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Foreign what's up, everybody? What's up? Welcome to a brand new episode of Part of the Problem. I am Dave Smith and I am Roland Solo. For this one, Rob is out on the road and he's getting ready. I think he's getting on a plane today, and then I'm getting on a plane tomorrow and we're gonna meet down in Tampa. We'll be doing shows the whole weekend at side Splitters down there, which is like one of my favorite clubs in the country. Always have a great time down there. So really looking forward to it. I hope to see some of you guys out there. If you'd like to come, there still are some tickets available comicdavesmith.com to go grab some. And yeah, hope to see you guys there. Looking forward to a fun weekend. All right, so for today's show, you know, as you guys know, typically when it's just me and I do a solo show, I usually like to kind of, I have like a topic, a broader topic, and then I rant about it for an hour. Today, I don't really have anything like that in mind. There's several different things that have happened over the last few days that I wanted to address. So, you know, I'll still be ranting for an hour, but there's several different topics and I kind of wanted to hit a few of them and I don't know, we'll see how much time I spend on each one. But a few things have happened that have really caught my eye that are in the news today. And a couple of the stories are somewhat related, but it's not exactly like it all has one clear thread. So I guess I'll start with this. There's a couple of controversies. I don't know. I guess I'm always involved in a controversy now, but there's specifically been two over the last couple days that I did not address. And one of them I meant to address in the show yesterday, but just it never came up. And I think I had planned on pointing this out toward the end of the show. And I might have, like, I might have slightly mentioned this, but I don't think I really got into it. So let's just do that now. So I was, I guess the guys over Steven Crowder and his, his co host Morgan were, I don't know, they were trashing me a little bit on the show or something. I saw Steve Steven Crow, you know, it's like with all these things, like, I don't watch Steven Crowder's show, but I get tagged on Twitter whenever he says something about me. And we had like, gone back and forth a couple times when he was. He was kind of, like, criticizing me during the war with Iran. And then I guess recently he was criticizing me, too. And he also said on his show. He said at one point that I. I refused to go on his show, that I don't show up or something like that, which is, like, blatantly not true. Literally, when he. He called me out a couple months ago and issued, like, a. A public invite for me to come on the show, and I said, sure, I'll do that. And then we never locked down a date. You know, it was like, I was. I think we spoke, and then I was like, I'm traveling this week, and then I could do it next week. And then they were like, okay, well, we're off next week. How about the following week? And I was like, well, I'm pretty busy that week. And then we just didn't lock down a. But, like, it wasn't like, they kept following up, and I kept ignoring or something like that. Like, we just never locked it down. I forgot about it. Other things come up. There's just a lot of going on. So I thought that was kind of odd for him to, like, be saying publicly that I'm, like, refusing to show. So of course I was like, hey, I already agreed to. And then, anyway, I. We. We messaged back and forth, and we still haven't locked down a date, but, like, I'm open to do it. So I. I gave them a date that works for me next week, and I haven't heard back yet, so we'll see. But anyway, I just kind of wanted to correct the record on that, but. So they. I don't know. They. They were. I didn't see the segment until after we recorded yesterday's show, but the segment was essentially the. The. Why aren't you celebrating if you were against this thing? Was essentially what their line was. And I just think. I don't know. I find this to be really, really stupid. And I dealt with this on yesterday's show, so there was, like, no need to go. Like, I was like, I already responded to this. Even though I wasn't responding to him, I was responding to Ben Shapiro and all of the rest of them all saying the exact same thing. However, I guess there was this one tweet, which I had, like, not even. You know, I didn't even think there was something remotely controversial about this, but evidently, this is what the. The. The Zionists are very upset at me for. But so that I. I had heard back, you know, because I still have, you know, like, I got some normies. I don't even know what to call them. Let's just say I got people who are like, you know, like fans of mine or people who I know in this world who get a lot of for being fans of mine or who get a lot of for like, having me on their podcast or whatever, because they're like, they. They also have Zionist friends who are like, how dare you platform this Jewish Nazi or whatever. But. So this was evidently a big controversy that all the Zionists on Twitter were. Were saying proves what a horrible person I am or something. So let me just pull up the tweet here, because I think if I read this, you will be like, well, I really am not seeing the controversy there. So here, this is number one. So this is what I said. It was. I was talking to Morgan, who is Stephen Crowder's co host on his show, and he had tweeted something about the celebrating the end of a genocide thing. And. And so I just tweeted back and I said, it's great that the ceasefire is held for a few days and hostage swaps are taking place, but this is a pathetic attempt at a gotcha. The demand for to celebrate before we even know if this nightmare is over makes no sense. That was essentially the tweet. And if you don't, like, see anything controversial with that, that's because you're not like an insane Zionist. But the thing that people objected to there was that I said hostage swaps. And so they jumped on this immediately and they were like, you know, hostage swaps? What are you talking about? This is. The only hostages are the ones in Gaza. The people Israel are releasing our terrorists. And in fact, see if I could find this here. But the Babylon B guy, let me see if I can find this, because he specifically said it, which I appreciated that he just said it out loud. Well, the both of the Babylon B guy, Seth Dillon, said hostage swaps is dishonest framing meant to create an illusion of moral equivalence where none exists. But his partner actually went a bit further and let me see if I could say. But anyway, I'm looking at a whole bunch of people. Alex Baronson, of course, had to jump in on it. Hostage swaps. Once again, Dave tells us who he really is. Hold on. I want to find the. The one from the other. I swear I'll stop reading tweets in a second. But I did want to find the one from the Other Babylon B guy, because he really actually kind of said the quiet part out loud, if you ask me. And we could go through this and we could see who here is. Is being crazy. Okay, so Joel Barry, or Joel Berry, the other guy, he says hostage swaps. Question mark. You mean Israel getting 20 hostages in exchange for almost 2,000 psychotic terrorists, many of whom are guilty of stabbing, shooting, and raping innocent men, women and children to death? Is that what you really mean by hostage swaps? So just to be clear about this, all right, when I said hostage swaps, I meant hostage swaps. And I don't care. It's like, look, he literally said. This is what I find so interesting is he says 2,000 psychotic terrorists. Now, this, to me, was just a great example of the disconnect that is. That has really come to define American politics over the last two years. So these guys are like. And again, it's not. I don't even hate the Babylon B guys. I don't know. These were guys who were like. Probably would have had nothing but nice things to say about me pre October 7th. They did some funny stuff on. On other issues. And I think probably they were pretty good on Covid. I'm. I would have to double check that, but I feel like probably they were. And so I kind. You know, it's like, yeah, kind of like them on that. They were definitely good on wokeism and some other issues that I care about. Probably immigration, if I had to guess. But so I'm not saying it's not that you guys are like evil, psychotic people. It's more like you're animated by some evil spirit or something like that. Like, when it comes to this issue, it just takes over your mind, but from your perspective, obviously, yes. Like, everybody on the Israeli side is an angel, and everybody on the Palestinian side is a savage. And so it seems crazy that I would even say hostage swaps. Like, I mean, we all know as. As Joel Berry just said, the. All the 2,000 over there, they're all terrorists by definition. I mean, they're Palestinian, right? So they're all terrorists. Except that's not true. And this is widely reported and admitted by the Israelis. 1700 of the 2000 that Israel released were people that Israel was holding with no charges, let alone a trial. They haven't been charged with anything. No military tribunal? No. No criminal trial. Obviously nothing. Not even charged with crimes. So, yeah, like, there's this interesting dynamic. And actually it's funny because they decide to pick this fight, but then they are, like, totally unprepared to have it. In fact, I don't think they've even like thought this through. But just to be clear here, by the way, for those of you guys who want to immediately say, well, hey, this is wartime and so not everybody gets charges. It's like, okay, there's 1700 people they rounded up in Gaza, but you know, on top of that, this is what Israel's been doing to Palestinians since way before the last two years. So if you want to say it's war time, well, then the war has been going on since 1947. Like, they just, they just do this to Palestinians all the time. Israel over the years has, has held thousands and thousands of Palestinian prisoners, many of whom never receive charges or a trial. And then the ones who do go in front of like military tribunals, I think they have like a 99 conviction rate or like that. Like, essentially it's all. And you know, anyway, so it is viewed as, it's just a given that they, all of these, as he says, all of them are terrorists. All of them. Okay. Now, according to an Israeli database, they estimated that 75% of the prisoners that Israel was holding were not fighters. This is what they. So you're talking about. Yes, the. Yes, if, if we, if we are working on like modern civilization standards, then yes, these are innocent people. They get the presumption of innocence. You know, if you think of them as people, if you don't think of them as all as subhuman, if you think of them as human beings, then yes, they get the presumption of innocence. You know, it's one of the things. And, and again, this is the, the dynamic that comes up constantly in the Israel, Palestine, like, debate. Is that. So they say, like there was one man, I'm blanking on who it was who made the statement, but it was a high level Israeli official and it was from earlier this year. And they said because the, one of the, somebody had asked them about the settlers in the west bank and how vicious they are toward the Palestinians. And you know, there are constantly these, like, you know, there's constantly incidents in the west bank where, you know, settlers will attack Palestinians, they take their homes, they, you know, there's all types of things that happen. And one of the Israeli officials said, he said, listen, that's a police matter. And there was something kind of revealing about that because he was basically going like, look, we're talking foreign policy right now. You're talking about a domestic police matter. Like, yeah, things happen. This is a country, you know, like, as it as if like someone, you know, you were discussing with Barack Obama or something, you know, or, or Donald Trump, you know, the, our policy in Syria. And then someone said, well, look at the people shooting each other in Chicago. And they were like, yeah, but that's a police matter. This is a military matter. But of course, the, the obvious difference here is that if a terrorist in the west bank were to attack an Israeli settler, which also happens at times, See, that's terrorism. So it's terrorism if they do it, but it's a police matter if it's done by the other side. There's this constant double standard that must always be applied. Otherwise you just see the thing for what it is. All right, guys, let's take a moment and thank our sponsor for today's show, which is quints. Why drop a fortune on clothing staples when you don't have to? Quince has all the good stuff at even better prices. We're talking high quality fabrics, classic fits and lightweight layers for the summer at prices that won't break the bank with cashmere and cotton sweaters from just $50, airy pants and flow knit polos that look and feel amazing. Your wardrobe just got a whole lot better, I can tell you. I really like the clothing from, from Quince. They sent me a couple articles. 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So there's like some religious exemptions, but everybody else serves in the idf. And so, you know, okay, but those are still soldiers. That's still military. Like it's just, it Objectively speaking, when there is a conflict like this, holding a military guy and holding a civilian are not the same thing. Again, you know, however you feel about either, it's just different. The point I'm making is that to people like the Babylon BE guys or, you know, dummies like Alex Berenson, they will say, this is just so appalling that you would even suggest there are hostages on both sides. Everyone knows every Israeli held in Gaza is a. Is an innocent angel, and every Arab held by Israel is a terrorist. But that's just not true. It's just like, that's just them presuming the conclusion. The fact is that the overwhelming majority of the people who Israel just released were people who had never been charged with anything and according to their own database, not fighters. Like the O. I mean, it was 2000 1700, had no choice. And then they said 75% of that 1700 were not fighters. So, no, it's just not true. Like, these were also people being held. And you know, again, you. If you are an IDF soldier and you've been, you know, militarily occupying Palestine for 60 years and over the last two years have been destroying Gaza, it is a little bit of a different calculation now. That being said, I was still rooting for those guys to go home. That's why I said it's great that the, that the hostage swaps are happening. Like I. But again, it is just. It is simply not living in reality. And look, again, I'm not, I'm not saying this from, like, you know, there's like a, like a hysterical leftist way of talking about bigotry. And that's never been me. Like, I, you know, people have their bigotries and that's. That it's, it's not great. It's particularly ugly when, like, horrific violence is being inflicted on that group of people, because that's what actually matters. Not like what you think or what you say. What actually matters is what you do to other people, but, like, the level of almost cartoonish bigotry that you have to. Have to go, they're all terrorists. I don't need to know anything else about them. The IDF snatched them. They are for. They're a terrorist. Like, even, even just factoring in, like, mistakes that a government made. Like, if they got 2,000 convictions on something, you'd go, well, I mean, it's quite possible that not all 2,000 of them are guilty. I mean, we know how government does it everything. It's not as if they're so much better at courts, you know, it's like, you know, just because like the DMV said you did something wrong doesn't mean you did. And it's true for government courts too. And in fact, obviously there's been lots of, you know, guilty verdicts that have been overturned over the years. But the idea that even when no charges, like they haven't even been charged with anything, let alone convicted in a trial, you can just say with a certainty they're all terrorists and then be offended by my comment. Like, this is, this is a thing that's just wild and it's amazing to watch. It's like, like, it's like a slave master turning around and being offended at like a comment that somebody made walking by, like, dude, you're offended that I said hostage swaps after you've been cheering on the destruction of a captive people for two years. For two years as all of Gaza has been destroyed. You've been cheering it on as politicians go and sign bombs that are going to go be dropped on real human beings as they blockade food, as they, as they don't allow food in for months after leveling the place against a stateless captive people in air force is dropping bombs on a captive people that do not have a military, let alone an air force to defend themselves with. You've been cheering that on, but now you turn around and you're, what, you're morally appalled that I didn't, that I didn't in my mind convict all of the people who have never been charged with anything. Sorry, I mean, this is just, it's too ridiculous. And I just felt like I had to respond to that a little bit. Okay, so that's number one. And then number two is a, a video that at least I saw. I'm not sure if this originated with Dinesh d', Souza, but I, I did see that he posted it and a lot of people were jumping on this. It is, I think, equally ridiculous to this other stuff. I do particularly find, you know, Dinesh d' Souza is, you know, we, we were supposed to debate at one point and I'm not sure what happened with that. I'd still be down to do that if you wanted to, but I do. One of the things I appreciate about Dinesh d' Souza is that he was essentially a neocon who admits he was wrong about everything. He admits he was wrong about the war in Iraq, wrong about foreign policy, General that he bought into a lot of the lies and you know, all this stuff. And you know what? I, I guess I, I Guess I appreciate that because, you know, not everybody does that. But at the same time, there is something about. About cheerleading a war that was just. Anybody who knew anything should have had a responsibility to be able to know that this was complete. Like all the information was completely available. But whatever, you got it wrong. You got tricked. And you advocated for a policy where a million people got killed, trillions of dollars were wasted, tens of thousands of our bravest young boys, you know, committing suicide in the wake of the whole thing. Thousands that were killed in the thing. I just kind of feel like you should go away forever. Maybe that's unfair of me. Maybe that's unfair. I just think you should go away forever. I don't think you should ever talk about politics again. You know, you get something that goddamn wrong and you should go away. I think that. I actually think it's kind of reasonable. But anyway, he kind of has, but not completely, but he posted this video and of course, I'll read his tweet along with it. But this is a video of allegedly what he calls a Muslim Brotherhood jihadi explains, so he says, a Muslim Brotherhood jihadi explains with a tone of incredulity and excitement how Tucker, Candace, and some others on the right are helping the cause of radical Islam worldwide. Now, full disclosure, I have no idea if this guy is actually a member of the Muslim Brotherhood or what this is. I just have the video here. That is what you see. But let's play this video and let's respond to Dinesh d' Souza a little.
