Joe Rogan Experience #2153 - Dave Smith

Dave Smith joins Joe Rogan for a wide-ranging conversation centered on his anti-war libertarian worldview. They open on the weakness of modern liberalism and homelessness policy, then pivot to how corporate media lost public trust through COVID coverage, the Russiagate narrative, and rushed soundbite journalism. The bulk of the episode is Smith's detailed argument that Netanyahu deliberately propped up Hamas to prevent a Palestinian state, supported by reporting and a 'clean break' neoconservative strategy memo. They close with lighter tangents on congressional dysfunction, political corruption and self-enrichment, Bob Lazar's 'souls as containers' theory, and the breeding of wolves into dogs.

• Smith argues Netanyahu deliberately propped up Hamas, funneling Qatari cash, specifically to prevent a Palestinian state and claim he has 'no partner for peace'.
  01:07:54
• He cites a New York Times report that two weeks before October 7th, Netanyahu sent the head of the Mossad to Qatar to ensure funds kept flowing to Hamas.
  01:11:31
• Smith details the 1996 'A Clean Break' memo by neoconservatives recommending Iraq regime change for Israel's security, years before the Iraq War.
  01:15:47
• Smith claims NATO expansion provoked Russia's invasion of Ukraine, later citing NATO chief Stoltenberg admitting Putin offered not to invade if NATO ruled out Ukraine membership.
  02:00:26
• Both conclude the Iranian president's helicopter crash was most likely bad weather rather than an assassination.
  01:48:30
• Rogan claims the FBI placed the 'classified/top secret' cover sheets in the staged photo of Trump documents, which weren't there originally.
  02:32:46
• Rogan relays Bob Lazar's claim that documents describe humans as 'containers of souls' and that religion was created to protect the containers.
  02:42:42

• Smith praises Jimmy Dore's bit that 'doing your own research' used to just be called reading.
  00:19:21
• After the US invasion, Afghanistan produced over 80% of the global heroin supply, which then plunged ~95% under the Taliban's opium ban.
  00:42:34
• Human Rights Watch documented at least eight Israeli attacks on humanitarian aid convoys despite given coordinates.
  00:51:50
• Pre-state Israeli groups like the Irgun and Stern Gang used terrorism (e.g. the King David Hotel bombing) to drive out the British; their leaders became prime ministers.
  01:01:10
• General McChrystal's 'insurgent math': 10 minus 2 equals 20, because each killed insurgent radicalizes relatives into joining.
  01:34:32
• Smith recounts AOC collapsing under simple 'what do you mean by that' follow-up questions about Israel-Palestine.
  02:05:11
• The Marjorie Taylor Greene 'bleach blond, bad built, butch body' alliteration exchange in a congressional hearing.
  02:09:22
• The Russian fox domestication experiment selectively bred friendliness, producing floppy ears, smaller jaws, and cuter features in a few generations.
  02:52:05
• The DNC and Clinton campaign were fined $113,000 by the FEC over misreported spending that funded the Steele dossier.
  02:35:51