Rob Smith

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[Rob Smith @itsmerobjames]

@CarpetJackson @DefiyantlyFree She’s just so freaking weird. I don’t get her.

[Rob Smith @itsmerobjames]

@DefiyantlyFree Who the fuck are you to determine what’s conservative? I mean in all honesty, who the fuck are you period?

[Rob Smith @itsmerobjames]

Change nothing and nothing changes.

[Rob Smith @itsmerobjames]

@bennyjohnson Benny needs to be purged from the GOP if they are to win again. Texas just voted for James Talarico instead of Ken Paxton, and Bennys dumb ass takeaway is that voters rejected RINOS and moderates and they want more hardcore MAGA?

You have to be the dumbest person on earth.

[Rob Smith @itsmerobjames]

@GadSaad The guy is excited about winning an election. For that he’s “smug.” Mannnnn shut the hell up dude.

[Rob Smith @itsmerobjames]

@marklevinshow Are you serious? You want me to tune in so they can hear you complain about a email provider that no one ever uses and hasn’t used since 2003? What’s wrong with you man? I mean seriously.

[Rob Smith @itsmerobjames]

@scrowder How is this manufactured? Did this not happen?

[Rob Smith @itsmerobjames]

@DavidLimbaugh He’s the leader of the party. The buck stops with him.

[Rob Smith @itsmerobjames]

@Timcast @JackPosobiec CK was not a model citizen. @Timcast I understand he was a friend of yours and to you he was someone to be admired. But he wasn’t that to a lot of people. In fact he was the complete opposite. You trying to reimagine his image convinces no one. Because we’re adults with brains.

[Rob Smith @itsmerobjames]

@JackPosobiec https://t.co/xEK1mbfTkx

[Richard Hanania @RichardHanania]

Rightists have trouble understanding why Charlie Kirk jokes are funny.

Maybe I can explain it in a way you can understand.

People make jokes when a situation is absurd, and more specifically, when others demand you say something untrue about a person and treat them with more respect than they deserved.

George Floyd died. You conservatives thought jokes about St Floyd were funny. In your mind, he was a criminal and a drug addict, and leftists had treated him like the Second Coming of Jesus. Or think about how you'll see a trans person playing basketball with biological women, which leftists tell you is fine and normal, and how funny it is to laugh at this.

Similarly, most Americans do not share your personal admiration for Charlie Kirk. They think he was a bigot and a conspiracy theorist. He was also not in any way a thinker or someone who contributed positively to the discourse, but a political hack who formed his opinions based on tribal considerations and owning the libs.

When Charlie Kirk died, you went around cancelling people for being insufficiently sad. Even if someone said they were sad about his death and they just thought he didn't deserve to be admired, in those cases rightists still tried to destroy people's lives. Republicans in Congress started calling for a statue of Charlie Kirk in the US Capitol, and others introduced legislation to put his face on coins.

As of April 2026, an AP article identified more than 60 Kirk-themed bills introduced across over 20 states. Among these was one in Florida that threatened to take away funding from universities if they didn't rename a road after Charlie Kirk.

Outside of your bubble in which Charlie Kirk was a great thinker and leader, this is all ridiculous.

So when people at a Chappelle show hear the name "Charlie Kirk," they're not thinking about the human being and father. They're associating the name with rightists trying to create a cult of personality, and are employing humor, which is common when people are facing a movement that is trying to tell them what to do.

[Rob Smith @itsmerobjames]

@JackPosobiec Yes, yes, and yes. Not everyone idolizes Charlie like you do man. Get over it. I think you think Charlie is more important to the average person than he actually is.

[Cernovich @Cernovich]

The real way MAGA works. Lobbying firms pay “influencers” to push talking points. Susie would have staffers print out tweets going viral (via bots) by “his biggest supporters” to show Trump that an issue mattered to the base. This is why you got fucked and they got richer.

[Cernovich @Cernovich]

This week is why I'm tired of hearing about Tucker Carlson. Three people got spectacularly wealthy by their proximity to Trump - Susie Wiles, James Blair, and Chris LaCivita. It was their job to win the midterms. They failed catastrophically. Yet my timeline is full of Tucker this, Nick Fuentes that.

Was it Tucker who sold MAHA out to Bayer and gas station heroin companies? Was it Fuentes who said that mass deportations were unpopular, and that Trump should stop them? Was it Candace telling Trump that 94% of MAGA supported the Iran war? Was it Comic Dave Smith saying that Trump should tell people who wanted the Epstein files to be unsealed to sit out the midterms? Did they take $10,000,000 a year for 5 years for a "job" - corruption of such unbelievability that it wouldn't clear the writers room of the Sopranos.

We are such a childish culture that we don't know how to appoint accountability. Or are afraid to.

People go after Nick and Tucker because it's safe. Nobody will lose their access to the White House. Nobody will have the goon squads coordinate in group chats about them. Some may even be rewarded by head pats or maybe receive a small allowance from a billionaire donor.

Where as if you bring up corruption within the White House, there's a problem. Admin figures won't go on the YouTube slop shows. You won't get invited to events. I was specifically black listed from the Easter Egg roll. That's how petty these people are. My kid couldn't go the White House because I wouldn't shill for the Iran war.

Anyone who spends their time on Tucker / Candace / Nick while never reporting on the real corruption and self-enrichment are telling on themselves. They sold their souls to stay in the good graces of very disgusting people. They sold you out.

Now none of this means you shouldn't criticize anyone. I don't like that Tucker calls himself "just a podcaster." I don't call myself an "influencer." Like it or not, we have a higher calling from God. People are modeling themselves and forming their worldviews on what they read and watch and listen to. This doesn't make anyone responsible for what someone else does, but we should all feel a heavy weight each night. We should feel inadequate to the task. Like we failed somehow, but will nevertheless wake up the next day and do it all over again.

Even so, what exactly can Tucker (or I) do? He can't control information flow to Trump. He doesn't come from a lobbying shop that made $100,000,000 last year and this year, and that has richly rewarded him.

I sometimes watch his show and see his posts, most of the time I don't. That's not shade or negging. Nobody is reading all of my posts. Let's be real here. Everyone is busy.

Every day, James / Chris / Susie have access to Trump. They are rich beyond your wildest dreams. What did they do with this power? Why doesn't anyone ever ask about *that*?

We all know why. There are real consequences to taking on the big industries that we were sold out to. They'll plant stories, send out group chats to go after you, try getting you fired, and threaten to kill you.

The good news of an ass kicking is that there's no way to rationalize it. A close election could have led to excuse making. We are now facing a disaster. TEXAS IS BLUE. Because Grassley and the Senate refused to modify outdated rules, Democrats are in control of Cabinet appointments for at least the next 4 years.

There are people responsible for this. Very rich and powerful people.

Let's see more discussion of them.

[Rob Smith @itsmerobjames]

@spencerpratt Amen Spencer

[Rob Smith @itsmerobjames]

@laralogan Lara. Shut up. The election wasn’t stolen you moron. Actually read X comments. @EWErickson laid it all out why Trump lost. You are so fucking annoying. Go away back to your country. Please.

[Erick Erickson @EWErickson]

Made Grok and Claude hash out the exit poll data to get a more complete picture of voter sentiment. Notably, they concluded Iran was an accelerant on issues, but not actually the top issue. Their concurrent conclusions actually mirror a lot of public opinion polling that was showing up in the weeks before the election.

1Cost of living and inflation. 79% say inflation caused their family severe or moderate hardship. 62% blame higher prices more on Trump's policies than on factors beyond his control. 65% say his policies worsened the economy, against 27% who say they improved it. 75% rate the economy poor, 44% say they are worse off than two years ago, and 39% named the economy the top issue. BBC · AP via PBS · NBC

2Tariffs. 64% say tariffs hurt the national economy (D 78–19), and 63% say they hurt their local economy (D 79–18). Only 15% say tariffs helped their area. That is the most lopsided policy verdict in the poll, and voters judged it by their own towns. NBC

3Government corruption. 90% called it a crucial or major factor. About half called it "crucial," a larger share than for immigration, Iran, or AI, and about 6 in 10 say Trump puts his own interests first. About 4 in 10 voters who called it crucial still went Republican. BBC

4The Iran war and fuel costs. 63% say the attack was the wrong decision, against 37% who say it was right. 74% called the war a crucial or major factor, though only about a third called it crucial. 59% are "very concerned" about gas and diesel prices. Gas averaged $4.15, about $1.11 above a year earlier, and diesel averaged $6.29. About a quarter of Republicans say the war was wrong. BBC

5Democracy and checks on Trump. 32% named the state of democracy the top issue, and about 8 in 10 of them voted Democratic. About 7 in 10 say Congress isn't checking the President enough, including about 4 in 10 Republicans. 43% voted to oppose Trump and 16% to support him. His approval stood at 38%. BBC

6Immigration (the GOP's floor). 14% named it the top issue. Republicans kept a small edge on the issue, and it mattered more to Republican voters. Even so, 57% say enforcement has gone too far. BBC

7Healthcare. Democrats held a wide advantage here, but few voters named it the top issue.

8AI and data centers. It ranked below corruption and cost of living, and voters split on which party handles AI better. 61% opposed new data centers near them.

Context: 38% of voters were angry and 37% dissatisfied. By group:
•Women went D 58–40.
•Voters under 45 went roughly two-thirds D.
•Hispanic voters went D 62–35.
•College graduates went D 62–36.
•Non-college voters went R only 51–47.
•White voters went R only 51–48.

Just under half view Democrats favorably, against about 4 in 10 for the GOP.

[Rob Smith @itsmerobjames]

@MattWalshBlog Speak your truth Matt. It’s rediculous. He just demands complete loyalty while doing nothing to earn it. That’s what sad to see. It wasn’t like that in 2016.

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@JoeConchaTV He’s being sarcastic dumb ass

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@marklevinshow His crazy out is utterly amazing to watch.