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Chapter 1: What recent developments are impacting the Iran deal?
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What's up? What's up, everybody? Welcome to a brand new episode of Part of the Problem. I am Dave Smith. As always, I'm joined by the great, hilarious Robbie the Fire Bernstein. How are you, sir? I am well, my friend. How are you? I'm good. I'm good. I'm looking forward to going up to Toronto with you. You've got a little string of gigs this weekend, right?
I got a wild amount of stuff. Assuming I get across the border, it'll be a burn at New York on Thursday. Fans got a nice one right out there.
stop adding this caveat into the plug. The point of doing a plug is to get people to come to the show. And then you go with, there's like, I mean, I guess if it happens, it'll be, well, all these other ones are definitely happening. We're going to be in Toronto too. That's the one I'm on. That's the one I care about. We're going to be there.
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Hell yeah, dude. And I'm getting real excited for that Denver weekend, too. That's coming up soon, man. And we got that was I think we sold out every show last year. So we're hoping to do that again this year. If you're in the Denver area and you want to come out, grab tickets now because these are going to move. Comic Dave Smith dot com and then porch tour dot com is your site. Right, Rob?
I got that right. You change it a lot. But I remember.
And I'm excited to not be home for any more weekends for a while because my God, do I hate it.
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Chapter 2: How are influencers reacting to Trump's political moves?
Right back to square one. Absolutely no agreement on any of the major issues. And... Here's the last thing, and then I'll throw it over to you to give your thoughts. What is it all about? What has blown the whole thing up? Israel is not abiding by the ceasefire in Lebanon.
After the president of the United States ordered them to, forbade them from bombing them anymore, they've continued just devastating the place, and this is what blew up the ceasefire. All right, guys, let's take a moment and thank our sponsor for today's show, which is the Wellness Company. You've heard me talk about their product called Mars.
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Well, I agree with you on the last and middle part, but I think I had this story a little bit differently, which was from what I was seeing, the U.S. actually came to the table with some big concessions. And then Donald Trump blew up the deal by saying, I got to change some of these factors. So it seemed like there was actually some momentum towards a deal.
Now, Iran did come back and say, hey, Israel's got to stop in Lebanon. That's a part of what's happening here. That's got to be a part of the ceasefire. And now as to what's going on, uh, as supposed ceasefire stands, it seems like the ceasefire itself is over.
Uh, I guess the, the Iranian shot down, uh, um, a Reaper or some, one of those, the predator or the Reaper, uh, America's claiming that that was not an international, it was an international waters. Iran is claiming otherwise. Um, but yeah, Yeah, I mean, we were saying last week the biggest variable is whether or not Israel is going to play ball.
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Chapter 3: What happened with Cenk Uygur at the UK border?
And so that's a real concern. But then like a secondary concern is almost, and I know I've made the comparison before to like the money printing in 2020, and then how we didn't really feel the price inflation until 2021, 2022.
And what we're doing now with this blockade is almost like, I'm struggling for like the best way to articulate this, but essentially what we're doing is we're going, we're judging by the current pain. this policy, even though most of the pain felt by this policy won't be coming for months. You know what I mean? And so we're going, okay, gas is four bucks and a quarter right now.
That's putting a strain on people. That's what it is here in New Jersey. I don't know. It might be more expensive in California or someplace like that. But You know, you're like, OK, so you're judging off this current. But essentially, as soon as you stop, like as soon as it gets bad enough that you finally have to stop, that doesn't mean the pain is over.
That means we're going to just start feeling the pain of all of these months. And I don't know, Rob, I just this is above my pay grade. But. You know, whatever you look at the numbers, what is this? 20% of global oil flows through the Strait of Hormuz and a huge percentage of fertilizer and other things. And like, okay, that's been blockaded now for like several weeks. What's the impact of that?
I don't know. Seems like very risky, though. And we do live, however any of us feel about this, in such an integrated, such a globalized economy that I don't know. Like, I don't think it's irrational to really be concerned about how much devastation that could have to the entire global economy. All right. These are big numbers we're talking about here.
Yeah, well, the chatter last week is just this is not my specialty by a long shot, but that oil reserves have been drawn down and that that's what was kind of keeping prices somewhat stable. And now we're coming to more of the breaking point of where you're going to see big increases.
That kind of lined up with the fact that Donald Trump was seemingly looking to offer some concessions last week to end the war, even though he has now walked it back from that. So, I mean, that was the storyline last week is that – We're hitting like kind of a crucial stage for when you're going to see oil increases.
But I don't know how to look at oil charts and tell you whether or not that's accurate.
Yeah. No, same, same. That's why I said it's above my pay grade. But it is it does seem to be a big concern. You know, one other thing that I noticed last night, did you see did you see the Trump's truth social post where he goes? He said it'll everything. Just don't worry. Everything will work out. It always does.
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Chapter 4: What are the implications of the ceasefire collapse?
but we're doing it and it'll work out. And like, it always works out. And there's something kind of, and Tucker himself said, and somebody who's very close with Donald Trump, he said, he goes, he's like different. He's changed. And I don't know what, you know, I'm not sure that doesn't like prove that he's blackmailed or something like that. But it does seem for whatever reason,
he has gotten to a place where he's just kind of like look my hands were tied on this one i get what you're saying but we're just gonna do it and whatever it'll all work out looks like i'm probably not going to heaven but like you know whatever um but just just to keep in mind right you know when people say that every other president resisted
The pressure for this war, you know, this is kind of open now, Rob. This has become like a completely accepted by all factions, including both of the secretaries of state under Barack Obama. Joe Biden has confirmed this. The secretaries of state. I don't know if Obama himself has, but certainly a lot of people around him.
That, you know, all these other presidents that Benjamin Netanyahu is always trying to get you to overthrow the government of Iran, which is kind of easy to believe he's testified before Congress that we should do it. Why wasn't he also testifying before presidents in private that we should do it?
But just keep in mind that in that list of presidents who resisted the pressure to be pulled into this war, that also includes Trump in his first four years. And there were several, you know, when you just had mentioned this drone that just got shot down and the dispute is over whether it was over Iranian territory or international waters, this exact same thing happened.
in trump's first term and they tried to suck him into the war there and then they got him into the solomoni strike and after the the iranians responded they tried to suck him into the war there but he managed to resist it you know the this second term something changed and man did he make a big mistake
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Chapter 5: How is Trump's approach to foreign policy affecting negotiations?
Yeah, that's exactly right. Exactly right. I mean, it's, um, I remember there was a, you know, I just watched, uh, a segment on the young Turks. It was Anna Kasparian did a segment and she did like a deep dive on one of the, I want to say Emily Austin, one of the like, she's like one of the young blonde girls who's just like a professional Hasbro fucking peddler. And
I was on a Piers Morgan panel with her once, and I know Scott Horton was on a Piers Morgan panel with her once, and I knew that she was kind of infamously, she was one of the influencers in the Netanyahu when he was talking about the acquisition of TikTok and all that. She's one of the $7,000 club people or whatever. But then Anna goes through this whole thing.
I didn't know any of this about her, but Anna goes through this whole thing,
it's like oh no dude she was like this chick is like an operative like she had admitted to being a spokesman for the government of israel she was like uh defined herself as like a hasbro spreader like pre-october 7th and all this she was friends with like highest level lacud party members and was repped by the agency that reps all of these like hasbro like like she's like oh you're you're something much more approaching a foreign spy than i actually realized but anyway so there's
literally aside so i just saw this but there's only two things i know about her that she just had these moments so she had one moment where she was debated scott horton and she had one moment where she debated may and in one of them she uh she fucking um Scott goes off on this whole rant about the difference between uranium and plutonium bombs and the actual logistics of like building a bomb.
And then she responded by saying something about, you just don't understand how dangerous Colemani is. And then Scott goes, he's been dead for decades. And then she goes like...
like she literally just like he just thought the first ayatollah was still the guy who ruled iran and scott was like he died in like the 70s blah blah whatever scott also of course knew the month in the year that he died and the manner but like and then she just scoffed like it was just and then i had a moment with her this is how she's literally like a chick who um like i think it's almost like if it makes sense like she was like
the pothead at hasbro university like she didn't go to class that much but she remembers a couple things that she heard there was so when i was debating her she goes uh at one point there's a clip of this it went kind of viral on the internet but at one point she goes just like well i don't know i mean you describe you know israel as an occupying force but how come you never say anything about um egypt occupying uh palestine or jordan occupying palestine and i was like
Well, the reason why I don't really focus on the Egyptian occupation of Gaza or the Jordanian occupation of the West Bank is because they both ended in 1967.
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Chapter 6: What is the significance of Thomas Massey's potential presidential run?
It was like the chief financial officer or something like that at daily wire came at me the other day, called me retarded on Twitter.
And then I just, I literally just say, Hey, chief financial officer, look at your numbers.
Yeah, well, I said something like, send the best guy you got from the collapsing Daily Wire. Let's see how retarded I am. And then I said, oh, yeah, that's right. All of you are fucking bitches. None of you will come. Because, you know, I'm just, this is, at this point, I'm just, this is what I'm on with the Daily Wire guys when they talk shit about me anymore. Okay. Just like enough.
Every last one of your biggest hosts have fucking talked shit about me. Not one of you are willing to come see me. So that's just it. Then shut up and move on. Or come do it and see what's up. But... But I mean, it's not even like they sent one of their guys. It's just like he doesn't have like a Twitter. It's just fucking everyone's just trashing them.
And you're like, I can't believe you guys can't even. How do you guys not come up with like a company strategy here? Don't just have a random account throw pot shots here. But anyway, I did want to talk about what he claimed was so retarded because I, you know, we mentioned this a little bit.
Um, but I just think even as the dust settled, I, I had made, it was one of the, uh, clips from when I recorded with, uh, Liam McCollum, uh, where I, I basically said, you know, like, I really think Thomas Massey could do something huge by running for president here.
Like, I mean, I think he's got a great track and I got into an argument on Twitter with Oren McIntyre about this and who I like very much, but I really disagree with him on this. Um, But, you know, it's funny because people want to like laugh this off like, oh, that's ridiculous. And essentially, it seems like all they have to say is that, hey, you lost a primary in Kentucky.
So obviously that you can't win the presidency. And I got to say, I just I'm kind of shocked by what happened. like it's just such a low resolution analysis of the real dynamics that are going on here. It's like, okay, first of all, Thomas Massey didn't just lose a primary. Thomas Massey won seven consecutive primaries by huge margins in this district. And then only after the absolute
absolute full court press of more money from the Israel lobby pumped in than has ever been pumped into a congressional campaign ever. A full Fox News blockout, the president going on a rampage, sending the secretary of war to go give speeches. Only after a full court press did they manage to unseat him. And all it really worked to do was work on the boomers.
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Chapter 7: How do the hosts view the current state of U.S. politics?
And Thomas Massey being a legit, no-fooling critic of the Israel lobby, the warfare state, the Epstein class, like all of this with all the street cred in the world, I think would have massive appeal amongst some left-wing people, even young liberal people, like all types of, you know, there really could be like a huge coalition that could be found there.
You know, the country is not at all where the boomer Republicans are. 5,000 a day are dying right now. All right. Oh, man, that's going to be a lot of math to get to what I wanted to. Yeah, so, like, I mean, look, maybe this is more a factor in 32 or 36 or something like that. But it's still...
something to keep your eye on and i don't know yeah like like you said people are just being dismissive but the truth is um this is the guy
Taking the America first position on every last one of these issues and every last one of the issues that he's running on are widely popular with the excuse me, I should say every last issue that got him into so much trouble are actually issues where the overwhelming majority of the people are with him.
My quick math is that's close to 4 million less boomers by the time the next election comes around.
1.8 million a year? Yeah.
So that's right around there. And what was the winning margin of most elections? It's not 4 million people.
yeah yeah no i mean that's a huge you know you peel you peel off a few million boomers and republican primaries move a little bit like if you if you had peeled off a percentage of boomers in in his congressional district that changes everything and one of the other things is that this kind of
this kind of political martyrdom that, you know, in a metaphorical sense, Thomas Massey has been put in, this actually made him more popular with the younger people. So, like, his numbers were higher than ever before with young people. He is maybe the most popular political figure amongst young people in the country right now.
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Chapter 8: What future events are the hosts looking forward to?
um i don't see i don't see anything we could do that would be like more bang for your buck than have one of our best guys with an amazing track record standing on the most important issues and just being right about all of them and exposing who knows i mean he could expose tens of millions of people to to these ideas so i'm all for it i think it's it's absolutely worth doing and if he's willing to do it man we could make some noise
Dude, a Massey-Rubio debate in the primaries would just be so great.
I mean, dude, what? And think this through for me. You know, like, really play this out. Like, okay, if it ends up being Marco Rubio versus Thomas Massey, which, look, no guarantee it will, but that seems like the most likely right now to me. All right, I get it. I get Rubio's going to have the Adelson money and Rubio's going to have the establishment.
But, like, yeah, Rob, what happens if he has to see him in a debate? Like, really? Get up there and defend this war in Iran in a couple years. No, it was really great that we did that. We had to. Like, okay. And all Thomas Massey, you know, has to do is like, let me tell you what we're going to do. Everything Donald Trump said, except this time we mean it.
Except this time we're not going to sell you out. We're done fighting these wars. America is not fighting stupid, unwinnable wars anymore. And I actually mean it because I'm Thomas Massey. And you know the Epstein files? My first order as president is going to be to have the CIA and the NSA declassify everything they have.
We're going to force the Justice Department to give us the other three million files. And you know what? We're doing JFK and 9-11 too. We're going through all of this. I mean drain the swamp when I say that. That's the difference between me and Donald Trump. I mean drain the swamp. And you know what drain the swamp means? Ending the printing money machine.
And you know what all these Democrats call unaffordability? Hey, let me talk to you, our Democratic friends. That is called monetary policy. That's what you're talking about. This is what happens when you devalue your currency. You know all those stupid wars we fought? We can't afford them. And we couldn't tax you enough or borrow enough from them. So we've just been printing the money.
And that's why none of you can afford to live anymore. I mean... There's a pretty big lane there for that, wouldn't you say? You know, Orrin McIntyre, again, who I like, but he said to me on Twitter, he goes, oh, Dave, you guys are so delusional, like you'll never learn. It's just like I had to tell the DeSantis people. And you're like, dude, DeSantis?
DeSantis had to try to take the throne from Donald Trump while he was being persecuted by the Democratic administration, before he had betrayed his entire voter base. Thomas Massey's going up against little Marco. Little Marco Rubio has run for president before. Do you know how he did? He fell flat on his face. He's much more comparable to Kamala Harris. You know, like Trump is Barack Obama.
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