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What's up everybody welcome to a brand new episode of part of the problem I'm Dave Smith and he has Robbie the fireburn stand what's up brother how are you doing well had a fun stretch of shows in California and the porch tour continues my friend Savannah Atlanta Birmingham Alabama and then taking a weekend off

oh robbie bernstein southern strategy coming into play uh very good uh i am as you guys may have seen i'm not at home i'm on vacation i do i apologize for the uh i know this is not the best um camera angle uh but uh this was the best i could do is uh i'm sorry anyway i also in advance apologize if there's noise i got a house full of kids here it's like my kids and my sister's kid and stuff and uh

It's this room has a lot of windows, but it's like rainy and gloomy. And so anyway, if I'm not good quality, it's because there's not very good light in this room. But I don't know. This is my first time I've ever like been on a vacation with the kids and the weather is just bad. And you're pretty quickly. You're like, oh, my God, what are we going to do?

do with these maniacs like you really you rely on the beach and the pool and like you know all this stuff that you're like and they're like at an age where like they're too young to like go to a movie theater or something like that you know what i mean so you're just they're just sprinting around like maniacs inside so we'll see how that not much vacation when you gotta be stuck with your kids indoors and just try and entertain them you're like i'm supposed to be off right now this sucks there's no there's no vacation this is a great old uh louis ck joke

The thing about packing up the whole car and getting the kids in and then he's closing the door on your wife and then he walks around the car to go get in the driver's seat and he goes, that's his vacation. Just the walking around. I feel so bad for my dad in this regard. There's nothing I mean, maybe I could apologize as an adult, but I mean, I'm 36 and I

I don't take vacation. I mean, I travel a bunch for work, but I don't, I'm not spending money on vacation. My dad worked really hard. And once a year, I guess we'd go away somewhere for a couple of days. And I just remember myself as a shit bag, high school kid, basically just sitting there the whole time going, this sucks. I want to go home. This sucks. Why am I stuck with my sisters? And just being like a,

a 45 year old guy taking your three or 50 taking your three days off from work that you paid so hard you know what i mean you work so hard just to be on vacation with your kids to have some shit bag just sitting there going i want to go home this sucks yeah it's amazing how much almost every argument you had with your parents when you were a teenager you look back and you go man my side does not hold up well like i literally i was just living there rent free huh yeah i guess i could have been cool um

No, it's, you know, well, anyway, I don't know, dude, that's like, uh, just as you were saying, I don't know, this got me off. I'm just thinking about a tangent, but, uh, like, yeah, when you're, if you're single, like I never took a vacation before I had family, it's strictly for the kids. That's why you take a vacation. Um, but I think that's the correct attitude to have.

I don't think you're supposed to, you know, like I know you see there's like couples. I mean, like I'm talking like not married without kids who like go to Disney regularly. Well, they're all pedophiles. No one, no adult should go to Disney. Find something else. Everyone thinks you're disgusting. The people that people have their personality were like, Disney's their thing every year. And I couldn't sooner think that you should be removed from the voting pool. Yeah.

Dude, there's, well, look, I'll say I know people like this. I don't even want to say like what job they do, because in case they ever listen to this, I don't want them to be thinking. You know how much you secretly disdain them? Well, it's not even look, it's not disdain. It's really not. It's something else. But it's like there are a lot of people, I think, who kind of have the mentality that like, look, you have a job.

They have even some of these people I know have like good jobs, you know, and then like when they're off work, it's like I'm off work. I clock out. I sit on the couch. I have a beer. I watch the game. You know what I mean? I go go to the Giants game on Sunday or whatever. You know, it's like just that's kind of the mentality. And I do think especially for like the younger men who listen to our show, it is something where it's like.

That that mentality, I think, used to work like there was once upon a time in the United States of America where it was kind of like you go, you go and you wait online at the factory or whatever and you get a job. And if you have a good job, you're going to.

You can afford to have buy a house and have some kids. Your wife doesn't have to work. You can, you know what I mean? You can go on vacation in the summer. You could play poker on the weekends, whatever it is, just kind of like the American life. And I think that doesn't exist anymore. And if you're just kind of like, Hey, I clock into work, I clock out of work and then I relax and I catch a game or I play poker or whatever it is. It's like, you're, you're going to be struggling forever. Right.

And the only way to do it now is like, but like the flip side of that is like, now you have the opportunity to hustle more than ever before. You know, I was just reading, um, I read this stat and I don't know exactly how accurate this is, but I literally just happened to read the other day, um, that, uh, 45% of Americans have a side hustle now.

which is kind of crazy when you think about it, but there's never really, there's never been a time where it was easier or easier. Isn't the right word where it was more possible to have a side hustle, like whatever the thing is you do, you can kind of do that. And I do just think that,

One of the things, a lot of it's living in a high price inflation world is that it's like, yeah, if you just sit back and be like, I'm just doing what I was supposed to do, loosely speaking, you're going to fall behind. You're going to get to a point where you're like, you know what I mean? You're just not going to set up a good life for yourself. But

you know, whatever. I sit here like bitching and moaning about it. It's like, there's been much worse times to be alive. It's not like there's a war on and there's a draft going on. And that's just that it's like nowadays, it's like you do have the opportunity to hustle in a way that you never really had before. And it's all, it's all going to be about like what your mentality is. If your mentality is like, I'm going to level up and then level up again and then level up from there and then level up from there, you're going to make it. And if your mentality is like clock in clock out,

You're gonna get left behind. That's kind of the way I I think about the world today Well, you're a good example of that Rob. You're constantly hustling Trying taking over the world one porch at a time I saw some of the the pictures you posted looks cool, man, and I heard people have a great time on that porch door Check it out. We even have a good time And yeah, I agree with you. I mean release that's uh, that's that's the way I operate and

Yeah, no, that's kind of I think you kind of have to these days. So anyway, all right, I guess let's let's start today as this might be a little bit of a shorter episode. I apologize for that, but I am three minutes till the kids are just running around throwing cereal all over the place.

I'm starting to smell smoke. Someone started a fire downstairs. Let me make this quick. Yeah. So I guess the big news right now, of course, is we're in the middle of this massive propaganda campaign, which has been quite entertaining for me personally to watch. I just think it's like.

I this one, the Kamala Harris propaganda campaign is is one that I'm looking at and just going to myself like, wait, they think this can work. They really like, you know, OK, yes, the the the most unpopular vice president in American history has been transformed into a cultural phenomenon and a charismatic leader. And everybody's so excited about her and whatever. It's just it's wild to watch as I'm.

I'm staying firm in my position that this is 100% AstroTurfed bullshit. None of this is real. Um, but so much of our, you know, reality in this country is not real these days. But, uh, anyway, so she picked her vice presidential candidate, uh, Tim Waltz, uh,

And that's been the kind of what's dominating the news cycle over the last 24 hours or so. So this, I guess, you know what, let's start with just to get a little taste of what this propaganda campaign has been like and how absurd it is. Here is here's Mike Barnicle over at MSNBC. You know, Joe, that's a very interesting observation that you just pointed out. The Reagan campaign of 1980.

Watching the coach, and I'm going to call him the coach from now until election day. Watching the coach yesterday and watching the vice president yesterday, it was mesmerizing in the sense that it's been a while since I've seen a rally like that, either on TV or in person. And watching it, you could just sense the power in the hall. And it was the power of joy.

the power of laughter, the power of hope for the future, but especially the power of those who are in the hall and those who are thinking or considering voting for this ticket, the vice president and the coach.

for those considering voting for the ticket giving them the power to think that they're participating in something that will put a smile on your face it's been a long time since any aspect of american politics has put a smile on anyone's face and these two people yesterday managed to put a smile on the nation's face is he transitioning to become an old lady

Yeah, I guess so. There you have it. Mike Barnicle, two what can only be described as Jesus-like figures holding a rally that just warms the soul of the American spirit. And I mean, Rob, I got to go back to Ronald Reagan's 1980 campaign. I just can't think of an example where there was like a big political rally that put a smile on

on a lot of people's face, perhaps like, you know, the 35,000 that Donald Trump's done since he's been running for president. Can you think of the last time there was an image in your mind of like a big rally, right, with a political figure speaking at it and people were like smiling and laughing and enjoying themselves? But obviously, if you think of that, what comes to mind is Kamala Harris. That's the world that we live in.

It's just so bananas. Like there's just, it's just funny to watch this where I'm like, this can't possibly work. This can't possibly be sold. Man, if it, if this does end up working, my God, then, then the whole thing is just fake and they can just create anything out of thin air because this is so like, it's so wild to have these people, first of all, go right from,

How phenomenal Joe Biden is and the cheap fakes and that the economy is so good. You just don't know what sharp is attack sharp is attack all this stuff.

admitting he just pooped his pants. Okay, yes, we have to put the president in a senior home, but you know this other VP who we were all skipping over because she's so wildly unpopular? Oh, she has the it factor now. And oh, there's a new VP candidate, you know, the guy who none of you have ever heard of before in your life, except for the last 24 hours.

he's, I mean, a transformative figure. He's, he's essentially the next Obama. That's, I know he looks like a fat dad to you, but don't let that mess with you. No, he's really, this is putting a smile on America's face in a way no one else has before. By the way, while the, there is kind of this X factor that's looming over this new race, which is that, you know, the

the markets like the S&P and the Nasdaq both lost like a thousand points the other day. There's some pretty, you know, like there's some question marks right now about whether we might be entering into a real economic downturn. And if that's the case, that would be the major story in this election. Kamala Harris is the VP and you're not going to distance yourself that much from the, you

You know, like, look, John McCain couldn't distance himself from the financial recession of George W. Bush because it was like you're a Republican, too. Kamala Harris is the vice president of this. That changes things drastically. But no, no, no. The story here is about this charismatic vice presidential pick whose name we all just learned. Yeah.

It's fun because bullshit has no metrics. So this is like describing the soul of the nation. How can I possibly quantify the soul of the nation? I wasn't there. Can I tell you the energy of the crowd and whether or not that doesn't exist anywhere else? But it really just sounds like an old lady where instead of talking about the economics or any of the policies that might actually help the country put smiles on people's face, it's, but they had a nice message and we all went home with a smile on our face and

There you go. It's a Sunday church lady coming home, telling us about, I don't know what the preacher said, but we all had a smile on our face.

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Yeah, well, I'll say this, too, by the way, just on how fake this whole thing is. And I don't know, this might just be me. I don't know if anybody else has experienced this, but I have gotten in the last two weeks,

I'm not exaggerating. I've gotten like at least 20 text messages like donate to Kamala Harris. We're trying to do this for Kamala Harris. Can you send money here? Take a survey on behalf of Kamala Harris. And I have never.

i mean i've never donated money to a democrat in my i don't know i'd sent money to tulsi gabbard in uh very little but i sent money to her it was like back when there was like a thing where like you needed she needed to get like a certain amount of like individual donations to be on the debate stage in 2019 so it was like

it didn't matter if you gave a buck or 20 bucks or whatever but it it helped her so i sent that but i never get messages for to donate to democrats it's just now and so anyway it's just clearly a part of this kind of um you know it's like this the machine is making an attempt to sell you on this so that you stop asking the very obvious question which is that which is

You know, you guys have been talking about how Donald Trump is a threat to democracy and democracy, democracy, democracy for years now. And January 6th was the worst thing ever because it was an attempt to overthrow democracy. And Donald Trump, if he gets in as the end of our democracy, he'll be a dictator. We won't have elections anymore. And.

Then the fact that you guys just basically orchestrated a coup against the sitting president of the United States and installed someone or you're claiming she's the nominee now, although she's not technically. You're claiming she's the nominee and as closed a primary processes as you already had. You've had no primary.

to get her. No one has voted for her to be president. In fact, she ran for president in 2020 and dropped out before Iowa. Like it's and so it's like almost they have to create this artificial thing to

Like you said, bullshit has no metric. It's like they have to create this artificial thing so that they can kind of in some way be able to plausibly say that there is some type of ground support from the people for her, even though objectively speaking, that's never been demonstrated. That's what we're living through right now. It's wild. They could the president, but look at the smiles on everyone's faces.

Yeah, it's unbelievable. It's unbelievable what a short period of time all of this kind of all of this went down in and that we went from being like, you're a deranged, crazy right winger. If you even question Joe Biden's age, you know, to like, yeah.

Yeah, he's completely out of the way. We're not even talking about that anymore. But, whoa, look at this next lady. They do seem to be doing a better job with the theatrics, though, and that I guess they took from Donald Trump doing things in the round, putting the crowd behind them. And I don't know how they have the audience this well trained, but it's basically every three words there. They're they're clapping.

which kind of covers up for Kamala Harris's weird smile and laugh anyways, because it fills in those gaps. And then speaking to the new VP, what's his name again? I'm so bad with names. Waltz. Waltz. Okay. So I do think that they've put together a pretty extreme socialist ticket here. I wonder once we start talking about the issues, how the two of them are going to do from a purely political,

sales standpoint, the guy's not terrible. He's got like a Gene Hackman style voice. Um, he's got like, if you're just doing the yin and yang of, Hey, who's the white guy I can put into this ticket that kind of just makes it look like a more balanced look. Um, it,

I at least thus far from the couple minutes of his speech that I've watched, I don't agree with anything that he's saying. I think all of his policy is terrible. I think some of his record in his state, the tampons in the bathrooms, what happened with the George Floyd riots, the signing a bill that illegal immigrants can get licenses. It's all pretty extremely progressive. I think all the policy is terrible, but just.

Purely, they seem to be doing a decent job at the moment of selling it. Yeah, well, okay, so one of the things that's interesting about this guy, Waltz, is that he is, and I think this is one of the reasons why he got picked, and it's also one of the reasons why Sardid, was that me or you? I'm still here. I'm with you.

So I think one of the reasons why he got picked and one of the reasons why, um, progressives and leftists are, are very, uh, excited at him getting picked is number one. He is certainly a few clicks to the left of the establishment of the democratic party, but it's not, you know, I think, uh, particularly libertarians have, um, this issue, uh,

with, you know, because libertarians are libertarians and there's good things and bad things about our particular brand of autism. But there's, you know, one of the good things is that libertarians have really thought about policy a lot.

And so that we have very good arguments that we can articulate well about why minimum wage laws undercut low skilled labor and why government spending creates corruption and like all of these things. But perhaps a more important split is something else, not whether you're for free markets or for socialism. There's a reason why, you know, there are this guy, his a.

His state went for Donald Trump.

I got to go check the margin, but it was a pretty substantial margin by which Donald Trump won it in 2016. And then he held on and got elected there. And it's almost like, you know, when you read about these counties that went for Obama and then went for Trump, it's like, well, how is that exactly? Why is that? And it's certainly you're not going to find the answer if you're looking between the split of, like, say, laissez faire versus government intervention. That's not...

the deal. What it is, is simply like, are you speaking to issues that working people care about or not? And you may come with a kind of like a big government type solution and someone else may come with a smaller government type solution. Like somebody might say like, Hey, we're going to make sure the government picks up childcare costs or overtime or, you know, whatever it may be. Um,

And someone else may say, hey, we're going to cut your taxes. This will be four thousand dollars extra in your paycheck. You know what I mean? But but at least the guy is speaking to issues that like a working class person might care about, whereas so much of the Democratic Party.

establishment and not even just the democratic establishment. I mean, the the Democrats I argue with on Pierce Morgan or whoever, so many of them are like they're like January 6th, democracy, racism, you know, just like things that are.

If you're like a struggling family who's just none of this means anything to you. It doesn't speak to issues that you're actually concerned with. Whereas somebody who's more socialist leaning, whereas me and you may completely disagree with their policies because they're stupid and destructive and wrong. But at least if you're talking about the government getting you health care or education or something like that, it's at least.

somewhat of a bread and butter issue that you could maybe appeal to voters on. And I think at least it does seem to be like some recognition there. You're going to have to have something like that because the establishment, like if you think about all of the entire establishment, Republican and Democrat, it's like the thing about the Mike Pence, that's not my concern comment that got taken. Perhaps he didn't exactly mean it that way, but

You know, still the point of why that was so damaging to him was because it's kind of like the establishment is basically like, well, look, here are the issues that really matter. Democracy, January 6th, climate change, the war in Ukraine, the war in Israel, you know, like all these things that are totally removed.

From some dad who's like, I got three kids and I'm trying to put them through school. And you know what I mean? Like, I don't know. I'm getting killed with price inflation. It's just like there's issues like that that are much more bread and butter issues that people actually vote on.

I think these are always the things. It's the old James Carville. It's the economy, stupid. But this is what this is what actually motivates people to vote. And so many of these social issues, particularly all the woke stuff, it was amazing. None of them learned their lesson from Donald Trump, which is like, look, if you see all of these hundreds of districts that went for Obama and then go for Donald Trump, doesn't that give you some information that it's like, oh, yeah, it seems like the social issues are

don't really matter to them because those guys couldn't have been more opposite personally and culturally and all of these things. But the thing they had in common is they were both looking at working class people and saying, I'm going to do stuff to make your life a little bit easier. That so in that sense, I do think it was a smart pick by the Democrats to at least go to somebody who can kind of attempt to hit that Bernie Sanders thing.

You know, the Bernie Sanders pitch, which does resonate with some degree of people, with some percentage of people. So in that sense, I do think he wasn't a terrible, a terrible pick for them. And as a man of the people out on porches interacting with common folks and seeing what they're all about, I've been hearing that there's a big issue with small boys in this country of the government not providing the menstruation tools that they need. So at least there's one candidate who's willing to address this issue.

Well, there you go. Yes. Well, he the other thing about Waltz is evidently he was really bad on COVID. And so I suppose that I'd like to think that would hurt him to some degree. But I guess I don't know if anyone's running with that talking point. And RFK has seemed to kill his campaign with pro-Israel talk and being bad on bears. Yeah.

He's killed his campaign and evidently a bear. It's just it's so funny that RFK like had to get ahead of the story, too. He's like, listen, some stuff's going to come out about a dead bear that I put in a park. Now, for the record, this bear was dead when I found it. I did what any normal American would do, which is pull a hilarious prank and put this dead bear in a park. You're like, what?

Jesus Christ. He's, you know, they always say that you vote for the president you want to have a beer with. RFK is the guy that if you were having a beer with, you'd be like, whoa, what are we doing right now? Like, slow down. RFK goes...

R.F.K. goes, hey, you know how people always say you vote for the president you want to have a bear with? And they're like, no, no, no, that's beer. And he's like, are you sure it's beer? I'm pretty sure they say the president you want to have a bear with. And they're like, no, that's beer. He goes, well, why did I just lug this bear all the way around? I was like, I don't know. Why did you? Hey, look, it's roadkill. Let's go eat that. Let's take it home for a barbecue. Jesus Christ. Oh, man.

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VP candidate, maybe. I don't even know. Is he the new VP candidate? That much isn't clear, but anyway. But here is a clip of him talking about socialism. But we can get out there, reach out, make the case. And for one thing, don't ever shy away from our progressive values.

One person's socialism is another person's neighborliness. Really, it's essentially just neighborliness, Rob. That's what socialism is. Isn't that, I mean, look, it is to go back to the, so it's almost because this is my job because I'm libertarian day walker.

Um, but it's like, look, I understand. It's like, you got to understand like, and libertarians should get this if you're ever trying to campaign, um, for anything it's you don't lead with any of these like kind of DC, New York city style talking points that are all kind of centered around, um, what offended very privileged people. You know, you have to like go at bread and butter issues, but then at the same time,

We do, if anyone's going to be the ones, we do have to be the ones to make the arguments that actually like, no, like if somebody is advocating more socialism, that is going to screw over the working class more than any other policy. And man, it is just infuriating to see. It's like, yeah, it's like whatever they call it, socialism. I call it neighborliness, like neighborliness. Doesn't that usually like the neighborliness pretty heavily imply number

Number one, that it's being done on a local level. And number two, that it's voluntary. When is it since when is it neighborly for D.C. to steal half your money to give it out to their friends? That's that's the same. Those are basically synonymous, just neighborliness and the extracting your wealth from you by the threat of force.

It's neighborly when the government forces an illegal immigrant to sit right next, live right next to you and then take your resources and provide for that person. Really? Well, right. Exactly. I mean, it's like so. So anyway, I mean, hopefully, you know, the case can be made against this because there really is something like incredibly dangerous about that. That style of message that like, no, we're going to implement socialism because this is what they always say. It's like, what is it really except sharing?

That's all we're talking about here is sharing, being neighborly, helping people when, you know, this is essentially how it's been sold everywhere that it's taken root. And every single time it's a freaking disaster because it's not just sharing or neighborliness. It's, you know, it's institutionalized violence in an incredibly destructive way.

I'd like for the government to share with me more. Maybe it could share some of its like a couple of tanks, a little bit of public land. You know, just give me a nice little slice of the pie for all for all about sharing. Let's start giving away the federal land. That's it. That's the starting point. I would love if the government would share would be neighborly and share with me.

The rest of my money that they stole. That would be cool. That would be totally, I would think that would be really neighborly if you would just give me my money. I don't even need anybody else's. Just let me keep what I make.

um anyway it's a funny trick go go get a tent go go camp out outside this guy's home and then get upset when he's not being neighborly and he doesn't let you stay there and and why won't he bring out some milk and cookies he's got cookies in there he's got you just want some flour just every day just knock on his door and be hey can i get a little toilet paper i just went i just took a shit on your lawn i'm out of toilet paper can you be neighborly you mind sharing a couple slices of your tp

Well, there was a great old Thomas Sowell quote about it. I can't remember exactly how it goes, but there is something so incredibly ironic and like, you know, ironic, but it's just like almost you got to be impressed with the level of propaganda where it's like somehow.

Me volunteering other people's resources is seen as generous, yet me saying I want to keep my own resources is seen as selfish or neighborly or whatever. It's like if you just think about that for a second, like the idea that I if I were going to say to you, hey, I have.

a large group of tough men who are well armed and we will go around shaking everyone down and taking money from them and I'll give you a little bit of that if you support me in this mission to go shake everyone down and take their money. That's seen as civilized or neighborly or sharing and yet if someone else were to stand up and say, "I oppose this violent group of armed men shaking everybody down

that's backward and you know anti-civilized behavior or something like that it's just

it's on the face of it you would go that has been one successful propaganda campaign right there pretty unbelievable that you could convince people up is down in that type of way but that's the world we live in i mean it's just rephrasing what you've already said but it's so it's like if you own a factory work if you own a factory you could be like hey i know how we can get my workers more money quit taxing them and then quit taxing me and i can afford to pay them more and guess what everyone at the factory will make more money

Yeah, right. It's just it's unbelievable. It's unbelievable. Anyway, this is going to be it's going to be interesting to see how these two campaign together. Of course, Kamala Harris is.

She just stands for nothing other than her own advancement in her career. You know, like what is her policy that she actually believes in? She believes Willie Brown's a really good looking 80 year old or something. It has nothing to do with what she believes. It's just what advances her further and further up the ranks. And you can see that in the fact that she's, look, she's walking, she's walked away from everything she ran on.

in 2020 i mean or 2019 whenever it is exactly that she she dropped out of that race but um

She was running at the time on, you know, decriminalizing illegal immigration and Medicare for all. And just like all these policies, she's not running on any of them because she recognized, oh, that doesn't go over well with voters. So she'll completely change what she's running on. You know, health care isn't even coming up as an issue. So it's just...

So I suppose now with this being her VP, maybe that's the hat she's going to try to put on now is being more of kind of like a populist left winger. We'll see. She stands for smiles, and that's why she's laughing all the time.

She sure is cackling up a storm. And again, it's, you know, as as we've seen over the last few weeks, it's not she does. Look, there is excitement for Kamala Harris to some degree. There's some kernel of truth to the the propaganda and what the excitement really is. Almost if you talk to any journalist.

uh they're just regular democrat the people who really don't like donald trump and there's a large constant uh contingency of people who don't like donald trump um they

Are they're excited that they are unburdened to borrow a phrase from Kamala Harris. They're excited that they're unburdened by the disaster that is Joe Biden, you know, and they're excited that it's like, OK, at least like we don't have a president who just stiffly walks up to a plane that just landed and he is not supposed to get on. Like, OK, you don't have that guy anymore. And Kamala Harris is capable of reading off of a teleprompter.

She's not terrible. It's not particularly good at it, but she's not terrible at that. She can get up and give us. She is, though, however, really, really bad off the top of her head.

Like if she's just at answering questions, she is cartoonishly bad at that. And I think there's it's going to be very hard for them to get away without more moments like that. You know, the comment on how we all need to be more woke or just the cackling or the the stuff that's just non sequitur makes no sense. The long rants about how.

space is all around us and space is here and space is there. And we go to space. The Russia is a big country that invaded a small country. And we don't like big countries doing bad things to small countries because whether you're big or small, it doesn't matter if you're small or big, like that type of stuff, it's going to be tough for her to not have some more of those. So that should provide us with some entertainment if nothing else. But yeah,

My bottom line takeaway from all of this is I'm still standing pretty firm on the fact that this is all AstroTurf. This is made up. This is not a wildly popular woman. This is not an electric duo, the two of them. But it...

But it's but it is we're in the middle of a very intense propaganda campaign. They have they've they've taken that up to 11, you know, like just in the same way we always try to, like, talk about these things, whether it was like the Kurds when we were going to pull out of Syria, whatever the next thing is, the lockdowns, the covid vacs.

the ghost of kiev you know like whatever it is uh this is we're in the middle of one now this is the newest one and it's as much bullshit as all of those were it's not based off anything they're trying to um as they often do will this into existence they can almost make it real by just saying it over and over again i don't think it's going to work but we'll see

um okay let's uh you know let's go to the um the peter ducy uh jean-pierre clip because i did find this to be just so entertaining bill could be under attack any moment from iran uh u.s troops in iraq were injured yesterday why have we not heard directly from president biden this week we know he met with his team yesterday we know today's vp harris is big day but he's still the president where is he well here's the thing you've seen the president he is he has uh

been very clear about making sure that we continue to try to deescalate tensions. We just put out two readouts, two readouts today, a readout yesterday. And our focus right now is to make sure that we continue to try to deescalate tensions here. And that's what the president has been doing. Isn't that pretty amazing? Peter Doocy is asking, he goes, hey, you know, like there was an attack

And a bunch of U.S. servicemen were wounded and were sending reinforcements because we're concerned an attack on Israel is imminent. And don't you think that's the type of thing the president might say something to us about? And she's like, we put out readouts. What are you talking about? He's fine. It's so wild. I mean, you just like cannot be overstated that everybody accept it. I mean, if we're not

If you're just being honest with yourself, this is obviously what just happened over the last several weeks, is that Joe Biden was too senile to run for president. And when I say too senile to run for president, they were quite happy to have a senile man run for president. He was so senile he could not win.

And so they forced him out of the race because he was too senile to run for president. Yet somehow they're fine with the fact that he's senile as president and is going to be president until January. First off, there's so much that's interesting about that. Number one, just demonstrating the kind of –

The way they're able to, like, remove him and still have him serve as president, but also just like the information that you get out of there, which is that the powers that be are actually quite happy to have a senile president.

they don't mind that at all probably makes life easier for everyone around him who wants to get their own agenda implemented right so look if if you trust cy hirsch's reporting which i do there he was strong-armed out of the position they were going to invoke the 25th amendment and remove him from from the presidency and they backed off of that threat because he dropped out of the race so now we're just in this kind of pretty um unstable situation

with a senile president but nothing to see here rob we put out a couple of readouts so there you go it certainly seems uh awfully suspicious how unsmooth she was with that question wait wait where's biden wait what that he's around we're working on the new clones that don't have the butt chins we'll get one out soon enough don't you worry yeah that's really it is uh

It is something pretty wild. So now the other thing, obviously, that I think jumps out here, which is, you know, a point that a lot of great Americans have made for many, many decades now. Of course, the legend Ron Paul has been saying this for, I don't know, probably 30 years at least. But it really does go to show that.

So, OK, so there were there were several U.S. servicemen who were wounded in Iraq. None of them were killed, but it does show you how easily that could happen. And it is pretty wild that it's that nobody in D.C. ever has to coherently articulate why we need to have a military presence in Iraq.

It is it is damn near unanimous that the war in Iraq was a mistake.

We shouldn't have fought the war in Iraq. Even John McCain in his memoir acknowledged that this war was a mistake. And yet we still just have to keep a military presence there, I suppose, forever in this very volatile part of the world where there's this ongoing major conflict. And we just have to have all of our people around it to just make it much easier for this to possibly escalate and for us to get drawn into it. It is it's.

It's an insane policy. It makes no sense. But what's really, again, to just repeat myself, what's really crazy about it is that nobody even feels like they, it's not as if anyone's even putting up an argument on the other side. Why is it that we need troops in Iraq?

Nope. Biden hasn't articulated that. Kamala Harris hasn't articulated that. Why is that anybody's position? What is the other side to this argument? They don't really have one. They don't even really feel the need to pretend to have one. It's just, I don't know. We're an empire, man. And that's what, like, I don't know, our government, whatever business you think they're in, they're in the war business. That's the business they're really in, in the banking business and the war business. And

That's just part of that business. And so, yeah, is it risking a wider conflict? Is it risking potentially a third world war? Yes.

But we're not going to remove those troops. Do the Iraqi people want us there? No. Do the American people want us there? No. But we're still going to be there. And now we're sending in reinforcements for the next potential escalation in this war. For what reason? Because that's what our government is. They're in the business of war and banking. And that's that. We fought hard to have these bases, and we get to pay ourselves a lot of money to keep them here. So, my God, we're not giving up this real estate. Yeah, really. It's like, what...

I swear to God, it's like you wish you wish we could just offer the military industrial complex like a fake military industrial complex. Like, let's just it's like, how about you guys can keep your money, but we just make you toy weapons.

And you just go, you know, play make believe war, like just go off, you know, a few miles off the coast and in the ocean. And you guys can just do pretend war and everything like that. You keep your no bid contracts. You keep all this stuff. It's fine. But you just don't get to have real war. You don't get to send real men with guns into third world countries for no reason. Let's see if maybe they would go for that. I don't know. I can't say for sure.

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right let's get back into the show all right let's uh let's before we get out of here let's go to the the fetterman video because i found this pretty entertaining as well i work with jd vance i do

And I'm here to confirm that he is a seriously weird dude. I mean, you just it's unbelievable how much they I don't know where this propaganda, where the new talking point that they're weird exactly came from. It's such a bizarre step down from their fascist Hitler philosophy.

figures or whatever. I think it's after Donald Trump got shot. They were like, well, we can't take the rhetoric up that much anymore, but we got to find something. So this is what we're going to say in unison. But I mean, come on. Fetterman is going to sit here and say another guy's weird. The the senator who shops for his wardrobe at Models is going to come and say other people are weird. This big oaf. Really? I don't know, Rob. What can you say about this?

I mean, you're watching a human ogre who should not have his job yelling at us about how other people are weird. There's no joke to be told. It's it's just unbelievable. And there is, you know, as I said, look, I do find J.D. Vance to be a little bit weird. Donald Trump, I think weird is an undeniably objectively correct description of him. He is different than any other human being I've ever seen. But like.

It's like they're parading out. The party of freaks is parading out every weirdo they have to call them weird. I might as well be out in the world accusing people of being bald. Yeah, really?

It's just like such a bizarre thing. Like they didn't they didn't at any point think to themselves like this may not we may have lost the right to play the weird card. Like maybe we should play some other card. But this is what they've they've settled on. It's that that has not stopped. Like we played the montage last week of all these people calling them weird in unison. But that has not stopped. It's continued.

And it's so funny because like it turns into dumb and dumber or what are you going to sit there and go, no, you're weird. No, you're extra weird or no, you're even weirder. And then that becomes the debate. So it'd be nice to maybe see the Republicans be smart enough to go, all right, you can call us weird, but why don't we actually talk about these policies?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. All you got to do is go is something along the lines of like, I don't know, maybe I am a little bit weird, but you know, there's nothing weird about the people I represent wanting to be proud Americans and wanting to have a better life for their kids than they had. And, you know, what's a lot more important than whether people are weird is whether their life is affordable or not. So what are prices look like? Yeah, the weird people are going to build a wall and bring down prices. So what do you prefer?

Yep. That, that should be the response, you know? And then of course there's never, um, you know, it's the, the Republicans will always find a way to like,

you know, loss, whatever prior loss out of the jaws of victory. But I'm not saying that right. But anyway, but it's like, of course, they probably will not be able to be have anywhere near the message discipline that Democrats have on this type of stuff. If nothing else, again, I know I made this point the other day, but it's worth repeating is that if there's one thing you do got to like respect about the entire establishment. And when I say that, I mean, the the

the establishment of the democratic party and the corporate media and Hollywood and academia and all these people is like their message discipline is just incredible. Like when they decide that they decide this is the line,

everybody falls in line and goes, that's what we're saying. That is what we're saying for. And, and, you know, there is probably something about being the more kind of collectivist group that allows you to do that because there's so little individualism within that entire thing that you don't have anyone kind of going like, I don't, I don't like that talking point.

I don't really agree with that. I want to say something else. I don't want to say that. It's like everyone just falls in line. What's the word? Weird. We're going with weird. OK, we're weird. We're weird. We're weird. What's that sharp as a tack? No problem, boss. Sharp as a tack. Sharp as a tack. Sharp as a tack. It's like unbelievable. You watch these compilations. You know, Tom Elliott on Twitter, who's a great Twitter follow. He does. He's probably the best that I've seen at like those montages that just show all of it. But it's unbelievable. Like no matter what.

The the crisis or what the thing was, whether it's covid or Ukraine or Israel or, you know, Kamala Harris or Joe Biden or whatever it is, it's he always has these like compilations. They all say the exact same thing. They get their orders. This is the angle we're going with.

And everyone follows through on it. And I will say, as I mentioned before, as someone who like, you know, was was very involved in the Libertarian Party and the Mises caucus takeover of it. I do a little bit. I have a little bit of envy over their message discipline. Like, man, I wish I just could get my entire team to just be like, this is what we're saying now. I promise you, I'd say way better shit than J.D. Vance is weird. I got way better messaging than that. Anyway.

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