The Obama Effect: How It Changed America Forever | Titus Smith DSH #836

There is some guy who was on the view.

I don't remember his name, but he was a black guy.

And he said that race relations were like on an all-time high around like 2011, 2013, and then just went down this massive like decline.

That was during Obama's year as a presidency.

Because if you're going to sit there and tell black people over and over and over again, you know, this country is racist and yada, yada, yada, which is so funny because you're the president.

How are you a black president and

you're trying to perpetrate this lie that like we were so behind and like the country's so racist?

You're literally the president.

Right.

i don't understand that

all right guys here with titus smith at the heritage foundation in dc first time here for both of us right yes first not first time in dc but first time at the heritage foundation oh nice so you're out here a lot probably for your content right i've been here no actually no i've been there a couple times i remember in like 2018 i went to kufai it was a christians united for israel thing and you know i didn't know anything about it just kind of write it for free i was like sure i'll go to a free trip to dc and yeah um i went to the white house about 10 times because oh that's what it was not actually, but I went outside just to see it because I'm like, this is sweet.

And Trump was in the office at the time.

Nice.

I was like, this is so cool.

That's a life goal of mine to get inside the White House.

Yeah.

That'd be sweet.

I wouldn't, of course.

Do they, I heard they do tours.

Is that oh, they do?

I could be totally wrong.

That's surprising because of security.

Yeah, I think, I mean, think it's like, well, maybe I'm completely off.

Maybe it's somewhere else, but I could have sworn someone said they did tours.

Yeah.

Anyways, I mean, we'll get there one day.

It's pretty hard, but in our space, it's possible.

Yeah, literally.

Because we talk about Trump might like a video and be like, hey,

you can come over to White House if he wins, hopefully.

Otherwise, you got to do it the hard way and win an NBA championship or something, right?

Right, or like be super woke and get like some sort of medal from somebody, yeah, be a veteran or something, yeah.

But maybe we'll interview him one day, who knows, you know, hopefully, we're right.

You guys have a great platform, you too, man.

Thank you, yeah, everyone here, honestly.

I don't know if you guys have a lot of people.

I met some great people, I know, I meet some people, and I'm like, dang, you're massive.

How do I not see you?

It's so weird because I just saw your clip with Pac-Man like the day before I meet you.

Like,

I saw it and I was like, Yeah, the timing of it was nuts because that was my first big like political interview.

Yeah, I've done Carrie Lake and Tulsi, but those episodes got shadow banned.

Of course, they did.

Because they're on the right.

Yeah, of course.

So when I did that one, obviously it blew up on Instagram and YouTube and everywhere.

So now I'm like, damn, I got to have on more of these liver.

I got to bring on all the liver.

I got to bring Destiny.

Destiny next.

I'm going to say Destiny's next.

I got to have AOC.

I got to have all of them.

But you seem pretty like nice and chill, so I feel like Destiny, he only combats really hard with people that are coming at him.

Yeah.

I try to stay as neutral as possible.

On the Pac-Man one, it was actually the most that I've been tested because he was coming at me yeah which a guest has never done before so i had to defend myself a little bit i don't like when people do that i've noticed he does that with a lot of people he interviews i don't listen to him a lot he just comes off very condescending and it seems rude i'm like bro like you can just can we have a civil conversation yeah we're trying to understand each other's points of view and size and everything yeah i couldn't tell if it was confidence arrogance or a little of both yeah it was definitely both i mean from i saw him on patrick david one time too and i was like bro you're just so condescending like

i saw that one too you talk to people as if they're like beneath you you.

And you have

this weird sense of superiority or moral superiority.

Yeah.

I don't know.

It's weird.

There are some people on the left that I don't mind.

Like, I think Cuban's interesting.

Mark Cuban.

Yeah.

Yeah, I've seen he just,

I think, banned PBD because PBD.

Oh, he banned him.

I'm pretty sure on Twitter because, or blocked, blocked him.

I can't speak.

Blocked him because he keeps calling him out for saying all these good things about Trump.

back in like 2015 or something like that.

So

he's like, what change, bro?

Why are you you so you know woke now you know i'm paraphrasing but no i've seen that i've seen grant cardones say that about him too yeah apparently did you see that thing where he had a tv show that flopped and trump sent him something in the mail mark cuban yeah he had a reality tv show that flopped and trump was doing the apprentice at the time so he sent him like a something in the mail and was like making fun of him oh no he didn't yeah i got to send you this oh is that what made him is that where the people theorize that's where i think i did briefly hear something like i didn't know what it was but i remember hearing there was something that happened that made mark hate because it seems personal with him because he's such a smart guy i know but just think about and this is what frustrates me about people that are like either rich or famous well the famous people are rich too it's like you make all this money and it's like if that was your reasoning mark cubin

how like how can you justify supporting someone whose economic like policies of like you know really hurt americans financially just because you don't like them just because he sent you something if he like allegedly did this thing where he sent you something in the mail it's like you're a billionaire like you're not as affected you are affected still a little bit your businesses probably falter a little bit, not falter, but struggle more than they would under a good economy.

Like let go, let it go.

Let it go and vote for the person who's going to do better.

Yeah, it's got some beef with Elon, too, it seems like.

Yeah, see, the billionaire beef is going on.

It's crazy.

Yeah.

But I like him in the sense of he'll go on right-wing podcasts.

He's been on Vivek's show.

He's been on some other big right-wing shows and he'll actually talk with people.

Yeah.

So I respect that.

That's good.

At least you could find some middle ground.

Yeah, exactly.

And I don't know much.

I watch a few episodes of Shark Tank every now and then so i used to love that show yeah i haven't i just i've heard of it and i remember being like why are people why do people like this show and i never like knew about what it was and then when i started getting involved in like business and wanting to learn more about it i was like oh this is actually amazing this show is great so it's weird you got to be interested in business to like it yeah if you don't care about business you're not going to really find enjoyment in it yeah and then as soon as you do it it's like oh man it's just so cool to be able to pitch something and it's cool to see like things like the ring doorbell and like those things that like even if it's water probably with them yeah and there's this like neuro gum i think that does well too now, or something.

It's like cool seeing people that were on there and either they got, you know,

invested in or they didn't because they didn't think it was a good deal and then they still were successful.

Absolutely.

Did you see the clip of Obama kind of looking upset with the black guys?

Oh, oh, yeah, I just literally just made a video on this.

Oh, yeah.

That pissed me off.

Really?

Yeah, when he was, you mean when he was telling them that, like, you know, the black men aren't supporting Cambodia thing.

Yeah, I was like, bro, shut up.

I was like, how can you,

you, one, you are the biggest divider of races that that any athlete president has ever been at least in like the modern

people say that about trump so you think it was obama that was the for sure trump is not divisive in the sense of like racist he he's he says like oh illegal immigration is bad we need to get all the illegal immigrants out of here we need to like like secure our borders we need like all like say make merry christmas again like and obviously he's very he'll name call and he'll like

he's a very uh what's the word

um stubborn yeah

stubborn but he just says what's on his mind he's very like you know whatever comes to my head, I'm going to say.

And some people like it, some people don't.

I think it's funny, but I understand he's not, not everybody is everybody's cup of tea.

Right.

But, like, he's not as bad as they try and say.

But with Obama, he was so divisive and so slyly divisive because there is some guy who was on the view.

I don't remember his name, but he was a black guy.

And I think he's independent.

He said he would vote for Republican or Democrat.

And he said that race relations were like on an all-time high around like 2011, 2013.

And then this went down this massive like decline.

And that was prior to Trump's Trump's like um reign you know so that was during obama's years of presidency and I remember him just doing so many things whether it be like hard focusing on the police brutality and all this stuff that like causes the divide within like racist because if you're gonna sit there and tell black people and over and over over again you're a victim and yeah like you know this country's racist and yada yada yada they're gonna believe it.

This is a president, which is so funny because you're the president.

You're black.

How are you a black president and you're trying to perpetrate perpetrate this lie that like we were so behind and like the country's so racist?

You're literally the president.

Right.

I don't understand that.

And he was super divisive and he's still divisive.

And he's literally saying vote against your own best interest because she's black.

He literally said, he said,

she goes to the same schools as you or schools, like HBCU.

She's just like you.

She has the same experiences as you.

And I'm like, you don't know my experience?

What are you talking about?

How do you mean the same experiences like just because we're black?

Yeah.

We have the same skin tone.

Not even the same skin tone.

She's from half indian yeah yeah so yeah who knows what she is she's half black one minute dna test on that honestly she i mean she looks like she could be black i'm not gonna like sit there and say she isn't that's that's not even like why are we talking about that yeah that's irrelevant right but but like even still she never she never talked about how she was black at least publicly the public uh didn't really know it was always she was an indian she ran on being an indian she was like doing making dinners with mindy calling and i mean there was something and like that was her her heritage and everything that she spoke about like from what from what i had seen yeah most people had seen because as soon as she was black we were like huh

she is oh okay for real yeah i remember growing up my parents voted both voted for obama and i was actually really excited when he became president but i over the years i just don't feel the same about him yeah and he my thing is he's a great speaker he came off he came off so cool like i remember when he was running i mean i was younger obviously and uh

I was my parents were pastors, so we're conservative.

And I remember my dad wanted McCain and Romney when they were opposing Obama but I remember thinking like when he did win I was like this is really cool you know he's a black president that's that's cool that we've had that you know and you would think that would have been like one of the greatest unifiers for the country 100 and yet somehow after his presidency we are all more divided wow I never even thought of it that way but you're spot on that's crazy right yeah everyone just put the blame on Trump and I never really like looked into the numbers of it yeah no Trump just pointed out things nobody wanted to acknowledge like I don't think illegal immigration was something that was really being talked about yeah it slowly started becoming more of a social issue thing.

And the social issue thing makes no sense to me that that's like a thing we focus on when, like, that doesn't, that affects small demographics of people.

Like, whether it be LGBT or like

feminism, whatever, all the, when you focus solely on that, not saying that you shouldn't accommodate certain things to some people.

But like, our politicians should be focusing on like economy and like border security, foreign relations, things that actually affect everyone.

Like with the border secure, there's not illegals coming in, funneling drugs, killing people, you know, making them scared to like go out the house.

Or when the economy is like thriving, people can do like, you know, take risk with business or whatever, just have more money in their pockets and all that kind of stuff.

That's what helps everyone.

So why are you focusing on like small demographics of people to get their vote when you could do things to help everybody?

I don't understand that.

thing.

And obviously both sides pander to some degree, but the leftists are like this emotional argument over and over again is super it's I mean at this point I think people are over it yeah that's why like there's so much even more there's more and more support for Trump over and over again but it's just like I don't understand why you would cause so much division um in the name of like unity in the name of like love in the name of acceptance I also don't understand the love and acceptance thing because you can love someone and not accept them yeah like I love tons of people I don't accept their lifestyle I don't accept what they do like I don't understand the the those shouldn't be infused they shouldn't be together you can love someone and accept their lifestyle.

A parent that loves their child, that's a serial killer because that's their child, but they don't accept their lifestyle.

I always say, I hope they don't.

Right, there's a difference there.

Yeah, some people won't draw that line with politics.

No, it's like you must love and accept.

And if you don't accept me, you don't accept my lifestyle, you hate me.

Whoa,

I don't hate you.

I don't hate anyone.

I literally do not hate anyone.

There's people that annoy me.

There's people that I get frustrated with, with things they say publicly online.

And I, even myself personally, like, I'm a Christian and like, I've been very like jokey and like, and I'm not going to stop being a tea a joke but and i joke

wow it's crazy that'll be clipped yeah

joke but i'm not gonna stop joking but i do want to do better at like not like

being cruel to people that have they're struggling like it's mentally clearly you know i don't i i make these videos and i made a video the other day saying i'm done making fun of these people i want to actually help them because that sucks that they're going through some sort of mental decline and like our government and our like politicians they're not doing anything to help them actually they're enabling their behaviors and their lifestyles.

And then these people are suicidal.

And it's just terrible.

So I was like, I want to do a better job of that.

Like, I'm not going to be perfect.

I'm probably still going to make a joke because some of these people are pioneers for indoctrinating young children to believe that they could be something that they're not.

And so on and so on.

And so I'm just like, that part frustrates me.

And so I'm like, leave these kids alone.

But then I'm also like, you obviously were a kid.

You obviously have been messed up to some degree in your head over something that happened, whether it was molestation or you just like people were telling you something you weren't or whatever the reason may be.

But

yeah, I want to do a better job with how I go about that topic.

Yeah.

And some of the indoctrination you've spoken up against is in the porn industry, right?

So you're not a fan of porn?

No.

And I saw you tweet like, should it be banned, basically?

I, yeah.

I do think it should be banned for sure.

Cause like for me, I struggled with that.

A lot of men.

I struggled with that like hard.

I know guys that do it three, four times a day.

Yeah.

I mean, if someone was in high school, it's probably about that.

You know, it's, I was, it was a problem, and it's because when it's, it's accessible, and like, people, oh, bro, you can't control this, and like, they want to make fun of people that you know claim to have struggled with that, but that really affects people

a lot.

And it's really, and it's not necessary, it's harmful.

It also makes you look at women in a disrespectful like manner.

You think, like, you can treat them the way that they're treated, and it's like, oh, it's a hot, and it's this.

And it's like, no, I mean, whatever you decide to do in the bedroom with your own wife or whatever, it's fine, obviously, like, it's just y'all's business.

But this, it's like, I think it's tied to like, it's porn addiction is tied to so many negative things, whether it be the way you treat women, whether it be becoming like, I think some serial killers have like been like admitted to being addicted.

I think Ted Bundy admitted that he thinks that had something to do with

being, uh, becoming what he became was he was addicted to porn and he was raised up because he was raised in a good Christian household, he said.

And he said, um, I mean, this is an interview I watched years ago, so I'm assuming, I'm assuming this is exactly what he said, but it was something around that.

And I was like, shoot, that makes sense, you know?

Because you do desensitize yourself to like women's feelings and

100%.

And like all these things when you're addicted and watching stuff like that, because they won't like,

it's hot to the girl in the video, but like she's not a real girl.

Yeah, you know, and so it's just being paid to act that way.

Yeah, and it's, I don't, there's so many more factors that someone could explain better, but it's just, I think it should be banned.

There's a lot of things I think that's something that would be a net positive for the world.

It seems like it's heading in the right direction.

Certain states require age verification now, right?

That's That's great.

Which is great.

Great first step.

Very great step.

And obviously the OnlyFans people will be pissed at me for saying that.

Oh, yeah.

I've had a few of them on the show.

Oh, really?

They're trying to make the bread and butter.

It's like you're really harming people and their psyche.

There was a clip on the whatever podcast where there's this Christian YouTuber named Ruslan who I really like.

Yeah.

And he kind of does what I do, but just more in a Christian.

sense even though I am a Christian he like really talks about and educates young men and people and in the faith or whatever he talked to 22,

and I think his wife might have been on too with them.

And he just really was like, you could see in Adam 22's eyes that he knew what he was doing was wrong.

Like, how do you feel that you've like affected so many young men, you know, enabled their addictions, enabled all these things that, like, in the long run, harm them?

You first temporal gratification in a small, minute moment that hurts them for a long time to come.

And it was just like,

I hate that that so many men, young men, or even older men, go through that problem that could easily be gone.

Like, I know it's a billion-dollar business, right?

But so it's huge business.

I'm not saying it's going to go away, but it would be super beneficial to the world if it was.

Yeah.

We're going to send this to Trump's team.

If you could ask Trump any question, what would you ask him?

Selfishly, can you

fix a censorship problem?

Facts.

I've been banned.

But really,

will you do all the things that you said you were going to do?

Will you re-implement, re-implement, you know, will you secure our border?

Will you, you know, make our economy thrive?

I really just want people to be able to have a better life in America.

And will you really deliver on that?

Because some people are skeptical.

And

I don't think it's necessarily valid skepticism because he did a good job the first time around, but like,

you know, I saw Nicola just told me about how he's going to do all these things.

He's going to start a war.

He's going to do this.

And I'm like, if he does that, that'd be terrifying.

Because

he did such a good job the time before.

And Kamala her is, we already know she's going to be trash.

So I

we really hope that he, you know, just delivers on what he said he's going to deliver on.

Absolutely.

Shout out to Trom, man.

Thanks for coming on.

Yeah, thank you for.