The Joe Rogan Experience - #2299 - Dave Smith

Episode Date: April 3, 2025

Dave Smith is a stand-up comedian, libertarian political commentator, and podcaster. He's the host of the "Part of the Problem" podcast, as well as a co-host of the "Legion of Skanks” podcast. www.comicdavesmith.com 50% off your first box at https://www.thefarmersdog.com/rogan! Try ZipRecruiter FOR FREE at ziprecruiter.com/rogan Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Joe Rogan Experience. Trained by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day. Good to see you again sir. Good to see you too man. Good to see you again. These times of trouble, chaos. Wild, wild times. Where leftists are lighting Teslas on fire

and putting swastikas on them. And that's the commas they've been in years. This is actually for them probably the best. It's so weird how these people are so easy to wind up and get them to do what you want them to do. Just put a narrative out there, you're a good person if you go do this, and they just go run out and fucking cause chaos.

And it's the most, I mean, look, it's not like as much chaos as say like the Black Lives Matter protest in 2020 or something, but the one about the test, it's like you're destroying electric cars. Which are mostly owned by liberals. Yeah, but I thought you've been telling me for so long that this is gonna save the world.

Like the importance on going green was that we're all gonna die unless we do it. And now you're taking the most successful electric car company and trying to destroy them because for the crime of pointing out that maybe the seven trillion dollars that our federal government's spending has a wee bit of corruption in it. You know like maybe we could cut some of that. It's so I don't know it's so on every level is just so surreal. It is surreal. It of that. It's so, I don't know, it's so, on every level it's just so surreal. It is surreal. It feels fake.

It does. It genuinely feels like we're living in some sort of a stupid movie. Yeah. Well, it makes you wonder, it makes you wonder how controlled the whole thing is, you know, and I don't know, I don't know, but there is a, do you remember?

I think I sent it to you at the time But there was a like four years ago. There was a Time magazine piece about the 2020 election It was like a real long article About it was something like the title was something like how the shadow government like stalled It wasn't exactly that but it was like basically went through the real conspiracy of 2020 and they're writing it from the pro conspiracy point of view but they're Forget anything about like ballots or any of that stuff, which I don't you know Even when you interviewed Trump, he didn't really have a good answer for that You know, it's like it's it was stolen and you're like, but how do you know it was stolen is like it was stall

You know the information. Yeah, but is like, it was stalling, you know? Got the information. Yeah, but what we do know, like the real conspiracy in broad daylight, that they just totally, like, tanked the economy, overhauled, yeah, that's it. The secret history of the shadow campaign that saved the 2020 election. Saved.

And they go deep into, like, admitting so much about, like, the censorship on social media, the support of the riots and the protests. And what's amazing about it is it really is incredible their ability to turn on and turn off the protest machine. Well, it's just money. Yeah, yeah. It's just money.

There's a lot of people out there that have nothing to do. They're a bunch. We were talking about the other day, I was like, if I was 21 years old and someone said, hey, they're gonna pay you $400 to go to a Kamala Harris rally, would you go? I'm like, fuck yeah, I'd go. I'd hold that sign up, I'd probably vote for it. When I was 21, you had me at $400,

the conversation was over. It was like, $400. I already get a thousand to go protest for Tesla. Can I sneak in both of those? Can we do one? Yeah, 1,400 in a day, dude. Nice. Yeah, I mean, I was thrilled when I was 25

to make like 75 bucks at the comic strip or something like that. So yeah, but also it's like, and that's kind of like the whole CIA deep state game is it's always moving around the margins. You know, like if you, if there's, cause like when I, you know, on the show I've talked about a bunch, like the

Maidan revolution in Ukraine. And when I, when I'd say like, this was a U.S. backed coup against a democratically elected president, the response I'd get from people who disagreed with it would always be like, oh, you're denying the agency of the Ukrainian people? Cause like, look at these pictures. There's all these Ukrainian people in the streets. And you're like, oh, you're denying the agency of the Ukrainian people? Because like, look at these pictures. There's all these Ukrainian people in the streets.

And you're like, well, yeah. But the US poured $100 million into that street protest. Like, you think that made a difference a little bit? You know? And so like, it's not that there weren't real people there. Sure. But man, you want to keep a protest going through the Ukrainian winter. And then all of a sudden you get a hundred million dollars

And now you got heat lamps and celebrities and concerts and then you keep the whole thing going Until the democratically elected president has to flee for his fucking life. And then what are you supposed to look at that? Oh, that was just an organic revolution. No fucking wasn't you know, this is DC overthrowing Putin's neighbor, and you know they don't Like that detail because then it fucks up the whole unprovoked. Yeah, people like that detail They don't like the detail that there's many layers of subterfuge inter Exchanging with each other there's just so much money and so much influence, and they're so good at it They've been doing it for so long that they can get Time Magazine to write an article saying how it's good.

Yeah, it's great. It's good that we saved the 2020 election. And by the way, I love, I know your podcast with Mike Benz was phenomenal. That dude's great. He's phenomenal, I've done a few of them now. Yeah, he's great. But I'll tell you, I already, I knew all that,

he's right about all that USAID stuff. And I'll tell you, that was the whole thing. It's Scott Horton's book, Provoked, which is like the best book that's been written on the history of the buildup to the war in Ukraine. And it was, it's all in there, dude, if you want. It's all footnoted, but it's like, yeah, they're the ones pumping all this money in.

And then they make it out, like when you try to cut it, they're like, oh, if you want. It's all footnoted, but it's like, yeah, they're the ones pumping all this money in. And then they make it out. Like when you, when you try to cut it, they're like, oh, we were just helping some kids get on a school bus over here and overthrowing the democratically elected government in Ukraine. You know, like we did, we did all of that. Well, that's the beautiful thing about USAID. You know, it's like they had the money to do all this stuff. There's the money to do essentially whatever they want all over the world. And the way Mike Benz describes it as the stuff that's too dirty for the CIA. Yeah. Yeah.

Well, and so they can have plausible deniability too. Yeah. Non-government organization. Yeah, there you go. That's totally right. Not us. Yeah, exactly. It's like in the name.

They might as well call it. They're like, we're not the CIA. The good guy. We're just George Soros' NGO not the CIA at all totally removed but also that the thing is that You know when you look at like the actual money because sometimes they'll they'll kind of point out that They're like, oh, this is a very small percentage of the budget and it's like yeah tiny money. Well, right It's a small just a billion percentage of our budget. But our budget, I mean, I know the entire GDP of Russia

is like two trillion dollars. The entire economy, and I don't know what Ukraine is, but smaller than that, and we spend between six and seven trillion dollars a year, just our government. So when you're talking about flooding in a hundred million dollars, flooding in a few billion I think like it's like five or six billion dollars since 91 we put into Ukraine that may not sound like that much money in the context of

America the biggest economy or the second biggest economy in the world, but Politically in a small country like Ukraine that moves mountains that changes the entire landscape When the world Empire is pumping that type of money in what do you think? The world looks like though if the United States doesn't do that So the United States doesn't it this is like the Mike Baker perspective, right? Like if the United States doesn't make friends with these dictators if the United States doesn't put people who are sympathetic to our causes in power China does Russia does with these dictators, if the United States doesn't put people who are sympathetic to our causes in power, China does, Russia does,

it looks very bad for America all over the world, things get dangerous. It's almost, almost always the Warhawks rely on an unfalsifiable counterfactual, you know? So it's like, oh, but if we didn't do this and we ran the counterfactual, it would be this crazy other scenario that's somehow even worse than this. Now, the problem with that, from my perspective,

is number one, the factual scenario is like something like four to five million dead civilians over the last 25 years. Entire nations destroyed, eight trillion dollars depleted from the US Treasury, tens of thousands of our bravest young men blowing their brains out. So you know, if you're relying on this unfalsifiable counterfactual, but it would have been worse if we hadn't fought a war in Iraq and Afghanistan and Syria and Libya and Somalia and Yemen

and all these places over the last years it Okay I'd say the onus is on you to really have to demonstrate that and not just assert that it would be worse if we hadn't done this but also like You know, we are going broke doing it like we're 36 trillion dollars in debt We can't even afford it and the idea that if we were to get out of the game of being the world empire then like China would go okay great now we get to destroy ourselves and it just seems completely it seems extremely unlikely that that would be the case and also you know it's like people act like

okay if we weren't doing this in Ukraine then Vladimir Putin could do whatever he wanted to or if we weren't doing this in Ukraine, then Vladimir Putin could do whatever he wanted to, or if we weren't doing this, then China could do whatever they wanted to. But they've got adversaries all around them too, who are richer than them, maybe not in China's case, but certainly in Putin's case, richer than them, are opposed to them. There's an, all of Western Europe is not just a pushover.

China has Japan and South Korea, and they've got their own, you know... The truth is that there's... Nobody has the power that the U.S. government has to do this shit. It's only, like, we're the ones who can do this. And it would just be a better world if we just didn't. Like, you just can't convince me that, like,

if we just hadn't have fought the terror wars, like, which was totally a possibility. We could have... We had, the whole war on terrorism could have been over by Christmas of 2001 with the special ops taking out the Al-Qaeda cells. They could have trapped Osama bin Laden and Tora Bora when they had him there, and they let him escape into Pakistan, because, you know, if you were-

Why do you think they did that? Because they already had their eye on Baghdad. And, you know, if Osama bin Laden you think they did that? Because they already had their eye on Baghdad. And, you know, if Osama bin Laden is caught, you don't get your bonus war. You know what I mean? He's got... The whole war propaganda for invading Afghanistan, it wasn't... Everyone remembers WMDs, but it wasn't just that claim.

It was the claim which Dick Cheney and George W. Bush and all the neocons pushed real hard was that he was in on 9-11. Now this totally fell apart because it was never true and they knew it wasn't true. But the claim was he's got these weapons and he could hand them off to the terrorists and then you know what was the Condoleezza Rice line was like we don't want the warning to be in the form of a mushroom cloud or something like that. The fear was they're going to nuke Kansas or whatever as soon as Saddam Hussein gives the weapons he doesn't have

to the terrorists he's not friends with. But if they call Osama bin Laden, I think that would have destroyed the whole seven wars in five years strategy. It's the Wesley Clark strategy. Ooh, you want to hear something else on the Wesley Clark thing? This is new.

So, Pierce Morgan, say what you will about him, he hosted a debate between, which I love doing the show, without treading it, but it's a circus. It is a circus. Yes. I think he's very smart. Oh, he's a genius, dude. That circus is fucking a lot of people lining up. Dude, he is... He figured out...

And you gotta give him so much credit, because he's probably the only one from, like, the old guard of corporate media who figured it out. He went, okay, I see where we are. I see what's going on, and I know what people want to see happen. Well, Tucker figured it out too, but in a different way.

Tucker is actually, yes, Tucker is the one who really figured it out. Tucker is basically doing this way. Tucker is actually, yes, Tucker's the one who really figured it out. Tucker is basically doing this kind of a show. Yes, yeah. He's basically doing long-form podcasts. Well, look. But with people who sucked Obama's dick.

Sometimes. And other various experts. And other really really. It's not only that. Yeah, really amazing people. Maybe 10% of the coverage is about who sucked Obama's dick. Do you see that physician who was on the other day that was talking about all the cancer rises?

Yeah, yeah. I didn't watch the whole thing, but I saw a few clips from it. It's very, very interesting. Fucking crazy. They're seeing pancreatic cancer in kids, little kids, which is just unheard of. He was saying that in all of his career,

he had never seen pancreatic cancer in a child before. And now they're seeing it. Well, they used to call type 2 diabetes adult onset diabetes. Because it was like, the kids don't get it. It was unheard of. And now it's all over the place. I saw that thing, I saw it because you posted it,

but the Kaylee Means. Yeah, so it was fucking amazing. So great. Wasn't it fucking amazing? It's just amazing that they're arguing against this. Well, there's like no argument. And like, I'm far from, I don't really understand the shit that well,

but you go, okay, it's crazy that Bobby Kennedy is overhauling this whole thing and cutting all this, and you're like, okay, okay, we spend more on health than any other nation in the world by far. And we're the sickest. And we're the sickest. Yeah.

You're telling me there should, and your position here, it just like exposes that the entire media, it's like your position here is to get in between the regime and any threat to the regime. Well, it's also radical change and radical change causes controversy and controversy is what they regime. Well, it's also radical change, and radical change causes controversy, and controversy is what they sell.

Yeah, yeah. So the media is going to sell that, and they're going to sell it on the angle of this is creating all sorts of problems, all sorts of people are losing their jobs, budgets are getting cut, people are getting fired, they're out on the street, it's that. Like that's just what they, they have to do that.

That is what, if you're doing television media newsprint media subscription media, that's part of your job Well, but you could also get huge ratings by covering the controversy That is we spend more money and have the worst outcomes do it can't do it because you get too much money from the farmers Well, that's right company, but that also what Kelly Means pointed that out. Right. And I mean, look, if the media was just driven by ratings, they'd be doing shows on Jeffrey Epstein every day. Every day. I mean, because you'd be the number one show in cable news.

You could go, I'm going to talk about no other topic. Give me the 8 p.m. hour on MSNBC or CNN or Fox News or whatever, and I'll say, I'm just going to make my show about Jeffrey Epstein. That's the every single day, that's all we're doing. I guarantee you I have the number one show on cable news. More people would wanna watch that. The Candace Owens show that's on YouTube.

Yeah, that's right. And it's doing better numbers than any of the shows on cable news. It's phenomenal. It's like they created a monster with her. When they fired her from the Daily Wire, they created a monster. Yeah, they sure did. She can't be stopped.

Yeah, oh no, no, no. There's no stopping Cannondonians at this point. Because she's hitting all the fucking third rails that no one wants a touch. She's got a six hour presentation on how Bridget McCrone is a man. I mean, it's fucking six hours plus long. I'm like, I don't know if she's even kind of right about that. I think she's right. But she's got a lot of shit to say on it.

Bro, she would be getting sued right now instead of trying to bribe her. Instead of trying to give her money to shut the fuck up, they would sue her. Yeah, no, you're probably right about that. I don't know if they are suing her. Have they tried to file anything? They probably have.

They probably filed some bullshit lawsuits, too sure I'm sure she's dealing with several I'm pretty sure she's right. I don't know I might be wrong Yeah, I think she's right the whole thing stinks and what stinks way worse than that giant distraction is that the number one opponent? From a crone just got sentenced to four years in jail and barred from political life for five years. And the front runner, not just the number one opponent, the one who's winning. Winning, yeah. Yeah, it's fucking crazy.

It's what they try to do to Trump plus. Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, no, they were able to take it further. Yeah. And then we'll see if there is the backlash the same way there was when they tried to do that to Trump. And it's just so it's like the the there's some propaganda that's like almost too it can't be successful propaganda like saying Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass destruction and is in bed with terrorists that's good propaganda right

there right after 9-eleven you could totally convince the average American that okay well we can't let that stand you you know in a post-9-eleven world We can't allow some Arab dictator to have nuclear weapons and he's friends with the terrorists and he's in on 9-eleven Okay, we got but to say the propaganda is Democracy is on the ballot while you're trying to arrest your your opponent because he's winning in the polls That's just too like it's too ridiculous It's too hot only that you have to say what you're arresting him for yeah

And then when people look at it, you're like wait Mar-a-Lago is worth how much yeah, hold on. Hold on Huh 34 what bookkeeping errors their misdemeanors? How where's the felony? There's a isn't it passed the statute of limitations it is Nobody's ever been tried on this charge. This is a novel, like a charge where it would be a misdemeanor, but you've ramped it up to a felony. Both of them are novel. The real estate thing, too.

And there's no victim involved. The banks themselves are telling you, oh, we were happy to do business with Donald Trump. We do business with him again. And we got paid. We got our money back. There's no victims at all. And it's what every real estate agent does.

Every real estate salesman, every real estate investor, they overvalue their properties. And your property is essentially only worth what people are willing to pay for it. Yeah, I mean, it was so obvious that they were just weaponizing the legal system to go after them. Look, the kid is so crazy.

They tried to say Mar-a-Lago was only worth 18 million Yeah, it's like dude. I would buy it Right away if someone told me you could get Mar-a-Lago for 18 million. I call my accountant right now. I'd go don't lose this Jump on this do we do some wire wire? Wire the money I'm moving to Florida Do some why are your money? Why are the money I'm moving to Florida Just bring down Austin you're good everybody. I don't have the call with Jamie. He'd be like fuck yeah

You thought you had some uncomfortable summers here a lot of golfing for you lot of golfing Alright, I like I like some parts of Florida Florida's fun Well, I don't think I don't think Trump's selling and I don't think you're getting it for 18 million A lot of golfing. I like some parts of Florida. Florida's fun. Well, I don't think Trump's selling, and I don't think you're getting it for 18 million. I'd like to live around alligators again. It's exciting.

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between Scott Horton and Wesley Clark. Oh, interesting. And so in this debate, one of the most interesting things, Wesley Clark just very casually said this, but it's like breaking news. But he said, so everybody, I assume we played it like a bunch of times on the show before, but Wesley Clark is a four-star general, he was the head of NATO, and he told Amy Goodman on Democracy Now that he saw in late 2001, what has become

known as the Seven Wars in Five Years, that the plan from the neocons in the government was that we were gonna overthrow all these governments in the region in the next five years. Now, this plan obviously didn't end up happening in five years, but it's literally he names seven countries and there's one to go. And that one, by the way, happens to be the one that Donald Trump is flirting with a war with right now,

Iran, all the rest of them have happened. By the way, Israeli news reported today that a Donald Trump is flirting with a war with right now, Iran. All the rest of them have happened. By the way, Israeli news reported today that a strike on Iran is imminent. Did you see that? Yeah, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, there's, I mean, it's, we're very clearly moving toward this war, yet another catastrophic war. But so, Wesley Clark gets asked about this in the debate, and he goes, oh, it actually

goes back much further than that. He goes, I first saw the plans in 1991 and it came from Paul Wolfowitz. OK, so he goes, Paul Wolfowitz had these plans in 1991, and he took them to Brent Scowcroft, who was George H.W. Bush's national security adviser. So he takes them to them. And according to Wesley Clark, again, my source on this is a four star general. He says that Scowcroft went well look at this after the election

It's 92 is the election year They lose Bill Clinton comes in and he goes and the plan kind of got killed and then he said it was revived later in a study paid for by the Israelis and That this was done That Richard Pearl was really the one who brought it back to life and that it was explicitly done because this is what they thought was necessary to protect Israel. And like as I've mentioned to you before, now I don't know exactly what study he's referring to,

but that's what he said. But I do know, as I've mentioned before in this, that anybody can go read The Clean Break. You can Google it, it's a clean break, a new strategy for securing the realm, which was a letter written by the guy he mentioned, Richard Pearl and David Wormsar, to Benjamin Netanyahu in 1996,

it was his first year when he came in as prime minister. And the whole thing is basically, the clean break is a break from the peace process, the break from Oslo, because essentially Bill Clinton had gotten Yitzhak Rabin and Arafat to agree to like start this two-state solution process that should be loosely based around 67 borders. You got to finally give these Palestinians a state. You've been occupying them since 1967. You got to finally take your boot off their neck.

And the clean break strategy was to go, listen, we got to get away from this whole idea of a Palestinian state and given them land and basically the thinking the Yitzhak Rabin old-school thinking on this loosely speaking it's a little more complicated but basically they were like look we've been occupying the Palestinians for for decades and decades now the the broader Arab world hates us over our treatment of the Palestinians and so what you got to do is you have to make peace with the Palestinians So that you can get along with all these Arab states around you That was kind of the thinking and the clean break strategy was like no no no we're gonna reverse that

Instead of making peace with the Palestinians so that we get along with the Arab states surrounding us what we're gonna Do is we're gonna overthrow all of those states, so we never have to make peace with the Arab states surrounding us, what we're going to do is we're going to overthrow all of those states. So we never have to make peace with the Palestinians. So we never have to have a two-state solution. What we'll just do is we'll go overthrow all of these governments. Of course, Israel can't go overthrow all of these governments, but the U.S. can. And so after not they had these plans in according to Wesley Clark in 91, we know about the clean break memo in 96, but after 9-11, that's when by a terrible twist of fate and all this shit,

the neocons are in power. They're in George W. Bush's, but there is no Brent Scowcroft, there is no H.W., there's nobody with like a little bit of wisdom at the top. It's Dick Cheney at the top and then his sidekick George W bush and they go so now we're gonna move to get this Do you remember when dick Cheney was in the bunker and but W wasn't yeah, that's when we knew it was up Yeah, yeah, that'll tell you something who we were informed that he was in the bunker, which is so crazy Like why would you say where the guy everyone's trying to kill is hiding? Yeah Are you that confident in your bunker? And where's this bunker?

What does it look like? Can I get a fucking MTV Cribs tour of this bunker? What's going on with the bunker? And look, man, and then just... And you could see now where there's, like, so much... There's such a rise in people being so fed up with this stuff. But the idea that we're now, I mean look, just even with this whole Signal Gate shit that just happened, and it's like the real scandal there

isn't even, I mean I do think that Mike Waltz should be fired over this. I mean it's a crazy screw up, and it's totally embarrassing. How do you do that? I mean's totally embarrassing how do you do how do you do that I mean I don't understand how you do that it doesn't make any sense to me did you see his interview but it is a signal chat between high level government officials with classified information that's being discussed about war plans they would claim it's not, but it was information about an eminent attack

that's about to take place. It seems like that would have to be. How is that not classified? How is that not top secret? If that's not classified, somebody else should get fired. Yeah. But at the end of the day, you have, I believe there was 18 people in that chat. Is that correct?

Something probably around there, yeah. And no one goes over those things before you start addressing this information if Jamie and I were talking shit About someone and we decided to do it on signal Like I would make sure that I didn't accidentally include my mom. Yeah, right Or a fucking reporter. I know or worse like or the or Trump himself Whoops, we're like your enemy like the person who hates you the most How could you even have that guy in your contact list like what's going on? And also I like how do you accidentally include someone and the chat is I mean this is you can't overstate it short of the president Of the United States. It's the most senior right visions

It's you know, do you not have CIA director going over the list before you go live? It's your CIA director. How do you not have someone going over the list before you go live? It's unbelievable. But I will say that, like, that, and perhaps there's another element. I mean, I don't know, you know, I don't exactly know. I know in Trump's first term, the efforts from his own government to sabotage him

were profound and obvious. They were recording him. Yeah, I mean, they were framing him for being a Russian spy, his own intelligence agencies. And so when you have a conversation like this, get leaked to the most anti-Trump propagandist at the Atlantic, it does raise some questions. Big questions.

Was this done intentionally, was it not? Whoopsies. Yeah, and I don't know if you saw, but Waltz was, he did Laura Ingraham's show, like a couple days after it came out. And I mean, his answers were just ridiculous. What'd he say? It was like, she was like,

so was this a staffer who messed up with someone? And he goes, no, no, no, you know, I take full responsibility, but it was, you know, I'm sure a lot of people have a contact with the wrong number saved in the contact or something like that. Yeah, but you don't include that. Yeah, but also, every time I get a new phone, one of the things I do is I go, oh, wow, look at all the dead people on my phone.

Right. I have a lot of dead people on my phone. That's depressing, yeah. It's so sad, but I have a lot of friends that I look through my contact list, I'm like, fuck, he's gone. Oh, fuck, he's gone. It's you know, like, and I have to make the decision, do I delete them through my contact list Mike fuck. He's gone. Oh Fuck he's gone. It's you know like and I have to make the decision do I delete them from my contact list generally? I don't I like to see in there. Yeah, I know it's a I have an old message from an old boss of mine I keep the phone just because it's got the voicemail on it. Yeah, no I got yeah, yeah, it's like

You keep things that you don't need I have contacts for people that are not just dead But people that are dead to me, you know, I mean like why why do I have them in there? Sure, I don't talk to that guy anymore like But you don't add them to a fucking chat list. That doesn't make any sense Well, right and also and he was claiming like the idea of which I'm sure has happened to all of us before we're like Maybe you're taking down someone's number and you enter It wrong so like but that wouldn't you wouldn't happen to hit the Atlantic journalist guys number No, he was he had to be in contact with that guy. Well. He claims. He's never been in contact with him

He's never met him. He's never By the way, then they found pictures of them together at like different events. Oh, he's already lying. Yeah, he's already lying It's not but I will say like that It's like with a lot of these things It you know, there was like which I've we've talked about before on the show, but there's the leaked Victoria Nuland phone call where she's Deciding who the new government in Ukraine will be right like right around the, okay. And then at one point she's furious at the European Union for not like moving in faster.

And she goes, at one point she goes, you know, fuck the European Union, we'll just do it ourselves. We should play that recording. Sure. Cause it's so crazy, people should hear it. But the point is that the scandal became that she said, fuck the EU.

And you're like, no, no, no, dude, that's not the scandal here. That's not, they're like, isn't this undiplomatic of her saying fuck the European Union? Like that's the least of what's interesting about this. Isn't it interesting that Congress people swear now? It's very bizarre. Everybody's swearing.

Yeah. Everyone's like, fuck this, calling people retards. It's great. Well, it's like they lost, they were trying to play that like Donald Trump's like down here and we're the digger, and then that didn't work, so they were like, I guess we'll trying to play that like, Donald Trump's like, down here, and we're the diggers, and then that didn't work, so they were like, I guess we'll just try to be like him too now. Fuck Elon Musk, yeah!

Everybody's excited again. It's interesting, they're adopting podcast language, is what it is. Yes, but it's, I don't think it's gonna be successful for them, because what they're not adopting is the authenticity of it, and it comes off as kind of like, it goes, oh, now you're doing this? Like, after all these years of pretending

you were all formal and everything was about decorum and how Donald Trump wasn't president enough, and now you're like, oh, so you never really believed any of that shit. It's like them trying to turn on the woke stuff. It's like it just does, it's too long. You were so married to this for too long. You gave up your authenticity for too long.

Yeah. And it's like a Chris Cuomo type deal. It's like, you know what I mean? It's Elizabeth Warren drinking the beer but like not doing it right. You know, putting like her whole mouth over a bottle of beer. I want people to get better, right?

So if you were a propagandist and you're like, you know what, this is bullshit. But there's examples of those people out there that are legitimate, you know, and then there's also people that realize like, oh, well, that job is over. I can't do that anymore. Now I have to be something different. Let me try to be authentic. Yes. But you can, people can read that man. They can tell. They can tell the difference. You're also never going to fully be authentic. You're always going to hold something back. You're always gonna hold something back You're always gonna you're gonna say things because you want people to think of you a certain way rather than

Okay, this is uncomfortable, but this is how I think yeah. Yeah, that's right Oh, but so so anyway just on the signal thing though again like the real scandal here is not that they whatever either Intentionally or we were just so incompetent that they added this journalist to it and it got leaked. Like the real scandal is like when you look through the chat and that it's like what are we, because what are we doing here? We're bombing another country in the Middle East,

we're bombing the poorest country in the Middle East. By the way, Yemen. Which has been bombed forever. Oh my God, on behalf of Israel, because they're standing up against this fucking brutal war in Gaza right now, and so we're going to bomb these guys again. And then you have like, I got to say, man, like, I was disgusted by Tulsi Gabbard's response there.

Someone who I've, you know, said a lot of nice things about over the years, and who I really supported as being the DNI. But like literally only JD Vance is the only one who offers the mildest pushback and goes, he's like, Hey guys, this is kind of a mistake and it's kind of everything against what Donald Trump ran on. And by the way, like it's like such an insignificant amount of our trade that even goes through this area. It's really Europe's problem, not ours. And but I'll go along with it if you guys want to, if you guys say.

And then they literally say on the thing, they go, we've tracked the missile guy, as they call him. This is the target they're trying to take out. They go, we've tracked him to his girlfriend's apartment building. And so we'll level the apartment building. And then Tulsi Gabbard's just like, job well done, team. Everybody's cheering it on. There's not like, nobody, nobody even has the thought to go like, you know, like any, is there a way we could do this without like, murdering an entire apartment building's worth of people here, is there a way?

Man, this is a lot like, it's like, did none of you guys even kind of believe in God? Are none of you even scared that maybe God exists and that like, Jesus Christ, what are we doing here? There's none of that. There's not a feeling of that. There's not a sense of like, and you know, I know I've talked about this before on the show, but we got the whole history of the war in Yemen going all the way back to Obama's first term. I mean, what we've done to this country, the poorest country in the Middle East, I mean, it was a goddamn genocide that happened in Yemen.

I mean, it was the drone bomb campaign from Obama was bad enough, but the Saudi invasion and the blockade and the war on the civilian population, you know, hundreds of thousands of people died, hundreds of thousands of cases of like cholera and these other like very easily preventable and treatable diseases that they justies were just dying of because they had a full blockade around the country are net the US Navy Fucking enforcing the blockade the US fucking refueling the Saudi fighter jets and backing them the whole war there and The idea that we think what launching a couple tomahawks is gonna break the Houthis after they went through all that shit There's no chant like it's not you're just killing people for no strategic benefit It's there's the only thing that would actually like we could overthrow the Houthis if we wanted to invade the country What the US military could do that but like short of that the idea that this is to do That's like a big public thing which is bombing somehow or another, especially drone bombing, sort of like is

in the ether. You know what I mean? It's almost abstract. Like you don't, like if we sent a tier one team to go take this dude out, that would be front page news. That would be like an act of war. That would be a good thing. We're declaring war on this country. We've invaded their land with actual boots on the ground. It's different for some weird reason. Like you're allowed to use flying robots, remote controlled by drone operators who, by the way, have some of the weirdest fucking PSD, PTSD rather. These people are all fucked up for a long time because they watch these folks because they're watching these folks. They know the the people around they get to know they watch them for days they see them hug

their kids and then they get that fucking call and you don't get any of the and I don't know I mean I'm just kind of speculating here I'm not no psychologist this episode is brought to you by zip recruiter sometimes speed is a huge asset like in the ring or on the field, being quicker than your opponent could be the difference between winning and losing. In the world of business, it could be the difference between finding or missing out on your next great hire. Luckily, you can speed up the hiring process with ZipRecruiter.

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the thing you're fighting for once you get there is your brother next to you. Like, it's not even, it's like, forget the mission or whatever, it's like, you fuck, this is your guy right here, and you guys are going in to make sure your buddy doesn't get his legs blown off or whatever But when you don't you don't have any of that there aren't bullets whizzing at you. There's not your friend next to you There's not this like sense of like I had to do what I had to do and they say when you're just watching it

On a monitor from a safe distance. Yeah, there's some way that that fucks you up on a whole different level It's got to it's got to haunt your dreams. It has to. There's no other way. I mean, you see a man holding his child and swinging her around in his arms, and then you know you're going to blow that man and that kid to smithereens. Yeah. And you have to because the kids are near the dad,

and we got to kill that guy. Yeah, and you got orders, you know? And a whole apartment building. Like, what are we talking, like, thousands of people? What are we talking about? To get to this guy? you know there's a mushroom boom yeah well there's there's a clip that Tim Poole got like a real short interview with Donald Trump during the campaign like he I think he was the

first one but it wasn't like a long-form podcast like it was he was the first podcast but he did like 20 minutes or something like that. But he did get this one clip out of Donald Trump on that thing where Donald Trump is eviscerating Joe Biden for bombing the Houthis for the same exact reason, because they were firing on shipping lanes. And Donald Trump's like, what type of idiot is Joe Biden? I mean, these guys, their answer for everything is to drop bombs on it.

Pick up a phone. Diplomacy can work here. Like, you don't have to do this. And the fact is that there were, during the ceasefire, which Trump's envoy negotiated, which has fallen apart now, but during the ceasefire, there were no Houthi attacks on the shipping lanes. Like, they stopped them.

And then when the ceasefire fell apart, they picked them back up again. Now feel however you feel about that. I'm just saying there is a diplomatic solution here, right? Like they are willing to like, if there's a ceasefire, they will stop these attacks. But there's not a military solution short of invading the country

and having yet another catastrophic war in the Middle East. And it's like, so which one of those do you want to pick? America first crowd? I mean, like Donald Trump was, Donald Trump was explicitly elected for this reason as a repudiation of the foreign policy of the last 30 years that we're like done with this. We want to put America first. And as you could see, even JD Vance and then a little bit Pete Hegseth, their only issue, you know it's never the innocent people being killed, you know for a bunch of Christians, I just it's kind of weird that that never comes up. But their issue is, oh this is us bailing out Europe, because Europe actually relies more on these these

shipping lanes than the United States does by orders of magnitude. And but even that, that is part of the America first thing that Donald Trump totally ran against like why is it that we have to? Foot the bill for everybody else's defense that makes no sense. We're broke her country is in bad shape We need those resources here. What is the justification for these bombings? What is the public justification that the Houthis have attacked a few U.S. cargo ships and that there's, you know, that they're international trade, they don't have a right to disrupt international trade in this way. Which is like, okay, it's, it's true. I mean,

the thing that I've seen the most is like that people will go, well, we can't just turn a blind eye to this aggression by the Houthis. But I also do think, and I don't even blame people for this because it's nobody You know in the corporate media or it ever talked about any of this stuff or very rarely talked about it Never really told the story that it's like yeah, if you're just coming into the story now I could see where you might think the Houthis are the aggressors But if you're winding the tape from, there is just no debate about it. I mean, there's no question that we literally started,

you know, it was in 2009 when Obama started up with the drone bombing, the then secret drone bombing campaign and Yemen was one of the major theaters. You know, this was where, if you remember, because it was like the biggest scandal of the Obama administration, also not talked about much in the media, but was talked about on a lot of podcasts,

was that Anwar Al-Aqqi and his like 14 or 15-year-old son, his two American citizens, were both killed by drone bombs in Yemen. And this was, caused a bit of an outrage among some people, because you were like, hey, you know, you really can't murder American citizens who have never been charged of a crime. You can't just say, I just, you know, forget that whole Bill of Rights thing. They're on my list. And by the way, the kid was not al Qaeda affiliated or anything, and

they claimed that that wasn't intentional, but it sure seemed like it was. But so Obama had a drone, he was fighting at the time, Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula had like a presence in Yemen. So he's drone bombing these Al-Qaeda sites. I think the estimates were something like 95 to 96% of the people who died were not the targets. So just killing a whole bunch of innocent people. And then as always happens in these situations,

Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula just grew stronger and stronger and stronger. Because this is, you know, it's insurgent math. Like General McChrystal said, you know, you kill a bunch of innocent people, and then, you know, you kill one little girl, and she had three brothers and a father and two uncles, and they all join up Al-Qaeda now.

Because, like, fuck you. They're gonna get you back for that shit. Everyone's radicalized. Yes, so we're doing this drone bomb campaign over there, it's completely failing and al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula is just getting stronger and stronger.

At the same time, Obama kind of bribed off the dictator of Yemen at the time, this guy, Saleh, and he was like listen, if you let us do our fucking drone bombing campaigns in here, we'll give you a whole bunch of weapons and money. And so he took the deal. And then he used those weapons to go attack this group, the Houthis. And then he also started losing to them.

Like even with the US weapons, the Houthis were fucking him up. And then little by little, the Houthis like kind of took over the whole country and then in Now the Houthis are also enemies with al-qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula Like these are radical Sunnis al-qaeda versus radical Shiites the Houthis So they're fucking enemies and they're fighting a civil war while all this is going on and then Saudi Arabia decided to invade in early 2015 and It in 2015 and you can you can look this up if you Google Obama to placate the Saudis. These are literally what the Obama officials told the New York Times. I believe

it was the New York Times. They told them that literally this is why. So Obama stabbed the Houthis in the back, Saudi Arabia side took al-qaeda side Started fighting on the started using the fighting in a civil war against the Houthis Which is you know in effect taking al-qaeda side in that war and so the Saudis? Invade the country now Obama said essentially that because the Saudis are like an important trading partner And they were pissed off at us at the time they were very upset about the war in Iraq the Saudis were the ones in the region who were against it the whole time because they knew they were like you're just gonna give Baghdad to Iran

basically in this and that's their big enemy is Iran and then they were also really pissed off because Obama did the one decent thing he did in his administration was he worked out that deal with Iran the same goddamn thing that Trump tore up and is now demanding they get back into some type of nuclear deal. But so in order to placate the Saudis, Obama goes, okay, we'll back your war here. And like I said, full blockade around the country, refueling their military jets. Quiet support for Saudis entangles US and Yemen.

This is, Yep. Here it is. Obama in an awkward twist becomes Saudi Arabia's defender. Wow. And it is hard to overstate how brutal the Saudis were in this war. I mean, like, you know, think of Gaza, something not too un-similar to that,

but you're talking like a full blockade around the country. This was the poorest country in the Middle East before any of this. Full blockade around the country. The Saudis were bombing, they were bombing their agriculture, they were bombing their wheat silos, they were bombing their irrigation ditches, they're just like a total war on the civilian population all the way from 2015 into 2021 when it essentially

ended in an Afghanistan style, I guess we give up. It was just eventually the status, I think the Houthis, one of the things that's really interesting that happened this whole time, like you were talking about the drone wars So back in 2009 First of all, it was secret. The drone program wasn't everyone knew it there had been good reporting on it But the way they got the good reporting was like people found the drones in Yemen, you know And they'd take like little you know grainy cell phone pictures and be like look, this is a US drone so there's clearly but actually the and be like, look, this is a US drone. So there's clearly, but actually the,

Obama's press secretary, it's not, God damn it, not Jay Carney, his first press secretary. I'm blanking on his name. But he admitted this on NBC News, it was like a really amazing, but he like was talking about how the drone program, this is years later, like 2012, he's at NBC News now. And he was talking about how, when he used to get questions how the drone program this is years later like 2012 He's at NBC News now and he was talking about how when he used to get questions about the drone program He wasn't allowed to he wasn't allowed to even acknowledge that it was real. So he would just sit there. Yeah, Robert Gibbs

I apologize. I should have remembered that I was told not to even acknowledge the drone program There's video of this when I went through the process of becoming press secretary One of the first things they told me was you're not even to acknowledge the drone program. There's video of this. When I went through the process of becoming press secretary, one of the first things they told me was, you're not even to acknowledge the drone program. You're not even to discuss that it exists, said former White House press secretary Robert Gibbs on Up with Chris Hayes Sunday. So now think about, okay, by the way, there is video of this. It wasn't, you know, I don't know if it's in this article or not, but I mean, that was essentially the point. But the thing in the video it's so funny is that they all are laughing about it like they're talking about like what kind of

what a funny thing it is like imagine being in the position where you can't admit that a real thing's real and journalists are asking you questions and he said because it is kind of funny in a weird way but that's like you'd think a newsman would that wouldn't be the number one thing. Oh yeah, this is it. I certainly think there are aspects of that program that are and will remain highly sensitive and very secret but let me give you an example here Chris. When I went through the process of becoming press secretary one of the things one of the first things they told me was, you're not even to acknowledge the drone program.

You're not even to discuss that it exists. And so I would get a question like that, and literally I couldn't tell you what Major asked, because once I figured out it was about the drone program, I realized I'm not supposed to talk about it. But here's what's inherently crazy about that proposition. You're being asked a question based on reporting of a program that exists. So you're the official government spokesperson acting as if the entire program, pay no attention

to the man behind the curtain. I think in many ways, and I think what the president has seen, and I have not talked to him about this, I want to be careful, this is my opinion, but I think what the president has seen and i'm not talking about this i want to be careful in my opinion but i think what the president is seen is our denial of the existence of the program when it's obviously happening undermines uh... people's confidence overall in the decisions that their government makes that's really that's the major problem with murdering people in the poorest

country in the middle east you know you might undermine people's trust in you and therefore your ability to murdering people in the poorest country in the Middle East, you know? It might undermine people's trust in you, and therefore your ability to murder more people in the poorest country in the Middle East. So just like, by the way, whenever you see anyone over the last, like say eight years on MSNBC or CNN talking about a threat to democracy and the free press and all this, shut the fuck up. You hired that guy, the guy who's sitting there telling you

like when it comes to the issue forget whether you're for the war or against the war it's a secret war you're not forget democracy the people aren't even allowed to have an opinion on this even as the White House press secretary you're not even allowed to acknowledge it and and like why not not? I mean, it's not as if they were like, well, if Al-Qaeda knows that we're coming for them, then something is compromised. It's just like, oh yeah, Obama ran as the peace candidate. He collected a Nobel Peace Prize before he had done anything.

And he didn't particularly want to tell people that he had just started this new campaign of just murdering whoever he wanted to for whatever reason he wanted to. And you know, one of the things that's interesting about the technology of it, and I remember people much smarter than me predicting this at the time, I guess I never really appreciated like exactly the timetable of all of it, but it went in 2009, which he's talking about 2009, a few years later there, it went from like, oh, the US has this new technology

where we can use drones in war, to all of a sudden now in 2025, you're sitting around and everybody, like this is just part of war now. Literally, even the Houthis, I mean, they don't have the capabilities we have, but they have drone bombs. And that's part of how they were able to get the Saudis

to finally back out is like, they could hit some of their oil fields with their drone bombs and it was enough of a pain in the ass for the Saudis to be like, all right, like call it quits. And so they ended that war in 21. But now these Houthis have been in charge of Yemen the whole time since, you know, in the same way that it was like we fought this whole war to get the Taliban out of Afghanistan. We just lost like they just still run the whole place. And so these guys are still there. They have gone through what was the worst humanitarian crisis in the world from 2015 to 2021.

They survived all of that, and they're still there. And now they see the same goddamn thing happening in Gaza, and they're the one... Again, I'm not... Like, this is their stated thing. I'm not saying, like, they're all great people or something, but they're going like no fuck that We're standing up for the people in Gaza And so they were like as long as all of you guys are supporting Israel just slaughtering all these people Then we're gonna start, you know, like trying to shut down these shipping lines

Which they don't really have the capacity to do but they can hit some cargo ships and hit some military ships How does this ever settle? They don't really have the capacity to do, but they can hit some cargo ships and hit some military ships. How does this ever settle? How does this ever relax? Like when you look at what happened in Gaza and you think about the tensions that existed before October 7th and then this happens and then the Israeli attack happens, like how does anything come to a peaceful resolution at this point? Well, it looks really bad at the moment right now, you know

And like what I always like to say which I you know is like 50% just me telling myself something to feel better about The situation but then 50% like it is kind of you know, like you look you could go around the world right now and like England is right next to Ireland and everybody's just cool there right now. And that would have seemed like impossible, you know? And like France and Germany and, you know what I mean? Like there are all these countries where like, there was a time where it just seemed impossible.

And you know, that was Egypt and Israel. So Egypt and Israel went to war four times in the first 20 something years of the existence of the state of Israel. So Egypt and Israel went to war four times in the first 20 something years of the existence of the state of Israel. They just kept going to war and war and war against each other. And then in the late 70s they made a deal and it was like a land for peace swap. But isn't it part of the problem that Palestine is not a state? Like yeah that's like the whole problem. The whole thing is like you can never come to peace

if you never even acknowledge they exist. Yeah, well they've had, so Israel took control of what are known as the occupied territories. They took control of Gaza and the West Bank in 1967. And it's one thing, I'm not saying it's ever justified, but it's one thing to occupy an area for a few months after a war as you're going through the process

of turning it over to themselves, or maybe even a few years. But we're going into 60 years of complete Israeli control over these people. And under Israeli control, they have zero and under Israeli control they have zero rights Zero rights whatsoever. I mean like they don't have the freedom of movement. They don't have freedom to trade with the outside world They don't have voting rights. They don't have the right of due process

I they get they get if literally to this day like in the West Bank Where there's like all these big Israeli settlements because the Israelis are just constantly slowly stealing more of the Palestinians land. They, if like an Israeli settler in the West Bank, in the same jurisdiction, gets in a dispute with a Palestinian there, the Israeli citizen, he's a citizen of Israel, he has rights. He goes to a trial. The fucking the Palestinian goes in front of a military trial. If he's lucky enough to get that they have something like a

99% conviction rate you're just totally fucked like and this and and Then look a lot of people will point to like look like there's there's been Terrorism on the Arab side toward the Israelis going back many years But like I think you're essentially right. You can't expect a group of people to just be subjugated for eternity and not, nobody's going to try to violently fight back. And of course when they non-violently try to fight back that gets squashed too. That gets met with violence. And then the Wallace thing, Trump comes along and says, we're going to take it. We're going

to take it. We're going to turn it into the Mediterranean of the Middle East. It's such a, man, it's such a, I really just, I say, listen, I know, like the last time I was on was on election night, and look, I supported Donald Trump in this last election. I think Donald Trump was like a necessary force. Donald Trump is a once in a century type of figure. If that.

Yeah. I mean, there was just nobody was positioned to do the things that Donald Trump did. And there were like enormous positives that came out of him winning this election. I mean, Donald Trump landed a devastating blow on the Republican establishment in 2016 when he won the primary. And he landed a devastating blow against the Republican establishment in 2016 when he won the primary and he landed a devastating blow against the Democratic establishment by winning the presidency this year and He like destroyed the corporate media like in a way that nobody else could have done and all of those things are like incredible achievements, you know But there is this like kind of tragedy with Donald Trump too where it's like

He's the one guy who was able to do all of this and I will say there were just there were hopes That it was like hey, he may be this time around now, man. He's got Bobby Kennedy there. He's got Tulsi Gabbard there He's got like all okay. This is like a whole different thing that war in one day. Yes, right He's good. He's here to end the wars also like he had been burned by the system now, you know hold It's not just that they called him a Russian traitor or whatever, it's like they tried to throw him in jail. They tried to murder him. Okay, this is maybe, oh no, yeah, no, no, no, no.

I'm sorry, that totally happens. He had five phones. A lot of times, as we all know. Professionally scrapped department. Yes, that happens all the time too. Many times presidential candidates, the front runner to be president, once again, former presidents,

a sniper gets a clean shot 130 yards away from them. That's a very common thing. A guy who was in a Black Rock commercial just a couple of years ago. And a lot of those guys were in Black Rock commercials once, Joe, these are normal things that happen to normal people. It's part of everyday politics.

But so a lot of this made people think like, oh maybe, but I will say already into Trump's presidency, it's just a lot, it think like, oh, maybe. But I will say, already into Trump's presidency, it's just a lot, it's like, ah, shit. No, I guess I gotta be happy with the things that he did. But the idea that he's really figured this out, or he's really onto something, or he's learned a lot, or he's got, the guy is out there, he's saying we should primary Thomas Massey

and throwing his support behind Lindsey Graham. I mean, come on. What is Thomas Massey doing that's pissing him off? Oh, he didn't vote for the freaking spending bill. and throwing his support behind Lindsey Graham. I mean, come on. Mr. President. What is Thomas Massey doing that's pissing him off? Oh, he didn't vote for the freaking spending bill. He voted against the CR because it increased spending and was increasing the debt, and it was refunding all of the programs

that Doge had recommended be cut. So he was like, no, I'm not voting for this. And Trump was like, well, I'm gonna need you to vote for it. And he was like, no. And that's it. That's his crime. The same thing, same reason Trump hated like, well, I'm gonna need you to vote for it. And he was like, no. And that's it. That's his crime. The same thing, same reason Trump hated him in 2020 because he wouldn't vote for the $2 trillion COVID spending bail.

Because he was like, what, you're telling me because the country's locked down, that means we have to bail out every giant corporation around the country. Like, no, I'm not supporting this. And then Trump sent all his people to go, he's betraying America first or whatever. And there's Trump gets in that he just wants like, you know the next win but

you know the real problem here is like the I look the idea that we are going to go and and ethnically cleanse like finish the job of ethnically cleansing the Palestinians out of Gaza on behalf of Israel. It's like, first of all, what do you think, what do you think the reaction to that's gonna be? What do you think, what do you think that's gonna do to our country here? You know, it's like, I feel, it's like I see a lot of people

who get very upset about what they call the rise of anti-Semitism, which certainly, according to my Twitter feed, is real. It's real. And there's a lot of people. Do you think it's, well, is it a rise or is it the ability to express it now been unlocked? Or is it both? I don't know. I don't know, maybe both.

I have a tough time kind of figuring out exactly what it is. It's also, there's a troll aspect to it. You know, there's when you make one thing, the thing that you're not allowed to say, and the thing that's gonna get a rise out of everybody. There's, this has been true, and it's been building for many years.

Kind of the alt-right back in the day was kind of the first you know version of this but where you could be some guy just at on your computer you could be a 15 year old on on your phone or whatever and you could get you know the New York Times senior editor to be like oh look at this out right you know and just the ability to provoke that reaction out of somebody is that's fun. Yes, that's fun. And you're handing this person who has no power like some real kind of power.

I also think that young, for young men today, particularly like young straight white men, I think it's kind of hard like for me and you to even understand the world they grew up in. It was very different than the world we grew up in. Like they grew up in this woke era. And okay, now it's kinda like that's receded and wokeism has been defeated.

But they grew up in a time where racialism was accepted by every powerful institution. Just against them. You know, like it was totally fine to demonize straight white men at your high school, at your college, in your movies, in your TV shows, your politicians, celebrities, everybody was just... and that does like... it unlocks a certain thing that we kind of all had a gentleman's agreement to not unlock. Like we're just not really gonna do that, you know? We don't want to

be like racialists. And so that's, I think that's a component to it unlock, like we're just not really going to do that. We don't want to be like racialists. And so I think that's a component to it too. But there's also no question that it's exploded since Israel's launched this war on Gaza. Yeah, and it's exploded on the left, which you never heard anti-Jewish sentiment in public spaces before. You really never saw that on campuses. You

know, if Israel did something, you may see a protest, but it was generally, it was organic. These don't seem organic. They seem very funded, and they're very disruptive. And, you know, some universities experience vandalism and fires and crazy shit and people being threatened and doxed. You know, it's different. It's a different level of it than I think we've ever seen before. And it's kind of, it's created a giant divide on the left, right? Because on the left, you have a lot of people that are, their whole life, they've been in

support of Israel, right? And now all of a sudden, there's these free Palestine people that are also on the left. So you have this divide on the left. Yeah, and there was that divide goes back, like there were leftist divides over the Israel-Palestine question going back really to like 1967, where most of the kind of like the Black Power movement people, like the Black Panthers,

the Nation of Islam, those guys, they all sided with the Palestinians, because they all saw it as like an extension of like, yeah, that's the whole, you know, we're against this kind of like racist colonizing, you know, like force. And then of course, there were a lot of influential Jewish people on the left who were like, no, not in this case, we're okay with it. But you guys sure are right about all that civil rights stuff, but like,

let's not look over there. But so a lot of that has kind of reemerged. Now I do also, you know, I don't know. Like I've talked to, I talked to one kid who was, like, a grad student at Columbia, which was really, like, the center of so many of these protests, and he's Jewish. And I was like, uh... I was like, so what's it like?

And he was like, yeah, they're annoying, and they're Latin. Like, some of their chants are, like, real kind of weird. Like, I don't really know what they mean by it. And I was like, well, do you ever feel, like, threatened? And he's like, no, no, it's not. It's fine, they'll just chant as you walk by. And then I do know also that they had at least one time, they had a Seder service,

because they got Jewish people in those protest movements too. And so over last Passover, it was a year ago, they had a Seder service with the Jews like in there too. So I also don't, I don't know like what percentage of them are like just against the war and seeing pictures of dead babies and stuff like that. What percentage of them are actually, you know, like harbor resentment toward Jewish people. Like it's, it's kind of hard to measure,

but I would just say that like it almost in a very similar way to like what I was talking about with the drone war against Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, it just made them stronger. It's like, hey, if you wanna see less Al-Qaeda, maybe stop having the American military kill innocent civilians in their land, because that seems to be fueling them.

And at the same time, for the people who are so concerned about the rise of anti-Semitism, you're like, okay, it has exploded since Israel's been doing this to Gaza, right? so like maybe The US shouldn't be funding and arming the whole goddamn conflict because that does seem to like at least give those people a giant Talking point to latch on to maybe we shouldn't have a system We're like our political class is not allowed to criticize a foreign government and a foreign government that's gotten us into like seven wars at least played a large role in getting us into those wars explicitly

I'm not like alleging some secret conspiracy like Benjamin Netanyahu is John McCain right like he's very he's he's been telling us Iran has a nuke he's been telling us they're five years away from a nuke since I was seven. Literally he's been saying Iran is five years away from a nuke the entire time. And he came over here, he testified before Congress in 2002 that we as a regional expert, that if we were to overthrow Saddam Hussein, democracy would sweep the region and there'd be all these positive reverberations. And then he goes, and you also got to overthrow the regime in Iran, and you also got to overthrow

Muammar Gaddafi, and like every single one of these things, we, not Iran yet, still pushing for that, but we went in over through Saddam Hussein, we went in over through Muammar Gaddafi. And I don't know what swept the region, but it wasn't democracy. No, I remember in the early 2000s, when I realized there's two

fighting factions of Islam. I was like what? Yeah. And that Saddam Hussein had actually kept that from boiling over. Yeah. Because he was in control. Yeah. No, I remember learning it too right around the same time. You're telling me there are shirts and skins over there? They fight against each other? Like what are they? Do you know the difference between Sunni and Shiite? I mean, I know that they're different sects of Islam, but like in terms of like the religion is like the Catholics versus the process Something like that like it's always the people with the like most minor Interpretations of their holy book differences who like go to war the most aggressively, you know what I mean? Like it's like the Catholics and the Protestants. You know, like, you agree on 95% of this religion,

but like, whatever. If you didn't know about that conflict, you would never believe it's real. Like, Christians going to war with other Christians, like different sects. Like, brutal, horrible wars. Especially when you could like read about Jesus and you'd be like, this doesn't seem to be

what he's saying at all, man. Who's at the helm of this fucking battleship? It's on it's unbelievable to me that any and I'm not claiming to be any type of religious expert And I'm not a Christian But it is unbelievable to me that anybody could be a Christian and could then like somehow Do the mental gymnastics and rationalization to be like, and that's why you gotta support every war. That's why we gotta fight every single one of these wars. Cause you know, just like that guy Jesus told us,

slaughter women and babies. Seems like the opposite of his message from my humble understanding of it. So the argument of that, if you wanna take the argument, would be like, you have to do that to protect everyone here. Yeah, I mean, right. That's the argument, right. Like we have to go to war with Iran, a country that doesn't have nuclear weapons,

or an Air Force capable of delivering them here. And it's so convenient that they're evil. So convenient that they torture students and they execute Olympic gold medalists in wrestling because they protested against the government. It's so convenient. Well, it's also like, you know, there's evil shit going on all over the world.

Oh yeah. And it's terrible that there is, but isn't it interesting how like the next war, you know, like I was in, I did a debate at Princeton University a few months back against Josh Hammer, who is an editor at Newsweek. And we did an Oxford-style debate on whether the US should support Israel.

And one of the things he said to me, so I was talking about all this stuff, like the clean break strategy in the seven countries in five years. And he was like, oh, the war in Libya, that was a totally separate thing. Like that was like a liberal interventionist war. And I was like, well, it sure is a coincidence

that it was one of the seven countries. You know what I mean? Like what a wild coincidence. Kind of crazy. The government we decided to overthrow was the exact government that four star General Wesley Clark told me we were planning on overthrowing way before any of these claims about how Gaddafi,

all these bullshit plans. The Libya one is wild. The Libya one's wild when you see We were planning on overthrowing way before any of these claims about how Gaddafi, all these bullshit claims. The Libya one is wild. Yeah. The Libya one's wild when you see how good of a leader he was. He was obviously an evil dictator. No question. An eccentric fellow.

Yeah. Definitely a piece of shit. However, for the people that lived there, they got no interest loans. They had incredible infrastructure. Their economy's doing well. They were at peace. I think it was one of the richest countries in Africa, which is, you know, grading on a curve, but still. Then, a few years later, after we invade,

or we helped people, we assisted, it becomes a failed state, and they have slave auctions on YouTube. Yeah, that's right. Now, I've heard it's recovered somewhat. Yeah. I hear people reach out from Libya and tell me that Tripoli's actually not bad enough.

Is doing better than it was. But also, and the other part of this is that this was a huge contributing factor to the migrant crisis in Europe. You know, like all these things do have like these domino effects where it was, so then Gaddafi also was kind of like not allowing that to happen.

And then you had these huge numbers of refugees pouring into Europe. But not just pouring in, but it seems like they're wanting them to pour in. Yeah. I mean, this is where it gets really strange. You know, I had a conversation with someone about this that didn't understand it.

And we were going over civil unrest and how the use of civil unrest. one of the things that civil unrest does do really well is it makes people want to have measures to stop civil unrest that ultimately erode liberties. It's a really good strategy. So if you want to take away people's guns, take away right to protest, one of the best things to do is to release as many criminals as you can and flood your city with violence and crime. The more violence and crime you have, the more people will be freaked out, the more people will be freaked out, the more likely they are to give in to new measures of control. That's exactly right. Exactly.

Yeah. And you could do that worldwide. Well, you could watch it. But also, let's talk about Europe, okay, in particular. Let's talk about Germany. Let's just talk about the UK. What have they been doing besides letting in immense numbers of migrants? One thing they've been doing is arresting people for Facebook posts. They're arresting people for stepping out of line. So they're moving closer and closer to totalitarianism. And if you look at the numbers of people, you know, that have been arrested for just

Facebook, one of them was, someone just got arrested, pulled out of his house at two o'clock in the morning for a Facebook post saying that he didn't like the Palestinian flag. I mean, this is wild stuff. It's wild stuff and thousands of arrests, not just, have you ever seen Konstantin Kyssin talking to someone about this, and he was explaining? Yeah, he was explaining, like, Russia imprisoned 400 people for posts on social media. That's crazy, right?

How many do you think the UK did? And he's like, oh, I have no idea. I was like, 4,000. And he's like, what? Thousands of people are getting arrested in the UK, and you're only seeing some of them. You're seeing the people that are filming it at the time who have the wherewithal to grab a cell phone.

There's a lot of people that have just been by themselves that just got scooped up. What was it, I think it was 60 Minutes did a piece where they had like three lawyers, they were sitting there and were kind of like asking them, like, so would this post be okay? Would this be okay? Could I say something?

And they're like, well, posting it is actually much worse than just saying it. And I mean, like it is really creepy. It's really creepy. But you're so right, you're so spot on about this kind of like this one, two punch of like destabilization and then government coming in with the solution. It's Harry Brown, who is, he's deceased now,

but he's a brilliant guy. He was like, he ran for president on the Libertarian Party in 96 and 2000, but he used to say the government breaks your leg and then offers you a crutch and then like they convince you to be thankful for the crutch. And you're like, man, if this government wasn't here, I wouldn't have a crutch. I'd be walking around on broken legs.

But you see it where, look, even if you just watch, I remember during 2020, when the George Floyd thing first happened, and forget whatever the autopsy, there was the one autopsy that said it was fentanyl that killed him, like leaving all of that aside. Just when the video of Derek Chauvin kneeling on this guy's neck who's on the ground and crying in pain

and he's kind of smiling and then the guy dies, everybody I know, I mean it was so unified. I knew hardcore right-wingers. My Fox News watching father-in-law, I remember I was at his house the day it happened, and he goes, every one of those cops should be put in handcuffs on national television. And he goes, they should all be charged with murder.

That was like, you cannot do this. And then after the riot started in the summer, all those same people were like, send in the military. You know what, like you just see how like, someone could so quickly go from like, you know, we really need some police reform here, like there is too much state power of policing. So then after you see some riots, what are you asking for?

Well, who's gonna stop that? Marshall Law? Yeah, we need the government to come in and crack down, more police power than ever before. So you could see like, and that's just like a little scale, but you could see how much that demand, and sometimes very understandably so, like in that example, very understandably so,

because you're like, well, I don't know. Like I'm totally against like the over-militarization of the police, but when you have these huge riots across every major city in the country, you're like, well, I guess this is the one time we have a reason to have that. And then by the way, of course, they don't do anything to stop it.

They just let it go. It's all, the George Floyd one was fascinating because it wasn't a setup. It was just an organic moment where someone was filming some guy who had a guy lean. Now, was he on his neck or was he on his shoulder? Because I keep hearing people online saying he was on his shoulder. Maybe that might be right.

The thing is on the neck, you're really going to go out. You're going to go to sleep. You know if the guy's really pressuring your neck like that, you're going to like, anybody who thinks that's not a big deal, get someone who knows how to put weight on the knee leaning your neck. Okay, he's right on the neck No question at all. Okay, that will put you to sleep for the most part and that will definitely Constrict your breathing depending upon how much weight he actually has on that neck and how strong George Floyd is now Imagine this guy's already fucked up. He already has an enlarged heart, he's on fentanyl, he's already fucked up, but would he have died without this happening?

Well, from what I understand, there were two autopsies. People wanna say it was an overdose. Well, it's certainly he had poor health because of drug abuse, and it certainly must have contributed to it, but are you saying that that wouldn't have a giant effect on someone in poor health because of drug abuse. And it certainly must have contributed to it. But are you saying that that wouldn't have a giant effect on someone in poor health? Like if you did that to an old man with emphysema,

if you had some guy who's been smoking cigarettes for 50 years and you got on his neck, he could fucking die right there. Whereas if he didn't, if you didn't get on his neck, he'd probably live a long time. Right, and you can't say it was the smoking that killed him if it was that. Eric Gardner was another one Yeah, Eric Gardner people were saying you know he died because he's fat and he had a heart attack

I was like no dude that guy's choking him yeah, and if you don't think that guy's choking him Let me grab your neck like that. You don't think that's a choke. Yeah, because oh because it's one arm I'll put you to sleep with one arm. Yeah. Oh, yeah, you can put some of the sleep I've watched UFC fighters get put to sleep professional fighters get put to sleep with one arm professional world champion Sean Brady Choked out Leon Edwards for the most part with a one-armed guillotine and Luke Rockhold got a Mike Mike Mike is a one-armed guillotine. Yeah, he's got somebody with that The one-armed guillotine is legit. Oh and anybody who's like if anybody who like knows what they're doing Yeah, it was grappling anyone who doesn't know what they're doing. They could all one-armed choke you out. Yeah

They're saying oh, he just restrained him like no no no no no no no no when you restrain someone you get their arms behind Their back you pin their weight down you could just restrain guy, if you're a good jiu-jitsu practitioner, with your body weight. If you have a good, you're on top, he's face down. You put your hooks in, he's not going anywhere. You flatten him out, you under hook him, you pull his arms out, someone cuffs him. You don't choke him, you don't have to choke him. The guy wasn't resisting at all.

So that was another one, right? But these are real moments. These are organic moments. They're not setups, but boy are they good at capitalizing on those fucking things. And then when you see public officials going with this swarm of narrative, the swarm of narrative was defund the police. Like are you guys out of your fucking mind in the middle of these riots you're gonna go against the police instead of going against the rioters? You got one bad cop cop that bad cop should be

Prosecuted or something should happen. He should be you know If the guy died of an overdose at the very least what he's doing seems to be brutal. Yeah, and I know necessary Yeah, yeah unnecessary and brutal the guy's not resisting you put your put your weight on his back. It's hard enough It's so hard to get up if someone has their fucking knee on your back It's so hard to get especially if you're out of shape and you have an enlarged heart and you're on fentanyl There's also seven cops around him and he wasn't I mean I've watched the whole body cam footage He was a he was clearly fucked up, and he was clearly having like a massive panic attack. Yeah, but he wasn't like Being like violent with the car was like he wasn't like being like violent with the cops. He wasn't a threat for that many cops.

Cops get so desensitized and you have so many experiences as one individual. This guy had a long criminal record. The people that worked that area probably all knew him. Didn't Derek Chauvin and him work together somewhere. I remember I remember hearing that security. Yeah, they were like they were doing some security We each other I think so But yeah, so it's probably some get back involved in that knee on the neck. It's right quite possibly It's also one of those things where like it is

Look most of the time someone won't die if you do that. You know what I mean? Yeah, exactly. But there is. Most of the time someone's not filming it. Yes, that's also true. And if the body cam footage comes out, it's usually much later, so it's not kind of like

as a media of a thing. Also, usually every single media outlet in the entire United States of America in the middle of a lockdown doesn't play the video on repeat all day every single day because it's that there was no reason the thing about George Floyd That was crazy Is that there was no reason for it to be a national story and there was no reason for it to be a racial story Like there wasn't it really when you why don't you think there would be no reason for it to be a national story when a cop? Kills. Oh, well, I just died for a false $20 bill. No, no, I should when I say that

Okay, I'm not saying it. There's no like story there I'm saying there wasn't where a country of 330 million people There are a number of these incidents that happen every year not like a crazy high number But like there's there's a few hundred of these every year This one kind of seemed to get picked as like, we're all gonna run with this right now. Because we got the full video. We got a four minute...

It's like, go back to Rodney King. It's the same thing. Yeah, I guess, okay, that is a fair point. The Rodney King one was a bit different. I mean, number one, the video element then was way crazier because it was... Nobody had ever seen a video before. No one has.

There's a guy with a giant thing who happens to be on his balcony at the right time. And also, they beat the ever-loving shit out of him. Like, it was, yeah, I mean, they were, just after he was down in town, they just kept going and kept going. But the other thing that I always thought was like, the George Floyd thing, it's not like there was like any element in there

where like they were calling him the N-word or there was some type of like racial like thing. Like it didn't ever seem to me that there was any reason to believe that like, had he been a giant white dude, tweaking out on drugs, doing the exact same thing, it wouldn't have gone the exact same way. Right, but he wasn't.

Yeah, that's true. The thing is, it is post Rodney King, it is a white guy on the neck of a black guy. But there was also a Asian cop and a black cop. Yeah, but they weren't doing the kneeling, and they also got prosecuted. That's a fair point, that is a fair point. Didn't they get prosecuted?

He got convicted of murder, I do not remember. I think the Asian cop got prosecuted as well. See, what other cops got prosecuted? I think it's one of those things where you're supposed to step in and say, you gotta get off his back. I think that's totally reasonable. I mean, yeah, to be like, hey, listen, he is totally. The thing is, I wanna know, was he on his neck

the whole time, because I had heard that he was on his shoulder, but that is on his neck. So I? Because I had heard that he was on his shoulder. But that is on his neck. So I'd have to go watch that horrible video over again. I don't want to do that. I was watching some horrible videos today from Gaza. This guy carrying around a headless baby, showing what happened to his child is just so fucked.

Another guy was holding a child's arm in his hand. Dude, it is so... It's so fucked. The level of evil that this shit is. I mean, you see, I know you've seen it, but you see the drone videos, like the aerial footage of Gaza. Gaza's gone. It's gone.

They fucking destroyed the whole goddamn place. I saw one... It's hard to believe. I saw one estimate said that it was 90% of the population has been What's the word I'm looking for that they've been displaced displaced yeah that they have 90% of a mark who's the 10% I'm good find that guy and train them. That's your Rambo, but it is Three of the cops were found guilty of violating his rights and one other one got Plead guilty to aiding and abetting second-degree murder or manslaughter. Yeah, that was the Asian guy. I got three and a half years Jesus

All right, you're betting yeah, yeah, yeah, I think you kind of have you're a cop you kind of have a responsibility to yeah And then there's also the level of fentanyl we've discussed discussed this right because people keep saying that he died Of a fentanyl overdose, but I don't believe the level of fentanyl in his body was enough to give him an overdose For the you know you know what how LD 50 weight? Rates work now that works now. I I lethal dose for 50% of the population. That's how they determine, right? Okay, so the problem is, you get 100 people, give them all the same amount of stuff, 50 of them are gonna die, 50 of them are gonna live.

So that's how you find what the LD50 of a drug is. So when you have something like fentanyl, this is the guy's like an inveterate fentanyl user. He probably has a very high tolerance to opiates. You know, and I don't... And he's huge, he's a big dude. He's a big dude. He was obviously dying from drug abuse. He had an enlarged heart, he was fucked up, you know?

And the levels though, when they were like at the threshold. Not the official autopsy, but this is the doctor that did one of them, I think, and he said here, I don't know if you can read that, but. Yeah, fentanyl at 11 nanograms per deciliter. This is higher than chronic pain patient. If he were found dead at home alone and no other apparent causes, this could be accepted.

Call on overdose. Deaths have been certified. I don't know what that says. Level of three. So level of three. He was at 11. So deaths have been certified at a level of three nanograms per deciliter. He was at 11 nanograms per deciliter.

I am not saying this killed him. Fentanyl metabolite 4-AMPP. Think this is non-commercial meta meth meth 19 oh he had meth to 19 nanograms per deciliter this is relatively low relatively low but that's bad for your heart from video. I've seen it appears like his knee is on the side of the neck not where the Structures are that doesn't mean anything. That's silly. That's a person who's never been choked You shut your mouth shut your mouth doctor

Let me lean on your neck bitch breathe deep. Yeah, what are you talking about? That's so crazy That's that's not to crush his windpipe? What are you talking about? Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, that just seems ridiculous. That's so stupid. He crushes everything. If I got on your neck here, you're not doing nothing.

There's none of this is going to work. Look, when you have a big neck, you can die from your tongue. You know that? People die of sleep apnea, like football players. Like they swallow their tongue? No, their tongue closes over the back of their mouth because they're they have so much neck tissue, right? That their air hold gets smaller, right now I want you to imagine someone compressing that neck tissue with 210 pounds of body weight all

positioned on their knee Yeah, yeah, you can put someone to sleep that way. Yeah, well, they'll die if you hold on to it. They'll die. It's indefensible and It's crazy and the the and I think the country had kind of like the appropriate reaction to it They're trying to say the cops can't use chokeholds anymore Well, that's crazy, too Because you should be able to if you're a cop you got to be able to choke people Like if you get some wild messed up fucking dude, and he's attacking cops And he's got his shirt off and fucking swastika's on his chest

And you want to strangle that guy put him away put him asleep, then you can cough them you can do that Go to sleep in fact it might be Safer way to then like tasing someone and then where they stiffen up and just fall over He just choked George Floyd out and then cuffed him Yeah, that would be way better for everybody. Yep, like a real simple Five-second rear naked choke he goes to sleep Temporarily you cuff him he wakes up none of the trauma to his neck none of that shit none of that none of the four minutes Whatever it was seconds. No nationwide riots. No nationwide riots. It's maybe a different reason, but just a jiu-jitsu move

And then you cuff them and you know but man being a cop is the most fucking thankless psychotic job in this country and Every day they pull up to cars and they worry that they're gonna get shot everybody seen videos of cops They pull up the fucking tinted windows, and get blasted I just saw one today. There's so many of them It was it was great The one I saw today too was one where like it there was almost no tell Like it was oh they they had to stop and they were just like hey, you know, buddy is this your car? He's like, yeah, it's my car. He seemed totally cool. They're just like, okay licensing registration He goes I actually don't have my license on me and he goes you're driving without a license

All right, sir I'm gonna have to ask you to step out and then comes out boom boom boom boom boom shooting at him and shoots one of The cops the other one gets behind the car so shooting back. It's like yeah No, listen, I guess that's got to be a crazy thing to you know, it's like um, I remember hearing a baseball player Say once there he was like he goes the toughest thing about being like in the outfield is that every, if you think about the game, every single pitch, you gotta immediately be like,

oh, is it coming to me? And then it's just like, not, not, not, not, not, not, is, you know, you gotta be ready for that one time where it is coming to you. And I imagine there's something like that with a cop, so it's like every routine traffic stop, you gotta be a little bit concerned about that. On the other hand, that is the job,

and there are expectations when you're, if your salary is paid by the people's taxes, and like, the standard has to be, probably the same thing I think the standard fighting wars should be, the standard should just always be, do the same thing I think the standard for fighting wars should be. The standard should just always be, do you absolutely have to do this? You know, like if you don't have to.

Like the Eric Garner situation. Yes, like do you have to do this? He's selling loose cigarettes. Okay, he's selling loose, okay, there's gotta be stuff. I understand like- Tell him not to do that. Right, and I understand like maybe there's, like human beings can get very creative, man. We could find, I understand him saying,

okay, there's the guy inside the store, has to sell cigarettes with a tax on them, he gets to sell these loosey cigarettes, it's hurting this guy's business, and maybe he's asked him to leave and he hasn't. We're talking about selling loose cigarettes outside of a store. You just don't need to bring this level of violence

to, for this situation. And it's one of the things like, I know I saw you were talking about the other day with the Trump deportation stuff, where there's like this very, it's an interesting moment that we're in right now, because you have, if you remember in Trump's first term, this was one of the biggest kind of like,

controversies that he lost a lot of public support over was the kids in cages. And okay now they you know. Turns out they'd always put kids in cages. Yes, they were built under the Obama administration it was kind of bullshit they took some pictures of a kid crying that didn't wasn't even really about the Trump deportations like you know the media lies that's what they do. But there is something about you know like in the in the civilations like you know the media lies that's what they do but there is something about You know like in the in the civil rights movement, you know Martin Luther King and those guys they picked Birmingham, Alabama Like they knew what they were doing and they were they knew that they were gonna get this

Reaction and that then it could be on TV. And they almost forced the American people to watch these young black men in suits and ties have fire hoses and dog sicked on them. And even for the 1960s American person who maybe harbored some significant degree of prejudice, even for them just seeing that was like, ah, Jesus, I can't support that. You know what I mean? And there is something with, you know, the, the US has had just an

insane immigration policy, really since 1965. But I mean, the Biden immigration, it was the just like the most insane policy. Joe Biden seems to me like his, at least part of his legacy, is he moved the country further right on immigration than you could have imagined. It's not super majorities of the American people support mass deportations, but just like there's a difference between being a little bit racist against black people and being able to watch, you know, cops unleash German shepherds on black dudes in suits and ties. It's one thing to kind of believe. I think the people who are here illegally got to go back. It's another thing to like watch it unfold

and see what type of... and I'll just say this, like on the theme of what I was saying like earlier about the signal stuff, you know, there were so many efforts to like sabotage Donald Trump's first presidency in this moment if you really want to see mass deportations, which by the way We're not seeing but if you really want to see that as most Americans do You've finally won the argument. You finally won the day You've now got super majorities of the American people on your side and you've elected a president that this is his signature issue. The last thing you would wanna do is go round up 234 of them with no due process

and send them to the most notorious brutal prison in El Salvador. And get some of them wrong. Like what the fuck are you thinking? And get some of them wrong. Yeah. And the thing is you're saying there haven't been mass deportations.

What do you mean by that? I mean in large numbers. there there have been there have been deportations They've already kind of slowed down, but we have just had tens of millions of illegal immigrants in the country, right? But that's not the what they're looking for what they're looking for is the criminals and here's the allegedly right? This is what we're hoping but here's the problem that bothers me quotas for speeding tickets back when they weren't supposed to tell people about that. They have quotas. And I said, so it's basically like being a glorified revenue collector. And he's like, pretty much. Pretty much. If I'm not writing tickets, you know, it's going to come down on me. Like imagine a day where everybody made a

decision, like for the next 60 days collectively as a country no one's gonna violate any traffic laws. Everyone's gonna stop to a complete halt at every stop sign. No one's gonna go a mile an hour above the speed limit. What happens? What do these cops do? If you have quotas. So you're assuming that people will always break the law forever and if they don't do you adjust? If you have quotas. So you're assuming that people will always break the law forever. And if they don't, do you adjust? Do you fire the cops?

Do you cut your budget? What do you do? Do you remember when this happened in New York City? It was over a decade ago. There was a, they had this like unofficial, official police like slow down where they were upset at us. I can't remember the exact story, but it was the head of the police union said

that he was like, we will only be enforcing, like, violent crimes. And we're not doing any of this other... It was over the stop and frisk. Yes, it was over the stop and frisk controversy. And they were kind of like, oh, you guys want to all call his race? Which already I thought was so hilarious.

I used to have a joke in my act about this many years ago But where it was just like that was the threat from cops was like we're only gonna arrest violent criminals You know, that's probably what you should be doing to begin with Yeah, and so then like all these and everything was fine. By the way, there wasn't a rise in in violent crime It was just they just stopped doing it but revenue started Collapsing and then they like whipped the cops into getting back to it like they were like threatened their pensions and shit and They were like, you know, you cannot do this. We have that you've got to keep policing for-profit. Isn't that crazy policing for-profit? It's crazy. It's crazy that they write tickets like tickets are kind of nuts, you know

It's like you have to give us money because you went too fast Well, I've always that's the incentive that everybody that everyone agrees. It's gonna work another ticket. Yeah, I always thought like um We're gonna stop speeding. I'm gonna get a radar detector. Yeah, well right people find a way I always thought there was something really unfair that Some I've heard some progressives talk about this, but it never seemed to like get that much traction But there is something about giving a ticket that's like, you know, it just seems so regressive in terms of like, it's so much more punitive

toward poor people and working class people than it is toward the, and it's the same number for all of that, you know what I mean? There's something about that that's fucked up. Don't give them any ideas, dude. Let's not give rich people big tickets. No, I know, I know.

This is the problem is that progressives will take that and go, oh, okay, so that means up it on the rich people. It's like, no, that's not what I'm saying. Tax the rich, man. But you hand out a $75 ticket to somebody who's making like 400 bucks a week, and you're like, Jesus Christ, dude.

That is devastating to that person. Whereas you hand out a $75 ticket to a rich person, it's kind of like, okay, that's a reasonable punishment for that. Anyway, listen, I'm not advocating, I'm not a leftist, I don't care about equity. No, that's not a good idea. But it is a strange thing that there are revenue collectors

who are also peace officers Like it seems like that should be a completely different thing Yeah, it seems like cops shouldn't be pulling people over because you're fucking taillights out that seems silly That seems like a totally different proposition. Yep Yeah No, I can the problem is they pull people over for doing stupid shit and a large percent of them are carrying drugs. A lot of them have fucking bricks in the back of their car. That's the craziest thing about guys who are trafficking drugs. They're trafficking like fucking 30 pounds of fentanyl and they get pulled over for speeding.

For some speeding thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah, or something like that. Oh, dude. They're coked up and they're fucking driving fast and they got a trunk full of fucking illegal guns and cocaine and meth and Why aren't you going so slow and cautious? Why aren't you using your blinker? You should be listening to country music on your radio Fucking cat diesel hat on you should be nice and calm and slow You're a regular guy. Just going about your day Well by definition these people aren't making the wisest decisions Probably so that's you get to drive your fucking car filled with meth you got to get a crazy It's not as easy as you'd think you really got it

You can't and you can't just put a craigslist ad up or whatever I'm sure you got to go through some sketchy channels and now there's Tom Homan guy Sending everybody across the border you can't even get the Mexicans to do it Jesus I mean that guy is it is funny We're like he's I get where he's kind of like the guy you'd want if you're like We're a heart we got it We need a hard ass in here to do this But when you do start getting these concerns about due process, I mean his response

There was in some interview where they were asking them about due process for the people he's deporting and he's like, what's the girl? Where was the due process for Lake and Riley? For Lake and Riley. Where was the due process for her? And you're like, yeah, but dude, that's not what due process means. Well, you gotta be sure. Like, obviously murder victims don't get due process. That's why it's illegal to murder somebody.

And even by the way, in that case, her killer got due process and then got convicted of murder. You know what I mean? Like that's the whole point. And there's just, again, like I was saying, it seems there's a few moves that the Trump administration has made so far, and I don't know who is in his ear and who has convinced him to pursue this policy. But like, again, if you wanted to pursue

like mass deportations, which I understand, I think there's a strong case. I mean, look, he's done a great job of stopping the flow, which was job number one. And that was his best line at his State of the Union, where it was like the Democrats kept saying we needed legislation to close the border. Turns out we just needed a new president, which is shockingly true. Like it is unbelievable how it went from record high border crossings under Biden to record low border crossings over Donald Trump. And I do think that so much of that is just that it's a real difficult journey.

And if people feel like, oh, Trump's in there, obviously we're not going to be allowed in, then they just won't go through it. I also do think that Donald Trump is fundamentally correct with his idea that like, you don't have a nation if you don't have borders like you can't listen the The idea at least I'm not saying this is really how it works But the idea is that we're a free country because we have self-government And in other words the American people get to decide how many people we bring in here and how many we don't

And that it's at this point. Nobody actually knows the number for sure, but it is north of 30 million illegal immigrants in the country. But my God, if you wanted to wait to start deporting people who are legal residents, who are not violent criminals because they wrote a pro Palestinian op ed, you're diving into the most contentious issue and then picking one side of that. And then like, this just seems like it's almost as if you're trying to poison the possibility to ever really have mass deportations. It just seems so counterproductive by his own stated goals. Well there's so many layers of it that are hard to unpack for

the average person. What's really hard to unpack especially for like tried and true blue no matter who Democrats is this idea that they were bringing people into this country moving them into swing states getting them on social security giving them money and incentives and all sorts of government programs that would get them eventually to be voters. Yeah. And these voters would vote for that party and you'd have a unit party. So in that sense, that's the big one that a lot of people that are left-wing people have a really hard time swallowing. They don't believe that's true and they'll take it, well what about when Texas sent those people up to New York? You know, the governor of Texas sent

people to New York, right. But do you know that New York's not a swing state? Yeah, he did that. But why did he do that? He did that as a big fuck you to New York for turning for the government to turning a blind eye to the problem at the border and saying, okay, you think this isn't a problem? I'm going to send this problem to you. It was to expose their hypocrisy. Yeah, yeah. You have a sanctuary city? Oh, that's cute. I'll send you thousands and thousands of people that you're going to have to take care of now and they did and then that's even weirder because then they took Over fucking luxury hotels and they had a deal with it. I think it was it Pakistan owns one of those hotels Oh is that yeah?

Who owns the the the big one that was in the fucking? Jennifer Lopez movie where she was a hot maid remember that movie made in Manhattan I never saw it, but I vaguely remember Most ridiculous things he's like 10. She's just like this poor little sad maid Pakistan International Airlines has owned the structure they own the Roosevelt So the Roosevelt's an iconic hotel in New York City and they get paid by the federal government or they did get paid by the federal government to house immigrants there. And they give them food and they give them money. And like, what are you doing?

Like, if you're allowing these people to vote in regional elections, okay, you've essentially now you've bought regional elections. And if you want them to eventually become United States citizens and give them a pathway to citizenship, which all good people would want Dave Smith. Okay now you have voters Well, if you do that in mass which they did they brought people in this they invited people help people The Red Cross was like giving them maps like this is how you do it They had stops along the way we give them water and you walk right through when everybody just gets to be on a bus and you get shipped off to swing states.

That literally happened. And people on the left do not want to address it. They want to deny it. It was an attempt to take over. Yeah, and look, I'll say, I know this, because I'm like, this is, I guess, one of the benefits of getting older and paying attention to this shit is like,

I can remember shit from 15, 20 years ago. I was paying attention then and I remember all of them admitting this was their plan. Like literally all of that joy read and Rachel Maddow and all they used to call it the browning of America and they used to openly brag about how the Democrat will have super permanent majorities forever because look like hey you old dying white Republicans like sorry that's it for you because the Latinos vote overwhelmingly for Democrat and we're gonna be a majority minority country and then a majority Hispanic country and then the Democrats rule the day forever so this is just you know Mitt Romney or whoever's running for president right now this is the dyinges of the end of a but then when people started objecting to that policy and

They they called it the browning of America and then when people objected to it They would call it the great replacement or whatever and then they'd go, you're not allowed to say that That means you're a Nazi and you're like, but I just heard you saying it like five years ago I heard you saying you can't use the term replace. Yeah and so there was this weird and then there was also the You're saying it. Like five years ago I heard you saying this. You can't use the term replace for scary. So there was this weird, and then there was also the, one of the other big tells of this was the way they attempted, which really failed,

but the way they attempted to make voter ID like a toxic racist policy, which was so, I mean the logic of it just collapses on itself because if it's, first of all it seems like some bigotry of low expectations to imply that black people are like just can't figure out how to get ID. Do you remember Kathy Hochul saying that they don't know what computers are?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's right, yeah. Do you remember that video? That is the craziest. I think you sent me it. First of all, every fucking human being has a computer in their pocket. Dude, it was the black dude who made that video, it was the funniest guy, I think you sent every fucking human being has a computer in their pocket It was the black dude who made that video was the funniest guy I think you sent it to me, but he was like there was like a computer and who comes

Trying to bite it and stuff too is so goddamn funny where you're like, that's literally what you're saying I don't know and it's like spliced like on the left side of it City kids, they don't know. He's like, I'm looking at it. These black inner city kids, they don't know what a computer is. Well, but then, I mean, like just, you know, just like using the most basic logic, you'd be like, okay, wait a minute, but like, so if requiring ID is racist,

then like, we got some other really big problems in this country that we should be looking at like that. Well, not only that, but it's in the direct memory, the recent memory of everybody needing ID because you had to prove that you got the COVID vaccine. Right, right. Yeah. Which then, and then that was fine. Somehow that, and when that, by the way, disproportionately affected minorities, no one seemed, no progressive seemed to care

about that. No one cared. That it was overwhelmingly black people, wildly disproportionately black people and immigrants who just refused the vaccine. By the way, let the record show, they were smarter than everybody else for doing it. You know who else? Me and you. PhDs. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. That is an interesting detail, isn't it?

Overwhelmingly, overwhelmingly skeptical about this new vaccine. And here, me and you got called out by Anthony Fauci and Joe Biden for fucking being right, for being absolutely right. It's so wild too that that was only three years ago or four years ago when you said that your advice to young people was to just be really healthy

and that was like a national controversy that you just like, I mean, just think about how upside down everything is. It was also people doing the man's job for the man. It was everybody piled on. And especially once you got the shot yourself, you're like, I did the right thing, because you knew it was risky.

You fucking know it's risky. On some level, too. Absolutely. It's medication. Anytime you get medication, you know it's risky. Anytime you get some pharmaceutical drug in your system. Not to mention some completely novel new way where it turns your entire body into

a vaccine or an immunity producing spike protein factory the most it by the way which is the most toxic aspect of getting the disease is the spike protein so your body's gonna produce it itself what yeah PhDs are like, ehh, I don't know. And it was also way past, way, way, way past the point, where we had already figured out that, like, if you weren't very old and very sick, this was, you statistically had almost no chance

of, like, a serious negative outcome. And even more importantly, we had very long ago realized it wasn't a threat at all to kids. So there was no justification whatsoever to force kids to get vaccinated, and yet we did it, and California did it. They did it to schools, they did it everywhere.

And the fact that they pulled that off, and then a couple years later, they're like, you don't need an ID, to vote? Why you need an ID to vote, that's racist. In California, you're not allowed to show ID. You're not allowed to show ID. So like, come on. I mean, listen, obviously this is,

and like there's a reason for all of this. It's not, they didn't just pick showing your ID voting and decide to make this the issue that they harped on and tried to pretend you were somehow racist or you were somehow infringing on voting rights by requiring an ID. And so, look like this did a couple things happen. Number one, it totally turned public opinion

against this level of crazy immigration. And number two, I mean, Donald Trump ended up winning a bigger percentage of the Latino vote then I believe any Republican in my life Yeah, which is really I mean especially after Tony Angecliffe. That's pretty wild I think Tony Angecliffe he might have gotten them more votes Listen nobody takes a joke better than Puerto Ricans. It is by the way There is something really funny about that where um and this has been a theme for years in the country, but really, Tony was a great example of that,

but where like, you know, for all their talk about diversity and anti-racism and all of this, what they always seem to do is try to impose white lady values on minorities. You know what I mean? Like, just imagine. You know who's a- That's a great way to put it, white lady values on minorities. You know what I mean? Like, just imagine. You know who's a- That's a great way to put it, white lady values.

It's always white lady values. It's always, you know who's really offended by a joke? As we both know, Joe, as professional comedians for many years, you know, black people just get very offended by jokes. No, they fucking don't. That's white women. That's white women shit.

That's not Latinos or African Americans. They're the ones who take a joke the best. Especially a good joke. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. But also the more offensive the better. They love that shit. By and large, there's exceptions. Well, there's exceptions for sure,

but Puerto Ricans are known. If you grow up around Puerto Ricans, they're fun and they talk a lot of shit. It's part of the culture. Yep. So it's like you're trying to, there's something about it that was always like, it's always the liberal push for diversity

is always like we want different shades of people in our culture. You know what I mean? It was never like, there was never a thing where it's like, oh, we're gonna go into the hood and we're gonna adopt your culture. That's not what we're talking about. Which is why they hate black Republicans.

Yep, that's a big part of it. That's a problem. They go after black Republicans so hard. Even harder, I think, than they go after a lot of white Republicans. Oh, in some cases, much more viciously, yeah. I mean, and I think by the way, we talked about Candace Owens before.

That's part of what her freaking, you know, boot camp before pissing off all the Israeli supporters was that she's already been through the fire. She's been an outspoken black female conservative. And that's like, they really hate that because they do kind of view you as like, which is fucked up in a way, but it really is kind of like, you like, which is fucked up in a way,

but it really is kind of like, they decided that they're the champion of women and black people, and therefore if you're a black woman, it's your responsibility to support these liberal white women. And she used to, that's the thing about Candace. She went from being a-

When she was very young, she was liberal. And then she was also a hardcore Zionist at one point like very big supporter of Israel and then changed her mind on that But it is you know there there is a viciousness which with which those people get attacked I do think and I still I think I said this the last time we were on The last time I was on but I still do think that in many ways that's the best part of Donald Trump winning again is just the cultural phenomenon of it,

where it does seem like there's been a big rejection of all of that shit. You know, I had dinner with Daryl last night, with Daryl Cooper, and with Daryl Cooper and Scott Horton, and we were talking a little bit about this, but like, what happened, first of all, I led the record show for both good and bad. I was promoting Darrell Cooper before everybody else was.

I was the first guy, not even the first, but I was like, yo, this guy's podcast is amazing. And it really, really is. But there was something so interesting about like his Tucker appearance, the backlash against it, the fact that it did absolutely nothing to harm him, and his podcast just shot up on all the charts, and now more people than ever are listening to his stuff.

Like, there is, like, and I do, I've seen a lot of this, and I've gotten into some arguments with some, like, Constantine Kassin, I've argued with him about this. I respect him very much. I like him a lot. I think he's very smart. But there are, like, there are these woke tactics now Like, Constantine Cassin, I've argued with him about this. I respect him very much. I like him a lot. I think he's very smart. But there are like, there are these woke tactics now

that are being used by many people who have been opposing woke-ism for a very long time. And I think it's interesting how much people have woken up to that, no pun intended, but how much people like kind of recognize that now, and that stuff has just been rejected. And even like on the most basic level, the thing, no pun intended, but how much people like kind of recognize that now, and that stuff has just been rejected. And even like on the most basic level, the thing, first of all, the fact that there was

such an outrage for what Daryl Cooper said on Tucker Carlson's podcast already proves the point. It already proves the point that you're like, yeah, this is insane. This is insane that this, like, you're not even, you can't even like have a conversation about these things without this massive pile on this Not only that these pejoratives that get yes is stuck on him that got stuck on me for platforming him

Yeah, I read Joe Rogan had a Nazi Apologist and Holocaust denier Well or skeptic I think they said Holocaust skeptic I forget what what term they use but none of those things are true and none of them I mean he's got this big I'm very excited for it but he's he's putting together this big piece on World War two and like none of them are gonna come back and go oh yeah I got it wrong I apologize now they're not totally not doing that at all they were they would have listened to fear and loathing in the New Jerusalem well I

said this I said this to Constantine when we were arguing about it on Twitter. And I go, listen, dude, I go, listen, just take, I called it my non-woke challenge. I go, take my non-woke challenge, okay? All it takes is an hour of your time. Listen to the first 30 minutes of fear and loathing in the New Jerusalem, and then listen to the 30 minutes in the, like, he put out another piece after it,

I forget the title of it, but it took from the history where fear and loathing left off up to like the 80s. And there was a, it started like around, or maybe it was part of fear and loathing, but anyway, he had a half hour chunk that was on the Jews suffering in World War II. And I was like, so listen to these two half hours, and you tell me if it is conceivably possible

that a Jew-hating Nazi sympathizer could have ever put this out, because it's impossible. Like, it can't. Impossible. And he goes, I have listened to it. And I was like, oh, well then we can't talk anymore, Matt. I mean, not in general, but I was like, we can't talk about this anymore.

But I think there's something almost more simple that was like, look, if you listen to what Darrell said on Tucker's podcast, he essentially goes, he goes, you know, I say this sometimes to get a rise out of my buddy who's like an Anglo-Saxon. And I'm kind of being hyperbolic when I say it, but I kind of say it to prod, but in some ways I think Churchill was the real villain of the war. Now he didn't commit the most atrocities.

I'm not saying he was the worst person there, but I think he's primarily responsible for this not being maybe like a little conflict in Poland and turning into like the big bloodbath that it Did okay say whatever you will about that. There's a fair argument to be there I tend to think Darrell's right, but maybe I'm maybe he's not But every single person who repeated that would go he said Churchill was the was the real villain And you're like, you know what dude, we're not doing that anymore was the real villain. And you're like, you know what, dude, we're not doing that anymore.

Like we're just, we're not very fine people on both sides in this whole thing. Like come on, dude, no, that's not what he fucking said. And you could take out all that other content, but any honest person looking at that just goes like, no, that's not what he said. And you know, and I was on Pierce Morgan's show, one more shout out to Pierce,

but even when he played the clip, he cut out all that context and just played the part where he says the real villain was Churchill. And you're like, I think people have, after so many years of this being the constant tactic, like it's like there's a giant rejection of that. And I think that's really good. I think a lot of that has to do with Trump winning again. I mean, there's other factors involved too, but I do just think it's really good. I think a lot of that has to do with Trump winning again I mean, there's other factors involved too But I do just think it's like these woke tactics of like where you call everyone who disagrees with you a racist or a bigot

Or this is just not like we're not playing that game anymore Or at least it seems like most people aren't playing that game anymore. Yeah, it's not gonna work anymore and the people that are that have their minds made up, that have just knee-jerk reaction, are going to decide someone's a Nazi or someone's a Hitler apologist. They're not looking into it at all anyway. They have this cursory examination of the headline, good enough, I'm going to run with it and I'm going to argue with it. There's always going to be people like that.

But the majority of people are like, what is this all about? What did he actually say? Well, let me listen to a show. and then the show shoots up to number one Yeah, you know and it shot up to number one again after he was on my podcast the same kind of thing It's like it's a fucking great show. It's a great show and it's not just great about Israel It's not just great about World War two his fucking thing on Jim Jones is insane. So good. It's so good It's so insane and he does that with everything. And he has empathy and compassion and a general like a general desire to empathize and see how someone could join this cult. How

Jim Jones could turn from this guy who was a civil rights leader? Yeah, he was a civil rights leader in the 1950s I mean this guy was living in a time where he had adopted a black child and was Persecuted all throughout town because of it and was Genuinely like a real Christian then he's hopped up on meth He's out of his fucking mind now He's in Guyana and he's got a whole group of people with him he talks him on to kill themselves and the ones who don't they he kills them and Yeah, it's a crazy tragedy. But what Darryl Cooper does is long form

Editorial Like you got you have to look at it from an editorial aspect because it's it it's opinion, but it's also aspect because it's opinion, but it's also information that he's citing his sources and he's like, put yourself in these people's shoes, which is what he does. Which is essentially his only like demand. Through all of his work, his only demand is like, listen, you have to, if you're going to listen to my way, you have to do your absolute best to put yourself in these person's shoes and then put yourself in the other side She's here and loathing in New Jerusalem starts out with Jews being persecuted

Imagine these people are your neighbors and he brings you through this horrific Scenario that absolutely did happen to some of the people there and you don't it's cool the way I mean, I don't spoil or alert or whatever. It's just the beginning but it's so good But like you almost don't know what he's talking about at first. You're like, is this a Palestinian getting fucked over? Is this, because the story's about, you know going in this is gonna be about the creation of the state of Israel or whatever,

but then you realize like, oh no, this is a Jew in Eastern Europe going through a pogrom. And I will say this, right, as somebody who is fairly well read on the subject, compared to like the layman, not compared to Darrell Cooper, there's levels to this shit. who is fairly well read on the subject compared to like the layman, not compared to Darrell Cooper. There's levels to this shit. It's like I used to think Rich Franklin

was the best striker in the world and then Anderson Silva fought him and you're like, oh, okay, he is not. But Rich Franklin was great, but Anderson Silva was amazing. But listening to that series, it made me much more sympathetic to the Israelis, if I'm being honest.

And I know I've heard that from other people too, but it does, because Darrell insists on doing that, like, look, it's real, it's easy. Now, I'm not saying this is an excuse for anything. Like, the Nakba in 1947, 1948 is horrible. It was a giant ethnic cleansing campaign, you know? Okay, but if you do put this into context, you know, like, the years 1947, okay,

first of all, just think about like even the attitudes of 1947 that you know of like, you know, just in terms of racism and things like that, like very different attitudes in 1947. Also, you're two years removed from the end of World War II, where the quote, good guys in the story, or the winners in the story, are like Truman, who just firebombed Tokyo,

dropped two nukes on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the bombing of Dresden, the bombing of Berlin. Joseph Stalin is in the process, as this is happening, of ethnically cleansing millions of ethnic Germans all throughout Eastern Europe. This is only a couple years after Stalin's army raped their way through Europe, you know what I mean? And then of course, there's the atrocities of the Nazis, and you're the Jewish people who just went through this Holocaust. And all of this is in the background, and you're gonna say, you're telling me we can't move a few hundred thousand people

off their land to create our new state? Like, who's gonna fucking morally lecture us about doing this little thing here? You know, and like, I'm not saying any of that excuses it, and it wasn't the Palestinians' fault that any of that happened. And so, like, you... But, like, it is worthwhile. Like, that's what doing history should be, right? It should be like understanding

that these were real human beings. These aren't cartoon monsters. There was a, they may have done monstrous shit, but like there was something going on there. And there was kind of like, you know, it's, I think it's just beneficial to understand all of that stuff. And, you know, Menachem Begin, who is like the worst,

I mean like was a straight up terrorist, and in that series, if you remember, he talks a lot about like the evil shit that Menachem Begin and the Ergon and the Stern Gang and the Haganah, all the shit they did. They were just straight up terrorists, that's what they were doing. Terrorism, in order to drive out an occupying force,

you can't make this shit up, is what led to the creation of Israel. And now they're like, you know. That- Kind of universally regarded as terrorist groups. Oh, self-admitted terrorist groups. Like, we're committing acts of terrorism. There were debates about

whether we should embrace terrorism or not, and the side saying we should embrace terrorism won the day. This is how Haim Weizmann, he was supposed to be the David Ben-Gurion, he was the number one ranked Zionist at the time and he stood up and was like, yo we can't do this, we can't embrace terrorism. Like his thing was like we can't achieve a Jewish state by un-Jewish means and which he considered terrorism to be, like this violates our religion, we can't do this. But even him, there was this one point,

which I had never heard before, but I learned it from Darrell Cooper's series. I think it was probably one of the things that stuck with me the most, was that, if you remember, it's right toward the end. It's when they're doing the King David hotel bombing, and they're doing all this terrorism to try to drive the British out.

And at one point, the British caught a few of the, I can't remember if it was from the Ergon or the Lehigh, but it was from one of those two militias, and they caught a few of their guys, and they publicly flogged them or something like that. And then Menachem Begin and his terrorist boys, they got a few of the British soldiers, and they fucking flogged the shit out of them

and then killed them and then booby trapped the bodies so that it fucking blew up more people when they came to try to get it back. And then now he's a wanted man at this time, Menachem Begin, so he's like living underground. And so he, then he did like a radio address and in his radio address, he was like, he said something like he was like,

hey, just so you know, Jews don't get flogged anymore we do the flogging now and look this guy was a bad guy he was a fucking terrorist but there is something so badass about that that there is a party that's just like whoo like you you can kind of understand a people going through this fucking collective struggle and then getting to a point where they're like we will be the ones inflicting struggle from now on not the ones receiving it right and I'd you know look I still come out on the side that I think Israel's treatment of the Palestinians is is horrible and inexcusable and I favor a two-state solution I think America should stop

funding Israel but I think it's nothing but beneficial to kind of like understand that perspective a little bit more. And even though I kind of grew up on the pro-Israel propaganda and then ultimately rejected it, that was Darrell's effect on me was being like, ah, you know, there is like, I'm seeing the humanity in the Israeli side a little bit more. Yeah. So give me a fucking break about these people saying like he's some fucking neo-Nazi drumming up Jew hatred. It's just not true.

Yeah. They just, they just have established boundaries of what you're allowed to talk about. Yeah, that's exactly right. Yeah. And there's narratives that can't be breached. You have to follow it to a T, and that's it. That's it. And anything else, you're anti-Semite. And he's labeled all over the place. I'm sure his Wikipedia calls him that. I'm sure it... I mean, it's just... There's so many people that have really irresponsibly

done that and defamed him. And it's fucked up, but ultimately it doesn't work. It just makes him bigger. I 100% agree. And then I also think that it's almost like... It's very obvious, I think, if you're looking at it with clear eyes, that it's like, look, like, okay, look, look, I'm Jewish and I don't wish to see a rise in people hating Jewish people like that. Obviously, I'd be opposed to that. But you're going to

if you're going to say that anybody who criticizes the government of Israel or anybody who criticizes the Israeli lobby and the unbelievable influence that that has over our government and you're gonna label all of them as anti-Semites like all right I would think that it would be wiser to at least be thankful that there are people who are not Jew haters who are pointing this out, rather than just leaving it to all the Jew haters to be the only ones who are pointing this out. Like, you know, it's like, you think Darrell Cooper is, like, okay, like, what's your goal

here to shut him down? Who do you think is going to replace him? You better hope that they're going to be as thoughtful and responsible as he is. And they probably won't be, because not too many people are. But that's how it always is, right? thoughtful and responsible as he is. And there probably won't be, because not too many people are. But that's how it always is, right? I mean, this is the problem with suppression. The problem, I mean, it's essentially a version

of the same problem of creating terrorists. You attack because you think you're gonna stop the terrorism, you just create more terrorism. You know, you think you're gonna stop people from expanding the narrative and talking outside of these borders that you've clearly established for how people are able to discuss certain sensitive topics. No, you're not. You're not gonna do that. You're just gonna make people realize that there's a third rail and they don't understand why there's a third rail. Then they start looking into it and they go, oh, how much influence does Israel have on our country?

And then they start asking those kind of questions. And this gives way to the rise of anti-Semitism. I think suppression of people's ability to talk about very polarizing topics like Gaza, suppression of that is a cause of anti-Semitism. Because people start thinking, like, is there some sort of grand plan to control us and keep me from being able to talk about something that clearly is in the news every day? It seems like a big issue. Yeah.

Well, there's also, you know, like to think, literally, this is my origin story of being the guy that I am now, being obsessed with all this stuff, was seeing Ron Paul versus Rudy Giuliani in 2007 at the Republican primary debate, and Rudy Giuliani's arguing about how the terrorists hate us for our freedom, and then Ron Paul, who I'd never heard of, just like this country doctor from Texas with an R next to his name, starts going like, you know, they don't hate us for our freedom, they hate us because we're over there.

Like, how would we feel if somebody else was doing to us what we're doing to them? And then Rudy Giuliani is like, that's a pretty absurd explanation that the reason they did 9-11 is because we were bombing Iraq. And he goes, I've heard a lot of absurd explanations for 9-11, and I've never heard anything that ridiculous, which by the way, was in Osama Bin Laden's declaration of war on America. So to be like, I've never heard of this, is not quite the brag or flex that you think it is. And then Ron Paul just fucking schooled him.

And he was like, you know who came up with the term blowback? The CIA, because it's a real thing. There is blowback. And if we think we can go around the world and do whatever we want to people, and that's not gonna incite hatred, we do that at our own peril. Like, let's be honest.

But for whatever reason, for me, it was always kind of just easy to connect that. Like, I remember, uh, you remember, um, there was the scene in Good Will Hunting where, uh, like, at the end, when he breaks him, and he's like, it's not your fault, it's not your fault, and he starts crying. But he finally gets him to start talking about

the abuse he went through in his childhood. And Matt Damon's character is talking about it and he's like, oh he used to lay a stick, a belt, and a wrench on the table and tell me to pick. And Robin Williams was like, ah, I'd have to go with the stick on that one. And he goes, I used to pick the wrench. And he was like, why would you pick the wrench?

And he goes, because fuck him, that's why. And I'm like, okay, there's something about that that was always very easy for me to understand. Like you just get to a point where it's like, yeah, because fuck you. It's like, why would some Palestinian, who's let's say there's an Israeli who kicks him out of his house that his grandfather built that his family's been living in

for a hundred years and now that Israeli guy is living in his house and you're watching from like a refugee camp this guy live in your house and as Darrell says in the series he goes now you have no means by which to give that house back to your grandmother but you could burn that house to the fucking ground and like it's easy to look there and go grandmother, but you could burn that house to the fucking ground And like it's easy to look there and go, but why would you do that? That's irrational. It's like no, not really It's really not because it's picking the wrench. It's going cuz fuck you You know what I mean, right and they're like all of these things If there's always like reactionary movements and like so again like this it say okay

Yes You're gonna sit here and for fucking 15 years Tell young white men that they're toxic and they're the problem and their masculinity is inherently wrong What do you think's gonna come out of that and then like the same people are like where did this Andrew Tate guy pop up? From and you're like you made him you made him if you wanted to make him you couldn't have done a better job look that's the whole fucking story of the Nazis to begin with, that we imposed the Treaty of Versailles and insisted on internationally humiliating these people and crushing them. And then fucking where these Nazis come from as a reaction to that, obviously.

Yeah. And we never learn. That's what's fucked. Do you think we're going to learn more now? I mean, you have to realize, if you're thinking about history, this is the first time where people have this kind of access to all the different layers that are in operation all over the world. And if you're paying attention, and most people aren't,

but if you're paying attention, you have a much broader understanding of all the things that are at play than ever before, and how these things could be avoided. And I think that's one of the reasons why people broader understanding of all the things that are at play than ever before and how these things could be avoided and I think that's one of the reasons why People were excited about Trump getting into office when he was saying I can stop that war in one day I can we can make deals there's deals that could be made, you know We can we could stop all the killings stuff. Everybody's like, yeah Finally someone is not gonna do it the way we've done it before. I think there's, I'm incredibly optimistic on a long time period.

I think that, like exactly what you just said, I mean, the propaganda apparatus has been completely destroyed. Like it's just not, you know, there's, and there's been this, I really do think a massive awakening. There's several factors to this. I think COVID is the biggest single one. You know, I think that there was something about

imposing such draconian measures on the domestic population. Like, look, we start a lot of wars over bullshit, but the truth is for most Americans, that's kind of over there somewhere, and we're living our lives, and you know, like you might be against it, but it's a different thing than like instituting totalitarianism

in the United States of America, which lockdowns were, objectively. And they did it, not only, it's not just that they got it all wrong, it's that it was, you know, they were fucking objectively. And they did it not only, it's not just that they got it all wrong, it's that it was, you know, they were fucking wrong. Like, you motherfuckers made the thing, and you knew you did, and then you covered it up. Like, there is even, now this is like everywhere.

It's like the shit that we used to talk about a few years ago that was like the controversial, you know, conversations. Everyone's talking about him now. It was just Bill Maher the other day brought up that like, you know, how crazy is it that we figured out that British intelligence in March of 2020 said that I forget what it was But they said with 85 percent certainty this came from the lab, you know

And then so they did all of this and they got it completely wrong and they were so full of shit that that's kind of that Spells been broken people see this now. I do think you're right that there was like a tremendous, look, you know, as Ron Paul used to always say, the peace candidate always wins. I mean, like if you, in the year 2000, George W. Bush, he campaigned on a humble foreign policy. No nation building, no using our, not being the policeman of the world with our military.

People remember, that's what he ran and won on. Barely won, but still, he won on that. And then in 2004, you know, John Kerry refused to run against the war, and that's why he wasn't able to win. And then in 2008, Barack Obama ran on a peace campaign, you know, destroyed Hillary Clinton in the primary, who had all the institutional money,

all the big support behind her, but she had voted for the war in Iraq. And said hey that was a big mistake you can't give her the presidency when she made such a big mistake. You know what that's right you know and even though he wasn't in the Senate yet when the war in Iraq was going on he didn't vote for the thing and he said some beautiful things about closing Gitmo and ending torture and not fighting stupid wars and and he won like a dominant victory and then in 2016 Donald Trump ran in one on we're gonna stop fighting these stupid and then in 2024 again, he wins on this mate like the American people have spoken now

That's a very different thing than the regime machinery itself So that's a different, you know battle but the But the battle of public opinion on that has been won. And then I do think, even though Jamie told us before the show started that there is, now they're saying Elon Musk is gonna be stepping away from Doge soon, and yes, it's true that Doge didn't actually get any drastic cuts through, but it is amazing what they have done in terms of like bringing to the cultural forefront

the issue of how corrupt government is. And so anyway, my long term thing is that I think corrupt regimes, which unfortunately we live under one, I think they are completely dependent on propaganda. And that propaganda just broke. You know, like we're just getting out of that now. And I think there's like amazing possibilities.

Dude, I mean, three years ago, four years ago, I couldn't have imagined we'd be here now. Like I just couldn't imagine that like the COVID restrictions have been completely defeated. Wokeism seems to have been like pretty much defeated. You know, like this is already just incredible. Yeah, it's incredible. It's interesting and there's a lot of possibilities.

It could go a bunch of different ways. And there's also examples of it going sideways, like what's happening in the UK and what's happening in other parts of Europe where the totalitarian measures are ramping up and they didn't win the war on woke. And in fact, they lost that war. No, that's true, that's true. They lost that war.

And I think that's a shining example of the difference between what we tolerate in America. Having the first amendment, having that freedom of speech, and then also having the second amendment, the ability to back that up. That you know, people are always gonna use your, I mean, I remember even Biden was talking about that. You're gonna fight off of a fucking jet with your rifles?

Like, that's ridiculous. Like, no, but guess what? You can't just do what they did in Australia and ship people off to camps in America. Try that shit in Georgia. Well, it's so stupid, too, because number one, the Taliban just did that to you, sir. Like, literally, you just pulled out in disgrace of a war

that you couldn't win against a bunch of illiterate goat herders with rifles. and just did that to you, sir. Like literally you just pulled out in disgrace of a war that you couldn't win against a bunch of illiterate goat herders with rifles. So, but- Not only that, we left behind billions of dollars of weapons. Oh yeah, they got a lot, they got a lot more rifles now.

And they go on parades with them. Yeah. Where they're driving tanks down the street and flying over fucking blackhawks. But of course the point is that, well yes, if the US military decided to nuke its own You know population. Yes, you're right Our guns wouldn't do any good

But the point is that that's not what they're trying to do We're trying to rule us and like yeah, of course having guns like I look I don't know by the way Let's say like the Jews in in Nazi Germany had had been well armed Like, the Jews in Nazi Germany had been well-armed. Would that have been enough to stop the Holocaust? Or like, if the Ukrainians had been well-armed, would that have been enough to stop the genocide that Stalin inflicted on them or whatever? But I'd be better they are than not.

Like, I don't know. Like, yeah, it might at least give them a second to go like, well, we can't go, you know. And the truth is like, if you were to try, just think the state that we're in right now, it's like, let's say they were just like tomorrow, some leader was like, we're rounding up all the guns in Texas.

Like, no, you're fucking not. Good luck. You'll have a civil war on your hands. Like, these people are not giving up their guns voluntarily. And the thing about people who won't give up their guns voluntarily is if you try to force them to it, they have guns. Especially if they think you're going to shoot them.

Yeah. If you're coming with guns, they have guns, now you have a fight. Yeah, that's right. And that's terrifying. And then you're also, you're paying someone to go do that. That's a regular person. Like, this is the thing about people in the army

or in the police, these are just regular folks. Who tend to lean right wing and tend to light guns and the second amendment. Who may not be so keen on taking away the second amendment. No, and they'll understand that this is a totalitarian measure and that what's going to happen is it's going to be the collapse of what we understand of as America. America is, we think of America in terms of our ability to express ourselves first and our ability to defend ourselves. Yeah.

That's why it's number one and number two. And it's not to say that this is the entire reason, because obviously things like there's many different variables and factors and it's a complicated history. But a huge part of the reason why America is the most prosperous, most successful country and has largely been the freest country in the history of the world is because of that because the first thing we enshrined

in our Bill of Rights was like listen man the government is and that's and it's not you know it's it's not what the people are allowed to do is what the government is not allowed to do to the people Congress shall write no law period you know like this is like it's the fact that this is the only country in the history of the world that was started on that premise, and then has gone on to be the most dominantly successful country in the history of the world is not a coincidence. No, it's not. This is, this is freedom's last battleground. Yeah, yeah. And we're in the middle of it right now. We're in the middle of it in a weird transitionary time time where things are being exposed at a level that have

never been exposed before. And people have an understanding of how corrupt this system is at a way they've never been able to fully comprehend before. You know, you have an uncle that tells you, you know what they do is the CIA sends people, uncle's crazy, that guy's out of his fucking mind. Then Mike Benz explains it to you and shows you charts and graphs and brings up articles and has classified documents that have been released and he's showing you those, like. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah. Well, I mean his stuff, and I mean, look, like the Jeffrey Epstein stuff, I mean, it's just like, again. All of it, in every category that you could imagine. Just what's happening with the American Heart Association, trying to get people to be able to buy sugary drinks and crap food with food stamps,

and then you realize, oh, wait, look, these companies like Coca-Cola and Pepsi have actually donated to the American Heart Association. Yeah, and evidently some Twitter influencers too. Oh yeah, a bunch of them. Did you see that? Yeah, a bunch of them. Who have all taken in that big Pepsi money

and then they're going, it is an assault on liberty to tell people they cannot buy Pepsi. So many people that have prominent ex accounts and prominent, I'm sure other social media platforms as well, they all said the same thing and they're probably being paid. Because a bunch of people were being paid to support Kamala Harris and there was a bunch of people that exposed that, they showed the emails that they got, we were invited to do

this and you would get paid, like a considerable amount of money to make some sort of a statement saying that you would vote for that person. I guess they said, well, if you have 500,000 followers here and a million followers there and you add all those up and you give this guy 25 grand, this guy 50 grand, and you give Beyonce 11 million. Yeah, for all by the way, I hear constantly people when they attack me on Twitter that I'm getting Russian money or Qatari money. I've never got a goddamn check from any of them. Like, guys, give me the money. I'm already saying the thing, I

think. So like, hey, why not? At this point? I'm just kidding. I don't want your money. Well, I get it all the time. People think that someone's guiding this show. And then I have someone who tells me what to talk about. Like, I would have never had Kurt Metzger on yet. That's when you know no one's guiding anything. Kurt Metzger. Kurt Metzger. Kurt, who I love dearly. He was screaming about everybody. He was screaming about Elon.

He was screaming about everybody. I love Kurt Metzger dearly. I've known him for over 20 years. He's one of the most brilliant comedic minds in the world. But let's be real. Nobody, if anyone was guiding anyone with a show, they would never allow Kurt Metzger to be on that show. Anytime he appears on a show, that

is proof that there is no big money behind this show. Well, the scary thing for people is that there's not a guide, and that it really is the Wild West out here. And that's real. Like, this show is a great example of that, because this is the number one show in the world, and this show is literally me and my phone. It's very interesting for me, from my perspective,

and I'm sure much more for you, but from my perspective, it's just somebody who's a regular and a good friend of yours and has been on the show many times. I mean, I get, constantly, people will always come up to me and ask, oh, what's Joe Rogan really like? Which is always an interesting question to me

because it's like, and my answer is always, I go, but you already know. You already know what Joe Rogan's like. If you watch the show, you already know what Rogan, it's more of that. I don't know, it's that, or it's you already know. Like you already know what Joe Rogan's like. If you watch the show, you already know what Rogan, it's more of that. Like I don't know, it's that. I'm not saying like there's not like any element of like something you might tell a close friend

that you wouldn't say publicly, but like generally speaking, and this is true, by the way, almost with all of my favorite comedians, people would be like, what was Patrice O'Neil like? You'd be like, like Patrice O'Neil? Like exactly the guy you saw? He was that, a lot more of that. Shane Gos is exactly like that, it's just always the case. But it was really interesting, at least,

I don't know, it was just so entertaining for me, after this last election, when it was almost like, they finally had to admit the power that you have. You know, cause like for all those years, and we would always make fun of it over the years, but like Brian Stelter would be on CNN, and he'd be like, the fringe Joe Rogan is over here. He's very controversial. And you'd be like, controversial? It's like, does he have 15 million people listening to his show and you're struggling

to break 200,000? How do you get to say he's fringe? You know, like, but it's almost like they had to admit after this last election, they're like, oh, and then the way they start going, well, we need our own Joe Rogan or or we need our own this, and it's just, I don't know, it's very interesting where it's like, man, talk about, like, you guys just don't get it. Well, my favorite one was there was a guy on CNN saying that there's a well-funded network of right-wing influencers that are organized,

and they were trying to make this argument. And who are the people, like Theo and you? Jen Psaki was trying to make this argument. And who are the people, like Theo and you. Jen Psaki was trying to make this argument with John Stewart. Oh, yes. And Stewart called her out and he was like, yeah, no, that's not right. No, it's she was like, well, it's a right wing movement. She's like, it's more of a comedian libertarian movement. Yeah.

Yeah. That's what it is. Which I think is more like, you know, I mean, I think, I mean, I think generally speaking, like, you know, I mean, I think I mean I think generally speaking like, you know As you've always said you're kind of a mix of like some kind of more sympathetic to left-wing ideas some more sympathetic to right-wing ideas I'm sympathetic to libertarian ideas But it's just so especially like if you just know the people involved like to describe you and Theo Vaughn as a right-wing network

as a right-wing network. Organized. It's the most disorganized thing in the history of the world. Organized and well-funded. I'm not organized and I guess I'm well-funded, but it's not for that. No, but it's from having the audience. Yeah, but it's also, it's like no one tells me anything. Like I can have on UFO people, I can have on comedians. No, there's no feedback. I have no feedback. There's no exchange between me and Spotify in terms of who you got this week, what's the month look like, tell us the big names. They started at the beginning of the deal.

They said, okay, who's going to be the people the first week? And my manager's like, hey, hey, hey, it's the same show. You bought the number one show in the country.'s not doing anything different and they're like well we would like to get some big names out of the gate like yeah yeah that's not what we do here you know I'm not gonna change it's the same show but the thing it's such a funny thing because it is almost like it's like you know it's like somebody in a marriage you know like in the corporate media I'd say, they're in a marriage and they're just lying through their teeth to their spouse,

they're constantly cheating on them, they're getting caught left and right, then they're saying, no, no, no, it wasn't that, it was you and you're the bad person and all this, and they're just the worst, most dishonest fucking obvious liars. And then they're looking over at someone in a healthy marriage and they're like,

so what's that guy's trick? Like how does he do it? And you're like, he just doesn't lie to her. He's nice to her and like, I don't know. Like it's just like, the thing is the big secret is that you're authentic and just say what you mean and invite the people on who you're interested in talking to.

And that was like the antidote to your insane, tyrannical bullshit. It's also that I started it not for money I started it for fun and it didn't make money for years and I was independently wealthy Like I had money from fear fact, right and I had money from stand-up comedy I was like I didn't have like a crazy lifestyle. I was like I can just I'm fine like this is fun to do I'm just gonna do this and then it just got big and it was so new and I never Changed it. I just kept doing it this I made it better cut better cameras. Yeah No, it's funny. Sometimes you look back at those old episodes and you're like, holy shit. That's great

I don't remember it being that grainy, but it was Terrible back then and we just use regular web cams. You go to fries electronics and buy We just like regular fucking USB microphone in the beginning, plug it into a MacBook. The whole thing was so janky. It was like, and now, you know, they think somehow or another because it's big, well, it's been infiltrated. It's not that I haven't been offered.

People have tried to buy percentages of the show and give me large sums of money. And I'm like, eh. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's tough. I'm glad you didn't make that decision. Once you have fuck you money, you better say fuck you. Because if you don't, you're not, you're ruining the, one of the most beautiful gifts the universe can bestow upon a person to never be beholden to money anymore.

To just be able to like, be yourself. To do what you like to do. Tucker Carlson said about me once, and I thought it was one of the best compliments I've ever gotten, and it really meant a lot to Tucker, he's someone I really admire a lot. But it was, I think Patrick Bette David, if I'm remembering correctly, he was on his,

and it was before, the debate with Cuomo had been announced, but it was before it happened, and Patrick was like, how do you think was before it happened. And Patrick was like, how do you think that's gonna go? And Tucker was like, look man, he's like the thing about Dave is he is just totally unencumbered by any restraints. I mean, I think what he meant was just like,

there's no one who's cutting his check. There's no one who's like, there's nothing that holds him back. I get to do the biggest show in the world a lot because you like what I have to say. And so then that's it. It's not like there's no, I feel no like, man, I wish I could say this, but I really can't say that. And there's something about that

that is like, that's the new thing. And I'll say, I think you... And look, this is what's really crazy, right? Like, the impact of what you did during this election going forward is gonna be, and I know you don't like when I like suck your dick too much, but I'm just saying, there's, the fact that Trump did the show

got such a great response from it. Kamala Harris refused and then tried to get you to change what the show was, and then obviously in hindsight like, oh, you know the Conventional wisdom is you really should have done that the new normal now going forward for presidential elections is gonna be that the Expectation is that you can end up not just your show I'm not saying like you're you have to have the candidates on every single four years

Although I think you should but that's your choice obviously but the new expectation the expectation used to be that two or three times a presidential candidate is gonna have to go do one of these CNN debates where they will be asked these very narrow questions, they'll have 90 seconds to respond, it'll be Obama, how do you feel we do this in the war on terrorism?

Be like, well, first of all, thank you, and thank you for coming out and we appreciate this and fluff and bullshit and blah blah blah and then hope and change. Can I get a glass of water? Yeah, exactly. But nothing, just emptiness. Nothing happens. And now the expectation is that you got to go have an organic, unscripted, three-hour

conversation and probably do it a few different times with a few of the big shows. And you get, you know, like you get to kind of see that person in a few different times with a few of the big shows. And you get, you know, like, you get to kind of see that person in a whole different way than we've ever gotten to see presidential candidates before. And the truth is that a candidate like Kamala Harris will never be a major party nominee again. A candidate who is, what was her running mate? It's a, Walt, Tim Waltz.

These guys are not, because they are not built for that. The future is gonna be guys like JD Vance, guys like Vivek Ramaswamy, guys like Bobby Kennedy, Tulsi Gabbard, and by the way, maybe the Democrats will find somebody in there. You know, you wouldn't have predicted Donald Trump in 2012. Gavin Newsom is trying to do that.

I don't think it's gonna be him. That's why he wants it to be him so bad. Yeah, that's the problem. And that's why he's doing his podcast. And he's doing a podcast where I'm inviting everybody on. Well, he's at least right for doing that. That's why he wants it to be him so bad. Yeah. And that's why he's doing his podcast. And he's doing a podcast where I'm inviting everybody on. Well, he's at least right for doing that. Everybody come on in, whoever you are. I'm inviting them all. Hey, Gavin, invite me on. We'll have a nice chat. He probably would. I'll do it. He had Steve Bannon on. Gavin, Mr. Newsome, Governor Newsome, I would love, I would be honored to be on your show.

We can have a nice civil conversation about the issues. He'll probably have you on right now. He'll probably hear that and reach out to you. Look, I will give him credit for this. He is at least smart enough that like that is the move, is to go do a podcast and start interacting and try to figure out. I think the issue that Gavin Newsom has

is he's a very talented old-school politician and I think that that archetype has been rejected yeah and that's gonna be very tough I think that going forward like you know you saw um I don't know if you saw recently is a few weeks ago Bernie Sanders and AOC had like a few big rallies and they're drawn like you know tens of thousands of people to these right now I don't think either of them are gonna be the nominee. I don't think they're really drawing those people. I think they're paying those people.

That also is probably true. Do you know they got the cell phone data from those things? Yes, yes. No, I know, and I've seen that, and they are probably pretty artificial, but still, there is no way, like, no one's reading Chuck Schumer's new book. No one cares about Nancy Pelosi.

Like, the establishment wing is not going to be what the future is. It's going to have to be some populist, you know? It's going to be Jasmine Crockett. I'm not sure she's the one. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Jasmine Crockett in a cage fight. Let's go.

Dude, that's your old bit from Talking Monkeys in Space. You're just like, we could go dumber. Just keep getting a dumber dumber. So this is the level now. That's your old bit from talking monkeys in space. You're just like we could go down Yeah, I definitely did that was about George Bush getting us into Iraq he won he won again And then someone in the back of the room going I think we can go down He's right. He was 100% right with Tim Walls.. I mean, that guy was almost the vice president of the United States. I'm sure you've seen that thing where it shows Obama saying, I need a vice president that's dumber than me. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And then it's Biden saying, I need a vice president dumber than me. It's so perfect. And Kamala saying, I need a vice president dumber than me. And it's Walz. That's right. Men have tampons. Yeah, you got to lose because we got to break this cycle We're getting way too dumb. You know regroup. It wasn't just that we were getting dumb

We were getting scary close to people justifying totalitarian measures, you know what Tim Walls in the campaign trail was literally saying Free speech doesn't include hate speech and misinformation Hey man, fuck you. How about fuck you? Because everything that we called misinformation just a few years ago is now being fucking, it's on the front page of the New York Times now that we were lied to.

I mean, the New York Times just printed a thing that turns out we were lied to. Yeah, you lied to us. You were a part of it. You spit out all of their propaganda Without doing what you're actually supposed to do which is be a journalist Yeah, no the only way you can be a journalist today is if you're independent a real journalist You have to be a grand Glenn Greenwald. You have to be a Schellenberger. You have to be a Matt

Taibbi you have to be someone is independent. That's the only way you could do real journalism today It's just too many fucking guardrails. Dude, Glenn Greenwald, who is debatably the greatest journalist of the 21st century, and maybe I'd give it to Julian Assange, but he's up there, he had to leave the publication that he was a founder of, you know, The Intercept.

Yeah. Right, he had to leave them because they were going the route of propaganda and not letting him tell the truth about Joe Biden And and it's it's a testament to Glenn Greenwald that he was just like, okay, cool Bye, yeah, and I'll go be just as big without you guys and that's crazy. That's another thing That's really interesting about like this lit which is very recent though, right that there was a time like where Like cancel culture

was so effective. I remember thinking this was something that really kinda scared me a few years ago because it was like, you'd have these people, some of the people who kinda started getting big before me, I mean I was doing what I do but I had a slower progression, but some of these people who shot up to the top,

Milo or people like that, got totally removed from the conversation. It was like they were just taken out. He's the best example. Yeah, this guy was gonna be the guy. He was on Bill Marshall. Yeah, and did great on Bill Marshall. Bill Marshall compared him to Hitchens.

Yeah, yeah, I remember. Like a gay Christopher Hitchens or something like that. Yeah, I like that. And now it just seems all over the place, there's lots of examples of it, where it's like they tried, I mean, they've tried, I mean, you went through, I think, the biggest cancellation attempt,

where they were just like, you could see, it was like, I remember in those few weeks, where it was like, a decision had been made, we're going after Joe Rogan. And they just emptied every bullet they had and it all just bounced off you. And then you see this with like a lot of other people like, you know, Alex Jones, Andrew Tate, you know, however you feel about these guys. I'm not even making a comment on. You just make them bigger.

I'm just saying that them getting kicked off every platform has not worked at all. And that's- It doesn't work anymore. And that's great. And Darrell's another example of that too, where they tried to go after him and it was like not having, just made him bigger. Yeah, it's fascinating. So they're gonna have to adjust or go away,

adjust or perish. And I assume they're gonna perish. I don't see them adjusting. The only thing that could change is the people that own them, like Jeff Bezos has kind of put the clamps down on the Washington Post and said look I don't want any of these fucking crazy left-wing opinion pieces anymore I want you to report about lifestyle, health, news, objective news like let's become a fucking newspaper again which is what is that's the only way you have value with everybody.

Otherwise, you're alienating literally 50% of the country and the 50% that buy it, they have to be retarded because you've been lying so openly about so many different things. Everything has to be gone through a filter. Everything, yeah. And so, like, it's not even just that they're lying, but that they're lying in such a brazen,

such a 180 degree from reality. You know, like, the way they've tried to make this thread of Doge, you know, like where they're just kind of like, you know, what right does he have to go through all these bureaucrat's emails and what right? And when you zoom out, it reminds me a lot. There's this weird parallel between like what Bobby Kennedy

was able to insert with the Maha movement, where you had this thing where we had like, what they'd call a national health crisis, you know, a pandemic, like the, all of our focus has to be on this health issue. And then Bobby Kennedy just kind of came along and was like, can I point out that, like there's a real health crisis that we have that's not

the one you're talking about at all? Like you're claiming to care about health so much, and it's like, okay, look at autism and diabetes and obesity and we're the, like we lead the world in chronic illness. Heart disease. Heart disease, like all these things, like that's kind of, and then it was just the Doge thing, it was like, okay, so we have the US federal government is the biggest organization in the history of the world. We spend more than any other government in the history of the world has ever spent.

We are so far in debt now that the interest on the debt is now, I believe last year it was $1.2 trillion and it's going up. And the interest on the debt is now overtaking the entire budget Like I remember when trillion dollar deficits were crazy you get if we balanced our budget tomorrow We still run a trillion dollar deficit every year just because we owe it on the interest on the debt This is so obviously a crisis and then they're trying to convince you that the real crisis is that Elon Musk and a few of his genius nerd buddies want to open the books? Like how the fuck can you convince anyone of that?

Well, the Democrats are really good at having a narrative and then marching with it. Yeah, yeah. They're really good at it. And that's what you see with all these tweets that are all from the same kind of verbiage they use in the same sentences and you see them all throughout. Whenever it comes to certain issues, they're really good at like get staying united and getting out this one message. Yep. Which does, which does work, um, to kind of shockingly well.

But again, it is like, you can watch it. Like, it's like this thing that's getting diminishing returns and diminishing returns. And it's like, oh, it's not the same old thing isn't working anymore. We're also in this big Manhattan project style race to create sentient AI. And that's another issue that's going to completely transform society.

If you think the internet and podcasts transform society, just wait till you have super intelligent, godlike computers that are telling us what we should do Yeah, and there's um you know look there's some pretty spooky implications of all of that I mean I you know I've read a decent amount about the way like the IDF was using artificial intelligence to like track you know like Like suspects and stuff like this and you're like oh, the military using AI is kind of creepy. But then at the same time, what might that

do to people's ability to keep secrets and keep corruption going? And it's kind of like, who gets in charge of that? That's going to be the fate of mankind. Well, I think they're prepping for that. That's where they're jailing politicians. Like there's a lot of that going on right now where they're, they're in a hot panic because you're not going to be able to hide anything anymore. It's going to, we have just a,

it's going to come in waves and it's going to be, I mean, I'm just guessing what its impact is going to be, but I think the world's unrecognizable in 20 years. Yeah. I think you're probably right probably right about that and it's a You know, it's gonna be very it's gonna be very interesting. I remember you said like a long time ago I think it was like at that very beginning of the podcast But you had said one thing where like you were like it's gonna be harder and harder to lie

Yeah, that's just gonna be the future where it's just harder and harder to lie. And you're talking about just like, even how much right now, like you know, you know, like I was born in 1983. So I grew up in like the 80s and the 90s. And like, you could lie back then. You could just tell lies. Oh, you could make up stories.

You could make up whatever. I used to do this, I was the head of this, I worked at this company. Yeah, just say that. Just say that. It was just totally like, and you were just like, I don't know, I mean, he says it. There's no way to really check that.

And now it's like, you just say like, oh, I used to do this. It's like, no, you didn't. You know what I mean? Like that's a crazy shift that, you know, it happens slow enough that you don't run. But the more that that goes on and on, and the more technology there is,

and the more with the like singularity type shit, or the more like, it's gonna become increasingly more and more difficult to deceive people. At least, that would be my guess. There's gonna be an app in our lifetime that's a lie detector, and it's gonna be 100%. It's gonna read your retinas, it's gonna look at your eyeballs,

and you're gonna use it just the same way you use FaceTime, and you're gonna have to talk to your boss through that thing, and it's gonna be able to tell you, what did you do? What did you actually do? Where's the money? Why is money missing? Oh, imagine that just on politicians, though.

Ooh, boy, it's gonna be great. Get that bitch on Nancy Pelosi. Yeah. Because I just happen to be really good at picking stocks. Eh, eh. Too bad Dick Cheney's dead. Would you like to stick him in front of that thing? No, he's still alive.

Isn't he? Is it Dick Cheney? I thought he died. Is Dick Cheney still alive? Dick Cheney's alive. Is he? Yeah, no, somebody, I think somebody else. I'm trying to think of who you, who is the guy who died?

One of the big ones died. Uh-huh. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, someone real evil did die, but that guy's. What's that? Still alive. Wow, he's still alive with another dude's heart So live with the dude's heart. Isn't it crazy all these people died from covet and that fucking guy's just still kicking

Yeah, well the thing thing about making a deal with the devil is you know you get you get paid off at one point in time He had no pulse. He had something that was just circulating blood through his body. Yeah That's gotta be in the bible. Yeah. Yeah. No, there's definitely something to it. A guy responsible for a million innocent people dying who doesn't have a pulse. And can you imagine, it's just crazy, and I don't know how much he was acting on his own. No, no, oh, McCain's dead. John McCain is dead, he's been gone for a while. He's dead.

Why did I think that Cheney was dead? I feel like there's somebody else who I, but maybe not, but you know what's crazy? Did Rumsfeld just die? I'm not sure. There was a fake report earlier this year that Dick Cheney died. Oh, that's what it is.

They got me. They got you with a scam. They got me to fake it. But isn't it crazy that, which, you know, like there's a million examples of this, but just like how tone deaf the Kamala Harris campaign was. Now I don't know how much Dick Cheney,

they like, but Liz Cheney, they started bringing on the jail. Because Dick Cheney endorsed her. He came out to endorse her and say that Donald Trump is the most dangerous threat to America, and then she started campaigning with Liz Cheney. Like as if, I mean it's just, forget even like the fact that obviously,

like I'm the anti-war guy and I think all these people are blood soaked monsters who should burn in hell for eternity, but leave all that aside. Just the politics of it. Liz Cheney lost her congressional race by like 50 points. What market is that? Like what margin on the edges did they think like, I know, I know what'll move this,

okay we're down but we're not out. Bring in the Cheneys and then we're gonna tell them about how much we love fucking the war in Iraq or something like that and it was I think it was just a signal to like military contractors to be like hey we're cool you know like send us some more money internally apparently they already knew they were losing yeah they said the from which makes the spending even weirder. Yeah. Well evident evidently the the internal polling there's a few really interesting questions about this because so the it's been reported that the internal polling of Biden before he dropped out was like a

Crazy landslide way way more than what Trump ended up winning by. Like they had him winning like 500 elect, I forget what it was, but it was like a crazy fucking blowout. And then similarly when Kamala Harris took over, like they knew, but then there's also something interesting where it's like, hey, so like, pollsters, could we ever get the real polls? How come like they can figure out the real polls?

But then you, cause there was something like, there's only been a few elections in my life that I remember where like it was, it was just obvious who was, who was going to win. Like Obama in 2008. Right. It was obvious. You could not have convinced anyone like, looks like John McCain's the front runner.

No, it fucking does not. Like this black Jesus has drawn 80,000 people and then John McCain's over here I think we can do you know, it's like clearly this guy's losing and this guy's gonna win but the polls reflected that it was Like oh, yeah Obama's up big in the polls. But this year Everything you could see taste touch like it was just obviously Donald Trump everywhere. Donald Trump went. He's getting like a King's greeting He's like with all, the culture has totally shifted in his direction. Now imagine if they hadn't astroturfed those conventions

for Kamala Harris. Imagine if they hadn't paid people to show up. How many people would be there? They'd have an arena. Look, it would have been, imagine like, right, it wasn't people coming to see Beyonce and they just had to come see Kamala Harris and all, you know. It was, this campaign was, the Kamala Harris,

and this is part of the reason why, even though I am really upset with Donald Trump, and I'm upset with a lot of the cabinet people too, I mean, look, Bobby, I will say, does seem to at least be doing some real structural, like he's talking about really, you know, changing some things at the health department. I think maybe he could take a break from tweeting

about the virus of anti-Semitism, but whatever. Tulsi, I'm really upset with over her cheering on these strikes. I thought she was supposed to be the one who was gonna stand up in that signal group and say something and not just leave it to JD. And I think Donald Trump's messing up in a lot of ways. But I really, at least at this point,

like if he invades Iran and we have another war there, then I will apologize for voting for him. Then I think I made a mistake and I shouldn't have done that. But short of that, I do think it was the right thing to do. And part of it was like that that had to be exposed. Because this Kamala Harris ticket, it was the most astroturfed ticket ever. You know it's one thing look Obama had a lot of institutional support it wasn't as organic as they made it out to be you know like but there was a lot of

real support like he did have real grassroots support she was just she never won up she didn't win a primary she didn't win a delegate when she ran for president she didn't make it to Iowa it ran for president. She didn't even make it to Iowa. It was all fake. It was all phony. And it was like that had to be exposed. It's dangerous. That's dangerous. Because if they can get that through with her,

even if you like her and you think she would have done a great job, it's scary that you were given that kind of power. And the same people that were auto-penning all those Biden executive orders would have been in charge for another four years, if not forever. Yeah, that's right. And look, even, you know, you could say whatever

that Joe Biden just feared that Donald Trump would abuse the Justice Department, which is, you know, a little ironic to accuse him of the thing you're actually guilty of doing. But to go out and to pardon your family, and forget the family even, because that's a little less relevant, but to pardon Fauci and go back to

2014 yeah, why'd you pick that year? Yeah, you know Joe I mean obviously Joe Biden didn't pick anything But what who's the person who picked that we got to go back and give this guy blanket immunity going all the way back like come On dude. What the fuck it's great. That's I mean, it's too much. It's crazy and who who really signed that? That's the other thing the thing about using auto pen for writing all those pardons Does that count? Is there a legal battle about that? well, if you can't remember if Mike Johnson testifies that he brought up the the natural gas deal and he's like

Why did you yeah, why'd you go in? And he's like, I didn't. He's like, no, you did. And then he asks to be alone with Mike Johnson. So he always has handlers with him. And then when he's alone with him, then Biden tells him, I didn't sign that. And then you realize it's the same signature. Well, when you're the level of senile that Joe Biden was,

like it leads to the question, we're like, so how easy was it for everybody to manipulate you? Because you could just tell him he did or didn't do something and he may not, you know? Like we don't know, you know, like there was this one thing, look, like one of the things on October 7th, and I try almost to avoid this topic sometimes because I don't want it to come off

like I'm downplaying the horrors of October 7th, and I try almost to avoid this topic sometimes because I don't want it to come off like I'm downplaying the horrors of October 7th. Like Hamas invaded Israel, they did some really fucked up shit, they indiscriminately killed a bunch of civilians and they had grenades and rifles and it was horrible. They took a bunch of hostages and it's, you know. Everyone else. Really interesting. However, there were some claims that were made

that turned out not to be true the 40 beheaded babies And some of the like claims of mass rapes and stuff like that just turned out not to be true They were set in the fog of this thing Whatever I'll give the benefit of the doubt of like, you know Maybe it was you know I think they were kind of abused by some politicians in order to get you to turn your brain off and be very emotional And not pay attention to what this response is gonna be but Joe Biden and be very emotional and not pay attention to what this response is gonna be.

But Joe Biden claimed that he had seen the videos of the beheaded babies. And then it turned out to just like that never happened. And then you're almost wondering, you're like, was he lying? Does he not remember? Did someone just tell him that you've seen that? Because he's a senile man.

He's also a liar, like his whole life. That's right. So it's like impossible to know because he's also been a liar his whole life. He's also the guy who's like I was first in my class, graduated with multiple degrees and blah blah blah. You're like none of this is even kind of true. None of it's even kind of true. Yeah and it's just wild that you could be too old and senile to stand trial for having classified documents, but yet you're fine giving out pardons.

Yeah. Like how do you let a person with a mental disease give out pardons? That seems like that's the guy to manipulate. And if it turns out that guy gives out more pardons than anyone ever upon leaving office. Yeah. How's that? That seems like those shouldn't be legit. Well look, on its own, of course not, but on its own, that and there were things that

come above that to me like COVID and the war in Ukraine and you know, a whole bunch of other shit. But that alone is like Kamala Harris and the corporate media and the demo, they had to lose. You can't do that. You can't Emperor's new clothes, the entire American public and like, fuck it, just lie through your teeth pretending this guy's not a vegetable. Wow times Dave Smith. We gotta wrap this up. Alright. Thanks bitch home. Thank you sir. Thank you.

Love you to death. I love you too. You're awesome. Appreciate you very much. Tell everybody how they watch your show. Oh, part of the problem is my podcast where I talk about all this political news stuff and then Legion of Skanks is where I'm a degenerate with my comedian friends. Check both of those out. Skank Fest is in New Orleans this year, if anyone wants to come.

That's gonna be a lot of fun. I believe it's September of this year. And then, you know, comictapesmith.com if you wanna come see me on the road. Beautiful, all right, bye everybody. Thanks for watching!