Part Of The Problem - The Media Melts Down Over Debate

Episode Date: July 6, 2024

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Of course, he is Robbie the Fire Bernstein. On his way to another porch tour. How are you, brother? I'm enjoying being out on the open road, sitting in this Dr. Evil chair. Life is treating me well, Mr. Smith. What are you in a hotel? Where are you? By my buddy Max's house.

He's the OG porch tour. And we didn't even porch. We just stayed by him. We're really imposing on people now. Are those action figures behind you? Other side? Other side. Yeah, I think so.

I think you got an old school transformer here. Oh, nice. That's very old school. I'll pretend like I wasn't playing with that earlier and didn't know exactly what it was. I didn't realize this guy you're staying with was cool. All right. But now we're talking. More porch tour action. exactly what it was i didn't realize this guy you're staying with was cool all right but now we're talking more porch tour action by the time you hear this we're going to be on the road to texas i got austin thursday night friday night uh fort worth area and then sunday rockport texas by

the beach gonna be a good time hell yeah sounds awesome go check them out guys and then of course me and rob got a whole bunch of dates dates coming up throughout the rest of the year. Comic Dave Smith dot com for all those. All right. Let's let's get into some stuff, which, you know, by the way, of Donald Trump is just that you get to watch the meltdowns from all the worst people. It's just the best. It's like the best part of Donald Trump's entire presidency can just be summed up by watching like MSNBC highlights of election day, 2016. Like that's just, that's it.

That's all you really get. But man, was that great. And this is the last few days. I don't, I think not since election night, 2016, has there been anything quite like the last week of just watching everybody?

Like they're all coming to terms with the idea that like, oh, Donald Trump's going to be president again. You know, like they've it's almost like watching some rich kid lose a tennis match and then he's like crying and freaking out in the corner. And you know that like you can't stare at him, but like through the corner of your eye, you're like, ha ha, you fucking loser having a temper tantrum over a tennis match that's what this is like you just get to watch all these snotty elites have a temper tantrum well it's on and it's unbelievable especially in the face of the fact that they're they're realizing what we all knew all along which is that like they don't have a candidate you, it's not like there's no one there. Dude, there's this,

there's a, you know, they have the election betting sites. So as of right now, at least on this one site, I'm trying to see, I took a screen grab of it, but I can't find, I think John Stossel tweeted it out. But they've got Joe Biden right now. These are the odds that they're taking bets with. You know, I'm not saying this is perfect, but in some ways, betting sites are actually superior to polling. There's something about people putting their money on the line. You know what I mean? That makes it valuable.

They say right now Donald Trump has a 57.8 percent chance of winning the presidency. They have Kamala Harris at 18.7. Right now, Donald Trump has a 57.8% chance of winning the presidency. They have Kamala Harris at 18.7 and Joe Biden at 9.7. They're taking betting odds. Joe Biden has a less than 10% chance of getting a second term. And obviously, there's a lot of other factors that play into this. Like, will there be free and fair elections? Will Donald Trump be allowed to, to, you know, be president again? They're all, I think, legitimate questions to be asked. But as of right now, this betting site has Joe Biden as the president of the United States of America, the incumbent who, if you know anything about, you know, American history, it tends to favor the incumbent, got him at a less than 10% chance.

We've just entered territory where there's just, there's no comparison to this. Like, you can't look at history to be any guide, because there's no precedent for this type of scenario. But that's where we are. Pretty wild that Kamala Harris is, uh, ranked ahead of Joe Biden for a win right now. Uh, yeah. And, and, you know, it, it does actually make sense. It does make sense that it's like, look, it's, it's almost until you hear her talk until you give her a chance. And then let me tell you, she slides so far down those ratings, you would vote for Biden's corpse above her. Yeah, look, probably there are some people it's amazing that you're even in the situation of going like, what are the pros and cons of Kamala Harris versus Joe Biden? And you're like, all right, she's not senile. She's got that going for her.

Now, she speaks as if she was. She's got the intelligence of someone, yeah. Yes, that is the problem. But look, I mean, as of right now, she's young. She wants power. She's the vice president. He's literally an old man pooping his pants. I don't know. Like, yeah, she should be higher on the odds. That's that. Clearly, I mean, I guess like what's been updated since the last time we

recorded is that Joe Biden is going as of now, he's not stepping down. He's like, no, I want to keep doing this, which is, by the way, you know, I tweeted something about this the other day. And tell me what you thought, what you think of this, Rob. like putting my son to sleep laying in bed next to him. And I just, you know, it's just like kind of on my phone while I'm waiting for him to fall asleep. And I was just kind of thinking about this. And I was like, you know, if you really think about this, the, the, the narrative from the corporate media for four years now, for four years has essentially been that, um, like, yes, Hunter Biden was influence paddling, you know, like they'll kind of acknowledge that you can't pretend that doesn't exist. Um, and obviously he's a drug addict and he does crazy things and there's, you know, all types of pictures of him, you know, like stuff like that. But the narrative from the media has essentially been that, well, you can't you can't directly connect Biden to this. There's no smoking gun

that that Biden was involved in any of this influence peddling. Now, again, I'm not saying I'm not making the claim that that's the case. I'm just saying this has been the narrative from the corporate media that essentially, yes, Hunter was doing some kind of shady things, but that's not connected to Joe Biden. There's no evidence he was directly involved. And he's a drug addict, which is very sad. A lot of people have kids who are drug addicts. And essentially, the narrative has been that you're really just going after a politician's kid, you know, so he's kind of off limits. I mean, you really shouldn't be doing this. It's kind of hitting below the belt. You know, it's a the president has a troubled son,

but you're going after someone for having a troubled son. This has been the dominant narrative for four years now. And then all of these corporate media outlets are all reporting that Hunter Biden has been Joe Biden's closest advisor on the most important topic, the most important decision of his presidency, of his of his life, you know, whether or not to seek a second term. And none of them seem to even acknowledge that this does kind of shatter their narrative that like, okay, look, if you're telling me when it really matters, the closest person to the closest advisor to the president of the United States of America is an influence peddling crackhead, then that's news. crackhead, then that's news. Like then, then you can't tell me he's like beyond reproach. Like you can't say he's off limits. It's like, that is fucking crazy.

Now you might have a kid, you know, look, I have very little kids. I can't, I don't imagine that my kids are going to grow up and be drug addicts, but I don't know. You know, I mean, I guess there are people out there who have kids who go down the wrong path as they get older. But you can't have them as your closest advisor then. You know what I mean? Like, you can't you can't if one of your kids is like a drug addict who's, you know, raking in money from corrupt companies and corrupt foreign governments and stuff like this. How can you all just report that he's the guy who Joe Biden's talking to about this decision? I don't know. That's wild to me. Oh, it's also funny. Hey,

listen, I know that I look like I was too old to be out there and incompetent to be making good decisions, but I got my crack addict son advising me. So nothing to be concerned about. Yeah, it's really this is this is the counter to you're worried about whether I'm competent to the job. The other thing that's like that stands out to me is just how evil Joe Biden's family is. Like how fucking evil. I mean, they said he was going after that debate to, to talk to camp David, to talk with his wife and his son about what he should do. Like, in other words, if this reporting is correct, there was a conversation about whether or not he should drop out and his family is convincing him not to. Like, think about that. Sounds very backwards.

It sounds like there would be a Democratic deep state that still thought Joe Biden was their best chance to win. And so they were pressuring him to stay in it. And the family would step in and go, Joe, it's over. It's time to stay home. It's time to be with the kids, the grandkids, maybe not the one that Hunter, you know, had with the stripper, but the the ones you like, it's time to actually be the ones you acknowledge. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, I mean, look, I know you've, you've kind of talked about your, your family going through this with your, uh, with your grandfather. Um, lots of people have stories like this, you know, like, I mean, not being president of the United States, but where, when you have,

you know, somebody who's older in your family and their mind starts to go, there's usually like a series of very uncomfortable kind of interventions that you have to make you know um when when you got to convince them to stop driving when you got to convince them they can't live on their own anymore when you get you know there's just like a lot of these and it's very uncomfortable but because it's your family someone love, you kind of have to do it. You know, you kind of have to like not put them in a situation that's hard. This is I mean, like, you know, I don't know the term elder abuse has been used to death, but that's what it is. They're abusing this guy. If you know much about Joe Biden's long career, he he does deserve it. But again, you would think his wife or his son would be pleading with

him to get out. They'd be like, come on, man. Listen, you can't anymore. You can't do this. And yet they're the ones convincing him to stay in the race, if all of this reporting is correct. It really does let you know how evil the people around Joe Biden are, like how how fucked up his family is, is really like, you kind of can't overstate how profoundly evil that is to do to somebody you you supposedly love. It's just horrible. Yeah, the doctor's like, Listen, I was only here with you with the status. So he ditched that job.

I'm out of here, Joe. Yeah, there you go. Well, here, look, there is only here with you with the status. So he ditched that job. I'm out of here, Joe. Yeah, there you go. Well, here, look, there is someone else serving the ice cream. Well, there is some good news for for Joe Biden. He did. We got a physician's report on him from the most honest scientist in America. So let's let's roll the tape. Here is Dr. Truth Science. um so let's uh let's roll the tape here is uh dr truth science it just looked like a bad night

because my interaction with him was what i described in the book and what happened even subsequent to what i described in the book after i got out uh you know he's very probing in his questions very analytical uh very calm about things. When you go in to brief him, Major, you better really know your topic because he's going to ask you very relevant questions. And he's very reflective on things and just doesn't jump out with conclusions or anything, but is very analytic. So my interactions with him, I have to say, have been very, very positive. Did you see the debate? I did. Did anything about that, what you saw medically alarm you? You know, I can't say I think it would be inappropriate to

say that major because when you're just looking at someone on a one-shot basis, you just don't know what could happen. Did he have a bad cold? You know, did he take an antihistamine to make him, you know, groggy or what have you? We don't know what went on. And I think it would be unfair and inappropriate to try and diagnose something from just a 90-minute clip. Not much of a clip, 90 minutes. A 90-minute clip. And again, this is like saying, would it be fair to diagnose Chris Christie as overweight?

Would that be fair? I mean, I'm not a doctor. I have no medical training. Would it be fair for me to judge him just off of a clip? It's like, yeah, no, it would be. I only see his upper stomach when he's sitting in a chair. I don't really fully understand what his lower stomach might look like. What's even going on?

What's going on under those folds and flaps? We got no idea. Sometimes very skinny people just have upper bellies. They could have a healthy lower belly. All right, guys, let's take a moment and thank our sponsor for today's show, which is My Patriot Supply. We all know after the last few years, things are a bit unstable and the future is a bit uncertain. And it's always better to be prepared than to wish you were. Since 2008, My PatriototSupply has helped millions

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That's preparewithsmith.com. All right, let's get back into the show. But, you know, it's something this defense of Joe Biden, by the way, has been the standard defense from much of the Democratic establishment and the corporate media for the last four years. It's what I'll call it. It's the the WB frog defense. I'll call it it's the the WB frog defense. It's it's listen, man, when when you're not watching and there's no cameras on, boy, is this guy sharp. Now, I know that from your perspective, it probably doesn't seem that way because every time you see him, he's not sharp. But who these probing questions?

Let me tell you, when you get in a meeting with Joe Biden, you better know your stuff. This guy, he's he's essentially a genius behind the scenes. Just you can't even imagine. He's like 25 years old. He's doing pushups when you enter the room and then just asking, you know, just solving goodwill hunting math problems on a chalkboard that the most brilliant mathematicians can't solve. But he's just whenever it's on camera, he sure does look like a dead frog. It's it's so pathetic. You can't even believe that they're going with this. Like you guys couldn't sit down and brainstorm for a half

hour and come up with a better something better than that. That's your answer that the president of the United States of America, who's been on video falling and stumbling and not knowing where to exit every goddamn stage that he gets off of referring to himself, being in the wrong city and the wrong state, not knowing dates and times and not knowing who the president is, all this stuff that we've just seen for years and years now. And then after that debate performance, you're going, I think I think it was an off night, maybe cold medicine. Maybe that's the answer. It's like as if all of us haven't taken cold medicine before. Like, I'm not saying cold medicine can't make you drowsy, but it doesn't do that to you.

You know, there's a certain level of, look, like me and you are stand-up comedians. We've both been doing stand-up comedy for a long time. And I know what an off night is. Everybody has off nights. There's something different here and everyone knows it and you know really just what what's revealing here about fauci i mean maybe it's not exactly revealing here this is something we've known about fauci for a long time but it's just like to understand these guys and understand what's going on they are look again not to take shots

at them because i think i already did enough of that. But I told you, this was my takeaway from the Chris Cuomo debate, that there's something, no matter how much you know this, and no matter how much somebody like me has been hyper-focused are focused on this stuff for a long time, it still is somewhat jarring to see how comfortable some people are lying, that they can just sit down and just lie right to your face. And that's what you're seeing here from Fauci. He's got an extremely high level of comfort with just telling boldface lies, just lying right to you. There's not even I mean, like that was one of the things that I was taken back by. And I think I did a decent job handling it.

But I'll admit it. It was a challenge in the Cuomo debate. Is that guy just sit there and lie right to my face? But like, you know, it's almost like I was like, how is he going to play this? How is he going to respond if I bring this up? And you like oh that's the answer he'll just lie oh i hated when people shamed joe rogan they shouldn't have done that wait really you're gonna do that you know then same with fauci's that same guy no i never i never recommended locking anything down no never it's like really, really? Oh, really?

Let me just sit here and say, yeah, no, look, Joe Biden, sharp as a tack, sharp as a tack. You're telling me that these moments only happen in public? He's never had a private stumble. It's only in public that he stumbles every single time. I mean, look, there's a range for Joe Biden, which is, by the way, as I'm sure you're familiar, you know, with your grandfather there. This is how mental decline works. Like there's a range. People have good days and bad days. They have good moments and bad moments, you know, and there's a range of which Joe Biden you're going to get. That that debate the other day was obviously toward the bad end.

But even Joe Biden, it is best. It is absolute best. You get the best Joe Biden on the best day for Joe Biden, on the best meds for Joe Biden. And it ain't impressive. It's never good. It's never, oh, man, I was just in this meeting and he was asking probing questions. About what, Fauci? You're saying that the topic of virology came up and Joe Biden was asking the best probing questions? Just what do you even say to this, Rob? I think Joe Biden should go into business selling Uncle Joe's cough syrup, because if it makes me that stoned, I'll take it every weekend. Let's go.

By the way, it's I don't even know why, but Jean-Pierre lady, the press secretary there, they said he wasn't on cold medicine. Like, why are you guys even taking away the only excuse that you have here? Like, no, no, no, It wasn't that. It wasn't that, by the way. Well, they tried to play the excuse, which was so double stupid. Hey, first, his his first statement by Biden as to what happened was that firstly, he said I was stupid and I didn't listen to my advisors. All right. Well, you're not winning me back over with that. And then he said that he did too much traveling. The problem with that excuse is he spent a full seven days at Camp David prior to the debate. So the idea that, hey, I'm not an old man, but seven days of post travel rest in one location wasn't enough to get over jet lag. Sounds like you're an old man. Yeah, it sure does. It sure does. Also, just a cold knocking you on

your ass to the point that you can't again, not that he didn't have a great debate performance, but that he had a catastrophe, a catastrophe. Yeah. Let's let's play the clip. Brian has. He said you have it from the presser. I did want to follow up on what someone brought up. I think others as well. You did get numerous questions yesterday about the president's debate performance. You didn't mention travel, the jet lag, the foreign trip, so I think you can understand why it was a little bit puzzling to hear the president mentioning that as his explanation for the first time last night. Can you clarify whether when you took the

podium yesterday, did you not know that that was a disaster? And I would say that is my bad. That is part of that is part of definitely part of the explanation of what had occurred. I did know that. I did know that. I did. I did know that. But we were so focused. I was so focused on the call on the cold. And that's what I kind of leaned into and talked about. But, yes, his schedule did have something to do with it. It was the schedule and the cold. And I did. I was aware of that yesterday. Jeez. Jeez.

I mean, again, the what you're trying to combat is the view that Joe Biden is too old for the job. And you're talking about how the schedule was just really tough on him. But it's like, yeah, but that's the job. His job is to be president of the United States of America. Look, man, it's really wild. OK, but if you think about, say, during the Cuban Missile Crisis. All right.

So as everybody kind of famously knows, the story of the Cuban Missile Crisis is that the Soviets put some nuclear missiles in Cuba. Jack Kennedy was like, no, that is the brightest of red lines. We cannot tolerate this. It's a knife against our throat, and we will go to nuclear war over this. We're treating this as a nuclear strike on the United States of America, meaning essentially we will blow up the world. You know, then what actually happened was that Kennedy got on the phone with the Russians and they made a deal, a handshake deal, not a treaty. This is, by the way, one of the things that's really interesting, you know, one of the things that people who are supporting the war in Ukraine take issue with when people like me will talk about how we gave the Soviet Union assurances that if they allowed the reunification of Germany, that NATO would not move one inch to the east.

This was the phrase that was used over and over again by many people from Baker and Gates and a lot of the people who were the key players involved at the time. Not one inch to the east. NATO will not move east. And their counter will be, well, it wasn't an official treaty. It was just something we said. But the thing is that that's how diplomacy is done all the time. And in fact, no treaty was signed after the Cuban Missile Crisis. However, Kennedy agreed to pull our nuclear missiles back from Turkey if they agreed to pull their nukes back from Cuba. And that agreement held. They both, and it saved the world.

It literally saved the world from going to nuclear war, a handshake agreement or just a verbal contract. And you need that in international diplomacy. You need to be able to like, if a diplomat comes and tells you, we'll do this if you do this. And you say, I'll only do this under the condition that you'll do that. And they say, yes, we'll do that. You have to keep your word on that. Anyway, the point is that the job that Joe Biden has might entail getting on the phone and handling a difficult situation to save the world. You know what I'm saying?

You don't get to have excuses like, ah, my schedule. I was traveling. I had a cold. Sorry, I couldn't do it. There are certain jobs where there's no excuses like that. It's a high pressure environment. And so this how could this excuse possibly ever work with anybody? It's insane. Yeah, you can't play the hey, I need to be in the most important job, but I have some bad days. Yeah, yeah. Oh, oops. That was a bad day. So I guess we're going to

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I don't know. But it's a't know but it's it's a rough scene when it's just talking into a cell phone let's say that it's not great on TV but it's it takes a nose dive when you're just looking at looking at her video but here's her video

the latest unhinged rant y'all just tell me who the nominee is gonna be let me know when you guys are finished fighting amongst yourselves who i got to vote for in november to keep hitler out the white house that's all i want to know who i got to vote for to keep hitler out the white house y'all do your thing play in traffic all you want in front of these republicans acting a fool in front of these people instead of privately declaring your stuff. But don't text me no more because I'm not taking no more of these texts.

Just let me know when you guys are finished figuring it out, Democrats, because I know you all the freak out people. Go ahead and freak out. Have your conversation. And then let me know who I got to vote for to keep Hitler out the White House. That's it. I'm done. Oh, and by the way, if it's Biden in a coma, I'm a vote for Biden in a coma. I don't even really particularly like the guy. A lot of his policy don't like him. He's not Donald Trump, right? Yeah. Hitler, White House. We keeping them out, keeping Project 2025 out. That's all I care about. Up and down the ballot from the root of to the tutor school board, all the way up to White House and everything in between. Governors, members of Congress. I'm just going to vote all the way down to keep these people out. The Project 2025 thing is the whole Republican Party. At this point,

it's not about Biden. It is not about him. It's above me now. There's a Best Western next door. It is about keeping Donald Trump and his Project 2025 friends out of power. That's it for me, y'all. Y'all let me know what you think and another thing I've always got another thing you guys do know that in 2020 y'all Democrats had choices of young people you had a young LGBTQ guy Mayor Pete you had a Latino you had uh Kamala Harris you had Liz Warren you had all these choices that were all younger than Biden, fresher and newer than Biden. And you know who y'all picked to be the president and the nominee? Joe Biden.

He beat all the young people. So, yes, we have a gerontocracy problem on the Democratic side. Way too many of these oldie goldies that don't seem to want to sit down and retire. But when given the choice between the young and fresh and Joe Biden, y'all picked Joe Biden. That was what you picked. So he's in there because Democrats actually picked him in the first place. So just keep that in mind that you've been given options in the past and this is what you picked. and nobody stepped up to choose to run against him in the primary so once again democrats went out and voted and picked if you try to undo that choice like 57 million some odd democrats voted in these primaries so what are you gonna do you're gonna just tell them f off we're gonna pick somebody different that's not him or kamala

harris who was on that ticket too on those those ballots. That's not democracy. This choice has been made. And so again, unless he decides to walk away, this is your choice. It's like when you go to a wedding, you got chicken or fish. You can eat chicken or fish or just be hungry. Or like when I was growing up in my house, it's what mom made for dinner or go to bed. It's your choices. You don't always get choices in your life. You get what mom made for dinner or take your ass to bed. And in this case, it's either what mom made for dinner or Hitler. I'm voting for whoever

ain't Hitler and it ain't him. And I'm going all the way down that ballot, rooted to the Tudor school board up to the White House. This is about power and about picking not Hitler. that's it that's it that's me okay now i'm really done bye can you just imagine rob like you know like anytime like if you if you know i mean we do a regular podcast we're doing a show but you know sometimes you're just like i have a thought maybe i'll tweet that out maybe i'm gonna make a video i'm gonna put imagine like having the thought and joy reed is like maybe

maybe if i call him a hitler maybe that's let's give that a shot it's like it's first off you got to be blown away just by like how dumb joy reed is this's just really stupid. It's just like, what? Yeah, it's just like my mom, when she made dinner. You either have that or you go to bed. Like, okay, what? It's almost as if she also doesn't seem to realize, like she's, there's a beautiful thing with dumb people where they often don't realize that they're giving the game

away. Like they don't realize that what they're, what they're saying, because they're not smart enough to understand that other people will be able to perceive like the tricks that they're trying to, to use. And so for her to sit there and say, Donald Trump's Hitler, call him Hitler a bunch of times, and then say, I'd vote for anyone except him. I'd vote for Joe Biden in a coma. I'd vote for a dead corpse over Donald Trump or something like that. I understand that she's trying to convey the message that he's so dangerous that you should vote to anyone. But for anyone with a functioning brain, you just hear that and you're like, oh, yeah, that's the whole game. You just gave the whole game away. But Donald Trump is not allowed to be in power and will support anybody who's

going to be a puppet of the powerful. Doesn't matter who they are. Doesn't matter if it's Joe. You guys figure it out and then let me know. Right. Like that's that's what she's saying at the beginning is Joe Biden is going to be Kamala Harris, maybe someone else. Fine. Just tell me and I'll vote for them. Whoever isn't going to be a threat to power. I'll vote for. That's the message here. And it's very clear. Like, OK, that's that's what we've been saying the whole time. Exactly. That's that's what we've been saying the whole time. Exactly. Support the corpse. Twenty twenty four. Make that bumper sticker. That's the Democratic pivot at this point. Hey, listen, he might be half dead, but you can't have Hitler. We can't have Donald Trump getting back into office. So, yeah, sure. Joe Biden's a corpse, but we all got to rally behind the corpse. Support the corpse. Twenty twenty four. And it's so it is pretty funny, too, that she, you know. I mean, there's so much bullshit in what she said there, like it's totally bullshit to say nobody else stepped up to run and everybody voted for Biden and Harris in this primary. And you're like, OK, look. No, that's not right.

That's not what happened. Somebody else did step up. A few people stepped up. But obviously, there's one that was very noteworthy, which was, you know, a member of the royal family of democratic politics who raised tens of millions of dollars, had millions and millions of people enthusiastically supporting him, who was attempting to run in the democratic primary and left and went independent because you rigged the whole thing against him. Come on, we're just going to pretend we don't know that. And by the way, you know, And by the way, you know, there was there was one name that was noticeably absent when she said, well, I guess, too. Right. So there's Bobby Kennedy, which she doesn't mention in this primary as if that just didn't happen. And people aren't aware of that. But when she was going back to the 2020 primaries and she was like, hey, look, you guys chose the old guy. primaries. And she was like, hey, look, you guys chose the old guy, right? I mean, you had, Rob,

all of this young talent, like Pete Buttigieg. We had this young, yeah, come on, guys. Like, obviously, Pete Buttigieg was never going to be the nominee. It was ridiculous. Um, but she mentioned Pete Buttigieg. She mentioned Elizabeth Warren. She mentioned Kamala Harris. Who didn't she mention there? It's Bernie Sanders. Oh, yeah, the guy who you rigged the Democratic primary against in 2016 and then again in 2020. No, there was another candidate. there was another candidate. There was a Democratic candidate who broke all types of fundraising records, had real genuine grassroots support at tens of millions of Americans who were behind him, was drawing enormous crowds everywhere he went to speak. But what? But he was not

acceptable to the powerful. You know, I'm not defending Bernie Sanders and I don't care much for Bernie Sanders policies. And I, I just don't think he's a very impressive person. And I don't think he's an honest person, but there was this other option, but you guys decided to rig the system against him because he was not, you know, he was railing against big banks and billionaires, big banks and billionaires got a lot of influence in this town. So, you know, turns out that wasn't a good strategy, but the idea of just saying, well, that's over. We picked, we picked the old guy. So, so what is it? What is the implication here that that's it? Like no matter what, what is it? What is the implication here that that's it? Like, no matter what? I mean, she says,

even if he's in a coma, we got to run him. She also doesn't seem she seems to be kind of like missing the point. Like, I think the depth she's lost in the depth of this, that it's not a question. Nobody was confused about whether Joy Reid likes Donald Trump or not. Right. Like we know you're not for him. The point is that this guy can't win. That's why Democrats are freaking out about this. No Republicans are freaking out about who the Democratic nominee should be. They're like, good, keep Biden. Great. The point of the call is coming from inside the house. And Joy Reid tries to make it out like this is just like it's like the immature children. You guys fight amongst yourselves and figure this out. But I'll be over here when you're done.

Like as if that's more mature. No, the point. The reason why they're freaking out is fighting is because you're like, oh, there's this guy just disqualified himself. This guy just gave himself no chance for success. That's why they're having the conversation. Joy, it's a necessary one. Even if you picked the old guy in 2020, well, guess what? Now he's senile. So you got to figure out somebody else. That's the deal. Anyway, it is fun to watch how unhinged they all are becoming recently. Hopefully this keeps up.

Any thoughts, Rob? Temper tantrums. I enjoy it. And you know what? I think the last time the nation somewhat got suckered by it, that the reaction of all these people in the temper tantrums was Donald Trump's fault. But now I think you can see through it and just see that a lot of these people who claim to be the smarter, elite, more dignified adults in the room are actually just a big old bunch of babies. Amen. All right. Let's let's let's talk a little bit about these Supreme Court cases that we didn't get to on the last episode because that DT video that you had of him passing out some cash.

Oh, okay. We could play that. Yeah, let's go to the Trump video. Yeah, I forgot about that one. How did I do with the debate the other night? Amazing. That old broken down pile of crap. Yeah.

It's a bad guy. He just quit. He's quitting the race. Is that right? Yep. I got him out of the race. And that means we have Kamala. I think she's going to be better.

She's so bad. She's so pathetic. She's so fucking bad. So can you imagine that guy dealing with Putin and the president of China who's a fierce person? He's a fierce man, a very tough guy. And they see them, they probably, they can't probably okay but they just announced he's he's probably quitting how did i do with it so now this video has been put out there uh by uh several democratic operatives as like a gotcha on trump which i just just find hilarious. It's just unbelievable, man, that after all these years, they still have not adjusted to how to deal with this guy. You know, like they don't. So they're all putting out this video like, look at him. He's insulting Kamala Harris and he's insulting Joe Biden. He's saying he knocked Joe Biden out and all this stuff.

But then when you actually look at it, what you see is a guy who seems to be generously tipping, who is mixing it up with regular people, being funny with them. You know what I mean? Like getting laughs out of them and then just telling the truth. I mean, I don't think he's right about Joe Biden's out of the race or whatever, but just tell him that this guy's a disaster. She's going to come in. She's going to be a disaster, too. So what are we doing? Imagine that guy you saw at that debate stage dealing with foreign leaders. It's what everyone's thinking. It's just the truth. So it's just, I don't know. It's funny to me that this is supposed to be some type of a, some gotcha for Donald Trump when it's what people like about Donald Trump is that he's authentic.

You know, however you feel about Donald Trump, that that is him. You know, that's really Trump. And that's what this video just is like more evidence of that. I don't know your thoughts. Yeah, no, he looks good there. He's chilling with this kid. He's coherent. He's got winning attitude. He's saying I can address these other world leaders.

He actually seems to be concerned about not just winning, but at least in this clip, kind He's coherent. He's got winning attitude. He's saying I can address these other world leaders. He actually seems to be concerned about not just winning, but at least in this clip, kind of the country. I do wonder what's going on with the bills, though. That looks more like a lost bet than it does than it does a tip. But, you know, maybe you're right. Maybe you're right about that. I just kind of assumed I didn't really put too much thought into that. But yeah, anyway, it's it's Trump being Trump one way or the other. This show is sponsored by BetterHelp. Therapy can help you focus on what you want instead of what others have. So you can start living your best life. And a great way to take advantage of that right now is with BetterHelp. I can tell you I've personally benefited from therapy in the past, and I know lots of other people who have, too. And what's great about better help is it's the easiest, most convenient

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everyone's all up about it, but I don't really have a firm or incredible understanding of it. Okay. All right. So let's do the tech censorship one first. What do you think? Well, I think they had a real opportunity to correct what was going on with government suppressing free speech and pretty directly working and intimidating social media companies. I think structurally, we've got a huge problem with government that they're allowed to play intimidation tactics. What Fauci's done with the I never said that I never threatened. I never did that.

They very clearly know how to intimidate to get their way and do it in a way that they can't be held accountable. So in this case, I think all the justices admit to the fact that there clearly was tech censorship and it came from government. It was thrown out because it lacked standing. The reason it lacked standing, at least as far as I understand it, was that there were so many different characters and agencies in government. There wasn't one single defendant. But if this case lacks standing, it sounds to me like you've just legalized government tech censorship

because as long as enough agencies reach out, I was saying, I'll run your mouth and get a room, 100 salespeople, every 25 people call it a different department, have them rotate through the phone calls. And then I guess you never have standing to sue anyone because it's 25 different departments, each with 25 different people who threatened me. I can even get more aggressive with their threats because I guess if there's not one single person or single entity, there's no standing. So it sounds to me like the Supreme Court just gave the government a legal mechanism by which they can suppress speech on the internet and that they are allowed to intimidate and they're allowed to coerce.

They just have to be careful that it's not one single office or one single individual. And then there's never standing to bring a suit. Yeah, no, I think that's exactly right. And, you know, it's so it's one of these things where it's kind of almost like government's getting away with on a technicality. You know what I'm saying? Like, it's like they're it's like, oh, well, we have a technicality here where, yeah, we can't say it's one single person. And technically speaking, they didn't, they didn't violate the first amendment, but it's so obviously a violation of the spirit of it. It's so obvious that like, how can you have any meaningful freedom of speech Like, how can you have any meaningful freedom of speech if the government, which is this, you know, this enormous, powerful institution that can ruin people's lives. If they're allowed to do this kind of like this, this, you know, intimidation stuff, if they're allowed to sit there and say like what, you know, even if they're not saying.

You have to censor this guy. They're saying, why hasn't this guy been censored yet? You know, it's like, you just can't have any of that allowed if you want to have a free society. And as we've seen over the last few years, it's been an enormously powerful tool for the regime. And the fact that, you know, this got in front of the Supreme Court and there was a chance to like, goddamn, like, ban this like this is illegal. You cannot do this is awful. It's just awful. And it's a guarantee that it will continue to happen. Yeah, I guess as non lawyers, I don't even understand the technicalities. So sometimes I see something that's a clear problem and government is clearly breaking the spirit of, hey, there should be free speech and government's not allowed to restrict your speech. And so they shouldn't be allowed to, you know, I mean, this is no different than old school calling up the newspaper.

Hey, I'd really not. I'd really like it if you didn't publish that article tomorrow. It'd be really important to the president if you didn't publish this article that actually let people know the war numbers. I guess so if enough different people make that phone call to a newspaper, it's not considered intimidating. Hey, listen, it would be really bad if your tax standing got changed. We'd hate to see that happen to you guys. Remember how we gave you a favorable tax thing or we gave you that building over here or we never investigated this? We would hate to see a change to that. I mean, it's straight up mob tactics. It actually got

to the Supreme Court and that it was very clear what they did throughout COVID. He had the incidents with Alex Berenson. We saw Zuckerberg when he was on Rogan. I mean, you could further investigate this. We know that it happened. And so what's the mechanism for fixing this now? I get that the Supreme Court goes, hey, this lacks standing, but at least they should have the clarity of, hey, this lacks standing, but we would review the case if it was brought in this way, or here's the way that this case needs to be brought, or shame on the administration for engaging these politics, but for this technical reason. but the way that they did it, it almost serves to just protect protect the regime and go, hey, it's important that the White House has the

ability to, I guess, censor speech on the Internet. So we're just like no slap back. Just throw out the case, essentially. Yep. And for all the people who are on both sides, right, you have all the people who are Trump supporters who are bragging about how great his Supreme Court justices are. And then you have all the people on the Democratic side who are like talking about what a threat the Supreme Court is. And when it comes down to it on such an important issue, debatably the most important issue, we get such a bad judgment. And I mean, it does again, like I'm like you, I'm not a lawyer. I'm not an expert in like, you know, the, in any of this, but you're essentially ruling that when the mob boss comes into the pizzeria place and goes, maybe you start

buying your tomato sauce from us. Sure. Would sure Sure would be a shame if this place burned to the ground. And they've burned several other pizzerias to the ground, you know. And you're ruling that it's like, no, the guy just said it would be a shame. And he said different people. It's not even clear who said it. There were four different people who came in here. Yeah, there's like four different families. There's different heads of the families there's all these people and really all the guy did was

say it would be a shame if this place burned it's like i mean come on this is obviously like this is not there's no such thing as um like a non-coerced decision when the government's involved. And the law of the land ought to be that they just can't even talk to these people. You can't even talk to social media companies or newspapers or TV networks about who they are allowed to publish and who they're not allowed to publish, who they're allowed to platform and who they're not. There should absolutely be like a clear line drawn that you can't cross it at all. Unfortunately, that's not the world we live in. And look, particularly we're in a situation now where we're going into an election year. The range of options range from a senile old man who's pooping his pants on national television to Kamala Harris,

who sounds like she just ate the strongest edible in the world every time she talks and cackles, to some other candidate who, best case scenario for Democrats, is going to have to jump into the game in the fourth quarter and try to pull something off here. My point is just that no matter what the, in the entire range of possibilities, there's going to be a very weak Democratic candidate going up against Donald Trump. And obviously they're going to rely on every trick in the book. And the most important one to them is tech censorship. And now they've basically been granted authority to do that by the Supreme Court. So it's just it's an absolute disaster.

I can tell you firsthand YouTube's ramping up. I got a strike on a channel two weeks ago for a conversation I had with a long time practicing doctor who defended childhood vaccines, but they didn't like that conversation. And then my last episode got a strike. There's this great video of Kamala Harris on BET being as cringe as she's ever been, letting people know I'm out in these streets. I don't know if you've seen the video.

I don't recommend playing it here because your channel will get striked for having other people's content, even though I don't know why that wouldn't be parody law or otherwise. It's newsworthy. It's an actual incident. It was propaganda that Kamala Harris tried to put together and was as cringe as ever with. And I was giving commentary on it, but it seems like some of the censorship we saw over COVID will probably be ramping up over the next couple of months. I have no doubt. I have no doubt in mind that it will. We've kind of,

you know, there was a huge wave of of tech censorship after Donald Trump won the presidency and the Congress hauled the tech leaders in front of Congress and threatened them all. And then they all started, you know, kind of kicking into gear of, of, you know, banning misinformation. Then there was an enormous wave during COVID, the biggest wave that we've ever had. And then an enormous wave during the rollout of the vaccines and the implementation of vaccine mandates. of vaccine mandates. We've been kind of in this calm for a little while since that. So really, like it was like 2023, it started to calm down a little bit. And it's been kind of calm where you feel it. It's a weird thing when you're, you know, when you do what we do and you're in the world of talking about this stuff online, but you can feel it in your bones. You know, like,

you know, you're like, OK, we could talk about people being vaccine injured now and not be like, really, would not be like, hey, let's switch over to rumble and go talk about that right now. You know what I mean? Like, we can talk about it right now. But you also just can feel like another wave is coming, another wave is coming up soon. And the Supreme Court case just gave license for it. I mean, they would do it either way. You know, they would try to do it even if it was illegal. But now you've got the Supreme Court rubber stamping it.

And it's just it's a shame. It's a very it's a very bad decision for the health of our country. Even if it was illegal, you wouldn't be held personally accountable. You can threaten the you can threaten anyone at any time. And, hey, I thought it was part of my official duty for the safety of the country to make sure that this information that harmed me wasn't available to the public. Yep. Yep. There you go. The Chevron case does does earn a mention because it seems to I don't know, it seems to be better for the framework of freedom.

I don't know. It seems to be better for the framework of freedom. But I understand it on a limited basis, mostly from what's his name's tweets. What's his name? Did a good job with it. The guy ran for VP last year for Libertarian Party. I'm bad with names. Yes. Spike. I go right up. Yeah, he's great. Yeah. In fact, I should go. I should go retweet that later. Yeah. No. Well, look, I mean, it's there's no question that the Chevron case was was excellent. It was a blow for federal regulators. And that's who you want to see take a blow. It's it'll be interesting to see what the implications of this are and how exactly this

changes the dynamics of the country going forward there is something i will say that it it's funny to watch like these progressives freak out about uh this stuff because it is just kind of revealing about their actual worldview you know it's they all claim that they love democracy of course like democracy is always an illusion um it's a it's a stupid system even on paper it doesn't make any sense um it's there there's no connection to morality and democracy like uh you know it was it's the old uh g edward griffin quote where i think he said uh he, if you really want to want the perfect example of democracy as a lynch mob, that's democracy. There's only one dissenting vote.

You know, it's it's all unanimous except for the guy getting lynched. But of course, what democracy actually produces is this Leviath state, you know, this gigantic state. This is why Marx was a was a proponent of democracy, because he's like, oh, yeah, you know, this gigantic state. This is why Marx was a, was a proponent of democracy because he was like, oh yeah, that'll be a great transition that, you know, on the way to communism. Um, but there is something, one of the things that's, that's interesting about democracy and it's because it doesn't really exist. It's an illusion, you know? Um, and one of the things that's funny is that the people who claim to love democracy are upset that federal regulators have been weakened. who were not elected are appointed to jobs that they keep for a full career oftentimes, and they get to just dictate laws. And so many of like the regulations that we, that anybody who

runs a business knows about so many regulations in this country, they weren't like signed into law. They weren't, they weren't like voted on by the Congress and then signed into law by the president. What was voted on and signed into law was like the creation of a regulatory agency. And then they just write all the regulations. And it's just it's kind of interesting in a way because you're like, I couldn't imagine anything more anti-democratic than that. It's totally just tyrannical rule of the managerial class. And tell me you feel comfortable with the relationship between regulators and private corporations after COVID or from any of the bailouts you've seen in the financial sector.

If you think for one second, people going back and forth and making sure one specific rule in the books, which maybe is a license for why your property developer gets to do whatever. This is where the big profits is. It's in carving out little regulations that ensure your company has a slice of the pie, that your way of doing business is ensured will continue to be used by, oh, we can only give a license to three towns in this community for marijuana licenses. And look, it's only the three biggest corporations. There's a reason. Well, right, right. Exactly. And look, I mean, I don't care what your politics are. Obviously, we have we have people who listen to the show who have all different types of political leanings. There's a lot of libertarians listen to the show. There's left leaning people. There's right leaning people, whatever, even if you don't

say if you're not convinced by like the libertarian argument in abstract, you know, in theory, just all I got to do is say this, right? What do you think? What more accurately describes the problems that we have in 2024 in the United States of America? Is it that we have an absence of regulations and we have an unregulated economy or is it regulatory capture? Just be honest with yourself. Which one of those two better describes the major problems we have in this country, right? And everybody knows it's the latter. Everybody knows, yeah, there's a gigantic managerial state, a gigantic regulatory state, and they're totally captured by private interests. And that's who they serve. Don't serve the people. It's a goddamn joke. Is the idea with the SEC is

motivated by just serving the people and making sure the big bankers can't rig the system on their behalf? Is that what is that what we're living under right now? Or are they a tool of the big banks? To ask the question is to answer the question. All right, let's wrap up there. I got to take these kids to the beach. So we'll catch you guys next time. Go check out Rob on the on the summer porch tour.

Where can I find tickets? I got to go to porch tour dot com. Like I said, Texas next weekend, Dallas, Fort Worth area, Austin before your shows Sunday, Rockport Beach. And then the following weekend, I have a show. I think it's Saturday in Philly. Haven't played there in a while. So come hang out. Hell yeah.

All right. Catch you guys next time. Peace.