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 issues with USAID, RFK Jr's status in his confirmation process, Warren's comments about him to the senate, and more.Support Our Sponsors:Tax Network USA - 1-800-958-1000 or go to TNUSA.COM/SMITHNative Path - https://NativeHydrate.com/PartOfTheProblemYoKratom - https://yokratom.com/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: Who are the hosts of 'Part of the Problem'?
YoKratom.com, home of the $60 kilo. All right, let's start the show. 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. How are you feeling today, Rob?
Oh, I'm excited for some Key West. Going to swim in the ocean, drink out in the sun, hang out with Tom Dustin. It's going to be a good time.
I think I'm going to really enjoy hanging out in Key West for a few days. I was just bitching and complaining to our producer, Natalie, before we started, which is, you know, You should never bitch and complain about your job when you do what I do for a living because, you know, I don't work. But I've just been on a stretch of getting no sleep for quite a while. And I got a big one.
I know people like when I do these big shows. I've got a big one that I'm recording tomorrow. So I've got to go do that. I'm not going to sleep tomorrow. I'm going to be up first thing in the morning. I can't sleep that night either. I've got to be up in the morning. And then we get to Key West. And then my wife's flying in to meet me down there.
Chapter 2: What are the upcoming tour dates for Dave Smith?
So we're going to hang out in Key West and just relax and enjoy the beautiful weather, which if you're in the Northeast, it's a good time. It's a good time of year to go get some warm weather. So yes, very much looking forward to that. And of course the shows for you people, that's a little bit more relevant. There's also shows going on and there's still some tickets available.
So go on over to comicdavesmith.com. And then we got like a bunch of other gigs that are all coming up. Houston's coming up. Yeah, that's right. We'll be back in Houston. Always love doing stand-up in Houston. We'll be at the Punchline February 20th, 21st, and 22nd. Then our return to Boston, which is like one of my favorite places in the country to do stand-up.
And we haven't been there, I believe, was it 22? I think it was early in 2022. Because if you remember our last show at Boston, what a different world, by the way. Three years later, our last show in Boston, we did a show the night before the vaccine passports went into effect. You remember that, Rob? And it was just so it was so funny, too.
Chapter 3: How did vaccine mandates impact comedy shows?
For those of you guys, of course, I'm sure most of you remember. But during the covid insanity, this was at one point.
Well after, well after it was clear that the vaccine wasn't preventing you from getting COVID or transmitting COVID, they did this thing in major cities across the country where they said you can only come into a comedy club, whether that was one of the places, you could only come in if you showed proof of vaccination, which doesn't work too well for me and Rob's audience. And we just...
you know we we weren't gonna play places that had that rule in effect like that just seemed i don't know just seemed so wrong you know what i mean like i'm not gonna go somewhere where first off i uh have to lie i have to me and rob have to lie in order to get in there or maybe there's some artist exception or something like that but like regardless it's like then
All my fellow purebloods are not allowed into the show that I'm doing. That just doesn't seem right. It's everything I'm against. So I was like, well, I can't do that. I stopped even doing gigs at Fox News at the time. I was like, well, fuck that, dude. Like, what am I going to do?
You know, I remember during COVID when they first like reopened shit, I would go into Fox News and I did Kennedy show live. I did Greg Gutfeld show. I did a bunch of them. And because they were doing the rapid tests, they'd make you sit there and get tested and then you could go in. So I was like, whatever, I'll do that. You know, I don't care.
But then once they were like, you have to show proof of vaccination, it was like, wait, so.
now I gotta show you my fake vaccine card and like I could do that but it just seemed to almost be and I don't know I'm not really arguing like that this is the case but it I'm not saying like you're wrong if you went and did that I'm not but it felt to me like that was kind of like a tacit endorsement of it in some way or a capitulation to it and I just wasn't willing to do that anyway
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Chapter 4: Why is there a push to prosecute Fauci?
The long of the short is that was the last time we were in Boston. That's always one of our favorite cities to play. So I'm really looking forward to getting back there. And what a difference. I remember like it was such a weird thing.
I mean, thinking about it now, especially just after the first few weeks of Trump's presidency and the vibe shift, as it's being called in the country, like the idea that I remember sitting there and being like, that's it for like doing standup in all these major cities. Where the hell are we going to go? We're going to have to, you know what I mean?
Like I, the concern at the time was like, they're never gonna, they're never going to stop doing this. This is just going to be the policy from now on proof of vaccination, proof of updated boosters, you know, forever. Luckily there was enough pushback that they ended up pulling the thing back. But now it's like, God, I don't know.
It's just it's a very strange thing to think that like three years ago versus today, you're we are living in a completely different country, a completely different country than we were then. And thank God, because that was not good.
Prosecutor Fauci.
prosecute Fauci. There we go. Uh, okay. Anyway, after Boston, um, then we'll be, uh, I will be in Nashville. Uh, I'm not sure if you're on that one with me, Rob, but then Chicago, uh, Rosemont, San Diego, Appleton, Wisconsin, Salt Lake city, again, Denver, Cleveland, Tacoma, Spokane, Tampa, bunch of dates coming up comic Dave smith.com for all of those dates. Um, yeah. Prosecuting Fauci.
That always sounds like a good idea. It's pretty crazy. Elon Musk tweeted that out again, something about prosecuting Fauci. And it is wild just to even think about how much steam that idea is getting. And obviously, he's gotten a presidential pardon now from Joe Biden. But You know, and I don't know, Rob, you tell me.
I'd imagine you probably agree with me on this, but I will say that, okay, like I'm old enough to remember that after when Barack Obama first got elected in 2008, and he assumed the presidency in January of 2009, there were some left-wing activists who wanted to prosecute Bush and top cabinet-level people for the blatant war crimes that they had committed.
There was enough pressure that Barack Obama had to give a speech about it and say he's not going to do it. It's one of my favorite things always. I love mentioning when Obama goes off.
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Chapter 5: What is the controversy around USAID and government transparency?
very serious desire by a lot of Americans to prosecute some of the people who were, you know what I mean, guilty of these heinous crimes against humanity over the last few years. And there's just something interesting about that. And the fact that like that feeling was taken so seriously that whoever was making decisions for Joe Biden decided he better issue these pardons.
That in itself is just kind of wild. I was talking about this with Nicole after you hopped off yesterday, but I do think that so much of the hysteria that we're seeing right now from the establishment, which again, one of the most fascinating developments of the current moment is that we're not seeing this level of hysteria from the shock troops.
Like the young, useful, idiot, leftist activists, we don't see a level of hysteria from them like we did in 2017. But the hysteria that we are seeing from the corporate media and from the Senate and things like this, when it's about Tulsi Gabbard or it's about Bobby Kennedy or it's about the USAID stuff or any of that, it's like the dynamic here is that
It's not just that like, oh no, an outsider's coming in and they may get the policies that they want rather than the policies that we want. There's something much deeper than that. And I think it's much more like, oh shit, serious crimes have been committed. And if these outsiders come in and have access to these books, oh my God, are we going to be in trouble here?
You know, it's like, it's not, if you think about in the post terror war and post COVID world, and you think about the picks that people are freaking out about the most and it's, well, they got Matt Gaetz out. Tulsi and Bobby have yet to be confirmed, but are still in play.
But you think about the fact that it's the Director of National Intelligence, the person who oversees the CIA and the NSA, it's the health department and it's the justice department. Like, I don't think it's a coincidence that there's a freak out over like, Hey, you know what I mean?
Like these people might have access to all the crimes that were committed by the deep state, all the crimes that were committed by the, the health institutions. And they also have the justice department. Like they also have somewhere that they could send these complaints to. And you know, It's just an interesting dynamic.
It's hard to say exactly where all of this goes, or even if Trump really has the political will to go through with some stuff like that.
But it certainly is interesting to watch the freakout about all of that, because the truth is that the level of crimes that have been committed are so heinous that if they were to be exposed, I mean, look, when you think about even just what already has come out, right? I mean, this thing, which, by the way, was news to me.
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Chapter 6: How does Elon Musk factor into government oversight?
I mean, whatever the hell you want to call it, they decided they wanted to do this gain of function research in a shoddy Chinese lab with like substandard protocols. They decided that they wanted to do this and then just did this to the entire world. I mean, how do you look at that and not go like, wait, you're telling me if I bring my gun that I legally own
in my car and drive to Philly, I could be arrested and be looking at 10 years in prison, but no one should go to prison for that. You know what I'm saying? Like, how could you possibly believe both of those things? It's just, you know, it's pretty wild.
Yeah, it's also pretty telling with with the fact that they were involved in the creation of the virus, that there's a freak out over the agency being absorbed by anyone else. It really seems like people that had their hands in that pie and that payment processing are a little bit concerned that they just lost a piece of pie.
Well, it's amazing, too, because it kind of demonstrates in a way like the mentality that so many of these people have. We're like so you have, you know, for in the backdrop, you have all of these people shrieking about democracy.
for the last four years, you know, January 6th, and Donald Trump, election denier, and this is, democracy's on the ballot, says the former president of the United States of America before having tea with Adolf Hitler. You know, this is the end of democracy if Donald Trump wins.
and then you have the you know so there's this hyperbole this insane hyperbole and then you have the reality of the situation which is like hey donald trump comes in and you know he's running on hey we're gonna go over like the entire federal budget we're gonna look at the whole thing and see where there's waste and i'm putting this elon musk guy in charge of this new
you know imaginary department where he's going to go over all of this stuff and then like elon musk's like okay let's take a look at this usaid you know thing and then their attitude is like excuse me sorry unelected bureaucrats over here who the hell are you to tell us about our budget and you're like well he was picked by the guy who was just democratically elected like that's What do you mean?
Nobody at USAID was elected by the people. You know what I mean? And it's like, you just see this dynamic where you're like, wait, I thought you guys were so concerned with democracy. And yet the way this thing actually works is that you are completely outside of any democratic force.
You're just this permanent governing structure, and you're supposed to just be able to do what you want to do and then fund things. Think about how crazy it is that we're just finding out that they were funding the lab. This is the most major story over the last five years, and the American people have no way of even knowing this. How can you believe in democracy without...
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Chapter 7: What changes can be expected from Trump's new administration?
I like your metaphors.
Well, I try, I like to do them because they, you know, it's a good way to, you know, stretch your brain and like, be like how, how to think about these things.
But I'm looking at Trump and Elon Musk and all these guys more and more like if someone's breaking in to your house and you just look around and it's like, they're about to bust through the door and you look around and you know, whatever, you grab something, you grab a kitchen knife or a frying pan or something, you know, something to use as a weapon and,
And then somebody could be like, you know, that's really not the ideal weapon. The ideal weapon is like this thing that you don't have. You know, the ideal weapon is an AR-15, but you don't have one. And you're like, yeah, okay. It may not be the ideal weapon. It seems to be a weapon. And that's better than nothing.
And I think that with a lot of this stuff with the Trump administration, we're going to get into some more specifics on this. But it's like, OK, there is at least some positive motion in some areas. And that is so much better than what we've had for quite a while, including Trump's first term. You know, including his first four years.
And in some ways it does seem I know this is early in the administration to say something like this, but it does seem to me that it's like, OK, Trump maybe needed those first four years to figure this shit out.
He may have needed those years, and then he may have needed to be that burned by the system in the four years he was out to come in now with at least a little bit of a game plan, a little bit of a sense of how to wield this power of the presidency. Again, still big question marks. The guy's only been president for, you know, what is it, three weeks or something like that.
So, okay, let's not make, you know, jump to conclusions here. But it does seem like... It just seems like it's a different Trump in a lot of ways this time.
And it's also incredible that if you just desire to clean up some of the mess, how easy some of the mess is to clean up. So the fact that some criminals are actually being sent out of the country, that's common sense. Or the fact there was some guy who's making a $10 million salary a year like in Kentucky on like farm construction equipment or something, and he just got fired.
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