Dave Smith

What's up?

What's up, everybody?

Welcome to a brand new episode of Part of the Problem, a weekend episode.

We don't usually record on Sundays, but felt like we needed to do that today.

I was just busy yesterday and didn't have a chance to record.

But, you know, sometimes that's a little bit better in situations like this, Rob.

I know everyone's always rushing to be first, which is important in news, too.

But, you know, I'm kind of glad that we...

waited another day because the time that we would have recorded yesterday anyway things have changed quite a bit anyway um so rob this is a shitty way to be vindicated you know it's a really awful way to be completely proven right um this is uh we'll we'll kind of get into that but one of the

One of maybe the less interesting dynamics in all of this is that the justification for the 12-day war has just been completely blown up and exposed for what it is and what a lot of us called it out at the time to be.

So on Friday night at around 2 a.m., I guess more accurately described as Saturday morning,

at uh around 2 a.m donald trump announced what we had all been you know what what all the signals were um that we're going to war with iran and that this is a full regime change war um a regime change war from the sky we're not invading the country but we are bombing the crap out of them and with the stated goal of overthrowing the regime um

now we had been saying rob on on the on the show for a couple weeks now and in fact i've made this uh you know a pretty big point to talk about in donald trump's state of the union last week that well man this is really his opportunity where he's got to like present the case for war with the ram i mean he's been building toward this war for uh quite a long time

making major military moves in the region for the last couple months.

And yet the war is very unpopular and he's really never given the American people a good reason why we have to fight it.

And so I was interested to see, oh, he's going to have to lay out his case for the war.

Nope.

Just did it.

Just did it and posted a video on Twitter about it.

Most Americans, and you got to keep this in mind, Rob, most Americans do not pay attention to the news cycle the way me and you do.