Chapter 1: What are the implications of potential military action against Iran?
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. Good to be with you people. Good to be with you, Rob. How are you today?
I'm doing well. How are you, Mr. Smith?
I'm good. You know what I started thinking about that's actually been putting me in a good mood is that we're going to Key West in a few weeks. Oh, yeah, I got to book that flight.
I could use that vacation right now. Let's go.
Oh, dude, it's a... This is... I don't know why it's not like the biggest club, but I loved that so much going down there last year. Just really, really fun when you live in New Jersey or in Rob's case, Connecticut, but same point in February to just go down to Key West for a few days and just relax.
I haven't been drinking, smoking or anything. I'm going to make up for all that in Key West.
it is uh i keep telling myself you're going to key west in two weeks relax yeah no it's impossible to not drink in key west i'm pretty sure it's illegal they might just shoot you on the street yeah you can't you can't touch those roosters but you could shoot a man who's not drinking in key west i think like you have to be within two feet of a cocktail at all times like you got to be able to grab ones
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Chapter 2: How does Gavin Newsom's podcast with Ben Shapiro address Israel?
that's yes and i didn't make it up but i will go there every year um so yeah looking forward to that just also because uh just particularly because it's been i mean for those of you guys who aren't on the northeast it's been fucking frigid out here man it's like uh i think and it's supposed to be it was like 10 degrees yesterday it's like 10 degrees today i think it's supposed to be in the negatives in the next couple days it's a real good time yeah it's a real good time to
Dip down to Key West for a little bit. Yeah. Okay. So I wanted to, for today's show, I want to talk about something, which is, it's a bit of a broad theme. And then there's several different kind of examples of what it is I'm talking about. Something I'm very concerned with. And because we've been saying for a while, Rob, right? Like,
there's just the United States of America is a very weird position right now. Very strange. And I, I try, you know, like they say, history doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes or something. And things are kind of cyclical. So when you try to understand these things, you try to like, look for, you know, other moments in history that had some similarities, but it's very hard to find one.
Cause this is such a unique moment. And, you know, essentially like, as we talked about through kind of all of last year, it was one of the biggest themes of last year that like the, the, The government's propaganda apparatus has essentially been shattered. There is no more consensus on anything. And in fact, to the extent that there is a consensus, it's almost like,
hours like the the podcast scenes consensus you know um like like i'm just saying like you know when they used to say like the the scientific consensus on covid or something like that well what's the consensus on covid now i guess it's kind of like oh the government everything up the media lied to everybody that's kind of the consensus now but there's no like real apparatus that the government has which they always have
And particularly in modern nation states, like they've just always had this. And so it does, there is this weird feeling, right? It kind of feels like, you remember in the old cartoons, Rob, when like a character would like run off a cliff, but then they make it a few more steps and then they have a moment where they pause and then they look down and then they fall.
It feels like we're right about to look down. But like, we're like, it just, there's, look, I mean, Donald Trump, think about, The last year, the year that was 2025 and how much like the pro-Israel arguments just got completely destroyed. You know, all the anti-war people were ascending and all the war hawks are just getting embarrassed.
And then as a result of that, Donald Trump's going more hawkish than he's ever gone before. So there's this weird kind of like asymmetry or something, and that's not the right word. There's this weird dynamic where like in terms of the narrative war, our side is dominating. In terms of the policy, we're losing worse than ever.
And one of the things that I've been concerned about, very concerned about, is like, okay, so what comes next? And the state, at the end of the day, the state is an instrument of force and they use propaganda to convince you that their force is legitimate. But if they run out of propaganda, all they got left is force. You know what I mean? Like that's there.
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Chapter 3: What concerns arise from the current state of U.S. propaganda?
That's not going to have an effect on anything. It's like, like, I mean, I guess TikTok, I'm a little out of touch. Like I've never used TikTok myself. I've never TikToked. TikTok tie real good. I've never I have never tick tocked. Never one, not even one talk. But I know that it's huge. And it was real big, like for Gen Z people fucking really love watching it.
And so like, I'm not saying it doesn't mean anything to take that over. I do think that that was like a fertile ground for a lot of people to wake up to some of the lies that the war party has told us. Um, but you know, if there's other social media platform, if they ended up shutting that down, people just move over to the other site.
So like, as long as there's some, as long as you got, like, like you said there, right? Like as long as Twitter's a whole lot better about censoring people, YouTube's a whole lot better. We still got rumble. You still get like, as long as you have like at least a few big ones, eh, it's fine. They'll go to that. And buying CBS news, it's like, Oh, what a fucking joke, dude.
You know, you're literally, you're spending all this money for the name of the name brand cbs and it's a name that no one trusts or gives a about it's the dumbest thing like you might as well spend hundreds of millions of dollars buying soda or something like what no one wants it um but
that's the thing you know it's like we talked about this a lot they keep failing they keep losing every goddamn one of these things rob every time there's a war party event there's the jewish organization for this or the zionist organization for that or the whatever you know whatever anything where anyone from the american enterprise institute is speaking or the you know whatever um
They're all the topic is always the same. They all get up there and go, hey, we are getting killed. You know, we've played the clips of that crazy lady who was Obama's speechwriter. There's just just the other day at this one. We're going to play a clip from Pam Bondi talking at this this event. What's her name? Who's the former DNC? No, no, no. The former DNC chair Wasserman Schultz.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz. Yeah, she's 10 out of 10. No, she just got up there. It's her thing. We're getting killed out here. There's a whole new generation who don't support Israel and they hate Jews and blah, blah, blah. It's like every single time they're talking about how they're getting killed. So you see things like, oh, this is going to fail. Barry Weiss.
That was the most predictable thing ever.
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Chapter 4: How has the perception of Donald Trump's foreign policy shifted?
Also, by the way, they're so out of touch that Barry Weiss thought, you know who should be in front of the camera? Me.
oh yes let's get let's get an unattractive liberal lesbian to like it's just it i don't know it's just bizarre that she even thought i'd be the one who could carry this message but her interview with the middle of the country dave yeah right that's right jewish lesbians that's what represents the middle of the country it's literally like what she's trying to do like in elitist fucking jewish lesbian it's just too ridiculous um but
You know, her Erica Kirk interview flopped like nobody watched it. She does this, but no one cares. But so as they keep failing, that's the point I'm making. Then it's like, OK, well, what else do you have other than let's escalate and crack down? Because one of the big advantages that they have over us is that they have like the administration's ear. You know, we we just don't.
I mean, we got Tucker Carlson who still talks to the president, but. I don't think he's convincing them. And, you know, like, it's just it's a different situation. And so you wonder, look, the writing's kind of on the walls. Do they have to crack down on this more in the future? But already right. Seeing seeing cops go up. to people's houses for posts that they made.
And these aren't like, it's not like they're coming to my house or something, which would be like a little bit less alarming.
I mean, more so for me, but less so for the country, but it's not like they're coming to someone's house who it's like, you're a huge, you know, you got a big following on social media and you're saying this, there's going to random people, like a random guy just said a thing. And now they're coming after them. Very disturbing. Uh, and, and, uh,
substantially more disturbing than that were these comments made by uh the disgraced attorney general pam bondy let's uh let's let's go to that clip um because this was from the same event that maria madelson spoke at uh the other day this was i mean i just i couldn't even believe she's saying the shit out loud but here let's play that clip
I wanna tell you a story right here in Florida. You've probably heard of it. It's not a crime of great violence, but in my opinion, it's a crime of great significance. I give college presidents my personal cell phone and I say, if you need anything, call me. My phone rang one day, I was sitting in the office and it was the president of Florida State University.
And he said, something just happened. Yeah, a young woman, a student threw her phone, cursed, attacked a young student, a young male student who was playing basketball because he was wearing an IDF shirt. She was a student, he was a student.
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Chapter 5: What are the dangers of censorship in today's political climate?
You get the logic of that? It's not the same thing. And to conflate those two things are just... clearly intentionally dishonest. Those are different fucking things. It wasn't that you were just German, it's that you were specifically making a statement about how you support this group of German
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um any thoughts on this rob i just love a lady getting up in front of a room of jews and going hey if you guys keep tattle telling this administration has your back and then them applauding at the administration i mean talk about such a wild escalation i don't know the incident but i guess a kid who's playing basketball had a phone thrown at him and he decides to go to the school administration that kid's already tattle telling then the school administrator
Yeah, the school administrator couldn't handle that in-house and had to actually call up the Pam Bondi to deal with it. And then Pam Bondi actually took the time to call up lawyers and make sure that this was properly prosecuted. And then you cheer this on in a room full of Jews who go, yay, tattletaling.
Yeah. I mean, like, dude, they lean into the stereotype so hard. It's like, it is a weird thing. Like, what are you trying to create more of this? Is that your goal? I mean... Again, dude, just think about the Attorney General. I mean, just how pathetic this is.
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Chapter 6: How does the discussion on anti-Semitism evolve throughout the episode?
If something like that happened to one of my kids, there would be a meeting about it and shit. Like, but I got little kids. If my son was 20 and he told me he was playing basketball and a girl threw something at him, the idea that I'd say, take this to the chancellor. So like, what? No, it's just too weird to me.
It's too like, anyway, the idea that you'd go take it to the attorney general is just like insane. And also, I don't think, I don't know if I'd want that girl kicked out of school. maybe like someone should talk to her, maybe some type of punishment, but that would seem a little excessive to me.
But for the attorney general to be bringing this up at an event and talking about it publicly is just, it's beyond bizarre. And look, I mean, Again, Rob, like, you kind of made one of the points. We were saying, like, leaning into stereotypes, like going and speaking at a Jewish event and telling them, like, we tattled and we won, you know? That's not great. But then also, I mean, come on.
Like, as Ben Shapiro said the other day, anti-Semitism is a conspiracy theory. It's a conspiracy theory that the Jews run everything. It's like... Well... I mean, what does this look like? What does all of this make it look like? That, oh, okay, so like, don't worry, the full force of the federal government is behind making sure that nobody is hostile toward Jews. That kind of confirms the thing.
It's like the great old Norm Macdonald joke. It's just like, all of this just plays right into the stereotypes. It's... Nothing good coming out of any of this. You know, let's do the let's play the what's his name again? The ADL guy. Hold on one second. It's the last one that I sent you, Jonathan Greenblatt, because this one is is pretty wild as well.
This is this is the head of the ADL giving his take on a similar dynamic.
So number one, we measure and track. Number two, we monitor and disrupt. We have a whole apparatus. I have 40 analysts working full time, seven days a week, 24 hours a day, monitoring extremists. We monitor them online, social media, messaging apps, video games, cryptocurrency, podcasts, short form video, Wikipedia, LLMs. We monitor these people and we share the intelligence with the FBI.
you saw last month you heard about uh the thing that happened at wilshire boulevard temple our analysts investigated what happened they said they were korea town for palestine this group people they weren't we were able to ascertain they were from a group called the turtle island liberation front turtle island is how like left-wing activists refer to the united states they don't call it america they call it turtle island
like the Iranians call it, the Zionist entity, the one we call by its name. The Turtle Island Liberation Front, we gave them a whole dossier. What is Turtle Island Liberation Front? What are their ideas, their goals? Who are they? We identified the people who were in the synagogue. This was on Wednesday, December the 10th. On Monday, December the 15th, this is going to ring a bell.
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Chapter 7: What role does money play in political influence according to the speakers?
And then in a room full of Jewish people... well i can still just set it up they're asking so what are you guys able to do to court influence i know you're giving them a lot of money but what are your other maneuvers for courting influence yeah here let's let's play the clip talk about something just not to put on tape we have many sessions here about how important it is to get involved
to build a relationship with a politician and to have access. And access and relationship can buy you influence. Doesn't mean it's going to buy you. So you both muster that. So can you share with us? I want everyone to learn today. How do you build a relationship with a politician? I know there is always money involved because that's part of the system.
But the relationship is not always just about money.
It's unbelievable how disgusting that is and how it's just played off like, hey, listen, I know that we live in the grossest world ever, where if you have enough money, you can purchase influence. And both of you guys are doing a great job of partaking in this corruption of purchasing influence. But for all the people out here that don't have as much money, what else can they do?
to get influence above just voting and everything else that other American, but just the way he plays off something that's actually so evil about our reality is perfectly socially acceptable and normal.
And particularly, dude, Rob, I mean, just just the optics of it. I mean, you're sitting here in a thick Israeli accent talking at the Israeli America Alliance, whatever this thing is called, talking about how to buy off our government. Like, it's just like if you were doing this, which obviously they are, you would just think you would at least have the decency to not talk about it out loud.
You know, like, what the fuck are you talking about?
You're supposed to read about this in a conspiracy book that behind some closed door rumors were stated that Israeli people were talking about how much money do they have to spend to court influence? Not in front of television cameras in a room of people clapping.
Yeah, this is the thing that Nick Fuentes is supposed to say. And then other people go, ah, that's a racist conspiracy theory. You're not supposed to hear it from their mouths at an event that they decided to televise or record or whatever. It's just crazy. Here, let's keep going.
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Chapter 8: How do immigration policies impact societal dynamics in the U.S.?
But anyway, OK, the kind of point being made. So Sam Harris and them, they sit here and have this conversation and they're like, oh, it's this awful conspiracy theory that Jews are behind open immigration. And then essentially they just go on to explain that, like, yeah. Jews supported open immigration because we benefited from it in the past.
And I don't know, Rob, it's like, again, like with all these things, there's also a whole lot of Jews who are border hawks. And so like, it doesn't make sense to like blame Jews as a whole. But like, I've always just found this to be an odd, you know, me and you have talked about this for years.
In fact, I remember like whatever it was like 10 years ago when you came on the show when we first started podcasting together. We used to talk about these things where there'd be like the – in fact, some of them were like Barry Weiss clips and stuff like that where she'd be talking about anti-Semitism and all of this.
And I always feel like, okay, but like if you're going to have this conversation – Like, at least just have the conversation. Just, like, be honest about it. Let's actually talk about this. And that doesn't mean you have to come to the conclusion that, yeah, it's right to hate Jews or something like that. But I don't really think too many people are seriously arguing that.
But you go, hey, I mean, open immigration has been a disaster for America. It's been a disaster for Europe. And it is... And particularly in Europe, in a sense, like, you know, you ever look at like the projections, Rob, that it's like we're only like a few decades away from like, like Irish people are going to be a minority in Ireland. British people are going to be a minority in Britain.
You know, like Swedes, a minority in Sweden. And that is... Look, I could look at this a lot of different ways and I can understand, you know, like I'm again, I grew up in New York City. Like I'm not I don't know. I can understand people going, yeah, what difference does it make? Like, what does it matter if this changes or that changes or whatever?
But like on some level, you're like, yeah, but maybe that's kind of profoundly fucked up. Like, you know, Irish people... First off, Ireland's a great example just because they have, like, none of the white guilt or shouldn't have any of the white guilt that, like, plagues so many of these other countries. Like, Ireland never dominated anyone. It just never did anything.
They didn't fucking... As far as I know, they didn't have a slave trade. They never conquered anyone. They were just getting their asses kicked by the British. That was their entire... And Irish people, like, real deal, fucking thought and died... for their independence, for their autonomy, like for their people to continue.
And then if a bunch of politicians against the will of the Irish people just like decided to completely change it so that Ireland goes extinct, well, you could certainly see where a lot of people would have a problem with that.
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