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 Trump threatening to bomb Iran, the rabbi saying at a Senate hearing that "you must be anti-antisemetic," and more.Support Our Sponsors:Moink - https://www.moinkbox.com/potpPaint Your Life - Text PROBLEM to 87204 to get 20% offProlon - https://prolonlife.com/ptpPart 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 Dave Smith and Robbie Bernstein discussing at the beginning of the episode?
Hello. Hello. What's up everybody. Welcome to a brand new episode of part of the problem. I'm joined of course, by Robbie, the fire Bernstein. I'm Dave Smith. We are both in our respective homes. What feels like for a very temporary period, but it is good to be back. We had a lot of fun up in Boston. You have a good time up there, Rob, man.
We had a sold out show Saturday night, packed weekend fans coming out, slinging some of these teas at a great time.
It was, it was a, I always, I said it like before we went, but Boston's just, Boston's such a goddamn great comedy town. I love, and I love Boston. It's a great city. Although I do, I know Rob, Rob, Rob drove up there and you were mentioning it's the worst city to drive through. And then I came home and I saw my father-in-law and he was like, how was Boston? I was like, oh, it was a great time.
And he goes, worst city to drive in in America.
and he's a professional driver so i was like you know rob was just saying the same thing so figure that out boston make it easier to drive aside from that no complaints um and then we're uh what do we got well i'm i'm getting on a plane to go do some traveling tomorrow but the next comedy gigs are in nashville um then i know we got chicago and rosemary uh your solo in nashville
Oh, are you not coming to Nashville?
No, you're there with the festival and whatnot. But I'm going to be in, where am I this weekend? I'm in Steamboat and then Des Moines. And then we're in wherever.
I think I did. I think I did know this at one point, but now it is weird. I really am like, I'm like a special person to some degree where it's just like, as it hits me, it's like Rob's not going to be there. But I'm like, then who will walk me to the club? But who will be next to me? Who will pat my head if I have anxiety? Okay, I guess I can do it on my own. I'm going to be 42.
I guess I should be able to go somewhere by myself. Anyway, so a lot of stuff coming up. What's your website again, Rob? RobBernsteinComedy.com. RobBernsteinComedy.com and, of course, ComicDaveSmith.com for the rest of our, you know, for the year. We got a whole bunch of ticket links up there to see me and Rob, evidently.
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Chapter 2: What are Dave Smith's views on Trump's foreign policy towards Iran?
Then you can also watch the shows live, ad-free, uncensored. Only way to do that, though, is to sign up at partoftheproblem.com. So the latest is that yesterday, Donald Trump, of course, because he's Donald Trump, he threatened to bomb Iran. This was, I think, in many ways, kind of the most serious sounding of his constant need to flirt with yet another disastrous war in the Middle East.
And coincidentally, the only war... that hasn't been checked off of the clean break foreign policy, of what has become the famous seven wars in five years, that four-star General Wesley Clark, the supreme leader of the NATO allies, that he himself said that he saw the plans for, that we were going to have seven wars in five years.
It obviously didn't happen in the five years, although there's actually quite a bit of evidence that they – thought they would get this war quite a while ago um but they um of those seven countries six of the wars have happened this is the seventh iran happens to be the same now of course There is absolutely no political appetite for another catastrophic, disastrous war in the Middle East.
Donald Trump won the presidency twice explicitly on distancing himself from that type of foreign policy. And yet Donald Trump continues to saber rattle toward this policy, which would be, again, as we both mentioned before, Rob, it would almost seem like, you know,
With Donald Trump just humiliating the Democrats and public opinion completely turning on the Democrats to the point that the brand of the party is toxic in a way like neither of the major two parties have ever been in my lifetime. And at that moment, you go, OK, there's probably only one thing. that could totally ruin this and usher back in the Democratic establishment.
And that would be another catastrophic war in the Middle East. And so, of course, that's what we've got to move closer and closer toward. It's really, it's astounding to say. Anyway, so Donald Trump, I have his quote here. He said, speaking to NBC News in a phone interview yesterday, Donald Trump said, if they don't make a deal, there will be bombing.
It will be bombing the likes of which they have never seen before. Donald Trump is saying that they need now to make a nuclear deal or Donald Trump will bomb Iran like they've never seen before. This comes after, and I'm quoting here from Dave DeCamp's article over at antiwar.com. Go follow antiwar.com. Go follow Dave DeCamp. They are the best. This is after the U.S.
intelligence agencies in their annual threat assessment said that there is no evidence that Iran is trying to build a nuclear weapon. It seems that the 2003 ban that the Ayatollah put on weapons of mass destruction is still in place. Of course, we've heard endless propaganda over the years about how Iran is on the verge of building a nuclear weapon.
And Benjamin Netanyahu was decent enough to give us a timetable on when they were. Building that that bomb, they should have it in five years from 1992. But also they should have it in five years from 2003. And then also they should have it in five years from 2015. And then also they should have it in five years from 2018.
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Chapter 3: How does Dave Smith feel about Trump's administration choices?
On the... Topic of not cleaning up the deep state and all of the problems in government. You know, Donald Trump was scorned by Netanyahu in that Netanyahu was the first one to back that Joe Biden had won the election. And then even during the campaign process, you know, he was inviting him to Mar-a-Lago.
And then even when they attempted to assassinate Donald Trump, he didn't really want to explore the storyline of who was trying to assassinate me. And he wanted to thank the Secret Service. So it's not completely surprising that they just seem to be moving on with status quo. I still have some hope for cleaning things up, particularly RFK Jr. I hope he doesn't use all the resources just to...
find out about this anti-Semitic health issue and maybe goes after. But the other thing that's just interesting to me about the Iran situation is my read was he was trying to end the Russia-Ukraine war and perhaps get a pass from Putin to be a little bit more aggressive towards Iran.
It's a little bit surprising to me without that being wrapped up and also with Donald Trump saying that he's fuming with Putin at the moment, that now he's willing to ramp up the Iran pressure because that seems like a bigger problem than just isolated Iran.
If he's duking with both Putin and then maybe goes back into Ukraine and says we are going to support Ukraine and then also starts going after Iran, that sounds to me like a much larger war than just us bombing Iran.
yeah which by the way is even in isolated iran is a large project i mean again this is not you know and there's there's military experts who understand this a lot better than me but it is not it is not comparable to the war in iraq it's not comparable to any of the terror wars iran can touch thousands of our soldiers over there we have military bases all throughout the region that they can hit
And the idea that we're just going to go in there and like bomb their nuclear sites, which again, they don't have nuclear weapons, but Bob, their nuclear energy sites or whatever. And they're not going to respond is just that not living in reality.
Well, who knows? Maybe that's just channeling Israel. Hey, go for it. Now's your window. We're not going to get mad at you.
Yeah, well, look, I mean, that'd be pretty bad too, but I guess perhaps better than the alternative. All right, guys, let's take a moment and thank our sponsor for today's show, which is Prolon.
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Chapter 4: What is Robbie Bernstein's perspective on Trump's international strategy?
I mean, I kind of do, but like, it's something that like, I'd like if me and you were in a car ride together and you were like, you want to throw on NPR for a minute, I'd be like, all right, let's hate listen to NPR for a fucking minute. You know what I mean? Like it's, it's, But to say that they're not biased, everybody, including the people who like NPR, of course know that it's bias.
But well beyond that, there is no such thing as non-bias news coverage. It just doesn't exist. You always have biases in some area. And maybe you could argue that my biases are correct. But there's always bias. There's always nobody. If you think about it, it's like it's like the type of thing where you go like you'd have to be so open minded that your brain falls out of your head.
Like, what does that mean? If you were covering a story about slavery, do you do you cover that by by going like, no, I'm not taking a position pro or against. I'm just telling you that there was this one group for slavery and this one group against slavery. And I will treat them both equally. No, nobody does that. Everybody has.
Look, there's even just when you say when you have the entire media saying that Donald Trump represented the end of democracy. OK, now, right away, the first thing that jumps out of you there is that that's kind of a hysterical claim and there's no real evidence to suggest that. And this is right. But forget that.
In order to truly claim that you had no bias in your reporting, you would have to treat that as a completely debatable subject, whether it's good or bad. Like, in other words, and maybe the end of democracy would be a good thing. Because if you're pro-democracy, that's a bias. Now, you could argue that is a completely justifiable bias.
But the idea of arguing that any to sit here with a straight face and say our programming has no bias. What world are you living in? No programming, no programming. There is never once in the history of the world been a news program that didn't have a bias attached to it. It's that simple.
Your bias might be that you're pro-free speech, that you're pro-democracy, that you're pro-West, that you're pro-America, that you're pro-women, that you're pro-LGBT. It might be that you're pro-white people. It might be, you know, whatever it is. There's lots of different ones you could have, but there's always a bias.
And so this, I think just eradicating this mentality, pretending is a positive thing. I think it's one of the best things about like the new media landscape is that nobody's really pretending that anymore. Nobody's like, there's no one out there who's really pretending, oh, this show is completely unbiased. Imagine Rob. It's on the level of us saying that about this show.
Imagine we were to say we're completely unbiased on this show. Of course, we have tons of biases on this show. We're pro-market. We're pro-peace. We're pro-America. The whole thing is biased. That doesn't mean I still don't think we're telling the truth, but it does mean that like, oh, yeah, no, we have a perspective here that we are giving you.
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Chapter 5: How does anti-Semitism feature in the current political climate?
I mean, come on. You're really going to argue that that wasn't because of a pre-existing bias that you guys already had? Do you think if there was a scandal about Donald Trump in October of 2020, they would have buried that story and only be talking about it now five years later? I don't think so, okay?
Like, it's like, oh, it's very coincidental that all your regrets happen to go in one direction and one direction only. And that happens to be in the direction that coincides with your obvious bias that you're denying. I mean, get out of here. Now, let's just play the very end of it and then we'll wrap up.
We didn't get on it early enough. And so is that a mistake? Sure. We can acknowledge that we are not always perfect. My belief is that it's not our goal to be trusted. It's our goal to be trustworthy, which means we get up every single day and we try to do the best job so that we earn the worth, that we are worth people's trust, but we never assume that we're trusted.
But they assume, speaking of assuming, they assume that you didn't cover that story more fully because you were biased.
I do understand that. And that's why I think it's important to acknowledge them or not.
But you don't think that was biased?
I was not there and I cannot speak to the conversations that happened. So I don't know what went into it. But my view is that when we hear criticism, we need to take it on board and we need to examine what it is that is generating this criticism and determine what we're going to do about it. If we are going to serve the public interest, we need to hear from the public.
And then we need to determine what of that is something that we can integrate in order to earn that public trust.
By the way, that's it. But you know what's a really great way to turn to the public is to not take government money. Just saying that way you could really find out what the market thinks of your news. But look for her thing here to be. And you notice at the end there, by the way, she really slivers away from the central argument because then he just has the obvious follow up question.
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Chapter 6: What are the implications of being anti-anti-Semitic according to Rabbi Joe Jorgensen?
They admit that they're the progressive news. But CNN pretends that we just play it right down the middle. And that's what's infuriating because it's it's. The real problem with it is that the whole game of journalism is telling the truth. The whole game is being honest. And how do you do that when your whole self-identity is predicated on a lie, on a blatant lie, which is that I am not biased?
I am, no, you know who's biased? Every goddamn human being. Every human being is biased, including these hacks. So anyway, that's my last, Rob, you could have the last word and then we got to wrap up.
Nah, let's wrap. I think we covered it.
All right. Thank you, Rob. Thank you, Natalie. Thank you, everybody listening. Got a lot of big stuff coming up this week. I think you guys are going to enjoy it. And our schedule will be a little bit messed up for warning here, but I'll make sure to get the episodes in. All right. Catch you guys soon. Peace.