Chapter 1: What are the latest updates on Trump's statements regarding the war?
What's up? What's up, everybody? Welcome to a brand new episode of Part of the Problem. I am Dave Smith, and he is Robbie the Fire Bernstein. All technical issues figured out. We got Rob back, and that's what really matters. How are you doing today, sir?
Refreshed. I got the day off yesterday. I was able to eat some donuts, take a nap, and I feel like a whole new me.
That's like going to the spa, baby. There you go. Get that Phoenix stink off of you. I did say yesterday we had a great time out there. And our next gig together, both me and Rob, will be in Toronto. First time, I think, that we've done stand-up together. in Toronto, if I'm not mistaken, which is a great comedy town, and I've not been there for years. So really looking forward to that.
June 5th, one night only at the Parkdale Hall. It's a beautiful theater out there in Toronto. Two shows, June 5th, and then June 18th, 19th, 20th, we will be at Comedy Works. First, the Comedy Works South in Grenwood Village on June 18th. Then June 19th and 20th, the Comedy Works Downtown, which... Just a legendary weekend that we had last year. Every show was sold out last year.
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Oh, I got a busy weekend. I got Bridgeport, Connecticut on Thursday night. Astoria. No, I'm sorry. That's Friday night. Astoria, New York, Saturday night. Definitely going to go to my pizza guy afterwards. Haven't been there forever. Oh, yeah. old Sabra, Connecticut on Sunday, and then Washington, DC bird at New York, Byron, Michigan, and more coming your way. Dates are at a Robertson comedy.com.
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Speaker 3 1 , Rob's going to get some delicious Astoria pizza and then sit on a toilet for 24 hours. Well, I want to actually eat the pizza there, but my pizza guy, Leo, he's the man. Very good. Very good. All right. So let's get into it because there's a lot to talk about. This is it. You know, listen, obviously, nothing has changed. This war is a catastrophe.
Man, this has been a bad 24 hours, Rob. Like everything, everything that's happened since I've recorded yesterday has just been a bad sign after a bad sign. Donald Trump is in full, you know, He's just a drunk, crazy bitch at this point. I don't know what to say. This is what I've been saying on stage.
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Chapter 2: How is Trump's approach to foreign policy perceived in relation to Iran?
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All right, let's get back into the show. I don't know, what do you think?
I think it's more likely that he bombs the shit out of them and does something that we all think is terrible. Then he just blatantly walks away with absolutely nothing. And I think part of that is just the Israeli pressure and influence that Donald Trump seems to be beholden to for unknown reasons.
yeah well yeah maybe maybe you're right about that um i mean i can't say for sure but i'm just saying if uh if i had to guess what's more likely i think donald trump uh walking away without you know at least the nuclear option off the table which was more easily addressed before the war started i i don't see him just walking away and i i seem more likely to commit war crimes
You know, the problem is, the real problem we have right now, and oh God, it's out of like a Greek tragedy or something like that, is just that like, if Donald Trump's coalition was salvageable, if his presidency was salvageable, there would at least be a much stronger incentive to end this thing. But because it's so clearly not, you just don't have that incentive.
You know, you don't have the, like, you'll get Tucker Carlson back on your side. If you go do this, it's like, nah, dude, you're way past that. You're not like, and I mean, look, dude, that the fucking, I don't know if you saw the, uh, the monthly inflation number that just dropped at that end of Trump's presidency, dude, that's it. He just got fucking destroyed. And it's not over.
It's, it's just like, yo, dude, you are, literally got up and said publicly that i know what i'm doing is causing this but i'm willing to accept that i'm willing to do a thing over here and yeah you guys got to pay slightly higher prices you're like okay well that's the opposite of what you ran on very clearly and so like it's a real problem now that we don't have that incentive.
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Chapter 3: What are the implications of Trump's handling of the ceasefire situation?
Anyway, okay, so here's the piece. It's hard to think of a time when the United States suffered a total defeat in a conflict, a setback so decisive that the strategic loss could be neither repaired nor ignored. The calamitous losses suffered at Pearl Harbor, the Philippines, and throughout the Western Pacific in the first months of World War II were eventually reversed.
The defeats in Vietnam and Afghanistan were costly but did not do lasting damage to America's overall position in the world because they were far from the main theaters of global competition. The initial failure in Iraq was mitigated by a shift in strategy that ultimately left Iraq relatively stable and unthreatening to its neighbors and kept the United States dominant in the region.
And he goes on to say that this is the only one where we just cannot roll back the losses from this. And it's going to result in us being in a much worse place in the region and Iran being a global power. So in other words, Robert Kagan is admitting what we've been saying. This whole time. But it's kind of interesting to see Robert Kagan acknowledging that.
Now, I know it's like even in a moment like this, you still want to wring his neck as he's writing it, because there is like he's correct in a literal sense. Like what I just read you is factually correct. It is true that like we suffered. Iraq was very costly. But at the end of Iraq. there was still an Iraq there. And he's right. It wasn't a threat to its neighbors.
And he's right that our standing in the Middle East wasn't changed. We were still the dominant force with bases all throughout the region, including in Iraq. You know, like we were still running the show. Now, it's there's something about the guy who was responsible for the war that cost two trillion dollars and got a million people killed.
Making that point is like a little bit infuriating because it's
like yeah yeah but there were a million people who got killed in that thing dude including thousands tens of thousands if you count the suicides they committed after they left the thing of our young boys so like you know how is how are you writing about foreign policy still like i just don't i don't know rob i've always had this attitude that is just too you have to go away after that right it's insane that you but anyway but even even some of these guys you know and and the neocons
They wanted this war for the longest time. You know, they were all the ones who were cheerleading a war with Iran. It's interesting to see even them recognize the reality. You know, it's been this war I feel like has moved quick in a lot of ways. It has not been going on for very long. And yet already it feels like some sped up version of how things usually are.
Like usually the way things go, Rob, is that like me and you in real time are saying like lockdowns are bullshit. And then like a year and a half later, everybody's coming around to admitting it or the week of Hunter Biden's laptop going out. Me and you are here like, yo, this is Hunter Biden's laptop. This has nothing to do with Russia.
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Chapter 4: How do Trump's public comments reflect his understanding of negotiation?
That's not a good plan.
Um, you could use a donut day yourself, but you meant Iran can't get a nuclear bomb, but you know, it's easy to confuse Iraq and not a big one, you know, but just in case people got confused, um, because we already spent 20 years in Iraq. So I guess we handled that problem.
Yeah. I'm sorry. I was thinking of a different war that we started over a fake nuclear threat.
there's only one letter off yeah all right greatest plan ever cool because everything you've done seems to be going horribly is that part of this greatest plan ever is this all going according to plan because it seems like you're in a real mess is that is that the way your plan works donald trump so the plan the plan was to have around send an agreement that you didn't even finish reading and threw in the trash that was your plan okay things are going right according to plan and this
stuff, man.
We're up to ATHS. It's just it's in a different realm of reality, so you and I can't comprehend it.
Yep, yep. And look, man, it's also... There are certain things that are a little bit unclear in this war. Now, according to reporting, and this has been reported in... This was reported in the New York Times and in the Washington Post and in the Wall Street Journal. But it seems like it wasn't like...
Like there'd be pieces about it, but it just, then it doesn't like become part of the daily talking points. But evidently, dude, our bases over there have been devastated. Like they're essentially all unusable at this point. And Israel, as you know, Rob, has kept a very, tight lid on exactly how much Iran hit them or how many people died or how much was destroyed.
There were videos that came out that showed like buildings had been hit. I mean, Israel got bombed heavily in this war. And that might also have something to do with why we very quickly transitioned into a military blockade away from bombing campaigns with a very temporary, very weak ceasefire. You know, Donald Trump just keep he wants to keep going down this like, oh, dude, they're devastated.
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Chapter 5: What critiques are made about Trump's military strategy?
We were going to go with them. But they changed their mind because they didn't put it in the paper. So when they sent us this document that we waited four days for that should have taken 10 minutes to do, it looked very simple. We get that. They guarantee no. nuclear weapons for a very long period of time and a couple of other minor things, but they just can't get there.
So they agree with us and then they take it back. But they said to us that it was so badly obliterated, was the word they actually used, that was my original word, that it got challenged by some of the fake news. And it wasn't challenged with any knowledge. It was just challenged like they were hoping that This wouldn't have been so successful. Now it was obliterate.
We have the greatest military in the world. I built it largely in my first term and I didn't know I'd be using it quite this much of my second term, but very simply when they say, does he have a plan? Yeah, I have a plan. The plan is very simple. You know, in war you have to change. You have to be flexible.
You have a lot of plans, but you have to do different plans in different days, but I have a great plan.
the plan is they cannot have a nuclear weapon and they didn't say that in their letter okay again he just struggles with the concept the concept of what a plan is um and look i mean what what can you say here about this rambling and there's more on that he goes off on this but he's just look man i'll just say this I try not to make claims that I don't know as definitive claims.
It is possible that someone from Iran told him or someone in his inner circle told him that they're talking to people who are going to do this. I'll just say there is not a shred of evidence that this is anything other than Then Donald Trump just making this up.
It makes it makes absolutely no sense that a couple of days ago, Iran was saying you can come in and take this enriched uranium when they've just been so clear. Throughout the entire time. Dude, they put out, one of their leaders today put out a statement about how they might go to weapons grade, uranium. You know, Donald Trump attacks us again, we might break out, try to get a bomb.
That's what they're saying. We might use that enriched uranium and enrich it further. They're not saying we're going to hand it over to you. Like, I don't know. It's just, this seems very much like something Donald Trump is just making up. And for him to even say, you know, Well, they said one thing and then they did another.
You're like, dude, you've started two wars with this country while negotiating with them. You can't come around and go, these guys really fucking negotiate like assholes. What can you say, Rob?
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Chapter 6: How does AOC's perspective on wealth and earnings contrast with Trump's?
I hope Donald Trump just like maybe for health reasons or something just has to step down. Like I'm not saying like I wish the illness on him. I don't care. But it's just like.
this thing is so jumped the shark man it's just like boring and stupid and it's not even like i don't know maybe this is i know i've been saying this for like a year now maybe it's just my perception but it's just like the trump charm is so gone it's just it's not funny anymore it's not fun it's like at this point it's like it kind of felt like for a decade donald trump was this huge middle finger to the establishment you know
Like, oh, dude, Donald Trump has all of us laughing at Rachel Maddow or Rosie O'Donnell or CNN or whatever it is. And now it's like, oh, the joke's on us. The joke's all just on us. It just like this. It feels like. Donald Trump leaves a room, breaks character. He's not Donald Trump at all. He's some other person. And he goes, dude, these fucking retards will buy anything.
Look, look, I can fucking say, like, it's like the joke is on us that he's even, this is, I'll just sit here and tell you how great my plan is, how much we're winning, how, you know, whatever.
Anyway, we got the we got the Trump pick. You know, it was kind of fun and funny. But that's when he didn't actually have the power to go start wars that we shouldn't be fighting in. And really just speaks to the fact that, you know, the president shouldn't be able to just declare these wars.
And if we actually had a constitution and a Congress, then, you know, we could have elections that weren't so devastating where single crazy individuals can ruin this country in this way.
Yeah, no, that's, I think that's right. And it's, you know, even when he says there, he goes, I spent my first term rebuilding this military. I didn't think I'd be using it quite so much in my second term. And you're like, well, you did run on no new wars. You know, you did promise not to just use it a bunch for no reason. All right, let's go to the next clip.
Simple plan. Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon, and they won't have a nuclear weapon. They didn't want to go that far. If you can believe it, they didn't. How stupid. Are they stupid people? They didn't want to believe it. They think that, well, I'll get tired of this, or I'll get bored, or I'll have some pressure. But there's no pressure. There's no pressure at all.
We're going to have a complete victory. We've already, in theory, had a complete victory from the military standpoint. The military, look, their Navy is dead. They had 159 ships. Right now they have zero, other than the little speedboats that go around that got taken out eight a day by us. They're very simple.
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Chapter 7: What are the consequences of government policies on the working class?
Nothing's worked out. We're back to square one. And I guess the latest intelligence is that Iran can, you know, it's three or four months before they're having severe economic problems. Possibly they can go longer and that, you know, I guess they retained a lot more of their missile capability than Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth was telling us.
So, you know, Donald Trump either has to decide, hey, it's time to bomb them into oblivion or walk away. And it doesn't doesn't seem to want to make either decision.
Yeah, yeah. And, you know, as we've pointed out, every time he threatens them, they threaten back with the region. You know, they threaten back that they're going to really do some severe damage. And so I think there's good reason why he's hesitant to pull that trigger. Obviously, it's the catastrophically wrong move. But, yeah, we will see. Because there you go.
It really is a binary, at least to some degree, right? It's that he can't accept this. But the only other option is doing that. And... Yeah, man, let's let's really hope that he ends up doing this. Like I said, it's not looking great. I mean, his signal here is not he's not trying to spin it like, oh, OK, well, I think maybe we can work out an agreement or maybe we're there. We're there.
It's like, no, dude, I can't accept this.
Well, we will say and still the option is still on the table to break up with Israel and make nice with Iran. But that seems to be the least likely of the options for unknown reasons.
Yep, yep, that's exactly right. And Marianne Madelson won't tell you what those reasons are herself, right? If you recall, we played that old clip on the Members Only episode the other day, where Marianne Madelson is asked, it was Tom Woods, the great Tom Woods had mentioned it on a show. And I was like, wait, I forgot about that one.
And then yeah, when she was asked, how what other than cutting checks, like, how do you influence politicians? And she goes, I'd rather not say. So I can be honest with you. I'd rather not answer that question. Jesus. Yeah. All right, guys, let's take a moment and thank our sponsor for today's show, which is My Patriot Supply.
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Chapter 8: What future predictions are made about Trump's political standing?
Look, Rob, the nerve of Donald Trump to ever utter the word dishonorable about another person. Just for him to ever say that word out loud. Dude, Donald Trump has cheated on his wives. Dude, Donald Trump denigrated Joe Kent for getting remarried. A year and a half after his wife died while serving Donald Trump. His wife died in a suicide bombing in Syria.
She was working for the CIA, I believe, if I have that correct. She was working for the CIA. She got killed in a suicide bomb in Syria under President Trump in the first term. She's dead because Donald Trump didn't end the war in Syria that he promised to. She's dead because he had her there. And then he denigrated Joe Kent for getting remarried almost two years later. Like, Dude, I don't know.
Again, I think I said this at the time. I don't know what the appropriate amount of time is to get remarried. I don't know if getting remarried, I don't think I would get remarried if I lost my wife, but like, I don't know, you know, it's, I've never been in that situation. But first of all, the nerve of anyone to like publicly speak out against that, like it's any of your fucking business.
But dude, when she died on your watch, was serving you the commander in chief in a war of choice that you had us involved in for no reason. Like, I mean, you should burn in hell for saying that. Literally, no exaggeration. You should burn in hell for sending someone's wife to die and then publicly mocking the guy for getting remarried. I just don't. Dishonorable.
Dude, you fucking bomb them and slaughter them. You killed 168 little schoolgirls, dude, the day after you were in open negotiations with them. but they're dishonorable. I'm sorry. I don't think there's anything particularly honorable about the Iranian regime, but the nerve of Donald Trump to make that comment, just fucking delusional. There's a delusional, disgusting, simple man.
And lying once again, because the latest reporting is that the Ayatollah's son is alive and well and, I guess, involved in decision-making and not as injured as had been previously claimed. Also, I mean, we've seen Donald Trump many times now just...
float that the iranians had already agreed to something that they hadn't agreed to which i'm sure is donald trump's business practice is going yet all the details are worked out uh this is the deal and then sure yeah when the document comes from the other team it doesn't reflect his wishes of what he claimed was a closed deal
No, that's right. I mean, Donald Trump has lied every day into this war. Every day, every time he opens his mouth, he tells some new lie. And then when his lie is exposed, when they get it all right, it's like what all of them do, all the war hawks. They sit there and they go, ah, we got this deal. A week later, it's revealed that we were completely right when we said you don't have a deal.
And they go, that's because they broke the deal, whatever. They just find a way to blame anybody else. And every single prediction is wrong. Like, it's unbelievable. It always happens with these wars. And they always, you know, like... I don't know. I mean, I make predictions every now and then, but I'm not like big into making predictions.
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