Dave Smith brings you the latest in politics! On this episode of Part Of The Problem, Dave is joined by co-host Robbie "The Fire" Bernstein to discuss the resurfaced clip of Claire Danes discussing her training for Homeland on The Late Show, the reaction to Luigi Mangione's name being brought up on SNL, and more. Support Our Sponsors:Part Of The Problem is available for early pre-release at https://partoftheproblem.com as well as an exclusive episode on Thursday!Get your tickets to Porch Tour here:https://porchtour.comFind Run Your Mouth here:YouTube - http://youtube.com/@RunYourMouthiTunes - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/run-your-mouth-podcast/id1211469807Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/4ka50RAKTxFTxbtyPP8AHmFollow the show on social media:X:http://x.com/ComicDaveSmithhttp://x.com/RobbieTheFireInstagram:http://instagram.com/theproblemdavesmithhttp://instagram.com/robbiethefire#libertarianSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Chapter 1: How did Dave and Robbie's trip to Canada influence their views?
what's up what's up everybody welcome to a brand new episode of part of the problem i am dave smith he is robbie the fire bernstein we are back from up north how you how you feeling rob being back in the free country of america hi uh it's nice being back here you don't realize how much we have until you have to see canada an entire country designed to look like newark new jersey It's all right.
Listen, Rob hasn't been to Canada that much. And where we went in St. Catharines is not necessarily representative of the full of Canada. Nice people out there, though. We did have a very nice time. I like it. We had a great time in Buffalo. Great time in St. Catharines. It does. When when when we go to Canada, it does feel like the audience that we draw to our show are the best people in Canada.
I'll go a step further. It seems like the only good people in Canada come out to our show. So we support those people. We'll get them out of there before the massive bombing campaign. That's inevitable.
Chapter 2: What are Dave and Robbie's thoughts on socialism and its appeal?
I told a lot of Canada jokes that were doing very well. This one got nothing, but I still just think it's true of the country. is that every time I meet Canadians, they're very nice people. I don't understand how they seem to all come together to forge that socialist shithole. Like, there's something odd about when Canadians combine, it's like a bad Power Rangers or something.
I know what you mean. I know what you mean. Well, there is something, I mean, there's gotta be a connection. I don't have like a fully worked out thesis or anything on this, but there's gotta be some connection between like socialist, the way socialism is sold and taking advantage of like people's kindness. Cause it is always sold that way.
It's always sold as like, but don't you just want to be a decent person? You know? I mean, come on. Like that's the be, be good. I mean, I was, um, I don't know, by the way, I don't know if you've seen this, Rob, and I haven't been like I am. I don't pay very close attention to like local politics in general, even when I'm talking about like New York City.
Chapter 3: What is happening in the New York City mayoral race?
But I have kind of been paying attention a little bit to the New York City mayor race just because Cuomo announced that he was running again and that, you know. obviously for obvious reasons, right?
Like he was such a major figure in the whole COVID insanity, but there's like of the I'm blanking on his name, but of the like progressive candidates, the guy who's leading is like a democratic socialist. And I was, I saw he had like an ad for his, his candidacy for mayor. And it's all just like, yeah, It's all, you know, it's like, hey, you know, you guys think it's expensive here, right?
Why don't we just make it free? Why don't we say, hey, you know, we got all these slow buses. I say we make them faster and free.
daycare that's one of the biggest costs you know what no cost for daycare you're like oh all right like it really is like it's wild to watch it where you're like what a what a huge advantage it is just in terms of like selling to normies your policies when you get to just i mean look i'm not saying like he he act but it's like when you just he just says it'll be no cost The buses will be free.
Childcare will be no cost. And if that's the world you're playing in, like if the world, the game we're playing is that I get to pretend that I just have like a magic wand that can like poof, make things free. And then you're just like, why wouldn't we do it? Oh, you're saying we shouldn't do it?
It almost like without saying this extra step, it's just kind of implied, but it's almost like going like, hey, Rob, you have a magic wand and you won't even waive it to make everything free. On some level, it just plays on like, I'm a nice guy. And you're like a bad, mean person who just doesn't care. Of course, that's, you know, I don't know.
I guess it's a little frustrating because you're like, wouldn't wouldn't almost every person like immediately go to the question of like, wait a minute, but we can we can do that. That's an option. We can just make things not cost anything.
I don't know about you, but I always thought the rent was too damn high.
is that guy still around is he in the race I mean he he made it bring down a shockingly long amount of time and then like people would it very weird with that guy I don't know much about him but he did it almost everyone knows who that guy is I feel like And like people like quote the line, like when you said it, it didn't take me a second to be like, wait, who are you talking?
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Chapter 4: How do Democrats plan to recover politically?
is that we all, we the government force you at the threat of imprisonment to send us money. We then take that money, we hire the childcare and you don't have to pay for it at that point because you've already paid for it through us. Okay, now these are two different models and you could have an argument about those models of which one you think is better.
Now, when you just describe it the way it is, I will admit that the free market model already sounds more attractive because like already you're like, well, I don't know if I like the group with a monopoly on aggressive violence threatening to imprison me if I don't fund the thing.
That seems like a worse model, but like, okay, those are the two models that I'm describing the way they actually work. But like when is it just something like what a mind fuck it is that the people who support the forced monopoly model get to just describe it as free. You just get it. You know, there's stuff you want. You just get it.
Is it like as if I mean, I know this is like the most basic observation, but it's like I'm still saying it because they're still making this claim that it's like, OK, if the people doing the child care are getting paid at all, then it's not free. It's just a question of who's paying it and where is the funding coming from?
No one gets to say no cost unless then unless we get to a point where you can like either through slavery or I mean, I guess there'd still be costs associated, right? Like that person still has to live and eat in order to show up for work the next day. But either you could enslave them and they just work for free or you get into the realm of magic.
Those are the only ways that things don't have a cost.
So we're saying the reason they have socialism in Canada is that despite them being kind and upbeat people, they're rather stupid.
I'm saying they're really, really friendly dumb people. Yeah, they're gullible.
They're gullible but nice up in Canada. I guess that's what we learned from our one-hour excursion over the border.
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Chapter 5: Why is the Democratic Party struggling with messaging?
There was, well, when Barack Obama first won and won a pretty dominant victory, people were saying, well, the Republicans have really been defeated. At the time, George W. Bush was going out with the lowest approval ratings for an incumbent president. Dick Cheney had the lowest approval ratings for any vice president.
Then here comes in this extremely popular Barack Obama, had some of the highest approval ratings in polling history in America. OK, it seemed like that party had been pretty soundly defeated when when Donald Trump won the first time people were saying the Democrats were down. It does seem to me that this is different in scale and kind than any other situation like that.
I've just never I've never really lived through something quaintly. Quite like with one of the major two parties being as devastated as the Democrats are right now, as I said before on the show, it's to lose your voter base and your propaganda apparatus all in one election is quite a loss. And they've also just lost a.
a kind of cultural factor that's hard to put into words, but I guess to say it, the, in the simplest terms, it's like they, they made the Republicans, the cool kids and the Democrats kind of like the nagging Karen's, which is really like, it is, For someone my age, I'm going to be 42 next month. For someone my age who was born in 1983, it's hard to overstate how impossible that would have seemed.
Like the idea that the Republicans could ever be the cool ones amongst 17-year-olds or something like that just seems like un... I mean, that would have been like unthinkable. As like... As unthinkable as like if you were like, OK, like if you had a bet with someone in like the 11th grade or something and you were like, I got to turn someone into the coolest kid in school.
And I was like, all right, you got to turn the principal into the coolest kid in school and be like, OK, well, that's impossible. That cannot be done. That was making the Republicans the cool guys is like on that level. So anyway. All of this is going on.
And while this is happening, it's interesting to see everybody kind of give their own thoughts on what exactly it is that the Democrats could do. Some say you got to, like, go harder against Trump. Some people say you got to abandon the woke stuff. Some people say you got to... you know, get the working class vote again.
It's, you know, it's interesting, even though nobody seems to have an actual plan to put into action. And so anyway, this is kind of just one of the things that I've been thinking about. And while everyone is talking about this, you see like These these different wings of the Democratic Party and, you know, like what their vision for how you're supposed to do this is.
This, I guess, is leading to some of the stuff that we're talking about now in this kind of vacuum. It does seem like there's some there's different Democrats who are kind of like. starting to make some noise. I still have not seen anything yet that I think has a chance of being successful.
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Chapter 6: How does the deep state influence Democratic strategies?
You know, you're exactly right, dude. And I think really the key is that you have to recognize that it's not... The way the issue is put out is like, well, what can the Democrats do to get the voters back on their side? Or what can they do to get the working class back on their side or minorities back on their side or something like that? But you realize if that was just the case.
then the Democrats would have been operating in a different manner for many years now. Like if the idea was getting enthusiasm and fundraising and votes and getting back, well, then they would have been embracing Bernie Sanders back in 2016. If the goal was to stay relevant and dynamic and win voters in this ever-changing culture, well, they had figures like Bobby Kennedy Jr.
or Tulsi Gabbard or people like this. They ran all of them out, with the exception of Bernie Sanders. They attempted to run Bernie Sanders out. They just didn't realize that Bernie Sanders is such a pathetic, loyal dog that he was like, I'll just wait. That's cool. I'll just wait here in the yard and wait till you give me some scraps. I don't care.
But the real key there is like what you said about the deep state. The goal isn't How do we get everybody back? How do we become popular again? That's actually fairly straightforward. The goal is how do we maintain CIA control over this party and get the agenda of the CIA while winning people back?
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We didn't talk about this on the show at all. Did you see who the Democrats have give their official response to the state of the union speech?
It was Bernie Sanders.
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Chapter 7: What are the potential media strategies for higher ratings?
We recently had one of your Republican colleagues, Brandon Gill, on the show. He said that America would be better off if you were arrested and deported. He also said that there was audio of you advising what he said or illegal immigrants here from Somalia on how to evade ICE detection. I want you to respond to that.
Yeah, I mean, again, you know, these are people who have really stopped caring about our institutions, really stopped caring about our Constitution. We know that folks who are here, whether they are documented or undocumented, we know whether you are a permanent resident or you are a citizen, have constitutional rights, and it is really important for people to know those rights.
I know that it is red meat for his base that are xenophobic and racist to say to them that I am going to find a way to arrest and deport a member of Congress. who he thinks is doing something wrong when I am doing the right thing in trying to make sure everybody that is within my constituency has the resources and the information that they need.
And she was democratically elected by members, by the people in her district.
Yes, of course. But just to follow up very quickly, just to be clear, you're not calling all of his base xenophobic and racist, right?
Well, I mean, he is feeding to something. He has a petition out. He's getting donations. That's what this is all about. He knows he can't deport me. There is no grounds for my arrest. Of course not. So this information is only being put out there by him for a reason. And that reason is because he has a base that feeds off of that.
Congressman Ilhan Omar, thanks so much for coming in.
I appreciate you all.
Thank you very much.
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