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Chapter 1: What is the latest from Dave and Robbie's lives?
what's up everybody welcome to a brand new episode of part of the problem robert bernstein you were talking you got caught haha you look stupid how are you sir i'm doing well filmed some uh real stupid over the weekend excited to get it out the nice part about being home That's what I like to hear. I like to know that when we're not on the road, you're, you're filming stupid shit.
Oh, this is, this is the most highly produced stupidest thing I've done yet. Check it out. Newsroom on YouTube. It will be out this week.
Ooh, that was quite a good, a good promo. I like that. You've got me excited. And of course then this weekend, me and you are going back up to Baston. very excited uh for that i haven't been to boston in too long uh and it's only a few days away now the 27th 28th and 29th we will be up at laugh boston uh comicdavesmith.com for those tickets and then i'm off to the races doing a lot of traveling
Um, and a bunch for a standup and then some other big podcasts coming up, uh, comic Dave smith.com. There's also Nashville is next. I think there's still some tickets, uh, for those shows. Um, and then yay, it will be on the road for the rest of the year. I know you got some other, uh, headline gigs coming up, Rob. Isn't that right?
I got a steamboat. I think it's April 5th and 6th. Then the weekend after that, I've got a Des Moines. I think I finally got that right. Hanging out at a libertarian event. Scott Horton's there the next night. I think Josh lives out there. He got some cool stuff going on. So, uh, come hang out. I'm doing a standup Friday night.
all right sounds good um all right well let's let's get into it for today there's a um a lot going on in the world there are a few things that uh we specifically wanted to uh to talk about and i guess you know i i sometimes
I wonder, like, at a point right now, I think, I don't know if this is true, but I think probably of all the times that I've been in this podcasting game, which has been a decent amount of time at this point, there's probably never been a period of time where I've felt like there was more, that was more interesting.
there's more just kind of like incredible things going on where you're like oh this is like truly historic uh there's also um there's kind of never been a time where there were more options of what to talk about and more distractions than right now i just found it kind of interesting as i'm like preparing for the show and i'm kind of like all right well yeah this this seems like a lot of
but a lot to do about nothing. This kind of seems like a distraction. And then I'm like trying to more and more focus on like, what are the major things going on right now?
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Chapter 2: How are the Democrats dealing with recent losses?
And to some, in some ways, I was like a little bit torn because as I've mentioned, you know, to you, Rob, several times, and to all of you listeners, one of the things, you know, it's almost easy at this point to like ignore the Democrats, right? Like right now, you could almost find yourself just being like, well, they're down and out. They're losers. They're irrelevant.
You know, the corporate media is irrelevant, all of this. So let's just focus on this. But I can't help but feeling that, number one, it's a really interesting story where the Democrats go from here. and that it's actually something important to talk about.
When you see one of the major two political parties more defeated than at any point in my life, it's like, are they going the way of the Whigs? Are they gonna make some giant comeback? You know what I mean? Like, and what exactly is what is going to be changed about the Democrats going forward? Because it's got to be something. And anyway, that's just something that's been on my mind.
And it's kind of what the first two clips that I have on today's show are about that topic. Just to be clear, I don't mean to suggest that, like, we should prioritize focus on this over focus on what the current administration is doing. I think we could try to do do both over the next coming weeks and months. But I do.
I find it very interesting when there is when the recent events have been so devastating for the Democrats. And then you see all of these different kind of competing forces and these competing ideas, if you want to call them that, of what we do going forward. I do find that interesting.
um okay so uh why don't we we could jump right into this i'd say let's let's start with um with the the first video that i i i sent you alex which is um ellie mistel um i i don't think i ever had that name memorized, but I know he is the fat black guy with white hair on MSNBC. I know that much about him. I've seen him many times and he's an unforgettable figure to see.
But I do have to say, now I know this is a little bit unfair because this is MSNBC and no one watches, but I did find this to be really interesting because with all of the kind of different, you know, the dynamic is that
essentially i think democrats were denying reality for a very long time um denying reality in any area of life i think most people who are let's say adult age people maybe say 25 and over have probably at least once in their life, if not a few times, learned what is an invaluable life lesson.
It applies to all areas of life, but that denying reality is a dangerous game and reality has a way of slapping you in the face when you ignore it. You know, you can ignore reality, but the fact is it's still reality. And that eventually, you know, like if you're ignoring gravity and you jump off a balcony, reality is going to slap you in the face. In this case, it would be the ground.
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Chapter 3: What are the arguments against voter registration laws?
all right now i think it might be fairly obvious why this caught my eye um i just think it's look there's there's a lot that was just like kind of packed in there and we can get into it i'd like to kind of parse all this out rob i don't know if you're for voter registration but if you are you're racist that's the takeaway um but is it there there seems to me to be something of an interesting admission
kind of buried within this strategy, which is essentially that we've kind of given up on the electorate. You know, it's like, look, I don't think we can win with this electorate. So what if we get all these other people who aren't voting?
You know, it's funny to me, like what the mentality of this would be, because you're saying 90 million people sat out the last election between democracy and fascism. And yet those are the people you're counting on? The people who saw, you know, democracy versus fascism on the ballot and couldn't even be bothered to, you know, it's a pretty minimal effort what it takes to vote.
Like I've never talked to any voter Maybe I'm just talking to the wrong groups of people, but I've never talked to any voter who was like, it is just insane what they make you go through in order to vote. There's lots of other things where that would be my complaint. Like it's insane what it takes for me to build a fence in my backyard. That is genuinely insane.
It's insane that I have to go down and wait in a line and pay a fee and then come back months later, just to put a goddamn garden in my fucking backyard. But I've never heard anyone say that about voting. But now you have these people who would not, step over the tiniest hurdle in the world in order to save democracy, and your plan is to eliminate that hurdle.
It just doesn't seem like the best strategy ever. I don't know. Any thoughts on any of this, Rob?
Well, that certainly stood out to me when he said that there were 90 million voters, I guess, who decided not to vote against, what did he say, tyranny? He didn't quite use that word.
but that's what he's implying it was the end of democracy and 90 million people just didn't show up i mean clearly it wasn't the end of democracy because i'd have to think that 90 million people if all they needed to do was register to vote and we could keep our democracy they'd probably do so uh so speaking to that i mean this guy who looks like he was drawn by dilbert like he's just a cartoon character and this is clearly nonsense that you know it was the end of our democracy and just 90 million people weren't engaged no you didn't earn those people's votes
The point is, we don't believe you. We don't believe that this was the end of our democracy.
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Chapter 4: Is it possible to reform voting laws in the US?
I think before you vote in the popularity contest of who rules over me, maybe there should be some minimum requirement that you meet. Does that make sense?
I don't know that I agree with it, but it certainly makes sense. I get where you're coming from.
Well, it just seems like they are trying to stick up for the person who can't do any of that. They're like, man, if we could get those people, maybe we could. You know what I mean? It's the same reason, like, who the hell wants 16-year-olds voting? Like, I don't know, this just already shows something about you. 16 years old? He's like, oh, look, we got to set the age somewhere.
It's like, okay, granted, and we all agree it's not eight, because I might say 16, you say 18. I mean, think about the fact that, like, you'd... Listen, dude, if somebody, if an adult... had consensual sex with a 16-year-old, we all think they should go to fucking jail for a long, long time. And why is that? Because, like, a 16-year-old can't really consent to an adult.
It doesn't matter if they said it. You're just so... psychologically and mentally more powerful than them, that you are just totally like, it's just taking advantage of like prey in order for you to like extract some form of consent out of them. So who the hell are these people who it's like, that's where you want to go for your voting base?
Like, you got to look at the people who are fucking 16 and then the people who couldn't figure out how to register for a vote. And that's who you want to be. You know what I mean? To be your reinforcements. Like, I just I find it disturbing.
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Chapter 5: What is the critique of the Democratic strategy?
This move has a prerequisite to it, okay? Well, we're going to abolish voting registration. Well, that would have to be done with federal legislation, which you do not control. You have to get power back first. So this is all like the prerequisite to all of this is that you have to win back power first, meaning you can't telegraph this strategy.
You can't sit there and go, hey, listen, voting electorate, I know you've rejected us, but If you elect us again, we are going to dilute down your votes with bodies who we think we can manipulate more easily. This was a good strategy for when Joe Biden was in and the Democrats had Congress. Be like, do this now. Hush, hush, we say quietly at a boardroom meeting somewhere.
And then we won't have to worry about this next time. It does not work as the underdog strategy to announce this as your plan to regain
power if you get what i'm saying there so i just find this funny that this is the music like on msnbc as the ratings are collapsing they're going i know what we're gonna do use all this power we have in the federal government to overhaul voting um anyway as no matter how much you can try to spin this and try to play this as like you know we're we're
It's all these disenfranchised people or something that we're trying to give a voice. The bottom line is that when you've taken a shellacking and you're on a network whose ratings are collapsing, when you come out here and go, we need to be able to get a whole different electorate, I don't see how that doesn't come off as weak and desperate. That'd kind of be my final thought.
Any final thoughts on this one, Rob?
I hope he returns to the Dilbert cartoon in which he came.
I mean, we can only pray. We can only pray. All right, let's... There was another... I'm actually maybe a little bit embarrassed to admit this, but I wanted to go to this next clip because this was from Bill Maher's show, kind of more or less on the same theme. And I'm a little embarrassed to admit that I did not actually know this. So Bill Maher opened talking about kind of like the...
the future of gerrymandering and results of the great migration ships within the United States of America over the last few years. Anyway, let's go to this clip because I did find this really fascinating. Here is Bill Maher from this Friday.
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Chapter 6: How does media cover the political strategy of the Democrats?
Yeah. Something like that. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I think that, um, the, you know, there's the, basically been i think since um really since 2000 uh 20 late 2020 early 2021 the the exodus out of california and new york has really just not stopped i mean i think it's had higher and lower moments i think hollywood's over
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should be able to basically overrule the president. And that becomes an issue because, for example, when Joe Biden was saying you're not allowed to evict tenants and then a court overruled him, I thought that that was illegal of Joe Biden. And so there needs to be some sort of a mechanism to check the president.
I think you almost need a secondary federal Supreme Court that has multiple judges on it versus single courts and a single Democratic judge. I believe this might have been a different case, but I think this guy was the guy who gave a soft sentencing to Ray Epps. So that's a little bit shady. And so...
I think single judges from Democratic districts that were appointed by Democratic presidents checking the current president, that doesn't make a lot of sense. And now there needs to be a mechanism for policing the president if he is engaging in illegal behavior. I think we need a different system than district judges.
So I think it's a problem that a district judge is giving him a hard time about it.
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