#345 Dave Smith - What a Second Trump Term Means
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🗓️ 9 January 2025
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
Dave is a comedian, a podcaster, and libertarian political commentator. David joins Zuby to discuss the future of the US. The two explore faith and atheism, negative framing in the West, and how such points led to a second Trump Presidency. Dave also shares his thoughts on ideological fatigue today, his stance on foreign policy, and the infiltration of money in politics today. Additionally, they explore the Overton window shift taking place in US politics, and thoughts on patriotism.
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Timestamps:
(00:00) Introduction
(01:36) Direction of US
(10:34) Courage to seek truth
(21:28) Faith & atheism
(27:25) Negative framing
(34:07) Ideological fatigue
(42:09) Trump’s first term
(47:30) US foreign policy
(54:49) Patriotism
(1:02:52) Money in politics
(1:06:07) Saudi Arabia/Hillary Clinton
(1:11:40) Overton window shift
(1:20:13) Outro
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| 0:00.0 | I think that part of the fact of why the left-wing activists are not as outrage as they used to be. |
| 0:06.2 | It's like they all, first, they all bought into Russiagate and they all bought into the COVID stuff. |
| 0:12.0 | And that has now been exposed just like the war in Iraq was. |
| 0:15.5 | That it was, it's not that they got it wrong. |
| 0:17.8 | It's that it was lies. |
| 0:38.7 | I am the man sick with the slang, sick and I'm guessing for faith. got it wrong. It's that it was lies. What's up, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls around the world? |
| 0:41.6 | I'd like to welcome you back to The Real Talk with Zubi Podcast. |
| 0:45.2 | On today's episode, we have got on a returning guest. |
| 0:46.8 | He is a comedian. |
| 0:52.4 | He is a very well-known libertarian, social, cultural, and political commentator. |
| 0:56.1 | And he's also the host of the podcast, part of the problem. And this is Dave Smith. Welcome back to the show, man. How you doing? Good. Thanks for |
| 1:00.1 | having me back, brother. It's good to see you. I think I had less gray in my beard last time we talked. |
| 1:05.5 | Well, a lot has been happening. Before we, before I hit record, I was just saying, our last |
| 1:09.8 | conversation was mid |
| 1:10.9 | 2021 and not just your nation but the entire world was in a very different |
| 1:16.7 | situation back then so I feel like we have a lot to catch up on but how are you |
| 1:21.3 | doing first of all good man I can't complain it's been it's been a wild time to |
| 1:26.0 | be alive but things have been going very good for me so so I'm very blessed and very, very lucky and can't complain. |
| 1:32.9 | That's awesome, man. |
| 1:33.9 | Well, a lot has happened. |
| 1:36.1 | How are you feeling about the direction of the USA right now? |
| 1:40.3 | I mean, it's a broad, it's a broad question. |
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