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Chapter 1: Who is Dave Smith and what is he discussing today?
what's up what's up everybody welcome to a brand new episode of part of the problem i am dave smith i am riding solo for this episode thank you to all of you guys for uh for joining uh before we get into it i got a lot i want to talk to you guys about today before we before we get into that uh tomorrow i am heading out to houston
Chapter 2: Where can you catch Dave Smith live?
texas comicdavesmith.com for the ticket links there we got shows thursday friday and saturday night i believe five total shows um and there's still a few tickets for some of them remaining so if you want to come see me and robbie the fire bernstein out in houston comicdavesmith.com is the place to go and then our next stop after that will be buffalo new york and uh then i i we got a whole bunch of dates for the rest of the year so if you want to come see us live go to comicdavesmith.com
The other piece of exciting news, which I cannot give you all the details on, but I I did have a great phone call with Gene Epstein this morning, who, as many of you hardcore listeners to the show will will know, is just one of my favorite people in the world. And so it was great. It was great catching up with him.
I will be returning to the Soho Forum, which is an amazing debate series to do another Oxford style debate. We're still locking down the date. Um, the opponent has been selected, but I'm not at liberty to announce that yet. Uh, although my understanding is that he's agreed to it too. Um, so it's going to be a debate on immigration. Um, and I think it'll be one that, that people will really enjoy.
Chapter 3: What exciting news does Dave have about the Soho Forum?
So I'm looking forward to that. We should be able to announce all the details of it. I'm hoping within the next week or two, we'll, we'll have all of those details, but the Soho forum.org is the website. You should... Regardless of me debating there, you should go check them out. They're a monthly debate series in New York City and they get like.
just really they get like great people a lot of really uh like great thinkers and very relevant um smart people have uh have debated there before and they've all their debates are online if you can check out their entire catalog and it's really fun uh to go to them live it's always a great time so i used to for years ago when i was less busy than i am now and had less children than i have now and um
lived in new york city there were several factors involved but i used to um i i've debated at the soho forum before and i used to regularly do stand up uh like at the the debate series before the debates and um i love all of the the people involved with it um and so anyways i'm excited to to go back so it's probably long overdue but we did um i i did firmly agree to return to the soho forum so uh very much looking forward to that and i think
I think you guys are going to enjoy it. Hopefully you enjoy it. Okay. So let's get into the topic of today's show. And I've got an idea of some stuff that I want to talk about, and then I will do my best to get to some questions in the live chat as well, if possible. But as I always mention, sign up at partoftheproblem.com if you want to be a part of the live chat.
If you want to get the members-only episode and a bunch of other goodies, that's how you can help support the show. Go sign up over at partoftheproblem.com. All right, so Donald Trump is president of the United States of America. I don't know if you guys heard. Won a second term. Pretty impressive victory. He's... In a very interesting situation.
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Chapter 4: How is Donald Trump different in his second term?
And I think as we've already kind of, everybody knows at this point that Donald Trump 2.0 is quite a bit different than the first Donald Trump who came in. And part of this might be the people he has around him. Part of this might be that he has learned some lessons and has a little bit of wisdom from having been in there for four years already.
Part of it might be that he had a near-death experience and maybe it's changed him in some ways. I don't exactly know. Maybe a little bit of all of those. But Donald Trump, in his first four years, really made enemies in Washington, D.C. with a lot of his rhetoric. And I think the fact that he was so uncontrollable, there's something inherent about Donald Trump that is uncontrollable.
It is not at all clear to me that even Donald Trump can control what Donald Trump might blurt out. And certainly... The more you kind of examine the American system of government, you realize that most of the, let's say, the most powerful people in our society, certainly in terms of political power, were quite fine with Joe Biden being president. Think about that.
And it wasn't even it was all the talking heads in the corporate media, all the big donors, all of them. They were fine with Joe Biden up until that debate performance. And why were they why did they have a problem with Joe Biden after that debate performance? Well, it was because it was too obvious that he couldn't win if he was this senile.
And so they had to get someone who could beat Donald Trump in there. That's ultimately what got Joe Biden out. But as we all know, Joe Biden was senile for four years of his presidency. I look, this is obvious. Everybody knows this. Anyone who is being honest with themselves or paying attention knew this at the time.
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Chapter 5: What are the controversies surrounding Joe Biden's presidency?
But what's the really interesting insight from that is that, oh, all of these powerful people are actually quite fine with not having a president. Why would that be? Why would they be OK with that? And it's because they they know that they won't get any resistance from the man in the chair.
You know, like you didn't have to worry about Joe Biden changing his mind and, you know, like taking some drastic new course of action. Whereas with Donald Trump, he's just much more difficult to control.
you know donald trump even from 2016 2017 donald trump he always you know they may get their man in the position that they want but donald trump might fire that guy and bring in a different guy who's not their guy you just don't know what he might do you know and and part of that is
like to donald trump's credit part of that is that he actually has some things that he believes in he actually thinks of himself as a boss because that's what he's been for his entire life and part of it is maybe not as much to donald trump's credit that someone might just rub his ego the wrong way and he might just fire that guy because that's how donald trump operates
Either way, that's kind of what spooked them the first time. If you're talking about ending wars and draining the swamp, you're going to make some enemies in Washington, D.C., especially if they think you might actually mean it. But this time around, Donald Trump is doing a little bit more than just saying that.
And so obviously we've been covering for a few weeks on the show the reaction to Doge. If you wanna make some enemies in Washington, D.C., you should talk about forcing government agencies to open their books and floating out the idea of trillions in spending cuts. That'll make you some enemies in D.C. But this time around, Donald Trump has really done it.
And he has really he appears to be gearing up to commit what is the cardinal sin in Washington, D.C. And what Donald Trump seems to be about to do is end a war. And that is not something that you're supposed to do in Washington, D.C. Let me tell you, they do not like that much. Look, think about it like this.
What was undeniably the thing that got OK, aside from aside from his debate performance where he was a vegetable? What got Joe Biden the most heat in the the legacy media? in the dinosaur media, perhaps we should call it. What is the thing that he got the most heat for? What was the biggest controversy of his, right? It's the Afghanistan pullout, right? Now, don't get me wrong.
Joe Biden certainly botched that withdrawal, but, you know, the level, well, just put it like this, okay? Think about how big a scandal Biden's botched withdrawal from Afghanistan was. And again, he clearly botched it.
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Chapter 6: Is Donald Trump serious about ending the war in Ukraine?
Donald Trump now seems to be serious about ending the war in Ukraine. And some of the statements that he's made and that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth have made have made it pretty clear that they're on the path to doing this. And look, all it really took was America deciding it was time to... And the war.
And it seems like you got the commander in chief and the defense secretary saying, oh, we've decided to end it. Well, if that's true, then the war is going to end. As anybody paying attention knows, this is this is a war that could have been negotiated away before it started and at many different points during the war. So it is it what the the obstacle to peace was Joe Biden.
And that's that's just the reality of the situation. So. Keeping all of that in mind, I want to go through, there's a clip here that I saw yesterday that really, it's rare that this happens, but every now and then I'll see a clip where I'm just like, oh, there's so much here. There's so much here to unpack. We're going to have to go through all of this.
And it's a clip from Senator, what's his freaking name? Sorry, my apologies. I constantly forget. Van Hollen, Senator Van Hollen. So we're going to play the clip in a minute. Let me just say, by the way, first of all, before we even get to Senator Van Hollen's remarks, because, you know, this is a senator talking about the current situation. And it did just kind of. I don't know. I mean, it.
It kind of made me think about Congress in a way. Now, Van Halen, I think, is a Democrat. But regardless of that, isn't it kind of interesting in this moment, in this really... almost miraculous seeming moment. And when I say miraculous, I don't mean that everything's perfect.
I just mean that we're living in a political reality that would have seemed impossible just a couple of years ago, sure would have still seemed very unlikely a year ago. Even if you thought Donald Trump was going to win, it would have seemed unlikely that so many of the things that are happening would be happening. And the kind of the cultural shift has been really quite amazing.
In this moment, isn't it starting almost to become apparent how just irrelevant and incompetent Congress is in general? I mean, it's like Donald Trump. You have this huge cultural shift. Donald Trump, who, you know, just a couple years ago, Donald Trump was the guy who was, you know, an insurrectionist, a traitor to his country.
He was, you know, a convicted felon or he was about to be a convicted felon and he was going to go to jail and he had all these charges. He was going to be removed from ballots. And now you're in a moment where. Somehow, he got hold of the cool kid energy, and he's all over podcasts, and you got NFL players and UFC fighters doing the Trump dance.
The cultural shift has been phenomenal that ultimately culminates in this guy winning every single swing state and the popular vote for the first time in his three tries. Okay.
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Chapter 7: How does World War II influence current political narratives?
Let's say that the correct lesson from World War II... I don't agree with this, but let's just say that the standard lesson is the correct lesson to learn. The problem was that... you know, we shouldn't have appeased Hitler. And this was this was the Neville Chamberlain appeased Hitler when he gave him Yugoslavia. And that was the problem. The issue wasn't the war guarantee with Poland.
The issue was that we should have gone to war with Nazi Germany sooner. Like appeasement didn't work and only aggression would work. Let's just say, like, hypothetically, that was true. It doesn't follow from that, that therefore aggression is always the answer. Therefore, appeasement is always wrong.
Because, like, you could pick a million different examples from history where aggression ended up being wrong, and perhaps appeasement would have been much better, or at least some type of, like, de-escalation, you know, call it whatever you want to. Appeasement's kind of a loaded term. But it's constantly, like always, they have to go back to this.
So you have Daryl Cooper goes on Tucker Carlson's podcast and he says, he goes, he goes, ah, you know, my buddy Jocko is like, you know, he's got Anglo-Saxon, you know, family members or whatever. So I like to kind of tease him and kind of like, provoke him a little bit. And I'm probably being a little hyperbolic when I say this, but I say that, you know, Winston Churchill was the true villain.
And it's not that Winston Churchill killed the most people or committed the most atrocities, but I see him as like the real villain of this war. So he makes that statement and everybody loses their fucking shit. I mean, every goddamn notable historian and cable news host and everybody's talking about Daryl Cooper. They're flipping out on him.
They all pretend he didn't say, hey, I'm being hyperbolic here. They all pretend he didn't say, obviously, he didn't commit the most atrocities. But the idea that some guy would even say this out loud gets this giant freak out. Like, don't get me wrong. Daryl Cooper is phenomenal. He's an incredible historian. His... his series are like some of the best work out there.
I've been recommending him forever and I love him. And I, I wish he was like 10 times bigger than he is, you know, and, and hopefully he will be. But the re the, the actual set for a guy who's got like a few hundred thousand, you know, like, like Twitter followers, the, how outsized the response was to that. He could be talking about any other historical event.
Like, again, I don't think he got it wrong. I think he's right. But let's say he got it wrong. If he had talked about any other historical event and got it slightly wrong, he just never would have generated that type of response. Because this is what World War II is. It's not just the story of, you know, a war that happened in the 1930s and 40s. America's part in the 40s.
But it's not just like a war that we fought in the 40s. It is the justification for the continuation and the beginning of every single war since then. Every one of them.
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Chapter 8: What historical insights does Daryl Cooper provide?
is less than 10 years old, if you could even call it a democracy or 11 years old now, but you can't really call it that anymore because they're not holding elections. And Vladimir Putin has, excuse me, Zelensky is a very low approval rating. So yeah, anyway, it's a pure fantasy to act like we weren't always doing gangster shit. It was always gangster shit.
The difference is that, and I think this is essentially why so many people support Donald Trump. The difference is that he's proposing doing gangster shit that's at least conceivably in the nation's interest.
he's he's at least going like hey we're gangsters here we do gangster shit why don't we get something for all this money we've put out now again i don't agree with that because i think i'm not saying like the american people are responsible for everything their government does but you know i i don't know we have to some degree allowed our government to do this and i don't think that the ukrainian people who have had their country destroyed and are going to lose part of it they should have to pay us back i'm a little uneasy with that i don't agree with that
But to hear a senator sit there and try to like have this like, oh, my God, he's going over and shaking them down like he's a gangster. But that's such bullshit because that's not what America is all about. America is just about supporting democracy. I mean, it's just it's it's all so laughable. There's no way a sitting senator actually sees things this way.
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I mean, like, if we have to fight a war if a democracy is threatened, yet we can prop up the government of Saudi Arabia? We could prop up the government of Israel. Israel has had control of 5 million people since 1967 who have no rights whatsoever. That includes voting rights.
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