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30:30So that's what we should do. yeah and it is uh fascinating hearing this from tucker with the potential of a jd vance run the next time of uh hey i'm out and it's also fascinating to hear tucker because this is uh this has basically been my stance on voting is i don't want to feel responsible and i'm not going to empower the bastards so i'm a willful dissenter you know and make them make them earn your vote and if everything's just voting against the other party then you know you're never actually getting any representation. Well, I also do think that, look, from my perspective, and obviously, I mean, look, you get into like kind of complicated questions here when you ask when you ask about regrets or something like that, because, look, I made the decision to endorse Donald Trump with the information I had at the time.

31:17So if you ask me, do I regret that? It's like, well, I don't exactly know if I regret that. But like, given the information I have now, Now that sure might change how I would feel about that. But like, I can't go back and change that. Anyway, the point is, I hope this makes sense, Rob. But given the fact that I was a part of this effort, like given the fact that that's in the past and I can't change that now, but let's say I was a part of this effort of like, you know, like I was on Patrick Bette David's election day show and I was on Joe Rogan's day after election day show in 2024, like cheering on Donald Trump and talking about why we were coming together with this coalition with, you know, I was a part of a whole bunch of people who supported Donald Trump, who were like question marks who didn't typically come out and endorse either the Democrat or Republican.

32:08That ended up being a part of something that got him elected. Why would I not want now, given that that was the case now, wouldn't I want to even maximize the point of that? You'd want there to be a punishment now for not coming through on the anti-war part of it. Like that just makes sense. It just makes it that much more of an effective thing to go. Yeah. See, if you win these people over, you can win. If you don't win them over, it costs you hopefully cost them winning. I don't, you know. All right, guys, let's take a moment and thank our sponsor for today's show, which is Brunt Workwear. I've been telling you guys about Brunt Workwear for a while, the most comfortable pair of work boots you'll ever own.

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33:38Get the most comfortable pair of work boots you will ever own at brunt workwear.com. Use the promo code problem for$10 off. That's brunt workwear.com promo code problem for$10 off. All right, let's get back into the show. Okay, so as Tucker Carlson is having this moment, there was also another clip that I saw going around from Michael Knowles, good friend to the show good personal friends with uh rob they were bar mitzvahed together it was a co-bar mitzvah circumcised Michael Knowles pretends to be catholic but he was a jew he grew up with rob bernstein in connecticut they're jewish um but so he is making almost the opposite plea of of his audience and so i kind of thought just immediately seeing this the uh the the kind kind of juxtaposition of the two arguments was interesting to me.

34:34So I wanted to go through it because I have seen this, this seems to me to be, and again, I know I'm poisoning the well here, but I'll let you hear Michael's argument. But this seems to me to be like kind of the desperate plea of the Trump coalitionists, which at this point to me just seems to be like a lost,

34:57a long lost battle. Like the idea of even being in the game of like, let's keep this coalition between Tucker Carlson and Ben Shapiro going. He's like, I don't think that's going to happen. But anyway, here, let's go to Michael Knowles and hear his, for the rebuttal to Tucker Carlson. So you got the Never Trumpers going after Vance. You've got a bunch of podcasters going after Trump because they're complaining about Iran or whatever other policy. you've got all of i'm not even saying these are minor issues you know the the right always has factional disputes i'm just pointing out while the right is doing all of this infighting and and to some degree a lot of navel gazing settling personal petty grudges in some cases while that's going on the left is waiting the left is waiting to bring this back the left is waiting for the right to destroy itself so that they can bring back transing your kids that's what this that's what this is about this father's day just remember all right what can you say here rob this also to me just seems like this really isn't gonna work i mean even the language and i appreciate that he kind of stops himself and corrects but even the language is like what you got podcasters picking a fight with the president over Iran.

36:17I understand it's an important issue. You're like, yeah, dude, with the commander in chief over, what is this petty issue? I keep picking on the commander in chief for lying us into an unwinnable war and then losing said war, just devastating the global economy, costing us tens, if not hundreds of billions of dollars, Americans dead, little kids dead all for nothing just to be internationally humiliated but what is that it's kind of like a petty beef it's kind of like a what is this rob oh god it's he said she said oh there's there's the podcasters fighting with donald trump in the schoolyard over unconstitutional wars grow up we got woke movies to worry about grow up there's a black little mermaid rob please do culture war stuff with me not this yes yes the president the commander-in-chief promised no new wars he abandoned one of his core promises to his constituency and then mocked said constituency as he launched a war on behalf of a foreign country only to lose the war and be internationally humiliated and degrade our entire country.

37:43But the left still wants to trans the kids. Well, I don't know, Rob. You know, I mean, obviously, me and you are as against transing the kids as anybody else is. But the answer here can't be, look, you just got to look the other way over this silly little, you know, unsustainable permanent militarism war and crushing debt because there's some shit that's being pushed in the public schools. I don't know what to tell you. We've all been battling against this shit for many years now. Now, this is the reason why none of us can send our kids to public schools or one of the reasons why none of us can send our kids to public schools.

38:32But, yeah, I don't. Sorry. I mean, that's just that much more of a reason why we needed Donald Trump to be our defender and our protector. And we needed him to not get sucked into this bullshit adventurism. Any thoughts, Rob? Well, you know, it's an easy argument to make that the Democrats are actually worse. until you launch a bad war. And then all of a sudden, it becomes a little bit of a conversation of, hey, maybe we've been better off with Kamala Harris. Maybe Kamala Harris was trying to stick around for two terms and at least this was so risky, she wouldn't have engaged in it. So you kind of did the one thing that makes it hard to convince people, hey, the Democrats are worse.

39:16And so we got to rally around Republicans. Now, there's a lot of terrible things that come with the Democrats. I will never vote for a Democrat. They are they're horrible. I lived through the Biden years. I lived through tech censorship. I've lived through, you know, being flirted with literally being a public enemy, a person who I would. I don't know. What were the health terms that they were throwing out? A detriment to public health or maybe even a violent domestic terrorist with domestic terrorist, super spreader. You know, whatever the what was the thing? The problem is you, the unvaccinated.

39:52it yeah yeah and then in speaking out against uh global warming dei esg you know every my entire world view makes me a public enemy of the democratic party uh depending on how much power they have and how much they uh try and throw their agenda down our throats the democrats are terrible but you guys have crossed the line where it's now a conversation are they actually worse and what are we going to do to clean up the republican party so you guys don't lie us into more wars get into office and just represent the donor class and all the people that you pretended you were going to get out of washington and clean up so i don't know in my opinion is if you vote you're actually responsible you're empowering the bastards and so you know to sit this one out and let the republicans pay the consequence of the democrats coming back firstly you're kind of assuming that the democrats come back with so much power that they're actually able to pull all these things off it could be that the democrats have learned a little bit of their lesson that you know why force the trans issue this much it's very unpopular and this is how we lose support so you know you're kind of like assuming the worst version of the democratic party that they were just punished for and it would almost be silly of them the same as it was silly of donald trump to get into power and launch a war it'd be pretty silly of the democratic party to come back and instantly go oh uh we're signing we're making this legislation to make it easier to trans your kids, I, I, it would be silly of them.

41:13They might be that stupid, but it would be silly. I agree. I mean, look, dude, if you want to fear monger about what could happen if the Democrats come back into power, I'm not going to argue with you. They really pushed some crazy shit last time. And I wouldn't be surprised if they pushed some crazy shit this time. I do tend to agree with you about particularly leading with the trans kids stuff. Um, but again, this is just, this is yada, yada-ing away what the issue is here. And there's just no amount of downplaying it that can start. It's like, what are we talking about here? We're not, this is, again, this is all, I don't know, like this is all a matter of applying logic within reason.

41:58You know, if the case was that we had some very minor beef with Donald Trump, but he was so much better on all the most important issues, it would make sense to go, dude, what are you doing? You know, like for example, whatever, like if there was a president who like generally you liked, but they were a little bit bad on tariff policy, a little bit bad on tax policy, and like Joseph Stalin was running against them, and you're like, I'm sitting out the election. It would be fair to be like, dude, what are you doing? I mean, okay, you got your issues, but what are we talking about here, dude? We're talking about lying the country into war, a country that's on the verge of bankruptcy, that's on the verge of collapse, that, as you said, is on the verge of letting these crazy Democrats come back in.

42:41Well, this guy just handed it to them. So just take that anger out on the administration that launched this war, not on the supporters who don't like being lied to and mistreated. And you know what Democrats are going to be running on? It's going to be, hey, we got to not be in wars. We got to actually be America first and be spending money here on our socialist agenda and not on military adventures. hey donald trump uh uh um they uh brushed away the epstein files and cover that up we need to clean up the deep state and uh not be covering for pedophiles in washington and they're also going to be going after donald trump for his personal uh corruption storylines now in some areas they're going to be anti-ice and you'll see those storylines but there will be democrats democrats running for office as someone needs to oppose this president who is engaging in financial corruption and pulling our country into war.

43:34And for, for those Democrats that are running under that angle, I, I mean, I'm not going to be voting for them, but that's a better pitch than voting the Republicans who will empower Donald Trump to do more crazy, stupid shit. Well, maybe that's, listen, man, maybe this is part of the, what just gets me annoyed with Michael Knowles making this, this argument and with lots of other people, it's not just him. And again, it's like, I like Michael Knowles, despite the fact that he works at daily wire. I've always kind of liked that guy. I just, I think he's smart and he's well-read. He's an interesting guy.

44:03And lots of people who I like take this position of like, well, we got to support the Republicans because they're better. I just like I hate the idea of like putting the onus on the Republican voters to blindly support the Republicans rather than ever putting the onus on the Republican politicians to ever support the Republican voters. Like, why don't they have to do what's right for us? And then we support them for coming through rather than us always having the obligation to support them. And, and they, they flip it around in this weird way where it's like, what are you doing now? We're going to lose to the people who want to trans their kids.

44:42It's like, no, what's Donald Trump and Marco Rubio and Pete Hegseth doing now we're going to lose to the people who want to trans the kids. Like, what do you, you know, Rob, even as you say it, you're like, Oh, what are they, they're sitting here going like, Oh no, you have to be worried about They're Democrats, the Democrats and their socialist agenda. You have to be worried about, you know, Mom Donnie and Mom Donnie's endorsed candidates winning their Democratic socialist agenda. And from me and your perspective, we're just sitting here and we're like, oh, no way. Are you telling me? Are you telling me their socialism for Americans policy was more popular than your socialism for the entire world policy?

45:22OK, I can't believe you lost that one. Are you telling me that their wokeism for the kids policy was more popular than your wokeism for Jewish students? You're all the same shit. You're just, how about, why don't you oppose their woke socialism with individualism and liberty and being America first? And then, yeah, let's see, we could win that. We could win that with super majorities. But you don't want to actually be for any of those things because you're also a bunch of woke socialists. You just do it on behalf of Lockheed Martin in Israel. All right, guys, let's take a moment and thank our sponsor for today's show, which is Prolon by El Nutra.

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47:29All right, let's get back into the show. And, uh, okay. Let's just say that the Republicans ran a very successful campaign of, Hey, we got to keep the Democrats in check. And so guys, this is the democratic agenda. you got to vote Republicans. And let's just imagine that the Republicans win the midterms in a landslide. Donald Trump will get up the next day and go, you see, this is how great I am. This is how much American support I have. And he will go harder on the ego driven, unresearched agendas such as tariffs, such as foreign interventionalisms. They will not turn around and go, oh, we fucked up in the first half of this.

48:06We're going to get back to actually representing you guys. Thank you for your support. It's probably I'm not voting for Democrats. I'm not pitching anyone to vote for Democrats. Sit it out, I guess. But, you know, Democrats getting in, if anything, will just be a check on Donald Trump's power, which is being used for foreign intervention and his own profiteering. So, you know, for the government to be bogged down for the next two years and for Donald Trump to just be trapped in a Democratic mess of everyone coming after him is probably a better two years for us than Donald Trump getting a landslide win and going, look, everybody loves me.

48:39Here's more of what I'm doing. Yeah. Yeah, that's right. Here, let's keep playing Michael Knowles.

48:48You want to trans your kids. So says the New York Times is just waiting to bring back all of the racial politics of 2020 is just waiting to bring back all of the heavy handed government suppression of 2020, 2021. You just pause it real quick to bring back all of it. I guess this is, again, just another point, like as I was saying, like from our perspective, you're every bit as socialist as they are. You're every bit as woke as they are. Like bring back the racialist politics. When did they leave exactly, Rob? I mean, I would argue that, yes, there's been a shift from like the woke racialist politics of, say, like 2016 or maybe even Obama's second term, say 2012, 2013 through 2023 or something like that, 2022.

49:40But then it's just become the Zionist Jewish identitarianism is just totally dominated since then. I just I just see it. I don't know. I mean, I know they like to call us the woke Reich or whatever, but they're, they're, they're just the woke left. The Zionists are just more of the same. Just, they just care about a different group. I suppose. This, it's also pretty telling of where this administration is at. And we saw this with Steven Crowder where the pitch just boiled down to, okay, there's nothing to support here, but you still gotta be on board because the other thing's terrible. So, I mean, this is quite an admission of, yeah, there's absolutely nothing good here for me to pitch to you guys, but just remember that the other side's really bad and is more your enemy okay well we're fighting over well we're fighting over what's bad about us they're over here and they're so bad all right here let's keep playing

50:34i'm not saying the right needs to sit down and shut up i'm just saying that as the right works out all of its problems in the lead up to the primary for 2028 what happens after trump As that happens, I am imploring the American right. Please keep some perspective. Your enemy is not some podcaster. That's not your chief threat. Your enemy is not J.D. Vance or Marco Rubio or Ron DeSantis or Ted Cruz or Rand Paul or this guy or that guy or this guy. anyone who might run for president this is your enemy this is the threat these are the people who want to castrate your kids these are the people who want to fling open the border these are the people who want to take control of your life that's the threat yeah they're not the ones that want to take me to war with iran yeah i mean like what do you it's like a weird thing like first of all he right trying to find this kind of middle ground like guys it's not a podcast or But the thing that like what's carrying his entire argument here is just the tone.

51:43It's just because it's not a podcaster. It's not the commander in chief launching an illegal war that he lied you into. It's not Pete Hegg, Seth and the board department. Why? Other than your tone. Why is that not my enemy? Yes. The guys who just like bled hundreds of billions of dollars from the global economy cost up the American taxpayer, I think, confirmed$60 billion, way more than that when they add everything up. It was like 15 dead Americans, hundreds wounded, thousands of innocent people killed. Why? Why is that not what I'm supposed to be against? well yes okay people pushing like if your argument is like don't also like you should also be against people pushing trans you know ideology in schools then okay i think we're all sold on that but number one and again i guess this really is what it's just like look if your argument is that dude we just can't be paying this much attention to what the fuck's going on with iran then i then that makes sense like if your argument was just like, dude, we're worried about like, whether like the Shiite crescent is fully aligned or broken up and whether there's now a Sunni radical in charge of Syria and therefore the weapon shipments from Iran to southern Lebanon have been interrupted.

53:27And if Israel can annex that, it's like, what are you talking about, dude? We got people trying to trans our kids right here. We got like lots of problems. then OK, fine. But why are we paying so much attention to Iran? Because Donald Trump launched a war there. So what the hell, man? If this is your perspective, then obviously you should be the biggest critic of this administration for doing this because you'll launch a war somewhere. Yeah, we're going to talk about that. And my God, if you launch a war and get it completely wrong and lie and lose the war, that's going to really hurt your coalition.

54:00And if your coalition is the only one capable of defeating the people who want to push the trans stuff on kids, then it's, and, and you recognize that as a big concern, then, okay, you should be against this dude destroying his own coalition as I've been since he's been doing it. Um, and then the other thing here, Rob is just that, like, we're going to look again, I like Michael Knowles. I like, uh, Matt Walsh, but they do oftentimes, it seems like, kind of comment on these things without touching the elephant in the room with the expectation that we're all supposed to not mention the elephant in the room, which is that you work for Ben Shapiro.

54:48You work for Ben Shapiro at the Daily Wire. I mean, you work for an organization that is a part of the Israel lobby, an integral part, and sitting at wall, J.D., well, who's making it out like J.D. Vance is the worst? By the way, hold on. Here, let's just go. Let's play what Ben Shapiro was saying. We played him on yesterday's show. Let's play Ben Shapiro's latest, Rob, as you got his guy there at his company saying, we can't be acting like Republicans are the problem. Here's Ben Shapiro. Here he was, talking about how awesome. Pakistan, they're just the best. They're a Chinese cutout gang. Pakistan is in the negotiations because the Chinese wanted them there.

55:31They're an Islamist dictatorship. This is ridiculous.

55:38Thank you about the Pakistani role. We love Pakistan. Thank you. We love Pakistan. He says as he walks through them, we love Pakistan. Do we? Do we love Pakistan? Just pose it already. Again, every time we play Ben Shapiro, you just see what a dishonest tool this guy is. What's he doing here, Rob? What's he doing? He's complaining that J.D. Vance is being pleasant in the negotiations, but he's saying nice things about Pakistan and nice things about their leadership because that's what you do when negotiations. Dude, in fact, Pat Buchanan's talked about this before, which is very interesting. But Pat Buchanan was a speechwriter for Richard Nixon.

56:19And when Nixon went to China, he had to write nice things to say about Mao Zedong. And he talked about how it drove him crazy because it's the most murderous dictator ever. But I don't know if that's what you do. Now, I don't necessarily love that. We could get into a long conversation about it. But you're trying to end a war. Pakistan is the country that's mediating the negotiations. What's he supposed to do? Go there and punch the dude in the nose and say your wife's a whore or something? What do you want, Rob? Rob, so this is literally Ben Shapiro sitting here just trashing J.D. Vance, just trying to undermine the negotiations.

56:55He's got no legitimate complaint. He's like, let's show a clip of him coming in and saying we love Pakistan. Like, what? So he's just trying to undermine that. So anyway, Rob, do you see my point here? How are you going to be Michael Knowles? Work at the Daily Wire and go, guys, guys, we can't have all this right wing infighting. We got this clear threat that is the left trying to trans the kids when your boss, the company you work at, the flagship show of this network is 100 percent dedicated to undermining the right so long as they're not fighting Israel's wars. And everyone knows that like straight up.

57:34You're essentially what Michael Knowles is saying in a way. Could we stop fighting about Israel? Could we stop all having to constantly fight about Israel? All right. I get that. But why is it that we're fighting? Oh, you work for an Israeli spy in effect, right? Yeah. I'm like, okay. That's kind of the issue here, man. We could, cause Rob, if it wasn't for that guys like me and you and Michael Knowles could probably all be together and just go, yeah, dude, we're against the left trans and kids. Let's focus on that. And here's the pitch. Ben Shapiro didn't want a big tent. Remember you can't have the crazies the tent ben shapiro wants a tent that specifically is israel first and so now your pitch is you come back to us and you go listen the republican party's gonna be israel first but the other guys are worse so you gotta get on board and well i don't know if it's the israel first ten are you guys really the better option for one and for two why do we get to remake the republican party as your smaller israel first ten oh and by the way you have to support us because the other guys are worse great so it's like a hostage negotiation of that we're stuck with you you got to give me a better pitch for, uh, for, you know, for, for me to push support or that you guys are the better option.

58:49I just, and there's also, look, I mean, there's something where, look, let's just say hypothetically, Rob, like you, you move into like a town or something like that. And let's say the town is like, you know, 80 % socialist or something. All right. I don't know. This isn't a great example, but let's just say you lived amongst a bunch of lefties or something like that. And there was like a vote coming up for stuff and you kind of just like accept like, all right, I'm not going to like win the vote on all these things. So maybe like you support a group of people who like agree with you like 20 % because the only people only agree with you 10%.

59:23So you're just like, all right, I'll get a little bit more. Like I understand being a junior partner in a coalition. This is by the way, something that a lot of people have said to libertarians over the last year, as we've been trashing Donald Trump. And they go, hey, well, dude, you're a junior partner in a coalition. So like you don't get everything. You get a few things that you want, but the majority gets much more of what they want because they're the bigger portion of the coalition. Well, it's like, okay, well, first of all, okay, fine. But then I still get to voice my opinion because that's what that means.

59:56You wanted me when you wanted my support, but that also comes with me getting to say what I want. So whatever. But then also, you know, Rob, whatever position you may have had in this town that was 80 percent socialist. Well, now let's say the town is 80 percent free market libertarian and someone comes to you with that same offer where you get 20 percent of what you want. You might go, no, not taking that deal now, because like, why should no, like you're the junior partner, actually, in this coalition. Well, OK, what coalition are we talking about here? Now, listen, I'll be the first to admit that if you're talking about me and Rob's more hardcore libertarian views, if you're saying like, hey, we should abolish the central bank, something me and Rob both believe in, does that have overwhelming super majority support?

1:00:51No, not really. Most people probably don't even know what the implications of that even mean. And maybe people would be open to it. But like, no, Rob, is that an issue that's at the forefront of people's minds that they're really thinking about, like, us abolishing the central bank and getting rid of fiat currency and instituting sound money? No, this is not an issue that people are thinking. By the way, take me and Rob's word for it. You should. You should think about that and you should do it. But regardless, what are we talking about here? Support for Israel? Support for endless wars? Support for the war in Iran?

1:01:24these are issues where super majorities of the American people are on our side not just this Donald Trump's coalition but the American people Rob why should we be in the like it's not as if we're in a position where look the overwhelming percentage of the American people support this war so we're either with the people who like the war or with we're with the people who like the woke shit the point of view that we represent me and you on this Rob is that we think preaching trans ideology to kids is insane and criminal. We also think this war in Iran is insane and criminal. You know who that represents?

1:02:05The overwhelming majority, like 80 % of the country or something like that. So why the hell should we not just like, you know what I'm saying, Rob? Sometimes this does just become like a negotiation in a sense. Why shouldn't we be asking for more here. The market dictates that this is where the people are at. Why the hell should, why is Ben Shapiro the major partner in this coalition when the people are with Tucker Carlson? Right? I agree. A hundred percent. Here, let's just play the last little bit of Ben Shapiro here and then we'll wrap up. I was praising the Pakistanis. To his field marshal in Pakistan, Asim Munir.

1:02:48I will say that since Field Marshal Munir welcomed us with the Prime Minister in Islamabad, I have joked that I have two very, very important people in my life, an Indian and a Pakistani. The Indian is my wife, and the Pakistani is Field Marshal Munir. And I've probably talked to Field Marshal Munir more than I've talked to anybody else over the last three months. That's magical. Isn't that nice? Isn't that wonderful? No, it's weak and ridiculous. That Field Marshal has literally called for the destruction of the State of Israel, which is our ally in this war, unless you forgot. Oh, so that's the problem.

1:03:21He's talking to somebody who called for the destruction of Israel. It's like, again, we're trying. The reality here, dude, is that we lost a war. The global economy is on the brink. The commander-in-chief who put all of his entire reputation and on selling the war has admitted that the global economy was on the brink. And that's why we had to end it. We're in this very delicate process of trying to negotiate an end to this thing. And so we're not living through a steep recession by this time next year. And Ben Shapiro is doing everything he can to undermine it. He's complaining about how the vice president has basic pleasantries, that he made a joke about how it's basically my wife and this guy.

1:04:12What's the joke? The joke is that he spent a lot of time with this guy. They've been working on the negotiations, right? What's the Ben Shapiro's issue is that he took a picture. So like for all these people here, like I guess just look, man, we're with Tucker Carlson on this because it's obvious. Like the move here is to tell the truth and to stand up for what the vast majority of the people of this country believe in. Why? Just because we're in the world of talking about the news doesn't require us to be sociopathic liars or political actors, as they call them, Rob. We don't have to go around here and lie through our teeth and be like, okay, because the lefties who want to trans the kids are so crazy, I'm going to pretend that launching a mass murder campaign on behalf of Benjamin Netanyahu and the Mossad in Iran is no big deal.

1:05:08Nothing, nothing requires that of me. And I don't feel like it. All right. That's it for us today. Come on out. Houston, Texas. Comicdavesmith.com. Come see us. Go follow Rob on the porch tour. Where are you going to be, Rob? One more time. Raleigh, Hampstead, and Myrtle Beach. Something like that. And check out Run Your Mouth podcast. That's it. Thanks, dudes. All right. Sounds good. Catch you guys tomorrow. Peace.

1:05:41Thank you.