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Nov. 10, 2016 - Rubin Report - Dave Rubin

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dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		All right, what's up, people?
		We are barely 24 hours out of the election.
		People are going bananas.
		They're going bonkers.
		They're going crazy in the streets.
		Well, we now have President-elect Trump.
		President-elect Donald Trump.
		Try to think back to two years ago, five years ago, ten years ago, twenty years ago, for those of you a little older.
		Donald Trump is going to be the President of the United States.
		That is the situation that we're in at the moment.
		Oh my God.
		Alright, so there's so much to talk about here.
		People really are going completely crazy.
		I actually think that there's a lot of good that can come out of this.
		There's going to be a huge freaking mess for a while.
		There's a strange feeling in the country right now, which we knew was coming, whether Clinton won or Trump won.
		You know, as I said yesterday, it was sort of like we've all just been like fucking basically for a year and then we had the climax was yesterday and now it's we're all just like it's after and we're looking at each other like oh shit now what?
		All right, so here's what we're gonna do.
		I've got a mirror monitoring the comments here on YouTube.
		As always, if you are a Patreon member and you comment in Patreon, you will get preferential treatment, but I'll do a little Q&A.
		I'll share my thoughts.
		Look, my overriding thought, and I said this to everyone that would listen to me in LA privately when I was at parties here and talking to friends and family over the last couple weeks, I was saying, and I said it,
		I think I said it on Rogan the day before the election, and I certainly said it in some of these live streams,
		I really thought this thing was 50/50 the entire time, especially in these last couple of weeks.
		That ultimately what it was simply gonna come down to was turnout, and that clearly,
		clearly the Trump people were enthused, and the Clinton people were begrudgingly supporting her.
		Not everybody, of course.
		There were some people that were totally on with her, but there was a lot of begrudging.
		All the Bernie people either stayed home, or begrudgingly voted, or some of them didn't vote,
		some did vote, et cetera, et cetera.
		So there was just, so really you knew it was gonna come down to turnout.
		And for me, because I do this show and I'm online and I'm on Twitter and Facebook and all that, and I see the types of interactions out there, I saw a tremendous amount of enthusiasm for Trump.
		And plenty of people when I would call Trump out on stuff would give me shit for things.
		But I saw a lot of enthusiasm there and very little for Clinton.
		Now the X factor is that it's hard to actually figure out what does online traction mean?
		What does sending a thousand pepes and harambes, does that actually mean you're going to vote?
		Well, I guess the answer that we found out is that there is some value there.
		That when Trump was drawing these massive, massive crowds, even if the polls showed he was down by a little bit, there was some value to those massive crowds.
		So the polling, it seems like the pollsters are out of business.
		I've been saying for months these polls were meaningless because Trump was bringing in a whole group of new people.
		I don't have a landline.
		I haven't had a landline in 20 years, probably.
		Yeah, at least 15 years.
		And they poll people on landlines.
		And it just, the whole system seems antiquated.
		So first off, I want to start with just the absolute positive
		that I think whether you're a Trump supporter watching this, or you're a Hillary supporter, or a Gary Johnson supporter,
		or you're an anarchist, or you're waiting for the zombie invasion, I think you can,
		we're all gonna agree on this part, which is regardless of what you think about Trump,
		the big win in America yesterday was that the mainstream media is crumbling fast.
		And the alternate voices, and I like to believe that I'm one of them,
		but some of these voices that are cracking through the bullshit, this prepackaged nonsense
		where you watch super delegates like Donna Brazile pretend they're analysts, and people like Paul Begala,
		who is a consultant for a Hillary super back, pretending they're analysts,
		and plenty of Trump people doing it too, and it's all on both sides.
		You have former George W. Bush officials that are on CNN, all of that bullshit that we've all become so aware of,
		that cracked last night.
		And look, the mainstream media has been crumbling for a while and online media has been rising.
		I think this election got its complete parity and I think starting today, I think we're actually now taking the lead.
		Now, they're going to hit back hard.
		There's no doubt about it.
		They're not going to give up easily.
		They still have, you know, a huge amount of the money and resources.
		We're a little independent show here that's basically funded by the 3,000 of you that join us on Patreon every month, but we're growing fast and that's awesome.
	But there are other people like us that are doing cool stuff in the online space.
	Again, people, whether I disagree with them or agree with them or not, it's irrelevant.
	Shapiro and Crowder and a whole bunch of other people.
	So that, to me, is the main takeaway.
	Forgetting the politics for a second, the media thing has been rattled.
	Now, by the way, I like to quote Ben Parker, Peter Parker's uncle, with great power comes great responsibility and the media, the mainstream media has had great power for a long time and they forgot the responsibility part.
	They forgot that they were supposed to be guarding the Republic, that they were supposed to be the fourth
	estate watching the people in power, the politicians, and making sure that they weren't doing shady shit.
	Instead, the media started aiding and abetting them.
	Now look, I'm just one guy.
	I tell you guys what I think.
	I do the best I can, and I try to have some standard of integrity when I'm doing it.
	But the risk, of course, with now fully trusting online media is, I don't have to say who,
	but there's plenty of shitty online media too.
	So now we've got a whole new set of noise and people, and you gotta decipher some truth in that.
	So I think deciphering truth.
	Through the noise is going to be one of the real challenges for all of us moving ahead, and I fully include myself in that, because I have to figure out what I believe, too.
	I have to figure out what are reputable sources and things like that.
	By the way, if you didn't see my interview with David Sirota, who I think is just fantastic, who this entire election was calling out all the bullshit and got a ton of shit for it.
	I highly recommend you did.
	I think we posted that.
	Last Monday.
	So okay, so Amira's here.
	She's monitoring the comments, so she's gonna give me some comments.
	Preferential treatment to anyone on Patreon first.
	So yeah, my main takeaway is that mainstream media was crushed, and that's really good.
	And then the other takeaway, and I think it's just I'd say it's a half a step below the mainstream media being crushed, is that not only was mainstream media crushed, but the social justice warrior thing, this incessant need and desire to call everyone a bigot, and a homophobe, and a racist, and an Islamophobe, and a sexist, and a ableist, and all this epic bullshit, just blanketly blaming cisgendered white males
	For everything.
	It's just drivel and nonsense, and there was a huge repudiation of that last night.
	Enough of this garbage.
	Judge people as individuals, not as the collective.
	And I think that for the people that voted—now, by the way, 46% of America didn't vote, and about half the vote went to Hillary and half went to Trump, so that means only about 25% of the country voted for Trump, which is kind of depressing, but that's a different topic altogether.
	That all said, The people voted against this bullshit.
	These fake cries of screaming all this stuff.
	And again, that doesn't mean real racism doesn't exist.
	It doesn't mean real bigotry and xenophobia doesn't exist.
	But we have to address that as such, and not by blanketly calling everyone we disagree with one of those nonsensical buzzwords that crush All right, so I'm going to go to a mirror and ask some questions.
	I'm happy to talk about anything, as always.
	And all right, here we go.
	And by the way, guys, we still know, YouTube has confirmed, there is some sort of bug on our channel.
	That's what they're telling us.
	So our videos aren't going out to our entire feed.
	So if you can share this, if you can like it, get it on your YouTube feed or tweet it or whatever else, you'll help
	us overcome the magical bug that, by the way, is hitting some other free speech channels like Prager University, who
	I just shot a video for, and Gad Sad in a couple of others.
	Okay.
unidentified		What do you think about third-party blaming that's taking place after the election?
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Somebody asked about the third-party blaming.
		I haven't heard too much third party blaming, actually, today.
		But there is some.
		Look, Gary Johnson, I think, got only 1.7%.
		Someone can correct me on that if I'm wrong.
		I think 1.7%.
		Jill Stein didn't even get that much.
		So it didn't have much of a dent.
		Now, the election was pretty close in terms of numbers, because Hillary actually got more popular vote than Trump did.
unidentified		He got 3%?
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Okay, so then still...
		What's that?
		And Jill Stein got one.
		Okay, so Gary Johnson got three, Jill Stein got one.
		So they didn't make a huge dent, that sort of standard third party dent.
		You know, you guys at this point, I'm pretty sure you guys all know my feelings about Gary Johnson.
		I wanted a libertarian to be in this, to make the case for libertarianism, make the case for limited government, for low taxes, for strong defense so you don't have to use it, for the role of government to actually be discussed.
		He unfortunately just wasn't a great I hope they'll be able to regroup by 2020.
		I don't suspect that they will because they never seem to learn from their lessons.
		by not being good. But I hope they'll be able to regroup and get some
		libertarian and classical liberal ideas focused on the individual and the
		economy. I hope that they'll be able to regroup by 2020. I don't suspect that
		they will because they never seem to learn from their lessons. Maybe that has
		something to do with the psyche of a libertarian. I don't know.
		Jill Stein, I don't think she really affected it in any way.
		As I said, the real thing that happened here is that the Trump people came out passionately.
		Maybe his strategy, you know, I would recommend, you know, Scott Adams, who was on my show, the creator of Dilbert, really understood, I think, the way Trump did this, the way he used tactics to win.
		I think that there's a real explanation of how Trump pulled this off.
		By all of this stuff crumbling with WikiLeaks and all this stuff, and Trump just constantly attacking, and Hillary attacking too, he was just the better attacker.
		And the stuff on her was really damaging.
		And I think people that were on the fence were the average Bernie voter, right?
		That really didn't like her, but was begrudgingly going to do it.
		Election day rolled around, they heard enough about WikiLeaks, enough about the corruption and the DNC stuff and all that,
		but they were probably just like, "You know what? I'm not even going to vote."
		And then here we are.
unidentified		What do you think about Hillary winning the popular vote?
unidentified		Yeah, I mean— Do you love the Republicans in general?
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, Hillary won the popular vote.
		She lost the Electoral College.
		This is exactly what happened to Al Gore back in 2000.
		Our system needs some change.
		I mean, what is the reason, really, in 2016, that if you win the popular vote, you don't win the Electoral College?
		Back in the day, it made some sense relative to, we had small states, and because information traveled very slowly, we wanted to guarantee This is one of several reasons why we had it, but they wanted to guarantee that the candidates would actually go to all the states because otherwise why would you ever go to Montana where virtually no one lives.
		So there was reasons for it.
		Now it seems like it's more part of just the two-party monolith that actually is crumbling right now.
		But there's so many interesting storylines here.
		I mean, the fact that Paul Ryan this morning looked elated.
		He has looked so defeated the last couple weeks, begrudgingly, sorta, kinda, supporting Trump as Trump was constantly mocking him and making fun of him.
		And, you know, Trump, who was attacking Rince Priebus, the head of the RNC, this whole time.
		He brings him up on stage last night.
		Like, there is gonna be a new realignment, but mark my words, what I have been saying for at least a year, And I don't know anyone else that's been saying it.
		The split that you see on the right, that everybody was so happy to talk about, which now actually seems to be coalescing, it seems to be coming together and healing, it's coming to the left.
		Because the Bernie people have almost nothing to do with the Hillary people at this point.
		And there's going to be a new group of people, too, that are sick of both of them.
		You know, the people that aren't into the socialism stuff as much as Bernie.
		but are also sick of the Hillary corruption.
		That might be the classical liberal part if you want to get some people like me back into
		being interested in the Democratic Party, as opposed to now where I feel like I have no party.
		So it's coming to the left too.
		But what a crazy night.
unidentified		Any informed guesses on who will get cabinet positions?
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Informed guesses on who will get cabinet positions.
		Well, we know if Trump is into one thing, it's loyalty, right?
		He loves loyalty.
		So who's he going to be loyal to?
		I would guess that Rudy Giuliani is probably going to be Attorney General.
		I know that sounds scary to some people.
		And, you know, over the last year, and especially his speech at the RNC was so over the top and ridiculous.
		I do remember my great-grandparents and my grandma lived in New York City for virtually their whole lives.
		And when I was a kid, we used to go into New York City before pre-Giuliani, when Dinkins was the mayor
		and towards the end of Koch.
		So I'm talking like mid '80s, early '90s.
		And I remember how dirty and disgusting the city was, and Times Square was gross,
		and there were drugs everywhere and all that stuff.
		And I remember thinking as a kid, I would never want to live in New York City.
		It was gross.
		Giuliani came in and cleaned up that city.
		You may not like him for this, that, or the other thing, but he did clean up the city.
		And he obviously did a good job during 9-11.
		Let's put aside some of the rhetoric since then.
		You know, he also really did a lot to defeat organized crime in New York.
		So he could be an interesting attorney general, I think.
		I think that Secretary of State Could maybe go to a guy like John Bolton, who I think is a pretty decent guy.
		And again, when I'm talking about these people, just to be clear, I don't agree with every little thing about all of them.
		John Bolton, if you can't picture him, he looks a little bit like a walrus, has a very bushy mustache.
		He was the United States representative to the UN under George W. Bush.
		Strikes me as a pretty decent, principled guy.
		He was going to run for president.
		this time around but decided not to. I think Chris Christie will get something.
		Maybe Chris Christie could be attorney general instead of Ruth Giuliani because he was a former
		prosecutor. Who else? Yeah, I mean, you know that maybe the guy like Ben Carson is going to get
		something and maybe a Fiorina. Maybe he even uses Ted Cruz in a way, maybe for...
		Someone works in the entire state building and there's riots outside of his building right now.
		I think you know that he's loyal and he's gonna pick his own people.
		Hopefully he doesn't pick Trump family members for everything.
unidentified		Seeing a lot of people in here that are living in blue areas,
		who are saying people are basically rioting.
		Someone works in the entire state building and there's riots outside of his building right now.
		People saying that people are, unfriendly people if you voted for Trump,
		don't even wanna listen to it.
		Is that making you feel better?
		How can these sensible people deal with this?
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, so the crux of it was that some of you guys are seeing some rioting and fighting
		and somebody mentioned that they're in the Empire State Building right now
		and there's riots.
		What's that?
		Oh, they can hear you, okay.
		I just like paraphrasing, you know what I mean?
		So what can you do about it?
		Oh, and you know, all the people that are befriending Trump people on Facebook and all this stuff.
		This is the worst thing you can possibly do.
		It is so important to hear from people that think different things than you.
		Follow people on Twitter that you agree with and that you disagree with.
		If you lose a friend because of politics, you know, I mentioned this a couple weeks ago.
		But for this election, my, basically my, like four of my good old, I'm one of the four, so three other guys, of my good old childhood friends, one of them since, my best friend since I'm four years old, and one of them I met in third grade, and one of them I met in, I think, sixth grade.
		We've been on this group text.
		One of them's a hardcore progressive.
		One of them is a... I thought it was always a Democrat who became a Republican during this election cycle and a huge Trump supporter.
		A doctor in Texas who isn't happy with Obamacare.
		And one of them is completely apolitical and became a Trump supporter in the course of this whole thing.
		But one's a progressive and then you have me as the classic liberal.
		And we had such a spectacular text.
		Argument, fight, fun.
		Memeing each other fiasco going on over the past year about this whole thing and at times it got actually pretty testy and sometimes hostile, not me specifically.
		But at the end of this, I mean even today we were texting and it's like, we're all still friends.
		We're all still friends.
		Don't lose friends over politics.
		That's the most dangerous.
		That's where we start entering danger land in the United States.
		When we start losing friends over politics and family members and you start being afraid to talk.
		You know, one of the things I've noticed is that people don't wanna talk politics
		at the dinner table anymore.
		We had some friends over for dinner and it was like, and I'm guilty of this one too.
		It was two or three days before the election and we had a great time and then everyone was like,
		so we should talk about the election.
		And all of us at once were like, five minutes, five minutes, just that, that, that, that's it.
		Now this election was particularly insane, so it was like, I hadn't seen these people in a while, just didn't want to go down that rabbit hole, but we have to be willing to talk about these things.
		You have to be willing to sit across the table from someone that you disagree with, and break bread with them.
		If you can't, if you can't, then how do you think How do you think that peace ever comes between nations?
		How do you think that, how should Trump now ever try to negotiate with Harry Reid if you, in your life, can't sit across the table from somebody that voted for Trump or voted for Hillary?
		So we gotta be better than them.
		And I really do think, you know, Trump's speech last night was pretty good.
		It was pretty, there was a lot of reconciliation in there, it was pretty decent.
		And, you know, the silver lining, if you think Trump is the next Hitler, or you think he's this narcissist, egomaniac, or whatever you think he is, and it's very hard to tell what he truly is at the core.
		As I've said, I don't know what his moral center is.
		But if that's what you fear more than anything else, his speech last night was pretty solid.
		And don't forget, this guy likes being liked.
		He likes being popular.
		And he likes winning.
		So he has a lot of pressure to now do good things for America.
		Maybe he actually will rebuild our infrastructure.
		Maybe he will renegotiate some of these trade deals and bring some jobs back here.
		So I think it's, I hope, and by the way, Obama's speech this morning was spectacular, talking about the transition of power and that we have to have a smooth transition and that we have to give this guy a chance and all that stuff.
		So let's see, you know what I mean?
		Like, if it had been Hillary right now, all the left would be demanding that the right Accept the results and move forward and, you know, accept her mandate and all that.
		So now it happens to be the Trump one and now the left is going to have to do the same thing.
		On a purely selfish note, I am kind of happy that all my regressive friends are really upset and whining and bitching because they deserve it.
		They built this.
		Your best argument is that everyone's a bigot and a racist.
		Guess what?
		This is your mess.
		It's on you.
unidentified		Are celebrities realizing that they don't rule people?
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Love that one.
		I'm not repeating all these, but are celebrities realizing that they don't rule all people?
		I hope so.
		Enough of this bullshit.
		The last week of Hilary, Bruce Springsteen out there, Gaga, Beyonce, a whole bunch of other ones.
		She's on Katy Perry's inner tour bus.
		Nobody cares what these people think.
		They're all part of the rich elite.
unidentified		That's fine.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		I don't begrudge them being rich or being elite.
		You know, that's pretty good.
		If you can make it and make some money and become successful and become influential, that's wonderful, right?
		That's great.
		Everyone, all of us, would love to have some of what they have.
		But nobody cares what they think to vote.
		Nobody cares, especially in the middle of America.
		And I hope that the parties will realize that it's enough mocking these people.
		These people are, as I personally happen to have lived, My whole life, either in New York or LA.
		So when they mock New York or LA people, I guess I am one of those people.
		But I don't mock the people in the middle of the country, and nor would I. I don't think I'm better than any given person.
		You know, you're a murderer, I'm better than you.
		But like, we shouldn't be mocking all of these people just because they don't live in the the places where media is abuzz because media is crumbling
		and these people made it happen.
		And by the way, Andrew Klavan, who I was on the Daily Wire show with Ben Shapiro last night,
		said something that was really beautiful. I'm going to slightly butcher it, but he said,
		you know, for all the faults of what's going on here in America and for as dirty as it feels and
		all that shit, he said, what a beautiful place that we live in, that the people just upended
		the whole thing.
		That does not happen anywhere else, really.
		That the people just said to the media, to the establishment, to the elites, to everything, the media just said, or the people just said, fuck off.
unidentified		Fuck off.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		We're going to try it this way.
		And guess what?
		At the end of the day, the system, the machine is actually accepting it.
		That is the greatest, um, That is the greatest thing you could possibly say about democracy.
		It's a really beautiful thing.
unidentified		I think I just made what Andrew said even nicer than what he said.
		What do you think of the press corps hammering the secretary and the idea of having the new codes and being in the war with Russia?
		But Hillary has the most anti-Russia rhetoric right now.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, this is one of the things that didn't make sense to me in these last few weeks.
		It was very obvious that the Democrats were going much more hawkish on Russia, and they had reason to do it, because if WikiLeaks was in cahoots with Russia, which is what they were trying to tell you, even though they apparently had no evidence of it, but they kept trying to link it, and I think people started seeing through that.
		But that would have implied that Hillary would have had a lot more reason to go to war with Russia than Trump.
		Look, again, it's hard to know what Trump's ultimate decision-making power is, what actually is going on in his mind.
		So even if you're the biggest Trump supporter out there, I don't think you could really tell me that you really have a sense of what's going on in his mind.
		By the way, I don't really know what's going on in Hillary's mind either.
		I mean, I was joking with David and Amira last night.
		When she didn't come out and they sent out Podesta, it was like, what was she doing at that time?
		They knew they lost.
		Was she drugged?
		Was she screaming?
		Was she crying?
		Why did they make us deal with that until this morning?
		Whatever.
		But I would say, Just because we don't know what Trump's going to do doesn't mean he's going to do the worst thing.
		I really think there's an opportunity here.
		I think there's an opportunity here.
		And as a negotiator, Trump should see that opportunity, and I hope he does.
		And someone told me, and again, please correct me if this is wrong, but that he scrubbed something off his website this morning about not being... Yeah, pro-life.
		Yeah, so something about being pro-life.
		So all the people were worried about abortion, which I am pro-choice myself.
		But for all the people that were worried about that, apparently this morning within 12 hours of being elected he had scrubbed off My brother just called me on the computer.
		Maybe we could have connected.
		I don't know.
		But he had scrubbed off this pro-life thing.
		So I don't think Trump is going to govern from a pro-life place.
		I don't think he's going to govern from an anti-LGBT place.
		I don't think he's going to care whether marijuana is legal.
		I don't think he's going to be off getting us into these neocon wars.
		So I think there's room for some goodness here, even if you think he's a bombastic nutbag, which he probably is.
unidentified		What's Milo going to do now?
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		What's Milo gonna do?
		I texted him last night and he didn't respond, which is pretty, pretty upsetting.
		He's gotta be feeling good.
		He's gotta be feeling good, right?
		I mean, I don't know, what's he gonna do?
		He's not an American citizen, so he can't be press secretary, which I know he'd love.
		Could you imagine?
		I don't know what he's gonna do.
		I mean, the Breitbart people have to be feeling good, but now remember this.
		The Breitbart people are now gonna have their guy in the place of power.
		So that does change this.
		They've created this thing in the last year by being against the power, right?
		Whether you like them or not, it grew because of that.
		Now your guy's in power, and are you gonna do the exact same thing
		you've been shitting on the media for?
		Are you just gonna suck up to power, or are you gonna keep them in line?
		I hope it's the keeping them in line.
		And I promise you that I'm gonna do that.
		Whether Hillary had won or whether Trump had won, I would have done my best and will do my best
		to keep their feet to the fire.
unidentified		Is there any hope of recovery with what principles found on the progressive left,
unidentified		or are they too far gone?
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Man, this is what I spend more time thinking about than anything else.
		Is there any liberalism left, basically, in the progressive left?
		Is there anything left?
		You know, in a lot of ways, defending my liberal principles, the things that I believe that are liberal about free speech and about the rights of the individual and liberty and the right to live your own life the way you see fit, and using logic and reason.
		And limited government.
		Those are classical liberal values.
		Do any of those things sound like progressive values to these days?
		Progressives are all about the collective.
		They're all about the oppression Olympics.
		They decide how they should treat you based on your race or religion while they keep telling everyone else that they're racist, even though they view you in this pecking order.
		The straight white man, of course, is at the bottom of this thing.
		And Islam is at the top of it.
		The most Unprogressive thing there is.
		That's why this is actually regressive, not progressive.
		I don't know that there's hope for the progressives.
		There will be hope for some.
		I mean, I'm talking about the wider movement that is linked really to a lot of socialist stuff.
		I don't know that there's hope for them, but I think there's hope for a lot of good liberals out there.
		That's where you guys found me.
		That's why my inbox is completely out of control.
		With 11,264 emails right now.
		That's why my Twitter feed's out of control.
		Because there is something brewing here.
		And, again, this goes to why a guy like Steven Crowder, who I disagree with on a lot of stuff, he is not my enemy.
		Because we're fighting for a lot of the same principles, even if we see certain things differently.
		And that's what you have to see.
		If your guiding principle is that everyone that you disagree with is evil and is a racist and a bigot, and that's all coming out of the progressives, Well, then you're not going to have many allies to play with.
		You're going to have a pretty lonely sandbox.
		And again, that doesn't excuse a lot of the alt-right stuff.
		That doesn't excuse true xenophobia.
		It doesn't excuse true hatred of Muslims or true hatred of Jews or black people or whatever.
		But I don't see a lot of institutional power with the alt-right.
		And by the way, I don't think Trump is suddenly going to become a white supremacist alt-right neo-Nazi.
		You can quote me on that one.
unidentified		What do you think about people comparing Donald to Ronald Reagan?
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		People comparing Donald to Ronald Reagan, I think if this thing goes in the best way that it can go, that that would be the, it would be the ultimate political, it would be the ultimate story of modern politics or even modern Everything.
		Modern modernism.
		It would be everything.
		If he could really now say, I pulled this off.
		I used every trick in the book to do it.
		I talked about little Marco and lion Ted and crooked Hillary.
		And I lied about this.
		And I said, the president wasn't from America and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
		But then when I got power, I decided to do some good.
		I decided to build roads, and fix infrastructure, and fix the economy, and fix our trade deals, and not take us to wars, and not base my decisions on religion.
		That would be the greatest freaking thing ever.
		There is actually an opportunity for that here.
		I say this to you as a liberal.
		So if Donald Trump, if you're watching this, and I hope you'll come on my show one day, and I hope your people will be brave enough to let you do it.
		Because guess what?
		You're going to actually be questioned by the press now.
		And the press is going to hate you.
		And you know what?
		What's interesting here is, if one thing, ironically, Donald Trump in a weird way has saved the press.
		I just talked about how the mainstream media is crumbling.
		But now the media is going to all turn and hate Trump.
		So they'll actually be doing their job again.
		If it had been Hillary, they would have loved her, because they clearly loved her so far.
		Clinton News Network.
		Look what's going on in the New York Times.
		But now they'll have to hate him, and that's good, because the press should be adversarial to people in power.
		That's how you keep them honest.
		But I think there really is an opportunity for him to do something actually incredible here, and we'll see.
		We'll see if he does it.
		That's the part we don't know, is what will guide him now?
		What will be the guiding principles?
		Will it be what he talked about in his speech yesterday, or will it be more of the stuff where he goes to his worst self?
		He's won now, so he has an incredible opportunity here.
unidentified		Uh, someone is pointing out that Donald Trump just never had it written that he was pro-life on his website.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		website. So somebody's saying that he never had written that he was pro-life
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		on his website. So we saw an article this morning. He linked to the same article.
unidentified		That's been corrected. Yeah.
unidentified		I don't know.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Okay, so it's a little unclear.
		We saw an article earlier on Patheos.com that Trump had taken down this pro-life thing, but I stand by my reasoning either way.
		I don't think he will govern from a pro-life place.
		I think that the Christian conservatives actually, who backed him to the tilt here, may realize that he used them as much as they used him.
		They used him to get power again, and he may have used them just sort of like
		he used the alt-right people to just get in power.
		And now he actually, I think, is much more of a centrist.
		I think he's much more of a Democrat in a lot of respects.
		And he was a Democrat earlier in his life.
		And I think he may have just used them just as easily.
unidentified		Twitter just suspended Clint Eastwood's account.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Twitter just suspended Clint Eastwood's account.
unidentified		So that's a thing.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		You know I should mention, alright so we'll find out about that in a second.
unidentified		Clint Eastwood has been suspended from Twitter.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Can someone get a Make My Day meme up on my Twitter account for me please?
		Twitter is suspended.
		Clint Eastwood?
unidentified		Yeah, why?
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Clint Eastwood?
		By the way, you know, if you want to see a place that Clint Eastwood, a lot of people don't know this, he was the mayor of a town in Northern Cali called Carmel.
		It's called Carmel-by-the-Sea.
		It is a really lovely little vacation resort with a lot of very wealthy people.
		I spent one night there on the way up to Sonoma for my wedding last year, and they're doing some good stuff there, so he must have done okay there.
		I don't know, what did he do?
		Did he call the chair?
unidentified		I think it's like Tepe.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Okay, so this is a real issue.
		Look, they got rid of Milo, we've talked about that already, but this idea that it's clearly political what they're doing, it's clearly political.
		You know, I'm a firm believer that Twitter has been shadowbanning people, so I see the type of traction my tweets get, which Usually go on fire.
		Check out my Twitter the last few days.
		It's been bananas.
		But I really do believe, because I see suddenly for weeks on end, I won't see a tweet from Ayaan Hirsi Ali, or Sam Harris, or Ali Rizvi, or even Lalo.
		I don't see his tweets anymore.
		Lalo Degashi, who you guys know, friends with a few other people.
		I suddenly just don't see their tweets anymore.
		So I really do think they've shadow banned us to kind of put us all in our own little lanes to help quash some of our influence.
		So I don't, look, I don't have any specific evidence about that.
		I have been told by someone that has a pretty good connection to Twitter that that is going down.
		But this stuff is political, and that's a huge problem.
		And maybe what we'll see right now is that, look, all of the left that was in it with Clinton, that these are the same people in Silicon Valley that own Twitter and own Facebook and own Tumblr and YouTube and all that.
		They might fight back in some really dirty ways right now, which, by the way, is why we Do our independent thing through Patreon, so I'm not only beholden to YouTube, Rev, because they've screwed us on our channel in some ways.
		So that's one of the reasons I'm on there.
		It's one of the reasons I'm on... I'm on Minds.com, by the way.
		I don't do much there yet, but it's sort of like a break the glass in case of emergency thing for me.
		It's Minds.com.
		It's an alternate to Twitter and YouTube kind of thing.
		And I'm also on Gab.
		I think it's just gab.ai slash DaveRubin or something.
		Because they could come crashing down on all of us.
		All of us that are gaining influence right now.
unidentified		People are also saying this isn't a real Eastwood account, but other people are saying it is a real Eastwood account, so I don't know what's going on.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Alright, it's very unclear what's happening with Clint Eastwood, but may our thoughts be with good old Clint Eastwood.
unidentified		Alright, what else do we got?
unidentified		Why is the internet so confusing?
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, what else do we got?
unidentified		Do you agree that Citizens United is a moot point because money bought nothing in this election?
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		That's an interesting one.
		Do I agree that Citizens United is a moot point because money bought nothing this time?
		You know, that's the irony of Trump.
		Look at all the things that, through him, happened that the left should love.
		Money in politics became less.
		The person with much less money in the campaign process, even though he's got a lot of money privately, although we haven't seen his taxes, He won, right?
		He's not a neocon.
		He doesn't talk about nation building.
		He wants to bring some of our military back.
		He's not beholden to the Christian conservatives.
		Everyone knows he's not a Christian conservative.
		As I said, I don't think he really cares about the social things like abortion and gay marriage.
		My plumber's here.
		The dog's freaked out for a little bit.
		She's been on edge, you know.
		So we moved.
		So we moved and, you know, we're building a home studio over there.
		We got electricians and plumbers and all kinds of people coming.
		But actually, he's going to be jumping in the room over here.
		So I think maybe we can wrap this up for now.
		Yeah, we've only been going a half an hour, but you know what?
		For the rest of the week, I'm going to jump on intermittently and do these, just because there's obviously a lot to talk about with you guys, and there's so much unfolding at once, and it's cathartic for everybody to talk about all this stuff.
		Anyway, so thanks for watching, as always, and we'll do it again, and, you know, I've got to deal with... I'm not a plumber myself.
		I do have limited skills at the plumbing department.

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