Chapter 1: What are the latest updates from the LP Convention?
Hello everybody and welcome to a brand new episode of Part of the Problem. I am Dave Smith. He is Robbie the Fire Bernstein. How are you today, sir? I'm having a good day. How about you, my friend? Having a good day. Having a good day. People loved the morning show, which, well, wasn't actually a morning show.
We recorded it last night, but I was popping in the comments section before and people loved that the show came out on YouTube early in the morning. They liked the morning show. But It doesn't really work for us.
Yeah, sorry. To do it live at 9 a.m. means I got to be up at like 5 a.m. I got no interest in that.
Yeah, it's just the problem is that just the way I like to do it and the way Rob likes to do it too is we like to read the news in the morning, formulate our opinions on it, get our thoughts on it. And then by 1pm, we come here and we give our thoughts to you guys. Then you the general audience gets it that night, because you know, it's got to be edited. And we got a whole system going here.
That doesn't really work for us to do it. So it's released in the morning. But if you do enjoy the morning show, you got one this time. So there you go.
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Chapter 2: What led to Tulsi Gabbard's resignation?
And I guess the thing, and this is why there are so many conspiracy theories, and this is why they will continue to persist, is that nobody can exactly explain why.
Chapter 3: How is Trump responding to pressure regarding the war?
There's just this inability to do that. Because, you know, like, it was clear, let's just say, at the very least, at the point when we pivoted to a ceasefire blockade of their blockade, okay?
It was obvious that this isn't working, that what Netanyahu sold is not true, and Donald Trump clearly at this point realized that, you know, when the plan is we're gonna bomb the crap out of them and then the people will rise up and overtake their government, and then you bomb the crap out of them and the people rise up and chant, death to America, death to Israel, we support the regime,
It's hard to say it worked the way you thought it would. And so he had realized already, and he knew he had to get out of this because he knew it's a disaster. And clearly he's been trying to. And Israel's thwarting that.
And it does just make you wonder, like, as you said, the only way out of this is we lose, we make a deal that's worse than the JCPOA, we don't achieve any of the war goals, and we have to restrain Israel. That's obvious. And if you're Donald Trump, very clearly all the political incentives would have been like, dude, just rip that bandaid.
Chapter 4: What are the implications of the recent U.S. military actions in Iran?
You got to do that. And then you got to count on the fact that it's a 24 hour news cycle and there's always a new scandal next week. And this will fade into memory by the time the midterms come around. You know, that's like your best hope. Not saying that'll happen, but that's your best hope. And yet they still just can't do that.
It seems to be a political reality in Washington, D.C., that it's impossible to rein Israel in. And that just leads to people speculating, well, why the hell is that? Why is a tiny little country the size of one of our smaller states halfway around the world with a few million people? How do they have this much dominance over our policymaking?
Seedless watermelons.
Yeah, I mean, I guess that's it. It'll go a long way. It is annoying getting those seeds out. It's nice to have a nice seedless watermelon. All right, let's go to Marco Rubio. Here was the Secretary of State and National Security Advisor's thoughts on the latest.
So they need to be open. What's happening there is unlawful. It's illegal. It's unsustainable to the world. It's unacceptable. I don't know of any country in the world that does it. The Russians are not in favor of the tolling system. The Chinese are not in favor of the tolling system. I mean, there's no country in the world that's in favor of the tolling system except the regime in Iran.
So that's not acceptable. That cannot happen. The Straits need to be open, unimpeded, without tolls. And obviously that needs to happen immediately, as soon as anything's agreed to. Can I ask a bit about Colt Leproff? He said in the readout that he's trying to encourage the U.S. to withdraw staff from Kyiv. Did you talk to him about this?
Well, they sent a notice to all the embassies, and I think he was just calling to personally tell me. They told all the embassies that Kyiv's going to be a very dangerous place. Kyiv's been a very dangerous place now for a number of years. But the danger in all of these wars as they continue and they go on is that they always have the threat of escalation spreading into some communities.
So I spoke to him yesterday about that and a couple other topics. And obviously the wanted, uh, had asked him to call me to relay the message directly to the president, which I did. But obviously we had already seen the notice sent out to all the diplomatic facilities. And I said, you know, right now there is no,
active like scheduled negotiations ongoing with the drink but the u.s is always prepared to play a constructive and helpful role that opportunity presents itself oh my god all right that's enough we can cut this off you know rob i uh you know my uh my four-year-old boy sometimes um you know i'm cute little kid uh he'll he likes to uh put on my clothes
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Chapter 5: How do the hosts view the current state of U.S.-Iran relations?
I think Biden was against it. And I believe if I'm remembering correctly, I think Gates was for it. I believe Gates was his defense secretary at the time. And. And he says in his memoir, he goes, you know, the big mistake that I made is not planning for, you know, what we would do the day after Muammar Gaddafi was overthrown. You know, like not thinking of that.
I remember just, oh, it made my blood boil reading this shit. Because you're like, dude, we just did a wreck. You're telling me that didn't, that was an oversight?
Yeah.
You didn't ask the most basic question. OK, we're going to topple this guy. But then what happens? That wasn't a question. And by the way, what happens is it turned into a failed state just at literally the most the worst results you could have had. Like one of the richer countries in Africa turned into that.
I think still to this day, Rob, they have those open air slave markets where they straight up just sell Africans. the most barbaric medieval shit ever is going on there. That's what happened the next day. Cause Obama went, Oh yeah. Shouldn't. Oh yeah. Forgot to think about that. I don't know. It's pretty crazy.
It's like I dove into the pool and the one mistake was that I didn't think to ask myself, have I filled up this pool with water? And you're like, yeah, that's a really, really important question to forget to ask yourself. All right, guys, let's take a moment and thank our sponsor for today's show, which is Superpower. I love this company. I'm thrilled that they're on board as a sponsor.
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Chapter 6: What are the criticisms of Donald Trump's foreign policy?
Oh, yeah, I was wrong. And why the hell did I think I was right? Why would I think, after watching six disastrous wars in the Middle East, that I bet this seventh one will be a good idea? I bet this will be the one time that it goes well. Just, I don't know, whatever. It's infuriating, these guys.
um all right let's why don't we because we haven't gotten to this there's a couple things um that we have not given our take on that i suppose we have to uh but we should talk tulsa gabbard stepping down as a director of national intelligence um i don't know what what can you say about it you know when i first
I first, uh, my phone started blowing up this weekend, you know, people texting me and stuff, uh, that Tulsi stepped down. And I did, I, my first thought was really like now, cause I just assumed it was over the war. You know, when you first heard it, it was like, well, I mean, Joe Kent had stepped down from her office, but just made no sense to me.
I was like, wait, but she didn't, she waited all this time to now step down like this. And then of course I saw it had nothing to do with the war, uh, presumably, uh, but that her husband is very sick, evidently has a rare form of bone cancer. I've heard someone say it was stage four. I'm not sure if that's accurate, though. I didn't hear her say that. I think I read that somewhere.
But I mean, I guess first and foremost, I'd say it's very sad to hear that. I lost my grandmother to bone cancer. Bone cancer is fucking horrible. It's extremely painful. It's brutal. Would not wish that on anyone. And so, you know, thoughts and prayers to Tulsi Gabbard's husband. But I guess I can't. I don't know. I mean, Rob, what can you say? I mean, so Tulsi Gabbard.
spent an entire political career, not just largely opposing regime change wars, specifically opposing regime change wars against the Shiites, because she knew the difference between Sunnis and Shiites, and she knew that Shiites had not been the terrorists to attack us, that we've never had. Iran has never killed an American on US soil, ever.
And so that was like she was like, that's not the enemies. And in fact, she even knows enough to know that they fight the terrorists who attack us in America and that Iran is not friends with Al Qaeda and that Bashar al-Assad was not friends with Al Qaeda. Famously, she went and met with Bashar al-Assad trying to prevent the disastrous regime change war that we had there. And.
This war was the war she was against. I mean, she literally, there's just no, she sold no war with Iran t-shirts when she was running for president. Like she opposed this specific war and then sat as the director of national intelligence when Donald Trump not only launched the war, but then launched another war.
Like she was the director of intelligence, of national intelligence during the 12 day war and through this one. And then it's like this thing, Rob, where she doesn't she doesn't resign over them launching the war that she spent her whole career trying to prevent ostensibly and now she's resigned anyway and still hasn't said a damn thing against the war I don't know.
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