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Chapter 1: Who are the hosts of Part of the Problem?
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Chapter 2: What are Dave and Robbie's thoughts on the current weather and travel plans?
I'm doing all right. How are you, Mr. Smith? Doing good. I've been enjoying this nice weather we've had yesterday and today. For people who don't live where there's seasons, if you live in one of these areas where it's warm year-round, sure.
you don't have to suffer through the three months of brutal misery that we do, but there is something about when it cracks and you get those first nice days, that's just magical.
Like if this was, if it was 55 degrees in the middle of, of summer, you'd be like, Oh, it's freezing today, but man, when it's 55 degrees coming off, being cooped up inside and you're just outside in the sun, it's the best. That's myself.
Especially after all this travel.
Yes, yes. Agreed. And we'll be traveling more soon. Going to Boston next, everybody. ComicDaveSmith.com for those ticket links. Boston, Massachusetts, one of our favorite comedy towns. We're coming back there. And you got some dates on your own. Is that right, Rob?
I've got a... Iowa for some state convention. And then I've got a steamboat, Colorado. You come out, you come ski with me. There's always fun shows with Kyle rough. And then other than that, trying to put porch story together, you can email me your porches at Rob's newsroom at gmail.com.
And then I got some cool run your mouths going on this week, including guest professor, David column, which is always fun.
Oh, OK. Yeah, that's a good one. I love that guy. OK, so let's let's get into it. A major, very interesting kind of dynamic and divide that is developing on within, I guess, broadly speaking, the MAGA coalition.
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Chapter 3: Why did Donald Trump and Thomas Massey have a falling out?
donald it it does seem to me to really be evidence of of an area where donald trump has not learned the lessons that he needs to learn but whatever we can get into that in a second of course i am talking about the the feud between donald trump and thomas massey
So Thomas Massey, of course, for a little bit of background on this, Thomas Massey and Donald Trump really had a pretty bad falling out in 2020 when Thomas Massey was the only member of Congress who was standing up to the fiscal insanity of the year 2020, which is, of course, terrible. By the way, he was totally vindicated on. But he was insisting that it was crazy to spend these.
It was like these $2 trillion spending bills in the middle of COVID. He was saying the whole thing is nuts. The lockdowns are nuts. These spending bills are nuts. It's going to destroy the dollar, result in inflation. Ended up looking pretty good in hindsight, pretty solid prediction. And for this, for being the best member of Congress, Donald Trump smeared him, sent his supporters to attack him.
Essentially, the same thing is happening again. The Congress is trying to jam through another insane spending bill that will increase the debt, increase the deficit. And Thomas Massey was one of the few voices saying no. And Donald Trump flipped out on him. I think that this is... But on so like on on the policy of it, Donald Trump is dead wrong. And this is he's just it's terrible.
And then I think on the politics of it, I think it's also terrible. So just just a really horrible move by Donald Trump. And he's splitting his own base. Maybe I'm not saying splitting right down the middle. Obviously, Donald Trump is the most popular Republican figure in the country.
But he is picking a fight with someone in Thomas Massey who I think has a more a more loyal base of support than Donald Trump realizes. I don't know. What are your thoughts on the feud, Rob?
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Chapter 4: How are Republicans responding to government spending criticisms?
I think this is such a missed opportunity for the Republicans. There's been more press about reckless government spending over the last two months that I've seen probably in the last 10 years. And now's a great opportunity to run with the doge ball and say, we can't increase spending. We need to limit what's going out to NGOs. We got to limit USA ID.
There's a lot of conversations that we had and to have one Republican standing up and saying, we're not just going to increase spending once again. We at least have to review some of the reckless and fraudulent spending that's happening. And then Donald Trump to turn around. And of course, it's just very salesy. Now's not the time. We need full compliance.
We need all Republicans on board, which is bullshit.
It's so infuriating, dude, because that's what they said to Thomas Massey in 2020. They said, hey, there's a pandemic, dude. We can't deal. I get your point, but there's a pandemic. We can't deal with that now. There's always an excuse for why now. This is like if Washington, D.C. had a tagline, it would be now is not the time. Now was never the time.
You know, I remember right after 9-11 when heroes like Harry Brown and Ron Paul would point out why we have this fight with the terrorists to begin with and what the beef is. They'd say, now is not the time. Now is not the time. We were just hit. You know what I mean?
And after the 2008 crisis, when people would point out how the government's in collusion with the big bank built up this housing bubble, Well, now's not the time. We're in this great financial recession. Now's not the time. It was never... Okay, when Obama was being pressured to prosecute George W. Bush's administration for war crimes, now's not the time to look backward.
Now's the time to move forward. Now's not the time. Now's not the time. It's never the time. You know what I mean? It's never the time to do the right thing. Somehow, it's always the time to do the wrong thing. And like... Again, it's just – I don't know what else to say.
I don't know in the world of politics when anything could ever be made more clear than it is made clear right now that the Republican Party is a big government socialist party. Like, you know, there's – as you pointed out, Rob, you have – that all the stuff with Doge, Doge is popular. The American people are looking at the swamp in a way they never have before.
The corporate media that would be known for always in these moments, fear-mongering, you know, what a government shutdown will do, what will happen if these things are cut. No one's watching the corporate media anymore. They have no power to really fuck with Donald Trump or his agenda in any way.
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Chapter 5: Why is Donald Trump targeting Thomas Massey?
The real tax is government spending. Right. no matter what they're spending the money on, no matter how they raise the money. Government spending is the tax, right? It is because the only ways they can get the money are either to tax you for it, to borrow the money, which is just a promise to tax you in the future, or to print the money, which is just a tax in a different form.
It's just taking your purchasing power and giving it to DC. So what government spends every year is how much The criminals in Washington, D.C. take from the rest of the American people and then hand out to their cronies. That's the swamp. That's the corruption. If you're serious about draining the swamp, the only way to do it is to have meaningful cuts in government spending.
And of course, as the Doge guys have been kind of pointing out, there's all this stuff we spend money on that's just like insane and can't even be justified. No one even attempts to justify it. And yet in this moment, You have one congressman standing up and that's who Donald Trump is going to suggest primarying?
Not the congressmen who are always pushing toward the next war, lying through their teeth to the American people. Not the congressmen like Dan Crenshaw, that retard out there bragging about dead Russians, saber rattling the next conflict as Donald Trump's trying to negotiate it away. Not them. Really, really.
Someone explain to me from an America First perspective, someone explain to me how out of all of the congressmen that need to be primaried, The best one is the one that Trump has to go after. I mean, listen, it's it was all all of this was entirely predictable and there's nothing to be surprised about.
And I know that people who disagreed with my decision to support Donald Trump in this election will jump on this as well. What did you expect? This is what you voted for. The truth is that. getting Donald Trump in there was still much better than getting Kamala Harris in there. I don't regret my decision to support him, but God damn, if this just isn't pathetic and predictable and awful.
And look, by the way, I will just say, I'm sorry, Rob, I'll throw it back to you. But there's, to those people there, it's kind of like I can't win with this crowd because they'll go, first they'll go, oh,
now that dave supports donald trump he won't criticize donald trump on all this then when i'm exactly the same and i criticize donald trump on all the same they go well what did you expect this is what you voted for it's two separate things man we had a binary choice unfortunately and this was just so much better there are many huge positives that came out of donald trump being the president there were nothing but negatives out of kamala harris
But I'm not going to pretend. I'm not going to argue with you guys on this. I'm not going to pretend there aren't some glaring negatives. And this is just terrible.
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Chapter 6: What is the controversy over free speech and protests at Columbia University?
Yeah. Yeah. Well, and, you know, it matters a lot who's sitting in the chair. And at this point, Trump is. And so his move is not to say, let's primary all these other guys, which, by the way, I mean, Trump could move mountains right now if he was really serious about this getting into the primary Republicans business. But it's not it's the primary the one guy who's being good on it.
That's his idea of what should be done because he wants to kick the can and not feel the pain on his watch. He wants to be able to brag about how great the economy is doing or whatever. And I'm not even sure, by the way, I don't even think that calculation is correct. I mean, I actually think it would unleash the American economy to have serious cuts in government spending. But yeah.
Anyway, like you pretty much nailed it. I mean, when it comes to government spending and when it comes to Israel, we just got to accept that Trump's awful on that and we're going to oppose him on those issues. And it does seem like, you know...
I'll just say that it does certainly seem, you know, look, maybe it's just, maybe it's not true at all, but it, you could understand why it has the appearance to people, especially when coupled with the other things that Trump's doing that it's like, Oh, you went after him because he's the guy who opposes this war in Gaza.
And it does seem like that's one of the things that gets him on the outs with Trump's crew. Of course, a bunch of, you know, the, the, uh, the like pathetic, uh, right wing idiots like, you know, fucking John Podhoretz or Laura Loomer have been talking about how Congress, you know, Congressman Massey is an anti-Semite. I've been saying this for for months now.
He's an anti-Semite because he doesn't want to fund Israel's war. That's depending on the moving definition of anti-Semite. We might get into this a little bit in a little bit. But that's you know, that's the That's the thing. If you don't want to fund Israel, you're an anti-Semite. If you don't think it's okay to slaughter the women and children in Gaza, you're an anti-Semite.
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Chapter 7: How does federal funding affect university protests?
that they were going to lose federal funds for not having a gay club and the ridiculousness of going to the one orthodox school but also having a gay club just go to any other university no one's even mad at you for it but like you can either keep the religion or not it's it's like having the bacon club there so So that kind of gets wrapped into cutting federal funding to to for your agenda.
Most of the agenda is kind of, you know, is the covid regime or was the woke insanity. So there's always kind of been there's a problem with federal funding in general. So we can we can put that to the side. It's a tool for government to be able to essentially enact whatever their propaganda is on universities if they want to continue to get federal funds. That's like that's just a bigger problem.
And this is just a symptom of that problem in terms of this particular individual. Firstly, not only does he have a green card, he also is married with a child. So I think there's a little bit different.
I think his wife's like eight months pregnant or something like that.
Yeah, but there's something different to if you just have a green card and revoking a green card to someone who has become that much of an ingrained citizen. That's almost like having a sponsor. If someone from the United States has picked you as their spouse and is going to have a child with you.
And so now in this case, this is where all just like the gray areas come in of, did this guy break the law? And then if you have and then if you have the ability to remove anyone under the it's a very loose I forgot the exact terminology, but it's basically a loose terminology of if they think that you're going to undermine the foreign policy.
And then there might even be more extreme turns in there of like abiding the, whatever, but it's just, they're very loose terms. If you give the ability of government to censor you because they think your speech is dangerous or it can lead to danger, then you just don't have free speech.
So in this case, I understand if you're in the country illegally, then or with just a green card status, maybe the same free speech protections don't have to be extended to you. But in this case, I mean, if you're married to someone who lives in the country, I don't understand why you shouldn't have free speech. And this is certainly just I mean, this is egregious censorship, in my opinion.
Yeah, I completely agree.
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Chapter 8: What is the position on free speech for legal residents in the U.S.?
And I will certainly say that like when it's causes I don't agree with, I've been kind of appalled to see illegal immigrants protesting. I remember seeing protests in Washington, D.C. In fact, Tucker Carlson interviewed a woman who was an illegal alien who was like protesting about amnesty. And there is something about that that's a little bit like –
I'm not so sure you actually do have the right to do that if you're not. But you know what I mean? Like if you're here illegally, then you can be removed at any time. And so if you start like speaking up and putting a spotlight on yourself, maybe that increases the likelihood that you get removed. I'm not completely against. I'm not sure I'm for it either.
I'm just like saying I'm open to ideas here. Yeah. I do think there's the obvious reason for why they might be removed. But then there's also the counter argument of like you're getting government in the business of making these decisions based off of speech. And that may not be a good idea. But in this case, we're talking about somebody who wasn't here illegally.
We're talking about someone who was legally here, not a citizen, but was legally in the country. And now we're going to revoke that based off of their speech. To me, those are like fundamentally different things. There's a very big difference between someone who's here illegally and someone who's here legally. Now, you know, you might want to take in less people legally or something like that.
But then, OK, then you'd have to change what the rules are. On top of that, I just think it's like – like I don't know. I posted something about how awful I thought all of this was. I had a tweet earlier today, and I said something like, so let me get this straight. Donald Trump is cracking down on the only mass left-wing protest movement of the last decade that wasn't explicitly anti-Trump.
Right. Like he's cracking down on the protests over the war in Gaza, which was, if anything, an anti Biden protest movement that started up. You would just I'm just saying just purely on the optics of politics of all of it or not just the optics, but like just on the politics of all of it. You would think that maybe like Donald Trump would want to crack down on the left wing anti Trump protests.
But, you know. Just politically speaking, you wouldn't really be incentivized to crack down on the retroactively on the left wing protest that helped get you the election. You know, just saying. I mean, you know, Mary Madelson also gave him one hundred million dollars. So there's other factors in there as well. But just saying like that in itself.
So Donald Trump is cracking down on the one left wing protest that was actually anti Biden. And he's cracking down on the one America first congressman. And it's hard for people to not look and go like, hey, and there seems to be like a common thread between all of this. Common thread seems to be like who supports Israel and who doesn't. And
You know, I will say I post so I posted this and Will Chamberlain responded to me and he said something about like, you know, he was like, like, cry me a river about these pro Hamas protests or something like that.
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