Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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 how you feeling today rob doing good man fun shows out in stanford and uh looking looking forward to the big chicago weekend Ooh, that's right. This weekend, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, we will be out in Chicago.
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Before we even get into the news, Rob... I got a new fighting style that I wanted to tell you about. I invented my own fighting system. I think I topped Helio Gracie. This is like can't be defeated. I could win any fight. Okay, so here's how it works, right? All right, so let's say like you were trying to fight me, right? You come at me with your hands up. You're ready to fight.
So I step back and I go, you throw one punch. I will totally obliterate you. I just tell you that you will be, you will be wiped off the face of the map, never to be seen from again. Okay. So that's the, okay. Now you might be thinking, what if, what if that doesn't work? And that guy just keeps coming toward me. Well, then I extend the deadline to when you're totally obliterated.
Like I go, I'll give you another two weeks, but I'm going to totally obliterate you. And then if that doesn't work and you keep coming toward me, I just punch myself in the face. Before you can do it, I just start punching myself in the face. And I go, you're not beating me up because I'm beating me up. So it's kind of foolproof if you think it through.
Yeah. Who's going to continue that fight after that? Ultimatums and beating yourself up?
Yeah. When he starts kicking the shit out of himself. It is. What a... Dude, I mean, look, I will grant because I've... been fairly accurate in a lot of predictions about this current uh state of this conflict i did not think the news coming into monday would be that the u.s has closed the strait of harmos that one that one took me by surprise a little bit so let's let's get into all of this um
So, of course, over the weekend, there was a there was a what they were saying was a 21 hour negotiation meeting between, you know, Iranian officials and Steve Witkoff, Jared Kushner and the vice president and their team. Uh, 21 hours, by the way, that's a long time to negotiate anything. She has a long time to just have a conversation. 21 hours.
Well, what's so absurd about it is that amidst the, uh, red lines, the United States of America was whether or not Iran could even enrich uranium. So the idea that they went into a 21 hour talk of basically JD Vance being like, all right, so you admit that we won the war and they're like, well, no. And how do you do that for 21 straight hours?
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Chapter 2: What is the significance of the U.S. blocking the Strait of Hormuz?
All right, let's get back into the show. JD Vance comes out, announces, we could not make the, we could not get a deal. says it's about that enriched uranium. They were willing to compromise on some other issues, but not on this one.
And so, of course, as we teased here, and as everyone paying attention knows, Donald Trump then announced this kind of interesting military move where he says, hey, all right, well, the U.S. Navy is going to blockade the Strait of Hormuz. They're claiming that they're going to
they're going to stop and check every ship that's coming out of there and essentially the game is here right which is it's interesting in a way because So me and you have been talking about quite a bit over the last couple of weeks.
What is one of the really interesting dynamics that's emerging from this war, which is like, oh, wait, like if Iran really is just now in control of the Strait of Hormuz, this makes them a global power. It gives them a whole type of leverage on the international stage that they never had before.
And Donald Trump essentially is admitting that, that that's really what the issue is here, is that, shit, we can't just walk away from this where they get the say over who can come through the Strait of Hormuz or not. Now, of course, Donald Trump, as he constantly does, he is just contradicting himself left and right.
I mean, it's like he can't get through a sentence without the end of it contradicting the beginning of that sentence because he already told you that the Strait doesn't matter to us It's the rest of the world's problem and the rest of the world's responsibility. And he already told us that it would naturally open up. But of course, I guess what he meant by naturally open up is the U.S.
Navy blockading it. Anyway, now, I don't know. I have not I don't think I've ever read about or seen like a blockade to counter a blockade before.
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Chapter 3: How did the U.S. approach negotiations with Iran?
I guess the game here is that Donald Trump will go, well, hey. we can't stop you, but we can cut off our nose to spite your face type of thing. We certainly have the naval capabilities, I think, to say, hey, if there's a ship that has been given permission by Iran to go through the strait, we're not letting you through. So now no one can get through.
So Iran, they ultimately control the decision to keep the thing all the way open, or all the way closed. We're denying them their middle ground of the straights open to who we say, but close to who we say. And so, of course, the Trump sycophants are out celebrating this as like a brilliant move that totally turned the tables.
He's showing them, you know, because somehow this is the art of the deal, Rob. This is, you know... what 3D negotiating is really all about. What you do is you threaten total destruction of the civilization. Then you completely capitulate to all of their demands. Then you say, nah, we didn't capitulate to none of your demands.
Then you do a completely different military action, which the targeted outcome for is exactly the opposite of what we all wanted. We wanted the straight open. Now we've got it completely closed. They'll still go. Genius. And dude, it's amazing to me watching people. It's sad in a way. It's like this sad desperation of these people who are like trying to defend Donald Trump.
And much like with the war itself, the entire thing relies on literally, as some of them will say in their own words, trust the plan. The whole thing is like, well, Trump did it, dude. He wouldn't do it unless he had a genius plan. And the evidence of him having a genius plan is that he did it. So obviously, and not a single one of them goes, hey, talk me through how that works.
Talk me through the logistics. The same shit we were always saying about this war, saying for years about this war. Well, talk me through how this works. Now, I just found, by the way, I'm going to post this on social media later. I just found an article that Scott Horton wrote in 2005. 2005, 21 years ago. And you know what he predicted would happen if you went into Iran?
Because they were talking about the war, you know, invading Iran at the time. And he goes, they're going to hit all our bases in the region and close the Strait of Hormuz. That's what Scott Horton said in 2005. You know, it's like, it's funny, dude, because, you know, forever, Rob, you know, people with the thing I always get from people, you know, you're not an expert. You're just a comedian.
Who is this Scott Horton guy, you know, who you say is the best foreign policy guy in the country? He goes, yep, that's right. That's him. 21 years ago, what Donald Trump thought was totally nobody had ever thought that this might happen. Well, actually, yeah. Someone did. Many people did. But anyway, but just in terms of the logistics, sorry, Rob, let me just say this and then you can go.
In terms of logistics, because the major issues here are, okay, first of all, you're putting your Navy off the coast of Iran. Okay, that is right well within range of their medium range intercontinental ballistic missiles. So that's issue number one. They got all types of drones and missiles left at this point. Clearly, they're still hitting targets. Now you just gave them a lot more targets.
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Chapter 4: How does the podcast analyze Trump's military strategies?
Hey man, communism, right? No, the answer obviously to Steven Kreider is no. Why? Because you're pro-life. You view that as like a moral deal breaker. Okay, well, some of us are actually pro-life and we're consistent about it. And so, yes, that's what we view this as. When he's sitting there, by the way, first off, of all those people, Even I'd include Candace, I think, in the list.
But certainly Tucker, certainly Megan, and definitely Alex Jones. I'm pretty sure about Candace too. None of them have been going as hard against Trump as I have. None of them have really been taking the gloves off like that. But he starts by going, they didn't just criticize him. They really went, they said he should be removed. I don't know who said he should be removed, but...
Yeah, I mean, again, I'm not saying I follow every single show, but, like, no. In other words, Steven Crowder's going, hey, you can criticize him, sure, but don't, like, criticize him too severely. But he just launched a war of aggression, a war of choice that's an unmitigated disaster that he can't get out of that's gotten Americans killed and cost us over $100 billion or something like that.
If you can't criticize that fiercely, what can you criticize? This is why I say ordered 10,000 abortions.
Chapter 5: What are the implications of Iran's control over the Strait of Hormuz?
Why is it so much different? Blowing up little girls' schools, getting people killed left and right, civilians, innocent people, children. And so what is all of this? It's like you just fall back to this like, oh, but the Democrats winning again is a nightmare. Okay, well, then don't do this. Then don't do this and keep your coalition together. I'm sorry, dude.
And I'm sure that I just, I use the abortion example because I bet all you guys, you see it pretty clearly there, don't you? As bad as the Democrats are, if the Republican ordered 10,000 involuntary abortions, and yes, I understand that all abortions are involuntary, but I mean, in this case, the mother didn't want it either. Just to make it worse, why not? Uh...
You'd go, yeah, as bad as that other thing is, we have to criticize this in the strongest possible language because we oppose this. That's how some of us feel about reckless, unnecessary wars. Sorry, we got like a moral hang up about the whole thing. All right, guys, let's take a moment and thank our sponsor for today's show, which is cowboy colostrum this spring.
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Listen, I hate the Democrats. And if Kamala had won, we might still have a lot of people pouring over the border. We'd still be hearing about ESG scores and the woke agenda. There'd still be a glamorizing of the trans agenda. You'd probably have more tech censorship.
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Chapter 6: What are the contradictions in Trump's statements regarding military actions?
You'd have a lot of lunacy that I don't like. But at the end of the day, Donald Trump is a democratic socialist and a war hungry democratic socialist. And between his tariff policy for centralized government policy for more manufacturing jobs that will not be coming back. And now the fact that he's spending more money than anyone ever.
And it's for isn't I think the military is a socialist institution. Yep, pretty sure it is. And so you're going to spend more money than anyone ever. And I mean, this is not conservative.
Think about it, Rob. Think about it. You go, everything else is communism. So we need this. And this outspends communism. More government spending than the communists that you're talking about.
Yeah, well, listen, this is no different than the Democrats that went down with Biden and said, hey, Trump's just so bad that we're going to be dishonest about the fact that Biden has dementia.
And at some point, I think it just showcases the fact that you're just playing team sports and that you're completely dishonest and that there's really no reason for anyone to listen to your opinions or analysis because there's nothing there other than, hey, we've got to play for our team and this is our team. So here's the best framing for what our team's doing.
you're just state-run propaganda at that point essentially it's like dude i can just listen to what the white house press secretary says in the morning why do i have to go watch crowder's show i get it she says it first and then you defend whatever she said if if that completely contradicts everything you said yesterday okay doesn't matter we got to defend this now um it's it's you know
Again, also, for people who actually follow this stuff and are actually kind of aware of all of this, What is he looking at if he's going to talk about like really trying to harp on the worst things that the Democrats have done? And hey, look, no question. We all are in agreement about that.
I'm sure me, you and Crowder could sit down and talk about, you know, whatever the climate agenda, the woke agenda, the covid agenda, all of this and agree on on all this stuff. But like. Let's also remember history the way it actually happened. You're going, I'm really worried about compelled speech, forced speech, arresting truckers.
Okay, the worst tyranny that any of the woke progressive establishment was fully supporting were COVID lockdowns. Donald Trump was the president of the United States of America. He kept Fauci as the face of the response to COVID. He did nothing to expose the fact that, oh yeah, Fauci made the thing and then lied about it. did nothing at all to prosecute Fauci.
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