Why The Woke Left Is Dying Out - Dave Smith

[@ZubyMusic]

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[@karelglasner2673]

Not to mention the failure of democrats governance 😂 while they lie in our faces that the economy is good to great 😂

[@itzakehrenberg3449]

Tell David there is Massive evidence of voter fraud in 2020. Try researching Benford's law of digit statistics of the votes cast.

[@pauljermyn5909]

January 2025, went to a hospital for an appointment, a very left wing, very posh couple, mid 30s with 2 kids, all wearing masks, when i asked why they pointed at an old sign in the corner that said "covid, masks must be worn for appointments" in a room full of people and staff with no masks.

[@AliciatheCho]

Bet their kids were named something like Felix and Aspyn

[@AlexManguy]

Sheep

[@indigenoussober407]

Some people beg to be lorded over.

[@DeflatingAtheism]

@@AliciatheCho They’re responsible for the TikTok where the family repurposes Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” into a paean to Anthony Fauci.

[@LuckysLair]

Vee obey zee orders

[@tracyroberts1850]

I'm a Brit here. Everything you talk about, we can absolutely relate to. The difference for you Americans is that hopefully now you have a chance at working to get your country back. Trump is a formidable character, a little challenging at times, but he definitely cares about your country, and wants what is best for you. I've been watching the last few years, and it has been with a heavy heart, to see so many chasms opening up. DEI, the WEF, Aspen institute, so many working to disrupt and destroy. I pray that now you've turned that corner. Though I do believe that there's a lot to answer for these last few years, and probably a lot of laws broken. We in the UK, unfortunately, are still in the grip of maniacs intent on destroying our once great country. I live in the hope we can get it back one day. God bless the USA

[@christiane.g.4142]

Your nation has given us so many great minds, like Nigel Farage and that cunning and acerbic commentator and author Douglas Murray

[@erroneous6947]

Best of luck.

[@71chevy]

@tracyroberts1850 Thank you first time I've heard common sense from the UK in a long time. Keep the faith. We did and the tables are turning

[@jakejohnson-i5g]

My family came from your country almost 200 years ago so I see everyone in your country as my cousins and I'm glad to hear some common sense from one of my cousins.

[@robdrew4636]

@tracyroberts1850 I am fervently praying for the UK, Europe, Canada, Australia and all countries where destructive psychopaths are in charge. I pray God will turn things around for you all and bless you as He has blessed the USA. We need to repent, turn from sin and come back to God!

[@nascar0509]

They thought that the people would roll over in fear and were taken by the amount of resistance, we must never let ourselves fall for them again.

[@simanothername3035]

Well people did. The people who believe their ideology and actively support the silencing of free thought and speech.

[@rocketmunkey1]

@@simanothername3035 Yes according to the m3dia everybody supported it and we were a minority, but we know in the real world it was just a small minority of hysterical Karens. Be aware of their "perception management" techniques of trying to make you feel like the odd one out, in the hope it will silence you.

[@gcooper146]

@@rocketmunkey1 That's why it's funny to me when the left call themselves the "resistance". We had to fight against leftwing mainstream media outlets and most of Hollywood pretending that about 80% of Americans agreed "orange man bad, DEI good"

[@rsilvestercellphone]

@@nascar0509 the large majority did, for far too long. The frog would still be boiling, but the authoritarian types got a little too impatient on dialing up the heat gradually.

[@SirBlackReeds]

Dave Smith never asked Daryl Cooper about the Wannsee Conference, did he?

[@filiusvivam4315]

evil never sleeps. stay vigilant my friends.

[@Cl0ckcl0ck]

The US has been sleeping for at least 3 decades.

[@rossdanielart]

Yeah, they will invent a new lie

[@Jake-mv7yo]

I'm not going to tell you the Democrats didn't screw things up by forcing things on you but you will find out what "evil" is once Trump starts doing what he wants. You will be voting democrat in 4 years once you see for yourself.

[@rossdanielart]

@@Jake-mv7yo What did he do in his first term that makes you think that now? because it's not like we don't know what to expect with Trump. He was in office before and last I check there were no wars, no inflation, no high gas prices.

[@Jake-mv7yo]

@@rossdanielart Trump stacked the supreme court and has immunity now. He also cleaned house on anyone who would question what he is doing. Trying to use his first term to predict what he will do in the second won't work because so much has changed. All that is left to do now though is just wait and see. I have plenty of cash to start buying stocks when the market starts crashing so I'm kinda betting things will be bad.

[@danielmeuler2877]

The Woke Left reminds me of the Empire in Empire Strikes back. We should never assume they are dying out. They could just be in the shadows licking their wounds.

[@Deepfake820]

@@danielmeuler2877 the revolution always eats its own children

[@hithere748]

You're right! They're' licking their wounds right now, but they'll come back with a different plan.

[@Deepfake820]

@hithere748 they're inherently self destructive. L. A Is demonstrating that. The revolution is like saturn. YT won't let me say the whole quote

[@jamesparker1071]

Sith Lords are everywhere... The WEF has penetrated every government.

[@jamesespinosa690]

This is why it's essential that we teach our youth the truth about socialism/fascism/communism. That they are all synonyms. That the German Socialists were Socialist. That Italian Fascism is leftist. We also need to get rid of feminism and feminist rhetoric. Feminism is basically just gender socialism. Then we need to get rid of the white guilt. I reckon those are the three critical pillars that holds up the left. They can be knocked down just by telling the proof.

[@Nick-bh5bk]

This is what I have been saying for a long while. It is exhausting to constantly being angry. If you yell at volume 11 for 8 straight years, eventually the public gets tired of it and tunes it out.

[@foxboy6145]

Especially when what your screaming about never happens, or it happens when your side is the one in power. Biden was everything they screamed at us that Trump supposedly was.

[@NunyaBizness2.0]

@@Nick-bh5bk Been saying the same thing. We in this country allow different groups to express their gripes and we’ll give them the spotlight for a bit, make some feel good policy to make them happy but eventually move onto the next. The woke left just keeps going on and on with the most ridiculous crap. Math is racist? Milk is racist? “Baby it’s old outside” is a rape anthem? Aunt Jemima is oppressive? Just nonsense. Then they came after our children and we’ve had it. They went too far I am impressed with their ability to stay angry over absolutely nothing for so long

[@ivanbanishtok7603]

spinal tap, volume goes to 11.

[@EnforcerTV]

" The true price of freedom is never ending vigilance"

[@Mariemancin]

@@EnforcerTV never truer words

[@angelalewis3645]

💯

[@SmartCreeper]

boy oh boy the price of freedom is steep

[@Shoxic666]

Happy are the people who in times of peace think of war

[@suginomura]

that sounds exhausting

[@metalrules1135]

All this means is they will switch tactics. They will get more subversive.

[@diegomontoya796]

Yeah. Northwoods is a new idea.

[@DeflatingAtheism]

Yeah, the answer to why Antifa is not protesting could just be that Soros is putting his money elsewhere.

[@eddiejohnson4434]

Good. Evil should be in the shadows. When it’s out in the open it means the people have tolerated too much

[@captainmaim]

@@eddiejohnson4434 right and proper based

[@TammyDSaxton]

Excellent point

[@EverettBurger]

I remember the geography teacher I worked with in 2002-2003 stated: "80 percent of Americans approve of the Iraq war. 80 percent of Americans can't find Iraq on a map."

[@PeterNgola]

What a hero 🎉.🥱

[@EverettBurger]

@@PeterNgola he ended up becoming a member of the state legislature. He was a cool guy

[@untunedguitar45]

Was too young to vote at the time

[@johnvahl762]

@EverettBurger The education system in the United States has gone downhill so much in 30+ years. Students are taught to be activists instead of learning to read, correctly figure out a math problem, or think critically about what they are taught. History education is misleading propaganda devoid of truth to teach our children to hate their own country.

[@samuelzuleger5134]

Yup. The key to keeping the Left alive is poor education. Don't teach geography. Teach "ethnicity." Don't teach history. Teach "themes." Don't teach biology, teach "gender." No one with two brain cells to rub together could ever take "Queers for Palestine" seriously. It is a contradiction in terms. Calling Trump a notsee for withdrawing from Iraq and Syria is one of the greatest ironies as they threw Bush Jr. into the notsee camp for going in to begin with.

[@Simouno]

Wokeism is a lot like Diddy's parties. To avoid the depravity you have just got to say NO

[@mikegleed5842]

@@Simouno Good one 🤣💯👍

[@gregoryporch8395]

Backstage Pass Economy

[@haw-chaw-chawcalypse]

With respect, I don’t think we should underestimate their cunning…they achieved power with cunning, and they subvert under the same auspices. Look into the BRIDGE initiatives, and you’ll see.

[@superturkle]

theyll keep mutating and continuing their subversion no doubt, but its starting to look like its no longer very cool to join the marxist left. each day they look more like a mindless herd of deranged sheep, grown fat on a steady diet of lies and propaganda. just pin that image to BRIDGE or whatever other abomination they come up with and they will fade away

[@bristolcorvid8894]

Haw-Chaw, Unfortunately, they are not at all done with us. What mindless, vindictive destruction they'd love to inflict upon all of us with whom they disagree...

[@ryanvacation7319]

@@haw-chaw-chawcalypse what we see often online are the crazies and useful idiots. The real brains behind the movement, are not visible.

[@Dinker27]

You're right. There's a channel for the Denver Communists, for example.

[@muddywitch9016]

Yes Communists don't call it the 100 year march for nothing.

[@AndyWearsPants]

They aren't dieing out. They're whispering to each other and planning a strategy to come back.

[@JD-xd4sy]

Do you sometimes hear their whispers in the night? Sorry just had to😂

[@DumbCreative]

Coping, seething, and tucking

[@oliverr6246]

"They mostly come out at night..........mostly."

[@JoeFoley24]

@@oliverr6246 🤣 classic

[@BlahBlah-l4c]

Yeah, it ain't over. You are still their target

[@csd123tx]

You know what will Make America Great Again? The pursuit of Truth, Justice, and Happiness. Stop the lies... it is probably the most important civic duty we all have right now.

[@ingus5552]

@@csd123tx pursuite of happiness is one of most futile idea. If happines is a feeling then drug adicts and woke and snowflakes are right in their pursuite. Truth and Justice, and love for neighbour must be common values.

[@jaredleicht1656]

@ingus5552 Drug addicted people are not happy, which is why they take drugs to escape reality.

[@csd123tx]

@ingus5552 well my reply is... the pursuit of happiness isn't abusing drugs. Obviously.

[@csd123tx]

@@ingus5552 Truth, Justice, and the Pursuit of Happiness is in the Declaration of Independence. It is a fundamental aspect our nation is founded on.

[@franceshaypenny8481]

Pursuit of happiness refers to one's station in life. Like income. It's not being literal.

[@elimbatido4036]

Liberalism is about obedience not intelligence.

[@kristineyost6977]

You're right.

[@urbansetter1]

Agree

[@MarcusBP]

Agree. And I've been thinking a lot lately on what makes a person become a modern liberal. Hard to fully quantify, but there are very similar traits in nearly every one of them. This list is not necessarily true of their leadership; who often have far worse behaviors. I'm speaking of the typical leftist follower and supporter of progressive ideals and narratives. The first is having a great deal of fear, and it starts early. They can be easily manipulated and indoctrinated by tapping into their fears; which are almost always irrational. It also explains why leftists have such abnormal definitions of what real courage and bravery are. The second is lacking a moral compass, which often leads to moral (or immoral) relativism. This blinds them from the ability to believe evil actually exists, and blurs the lines between right and wrong. The third is the desire and eagerness to absolve themselves of personal responsibility. This can be seen in their inability to hold themselves accountable when they fail. Even when they fail spectacularly, the leftist will never voluntarily remove themselves from a position of authority. To them, an apology is a sign of weakness, and their instinct is to quickly assign blame to other persons or entities. The final is the most important...the lack of ability to understand human nature. This is manifested in their incompetence in dealing properly with an aggressive and hostile country or culture. The result is always placating, or projecting leniency and weakness to hostile countries like China and Iran. It also explains their authoritative desire to enact unpopular laws designed to force changes in people's basic beliefs or behaviors. Any challenges to their justifications will always be personalized, and met with hostility. Once these traits are hard-coded in them, they can be easily manipulated into justifying abhorrent actions or behaviors for the sake of whatever they were told to believe, and are essentially a lost cause that should never be given positions of authority. This is because their allegiance to leftist doctrine will always trump whatever duty of care they've been entrusted with. This conflict of loyalties and duties will nearly always lead to very poor and incompetent decision-making. A healthy and robust society understands these things, and will marginalize this type of person; as they have the potential to do great harm from within.

[@Patson20]

@@elimbatido4036 not liberalism, modern progressivesm. Liberalism is what out founding fathers believed

[@PsycholicalGAINS]

liberal party have been taken over by socialists. democrats can no longer call themselves liberals. same with the liberal party in canada. they want to control every aspect of peoples lives. that is not liberalism.

[@EricWolfe-w3c]

It has to be exhausting to be offended all the time.

[@Gitn2it]

And offended by EVERYTHING!

[@samuelzuleger5134]

@@Gitn2it Including each other. Just look at what "the Left" did to JK Rowling (an ardent Leftist and Feminist her whole life) for not allowing trans women into a women's shelter she built.

[@urbansetter1]

It hypocritical though cause they are extremely offensive

[@mytmouse57]

You mean like conservatives are? Labeling anything and everything “woke”, and then being offended by it?

[@badgerrrlattin35]

Doesn't seem to be so exhausting when it's done as a form of recreation. They often record their rants and put them up on Tic Tock, for crying out loud.

[@nco_gets_it]

The one fact I cannot ignore about Gaza is this--the Gazans voted for Hamas over and over again. Like Californians, they voted for this outcome. I don't hear anyone saying stupid things like this about Germany in 1945.

[@adamclark4434]

Hamas was invented by the mossad to undermine the PLO

[@JonathanHatcher-z1t]

Your EXACTLY right, they absolutely did, I guess you get what you vote for....

[@brianwip6618]

Hands up that I may not be correct but I am fairly certain that the Gazan's voted Hamas only once and after winning the election they (Hamas) banned all further elections. The Gazan's are first and foremost, victims of Hamas before anyone else!

[@SeiyaSoiya-un4jj]

True but when you’re constantly under attack and mistreated, you’re going to turn to the biggest, baddest gang in a prison to help keep you safe. When we were attacked after 9/11, we (understandably so) went into a frenzy and gave George Bush a blank check to do whatever he wanted. Gaza experiences their own 9/11 pretty much every week, and has since 1967.

[@HolidayRambler.Admiral]

No, people in SF/LA/Sac voted for them. The rest of us not so much.

[@TROOPERfarcry]

This latest election in November 2024 relied on people completely forgetting that the last 8 years occurred. All of the pro-Kamala people needed us to forget both that we already _HAD_ a Trump Presidency, _AND_ that we already _HAD_ a Kamala'esque administration. In essence, there were two questions that could not be answered by the left, and so the MSM refused to even ask them. But those questions were: 1 - If Trump was going to ruin everything if he gets elected, _then why didn't he do it the FIRST time he was in office?_ ... and... 2 - If Kamala was going to fix everything if she gets elected, _then why didn't she do when she was ALREADY in office over the last four years?_ ... and still _WAS_ in office as she campaigned. If your campaign relies on erasing roughly the last decade from the public's memory, *how fkn **_SHITTY_** of a candidate are you??*

[@Hammerhead547]

And the funniest part is that it could've been a walkoff grand slam homerun for the democrats if they'd picked literally anyone else from the moderate centrist side of the party. But then biden pulled a brilliant bit of machiavellian politicing and threw a big wrench in their plans by endorsing kamala, which forced them to run her as their candidate despite somehow being less popular than haunta virus.

[@AnthonySforza]

Ohhhh... that's where things show how off the rails we've gotten. To them, Trump DID ruin things tbe first time around and Harris would fix everything, because right now (During the Election), she's only capable of accomplishing what Biden allows her. The media and DNC was merely reinforcing that perspective.

[@DarlinAkaDarlene]

That's what I kept saying! Just insane!

[@sik3xploit]

It seems like they pretend he never had a first term in office for some reason.

[@savioblanc]

They haven't stopped. But, and this is important, even their "allies" are tired of their constant "everyone is Hitler" rhetoric. Plus, they've overplayed the trans issues nonsense by targetting the children.

[@MusicFromNowhere]

Um, the children were targeted by the media and others who hate trans people. It was an invented "problem" that got too much attention, intentionally.

[@Gitn2it]

It's the nature of progressives to go to the extreme. That is their downfall, and they know it. That's why Kamela hid that side of their agenda, but she didn't fool anyone.

[@BernardMorrey]

They have lost ground because people woke up

[@mrsleep0000]

Denying reality is hard on a person.

[@blackriders3509]

I have two brothers who served in GWOT, one of them received a serious wound. Both have resigned themselves to the fact that they were duped & were fighting for big business

[@HolidayRambler.Admiral]

Millennials think PTSD is the same as being wounded, lol.

[@PeterNgola]

Also explain to me how you feel like they were fighting for big business?

[@AnthonySforza]

Admittedly, while Iraq seemed like a farce, I at least considered that in Afghanistan, we were fighting the good fight. Though being there, seeing the people and understanding that eradicating the Taliban would be like going into the US and "eradicating" Latinos. Honestly, the whole thing was such a mess and most of the people there didn't really care about the geopolitical Charlie Foxtrot they found themselves in.

[@mineralt]

@@PeterNgola how many billions did haliburton, lockheed martin, raytheon, etc make on that war? Hundreds of billion$

[@LordWalsallian]

@@AnthonySforzaAnd it ultimately was all for nothing as the Taliban are back in control in Afghanistan. 😢

[@joshuamaurer9784]

You will get tired. Communists will never get tired. They just go quiet for a while. They will keep it up

[@Connery007neckache]

One step forward, two steps back. That’s what Lenin said.

[@untunedguitar45]

And when anyone tries to give a conclusive solution, they declare YOU a monster

[@Connery007neckache]

@@untunedguitar45 Monsters have feelings too. 😂

[@MusicFromNowhere]

Communism has been vanquished. It was replaced by capitalism, in some cases with strong boundaries. China boomed because of this, and now, it is suffering because they made the same mistake as the West. They allowed *TOO MUCH REAL ESTATE SPECULATION*

[@jurassicarkjordanisgreat1778]

@@joshuamaurer9784 stop blackpilling. They can’t come back as long as free speech is around

[@BoldTV-o8y]

😒👉🏾… “Covid was merely us being told about normal everyday deaths that we’d have never heard about unless we lived in the area.

[@1amjapan]

@@BoldTV-o8y bingo

[@AnthonySforza]

Yea... the CDC said there was what, like 20,000 actual deaths from it? Meanwhile, the seasonal flu kills about 60-80,000 every year and H1N1 killed about 300,000.

[@rhysjonsmusic]

Especially the daily death counts some news stations were doing during peak Corona. Like wow who couldve guessed that people die everyday?

[@williamwalton9154]

@BoldTV-o8y my quote "The obituary page of the newspaper is never empty."

[@flexjohnson18]

Woke has been a thing since like forever but it went berserk in 2010 essentially when the gen z/millennial crossover ages started getting internet access And lets be real...its govt funded

[@PeterM8987]

Yes. PC ran rife in university in the 1990s.

[@Smettli]

I miss playing Quake and talking with people on mIRC :D Good times!

[@hithere748]

I'd say it went berserk in 2014, to be exact.

[@mykaelmarshall8204]

I’d say more 2014-15.

[@thunderch1ck3en]

@@PeterM8987 there was a comedy that came out in 1994 that put it on display. "PCU". It was decades ahead of its time.

[@declannash3435]

They’ve all moved to Ireland! Still in the eye of the loony liberal storm here…

[@DeflatingAtheism]

Leftists have a tendency of moving to the absolutely whitest places.

[@user-zy9yg2eu5t]

@@declannash3435 Fortunately Irish nationalism is not as maligned as it is in other Western countries. The left and right both fly the Irish flag and there is a deep understanding that the Irish are a distinct ethnic group. I am optimistic about Ireland.

[@declannash3435]

@@user-zy9yg2eu5tCatherine Zappone is running for the Seanad again..deeply troubling

[@PeterM8987]

They voted in the radical left wingers again!😅

[@aro8000]

Europe is dying. I doubt if anything can be done here.

[@revolvertaco7493]

Animals are most dangerous when cornered.

[@Rcampo42]

Correction An the wokes are devolved animals that are affraid of extinction

[@karelglasner2673]

The Weimer Germany mafia in Isreal 😂

[@revolvertaco7493]

@karelglasner2673 i dont understand the reference

[@karelglasner2673]

@@revolvertaco7493 you'd have to research cuz this app won't allow more explanation

[@Pazzanz]

Most folks have long left that corner…. theyre long gone

[@arnoldrimmer9161]

Please let's not let our guard down. We are winning the woke war and can't afford to lose.

[@Shoxic666]

Press the advantage always, never give the opponent time to recover.

[@OOL-UV2]

Exhaustion is an excellent way to put it. Wokeism is strongly apocalyptic, relying on world-ending threats as a form of fuel. But then people consult their eyes, ears, and memories and see that these things have not come to pass.

[@lox7182]

Are you referring to climate change? If you're talking about that sure, but let's be honest, conservatives constantly act as if the US is about to collapse from wokeness

[@sdrc92126]

The Doctrine of Fascism by Mussolini is nine pages long. The most despised document in the history of humanity that has never been read. By anyone. 🤣

[@champagnebulge1]

Just 9 pages? That's community college level manifesto. Though it makes Luigi M's manifesto of like 300 words look like Odysseus

[@sdrc92126]

@@champagnebulge1 Yeah, I printed it out last week. Obviously no one has read it

[@LuckysLair]

sjsu.edu/faculty/wooda/2B-HUM/Readings/The-Doctrine-of-Fascism.pdf

[@DumbCreative]

The communist manifesto is a short read too. Always being accused of not know what communism is when it's pretty cut and dry. I haven't read this Mussolini doctrine. I'm interested but also kind of don't want the algorithm to see me search it! Weird we have to deal with that now. I could wind up on some list with the wrong web search.

[@sdrc92126]

@@DumbCreative I don't care anymore re: searches. Yeah, the cm is pretty short read....and he was paid to write it to by a heretical Christian sect. You also can't post parts of it...probably due to self incrimination🤣 It also shows how many of his ideas have long been put into practice in most of the west and that those ideas are blamed as 'capitalism'. The ten pillars which are almost an anti-ten commandments.🤔 See also the 1844 manuscripts. The guy wanted to be a self-help guru like hubbard.

[@TheUnhousedWanderer]

9:23 there's a reason why Presidents appoint civilians rather than active military to Secretary of Defense. The belief is that a civilian will be less likely to instigate a war or use nukes.

[@jlr8451]

My observation (and I live in a very "left" state) is that common sense has been completely abandoned in favor of blind disdain for the orange man. There is absolutely no discussion or argument that can take place because people are viscerally offended by any angle that doesn't agree with their disdain. Hope people can come back to their senses soon.

[@rhysjonsmusic]

Its a cult The religion of wokeness

[@Zorn76]

Eventually, lying becomes exhausting.

[@Gitn2it]

The left lied so much that they became super hypocrites. How could they support women while at the same time giving awards to men declaring themselves to be women? There are more instances where they actually had to ignore reality in order to promote their ideology. The average American was just not able to keep doing that.

[@C_MP_LENT88]

Exactly! Because you always have to remember each and every aspect of that lie

[@saltymermaid5244]

@@Zorn76 Not for Muslims

[@persnipoles]

There's a mesh network (Scott Adams) or infinite whackamole game they're playing on themselves. Probably to the point where it's no help to them to debunk for them one by one.

[@austen855]

Zuby looking like he’s about to give me a quest in fallout 1

[@captainmaim]

Came here to say this... Zuby has a gang problem. Probably ghouls

[@angelalewis3645]

💯😂

[@monicamiller9793]

As an American "later period boomer-early period gen Xer", I am so filled with happiness listening and watching you two intelligently discuss these topics, my heart is bursting with optimism and pride for the future of our country.

[@rougebaba3887]

Concerning what Dave says about the Iraq War, I had lots of my so-called "conservative" friends and family say that exact same crap to me! I couldn't believe how gullible they were being. Here was this large group of people who would swear that "the government which governs least, governs best" and that more and more centralized power is a dangerous thing, and yet they were cheerleading things like "The Patriot Act"! They would have exhausted themselves telling you how big government couldn't be trusted with anything at home, and yet they were trusting that very same government to set things straight in Iraq and Afghanistan! It was freaking amazing to me!

[@edmondgreen7970]

The right loves to believe they have nothing in common with the left. LoL. How wrong they are

[@ContrarianCorner]

100%. Most so-called conservatives are every bit as culpable for the state we're in as the far left. I was saying the same thing to my conservative friends at the time. It was only after _they_ became the targets that some of them start waking up. RINOs every one of of them. Pathetic.

[@orangehair2518]

Many American conservatives achilles heel is that they can be constantly manipulated by "patriotism" to attack foreign countries for the profit of the Military Industrial Complex and/or the supposed security of Israel.

[@disgusted3191]

I was duped by wmd narrative but it had much more to do with the fact that Saddam Hussein had already used chemical weapons against the Iranians and his own Kurdish population. The accusation of another type of wmd seemed believable. There was also reporting that he had purchased centrifuges from the Germans. One theory was that Hussein didn't have the nuclear weapon development but wanted other countries in the region to believe that he might have it. Perhaps this was simply a cover story to give an explanation for why no nuclear weapon stock was found. Thereby giving plausibility for the so-called intelligence. I suspected from about 1980 on that The US corporate media was extremely biased toward the left but didn't realize it was in every facet of politics. I didn't see an extreme polarization of foreign policy views back then. The change in perception of the FBI has been quite amazing. In the '60s and '70s the FBI was the bad guys for the black community and hippies. I thought they were the good guys that went into the South to investigate evil racist law enforcement. The CIA were the bad guys for the peaceniks. Good guys for anti-communists. Now both FBI and CIA are distrusted by conservatives + trusted by the lefties. An awful lot depends on who these agencies are controlled by and who they are targeting. As a conservative, I feel like the intelligence apparatus including the FBI is functioning like a secret police. I want the FBI to be de-politicized. I honestly don't know what to do about the intelligence agencies. I'm inclined to say declassify like crazy + budget cut. Reestablish the principal of foreign operations only at the least.

[@angelalewis3645]

🔥

[@dr1742]

This was good and I would have liked to see the rest of it.

[@Kilowatt420]

6:06 I disagree, these civilians know who is the enemy and they say nothing. Sorry but if they let these evil people build up to attack and never say a word to stop them, they are in part guilty for the attack.

[@j96569]

Yes, this idea that it's unheard of that the civilians suffer if their government start wars is so ridiculous. Unfortunately you have one small country fighting a war of public opinion against almost 1.7 Billion Muslims, taqiya, and all the Liberals who think Palestine is a fashion accessory.

[@Mattys556]

Great interview, love Dave. Don't always agree on everything, but smart guy for sure.

[@freedomloverusa3030]

He said nothing about the Israeli innocents killed in their homes, or the hostages, or how they are raped, or acknowledge the religious zealotry behind of the people being “genocided”.

[@havingfun-u4g]

Of course not, he is smug and his view is the correct view.

[@lindaostrom570]

the irony he is still accepting the current fashion as presented by questionable news outlets of israel bashing never mind that they were invaded and attacked in the most barbaric way.

[@martinsanders1283]

“Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss.”

[@christiane.g.4142]

Let's wait and see. Hopefully Trump will prove that song wrong

[@martinsanders1283]

@ I think you may be correct. That’s why they hate him, he’s not part of their gang. I’m not a Yank, but I’m glad of his influence across the planet. He upsets all the right people.😂

[@user-nm3gg7rq2d]

@@martinsanders1283 pretty pathetic existence you have if making people upset is what gets you off. karma is real.

[@martinsanders1283]

@@user-nm3gg7rq2d karma ain’t real. I once bought a homeless guy a burger and got myself one too. I bit into mine, on the way back to my car, and burger sauce splurged out onto the white laces of my brand new converse. Universe must’ve been telling me what a pathetic individual I was. 🤷🏻‍♂️😂 Anyway, nice bit of irony in your comment there. Well done.👏👏👏

[@HonestJohnstories-lv7sb]

Lying is never a strong strategy!

[@Jmike12345]

@@HonestJohnstories-lv7sb lies, deception and deceit is just old and ineffective. Their ideas are literally failing in cities they control. Woke policies are so stupid even a child can see the outcome. Lies are all progressives have to talk about and it stopped working on people with common sense.

[@DarlinAkaDarlene]

Liked and agreed but then realized it worked for Hitler. Lie enough and people will start to believe. Covid, men pretending to be women beating actual women etc. etc.

[@katsinthecradle89]

Refreshing to see this interviewer Zuby calmly and patiently allow his guest to speak.

[@morgant.dulaman8733]

I remember reading a book on the Black Panthers for a modern American history class. Towards the end, while...funny alphabet agency shenanigans where involved, the fundamental problem they faced was keeping people stuck in a "revolutionary" mindset forever. In the end, most of them just wanted to go back to their families.

[@TravM991]

We need 12 straight years of Republican policy to fix this country. God Please Bless America 🇺🇸 🙏🏾

[@briancox9357]

God doesn't exist

[@TravM991]

@ Prove it

[@badgerrrlattin35]

To qualify and confirm - REAL Republican. R.i.n.o.s need not apply.

[@stevenkoehler6018]

Excellent analysis

[@hay_w1re645]

Two of my favorite reasonable voices!!! Y’all keep me sane sometimes…

[@georgeboise5311]

Obama calls him hitler one week and next week he is yucking it up with him at an event. Like old pals

[@havingfun-u4g]

Hitler drank water and I drink water, oh no.

[@PaulStewart-jr3gm]

Dave Smith is excellent. I could listen to him all day

[@carlosgomez-ct6ki]

This sounds when a politician campaigns on lowering jail terms in order to benefit from it when gets caught stealing taxpayer money.

[@ionrogue7080]

Awesome conversation

[@erroneous6947]

A dying animal backed into a corner is at its most dangerous. Stay frosty.

[@Rcampo42]

Correction The wokes are devolved animals trying to fend off extinction

[@AnthonySforza]

Sun Tzu even said, that when you corner an enemy army, give them an out... because otherwise, they'll fight their most ferociously, until every man is gone. Taking many of you down with them. Something to that effect.

[@DoomWar1]

@@AnthonySforza It's a scary thing when a man is on the brink of death, full of fury with nothing to lose.

[@edgarmorales7855]

Just discovered your channel and I like it! I am now subscribed thank you 🙂

[@PB-or2fd]

I fell for the, "Let's get back to normal", and boy did we. Right back to Cheney, Bush and Obama.

[@rorschach1978]

Zuby this was an excellent View by Dave!

[@AlbrechtSchnabel]

Indeed: exhausted, decimated, hunted, for decades, if not centuries by now.

[@DeflatingAtheism]

“Hunted, de-SPISED! LEE-vink like an HANIMAL!”

[@jasoncoward-aintscared]

Im glad this was recommended. 💯x💯

[@tjsokkerplayer]

Most of what the left has to say is fake outrage. It reminds me of my 4 yr old cousin who rolls on the ground and whines incessantly at every little thing that does not go her way. Most times it's just to put on a show. Eventually she gets exhausted of fake crying and realizes that no one is paying her any mind at which point she stops and rejoins us.

[@lecs9385]

Best breakdown ive seen thus far!

[@donnied9432]

Right now all they are trying to do is figure out a way to blame the fire on us.

[@LaneHadway127]

I'm so happy to hear.😅❤🙏👍🏻

[@jasong428]

You can't be 1984 and 1969 at the same time.

[@fredingram3731]

This has divided my family right down the middle. There are cousins and aunts I no longer speak to and probably never will.

[@dainpanton4002]

ALL of these problems boil down to the same problem every single time

[@AndrooUK]

Star People?

[@joelhodoborgas]

Leftism is a cult?

[@jaredleicht1656]

All these problems started when white men started to apologize for their accomplishments.

[@goldman77700]

@@AndrooUK Pretty much.

[@ravidadz2354]

@@AndrooUK I call them Shreklemberg

[@orangeandslinky]

Good talk. Thanks.

[@stevedenis8292]

It is hard to create problems then try to solve them. Poorly.

[@nemosays6337]

2 of my favourite commentators in this mad mad world we all exist in!

[@ericp0012]

What exactly is the difference between the woke left and the left?

[@Itsstuff7328]

I'm left, not woke. I believe in democracy and rule of law, transparency in government and the law applied equally regardless of race, creed or status. Woke believes in engineering "equity" by bastardizing the systems we have. The REALLY far left ones straight up believe in bloody revolution.

[@dolomaticus1180]

It's how hard either one presses the gas pedal for their ideas.

[@danielkokal8819]

the difference is in direct proportion to which mushrooms you eat.

[@geoffharmer1366]

Not much for the past couple of years.

[@rustythefoxcoon5143]

One today is called a woke liberal, the other is now classified as MAAGGAA

[@Rorschachqp]

This is the “fatigue”. When actors, musicians, influencers and especially politicians espouse wokester-ism, they get much richer. When the common voter does it, they get much poorer. People, especially young adults, really don’t like getting much poorer because they are already poor.

[@mikewaterfield3599]

By the by, no one said Sadam had nukes. They thought he had nerve gas and the missiles to deliver it. Why? We knew he had scuds, and he had a history of using nerve gas on his own people.

[@AnthonySforza]

To be fair, Bush sent the former Ambassador of African countries to ask the leaders he knew if Saddam was, in fact, sourcing Yellow Cake Uranium from them. He did... they said "No" and he reported back to Bush, like "Hey, no worries, Intel isn't a science." Only for Bush to turn around and publically make the claim that Saddam was sourcing Yellow Cake. Which was a huge scandal when said former Diplomat went to... I believe it was the New York Times about it. I could be wrong, but I think he was charged with treason and his wife who was head of the CIA at the time was received of her position. Forgive the inconsistent level of detail, this was 20 years ago and I'm going off of memory

[@johnb3743]

@mikewaterfield3599 by the way, where did Sadaam get those weapons? Have you seen the picture of him shaking Donald Rumsfeld's hand? The whole thing was a fraud and million of Iraqi's died, and our own military wound up killing themselves, because of the lies of the corrupt US government and media. By the way,,,

[@ofc4517]

If you remember, they were going in looking for yellow cake which is plutonium powder, not nerve gas primarily.

[@mikewaterfield3599]

@@ofc4517 If you read the entire report, you would have known that both Sarin and CN20 were previously known to have been produced in Iraq and were on the "list", incidentally so was Anthrax. Furthermore, people forget the very public statement Sadam made offering "safe harbor" to anyone plotting further attacks against us. Was there bad intel? yes. Was there exaggeration? yes. The greatest fear was a "dirty bomb". Oddly during the Clinton years Sadam was nailed more than once for gathering and attempting to refine Uranium. Sadam was a military dictator and an actual fascist known to have used chemical and biological weapons who willingly offered safe harbor to our enemies. I lose zero sleep at his downfall or what it cost the Iraqi people. There is a good reason the military uses the term CBR, (chemical, biological. and radiological) weapons. "Weapons of mass destruction" is a media headline term.

[@cheergiver]

Fun fact: Saddam actually said he had weapons because he was terrified of Iran. He was trying to intimidate them. Our government likely knew it wasn’t the case, however, and didn’t care.

[@GJS2183]

About time!

[@jesseallerdings7050]

Wmd thing, nobody was pushing the idea it was about nukes, it was all about chemical and biological. The propaganda was bad enough on its own, no need to be hyperbolic about it.

[@cheezemonkeyeater]

They mostly kept using the catch-all term "WMDs." Most people hear that and think nukes.

[@inmjoh]

No, thats incorrect. It was very much presented as a nuclear threat. "Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof - the smoking gun - that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud," George Bush "The problem here is that there will always be some uncertainty about how quickly Saddam can acquire nuclear weapons. But we don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud." Condoleezza Rice "The British Government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.” George Bush "trying, through his illicit procurement network, to acquire the equipment he needs to be able to enrich uranium - specifically, aluminum tubes." Dick Cheney You can't gaslight this. It was presented as a nuclear threat, and when that turned out to be untrue and the elites had their war, then and only then was the narrative changed to a broader less specific weapons of mass destruction.

[@inmjoh]

Thats not true. It was certainly sold to the public as a nuclear threat. "Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof - the smoking gun - that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud," George Bush "trying, through his illicit procurement network, to acquire the equipment he needs to be able to enrich uranium - specifically, aluminum tubes. Dick Cheney "The British Government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.” George Bush

[@jesseallerdings7050]

@inmjoh you must not be old enough to remember, besides all your examples are simply more hyperbole, all the evidence shown was for chemical and biological, which Iraq did have at one point but had long gotten rid of it, that part was the lie. All the nuclear rhetoric was a what if. If you understood propaganda better you would realize you are the one gaslighting.

[@klaudioabazi4478]

@@jesseallerdings7050 Really? No need to be hyperbolic when they destroyed an entire people on those lies.

[@theblackflame4002]

You can only hate for so long, especially when as time goes on-and if your eyes are open-you begin to see more and more things about him have been taken out of context to outright lies.

[@kenandrieling5885]

They ran out of victims

[@williekelly4855]

Dave Keep up good work god bless you

[@PeterM8987]

Dave directly blamed Netanyahu for the US led invasion of Iraq. Really? Criticise Netanyahu as much as you like, but you need to support it with well-sourced evidence.

[@tylerspunucious7420]

Did you do a Google search? kzbin.info/www/bejne/aWTZgHWggtWLitEsi=uHJfPRrKNs3HQ3lJ

[@Pazzanz]

He implied Nate Yahoo was for the war for his own personal reasons

[@PeterM8987]

@Pazzanz OK. Thanks. I misunderstood.

[@mattvarner5825]

It's like someone just spoke my entire stream of consciousness from the past 10 ish years in the last 15 minutes

[@TheFakeGooberGoblin]

3:30 We got Watergate 2.0 before GTA 6.

[@greggorywilson2765]

Thanks Zuby

[@markdimeo7060]

La is just the first Democratic city to completely collapse. Others are soon to follow.

[@JackRyder-lh4ek]

Hey Dave, lay off the Adderall. You think you might let this guy say a minimum at least one word.

[@giovannigiorgio831]

It’s the Boy Who Cried Wolf on a massive scale. You can only tell people lies for so long before they either so believing them or just stop caring. Plus, it’s made worse when they have actual tangible problems like crime or inflation.

[@jayhellyer5406]

The people who told you about the suffocating baby also told you about weapons of mass destruction.

[@tylerspunucious7420]

@@jayhellyer5406 Not really

[@kenandrieling5885]

Iraq had weapons of mass destruction because the united states gave it to them in the eighties

[@havingfun-u4g]

​@@tylerspunucious7420 You don't think hamas is going to use the West's "virtue" against them? There is a reason they build their bases under schools etc. Their leaders know exactly how our people will behave and they exploit it.

[@Rcampo42]

The lunatics that sympathize with the most horrid of people may go into hiding But we also must remain vigilant

[@chrisdelfyett2644]

I remember it being 50/50 in regards to Ivading Iraq

[@jiveturkey2875]

Cause it was all b.s. If you look at the region, the natuons we had treaties with, and the nations we were in conflict with, you can see that the U.S. endgame was to take out Iran.

[@asaptenebrae2240]

They know they are wrong on a few topics but their false moral high ground and their ego prevent many of them from just admitting they have been wrong.

[@Winterascent]

Dave laying out that Americans are the most propagandized people going while taking about Sadam at 1:00. Nothing changed.

[@workingclassless84]

@@Winterascent The moment they convinced 99% of the population that 50% of their fellow Americans were the enemy, this country was lost.

[@matthiassventoest6800]

my question is, where is "the middle", and where are the voices for the middle. is it matt taibbi, though he is a journalist ?

[@BuFFoTheArtClown]

A minute and 42 seconds in and Dave immediately pivots to his favorite Target, Jews. I think that's a new record.

[@untunedguitar45]

Over the target 🎯

[@joelhodoborgas]

The left camera is invading my personal space lol

[@DivadNoodeldehm-lz2gm]

Isn't the guy on the left the British Women's bicep curl champion or something?

[@cameron120587]

@@DivadNoodeldehm-lz2gm UK women’s deadlift record holder

[@hughjarse797]

i think it was a dead lift. he did it to prove a point

[@44excalibur]

No one in the US government was saying that Saddam Hussein had anything to do with 9/11 or that he had nuclear weapons. The “weapons of mass destruction" argument was about Iraq possibly having chemical weapons, biological weapons, or enriched uranium for dirty bombs that they could possibly sell to terrorist organizations. The problem was that by 2003, most of those WMDs had been shipped to Syria and were no longer in Iraq due to the UN inspections. The Bush administration went to war in Iraq under the assumption that they were still there based on bad intelligence from the same CIA director who told Bill Clinton where to aim his Tomahawk missiles back in the 1990s that hit everything but their targets.

[@RevoVansen]

Dave is so incredibly myopic on Gaza.

[@frankknight7968]

In your mind

[@havingfun-u4g]

@@frankknight7968 In reality. Not sure why you would believe death tolls from people who have a vested interested in inflating numbers. They need the civilian death count to be high so the west will feel bad for them. It is the main reason they build their bases under hospitals. Did you think they did that on accident?

[@Heegaherger]

As the twin towers fell, i guessed I was going to Iraqi, was an active duty marine at the time. In the months before being deployed for OIF I, I could heard the war drums being beaten with increasing frenzy. You cannot convince me that it wasn’t House Bush vs House Sadam. Powell falling on his sword in front of the UN was my last straw.

[@mattng4707]

Agree with some of the comments here ..we have to be very vigilant bot guve them ground they planning for a comeback

[@moonoggin]

When everything in life exhausts you, you's better pay attention as to why! Working two jobs, and still cant make it🤔

[@danebramage04]

The more Dave Smith talks, he seems to really enjoy the way Dave Smith talks.

[@benr7294]

Create the craziness, blame the target of the craziness to win your position. Literally gestapo tactics.

[@FAFO4wisdom-s9o]

They arent exhausted, they arent getting paid anymore. They are finding out they were the baddies in the movie.

[@Equilibrium-Manifesto]

Stylistic point. You’re face is too close compared to your guest and in general and it’s distracting to the viewing experience and aesthetics