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Dave Smith
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Robbie Bernstein
I like Thanksgiving. It's real easy. My family does lunch. I roll up at 11, have a couple of drinks, play in the yard with the kids, take a nap, and that's it. That's the day. It's easy.
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Dave Smith
It is. There is something amazing about the holiday where there's no expectation that you have to buy anyone anything. Like, I'm just coming to have a whiskey at 1pm and not feel weird about that. Okay.
- [03:27]
Robbie Bernstein
And I don't have to go to synagogue. I don't have to sit through a Passover story. I get to sit down, enjoy the family without any of that stuff. So Thanksgiving's a big win for this guy.
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Dave Smith
Are your. Is your family still, like, real serious, like, with the Passover Seder? Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's rough. It's brutal. I mean, I was never. My family was never as religious as yours, so they would. We would do, like, you know, like a concise Seder, one of those, you know, like, reform books that they give you so you get through it real quick. But I remember going to, like, a couple times I went to, like, friends houses who were, like, either, like, Orthodox or. What's the one in the middle called? The ones who aren't reformed but aren't Orthodox.
- [04:12]
Robbie Bernstein
Conservative.
- [04:13]
Dave Smith
Yeah, I think that might be. I think that might be right. But anyway, this. I go into that. But, man, I mean, I remember literally, like, the way they put the food in front of you and then just read for another hour. And I remember being, like, nine and actually, like, have, like, my mouth watering, like, staring at this food. Like, I'm so hungry. It was like. I remember at 9 years old or whatever, like, making the connection that I was like, oh, is that what they're doing in those cartoons? You know, like, you're like, I never actually had my mouth watering before because I was so hungry. Like, your mouth is literally just getting ready to just be like, please insert that food in me. I didn't mean to make this a sexual thing. But the point is just, hey, religious Jews, too much reading. Read after dinner.
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Unknown Speaker
Why?
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Robbie Bernstein
Yeah, makes way more sense.
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Dave Smith
Why would it be a problem to think about the plight of Jewish slaves in Egypt after the meal? I wouldn't care if you read for six hours after the meal, just not before. Just my. Just my advice. But we'll say, okay, a lot of stuff. A lot of stuff to talk about today. I do. I want to just start real quick by saying that because there was a lot of, you know, people noticed. One of our episodes got taken down off of YouTube. Is the last episode with. With Scott Horton. It was. It was unclear at first what the issue was. It seems to have been cleared up. Seems like it was a mistake and that this episode should be back up on YouTube later today. But we did post it over on X, so it's. It's up now and live people can go see it over there. It's also on Rumble and Spotify and itunes and all the other places where you can typically get the. The podcast. I will say. And just to be clear, it seems the situation is resolved. But there is something really cool where I have just. I got texts and messages on Twitter and comments from, like a ton of people with huge platforms. You know, Patrick David texted me. Like, I mean, I don't think it was five minutes after I posted that it got taken down from YouTube. David Sacks and a bunch. Just a bunch of people. I don't want to name everyone because I'm going to miss it, but a bunch of people were all kind of like, oh, what's going on here? And I was just thinking, like, there is. It almost felt to me like, I don't know, there felt like something kind of profoundly beautiful and libertarian about the whole thing. Like, it's almost like if someone in your community needed a surgery and everybody's like, crowdfunding money for it, like, obviously it's not a situation like that, but there does seem to be this, like, almost like counter economics, this, like, kind of counter force to the Internet censorship, where as soon as anybody even smells that somebody got censored there, it's like a bunch of people rallying around them to try to be like, oh, we're going to counter this. And I just. Just wanted to thank everybody, particularly Patrick Bet, David and David Sachs and several other people. It's just like, I thought there was something really cool about that. And it just. It makes me feel much better about where we are in the battle against tech censorship. And obviously, you know, like, the fact that Elon Musk bought Twitter and now we're in a situation where even if that does end up happening and it wasn't just a misunderstanding like this appears to be, it's just cool that there's at least, like, ok, there's at least a feeling of like, well, we could go do it there and still be able to get our. Our voice out. So thank you to everybody, including big thank you to Elon Musk for buying Twitter for $44 billion. That was really cool that you were able to move some money around and make that available. Anyway, that's curious to see what the.
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Robbie Bernstein
Numbers look like on Twitter.
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Dave Smith
Yeah, but that's. That'll be interesting, maybe. And maybe that's just what we will do going forward, regardless of the situation. Not sure about that yet. Got to think about it and make a decision. Okay. The other thing that we should lead the show with today is that the new director of the National Institute of Health was named, and it is J. Bhattacharya. I cannot. I cannot stress how profoundly pleased I am with this pick. Jay Bhattacharya, for people who don't know, is. I mean, was just heroic during COVID I mean, like, absolutely phenomenal. The guy is a genius, is totally brilliant. People in our audience might know him because he was one of the signatures of the Great Barrington Declaration. He was. He also wrote the forward for Tom Wood's book Diary of a Psychosis, the book that I keep telling everyone is the best book on, on the COVID insanity. Jay Bhattacharya, the director of the nih for the next one, hopefully he wrote the forward to that book. This guy was one of my best resources through Covid, really helping me understand this stuff. Him. And God, I hope I'm not butchering his name, but Rob, Rob Aurora, Rob Arora, the two of them did a few, like, phenomenal podcasts together where Jay Bhattacharya was just. He's one of these guys who's. He's good at explaining the stuff that we're not smart enough to understand to people like us. But he would go through, like, a lot of these studies that the COVID lunatics would use is like, see, this is proof that the vaccine saved so many lives. And he would just do a great job of just tearing them down and being like, no, here are the seven flaws in this study. And this is why this doesn't actually prove anything. He was just really one of the. One of the most important sane voices in an insane time. And the Fact that he's got Fauci's old job just warms my heart. I mean, I just can't say enough. Enough great things about that. Any. Any thoughts you want to add to that, Rob?
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Robbie Bernstein
It's a very promising flip from what we experienced through the COVID regime and all the censorship that existed during that time and the possibility of actually educating the public to the degree by which government will lie to you for its own interests. I still think it would be very cleansing to see Fauci prosecuted. I think if we ever get there, he'll suddenly have dementia and we'll see what we saw with Mueller. I don't think we're going to quite get that. But to see such a massive flip of voices being censored off the Internet during the COVID regime. And he wrote the Great Barrington Declaration, which was essentially, from what I remember, we don't have to shut down the country, but it does make sense to protect the elderly. I remember seeing him in, I think, a number of congressional hearings as a. Hey, why am I being censored? I'm a Stanford scientist and I understand these things. And here's some information that they're not giving you. So I think it's very refreshing. I'm sure it's alarming to some of the powers that be to see this massive of a flip of the people that were dangerous to have on the Internet to possibly be giving you information now in these actual powerful positions. So it's. It seems it. Listen, I get excited for these storylines, go after Fauci, put this guy in charge. Let's get all the information about who in the NIH gets payments from. From what pharmaceutical companies. Let's get the entire. Who's that other guy at the NIH who I remember once in a congressional hearing, just validating that payments are made, but made no other statements.
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Dave Smith
Well, wasn't it Fauci who.
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Robbie Bernstein
No, it was Fauci. And then there's another guy, Fauci's guys. There's two other, like, high ups at the nih, but I can't remember their names right now. Anyways, promising sign of the new administration coming in and maybe actually cleaning up the mess. And definitely seems like a win for free speech. So I like.
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Dave Smith
Do you remember the moment which is. Was still up there as one of the most like, incredible slash infuriating moments of the COVID insanity. But do you remember when Rand Paul. I guess. I think. I think it was through a FOIA act that he had gotten essentially the raw number of how Much money was paid out to scientists at the NIH from big pharmaceutical companies. It was something insane. Like, I think it was over $100 million. And he goes to Foushee and he goes, will you, like, disclose how much money you've made from big pharmaceutical companies? And he's like, you know, we get royalties sometimes. I think one of the checks I got was for. And he's like, okay, but that's one. Will you disclose all of them? And then Fauci just straight up goes, well, the law doesn't say that I have to. So if you want to change the law, go ahead. You're just, like, watching it, like, yo, you can even just tell me whether or not you've made, like, enormous sums of money from the pharmaceutical companies whose product you are pushing. Then he's just essentially, like, now not going to do that. It's like, so anyway, it's just, you know, if you understand the levels of corruption that exist at the nih, it is really amazing to have someone who's outside of that corruption and a critic of that corruption to come be the boss there again. We'll see. I'm not, you know, I've been accused by some of, like, trying to sell Trump as something that he's not or overstating how great this is. Listen, I. It is quite an undertaking to clean up a corrupt government agency. All I'm saying is putting someone good at the top is a hell of a lot better than not. And so that's. You know, I'll. I'll say this just more broadly.
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Robbie Bernstein
This is better than rehiring Fauci.
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Dave Smith
Right?
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Robbie Bernstein
I mean, you could literally have had a Kamala Harris come in and say, you know what? We got to rehire Fauci. He did a great job. They could do that. I think Fauci's unpopular enough that they probably wouldn't, but they could.
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Dave Smith
Or somebody else who is exactly the same as Fauci, which is what typically happens in these situations and has to some degree, happened with Trump's appointments. He says, oh, I won't put Pompeo or Nikki Haley in, but then puts in Waltz and Rubio, which is the same thing. So it very easily could have been that. I'll say this, man. Overall, I'm. I feel quite comfortable and happy with the decision I made to ultimately support Trump in this election. If I could go back at right now, I'd do the same thing again. And it's not because I was ever selling to anyone that Donald Trump has figured it out. He knows all the mistakes he made last time, and he's going to be spot on this time. That's not the claim at all. Donald Trump, now that the cabinet has basically been picked, of course, by the way, I should say this with the asterisks of, like, we still have to get through Senate confirmations and it's Donald Trump, which means that in the next 30, 60, 90 days, any one of these people could be fired and he could be talking about how little and stupid they are and then replace them with someone else. So who knows? But as of right now, he appointed some awful foreign policy picks. Really, really bad. Waltz is a disaster. Rubio is a disaster. Pete Hegseth is a little bit of a question mark to me. I'm not sure. He's certainly not good on Israel, but he has said some pretty good things on Ukraine. And he has also just said some things over the years that indicate to me that he's a somewhat honest guy who will talk about things that are controversial that normally you're not supposed to speak about specifically. There was one interview I saw him in years ago. I don't know if I ever told you this, Rob. I know Pete Hegseth. Not well. Um, but I've met him before at, at Fox News. We've done panels together and stuff. This years ago. And anyway, I always liked him. He's always a really nice guy. And we've. We've gone, like, grabbed a beer after a show together and stuff. And like, I always thought he was a good guy, very smart guy. He. There was this one interview that he was on, on Fox News, and this was years ago. I mean, this might have been 2016 or something like that. And he was. They were talking about Afghanistan and his service in Afghanistan, and he just went off on a whole thing about how the warlords that we're propping up over there in Afghanistan have this habit of raping boys and the. How all the soldiers are furious about it and they were put in a position where they're not allowed to do anything about it. And like, and he. And this is something that, like, we know about this, but never gets brought up on Fox News, of all places. 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And that's why right now you got to take advantage of Ground News's biggest sale of the year. And you can get that deal by going to Ground Dot News slash Dave Smith or scanning the QR code. That's Ground Dot News slash Dave Smith. Or you can just scan this QR code. Thank you to Ground News for sponsoring today's episode. Let's get back into the show. So anyway, a little bit of a question mark with him. We'll see how that goes. There's. There's been some other bad picks in there, but at least as of right now, getting Tulsi at the Director of National Intelligence, getting Bobby Kennedy as the head of Health and Human Services, and now getting Jay Bhattacharya at the nih. Listen, these are just undeniable wins. And there was only one. There was only one scenario where we got any wins like this and that was Donald Trump winning. That's it. If Kamala Harris had won, we get zero wins. Of course, she's now reduced to being a drunk aunt on the Internet. But there's, you know, we get no. And if we had just all voted third party, then we get no wins out of that either. So this is something. And of course all of that is without mentioning Doge, which is still a big question mark. We don't know exactly how this is going to work. But I will say that if nothing else, having Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy with Ron Paul as an adviser to them, at the very least, they are inserting this most important issue of the size and scope of government, of cutting government spending. They're inserting that back into the public conversation. And again, this just never happens with anyone else. The only reason why we're getting this is because Donald Trump won. Would it be better if Ron Paul had won and a supermajority of the American people had embraced liberty and rejected statism? Yes, that would be better. That option was not on the table. Would it have been better if a Ron Paul like figure had run on the Libertarian Party and lost, but gotten 4 or 5 million votes and really started a huge conversation and really opened up a lot of people's eyes to the view of individual human liberty and laissez faire, free markets and non interventionist foreign policy? Would that have been better if that happened and then Kamala Harris won? Debatably. Like debatably may. Maybe. I really don't know. Maybe that would have ultimately been better. But that wasn't in the cards either because we didn't have a Libertarian candidate who was capable of doing that. So in this scenario, this just seems like the undeniable right way to play it. That's how I feel looking back at it. Anyway, I am just. It was very, very nice to get another excellent pick. Another excellent one. Not just like a decent one. This one was really excellent. Jay Bhattacharya and Bobby Kennedy in there. Yeah, man, this is a. It's shaping up in a weird way to be the closest we could have really possibly imagined of a repudiation of the COVID insanity. And obviously Donald Trump has a lot of blood on his hands about that. I mean, he was, he did a very bad job in 2020. But at the same time, given the options that we had, I don't know who else was going to pick Bobby Kennedy and Jay Bhattacharya.
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Robbie Bernstein
It's a promising start and it does seem like Donald Trump can be fairly influenced by who is around him. I think that's what happened with the Syria war with Rand Paul. Rand Paul was able to get his ear and talk him back from that. This was the last time he was president. But I think Bobby Kennedy being in there certainly influenced this pick. And so it's nice to see that some of the better names that have made his way into the administration are, you know, influencing some better picks.
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Dave Smith
Yeah, yeah, no, 100%. I, yeah, I just couldn't, I could not agree with that more. And again, it's just, you know, this is, this is, I mean, look, it kind of can't be overstated that, like, I mean, just imagine, like two years ago I had suggested to you, Rob, that Bobby Kennedy was going to be the head of HHS and Jay Bhattacharya was going to be the head of the nih. You'd have been like, wait, what world are we living in here? Like, did we win the presidency? Like that? These are, these are literally what our picks for these positions would have been.
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Robbie Bernstein
I mean, Bobby Kennedy wrote a book during the most censored period ever about how Dr. Fauci is actually a mass murderer.
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Dave Smith
Yeah, yeah, that's right. And like, it's, it seems, and again, I, you know, I made this point, I did like a Twitter spaces where I was arguing with some libertarians who didn't, you know, agree with me supporting Donald Trump. And like, a bunch of them go, this is a real problem libertarians have. But a bunch of them go, they go, well, Bobby Kennedy is not a libertarian. And you're like, yeah, obviously, but by the way, half of you motherfuckers fell for this shit. Half of you guys weren't even good on this when it mattered, including the national party at the time. And so Bobby Kennedy was. That's more important to me than some ideological purity tests or something like that. It's like, oh, we actually got that guy. And also the other thing say about Bobby, and this is from someone who, look, I, I, I had him on the show and we really argued pretty intensely with each other. And I was highly critical of him on his positions toward Israel. And again, I stand by that because I think he was bad on that stuff, but Bobby Kennedy, like, talk about a guy who had it made. You know what I mean? Like, just had, had, like, look, I don't want to say he's, he has life on easy mode because all of us have our problems. Obviously, he's had a pretty serious neurological issue and doesn't have a voice inside my head. That's, yeah, listen, I'm not like, they talk to me. That's a real struggle. Okay? So, like, I'm not Trying to downplay that. And of course, he's had, like. Which he's been quite open about, like, substance addiction.
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Robbie Bernstein
I love heroin.
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Dave Smith
We love Bobby Kennedy here. Okay, but like, so, okay, so he's had these. But I'm just saying he's a member of what is as close to a royal family in the United States of America as you get. He's married to a beloved Hollywood actress. He is a guy who is in all of the exclusive cocktail parties and in that scene, and he made himself a pariah in that world to stand up and talk about what he wanted to talk about. That's. That's just undeniably impressive and courageous. And so, like, okay, that's one of the things that gets me excited because that's a real test of, like, do you have principles? Are you willing to stand up for something when it's very difficult and will cost you tangible, you know, things in order to do this? And he's a guy who's done that. That is. That's impressive to me. And it makes me think this is a guy who might actually do the right thing when there's real stakes involved.
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Robbie Bernstein
All right? And I'm just going to. I'm just going to throw something crazy into the world, because sometimes that's what you have to do. But there's been chatter that they're going to change up the press room and potentially remove access from some mainstream media organizations and allow access for new media. And Dave Smith, I think he should pull some. Pull some strings and get me in that room. Let me be the DC correspondent. Go down there midweek. We'll write up some questions. We'll do it maybe stuttering John style. I won't always take the administration side, but until I get thrown out of that room, let's have a little fun.
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Dave Smith
Rob Bernstein, PotP. I've noticed it's a lot less gay in here than it was last year. What'd you guys do with all the gays? Oh, yeah, no, we could do. We'll. We'll make some stuff happen. We'll see. Listen, there's. There's some possibilities in this brave new world that we're living in, and we're going to try to. To maximize the. The entertainment and the truth that comes out of all of it.
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Robbie Bernstein
Okay, well, the new panel. Consider hanging Dr. Fauci.
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Dave Smith
I brought some medieval torture devices with me that I'd like to be considered if I could. If I could. It's my time. Excuse me. The President called on me. Please don't interrupt. All right, guys, let's take a moment and thank our sponsor for today's show, which is Sheath Underwear. Everybody knows I've been raving about sheath underwear for many years now. Sheath uses moisture wicking technology to create underwear that keeps everything breathable and incredibly comfortable for you downstairs. They're just. It's a game changer. I'll tell you. As soon as I got my first pair of sheath underwear, and I'll be honest, I was a little skeptical about the dual pouch technology, but I just. I can't live without it now. You just feel like a million bucks when you put a pair of them on. Plus this. This company is run by great people, and they've been supporting our show for many years. So if you want to support our show, make sure to go support our sponsors. 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But I think probably if I was James Lindsay, that's a wise choice on his part. So for the record, me and Lindsay were. I mean, we never, like, were friends or anything like that, but we were cool. We followed each other on Twitter, and we had messaged back and forth a few times over the years. The beef started because when I was on Tucker Carlson show last, I think it was the last time I was on, I had said something about how I thought it was stupid that Donald Trump kept referring to Kamala Harris as a communist. That's essentially where it started. James Lindsay took offense to this and started rambling about how I don't know what I'm talking about, and I haven't done the research, and all of this stuff. The truth is this. And he's been very insulting to me on Twitter. So I just kind of, you know, like, I'm not exactly going to partake in that. Maybe I will, whatever. But I do feel a little like on handcuffed at this point to just tell the truth. And here's the truth. James Lindsay is one of these guys who, much like Sam Harris, it's a very similar dynamic where a lot of people will say, oh, man, this guy used to be great, and now he just sucks. You know, like, what happened to this guy? And I hate to be the guy to break it to you, but he didn't used to be great. It's much like Sam Harris. There's this weird dynamic that happens a lot where it's like, people go, oh, this guy used to be great, but now he's terrible. And it's like, no, no, no, no. You woke up. That's what happened. You woke up and now you recognize how bad he is now. But he was always this bad. This is the truth. James Lindsay was a novelty act. He was fun. If you guys don't remember, he kind of burst onto the scene by trolling, like, woke college journals. So him and a buddy of his, they like. Actually what they would do is they would like, almost like what Stephen Colbert used to do on the Colbert Report, if you remember. He would, like, he would play a character as George W. Bush's number one fan, but the whole time he was really mocking George Bush, and that was kind of his shtick. So they basically did that. They submitted a bunch of articles for these scientific journals that were going along with the woke insanity, but taking it to such a cartoonishly insane level that it kind of exposed the whole thing, and they really got published. So, like, one of the things they did was they. And I'm remembering this, it was years ago, but it was something close to this. One of them was they actually took Mein Kampf and took out the word Jew and inserted straight white men and then got a section of it published that's pretty like these. Because these woke college professors will actually sign off on that. And so. And then one of them was that they studied the habits of dogs at dog parks and talked about rape culture amongst dogs. And, like, this actually important research. Yes, they got these things published. So it was great. It was a lot of fun. It's like you're trolling these dummies, and it was great. So that stuff he was good at, and then it was fun. The problem is that he was Good at trolling the. This retarded nonsense. But his work is garbage, just absolute garbage. It's just all terrible. It's. He's. It's all just nonsense theories about how Maoism took over the United States of America, and he can't back it up at all. And then he's gone hard in on this. This woke right narrative that. The stuff that we've responded to Constantin kissing on before. And anyway, so he got very offended that I kind of poked holes in his dumb shit. And I wasn't even talking about him. I was just kind of saying like, no, this idea that they're all secret communists is really stupid and there's no evidence to support it, and it makes you sound like a loon when you say it. So anyway, he took a. He took offense to this. And then we've gone back and forth a bit and it's, I think, actually been kind of fascinating and revealing. The latest thing that he went back and forth. I mean, it's almost like it just proves my point. I'll. I'll read this. This tweet. It's like in this argument that we've been having that we had with Constantine Kassin and now I'm having with James Lindsay about like, who the woke right really is. It's almost like they're only, like, you only have to prod them once or twice before they just admit it. This is. I'm not making this up. Try to imagine that this guy is actually out there doing shows about who the woke right are. And this is what. So earlier today when I posted that our. Our video got taken down off YouTube for violating community standards, he chimes in and says, like, I don't know, something about, oh, you're just ranting. And Tom woods asked him, he said, so you're saying he should get kicked off YouTube for this ranting or whatever. And then he responds by saying, I believe this is a typo. He's. He said he wants, but I believe he meant to say he rants. He said he rants about Jews on a site that doesn't permit ranting about Jews. We don't live in should land. We live in hell. And yes, I know he's Jewish and he separated the word to like make the old dumb joke. I'm kind of a Jew or something like that now. First of all, we. I had Scott on to talk about his book about Russia and Ukraine. Second of all, when do we ever rant about the Jews? Were a show hosted by two Jews. We've Never like expressed a hostility or anything toward Jewish people. I am a critic of the government of Israel. So this is. Already you're conflating criticizing a government policy with being a bigot. Who does that remind you of? Rob, who is known for this. Oh, wait a minute, hold on. So I somehow lose my Jewishness. I'm not really a Jew now because I don't have the right political opinions. Hmm. Who does that remind you of? Who criticizes black conservatives that way and calls them Uncle Toms and says you're not really black anymore? Who? You know what I mean? It's the Joe Biden. If you don't vote for me, you're not black. The LA Times. Larry. Larry Elder is the black face of white supremacy. It's like they don't. You're. They just immediately take the woke left playbook. This is just exactly the exact same thing. And I do appreciate him saying it because it's just like there, it's just kind of naked and blatant for everyone to see. This is what you're doing. So anyway, because he, he went at me and by the way, in a very bizarre way, he did at one, at one point he started like, I think attacking me for being skinny. Like, he was like, oh, you need to lift that. Well, yeah, this is the weirdest thing ever. He just started going, you got to lift some weights, dude. Let's do shoulder day. And it's like, dude, won't debate you.
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Robbie Bernstein
But I'll do shoulder day with you.
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Dave Smith
Well, it would be cringey and lame if like a dude in good shape just started talking about that. Like, I just, my mind would never in a million years in one of these like political debates go to like making fun of a guy because he needs to work out more or something. But James Lindsay is just an out of shape guy. Like, it's just like such a bizarre. He's like, oh, you need to do shoulder day. Like, dude, you need to do tits. Like you don't even need. You don't lay off the shoulders, dude. Do tits day a few times. Like, anyway, so just very bizarre. But here is. Let's, let's play this. And again, it is from the trigonometry podcast. But I will say, I know we've done quite a bit of responses to trigonometry lately, but also it does kind of make sense because what am I going to do? Responses to msnbc. No one watches that shit anymore.
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Robbie Bernstein
Just because I'm a dummy and I'm a little confused. So does James Lindsay like anti semits, as long as they have nice shoulders.
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Dave Smith
I don't. I guess. I guess if you're going to do it, listen, we all prefer the antisemites with nice shoulders to the ones without, so I'm not going to blame them for that. But anyway, Trigonometry is a very popular show and a lot of people are watching it, and I think it's popular for good reason. I like Constantin. I think he and. And his, his partner that I think they put on a good show. I apologize for blanking on his name. I think they put on a good show, and I do really, genuinely appreciate that. No matter how much I think me and Constantine may disagree, there is a mutual respect and like a kind of cordial nature to the disagreement. That's not exactly the case with James Lindsay. But anyway, let's get into this thing. I don't even think we'll spend as much time on this one as we. As we normally do because this stuff's just kind of easy to swat down. But this is here. Let's just play it.
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Robbie Bernstein
Is the debate between you and Constantine ever going to happen?
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Dave Smith
You know, he. I think he had recently expressed that, like, oh, yeah, we'll still. We'll make it happen. And I certainly am on the same page. I'll actually reach out to them. I'll make sure I do that by the end of the week. Let it. Let's do Thanksgiving and that. Oh, they're British. They don't celebrate Thanksgiving. You know what? I'll reach out today. All right, let's play.
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Unknown Speaker
And James, you mentioned the term woke, Right. It's a term you and I have both used. But it'd be interesting to talk about it for a number of reasons. But first of all, what do you mean by that term? Because a lot of people are very confused about it. Yeah, it's not necessarily the best term. It's more accurate. I don't use the word woke too. I use it a little too casually still, generally speaking. But I've tried to be very specific when it comes to it, to use the phrase woke Marxism, as in that it's a species of Marxist thought, yada, yada, yada. So we can very easily place that on the Marxist left. Right. Well, woke. Right. Another term that might work for that is woke fascism. And just like woke Marxism is technically woke neo Marxism. This could be called woke neo fascism, the more syllables. Well, that's. That's what I wanted to get to. So there are kind of two ways to look at why it's woke. And one is kind of philosophical and one is practical. The practical side is, look at how they behave. They behave exactly like the woke. There's the targeted influence campaigns. There's the manufacturing of what the postmodernist called legitimation by paralogy or whatever. They create the illusion that there's massive support for this and massive distaste for that using social media manipulations like we just talked about. They are highly invested in identity politics. The answer for them to leftist identity politics is, is a reaction identity politics or reactionary identity politics, equal and opposite, or in biblical terms, answering evil with evil right here. Which.
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Robbie Bernstein
You got to help me out here, because I don't know what the fuck he's talking about.
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Dave Smith
Well, this is one of the things that James Lindsay does, which is, by the way, really identical to the postmodernists, is that. And by the way, this is something that everybody should. You should develop, like a radar for this. There are people who try very hard to sound intelligent. Like, that is. Their concern is, let me sound like a smart guy so that you almost go, oh, I guess this smart guy must have figured something out. Even though he's saying nothing. He's just saying absolutely nothing. It is. This is what Kamala Harris's presidential campaign was, right? Just always try to sound like you're.
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Robbie Bernstein
Saying, let me relabel this thing and break it into these two categories, but this category is not quite like this category. So let's relabel it again and do another separation. But let me state clearly, right?
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Dave Smith
Listen, this is the thing, okay? Focus. And in general, focus, like, there's a difference between people. And look, I say this. Whatever flaws that I may have, I think people who listen to the show know I'm about the argument. That's my central thing, is that I'm about, like, hey, this is an argument that I think is a very strong argument. This is an argument that I think is a weak argument. What argument is James Lindsay even attempting to make here? Like, who are you talking about? What are you saying? Who is manipulating the social media algorithms? Who is faking that they have support that they don't really have? You know, Constantin, to his credit at least, when he. When he, like, was talking about the woke, right, he named some people. He named some people. He named Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens, I think Daryl Cooper. I can't remember who else, but he named some people. Okay, so then you can actually. Is. Are Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens manipulating social media to give the impression that they're popular when they're really not. But good luck if that's your argument, good luck winning that argument. Oh, but you won't actually make that because you don't really have an argument. And then of course he goes to this, this claim of identity politics. Well, I, there is no way in hell that you can say Tucker Carlson is guilty of playing identity identity politics. This just makes no sense at all. His entire thing has always been that we should, that he hates racialists, collectivism on any side and he just does not like that. That has always been his position. There is like. And again, I mean if you're going to talk about identity politics, just imagine, right, Imagine this. Rob, I'm going to give you two views and you tell me how it is possible to not see the contradiction in these two views. Okay, here are the two views, Rob. I am opposed to identity politics. That's view number one. Number two, I support Zionism. Tell me how you can possibly hold those two views and not see the obvious contradiction. I believe in a government for a particular identity group, but I oppose identity politics. Zionism is the definition of identity politics. And listen, I'll say this. I've never been a guy who really rants against identity politics because it's kind of a slippery definition. And there could be some identity politics that I would have absolutely no problem with. I'll give you an example. Maj Ture, he runs a group called Black Guns Matter. I have no problem with that whatsoever. It is clearly identitarian. He's talking about how there's been kind of like a racist history behind gun control legislation and that, that it's often black people who are in these high crime areas, the law abiding black people who need the second Amendment the most. Now that is identitarian. But it's also just fighting for gun rights and for getting government out of the way of people's right to defend themselves. So I have no problem with that at all. And I don't even in theory have a problem with Zionism. I don't have a problem with if there's a group of Jewish people who want to start a society together and they want it to be explicitly for Jewish people. Have no problem with that. Listen, if, if Jews had, say, purchased the land legitimately from Arabs and not violated the natural rights of the Arab population there, I wouldn't really have a problem with that. However, if you're going to support Zionism, don't give me this BS about how you're against identity politics. That just doesn't make any sense. Okay? Like I imagine, Rob, you would agree with me too, right? That if there was a group of, say, black nationalists or white nationalists or Jewish nationalists or Italian nationalists or whatever, and they wanted to by peaceful means voluntarily purchase some land and go live as they please on that land, me. And you have no problem with that? I mean, you know, do you? We don't necessarily want to join your group, but like, you have a right to do that. But don't do that. And tell me you're against identity politics, because that's what it is. You're an identitarian. Like, okay, fine. Anyway, so again, it's just throughout this entire argument about the woke, right? It's like, stop doing this like Gish Gallop nonsense, give me very clear what your principles are, and then apply them equally to all of these different groups. Because again, you're like, just today, James Lindsay is attacking me on identitarian grounds that I'm Jewish because I rant against the Jews. You're the identitarian, dude, not us. All right, let's keep playing.
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Unknown Speaker
The Bible says not to do, by the way, very specifically. And so there's, there's this, you know, grievance, identity. Everything's bad for white Christian men, straight white Christian men. We're the oppressed minority under this. There's an ideology and this kind of bleeds into the philosophical idea, but we'll get more specific with that in a second. There's this kind of belief that there's this ruling class that's erected an ideology to marginalize people like them. That sounds very much like woke, except instead of saying that it's like the white people create, the white ruling class created white supremacy to marginalize people of color, especially black and indigenous, and their ways of knowing from getting inside the woke, right? Or the woke fascist side says instead that following World War II, on the back of Hitler and the idea of never again, there was erected a post war liberal consensus starting in the 1940s, immediately starting in 1945. The creation of the United nations was part of this. The signing on to the United nations was part of this. They assigned William Buckley to Bill Buckley to having done a route to drive the true conservatives to the margins so that a false post war liberal consensus conservative movement could rise up the neocons and hold them out. So the neocons become this kind of hegemonic force within the conservative faction that edges out so called true conservatism and these more dangerous, so to speak, ideas like fascist ideas like Carl Schmitt's ideas about unbound executives and friend enemy politics and so on, that these ideas all had to be pushed to the side on the pretext that World War II or a Adolf Hitler can never rise again. And so therefore the true conservatives who represented conservative politics and kept at bay the beast of the left, which they say is that the right's true function is to keep at bay the left, in other words, to have a war right versus left, with everybody in the middle, I guess, taking, you know, taking fire in the crossfire. But they believe that this post war liberal consensus in the neoconservative movement literally was designed to marginalize their perspectives and to keep these other more radical right wing ideas out of, out of play. So this is a very woke way of thinking about.
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Dave Smith
Let's pause it here. It says this is a very woke way of thinking. All right? So God, I mean, does he just say nothing and make no argument while trying to sound smart? And it doesn't come off as very intelligent? There's, if you're going to say that the characteristics that make them the woke right is that there's grievance politics. There's a grievance here. I would certainly concede that anytime, no matter what your political bent is, there's always a danger of falling into kind of like a victim ideology or victim mentality. This can happen if you think that the system is against white people, or if you think the system is against black people or the system is against gay people. This can happen to libertarians who just blame the government for why their own life is a problem. Like any group could be susceptible to this. Maybe even the right wing who blindly supports Israel. I mean, I have heard them mention a couple times anti Semitism. I have heard them mention Jews as a victim group a time or two. Just saying. Um, but again, that means nothing. That absolutely. This just means nothing. Because if you're just going to say what's similar to the woke left or the woke right is they have grievances. Well then that describes all politics. Every political group has grievances. There's never been one that didn't. That's kind of central to any political worldview. So then the actual question, like what an actual intelligent argument would sound like, like is listen to the grievances and see if they're legitimate or not. Okay? And like, yes, I'm sorry, but like DEI affirmative action type shit has been the law of the land. There is discrimination under the law against a certain group. And so if they're coming up and saying, hey, we have A real issue with this. Well, look, obviously if they're blaming all of their problems in their personal life on it, that is unhealthy and that's not a good mentality to have. But you can't just say, if they have a grievance, therefore, they're the woke. You know, like the critical theory type guys, Critical race theory, stuff like that. They have this insane worldview that everything can be reduced to oppression in one form or another. Everything is oppressor versus oppressed. Right? And this is what you see in kind of the dominant culture, say, on college campuses. Everything has to be viewed through that. That lens. So it's. It's whites versus blacks or straights versus gays, or men versus women, or CIS versus trans. Everything has to be seen through that lens. Now, that is stupid. It doesn't make sense to view the entire world that way. Okay? And obviously, you can just throw lots of real life examples into that and just go like, okay, so you're telling me that, like, by definition, some straight white cis, whatever made up words, they have some. Some straight white guy in Appalachia is privileged and Barack Obama's girls are victims? Oh, yeah, right. There's lots of other factors involved, and in fact, lots of relationships can be mutually beneficial, and nobody's being oppressed. Okay? So. So viewing everything through the lens of oppressor versus oppressed is stupid. However, if anyone ever points out that any group of people is oppressed, for your response to be, oh, that's just like the woke left. That is equally stupid. That's just as dumb as their view. There are scenarios where human beings are oppressed and marginalized, and there's nothing wrong with pointing that out. The relevant question is, is your claim accurate? Do you have an argument that is actually based on logic and truth? And if you do, then it's a good argument. I like all. He's. He's said nothing here, saying absolutely nothing to go, oh, we can call them the woke because what exactly. They have grievances, they veer into identitarianism, which, by the way, is not even true for most of the group that he's talking about, or certainly far less true than other groups like the Zionist. Right. I don't even know what else. What else is there to say to this, Rob?
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Robbie Bernstein
I'm confused.
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Dave Smith
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Unknown Speaker
About the world. That there was a structural construction of the social and political and cultural environment designed to exclude people.
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Dave Smith
Like, because I forgot to say, I should have mentioned also just that like his claim that like it makes you woke somehow to say that Bill Buckley was like gatekeeping the right wing in America and that the neocons rose to prominence and kind of kicked all of the, you know, the old right, the more traditionalist right wing that predated the neoconservatives who were much more concerned with like non interventionist foreign policy and sound money and limited government and things like that. I mean, take on the argument, dude, it happened. That is true. Sorry, we're allowed to point that out. Like this is a matter of history. Bill Buckley was open about it. He was open about kicking these groups out of the larger conservative movement. So again, this is just. It's a non argument to say if you believe that, then you're woke. Is it true or not? Spoiler alert. It is. All right, let's keep playing.
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Unknown Speaker
Order to be able to achieve certain political agendas. And now they believe that they've Woken up to these ideas. Woke. They've found them again. They've read the forbidden philosophers, Carl Schmitt, Julius Evola, James Burnham and so on. They've read these things, and they're bringing back a true conservatism that was excluded from politics roughly since the end of World War II, on the bogus pretense of preventing the rise of another fascist like Hitler or Franco or Pinochet. And so there's a very practical explanation for why they're woke, especially their behavior. Lots of lying, lots of character attacks.
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Dave Smith
All right?
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Unknown Speaker
Lots of saying, no enemies to the.
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Dave Smith
Okay, literally. So just to be clear, because that's a very practical explanation. Like, no, it's not. And the view that he just, like, just tell me this, James Lindsay, who are you talking about? Out. Who has that view? Like, just. Just explain it to me. When has Tucker or Candace or someone like that made that argument that you're explaining? Because it seems like you're just attributing an argument to them that they never made. Sure, what it looks like from my point of view, anyway, at least I'll.
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Robbie Bernstein
Talk out against personal attacks.
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Dave Smith
Well, right. And then the guy's going, oh, here's the characteristic. They resort to personal attacks while the guy's talking about how I got to lift weights or something like that. Like, wait, what? What. Which one of these guys are you? By literally all of the metrics that he just laid out, he's already losing your worker. Than whatever you're describing here, you do all of the things that you're criticizing right now and try to. You could try to couch it in this dumb academic language, but you're just, You're. There's no argument here whatsoever. Like, just give me. Again, this is the same thing. And again, this is why some people were saying, you know, that. That, that, oh, it's just semantics. When I was responding to Constantin kissing about what first principles are. But it's not just that. It's just semantics. My whole point is that if you're going to come at this from first principles, you have to give me your principle and then show how you apply it to both sides. This is a. This is such, like, reasonable standard. That's it. If you want to say one side is woke compared to the other side, then the argument should look something like O. Okay, well, this side engages in accusations of bigotry whenever you make an argument against their position. This side is trying to cancel people. This side is trying to claim that they're in a dangerous environment, and therefore they feel Threatened and therefore your words are actually violence. Okay, right, like that's my argument. Essentially. Look at that standard of what we all object to on the woke and tell me who that fits more. It fits to a T with the pro Israel. Right? And it does not at all fit to people like us. Okay? That's what an argument looks like. That's what applying an objective standard to different groups looks like. Okay, with Israel and Palestine, we're going to say that whatever, you know, it's wrong to kill innocent people or something like that. Okay, who's killed more innocent people? You know what I mean? Like a. Tell me your moral standard and then let's apply this to both sides and then let's have an honest dialogue about it. But this, you just get to say, well, and they resort to personal insults while you do the exact same thing. This is sophistry. It's bullshit. It's garbage. Much like all of James Lindsey's work, this is garbage. All right, let's keep playing the right.
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Unknown Speaker
But they don't actually even attack the left. That's their enemy, so to speak, at all. They only attack other conservatives. Lots of power plays, lots of manipulatives right there, Natalie.
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Dave Smith
Okay, so at least for once between all of this nonsense rambling, James gave us an objective standard. Okay? They don't attack the left. They only attack the right and other conservatives. Who does that apply to? Who can anybody with a straight face tell me that we don't attack the left? Can anybody tell me that Tucker Carlson does not attack the left? That Kansas Owens does not attack the left? Do you think Daryl Cooper does not attack the left? Please make that argument. Geez, I wonder why this guy doesn't want to debate me on this topic. Oh, it's, it's probably because the bridge has been burned. I mean, take, take that debate somewhere and see how you could do with that. It's not even. Because the thing about it is, is that he finally snuck in in objective claim, you know what I mean? But it's so obviously wrong. It's so obviously bullshit. That's not true. None of those people. Nobody. There's nobody you could think of. I mean, please tell me the person who is on the woke right, who never goes at the left and only attacks fellow conservatives. And then of course, the other point is that it makes sense to attack other conservatives sometimes. Why, why wouldn't you? Why would you avoid attacking your, you know, team or your camp? It would seem that if other people who identify as a similar thing to you are Getting it all wrong. It would make a lot of sense to be critical of them. I'm not sure I'm seeing the argument here. All right, let's keep playing, you know, speech.
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Unknown Speaker
And then there's the philosophical, deeper aspect. Why woke? What does woke mean? Woke up to a structural politics that marginalizes people like me. And we need to band together in solidarity, no enemies to the right, in order to be able to create a powerful enough oppressed coalition to flip over the power structure by putting ourselves at the center and claiming power for ourselves. This is explicitly having a critical conscience.
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Dave Smith
I just want. This is exactly like why you got to play this, these type of videos, why it's worth responding to them. I want all of you guys to just like, honestly take a minute and think about how dumb this is. This is why I say his work is garbage, because it really is truly awful. I mean, I mean, imagine saying that. Here's the, here's the similarity. This is why they get to be called woke. Because their political view is that they woke up to the truth and they want to put themselves in the powerful position that just describes every political view. There's nothing about that that is unique to Wokeism or critical theory or postmodernism or the anti Zionist right wing or the pro Zionist right wing or the moderate liberals or the far lefties or anything, any political view. That is one of the features of them. We feel like we woke up to what's really going on and we'd like to put the people who we like into political office. Like imagine I was going to say to you, okay, so there's like, you know, there's like all these third parties. So let's say it's like the Forward party or something like that. And I was going to argue to you that I go the Forward Party, they're. They're just a bunch of liberal Democrats. That's all that party is. And you were like, by the way, I don't even know what the Forward Party stands for. So I'm just using an example. Right, but. And then you were to say, like, no, I don't really think they're liberal Democrats. They stand for a whole bunch of things that liberal Democrats don't stand for. And I was like, well, Rob, on the more philosophical angle here, you see the reason why they're. They're all liberal Democrats is because much like the liberal Democrats, they feel like they are aware of the correct political theory and they want to get their candidates into office so that they can have power to enact their political views. You see, they're the same as the Democrats. Wouldn't you immediately just laugh that out of the room? Like what? Yeah, that's what political parties are. What do you mean that you didn't. You're making a comparison. You didn't take a unique or defining aspect of liberal Democrats and then demonstrate how the forward party are the same? By the way, in real life, you probably could do that, but you didn't do that. You just picked this thing that describes everybody and they are justifying your ridiculous claim. This is just unbelievably stupid. All right, guys, let's take a moment and thank our sponsor for today's show, which is Public Wreck. If you are tired of squeezing into stiff dress pants at the holiday party this season, unwrap the gift of comfort with the Game Changer pants from Public Rec. They are the office pants that look like Monday but feel like Sunday. Imagine clocking in while feeling as cozy as if you were still in bed, sipping hot cocoa with a soft hand feel and smooth drape. These pants are a fan favorite for a reason. Whether you're closing deals in the boardroom, navigating holiday travel, or mingling at company parties, the game changers will keep you looking sharp and feeling great. Public Rec is the ultimate men's clothing brand of blending comfort and and style seamlessly. Trust me, you won't be disappointed. Stay comfortable this holiday season without compromising style, because with Public Rec's Game Changer pants, you can really have it all. And for a limited time, our listeners can get 20% off their entire order when they use the promo code Problem@Public Rec.com that's Public Rec.com P U B L I C R E C.com and the promo code is problem for 20%. All right, let's get back into the show. All right, let's play a little bit more and then we'll. We'll wrap up because there's really just not much here to even rebut justice.
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Unknown Speaker
About the way the world is organized. Tucker Carlson, for example. If you listen to Tucker, a lot of people really like Tucker. Tucker is pretty critical of America. His. He's not. He's not doing a Howard Zinn critical America theory. Howard Zinn being the one who wrote the people's history, so the Marxist history of the United States propaganda. He's writing a different critical history of the United States. Well, the Constitution was, you know, not really adequate to prevent all of this. There is a world, a post World War II liberal consensus or world order that we're all being made subject to. Well, look at how America was involved in all of these things. America bad. America bad. America bad.
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Dave Smith
Also, the UK was pretty bad too.
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Unknown Speaker
America bad.
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Dave Smith
I'm sorry, this is fucking stupid, dude. Like, this is actually his comparison. He goes, well, he's critical of America. Just like Howard Zinn critical. He's got critiques of the country that he lives in. So therefore, what exactly? And like, where exactly do we get to say he's critical of America? Are you not critical of America, James Lindsey? Are you? I mean, you've. For years he's made a name for himself off of criticizing how communists have control of all of the institutions in America. Does that not count as being critical of America? Is it only when you're critical of what? Washington, D.C. that's when you become a critic of America. Because I could tell you that Tucker loves America and constantly talks about what a great country it is. But yes, I mean, like, of course he's critical of the government that we live under. We're $35 trillion in debt, our currency is being tremendously devalued. We have the biggest cultural, racial and political divides of my lifetime. We have fought seven wars in the last 25 years that have resulted in nothing but the deaths of millions of people, cost trillions of dollars and destabilized the world, and we're currently involved into ridiculously reckless proxy wars. Why should we not be critical of that? What exactly does that mean? Again, an actual argument that wasn't garbage or wasn't sophistry would be something like, Tucker is critical of this, but he gets it wrong. James is not even attempting to do any of that. He's just saying you criticize America, they criticize America, therefore you're just like them. Well, maybe their criticisms are stupid and these criticisms are smart. That's possible too. Like this is, this is mind numbingly stupid. And of course he's couching it in this kind of like he's saying it with an air of intellectual superiority, but he has nothing. There is no argument here. Yes, he's critical of America. And then again, like, like the idea that, oh, and they have this idea that there was a post war consensus. This is not an idea that Tucker Carlson made up. This is, this is something that everybody acknowledges as just of an objectively factual historical truth. This happened, by the way, the, you know, all these terms, like, you know, they have the new world order or the liberal consensus or any of these terms, hegemony and any of these things. These are the terms that they use. You understand that, right? None of these terms were invented by Alex Jones. This is what the New World Order was, a term that Henry Kissinger and George H.W. bush used to use. Liberal consensus is a term that Charles Crown Hammer and Bill Kristol and all of them use. This isn't benevolent hegemony is what I think. Who is that? Paul Wolfowitz, I believe, called it so. This isn't something that the critics use. This is something that the people who were instrumental in these policies describe them as. And yes, they are true. There is a post war foreign policy order and that has involved America being essentially the global empire. That's just a fact. Again, like, it's like when the Soviet Union collapsed. The unipolar moment. That term was coined by Charles Krauthammer. It wasn't us. We didn't make that up. But yes, we are critics of that. But there I go again. I'm a critic, so I guess I'm woke. That's essentially what it all boils down to. All right, So. I don't know. I usually end these things by saying I'm open to a debate or a discussion. Obviously Lindsay has already said he doesn't want to do that yet, but. So Lynn, I guess let this just be the nail in the coffin. That shit is really, really stupid. There is no argument there, no coherent one. But I would be. I would love more than anything else for somebody to try to debate that position against me. I'd be interested to see how that goes. All right, we gotta wrap up there. Happy Thanksgiving, everybody. Happy Thanksgiving to you, Rob, and to you, Natalie, and thank you to everybody. I'm thankful for our wonderful audience that we have who's been so supportive of this show. Hope you guys have a good one. Enjoy some time off work and some time with family. Catch you next time. Peace.