Congress Takes A Break
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What is Dave Smith’s outlook on the upcoming midterm elections?
What's up? What's up, people? Welcome to a brand new episode of Part of the Problem. I am Dave Smith. Thank you very much for uh for joining, for taking the time to listen to me. Uh, just me, this episode, Roland Solo. Thank you to everybody who came out this weekend in Dallas, man. What a great time. Uh, always love doing those hyenas clubs there in Fort Worth and Dallas. Uh, if you're if you're in that area, man, those are a couple of great comedy clubs that they got there. Thank you so much to everybody who came out. Great, great shows uh this weekend. And then well I'm off this this weekend. I get a nice one with the family. Uh, but then we'll be back out on the road. We got um, what is the next up? Oh, the next up is Salt Lake City and Las Vegas.
Uh, so I will be headed out there. Salt Lake City and Las Vegas. I'm bringing Robbie the Fire Bernstein with me, of course, comicdavismith.com, uh, for all of those ticket links. And of course, Rob's going all around the country on his own as well. Uh, porchtour.com for all his stuff. And of course. check out Rob's other show run your mouth fantastic hilarious show um okay so Few things that are on my mind uh for today's show. Uh, the first one I alluded to on the uh the members only show that we did over the weekend. By the way, if you guys are unaware, we do four shows uh a week. It's not just three. There's a fourth show, but you have to subscribe over at partoftheproblem.com uh to get the fourth show.
And then you also get the show every Day when it streams, ad-free, uncensored, the entire archive of the show. And of course, you get to support us if you love what we're doing. And so please do, if you can't subscribe over at partoftheproblem.com. And thank you to all of those of you who have. But so I find I this is the kind of point that I wanted to make. I I alluded to this on the members-only episode, but I'd wanted to get uh into it more fully here. But this really is remarkable to me. And This has to do with, I guess, what has been a major theme of this show over the last year. Uh I guess the last year plus, you know, the summer's over here. Uh we're we're like into the fall, I guess. Or I don't know, when is technically the summer over, but it's right around now.
Um and So the summer of 26 is over. It was at the beginning of the summer of 2025 that I, I guess, officially uh jumped with both feet off of the Trump train and publicly called for his impeachment. Um, I think I'm not sure about this. I've never actually bothered to look this up, but I do think of the people who supported Trump. Um I d I I I you know, I mean I don't know. I guess it's kind of arbitrary how you'd measure this, but of the big name people who supported Donald Trump, I think I was the first one to jump off and certainly w one of the first, if not the first, and ones who jumped off like the most ferociously. I called for his, you know, impeachment and I think a trial maybe. Who remembers? But I was right.
Anyway, um Yeah, I mean I joined the latest and I left the earliest or something like that of the Trump uh coalition. But I you know, I remember at that time, to me, when he launched the 12-day war and he covered up the Epstein uh files, it was like it was obvious the decision the administration had made. And I think over the last year, year and a few months, that that's kind of been borne out. Now, you know, that's from my perspective. One of the major arguments along the way, as we've talked about on the show, has been z let's say as over that period of time. You know, if you remember this was like I was like kind of the first one, at least in my circle, of of people who jumped off. But over that period of time now, obviously Tucker and Megan Kelly and Alex Jones and Candace Owens and you know uh I mean I wouldn't say I I don't know exactly what the status with Rogan is, but he's certainly been very critical of a lot of the policies.
Um, and Theo Vaughn and guys and Andrew Schultz and all these guys have been very critical of the administration. And um during that time, the guys who still supported Donald Trump uh essentially
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is Dave Smith’s outlook on the upcoming midterm elections?
0:06–11:46
2
How does the host describe his break from the Trump coalition and his early impeachment stance?
11:46–23:11
3
What arguments does Dave make about the Democratic establishment’s impact on future elections?
23:11–33:51
4
How does the episode critique Victor Davis Hanson’s defense of Israel?
33:51–43:42
5
What are the key points in the debate over Israel being labeled an apartheid state?
43:42–52:50
6
How does the host challenge the claims of ethnic cleansing and genocide in Gaza?
52:50–1:02:11
7
What historical comparisons are used to discuss settler colonialism and its relevance to Israel?
1:02:11–1:11:13
8
What final takeaways does Dave Smith leave listeners with before ending the show?
1:11:13–1:11:43