Joe Rogan Experience #1875 - Dave Smith

U.S. killed approximately one million Iraqis

U.S. government system is fundamentally broken and unethical

Government engages in bombing, mass incarceration, and corporate bailouts

U.S. transformed from republic to empire

Student loan forgiveness used as political leverage for votes

Student loan forgiveness unfairly burdens non-college taxpayers

University education system operates as Ponzi scheme

Tech companies trapped by progressive ideology from university indoctrination

Congress threatened tech companies over Trump's election and Russian interference

White House pressured Twitter regarding Alex Berenson

Alex Berenson censored for accurate COVID data

NIH scientists received $135 million in pharma royalties; Fauci refused disclosure

Intelligence agencies and tech companies interfered in 2020 election

U.S. prevented Ukraine-Russia peace deal through Boris Johnson

Official narrative on Putin contradictory and incoherent

NATO expanded eastward despite 1991 promise to Russia

U.S. led coup in Ukraine in 2014

Burisma bribed Hunter Biden and CIA officials

Trump sought investigation of Biden family Ukraine dealings

Donbass region voted to join Russia in 2015 referendum

Same neocons who sold Iraq War now pushing Ukraine conflict

Eisenhower warned of military-industrial complex

Weapons manufacturers fund think tanks that lobby for wars

Pharmaceutical industry prioritizes drugs over lifestyle changes

Vaccines cause myocarditis in children; extent of damage unknown

Fauci warned vaccines needed two years of trials and could worsen infection

Government knew vaccines wouldn't stop infection but oversold them

Respiratory viruses cannot be contained through lockdowns

88% of COVID patients on ventilators in New York died

Texas reopening did not increase death rates compared to lockdown states

Lockdowns contributed to 2020 riots and social unrest

Lockdowns and corporate bailouts caused inflation

Government should have targeted protection to vulnerable populations

Government suppressed vitamin D data for COVID prevention

Fauci and Biden falsely claimed vaccines prevent infection and transmission

Rachel Maddow spread false ivermectin overdose story

Ivermectin is safe and on WHO essential medicines list

CNN is propaganda arm of Democratic Party

Iraq War killed millions; thousands of soldiers committed suicide

Millions will never trust mainstream media again

Gulf of Tonkin incident was fabricated to justify Vietnam War

Lusitania was carrying weapons, justifying German attack

Media reported false Gulf of Tonkin attack as fact

Putin cannot afford to lose Ukraine war; U.S. position risks nuclear conflict

Putin threatens nuclear weapons; Zelensky calls for nuclear retaliation

U.S. should not use nuclear weapons preemptively against Russia

U.S. leaders incompetent; entrusted with preventing nuclear war

U.S. leaders are unexceptional popularity-contest winners

China gains influence through trade; U.S. through war

U.S. drone strikes on civilians contradict freedom and democracy claims

U.S. drone strikes kill 90% civilians; many are not actual terrorists

Officials responsible for Iraq War face no consequences

Pentagon officials lied to Trump about Syria troop numbers

Pentagon played shell games hiding actual Syria troop numbers from Trump

Trump's defense secretary Mattis resigned over Syria withdrawal

Trump backed down on Syria withdrawal after Pentagon deception

Trump only committed to his own greatness and winning

Trump proposed Russia cooperation; media accused him of collusion

Trump destroyed nuclear treaty to prove he wasn't colluding with Russia

McChrystal pressured Obama into Afghanistan troop surge

Government officials face political pressure and possible threats

Schools brainwashing children with progressive ideology

Children are malleable and can be indoctrinated with any ideology

Teachers should not indoctrinate students with ideology

Parents, not teachers, should instill values in children

School libraries contain sexually explicit books for children

Teachers should not teach children about sexual acts

Teachers promoting progressive ideology documented on social media

Child drag shows sexualize and exploit children

Child drag performances are inherently sexual

Society should agree not to sexualize children

Justice Department labeled parents at school board meetings as terrorists

Parents angry about school curriculum changes

Stacey Abrams denied fetal heartbeat at six weeks

Fetal heartbeat audible at six weeks

Abrams supports abortion with no gestational limits

Corporate media deliberately promoted woke ideology starting 2011-2012

Corporations adopted and promoted woke ideology from universities

Occupy and Tea Party movements both opposed banker bailouts

Media redirected populist movements toward culture war divisions

Banks used woke ideology to distract left from economic issues

Bankers received new bailouts in 2020; no accountability

Unclear if corporate woke promotion was coordinated conspiracy

Woke ideology could be CIA operation

Powerful media forces deliberately promoted woke ideology

National Review transformed right wing into culture warriors

Culture wars distract from military-industrial-pharmaceutical complex

January 6 protesters not real threat; imprisoned in solitary confinement

Real American fascism is Patriot Act, vaccine passports, defense contractors

January 6 Capitol breach with weapons was serious

January 6 protesters posed no real threat to government

Ray Epps incited Capitol breach but not arrested; Democrats defending him

FBI refused to answer if agents were involved in January 6

January 6 FBI involvement is conspiracy with evidence

Term 'conspiracy theory' weaponized to suppress questioning

Lee Harvey Oswald did not act alone in JFK assassination

Oliver Stone's JFK film and documentaries reveal assassination truth

Vaccine criticism now acceptable; previously censored

Nuclear war with Russia is humanity's greatest existential threat

U.S. prevented Ukraine-Russia peace negotiations

Official Ukraine war narrative is logically incoherent

Same neocons who sold Iraq War now pushing Ukraine conflict

George Soros-funded NGOs financed 2014 Ukraine protests

Victoria Nuland selected Ukraine's post-coup government

Trump pressured Ukraine to investigate Biden family

Obama coup in Ukraine; Biden point man; Trump sent weapons

Biden's Ukraine role led to Putin's invasion

U.S. Middle East interventions preceded 9-11

U.S. and Russia dangerously close to nuclear conflict

Nuclear war threat higher now than since Cold War

Muhammad Ali refused Vietnam War draft

Gulf of Tonkin incident was fabricated conspiracy

Vietnam and WWI wars started with false flag incidents

Media reported false Gulf of Tonkin attack as fact

U.S. provoked Gulf of Tonkin incident with aggressive operations

Johnson ordered bombing for non-existent attack

U.S. avoided direct wars with nuclear powers until Ukraine

Putin cannot afford to lose Ukraine war; risks nuclear escalation

Putin threatens nuclear weapons; Zelensky calls for nuclear retaliation

War on terrorism was disaster; no successful U.S. interventions

War on terror killed millions; 50,000 soldiers committed suicide

U.S. immediately provoked Russia and China after Afghanistan

Biden administration treats Putin like Saddam Hussein

Russia has hypersonic weapons; both nations can destroy world

U.S.-Russia arms race escalation over missile systems

Military-industrial complex pattern continues as Eisenhower warned

U.S. must abandon empire mentality and interventionism

U.S. should fix domestic freedom before exporting it

U.S. interventions reduce domestic freedom; civilian casualties

Middle East wars resulted in domestic surveillance state

Free market money pursuit requires voluntary exchange

Government-connected elites rig system against regular people

Only hope for America is libertarianism and limited government

Decentralization and limited government needed to save America

Need popular and elite support for government reform

Rigged system difficult to reform once entrenched

Angry people will force elites to give up rigged system

Peaceful solution preferred to violence for reform

Elites fear informed public; work hard to propagandize

COVID passports failed due to public outrage

Podcasts more influential than mainstream media; optimism if avoid nuclear war

Incompetent leaders entrusted with preventing nuclear war

Principled people cannot win elections; must compromise

Defense budget cannot be cut due to military-industrial complex

U.S. defense spending exceeds next 13 countries combined

Defense budget cuts need overwhelming popular mandate

Federal system will fail; decentralization will follow

Entrenched interests prevent federal reform without mass movement

Defense budget of $1.77 trillion is terrifying

Podcasts reach more people than CNN

Public appetite for intelligent discourse over mainstream media

U.S. system fundamentally corrupt throughout history

Americans are great but trapped in corrupt extractive system

Digital currency with social credit score is government control tool

Digital currency enables government control; Canada froze trucker accounts

Digital dollar requires becoming authoritarian like China

Visa separately classifies gun purchases

Government tests public resistance to authoritarian policies

Must prevent government control of digital currency

Digital currency will be weaponized for social control

Government policies motivated by financial benefit, not public good

Government leaders not motivated by public welfare

Corruption endemic since 1913 Federal Reserve creation

Only solution is abolishing government power

Smedley Butler documented military-industrial complex profiteering

War is a racket; profits in dollars, losses in lives