Chapter 1: What events led to the current state of the war with Iran?
what's up everybody what's up welcome to a brand new episode of part of the problem i am dave smith he is robbie the fire bernstein we are fresh back from oklahoma uh we we both flew back yesterday and then the day after tomorrow we're flying out to phoenix arizona where we will be at the desert ridge improv all weekend we got shows uh
One show Thursday night and then two shows Friday, two shows Saturday out there. First time ever going out to do stand up in Phoenix. I'm really looking forward to it. I know we got a lot of fans out there. People are excited for us to come.
Yeah, these are we're headed into the wild times and you get home and then two days later, you already got to be back up at four in the morning and fly out. And then. I'm already porching people, so I got a show in Bridgeport, Connecticut, Old Sabra, Connecticut, D.C., and Long Island City coming up. You can find all those dates at robburnsoncommy.com. Detroit's coming up.
A lot of dates going up there, so go check it out. I will be dropping more dates soon.
Hell yeah, dude. That's right. It's in the 70s outside. You smell that fresh cut grass. That means Rob's drunken show is coming up real soon to a porch near you. All right. So let's get into some stuff.
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Chapter 2: How is Donald Trump's strategy perceived in relation to Iran?
There's a bunch to talk about. It's one of those shows where I got more topics to talk about than we'll be able to cover in a show. But let's get into it. All right. The war. Is somehow going worse. It's somehow worse than it was just a few days ago. There's essentially I mean, not it's not worse in a major developing way.
It seems to me my read on the situation is essentially that Donald Trump is still trying to figure out gimmicks. that he believes will persuade Iran to take a deal that's less favorable to them. That seems to be, as I mentioned on the last episode, what all of this is about. There's been a fair escalation in the Strait of Hormuz. Donald Trump launched what he called Operation Freedom,
Because we know it always works out as long as you call it freedom, Rob. Don't let Operation Iraqi Freedom fuck with you on this one. This is a totally different thing. Operation Persian Freedom or whatever. And, you know, again, there's it just seems to me like if I were to sum up what's going on right now with the war, it's like.
It almost feels like you're, like, I don't know, to make like an automobile analogy, which isn't my, but like your brakes are shot and you're sitting here messing around with like, well, What if I put some more AC fluid in?
Chapter 3: What are the implications of Trump's military options in the Strait of Hormuz?
And you're like, yeah, that's really not going to get at the heart of the matter here. The bottom line here, these are the undeniable dynamics. We've been talking about them for weeks, right?
But the bottom line here is that the Pentagon's assessment of militarily opening the Strait of Hormuz, as they said to Congress clearly, was that it will take six months and it can't happen until the war in Iran is over.
Translation, Rob, there's no military option to open the Strait of Hormuz because you have to end the war anyway, and then it's going to take, so you'd essentially have to get Iran's blessing for you to militarily open it. We don't have their blessing. If we had their blessing, we wouldn't need to militarily open it because it would be open, right?
So like, it's a clear case of there isn't a military solution. And so essentially all that Donald Trump has right now is to threat, is to threaten Iran and hope that the threat scares them enough that they capitulate. And like, hey, after all, we do have the most powerful military fight and force in the history of the world. So let's threaten it. There's one major problem with that, Rob.
People may have forgotten about this because it was, I don't know, years, decades ago. But Donald Trump already threatened to destroy the entire civilization. He threatened to destroy the entire civilization. And you know what the response of the Iranian people was, Rob? Well, it was largely to like, what did they do to go stand on the bridges?
to literally go stand on the bridges and go, you're going to have to kill all of us if you want to take him out. That is not the response of a people who seem ready to capitulate. And if they weren't going to capitulate to that threat,
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Chapter 4: How does the conversation shift to propaganda and censorship?
What else is there? You threaten total civilizational destruction. And they weren't going for that. So I don't know your read other than this, but it seems pretty clear to me here that, like, Trump can talk all the shit he wants to. They're not backing down. And you're in a situation where it's like, now what? Now what are you going to do?
You see, I seem to be getting different news than you, because from what I understand, this has been de-escalated to a mini-war, and Donald Trump just got two boats through the straits, so it's essentially open, despite from what you're hearing from Iran.
Yeah, yeah, it's open. I mean, don't let the fact that over the last two weeks, less ships have passed through than at any other time in the Strait of Hormuz in my lifetime. Don't let that fuck with you. But that's what we view as open. Um, Donald Trump is, um, look, I mean, what, what can you say at this point? We called it at the beginning of this war.
The guy just totally trashed his own presidency. He's running around really just embarrassing himself at this point. Let's play. There's, there's a bunch of stuff. I know you had sent one of the longer, let's start Natalie with the two that I, uh, sent. So let's, here's, here's Donald Trump just earlier today talking about what, uh, the, the state of post-war will look like.
Chapter 5: What role do media figures like Mark Levin play in the current political landscape?
Okay, so this is the the latest pitch here Rob there's a quick quick clip the latest pitch here Is that when this is all over Rob?
Just try to imagine a world like this, Rob. When this war is over, Iran will not have nuclear weapons and the Strait of Hormuz will be open. Can you imagine a world like that? Can you? Did you ever dream that maybe one day you could live in a world where Iran didn't have nuclear weapons and the Strait of Hormuz was open? I mean, sure. We were all in that world eight weeks ago.
And before that, my entire life. And beyond that, all of human history. I mean, I don't know. I'm not sure it was the Strait of Hormuz closed like in the past. OK, maybe I shouldn't say all of human history, but they never had a nuclear weapon. That's for sure. So Donald Trump is going to hand us the victory of what was the status quo before he launched this war.
That's the best he can come up with promising right now.
Well, you know, in this fast-moving media environment, it's hard to imagine a world that existed eight weeks ago. Yeah. Yeah. No, it sure is.
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Chapter 6: How are public sentiments shifting regarding the war and censorship?
It's hard to go back in time and remember a world that we lived in when the streets were open and Iran didn't have a nuke. But Donald Trump promises to spend more money and get us back there. to bring us back to the promised land.
Look, he's making America great again by restoring it to exactly the way it was. That is Donald Trump. And he will, by the way, he'll add this war to the list of wars he's ended if we ever do get out of this. But he hasn't quite ended it yet. So anyway, here, let's go to the other clip from Donald Trump again. This is where the propaganda is at right now.
Oh, the skirmish. Because Iran has no chance. They never did. They know. They express it to me when I talk to them. Then they get on television. They say how well they're doing. And they have no Navy totally wiped out. They have no Air Force totally wiped out. They have no anti-aircraft capability totally wiped out. No radar.
Chapter 7: What arguments are being made against the war and censorship?
They have no leaders. The leaders are wiped out. The whole thing. And then I read the papers and they say how well they're doing. They're not doing well. That's why you have no credibility. No credibility. The news, the fake news has no credibility, but I call it.
You know, Rob, the thing is, it's really very clear cut. If you keep saying things that aren't true, then eventually you have no credibility. And that is what Donald Trump is lecturing others about. in this war that he has declared victory in 50 times. He's declared the strait was open. He's declared that there's a deal where we're getting all the enriched uranium.
He's declared that he's going to end their civilization. But he's very worried that you lose credibility if you keep saying things that aren't true. Again, what Donald Trump here... Look, again, this is on the level of trying to convince you that Joe Biden isn't senile when he clearly can't speak. There's some propaganda that's just... going to be really tough to sell.
And the idea here, right, as I mentioned on the last show, as I just mentioned in the opening here, the whole game here is to make Iran capitulate.
Chapter 8: What conclusions are drawn about the future of U.S.-Iran relations?
But the fact that Donald Trump is going to look you in the eye and go, and they totally are. They are. They get on the phone with me. They keep telling me how weak they are, how much they want to make a deal. But then they get on TV and they just lie. And it's like, OK. But then why are they not making a deal? Why have they not? I mean, I'm sorry, Rob.
It's just, as I've said, I think I've taken kind of a humble, reasonable stance on this. I've never said that, like, hey, look what the Iranian regime says. That's the truth. Because the Iranians say, look, hey, they lie, too. They're also a government. I'm just saying, if you look at the words of both sides and then look at their actions, I don't know.
how you're going to sit here and claim that they are waving the white flag. They are attempting to surrender. What we know is that, as I said, when you threaten to destroy their civilization, their people went and stood on those bridges. When you threaten to destroy their civilization, the regime said, well, then I'd evacuate Saudi Arabia if I were you.
By the way, this regime that Donald Trump talks about that has no leadership and no military and no intelligence and no infrastructure, what have they been doing over the last 24 hours, Rob? They've been bombing the UAE. Someone's doing that. They're not making a deal. They got up and left the talks in Pakistan.
So all of the available evidence to us points at one obvious conclusion, which is that Donald Trump is completely full of shit. Nothing else makes sense here other than that very simple answer, which is also consistent with Donald Trump's entire track record as a human being. What do you think?
I love, uh, I want to see the Iranians, uh, just play Trump back at Trump and it would be all of their middle Eastern bases are destroyed. They're running out of Patriot missiles. Their own population doesn't like it. They're spending too much money. The streets are closed. Their middle Eastern partners are pissed off.
Like, uh, it'd be, it'd be a stronger case than American Trump is making right now. Persian Trump would be, he'd have a lot more to say. Um, yeah.
yeah they can't sustain it no one's going to be able to grow food next year like they got they got plenty of things to say back and at the end of the day uh the straits are closed and so we're still stuck in a war at the moment which is uh usually the reason why you do blockades because they're still engaging in warfare
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