Part Of The Problem - The Word Of The Day Is 'Weird"

Episode Date: July 31, 2024

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What's up everybody. Welcome to a brand new episode of part of the problem. I am Dave Smith. I am of course, of course joined by a quiz. Oh dude, I did that old, but you know that old accent that's completely gone away. You know, like the old timey thing where it's like it was the worst snow on Christmas Okay, like the old voiceover voice. Yeah, it's a what I remember literally what I'm doing it from is Frosty the snowman the movie my daughter It's but that's how it starts because it was the foist snow of Christmas You know like I would remember when men used to talk that? And we didn't take no guff from no one. Anyway, we're back from Nashville.

Robbie the fire. Bernstein is with me. How are you, sir? Nashville was a blast. Cool club. Nashville was great. You know, we had done we love the zanies in Chicago and Rosemont and stuff. And then everybody had always been saying, you got to go down to the warm in Nashville.

And they were not wrong. It was a good time. A good time had by all. And thank you to everybody who came out. We sold out all the shows down there. So that was fun. And yeah, during the Bitcoin conference was interesting too. And yeah, so anyway, I enjoyed that very much.

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weird is one of those terms that it's kind of in the eye of the beholder. Right? Like you might think something's really weird. Someone else thinks it's totally normal. Um, someone might think something's totally normal and you're like, no, that's weird. What I think is weird is the way every single person in corporate media says the exact same thing all the time about every single subject. I personally find that to be kind of weird.

Let's go to this montage, which is going super viral. I know Elon Musk shared this, and I think Rogan shared it as well. So people have been talking about this, but it really is pretty amazing Let's take a look at the clip These guys are just weird that's really hard as weird and creepy is JD Vance Super weird idea from JD Vance. Yeah, it's not. I mean, it's quite weird. Just plain weird.

Just plain weird. Just plain weird. That stuff is weird. They come across weird, and then they start being weird. Yeah, they're weird. Being a really weird. He's such a weirdo. Donald Trump and his weirdo running mate.

They're weird. Deeply and profoundly weird. They are weird. These Republicans just being weird, it's just weird. It's really weird. Republican weirdness goes even deeper. He said a lot of things that are weird. The weird style that he brings, weird policies. Let's start with the weird thing, because it is a thing.

Just plain weird. What was weird was talking about Diet Mountain Dew. Who drinks Diet Mountain Dew? Whoever's seen the guy laugh? That seems very weird to me that an adult can go through six and a half years of being in the public eye If he has laughed it's at someone not with someone that that is weird behavior weird and cultish These are weird people on the other side kind of doubled down on his weird ideas I think weird is probably generous simply weird these guys are just plain weird Vance as weird You know as the campaign said weird it really is just plain weird JD Vance as weird? You know, as the campaign said, weird? It really is just plain weird. JD Vance, plain weird. I mean, I don't know how else you could read it. It is kind of weird. We're

not afraid of weird people. The other side, they're just weird. Why are you being so weird? Vance has done something more extreme, more weird. No matter what kind of weird stuff they keep saying. Trump and Vance are just weird. In addition, it should be the greatest of democracy. That's the weird part. That's the most engaging. Whom he addressed as my beautiful Christians, which was super weird. In addition, it should be the greatest of democracy. That's the weird part that's the most engaging. Whom he addressed as My Beautiful Christians, which was super weird. Weird tech bro JD Vance. He's a weird guy. JD Vance, uneasy and sort of weird.

Frankly, for lack of a better word, that he's weird. ...requastic remarks that aren't even funny and he kind of shows that he can't really deliver a one-liner. So Sam, weird is the word here in terms of initial impressions from Van. Weird is the word. It sure is. All right. So first of all, there's a lot actually to this. It's a kind of fascinating thing. Number one, I would just say that this is, this is how the corporate media works and has always worked that there, you know, I've talked about many times, the,

the message discipline is always a huge part of their dominance. Um, and you know, historically this would like, um, they're still doing it and I think it still works to some extent. Um, historically it worked much more. And what happens is that if you, you know, when you hear it like that, even if you were somebody who watched a fair amount of news, if it's not put in a montage like that,

it it's kind of difficult to pick out that everybody is using the exact same phrase ology. You know what I mean? And, and it does like have this like, this is true. Like, you know, a, a kind of, even though it seems very shallow and simple, it is a deep understanding of like psychological kind of, even though it seems very shallow and simple, it is a deep understanding of like psychological warfare, of propaganda that you just kind of say the same thing over and over again, in a very subtle way until the viewer almost feels like they organically thought of it in their head. You know what I mean? Like, you're like,

Oh yeah, that guy is kind of weird. Like, where did that even come from? It's just kind of been placed in my head. But what's fascinating now is that you have the internet. And so these montages come out and then it's, it totally exposes that you're like, Oh, you guys got marching orders. Like it is not the, like mathematically, the odds are impossible that every single one of these people within the same two day period all decided to use the exact same frick. Like, you know,

like Ivermectin for example, is used for like, if you look it up, Rob, like a few hundred different purposes across a few hundred different species. Yet everyone said horse dewormer. Like that's not the only use for a vibe or Mac,. Yet everyone picked that one, you know, like it. And then you realize it's like, Oh yeah, no, the orders are kind of given. The talking points are assigned anyway, as many people have already picked up on part of what's so funny about the Democrats jumping on weird, which look,

I'm going to say something for the record here. I do think JD Vance is a little bit weird. There's something a little bit weird about that guy, but like you guys have decided to be the party of freaks. So you can't really use the word weird anymore. Like Joe Biden's got dudes in dresses in the white house, like several of them, you know, like you don't get to call other people weird. Like you, you can either say that like the opening to

the Olympics was awesome or you can say JD Vance is weird, but you can't like, I'm sorry, I can't listen to a man breastfeeding his baby going, that guy's a little weird. Just too much for me. If we're celebrating diversity, isn't it against your entire culture to call someone out for being weird? That means that they're different. That should be highlighted.

If anything, you guys should be celebrating how weird JD Vance is, who by the way, is very weird and I'm a little bit surprised by the pic because he's He's like strikingly Firstly Kamala's he weirder the way that she laughs. That's plenty weird. That's pretty weird and In but in this case, I think even I'm run your mouth I call JD Vance weird like usually when you see these montages It's something I don't agree with and obviously as you said This is an example

where they found something and they're like, all right, let's keep repeating it so that everyone's aware of it. This is one of the few instances where it's gonna be sticky and it will stick because Vance is a weirdo. Yeah, yeah, well, that's right. It might be somewhat, although I will say

the other aspect to it is that on the internet, they are just getting destroyed because it's constantly like, Oh, you think that's weird? Well, here's what you guys are. You know what I mean? Like, and then just like some picture of the weirdest woke shit that Democrats have been pushing. So that's where I think this actually might backfire. Um, it will be effective on some people, I'm sure. All right, guys, let's take a moment and thank our sponsor for today's show, which is My Patriot Supply.

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You know, I, uh, for people who know, like I, so I used to, uh, do a lot of shows on Fox news. Um, I don't, I just, I mean a mix, there's a mix of several factors. So like when I, like when I first got on TV, uh, it was Kennedy, Kennedy was the first one and red eye, uh, when Tom Shalhou was the host over there at like technically Tom Shalhou booked me first, but Kennedy put me on TV first.

Like red eye was like booked me, but it was like three weeks out. And then I was like, Oh, I'm going to be on TV for the first time. And then like two days later, Kennedy like booked me on her show. And, Oh, I'm going to be on TV for the first time. And then like, two days later, Kennedy like booked me on her show. And, uh, and then I became like a regular on both of those shows. And then Greg Gutfeld had his show and he started using me. So I do those shows. And then, you know, then I started doing like random other shows on Fox news here or there. But for many years that was like, uh, it, I became like a regular,

like I was on every week on red eye and every week on, on Kennedy. Um, and that was, you know, then I got the contract at CNN and then I, I wasn't allowed to do Fox news anymore while I was getting checks from, from Turner. Um, and then when they didn't, for some reason, they didn't resign my contract. Uh, and then, um, then I started going back there and anyway, red eye ended up getting canceled. Then, then they canceled Kennedy's show.

I should go back and do Greg Gutfeld show again, but things just kind of changed to like, uh, you know, I don't live in the city anymore. And, um, you know, Greg Gutfeld does have a huge audience, but it's just not, it's not kind of like what it used to be when I didn't have a following or any audience. And so I was like, oh yeah, you got to get on whenever you can. Whereas now it's just, you know, all the big shows are like doing Pierce Morgan or something like that is like

way bigger than, than most things on cable news. Excuse me. Anyway, you know, I, I re I met, so like what it always used to be almost always the format was that you, they have a, what their, their title will usually be a democratic strategist or Republican strategist or something like that. But they got these people who just like do TV hits all day long. Like they work as a contributor for Fox News and you'll just see them. They'll be a guest on, you know, on nine shows in a day.

They'll come in and just do panels all day long. That was never me. I would just come on and do like a show. I was a contributor for for for Se Cup, but I was never at Fox. But so anyway, so I met, uh, if you ever watched the shows, Rob, I'm sure you've seen some of the panels that I've been on. It always just be like, okay, a Democrat giving their talking points and then a Republican giving their talking points and then me just like destroying them. Cause cause and not cause like I'm so great just cause like they speak in talking points and I don't and I'd just be actually be talking, you know, like making a point. So there was this woman, um, I want to say her name was Julie. I can't remember. I can't remember her name, but anyway,

she was a democratic strategist and I did a whole bunch of panels with her while she was there and she would always just, you know, it was always talking points. And, and, and then she got one of her emails got leaked in one of the WikiLeaks dumps. And it was, I believe it was her, she was emailing Donna Brazil who at the time was the head of the DNC. And she was kind of like complaining that she wasn't moving up the ranks more. And she says in her thing, she goes, she was like,

I'm out here on Fox news pushing all of our talking points. And, uh, and I remember it's like I saw her after that came out and I kind of like I forget exactly how I brought it up, but I kind of brought it up, you know, like without being like aggressive about it. But and and she told me straight up that she goes every morning, every morning they get their email with like this this is the, this is the talking points, you know, it'll be, and that's what they're about. They're about message discipline, particularly the Democrats. I'm sure it's true with Republicans too. This was, this was the only like personal example where I confirmed it with somebody who was like, you know, it's like, I, I, I saw her email of what she was saying and then she was like, yeah,

and it was so every morning, you know, it would be whatever it is, you know, it's like, I, I, I saw her email of what she was saying. And then she was like, yeah. And it was so every morning, you know, it would be whatever it is, you know, whether it's, you know, it's something like the Republicans want to take away reproductive rights for women. That's what we're stressing today, you know? And so clearly this is what it is. Like the email blast went out and it was like, we, um, the, we're saying JD Vance is weird. That's what we're doing here. And then you watch everybody just like in unison,

all of them say the exact same thing. So if, uh, when you see examples like this, that that's what it is. It's that they all get marching orders on what to say. And you know, I've made this point a lot of times and in a lot of different capacities. And I really do think that for people like me and you, Rob, and I'd imagine for the people who listen to this show, like I think if you listen to this show, there's, there's a, the only reason you would enjoy listening to this show is if at least in this

way you were like me and Rob. enjoy listening to this show is if at least in this way you were like me and Rob. And I just, it's like, you can't stress enough how much, sometimes there are other people who seemingly on the surface are kind of doing the same thing we're doing, right? Like they might be on a show and talking about politics, but it's like, no, they're playing a different game than you're playing. Like they're, cause he just like, what's mind boggling to me is I,

I just couldn't imagine like ever if I was going on a show over the years between, you know, cable news shows and podcasts, I've just done so many shows like this is what I do for a living. Just do shows You know and I just could never imagine Going into one of them and somebody being like here's what you're saying today You know what I mean? Oh, thank you You just hand me a piece of paper

Just just hit these lines, and you're off the hook You don't have to do any work enough to don't have to think you have to do anything. It would OK. It would make your life slightly easier, Rob. But you know, it also you know what I'm saying, like the idea of just being like, could you imagine like if I was ever just like, hey, Rob, we're going to like talk about this like economic forecast today, here's your opinion on it. You know what I mean? Like what is you right away? Be like, wait, what? But you tell me my opinion. That's not how that works. It's just like, it's just people are, I've talked

about this too. It's true. Even with people like in the online debate world where sometimes it's like, Oh, like you're not playing the same game. You're like doing something else. You're just, you're just trying to grow your audience or you're just, you know, you're just grifting or you're just whatever it is. It's like, you're not doing the same thing. And, and I think for most, I would think basically everybody who listens to this show knows what I mean and that you can kind of smell that out. Like I know I, we have a lot of people who listen to this show who don't agree with us

on a lot of things. You know, I mean, I'm sure they agree with us on some things, but there's a lot of people who are like, Oh, I have areas of disagreement. I think one of the reasons why people like us enjoy shows like this is because they know we're not playing that game. We're got, we're a couple of guys who are like telling you how we feel and we mean it sincerely and there's no other ulterior motive in it. Um, but just so you know, like these guys in the corporate press,

it's permeated by people who are doing that, like they, and then you wonder almost in a way where it's like, wait a minute, how were you so worried about COVID yesterday, but your four massive protests today. And you're like, Oh, cause they got a different email. That's what happened. That it's as simple as that. And they will actually completely contradict the thing that they were passionately telling you they believed last week, this week, if the email changes, that's what you're seeing here.

I agree with everything you just said in In slight defense of J.D. Vance, he does come off like a weirdo. And it's almost strange to me that the powers that be aren't better at, like Obama was naturally and clearly charismatic. Or I think Ronald Reagan had a line where he said, in this day and age, and that's already 30 years ago or whatever, I'm not good with math nor do I know our history. 40 years ago, I think he said, I don't know how anyone could do this job if they weren't an actor. So I think he has some line like that. So it's almost strange that they ever pick people that aren't smooth on

television because that's clearly a part of the job. Well, clearly look at Trump. I mean, that was a huge, you know, like that was his background and that's huge. Yeah However, if you were to I mean it won't happen, but if JD Vance was in a debate with Kamala Harris I think he would destroy her. I think he's a sharp guy and there's a chance He you know, he'll demolish whoever they put in a VP debate with him He's clearly got some winning tricks up his sleeve that he wrote a winning book. So he understands media I mean that that's what buried that that lady's career when

she put out the or they leaked the early drafts where she was yeah it was South Dakota yeah she thought it was persuasive to talk about you know killing dogs and clearly that wasn't so he unders and his book was so good they even turned it into a Ron Howard Netflix film. By the way, my conspiracy spidey senses went off on that and someone corrected me, so I should correct the record on this. Where I was like, because Kristi Noem, say whatever you will about her, she was the only governor in the United States of America, the only one who never had lockdowns and never had a mask mandate. Like there just

were no mandates in South Dakota. And she, she, I know she's bad on some other issues. Um, and I don't know that much about her and I'm, I'm sure she's bad on a lot of issues, but there was something about that where I was particularly during those years where I was like, well, she kind of gets a pass from me now, cause there's nothing more important. If you were a governor in 2020, 2021 and 22, there simply was nothing more important than that. You know, it's like, it's like the president when it comes to war, like you're the commander in chief, you actually just get to decide what the policy is or how the policy is implemented.

And, you know, if you care about, you know, this whole Liberty thing that we're fans of, that was the most important thing affecting people's Liberty. And so when this book came out, I was kind of like, oh, was this like almost like a hit job to get the one governor who didn't do lockdowns, you know, in trouble? Because, like, you know, none of these people write their own books. You know, none of these stories are real stories. So you're like, Oh, do they just put that in there and she knew, but then someone did a correct me on Twitter that she's reading the audio book. So like, you're not, she knew, she knew what they were saying that.

And she took it as her own. Like she said the words and you're like, yeah, shooting you turns out shooting your dog. isn't what small town people are really into. Yeah. She was just trying to be one of the guys and tell you that she don't think because she's a lady, she can't make tough decisions. And it would, but what I'm the point I was making, that was, I think you're right about that. Yeah. It was a persuasive mistake. And so in, in this,

in this world, while JD Vance does not have the natural charisma Of an Obama. He is a smart guy. He's new to like the upper leagues of this It's kind of like when a quarterback, you know first steps into the NFL Sometimes it takes them a little bit to get their footing So I mean we can trash him for being weird thus far he's come off as Unsmooth and like a bit of a liability to the campaign because He just doesn't have that smoothness of TV stars

However, he did get there by writing a you know a book that was so good that it got turned into a movie So I wouldn't count him out. Have you read the book or seen the movie? No, I could care less about I have no me neither By the way, I don't know the preview for the Ron Howard movie It's it's almost funny to watch with the overacting in it and just like how Hollywood sappy it is It's it's almost like it almost feels like watching this I watch the trailer for the movie and I couldn't been more like not for me Yeah, it's not the type of movie. I want to watch. Um, by the way, speaking of JD Vance, let's go to this, uh, clip, which I had, uh, I had, um, commented on, on Twitter, but this was going super viral. Um,

and I actually, I thought it was kind of interesting. Um, and, and, and, you know, it was a good conversation starter in a sense, but anyway, let's, let's play this JD Vance clip by the way, before you even play it, Brian, pretty weird choice of outfit for someone running for vice president, even though weird outfit just for a guy who's a Senator. It's like, you know, maybe throw on a shirt and tie. I don't know. I'm not sure. I'm not a suit and tie kind of guy myself, but I'm also not a Senator who's running for president or vice president. So it's just kind of like, I, I'm just saying

if you're trying to combat the whole weird thing, wearing a t-shirt over another t-shirt, probably not the best thing to go on the Charlie Kirk show doing. But anyway, let's play the club. We'll go back to something I said earlier about we need to reward the things that we think are good and punish the things that we think are bad. So you talk about tax policy, let's tax the things that are bad and not tax the things that are good.

If you're making $100,000, $400,000 a year, and you've got three kids, you should pay a different lower tax rate than if you're making the same amount of money and you don't have any kids. It's that simple. I totally agree. JD Vance making the argument that essentially these are where the Republicans are at now that we should use taxation, uh, for social engineering purposes, that we should, uh, we should tax the bad things and not tax the good things.

Well, there's a, look, there's a few different like points on this. Number one, even if, okay, even if that were true, if that were your, if that was your starting point, that's your philosophy, that that's the role of taxation is to kind of incentivize the behavior we want out of citizens and disincentivize the behavior we don't want. Well, I mean, it would logically follow from that.

I'd imagine that you should be for abolishing the income tax because working is good. I mean, unless unless you're going to argue that it's really, really bad that people have jobs, that's a bad thing that we got to put a stop to. Why would you want, you're saying don't you're saying tax the bad things, not the good things. Well, I'd suggest working is a good thing. And so, okay. So then join us in being for abolishing the income tax. Um, but aside from that, I would just,

I would say for anybody who is, uh, is like agrees with JD Vance there to like, please just consider the fact that, okay, a couple of things. Number one, you know, what's good and bad, much like we just said before with what's weird, is somewhat subjective. Uh, there are a lot. Now I understand. I'm sure there's lots of things that we could all agree on that are good. I would have thought working was one of those, but there's, there's lots of things that obviously like, there are certain behaviors and certain lifestyles that we could all probably

agree. Like that is broadly speaking in the category of bad. And this one over here is broadly in the category of good, you know, I'd like someone to be like an upstanding citizen who helps their community. I don't want someone to be like a heroin addict or something like that. But the problem is that there are also a lot of things that kind of fall into gray areas or even areas that are prone to just be misdiagnosed as bad. I mean, like for, for example, inheritance, okay? Like you could, you could pretty clearly make an argument for why,

like, oh, that guy, you know, someone inheriting a whole bunch of money, didn't work for it. They didn't earn it. They don't really have a right to or something like that. Like you could see like any status making this type of argument. And yet at the same time, I think if you really think about that, there's probably like no greater incentive for wealth creation than people wanting to pass it on to people they love. like no greater incentive for wealth creation than people wanting to pass it

on to people they love. I'll say that is like 100% my motivation in making money is that I want to, you know, like I went, I want to support my family. Um, but that I want to have something to leave them. That's like my motivation. And why the hell should anyone in DC, like if I work for something and I wish to give it to my children, why should anyone in DC have a right to say I can't? You know, the fundamental flaw in JD Vance's logic here is that you almost, and this is true, with almost every single government policy, almost every one of it,

it's almost like single government policy, almost every one of it, that it's almost like, um, you just kind of, they rely on you taking the vehicle for granted and not examining it at all. So it just becomes like, Hey, the outcome we want. And it's like, yeah, but what tool are you using to get to that outcome? You know what I mean? Like, it's like,, but what tool are you using to get to that outcome? You know what? I mean like it's like for example when they talk about like the people who want to defend You know this policy of fighting a proxy war in Ukraine against Russia They'll always go like well, what do you think Russia should just be allowed to invade and nothing happens to them? You know as if this all exists like in a vacuum and you have some magical tool that can

make Russia not invade or can fight Russia off. Whereas instead you're like, no, no, no, we're talking about Washington, DC and NATO. Okay. That's the tool you're working with. Now let's examine them a little bit and what really motivates their policies. Because, you know, if you, if you look at us foreign policy, Rob, I'm not convinced it's motivated by humanitarian purposes. I'm not sure that that's the major driving force in our, in our decisions about war. Um, likewise, if you just remove, you're like someone like JD Vance, like Mr. Like small town America, like, you know, going to church and whatever, you know,

he's talking about, it's like, well, so you imagine you looked at our society, Rob, and I was to say to you, there's a group of people who I think get to decide what's good and what's bad. And you know what that group of people is, Rob? It's politicians in Washington, DC. They're the most noble amongst us after all. So I trust them to be the arbiters of what is good and bad and what could possibly go wrong with that?

You know, you give politicians in DC the ability to, to decide what's good and what's bad buckle up because they're, their values are probably not going to be the same as yours. All right guys, let's take a moment and thank our sponsor for today's show, which is Moink. I love Moink. This is an incredible company. They deliver grass fed and grass finished beef, lamb, pastured pork, chicken, and sustainable wild caught Alaskan salmon all straight to your door. Moink farmers farm like our grandparents did.

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Because aren't there deductions for it? You know, I probably should know the answer to this. Well, let's just, I mean, and then you also get the benefit of if you choose to use public school, which I hope you don't, but if you choose to use public school Which I hope you don't but if you choose to use public school and in some districts, it's not the worst education That's at least a value of twelve to twenty thousand dollars a year So between the childhood deduction schooling and whatever other benefits you take from the government for your kids It's not like it's not like there's nothing in the system for that already

Yeah, no no that I mean it doesn't it doesn't change what you were saying or his broader point. But I like no, it's in some to some degree, at least he's endorsing the current system. You know what I mean? Or the current system is endorsing his view. I mean, yeah, there's there's there's tax credits for children and stuff like that. It seems as it's so polar to his pitch, which was, hey, I was able to get out of the, you know, the system is working against working middle class or lower class America. And what we need is the system to change so that people have an opportunity. And it's actually the benefits that the state is giving to people that's getting in the

way of them getting ahead, that the welfare system has been bad. So this is so the opposite where he's just pitching a different version of wealth redistribution of what we need to do is create tax. It's like, no, just get rid of inflation and get rid of all these government policies that are holding people back and preventing them from wanting to have kids or live better lives. Yeah. I mean, look, the answer here is just cut taxes for people, man. Like you don't have to sit here and like do this whole thing. Like, no,

we're going to use the tax code to manipulate people to do and have the behavior we want them to have. I mean, like I do, I really having kids is the best thing I've ever done. And I highly recommend it if you want to have kids, there are some people who probably shouldn't have kids and you know, that's you're going to probably know that about yourself better than other people are going to know that about you. And the truth is that even if it's somebody who doesn't have kids, what forget like, oh,

let's say they pay a higher tax rate or something like that. It's like, okay. So instead of them spending that money or investing that money, either if they're spending the money, they're spending it on services that they value, meaning that somebody who is producing services that other people value is going to get more profit. And if they're investing it, they're investing it in something that they, they deem to be something likely to pay off and pay the money. That's what you get. If people get to keep more of their money, or you can send it to the criminals in DC to hand out to political cronies.

What's better for our society? Even the childless person, what's better for our society? Even the childless person. What's better for our society? It's very obvious. What would be better is if they paid less money to Washington DC. And guess what? Here's the great thing about that policy of reducing taxes. It also helps the people who have kids. Do you also lower their tax bill? There's also something that doesn't add up in the logic because if people had more money, they might actually feel like they can afford kids and go out and have kids.

So if you're taxing them at a higher rate before they have kids and you're just not telling them, like you were saying, you might just start incentivizing shitty people to have kids, people that wouldn't have done so. And then people that might have might have came to, oh, I can actually afford this and I would rather live that lifestyle. I'd rather actually, you know, they have the confidence to go out and maybe find a wife and actually live that lifestyle, they might not get there. So what you would need to do is basically start punishing, I don't know, people above the age, women over the age of 40, and men maybe above the age of 50 if they chose

not to have children. And then what are you going to do when they turn around to their retirement years just a couple years later, and now they're looking to the state for assistance for, you know, Medicaid and everything else that they don't have. So it just doesn't sound very well thought out because who exactly are you going to be incentivizing? If I'm a 30 year old and I'm not making a lot of money and you're still taxing me at full rates, I might not envision a life where I can afford kids. And I'm probably not sitting down to go, oh, but there's this tax benefit that will come my way and maybe I actually could. It just seems, uh, doesn't, doesn't seem very well thought out. No, well look, it's like, because it looked like there's some logic to it. But then the,

the thing is that if you really accept the idea that they're, well, look, people respond to incentives and so let's, you know, reward good behavior and punish bad behavior. It's like, well, look, people respond to incentives. And so let's, you know, reward good behavior and punish bad behavior. It's like, okay, well, what actually prevents people from having a family? Let's say like people who should have a family

and wanna have a family, but can't. It's like, well, maybe the fact that the price of everything is astronomical. Maybe the fact that if somebody, you know, has a job where they make, I don't know what the average salary in America is. I think it's somewhere between like 50 and 60 grand a year. But if somebody makes the average salary,

because of the price of housing and healthcare and education and all of these things that people really you need, like the things you need, it becomes more and more out of your reach. And so, hey, let's not have a policy of making everything so goddamn expensive. And oh, what does that? Well, printing money. That's what may, okay, so then come out against printing money. You know what I mean?

Like, it's like, if you really want to go down this path, actually get it the hard actually get it the root of it. And and there's a million things that the government does that look every inch of even, you know, what you were talking about. It's like, look, what social security totally undermined the whole preexisting structure of what people would do in their old age, which was rely on their family. The idea was always that you'd have little kids, you take care of them when they're young

and they're helpless. And then when you get older and you're helpless, you have your kids who take care of you. But now the government's coming in and doing that. So it's like at every inch, this existing system just has perverse incentives. And so like, if you want to be smart about this and actually do something that might actually make a difference, then what you should be arguing for is a drastic reduction in spending, in taxation overall,

a drastic reduction in regulations. You know what I mean? Which what does that do? What's the incentives of regulations? Is the incentives to start a business or not start a business? Have we decided, is that a good thing? JD Vance started a business. Is it a good thing to start a business?

Okay. So let's not disincentivize the good things, right? Isn't that your logic? I mean, essentially this is just going to take you toward radical libertarianism. If you follow the, you know, the, with any intelligence, if you follow this logical train of thought. Um, okay. Let's, uh, let's switch topics here. Let's, um, let's, so we should talk about what's going on with, uh,

with Israel right now. Um, because this is a very dangerous situation. Uh, Israel, um, just, uh, bombed Beirut, uh, in Lebanon. Um, so at, there was a strike in, uh, the Golan Heights, uh, recently and, uh, uh and a bunch of kids died. It was truly awful. Israel and the United States of America is claiming that Hezbollah was responsible for the attack.

Hezbollah has denied that they are responsible for the attack. I don't know, I don't know that any of us know what the the truth is of that. It certainly is plausible that Hezbollah could have done it. But I guess we don't know for sure. But we do know that Israel in response to that has now started bombing Lebanon. This is one of the fears that, you know, this is one of the fears that a lot

of us have had since the war started, that there is this danger of this spreading and becoming a wider regional conflict. This is a major step toward that. To be clear, just for people who know Hezbollah is you know there they don't have the military strength of Israel but you're talking about a much more formidable opponent than Hamas I mean Hezbollah is they they are the political faction that controls southern Lebanon they're a legit military I mean they're not just you know they started as kind of like militias.

They basically started in the 80s when Israel invaded and occupied Lebanon, and they were the resistance fighters. But they've become a legitimate military at this point. I think most experts put them around like a mid-sized military. And they're not pushovers. Like, they drove Israel out of Lebanon. And you know what I mean? Like there and at least it seems like they have some ability to touch Israel itself. Um,

there, if they are responsible for this strike, then they just proved that. And so Israel who's already having a lot of trouble with the current war that they're fighting is current war that they're fighting is now looking like they're spreading the war further. And of course, um, the U S as is with everything Israel does is very implicated and very involved in this. And if you care about America and that's your primary concern,

my God, like another just disastrous war in the middle East. Isn't that really what we need right now, Rob? Certainly doesn't seem to be good escalations. Yeah, that's for sure. All right guys, let's take a moment and thank our sponsor for today's show, which is monetary metals, a phenomenal company. And right now you can unlock a 12% return on silver. If you're ready to start building wealth by putting your precious metals to

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United States. Again, click the link in the episode description or just go to monetary-medals.com for more information on how to participate. All right, let's get back into the show. Oh, by the way, and, uh, uh, let me tell you, every, I know I was talking about this a little bit on the, uh, the last episode, the live one we did down in Nashville, but it is like every time you even,

it's almost like the Democrats and the, and the corporate media will push you closer and closer to just want to support Donald Trump. You know what I mean? Like they're just all so awful. They deserve to lose so much that a certain point you're almost like, ah, fuck it, man, maybe I should just support Donald Trump. But then Donald Trump always comes in and you're like, Oh, okay. Oh yeah, that's right. Anyway, let's, let's play this. Here's, here's Donald Trump from a, from, I think this was earlier today.

Let's play the clip. A Jewish person that voted for her or him or whoever it's going to be. I assume it's going to be her. Anybody that did that is, I should have their head examined. If you love Israel or if you're Jewish, because a lot of Jewish people do not like Israel and they happen to be in New York, you know that. But if you are Jewish, regardless of Israel, if you're Jewish, if you vote for a Democrat, you're a fool, an absolute fool.

They have let Jewish people down since Obama at a levels that nobody could believe possible. You know, 15 years ago, the strongest lobby in all of Washington with it was Israel. It was by far the strongest. Nobody would say anything bad about Israel today. It's like, nobody says anything good except Republicans, by the way. Nobody says anything good about it. So is a hell of a change. I assume you know exactly what I'm saying. 15 years ago, you couldn't say a bad thing. You'd be out of office. And today it's almost like, I mean, Schumer has become a Palestinian.

Chuck Schumer is officially now a Palestinian. It's funny, but it's true. It's sad. He is. He is. And they tell me that this Harris's husband, Doug Emhoff, Mr. President, is Jewish. He's Jewish like Bernie Sanders is Jewish. Are you kidding me? He's a crappy Jew. He's a horrible Jew. Well, there you go.

Don't worry. You know, it's like, at least on Ukraine, like Donald Trump had some pretty good rhetoric. It's gotten worse. But he did have some really good rhetoric about It's gotten worse, but he did have some really good rhetoric about like ending the war immediately and he doesn't care. He just wants the dying to stop. He just wants to end it. And of course you sit there and you go, all right, he's saying the right thing, but who knows if he's actually going to do

it once he gets in office. You know what I mean? But on, on this is he's just telling you I'm going to be terrible. That's the thing. Chuck Schumer is a Palestinian and the guy laughs. It's funny because it's true. No it's fucking not. It's not true. And we're to sit here and pretend that the political party who's in power right now,

who's funding, you know, what, what the ICJ calls a plausible genocide. I mean, whatever you want to call it there, they're funding and arming Israel's current war. Those are all a bunch of Palestinians, Rob. Do you understand that? Those are all, those are all the pro Palestinian guys. Like how it is unbelievable that no matter what Warhawks the Democrats are, the Republicans always circle back to this thing. Like we're supposed to pretend that they're like, like these hippies in 1968 or something like that. Like, Oh yeah, if I get in there, we'll really support Israel.

And by the way, you know, I mean, Trump's just like, just such a fucking idiot. But like this idea that an all, all Jewish people have to be on board with this. Like if, if you're Jewish, then you have to be like, yes, go start a war with Lebanon. Why? Why would your religion like mean that you have to be on the side of them? I mean, it's, it's just, it really is crazy. It's the same logic as being like, well, then every black person should vote for Kamala Harris, right?

Cause you're for the blacks, right? So if you're Jewish, you got to support Trump because he's for Israel. God, it's just awful. I thought he had a winning hand and I'm surprised that Donald Trump didn't play it, which was throw Netanyahu under the bus. Say I love the country of Israel. I love the Jewish people. But when Netanyahu did is disgusting.

You can use Donald Trump language. He's endangered his entire country. If someone else was there and I was president, this never would have happened. I know how to move forward and make sure that the Palestinians are not invading Israel, but are able to live better or what you can spin it however you want, but you've got an easy pathway out of this situation, which is to blame Netanyahu, which by the way, politically, you should be strong enough to get away with, he was the guy who backed Joe Biden. We were saying that it wasn't a legitimate election.

So you w what exactly do the Israelis and Netanyahu have on everybody across the board that even not as president and just running and after Netanyahu had trashed Trump, he has got to invite him into his home and go, you've never eaten a meal like this. You're going to love what we have for you here. And then being on the news and he's lying a little bit with the, they got to get it over. By the way, inhumane comment of the Israelis have to wrap this up quickly because they're getting bad publicity. It's not a statement about the morality of what's happening or whether or not it's good foreign policy. It's solely a statement on, hey, the press on this is bad, so they better stop doing it.

Yeah. And get it over quickly kind of implies like ramp it up. You know what I mean? Like really get in there and do it. Yeah, it's just I mean, it's just terrible and For you know for for Donald Trump To be taking this line It does as much as the Democrats deserve to lose this election so much it does just it kills any energy that I had of being like, ah, maybe I'll just support this guy to be like, screw you.

He also, he had another winning hand, even though it's not necessarily true, he could step up there and go, the problem is the US looks weak because of what's going on in Ukraine, and we look weak because of what Obama and Biden did in dealing with Iran and giving funds to Iran. And this is all because of the power and balance

in the region because of the strategic mistakes we've made and because of the weakness that we have. But once Amin president, the United States is gonna be so respected. People like the Palestinians won't do that, which at least wouldn't be an endorsement of Netanyahu in the current strategy. But instead he's just signaling, hey, whatever check you guys need, you got my back.

I'm the same as everybody else on this one. But even like, it's just, he just goes out of his way to demonstrate that like he doesn't get it at all. It just doesn't get where he's like, he's like, you know, APAC is such a powerful lobby 15 years ago, you couldn't even criticize Israel. Now people are criticizing Israel and you're like, wait, what? That's your, that's your America first. You're the America first guy. And your perspective is that a lobby lobbying on behalf of a foreign government once had so much control that you couldn't even criticize this foreign nation.

And that's what you want to go back to. By the way, it's the all the wars that you claim you were against all the wars that you say were such a bad mistake. The things you sat there and you were like, Oh, remember you told Jeb Bush that his brother lied us into the war in Iraq. Well guess who supported that Israel. They were one of the major forces. I mean, it's like, who do you think the neo cons are? Do you know? Do you even know? Cause I don't

think he does. You know, Oh, Jeb Bush, your brother lied us into war. Well, who was your brother's administration? You know, who was Dick Cheney and Paul and Wolfowitz and Richard Pearl and David Worms are who were all these guys? Who were they working on behalf of? Whose team were they on? Oh yeah. The people you're not allowed to criticize the Likud party. Okay.

So like, it's just, again, he just doesn't know anything. It's so frustrating because he's like the one guy who's positioned to, to be the guy, you know, and he just doesn't know anything. And he's just too, like, he's too like stupid and lazy, man. So like, like he doesn't even want to know. He doesn't even want to like put in a little bit of the work to kind of figure it out. And again, Rob, like you said, you could even, even though this isn't completely fair or accurate, but you could isolate it to Netanyahu, you know, because Netanyahu is the longest

serving prime minister in Israeli history. And he's been in there. He was in there first in 96 and you know, he was out for a little and came back in but but he's the guy who was pushing for the war in Iraq. Like you could play off that and the fact that the guy Benjamin Netanyahu who was pushing for America to topple Saddam's regime in Iraq was pushing for America to have a regime change in Iran was pushing for America to have regime change in Libya in Syria. That guy also when you were contesting the election after you had done everything for him, bent over backward, you know, Abraham Accords, moving the embassy to Tel Aviv, excuse

me, moving the embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. You did everything. And while you were contesting the election, not after he lost the court cases, before any of the court cases, when he was contesting the election, it was either the day or two days after he came out and congratulated Obama. So here you have it. You have your hand. Like you said, your hand is perfectly given to you. He congratulated Biden. I'm sorry. Yes, that is why. Huh? He congratulated Biden.

I'm sorry. Yes. That's right. Came out and congratulated Biden while Trump was still contesting the election. You know, and so you could at least just throw that guy under the bus, by the way, that guy who is deeply unpopular in his own country and the war is deeply unpopular in the world, you know, like why not be on the popular side of this issue? And, you know, it's a mix of the fact that there's, you know, it might be popular

amongst the American people, but it ain't popular amongst the powerful. I'll tell you, I'll tell you one more lie he could, he could go with, which would probably be the best one is I'm here because I'm the America first person and we've got problems in this country. And that's why I'm running. I got a border to fix. I've got problems in this country and that's why I'm running I got a border to fix I've got it Well, he's not he should say the deficit but he doesn't care about that. He could say inflation He could say I got inflation to fix. I've got a Ukraine Putin problem to fix and We're gonna make sure that every just lie. We're gonna make sure that everyone's safe over there. I do what you do

I know how to fix it. I'm gonna get it solved Everyone needs to be safe when needs it what's happening over there is tragic and I've got a better way to approach it. Even that's different than just giving a blanket endorsement and going, hey, deep state and Jewish people, whatever you need, I'll sign those checks also. And then this thing of like, you know, the kind of weaponizing identity stuff I just hate so much too. Like, oh, you're not a real Jew, and if you're a Jew, you're a fool to not support this. It's like, okay, well I'm Jewish,

and you saying this makes me never want to consider supporting you, so take that for what it is. All right, let's check in with the live chat over at partoftheproblem.com. That's one of the cool things about signing up at partoftheproblem.com. You get to be in the live chat. Okay we're porch tour calm this weekend out in California Three shows with Brian McWilliams come hang out. Oh nice. Yeah, I forgot you're doing them with Brian. That's awesome

Okay Eve Says hold on let me just make that a little bigger here. IDF soldiers are being prosecuted for torture and sexually assaulting Palestinian prisoners, but we're going all in on their side. This is not a good look and will not age well. Yeah. Did you see that Rob? There's like a, and there were like protests about the guy being prosecuted for raping a Palestinian. It's pretty appalling. They're like, dude, look, it's hard

to say this in any other way. And I don't even wanna be unfair where, you know, I'm not saying there aren't any good people in Israel. There are, I'm not saying they're not like, you know, the reasonably by world standards, like fairly good to their own people. But the dynamic that you always come back to, And I've said this a bunch in almost every debate that I do. It just what it comes down to is just the only way you can really defend Israel is if you simply value Israeli life and don't value Arab life.

That's what it all comes down to. And look, you can see this the other day that when there was this strike that killed like, what was it? It was like 11 or 12 kids got killed at a soccer game in, uh, in the Golan Heights, uh, there, Rob. And I mean, look like, and rightfully so totally understandably, like it's like all of the people who are supporting Israel are just like a Paul and they're like, look how horrible this is, you know, it's like, look at this.

I mean, I can't tell you how many people I, you know, got blown up on, on Twitter. Cause you know, I've been one of the more vocal people critic criticizing Israel. And they're like, Oh, look at this, Dave, look at what you say. Oh, okay. So you, are you still, you know, pro Hamas and has blah after this, even though obviously I'm not pro either of those groups, unlike them, I don't actually support the killing of kids, but you just sit there and you're like, yeah, but look, isn't this the whole game? Without even realizing it, you're admitting the whole thing right now, right? Because you're sitting here and going like, look how

appalling this is. Like my stomach is sick over this. And you're like, yeah, and you should be appalled. That is horrible and totally inexcusable. But how are you going to sit here and say a dozen kids died in Israel? Isn't this an outrage? Well, you don't care at all that thousands and thousands and thousands of kids in Gaza have died over the last nine months. You know what I mean? Like it's just, it's right there. It's explained. And the truth is that not just in the Israeli government, but in Israel in general, there is like, it's, it's almost something akin

to the culture in the South in 1840 and the way they looked at black people. Like those people just don't deserve anything. They're not even really people. They have no rights. Period. Fuck them. They get nothing. That's kind of the attitude. And you just, you can't have that. You can't support that. You can't have that attitude is just too evil. And I know, Robert, like, I know, you know, I know you've seen some of that stuff before where it's like, and look, I also do get that it's like, people get very hardened, especially when there's groups of people who have been fighting back and

forth and killing back and forth for a long period of time. Um, but there is an attitude amongst a lot of Israelis that it's just like, yep, got to show those people what's up. That's that. We dominate and they submit and that's the way this is supposed to work. And that's the attitude you see on display. And when you see a guy who clearly raped a Palestinian and they're protesting the fact that he would get prosecuted for that, what else is that dude? What else are we looking at here? Yeah, I think, uh, you don't get, I don't know, you don't get moral passes like that. You know, God did not take you in to conquer the current Arab

population with pillars of smoke and with a clear directive and miracles. So I don't know why you guys think you get a moral pass and that's what's so beautiful about being a libertarian with the non-aggression principle. You guys should and miracles, so I don't know why you guys think you get a moral pass, and that's what's so beautiful about being a libertarian with the non-aggression principle. You guys should be standing, stand for moral standards. That gives you the high ground. If you stand for moral standards, you get the high ground. If you stand for, hey, we can do whatever we want

to other people because we're us and they're them, well then, I mean, how is that philosophy any different than extremist terrorism from them, when they kill civilians, on the basis that they got a directive from whatever, however they frame it religiously? Yeah, no, that's right. That's right. It's the exact same thing and it's and it's just unacceptable all around.

All right, let's see what else we got going on in a live stream. Andy the ANCAP said Dave is a Palestinian. I don't know why that's making me laugh. Yeah, by the way, everything seems to be going off real well with this live stream. I apologize. I know we had a little bit of an issue with the last one, but overall for a new site launching, I think we've been, we've been doing pretty good. Mick Falcon writes, Google redirecting Trump's assassination to the Reagan attempt,

uh, attempts. Tech is gross. You know, I, okay, so I have not, I don't know if you have, I have not messed around with this at all myself, but I did see Elon Musk tweeted something about like what the, the shadiness Google's up to. Did you see any of this rub where it's like, if you search like assassination of T and then like just let it pre-fill. It's like Reagan. You're like, Reagan doesn't start with a T like, why are we getting like, there are just things where like, if you, even if you like, uh, search Trump, like the first big news stories that come up are all like Kamala Harris puff pieces and stuff like that.

And it is, you know, it's, it's, it's interesting that particularly when the cover story for, for the, for the, for is, you know, it's, it's, it's interesting that particularly when the cover story for all the tech censorship was like election interference, you know, like missed information is, you know, interfering in our elections or whatever. And you just realize like, the whole game here is like, you know, putting your thumb on the scale. It is pretty crazy. Like how much power a company like Google has to just move the

needle a little bit. And all they got to do is bury one thing. If you remember back in 2019 when Tulsi Gabbard was running for president. So Tulsi Gabbard after, for president. So Tulsi Gabbard after, after the first debate, or it was after like a few debates. Oh, I think almost every one she was in, she was the most Googled person in America. Like she, like, so cause you know, she was the only one saying anything interesting up there. So a lot of people were like, Hey, who the hell is that lady?

Let's go check her out. And so after the first debate, she was the most Googled, uh, you know, candidate afterward. And then, so then after the second debate, they just took away the ad that redirects you to her website. You know, like they had the SEO stuff figured out that the top thing, if you just Google Tulsi Gabbard would be her campaign website. And they just took that off, you know? And it's, it's interesting how there's little things like that, that you really, it's hard to like exactly put a value on, but as long, once that moment's gone, it's gone.

You know what I mean? Like that was her chance. That's her chance to like have a net and catch new people. You have the big debate. That's when the most eyeballs are on you. That's when people go to Google to search you and then they get your campaign site. Then there's information to donate. Then there's your policies you get set and you just take that away.

And then you don't get any of that. And, uh, it is, obviously Google's a company who's very in bed with the government and the establishment. And yeah, I mean, there's, there's no question that that's one of the, one of the many things that Trump's going to have to overcome. So already, it's like, I don't know, you know, I don't know that anyone knows, but I don't know exactly how many points that's worth. You know what I mean?

How many votes that that's worth, but whatever it is, let's say it's, it's worth 5%. Well now you got to your starting point is you got to win by 6%. Like whatever that that whatever Google's moving the needle is is you're already in a deficit and you got to overcome that. So it's a, yeah, it's, it's at least though, much like with the weird compilation that we started the show with, at least it is cool that now you got Elon Musk tweeting that out and everyone kind of sees that there's at least some mechanism to open people's eyes to it or fight back or something like that.

But anyway, all right, we got any final thoughts, Rob, or we got to wrap this one up. We got it. We've been we got a lot stacked for the next episode. There's a ton going on. So we got a lot more to talk to you guys about. But I'll see you guys out there in in Orlando this Friday for Young Americans for Liberty. Of course, go to PorchTour.com to come to come see Rob comic Dave Smith comm and come right over here It's a part of the problem comm. Oh and also we just Started a new YouTube channel or Dave Smith clips. We will put that link in the episode description We're starting this channel from scratch So, please do me a favor and go over there

and subscribe to that YouTube channel as well. Subscribe, you know, to both of them, obviously. And yeah, we're gonna be putting a whole bunch of good content up there. It'll be clips from this show. They'll even be clips from the members-only Thursday episodes. You can maybe get a little taste of that.

But for the whole thing, you got to go sign up. But and it'll be clips from from, you know, stuff that, uh, you know, other stuff that I've done. Brian just put the my talk at the Bitcoin conference up there. If you want to go check that out, you can go check it out there at the clips channel. That link will be in the episode description. Alright, thank you guys so much. Catch you next time. Peace.