Name: Joe Rogan Experience #2299 - Dave Smith
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #2299 - Dave Smith' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-04-03. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #2299 - Dave Smith

Joe Rogan podcast check it out the Joe Rogan experience trained by day Joe Rogan
podcast by
night all day good to see you too man see again these times of trouble chaos
wild wild times
where leftists are lighting Tesla's on fire and putting swastikas on them and
that's and that's
the calmest they've been in years this is actually for them probably the best
it's so weird how these
people are so easy to wind up and get them to do what you want them to do just
put a narrative out
there you're a good person if you go do this and they just go run out and
fucking cause chaos and
it's the most I mean look it's not like as much chaos as say like the the Black
Lives Matter protest
in 2020 or something but the one about the test it's like you're destroying
electric cars which are
mostly owned by liberals yeah like but but I thought you've been telling me for
so long that
this is gonna save the world like the importance on going green was that we're
all gonna die unless we
do it and now you're taking the most successful electric car company and trying
to destroy them
because for the crime of pointing out that maybe the seven trillion dollars
that our federal government's
spending has a wee bit of corruption in it you know like maybe we could cut
some of that it's so
I don't know it's so on every level it's just so surreal it is surreal it feels
fake it does it
genuinely feels like we're living in some sort of a stupid movie yeah well that
makes you wonder it
makes you wonder how controlled the whole thing is you know and I don't know I
don't know but there
is a do you remember I think I sent it to you at the time but there was a like
four years ago there
was a time magazine piece about the 2020 election it was like a real long
article about it was something
like the title was something like how the shadow government like stole I it
wasn't exactly that but
it was like basically went through the real conspiracy of 2020 and they're
writing it from the pro
conspiracy point of view but they're forget anything about like ballots or any
of that stuff which I
don't you know even when you interviewed Trump he didn't really have a good
answer for that you
know it's like it's it was stolen and you're like but how do you know it was
stolen is like it was
stolen you know that the information yeah but the but what we do know like the
real conspiracy in
broad daylight that they just totally like tanked the economy overhaul yeah
that's it the secret history of the
shadow campaign that saved the 2020 election save and they go deep into like
admitting so much about
like the censorship on social media the the support of the riots and the
protests and what's amazing
about it is it really is incredible their ability to turn on and turn off the
protest machine well it's
just like money yeah yeah it's just money there's a lot of people out there
that have nothing to do
they're a bunch we were talking about the other day I was like if I was 21
years old and someone said
hey they're gonna pay you $400 to go to a Kamala Harris rally would you go fuck
yeah yeah I'd go
I'd hold that sign up I'd probably vote for it when I was 21 you had me at $400
the conversation was
over it's over $400 I heard you get a thousand to go protest for Tesla you got
can I sneak in both of
those can we do one yeah 1400 in a day dude nice yeah I was I mean I was
thrilled when I was 25 to make like 75
bucks at the comic strip or something like that so yeah but also it's a you
know it's like and this that's kind of like the
whole CIA deep state game is it's always moving around the margins you know
like if you if there's um because like when I you know on the show I've talked
about a bunch like the made on revolution in Ukraine and when I when I'd say
like this was a
US backed coup against a democratically elected president the response I'd get
from people who disagreed with it would always be like oh you're denying the
agency of the Ukrainian people because like look at these pictures there's all
these Ukrainian people in the streets and you're like well yeah
but I think that's kind of like the whole CIA deep state game is it's always
moving around the margins you know like if you if there's um because like when
I you know on the show I've talked about a bunch like the made on revolution in
Ukraine and when I when I'd say like this was a US backed coup against a democratically
elected president the response I'd get from people who disagreed with it would
always be like oh you're denying the agency of the Ukrainian people because
like look at these pictures there's all these Ukrainian people in the streets
and you're like well yeah but
but the US poured a hundred million dollars into that street protest like you
think that made a difference a little bit you know and so like it's not that
there weren't real people there sure but man you want to keep a protest going
through the Ukrainian winter and then all of a sudden you get a hundred million
dollars and now you got heat lamps and celebrities and concerts and then you
keep the whole thing going until the democratically elected president has to
flee for his fucking life and then what are you saying?
what are you supposed to look at that? Oh that was just an organic revolution?
No it fucking wasn't you know this is DC overthrowing Putin's neighbor and you
know they don't like that detail because then it fucks up the whole unprovoked
narrative
yeah people don't like that detail they don't like the detail that there's many
layers of subterfuge inter exchanging with each other there's just so much
money and so much influence and they're so good at it they've been doing it for
so long that they can get time magazine to write an article
saying how it's good yeah it's great it's good that we saved the 2020 election
and that's and by the way I love um uh I know your your podcast with uh Mike
Benz was phenomenal that dude's great he's phenomenal I've done a few of them
now yeah he's he's great but I'll tell you I already I knew all that uh he's
right about all that USAID stuff and I'll tell you uh that was the whole thing
it's uh Scott Horton's book provoked which is like the best book that's been
written on the the history of the build up to the
war in Ukraine and it was it's all in there dude if you want it's all footnoted
but it's like yeah they're the ones pumping all this money in and then they
make it out like when you when you try to cut it they're like oh no we were
just helping some kids get on a school bus over here and overthrowing the
democratically elected government in Ukraine you know like we did we did all of
that well that's the beautiful thing about USAID you know it's like they had
the money to do all this stuff there's the money to do essentially whatever
they want all over the world and the way Mike Benz describes it as the
stuff that's too dirty for the CIA yeah yeah well and so they can have
plausible deniability too because like what are you talking about an
organization yeah there you go that's not us yeah exactly it's like in the name
they might as well call it they're like we're not the CIA the good guy we're
just George Soros's NGO not the CIA at all totally removed um but also the the
thing is that you know when you look at like the actual money because sometimes
they'll they'll kind of point out that they're like oh this is a very
small percentage of the budget and it's like yeah it's tiny money well right it's
a small just a billion dollar budget but our budget I mean the I know the
entire GDP of Russia is like two trillion dollars the entire economy and I don't
know what Ukraine is but smaller than that and we spend like between six and
seven trillion dollars a year just our government so when you're talking about
flooding in a hundred million dollars flooding in a few billion I think like it's
like five or six billion
dollars since 91 we put into Ukraine that may not sound like that much money in
the context of America the biggest economy or the second biggest economy in the
world but politically in a small country like Ukraine that moves mountains that
changes the entire landscape when the world empire is pumping that type of
money in what do you think the world looks like though if the United States
doesn't do that so the United States doesn't it this is like the Mike Baker
perspective right like if the United
United States doesn't make friends with these dictators if the United States
doesn't put people who are sympathetic to our causes in power China does Russia
does it looks very bad for America all over the world things get dangerous it's
almost almost always the war hawks rely on an unfalsifiable counterfactual you
know so it's like oh but if we didn't do this and we ran the counterfactual it
would be this crazy other scenario
scenario that's somehow even worse than this the problem with that from my
perspective is number one the factual scenario is um like something like four
to five million dead civilians over the last 25 years entire nations destroyed
eight trillion dollars depleted from the U.S. Treasury tens of thousands of our
bravest young men blowing their brains out so you know if you're relying on
this unfalsifiable counterfactual
but it would have been worse if we hadn't fought a war in Iraq and Afghanistan
and Syria and Libya and Somalia and Yemen and all these places over the last
years it okay I'd say the onus is on you to really have to demonstrate that and
not just assert that it would be worse if we hadn't done this but also like you
know we are going broke doing it like we're 36 trillion dollars in debt we can't
even afford it and the idea that if we were to get out of the game of being the
world empire then like China would
would go okay great now we get to destroy ourselves and it just seems
completely um it seems extremely unlikely that that would be the case and also
you know it's like people act like okay if we weren't doing this in Ukraine
then Vladimir Putin could do whatever he wanted to or if we weren't doing this
then China could do whatever they wanted to but they've got adversaries all
around them too who are richer than them maybe not in China's case but
certainly
in Putin's case richer than them are opposed to them there's an all of Western
Europe is not just a pushover China has Japan and South Korea and they've got
their own you know the truth is that there's nobody has the power that the US
government has to do this shit it's only like we're the ones who can do this
and it would just be a better world if we just didn't like you just can't
convince me that like if we just hadn't have fought the terror wars like which
was totally a possibility
we could have we had um the whole war on terrorism could have been over by
Christmas of 2001 with the special ops taking out the al-qaeda cells they could
have trapped Osama bin Laden and Tora Bora when they had him there they let him
escape into uh uh into Pakistan because you know if you
why why do you think they did that they already had their eye on Baghdad
and you know if Osama bin Laden is caught you don't get your bonus war
you know what I mean he's got the whole the whole um war propaganda for invading
Afghanistan
it wasn't everyone remembers WMD's but it wasn't just that claim it was the
claim
which Dick Cheney and George W Bush and all the neocons pushed real hard
was that he was in on 9-11 now this totally fell apart because it was never
true and they knew it wasn't
true but the claim was he's got these weapons and he could hand them off to the
terrorists and then
you know what was the Condoleezza Rice uh line was like we don't want the
warning to be in the form of
a mushroom cloud or something like that like the fear was they're gonna nuke
Kansas or whatever as soon as
as soon as Saddam Hussein gives the weapons he doesn't have to the terrorists
he's not friends with
um but if they caught Osama bin Laden I think that would have uh that would
have destroyed the
the whole