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 CNN's coverage of Trump's approval rating, Trump's statements about relocating refugees in Gaza, discussion about Scott Horton on the No Agenda podcast, and more.Support Our Sponsors:Upgrade your wardrobe instantly and save 20% off with the code [PROBLEM] at https://www.publicrec.com/PROBLEM #publicrecpodMoink - https://www.moinkbox.com/potpMy Patriot Supply - https://www.preparewithsmith.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'?
what's up what's up ladies and gentlemen welcome to a brand new episode of part of the problem i am dave smith he is robbie the fire bernstein we are back i do apologize for uh the the mess up in the schedule i'm gonna make episodes up to you guys this week i know i'm two members only in the can uh we will get those to you me and rob were down in fort lauderdale getting i'm sorry
Chapter 2: What did Dave and Robbie do in Key West?
Down in Key West. Getting a little bit of R&R over the weekend and doing some shows. Thanks to everybody who came out to the shows. Man, it is fun to go down to Key West in the middle of the winter when you live in the Northeast. I told you it was fun down there. I wasn't lying. It's a good drinking town. Oh, my God. I can't even describe how good a drinking town it is.
It's such a good drinking town. It's a dangerous town. You just sit there. My wife came down, and we hung out at this resort the whole weekend. And I'm like floating in the pool, and I'm like, all right, let's have our first drink. What is it? And then it's like 9.15 in the morning. All right. That might be a little bit early. Might be a little bit early to start.
But we did, and we lived, and we're back.
If I went to a town in Russia and there were like 97-year-old women and they're all sitting around smoking cigarettes, I'd be like, cigarettes aren't that bad for you. They're all doing it here. Yeah, obviously. I mean, they're fine. And then you go down to Key West and they're all like 65. They look okay and they're drinking for breakfast. You're like, this can't be that bad. Yeah, it was...
It's dangerous. It's a dangerous game to play. But man, was it a lot of fun. I'm looking forward to that. I want to go back. I want to make that like a regular winter thing. Go down during the winter to Key West. Get out of this for a little bit. Anyway, it was a lot of fun. We got a lot of stuff coming up and also just a lot to talk about on today's episode.
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Chapter 3: What are Dave's upcoming events and debates?
So let me try to do this as quickly as I can. Tomorrow night. Tomorrow night, I'm assuming it's happening as planned. I know there's some bad weather forecasts out here in New Jersey. But tomorrow night, I will be debating Josh Hammer at Princeton University on the U.S.-Israeli relationship. Very much looking forward to that.
I believe there are—it's pretty filled up, but I think there are a few seats available if you want to go. I just posted it on my Twitter. There's the link there. And then— In a couple weeks, we will be in Houston, Texas at the Punchline. And then after that at Helium Comedy Club in Buffalo, New York. Me and Robbie the Fire Bernstein are both really looking forward to those gigs. All right. So.
Obviously, we were off for the second half of last week, and so a lot's happened, and there's a few things that I really wanted to make sure we talked about. Okay, let's start with this, which I just find very fascinating, and it has to do with Donald Trump's approval numbers. Look, I want to let you listen to CNN Explain this because well for a lot of reasons number one.
Chapter 4: What is CNN reporting about Trump's approval ratings?
Let's get some eyeballs on them Not too many people watching we can up those numbers a little bit We'll probably double it just by playing this clip on the show But also it's just it's interesting to watch even them admit this and then maybe let's talk about what this means exactly So let's let's go to the CNN clip. Let's let them say it first and then we can we can respond and
CBS News out with a new poll showing that Americans seem to be liking what they're seeing.
Yeah, I mean, look, but it's not just CBS. You know, I like to take an average of the polls. I like to take an average of the polls. And holy smokes, I mean, look at what the difference is between now versus eight years ago during the first Trump term, right? This is Trump's net approval rating on February 10th.
You go back to 2017, Trump was already underwater at minus five points on the net approval rating. That's approval minus disapproval. What a difference eight years makes. He's on the positive side of the ledger at plus four points. And again, it's not just the CBS News poll. We're talking about the Gallup poll. We're talking about the Ipsos poll. We are talking about the Pew poll.
All of these respective pollsters have Trump in a better position now than they did eight years ago. The bottom line is Americans are far more likely to say they like what they're seeing now versus what they felt during Trump's first term.
OK, so how rare is this? You're going to show us sort of where we're at now and how rare it is that this. Yeah.
So I want you to take a look at this plus size, this plus sign. Right. Compare that to the negative sign. Being on the plus size. They really do talk to you like you're idiots. Positive net approval territory. A positive net approval rating for Donald Trump. Again. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Entire first term. Just 11 days. Just 11.
This feels like the SNL run faster.
It really is. Compare that to the second term just so far, just so far. Like, we get it. From second term so far, he has been on the positive side of the ledger 21 days, all three weeks. That's already 10 more days than he was in his entire career. Yeah, no weekend. So, again, this is just another sign that Americans are far more likely to like what they're seeing.
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Chapter 5: Why might Trump's current approval ratings be misleading?
I also will say this, and look, I'm speculating a little bit when I talk about this. So I'm throwing this out there more as something to think about than I have a definitive take on this. But one of the major themes that we talked about on the show quite a bit throughout the election, which really was an election unlike any other that I've lived through.
And one of the things that I would just notice a lot was that Every sign around you, you know, everything you could observe or touch or taste or feel just told you that this was Trump's year. Like that Donald Trump was running away with this thing.
Whether you were looking at crowd sizes or, you know, crowd reactions to Donald Trump, anything you could feel in the popular culture throughout the entire campaign, it just felt like it was all going in Donald Trump's direction. And yet the entire time,
The major pollsters, the ones being cited here, the, you know, whatever, CBS was the poll they started with there and then they mentioned Gallup and I think ABC and CNN and a few others. All of these polls told us all election long, this was a coin flip. It was a coin flip.
I mean, he was up a little bit against Joe Biden, but then once Kamala Harris came in, she went up for a little bit, and then it came back to just being a coin flip of a race, according to them. Everything you could observe was telling you this is all Donald Trump. All the pollsters were telling you this is a coin flip.
And then on election day, you have Donald Trump winning the popular vote in every single swing state. Reality was much closer to what we could observe than it was to what these pollsters are telling you. And I gotta say, I know none of this is scientific. This is why I said I'm just speculating about this stuff. But you see Donald Trump go to UFC events. You see him go to the Super Bowl.
You see him go to all these things. Again, not a random sample. It's a particular slice of America that's going to UFC events or going to the Super Bowl. But he is just, he's met like a king. Like people are just so thrilled. They're so on board with him. And, you know, I think about, again, this is not nothing scientific about this, but there was that.
There was right after inauguration, you saw there was that video clip of Tucker Carlson walking through the streets of Washington, D.C., and he's getting like a hero's welcome. Like, I would have a couple years ago thought it would be dangerous for Tucker Carlson to walk the streets of Washington, D.C. And now that people are chanting as he walks by, we love you, Tucker, you know?
And there is just, I'm just saying, it makes me wonder what's really going on here. You know, it seems like the polls always very consistently from the beginning have like Donald Trump's always outperforms what the polls are saying he does. And when even the polls now are admitting that he is in the positive in his job approval ratings or that 70%.
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Chapter 6: What are the potential pitfalls for Trump's administration?
All right, let's get back into the show. I don't know. Did you see this? Our very own Liam McCollum. Did you see what Elon Musk said to him? Let's let's pull that tweet up, Natalie, so people can just look at this. This is what I'm talking about. As as there are libertarians who want to fight about the latest drama on the LNC or like whatever, some ridiculous factionalism.
Our own Liam McCollum, guest on this show, great, one of the most talented young libertarians out there in the country, he tweets out, Doge and Elon Musk should let Ron Paul lead a Federal Reserve audit team, to which Elon Musk replies, good idea.
Elon Musk also recently shared like an entire episode of the Ron Paul's Liberty Report, his show, and to his 130 million Twitter followers or whatever it is he has. You have... The richest man in the world, one of the most influential men in the world, who's in charge of this, you know, kind of imaginary department, but seems to be turning it into some real things. He's in charge.
He is sharing the message of Ron Paul. He just tweeted out this phenomenal Milton Friedman video where he's talking about how the only issue that matters is government spending and that that ultimately is the tax. And it doesn't really matter whether they tax you for it. or print the money to make it up, they're still taxing you for it.
Even if they borrow the money, they're just promising to tax you in the future for it. So the only thing that matters is cutting government spending. Like, I'm sorry, but as somebody who's been in this libertarian world for... What is it? 2007 is when I got into it. So what is this? 18 years I've been in this libertarian world. And this is like...
This is a wet dream, man, that our ideas would ever be shared on this like large of a platform. The whole thing back then was that Ron Paul got into the presidential debates and they would never give him much time. They'd give him like seven minutes total. But in those seven minutes, he could say some awesome shit that would just be like, yo, that stole the debate.
And that and then the Internet was the only way you could spread because the corporate media would black him out. This was the Jon Stewart joke, if you remember the why are they pretending Ron Paul is the 13th floor of a hotel? Because they would literally Jon Stewart literally plays this clip from CNN where they go. They go. They go. Mitt Romney is now in the polls.
Mitt Romney is now the favorite to be the Republican nominee, knocking Michelle Bachman down to third. And then Jon Stewart's like, who's number two? They would just not tell you. Like they would literally report on one and three and leave out two. They just wanted to make sure no one heard this guy's message.
And now people are hearing this guy's message from like this huge, being amplified on the biggest platform. Like that alone is so valuable. But also Elon Musk has like found this team of like, tech geniuses to really like go over the numbers. And he's openly talking about auditing the Federal Reserve. I just can't explain how great that is.
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Chapter 7: How is Elon Musk influencing libertarian ideas?
It's the largest transfer of wealth in human history from the working and middle class to the elite. Yet you have no issue with that. They just think look and I think this kind of says it all right here but if you just really zoom out and Think about doge and the reaction to it. Okay, we this these are just like some objective facts, right?
We the US federal government is the biggest organization in the history of the world Okay by any measurement We spend about $7 trillion a year and we are something like $36 trillion in debt right now, maybe approaching $37 trillion in debt, okay?
Biggest organization in the history of the world spends more money than anybody else in the history of the world and has accumulated more debt than any other organization in the history of the world. And as soon as anybody even suggests modest cuts or even just opening the books, everyone in this town loses their freaking mind and says it's going to be the end of the world.
And that, in fact, this is the corruption. The corruption is opening the books. The corruption is cutting any government spending. Think about for a second how fucking ass backward that is. You know, it's like, look, the whole thing here, the whole game is that This is big government. I mean, this is what it is.
And people can sit here and they can say, as some kind of like right-wing reactionary types will argue at times, they'll say that like, well, it doesn't really matter how big or small the government is. It matters how corrupt they are. It matters how good they are. But libertarians always had the answer to that. Like from way back, that was always the point.
It was like, yeah, but that's why you don't want the thing to be giant. Because if it goes corrupt, then you're screwed. And so they're like, no, no, no. The problem isn't that it was so big. The problem is that it went corrupt. No, the problem is that it was so big and it went corrupt. If it was if it wasn't a gigantic organization, it wouldn't matter that much that it went corrupt.
This is the whole game. The whole game is that they operate in secrecy and they have enormous power. That's it. All this wealth is extracted from the American people and given to this corrupt organization. And so for that issue to finally, finally, so long overdue, for that issue to finally be in the forefront is just amazing to watch.
And I got to say, I really enjoy watching the people spaz out over it. Because just look at like what they're reduced to arguing. Here, look at this. Let's play that clip. I forget the other guy's name, but Kara Swisher is the one I was just arguing with on Piers Morgan. She was saying dumb shit to me. And here they are saying more dumb shit to other people.
I want to know who are these young, highly intelligent, highly motivated zealots following them into these buildings and shutting off payments to schools and head starts. I want to know their names.
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Chapter 8: What is the controversy surrounding Doge's financial audits?
It could be. Elon Musk, with his three wizards and some AI algorithms, can actually cut through the entire government's budget and tell us where all the fraud and abuse is going to. And I don't understand how you take the other side of that we should not get rid of the fraud and abuse from government. Like you were saying, where's the Q? Like, if that's the end result, so fine.
Maybe there would be a better mechanism for how to clean this up. And maybe Elon Musk, even if he's appointed by the president, shouldn't be allowed to have a private company also. Thank you.
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