Part Of The Problem - Another Stupid War
Episode Date: March 18, 2025Dave Smith brings you the latest in politics! On this episode of Part Of The Problem, Dave is joined by co-host Robbie "The Fire" Bernstein to discuss the controversy regarding Biden's auto-p...en use in his pardons, Trump's statements regarding Yemen, Don Lemon's appearance on Bill Maher's show, and more.Support Our Sponsors:FG Soap - https://fgsoap.com/ Use code "problem" for 10% offCrowdHealth - https://www.joincrowdhealth.com/promos/potpSmall Batch Cigar - https://www.smallbatchcigar.com/ Use code PROBLEM for 10% offPart Of The Problem is available for early pre-release at https://partoftheproblem.com as well as an exclusive episode on Thursday!Get your tickets to Porch Tour here:https://porchtour.comFind Run Your Mouth here:YouTube - http://youtube.com/@RunYourMouthiTunes - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/run-your-mouth-podcast/id1211469807Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/4ka50RAKTxFTxbtyPP8AHmFollow the show on social media:X:http://x.com/ComicDaveSmithhttp://x.com/RobbieTheFireInstagram:http://instagram.com/theproblemdavesmithhttp://instagram.com/robbiethefire#libertarianSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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What's up, what's up everybody?
Welcome to a brand new episode of Part of the Problem.
I am Dave Smith.
He is Robbie the Fireburnstein.
How are you good, sir?
I'm doing well, Davey Smith.
How was battling everyone on Piers Morgan?
It was a, well, you know, it wasn't too much of a battle this time, although I was on, I was on the panel with, uh, three ladies, um, which I specifically
request to never do.
Uh, but yet they still put me on there with a bunch.
I was like talking politics with women.
It's just ridiculous.
Uh, no, but so I think it was mostly, it was mostly kind of like a three on one
with Julie Rogowski, I think I'm saying her name right,
being the one Democrat there.
So I was on with Batcha and Riley Gaines,
who was the female-
The swimmer, yes, who became famous
for opposing trans, uh,
men competing with women or I'm sorry, trans women competing with what
she's, she opposed human beings with penises competing
with human beings with vaginas. I'm sorry.
It's hard to remember all the terminology. Um, but anyway,
it was an interesting panel.
We talked about a few of the things
that we'll probably get into on today's show.
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That should be out.
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All right.
So let's open with talking about kind of what's open with, uh, talking about, um, kind of what's
going on in Yemen and, uh, Donald Trump's recent threats to Iran.
Um, I, I guess I would start by saying this, okay.
There are, if you look at the position that Donald Trump is in right now, and
I'm not trying to overplay it, um, you know, look like Donald Trump is in right now. And I'm not trying to overplay it.
Um, you know, look like Donald Trump has put up his best approval
numbers that he he's had, uh, in, in both of his terms in pretty consistently
in polling in the last, uh, you know, few weeks since he's been president
for the second time, but it's, you know, we're still talking about just above 50%.
I think 53, 54% is about the highest that he's had to still, it's not a president
with 75% approval ratings, which, you know, I actually have lived through a couple of,
um, I don't know if in current, the current divided landscape in America, any president
is going to get to be above 70 percent anytime soon, but
Donald trump is doing better than he was before i'm not trying to overplay it but he's he's
Roughly popular with the the american voting base
Really more of the unique opportunity in the moment that donald trumpson has had destroyed the democrats are
I mean the the approval ratings of the Democrats are in the toilet.
Um, they've also, what I think is the most devastating aspect is that they've
lost their propaganda apparatus and the corporate media is just dead and dead in
a way.
I mean, we may have said that years ago, but they're dead in a different type of
way than they were back then.
Um, in this moment, you have a lot of possibilities.
Donald Trump seems to, although he may himself only be slightly popular.
He has a few issues that are enormously popular, um, that where he's really
got a mandate, um, you know, things like lowering inflation,
lowering illegal immigration, turning the economy around.
I mean, these are issues that like,
he really has a lot of support behind his prescribed policies.
And now he's got like, um, you know,
a thing that he never had in his first term,
which is that he got this kind of class of
Big-tech billionaires who are totally behind him
He really just never had anything like that before if you could think about Donald Trump's first administration Twitter was
Like his enemy now. He's got the guy who owns Twitter in the White House
If you were to ask yourself as,
as many people do, what, what could possibly bring this down?
What could possibly lead to the Democrats making a comeback?
What could, um, you know, what could lose Donald Trump, all of these
gains that he's made so far?
gains that he's made so far.
The answer is so obviously another catastrophic war,
like just getting into another war that we absolutely don't need to be in.
And yet despite this reality,
Donald Trump and whoever the hell is in his administration, who he's listening to seem to be getting him to push in that direction
And then it is something it just like makes you want to pull your hair out watching it the the idea that we would
Even start flat. I'm not saying he's done that yet. You know, Donald Trump is capable of doing these strikes here and there just
Killing some people so we can all feel better or something like that
with, with really no strategic point.
Do you think about his bombing campaigns in Syria in, uh, in his first term?
Um, but to, to attack Yemen and then to start using this provocative language
toward Iran, making more threats toward them, it just seems like there is no positive that comes out of it.
Again, other than maybe he gets to say, I'm the big tough guy who murdered some people.
Um, and, and the downside is just an endless pit of catastrophe that could ruin everything,
every positive that he's already been
able to implement.
So I guess that's just like the first point I would make on this recent,
insane move to attack Yemen.
Any thoughts you want to jump in with?
Go ahead, Rob.
I think that that's all fair.
And what I would take the biggest issue with is just when we're out in the world and we're murdering in it
There's no
Sorry, did you I don't know if that was me or you but you cut out there for a second
Could you just just just say that line again? We're out in the world is where I lost you
Yeah, I just when we're out in the world and we're murdering innocent civilians. I don't really see the distinction between us and terrorists
Yeah, well, I mean the distinction seems to be like, well, do you have a military?
All right. If you have a military, then it's not terrorism.
Or like if you're an ally of America, then it's not terrorism.
You know? Um, yeah, there's just to give like, uh,
a little bit of, uh, like a quick background on, on this stuff stuff because it's a little interesting that,
as you know well, Rob, because you've been with me for years at this point,
the Yemen was an issue that really our camp was amongst the only groups caring about or talking about this for many years.
It was from the end of the Obama administration through the entire
Trump administration into the beginning of the Joe Biden administration and in
fact when the Mises caucus took over the Libertarian Party this was like the
first big initiative that we launched was this like calling your congressman campaign to get an end to the war in Yemen.
And it wasn't really until after October 7th, by the way, I shouldn't say it's
not just the anti-war libertarians.
There were like some small groups of good anti-war leftists or like the
Code Pink and the Quakers for peace and people like that who talked a lot about the, the just, um, humanitarian nightmare that was in Ukraine for many years.
Um, and, but anyway, it wasn't really until after October 7th, when they, the
Houthis started kind of fighting back, um, and sticking up for the Palestinians
that the world started talking a lot about the Houthis in Yemen and how horrible they are and oh my God, they're attacking, you know,
American cargo ships or whatever.
Um, but just so people know, this really goes back to the beginning
of the Obama administration.
And in 2009, when Obama first became president, he, um, launched like a, a CIA drone war in
Yemen and it was pretty much, it was essentially, I think one of the only,
um, theaters in the war on terrorism, where the actual goal seemed to be a war
on terrorism, you know, like at this point in
Afghanistan we were fighting against the Taliban and
Working on a regime change war there
we had already driven al-qaeda out like we weren't like fighting al-qaeda really much anymore in Afghanistan and
While there may have been some al-qaeda guys in the insurgency in Iraq, we were really there,
you know, fighting to prop up the Shiite democracy that we had installed.
And, you know, in, in Libya, well, which I guess was, came a year later or two
years later, um, we were there to overthrow the Gaddafi regime had absolutely nothing
to do with, uh, with the war on terrorism.
And in fact, we were on the side of the bin Ladenites when we were doing that in Syria.
We were on the side of the bin Ladenites when we were trying to overthrow Bashar al-Assad.
But in Yemen, at least in 2009, and really, I think up until around 2015,
that did seem that was the mission. We were drone bombing a QIP in, in, in Syria.
Now throughout that time, and it's pretty well documented,
Al Qaeda, a QIP being Al Qaeda in the Arabian peninsula.
They, they grew in number and you know,
for the same typical reasons that this always happens,
it's general McChrystal's insurgent math, right?
This was his famous 10 minus two equals 20. You know,
you have some targeted strike, um, which is,
we like to think of them as like these targeted strikes, but you know,
when you're on the ground, these are strikes that end up killing. I, you know,
I think there was, at one point there had been a major study on Obama's drone war specifically where the
number they came out with was 96% of the people killed in the strikes were
innocent people. And when you say innocent people,
meaning they weren't the target of the person who was on the list.
Sometimes also the person on the list was wrong because it's not like, Oh,
you've had a fair trial for all these people and you figured out who are the
terrorists and who are not the terrorists, you know, it's,
but even by their own list, just assuming everyone on the list is guilty,
if you want to something like 95, 96% of the people killed, weren't that.
And so every time you'd have one of these strikes, you know,
you kill three little girls and then all of their brothers and uncles
and fathers and all
of these guys join up with Al Qaeda because now they are, you know,
radicalized to want to fight against America.
So, so it's a completely counterproductive and evil fucked up, you know, uh,
drone bombing campaign for most of Obama's presidency.
Now, just to keep in mind here, Yemen at that point already was the poorest
country in the middle East.
They're just murdering innocent people in the poorest country in a poor area.
It's just, you know, whatever, not to offend my, uh, my debate, uh, uh,
competitor, Josh hammer, but you know, you do tend to get caught up in the morality of that a little bit like Jesus,
just murdering poor people in the poorest country in the middle East sounds
pretty fucked up. But where it really got bad was after that.
And essentially like the,
the Obama administration was propping up the dictator in Yemen at the time and
using him for all types of like secret torture and shit like that.
And eventually, then he, even though he was a Shiite, he was at odds with the Houthis at one point.
And then they, later on, they ended up like joining up and kind of being on the same side when the Saudis and the Americans tried to get his second in command to take over for him and the Houthis ended up gaining more
and more strength.
And they started taking over more and more territory in the area.
And the Saudis did not like this at all.
The Saudis are enemies with the Houthis and the Saudis were really upset at America.
And they were upset at America at this point for this is we're getting into like
late 2014 early 2015 they were upset at the Americans because number one they were furious
about the war in Iraq still you know if you remember the Saudis were really our allies in
the region who opposed the war in Iraq the whole time but you know the neocons wanted it and Israel
wanted it and Israel wanted it.
And so they won out and they got this regime change.
The Saudis were furious because of course the Saudis, um, who are our
Sunni sock puppet state in the region, their big enemy is Iran, the Shiites.
And so they didn't care much for the idea that we would take out Saddam
Hussein and then hand this majority Shiite country their influence over to Iran.
Like this, this hurt them in the region.
So they were very upset about it.
And then Obama turned around and made the deal with Iran.
Um, and so they were so, and again, you can Google these words and the several really good articles will come up if you just Google Obama placate the Saudis because this is what Obama officials said was the reason that
Barack Obama backed the Saudi invasion in 2015
now the
Just be clear if you google that
The articles that are gonna pop up the I'm not sending you to like read Dave DeKamp over at anti war.com
Or to read Scott Horton or to read Ron Paul
I'm saying like there's articles from the Council on Foreign Relations the New York Times Reuters the Associated Press like all of the
Like this placate the Saudis. This was the official justification for why Barack Obama launched
What turned into a war of genocide?
Barack Obama launched what, what, what turned into a war of genocide because we had to placate the Saudis,
like the worst violators of human rights in the region,
which is really saying something we had to placate them. Cause like, sorry,
we did that other war you didn't like.
And then we made a nuclear inspections deal that you didn't like.
So we'll help you launch a war against the poorest country in the Middle East
for no reason, for no, no discernible reason that helps Americans.
And just to be clear, I mean, what the Saudis did in Yemen was every bit as
brutal, if not more than what Israel's doing in Gaza right now.
I mean, maybe there's a smarter person than me who's really done like some academic papers
on this to sit down, but I mean, it was every,
I think it was even worse because like,
I think the total number of people who died was even worse.
And I think just the fact that it was Saudi Arabia
conducting the war, just there just wasn't the type
of pressure on them that there is on a first world country to be like, yeah, you can't get away with that.
You know, like even Israel, you know, has to slow down on shooting the aid
workers after a few weeks of bad press.
But the Saudis again, with the help of the, of the U S army, I mean, for
years, we were like refueling their fighter jets mid path because they can't do it themselves and they had help from our Navy to put a full blockade around the country and people died by the hundreds of thousands in the most brutal way.
And the Saudis were also caught several times like barming farms, barming sewage plants, barming irrigation uh, irrigation sites, like, but like,
just a war on the civilian population.
And so in this whole thing, I mean, like, I know you read a bit about this during
the time, Rob, cause we'd talk about this all the time.
There were like outbreaks of cholera where there just hundreds of thousands
of people got them.
Of course, cholera particularly ends up killing babies and old people and can be cured
with like liquids. Like I, I'm not sure.
I don't even think you need antibiotics. I think like you,
you need like like Gatorade or whatever.
But then so there's just babies like vomiting themselves to death.
It just,
it was the worst humanitarian crisis in the world for many years. I think at least from like
2015 through
2021 it was the worst humanitarian crisis in the world and through all of this
The Houthis remained in power
And I think they even just took over more control of the country and they simply
Outlasted the Saudis and won and they'd be able to hit back a little bit like they had like some drones
that could strike some oil, you know, sites in Saudi Arabia.
And eventually, like the Saudis just tired of it.
And they were like, we can't beat them.
And they threw in the towel.
And it was early in the Biden administration that the Saudis just kind of quit doing it.
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let's get back into the show. And so the, just to keep in mind here,
and part of the reason why I say this is like,
I think it's
Almost everybody talking about the story today like kind of leaves out all that
It's just like you're supposed to in the same sense that like October 7th is supposed to be viewed in a vacuum
Like here was the nice little Jewish boys just in there the job. We were just trying to have a rave
Outside your concentration camp, you know and then out of nowhere this happened, but like, no,
there's actually a history and there's these things happen in context.
And okay, so all of that happened.
But I also say it not just to understand that there's the history of all of this,
but I say it just to make the point that like the Houthis went through all of
that and are still
in control and are still trying to fight back. Now,
many people myself included might say, Jesus,
why the hell are you guys doing this?
Like haven't your people been through enough that you're going to bring more of
this on them. Um, but that's not really the point.
The point is that an entire blockade and a brutal bombing campaign for eight years wasn't enough to take these guys out of power
or to slow them down and
What we think dropping a couple tomahawks is gonna do it. No, it's gonna do nothing except kill people
We're just like unless we were actually committed
Don't get me wrong if the US military if we wanted to invade Yemen the way we invaded Iraq
Okay, we could probably overthrow the Houthis If the US military, if we wanted to invade Yemen the way we invaded Iraq, okay,
we could probably overthrow the Houthis.
But if we're not talking about doing that,
we're just talking about murdering some people so we can feel good about
ourselves. So that's kind of like the, now after October 7th,
they did start like attacking ships, you know, and they, they were like,
Hey, we're on behalf of these poor Palestinians.
We're going to not let Israeli ships go through here and also some American ships.
And, you know, you can feel about that, however you feel about that.
But I would just point out that during the ceasefire, there were no Huthi attacks.
And it wasn't until the ceasefire broke down that they started doing it again.
And so to me, it does kind of lead to some of these questions.
You know, I know a lot of the like pro Israel conservative types, while they
love to lecture you about moral relativism on every other front, when it
comes to this, you're never allowed to say like
Okay, I mean look it's probably not great that the Houthis are attacking ships, but at the same time
Why?
Does no one have a right to stand up for the Palestinians at all?
You know, I mean
Israel gets attacked on October 7th and they get to do this.
And yet the Palestinians have to endure all of this and no one has a right to like close down some shipping lanes or something. Again, I wouldn't say,
no one has a right to do it, but it's just like any look,
I guess it's just very clear. It's like, Oh,
so this is another cost associated with supporting Israel's
slaughter of Palestinians.
So now we now also have to, right, which is like the whole story of US foreign policy always.
We now have to, once again, we have to take on Israel's problems and make them our own.
Now we're in this beef, which is so clearly has nothing to do with us and has to do with what Israel is doing to the Palestinian people, which is objectively
horrific.
But now because we're the ones funding that and arming that and giving it
diplomatic cover, we now find ourselves in yet another conflict.
The last thing that this country needs.
And, and the, one of the things that Donald Trump ran and won on
twice was the idea that we don't need more conflicts like this.
And then of course we're right back in another one.
So I guess that would be, I mean, I know it's just a bit of a rant, but I think
it's kind of like, it's worth it to get that out there, but I just can't, I can't
overstate how horrible a decision this is by Donald Trump and how, how much it's like the, you know,
it's like people would say for a while there'd be like, Oh,
stop bitching about all his bad appointments. You know what I mean?
Like focus on the good ones or something. It's like, no,
this is what happens when you surround yourself with a bunch of Warhawks who are
giving you bad information. Um, so I don't know. Any thoughts on any of that,
Rob, feel free to jump in.
information So, I don't know any thoughts on any of that Rob feel free to jump in
I hadn't quite considered I guess the
Huthi
Palestine tie-in and that this was in response to to what was going on over there
I guess I was more just looking at it from the why are we now in the business of killing innocent civilians?
And I just find it surprising that if there's these
multi-billion dollar trade routes
and it's important to multiple countries
that there's not a way of securing the trade route.
I mean, if you're telling me that we're both aligned with China
and nearly every country in the world about keeping this trade route open,
there's really no way of just sending a bunch of ships in there, a bunch of submarines in there, and maintaining the
trade route without having to bomb areas of Yemen that include killing civilians.
Speaking to your point of what is this actually accomplished? So are we starting a war with Yemen?
It seems like the strongman shit of, hey, we're going to bomb innocent civilians in your
territories and maybe take out a couple of leaders here and there until you actually acquiesce and give
up.
It doesn't seem to work.
Or, I don't know, where's the example of that working so far?
Or like, is there ever a point where we don't have to just kill innocent people to make
this?
Like, is there ever a point where like we've killed enough innocent people that it's like,
I think they got the message.
I think they realized that we're willing to do this.
It's always just this like, no, we got to show toughness.
We got to let them know.
But again, you know, to my, to my major point here, look, the idea, again,
Yemen, which was all had started as the poorest country in the Middle East.
At the beginning of this, before going through the worst humanitarian
Crisis in the world for many years
They went through all of that and then still stuck up for the palestinians when israel started its assault on gaza
And you think like a couple tomahawk missiles are going to change that calculation
I mean, I don't think there's any serious person even in DC who believes that like alright
They got the message like they needed to be smacked around and now they won't mess with our ships anymore
And I think I just read the just earlier today that they vowed to continue or something like that
It's like yeah, of course, of course they did like this isn't gonna stop them
So what on earth is the point like why why would we be doing this? And again, it's like with all of these,
um, uh, with all of these scenarios,
every single war, they can never, whether,
whether we're talking about Iraq, Afghanistan, whether we're talking about,
uh, Libya or Syria, whether we're talking about Yemen, whether we're talking about Somalia,
if you're talking about Ukraine, if you're talking about Israel's worn Gaza,
nobody can ever clearly articulate why we're taking this action,
what the end game is and what our strategy is to go pursue that end game.
And like where, where it's like a reasonable end game,
whenever they give you an answer to that, Rob, it's something like,
we're going to drive Putin out of Crimea. Okay. Yeah, but that can't ever happen.
Or democracy is going to sweep the region or like,
it's always these goals that are just like on their face. You're like, yeah,
but that's completely unachievable. There is no chance.
There is a 0% chance that you will achieve that goal.
But it's never just kind of like, okay, so we dropped this a, um, okay,
so we killed whatever, I think it was 53 people we killed in this
last strike. Okay. And we had to do that because why, what's the next step after
this? Well, I guess the next step is that Trump threatens around and says that
they're going to, they'll be devastating consequences and that they're
responsible for what the Houthis do,
which is like just doesn't even make any sense at all. I mean, you would only, I mean, don't get me wrong.
I understand why it makes sense to the insane neo conservatives and the
insane Likudniks and the insane, you know, like, um,
evangelical Christians who think that like protecting, uh,
you know, the Jews in Israel is what's going to bring Jesus Christ back or the insane like
Jewish supremacists who think that everything should be run around what,
you know, the state of Israel. Okay.
I get there because they just want to topple the government in around.
That's why they all support it because they just want to move closer to the
regime change that they've always really wanted, which is the one in Tehran.
Okay. So that's why they support it.
But short of that,
if you weren't trying to get us into another catastrophic war in the middle
East,
like if you didn't hate the United States of America and want to see this
country's destruction,
then why would it make any sense to start saying that Iran is
responsible for anything the Houthis do.
Then no, what, nobody really believes that the Iranians have complete puppet like control over the Houthis and they can decide what they're going to do or
what they're not going to do. I mean, like,
imagine if you were to take that,
that line with any, with the United States of America ever, you were to say,
okay, well you guys, you know, the, the, we, we, our
government props up the Saudis and the, uh, the Jordanians and the Egyptians and
the Israelis and the Ukrainians and all the, all the governments that we fund
and, and, and contribute to, if we were to say we are now responsible, you know,
when the Saudis, uh, you know, murdered that, uh, Khashoggi murdered that,
that journalist guy and cut them up or whatever that you say, I hold Joe Biden
responsible for that. That's not like why the only reason why you would even start
thinking like that is if you were trying to bring America into a wider war,
which has always been the huge risk since October 7th.
Um, and since the decision to start backing Israel's assault on Gaza,
this has always been the biggest risk. And now it's like Donald Trump is just,
it's he's walking into this trap and seems to be willingly doing it.
So, you know, there's been,
there certainly has been some positives
of the Trump administration so far, but man, is he flirting with throwing all
of that away, all of that away right now.
And then even just aside from, you know, the, um, aside from the kind of
potential disasters that could come out of this.
Yeah, you know, just this in itself, just killing a bunch of innocent people. I mean,
I know this is the United States of America and we've gotten so used to that.
Like that's just part of what our government does,
but isn't it something that the government can just like take an action that's
going to kill, including several children reportedly were killed in these strikes
and like weird.
It's just, I don't know. It's so crazy to me that,
that murdering children wouldn't be something that collectively as a society,
we go like, well, man, I mean, if you ever have to do that,
then there's a serious process that we go through.
Then that process involves laying out the case of why you absolutely have no
other choice but to do this. But no, Donald Trump just decides.
Then isn't it interesting? You know, Darrell Cooper had a great, um,
a great post about this the other day, but isn't it interesting, right?
That there's no judge,
there's no congressman, there's no cable news show
hosts that will ever even dream of like making this the issue.
You know, like, whoa, you're the president is just like committing an act of war.
He doesn't have to consult anybody, but like his donors or something like that.
He doesn't even have to talk to anybody in Congress.
He doesn't, you know, when you hear all this stuff about like, Elon Musk is
auditing USAID, this is outside, you know, this is anti democratic.
He doesn't have the authority to do that.
But yet when it comes to making war just just crickets. You know, even like the Democrats who
are always talking about Trump is Hitler and he's this and that and he's an authoritarian end of
democracy. No one really cares when it's just murdering kids. There's something so profoundly
sick and backward about all of that. Um, and I don't,
no matter how much it happens, that will never be normal to me.
I'll never get used to that and just go like, yeah, well, I mean, you know,
come on, there were little Brown kids in a third world country. I mean, who cares? You know, like, yeah, I don't know. Sorry.
I still think that's profoundly horrible. Just an awful thing to do.
And especially when you're doing it like with no,
no clear cut reason as to why this absolutely had to be done.
And to your point that you made before, I mean, it just like, I'm sorry,
there's just there, there are,
there are other ways to protect shipping lanes other than just constantly being
in a state of slaughtering innocent people. I just don't believe otherwise. By the way,
just the money we spend on the bombs, you know, we could,
we could probably just pay off people to be able to ship for,
for less money. So it's all just terrible. And, um, you know, again,
it's not, it's, it's nothing that any of us should really be shocked by.
I mean, this is Donald Trump, you know, Donald Trump, he backed the Saudi war
against the people of Yemen for every single day of his first term.
So I don't think he's going to be moved over like some innocent people in Yemen
got killed.
I mean, he seems to be quite comfortable doing it.
And, uh, yeah, anyway, we will see, we will see where all of this goes.
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All right, let's get back into the show. Um, all right, let's, let's switch gears a little bit. Um,
cause the other big story that I do just find fascinating,
and this is what we were arguing about on a Pierce Morgan today is this, uh,
this auto pen, uh, claim that Donald Trump is making. Um,
I, I'll let you, you go first on this Rob,
because I've ranted a lot on the first topic,
but I find this fascinating in a lot of ways.
What are your thoughts on this claim by Donald Trump?
First, at least maybe like lay out what it is,
and then give your thoughts on this claim
about the Joe Biden pardons.
All right, well the claim is,
we all know that Joe Biden had dementia.
We've all been
yelling who was actually running the White House, especially in the last two years that he was there.
And on the way out, Joe Biden gave a number of preemptive pardons, which is rare. It includes
Liz Cheney and others that were on the January 6 panel. And then of course, to his own family
member, Hunter Biden, among some others. But I think those were all of the oh yeah, and then of course to his own family member, Hunter Biden, among some others.
But I think those were all of the... Oh yeah, and then Fauci also got a preemptive pardon.
It was later discovered presidents make wide use of an auto pen and don't frequently actually
sign documents. Now the oddity in Joe Biden using the auto pen is that it seems that his,
when he dropped out of the race, that that letter was actually
signed by him, whereas everything else was seemingly signed by the auto pen.
Now the question being put forward is, was Joe Biden even aware that the auto pen was
in use?
Did someone else just put make these documents and sign them?
Or if he was in a state of dementia, was he actually aware of the usage of them?
And if a automatic auto pen is being used by the White House and it's not actually being
used by a president or a president that's aware, should that stand?
So that's the background of the story.
Now my guess is this is a fun little shit storm from Donald Trump.
And I absolutely think that amongst the things that should be happening is the last administration
should be investigated, specifically Fauci, and whether or not there was a criminal behavior
that took part, took place in fraud in selling the COVID vaccines and acquiring that virus
from China.
I'll put it in those terms.
And then as to whether or not Liz Cheney or others, that one's a little bit more of a
potentially a political witch hunt and the losing game of administrations going after previous administrations, but fine,
maybe they play dirty first.
And so it would make sense to expose the deep state working against Donald Trump's
best interest. I'm all for going after the previous administration specifically for
illegal behavior and specifically on the Fauci category, or if you can prove
financial crimes by the Biden family that are close to treasonous, I'm all for it.
I think proving that Joe Biden's awareness about the usage of the auto pen sounds like
a difficult legal uphill battle because what are you going to do?
Bring him into court now?
I don't know.
Well, how do I know when he did or didn't know?
How do I know when he lost his agency?
Is there someone who's going to actually testify
against the administration that he specifically
didn't know about the usage of the auto pen?
So to me, specifically the auto pen thing
is a fun little shit storm of a storyline.
And right now, Donald Trump probably needs bigger wins
than actually just going after the old administration.
I think the public is not that interested in prosecuting Biden as much as they're interested
in knowing that tariffs aren't going to ruin our economy or that we're not going to be
in World War Three with Europe. I think people are a little bit more interested in actually
Donald Trump enacting his agenda versus cleansing the old administration for what we voted out
because it was terrible. But this is a fun shit storm. I'm all for investigating specifically Fauci's top of my list.
You can get your prosecute Fauci T-shirts.
So it's a top of my list of what I think we need to do to cleanse the country.
I can't imagine that this holds up in court of that he's actually able to undo it
because we can't prove that Biden knew that it was happening.
Yeah. OK. So, yeah, I I can't really disagree with anything you said there.
I think that's, that's exactly right.
Um, it does seem particularly given the fact that I think a lot of presidents
use the auto pen, including Donald Trump, at least that's what I've heard.
I don't, I'm not actually sure if that's right or not.
Um, there is something it's still so much fun.
And part of it is just because like this is the price that the
Democrat establishment has to pay.
This is the albatross around their neck that will be around their neck
for quite a while.
This is essentially, this is your punishment for propping up a senile
president is that only with him, with anyone else,
like you could never get away with this.
If you were saying this about Obama or saying this about Trump, but with
Joe Biden, it's just like when you start saying, oh, he used the auto pen.
You have a real issue there because you're like, there, I just, there is
no way that he knew what he was signing.
And it brings up a lot of things like, you know, the way he dropped out of the
race and how sketchy that was and you know, like what really happened there.
So it's kind of, it's, it's smart politics in that sense to just kind of, it,
it makes you focus on that huge scandal again.
And then of course it does.
Look, you, you, you, I completely agree with you, what you just said.
I think most people are probably more concerned with kitchen table issues.
Although I would personally think that like prosecuting Fauci is very high on,
on the list of things we should do.
Um, because the crimes that were committed were just so egregious and the
people at the top should pay for that.
All of that said, I think you'd have to admit, even if you disagreed with,
even if you think Fauci did a great job or you think Biden was great or you hate
Donald Trump, you think he's the devil.
You got to admit just like on the politics of the thing, it also just any
chance you get to bring up the fact that he gave Fauci a blanket preemptive
pardon is so it's such a loser politically.
Like that just stinks of corruption.
And then when you think about like what the message on that actually is, it's
one thing to say that you don't think Fauci committed any crimes and you
suspect that the next administration is going to vindictively weaponize the
justice system and go after him.
But when you give a blanket pardon, preemptively,
essentially what you're saying is that even if he committed any crimes,
I still don't think he should be charged for that.
Because what if there were crimes that he committed that you didn't know about?
You know, and that comes out. And so there's just something so dirty about that and and look in the case of Fauci in the best case scenario It's a gray area
You know like I mean he clearly he testified before Congress that the NIH did not fund any gain of function research
And yet subsidiaries of the NIH were funding the lab where gain of function research and yet subsidiaries of the NIH were funding
the lab where gain of function research was done.
Now that I'm just, I'm sorry, but that is best case scenario, a gray area, best case
scenario.
Like I take that and I think that's clearly lying to Congress.
People when you're on an enemy's list of Congress, people have been prosecuted for way less.
People have been prosecuted for lying to Congress when they got a month wrong about a business deal.
You know, you said June, but it was January.
And I've seen cases like that where it's like, yeah, but it was another J month.
I got confused and I said the wrong thing.
They're like, sorry, lied to Congress.
So don't tell me that like claiming you never funded Gain of Function research when you did fund the lab that was doing gain of function research, and then trying to redefine gain of function
research away. Don't tell me that that's a legit defense. I know that's Fauci's defense.
You redefine everything vaccine, gain of function. It all means something different than what
we thought. Um, but it's just another reminder of this and it is one of the things that I
find interesting is that if, and I agree with you,
I think legally speaking and I'm no, you know,
I don't have any legal expertise,
but I do agree that it seems right what you're saying to me that that's an
uphill battle. I mean, imagine trying to prove in court that Joe Biden,
again, like you said, you said it perfectly,
even if he was senile now and can't remember any of it, that doesn't prove
that at the time he didn't know it.
How the hell are you actually going to prove that?
Seems very difficult to me.
But what it is doing is like letting the public know that like kind of floating
out the idea, Hey, maybe they don't really have pardons, you know, like
maybe Fauci and Liz Cheney, maybe all these people don't really have pardons. You know, like maybe Fauci and Liz Cheney, maybe all these people
don't really have that.
And if so, what's the appetite to actually go after them?
You know what I mean?
And like, I just liked the idea of inserting that issue into the public.
I think there's something positive about that.
Um, and it's just another opportunity for Donald Trump to remind everyone of
the scandal that was the emperor's new
clothes Biden presidency, which is wise.
You know, I have a joke about this in my, in my act, but it is almost like there,
there is a weird way in which the Democrats and Joe Biden benefit from the
fact that Donald Trump just sucks all the oxygen out of the room.
And so the story of the day is always whatever donald trump did now or whatever someone
A rat, you know elon musk did a nazi salute or whatever like the story of the day is
Is always done and then that does in a way distract from what?
Is gotta be up there with the biggest scandal in the history of the united States of America, that we had a non-functioning president for years.
Um, and that it was totally covered up by the media.
And you know, I think anytime Donald Trump's kind of reminding Americans of
that, it's, it's good politics for him.
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Let's get back into the show. While it's good politics, I'd like to actually see some execution on, I guess, because I've
been joking that Donald Trump, it's a lot of just clickbait presidency, where he'll
float a storyline like this and you'll get really excited like, wow, are they actually
going to prosecute Fauci? And then that'll be the end of the conversation about it.
Yep.
Specifically talking to Biden's dementia,
I was saying while it was happening,
I think you guys can probably find clips
in year one and year two of his presidency of
whoever's around him that is masking for this
should be held criminally responsible.
And I'd love to see, you know,
those people brought in front of Congress
and giving testimony about what his actual behavior was,
because if you've been around people with dementia,
it can become very obvious. Like they have moments you're like oh the guy's
still there and then when you put him down in a chair and he's like are we
still going to that dinner and you're like I just brought you back from that.
Oh okay and I'm willing to bet that people were around him and saw moments
like that and you know I don't know if you were a surgeon let's say and you were
an alcoholic and I was your wife and I wanted you to continue to have that job. And so in the morning, I'm helping you
get dressed up, and I'm giving you some alcohol so that you don't have your wobbly hands, and then
you kill someone in surgery, the person that's an accomplice at that point, because you're masking it.
And so maybe there's no crime of being president with dementia, but I think there should be. And I
think if you're incapable of doing the job, and you're making decisions that are harmful for the entire country, there should be
accountability for that. And whoever's masking it, particularly if the guy has dementia, then he
doesn't really have agency. I mean, that's not a guy who's really using his higher consciousness
to mold or make decisions. So whoever's actually masking it for him is the person with agency and those people should be held accountable and then whoever was
actually running the you know what I mean all this should be investigated or
at least paraded in front of the public. Yeah well that's right and I don't know
even that they can be prosecuted I agree with you that should be a crime you know
but at least they could be made to pay a serious, you know, social cost for it. And no, you're absolutely right. I mean,
this was the thing that was so laughably absurd about the sharpest attack
line, which is what everybody went with up until that debate,
like literally just a few days before that debate,
when it became them, when they stopped pretending. Um,
but that you would go and anybody who's ever been around, uh,
an older family member who's gone, seen aisle, the very sad thing to watch.
It's truly tragic.
I know you've been around it, Rob.
I've been around it with family members, but to see Joe Biden and to see him,
uh, lose his train of thought and get confused and not know where to exit
every time he eggs it at a stage and to not know what state he was in and to not
know, you know, like when you watch all this and then to have everybody go, no,
behind closed doors, he's sharp as a tack. It's like, yeah,
that's not how dementia works. I am sorry.
Dementia does not just like come about when you're in front of the cameras
every single time and then go away and show no signs. And my God,
the things that people must have witnessed behind the scenes. I mean, you know,
it's, it's yes, this was an open secret. And you know,
really one of the people who was very much implicated in that was Kamala Harris,
who was out there saying that she was having weekly meetings with Joe Biden and that she
was involved in all the most important decisions and that she was the last one to leave and
that she spent all this time with him.
And it's just, I'm sorry, it's just, it's beyond, it's beyond anything that anyone could
plausibly believe for her to claim that
she never saw any signs of, of this guy's, you know,
mental decline. It's just, nobody believes that. Um,
and she doesn't believe it. None of her supporters believed it. Her,
her chief of staff doesn't believe it. Nobody buys that.
And so there should be some type of price to pay for that. Cause my God, what a crazy thing to do, you know, to just not have a president
and then be lying to everyone on anyway, you know, we've talked about it a lot,
but it's, I think it's always good when this topic comes back up.
All right.
Let's, uh, um, because we got a little bit of time left.
Let's play a little bit by the way, I did find this really, uh, fascinating, but so there were,
there were a few clips that were great.
I've not watched the whole thing cause I don't hate myself that much,
but Don Lemon was on Bill Mars podcast.
Um, and, and had a few,
just like incredible moments of just seeing into the,
a window into the dumb soul that is Don Lemon.
Uh, these things are so,
one of the things that's really fascinating is that people now that the
corporate media has collapsed and then you've kind of seen this, um,
you know,
you've seen some people who were able to either reinvent themselves or were just
good enough at what they did so they could keep doing it.
Like Tucker Carlson could just keep going and doing what he was doing.
You know, um, Pierce Morgan,
I think kind of reinvented himself in a way to have a very relevant show.
Now he was,
he was smart enough to figure out what this new media landscape was,
what people wanted, what type of show he could put on that they'd be good.
And then you've got the Chris Cuomo's and Don Lemons of the world who like
tried their hand at coming over into this world.
And it's almost like they're still playing the old game.
And it's just really funny to watch it just collapse and not
work. So anyway, on that note, let's go, uh, let's first,
let's go to the one that I sent first. And then if we got time, we'll,
we'll play, uh, uh,
some of the other ones as well cause there were a few good ones there,
but let's check in on old Don Lemon.
Your show's on YouTube mechanism. It's the same thing.
Those are still people watch you on YouTube now. It's a different mechanism. It's the same thing though. It's a smaller screen.
Do more people watch you on YouTube than watch you on CNN?
I think now, I think they do.
Well-
You don't know the answer to that question?
No, no, I do know the answer to that question.
I think, you know, in my early days on CNN, I would say more people watched me on CNN.
And then also when I was there, it was a different time.
I think more people watched me on CNN.
I don't know. I think more people watch me on CNN.
I don't know. I think more people watch me now. But I think the highest point of CNN was during COVID. And we had COVID and George Floyd at the same time, and Donald Trump. And that was the
height that was the highest ratings, the most profitable of CNN. And so it was amazing to be
there. People watched every night. And they sort of relied on us because you were stuck.
Your show's on YouTube now.
It's a different mechanism.
It's the same thing though.
It's a smaller screen.
All right, so by the way,
I do not think he's right about that.
I think CNN had higher ratings periods before that,
but regardless of that, Rob, isn't that something?
Isn't that such an admission?
What are your thoughts?
Well, it's infuriating to listen to. Firstly, he's such a dumbass and it's funny the way that Bill
Maher is a little bit cunty because off the bat he's like, wait, you don't know the answer to that?
How do you not know? You were there.
Which he definitely does. He definitely knows the answer to that.
They told you the ratings and you can look at your YouTube counter and you can probably
speak to a better expert of how accurate the CNN
ratings are and how much of it is gyms and airport and how many people are
actually watching it versus the accuracy of the YouTube counter and then also
when he talks about that during the COVID era it was exciting because so
many people were tuning in but then also the, I don't know that that's all ratings
as much as that could be the pharmaceutical companies were pretty interested in the continuing
selling of that story. And you kind of see the circle of interest all getting along there of
CNN sells the story, they make more money, more people tune in, more people are scared,
more people tune in, they make more money, the advertisers want to spend more there.
And I'm not saying that Don Lemon's smart enough to participate in that circle as much as be the face that they'll slap
On the screen and say read these words and only these words because if you say anything else, it's pretty clear that you're anchorman
but you know, I I think
There's there's something gross about the casualness and Nelvis and him being pragmatic and going,
well, it was fun to be there at that time because everyone was tuning in for our manufactured
nonsense.
Yeah.
Well, that's the thing, right?
You know, when I was on Piers Morgan today, I started arguing with that Julie Roginski
chick a little bit.
At one point she said, um, she said something.
I mean, she just doesn't know me.
We did some shows together back in the day at Fox news, but I don't think she
really knows anything about me, but I said something about, uh, Fauci and how
he should go to prison and she was like, oh, you want to, you want to relitigate
2020 now, but what you don't want to talk about is January 6th, what you don't
want to talk about is Ukraine, what you don't want to talk.
And I was just like, yeah, Julie, that's, uh, you're barking up the
wrong tree with that one.
Like, I don't know.
People could accuse me of a lot, but not wanting to talk about
Ukraine isn't one of them, you know?
And then I said to her at one point, I go, no, you know what?
I think Julie probably doesn't want to talk about is where were
you in the summer of 2020?
What were you saying back then?
Let's, let's argue whether you were right or wrong about that.
And I'll argue with what I was saying back then.
What were you saying when the vaccine was first rolled out?
What were you saying?
You know, it's like, it's so funny that Don Lemon would say, Oh, we had
the highest ratings at this time.
It was such a fun time to be around.
And you like the counter is you almost want to go like, Oh, okay.
What were you pushing back then?
And how much of it can you stand by now?
Cause like I'll tell you, man, you go, you go look at, and, and look, I,
I'm not saying like I've done this recently, I'm pretty confident.
And I think people have been listening to this show for a while. Be pretty confident. Like you could pluck an episode out from,
you know, August of 2020.
Me and Rob could sit down and watch it and we'd be pretty happy with where we
were and be like, yep, we were pretty much right about the biggest issues.
You know, like I'll stand by that.
I'll still go argue that lockdowns are wrong and stupid and that they did way
more damage than anything positive that came out of them.
and stupid and that they did way more damage than anything positive that came out of them. I'll still argue that like the nationwide riots were like horrific and, you know,
shouldn't have been defended. I'll still like all of this stuff. I remember later in the year,
but I remember the week of the Hunter Biden laptop coming out. I remember me and you sitting down
and being like, this is obviously his laptop.
And the claim that this is Russian disinformation is just clearly a
lie to distract people.
And it's like, oh yeah, yeah.
You're like, oh yeah, the ratings were good when the country was locked down.
Can you still defend lockdowns?
Cause you were defending them at the time.
Can you still defend that?
Okay.
The ratings were good when you were defending Black Lives Matter and calling
them fiery, but mostly peaceful protest.
You still want to defend that?
The ratings were good when you were claiming Trump was a Russian spy.
Do you still want, it's like, oh yeah.
So you got ratings off a bunch of fucking lies and like,
and people woke up to them eventually. Anyway. And then there's just the, the dishonesty of,
I don't even know what are the YouTube numbers.
Like as if anyone in this game has no concept of whether their ratings are
higher or lower than they were a few years ago, it's all just kind of ridiculous.
Um, here let's go, go, go to the, the one that I texted to the group, Natalie,
let's play the, um, the one that w because it's so funny how, like, uh,
it's just, it's just amazing how much, and this is a huge part of the reason why the podcast world
took off and the corporate media world died, but just, there are so many shows like this now. Um,
and just like the level of conversation is, I don't know, it's at least 30 IQ points higher than whatever the hell is happening on,
on CNN. And to look at Don Lemon here, again,
what's interesting about Don Lemon is kind of like Chris Cuomo is that the,
the, he wasn't, this isn't just like a guy who happened to be at CNN.
These were the biggest shows. These were their marquee names.
It was Cuomo and Don Lemon,
their shows and then they're back and forth in between the shows
This was the highest rated thing that CNN had
During these days that he's claiming were, you know, the great ratings days for CNN
so it's just interesting to see like their level of analysis and
Here is Don Lemon giving you what essentially it's like the joy read level of political analysis. It's all they have to offer. Um, so here, here's Don Lemon.
It's the same thing that I, when I see not all black Republicans,
but I see a black mega person who is carrying Donald Trump's water and they know
that he's lying. It is the shortest line to the front because if you're black and
you're whatever any, you're just in line with a bunch of other Democrats that are doing the same thing that that you're doing.
But if you become a black mega person, it's like, whoa, let's book this person. Let's put them on television.
So you don't think you'll be a sincere black mega person?
No, no, I just said I don't think that I just said I think there can be sincere Republicans.
But you can't be a sincere black Republican.
I don't think that you can be a rational MAGA, be black and be a rational MAGA person.
I think you can be black and be a Republican.
I think they would find that very insulting.
Well, I mean, the truth is often insulting.
It's the same.
Yes, it is true that the truth is also, is often insulting.
Um, also just idiotic statements can be insulting sometimes.
Uh, isn't it like, it's just so pathetic.
And this is the game that really in the era of the Don Lemons, in the era of
Chris Cuomo and Don Lemon and Joy Reed,
kind of in the time that these people became like the anchors,
that this was the type of just, just,
I don't know how to put it,
profoundly stupid poison that they would just plump into America.
Then it really just can't be stated how destructive this was to
always just whittle everything down to a race issue, constant insinuations of
bigotry against anybody who disagreed with them.
And it's just the Joe Biden, you ain't black comment, essentially,
is what Don Lemon has there.
Then he tries to attach it to a point, but he's Don Lemon.
So he's just really stupid and he doesn't really understand the point even he's
making. And like, yes,
there is some truth to the fact that you cut the line.
If you were like the, if there's less of you,
you know, like if you fall into some category where there's like, Oh,
that's more unique to see it is true that you're more likely to get booked.
This is also true.
It has nothing to do with race. I mean, like, for example,
like like Dave Rubin has a huge YouTube show.
And one of the reasons why Dave Rubin has a huge YouTube show is because he was
the young Turks guy then became a conservative.
He left the left.
And so now that becomes like a story.
Also Liz Cheney.
What do you think Liz Cheney would have been?
How many media appearances do you think she would have had if she hadn't been
going after Donald Trump in the way she was?
There's lots of different angles that, but for him to sit there and say,
you cannot be a since like no black person could support Donald Trump.
There is no issue.
You could possibly, you couldn't just be, let's say a black dude who was
against illegal immigration or who was against fighting forever wars, or who
was against the inflation of the
Biden administration. Why?
Somehow as a white guy you can legitimately have those opinions,
but a black guy couldn't. I just, again, it's like,
it's a profoundly racist statement to make, which has always been the case.
It's like these guys, they're like, um, there's something out of, uh,
like, um, there's something out of, uh, like, like a movie that would
just like caricature racism in the past.
And they would just make some character.
That's just like a foaming at the mouth bigot.
It's like, Oh, that's you.
That's you.
You're just like a vicious racist.
It's the only lens that you see the world through is that like, Oh, black people are
supposed to be over here on this plantation only thinking one
way. And if you dare cross over there to the other side,
then you're some type of fucking sellout.
And who the fuck is Don Lemon to speak for black people for the least black,
black man in America. Like really the,
a multimillionaire gay dude who's banging a white dude living in a white
neighborhood. Like what you get to decide. You're the arbiter to say like,
well you can support Mitt Romney.
I'll allow a black guy to support Mitt Romney,
but you can't support Donald Trump. Like why,
why do you get to choose that? Like fuck off Don Lemon. I
don't know. I'll give you the final word Rob and then we got to wrap up. What am I
gonna say that's better than fuck off Don Lemon? I think you nailed it on that one.
Alright well listen up thank you guys very much for listening. What's your
what's your new site again Rob? RobBernsteinComedy.com. I'll get the
links to those two dates in the episode description and check out the Run Your
Mouth podcast.
Just did a really great interview with David Colum.
I think you guys would like it.
All right.
Yeah, I'm definitely going to go check that out.
He's a very interesting guy.
All right, guys.
ComicTapesmith.com for our ticket links.
Boston, coming up.
Come on out.
We'll see you out there in Boston.
Thank you guys for listening.
Catch you tomorrow.
Peace.