some puny country, which, you know, that's a really big deal to the people in that country and the people who, who serve and lose their lives and lose friends and stuff like that.

But this was, the policy was, we're instituting totalitarianism in the United States of America, quite literally. And so to just see that and then to see the justification for the totalitarianism

have these like glaring holes in them. And if you'd go like, well, there's a really big hole in your logic here that to be like attacked for for pointing that out i think was very eye-opening for a lot of people well and you have the uh good fortune of uh having chris cuomo meet you on stage to have a little dialogue about these very issues. I thought that was fascinating. I actually admire that Chris is willing to come out and look at these things. It was interesting.

I want to get your, I don't know how much you can really tell me your private thoughts about it, but I want to give you a chance to tell me what that experience was like and what you learned because that's really going into the belly of the beast, right? I mean, Chris was there saying ridiculous things. I'll never forget the one thing you didn't bring up with him.

One of the images I have of him, and I like Chris too, and he was a friend, and I really do admire that he's willing to look at these things now, even though we got to bring him a little further. When he got up and went, today is a day in infamy. There's a Russian operative sitting in the Oval Office. Do you remember him saying that? Yeah, I did forget that until you just brought it up. But yeah, that's right.

Yeah. Yeah. You can get that clip next time you talk to him. I think, you know, there's a, it was a really weird experience to debate him. I've never done. Hold on. Hold it. Hold it. Hold it. Hold it. a really weird experience to debate him. I've never done... Well, hold on. Hold on. Hold it.

Hold it. Hold it. Hold it. I got to take a little break. I want to get deep into it because I thought it was a great... I thought you guys both did a public service. And I think more like that needs to happen to be able to parse through. That's the kindest word I can come up with.

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few foot view what was that experience like it was excuse me it was bizarre and it was uncomfortable I didn't enjoy it um I I enjoyed like I I enjoyed that we did it, and I really enjoyed the feedback to it. But there was, you know, like I've never really, I've done a lot of debates. I've never really debated before where the topic was kind of the person I was debating, if that makes sense. Like the topic was you. Yes, yes. And there's something kind of uncomfortable about that. And then what ended up happening was that, first of all, you have this thing like that you kind of already mentioned, where number one, you almost like you got to respect the guy for even being there. You know what I mean?

So it's kind of like, look, he's going into like a kind of hostile environment against somebody in me who's going to like prosecute the case fairly aggressively. The crowd was on my side. The audience online was on my side. So there was kind of like, you know, I kind of respected that he was doing that. So then as we're in it, and he's also, as you know, you know him better than me, but he's also kind of a likable guy. Like you just kind of, he's not. Yes, and he's smart.

Crazy smart too he he's not what kind of like the caricature of a member of the corporate media is that that's very unpleasant he's not that and but then what happens is we're in the debate right right exactly so we're in the debate and then they start playing these clips of of what c CNN and what he was saying at the time and it's getting me so angry. And then I think because he kind of had, he felt like he had to like defend himself. He kind of started going on the attack

against me a little bit and then that kind of pissed me off. And so then I was like, oh, okay, well, I'm going to let him have it now. And it was like, look, I think in a lot of ways, Chris Cuomo, he's a product of his family, born as the governor's son, and then his older brother becomes governor. He works at CNN. He's in this world where he was just kind of like, hey, man,

this is what the experts are saying, and so we're going with that. But it was just like so many things in the debate. It was just infuriating because it's like, look, man, I mean, I got, I'm doing pretty well for myself, but it's a fairly rinky dink operation here. It's not like I got like 300 employees under me or something like that. I have like my crew and then some guys, and we do a show on the internet. But to be sitting there mocking somebody taking ivermectin as horse dewormer is like, I mean, dude, all you got to do is like Google this. It's 30 seconds until you have the information. And so there was something just kind of like, I'm still so angry over what they did to people during COVID. It's just like one of the greatest crimes ever committed against the American people. Yes. And so, you know, so it was, anyway, just to put a button on it, I thought that one of the things

that was cool about it, and I was kind of grateful that I got to be the person in that moment, is that there really hasn't, you'd think in a healthier society, there'd be so many moments like this, where somebody who was was a critic of all of these policies is up there with one of the big guys who was selling all of them, and you get to go at it. And that hasn't happened at all. I mean, there's been lots of experts who have offered to debate Dr. Fauci. I guarantee you, a lot of these guys like uh mccullough or like so many of the i know you would do it he could debate dr fauci tomorrow if he was down to do it but he's not gonna do it 100 chris cuomo was the only one who was willing to step up and do it and i i'm yeah i'm grateful

that we at least had that moment i think maybe a don lemon might be another candidate for conversation too though i'm not sure well how did you experience chris's take on the videos you were playing for him i mean you kept saying yes look there you are he's calling it horse based and he was sort of like i don't know what you're talking about that was the part part that surprised me. I mean, I mean, I thought, look, I thought he was just, he was just being dishonest in some of those takes and it was just kind of like,

you know, it's when you're, when you're not critically thinking and you're just kind of going with groupthink, I think the groupthink as it changes,

it's very easy to almost genuinely look back and go, no, no, no, I never said anything like that four years ago that's right you know what i mean like i couldn't even remember because we're so far away from that now but it's like no no you did this and i do think that i think he missed

an opportunity in a sense where it's like he could have just taken some ownership of that and just been like look yes i do apologize for that i was wrong i shouldn't have said that i should have known better than that. But he didn't want to do that. I think also because Chris Cuomo is, he's a proud person. And he is like, he's a gym bro. He's a fighter. He's like, no, I'm not going to be like weak and admit that in front of you.

But I think that didn't end up working out well for him because it's just like, yeah, I mean, listen, also because I had some, the guys in the video booth there really helped me out too. Like there were a couple of times where he was like, I never said that. And they were like, play the tape. And it was like, here it comes.

Yeah, it was quite a thing to watch. And as you say, there's many us uh that can't get over what the government did it's that we can't get over covid not the virus the government's what the government did to the american public and what the world did to their to their people that's the to me that's almost more astonishing that the American system did it, that the entire world bought into our bullshit and followed suit in everything. Almost everything we did in it all came from China. They were the first ones to sort of instruct us what to do. And it's just the oddest thing in the world.

And there should be all kinds of postmortems on this. In medicine, we always do postmortems. We always have these morbidity mortality reports we look at things we we need like this national reckoning on what went right what went wrong what could have been done what should have been done how it happened how we can prevent it from happening again in the meantime though public health has become completely adulterated as something dangerous that's ideologically driven and has nothing to do with health and i just don't want to listen to public health experts ever again it's really

it's i there i just quite it's the oddest thing in the world for me to and to every time a public health expert talks and every time a media news reporter speaks i just think no way to know if what they're saying is accurate or true. No way. Can't do it. Same with the CDC even now. Yeah, I think that it's one of those things where it's very hard. Once you see someone lying to you,

it's very hard to unsee that. If your wife told you she was one place and you found out she was another place, even if the other place didn't matter, you wouldn't have cared, there's still going to be something where it's like, whoa, you lied to me. Hold on. This marriage isn't what I thought it was anymore. I thought you don't lie to me. I thought that was the thing. We don't lie to each other like that. And so there's kind of this dynamic where it's like,

it's not just that they got things wrong. You know, a lot of us got things wrong during COVID. There were several points where I got things wrong. I was operating under the assumption, if you go back and listen to my podcast, for at least the first three or four months of COVID, I was just operating under the assumption that masks worked. It just kind of seemed like,

I mean, it's kind of got to stop something from getting in there. I guess I had a period of time too. Yeah, you're right. I had a period of time where I was like, man. A bunch of studies came out and they all like indicated that like,

that just doesn't seem to be making any difference. So you have to kind of adjust to this. And it was like the media never adjusted. They never adjusted to the new information. And instead, they double down and triple down and call you the worst person in the world for adjusting to the new information. And it started, I remember very early in COVID, it was either, I think it was April, but it was early April of 2020. And it was when the first data had come out on the deaths, the COVID deaths in New York City, which at that time was like the epicenter, as they used to call it, of COVID.

And it was on the New York City Gov site. And it was just a breakdown by age of COVID deaths. And it was like, I don't remember the exact numbers, but it was like, okay, age zero through 13, COVID deaths, zero. Age 13 through 30, COVID deaths, zero. Age 30 through 54, COVID deaths, two. Age 54 through 65, COVID deaths, 15, age 70 through 90, COVID deaths, 2,331. And right away, it was just like, okay, this is killing old sick people. That is very clear right away. We've got enough data that we can extrapolate at least that. Young people aren't really at risk. So hey, everybody, let's adjust to this. And then it was like, no one in the corporate media

would adjust to that. They were still, by that summer, they were still demonizing teenagers for going to the beach. It was just so wild. It made no sense. And to anyone paying attention, dude, it was in Christmas of 2023, Fauci was still saying, if you haven't gotten your latest booster, maybe you shouldn't go to Christmas dinner. Like, it was like, what?

You're still doing that? No one's in this world anymore, you know? Gelman amnesia, right. The Gelman amnesia is this, I'm sure you know this phenomenon where this physicist would read in the article in the newspaper about physics every so often and go, oh, they get this completely wrong. And then assume everything else they reported was accurate. Of course, they get everything wrong. And I remember in around 2021, them standing, I think, on the beach in Daytona Beach

during spring break going, there are people out here standing next to each other and they're talking to each other and they're not wearing a mask. I was like, yeah. And guess what? Zero transmission in that environment. Zero.

You should be celebrating what those people were doing. That's why we run away to Florida these days still. The mental health in Florida, particularly southern Florida, is so much better than the rest of the country because they didn't endure what the rest of us endured. Yeah. what the rest of us endured. Yeah, well, I mean, look, if you think about it, and you can appreciate this in a much deeper way than I can. But if you just imagine that, if you take it from a mental health perspective, something that you're a legit expert in, and if you were to tell people, okay, listen, this is what I want you to do. I want you to be very, very scared of a germ. Literally, a floating abstraction is what I want you to be scared of. And I want you

to isolate yourself as much as possible. I want you to cut out all of the normal activities in your life. I want you to cut out all, particularly all of the unnecessary socializing that you're doing, like get rid of that day one. Unnecessary. If you have to go to work, try to work out of your home where you're alone. You know what I mean? I mean, it was literally a recipe for how to ruin people. You're describing for an adult, Dave. Yes, it is.

But that's for an adult. Imagine you're 8 to 15 years of age and you didn't endure what we did in southern california where you had the mayor on tv every night saying the following words you must shelter in place those are words for an incoming nuclear weapon so you're nine years old and you're hearing if you don't shelter in place at a time in your life when your education is critical, your interaction with peers is monumentally important to your development and emotional health. And now hide under your room, shelter in place, or you're going to kill your parents. I mean, my God, we sacrificed an entire generation with that. It was obvious.

I kept saying it over and over again. And well, now guess what? Depression, anxiety, depression, anxiety. You may have created an assassin as well. Well, that kid is about that age. That's interesting. I mean, that's a really good point that I haven't thought of. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That is a very good point. He would have been about 15. It's always, it's going to be impossible to trace back, much like vaccine injuries. One of the issues with vaccine injuries is that you kind of never know for sure, you know, like, I mean, I mean, you can reasonably say that if

someone got a vaccine and then had like a health episode two hours later, and then weeks later got very sick, okay, it's likely that it's this, but you never really know. I mean, I know a lot of people, or I should say, I know several people who have developed conditions since getting vaccinated. And it certainly makes my eyebrow raise like, really? This healthy 35-year-old developed a heart condition? Yes, happens all the time from, and getting ablations and atrial fib and atrial tachycardia. These are vaccine injuries, particularly if it's a younger male, an adult, middle-aged or younger male. Now, I had a 100-year-old who developed atrial arrhythmia, which is what everyone gets from this damn vaccine.

An hour after getting the vaccine, she was 100, so she didn't want to go to the hospital, as they often don't. I had to manage her at home with a life-threatening problem, which we successfully did. And I put a VAERS report in after it. And guess what? They're not interested. There's nothing here

so that that's how she's almost dead anyways oh dude stop it uh it's not true actually it's not true i'm making a joke yeah um but but well but i was just saying in that same sense you don't know you know like you don't know like from the lockdowns what the actual cost of that is going to be something that is immeasurable. We'll never know exactly how many people were so damaged by that for years to come. Absolutely true. That is completely the case. So I think Susan wants me to read something real quick here. So let me do that, take a little bit of a break here.

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is he had an aneurysm in his brain when he was younger and had two neurosurgeries, two invasive operations on his brain. And that puts him at risk for all sorts of things, including dementia and Parkinsonism, for sure. So that's one possibility of one of the causes of what we're seeing here. He could have Parkinson's disease. And we've got to remind ourselves, four out of five Parkinsonian patients get dementia with that.

Sometimes Alzheimer's and or something called Lewy body dementia can have Parkinsonian features. So those are also possibilities. And there can be weird, obscure things as well. But we don't know. When people say, you can't diagnose him, that's correct. I can't diagnose him. Those are what we call the differential diagnoses for someone who comes in at his age group with his course of illness, with severe Parkinsonian features, with some cognitive distortions, cognitive problems, and previous brain surgeries.

So that's what we're dealing with here. And so there's an interesting question, and this one I want to ask you. There's no doubt that he has significant neurodegenerative disorders. The question really is a separate question, which is, what should the threshold be for someone to be the leader of the most powerful nation on earth? Shouldn't it be more than just, can this person drive a car? If you were your dad, you'd be taking his car keys away. Shouldn't we have a higher threshold than what we do for an average 80-year-old? Yeah, I mean, look, absolutely. I mean, just to keep in mind what the job is that we're talking about, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, when Jack Kennedy said to the Soviets that them placing nuclear weapons in Cuba was going to be treated like a nuclear first strike.

What he essentially said was, I'm going to blow up the world if you do not get these nukes out of Cuba. This is a knife to our throat and we cannot live this way. That's it. This is a real red line. And then he got on the phone with the Russians and they worked out a deal. And the deal was like, they'd moved the missiles out of Cuba. And then we pulled back some nukes that we had in Turkey and that deal stuck. By the way, there was no treaty signed. This was just a verbal agreement and it saved the world from blowing up. And by the way, right now we're involved in a proxy war on Russia's border. And so, yeah, the standard should be incredibly high. And sometimes there are these things about when you say, where is the threshold? It can be a little bit arbitrary in the same way that, look,

if you think about what the age of consent is, should it be 18 or 19? I mean, I don't know. You could debate. It's a little bit arbitrary to pick one of those numbers. But you know a 40-year-old is a consenting adult, and you know a five-year-old certainly isn't. You know what I mean? It becomes very black and white with the further out you get. And I think it's pretty clear to anyone with a modicum of common sense that Joe Biden is way over the line. I mean, this is like just totally insane. No, you would never be in any important job in the position that Joe Biden's in. How shall we deal with, understand, continue to keep the heat on, i guess is one way of thinking about this the excesses of uh world governments during all this and the continued excess in canada and other parts of western

europe what is it just i mean what do we do what is your sort of recommendation is it uh join the libertarian party and sort of get more involved with freedom fighting? Is it vote for RFK Jr., even though he's not really Libertarian, he's independent? What do we do? Well, I think, first and foremost, I think what we are doing, like quite literally, what we are doing right now is a part of this bigger dynamic, which is part of the reason why the establishment is freaking out so much, is that we're not like what we think of the government as being, but what it is in tangible reality. The government is an organization that by force claims monopolies on several services. One of those would be writing the laws and the courts and things like that, right?

They have a monopoly, and it's a monopoly based on violence. If they can initiate violence against you, you cannot initiate violence against them or against anyone else legally. It's not a coincidence that amongst the things that they take monopoly control of are schools and television networks and libraries and even the post office. Because at the time when they made that, that was the information center. And they've always, even if they didn't, even if they weren't like directly in control of all of the media, they were in effect in control of it. And that's totally over. Like this paradigm has been shattered.

And so I do think, I think that's a really important first step. There's a reason why tyrannical government policies are always accompanied by propaganda campaigns, because they know that they need to actually propagandize people in order to get them to do this they don't have the ability to do that as much anymore we used to have laws against propaganda didn't i and and what happened to that well there's propaganda is uh is it works and so you know there's too much of a temptation it's brainwashing temptation it's brainwashing you know it's brainwashing and and you brainwashing. You know, it's brainwashing. And you mentioned Chris Cuomo looking at himself saying something completely opposite to what he claimed.

And if you're brainwashed, the cognitive dissonance is so severe that you may not really be able to accept what it is you said. And it's interesting to me that, you know, 20% of the population is highly prone to brainwashing. They get taken over by these things very quickly. And I'm reading a book about 1935 Germany right now. And a word showed up there early in the description by an American diplomat of what was going on in Germany. And he used the word hysteria. And I was really surprised to see that, because I've not really seen that word applied to the Nazi takeover.

It always seemed, I don't know, sinister and systematic and a reaction to the Treaty of Versailles and stuff. But he said, no, no, no, there's a hysteria gripping the Germans. And that's the word that I kept saying during the darker hours of COVID. We're in a hysteric. This is hysterical. And that's why you can't, when you're hysterical, how do you change direction?

Because you're not connected to reality. You're just not. So do you agree that it is hysteric? Do you have any theory about how hysterics get going? I mean, what is it about us or the world that it really took hold? And then, of course, it's sort of obvious media's role in whipping it into an absolute hysteria to a frenzy. Well, I mean, I think there's no question that it was a hysteria. It was, you know,

you got to a point where there were points during COVID, let's say, where people were actually angry if you gave them good news. Like if you started saying, hey, look, we have this new study that the death rate is much lower than we thought it was going to be. They'd get angry at you like, oh, what are you downplaying it? If you remember when Donald Trump got COVID the first time, or I don't know, has he had it since, but when he got COVID in late 2020, and he tweeted, don't let fear of the virus rule your life, and they were offended. They were angry that he said that. That he told them, what do you mean, don't let fear control your life? That's the whole thing we're trying to get them to do. Look, I think this is- But I mean, that was always what leadership was throughout my life

leading people i mean it's what he did when he stood up after the the shooting people were afraid they saw him stand up and go fight and like the fear went away and they all felt reassured by this now whether it was realistic or not they because they were all in harm's way at that point who knew but but it's what leaders do they they lead you in and put themselves at the head of the battle to inspire you and to resuage your anxieties. This was the opposite. This was children in place, children in place. Oh, my God, children in place. What the hell?

When did we become such effing pusses? What has gone on? Well, my grandfather used to always say, he was a World War II vet, and he used to always say this nation is becoming a nation of wusses, and that was well before COVID. I'm glad he wasn't around to see that. But yeah, I mean, look, part of this probably comes just with wealth and prosperity. You get softer. We all do. We're all softer than men of previous generations who had it much harder. But then there's also the fact that tyrants play on fear. And they always have.

And they always do. Because there's nothing that gets people to give up their liberty quicker than being afraid of something and getting the promise of protection. This is why people join gangs. And that was the plan in 2020. And I would say that I think it did have a lot to do with the fact that Donald Trump was up for a re-election that year, and that the establishment felt like he just cannot be, like he must be a one-term president. Because it was such a repudiation of them that he won to begin with. And it would be such a repudiation of them for him to get reelected.

And I do think that that motivated a lot of this. I'm not saying it explains everything. There's a lot of different factors involved, but that was definitely a major one. And whether it was not just not just with covid with the riots in the summer of 2020 with everything leading up to the election it was a real clamp down by the regime and it was an absolute disaster it was it was a disaster i i was thinking just now about uh hysteria around ivermectin, which was the latest molecule that people just had learned how to pronounce and magically had strong opinions about. But hydroxychloroquine, you forget about that. I mean, the next day they had strong opinions. And mind you,

hydroxychloroquine, I've said this before in this program, is the only medication I'm aware of that the American College of Physicians recommends that women stay on if they have lupus or mixed connective tissue disease, stay on it without any concern during pregnancy. It's so benign. It's so inert. They take it for decades at a time and don't bother stopping it during pregnancy because it's completely inert. That medicine was killing people.

How could your doctor recommend? Okay, just shut up. And again, remind ourselves that the CDC was, the United States pandemic preparedness plan was that the CDC would play an advisory role to the states, and the state would advise doctors

how to behave, and advise public health officials what should be done. That became became that shifted and they threw that out and it became this totalitarian impulse that is disgusting it's exactly the opposite of the impulse we want given our constitution of the government that we think we're running here and part of what has happened on the heels of it it feels like the government has forgot who their who their

employers are i mean i just think about uh i just think about uh lincoln's gettysburg address the the the last words are so that you know we have to these people have died that shall not be in vain so that government by the people for the people what am i leaving out of the people by the people for the people should not have perished from the earth, which it seems not to be a part of our system right now. Yeah, and look, I don't know if it ever really was. I mean, I think all of these are nice ideas. You know, Abraham Lincoln said that. He also conscripted an army to go invade the South.

And, you know, so it's real convenient that you get to be a government of the people, but really like you're their boss and you get to tell them what to do, including giving up their own lives. I think probably a more accurate way to look at it is that the illusion that the government works for us was somewhat shattered over these last few years. And that you recognize that actually, no, they don't work for you. And if they did work for you and they betrayed you in that type of way, you would have a mechanism for, say, firing them.

Now, you don't have that mechanism. You can choose between who the Democrats and the Republicans put up there. You have two choices. But even that, and I think this is something a lot of Americans are waking up to, is that that doesn't really touch anything. I mean, there is like a permanent state that has nothing to do with elected representatives and that actually have far more power than our elected representatives have. And like Dr. Fauci was a member of that group, a very important one. Oh, yes.

It didn't matter who you had elected, even if you had elected Donald Trump. Well, Fauci was in charge through 2020, not Donald Trump. Yes. No, that middle management, the bureaucrats, and they don't care about the will of the people. And that is gravely, gravely concerning, at least to move us back that direction, even though, as you say, it might be from the through the eyes of a libertarian uh the reality is we need to move ourselves back that way the other thing i was thinking about agreed you mentioned you know the the press and uh and what what they're not doing uh the the one thing i've noticed they're

carrying water for the for the for the government, and I feel like there's a psychology both in administrators on college campuses and amongst the press that when they were speaking truth to power, which was always their rallying cry, they meant truth to those 65-year-old white males in 1975 with the skinny ties and the white shirts and the horn-rimmed glasses. Those were the guys you speak to. But when I'm in charge, meaning the press now and the current administrations at colleges, no, no. I'm the good guy. I know the truth. Everyone listen to me and F all you guys if you want to take issue with it. Think how crazy that has become where truth to power was, no, no, no, truth to those guys. We got to cut down the power that those guys have so we can take all the power.

It's crazy. Yeah, no, that's 100% it. And, you know, even you saw Joe Biden just the other day when he was trying to stay in the race too. And he said, listen, I don't care what the elites say. He was like, oh, he feels like there's some... The guy's been in the highest level of politics for nearly five decades. And he still feels like there's some other elite out there, like not him. The guy's been completely carried.

That is exactly my point. That is exactly my point, is that their notion of the elite misses the fact that they are the elite, period. End of story. And of course, they have this... Right. And they have an ideology to some degree that they've constructed where somehow when they're talking to like a truck driver, if he's a straight white guy, well, that's kind of the powerful, like he's kind of on top of the hierarchy. Meanwhile, you're like, what are you telling me? You're telling me that Michelle Obama is the powerless and some plumber is the powerful. This just makes no sense whatsoever. And so, yeah, look, the truth is that that might be a nice thing to say, but holding the powerful accountable, and this is

just true throughout human history, that's a dangerous game. You know who holds the powerful accountable? Julian Assange attempted to do that. Sacrificed quite a bit of his life in order to do that. That's what it looks like. Doesn't look like Rachel Maddow. It doesn't look like cocktail parties. That's not what that looks like, you know? Yeah, yeah. I would argue that you're doing that.

And I appreciate that you're there. And I hope you will have further conversations with the elites and the people that, armed with the elites and the people that uh with the with armed with the evidence whoever your guys are that that threw in the videos uh hats off to them i hope if i need to be in a debate in the future i want them on hand whoever they are please they are their heroes uh but you are too for going out there and... Okay, good. So thank you for doing that and thank you for joining us here today. Is there anything else you want people to know

about what you're up to these days? Oh, partoftheproblem.com is the new site I just launched if you want to support my podcast. But all the stuff you said before, comicdavesmith.com, at comicdavesmith, partoftheproblem,

all that. And it's always such a pleasure to talk to you, Dr. Drew. I always really enjoy it. Me too. And I want to swing by the Legion, the boys, Legion of Skanks someday soon. I do come to New York every so often, and one of the things I look

forward to is Monday nights with those guys. Tell people where they can see that and if they want to go see it live, where they go. You're in the big room now. You're in the big boy room. That's right. We've moved up in the world since. First of all, of course, anytime you want to come, we love having you on.

It's at The Stand in New York City. There's a great comedy club in New York City. Every Monday night at 8 p.m. from 8 to 10 p.m., we film The Legion of Skanks. And it's a party. It's always a great time. So if you are in the area, yeah, please do come on out to a show. It's a lot of fun.

It's extraordinary. And they have a skank fest every year in Las Vegas. This year it's in October, I think, or the end of September. And the comedians, comedians, they're legendary comedians

that come to this thing and they will all say the same thing as they've never had so much fun at a comedy festival or at a comedy show as they do on the weekend that they go to see the Skanks downtown Las Vegas. So it's another thing to look forward to. Yeah, it's the best comedy festival in the world. If anybody who's been there or performed there, it will tell you the same. It's always a great time. I'm having a flashback to when i was watching you

guys as an audience member it's the the skanks and rosanne was up there with you and you brought in violent jay and then sort of screaming at me made me come up on stage i was just enjoying what you guys were doing and by the way and and tony was there tony hinkliffe was part of it and it was really a legendary kind of panel, by the way. That was an extraordinary moment to see. It was, that was my favorite show of the whole festival. It was surreal. It was just like Roseanne ranting

in her just glorious, hilarious, somewhat psychotic, but then you're like, I think she just made a really good point in there in like the way only Roseanne can do. That was so much fun. And yeah, if you want to come watch one of our shows, you should probably watch from the back of the room, Dr. Drew. You might get pulled up.

You were too close. That was your own fault. You got too close. I was too close. You get close to the flame, you get burned. That's bottom line. So, okay. Well, thank you, Dave.

Call me Dave Smith. Look for him everywhere, X, website, whatever it might be. And hopefully I'll see you very soon. Absolutely. Good to thank you, Dave. Call me Dave Smith. Look for me everywhere. X, website, whatever it might be. And hopefully I'll see you very soon. Absolutely. Good to see you, brother. You got it. All right. So we'll wrap this thing up tomorrow. Sage Steele in here.

She is a really interesting person. Also, Corey DeAngelis. Did I get that right? Oh, there's our list coming up. Kelly Victory going to come here Thursday at noon. Susan at her show at 3 o'clock Pacific time. Peter Navarro has actually agreed. Do you know who Peter Navarro is?

This is a big deal. Yeah, fresh out of prison. Again, fresh out of prison, Susan. Peter Navarro, who was put in prison for January 6th. Christine Anderson, of course, our favorite EP from the EU Parliament. She's a firebrand, and I'll be very interested to talk to her about the French situation,

because that is just crazy, what's going on in France. And it's starting to have echoes, as I predicted, of what's going on here. I'm telling you, watch carefully what goes on, particularly in France, not just in the EU generally, but, I don't know, the French, it's just something going on there that feels familiar to me. And there you go. So we got a lot coming up. We appreciate you all being here. If you have any requests for people

you'd like us to talk to, contact dr.ru.com. Susan, anything else on your hit parade there? Your thing is off. Say hi to everybody. Tell them about your show coming up. Hi, everybody. Tell them about Thursday for you. That was a good show. This? Yeah, Dave's amazing. I like Dave.

Dave's always amazing. I have a Calling Out with Susan Pinsky coming up this Thursday with two psychics. I'm going to have a forensic psychic come on and talk about the mind of the shooter, Donald Trump's assassinator. Well, not assassinator, shooterinator shooter and call them assassins assassinator sounds yeah he was i i want to talk i want to know all all the things that we don't know okay behind the scenes is there a line is there you know i wanted i want to get a psychic look at that. And then also we're going to talk with Dr. Kelly Victory about Ozempic, the future of Ozempic psychically, and also COVID-19. And medically too.

We're just going to talk about medical stuff. And then take a couple calls and do some psychic readings. All right, everybody. Thank you so much for being here. We appreciate it. We're in New York City this week. There's Susan's promo up there. And then Kelly will be with me earlier in the day that day.

And yeah, we appreciate you all being here. Appreciate watching you guys on the rants. You've been lively and interesting there. Let me see if there's anything I've got going on. Christina Anderson is great. She is good. Asajj, we met his dad. He was a great guy.

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