Dec. 30, 2015 - Rubin Report - Dave Rubin
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| Okay, so as you guys know, I'm always sitting down with guests, hearing what they hear about things. | ||
| But a lot of times you guys are asking me, what do I think about things? | ||
| I get some of it across in the show, a lot of it across on Twitter. | ||
| But we thought we'd do some quick videos on what I think about some of the hot issues of the day. | ||
| And you guys are always asking me about the 2016 election. | ||
| Believe it or not, we have 11 more months of this thing. | ||
| I feel like we've been doing this for five years already. | ||
| and some of these guys have been running their whole lives. | ||
| But yes, the election is coming. | ||
| Let's talk about the Democrats first, 'cause there's really only two of them, right? | ||
| Sorry, Martin O'Malley, it's not gonna happen this time. | ||
| You've got Bernie and you've got Hillary. | ||
| So Bernie quick, as I've said many times before, I really like Bernie. | ||
| I think he's talking about the right things. | ||
| I think money in politics may be the biggest problem we have in America, | ||
| because everything stems from that, right? | ||
| Because we have our warped system. | ||
| I think talking about the 99% and the 1% is big. | ||
| I have mentioned many times before that really, when they talk about the 1%, in a lot of polls it looks like the 1% is around $400,000 a year. | ||
| At $400,000 a year, yeah, you're doing well, you're doing better than me, but you know what? | ||
| You're not pulling strings, right, at 400 grand a year. | ||
| You're not even pulling strings at five million a year. | ||
| When we talk about the 1%, what we really should be talking about is the 0.1%. | ||
| People with hundreds of millions of dollars and billions of dollars that are just pouring money into the system, right? | ||
| And the horrible Supreme Court decision that allowed them to do this. | ||
| So I think Bernie basically is talking about the right things, you know, free college and stuff like that. | ||
| I hope we can pay for it. | ||
| But within what I can understand about a candidate, I do like him. | ||
| I do fear that a socialist from North, from New Hampshire. | ||
| A lot of people are not gonna get on board with that, especially people in the middle of the country. | ||
| And there's only a couple states that really matter because we know the way the map works out. | ||
| So it always, at this point, basically comes down to Florida, Ohio, | ||
| Colorado, Pennsylvania. | ||
| And I'm not sure that he can pull all those. | ||
| Of course, he'd have to beat Hillary in a primary to get there, so we shall see. | ||
| Hillary, yeah, this has been a pretty uninspiring campaign. | ||
| As a general rule, I like her better than the Republicans. | ||
| I think she's at her best when she's being attacked. | ||
| So like in the Benghazi hearing, I think she was good. | ||
| I think she's been pretty good in the debates. | ||
| But you know, her husband was president, and George W. Bush's dad was president, and now his brother wants to be president. | ||
| We left England so that we wouldn't have to have families that ruled over us for forever. | ||
| That's a big strike against her in my book. | ||
| I do think, you know, breaking that glass ceiling would be nice, and I basically think she's a decent person. | ||
| So I really do hate it when people on the left, on the far left especially, are framing that she's a neocon and she's exactly like the Republicans. | ||
| It's just silly. | ||
| I do have a sense that she understands the way government works | ||
| and is trying to make things better, but I don't love her by any stretch. | ||
| I know people are gonna be angry at me on that one. | ||
| As for the Republicans, they're all pretty terrible, right? | ||
| They just all are pretty terrible. | ||
| I've watched the debates, they're ridiculous. | ||
| You know, Trump, look, Trump has this thing so mixed up, has everyone so defensive and so crazed | ||
| that we can't really get a sense of who the real candidates are, right? | ||
| Bush has been terrible. | ||
| I mean, absolutely terrible. | ||
| I feel like they've got like a gun behind him and they're like, you're running for president whether you like it or not. | ||
| And he does not like it. | ||
| I think he's pretty uninspiring, right? | ||
| Trump is just, it's over the top and ridiculous. | ||
| Who the hell knows, right? | ||
| Nobody knows what to do about that. | ||
| Kasich, yeah, you know, he's basically okay. | ||
| Is he gonna be president? | ||
| Probably not. | ||
| Carly Fiorina, is she going to be president? | ||
| Probably not. | ||
| I think it would be interesting just to watch her debate with Hillary, two really strong women, but that wouldn't make me vote for anyone, certainly. | ||
| Who else you got? | ||
| I think Marco Rubio, even though I strongly disagree with him on some of the religious stuff and when he talks about abortion, I think at least he's in the right line of work. | ||
| I think he has a compelling story, his growing up and children of immigrants and all that stuff. | ||
| But yeah, he's a little too rehearsed and all that, and I hate to make it about the theatrics of television, but I think he's at least somebody that should be a politician, I suppose. | ||
| Who else? | ||
| Ben Carson? | ||
| I mean, Ben Carson's not going to be president. | ||
| He should be a neurosurgeon. | ||
| That's a specific job, and that's a pretty good job, and he should probably stick to that. | ||
| So I don't know who to support at any of these guys. | ||
| What I would like to see in general is that if we could talk about the ideas more instead of just the day-to-day, ah, this person said that thing, and this person, and gotcha this. | ||
| And, you know, the debates have been pretty bad. | ||
| I think the moderators have been pretty bad. | ||
| So I would like to see more big idea stuff. | ||
| Let's really talk about what role government should have. | ||
| Let's talk about, really, what are the ways that we can make the economy work better? | ||
| What are the ways that the tax system can be fairer? | ||
| You know, all of this stuff. | ||
| But unfortunately, we get caught in all this nonsense. | ||
| So, look, I love talking about it. | ||
| I love thinking about it. | ||
| And we're gonna keep going and we'll see how ridiculous it gets. |
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