Part Of The Problem - I'm Voting For Trump
Episode Date: October 24, 2024Dave Smith brings you the latest in politics! On this episode of Part Of The Problem, Dave is joined by co-host Robbie "The Fire" Bernstein to discuss Kamala Harris's statements abut isolatio...nism and Pearl Harbor, CNN's report about cracking down in misinformation on social media, the New Republic calling Joe Rogan "one of the worst people ever", and so much more.Part Of The Problem is available for early pre-release at https://partoftheproblem.com as well as an exclusive episode on Thursday!Support Our SponsorsKalshi - https://kalshi.com/daveMonetary Metals - https://bit.ly/4eoich3My Patriot Supply - https://www.preparewithsmith.com/Get your tickets to Porch Tour Herehttps://porchtour.comFind Run Your Mouth here:YouTube - http://youtube.com/@RunYourMouthiTunes - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/run-your-mouth-podcast/id1211469807Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/4ka50RAKTxFTxbtyPP8AHmFollow the show on social media:X:http://x.com/ComicDaveSmithhttp://x.com/RobbieTheFireInstagram:http://instagram.com/theproblemdavesmithhttp://instagram.com/robbiethefire#libertarianSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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I'm Dave Smith. He is Robbie the Fireburnstein. We are getting on some planes tomorrow morning
to head out to Kansas City. Looking forward to seeing some of you fine people out there.
Love the Comedy Club of Kansas City. Great club.
Looking forward to that. How you doing, Rob? How's your day going?
Doing good. Making some tweaks on the special and I can't believe I'm already leaving and I got a
wild early morning tomorrow. But hell yeah, back on the road, baby.
Usually I'm the one who takes these early morning flights, but you got a crazy one tomorrow.
Yeah, I got an early flight and with no car, It's going to be some subway action to get there,
but we'll make it happen. Maybe the hitchhiking.
We'll pull that off tomorrow.
Oh, that's right. I completely forgot.
You don't have a car.
It's all good. I will be there and I'm looking forward to it.
Rob has to crawl
to Kansas City to get there.
Oh, man. Yeah.
The early flights. See, I'm a big...
I'm a fan of the early flights home.
The early flights there, it's just, oh, you always get there and like your hotel rooms
not ready yet. And then you're just like, I don't know, it's never, it never works out
good train station hobo for a couple hours. Yeah, there you go. I'm gonna take you back
to your roots, Rob, where you got your start as a train station hobo. Okay, so there's
a lot of stuff that I wanted to talk about
today. Let's, let's jump right into it. Of course, porch tour
comm for all Rob's dates, comic Dave Smith comm for all of our
dates together. So listen, man, I just want to preface this by
saying, this is not me walking back the things that I said on yesterday's episode.
I still stand by everything I said there, but I think I might vote for Trump.
Wow. That's a bombshell of breaking news.
I just and I'll tell you what it did.
It's funny because literally we when we finished the show yesterday,
just like an hour after we were done recording
or something like that,
I was just literally just on Twitter
and I saw Kamala Harris campaigning with Liz Cheney
and I'll play you the clip in a second.
And I was just so disgusted by it that I was just like,
it was just like, Oh, fuck you. Like, God damn,
do you just deserve to lose? Like as if there were not that there were,
there's already enough reasons. And listen,
if I not even trying to make like a big thing out of this,
like I'm making an announcement that I'm supporting Trump or anything like that.
And I don't even fucking know. It'll probably like, I'm registered.
I it'll probably depend on how I'm feeling. You know what I mean? Like, but there's just it's like nothing. I'm not changing anything. I'm not like a Trump-er now and I'm going to continue to criticize Donald Trump at every turn where I feel like he deserves it. It just was like, Oh, man, this thing just disgusted me much. Did you? I don't know. By the way, have you have you seen this clip, Robert
Kamala Harris talking about World War Two? I don't think so. But I'm going to suggest
while you're endorsing Trump, I'm going to suggest the viewers do what I do, which is
just show up and pull a bunch of levers and see what happens.
That's another strategy. Listen, there's arguments to all of these strategies.
No, I mean, I don't like I'm still so goddamn frustrated with Donald Trump and not for any
of the reasons that other people are frustrated with Donald Trump.
It's like I hate Donald Trump for opposite reasons that like the entire corporate media
hates him.
And it's just it is.
And look, man, like people could criticize me
maybe this is like
You know like there's an argument where people will be like oh you libertarians
You always love to feel like you're better than everybody else and so you can kind of like say like oh well
I rise above all of this and I'm better than the Democrats and the Republicans
But if you don't ever actually get in the fight
Then you're like you're just patting yourself on the back while nothing changes.
And like there is an argument to that.
There's also, I think, an equally strong argument where libertarians can come
back and say like, yeah, but what is falling in line with the Republicans do?
Does that ever actually lead to anything?
Or does that, you know what I mean?
Like at a certain point you have to, there has to be a line and you're like,
okay, beyond this line, I just can't support you and
for Donald Trump those I mean
lockdowns and
keeping Fauci on the job and
Yemen and Israel and Iran and there's just like the government spending and there's just a lot of them that it's like
I just kind of can't forgive him for
but at the same time man just seeing like it's not just that the's like, I just kind of can't forgive him for. But at the same time, man, just seeing like,
it's not just that the Cheney's like endorsed Kamala Harris.
It's that like she is actively embracing that endorsement and
campaigning with Liz Cheney to attempt to rehabilitate the
Cheney legacy or something like that. And that is just, oh my God.
I mean, like really the people who ruined the 21st century,
that's who you're embracing.
It's like a bridge too far is an understatement.
And it's just like, ah.
You might as well campaign to fart in my mouth.
Yeah, I'd prefer it.
I'd prefer it to this.
Here, let me play the clip so you can see it.
I mean, man, talk about a Kamala Harris moment.
Here you go.
Bringing the allies together
is because they are fully aware of
and remember to the Congresswoman's point,
World War II, remember this concept of isolation.
We were once there as a nation
and then Pearl Harbor happened. Let's remember
recent history. Europe remembers it well. We then when we got attacked Pearl Harbor, we jumped in.
And it is because America jumped in that we were ultimately able to win that war.
And it should be a constant reminder to us, we have to
remember history, that isolationism, which is exactly
what Donald Trump is pushing, pull out of NATO, abandon our
friends, isolationism is not insulation.
It is not insulation.
It will not insulate us from harm in terms of our national security.
So I say that to emphasize a point that the Congresswoman made and the other point I'd
make is also check out where he's been on how he thinks about America's military and
service members.
One of the great, great American heroes of prisoner of war, John McCain.
Remember how he?
All right.
And then so this is thank you.
Historian Kamala Harris, just thank you so much for really.
Did you know that Rob, that we were attacked on Pearl Harbor?
And this is in recent
memory and Europe still knows and oh by the way Rob there's brilliant insight
did you know that if we hadn't gotten involved in World War two we couldn't
have won World War two you know it's like I never really thought about it
like that it's just and and the whole thing is and and look like obviously
this is just like one dumb
thing but you get my point about why I was so disgusted about this is like and what is with her
her vivid deep understanding of history what conclusion does she make? That's why you can't
be isolationist. You remember lessons of history World War II? Is II isolation is not insulation as she sits next to freaking Dick Cheney's daughter.
Like, and look, I don't even know what to say.
Obviously like the woman has no fucking clue what she's talking about and is
literally just spouting like the most shallow talking points.
But imagine like this is your fun house mirror version
of history.
The lessons of history prove that you always gotta
be involved in war, right?
Because of World War II.
Oh, like there's no lessons of history
that could be drawn out of like the Korean War
or Vietnam or Iraq or Afghanistan or Syria or Libya or Yemen or Somalia.
There's no lessons that could be drawn out of, you know, the current war in Gaza.
There's no war out of the war in Ukraine. There's no, how about, you know,
world war one? It's like, Oh,
it isn't it's so funny that like the way they have to tell this story is that
like, like even if you know nothing if you know nothing
If in your mind I go, um, I went hey before world war two we were an isolationist country
What what comes into your mind?
Like what it doesn't even like the layman like who doesn't read about any of this shit
Don't you kind of go but wasn't that world?
war two doesn't read about any of this shit, don't you kind of go, but wasn't that World War II?
Like wasn't there just recently a world war before that?
Cause that doesn't sound like, listen, forgive me. I'm not as smart as Kamala Harris,
but the term world war and isolationist
just don't seem to go together.
It would seem like you would have to be either a country embarked in a world war or you'd
be a country that just minds its own business and doesn't get involved internationally.
It's been kind of hard for me to imagine that you're both of those things.
But yeah, it's like, oh yeah, no, we actually, we got involved in the biggest
intervention in world history at the time, which was World War One. And that's the reason
why there was a second World War. By the way, this is like what I learned in public school
as a kid. Like this, even government schools taught you that it was like, oh yeah, it was like we,
we dominated in World War One, we imposed the Treaty of Versailles on Germany, and that kind of
led to the rise of the Nazis, and then we had to fight another World War. Like this is like, this
isn't even like a controversial view, but it's just like, oh no, no, no, no, we were just, we were just
being isolationists, Rob. We were just, you know the problem with the lead up to World War Two was?
We just weren't fighting wars.
We just weren't fighting wars.
And then you see what that you see what happens when you don't fight wars.
Then you got to fight a war.
So you got to make sure you keep constantly fighting wars so that you
don't have to fight a big war.
Then just I guess like let's just pretend there wasn't a world war that
like preceded World War II.
I like, I don't know.
It's just the dumbest fucking shit in the world.
It gets everything complete.
And like, look on what still is the biggest, most important issue.
She's sitting there next to fucking Liz Cheney arguing against ever having the notion, which
by the way is the popular feeling amongst Americans right now,
that like we don't want to get involved in other wars.
And it's just like, I don't know, man.
There's like, I've resided myself to the fact that I have imperfect choices in this election.
And I'm not even saying like I don't believe any of the stuff that I've always said.
But man, I just looking at that and I'm like, fuck, I don't believe any of the stuff that I've always said, but
man, I just looking at that and I'm like, fuck, you deserve to lose so badly.
And also just to be humiliated.
Like, goddamn, I hope she fucking loses by 50 points.
She won't. But whatever.
She sounds like such a dumbass.
It's surprising that we live in a reality where she's the presidential candidate.
And then even if you were to take this premise that World War II is worth fighting, and that if it wasn't, the Nazis would have taken over,
it would almost be like if you said,
hey, Anderson Silva had the longest winning fight streak in UFC history of champions,
so clearly he should go fight again,
but then you'd be overlooking the last four years where he was forced to retire
because he wasn't winning anymore.
Our legacy of war since World War II wasn't... Even if you want to look at World War
II as a win, you'd have to ignore all the wars after that, which I don't think made
us any better off.
But then, just speaking to the bigger issue here, she invokes John McCain at the end,
and she's just clearly going, I pledge allegiance to the deep state and
the nest the
Necessity of us fighting more wars and being active globally in the world making money for our arms manufacturers
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Let's get back into it. Yeah, exactly. That's exactly it. It's like, there is something.
It's not just the fucking, um,
like I, and I really, I'm,
I'm trying my best not to exaggerate this here and like I have,
I have small children. So like, if you have kids in, in, around the,
like a little bit older than mine, maybe you'd know better than me, but I'd say third grade level,
like if a third grader said this about the history of world war two,
I'd kind of nod along if I were the teacher, I'd be kind of like, all right,
I guess that's kind of what you're supposed to know about world war two. I mean,
okay, not me. If I were the teacher, I'd be a different type of teacher,
but you know what I'm saying?
Like I could understand where it would be appropriate if a third grader gave you
like that summary of a world war two, you could kind of nod along with that.
I really do think if a sixth or seventh grader said that you'd be like, Hey,
you got to do a little bit of work. Like, I'm sorry. You gotta like,
you actually have to read a book on this subject. If you're going to do a book report on it, like this is just, but'm sorry, you gotta like, you actually have to read a book on this subject if you're
gonna do a book report on it.
Like, this is just, but my God, if a high schooler ever like turned that in as like
a history paper, you'd be like, you know, you're failing.
You get an F. Like, you've done nothing here.
This is all, but yes, to your point, it's like, right, right, right.
And of course, like, I completely agree with you. with you even give say give someone World War two, okay
That's controversial where this is the only lesson of history
We're not allowed to draw lessons from any of the disastrous wars because the funny thing is that none of these people
None of them including Kamala Harris and including Liz fucking Cheney. I mean she might squirm
And including Liz fucking Cheney, I mean she might squirm while she defends her father's track record
But none of them actually want to look in the camera or God forbid make eye
Contact with someone in that room and argue that any of the post-world war two wars were
Were great decisions that they worked out really good. Nobody wants to say nobody is arguing for the Korean War for Vietnam. Nobody's gonna even try to argue. I mean they at the
time like to argue that George H.W. Bush's first war in Iraq was a good war
but the problem with that is that it all collapsed after that and was nothing but
a disaster. No one's defending any of the, the terror wars.
Um, you know, maybe some of them will like defend, uh,
uh, Serbia, like the Kosovo war in the nineties, but that's,
that's only cause they'll lie through their fucking teeth about what happens. It's all bullshit. But again, all of that aside for a second,
I do think that you kind of hit the nail on the head.
It's more there's something symbolic about sitting next to Liz Cheney and invoking John
McCain while you make this point.
It's essentially like that, you know, isn't it, 20 years ago, the Republicans were just, you know,
objectively worse than the Democrats. Um, the,
the was the absolute low point for Republicans was post nine 11
and just, it was so, um, so,
they were so war crazy.
They were so drunk on militarism and nationalism and this like
intense anti intellectualism, like this like allergy to thinking.
I mean, they used to shut down conversations with like,
literally you'd have people sitting there and arguing that like,
well, all of the evidence
points in the direction that Saddam Hussein is not in bed with Al Qaeda and they do not
have nuclear weapons and they had nothing to do with 9-11 and all of your claims are
wrong and they'd be like, you either support us or you're with the terrorists.
No exaggeration.
That was the line, you know?
And the George W. Bush administration ends in disaster, like in every sense, whether
the wars, the economy, Katrina, just anything you could think of.
It was an absolute disaster.
By the end of George W. Bush's administration, he has record low approval ratings. It's just and he's so bad that
Barack Obama, who's a junior
senator with a funny name
and who was at the time considered
very progressive, he's
that he's able to win
the nomination.
Almost exclusively because
Hillary Clinton voted for the war in
Iraq. If you remember back to the
time in the 2008 primary, that was the big issue.
Barack Obama wasn't in the Senate yet when the war in Iraq started,
but Hillary Clinton was, and she was on record.
She voted for the thing, and his hands were clean.
And he was like, oh, I was against it the whole time.
Now, he was a state senator when it happened, but still he was saying it was a bad idea.
And so he had that kind of like anti-war street cred.
And so he beats her and then just it wins a landslide against John McCain.
John McCain, by the way, is the Republican standard bearer at this point, but the embodiment
of the military industrial complex.
And he ran on literally, no exaggeration, He ran on keeping troops in Iraq for a hundred years for people who are old
like me. You can remember this. This is what he ran on,
keeping troops in troops in Iraq for a hundred years. He was like, look,
we still have troops in Germany and Japan.
Why the hell can't we have troops in Iraq forever? Um,
and bombing Iran and all types of other shit.
And he just gets totally destroyed.
He gets so destroyed that as Obama comes in,
eight years later, the Republicans, now in 2016,
are running a candidate who's a repudiation of the Bush administration.
That's how bad, think about, like, how profound that is.
Like, imagine if right now Kamala Harris was running on what a disaster Barack Obama was.
Think about how bizarre that would be, right?
Like, if she was running and she was and not running like not like, oh, Obama's economy wasn't that good or Obamacare didn't go far enough.
Like, it'd be more like her saying Obamacare.
Obama lied through his teeth so he could sell you Obamacare just to make the
insurance company's money. Like it was that.
Donald Trump got on the debate stage in 2016,
looked at Jeb Bush and said, your brother lied us into a war.
He didn't protect us on 9-11 and then he lied us into a war.
That's been a disaster. So this is so now the
neoconservative George W Bush you know administration it has collapsed so much that even the Republicans
those same people who voted for these motherfuckers were cheering as Donald Trump said they lied you
into war and these were people who's like sons fought in those wars. You know this I'm from Brooklyn, New York, and I'm, you know, I'm raised by a single mother.
And you know what I mean? Like, I'm from that world.
Nobody in this world, nobody at NYU, nobody in New York City,
nobody in the United States, nobody in the United States, nobody
in the United States, nobody in the United States, nobody in the United
States, nobody in the United States, nobody in the United States.
Nobody in the United States. Nobody in the that world. Nobody in this world, nobody at NYU,
nobody in New York city, nobody in San Francisco.
They don't know people who served in this war in any of the terror wars.
Like they, I have very few,
like I know people, but not from growing up, like from, you know,
in my career and stuff, like I've met them.
But like, people, it's not the kids of progressive blue state America who go and serve in the
wars.
It's those, it's these guys.
This was, by the way, when, when Donald Trump said that, that was at the South Carolina
debate in 2016.
It's one of the most militarized states in the union at a Republican primary debate.
These are like the military guys who are there cheering for him.
And so in this moment, when the George W. Bush and Dick Cheney have been so
discredited that even their own people have turned against them,
the Democrats go and say, let's make allies with them.
We'll take the mantle of being the Warhawks. go and say, let's make allies with them.
We'll take the mantle of being the war hawks.
It's just like too, it's too goddamn crazy,
too goddamn crazy. And that has to just be destroyed.
It has to be fucking destroyed. And, um, you know, I do think like,
uh, especially getting kind of the realignment over the last year where the anti-war sentiment
for whatever reason has been rising on the left. Particularly for whatever reason it is, and lots of people have their own theories on this, but whatever it is, this war with Israel and Gaza revived the anti war left to some
degree. And I think that like, there there could be a major push on that side, like the
same way the neocons got kicked the hell out of the Republican Party, they should get kicked
out of the Democratic Party now too. And that only happens if they lose. It doesn't happen
if they win. But yeah, I don't know why, man,
but that moment with Kamala Harris
just fucking made my blood boil.
Like, fuck this woman.
Then I've already hated her pretty good,
but that one really got me.
I don't know.
And the new cons packing.
Yes, yeah.
And don't get me wrong, I have no illusions
about what a Trump government will look like.
It will disappoint.
But man, these people just need to lose.
And who knows?
Who knows what's actually gonna happen?
I don't do you.
Are you still, Rob, like lean toward you think Trump's gonna end up winning?
That's my gut.
That's, that's the way I'm reading it at the moment.
I'm coming around more to that
You know, it does just seem like it's I also was looking
And I don't know have you have you read up on any of like the so that you know, the early voting numbers
It's it looks good for Donald Trump so far
Which is he's losing, but they always lose.
You know, it's like the there's essentially like there's like the early voting, there's the mail
in voting, and then there's the on election day in person voting. And it's like Donald Trump's
killing it on the day in person voting, but he's losing, you know, like that, but that same thing that happened when he ran against Biden,
but he is doing much better in the early voting as of right now than he's
projected to do. So I was like, that does, that looks pretty good for him.
Republicans don't harness as many votes out of old age homes.
That's true. They got it. They got to step up their game on that one.
By the way, this was also fairly interesting to me, but I don't know if you saw so Mark Halperin, who you guys might remember, I brought him up when so he was the guy who first broke the story that Biden was out. And he was right about it.
It was like, it was a Sunday when Joe Biden
dropped out of the race.
And on Friday, Mark Halperin broke the story
that the letter was already being drafted
and that Joe Biden was going to drop out of the race.
Now he didn't get it completely right.
He said that Joe Biden was not gonna drop out of the race. Now, he didn't get it completely right. He said that Joe Biden was not going to endorse Kamala Harris and he was going to
throw it to like a contested convention type thing.
But he was right about that. He was right about the heart of the story.
Halperin was like in he was an NBC journalist for a very long time.
He got some type of like me too thing and uh,
was fired. I don't remember exactly what the story was,
but it was like at the height of the me too movement. I, I just forgive me.
I have no memory of like what level of severity because you,
you remember when the me too moment was really kicking off and like people would
get fired. And sometimes it would be like, uh, you know,
it would like range from like, you and sometimes it would be like, uh, you know, it would like range from like, they, you know, there'd be like,
uh, there'd be one guy, like two guys would get fired. Like one of them,
you'd be like, Oh, what happened? What did he do? And they were like, Oh,
he raped six women. And you were like, Oh, all right. Well,
that seems like grounds for firing. And then another guy would get fired.
And you'd be like, Oh, what did he do? And they're like,
he said nice blouse to a chick once in 1984.
And you were like, I don't know.
Not so sure that one deserves firing, but all right.
And, uh, I, anyway, I just have no memory.
I don't remember what Halpern was accused of doing, but he's like.
A kind of old school journalist.
And he, he doesn't strike me as the type of guy who's just making shit up.
Like if he if he's like listen I have sources close to the president who are saying this.
He probably does have sources who are saying that and and by the with the Biden thing he
was clearly had some sources that knew what they were talking about.
Anyway, so he just said the other day that he has been
That there's a story that people were trying to get him to run
That he wouldn't he didn't specify why he wouldn't and he didn't say what the story was
But he said it was a story on Donald Trump that will end his candidacy
And he said he thinks someone's going to run it in the next
couple of weeks. So again, take that for whatever you
think it's worth. But I did think it was kind of like wildly
irresponsible of him to say that and not say what the story is.
Like either either shut up or don't shut up. You know what I mean?
But like you kind of I don't think you should do that.
I don't know if that's actually a violation of like
journalistic integrity or something but it just it seems to me like it should
be like you're like either you could say what the thing is that's gonna tank him
or just don't talk about it but you can't like say oh there's this thing
it's gonna tank him sorry can't talk about it but anyway that's what he did
so haven't seen the the big October surprises yet there haven't been any juicy bombshells on either side yeah we
all were just assuming it was going to be an assassination and I would assume
if there was dirt that juicy on Donald Trump it would have came up in previous
elections what what could he have done over the last four years I mean maybe
behind the scenes they got footage of them sitting down with Saudi Arabia and making some you know promises or with Putin I don't
know but it just seems like if there was something that juicy they would have used it.
I guess maybe they knew they were rigging the last elections they didn't
need it. Okay by the way I'm Natalie is saying that Mark Halperin was accused of
pressing his dick against women and grabbing their boobs at work. No pressing his dick against women and grabbing their boobs at work.
No, pressing his dick against women and grabbing their boobs at work. You missed the fun part there.
Oh yeah, no didn't I say that?
I missed it.
Oh, well six different women accused has... yeah, that's not cool. That's not, that's not,
oh sorry, five women accused him of doing that.
Now before we say that he's guilty... I was like that's not cool sorry five women accused him of doing that
I was like that's not cool five. It's like I don't know dude come on. Do we know that he wasn't just being Italian
Did he think about using the attack? I don't think he's Italian unfortunately. That's sorry
It's not cool only the Italians are allowed to do that. It's a sweet Andrew Cuomo reference for those who don't get it
But anyway, yeah, you know I tend to agree with you too Like what do telling me? You got some bombshell on Trump and you've held onto it all this time.
Really? I find it hard to believe I,
I'm certainly going to be like suspicious of anything like that, that come,
if it comes out now,
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Um, okay. So the, okay,
the other thing I wanted to, uh, to bring up quickly, um, is that, uh,
there's, so it's being widely reported that Donald Trump
will be going on the Joe Rogan experience
in the day after tomorrow.
It is also being widely reported
that Kamala Harris has pulled out
and is not gonna do it.
Of doing Rogan.
Mm-hmm. Yes. I would say that both of those make sense to me.
I was always shocked at the thought of Kamala Harris doing it.
I would just say even if you were short of a situation where
if you were down 30 points in the polls, I can see where
it would make sense for her to like, you know, fucking go for
it, swing for the fences, see, see what happens. Anything short
of that, I would always just see it as being so much more of a
risk than than a benefit. But it looks like Donald Trump's gonna do that. And the
New Republic, the by the way, publication that called called
me a Nazi sympathizer, which I've, you know, never really
considered myself to be.
deserve some sympathy and empathy. I mean, if anything,
that shows your humanity, Dave.
Yeah, well, weirdly, you're not supposed to, is it something I was,
I should say I was just, what I was, they're a marginalized group.
I mean, some could argue they're the most marginalized group. Like, I don't know.
But, you know, it's that they didn't choose it. That's their identity. Anyway,
here was a, let's, let's just take a look at the graphic here. Here was the,
the piece that they wrote about my boy Joe Rogan. Just isn't it just so funny how they just you know humiliate themselves. Trump cancels all
of his events in favor of one of the worst people ever. Isn't it amazing? You could take that down. Is it?
That's journalism. One of the worst people ever. You can't
even.
Like when did when did journalists start speaking like
they were 14 year old girls? You know what I mean? Like what
the fuck is that? And it's it's just unbelievable to see these
people talks to do-doo head.
Yeah. Right. Like you might as well have put it on that level.
And I love that it's always like, um,
like Trump cancels all events just to talk to the worst
person ever. And okay. So first of all, yeah,
it's the biggest show in the world.
So of course Trump's going to move things around to go do it.
Like you can I don't know you can speak to like even let's say
a huge rally a huge Donald Trump rally.
The biggest one would be what 50,000 people would be like,
oh shit.
He sold out a stadium, you know, or you could go talk to 15
million people on Rogan's podcast.
By the way, 15 million is the average Rogan's podcast Donald Trump on Rogan's podcast is probably gonna be
It'll probably approach a hundred million downloads. It's gonna be like the biggest thing ever and
Joe Rogan is though it's just funny man when some of this stuff happens, right?
Cuz they'll sit there and say Joe Rogan is one of the worst people ever. It's very weird by the way.
And I don't know if, um, you know,
maybe it's just because of my particularly, uh,
peculiar line of work that this happens to me,
but it's always so bizarre when you see, like,
when you know someone really well,
and then you just like see this written about them. Like,
what are the worst people that really,
Joe Rogan has just been literally one of the coolest people
I've ever met in my life,
but he's one of the worst people ever.
And you wouldn't, it's like, and why is it?
Like what even is the substance behind why the New Republic
would view Joe Rogan as being
like one of the worst people ever.
Because what's interesting is that essentially Joe Rogan became an enemy of the state during COVID.
Like during COVID is really where they started to hate Joe Rogan. It took them years to even figure
out that he was bigger than all of them.
Like it really did. They didn't even realize he should be an enemy. But they never really had like
a beef with Rogan. You will not see like, you know, if you go back to like 2014, 2015, you're not
going to see like hit pieces written about Joe Rogan like that. It wasn't that just wasn't the thing. It was
during COVID when the massive cancellation attempt against Joe
Rogan started. And what's kind of funny as like, from my
perspective, as somebody who, you know, was on the show many
times during those, you know, days, and before and after as well. But I was on a lot during COVID and all of the things that were
like huge controversies that like, Oh my God, you can't believe
Joe Rogan said this and the things that they got all so upset
about.
None of them will still argue those points to this day.
So I was on.
I'm sure you remember this Rob, but
so I was on Rogan's podcast in, oh, this one, this must have been in 2021. And this was
it was one of the more controversial moments that he's ever had. It made it all the way to like Fauci and Joe Biden all denounced him for the conversation
we had had.
And so, I mean, like, obviously they care about what he said, not so much what I said
about it.
This was the controversy at the time is that me and Joe were talking about the vaccine and we were talking about,
and Joe said, um, he said, if like,
if you're like young and healthy, I wouldn't even like advise you to get the vaccine.
If you're young and healthy, I'd just advise you to like,
keep being really healthy, be really healthy, like get a lot of exercise,
get a lot of sun, get a lot of vitamin D, get, just be really healthy.
And then you really don't have much to worry about with COVID.
Like you're going to be fine. And, um, and then I was like, yeah, I,
I agree with that. And then I think what I said was that, um,
I would never give it to one of my kids.
I think that was like my controversial take is I was like, ah,
this is still like an experimental medical treatment.
We know that kids aren't at risk at all for any like negative outcomes from
COVID.
So I'm not going to give my kids some experimental thing that they probably
don't even need that. We just don't really know what the, you know,
what the side effects or what the, um, you know, the,
the rate of vaccine injury or so this was early, we didn't know any of that stuff.
And then Fauci responded and said, now what Joe Rogan doesn't understand
is that you don't get vaccinated for yourself.
You get vaccinated for other people
because once you get the vaccine,
you can't transmit COVID.
Does anyone want to go back and relitigate that argument? Does,
does anybody,
any medical professional in the world want to sit and
have a debate about which claim is truer,
that if you're really healthy,
you don't have to worry about a negative outcome from COVID or
the claim that if you get the vaccine, you cannot transmit the virus to anyone
else. The answer is no,
there is no one who would even make that argument. And yet,
and this is a thing about how like the corporate press works.
And yet even though they've abandoned the actual substance of the
argument, he still retains his status as awful person.
You know what I'm saying? Like none of them actually want to argue with any of the
things that were,
any of the claims that they said were misinformation or were so outrageous or
anything like that. But they'll still be like, yeah, but you remember he's a bad guy, right?
One of the worst people ever.
It's so odd, dude.
It's all just such a fucking joke.
Did I ever tell you, I don't know if I ever talked about this on the show,
but you know, people really wanted me to sue the new republic.
And I considered it for a little bit and I ultimately was
like, no, I'm not going to do that.
Can I make that Gawker money, dude?
Well, you know, there were like a bunch of, so they said, um,
they literally just called me, uh, uh, uh, what was it?
I think a Nazi sympathizer was the term that they called me. And it was like, it was a link. Like,
it was like Nazi sympathizer was like the, the, you know,
you could click on it. And when you clicked on the link,
it went to the proud boys website where
they had named Lewis the proud boy of the Month or something like that.
So it was this.
Yeah, it wasn't even about a dude.
I get such a high honor.
I don't know.
I think it might have been that thing where that that guy
there was a thing at Legion's Games.
Remember when there was a guy with a Proud Boys hat in the audience
and then someone came and knocked the hat off his head and grabbed the microphone
and then Lewis grabbed the mic out of his own.
Tried to play like, yeah, dude. Yeah, yeah. and then someone came and knocked the hat off his head and grabbed the microphone and then Lewis grabbed the mic out of his own child.
You know, like, yeah, yeah, yeah.
He tried, but literally it had nothing to do with the proud boys.
It was about taking our microphone.
You know what I mean?
Like, but regardless, but it's not like Lewis, like Lewis didn't like
request that the proud boys call him that they just did it.
You know what I mean?
Like there was, so it was not only was it not the proud boys who aren are Nazis to recognize the efforts of Puerto Ricans. It gets a little confusing.
Yeah well that is it does. It all gets very confusing. But anyway so they made this claim
about me and then it wasn't even the link didn't even go to me. It was just like some other thing
about Lewis. And so anyway I did I got like a bunch of people were like yo dude like this is actually like
This is a defamation suit and you'll win this and like there and so at first I was like, uh,
I was like, I don't really believe in like, uh
in like, um, but those people didn't know what would come up in discovery dave
Well, you know the thing is right like I mean it was kind of both
So so anyway what ended up happening was like at first I was like, well, I don't really believe in like libel laws, um, which is true.
I don't really believe in that. I don't think like, you know,
I'm like a radical pure libertarian. Like I believe that, you know,
like I don't think your reputation is something you own.
And I think people have the right to lie. I don't know. So I,
I just don't really believe in the government crushing free speech because a that makes you look bad or something like that
But then I had some of my libertarian friends like my smarter libertarian friends who were like no no fuck that
It's the new Republic dude. They're part of the state. It doesn't matter dude
like you should fucking day and um and then, a friend of a friend, like, uh, is like, was like a big hotshot lawyer.
So I took a phone call with this lawyer and after talking to him for like five
minutes, I just was so turned off by the whole thing. I just don't,
I don't mean to say there's some lawyers who are cool. I have a few, uh,
friends of mine who are lawyers, but you know, in general,
just that lawyer thing, like the guy was just very like, listen, we're good.
Not only are we going to do this, but we're doing this big.
We're going to get $50 million from the new Republican, blah, blah, blah.
And then he started telling me like what I should do. And he was like,
what I need you to do is take down any controversial videos that you have of
yourself online. And I was like, oh yeah, that's going to be impossible.
Like that's just not I was like, there's no I go first of all,
I'm not taking down all my content.
Like what do you mean?
You know, and like it was so tame that it was like he he
brought up jokes from Libertas and was like you should take
this down.
I was like taking down my fucking hour special was no and
and then it was just kind of like, I don't know. It just, his whole thing turned me off. I was kind of like,
I don't really want $50 million from the new Republic.
Like I don't want to be handed a big chunk of money that I don't feel like I
really earned. And I don't really,
the lawyer just kind of gave me weird vibes and I was like, yeah,
I'm not going to fuck it. This is all dumb. Like I don't really care. This did it. It also,
it didn't actually damage me. Like I just felt like it's not there.
It's not like, Oh, this cost me money. I don't think it did. Um,
but so anyway, whatever, but just the, I don't even know why I'm telling the
story, but the point is just that the fucking it's like whatever level of
contempt you have for like the
corporate media, you never have enough. You never have enough.
You should always hate them a little bit more than you currently hate them.
It's just like, it's a perfect rule of thumb for life.
And like the fact that they'll even sit here and like imagine how,
you know, to sit here and then like imagine how you know to sit here and
you're just you're insulting the the guy who hosts the biggest show the big you
remember when um when Donald Trump tweeted that he hated Taylor Swift a few
weeks ago and like everybody was like well dude this is the most retarded
thing ever to do because she's like the most popular, you know, artist right now.
So like, why would you tweet you hate her? She's voting the wrong way. Like,
who cares? You're supposed to be above all of this. And also like it's Taylor
Swift. She's like, it's music for the daughters of people who are voting for
you. You know what I mean? Like it's like, you don't really want to do that,
but then they'll turn around and they go, they're like, Oh, Joe Rogan's the worst person in the world. You go,
eh, probably not that smart of a strategy guys. Probably not that wise. Also you have no argument.
There's no reason to make that accusation. It's just so fucking retarded.
It's weird to step in like the authority and go worst person ever. What do you think? People
are going to stop listening because the new republic put out an ever. I get, what do you think? People are gonna stop listening
because the new republic put out an article.
Oh no, I can't listen to that.
That's who the new republic said
was the worst person ever.
Yeah, as-
Who gets won over by this?
What's the point?
As your candidate sits around with Liz Cheney.
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It is just something but you know as as we we all kind of know, you know, the reason why
We all kind of know, you know the reason why
Why Joe Rogan is actually hated by these people and we kind of know the crime that he's actually
guilty of and There's here there was actually let's go to the the CNN video because I just thought this was so great
This was CNN a couple days ago
reporting on social media companies challenges in curbing lies.
Do you want to understand why they really hate Joe Rogan?
This segment will give you some insight.
In the wake of the January 6th capital insurrection, major social media
platforms responded by suspending accounts that spread misinformation.
But since then, the social media industry
has undergone a dramatic transformation
and now stopping the spread of such lies is actually harder.
CNN tech reporter Brian Fung
is joining me now from Washington.
Brian, experts who study election misinformation
are saying their jobs have gotten harder since 2020, why?
Yes, Sarah, really this is about a big shift from the 2016 to 2020 period when a lot of social media
companies invested heavily in content moderation and election misinformation efforts to now rolling back a lot of those
investments and saying we now don't need as much in the way of policies about that. You know, you had companies engaging in mass layoffs, beginning with X,
formerly Twitter, but then those also.
So can you just pause it right there?
Because listen, man, like obviously, Rob, we could have some fun breaking down
all of this. And it is interesting as he gives the history of it,
which is not he's not completely wrong about that.
It's like, oh, and, he's not completely wrong about that.
It's like, oh, and you know, in 2016, they, you know,
like all of these social media companies started putting a lot
of resources into content moderation.
Now, of course they leave out why that is,
which is because, oh yeah,
the heads of all of these companies were hauled before
Congress and threatened to death about what the government would do
to them if they didn't start censoring people and they because they needed essentially a
scapegoat like it was like none of them could accept the basic reality that was hey you
guys all got this completely wrong and Donald Trump got elected president and there's several reasons
why Donald Trump got elected president. Number one, Hillary Clinton was a
uniquely terrible candidate and maybe I shouldn't say uniquely anymore now that
Kamala Harris is in it but she was a terrible candidate. People didn't like her.
People were not happy with the Obamaama recovery people did not like her uh... her policies
people
were furious
with the political and media establishment and trump was the biggest
boldest middle finger that they could wave at that and also when it came to
his policies they roughly agreed with him
they roughly agreed that like
we we should have stricter immigration controls, we shouldn't fight all
these stupid wars, and we should probably come up with a trade policy that doesn't leave
our country gutted of its industrial base.
They tended to agree with him on, generally speaking, on those policies.
They hated your fucking guts, and that just gave him all the more power.
And despite kind of like the kind of politically correct
woke sensibilities, actually Donald Trump,
kind of this old school like man who just speaks like,
you know, I don't know, in the most anti-woke way possible
actually was kind of appealing to them.
Not only was this not a huge turn off,
they actually kind of liked it.
People liked things when, like the moment when,
as I'm sure you remember Rob,
when Megyn Kelly was grilling Donald Trump
and she's like, you know, you've called women fat pigs
and gross and slobs and all this,
and he goes, only Rosie O'Donnell,
and the whole crowd laughs.
People kind of like that
They kind of actually like that more than the guy who goes I'm very sorry for saying these things and I blow here
I'll give a press conference with my wife next to me like that's just kind of weak
Bitch-shit and people kind of like someone who's just being a man by the way men and women
both kind of like men, um, which is a novel concept, but they couldn't admit any of that.
So they had to come up with some other culprit.
And so their culprit was misinformation,
Russian bots, social media.
This is what stole the election.
And you could kind of see from their perspective
where it was somewhat plausible where they were like well look
We had our entire narrative here, but then the problem is there's this totally different narrative on Twitter
That's where all the young people are getting their information from so fuck
How are we gonna control this if we don't control the narrative?
And so the answer was crack down on people's ability to communicate on
Twitter, on Facebook, on YouTube. And it was largely pretty successful.
And then of course,
Elon Musk came in and bought Twitter and the pendulum kind of swung back the
other way. And now they're having a tougher time with that. But anyway,
look, I'm curious even to get any of your thoughts on, on this,
but don't you find it kind of interesting, Rob,
that he brings up that Elon Musk fired 80% of the staff
when he first took over.
And the point he's trying to make here is that,
and that's what, you know, I guess it's inferred
that a lot of those people were doing content moderation,
and now he fired them. So he doesn't have as many people doing content moderation
but I just what you know
Similarly to like when I brought up world war two before like don't you already even if you don't know anything about it
Aren't you already like I'm pretty sure I know what happened before world war two
Pretty sure it was world war one
But like in the same century like when you bring this up even if you don't know anything about it if you just go
Oh, he fired 80% of the people who worked at Twitter and you're like, oh
Okay, so like a couple years later Twitter was just in ruins, right?
And then you're like, oh no, no, no, it's it's stronger than ever. You're like, hmm
Well, I you know, like maybe I'm just stupid, but then wouldn't that seem
to indicate a lot of those people were unnecessarily employed?
Like if you can fire, like if you could fire 80% of your workforce and your company is
doing better than ever a couple years later, that kind of sounds to me like you were bloated with unnecessary people. Seems actually conclusively to be the case.
I don't know. Any thoughts, Rob? Go ahead.
I think you said it best. If you can get rid of 80% of your workforce and they were doing
some task called content moderation that the platform didn't need and didn't make it any
better. So it sounds like you made a good business decision.
I can't imagine 80% of Twitter staff was content moderation.
No, I'm sure it wasn't. I'm sure. No, that's just like kind of his loose implication that some of them were. I'm sure some of them were.
But yeah. All right, let's keep playing.
and you had companies like Meta and YouTube, allowing things like lies to be platformed once again
on their platforms, claiming falsely that the 2020 election
had been stolen.
So a lot of fact checkers have been telling me,
look, this makes it a lot harder for us to do our jobs.
And in fact, one of them, Baybars or Saks from the,
from logically facts of fact checking, have been telling me, look, this makes it a lot harder for us to do our jobs.
And in fact, one of them, Baybars Orsaks,
from Logically Facts, a fact-checking organization,
told me the impact of layoffs, budget cuts in journalism
programs, and the crackdown on trust and safety teams at X
and other major platforms have set troubling precedents
as we approach the upcoming elections.
Now, that's not the only thing that's happened.
We've had GOP officials at all levels of government
engaging in a broad campaign to discredit content moderation
or to pass laws seeking to make content moderation
by tech platforms harder.
They've also engaged in lawsuits,
filing lawsuits against the Biden administration,
for example, that had sought to undermine partnerships
between the US government's election security teams and the tech companies where the two sides
would talk about election security threats to the US election security infrastructure.
And that had also been coming under attack by Republican officials in Louisiana and in Missouri.
So all of this altogether has contributed.
You just, I mean, the framing is just so wild.
Because if you think about like, actually listen to what the guy is saying here.
He invokes election security.
Again, imagine you're just a layman, like really, you know, like I don't know anything
about this, but I'd go like, wait, what is Twitter supposed to do about election security?
Because election security kind of makes it sound like you're, you mean you're preventing
people from fraudulently voting?
Are you protecting like the voting machines or the mail-in ballots?
But that's not what they're talking about.
You may have noticed that social media is not in the business of doing any of those
things.
What are they talking about, Rob?
What is election security?
It means you saying stuff they don't want you to say.
You saying things that they deem to be lies.
They're just saying that like, well, the election isn't secure if we can't crack
down on free speech. The election isn't secure if you can make an argument against, you know,
whatever Hillary Clinton or Kamala Harris or Joe Biden or whoever it happens to be.
That's the issue here is that they're saying they're really kind of giving the game away when they say the
election isn't secure. What they're saying is that their grip
on power is not secure as long as the plebs are able to
communicate freely with each other. That's the message here.
Everything they don't want can be framed as being dangerous.
Yep, that's right. All right, let's play the rest of it.
can be framed as being dangerous. Yep, that's right.
All right, let's play the rest of it.
To a culture of intimidation that has made it raise
the political costs of implementing some of these policies
and programs by tech companies.
And as one academic from George Washington University
told me, quote, the platforms only ever took this
as seriously as they felt they needed to.
And with some of these changes since 2020, the pressure has now lifted on these companies to
maintain the same level of vigilance that they had before. Sarah? And if anything tells you that the
head of one of those companies has been reposting lies about the election. How are researchers
adapting to this new, difficult environment?
Yeah, well, researchers say that they are trying to adapt to this new and more difficult environment.
For example, even though researchers have lost access to much of Meta's platforms because Meta
shut down a critical monitoring tool called CrowdTangle and they no longer have access to
Twitter or X because they've raised the cost of accessing that data, they say they're still looking at ads, still looking at TikTok, still looking at Telegram and other apps
to see what they can find out ahead of the election, Sarah.
All right, Brian Fung,
thank you so much for that reporting for us.
Jon?
Yeah, thank you, Brian Fung.
I just love that after all this time,
they still have the knowledge that they have,
and they still have the ability to do that.
And I think that's a really good thing, because I think that's a really good thing, Yes, John. Yeah. Thank you, Brian Fong. Um, it,
I just love like that after all this time still,
they still have the nerve to just be like, Oh, well they're spreading lies.
First off, anytime you hear anyone talking about that, just like,
they're an enemy of free speech period because like
lies are protected speech
However, you feel about lying. It's your right to lie
Like you're allowed to lie and then on top of that
Isn't it interesting that like, you know, you have this CNN lady here who shall be like Oh
Elon Musk is spreading lies on
Twitter yet. there's never, it's never kind of like, Oh, okay.
Well compare that to how many lies are spread on CNN.
And then let's not just do the number of lies, but like how consequential were the lies? How bad were they? Like,
you know, like, like lying about about if there's someone on uh,
On twitter saying like the earth is flat
Um, you could claim that's a lie
Um, it's certainly not true
All right. So like there you got these people who think they're like the earth is flat and they'll they'll argue that on twitter
um, and my personal opinion is that that's not correct and pretty
stupid.
But what's the consequence of it?
That maybe in some abstract way, you could argue that like
undermining people's belief in science isn't good and believing
things that are false isn't good for society.
Like maybe there's some negative consequences to like lying about the shape of the earth.
But like the lie that was broadcast on CNN was that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.
I don't need to get vague about what the implications of that lie were.
I don't need to like draw some imaginary lines like maybe that led to some
negative outcomes. It's like, Oh no, the negative outcomes are very obvious.
A million people died. Those are the negative outcomes of that lie.
A million people got fucking slaughtered, you know,
not to mention the trillions and the, you know,
the region being destabilized and all that stuff. But it the, you know, the region being destabilized and all that stuff.
But it's, you know, again, like lies,
like the Hunter Biden laptop
was Russian disinformation is a lie.
The COVID vaccine is safe and effective was a lie.
Lockdown saved lives was a lie.
Donald Trump is a Russian agent was a lie.
And there's been so many lies that come across the CNN airwaves just the nerve of these people to ever be like
Oh these other organizations need to like they need to crack down on people lying
Like you first CNN you fucking started you guys have told the most bold lies that have had the most
like catastrophic consequences.
So how about go fuck yourself and leave us our free internet?
It's like all we have. This is goddamn free internet. I'm like, how fucking,
how pathetic is it, Rob? I know we've talked about this before,
but how pathetic is it that these guys with CNN? Listen, I used to work for Turner. Okay. I've been in the CNN building many,
many times. I had a goddamn, uh, a freaking pass, uh,
for the CNN building.
I literally just to scan myself in there three times a week. Um,
it is, dude, it's just, um, the resources they have,
there's just billions of dollars,
billions of dollars that Turner has to fucking,
all types of like,
the building that I used to go record Se Cups show in,
it's like a freaking skyscraper in,
what's it called there, Columbus Circle.
They're unbelievable.
And they can't compete
With me and you looking into a fucking camera
And they need censorship on the internet because they can't compete with all the people online who are just fucking calling out their bullshit
And so they're calling for and they're frustration
We need to pass laws to make it harder for people to talk to each other. Like, fuck you guys. You fucking like, and this is by the way,
is one of my favorite things about Donald Trump. And again,
I do not like much about him,
but when he said the media is the enemy of the people, it's like,
finally, finally a high profile person is saying that. Cause like,
how would,
how are you supposed to look at those two guys we just saw and not just be
like, you, you are the enemies of humanity. at because like how would how are you supposed to look at those two guys we just saw and not just be like you
are the enemies of humanity you're the enemies of liberty you're the enemies of america like you're
literally sitting here and yeah sure you're using coded language but we all know what you're fucking
saying we need mass censorship you should not be allowed to talk i don't know how how am i not
supposed to take that personally
when it's what I do for a living,
when it's literally my calling in life
is to talk about all of these things.
And they're sitting here essentially saying
that me and you, Rob, ought to be silenced,
that we should be silenced so that you, listener,
can't hear what we have to say.
It's like, they might as well just start the broadcast by being like,
hi, we're against you. Now we're a couple of,
you know,
physically weak people.
So like I can't come over to your house and make you shut up.
So what I'm going to try to do is get the cops to do it
And what are they saying other than that when they want to write laws to make it harder to spread I guarantee you
They would consider us to be you know
purveyors of misinformation, right?
Would they not so okay, so you're saying you want to get the government to shut us down
Okay But then we're at war.
What else can you say?
It's like sitting here and being like, my goal is to impoverish your children.
It's like, okay, well in that case, you are my enemy.
I don't know what other conclusion. I'll give you the last
word Rob and then we'll wrap up.
No that was an epic rant. I got nothing to add on that bad boy.
Kansas City huh buddy?
Kansas City this weekend and the next weekend I'm at the Shell in New Hampshire. Tickets
at robandtheflyer.com and then the special is going to be out maybe next week Thursday
or the following Sunday YouTube Twitter and and everywhere up, go consume it.
All right, great. That's a good quick turnaround. All right, well thank you guys very much for
listening. I appreciate it. Catch you guys soon. Peace. Thanks for watching!